Workers Press no. 725

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DECISIVE TEST

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTEF

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CI

BY MICHAEL BANDA

SUNDAY'S demonstration by the Anti-Internment League has shown that the Tory declaration of 'direct rule has not only confounded the confusion of the Irish protest movement, but also blown its credibility sky high. The 6,000 turn-out (the organizers expected 25,000) and the political disorientation of the speakers was a clear expression of the fact that this could be the swan song of the petty-bourgeois well nationalist movement. Like the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and the Revolu- tionary Socialists Students' Federation of 1968, its death agony might be somewhat protracted. But there is little doubt that its prospect of survival or revival is as remote as the proverbial Dodo bird. and Anti-Internment League, its leaders This is because the International International Marxist Group, the -from the sponsors Socialists and the Republican movementhave consciously opposed the basic Marxist principle that the liberation of Ireland is impossible This demands the unity without the overthrow of Toryism in Britain.

of British and Irish workers in a joint struggle to overthrow British imperialism. This is the most important lesson of the history of the last 100 years of Anglo- Manchester Irish relations. Instead, the revisionist protestors have ignored the decisive role of the ty king class and put aside political clarity of principled struggle the interests In engineers non-exclusive, single-issue building which embraced the most movement contradictory and irreconcilably opposed class interests. the Tories proclaimed direct So when in a began rule the protest movement under the weight of its own collapse itself Today finds contradictions. it of its own political inconsistency victim radical opportunism. and militant If anyone expressed this crisis of radical been Miss surely have protest it must the MP for Mid- Bernadette Devlin Ulster. mood— When she spoke and acted with courage the brutal and firmness against occupa- Ulster and its represent- tion regime in Westminster, Workers Press atives her statements because we published Fourth that her actions elieved, and still do, the positive contribution to were struggle for the liberation of Ireland and joint struggle of Irish and British workers. sit-in It also helped to expose the cowardly Labour lefts who opportunism have remained silent and inactive on Ireland. It is for the same reason then that we held the confused criticize extremely noW utterances of Miss Devlin.

For over six month i she in Coster is stated that the issue in Stormont, but

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

internment, nor neither yesterday the Tory government and capitalism. In

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30 she a meeting in Bolton on January 'overwhelming' reported an British and Irish workers in Britain said: response to their call for help the work- ask what they can, do to piecework and over- ban on The Ireland. simplest class time in the greater Manchester Tories down" answer is. In her speech to the House of Commons 200,000 As approximately in December 1971, Miss Devlin had this engineering workers began the say about her Tory enemies: fourth to the bans, men at *It ludicrous is of course, almost occupied factory faced court front that the shower on the suggest action. British bench opposite who represent workers They are 21 at economic imperialism in N Ireland should Sharston Engineering, who All I can is appeal do anything. their small occupied factory the rights to those who believe in Cheadle on Friday night in of the British Irish, working class, O T after they were told it would the Tory government and to bring down close because of the have to government put in their place a socialist work-to-rule. will implement the kind of radical who Two of their leaders economic changes we need.'

appeared Manchester

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workers press

DECISIVE TEST

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTEF

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL C

BY MICHAEL BANDA

SUNDAY'S demonstration by the Anti-Internment League has shown that the Tory declaration of 'direct rule' has not only confounded the confusion of the Irish protest movement, but also blown its credibility sky high. The 6,000 turn-out (the organizers expected 25,000) and the political disorientation of the speakers was a clear expression of the fact that this could well be the swan song of the petty-bourgeois nationalist movement. Like the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and the Revolu- tionary Socialists Students' Federation of 1968, its death agony might be somewhat protracted. But there is little doubt that its prospect of survival or revival is as remote as the proverbial Dodo bird. its leaders and This is the Anti-Internment League, because the International sponsors-from International ine consciously opposed Socialists and the the basic Marxist principle that the liberation of Ireland is impossible without the overthrow of Toryism in Britain. This demands the unity of British and Irish workers in a joint struggle to overthrow British imperialism. of the most important lesson is the history of the last 100 years of Anglo- Manchester Irish relations. Instead, the revisionist protestors have decisive role of the working ignored the clarity and put aside political and in the interests of principled struggle building non-exclusive, single-issue which embraced the most movement contradictory and irreconcilably opposed class interests. Tories proclaimed direct when the So in a began to rule the protest of weight collapse under the its own contradictions. Today it finds itself its own of political inconsistency victim and radical opportunism. militant If anyone expressed this crisis of radical have been Miss protest it must surely the MP for Mid- Bernadette Devlin Ulster. When she spoke and acted with courage mood— against the brutal occupa- and firmness Ulster and in its represent- tion regime Workers Press Westminster, in atives because her statements we published Fourth and still do, that her actions believed, the positive contribution to were of Ireland and struggle for the liberation Irish and British joint struggle of the workers. sit-in the cowardly It also helped to expose the Labour lefts who opportunism remained silent and inactive on have Ireland. It is for the same reason then that we held confused extremely criticize the of Miss Devlin. utterances For over site math issue hin Coster tis stated that the main issue in Stormont, but

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

neither internment, nor In the Tory government and capitalism.

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yesterday

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Bolton on January 30 she a meeting in reported 'overwhelming' an 'British and Irish workers in Britain said: call their for response the work- and the piecework and han. Ireland. simplest ing •acc time in the greater Manchester "Bring the Tories down". answer is, area. In her speech to the House of Commons 200,000 approximately Devlin had this in December 1971, Miss engineering workers began the bans. the fourth men course, homost n almost faced occupied factory court the that the front suggest action. British who represent opposite bench They are 21 workers at in NIreland should economic imperialism Sharston Engineering, who do anything All I can do is appeal factory their small occupiec to those who believe in the rights Friday night in headle on Irish, of the class, British working after they were told it would the Tory government and to bring down have to close because of the government their place a socialist put in work-to-rule. kind of radical who will implement the their leaders Two of economic changes we need' Manchester appeared

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MARCH FUND NEEDS £455.04 IN 4 DAYS

at £794.25, this fight going and we are sure you will WITH OUR total now every effort must be made for our Fund this month. We know that you wlll do every- Help us in every way. Go all out imme- diately and thing you can. There Is absolutely no time collect as much as you can. to lose Many an our o ed kza.19 at the meeting attenta thanks supporter: Rush every donation Immediately to : Workers Press March Appeal Fund who raised 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG.

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he said there were one continue their work-to- action had caused the closure two factories that were out of the factory. line, but these were only small.

auer Stockport Bernard Regan, It was this that made us Already at two Stockport district secretary of the Amal- decide to occupy", said one of Bredbury gamated Union of Engineering factories steer their spokesmen yesterday.

works and Davies and Met- workers.

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calfe- have occupied cent of workers in the town Management are seeking attempted after have e responded to the call court order to have them re- mala Cuck moved. But John. Tocher, well satisfied with To ock man ou are Sharston Engineering, Manchester's divisional _Te taken. We are ready to face the workers izer The struggle with the barricaded themselves in and threatened the factory it pickee mass a prolonged locked management out of the around and will deal chloroyers with retaliatory action as and Inaan workshop.

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charged conspiracy, kidnapping, San murder and A STERN warning that the United States hose yesterday She faces a jury of eight men would look after its own interests' if other and four -all middle-class the most Walles -allel One countries stand in the way of its economic US intensive witch-hunts In history. • plans, came at the weekend from John The will prosecution try to Connally, President Nixon's prove that Angela Davis plotted Treasury WitS other •ack mutants kidnap Judge Harold Haley from Secretary. San Rafael in in He told Republicans in vesote me scanty evidence от ne wore has decide their disposal, Angela Davis could be jailed for life found guilty. sut prusse And California the it rules Suveill Ronald Reagan succeeds thev' ve efforts to restore the death answer pen- she could go to chair. a The Cali- SUrICLeSl security tine Arst legal history been laid on for the trial with extra preparea to look arter guards, alarm systems of spectators scarcies The scarcely mOre Trial expectea to four to six months and will cost several million dollars. conomic

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lifted restrictions on bank lend- is better. he said. in The aim seems to be to try to

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Podgorny 1959. invited President Sunay has already Reminded sim Army (ERP) has tactics against the employers.

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The to carrying out a relentless repres- Th of the case by tee Constite- the Inter- been reduced trading, toks has Sallustro sion against the left-wing parties sion of the case the Constitu- shoot but Marxist national Group and its gave him a 36-hour 'reprieve' to Istanbul Court. paper "Red vine, leader of the stimulate bank ana oler work r class orcalica• Martial cent secret negotiations with tions. Alain Krivine, law autnorities nave issuea a list Fiat to continue Turkish provinces sifee the army Martial law, dozens wanted people, and French revisionist organization of youth and students The Lanusse military dictator- Ligue Communiste anoller Fiat not enthusiast for guerrilla' DOWer

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In her interview Workers Internment League willing system able to trite forevalut ond Carolic Vreland with Press are IS to accommodate reforms fight the Tory unite Protestant and workers and that Miss the ruling class is susceptible to arya los year Devill Was asked: pressure yee working class and middle and instead calls for victory to the IRA'.

It Dossiole to ware We ask Miss Devlin and her followers against internment without campaign We say that "victory to the IRA' is The AnTi- internment unite the working making the struggle to working class are referring to? And The corollary of this argument is that victory to class and a the Irish middle has the All fought the Tory negotiated political between cass aneorce me lory covernmell when the ruling class is not really counter- If this is not diale, ise, of this campaign? IRA Provisionals a government? revoluuonary Class. no male waler not done, is there not a danger Only forced to miners' hours atter MIss • smoke retreat-as atter the The expense o came anal Protestan trans- the whole of Belfast and other -the retreat is not seen as a tactical workers alike. formed into a reformist protest like civil the That why direct rule has been paralysed by actions the preparation for a WeLC Hallucuvic lll rights?' part of an irre. proclaimed. Protestant Not ratser led by the reactionaries Craig and Paisley.

versible trend. The false optimism we defend the RA from its She replied: 'I think there is a grave breeds complacency and imperialist persecutors, never We revisionism Will of this happening on Is this not an indictment of the policy danger or right surrender our programme internment and history movement as complacency breeds panic of protest the ending une Tell say criticize their policies to anybody While it is true that Miss Devlin did not the releasing of the 300-odd Deople movement! well as

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say 'victory to the IRA' who who are interned 1o end internment Is it not clear from Sunday's meeting not articulate such views, ana irom time nose the machinery of legislation time departed . radically from this cannot fight direct rule- ending that not means single spokesman-including standpoint, nevertheless it is true that, they divisions in and perpetua cethe to say Devlin has credible socialist divisions the Protestant that on Sunday she became part of the to present to sellallall "The one demand cannot removed allelilalive reformist bandwagon. And it is this division And in this country, working from the class ane unel apocal class which is today Tne most (vita Con end internment exclusively to the Catholic middle class?

This opposed, but that dition for the continued exploitation beneve complementary to the terrorist necessary to bring down the Tories..

How then Miss Devlin Irish labour and resources by imperialism.

can talk They both tion and methods of the

IRA.

the Tory when ster hardly the theme of fighting government Yet this, was To Miss Devlin supporters serve me same eno. •onucal con- Devlin or any other speaker on Sunday.

mos decisive SeCUIOn working class remains alienated from fusion the toke class class working das ho fore to and •rotest and your une the made demagogic attacks reactionary interests on the die class refusal fight for unity While & Tory subordination demands of the reformist, Tories out is at no stage government, against the movement? une leading vou to a more sinister trap thar class. did she call explicity lot a jolt campa-8..

fight Toryism, I ne ALL coes to force the Tories to resign.

the one stepped The AIL, like its predecessor, wien Miss Denses so inste only protests stern resence of British troops happened,' said Miss 'All has and this Vietnam Solidarity Campaign 1s opposed that the excuses they have discovered radical- to the creation of a revolutionary Devlin, 'is that middle-class, Damn keeping with its we say by British to mobilize working class against the To those who wish to listen, means of ruling Ireland new liberal composition. left- it and fears now is the time hates TO break IrON capitalism.' The AIL's opposition Lories because reformism and establish the independence organizing the working class for a revolu- working does And she concluded: *The class nore Lidu building the only ocooic imperialism. Toryism •I lne workis class is the working rely ourselyes, tionary party in Britain and in Ireland.

For the same reason it opposes the class, and all those groups like the Anti- on the reformist belief that ure capitalisl

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

STRIKERS from the Bir- mingham Battery and Metal Company at Selly Oak expressed their determination at a mass meeting yesterday to stick out for every point of the original national en- gineering claim. When senior shop steward Alf Fellows asked: 'Do I take it we are not crawling back through those gates?' " the responded meeting with a resounding shout of 'No!'.

They voted not to meet for another fortnight unless manage- ment came through with an offer in the meantime. AUEW district secretary Ted Young reported that manage- ment's attitude was 'no money at the moment. Young said he was sure that district committee - meeting to- morrow - would endorse the strike, but because of Easter holidays' it might be a further fortnight before the executive council could authorize dispute benefit. The men's major demands are for £6 per week for 35 hours and improved overtime payments.

Young said the Birmingham W district committee has no plans to raise the claim on a district , 'as in Manchester and in level, Sheffield'. It was still circulating indivi- dual shop stewards for reports of progress in factory-by-factory negotiation. So far the only major settlement has been at Wilmot Breedon, where rises of up to £5 for skilled men have been agreed.

The Battery strike is the only current dispute over the claim in the district. 'We came out for the national claim because we can't achieve anything any other way—we have been it for years and trying years," Alf Fellows, president and founder member of the Chapel Lane, Birmingham, AUEW branch told me. Ninety-nine per cent of the branch's membership is employed at the Battery and Metal Com- pany works. Alf and his fellow workers see the strike as the culmination of a long, hard battle to unionize the factory and improve wages and conditions. 'When I started 16 years ago there were just one or two trade unionists. I went in there with a card and we gradually built up the AEU. When we got to 26 members, I was the senior steward and I used to do the negotiations.' It took 12 years to reach that stage. Operating against the mili- tants was the 1950s boom; the factory with its low wages and minimal facilities, seen by was 'stepping workers many as a stone' to highly-paid jobs in the car factories. 'There was a sort of conveyor belt between the factory and the local labour exchange. Every week 20 or 30 workers would leave and the exchange would the positibo about three years ago changed dramatic- Unemployment began to ally. soar and the labour situation was tighter. 'There was a big push and in 12 months we were 100 per cent unionized, said Alf. 'We were then able to start a completely new AUEW branch. 'Even if we get the f6 we are claiming, we will be another £6 below the district average,' claims Alf. "This firm sell to can America cheaper than the Americans can make for them- selves, because of the wages they pay,' he alleged. • 'The galling point about it is are working for a Quaker we family. They were early philan- thropists.' brass, The factory makes copper and alloy tubing for ship- building and general industry.

The strike at 'the Battery'- the first serious dispute memory - is a that the sign impact of the economic crisis is smashing up the liberal illusions which have dominated many sections of Birmingham workers since the Chamberlain era.

Workers inside the gates of the Laurence Scott factory at Open- shaw, Manchester - the third occupied in the plant to NW during the engineers' pay claim.

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

CONSTRUCTION workers on the Grain power station site, Kent, decided at a mass meet- ing yesterday to continue their three-week-old strike. The 500 men are demanding 50p-an-hour fall-back bonus rate from the chief contractors on the site, Laing's. The situation is complicated because one small contractor on the site has paid up the bonus, creating tension between other contracting firms. At yesterday's mass meeting union officials tried to persuade the men to return to work.

Frank Byrne, Transport and General Workers' Union official, said management had threatened to invoke the Industrial Relations Act if the union used action against the men on 'the lump'.

Byrne said a meeting of the national conciliation board - made up of top union and man- McGahoy: Didn't attend ALEX FERGUSON, the Scottish miner expelled from the union for taking a full-time job during the miners' strike, has been reinstated. For five weeks Ferguson, of Whitrigg colliery, W Lothian, has been working in the pits without a union card. When the miners' strike ended, Whitrigg men refused to return agement representatives - had return to work recommended a because a national pay claim was being negotiated. Under these circumstances a claim for fall-back bonus rate on the site could not be dealt with.

If they returned to work, nego- tiations could proceed, he said.

There will be a further meet- ing next Tuesday. Hostages THREE British radar technicians, Charles Turner, John Law and Gordon Banner have been kid- napped from NATO's Unye air- base on Turkey's Black Sea coast.

Officials say the five men who carried out the raid could belong to the claimed responsibility for the kidnap and murder last May of the Israeli Consul-General in Istanbul, Eph- raim Elrom. Workers Press, 1 work with a non-union to member, But the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers' executive, in particular president Michael McGahey, persuaded the men to resume work with Ferguson.

Both McGahey, a leading Com- munist Party member, and NUM Scottish secretary William McLean, were invited to attend Sunday's meeting of the last Whitrigg branch to discuss Fer- guson's expulsion. But neither attended. Branch delegate Joseph Graham "They explained to the press: were unable to come owing to.

prior commitments.' rs Press, Tuesday March 28, 1972 PAGE 3 He went on: It has been decided to reinstate Ferguson.

We were left with no alternative, though there was no pressure exerted on us from any quarter.

'We are still unhappy about contradictory statements made by these two officials on the case.

McLean had advised expulsion and McGahey advised reinstate- ment. We will be writing to McGahey to tell him that we deplore statements attributed to him about unconstitutional action "The members are still adamant that the committee acted con- stitutionally, despite criticism that the expulsion was a panic

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday March 28 A series of three articles b Workers Press Industrial Corre A rain-soaked but militant group of engineers stood outside the Peckham, London, of the Amal- heaquarters gamated Union of Engineering Workers. They had travelled overnight from the outskirts of Liverpool to seek official backing for their bitter reinstatement strike at Kraft Foods. Sleek-suited • Jim Conway, AUEW general secretary, parked his big green Vauxha!! in the building's underground car park and made for his office. He was intercepted by the lobbyists.

The union chief listened un- easily to his members' arguments.

After a few minutes he de- clared their case was 'hopeless', then stalked off to take part in the most shameful industrial re- treat of 1972: the abandonment the engineers' national pay of claim. The date was Tuesday, January 4. The occasion a routine weekly meeting of the AUEW executive.

But there was nothing routine about the agenda. Just a few hours after Conway spoke to the Kraft strikers, the seven-man executive voted to call off the national claim and go for plant bargaining. This decision has provoked a storm of criticism inside and out- side the AUEW. Pay prospects for 2.8 million workers in the industry still hang confusedly in the balance. three-and-a-half months after it was made.

By contrast, the Kraft men won their 'hopeless' battle three weeks after Conway had pro- nounced on it. Monday January 3 was the start of a crucial week in the struggle for a new leadership in the working class. That morning - with the threatened miners' strike just five days away—the 120 men at the Conway: Kraft workers won the battle that he said was hopeless.

machinery Allis-Chalmers farm factory in Mold, N Wales, staged a sit-in strike against closure.

Two days later 800 workers at Fisher-Bendix, Kirkby, about a where quarter of a mile from the Kraft engineers were fighting battle, out their reinstatement management, they round-the-clock occupation shifts.

Also on Wednesday, the execu- Union of tive of the National rejected claimed Mineworkers improvements in the Coal Board's last pay offer with three days to go before their strike dead- line. 1 March 28, 1972 ticles by DAVID MAUDE, al Correspondent Coming up the following week were talks on the power workers' pay claim. Like the Engineering Employers' Federation, the Elec- tricity Council sticking was firmly to the government pay norm of no more than 7 per cent. Here was a magnificent oppor- tunity to make common cause between three powerful groups together well over 3 of workers million - against the strong government all the union chiefs professed to hate. Coldly, deliberately and after due debate, however, the leaders of the AUEW engineers' section decided to throw it away.

The move had been prepared in advance. consultations between Secret Hugh Scanlon, AUEW president, and his fellow-'left' Jack Jones, in the general secretaryship of General and the Transport Workers' Union, had already taken place. employers, they argued, The were not at national level going to improve their £1.50 reply to unions' E6-plus claim. To the avoid a direct confrontation with period of the government, a pressure at plant level would be needed with perhaps a return to the EEF at a later date. voting for this approach unanimously on January 4, the AUEW executive was moving in precisely the opposite direction from the Kraft workers who had lobbied them that morning.

The Merseysiders were stand- ing firm on a principle: reinstate- ment rather than compensation Mike Cooley: did not ralse any protest against the retreat of a sacked member. With the Act in full Industrial Relations . force, of course, compensation would be the norm in such cases.

The AUEW leaders were backing down to the Tories and their Act. Wrapped up in their own bureaucratic cocoon, they shut out what the Kraft lobbyers had said and tried to ignore the miners' militancy and what the Mold occupation represented.

Nobody took seriously the pos- the miners would sibility that strike. Conditioned by thoughts of what they would do in a similar situation, their eyes were fixed on the manoeuvres of NUM president Joe Gormley. Apologists for the abandon- ment of the national claim say the same mood pervaded at a of three-day executive meeting all four sections of the AUEW which started on January S.

The engineers' section decision was presented to that meeting as a fait accompli. As Scanlon spoke the 14 coun-

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Kraft workers lobby sleek sulted Jim Col cilmen sank back further in the heavy furnishings of the Selsdon Park Hotel, scene in the spring of 1970 of the Tory conclave which planned that summer's election victory. Under the panelled oak ceilings of that historic pile, the freezing picket line at Kraft's, the sit-in at Allis-Chalmers and the occupa- tion of Fisher-Bendix, which was just starting, seemed far away.

Scanlon told the meeting that the situation was clear; the em- ployers were not going to move on their minimum-rates offer or anything else, so the fight had to be taken into the areas where union members themselves would know best where to use their strength. This was nothing new. At the April 1971 meeting of the engin- eers' section national committee, which had drawn up the claim, Scanlon had argued that all they should hope to do at national level establish minimum was standards which could be im- proved on in the plants. But the political line-up at the Selsdon such that meeting was it could have defeated this policy.

Besides the AUEW president, 'left' there were four other Labourites, two Communist Party members and even two Maoists-- Reg Birch, of the engineers' sec- tion, and the draughtsmen's Mike Cooley. Yet not one voice was raised in protest at the retreat.

The miners were only men- tioned in the context of a meet- ing of TUC leaders the following week to discuss support them. And no one raised the one decisive to the answer em- ployers' arrogance which was open to them: a national strike call. To explain this omission we must look briefly at the history of the claim. After a two-day debate at their in East- April 1971 meeting bourne, the engineers' section national committee had voted 48 to four to lodge a claim for a 'substantial' increase all-round plus improved minimum time rates. The successful resolution speci- no figure for either claim, fied but included calls for an extra holiday at time-and-a- week's third of average earnings, aboli- tion of penalty clauses covering

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d JIm Conway before the AUEW Executive mer holidays and daily lay-off pay at time-and-a-half. A five-hour cut in the working week was de- manded. included in the claim Also was a demand for equal pay for women workers, but the com- mittee voted 36-16 against de- manding that this aspect should address, Scanlon had laid heavy stress on the financial penalties the union would suffer if it continued its policy of remaining deregistered the Industrial Relations under Act. When spoke against going for an all-round increase, out that the Act he pointed would be in force when the fight started in earnest. Having already accepted the TUC's March 18 decision to out- law industrial action against the Act, Scanion was by that time convinced the legislation would go through and trimming his sails to it. By June, when the Confedera- tion of Shipbuilding and Engin- eering Unions met in Torquay to endorse the claim, Scanion and other union leaders were piling up further grounds for pessimism.

study they had commis- a 140,000 sioned revealed shrinkage of jobs in engineering since the Tories had come to power. At that time, they found, unemployed members were 4.35 chasing each vacant job in the industry. when the claim Predictably, was finally submitted to the EEF in August they and the Stock registered shock, Exchange indignation • .. and horror, threats of more unemployment.

in Scanlon argued strongly submitting the claim to the em- ployers on August 26 that the industry could easily afford the £700m package. "There has, of course, been the very recent development of the "dollar crisis" [August so-called 15] which conceivably might affect this forecast', he admitted.

'However... it is our con- tention that, given at least some by management of recognition vital importance of the new to increase capital investment productivity and sales, the 1971- 1972 outlook for the industry, as a whole, is good and it is well able to meet our claim in full.'

... 7 cutive meeting of January 4 A month later the EEF hit back with a . 47-page report- completed after Nixon's August 15 measures-insisting that en- gineering was in deep crisis. The unions' demands would push up costs by 35-40 per cent, it claimed. On December 15, pay talks deadlocked after two-and-a-half employers' hours following the adamant refusal to increase their offer of £1.50 on basic rates.

There had been no discussion on a 35-hour week of the unions' claim for a substantial, all-round increase. It was breakdown.

days later A few the came official end of the engineering in- dustry's 50-year-old disputes pro- cedure, the York Memorandum.

Scanlon had been incensed by the employers' refusal to grant union demands in discussions on new procedure for the prin- a ciple of status quo-no changes in pay or working practices with- out prior union agreement-and had threatened to let his mem- bers tear the EEF apart. But as always his rage had a reformist, bureaucratic tinge.

'After a bit of stick from the factories', , he once told a group of officials, 'they'd be glad to back to us at national come level.' On Friday, January 7, Scanlon called a press conference to announce the recall of the en- gineers' section national com- mittee for the following Monday.

He would not confirm rumours of what had been decided about the national claim, although these proved to be entirely accurate.

But he did say that whatever the committee decided national would have the full backing of all four AUEW sections. arrived, the press corps they bumped into Les Dixon, a taciturn Yorkshireman from the engineers' section and . long- a standing Communist Party mem- ber. Dixon would not confirm the rumours either. And it wasn't just the press he didn't tell. From the Tues- day when the decision was made to the following Sunday • night he told no one-not even his own party's faction on the national committee.

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BY IAN YEATS

Pakistan is in deep trouble.

Along with all the other equally-serious problems, in- cluding readjusting to the loss from industries of revenue now in Bangla Desh, making up the heavy losses incurred by the war itself and generally rebuilding the shattered state, another major difficulty has emerged-refugees. Pakistan President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is hanging on by his political teeth. And so far only promises inherent in his the populist appeal have saved him.

But that appeal rests on action.

It rests on restoring the good life to Pakistan's millions and On doing something on the diplo- front to refurbish the matic country's tarnished military reputation. Frantic talks with Bangla Desh Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman have not pulled anything out of the bag yet. Nor has Bhutto managed to persuade Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi to release the near 100,000 prisoners she has been holding, largely as a bargaining counter between the two former enemies, since the war ended. It is doubly unfortunate that many of the people complaining about his failure to bring home their sons, fathers and husbands straining under also are those the intolerable burden of about 800,000 refugees from Indian- occupied areas of the Pakistan border in central Punjab.

The Pakistan economy con- tinues to stagnate, with the grimmest prospects ahead. Mean- while people who can just about afford to keep themselves are being asked to care for thousands of homeless. According to Pakistani figures, the Indian army occupied about 540 villages in a belt up to eight miles wide W of Sialkot, includ- ing the Phaulkian salient.

Most of the territory was occupied to prevent then presi- dent Yahya Khan countering Indian support for Bangla Desh in the E by attacking Kashmir.

The future of the Phaulkian salient and the five-mile belt at the tip of what is known as the Shakargarh salient is likely to prove as difficult a question as Sinai or Berlin. value to the Its strategic Indians is that it puts them in a strong position to head off any future Pakistani offensive in the direction of Kashmir. Workers Press, Tuezday March 28, 1972 PAQR S

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The Pakistani government therefore likely stuck with to be for Ine renupees time. Bhutto's administration claims that it won't build refugee camps •ecause miere is nor enoush cast.

and in any case they don't want to be saddled with the permanent Zulfiqar Bhutto (top left) rules what is lett of P the of Bangla Desh. He ecession ousted defeated President Yahya Khan Above ls (below). Bangla Desh leader Shelkh Mujlbur Rahman, who spen!

social sore of shanty

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anu the danger that they will be used nine months in Yahya's jails before Bhutto set him free for anti-government activity.

about 875,000 So far, refugees, 600,000 of them made nomeless laying of mines in new The defensive positions have been illeted with families in the area Anotner 10,00v nave been qual- tered in two schools. The have lost all refugees their possessions, including live- StOCK ane nouseroe and are therefore a dead weight on the local populace. But it is not only a question of the withdrawal of the Indian forces to allow the refugees to go home. It is a predominanty Funjad: fives imprisoned in le have rela- area and most in India Bhutto's problem is that such people will not let him recognize Bangla Desh until he does allu. Milliour kanmar has made it clear there will be no possible talks about making it or,

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The renucees to reuni. indeed, anything else. the cities there is what is In realism' about 'greater called But What be fortunately Bhutto's populist base very areas where there in the Is maxo coso o c Con- cessions to Bangla Desh likely to lead to a settlement of the refu- gee 250,000 Only of the 200lт people in the division, which is most heavily popula- one of the have been Leo la UC• clared eligible for government rations. Every fortnight they go to one centres TO conect Then meagre ration of 1lb of wheat flour and 2 oz of lentils a day a getable person•olus oil month and quano not and meat and vegetables are diet. Inceed nude Pakistani officials are complain- ing that the refugees are imposing limited the already resources _over. stretched economy. Coupled with Bhutto's failure to solve the problem of Pakistani prisoners in India, the refugee could boil into a major up SouG

PAGE 6 Workers Preas, Tueaday March 28, 1972 When the director of the of the Institute's policies and work and named the Institute of Race Relations, practical interests dominat- Professor Hugh Tinker, was the Institute. ing March 20, sacked on it 'Given scientific the supposed signified race relations ness that business status ot the institute. and the then, 'it might seem a little odd that only the just couldn't seven dustry' carry Council are social scientists.

The working with mild- on others include 13 representatives mannered liberal and international reformists. owners monopoly capital and its various The 13 members of the In- interests. stitute's council who voted not 'What is clear is that the for director's dis- only their relations that areas in are missal, but also the closing of race Today', had deemed worthy of attention the journal 'Race

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within the are precisely lost their patience. those that are identified "The council of the Institute by international monopoly capita of Race Relations has for some and its interests. 'Problems" there time tet that was a ten identified in terms tend to be dency among the Institute staff of the interests of those at the to move away trom the purposes top. which it was founded. The Council members at the time difference one of emphasis Caine of included Michael method and the council and Booker McConnell, the giant does not question the sincerity firm, Sir Frederick See- who have adopted sugar those bohm of Barclays DCO, who have new approach. But they feel that huge investments in S Africa; and approach not for such an that funds have been subscribed.

Harry the Oppenheimer, who heads the African magnate (Our emphasis.) de Anglo-American Corporation, What did this they mean by Beers than 60 other new approach? The staff and the ana more smaller corporations six council members who support On and on the list went, read them felt they had been objec- ing like Who's Who in the City particularly. tive, in relation to Today'. of London: articles "Race But what undoubtedly annoyed Sir Edward_(now Lord) Boyle, former Tory • Education Minister, the council composed Five-Fold Invest- big business representatives, chairman ments, director of Penguin Books MP of industry, Labour was the fact that the and vice-Chancellor University. article had come down,

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MP Hornby, a liberal way, actually on the Tory Richard director of Unilever and J. Walter side of black people. February Thompson. For the Calvic. Prain, chairman issue's front cover depicted Ronald Corporation with of Rand Selection Goodman quote Lord of Barclays a speech in the House Africa, director from this settle-

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Lords David Sieff, there is the best we were able And ment director of Marks and Spencer.

wrong, Right or to achieve should seize the opportunity.

All these men are stil on tne we Other representatives But. facing Lord Goodman, one Council. of the architects the Smith- of big business removed ot Were Council's election first Home racialist deal was the bold the They 'Five million Africans held last September. capition:

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which the minority say No. replaced bJ and much for opposed Tinker's This proved too sacking fund- the closure of 'Race Today'.

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the alanetee the raising projects, said the council, But some even Council that one issue had claiming academics on the €20,000 lost deeply involved in business. the hasslee the Roland Oliver from contributions. Prof The Institute of Race Relations School of Oriental and African a member founded in 1958 to Studies was Private Enterprise facilitate the study the Africa courage and Jenkins. of relations between races every- Group, according to W. Run- The sociologist where'. director of Registered as an educational also ciman W. G. Runciman Ltd, John Tann charity, its headquarters Shipping far Security. Ltd, Anchor in Pice of Commons, situated

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P. Turner Ltd, House from the of Line, and Travellers Maritime Bulk Carrying and the Whitehall Run. MB Packaging, Club in Pall Mall. Shipping, The fact that the chosen äbode Investments Ltd, and Cullial Walter Runciman (S Africa) Pty.

the heartland is not exactly in figure was immigrant communities interesting of the Peter Mason, former director of gives a clue to IRR's real nature.

the IRR. inception, Because, from His other occupations include has been the organization Africa vehicle for organizer thing more than being of big business Private Enterprise Group. activities Several other council members in the regimes deeply involved connected with group, in southern Africa. are of the rep- The IRR was one of the be- made which big so-called of British of the resentatives ginnings

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literal with financial interests relations industry, the business In Beneath Africa. It has me niappare the phrase. never been possible to find out what exactly for in- apparent quest because it relations discusses, formation published any papers Britain sinister has never lay meetings. intention. of the The lid began to be lifted From other sections last industry' ther" resignation 'race little with the Te ations was Mark Bonham Carter, chair- June of researcher Robin Jenkins.

man of the Community Relations his The council had been blood since January 1971 Commission and Dipak Nandy, when director of the Runnymede Trust.

he called wrote paper his foreword to last year's Production of Knowledge in lne CRC report, the Liberal Bonham- IRR'. It was a severe indictment Carter recorded proudly: "The Commission has maintained close contacts with the Police Depart- ment of the Home Office. 'Nearly all community relations councils have made arrangements for effective co-operation with the police in their ideas, and some places excellent lationships have been established; he said. Dipak Nandy revealed where he stood in an interview with •Personnel Manage- the journal ment' last September. He told the journal that the Runnymede Trust had diversified somewhat and in February 1970 had set up an Industrial Unit specializ- 'problems' ing in the of race relations in industry. It was felt there was no other body ful- filling this kind of need and its existence had been justified level of demand for by the information and advice from all industry. sectors of (Our emphasis.) His main point was that big additional business tree. An management were funds the ignorant of 'how with was Social Science Research Council.

workforce'. such Corporate subscribers to 'Experience shows that for

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at March 1971 successful race relations in a posed of over company you must have clearly included the Birmingham They stated a policy; the board must Small Arms Company, be interested; and it is at this England and the of point that the personnel manager and Shanghai Banking becomes a key link in the chain.

But without a statement of in- the hardest thing in Jenkins commenting tent, it 1s personnel IRR's research, said: the world for the knowledge produced by IRR manager to initiate company policy, he said. is objective, scientific intormation Both Bonham-Carter and the activities and on Nandy voted Tinker's sack- of the immigrant for The

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and the closure of the acts as ing for the ruling élite, ensures that magazine. As of 1970, the IRR's annual they receive ample £160,000. warhe sub-prompend an evolte budget around This impending. came from corporations warning owned or controlled by members In this respect, the the work of the Council, from other plements foundations police. corporations, from Tinker and his supporters, by corporations and from set up • they will all readily investments. The foundations include Ford, nothing more than formers. in the Gulbenkian and Rown- Nuffield, But of much foote they one government's even they proved too Research Council. 'Race Today' had been stray- although not were com- ing from the line, companies. in any sense in a dangerous way.

In the past period articles have appeared condemning the Tory Immigration Act and the Rhodesia sell-out. Interviews appeared with George Jackson's Penny and a letter from on the sister black prisoner in a British worst, jail had been published which attacked the fed the prison sisteigrand and thoughts the immigrants within it. a watchdog But as the Council majority's statement after Tinker's sackirg put it: be director will new due and appointed in course with his help council the are com- determined to return to a style of in accordance with the of Institute's declared aims of facts admit, are objective presentation liberal promotion of research re- and de discussion. The council believes that the need for business representatives weiver and the Labour MP Torn March 311, 557 scribers to IRR at A driverate Start College A out merica i Corporation of Lott: Tinker, tonner director British Petroleum Co Ltd British Sugar Corporation Ltd The Burmah Oil Co Ltd The Noel Buxton Trust Brunner Charitable Sir Felix Trust Cadbury Schweppes Ltd W. A. Cadbury Trustees of Charitable Trust Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust Charter Consolidated Ltd Commercial Union Assurance Go Courtaulds Ltd Deloitte, Plender, Grifiths & Co The Dunlop Co Ltd English Calico Ltd Fishmongers' Company Louis Freedman Discretionary Trust Friends' Provident and Century Group General Refractories Group Ltd Ghana High Commission Antony Gibbs and Sons (Insur- ance) Ltd Gillette Industries Ltd Glaxo Charity Trust Goldsmiths' Company Workars Press, Turoday former chector insinuto of hace Rela Grattan Warehouses Ltd Arthur Guinness Son & Co (Park Royal) Ltd Hambros Bank Ltd H. J. Heinz Co Ltd John Holt and Co (Liverpool) Ltd The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation IBM United Kingdom Ltd Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd Imperial Metal Industries Ltd The Inchcape Charitable Trust Fund International Distillers and Vintners Ltd The Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Trust Kodak Ltd Lazard Brothers & Co Ltd Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd Lloyds Bank Ltd The London Press Exchange Ltd Marks and Spencer Ltd Martins Bank Ltd Mercantile Credit Co Ltd Midland Bank Ltd Mitchell Cotts Group Ltd ekera Prosa, Tuoaday Maroh 28, 1872 PAQE 7 Raco Rolallora. Abovo: Lord Goodman Montague Burton Ltd Moss Bros Ltd National and Grindlays Bank Ltd National Westminster Bank Ltd The Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd Pilkington Brothers Ltd Proctor and Gamble Ltd Redland Ltd The Rhodes Trust Roan Selection Trust Rootes Motors Ltd N. M. Rothschild and Sons R. T. Z. Services Ltd Rowe and Pitman Royal Insurance Group • Walter Runciman and Co Ltd Sandbach Tinne and Co Ltd Shell International Petroleum Co I. Henry Schroder Wagg and Co Tate and Lyle Ltd Tube Investments Ltd Turner and Newall Ltd Unilever Ltd The Weir Group Ltd Westminster Press Ltd Whitbread and Co Ltd

PAGE 8 Workers Prose, Tueaday March 2 Part one of a series by Jack Gal At the end of World War I, capitalism was on its knees throughout Europe. The four great empires which had shaped the continent's destiny for centuries-the Ottoman, Austrian, German and Rus- sian empires - could not survive. Capitalism was saved by social democracy. Now, in F. L. Carsten's book,* given a detailed and we are invaluable account of exactly how this treachery was carried out in the decisive year of 1918-1919. Carsten's exposure is, if anything, revealing even more since he believes that • Social Demo- the crats were right to behave as they did,, since what was at stake was not proletarian revolution but a 'democratiza- tion' of state and society.

World War I continued for 20 months after the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, bringing with it conditions of misery, star- vation, mounting casualties and on a scale hitherto unknown.

1916 on From there were repeated risings of the European against the working class war and the conditions it imposed.

When Karl Liebknecht, the Reichstag Socialist deputy who opposed the war, was tried for treason (in June, 1916) 55,000 workers came out on strike in solidarity with him. In April, 1917, strikes broke out all over Germany against a government order cutting bread ration by a quarter. Leipzig the strikers raised political demands: the intro- duction of direct, general and equal franchise, the release of all political prisoners, the lifting of the 'state of siege' (i.e. military conditions of rule) and the cen- sorship, the right to strike and political meetings and hold à declaration by the government in favour of immediate peace with- annexations. out any The leaders of these actions were a group of workers calling themselves the Revolutionary

*'REVOLUTION IN CENTRAL

EUROPE, 1918-1919' By F. L.

Carsten. Published by Temple Smith, London. Provisional price £4.50. pp. 345. Otto Bauer: Trotsky described him as a y March 28, 1972 ack Gale Shop-Stewards. This group developed because the Social Democrats and the official trade union leaders wholeheartedly sup- ported the war and the imperial government. In January, 1918, there were great strikes armament workers which spread like wild- fire from lower Austria and Vienna to Budapest and then to Berlin and German most industrial The strikes towns. began as a reaction to further cuts in the meagre flour ration.

workers, Strikers The elected local councils, and again political demands were raised. In workers' Vienna the council demanded not only better food but the abolition of the rations, censorship, the reintroduction of normal civil law procedures, the eight-hour day and the release of Friedrich Adler who had been imprisoned for assassinating the prime minister. These strikes ended on January 21, but a week later 200,000 Berlin workers were out on strike against the war. The strikers elected an action committee of I1 Revolutionary Shop Stewards and three repre- each of the pro-war sentatives Social Democrats and the anti- war Independent Social Demo- cratic parties. Their first demand was: 'Speedy conclusion of a peace without annexations and indem- nities, on the basis of the nations' self-determination, right to the according to provisions formulated by Russian the People's Commissars at Brest- Litovsk.' (The peace terms being put forward by the Bolshevik delegation led by Leon Trotsky.)

Within a few days the strike had Cologne, spread to Mannheim, Brunswick, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel, Danzig, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Munich and many other towns. In Berlin the strike was ended only when the Military Command put the armament factories under martial law.

In Austria the Ministry of the Interior reported that 'agitators, mainly of youthful age' had been spreading revolutionary propa- ganda 'identical with the views held by the Bolshevik Party'.

With the military collapse of the German and Austrian forces, the Social Democrats rushed to him as a 'political eunuch' Top: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxe Democratic Party. Above: Revolutiona preserve the old order. In the German districts of Austria, for example, they joined a coalition with the Christian Social Party Nationalists. and the German Viennese factories sent deputations demanding that the Social Democrats proclaim a republic and demanding the release of Friedrich Adler, son of Social Democrat leader Victor Adler. Crowds of workers and soldiers tore down the Imperial Eagle from official buildings and forced officers to pull off the imperial emblems from their uniforms.

The Austrian emperor was replaced by a National Assembly headed by Social Democrat Karl Renner. But the Social Democrats accepted a minor position in the Assembly, handing real over two bourgeois power to the parties, the Christian Socials and German Nationalists. Then the they issued a statement urging the people not to 'threaten' the authorities of the former Austrian state. Linz, the capital of upper In Austria, the workers demon- October 31, 1918, strated on calling openly for a "Russian' revolution. Next day, thousands of workers and soldiers marched soldiers' and council was formed. November 3, the Social On Democrats entered a coalition provisional government accepting two places for themselves against three for the German liberals and seven for the Christian Socials.

They then agreed to set up a- National Assembly allocating seats on the basis of the election results of 1911 and issued a state- ment calling on workers to co- bourgeois operate with the parties 'to save the people' Salzburg, they joined another coalition allocating in advance 50 per cent of the seats in the Provisional Assembly to the German National Party.

A similar carve-up occurred in the Tyrol where the Social Demo- Luxemburg (centre) with members of thi evolutionary soldiers and workers in the street: crats agreed that seats on the National Council should be allo- cated on the basis of the 1914 election results-giving three seats to the Social Democrats and ten to the Christian Socials, the Conservatives and the German Nationals. soldiers' In Styria, after a council had been formed and a 'Welfare Committee' had taken control of food distribution and other economic questions, and had forced the imperial governor to resign, the Social Democrats agreed to a Provisional Govern- ment with 20 members each from the three main parties-putting themselves in a minority against the two bourgeois parties.

In Klagenfurt, the capital of Corinthia, the Social Democrats again agreed to accept only one- third of the seats in the Pro- visional Assembly. Despite concession after con- cession to the bourgeoisie by the Social Democrats, pressure from the masses forced the Provisional National Assembly in Vienna to proclaim the republic and announce elections to • a National Assembly to be held in February 1919, on the basis of a general, equal and proportional franchise.

Workers welcomed the repub- lic, but wanted much more. For example, their representatives in Ternitz, in lower Austria, issued 'fraternal greetings to comrades of all countries, especially to the Russian workers' republic which for 12 months has set a shining example to the whole inter- national proletariat'. The peasants also greeted the joy because they republic with looked forward to dividing up estates-expectations the large which, needless to say, were not fulfilled. The Social Democratic leaders, however, were determined that should not take revolution place. While the right wing urged collaboration the open bourgeoisie, the left wing stressed "desirablity' of revolution the ers of the anti-war Independent Social the streets of Budapest In October 1918 but explained how it was im- practical'. At the Social Demo- cratic Conference at the end of 'left' Otto 1918, the October, Bauer demonstrated how the peasants, who wanted to seize the land, were really counter- revolutionary: 'It is- not the case that the German workers alone could build the German-Austrian Re- public. Many people are captivated with the idea that the methods of our Russian comrades, Bolsheviks, could without the much ado transferred to Austria, that workers', peasants' and soldiers' councils could be formed and take over the govern- ment... The great difference between our situation and that in is above alt that the Russia Russian peasant is quite different from our peasant here. 'For Russia one could maintain workers' , soldiers' that, if and peasants' councils take over power, they are the represent- overwhelming atives majority of the people. But for us in • Austria the representation by workers' councils and a section of the soldiers, the section which is of working-class origin, would not be the representation of the whole German nation, but only that of a minority of the German nation. That such an order could maintain itself can be believed only by those who have never thought about it seriously. Eight days after the attempt, such a government would be bound to collapse through famine, because from the day such an attempt was made we would not receive any food from the peasants.' (pp 31- 32.) With the same argument Otto Bauer was later to refuse to Soviet assist the Hungarian Republic by the proclamation of a Soviet Republic in Vienna.

Little wonder that Trotsky described Bauer as 'a political eunuch!

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The American ruling class is lashing out in all directions Pentagon Papers affair, they have now moved in on a New York radio station. district-attor- The Manhattan ney's office is threatening Edwin A. Goodman, general manager of radio station WBAI, with con- tinuous 30-day jail sentences.

The threat has come because Goodman has refused to sur- the tapes of broadcasts render made during the prisoner take- over of the Tombs Prison October 1970. manager has already The days of a 30-day served two contempt-of-court be- sentence fore being released on a writ of habeas corpus. Sticking to his rights, Good- man insists that the fundamental issue at stake is the legally acknowledged confidentiality of a reporter's work. The ... privileged relation- ship between news source and newsmen is guaranteed under the First Amendment and also New York State Civil Rights Law 79-H, he told reporters. Goodman stated that district- attorney Frank Hogan wants the because 'he has tapes con- of the cluded that portions material will be helpful in the prosecution of the seven inmate and the one guard defendants defendant in the case which is coming to trial.' He added: 'It was not the func- tion of journalism to aid investi- gative bodies in identifying par- ticipants in some crime which may be related to news.' Goodman called on all sec- tions of the media to defend the constitutional guarantees of the freedom of the press from gov- ernment interference. The federal judge who issued the writ of habeas corpus admit- ted that the contempt charge may have been related to the 'unorthodox' programmes of the radio station. As the general manager him- a history self said: 'WBAI has are char- of relationships that acterized by friction with various institutional forces and official bodies.' Nixon administration's The include the smashing plans of every single right established by American workers. But, as Goodman has shown, there are men in the mass media prepared to take a principled stand with workers in defence of these rights. The fundamental crisis of American capitalism is tear- ing the heart of town after town as unemployment soars and thousands are thrown on the dole. One such place is Bristol in the state of Connecticut, a boom town of the 1960s boosted by firms like General Motors mov- ing in. But today unemployment has hit 26 per cent, hurtling Bristol's 56,000 people back to the con- ditions of the Great Depression.

One of the town's oldest plants is the Bristol Brass Company. In • the 19th century it employed thousands of workers producing the brass used in the castings for the clocks on which produc- once based. tion A tew was months ago, 200 ot its remain- ing 400 workers were laid off.

Associated Iwo years ago $13.5m plant Spring built a while the boom seemed to be maintaining its impetus. The firm has now eliminated 1,200 work- ers from its new rationalized plant. was thought at the time It that New Departure Hyatt would be a guarantee of expanding employment prospects. Costing $15m for the basic plant and a further $6m for the railroad and essential facilities, New other Departure took 27 acres of farm land and turned it into one of the most highly-automated bear- ings plants. In 1965 General Motors merged the firm with Hyatt Roller Bearings Division and began the consolidation of three Edwin Goodman, Top:

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General Manager. Above: job- less queue to collect their un- employment cheques. separate plants. Millions of dol- lars of federal money flowed into Bristol as a result of GM's moves.

collapsed the As the boom drive for productivity intensified.

And another 1,200 workers joined ever-lengthening dole Bristol's The town's new shop- queues. ping centre is now deserted for time. of the The only •most expanding point is the unemploy- ment centre where a second wing is being added to accommodate the overflow. In a recent anniversary issue of the town's newspaper, GMs' president, Edwin N. Cole wrote: 'Society today expected more from business and industry than just doing a good job in manu- facturing its products. GM's con- tinuing objective is to ensure that its plans contribute to the solution of problems and not be part of them. GM likes Bris- tol and we are looking forward more years of doing to many business in such a fine com- munity? It is reported that these words have been treated with little more than the contempt they deserve by the thousands queuing for their dole. Workers Press, T In the winter of 1970 an unusual demonstration took place in Blackburn, Lancs.

10,000 mainly middle-class bible thumpers marched through town demanding an end to just about everything 'permissive' in society, from sex to strikes. At the head of the ranks of Britain' marchers, 'clean-up which, it was alleged at the time, included hundreds of oft- duty police, was Bishop Claxton of Blackburn and the Chief of then Constable Lancashire, William Palfrey.

Palfrey next appeared in the news when he demanded the Frederick death penalty for Sewell, imprisoned for life for the killing of police Supt Gerald Richardson in Black- pool. The now former Chief Con- stable claims there is no con- tradiction between his and his Christian beliefs demand to restore the barbaric practice of hanging. Shortly after the Blackpool shooting, Christian, I believe the taking of life is wrong. 'But I do not consider at the present time that our society is ready for the This week Palfrey said: 'As • copper I think the death should have been penalty retained, particularly tor those who kill policemen. Law-and-order Palfrey has now found a new patron. The Conservative Party has invited him to stand on a bring - back - hanging.- for - the-police-killers plattorm in the Ardwick division of Manchester. The ex-Chief Constable has not yet replied. But the chair- of the Conservative man Party divisional executive Bill Swan said he had made the invitation because he thought Palfrey would be 'an ideal man'. Lord Cooper, leader of the General and Municipal Work- ers' Union, has become some- thing of a business tycoon.

Apart from his arduous duties at Ruxley Towers, the premises at union's stately Cooper holds down Esher, several directorships. 8 Press, Tuesday March 28, 1972 PAGE 9 He is a director of York- shire Television, a member of the Meat and Livestock Com- mission, and the Thames Con- servancy Board and has held several other public appoint- ments including membership of the National Ports Council from 1967-1971. just taken on Now he has This another directorship. time it's with the National Bus Company. It is a three- appointment starting year April 1. His salary will be £1,000 a year. With all this hectic activity going on it's a wonder Cooper finds time to manage the affairs of his 850,000 members. Lord Cooper The General Medical Council's disciplinary committee last week heard the case of two Harley St doctors charged with prescribing large quan- tities of tablets as slimming courses. Dr Benjamin Newton and Dr Gerald Godfrey were charged with serious professional mis- conduct. They were accused of supplying 12 patients with drugs potentially addictive without adequate inquiries into their medical histories and proper regard for their health. Providing tablets for girls wanting to slim is a hugely lucrative business. The surprise witness for the two doctors was Det Insp Donald Barker of the Fraud Squad. Barker told the GMC com- was impressed by mittee he the professional attitude' of the two doctors. He said he went to the clinic because he was overweight. He paid £7 for a three-week course and later enrolled for another three weeks. The doctors were acquitted through lack of substantial evidence against them.

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fied in the Bonn parliament. This may make it willing to make bigger concessions to the US.

In his press conference, Nixon strongly defended his Vietnamiza- tion of the Indo-Chinese war and warned that a big N Vietnamese offensive might come in the dry season. No hope His remarks suggested that he any idea had abandoned of settling the Vietnam conflict by open negotiation. From the way the talks in Paris were going, he said, there was 'no hope whatever' that they would succeed. The US has already suspended participation in the talks, which have dragged on for almost four years. US negotiators are out to break a three-and-a-half year filibuster by the N Vietnamese, Nixon said.

'They refuse to negotiate seriously and they use the talks for the demanding Police are more anti-riot equipment and tighter controls on explosives and fire- claim that some They arms. 13,000 petrol bombs have been thrown at them in the past three years. At least six persons have four of them policemen, died, according to the National Police Agency and almost 700 have been injured. The police claim to have un- a planned covered details of armed uprising in Tokyo next month, when senior government POWERFUL forces are leading Japan back to the militaristic policy of the 1930s, according to Foreign Australian opposition William Affairs spokesman Morrison. Morrison speaking at the A CAPACITY audience of 400 saw "The English Revolution' at the Young Vic, London, on Sunday night. After the play, the national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, Gerry Healy, lectured on the subject of Oliver Cromwell and the necessity for revolutionaries today to examine the history of the bourgeois revolution in England. He said the production of the play was not aimed at titivating the middle class. The actors and actresses who participated in the play were expressing through their art great historic forces. This is why the play was so successful.

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which his foreign policy adviser, colonel Benjamin Mejia Henry Kissinger, has carried on Army cristian Vietnamese and the with the N Democrat and Napoleon Chinese. Nixon will obviously be Duarte- -runner-up in of a deal month's presidential elec- taking. up the question this Vietnam he be tried by over meets tions of high Brezhnev and company in high court charges on' and sedition. Moscow. treason THE United States should aim at a stable population and crack down illegal immigration, reports a Presidential Panel on national guidelines on population national policies affecting popu- distribution and control over the lation. use of land. should be It proposes to halve the popu- Immigration by restricted, the panel urged, until lation growth rate lifting social and restrictions on adequate economic contracepuve opportunities could abortion demand and provided sales, It universal sex education. for the existing inhabitants. The report, last in a series of pointed out that as the natural three, recommended setting up rate of population growth went Population Office of Growth down, bigger contribution to and Distribution population size to co-ordinate the increases in policy in the field. was being made by immigration.

This reactionary report follows The panel noted that little the line of many liberal ecologists progress had been made to im- prove life in the poor city areas -poverty and/or pollution is the and ghettos, or to help the poor fault of immigrants and people children. the suburbs. As who have too many in Capitalism, of course, is not to America became increasingly an there should be blame. urban society Their campaign has been aided officials were to be assassinated and a 'provisional revolutionary by the Maoist adventure recently government' established. The up- 'United Red organized by the rising was to have been organized Army', whose members holed up with by the 'United Red Army', mountain chalet hostage and fought according to the police. housewife as The police These preparations on the part it out with the police. unearthed 14 bodies of the of the forces along- later security go members had been side the frantic drive to build up group's who Hit by the 'executed' for various deviations.

Japan's armed forces. international economic crisis, the The strengthening of Japan's armed and extremely brutal anti- big business backers of premier police is an integral part of Eisaku Sato's conservative gov- riot the monopolists' plans for another ernment are openly advocating Japan's remilitarization.

war in Asia. intérested groups in Japan who Australian Labour Council meeting in Sydney at the Japan back rhad of the 1930s.' a growing move for remilitarization in Japan' But he said: There is a ground- swell of feeling from the Japanese people, who vow they will not let recently, said: "There are too many vested BUILDING workers in Lon- don have condemned the employers' offer wage as 'useless in this day and age'.

The offer was made at private negotiations with the employers' representatives week a ago. Under the offer the standard grade A craft rate is increased from £20 to £22 a week and the standard grade A labourers' rate is up from £17 to £18.60 a week.

The offer also makes provision for the introduction of a guaran- teed weekly minimum at a margin of £2 above the standard grade A rate for craftsmen giving a total of £24 week. For a - labourers the minimum would go up to £20.10. In a circular to members in the Transport and General Workers' Union, H. O. Johnson, London secretary of the building group, says: The unions adjourned the meeting in order to study the offer and get the feeling of branches in respect of this new step.' Opinions on most sites is running high against a settlement based on these meagre increases.

Workers at one site told Workers Press that the union headquarters should be bom- barded with resolutions demand- ing much higher rates in line with the soaring cost of living.

MILLIONAIRE financier Jim is stepping his Slater up interests in the Far East in a three-way announced deal at the weekend. His Slater Walker securities has put nearly into the £8m Hong Kong-based Hutchison International Company, buying 2.8 million new shares at close to current market prices.

This will give Slater Walker approximately 10 per cent of the anticipated issued share capital of Hutchison. In a parallel deal Hutchison has bought 500,000 existing shares in Slater Walker, worth nearly £2m, and 2 million exist- ing shares in Haw Par Brothers, the Singapore-based associate of Slater Walker, for around £1.6m.

A statement said Slater and Hutchison will co-operate in extending their international interests, with Slater, in parti- cular, helping Hutchison expand in Britain Hutchison helping the interests expand in Hong Kong and the Far East. Hutchison is an investment group with extensive interests in Hong Kong and Singapore, and investments in SE Asia, Australia, Japan and Britain. Before becoming a Cabinet minister, Peter Walker was Slater's partner in the inter- national financing conglomerate.

Gasmen go back STOCKPORT gas repair workers voted yesterday to return to work, pending an inquiry into the suspension of a number of men. The chairman of the NW Gas Board will himself conduct the investigation which begins today.

Originally the men rejected this formula, but were consider- ably weakened when gasworkers in the Manchester area decided to return to work after a two-day sympathy strike. At the peak of the strike 2,000 men were out.

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TECHNICIANS at the GEC extended workers' to A. E. Dean, Croydon, Surr against the gov- ernment on issues like the Indus- yesterday after a five-and-a-hall Relations Act and trial unem- of a pay rise. ployment. It called on district committee The men have won an in- to ask the executive of the union crease of £3.30 for all grades— to condemn the ban. foremen technicians, assistant Pilots and foremen-payable from yesterday. a mini- Technicians have won plan work- £27 with starting rate of three months' a further after to rule service. GEC's previous offer was for THE NEXT move in the dispute a £2 a week increase. Air- between British European Trades Writing Croydon to ways and its pilots now appears Council thanking them for their to rest with the Department of the strike, the solidarity during Employment. Association of Scientific, men's Pilots' The British Airline Technical and Managerial Staffs' authorized Association has its representative commented:

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subsi- of the National Joint Council for [another diary] obtained during London our Civil Air Transport five and a half weeks' strike, we yesterday. been the trade feel that our dispute has A spokesman for side said afterwards: 'We won. union 'The solidarity of our members noted the fact that the pilots had five-and-a-half during the week infoformed the Department of strike is to be commended. Our Employment in January about the members were under great pres- dispute. shop-floor recommended due to the 'We therefore sure 200 the Department had the workers-totalling nearly that being laid-off after two days of responsibility of bringing the two our strike. sides together to try to resolve would like to thank the 'We the dispute. The last work-to-rule by BEA Workers Press for their excel- of our strike and lasted a 1970, lent pilots June 1n / coverase fortnight. the interest shown.... The cases against Devlin and WESTMINSTER MPs Bernadette Devlin and Frank McManus failed McManus were stood over until to appear in court at Enniskillen, Wednesday. New- Co Armagh, N Ireland. vesterdav At another court in Co Down, McManus was of taking part castle, to answer charges in an illegal march. months sentenced to SiX Outside the court, police sepa- suspended for imprisonment Civil Rights -for taking part in an rated supporters two years- illegal march at Castlewellan on from those of Vanguard, the January 23. right-wing Protestant movement McManus, Unity MP for Fer- headed by William Craig, Stormont Home affairs managh and Tyrone, who former pleaded guilty, was fined £15.

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During the 1960s the divorce rate doubled. At the 1969 rate almost 4 million adults will have the experience of divorce during the remaining three decades of the century. 'Clearly divorce is now a mass experience and it is possible that these estimates understate the future magnitude, Chester says in his Marriage Guidance Council pamphlet. Looking into the next decade, Chester says: 'High manifest levels of marital instability should be expected to become an integral feature of in- experience' dividual and social

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ay March 28, 1972 MORE THAN a quarter of a million workers went on strike in Ulster yesterday following.

the two-day General Strike call by William Craig's Ulster Van- guard Party. Airlines, ferries, trains and buses came to a halt. There were throughout the power cuts province and two Belfast news- papers stopped publication.

the extreme Loyalist Craig, leader, told a rally outside the City Hall: 'I hope we will cause

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submit it to the T&GWU before this comes up before the court.

The union would have until April 10 to answer. Bishop's The interim order to Wharf lasts until 10.30 a.m. when the matter tomorrow, comes before the court again.

Donaldson gave his judgement Section 96 (1) of under Relations Act, which Industrial says that it is an unfair indus- for anyone but a trial practice registered trade union to induce a breach of contract in contem- plation of an industrial dispute.

The T&GWU, which had de- registered in line with TUC policy the Act, was not letter represented in court. from Jack Jones, the union's gen- was read to the eral secretary, court and made clear that the union would not be participating.

The NIRC president com- mented that he was not sure that the union fully appreciated the possible consequences for itself and its members of letting their case go by default. on to remark: 'If He went anyone remains silent and allows an order to be made against him, it is no defence in proceeding for contempt of court that if the full facts had been known to the court the order would have not have been.' This key paragraph of his judgement is a clear challenge to the T&GWU leadership, either to appear and argue that it is not Liverpool responsible for members' actions or face the con- sequences.

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Declaring that Ulster had been 'betrayed', Craig said that any member of the community who assisted the Heath plans would 'sent to Coventry. for the traitors that they are. Stormont Meanwhile retiring premier Brian Faulkner held secret session with his outgoing 'somewhere Unionist colleagues in Belfast'. Curiously, however, The union was perfectly with- in its rights not to seek the assistance of the court in this matter. But Donaldson told the court that if what the two complaint companies said was correct-and this was the only evidence the court had - union officials had guilty of unfair industrial been practice under the law as it is at present. 'The union can have no valid objection to an order being made to require it to discontinue its action.' Referring to the TUC's own handbook on the Act, the court president doubted that the acting on TUC

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was advice in not appearing. Jones: Sent note When the court opened yester- day morning, Mr J. S. Lawton, a solicitor for Heaton's, said: "Two of our vehicles have been set back in the queue at the docks this morning. He said there had been no outright refusal to accept Hea- ton's lorries. Sir John commented that he would not have expected there to be. the traditions of the trade union 'It would be contrary to movement if there were ofany deliberate disobedience court order-and I don't antici- pate any such disobedience in this or any other case.' almost the entire text of his 'secret' speech found its way to the press. In his heavily-leaked speech Faulkner told his cheering sup- porters: 'Northern Ireland is not a coconut colony and no coconut commission will be able to muster any vestige of credibility or standing.' Faulkner said he would not condone violence, but if Heath was counting on their making anything work, he was miscalcu- Comprehensives myth' that

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If these American corpora- tions were not here and S Afri- corporations had those can manufacturing units, would they not have the same or a worse pattern?' Wilkins was speaking at the of a week-long visit to start S Africa, main purpose of which is to address a conference of the Association for Educational and Cultural Advancement of Afri- cans of S Africa (ASSESCA) in Port Elizabeth next Sunday.

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