Workers Press no. 732

workers press NUT blow against anti-union laws

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MANCHESTER:

From Stephen Johns WORKERS occupied a 17th Manchester plant yesterday as employers review their met to strategy in the district- wide engineering pay battle. Over 500 employees at Francis Shaw, Engineering, Openshaw, declared a sit- in after management attempted to suspend them for working to rule. They are claiming more money and better con- ditions. They are also certain to be joined today by 1,200 workers at Hawker Siddeley's Woodford plant who were under threat of suspension late yesterday.

a meeting of the After Engineering Employers* Federation in Manchester, a spokesman said: We are still insisting that demands for shorter hours and longer holidays should be negotiated at national level.' He said that the ban on piecework had obviously affected output, but the position not yet was desperate. Meanwhile local Con- federation • of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions' officials met management at GKN's Bredbury steel- works, Stockport, yester- day. The 1,000 workers have been occupying the plant there for three weeks. John Tocher, AUEW district organizer, said that Bredbury agreement at would be a tremendous breakthrough'. But he added that he expecting was. not an immediate settlement. Bredbury workers are demanding a £10-a-week wage increase, a 35-hour week and longer holidays.

The £10 increase is to bring the lower-paid steel workers into line with earned by 200,000 wages Manchester engineers who are demanding £4.

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

BLACKPOOL: From our own corresponder THE National Union of Teachers yesterday voted overwhelmingly not to register under the Industrial Relations Act.

The Blackpool con- ference also decided no alteration should be made to the policy of non-registration without reference to a union con- ference. not to The decision register under Carr's Act ends almost 12 months of fence-sitting by the NUT leadership. Lewisham workers leaving their meeting y

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respondent The teachers now line up with the vast majority of trade unions in a policy of non- co-operation with the Act.

Not even the appearance of Secretary Margaret Education Thatcher during the conference on Tuesday-specially arranged by the executive could stave off yesterday's big 'No' to the Act and the Tory government. There is no doubt that the decision by the National Indust- to fine rial Relations Court Britain's union, largest the Transport and General Workers' Union, had a sobering effect on the NUT's moderate' elements.

At the conclusion of yesterday's debate, a huge majority of the 2,000 delegates voted in favour of non-registration. Many of the speakers strongly criticized the opportunist way in which the executive's memoran- meeting yesterday IL 6, 1972 • No 732 • 4p

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dum to argued for Executive did conference speakers not non-registration. explain under what *changed circumstances' they would Croydon delegate David Finch recommend registration. Nor did said the memorandum meant all they that admit relationships things to all weld between the employers and em- together left and right on the ployees had been fundamentally executive. changed by fining of the the Transport and General Workers' Time and again, he said, the Union last week. document almost said it was not expedient to *at the Ex-NUT

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president Jack Jones, present time'. replying to the debate, soft- pedalled the implications of the Finch said the Act had been Act. He admitted that strike used other against unions and action by the NUT would be an be used the

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against may unfair industrial practice, but he based his Luton delegate Peter Read complacency the difficulty of local authorities said that the main indictment of in the executive memorandum proving damage caused by Was teachers' that could be that it strike was not unambiguously assessed in financial terms.

opposed to the Act. He said the union was keeping The Act is a purpose-built its options saying *at employers' weapon, said, and open this time'. He said delegates were is the first step towards

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not being asked whether to make porate state and the abolition of a decision on whether they liked independent trade unions.

or did not like the Act. Read demanded that the TUC lead a fight for the repeal of the SEE p.3. for manoeuvres by Act through forcing the resign- the International Socialist group ation of the Tory government.

of teachers.

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

WORKERS at AEl's Century Works, Lewisham, SE London, yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a series of half-day strikes in support of the national engineers' pay claim. For the past nine support of their own sec- weeks, 30 skilled tional claim. machinists and sheet- The call for all-out strike metal in the workers was defeated but the meet- plant's

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machine ing overwhelmingly turned shop have been on strike.

£2 down AEl's offer of a increase for skilled men. 200-strong At a mass £1.75 for semi-skilled and factory's meeting of the £1.50 for women. union members yesterday, the NCD machine Half-day strikes by the supported

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by wirers firm's 300 hourly-paid called for all-out strike will workers start next action. week. workers At present 160 They are demanding a £6 at the plant are threatened increase. 35-hour week with redundancy and more holiday a and four weeks' been made redundant have year. in the past year. The Century Works is Workers in the wiring acquisition for

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shop have been implement- new Until recently the plant ing a work-to-rule, over- Elliott time ban and half-day was managed by Automation. stoppages since January in

workers press NUT blow against anti-union laws

TEACHERS TO

DE-REGISTER

MANCHESTER:

From Stephen Johns WORKERS occupied a plant 17th Manchester yesterday as employers their review mẹt to strategy in the district- wide engineering pay battle. Over 500 employees at Francis Shaw, Engineering, Openshaw, declared a sit- in after management attempted to suspend them for working to rule. They are claiming more money and better con- ditions. They are also certain to be joined today by 1,200 workers Hawker at Siddeley's Woodford plant who were under threat of suspension late yesterday.

a meeting of the After Engineering Employers' Federation in Manchester, a spokesman said: 'We still insisting are that demands for shorter hours and longer holidays should be negotiated at national level.' He said that the ban on piecework had obviously affected output, but the position not yet was desperate. Meanwhile local Con- of Shipbuilding federation Engineering Unions' and officials met management at GKN's Bredbury steel- works, Stockport, yester- day. The 1,000 workers have been occupying the plant there for three weeks. John Tocher, AUEW district organizer, said that Bredbury at agreement would be la tremendous breakthrough'. But he added that he expecting was not an immediate settlement. Bredbury workers are demanding a £10-a-week wage increase, a . 35-hour week and longer holidays.

The £10 increase is to bring the lower-paid steel into line with workers •wages earned by 200,000 Manchester engineers who• are demanding. $4.

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEN"

BLACKPOOL: From our own corresponden THE National Union of Teachers yesterday voted overwhelmingly net to register under® the Industrial Relations Act.

The Blackpool con- ference also decided no alteration should be made to the policy of non-registration without reference to a union con- ference. The decision not to register under Carr's -Act ends almost 12 months of fence-sitting by the NUT leadership. • Lewistiam workers leaving their meeting y

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respondent The teachers now line up with the vast majority of trade in a policy of non- unions co-operation with the Act.

even the appearance of Not Education" Secretary Margaret Thatcher during the conference on Tuesday-specially arranged yesterday sure d yesterday's big and the Tory government. There is no doubt that the decision by the National Indust- rial Relations Court to fine Britain's largest union, the Transport and General Workers' had a sobering effect on Union, the NUT's 'moderate' elements.

At the conclusion of yesterday's debate, , a huge majority of the 2,000 delegates voted in favour of non-registration. Many of the speakers strongly criticized the opportunist way in which the executive's memoran- meeting yesterday IL 6, 1972 • No 732 • 4p

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dum to argued for conference Executive speakers did not explain under what 'changed non-regisuanon. circumstances' they would Croydon delegate David Finch Nor did recommend registration. said the memorandum meant all they admit that relationships things to all men-to weld between the employers and em- together left - and right on the ployees had been fundamentally executive. •Changed by the fining of Transport and General Workers' Time and again, he said, the Union last week. document almost said it was expedient *at the to register Ex-NUT president Jack Jones, present time'. replying to the debate, soft- pedalled the implications of the Finch said the Act had been Act. He admitted that strike used against other unions and action by the NUT would be an may be used against the NUT. unfair industrial practice, but he based his Luton delegate Peter Read complacency on the difficulty authorities of local said that the main indictment of in the executive proving damage caused by memorandum was teachers' strike that could be that it not unambiguously assessed in opposed to the Act. financial terms. He said the union was keeping The Act is purpose-built its by "at said, and options open saying employers' weapon, this time. He said delegates were first the step towards cor- not being asked whether to make porate state and the abolition of a decision whether they liked independent trade unions.

or did not like the Act. Read demanded that the TUC lead a fight for the repeal of the • SEE p.3. for manoeuvres by Act through forcing the International Socialist resign- the group ation of the Tory government.

of teachers.

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

WÖRKERS at AEl's Century Works, Lewisham, SE London, yesterday voted overwhelmingly for a series of half-day strikes in support of the national engineers' pay claim. For nine the past of their own support sec- skilled weeks, 30 tional claim. machinists and sheet- The call for all-out strike workers metal in the was defeated but the meet-

NCD

plant's machine turned ing overwhelmingly shop have been on strike.

down AEI's offer of a f2 increase for skilled men, 200-strong At §1 75 for semi-skilled and macc of meeting the factory's €1.50 for women. members yesterday, the NCD machine men Half-day strikes the NCD wirers hourly-paid supported by firm's called for all-out strike will workers start next action.. week. At present 160 workers They are demanding a f6 at the plant are threatened 35-hour week increase. with redundancy and more and four weeks' holiday a have been made redundant year. in the past year. wiring Workers in. the acquisition shop have been implement- new Until recentiv the mlant ing a work-to-rule, over- over- managed Filiott by time han and was stoppares since Tanuary in Automation.

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FROM OUR FOREIGN DESK

N VIETNAMESE troops were reported advancing on Saigon government bases in S Vietnam's central High- lands yesterday in what could be the prelude to opening a new front in their current offensive.

N Vietnamese tanks were seen moving along the border area in Kontum province and shelling of government-held bases had intensified, Saigon military sources said. An estimated three divisions of N Vietnamese troops backed by tanks and surface-to-air missiles are still advancing against 'crack' units of the S Vietnamese army who fled in confusion when they crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

Earlier this week, the S Vietnamese landed marine detach- ments in the area of Quang Tri, close to the DMZ. Under the the 'Street Without Joy' known French this was as (See 'Historical Precedent'): The US air force is carrying round-the-clock bombing out N Vietnamese against the but it has come up forces, against heavy anti-aircraft fire THE 25-mile strip of coast be- Another and visibility. poor hind Quang Tri has always been B-52 heavy bomber was a Communist stronghold. brought down yesterday. The French colonial troops called it Ironically 'Street without President Nixon and his mili- Joy' because many passing con- are still discussing tary advisers voys were shelled and ambushed further retaliatory action, chiefly Viet Minh troops. This week of by heavier bombing, in support Vietnam made marines an the beleaguered puppet army.

amphibious assault on the street.

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had been able to use the weapons.

Had they done so, then they would probably have received the death sentence. Mr Justice Beck said that, although the men appeared to have changed their minds after entering Rhodesia, it was still obvious that they sympathized with guerrilla aims. 'You had a change of mind he stathan a chane of beart the trial all three During admitted being sent to Tanzania for guerrilla training by Chinese instructors. They said they were instructed to return to Rhodesia and spread terror to disrupt the work of the Pearce Commission. that the Justice Beck ruled names and ages of the young men were not to be reported for security reasons, and also forbade any mention of places concerned in the case. Feather in Bucharest TUC delegation headed by A Victor Feather left yesterday for Bucharest on a six-day goodwill kind' to visit-the first of its Rumania. him were Jack Jones, With and head the Transport General Workers' Union. George Smith, chairman of the TUC general council, and Alan Har- head of the TUC's greaves, international department.

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Saigon CEYLON'S parliament has begun debating the new Justice Commissions Bill, which gives the government wide very reprèssive powers. Minister Felix Dias Justice Bandaranaike, introducing the Bill into parliament on Tuesday, said it was designed to prevent year's recurrence of last 'dangerous events'. He was referring to the abor- tive insurrection in March 1971 led by the People's Liberation Front (JVP) in which 1,200 were killed. Fourteen thousand young left- wingers are still being held in the island's concentration camps: Most have still to be brought to trial, or even charged. The Bill will enable the gov- ernment to by-pass the courts and establish special commissions to try cases of insurrection or rebellion, currency and foreign exchange offences big enough to endanger the national economy, as well as cases involving destruc- tion of property. The Justice Minister claimed it was meant to safeguard demo- cracy and socialism and not to antiquated laws and protect imperialist systems, a statement no doubt designed to reassure the his coalition partners, piss and as senegade. 342 2 skyists of the have been These turncoats among the most enthusiastic sup- porters of continued mass intern- ment in Ceylon. Their support for the Justice Commissions Bill is essential if the coalition is to get the legislation through parlia- ment. There have been protests from trade unions, the Bar Council of Ceylon and the newly-formed Civil Rights Movement against the Bill, which is an . attack on basic democratic rights. N. M. PERERA, Finance Minister in the Ceylon coalition and leader of the LSSP, has said the coun- try is not prepared to accept the advice of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the rupee. Yet devalue Ceylon is totally dependent on the Bank and the IMF to shore up the tottering Ceylon currency.

Perera is now in Venezuela for the conference of developing . the -countries..on monetary situation.

BY IAN YEATS

THE Provisional IRA is in the throes of a decisive political crisis. Their latest tactic in offer- ing to talk about peace to 'representatives of the barri- caded areas in Derry is a desperate attempt to wrest the political initiative back the Social Democratic from Labour Party. The. SDLP will hold a meeting tomorrow in the heart of the Provisionals' Derry territory and it is understood that SDLP MP John Hume will appeal to Bog- side and Creggan people to call off their support for the IRA.

Direct rule has exposed a truth, unpalatable to the Pro visionals, that Catholic support for them was always, in the main, dependent upon there being no repressions by in the let-up Stormont and the British army.

Although, in reality, direct rule clearly changes nothing, appears to some Catholics to offer the promise of a solution to the Ulster crisis. The absence of this in the past has driven them willy-nilly into the arms of the IRA.

of the Pro- While sections visionals doubtless see themselves engaged in a war of liberation, it is becoming clear that a signifi- cant number of their supporters thought of them as a kind of • Private police force. This emerges from yesterday's remarks by a member the Women Together movement: 'We are not turning our backs the Provisionals. need We on them on the estate [Andersons- town, Belfast! in case of a back- lash and for law and order.'

Yesterday's statement from the Derry command, unconfirmed by Provisionals in Dublin, said: 'If the people of Free Derry will be prepared to sell out the and the men behind the wire men on the run, they are not the same people who time after time repulsed attacks on their areas by the armed might of the British army.' some of Of course, not even Togetherites have the Women turned their backs on the Pro- visionals in that sense. Demon- amid con- strations by women fused political developments in Derry and adverts in the Repub- lican 'Irish News' leave no doubt that large numbers of people won't be satisfied with less than an end to internment. But this is part of the direct rule deal anyway. William White- Tory supremo law has already begun thumbing through internees' files. Some will released further doubtless be splitting the Catholic movement.

Whitelaw has relaxed the ban Tom Darades and as the SDLP and the Labour Party rise to the bait, it seems likely that some troops might be withdrawn from the streets to barracks. Once the SDLP and the LP start talking to the Tories in earnest, the effect must be not only to widen the split in the Catholic population, but also to isolate the hardliners among the Provisionals. The short-term triumph of the SDLP is the pay off for the IRA's opportunist single demand for an end to the terror. But despite the trimmings the Tories go empty handed to the working class of Ulster - Protestant and Catholic. Direct rule is a political Trojan horse which will be used to deprive the Ulster working class of even more basic rights.

Leader of the N Ireland Social Democratic Labour Party Mr Gerry Fitt yesterday renewed his party's plea to the IRA to halt violence. He said: 'We believe it cannot political solution and lead to a bring tragedy. and can only unhappiness.'

Top Tories 'stiffen' ailing

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

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in con- ference at Blackpool hit the Have OuL unprincipled of the vring tional Socialist-domin- Rank-and-File ated group. This manoeuvring has assisted the NUT ership maintain vocal Industrial Lowards

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An executive recommended randum the present ume . Rank-and-File withdrew delete Those Tour words In cised aste and reach. further annenomicnt agenda. down the idered 'tough' man needed to lead Lol

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But the later amend- ment-seeking to tie the NUT to the TUC's non- co-operative policy—was ruled out of order at the start of the debate. Dick Boland (27), a junior schoolteacher, commented: I don't know what the Rank and File group are playing at in with- drawing their amend- ment to delete the words "at the present time", "Those words are possible let-out for the executive in the future.'

Dick added: 'I want to see a more positive opposition to the Act in line with the TUC position. The executive are hedging their bets.' The secretary of the run: Gillingham association,.. auh to lead Lonrho Linda Williams, told me: much runs more со- ordination between sector unions. No single rect position if slowly the miners, union, even pushed responsible by is going to have either pressure groups. the physical or psycho- fail see why to and File logical strength to be Rank with- able to win in an all or drew their amendments nothing fight with this which would help to Tory government. the NUT. a bit push further in opposing president the Past of Act.' Eddie Croydon Dick on the lack of word: 'In spite of the induc- in the tion of a well-known CP debate. thi "radical" vice-presi- as dent (Max Morris),, the it commitment de would that tra un now seem public the executive has aban- se tamely lar - not doned all pretence at to standing out for a rea- accept sonable basic scale in tat. favour of a fragmenting 'And the commitment and divisive runs both ways. salary structure.' I think there must be COLONEL Colin ('Mad") Mitchell has dramatically elevated in the been Tory Party ranks to become parlia-.

mentary private secretary to Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Gordon Campbell. The appointment means two things: Cabinet Campbell, a minister, likes Mitchell. • Mitchell is being groomed for a ministerial office in Tory politics. Before becoming MP for W Aberdeenshire, Mitchell led the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers in the repression of the working-class communities in Aden. He organized the notorious Crater invasion in which scores of people were shot, beaten up and imprisoned.

'The Guardian' just In an interview in before the Bloody Sunday massacre in Lon- donderry, Mitchell said that a list of 100 suspected "terrorists' should be compiled.

'Okay', he said, 'and you just start shooting them'... the weapon I should like to intro- duce is the machine gun built into every TV "Come out You can say to the IRA camera. and let's talk" ... and then shoot the lot.'

Workers Press, Thuraday April 6, 1972 PAGE 3

BY ALEX MITCHELL.

TWO of the top figures in the Tory Party, Mr Duncan Sandys and Mr Edward du Cann, have been brought onto the board of Lonrho, the embattled mining and industrial group. Sandys is an ex-Colonial Secretary and ex-Cabinet Minister and du Cann was a former Tory Party chairman. The other key figure to join the board is Sir Basil Smallpiece, the ex-chairman of Cunard.

When he ran BOAC, Smallpiece was in close with the then Tory Aviation Minister, who touch happened to be Sandys. The company's shares have been since it uncertain was that £10m had to be raised to reduce announced late last year overdrafts in London banks.

Lonrho (whose name is an amalgamation of London and connections with some of the most reactionary Rhodesia) has S Africa, states on the African continent. It has operations in Kenya (Sandys is friend of Jomo Kenyatta), a very close Rhodesia, Ghana, the Sudan and Libya.

During the past six months Lonrho has stumbled from one crisis to the next. Last September the company's merchant bank- ers, S. G. Warburg, resigned because they were dissatisfied with the management structure and the group's liquidity. City Peat, The accountants, Mitchell, Marwick and were assigned to the company to do a In top-to-bottom examination. the midst of this inquiry, several African company's directors were arrested on fraud are still charges. At least two awaiting trial. The announcement that Sandys is to become chairman forms Peat, Marwick and part of the Mitchell recommendations that Sir Basil Smallpeice the top echelons of the company needed strengthening. For the type of ventures in which Lonrho engages, Sandys is a good choice. He is a hard-line, bring-back-hanging, anti-immi- grant Tory. such he has good As very friends in the apartheid regime in S Africa, among the Portuguese colonialists in Angola, Mozam- bique and Guinea and in Rhodesia. on Sandys Commenting Mr Edward du Cann appointment, the company's and also the now-bankrupt financial adviser, Mr Roland Vehicle and General Insurance.

Franklin said: 'He is very familiar with the African scene and is a Although chosen in is Cabinete Heath's he strong man. This is just what is Edward is needed.' widely recognized as in- an MP fluential backbench with He is present senior at strong connections in the bank- of Goldfields, director Ashanti ing and insurance world. which was taken over by Lonrho a couple of years ago. Ashanti is Du Cann's bank has already well connected with members of greed to subscribe immediately the regime in Ghana. £375,000 in cash for 500,000 nev 75p each Lonrho shares at and Last year Sandys visited the to buy a million has options Sudan three times and success- more. negotiated a deal whereby fully Lonrho took over the country's Still on the Lonrho board is sole importing rights. This meant Ogilvy, Angus husband that Lonrho now does all the Princess Alexandra, a first buying-and cousin of the Queen. Sudan's overseas charges a hefty fee for it.

With the Royal Family and The Sudanese connections took a new and more intriguing turn reconstruction the abortive last year during a mum, i founts take communist-inspired coup. turn the better. Stock Exchange yesterday, executive Lonrho i It was Lonrho shares rose from a low back which flew the aircraft of 72p to 84p giving a net gain leaders anti-communist army of 6p. from the Lebanon out carry of trade unionists the butchery and intellectuals. More recently Lonrho has

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with another fanatically anti- communist regime, Libya.

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It will be recalled that the Libyans forced down the BOAC SHEFFIELD: Thursday April 6, the aircraft which was carrying 7.30 p.m. New White Lion, The coup leaders from London back to Khartoum. Wicker, Sheffield. 'Engineers' pay claim and the Industrial In an arrangement between Col General Gaddafi of Libya and Relations Act: Halt the retreat'.

Taafar Numeiry of the Sudan, the then leaders were sent to NOTTINGHAM: Thursday April Khartoum for execution. Halle 6, 7.30 p.m. Peoples The choice of du Cann is also He is chairman of St. Report -back interesting. Heathcoat Keyser Üllman,. the merchant from Wembley Pool. bankers who were involved with Bloom's Rolls Razor affair John

PACE & Workers Preca, Tauroday Aprll 6, 1972 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.

your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion.

MARTIN REGAN

trol the MPs through our con- the should be stopped. Country stituency parties and trades There should be no incentive schemes productivity. This A St Helen's building councils, but we never do. or Helens of only - St kind speed-up ana a long-standing neuter orate Lie a massior ingous majority the Labour Party. In a few weeks people on the dole his building working-class I'm working on case in latest job- new town tank point now The new tank we are Pilkington's Hill works St for Cowley Helens but have never really used their Pilks Duleine •WIl strength. 250 men, but the one it replaces 500. Automation under Then "down the In union it is similar. You employs Prospects the dole road' more. had the massive one dav strikes SOLeill licalid finding a job are grim The last and demonstrations against the instead time a site-job ended he was 20 Relations Bill. Bụt more leisure time, shorter hours ndustrial in: and longer hulidays for people.

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have not improved since then. numbers-..they did not stop the one MOSt One of the things agree Bithe best thing I think we can versia section, or lois Manizesto the the revolutionary with the Manifesto can't see this. We the with point MPS. Their the Bill now is to ignore Tre makes get back a Labour Party Market MPs. it, uke the anti-strike esco nave to disgusted me ignored the war. with the right policies. performance really during ane They Bettes- Labour Party after the war chance let hose -they gave up a brilliant had to began something, but it was only to bring this government down. miners out of lali because bander Really I think they should be the working class just would not seeinning. expelled because it's the men like Since then Clause 4 has never wear it. been practice- -Jenkins We have a similar battle facing put into Roy LOCi and the right wing don't like this.

us on tae cueson or unemov.

ment. The unions are not giving must and and file is so aps. We ecucate lead they should here among the rank and file to break the down this apathy. should have the power to con- enuer. overlie Litousion! Martin Regan, long standing Labour Party mamber: Men like Roy Jenkins should he expelled; they are the dieruptive elements in the Party, not the communists.

ANDY WHITE

30 - year - old engineering •worker elevators Kirstey, Otis near is a new town spill. The houses livernook spill. cluster round industrial where estate 'series or closures have made thi boom area the unemploy- ment black-spot of the NW. The first and important thing about this Maniesto Is ina : judges the Tory government as illegal. This is not just a politica say the government is ruling . with- of the people. It out consent constitutional right aves us to remove it. But we have to remember on most of the Labour the issues was ment, paved the way. got conscious of this quite early une seamen s suike sons bitter attack on te witch-hunt of the militants showed what kind of level We Labour Partv had sunk to saw that they were incapable their attack to the carrying logical conciusion They to grief over th came introduced by laws Torie Castle and of „The basis lying finish off the promises job for the capitalist class.

: Com The drive towards The mon Market is probably the Tory the cenuie strategy. Here is a thing that- as the Manifesto says-the whole opposed working class oute one In Kirkby I would say there is 100 per cent opposition.

There and is a mixture of nationalism feeling-a correct one- -that the Common Market will mear th concentration of industri 1n • ana, or course, abroad But here again we the sec of Labour treachery the all the you

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Labour who voted with Heath the Market. They over must be expelled from the move ment, as the Manifesto demands But then you've also to got many ourers in th Party really are not opposed to the Market. Wilson is really pro- Market. On the Market and Ulster we see the real dangers of a grand coalition against the working class. It is against this danger of coalition and even possible fascism that the revolutionary party must be built. This is the central aim of the Manifesto.

The single problem greatest facing the working class today is its own leadership. We have no better illustration of this than the current situation in the unions.

As I speak today, Jones of the T&GWU is faced with a £5,000 fine. I recall all the brave words about fighting, about, 'know the bill and then ignore it'. These people are leading the working class into a trap. Again there is the situation in engineering. Not 20 miles from here the lads in Manchester are fighting it out. On the Mersey- side I don't think there is a pro- posal for any kind of action. This was the kind of confusion pro- moted by the AUEW leaders they when abandoned national claim. This leadership is a great danger to every working man in this country. We can say that if the working class does force the Tories out, it will do it with a programme, is bound to or a programme come from such a struggle. This is where the role of a firm al- ternative leadership would have greatest impact. Its pro- gramme would be the Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights.

A most important section of the Manifesto is that bit which says the All Trades Unions Alli- ance must intervene in every struggle of the working class and must put forward the perspective of a fight to get the Tories out and socialist policies in.

The difficulty is taking this message of the Manifesto into the working class-onto the shop floor. If I have a criticism, it is this is not being done that enough. The Labour Party leadership came to grief over the anti-union laws bY Introduced Barbara Castle (below).

Greak premier Papadodoulos The • Greek colonels cele- brated their National Day on March 24 to the plaudits of their 'socialist' friends in the Balkans. Albania, China's ally, sent two messages of congratulations to Greek premier Papadopoulos, who has just appointed himself Regent into the bargain. from The messages came Haxhi Lleshi and Mehmet Shehtu, both prominent members of the Enver Hoxha regime.

Kico The Minister of Trade, Com- Ngjela, the Minister munications, Milo Qirko and the Minister of Foreign deputy Affairs, Reis Halile, all attended a reception in celebration of the National Day at the Greek em- bassy in Tirana. inci- The Albanian regime, admired by dentally, is much including the Maoists, British Communist of Britain Party (ML) headed by Reg Birch.

Across the border in Yugo- slavia, Tito confined himself to sending a telegram of congratula- tions to Papadopoulos, while in Rumania the Greek ambassador addressed the nation over tele- vision on March 25 and Ceau- sescu sent yet another congratu- latory message to Papadopoulos.

most servile the Perhaps bureaucrats of all, to judge from the extent of their congratula- tions, are to be found in Bul- garia. There was the obligatory re- embassy ception at the Greek by top Stalinist func- attended tionaries, of course. But that was as nothing com- pared with the outpourings of the Stalinist press. 'Rabotnichesko Delo, for ex- ample, scaled heights of mystical adoration for the colonels' blood- stained regime: "There are many things in com- in the destinies of the mon Bulgarian and Greek people. What links us is the contribution to and sympathy of the Bulgarian people in the struggle waged by for their Greek neighbours freedom and independence. The Bulgarian people firmly believe that the two peoples can live in understanding and co- peace, operation for their own well- being.' (Presumbaly it is 'for their own wellbeing' Bulgarian that fronțier police hand back Greek political refugees to the tender mercies of the colonels' security forces.) Another anniversary article, by G. Ivanov in the paper 'Otechest- ven Front', stated: It is to be regretted that the again imperialist powers are striving to spoil the atmosphere and increase tension in the Bal- kans and E Mediterranean region, involving some Balkan countries carrying out of their military-strategic plans.

and try- ing to set them against each other. 'This cannot but cause alarm among the Balkan peoples who have learnt to value peace along their borders, as well as peace- good- co-operation and ful neighbourly relations.' In Stalinist parlance, this 'good neighbourly' attitude goes under the name of 'peaceful co- existence of states with different social systems. language it is In ordinary called making friends with the of the Greek working jailers class. The man the Stalinists were con- 50-year-old premier gratulating, George Papadopoulos, had moved on the eve of National Day to fortify his already dictatorial powers by sacking the 72-year- old Regent, Gen George Zoitakis.

who took Zoitakis, over Regent when King Constantine fled to Italy eight months after the colonels' coup of April 1967, was blamed for having delayed the passage of a government Bill to expand the army and police. The move was described in the 'Daily Express' as a bid 'to and rule grab supreme power Greece in dictator style like Gen Franco of Spain.' took over the Papadopoulos for himself and now Regency combines the offices of Prime Defence Minister, Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister to the Premier with the Regency. went on the radio to He announce the takeover and said: I hope that with the help of support of the God and the I will be able to armed forces fulfl my new duties? short, stiff- Papadopoulos—a with a former colonel backed sallow face-was backed 100 per cent by the Americans in his bid for supreme dictatorial powers.

They are busily building Greece up as a bastion of reaction in the E Mediterranean. Nixon re- cently awarded Papadopoulos a massive increase in military aid and is planning to base the US Sixth Fleet at Piraeus, Athens' port. To keep Greece safe for capi- . presides Papadopoulos talism, with prisons filled com- over munists and trade unionists and operates one of the most repres- sive regimes in Europe. Workers Press, It is not hard to see why the Americans switched their war effort from the ground to the sky behind the smokescreen of a 'pull out'.

On March communist troops overran Truc Giang, a S Vietnamese in outpost Mekong Delta. took place in a The attack which, region according to American forecasts, does not run a heavy risk of communist offen- sives. The delta is held up by the command as a model American area of Vietnamization—the pro- cess of turning over the fighting to S Vietnamese. Nineteen troops government were killed in the attack.

Only one of the outpost's de- fenders distinguished himself. He was a veteran sergeant who, unlike most of his fellows, kept head throughout the up attack and kept firing until he was killed by a shell. After the battle, S Vietnamese soldiers and their American ad- visers spoke seriously of a problem, of inatten- leadership tiveness and indifference among the regional and militia forces and of costly delays in bringing in artillery, air support and re- inforcements repulse the to attackers. The attack on Truc Giang which had been predicted for weeks started just before 2 a.m.

As the mortars started to fall, two US advisers in the outpost manned their radios to appeal for help. An American sergeant was wounded in the leg by mor- tar shrapnel as he ran towards the radio room. In less than an hour, a barrage of about 200 rounds of mortar fire had ended and communist troops were storming the camp from all sides. 'We have tried to tell the local troops to keep their heads tra martar barrage as this is just ers Press, Thursday April 6, 1972 PAGE 5 the kind of thing which hap- pens,' a US major commented ruefully. The artillery Vietnamese battery near Ham Long airfield several miles to the SE did not hear the call for fire support its from the outpost because radio had been damaged earlier in a short barrage of mortar fire.

It took 17 minutes before con- tact was made through the American command in Ben Tre.

The outpost requested anti- personnel artillery which would explode over the site killing fighters already in the camp grounds. Government troops were in their bunkers. There then followed a dis- agreement between the advisers and the S Vietnamese over the artillery should be where aimed. The advisers wanted the shells to burst over a dependants' housing area from where most of the fighters were coming and the district chief feared it would cause government losses. Finally, artillery was turned on the compound itself which had already been badly damaged by mortar attacks. forces started The liberation to withdraw. reinforcements Meanwhile, as were being organized from Ben Tre, agreement could not be ob- tained from a local S Vienamese commander for the release of some armoured cars to carry troops to Truc Giang, five miles away. When the reinforcements, in- cluding some Americans from a small US compound in Ben Tre, were finally under way, the ar- moured cars ran into sniper and anti-tank fire not far form the outpost and the drivers refused to go farther. The troops then had to go in on foot.. Ground troops and helicopter air support arrived about an hour after the liberation fighters had moved back into the jungle.

PAGE 6 Workers Prose, Tharaday April 6, 1972 In preparation for the Fourth Congress of the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International, the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League are publishing the four main documents of the Inter- with the covering the split national Committee Communiste: Internationaliste.

French Organisation

DOCUMENT 4

was to make approaches to tne leading centres of the liquidators Sec- of the retariat of Mandel and company, Statement by the International and propose a joint Comeet of the Fourth Committee which were not only terms International (Majority) March decisions of the opposed to the the 1,1972 pre-conterence, dist IC: overall struggle of the The split in the International was revealed in Healy, Committee is not something secretary, national Sep- Workers Press accidental, but something tne sharp rapid repiy from tember A and necessary. It flows out of a the Oci was, to stop the develop- history of political differences ten- between the Socialist Labour ment Gallstivus dency League and the Organisation of these lines knows ful or The Communiste Internationaliste.

well that Comrade overcome these differences in joint work ative and discussion over many of decisive like she Parity purpose changes in ine objective situatiol with -particularly since 1968—a split Committee for discussion 1962 was to has become necessary. Pabloites carry the fight for the IC line into The split is not the result ol organizational questions every eetie convinced that OT if is con inhed capitalise understandings And not were of how capitalist tactical aspects dUUll develo oment the crisis created conditions in which International. statement Fourth oulla mie Greek section, commenting: It is going the be made of the disputed polltica. spilt. is Greek the moment there no the foundations Fourth made of the disputed could which International—Marxist theory.

the Trotskyist section,

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quesnons in participated in This discustome girl bad _the

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in two on the eve A smokescreen ference split discussion required of the 1967 coup d'état and con of all the revisionists participation the For this reason, pri- clarifi- own forces. We ditions have not anowed as well as of our basic marv task is to explain the cation of the reasons behind also were sure that such a wide theoretical estimation one involved. and was the best irame- and in this context to disperse group or the other. Consequently fighting out the differ- work for the smokescreen of organizational the pre- on suggestion of Comrade Tne

OCI

exposed entes Slaughter, the inventors mistu cecicer conference. doche in. had the groups discussion, as lical IC meeting which adopted possible, would have pathetic to the IC. statement was Droved October the This is untrue. The facts are given the opportunity of winning

OCI

the according In 1966 the Greek section not vale these. any cadres who were moving into because it had already been split were not divided, but Pabloite internally within the opposition was But the IC IC proposal of the Not only the accepted the the political actions oreanzallous. and that they would avoid 1806 themselves, Soll revisionists OCI at Essen and on the Bolivian Conference with until particularly Hansen, revolution. OCI knows, As the a discussion, but so did the parucipation. the first responsibility sucil such a document or be s no speak of the IC majority to penders something which can be enforced On both sides, they sensed the this split. for Trotskyism against The majority leader- as discipline. dangers to the course they were The

OCI

allege that they refusal were that present discussion, ship considered The meeting excluded Irom Pablo- the minority to accept decisions of and the SLL's avoiding in which nansen part endangered the section to such an LECi it mabrity and of the 00 of the principled discussion on expulsion was that majority and of the OCI, and extenl of building the Fourth comments upon necessary. After this (196/) the since the IC make their ever International IC con- 1970. The them, in July way pre-conference groups necessity of the Scope on of the of the arterences liscussior which pre-conference, and that If the IC was not able to take proposed! Willy-nilly all the subsequent significance, are dealt the parties. are now However, encodeo In with minority by the 1n of fundamental clarify one fabrication discussion must because According on the basic going quesuons. before of the situation As for the flie y manority is creater to the 1967 but because the coup, 'prove' that the majonly

OCI:

problems of the they are easily fact the Ever since July 1970, the SLI a majority,

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disposed of. Listing eight sections Greek Trotskyist movement wert call leadership the problems of the IC itself and of the IC, the pre resolved only

8ASLO1

could therefore that four support the October 24 contrary, it conference. On through the resolution of those problems. But there can be no question being of the Greek section excluded from IC membership because a majority of the IC want in the section re- a discussion opened! It is not true that Com- rade Slaughter made any proposal to recognize two sympathizing sections. There remains a Greek on the IC; and the section proposal to bring together the two sides for discussion, includ- in an ing both their participation international conference if no unification is agreed beforehand, remains on the agenda. the POR of There remains Bolivia. All that was agreed at the IC was that Lora's application for membership of the Committee should be put before the next International Conference. This would give full opportunity for the clarification of present political positions of the POR, as well as of the record of Lora POR in the the struggle and against Pabloite revisionism. The SLL had severe reservations on both counts, and the OCI knows perfectly well that these were forcefully expressed in IC meet- ings. preliminary Finally, on these the OCI tries questions, justify the resignation Stephane Just as 'secretary of the International Committee, on the decided that the grounds Comrades Just and Slaughter "co-secretariat", work a as crisis,

SLL

of 'difficulties the because occurrence taking on the secretary- had in nationalist ship'. ments, What happened (in 1969) was in order to facilitate closer that, between the working relations all, above the prospect at sections, given the that time of growing agreement, theory, Slaughter Comrades Just and independent should meet briefly and more Paris or London, to regularly, in theory. statements on behalf of prepare the IC. bourgeois activism Centrism and the OCI pour start from sides of the On the two distinct political theory split are two The IC majority, support- lines. of Lenin and

SLL,

ing the the busiding of independere at about for revolutionary parties every the IC. as sections of country materialism the fact This line proceeds from the Fourth International that the the the cadres of precisely sciences. such parties, fighting against all tried and revisionism which has hes to destroy the parties still Stalinism. The means the of the of these cadres to win struggle

LOM

are leadership of the masses the from the Behind their countries own and reformists and Stalinists.

programme, building of such Only the sent the results and their independent parties successful winning of the leader- press. This to the party. victorious of ship can struggle for working-class power.

represented by where the We live in a period break-up of the Stalinist bureau- sense' formula and which its parties, cracy Fourth capitalist inevitably reflect the smashed it, and w and the sporadic revisionism reconstruct' it. of petty-bourgeois have to In this and protest move- way the avoid the essential theoretical anc exert pressure on working class and the revolution- practical struggle against centrists who say precisely tha This pressure is, has concentrated against experience their of Marxist of development correctness centrist forefathers of the Londor building of against the Bureau who Trotskyist parties ing of the FI in the first place are based on this on the grounds that it was pre mature, not rooted in an upsurg As against theory, these petty- glorify of the masses. tendencies The formula 'reconstruction o They and militancy. the FI' is the weapon with whic on those who a theoretical clarification of th the revolutionary of the struggle against theory and, continuity avoided. It is converted into al movement built by Marx, Engels, talk organizational question. They Lenin and Trotsky. Little wonder then combating bourgeois OCI found its way back to inter ideology, but refuse to take up dialectical national centrism for struggle Essen youth conference. against that ideology Outstanding amongst of philosophy and centrist groups of the 1930s wh historical and natural 'new' rejected Bolshevism and oppose They revel in the very founding of the revolutionary tendencies, but pull the Spanish back from any struggle against Party of Marxist Unification).

The utter failure of the POUN The OCI, the LSPH, and the tendency. to provide any leadership or t a centrist vin any independence from th Trotskyist phraseology which they Stalinists (for worship of the Trotskyist with their lives) was one of th they in fact repre- which the Fi was estabished. Th sent the results of petty-bourgeois the revolutionary on POUM continues to This is why they reject was represented at Essen by i the essential continuity of the Fl, IC cadres youth movement. The the 'Adelante' They prefer the 'common- paper, i971) reported the Essen cor sense' formula that there was a férence as follows: International, it, and 'In the afternoon we took meeting International Conference, whe way they politically amendments were debated on t ential theoretical and uggle against those initial text which had been P • say precisely that forward by the various organ proved the Only the ations. of their own proposed by the English tion of the Young Socialists, fathers of the London the need to discuss the probl opposed the found- of Marxist theory was rejected FI in the first place, a vote after discussion (the ] nds that it was pre- did not rooted in an upsurge vote) Ila 'reconstruction of 'In its intervention, the J e weapon with which explained how the general fran work proposed was in line w l clarification of the the struggle that the POUM a Pabloism is is converted into an the JC! had been carrying since 1936 . that the In the 1930s, his group sacrificed the organ ts way back to inter- ation of a centralized leaders.

the 1971 based on Marxist theory for ur the with the group of Maurin on grounds that it commanded ips of the 1930s who allegiance of a large number shevism and opposed inding of the FI was workers. This liquidationism POUM (Workers' to defeat in the Spanish rev tion. To repeat this type failure of the POUM mistake today, is to open door to all the pressure from any leadership or to petty-bourgeois tendencies wh dependence from the ives bias the of the always denounce the Trotskyist theory and continuity. political lessons po That the OCI was established. Ih and publicly to vote exist Young Socialists, youth orgai its stipport from the Polit delante Th December support from the POUM, (December clear indication of the polit rted the Essen con- nature of the split in the IC.

day April 6, the

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will to Above: A meeting afternoon and evening, doubt want group POUM In Ba excuse itself on the grounds that place there possibilities of change where are

POUM.

has been ts were debated on the in the This elements to whom one of answered in advance by which had been put a concession, the 1 POUM's leaders, the writing in y the various organiz- was destroyed by 1970 (published in Paris 1971): amendment be must recons wards, the mount 3 year onsen.

35 years after- delega- almost know that the to on this interpret to discuss the problem Spain asking questions are TEg international interested in the role of the theory was rejected in are will all begin at

POUM

these circumstances (the ICI in with no compulsi Spanish Civil War), (the and in this of past i lessons internationally people still recall past betrayals. the JCI hopes aroused by the party The OCI and it: how the general frame- the world of revolutionary in calculate. A thous with socialistires for freedom a new concept of was in line important than the le that the POUM and the desire in throwt groupings working class against totalitarian- been carrying on Stalinist bureauc of Stalin, and the crimes ism petty bourgeoisie the Andres Nin and was at crisis of imperiali: power. the other sacrificed the organiz- change for going Trotskyism can show centralized leadership nand. no and activitynly Marxist theory for unity record of activity success in its this crisis. tor cosis revol roup of Maurin on the the different movements world, it the throughout the unless Marxi based on is its breaking up into even more of of a large number penetrate to these groups in all the countries where led and masses, in which are then en- in the Spanish revolu- exists, forward the cons of meshed in an even more ferocious this type Fourth Internatio struggle against each other.

the poli is to open The OCI's (From the Preface evolucion 'Los 1 the pressure from the

POU

with the Problemas de geois tendencies which opposition to the Juan 'sectarian' Española', written by and the IC of th of a leading member Andrade, insistence on national POUM as an introduction to the of th question a selection of the work of Andres is prepared quite naturally Nin.) the amendme the against The OCI leaders were perfectly Young Social youth organiz- the aware that this was the position with politica POUM. i of the

POUM.

Their 'recon- a struction' of the Fourth Inter- of the political

TOMOI

national is a rallving of centrist the split in the IC. No

PAGE 8 Workers Pess, Thuraday April 6, 1972 reprinting here articles by Cliff Slaughter which We are appeared in Workers Press on October 7 and 8, 1969. They explain the political background to the Labour government's dispatch of troops to the province in the summer of that year.

They have a particular reievance today to the events sur- rounding Heath's declaration of Direct Rule.

PART 4

Unemployment benefit, like historical traditions of struggle all welfare benefits, link is the up. with the international offensive now same in Northern Ireland as in being mounted Britain. In the South, by the working class. an un- employed man with a wife and Secondly, the international two® children gets £7 18s. 6d.; strength of the working class, in the North £9 4s. at the centre of a profound In South, old-age pen- the international crisis capital- sion is not due until 70, and is ism, compels the Irish, like all only two-thirds of the pension other capitalists, to seek to in- Britain North. and the crease the rate of exploitation Service The Health hardly and cripple the trade unions, exists at all in the South. In order in to compete inter- 1965 the maternity grant was nationally in more competitive £4 (and contraception was conditions but this must be banned. A widow with two done in the teeth of a rising children the South in gets tide of working-class struggle!

£5 6s. a week, in the North £10. In other words, we have the New houses built in same basic ingredients for the South 1965 revolutionary struggle, though in reached the with all sorts of historical fac- record figure of 8,146. The North, with less than half the tors which aggravate the situa- tion still further, as we find in population, and still with a Britain, reformism disgraceful as proves housing situation, bankruptcy built 9,516 houses in the same its and its re- actionary under the year. Labour government! Northern Ireland's education budget last year was £51 mil- One reason why the nation- lion. The South, with double alist demagogy of the Southern the £49 population, spent has capitalist politicians been million. thin in recent years wearing These social benefits in the is that they have begun to look North, are supported by a sub- for a way out of their economic from the sidy British Ex- first problems by moving; chequer of about £130 million through closer relations (Free This is always annually. pre- Trade Agreements, etc.) with sented in government publicity the North and with Britain, sort of gift from as some the European Common into. Britain. Market. It is of course a great deal In any case, of course, the smaller than the annual Common Market represents a amount extracted in profits by forlorn attempt by the Euro- British and international capi- pean capitalists to overcome tal each year, not to mention the contradictions between the advantages gained by Brit- modern production and "the ish capitalists from the flow of nation-state. Irish emigrants suffering under he- If contradiction that 74 per cent unemployment comes stifling for the advanced Northern Ireland. rate in what hopeless countries, a We saw in the first part of for situation the bour- this article that, with exists the geoisie of a backward country growing world edonomic crisis, like Ireland. the reform programme of 'civil rights' could not solve in any Since 1958, the Irish bour- the housing way jobs and has encouraged in- geoisie an problem for the workers in the flow of foreign investment, and North, which must get worse until 1965, as part of the last for the Protestant workers as world capitalist stages of the well as the Catholic. boom, this brought a reduction What is the prospect for any of unemployment and the wor- such reform in the South? kers were able to increase real outlined, the As already wages. Fianna Fail government is For Ireland, however, this anti-union already preparing 'democratizing' could not be enough. laws, let alone and 'reforming'. Behind these the In every country, ex- measures are two factors.

pectations and strength of the In the first place, the low working class built up during level of capital investment in intensified has these years compared Ireland. southern capitalism's crisis, and in with any advanced country, coincides with Ireland that provide the basis for cannot historical problems. any advance in the economy.

More people left the land •The heritage of British im- doing (even with agriculture involving perialism, genera- moderately well) between 1958 tions. literally and 1965 than the number of déstraction of people and new jobs provided by the in- productive ruled out dustrial expansion. any possibility of a capitalist If this was the situation solution. And yet the Irish capitalists during boom; what the are face a working class whose and prospects for workers Housing and working condition small farmers in a recession?

Already the downturn in the economy in 1965 had a great radicalizing effect on the wor- kers, strengthened by the boom, and the recent wave of strikes flows from that period.

of Every section capitalist opinion in the Irish Republic, including the government through official reports, is hit- ting out at the working class as 'responsible' for the grow- ing crisis and advocating wage- freezing. This is the purpose of the proposed Criminal Jus- «tice Bill. This wages question in Ire- land is political dynamite, just as it is throughout Europe.

Irish The bourgeoisie has no chance of 'getting into Europe' in time to rejuvenate itself, even if that were possible.

Since the 1967 Free Trade Agreement with Britain, Eire's balance of payments and trade have rapidly deteriorated. The editorial of the Dublin news- paper 'Irish Independent' puts the dilemma of the clearly capitalists: 'Imports have exceeded ex- ports by more than £20 mil- lion in each month of this considerable very vear---a worsening since 1968. seem that a, wc "It does not trade deficit of the present size can be tolerated for very much longer. The deficit will be given added impetus by the income increases which are beginning to work their way through the economy. Consumer buying and imports will both be stimu- lated considerably. The econ- omy is not in a • position to conditions in Ulster: reforms will not In any way withstand this added pressure looks like developing.' which ('Irish Independent', September 8, 1969) The fact is that 70 per cent of the exports of Eire are to the United Kingdom. Like the capitalists of Britain, those of Ireland know very well that entry into the Common Mar- is not just to get some 'economic integra- dream of tion' and expansion, but to against the strengthen them working class. In the North, the future for the embattled Catholic wor- kers is in unity with the Protestant majority of workers against their employers, against the Unionist government, and imperialism which sustains them. The developing world crisis will create such problems for the Northern industries that this unity will be posed in the very near future. In Britain, the working class faced with a struggle for is socialist policies and revolu- tionary leadership, the Labour leaders having been exposed with the ending of the boom.

In their struggle against the Tories and their agents in the labour movement, the British workers will need unity with the workers of Ireland against the Unionists. They will thus need to fight for the ending of imperialist control in Ireland, in order to weaken their own enemy. will make These struggles the Irish workers in England, Scotland and Wales: force in the British In the South of Irel working class is bein recognize the the 'nati nature maintain It brought int against a government talists who openly their bourgeois allies minster and the City of the liberatior only to be achieved working - clas: strugg socialism. It is the internation in that struggle, the gr being taken bv the socialist revolution, have opened up a new the heroic history of t workers and small far This time there leaders. This struggle in Ireland mer the historic situation i the workers of Brita break from imperialism and all i Britain are going to blow

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TEENAGERS QUEUE FOR

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BY SARAH HANNIGAN

A recent Federal govern- ment report on youth states that Canada now has the highest rate of youth unem- ployment of any industrial- ized country in the world.

Youth unemployment, said the report, is now permanent a feature of the Canadian economy.

In Ontario alone over 10,000 high school graduates are with- out jobs. In line with this situation was Youth in the US and Aus- tralia have followed the lead of the Young Socialists in Britain in taking up the cam- paign against growing unem- ployment internationally.

American Last Wednesday, Young Socialists mobilized youth in New York in a demonstration on the Federal Building against unemployment and budget cuts.

figures Latest unemployment from the State Department of Labour show a massive 6.5 per cent rate in New York itself.

The total out of work in New in February York State was 7,575,000. In the city the jobless rate of 5.7 per cent is the highest since 1966. Increased tuition fees for State University students will affect thousands of youth who will also be joining in the search for jobs in the coming months. The key issue posed on the demonstration was the call for an American Labour Party.

anada, which has the world'& higheet rate of y the recent Wright Report on Post-Secondary Education Ontario which proposes that students who now pay 14 per cent of the operating costs of education should instead pay 50 per cent. This could mean that student fees will double shortly. And after three years, students would have to pay all the costs of their education. In order to pay for these massive increases, the Wright report, proposes a system of loans and grants. No longer interest-free, these would tie students to as much as that with fought to point out unemployment mounting among older workers, youth stood very little chance whatsoever.

And, they said: "The trade have the power to build unions a Labour Party to replace the Democrats and the Republicans who encourage unemployment to split and weaken the working class. We the working-class youth and students are demonstrating to awaken the labour movement to these tasks. Support for the demonstration came in from President of the Social Service Employees 371 branch, Stanley Hill. Social ser- vice workers in New York have been badly affected by unemploy- ment in the past year. Newark Representatives Teachers' Union and head of the Connecticut Union of Auto- Workers branch have also given their backing. Also announcing support was president of Perth Amboy elec- All. tricians' branch, New Jersey. He promised the full co-operation of rate of youth unemployment 15 years of beavy debts leaving school. Also contained in the report are proposals for massive cut- backs in educational spending.

This is in line with local federal government attacks on education already carried out. In Alberta, the Tory govern- ment ordered that all university construction projects not yet begun, should be stopped.

Just as in the US, youth and students are being made to bear the brunt of the capitalist crisis through unemployment and attacks on their right to a decent education. the branch with the YS in the demonstration organizing and pledged to assemble a dele- gation • of striking workers take part. On Saturday, March ' 10, youth in Brisbane, Australia, assembled in the city square to against increased demonstrate redundancies and unemployment.

Youth in Australia are pre- uth paring for their first conference in of revolutionary youth Sydney in June as a basis for building Trotskyist youth a movement. The demonstration was an important part of the campaign for the conference.

is no accident that in wide different and countries varied sections of working-class, unemployed and student youth turning towards serious are revolutionary politics. Today, as the crisis of capi- talism deepens, it is only the programme and perspective Trotskyism, as represented by the International Committee of the Fourth International, that can.

pave the way forward. Workers Press, Sister Mary Annunciata of Port Hedland, W Australia, was on her knees praying for help for teaching work carried ouf by her colleagues. she a heavenly She'd write to Paul Getty, the world's richest man, and get a gift of money to enable the educa- tion programme to flourish.

And just like in the movies, a few days later she received letter all the way from a America. Yes, it was from Mr Getty.

And inside was a cheque. For £3.75. Sister Mary is believed to be back on the prayer stool.

In real life Enoch Powell doubtless nurses certain hopes for his political future and may flatter himself, that his even popularity is growing. As a matter of fact it is but not perhaps altogether in the he would The famous London waxworks, which exhibits Powell, recently staged a poplarity poll. Powell did not come first. But he did manage to make fifth place — in the Hate and Pear section, tying with Dra.

cula. He was beaten . to the first four places by Adolf Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, President Nixon and Jack the Ripper. Madame Tussaud's runs the poll annually among its visit- Other section winners ors. were George Best (sport), Tom (entertainment), Eliza- Jones Workers Prose, Thuraday Aprll G, 1972 PAGE 9 beth Taylor (beauty), and Win- ston Churchill (hero of all Little)

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So this is building the Great Society in the United States. Commission on Popula- The tion and the American Future has just handed in its report to President Nixon and Con- gress. It says that small towns in should be put to the country 'a merciful death'. places Many have simply outlived their economic func "The adds. tion, the терогі purpose of future investment in such areas should be the decline make easier to bear rather than to reverse it.'

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WOLVERHAMPTON: From our own correspondent STAFFORDSHIRE min- Tudor, member of the Union National of Vehicle ers are among the many Workers Builders, told Press sections of workers back- yesterday. "There 700 ing seven - week - old are more re- dundancies already in the offing strike at the Willenhall locally. The Birmid Qualcast fac- threatened with closure Radiator Company, near Wolverhampton. soon build up to 7 per cent.

'Unemployment Scotland Yesterday, leaders, in strike is only 0.2 per cent higher- -and who say they are fighting for considered depressed that's the basic right to work, area. sought the support of British- 'We want guaranteed assur- Leyland stewards meeting in the ances from management Birmingham. these men's jobs before about back' we'll go The strike is over the manage- The taken over ment bid to make 79 of the fac- company by Howard Tenens of Swindon 875 redundant. tory's workers that last with guarantee This follows a labour-load survey yeal, the new management would safe- carried out after the factory was guard the interests of the Willen- taken over last year. hall Radiator workers. With unemployment in the Wol- At a meeting with a senior verhampton area already running director, shop stewards were told workers at 6.8 per cent, any would that existing agreements made redundant would face be honoured. long stretch on the dole.

work schedules were 'We're not prepared to accept If assured, duced, stewards that, works Arthur were convenor men for introducing the work to ABOUT 250 workers decided yes- return to work at the terday to rule. Ports- yesterday's mass meeting Brickwood's brewery, At Transport and General Workers' mouth. Union and Amalgamated Union will lift their But they not Workers officials of Engineering and that the overtime ban work-to-rule told the men company in defence of a 20 per cent pay 11.6 was prepared offer to

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Name Address the old system would operate: there would be a period of short- time working before redundan- cies were discussed. Last year's pay agreements also contained a clause saying that the manning of sections or produc- tion lines would be mutually unions agreed between and management. In November 1970, however, foremen made a unilateral labour survey and later redundancies were announced. The joint shop stewards' comr mittee at the factory say that if there is not enough work to should be a go round, there system of work-sharing. They say that their struggle is receiving widespread support in the area. Local miners, who got the backing of the Willenhall men during their own. strike, have sent £190. Convenor Arthur Tudor says that support so far from other factories has been very good and 'is building up'. BRITISH Steel Corporation re-planning could kill off nearly 10,000 Scottish steel jobs by 1978. Scottish divi- Arthur Bell, sional officer of the Iron and Confederation, Steel Trades said the plan might be moder- ated if a new integrated plant was built at Hunterston. But the heavy cutback would take place whatever was decided about the Ayrshire site. new evidence 'According to given to me the only plants which will be operating by 1978 will be the Ravenscraig-Gartcosh complex and the Clydedale Tube Works, Mossend. 'The timing of any new pro- ject is likely to be too late to keep the skilled Scottish steelmen in the industry, he added. Confirmation that the govern- doesn't intend the ailing Scottish steel industry the preliminary has come from •plans. for expenditure in industry between 1975 and 1980.

They show figures of £500m for England, and Wales, but no- thing for Scotland, according to Bell. Even the £120m due to be spent in Scotland between 1965 1975 excluded the and pos- a new integrated of sibilities steel plant. Road hauliers want third more SOME road hauliers need to in- crease their revenue by a third to costs' cover 'steadily escalating a report by the Road Haulage Association says. The report, published today, says that costs rose by an esti- mated 13.6 per cent in 1971.

and long Hauliers general on distance work now needed to in- crease revenue by 34.2 per cent to cover increased costs incurred since 1969. Workers Press, Thuraday Aprll 6, 1972 PAGE 11

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political parties opposed to the government of Chilean President Salvador Allende have called a mass march through Santiago next week to 'reaffirm their faith in democracy. It has been set for Wednes- day, April 12- eve of the opening in Santiago of the third United Nations confer- ence on trade and develop- ment, at which more than 140 nations will be represented.

The decision to stage this new Allende's 17-month- challenge to old Popular Front government was taken last night by leaders of the powerful Christian Deme- the right-wing National crats, Party: and the smaller Radical Democrat and National Democrat parties. The opposition hold a majority in both houses of Congress and has been blocking Allende's plans for further nationalization.

The right-wing leaders said they intended to march peace- fully through the centre of San- if government tago even per- mission for the demonstration is denied. Ther are angry about a recent on it women's government ban protest march. while a mass rally in favour of Allende was allowed lo go ahead. The right-wing parties are backed by US big business and the Central Intelligence Agency. which has open!y admitted plan- ning intervention against Allende 17 months ago. Allende's coalition of Stalinists, Social-Democrats and bourgeois radicals is fighting in Congress against a right-wing amendment barring him from further state industry takeovers of and business. The opposition plan to block Allende's veto on this issue and challenge him to take it to a plebiscite. Shock quit ARGENTINE provincial gover- nor Senator Francisco Gabrielli 20.000-strong has resigned after demonstrations in the province against electricity price rises. The governor is thought to oppose the increases.

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01-622 7029 CENTRAL London branch of the National Union of Journalists. representing 4,000 Fleet St journalists. yesterday passed motion asking the NEC 'to give the notice to newspaper proprieiors and the government that the union is not prepared to take any further contraction of the newspaper industry with the attendant and redun- closures dancies this entails. NEC to start It calls on the immediate discussions with the PKTF unions to work out a plan for a new system of newspaper financing and control including income redistribution, subsidies and, where necessary, the nation- alizing of vital or threatened components of the industry.'

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Press, Published by Workers 1868 High Street.. London, 1800 Captam watuS. Street, London, day Aprli 6, 1972. Wallace in fancy dress

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governor of Alabama and extreme right-wing US. of presidentiat hopeful, won 22 per cent of the votes in the Wisconsin Demo- cratic primary election yesterday. BIRMINGHAM: From our industrial corre SHOP STEWARDS from throughout the British- Etyl heavy cars and vehicles combine yester- day sent union officials back to the company for improvements in a new disputes procedure. A lotal of six amendments in the proposed agreement will be sought, but many of the car workers' leaders who in yesterday's participated Birmingham mecting where pessimustic about the out- come. • no teeth in their There are decision. Union leaders were interpreting it afterwards as an i in principle of the acceptance procedure. More than 400 leading stewards and local union officials attended vesterday's which meeting wils chaired by Moss Evans, national car and engineering officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union. The main report on the pro- posed agreement the result of Eastern Mercantile, opens its first foreign branch in London to- morrow, with the Bangla Desh Ambassador Syed to . Britain, performing Abdus Sultan, the inauguration ceremony: City experts will help the bank foreign exchange channel vital and aid back to BanglaDesh.

The new branch in Finsbury Square, will also enable the many Bangla Desh people living Britain to send money home. They have not been able to do this for a year because of the war *- and it has been a blow to the country's resources. MOST areas of Wales, the Mid- lands and S England. will have : cloudy day with a •generally occasional rain but perhaps some the day. sunny spells later in Scotland, NW England and N Ireland will have sunny spells and showers, showers more frequent and heavy in the N.

Central and NE England will be mainly dry with sunny spells.

•Temperatures will be near normal.

He finished second behind Senator George McGovern, who won 30 per cent of the with his programme for pulling out of Vietnam completely and leaving the Saigon regime to its own • devices. Wallace's showing, just a few weeks after winning 40 per cent of the poll in the southern state of Florida, is a sinister sign of o the growing right-wing move.

ment in the US. The Alabama governor, a notorious segregationist and ad- vocate of 'law-and- stringent order' measures against demon- strators, is backed by the John trial corresponden: DAVID MAUDE private discussion months of between Leyland and the unions was presented by Hugh maleater Ohion or Bein the Stanka ing Worker.. Main points of the proposed procedure which is designed to York replace the 50-year-old Memorandum torn by the up unions last year, are: злор aros, providing they are 21 and have 12 months service in their plant.

reduction the Drastic number of negotiating stages a dispute has to go through.

• Company agreements that the procedure should be exhausted in 20 days. • Encouragement of the setting works' committees up of joint which would be the final domestic stage of the procedure. • No changes in wages or work- ing practices without prior union- agreement - the management sought-after status quo principle.

2027 In theory, there would be just one external stage to the pro- codure. many shop But stewards vesterday expressed concern that in this would not be the case practice. One of the clauses referred back to the company for amendment provides for national officials to be called in after the procedure is exhausted, but before action is taken, contention in vesterday's three- proposal hour meeting was the for joint works committees.

Many stewards expressed the view that this could prevent obtaining individual unions speedy action on disputes of particular concern to them alone.

Moss Evans later told reporters that there would in fact be no union with interference sovereignty. There was in any case a sub- stantial still to amount negotiated at factory level before the draft agreement was trans- formed in plant procedures. he said. 'This is in fact an enabling agreement which has to be built on at plant level, he said.

Reserves up gold and BRITAIN'S official currency reserves rose by £32m during March to stand at £2.715m at the end of the month.

Last month's increase, which takes the reserves to another new • peak, follows a f4m increase during February. Birch Society and other extreme right-wing and fascist groups.

last presidential In the elec- tion, he won 13 per cent of the are any more votes this time if he stands as a third-party candidate again.

He appeals to the frustrated middle-class and backward workers who reject the policies of the two main bourgeois parties. He has gained ground as a result of the treachery of the labour bureaucrats who have tied the unions politically to the Democrats, rejecting the building of a Labour Party based on the trade unions. But many stewards felt that the unions were now in a bad position negotiating with company at national level, since there are no plans for a re-called stewards' meeting and no pro- posals for action if the company refuses to grant the amendments.

It is felt that if these are not granted, the draft agreement will simply be accepted as it stands by the union negotiators.

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girl student-teachers have been arrested and chärged with aiding workers illegal strike at a tyre factory near Bilbao, informed sources claimed yesterday whose ages ringed The girls, from 20 to 22, were being held in prison at the Basque City of Vitoria on charges of distributing funds from the Brussels-based of.,. International Confederation Free Trade Unions among strikers at the French-Spanish Michelin plant there in February. Bloody clashes between factory workers and police erupted at the height of the strike, in which some 3,200 workers walked out " in demand for higher pay.

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