Workers Press no. 740

workers press

BLACKMAIL

INCORPORATING

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

A BLUEPRINT for vast increases in pro- ductivity and outlawing unofficial strikes and shop has been agreed by unions stewards at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.

The plan, laid out in two documents, establishes working conditions which Govan Shipbuilders will operate at the Govan, Linthouse and Scotstoun divisions of UCS. It was drawn up after two months' secret negotia- tions by a sub-committee of management, local union including the three officials and stewards shop Communist Party leaders of the UCS work-in, James Reid, James Airlie and Sammy Barr.

will put their final Stewards and union officials the document if and when the bid for signature to by the Clydebank yard Marathon Manufacturing Company is successful. establishes It a regime which, in the words of the press first document, will achieve 'substantial improvements productivity... against background a depressed world market'.

ON PRODUCTIVITY:

ON WAGE CLAIMS:

Stewards have agreed to Negotiations will take implement fully existing place between management agreements inter- on and all the work force. changeability with the steel This is change from Interchangeability trades. the present practice when and flexibility will be also like the boiler- the unions introduced within makers -usually insist on finishing trades group. going it alonea practice The document defines allows for leap- which interchangeability 'the as frogging by less well-paid transfer of a journeyman workers. of one craft to operate as The two documents have of a journeyman another been sent to the National craft. Confederation of Ship- The extent of this change büilding and Engineering illustrated is by a com- Unions for ratification. ment by one leading Clyde- Then it will be returned side union official who told

UCS

stewards for to the me: final approval, providing It is job not an easy the Marathon bid is suc- for a fitter to do a boiler- cessful. maker's work in an atmos- Stewards have also phere of redundancies. But end undertaken to the f vou have a four-vear job 'work-in'. But they are will be guarantee it pos- redun- against compulsory sible.' dancies. They claim that

ON WAGES:

there are enough volunteers Existing avoid rates and for redundancy to bonuses will this. continue up September This, however, is not the until August to case. The number of this year. Then Govan want men at working-in now stands to negotiate a new agree- 180, of will be signed about 150 whom ment which hourly-paid than January are workers. not later But only 100 want to leave 1973. the yards. The document states that dates The agreement, which between the two it follows closely the original may be necessary to impose a 'ceiling on earnings'. Tory- submission by the Govan Ship- appointed

ON STRIKES:

builders yesterday's (see The stewards have Workers Press, 3), is p. to deliver on along the lines of the guaranteed for four ships the infamous Ridley Document.

time Irish Shipping Company. The ex-minister at the has Department Trade and This now of extended to cover two ships Industry about argued for liquidator is 1,500 redundancies at UCS that the from expected a streamlined labour force to release his list of orders for con- 'reasonable' of with rates struction at Scotstoun. pay and end to an have In addition unions demarcation. long-awaited recognized the importance. If the of avoiding what the docu- approval finds agreement 'uncon- ment describes as with Tory Trade and Indus- stitutional disputes'. try chief John Davies, the £35m will This is reference to be promised unofficial strikes or handed over to the new any which which hopes work-to-rules may company to break out while a grievance begin trading in May and is going through procedure.

June. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 15, 1972 • No. 740 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ANSWER

BARBER'S

TWICE in just over three Statement by the Political months the Tory govern- ment has declared war on Committee of the SLL the working class. In January it was the miners, that the government and the judiciary are acting in basic now it is the railwaymen.

agreement with one another.

Industrial The courts provide the sword Meanwhile, the Relations Court (NIRC) and the and the Tory cabinet prepares employers have mounted a most to wield it. This is the meaning dangerous legal offensive against of Barber's 'industrial blackmail' the T&GWU. It should be clear speech. Sir Sidney Greene, secretary of Britain's biggest rail union, enters the Depart- ment of Employment yesterday afternoon with the message: 'Arbitration's not on. we work to rule. No rail arbitration

BRITAIN'S

told Maurice Macmillan begin at midnight three unions-NUR,

ASLEF

Sunday, Tory cabinet negotiators

UHUH

ministers had a series and the —Turned Enere was •ПО -chance down government pro- any increase in the Rail with Premier for arbitration. Board's latest Edward Heath in posals nationwide for show- During «morning paration talks Employment Secre- due work-to-dule SHEPPERTON: To be or not to be?

See centre pages by the Political ee of the SLL Britain heads for a confronta- tion of class forces that makes 1926 almost pale by comparison.

Ever since it came to power in June 1970 the government has been preparing for just such a showdown. It has: FOUGHT the trade unions tooth and nail on every issue. DELIBERATELY created unemploy- ment in order to intimidate and divide the working class.

LEGISLATED anti-union laws which deprive millions of workers of their basic democratic rights. Barber accused the railwaymen of lacking "public spirit'. What brazen 'public- class arrogance! was Barber withdraw spirited' of to school milk and meals from mil- of. working-class children: It lions is 'public-spirited' for the bankers to fleece the working class of mil- lions of pounds profit. It is "public- spirited' for the property-owning sharks to raise prices and condemn tens of thousands of homeless to destitution. Need we go on?

Is it not the same story on every basic item concerning the standard living of wage earners and of salaried employees? . The Tories will never forgive the miners. Barber's speech was a direct reply to Joe Gormley, the National Union of Mineworkers' president who on Thursday pledged the full support of miners for the railway- men. It is class against class all down the line. This mounting tension between the class forces exposes the bank- ruptcy of reformism and Stalinism.

Right up to this late hour they fight resolutely against every proposal of the Socialist Labour League to mobi- lize the industrial and political strength of the working class to create the conditions which will make the Tory government resign.

While the Tory government cease- lessly prepares to smash the work- ing class, they do everything their power to disarm it as to the intentions of the Tory enemy.

Barber threatened a General Elec- tion on the issue of 'industrial black- mail'. Here we have a glimpse of the kind of witch-hunting hysteria the Tories have in mind, in a desperate effort to whip the middle class into line against the unions. The Tories would then use any victory subsequent election to impose the will of the banks and

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workers press

BLACKMAIL

INCORPORATING

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

A BLUEPRINT for vast increases in pro- ductivity and outlawing unofficial strikes been agreed by unions and shop stewards at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.

The plan, laid out in two documents, establishes working conditions which Govan Shipbuilders will operate at the Govan, Linthouse and Scotstoun divisions of UCS. It was drawn up after two months' secret negotia- tions by a sub-committee of management, local union shop stewards - including the three and officials Communist Party leaders of the UCS work-in, James Reid, James Airlie and Sammy Barr.

Stewards and union officials will put their final signature to the document if and when the bid for by the Clydebank yard Marathon Manufacturing establishes which, in the words of the press first document, will achieve 'substantial improvements in productivity. against background depressed world market.

ON PRODUCTIVITY:

ON WAGE CLAIMS:

Stewards have agreed to Negotiations will take implement existing fully place between management on inter- agreements and all the work force. changeability with the steel This is a change from trades. Interchangeability the present practice when and flexibility will also be like the boiler- the unions introduced within makers usually insist on finishing trades group. going it alone-a practice The document defines which allows for - leap- interchangeability 'the as frogging by less well-paid transfer of a journeyman workers. of one craft to operate as The two documents have of a journeyman another been sent to the National craft'. Ship- Confederation of The extent of this change building Engineering and is illustrated by a com- Unions for ratification. ment by one leading Clyde- Then it will be returned side union official who told to the UCS stewards for me: final approval, providing easy job It is not an the Marathon bid is for a fitter to do a boiler- suC- cessful. maker's work in an atmos- Stewards have also But phere of redundancies. undertaken end the to it you have a tour-year Job 'work-in'. But thẹy are guarantee it will be pos- against compulsory redun- sible.' dancies. They claim that

ON WAGES:

there are enough volunteers for redundancy avoid Existing and to rates this. bonuses will continue up This, however, is not the September until August to Then Govan want The number of men this year. case. working-in •stands agree- now at to negotiate a new signed about 180, 150 of whom ment which will be hourly-paid workers. later than January are not But only 100 want to leave 1973. the yards. The document states that The agreement, which between the two dates it follows closely the original may be necessary to impose a 'ceiling on earnings'. submission by the Tory- Govan Ship- appointed

ON STRIKES:

builders yesterday's (see The stewards have Workers Press, 3), iS p. guaranteed to deliver along the lines of the on for the four ships infamous Ridley Document.

time Irish Shipping Company. The ex-minister at the Department has of Trade and This now extended to cover two ships Industry argued for about liquidator 1,500 redundancies at UCS that the is expected to from a streamlined labour force release 'reasonable' his list of orders for con- with of rates struction at Scotstoun. and pay an end to In addition unions have demarcation. recognized the importance. If long-awaited the of avoiding what the docu- finds approval agreement Trade and Indus- ment describes as 'uncon- with Tory stitutional disputes'. try chief John Davies, the reference to £35m will be This is promised unofficial strikes any or handed over to the new work-to-rules which company which hopes may to May and break out while a grievance begin trading in is going through procedure.

June. ORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 15, 1972 • No. 740 • 4p

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TWICE in just over three months the Tory govern- ment has declared war on Committee of In the working class.. January it was the miners, government that the and the in judiciary are acting basic now it is the railwaymen.

agreement with another. one the Industrial The courts provide the sword Meanwhile, and the Tory cabinet prepares Relations Court (NIRC) and the to wield it. This is the meaning employers have mounted a most of Barber's 'industrial blackmail' dangerous legal offensive against the T&GWU. It should be clear speech. Sir Sidney Greene, secretary of Britain's biggest rail union, enters the Depart- 'Arbitration's not ment of Employment yesterday afternoon with the message: on, we work to rule. rail told Maudice Negomators midnight

BRITAIN'S

three begin at

-NUR,

ASLEF

Tory cabinet union negotiators Sunday.. and the TSSA-turned there was no chance of ministers had a series of any increase in the Rail with Premier down government pro- Meetings Board's latest offer. Edward Heath posals for arbitration. pre- a morning show- During of With the nationwide paration for talks Employment Secre- work-to-dule due down. SHEPPERTON: To be or not to be?

ee of the SLL Britain heads for a confronta- tion of class forces that makes 1926 almost pale by comparison: Ever since it came to power in June 1970 the government has been preparing for just such a showdown. It has: tooth FOUGHT the trade unions and nail on every issue. DELIBERATELY created unemploy- ment in order to intimidate and divide the working class.

LEGISLATED anti-union laws which deprive millions of workers of their basic democratic rights..

Barber accused the railwaymen of lacking 'public spirit'. What brazen arrogance! It 'public- class was spirited' of Barber to withdraw school milk and meals from mil- lions • of. working-class children: It is 'public-spirited' for the bankers to fleece the working class of mil- lions of pounds profit. It is 'public- spirited' for the property-owning sharks to raise prices and condemn tens of thousands of homeless to destitution. Need we go on?

Is it not the same story on every basic item concerning the standard of living of and wage earners salaried employees? The Tories will never forgive the miners. Barber's speech was a direct reply to Joe Gormley, the National Union of Mineworkers' president who on Thursday pledged the full support of miners for the railway- class against class all men. It is down the line. This mounting tension between the class forces exposes the bank- 'ruptcy of reformism and Stalinism.

Right up to this late hour they fight resolutely against every proposal of the Socialist Labour League to mobi- lize the industrial and political strength, of the working class to create the conditions which will make the Tory government resign.

While the Tory government cease- lessly prepares to smash the work- in do everything ing. class, they their power to disarm it as to the intentions of the Tory enemy.

Barber threatened a General Elec- tion on the issue of 'industrial black- mail'. Here we have a glimpse of the kind of witch-hunting hysteria the Tories have in mind, in a desperate effort to whip the middle class into line against the unions. The Tories would then use any election subsequent victory to impose the will of the banks and

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S VIETNAMESE BOGGED DOWN:

UNLIKELY TO SAVE AN LOC

ANSWER BARBER'S BLACKMAIL

PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Saturday April 15,

BHUTTO

members

OPPOSITION

party walked out amid angry shouts Pakistan's after first soon National directly - elected Assembly convened in Islama- bad yesterday. The walkout was led by Khan Abdul Wali Khan, head of the pro-Soviet National Awami Party

(NAP).

Amid cries of 'dictatorship' and 'down with martial law about 45 members followed Wali Khan out of the chamber. Martial law has operated in Pakistan for three vears and its continued imposition had already caused heated arguments carlier in the assembly session. As he walked out. Wali Khan gesticulated and exchanged Zulfigar words with President Ali Bhutto who was sitting in the government benches. soon after The uproar started an hour's recess for tea. Oppo- sition leaders complained that during the recess supporters of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) physically attacked demon- strators protesting against martial law outside the assembly build- ing. Among those who walked out of the chamber were all the meht?

bers of Wali Khan's party and representatives of left-wing and right-wing opposition groups. Two members of the PPP joined them. Protesters returned to the chamber after a few minutes and President Bhutto said an inde- pendent inquiry would be held into the incident outside. the building. PERU is leading a movement to reinstate Cuba in the Organization of American States al the organization's General Assembly in Wash- ington this week to end the policy of isolating the Castro regime'. Cuba was suspended from £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues.

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psychologically it could be cae trench rams situ Dion

THE BITTER

for But the ban may also have even struggle French Dien provincial the S Vietnamese provincial been imposed ro prevent news worSt captule capital that close to Saigon.'

of the column's slow progress Bien Phu 18 vears ag0. capital of An Loc continued Vietminh reaching the outside the world. Across the border Kompom- Cam- In that battle, with both sides of trapped 10,000 French troops in yesterday bodia, the town Vietnamese tanks occupied fortress and took moving reinforcements to- the beleaguered city part of on Tac s n a smar saon. Isolaled N Vietnamese soldiers are fight- Bien Phu by storm. wards the battle area. «usaav, bul ue balzon zoveli- ing in the streets der sthe Saigon government is now SO outer ment claims attack • The WaS heavily committed to relieve An The battle is threatening to the defenders- beaten off. ' Paratroops were

LOWI

WICTC

deepen turn into a catastrophic defeat Cambodian dropped in to aid the defenders vietnamese and

_LOC

lall must government forces—are isolated enormously the crisis of the for the Saigon armies, Thursday. Vietnamese and pose the five days of fighting. town and the US spotter are trapped planes al les with the alternative of 800 N. Vietnamese - rep vietnamese column fresh mess mne rener columinn Aucticals surrounded by N Vietnamese break through the sending marching save TrOODS oad-block on Highway 13, Saigon allowing the puppet LIUUUs. towards An Loc through the government to be defeated.

relief force of 5.000 defenders of An Loc will thick and rubber plan- tovernmenu coconut tanks and co diers le tations of the border region.

halted Vietnamese forces Debt burden grows American helicopter pilots said miles s city and about 11 of the the town was in rubble with wrecked and helicopters nas overn. tanks past three .days along Highway THE debt burden of the colonial debt level stood at $600,000m at airfield. They ILLers 13 linking Saigon and An Loc.

the end of 1971. ported intense ground fire and semi-colonial countes And the so-called 'developing' Yesterday the Saigon command several anti-aircraft gun-sites growing at more than twice from hach the dobt masti nes export countries are in fact geting the Danee ouma o otOW CWis. McNamara deeper into debt, as military the column and posted military Vietnamese He said loans from police checkpoints stop spokesman said street-to-street serviced. clear, Inaue fighting and sniper attacks were Robert McNamara, former US the alone were One claimed the •worg BanK . ncm. source presi- likely ceily ot s1t,600m and the potal anticipated most Defence Secretary and now brightly-painteo cars usca Dy ine Lamine place ln Dalls reporters following the armoured An Loc. dent of the world Bank. told the Bank One Saigon officer was quoted United Nations Conference task force were ideal for amOUn1 investell bad Trade and Development San- would be more than $30,000m in 'Militarily vietnamest Dinoolnl inelr elins the next five years. but tiago, Chile (see below), that the rocket and mortar attacks.

enough politically

ALLENDE MAKES 'BE FAIR'

Anglican Dean's

PLEA TO IMPERIALISTS

appeal upheld THE S African appeal court up- eld the appeal bs the Anglican He pointed out that the 'It depends upon the urgently CHILEAN President Dean of Johannesburg the Very econemy necessarv transformation of the french-Beytagh, Colon' ? ane Gonville Salvador Allende Acv. In- semicolonial countries remains world economic structure, upon against his conviction of under

LOC

dominated by foreign powers. the conscience [sic] the third augurated the Terrorism Act, and set aside his whether of countries, progress *Outsiders hold alt 01 sentence' of five years imprison- . Deikt still and liberation of the Thev sune vast uraci ment. After a three-month trial last Was appeal to the conscience apartheid' three counts of channeling money werner mnev of imperialism to imple- Rite cent or theedo ber- take the road ot connict, violence Lerronsu arcanaons the ose nihe precisely in order 9. main prosy ordevide de aie said, 15 Sr ine chird world pas ment the UN charter. principles of the Jordaan, a police impose

RION

wds He called for i 'replacement doomed to die of starvation.

United Nations. asell. economic and an TraGe with the Allende's policy to meet this Having - togetner order that outdated and situation consists of futile appeals Chilean Stalinists-embraced the Portuguese radically unjust by a fairer one so-called 'peaceful road imperialists concept of socialism' at home, Allende now basca on a new good ana acl like put 12 man and human dignity.' humanitarians: Danes a tsy DICtUre OI: Worio capitalism turning itself into system of international on tria! humane

MOVES TO REINSTATE CUBA

merialist e auspues Ano UnIs TWELVE Portuguese, including the imperialist one woman Cana o vero Kitchen World shad by. the vic. went before a Lisbon court of World relations maintained with Thursday accused of acts of

IN OAS

LUIS

Havana. World capitalism can no more the subvers on ane assisune reform itself internationally than optis, sulp pos ee rear Witbia.

Portuguese urban guerrilla move- it can the boundaries of Rogers, o the ce Colombia. ment ARA (Armed Revolutionary expressed view that Cuba lis Hallolal slales. Action). membership in !962 for having The breakdown of the inter- casco ca e weser! The fascist state _orosecullon à Marxist-Leninist goverament hemisphere, the growing warmth national monetar. system, claimed they had distributed öf- this imperialist club towards rapid development recession ot and military ties with the

ARA

sheltered ARA evident in the and the war intensification press Since castro was Union. then, members and conspired to assist Sovict must inevitably the statement by Venezuelan foreigr nicall sabotage. Chile, Mexico and Jamaica minister, Aristides L vane ping

U• OI

aDe ast. o uate have defied the boycott and there were no signs of permanent the backward countries. No- All except one are accused of thing UNCTAD does will change being members of the banned Cuban intervention in his coun- Portuguese Communist Party. try. Lio asie billal vll. The daily apor that bads the light agalnst then would vital task. It is the only force which government, sOn S split under the leads the fight conscious almost certainly today

• FROM PAGE 1

crisis conditions created asansl lms mose reacuonary covern ment. General Election would be the monopolies on the working class nothing more jockeying Than i victory is not possible uniess the and the middle class alike.

exreseni could not by iset decade experience major struggle to build the revolutionary Histor has shown that in a crisis ihe ay. to day strugle of the cel becomes part pally situation like the present, an enraged It could only prepare TOe Datae. class can only be won to the the battlefield. els Press reader and Socialis appeal every demonstrates the greatest side that Workers This is why it is so necessary to 186a Clapham High St., determination and class force Labour League take understand the vital imporțance of Supportel If the of the Labour, retreat class strengths. If the working class stepś immediatelv to ioin the SLL.

leaders Stalinist trade union and The government has challenger maker loe orv coverament resien.

trom d snowdown wiln tais cern- it emerges stronger and more class- the wo tang dass wao have por ment is allowed to continue. then historyus than at any period in its political and not

THURSDAY

Trie coass nost to tiel sie working middle class over to

FRIDAY

voked this situation. The fight for a Labour govern- in the event of a General Election

SATURDAY

But if the working-class can torce ment pecseo to inoemert sociausi Let the poweriui voice oi trade its leadership make the govern- policies would then take place under unionism and socialism reply at actively different class relations from resign then it will win the once. hichl prevailed the months. middle class. during wn sewick lifetime of the Wilson government.

• Hands off the railwaymen !

The tactical issue before the government is whether they should we repeat again: Il workers can • Mobilize the entire industrial and hold such an election before or after heene they Tan force ris n e.

political polss fo stre the Tory governent strength working then they can force his servants ther proroke a General Strike situa- tion in the Labour leadership to implement which iney resign! smash the working class. socialist policies. Ana ii iney reruse, they can clear them out. If the poll returned a Labour : nepace i wun a Labour covern• government which pursued the same The building of the Socialist Lab- ment pledged to socialist policies.

and its League transformation poncy 0f reTo nISI reacact. indi April 14, 1972 characterized the six' years of Wil- into a revoladonary party ls now d

Scanlon piles on excuses for abandoning national claim AUEW National Committee will face A DANGEROUS element of delay has been introduced in the struggle for better wages at the Rolls-Royce factory at E Kilbride. Notice of strike expired yester- day and the 1,400 employees were due to walk out. But con- vener of shop stewards, Alastair McCullouch, said the strike would be postponed for a week because of further talks with management. McCullouch added: 'The works committee will re-tender the strike notice at 9 o'clock on • Monday morning. This notice will normal stopping take effect from time next Friday.' Last week the Rolls-Royce men rejected a management attempt Measured-Day introduce to Work. McCullouch said: 'We have been told by management it is Measured-Day Working-take it or leave it. 'It is blatant blackmail', he said,' and we can react only one way and that is counter black- mali. It does not bode well for Rolls-Royce of Scotland' if this is the pattern.' Rolls-Royce three other Scottish factories—at Hillington, Blantyre and a smaller one at E agreed Kilbride-recently to accept MDW. BRITAIN'S two main airlines, BOAC and BEA, will be hit by a one-day strike of en- gineering and maintenance at Heathrow airport workers on April 28. Also joining the strike will be stewards and stewardess members of the Transport and General The 5,000 Workers' Union. BOAC and BEA workers decided the strike action almost on unanimously at a mass meeting called to discuss their 15-per-cent wage claim. Apart from more pay the workers also want higher shift- premiums and longer work holidays. Officials of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and the T&GWU called the strike after rejecting a fl-a-week cost-of-living rise. Mark Young, national officer of the electricians' union told the meeting: 'We are infinitely worse off than most other airlines in the world. captains actually

'BEA

can have the luxury of turning down £17 a week and yet the corpora- tions offer us just fl? On Thursday British Cale- donian Airways' and BEA Air- workers at Gatwick tours' pledged their unanimous support for the BEA and BOAC men.

IF UNION leaders are dis- appointed with the first three months of plant bargaining on the engineers' pay claim, they have only their own policies of retreat and class- collaboration to blame. Their call for pressure now to be stepped up on employers at local level is a further pathetic attempt to avoid their responsibilities. AUEW president Hugh Scan- lon arrived in Manchester on Thursday night hot-foot from the executive of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. 'We decided to ask everyone to ; he told a. by follow your example, meeting of shop stewards, 20,000 of whose members are already in action on the claim. Workers Press, Saturday April 15, 1972 PAGE 3

FROM PHILIP WADE IN LIVERPOOL

President Hugh Scanlon answering meeting the union's questions HUGH SCANLON, president of the AUEW, has once again tried to headquarters Wednesday night. With Lalila cover up his abject capitulation both to the employers and the Tories Tocher nilta • See p.10 for news of Scanlon's other activities.

over the engineers' wage claim.

his Almost entire 400 shop speech to over Man- stewards from the chester area in Salford on Thursday night Wat defending the spent ucdso• lo o o e national claim in tavour of plant bargaining. Coming from sualsel of the The Y OrK Confederation Ship- Engineering bulding U.G Scan lon UnlUns onere perspective worker® the Manchester volved ine sil-ils. SurIKes ane

HOCK-

outs the rest of the UR union's 1.5 million mem- bers. One after another, piled excuses were I01 ending of the nationa

LIC

claim. 'It is our view that the •urDose or natona necoł atr she so op meskes t to shop stewards

DUL

ucal possible, he told the meet.

Inere nas been a grow- ing demand for more 3 dep-anor devel hicn is the things a recozniuon unal une redl Scanlon put forward for that have pushed the end borne ConnicT Is in us along this road. Grants threat abandoning the claim? said canlsh- shop 'We have the T the selvayhem iners rejected EEF and come back to you. and rallwaymen He revealed that dis- public is absolutely incon- An we e done concoe with the Engineer cussions by Lancaster ne ense br te ensine in lăke sanint empioyer t with that Employers* Federation on Lase official backing, nac broken cowi not much more damage is done IcLeive want of concessions by the economy but the the sala ocanion.

AUEW

leaders. public penienced. little incon- vice-Chancellor The dispute had to be For the second during other wiaere• Inle turce of the round talks, areas and Coll" mem bers ao to He said employers asked for Dovers had financially those probably negotiations to go 'off the disputes involved over

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

provoke record'. situnomy was weak and the uc •alu saden wuere agreed and can 'We The soner spread

ADMINISTRATION

Lancaster

THE

at you w hat conditions therefore favour- said, natolary. The employers able to them. university has threatened striking students happenea. quicker. woula be to get round the table and make asked we wert that they will be reported to local authorities serious on all aspects settlement on a national the clạim and if was and have their grants taken away.

Dasis. for stewaros basis all asicei pay After the meeting he ment at national The threat is made in a circular sent by vice- gevel. told reportes mar curculars Chancellor Charles Carter to the 2,600 student We told them we were would be going out oluLaLL prepared asking districts to not ITs TuNes Trom lie body. factory or but the defer discussion on factories select a all questions except the claim could be The Lancaster campus has been in turmoil for wnere those of rates and holidays.'

pursued. months because of the victimization several erce d ith ein, - David staff. English lecturer The admission that he gence situation sevela.

MCCIS OLI

Asked directly by • Work- Th er susdensio, • CIrce Will wasoreo ree cave dIsCusscd the 'incitement' and two other lecturers will not have ers ress une mroucu the question of the 35-hour unions withın The abandon their contracts renewed later this year.

decision the week finally came down to steward simple conclusion. shop In support of the staff, the students have been Tory 1 Ol1 the retreat in lace ol The Issue Saoule occu yus canous bulanas If after all our efforts gavernment ne sald. included any future In his letter Carter says: ed we had we were refuted national negotiations. I have never thought it have to ask all those required 'We shali could sav that the no Scanlon told him he was reeir ende tahi g fonnineot he rutes mhch incide confirm the correct longer reasonable bodr other than was Calecorical with which negotiate. decision une CIrcun- assurance on the matter. who it stances. The proof of it is say une recuremeut to ooserve me crarer are stantes „here in Manchester:' as well as rules about attendance.

What other- reasons : did WrOn&E, SiYeR. be done before any must grant cheque is claimed. It, there fore, any Stildent orenks understanding by joining in deliberate boycott in we must, called for dullea acuon 'Morning Star', the . disreputable major pay crisis under the university rules, report organ totalv minamed the facts the houle neseting „or tne Communist Party. 'Scanlon's dash This authority. result with the big news' was its head- the to recover parl term's grant.' nune. In a cynical jibe at the militants And 'Star' writer Jim Arnison,

BY DAVID MAUDE

at the university, Carter remarks: sit-in fe turen ted the Mancnestel invented the fantastic of course,

IT IS.

normal con- employers' hard sequence of a "strike". that "pay" Had the engineers been theory that the He said: assuming anyone

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ceases. stopped from alongside line may prove 'in the long tern mav succeed istens to Us We The new binding contracts will inflicted damaging .to their own the the defeat forcing the Engineering interests". Hincs force from come InTO the starl Federation bạck to the ployers on the lorles would Mave oCenI of term on April 24. national permanent. would negotiating table Like Scanlon, Arnison Their would have O."The claim level. like to abolish the class struggle.

Delegates the National and Transport Nowhere in his speech is there beer Tory Chancellor Anthony Barbe Workers' umion astndens onererda lı the slightest apology for the con- General doesn't see things UTl0 s would Birmingham yesterday voted for which not face a £5,000 fine. The gov- quite the same way. their executive to with the

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the abandonment of the national claim. Scanlon's Amalgamated Union of Scientific, Technical and Mana- With the rallwaymeh now ol Engineering Workers is not more the Council for cans n asla v. gerial Staffs with the brink of an all-out clash Yet the results ot taat cecsor the Freedom the but oressure alcai ACaCn. -taken in tha t tot of a claim the Tory government, the CSEU'S Civil complete reversal National Council aalar s the Thursday decision totally by Scanlon unions decision to abandon the claim.

nationwide the attempted inadequate. to take on the Torv cove mich against The railwaymen must not say got Vall yalsl united was not "realistic' Neediess - are .stand alone. dismissol of Dr Craig only beginning.to be seen.

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PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Saturday April 15, 1972 The recent annual conference of the National Union of Teachers served to reveal the dangers and abject weaknesses of the leadership. In this first article Croydon delegate DAVID FINCH explains the role of the International Socialists group and its 'Rank and File' faction. On Monday Reading delegate Peter Read will examine the Communist Party's manoeuvres inside the union. This figure was rejected by the Tory government attacks on union negotiators, but with some the trade union movement hints that a percentage increase in a marked have resulted considered, provided that little Communist Party issue has now gone arbitration committee International Socialist- 'Rank-and-File' dominated month. group in the National Union This was the background of Teachers. this year's debate. A touching prevailed between unanimity the At the Easter 1971 conference CP and the right on the wing the Communist Party executive in their document on sponsible for a policy of retreat In effect, accepted • salaries. this salaries and on the Industrial the management-imposed salar-- Relations Act (then a Bill).

But ies structure, with modifications from they made time to time higher and simplified give a few militant noises. The scales. of policy an im- This year there were •not proved simple basic scale-a Instead militant even noises. motion moved by Max Morris in there complete unamity was 1971 which also called for in- CP between members the abandoned dustrial action- -was Executive and the right wing.

by the CP without a shot being 197| the At the conference fired. 'Rank-and-File' group covered up and File' 'Rank speakers for the CP (see Workers Press opposed the executive salaries 18. 1971). This year they June memorandum the presented to marked showed an even more Blackponl Conference, Fred Scott, the tendency to capitulate to leading member, moving the the right wing. It is of CP and However, reference back. Morris not only to teachers, importance, for the quoted Scott executie, to sketch what happened at this arguing in his journal 'Rank and year's conference. File that it was not possible to of revert to the original policy but basic scale, rather to duce the In 1970 and 1971 the NUT'S five to four theory) was to fight policy (in Scott's weakness, greatest for basic all scale for which flowed from whole additional teachers. with pay- attitude of 'Rank and File', was ments for positions of responsi- that he posed his scales against bility. executives' rather than At last year's conference tackle the central question- policy motion reiterating this what strategy does the NUT re- Executive member was put by win any real improve- leads the CP Max Morris who. nent in teachers' salaries? faction. and this was carried in Earlier that week. at a 'Rank- the face of right-wing opposition.

sponsored meeting. But this was a policy in theory had suggested that Scott's con- only. For at the same conference ference speech should expose the Morris and the CP, with the aid role of the government in current of 'Rank and File', enabled the and future negotiations and to carry four right wing other should outline the need for contradictory salary motions strategy of struggle against the designed to pave the way to government and the employers, arbitration. to involve NUT members and to This led in August 1971 to a gain the support of other groups government-inspired management- workers, as the miners had dictated scheme introducing done. complex salary structure in place This of the existing basic scale. five scheme. with its scales over 3.000 possible having posi- tions. has since acted as a divis- ive weapon in the profession.

This new salary structure was introduced single without demonstration stoppage being NUT executive. called by the In discussion Scott agreed to It did call a special salaries conference November where this line. But in the salaries de- in it formulated the demand for a bate he and his seconder did not Hat-rate £250-a-year increase. 'There has been absolutely no ize the membership, or to the compaign or struggle to achieve this demand, in spite of the fact fact that the executive's memor- that the maximum offer made by andum contained no strategy limited the management has been only even to win its own 7 per cent. proposals.

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Education Secretary, Thatcher; the moti Scott instead stuck out his for Morris chin to hit, and Morris obliged, thus discrediting 'Rank and File' and, in the pro- cess, strengthening Morris's posi- tion with the delegates who were dissatisfied with his role.

CP and 'Rank and File' 'policy' became even clearer in the in- dustrial relations debate.

The executive submitted a memorandum titled 'Registration under the Industrial Relations Act'. This document had been unanimously agreed by the exe- cutive, yet nowhere in it is there one phrase which states that the union is onposed to the Act.

It contains phrases such as the matter (of registration) might have to be re-examined (p.10) • •.. the matter might have to be reviewed' (p.8)) '...

if at some future time the circumstances change, further consideration might have to be the result of an unprincipled combination of the CP and right.

wing executive members to reach unanimous agreement. There were a number of pro- Posed amendments to this memorandum. The first, which I had tabled, was to refer 'back the memorandum 'because it is not unambiguously opposed to the Industrial Relations Act. Mem- bers of the 'Rank and File' had unsuccessfully pressed to me withdraw this amendment. They made it quite clear that they were opposed politically to its line. They wanted to move the Hackney amendment asking for the deletion of the words 'at the present' from the concluding sentence of memorandum: 'The executive therefore recom- mends to conference that the NUT should not seek registra- tion under the Industrial Rela- tions Act at the present time.'

Two other amendments need mentioning, in of what view happened: a motion from Green- wich which stated that there should be no alteration in the executive policy 'without. refer- ence to conference' and an ; the motion against her visit got about 30 per amendment in the name of Wandsworth, to be moved by 'Rank and File' members, to add to the memorandum 'and shall accept the Trades Union Con- • gress call not to co-operate in any way in the implementation of the Act.' And what happened?-Abject capitulation by 'Rank and File' delegates. My reference back amendment was ruled out of order by the President with the obvious support and approval of 'Rank and File'. There was then no obstacle to their moving their amendment to delete 'at the present time'. In- stead, conference was informed that this amendment together with the Wandsworth amend- ment, had been withdrawn.

They had done a deal with the executive in which they with- drew their amendments on the assurance that the executive calling amendment ference before alteration to executive policy. This is a value- less concession because the exe- cutive would hardly dare to register without a special confer- ence anyway. Workers Press of April 6 wás mistaken in reporting that the Hackney amendment was with- drawn in a manoeuvre to permit the Wandsworth amendment to be taken. In fact the Wands- worth amendment was also with- drawn in the shameless horse- trading that occurred History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, then as a farce! At the 1971 conference the CP, with- drew an amendment demanding opposition to the Industrial Re- lations Bill and opposition to registration: in 1972 'Rank and File' withdrew similar amend- ments, again preventing confer- from defeating ence the right wing over the Industrial Rela- tions Act! Their final treachery in this debate was unsuccessfully to try prevent me from speaking to against the executive and its memorandum by a procedural manoeuvre. ut 30 per cent of the votes At a meeting of delegates on Sunday April 2 it was agreed, despite some opposition from the 'Rank and File' group, that an attempt be made to suspend standing, orders in order to de- bate a motion opposing the visit of Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher, because 'she represents a government which is opposed to our union and its policies'. It was agreed that I should move this on Monday afternoon of the conference. On the Monday morning Eric Peagam, a leading 'Rank and File' member made a hash of a motion suspension, of asking for the standing orders in order to pro- vide a debate on the Industrial Court threat to the T&GWU.

Incredibly, Peagam managed to antagonise conference on this subject by not speaking to the terms of the motion. In this hostile atmosphere, and immediately after the discomfi- ture of Peagam, four 'Rank and File' supporters came to me one after the other, asking me not to the motion press against Thatcher visit because, they said, 'Conference is now hostile to the left'. Of course, it was not necessary to retreat. The Thatcher motion, although not carried, received about 30 per cent of conference votes and shifted the mood of ..conference against the executive.

Later that afternoon the exe- cutive was heckled and on one issue, albeit a minor one, they were defeated. The evolution of the 'Rank and File' group over the year has been to the right. Their oppor- tunism and retreat at the 1972 conference were viewed with abhorrence by some of their erstwhile supporters-those who do want to fight.

Part two of a three part seri Stalinism and the Numeiry reg The Soviet Stalinists were not alone in their support for President Numeiry. They faced stiff competition from the Chinese Communist Party leaders, to whom Numeiry paid a special visit in August 1970. The joint statement issued at the end of the visit said: "The Sudanese revolution's policy of strengthening relations with the socialist states has been embodied N Vietnam and China .. in chairman Numeiry's visits to the Soviet Union and the European socialist states.

'The visit to China comes as a natural extension of this activity From Peking leaders have not wavered in their backing for the Numeiry dictatorship, despite the whole- sale butchery of communists and trade unionists. The coup d'etat which briefly • toppled Numeiry on July 19 last year was an act of desperation by the more radical wing of the Communist Party and left-wing officers. They faced a situation in which the Soviet Union and China were.

both backing a regime which had their arrested leaders, purged their cadres from the armed forces and was threatening to destroy them physically. Their coup was carried out without the knowledge or approval of the Kremlin, which later bitterly attacked them for 'sectarianism' attacking Numeiry. The Moscow leaders-supported those CP members who had seats in the Numeiry taken cabinet and collaborated with the regime in disciplining the trade unions and preparing the Federa- tion with Egypt, Libya and Syria.

Numeiry was overthrown on July 19 in a bloodless 20-minute coup. Government ministers, member Mauwiya cluding CP Ibrahim, were placed under arrest. Ibrahim was in charge of the • Ministry of Labour, responsible for administering the decree of May 26, 1969, which prescribed the death penalty for strikers.

The coup leaders denounced Numeiry for having 'brandished a sword of terrorism over the heads of the people' • There were popular demonstrations of sup- port in the streets of Khartoum.

The Soviet Stalinists did not share this view, as their journal 'New Times' made clear. It tried to defend the Nueseen regimad saying president achieved 'much in the way of economic and social reforms'.

The ousting of Numeiry was short-lived. His allies in Libya art series by Joha Spencer on leiry regime in Sudan. and Egypt sprang immediately to his assistance. Lt-Col El-Nur was on a British airliner return- ing from London to Khartoum when the plane was forced down at Benghazi airport and he was taken into custody by the Libyans. They handed him back to Numeiry who began . the bloody 'restoration of order' . in the . Sudan. The restoration followed a high-level conference in Cairo and Libyan between Egyptian chiefs... and Soviet ambassador Vladimir Vinogradov. Numeiry went on the radio to call on 'everyone and every mem- ber of the armed forces' to stand alongside his and government 'against every accursed renegade belonging Communist to Party and arrest him or report him to the nearest police station'.

Mohamed Idris, Minister for Economic Affairs, described the communists as 'traitors and out- laws'. The regime's firing squads went into action without delay.

Their victims included the coup's military leaders, including Hashim al-Ata, Col El-Nur and Major Hammadallah. They were shot without trial.

The Communist Party and trade union chiefs were given summary treatment by court-martial-and hanged. Thus died Shafie el- Shiekh, general secretary of the Sudan TUC and a Lenin Prize- winner, Jospeh Garang, Minister for Southern Affairs and one of the CP members who had stayed in the cabinet to the end, and Abdel Khaled Mahgoub, the Party's general secretary.

Mangoub himself conducted with great heroism at his farcical trial. Given only one hour to prepare his defence, he told court president Colonel Ahmed el-Hassan: 'You are well-known to be one of the Arab nationalists in con- flict with the progressive forces of this country. I have nothing against you personally, but I think you are not suitable to judge me' Mahgoub denied having taken part in the coup preparations, but the verdict was a foregone con- clusion. The Soviet government made no immediate protest itself over the Sudan butchery. It left that task to the Soviet trade unions, which duly registered their dis- approval of the execution of Shafie el-Sheikh. The official Tass news agency issued a statement only ten days after the coup hoping 'national unity' would be restored.

It piously called on the Sudan 'find the strength to regime to return to the road of consolidat- ing the unity of all patriotic forces'—i.e. the unity of victim and executioner! Numeiry, displeased by the mild Soviet protests, asked the Soviet and Bulgarian ambassa- dors to pack their bags. The Soviet leaders were piqued by Top: Numelry confronting Mahgoub with this unforseen move into con- demning the 'lawlessness' of the Sudan regime, which they said was "being exploited by imperial- ist and reactionary forces against interests of the Sudanese people. Stalinists' real The attitude well illustrated when the was Czech authorities flushed out 60 Sudanese students who had occupied the Sudanese embassy in Prague against Numeiry.

As for the British Stalinists, the coup finally jolted them into belated and half-hearted protest -but they pointedly avoided criticizing the Kremlin's con- sistent backing for Numeiry and collaborationist policy of the Sudan CP. Yet Gollan, the British CP leader, had attended the 25th CP congress in Moscow four months previously, where Numeiry's Revolutionary Command Coun- cil was represented by a fraternal delegation! The Hungarian Stalinists were indignant at the ingratitude of Numeiry: 'Few Arab politicians enjoyed a good • such press as General Numeiry in the had socialist world and therein in Hungary,' Radio Budapest com- plained. The Chinese Stalinists were less hypocritical than their Soviet counterparts. They didn't stop to weep any crocodile tears for- the victims of the Sudan counter- revolution. New China News Agency simply reported that the Presi- dent had crushed a 'coup clique'.

Workers Pr goub with ovidence of guil. Above: Communist In return, Numeiry lavished ful- some thanks on Peking: 'The excellent relations linking our two governments and people will continue to strengthen thanks to our mutual understand- ing [sic] and co-operation and of mankint aglenst the essiony of mankind to chairman (Telegram Mao, July 29.) With this competition, it could before the Soviet not be long leaders fell into line. An im- perialist observer, Brian Crozier, kers Press, Saturday Aprii 15, 1972 PAGE 5 communist under arrest wrote in the 'Sunday Telegraph' on August 4 that: 'If General Numeiry, restored to power after the communist coup that briefly unseated him on July 19 and having removed the leading Sudanese communists from this world, wants business with Moscow to • continue as usual, any tears still lingering in Russian eyes brushed away, Will be swiftly His cynical prediction proved only too accurate.

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PAGE 6 Workero Press, Saturday April 15, 1972 Tomorrow the Federation of of the film industry without of Film Unions has sum- compensation and under moned a mass meeting at the workers' control. The other Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly unions participating will be Equity, the actors' union, the Circus, to launch againt the threatened closure musicians' union, the Writers' of Shepperton Studios. The Guild of Great Britain, major union participating, the EPTU, the electricians' union, Association Cinemato NATKE and the Film Artists' graphic and Television Tech- Association. In this article nicians (ACTT), has a policy, flm critic TIM HORROCKS endorsed the

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by at outlines some of the history Blackpool last which of management's profiteering year, calls for the nationalization at the studio. Shepperton Studios have paper Publishers' Association, colourful history. The original year occer coll thousands ex-chair an prin Fleet Manor of Littleton, the site of workers, and the studio, was i monastery Arts for the Westminster monks The ty develo his is offt on the developers throughout property new. the eighth and been has ninth centuries. It was sold since 4954. studios to a certain Robert de Winton only part of Shepperton's history in 1209 for a pound of pepper.

since the has been a which, war, Its present value to a property deal TOLe Dizarre develope is something when the Westminster monks excess were in residence. that—probably Hikc The Manor £10m. Littleton used for films around 1928 first The prize land, in the heart of Norman Middlesex, has attracted the the earry Flicker tims there.

made Louden. The Jim the Slater, alichlion Was a made intu t933? •Doss House property He has been increasing his stake and hit, the controlling com- brought the big

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'Sanders of the River'. British pany, LIon In days enterprise No one in the City of London seriously believes that Slater has was known sound City rilms suddenly been motivated british Lion acquired the controlling interest, and, British becomic the subsequent Corda sears under culture. His congolmerate, Walker Securities, Britain's direction, nexancer financial house proceeded to lose approximately fastest-growing {4}m. This period saw the same with tentacles in just about every Studios closure of the Rank Until was made Edward Dentand. Minister for the Environ- the industry generally, totalling Heath's half 1,500 the last of 1949 in this high-flying partnership Peter WaS the Walker, ex-insurance sales- instrucuons

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man who became a millionaire by Treasury and the Board of Trade, the National Moaned Finance Corp- To the Walkers of this world, to British orallon Shepperton prime Pt lies outside Lion, but eventually the situation piece of real estate. British Lion's Makes lucratively placed for residential and formed a new interests CU1ll- light industrial development pany which, though continuing to 60-acre open produce studios, would not itself and park studio sot Lion British chairman Lord Shepperton was studio each). The! provided addi- Goodman modestly puts the "letting' studio, that is a tional injection of £569,000 the at E6m controlled by any of the for and not ot land value exhibition modernizations. week board com- the oniv

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Two points come out of all panies. this grab. fluctuation in the industry, being the dependent on producers who icke financial guaranteed outlet for stat 1950s the throughout Sydney Bernstein HaVe the and 1960s was caused Aitken, is the architect of the their NFFC wrote off the £3m entirely by this To The ell-out on Rhodesia. The 13m the debt exchange for the write-off peer is also anne Interest the new accumulated debt to late city. This burden was terms chairman of the 'Observer in controlling neWs- chairman of the News- company 1600.000 shares at t1 paper,

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2001: was begun at Shepperton but completed at studios only lifted from the NFFC in the Labour government's 1970 Films Act. Thus, while keeping Shepper- ton open was an 'encouragement' independent British film to the industry, this the prevented being effective, especially given the massive influx of American money up to the early 1960s—an altogether more significant and profitable source of business for Shepperton. Secondly, though the manage- ment declared the expansion Shepperton to be a means of replacing studio space lost by the closures at Isleworth, the actual rationale turned out to be quite different, as will be seen later.

Even in 1954 there had been the strong possibility of Shepper- ton being turned eithe into a housing estate or an factory. In 1958, larged studios with th r seven sound (includ 1g stages largest in the opened, the Tory tried to get rid of the NFFC's controlling interest and hive the whole thing off to private enter- prise. In this they wer. unsuc- cessful, and were intil 1964, when three merchant by bankers, fronted industry's Sir Michael Balcon, of duty in order to safeguard to mehts 1970 Films took over the British Lion hold- some degree the ever-decreasing number of jobs available.

But back in 1958 the Utopian of an independent British 1lO technicians were laid or a, Shepper- dream earlier used him industry encourdeenCl was a smokescreen to the real Shepperton. ntee

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of the crisis. under the management 'encouragement' Kingsley from 1958-1964 The enlarged studios opened in the based was middle of Shepperton financiallv sufficientiv to American on the WOrd 'independent' meant indepen- the three merchant bankers and dence from the crisis in the film backed Balcon, was lay-offs, industrv internationally.

price-big the Sydney Gilliatt, opening casualization of employment, and studios, said: *For those with 66 per cent (!) increase of as a medium expansion faith in the cinema productivity. 21.om Britain's contribution Sankeest Some the the actual Tuesday September 23 (1958) is of the DalikeIs • This state- quite handsomely to be a day of rearmation. directors ment paid off in tax-free tens came week disaster report from thousands, but either there had beer studios at Pinewood. board or returned te management state typical soon into arrerwares Unu 1958-1964 ment Shepperton increased •enoo was: 'My ideal of studio manage- when the ment is that we should all behave a particularly I seven like the possible cant total turn the

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went Lion" stadio Chairman money began American Co.) the British Lion effect NEFC's take suali zait is that quickly followed the increasing and hive the Since then, things have gone the cavalon from unsuc- with its attendant had to worse insecunty employment, the massive lay-offs After remain catastropnic forcing the (blamed director were and closures the militancy of rules Gilliatt the unions i elliot Balcon, on closed shop and demarcation as the Main Workora Prose, 8 Films made at Shepperton: Left, the Shepperton studios. Lawrence Harvev « namer bears in *Sammy Going South'; RObInson in Bogarde In 'King and Country'.

large discotheques) with the American no longer wants guarantee them a con. several siderable say in the terms of the finance films made in Britain) the British Lion. present time when Earlier • the year neither side merger. picking normally business admitted intention of closing 1964, 1S This is not to say of course, ally proceeding that there anal set oneoperton. are not the those apace on most of the stages. see: "OuT pollcy is to make the mosi board Lion who 'Alice in

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are only one major project, profitable use of the facilities in Interested in pront. Wonderland in preparation, and British Lion order to produce 1958-1964, It follows that there is a battle films of wide box office appeal.'

"improved' one low budget horror him in the taking studios. cunning (nese are On 19 they itself, the future of Shepper- interest rebrual, stalec definitely that Shepperton would who The Eckarts world especially stereo, 4U11 want increased be kept open. it and winners of three Oscars.)

lETO stage their that studio with It seemed at that film The "fundamental permanent staff, which is simply alu recession Tae main interest in the merger was industry and the from The money to be of crisis international capitalism elling British Lion's film librars However, with a possible £15m Nixon s British to merchant August 15 measures are, it seems, to be made out of property in the distri. ostensibly interested in the nothing to with it. If the short term (which Shepperton as bution outers would massive thes toniest studio would never make 107 cinemas, and very much in a of long terms without low £9}m with unen olovment Ivel merger remained would well, Shepperton mim and technology senti wages whose other interests have raked 1%69 at any rated ney edia sides.

solved! This technology) senti- crisis in flfm in profit in 1971.

ment for the British independent the Goodman, commenting on film set-up will not get a look in.

profit The stated: there had Board of Directors as a merger, of be not have The of the whole had other ideas, whisper terms merger signifi- however been board already specify a six-man First was to merge with Pearl we would not snepperton, disastrous Dean 1969. Due to played'. directors dealings in Thailand by Lion and three from Star) which to this context the proet very IS retains only Goodmar Pear & Dean. this merger difficult how disaster to see from the British LIOn more or a lability than an assel off Shepperton to 101 board and a property millionaire, for British Lion. have have gone property developers Sir Max Rayne. Eckart brothers from any other source but Since then the Slater Walker group Though Last Tuesday's statement 1971 the Leeos nave starlea the board that Shepperton So tee merger of their enterprise represented the orar board, kept open is a deliberately they have interests in British Lion sizeable announcement aimed at disarm- why vorkara Preas, Sliturday April 15, 1972 PAGE 7 n: Left, the shooting of 'The Colditz Story' to bottom: Olivier in "Richard !!!'; ather Sears in 'Room at the Top'; Edward G.

'Macbeth'; Dirk South'; lan Bannen in Sunday's ing meeting at the Criterion. The Shepperton issue cannot be separated from the whole of Tory policy. Entry into the Com- mon Market will affect NFFC, Eady money, the British quota (which guarantees that of the total number of films released per year, a fixed percentage will be British made), employment, conditions, wages, and indeed every right the unions have won through organization in trade quite fundamentally and unions, destructively. This is entirely in line with Rank-EMI policy, which is link- development ing cinema with development as flats, property offices and shops (beginning with the Kings Road next year).

In fact multiple cinemas are leading not to an increase in the number films required for distribution, but to a 25 per cent decrease. American money will continue to go where the profitable grass is greenest, as will that of the in monopoly capitalists this country-into property and into Europe. There can therefore be no fight for the future of Shepperton without the fight to remove this Tory government from office.

Saturday April 18 PAGE & Workers Pr Part 4 on Argentina by our For The Argentine regime of Alejandro Lanusse is faced by two prospects-either a military coup or an alliance with the exiled Peron. President Nixon's August 15 measures mean the US is de- manding Lanusse carry out poli- cies favourable to American in- vestment. At the same time it spread of the the encourages power of the Brazilian dictator- ship in Latin America to the detriment of Argentine influence.

Argentina's debt overseas stands at some $750m. Two de- valuations of the peso in the last four months have knocked the currency by almost 20 per cent.

depreciation has been This accompanied by a growth of un- employment and massive price increases, and by enormous flows of capital out of the country.

The Argentine working class forced to bear the has been brunt of the economic crisis and has reacted with militant strike struggles, despite the collabora- tionist bureaucracy of Peronistas which still heads the trade anion F0 movement. expressed This militancy was in a wave of strikes in the car industry last year in the Citroen, Peugeot, Fiat and Chrysler fac- These reached a peak in tories. the major Fiat plant in the out- skirts of Cordoba, 750 kilometres from Buenos Aires. Fiat tried to solve the problem by. sacking strike leaders and getting the government to out- law the plant's two most militant unions. Sitrac and Sitram. How- the two unions have con- ever, tinued to work clandestinely and have forced the CGT to give a certain amount of protection.

the huge potential of The working-class threat to imperial- ism emerged again in a two-day General Strike which the CGT bureaucracy were forced to call at the beginning of March against government's anti-working the policies. The working class response was enthusiastic Although the strike was im- mediately declared illegal and defend the army prepared to "freedom of labour", the working- enthusiastic. class response was Printworkers backed the strike, and the only two papers which did appear in a limited edition, 'La Prensa' and 'La Nacion', , were not distributed. Neither was the crowds of army able to stop strikers and pickets from attack- ing blacklegs and trying to bring bank employees out—-their union would not support the strike.

The militant Cordoba car- workers and engineers, who had led at least 12 major strikes in 1971, came out solidly despite which armoured cars patrolled the streets. At the regional CGT plenary, syndicalist militants opposed the compromise between and Lanusse reucci sase CGT secretary Rucci the strike as a method of letting off steam in the working class rather than the beginning of the start of a challenge to the Lanusse government. The Cordoban militants de- manded 'an action programme which an open struggle would give meaning to the strike' ay April 15, 1872 our Foreign Correspondent Threatened by the working- of class, Lanusse and company had to look to Madrid where Juan Peron is living in comfortable exile in the residential area of Puerto de Hierro. Since the beginning of the year the airlines between Aires Buenos Madrid have been full of diplo- matic pro-Peron passengers work- towards 'national agree-- ing a ment'. The telephone lines have also been over-taxed. Already Lanusse had declared at a press conference in Para- guay: 'It's not up to me now. It's up to Juan Peron. I'm not deaf, but until now I've not heard any- thing. In the annual CGT message to the country Rucci declared: 'They are trying to compromise what. can never be compromised; the free, unrestricted candidature of the natural representatives of the people... For its part, the right-wing English language spokesman for "The Review of loreign interests, the River Plate', has revealed a within the powertu, group Foreign Ministry for giving Peron his Argentine passport back.

The need for a civic front for national liberation Peron himself has declared the need for a civic front for national with liberation, a regroupment forces of all 'demo- Peronista cratic tendencies within Argen- tina, and has had published in the magazine 'Las Bases' what virtually amounts to an election programme.• He calls for the re- adjustment of interest rates, the protection of local industry and 'agriculture, support for the iron industry and a catering for the 'economic aspirations of the workers'. The front was founded on February 14. Juan Peron: Leader of the largest popular movement On March 3 Peron and the sister of dictator Franco, Pilar Franco, were at Madrid's Barajas airport Peron's welcome to wife Isabel from her three months in Argentina. holiday Peron was as reticent as ever about his return, but his wife said: 'The General must return to Argentina: the country needs him. He must return in 1972. I worked a lot and had contacts with all social classes.'

Isabel was shortly followed to Madrid by ex-President Frondizi Frondizi March 15. on was President of Argentina from 1958 Alejandro Lanusse : 'It's not up to me n to 1963 and received the elec- toral support of Peron's move- ment. He declared he was com- pletely in agreement with Peron's civic front and programme for a emphasized that although he had not discussed candidates for the presidential elections with Peron, 'there will be no solution without the presence of the largest popu- lar, movement and its leader, General Peron'. Representatives of this 'popular movement' had not delayed in paying their respects to Peron.

On the 9th a delegation of four union leaders flew into Madrid: Estanislao Rosales, Alberto and Nestor Carrasco, representatives glass- textileworker? workers workers, englneering and meat packers. Officially they were to debate *urgent aspects of the develop- ments in the CGT and Peronista- unions' - in controlled other words the recent general strike and growth of militancy. The fear of the working class felt by the Peronistas soon became clear. While rumours of a military coup to prevent elec- tions were being circulated in Buenos Aires, Peron sent a tele- to the malleable

CGT

'prudence and wisdom'. The CGT leaders were about to call a meeting of their co- federal committee to vote on new against the strike measures government's economic policies when they heard Peron's message read out by José Rucci: 'The time still has not come to throw ourselves into anything which might imply exaggerated violence.' It was decided to post- pone the committee meeting.

So Peron and Peronismo appear once more in their true anti-unfion strike- colours as p to me now. It's up to Juan Peron' breakers, subordinating the work- ing class to the Lanusse regime and to fraudulent elections which may or may not attract the great the comfortable Peron' from cafés and casinos of fascist Spain. Peron: anti-union strike breaker subordinating the working class to the Lanusse regime What is true is that such interventions as this will quickly dispel Peronist influence in the in working class which is forced to confront the employers' and generals' government. However, any challenge to the bureaucracy crisis-ridden union severely restrained by is re- ike, visionists of various tendencies.

One such tendency which has gained much publicity through its recent kidnapping and execution of the head of Fiat is the Pablo- band, the ite urban guerrilla Peoples' Revolutionary Army (ERP). The individual terrorism is no practised by this group deliberate and than a more conscious turn from the fight for a new leadership in the Argen- union movement, tine trade turn which can only strengthen Peron and the union bureaucracy.

To tell the car workers in the Cordoba and Rosario plants that the solution to the repression of militants is the institution of 'people's courts' and 'people's prisons' and urban guerrilla war- as 'Red fare is as reactionary Mole's' uncritical devotion to the IRA in Ireland. tendency fighting Another development against Marxist among Argentine workers is the tendency orgenized around the paper 'Politica. Obrera'.

By its enthusiastic support for Guillermo Lora's betrayal in Bolivia it shows that it has learnt nothing from the capitulation of Moreno to Peron. Lora's for populist support •General Torres was a continua- tion of that policy which enabled Moreno to support Peronismo. 'Politica Obrera' has Although published both criticisms of Moreno and Peron, the support for Lora and the programme they develop shows their firm adher- ence to middle-class centrism.

Their idea that Peron is essen- working-class base for a base trying to change among the petty bourgeoisie is a figment of their imagination.

Peronismo is now an essential instrument. for the Argentine ruling class and to restrain demoralize the working class and prepare its destruction. In other words, Peronismo is called upon to finish the job it started years ago. Their programme of an anti- imperialist front for a constituent assembly and a popular govern- ment is no basis for challenging Peronismo, whose adepts have for years churned out book after book on the fight against im- perialism and for popular demo- cratic government. Juan Domingo himself has not been averse to the odd word of praise for such anti-imperialist fighters as Mao and Fidel Castro.

What is needed nOW Argentina is a leadership which can fight for an understanding of the gains of the Fourth Inter- national's struggle unswerving for Marxism against all those who want to make concessions to populism and petty-bourgeois nationalism.

CONCLUDED

BY ANNA TATE

Germaine Greer has, for some time, been the darling of the media-the establishment media, the underground media and all points left, right and centre of the com- munications Her compass. engaging spate of liberationist philosophizing has weaved its ever articulate way Irom the 'Sunday Times' to 'Oz', from 'Playboy' to 'Suck', with careless abandon. She would seem, therefore, to constitute the high point at which counter-culture and ruling cul- converge. This confluence ture of self-proclaimed anti-bourgeois ideology with its avowed oppo- site, bourgeois ideology, indicates the extent to which the 'counter- culture revolutionists' remain politically complicit with the They capitalist system. are merely at verbal war with cer- tain characteristics of that system which. infringe on their own emotional and sexual personal, freedoms. The basis of this complicity re- sides in their rejection of dialec- tical materialism in favour of facile impressionism. This was already evident in the selection of quotes used by Germaine Greer her book "The Female Eunuch'. Rather less a selection than an amalgam of abstractions, which embraced contradictions from John Stuart Mill, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche to the 'News of the World' The absence of Karl Marx was notable, it predictable, while the presence of Friedrich Engels was a lamentable distortion. He was quoted from 'The Origin of the Family' thus: "The individual modern family is founded on the open ur concealed slavery of the wife •.. Within the family he is the bourgeois and his wife repre- sents the proletariat.' What Germaine Greer can- not comprehend, and does not seek to comprehend, is that one cannot posit the above state- ment outside the context of the following analysis: •.. that all past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles; that these warring classes of society are always the products of the modes of production and ex- a word, of the change—in economic conditions of their time; that the economic struc- ture of society always furnishes the real basis, starting from which we can alone work out the ultimate explanation of of the whole superstructure juridical and political institu- tions as well as the religious, philosophical, and other ideas of a given historical period.'

Friedrich Engels, 'Socialism, Utopian and Scientific', (1882).

• In all her writings to date, Germaine Greer has manifested opposite tendency i.e. she the begins and ends with the indi- vidual. She is, after all, on her admission, own charming an anarchist, but what she seems to ignore is the extent to which her 'anarchy' to titillate serves a bored bourgeoisie. Liberalism in crisis has need of this exponent of outrage to lend image of immoderation to an their-politics of extreme modera- tion. Many of Germaine Greer's ideals, when put to the test of political reality, emerge as ex- reactionary, misguided tremely to begin with women should labour to be genuinely disgusted by violence, and at least to re- fuse to reward any victor in a violent confrontation, even to the point of casting their lot on principle with the loser' The government of the United States of America and that of ..President Thieu of S Vietnam.

can take heart from the fact that, if they lose the massive battle which the N Vietnamese and an National Liberation Front are at mounting against them, present at least, they will, have Miss Greer and her disciples on their side. But the lady is, nevertheless, "The only thing honest: sure of, is that I'm confused,' she admitted, endearingly, in her Times' Sunday column of Nov- ember 21, 1971. The confession made in relation to India was and Bangla Desh, and indeed, in spite of a truly gifted literary style and an aptitude for the most profound speculation based on the most superficial impression of entire histories and cultures, Miss Greer does manifest abysmal confusion. On November 21, she compared Indira Gandhi to Kali, the Hindu deity of blood-thirsty destruc- tion, saying: "The mother who has taken untold millions of refugees to her bosom may 'prove to be their destroyer if she continues to excite war- hysteria at the present rate.'

Almost exactly one month later, Germaine Greer went 'haring back' to India to write in praise of Mrs Gandhi's inter- vention in Bangla Desh. Incon- is undoubtedly the sistency mother of impressionism. But then Miss Greer does warn us, from time to time and admirable candour, with that she does have a tendency to jump to spurious conclusions. It form of game-playing, is a new this candour, current in. various circles of New Left sophisticates.

It is a game which Germaine Greer plays expertly to the detri- ment of herself, of the women for whom she purports to speak, and of humanity. While constantly propounding conclusions, solutions, attitudes, ideologies political she disclaims any unal grammes, responsibility for such activity.

lengthy interview in 'Playboy' magazine in January, she claimed: 'I don't advise people what to do. It's a waste of time' This was followed by on various pages of advice matters. an individualist, she I'm added, 'but I'm not proud of my individualism.' This form of acknowledgement reduces the political arena to a confessional box, with admission becoming unconsciously the path to absolution, the entire process •self- then turning toward satisfaction. But the basic premise of Germaine Greer that 'the key to the strategy of liberation lies in exposing the situation, and the simplest way. to do it is to out- rage the pundits and the experts " cal by sheer impudence of speech and gesture...' is an even more misguided example of the im- potence of the "polities of can- dour'. Her 'Playboy interview illus- trated the methodology: of 'balling' one's way toward revo- lution. She is not alone in this notion that the cifadel of bour- geois morality will crumble under onslaught vociferous 'obscenities' — the precedent had been set by the hippies and Yippies. Bourgeois morality, which will only end when the bourgeoisie has been eliminated in a social revolution, seems to be taking the politics of crudeness in its stride. Being a child of the techno- logical age; of jet-setting realities, foods, instant Germaine of Greer espouses the politics of impatience, the doctrine of the instantaneous. In her book she stated: 'Women's revolution necessarily situationist; we cannot argue that all will be well when the socialists have succeeded in abolishing private property and restoring public ownership of the means of production.' When she seemingly emerges from this fantasied sensual world of impossible "possibilities', her pronouncements retain the tingle of dangerous, almost lunatic naïvety. "Oh,' she cries, 'I feel so sorry that it's all gone wrong. The American dream really has turned into a nightmare. course, always a It was, of nightmare that dream, com- pounded on the supremacy of the dollar and fight for" the exclusive right to expropriate the wealth of weaker countries-the kind of 'group grope' which US monopolists get on with. And when she arrogates to herself the right to speak for the people, she is at her political worst and most dangerous, talk- ing down from • the middle-class pedestal of an idealist theoretical void. in á theoretical Similarly, of quite breathtaking somersault liberal dimensions, when speak- of the essentially bourgeois movement of Women's Lib, she asserts: 'And we must have the poor on our side. In other words, for our own purposes, we must be part of the general pressure for revolution in a capitalist society' (My emphasis.) purposes of Germaine The Greer are, however, not an aid , the poor in but an obstacle to their struggle for a consciousness of the history of class conflict which will equip them to face the crisis of capitalism.

Germaine Greer merely pro- Workers Press, Saturday April 15, 1972 PAGE 9 With all the hullaballoo about garded as a little tight with Chaplin, ( Charlie it is worth money. recalling his great venture in Well, Mary Pickford, a co- launching United Artists. The foúnder of UA, seems to re- original charter of the studio member the old man pretty had passages which had a fine clearly. While they all were ring of the socialist future.

weeping about his return to When he fell into political Hollywood, she told the press: 'He's a stinker.' despondency, the company became simply a money- Mary Pickford and Charlie Chap- maker for Charlie. lin In the 1920s But to this day, he is re- ments relating to his trial have Stafford has gone missing. always maintained that he was wrongly convicted. When you're behind bars, it's Last year a television docu- difficult to stop people taking mentary was made which advantage of you. tended to suggest that Stafford The Kray twins have been was not the murderer. the source of a huge amount of Fleet St mythology. I hear that Reginald Kray has finally decided to put an end to it.

He is proposing to sue a well-known A great new showbiz career strip magazine opened up for Maureen has which recently gave an amaz- ing description of how the Reagan, daughter of some-time Krays tried to murder a little actor Ronald, now the hanging girl lost. governor of California. trouble is, the Only twins At 30, Maureen allows her- have never heard of her! self a few deviations from the Reagan line: I'm not as con- I'm servative as my father. what I call a militant moderate.

I don't believe in the Welfare Another inmate of HM Prisons State, but I support the Viet- is also quite irritated. Dennis namization plan. Stafford, convicted The radical Miss Reagan is murderer, has just been granted legal aid appearing in a stage produc. sue the Home Office. tion of 'The Last of the Red.

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men A GROUP of militant at Lucas's storekeepers CAV factory in W Lon- don have begun a work- to-rule and withdrawal of co-operation over jobs.

The men, who control machines supplies to the factory, goods-inwards department and the raw- material stores, are demanding replacement of personnel lost as a result productivity deal of a signed last year. Last week toolroom workers at the factory also started working to rule. The storekeepers who are taking action were out- voted by the rest of their opposed grade when they the 1971 productivity deal.

Now they are challenging the company's right to push profits through up redundancies. A strike at CAV's Sud- bury plant has ended. THE THIRD day of the Repub- lic of Ireland's power strike brought further chaos and dis ruption to industry. Industry remained at a stand- still and the amount of power to domestic has been users restricted to three hours a day.

The Electricity Supply Board announced that the situation might ease with the recruitment of board staff to do the strikers' jobs. Some strikers had also returned to work following an appeal by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. The Post Office reported that thousands of telephones were put out of action by the power shortage. Socialist Labour League and Young Soclalists Meeting

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ay April 15, 1972

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42 Park Road, London W4 3HH 01-994 6823/5361 S. Bingham I am writing to let you know about the B.S. C's Spring Series of seminars. First : 'THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT AT SHOP FLOOR LEVEL' with Hugh Scanlon, Professor John Wood, Alan Fisher and Eddie Robertson. As you will see from the brochure, this major seminar is very much concerned with those specific shop floor problems which are likely to arise in the application of the Act.

HUGH SCANLON'S motto on the Industrial Relations Act is 'Know the Act, then ignore it'. Or so he tells us. But on May 17, the engineers'-union chief will be topping the bill at an exclusive officials at the Cafe Royal in of managers and union gathering London. The precise venue is

THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

the Cafe's plush Louis Suite. Anyone wishing to

ACT AT SHOP FLOOR LEVEL

attend must first cough up a cool £25. But most

HUGH SCANLON

Professor JOHN WOO BE interesting of all is the title of the seminar: "The

ALAN FISHEK

al kacksun Industrial Relations Act at Shop-Floor Level'. Organizers the get- outfit together are an as Business Studies

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Consultants Ltd, whose Brochure for the £25-a-head seminar headquarters lie eart middle-class

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the Among companies are BP Chemicals, Barclays Chemicals, Barclays are Charrington, Dullk. Das. British-American Tobacco, NUPE's Alan Fisher joins Scanion on platform

GKN,

Esso, Ford

IPC,

Joseph Lucas, In line with TUC policy, doubt as to its durability.'

Unilever Watney Scanlon's Amaralllaltu Robertson And himself Union Engineering is no slouch when it comes Besides these giants Workers 'not oi union-bashing. capitalist monopoly with

CIR.

ating' the the of the boards seems this does not prevent The September 1971 se British its president corporallon appearing on Inflation and 'Wage Airports the same platform as one unemolovment.

TOR

Authority: of its stalwarts. his department was directly platform Business Eddie is Studies will Consultants the follow- research director for Drink Tolerer in nve.gno- ing character. employers' a-half weeks' time is a real Engineering eye-opener the style Federation, "The real improvements the

AUEW

is supposed to Cass-collabotalon Lilal neeceo in the wace-barcan- be currently stepping up its involved. ing situation will not come Scanlon will speak for and until about unless trade unions in the the prepared Formerly with Standard hovelical of industry. action Drivale the таке _reduce Inc wil. and bargaining strength ven bonu Rubber Co, Robertson was unions certain advantageously- TRADE could be lost to the port of Hull by an said

EEF

president by Alan Fisher, another placed trade union groups.

Hull dockers' all-out strike against redundancy, Denby Bamford who so-called stewards claim in a leaflet distributed this week.

'Such action would the rebruary to play a valuable general secretary drawn up to explain the stewards' in our work by pro- have The leaflet part certainly Include National Union of Public Wels wide yet another look viding range the Employees. proposit or de borne severs comply effects for the cushioning by the dockers themselves.

no moon cal 1o cocalal strike of social that in enabling us to formulate

LEGAL

Inuividual the end the year. policy. and the unattached labour pool by security arrange- ments. Legal and management Bamford has earlier in the then we have the right to deter- opinions will be given then, are the the same speech who will be the ones to be returned to the Professor John Wood

CBE

eople Scanlon and Fishe mine one of the policies Robert- get the and 'Eddie' set out five courses of action helped information Lave arical acad

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unattached men reallocated, with a comment on their eat gourmet Juncheon Tornuate. respective eflects and costs.

Wood, with on May 17. 'The prospect that Sheffield University, The formation of a company would.

according to

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at Their fee for appearing is fronts us round the leafiet. cost onlv £104 What they per Challed overacl claims backed costly raise the necessary capital. create Courts pay

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or nor into me will say irrelevant. up by the threat of disrup- attract and Standard - Triumph and What is certain is that Pilkington disputes and tive action', he said. If the Their Darcoator On the other hand 3 total stoppage would probabiv now a member of the com- unity, way squares with a policy fibre our last from three to six weeks and cost the men £120- mission Inaustrial of ignoring the Act. them £240 each, the leaflet says.

Relations. should leave in no tolen strikes or in versenie bon An all-out strike. would all 'destroy whatever confi- dence there is in the Trade resulting could further loss of wages. Nothing could better illus- trate the dangerous, quicksands which the A SOLDIER who distributed with us to drive the fascists into stewards have stepped. among British channel. pamphlets have a fine I invite you, John-soldier in the The Hull dockers

MEN

and women soldiers asking them to desert Provisional govern- army jails should have civil and legal recora or principied struggie.

has been jailed for two years.

ment of all lreland. struck they by in 1900, of the seamen who were ended charter. port Cork-born Michael Anthony When the case That strike was then on strike. Thursday after- (38) of near Tobin Malestone Ald Charles Irving, penal a Party Communist the judge referred a guer- soon seo Depart- Rochester, Kent, was 100lle reformer, said Prisons stewards in London who refused manual the Director of Crown civil servants were like Maidstoné ment to call out dockers there.

guilty Public Prosecutions for con- Bonds operating Court of possessing documents allies sideration. leading Hull also played likely to seduce soldiers from once outaws —not niccuscu Lo both Labour and Tory varieties Just as Michael Tobin is jailed kill, but to extinguish human and Industridi ineir auly. legal rights. for leaflets against anti-union legislation. seized the war in Ulster, Juan One of the pamphlets Granna. Speaking Dockers also stood out at the W Midlands there the Green- jailed for two years New his home asked and after-care probation in refusing to handle Pilkington for distributing anti- jackets: 'Working men

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glass following the victimization ference vesterdav. Mr Irving said Greenjackets — leave regi- Vietnam war leaflets. St Helens. taking away a man's liberty was of glassworkers and come to us over By these savage sentences the most severe punishment and. Pontipool. wales this fight. ruling classes both countries available. They have also

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12.55 Farmhouse kitchen. 12.55 Settlers. 1.35 Farm and country news. 12.10 Faith for life. 12.15 Weather. SOUTHERN: 11.00 London. 12.00 Weather. 12.05 in the Music • Something to sing round. 12.30 about. 12.55 Farm progress. 1.25 Heckle and Jeckle. 1.30 Sting- ray. 2.00 Big match. 3.00 Film: 'The Bandit of Sherwood Forest'.

4.35 News. 4.45 London. 7.25 Doctor in charge. 7.55 Film: 'Life With Father'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Something to say. 12.15 Weather.

Road to Tower Hill. HARLECH: 11.00 London. 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 Lon- don. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

1.45 London. 3.15 Film: 'Finders Keepers'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Spy With A Cold Nose'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Biafra. 12.15 Weather. Cymru/ HTV Wales and HTV Wales above except: 12.05 Dan Workors Press, ANGLIA: 11.20 All our yesterdays.

11.50 Cowboy in Africa. 12.45 London. 5.10 Flintstones. 5.40 London. 5.45 Sale of the century.

6.15 Ken Dodd. 6.45 Film: 'Hell Below Zero'. 8.30 London. 9.30 spy. 10.30 London. 11.25 Theatre. ATV MIDLANDS: 12.10 Stars.

12.15 Captain Scarlet. 12.45 London. 6.15 Film: "Caravan'.

8.30 London. 11.25 Dick Van Dyke. 11.55 Who knows? ULSTER: 12.30 Enchanted house.

12.45 London. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 London. 5.45 Sport. 6.15 Ken Dodd. 6.45 Film: "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'. 8.30 London.

9.30 O'Hara, US Treasury. 10.30 London. 10.40 Scientists. 11.25 Dick Van Dyke. YORKSHIRE: 11.00 All our yes- terdays. 11.25 Make a wish. 11.50 Skippy. 12.15 Lidsville. 12.45 London. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 Lon- don. 5.45 Ken Dodd. 6.15 Film: 'Dunkirk'. 8.30 London. 9.30 Saint.

Scientists. 10.30 London. 10.40 Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' on Sund sylw. 12.40 Or wasg. 12.55 Llusern. ANGLIA: 11.00 London. 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 Lon- don. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

1.20 University challenge. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farming. 2.30 UFO.

3.25 Dick Van Dyke. 3.55 Foot-* ball. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Saint. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 London.

12.05 Music in the rouna. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farmhouse kit- chen. 1.40 Stars. 1.45 All our yesterdays. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Murder Ahoy'. 4.45 Lon- don. 5.35 Forest rangers. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Warning Shot'.

London. 9.40 Cartoons. 10.00 11.15 Dangerman. ULSTER: 12.05 London. 3.15 Film: 'Lassle Come Home'. 4.45 London. 7.25 Doctor in charge.

Film: 'Funeral 7.55 in Berlin'. 9.30 Jimmy Stewart. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Saint. YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 London. 12.30 Camping and caravaning. 1.00 Farmhouse Farming outlook. kitchen. 1.25 1.55 Calendar. 2.20 Soccer. 3.15 Film: 'Dual Alibl'. 4.45 London.

7.25 Doctor in charge. 7.55 Film: 'Mrs Miniver'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Biafra. 12.15 Weather. ors Press, Saturday April 15, 1972 PAGE 11 11.25 Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Weather. TYNE TEES: 11.00 All our yes-!

terdays. 11.25 Clapper board. 11.50 Arthur. 12.15 Lidsville. 12.45 London. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 Lon- don. 6.15 Film: "Tycoon'. 8.30 London. 9.30 FBl. 10.40 London.

11.25 Avengers. 12.20 Epilogue.

GRANADA: 11.50 Play the game.

12.15 Secret service. 12.45 Lon- don. 5.10 On_the buses. 5.40 London. 6.15 Bugs Bunny. 6.20 - Film: 'Mister Moses'. 8.30 Lon- don. 9.30 Jason King. 10.30 Lon- don. 11.25 Danger Man. SCOTTISH: 11.40 Beagan gaidhlig.

11.55 Clapper boara. 12.15 Tom Grattan's war. 12.45 London. 5.10 Roadrunner. 5.40 London. 5.45 Ken Dodd. 6.15 Film: 'Tycoon'.

8.30 London. 9.30 Randall and Hopkirk. 10.30 London. 10.40 Sport. 11.10 Late call: 11.15 Seaway. GRAMPIAN: 12.15 Batman. 12.45 London. 5.10 His and hers. 5.40 London. 6.15 Film: "The Three Musketeers'. 8.30 London. 11.25 Strange report. ' on Sunday at 8.15. Frank Finlay plays TYNE TEES: 10.15 Farming out- look. 10.45 Talking hands. 11.00 London. 12.30 Camping and car- kit- avaning. 12.55 Farmhouse chen. 1.25 Farming outlook. 1.55 Out of town. 2.15 Where the jobs are? 2.20 Shoot. 3.15 Film: 'Circle of Danger'. 4.45 London.

7.55 Film: 'Mrs Miniver'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Anatomy of Aid. * 12.15 Epilogue. GRANADA: 11.00 London. 12.05 Music. 12.30 Something to sing about. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

Yesterdays. 1.55 Football.

1.25 'Ulysses'. 4.40 Lon- 2.50 Film: don. 7.55 Film: 'VIPs'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Aquarius. GRAMPIAN: 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farm- house kitchen. 1.25 All our yes- terdays. 1.55 Farm progress. 2.25' Prisoner. 3.20 Film: "The Pot Carrlers'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: "The Spy With a Cold Nose. 9.30 Odd couple. 10.00 London.

11.15 Yoga. 11.40 Job look.

SCOTTISH: 12.05 London. 12.30 Something to say. 12.55 Farm- house kitchen. 1.22 Zingalong.

yesterdays. 2.15 1.45 All our 3.00 Film: 'Cone of Scientists. Silence'. 4.45 London. 7.25 Doc- tor in charge. 7.55 Film: "Under Ten Flags'. • 10.00 London. 11.15 = Late call. 11.20 Baron.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Apri! 1 THE 3,500 workers locked out from the GEC-AEI plant in Trafford Park, Manchester, were warned yesterday that the dispute could cost jobs. A management letter also said the longer the men were out the less likely the firm would be able to meet any claim. The threats came just 14 days after the men were locked out from the factory which is part of Arnold Wienstock's giant com- bine. The men had refused to call and piecework off an overtime ban imposed in support of the wages, hours district claim on and holidays. Yesterday's letter was the first contact between management and the locked-out workers.

At the latest count there are almost 30,000 workers in the Greater Manchester area locked in bitter battles with engineering employers. Workers are sitting-in at 24 plants, are on strike at two more, and have been locked out at a further two. officials Union say that 24 reached settlements have been on the district's claim for £4, a 35-hour week and another week's holiday. These include both federated and non-federated firms. Over 1,500 GEC-AEl workers yesterday held i mass meeting c.!". to discuss their lock-out.

John Tocher, AUEW divisional organizer. told them their struggle had been vindicated by 'the magnificent support they had received trom the York Confederation meeting the day before. Backing up Hugh Scanlon's decision to go for district settle- ments, he said: 'With the tone of unity and solidarity we have. there is no doubt of the final outcome a victory for the en- gincering workers. Fellow Communist Party mem- her Bernard Panter,

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district secretary, claimed that the CSEU decision had brought engineers to the brink of national confrontation. But neither man referred to Tory threats made in the last few days of a showdown with the working class. Meanwhile. the 22 workers made redundant by the closure of Sharstan Engineering Works. Cheadle Hulme, were still out- side the factory gates yesterday.

will move from this 'Nothing place at all if they decide to open the factory another on basis. works committee chairman Ray Evans told me. On Wednesday morning work- eis turned un to find the factory shut and the gates locked. The managing director Mrs Isabella Dubost said the union had forced her to sell. the factory and its machinery. Sharston workers ended a sit- in on March 30 and suspended a work-to-rule when they were promised their jobs back Mrs Dubost had obtained court order to clear the factory.

I don't think she wanted another sit-in so she closed the plant,' added Ray Evans.

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officials representing Britain's 54,000 merchant seamen increased yesterday rejected an Ship- pay offer from the British ping Federation. Leaders of the National Union of Seamen said the offer- just over 91 ner cent 'unacceptable'. A further was meeting has been arranged for April 20. lay Aprli 15, 1972 10 Bernadette Devlin on a previous demonstration outside No 10 Downing St TRADE £80m

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BRITAIN'S trade with the rest of the world slumped 180m into the red last month, according to the figures issucd yesterday by Department of Trade and Indus- " The deficil., which compared with a 233m deficit in February.

showed that exports had slipped back 131m 1o £720m last month.

Meanwhile, the import bill went soaring to a massive £600m, the highest since November 1970 and Clom higher than in the previous month. Imports for the first three months were 6 per cent higher than in the last quarter of 1971.

The department pointed out • that March's import bill included lor delivery of two payment Boeing 747 Jumbo jets. The trade deficit sent prices the London Stock lower on Exchange. Government securities fell by 50p or more in the first initial reaction, but later recor- cred about a quarter of this.

Leading industrial shares drop- ped by Ip to 2p. -en the Phrene fell about 25 ket. the pound time. but later points at Onl recovered to $2.0070. This was 20 points down on the opening price of $2.6090. Dealers said there was more.

inquiry going on than actual deal- ing. but they were being kept.

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SCOTIAND and N Ireland will W become start bright. but it will cloudy with some rain later. Remaining districts will be mostly dry with sunny periods after the clearance of some fog patches.

Temperatures will be near the seasonal normal bur it will be rather warm in E Scotland.

Mon- Outlook for Sunday and day: Some rain in the N. Mainly dry in the S but perhaps some rain in E England later. Tempera- becoming rather tures normal. cold in the N. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published by Workers Press. Office. 186a Clapham High Street. London.

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London. 180b Clapham High Street. MISS Bernadette Devlin and Mr West- Frank McManus, both minster MPs from Ulster, intend defying the law 'to test the impartiality of Tory supremo, Mr William Whitelaw. Mr Michael Farrell announced the three-point action by the MPs at a press conference of the Northern Resistance Move- First, he said, the three of them would not attend court at Enniskillen on Monday when they are to appear on charges of taking part illegal march.

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- BRITAIN'S three rail unions their 16 per cent pay claim t making certain the national w at midnight tomorrow. ASLEF and the TSSA their executives reached decisions after a morning of talks with Tory Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan.

During 100 minutes of dis- at the Department's cussions London headquarters, Macmillan told them the Rail Board would not offer them a penny more.

His uncompromising response to the unions. lith-hour argu- the ments followed: hard heels of Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber's warning that the public woutd not surrender to blackmail.

Macmillan told the unions that to them the only course open was to submit their claim to the Railway, Staff National Tribunal for arbitration. ASLEF, NUR and TSSA nego- tiating teams put the position 10 their respective executives yesterday afternoon. Sir Siciney Greene,

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gen- cral secretary, told reporters: I am going to put to my #recutive the request of the Minister that we go to the Rail- way Staff National Tribunal for I don't think arbitration, but there is any hope that they will.

is saying *The Railway Board there is £30m and that is the end of it. Criticizing Barber's blackmail speech. he said:, 'Our people work very close to the general public and calling us blackmailers • is almost inciting people to vio- lence. TSSA general secretary Percy Coldrick said if the public took Barber's statement seriously. it would only be because they were unaware of the unions' case.

•They have not been told that since 1960. with our voluntary Co-operation staff have been 60.000 to 39.000. reduced from We are being asked to save £10m have a penny more. And ASLEF general secretary Ray Buckton said he was sure arbitration would not be accep- table to his members. The night before. stormy meeting of ASLEF officials and workers from the London area voted unanimously to back the nationwide work to rule due to begin at midnight on Sunday: Region axed 59 peak hour S trains yesterday® Socialist Labour League and Yo

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Then, next Saturday, April 22, they will march and rally outside Long Kesh. On the following Saturday, Armagh tainees and internees are being held. The three moves are de- liberate test', Farrell said. 'We want to see just how much change there has been since direct rule.' , Miss Devlin admitted she knew that boycotting the court might mean jail. unions voted against taking claim to arbitration yesterday ional work-to-rule due to start

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As the Tory government is driven into a major controntation with the working cass, a very serious political situatlon faces workers everywhere. Workers Press is vitally neces- to prepare trade unionists sary for this decisive battle. We have not a moment to lose. We urge you all-spend this weekend in the best possible way. Help us in a major effort to raise as much possible for this as month's Fund. Send every dona- tion immediately to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG OVER 3,000 Preston BAC wor- kers marched through the town yesterday to clapping and shouts of support from workers through- out the area. Carrying banners. saying: 'We want a living wage, 'Force the Out, and "Tories Out, Tories Socialism In', the men marched in support of their ten-week-old strike for a 20-per-cent pay.* increase. Also on the march: was a delegation of workers from Brannon's in Cumberland who have been on strike for ten months. Marching ten-abreast down Preston's Strand Rd. completely blocking it to traffic, the marchers called out English Electric wor- kers who downed tools to cheer and clap the BAC strikers. Along the route they were greeted by e and Young Socialists

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•DELEGATES at the final session of the National Union of Stud- in Birmingham yesterday ents 'noted' the Tory government's imposition of 'direct rule on N Ireland', but refused to condemn Out of a total of five resolu- tions on direct rule, only a reso- lution tabled in the name of Magee University College, Lon- donderry, N Ireland, condemned the imposition of direct rule and pointed out that to end it the govermnent must Tory be brought down. The executive resolution, which was finally passed, stated: "Tory rule from Westminster is little different from Unionist rule from Stormont.' The final session was also marked by a complete refusal of the Communist Party and right- wing executive to allow time for discussions on the emergency Industrial Relations Court deci- sion to fine the Transport and • General Workers' Union £5,000.

Since four emergency resolu- tions had failed by a small num- ber of votes to be discussed on the emergency, priorities ballot, delegates asked for time during the session to discuss the situa- tion. This was refused by the executive. Another order THE National Industrial Rela- tions Court yesterday granted an interim order to Craddock Brothers, a Wolverhampton-based the road haulage firm, telling.

Transport and General Workers' Union • to blacking its stop lorries. A further hearing of the case will be held on Monday, at which the T&GWU, which boy.

cotted yesterday's hearing, will have the opportunity to appear.

NIC president Sir John Don- aldson warned the union that if it wishes not to be responsible for the actions of its members in the case it must positively dis- sociate itself from them.

Two days ago the court made permanent orders against black- ing by T&GWU dockers on the application of two other trans- port firms, Heatons Transport (St and Bishop's Helens) Limited Wharf of Warrington. The court has already fined the T&GWU £5,000 for contempt of court for failing to lift the black.

400 engineers from Goss. Shop steward for the Bran- workers, Muriel Hillor, non's told Workers Press: 'With un- employment so high in the whole they've managed country, to bring What in scab labour. they're reallying trying to do', pay.*• Len Wilkinson, convenor. at the Leyland works, Leyland, near Preston was also on the march.

He said: "It's disgraceful for the management to leave these men out for ten weeks. 'They've got lower pay than in the anywhere else district. This is a political fight and it locks as though we'll soon be out too.' At the meeting afterwards Len Brindle, deputy convenor at Leyland Sperrier said: works •The strings offered [by manage- ment in response to the BAC men's claim] are chains and you'll find that out when you try to move with them. 'Strikes have to be won and we shall do more at district level to help you.' One of the leading BAC shop stewards, David Creighton-Smith said: 'The demonstration was a complete success. The rest of combine is supporting us the financially' And he told the men: 'The AUEW is balloting members in Preston, Blackpool and Black- burn districts for a 5 per cent levy."