Workers Press no. 743

workers press Trade unions and the Tory government

OF DECISION

EVER SINCE the Tory government to came power in June 1970 its main objective has been to destroy the power of the trade unions. Not a minute has been wasted in an almost indecent haste to provoke a head-on conflict. In doing this the Tories have been obliged to disrupt the class compromise relations through which they have ruled almost since the Chartists petition to parlia- ment in 1848. The showdown with the railwaymen has long since stage of passed beyond the normal wage negotiation. For well over a week the Cabinet has been engaged in mobilizing the administrative and repressive force of the capitalist - state to bring the rail unions entire and through them working class—to its knees.

This is a political confronta- tion from which there can only be one victor. Every ounce of political the industrial and strength of the working class must be mobilized behind the railwaymen at once. Any attempts at bluff would be disastrous. The Tories mean business because they have no choice. Such is the objective develop- ment of class forces in Britain as the result of the international economic crisis that even if a settlement temporary were arrived at, it could only at best postpone the all-out conflict for a short time. This is the irresistible logic of the class struggle in the crisis- today. conditions of ridden Relations between the classes are no longer governed by the sub- jective desires of men, but by the intensity of the class objective struggle itself. The arrogance of the Tory government and the determina- tion of the working class to only be understood fight can within this context. Trade unions in Britain are inseparable from the working class. All their hard-won demo- cratic rights, wage standards and working conditions are the result of over 200 years of increasing campaigns behind the banner of trade unionism. are in fact the Trade unions working class. For the Tory government to embark on a course of destroy- ing them through the Industrial Relations Act is to undertake the virtual destruction of all the basic rights of the working class.

revisionist and There are Stalinist idiots who deny the existence of the economic crisis.

But how can they explain the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY G. HEA

enormity of a crisis which drives the Tory government forward on such a lifé-and-death conflict?

All the main props of so-called capitalist democratic government are being ripped asunder. The reformist illusions which in the past served to confuse the work- ing class by obseuring the real issues have been transformed into their opposite. Every trade unionist can now see that the Tories are taking away our basic rights. The entire history of the working class is punctuated with incidents in which they have fought back with the greatest determination when thesé basic rights are threatened. But that is, by itself, entirely Some of the men involved in the Davy Un

FROM PHILIP WADE

SHEFFIELD engineers are out to join those in the greater Manchester area and move into battle against local employers on their pay claim. Stewards in leading factories had talks with management yes- They knew terday. beforehand that the Employers' Association was offering a meagre £1.50 rise, tied to productivity deals.

LEWSETTER WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1972

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

G. HEALY

inadequate. If the Tories have destroyed the forms of govern- ment based upon class com- promise, they can only proceed to think in terms of the most ruthless political dictatorship.

A defeat for the railwaymen would have the most serious implications in this respect.

The miners, if they were given leadership, the could have brought down the Tory govern- ment. But their leaders, Daly and Gormley. reformists who are believe in class compromise. So they settled for wages. Here lies the danger once again. The TUC and the rail- men's leaders are also reformists and cannot be politically trusted to lead the kind of political fight e Davy United sit-in considered Procedure is now to be exhausted and in the next few days mass meetings will be arranged at each factory.

They are expected to decide on the various forms of action including a ban on piece work and overtime and strikes to back up their claim. Already 900 workers at Davy United are sitting in. They took the action after management had made no substantial offer. • No 743 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

which has now become impera- tive. Only the class determination of millions of trade unionists guided by a leadership steeped in the revolutionary principles of Marxism can accomplish such a task. The Tories have provoked the fight. Now is the time to create the industrial and political con- ditions to make the Heath gov- ernment resign. A General Election is vital.

The alternative to Heath is not a reformist Labour government such as Wilson led between 1964- 1970. It is a Labour government pledged to socialist policies which have as their cornerstone the expropriation of the capitalist class through nationalization without compensation of all the basic industries. Stewards came back from talks to find the men already sitting-in in anticipation of a break down. The employers' reply is essen- tially the same as that made at of time breakdown in national negotiations. The which document, has fallen into the hands of the union, takes the usual hard line on hours and holidays.

SEE PAGE 12

reports THE WIDGERY report into the army killings of 13 people in Londonderry on January 30 this year will be published tomorrow and on sale at Her Majesty's Stationary offices.

tomorrow's WORKERS PRESS for our own recon- struction of the killings com- piled on the spot. We were unable to publish this account after Tory government gave the Widgery tribunal the status of a High Court and invoked the laws of contempt.

THE TUC's inner cabinet' was still locked in closed session late yesterday deciding whether to stage a confrontation with the Tory government on the rail crisis.

Earlier the government warned the rail unions that unless they halted the work-to-rule and held a ballot on the latest offer, the Industrial Relations Act would be invoked. This would mean the enforce- a 60-day 'cooling off' ment of period in which a court- controlled ballot would be held.

When the leaders of the three rail unions went to the TUC late yesterday they were 'grim-faced.

according to reporters. None of them would make comment. A government any spokesman said arrangements had made to hold a night been session of the National Industrial Relations Court if necessary.

8.30 a.m. Yesterday's flurry of activity began at 8.30 a.m. when rail union leaders arrived at the Department of Employment to see Mr Maurice Macmillan.

The meeting broke up after 20 minutes. Macmillan told the union leaders to suspend their work- to-rule and ballot their members.

Percy Coldrick of the Trans- port and Salaried Staffs Associa- tion said the ballot plea would be considered. But he was very much in- trigued at the government now requesting the trade unions to go to ballot, in view of their own reluctance to go to a ballot on the Common Market. 10 a.m. At 10 a.m. the Scottish TUC unanimously passed an emerg- ency resolution declaring solid- arity with the rail unions. The resolution called on all affiliated organizations to pledge support for any action taken by the rail- waymen in pursuit of their claim.

• SEE PAGE 12

GENERAL ELECTION

yesterday became the policy of Amalgamated Union the Engineering Workers engineers section. National Committee of The the 1.2 million-strong section accepted without dissent a resolution calling for TUC and Labour Party unity around a programme of action which could lead to the election of a Labour government.

workers press Trade unions and the Tory government

OF DECISION

EVER SINCE the Tory government came power in June 1970 its main objective has been to destroy the power of the trade unions. Not a minute has been wasted in an almost indecent haste to provoke a head-on conflict. In doing this the Tories have been obliged to disrupt the class compromise relations through which they have ruled almost since the Chartists petition to parlia- ment in 1848. with the The showdown railwaymen has long since passed beyond the stage of normal wage negotiation. For well over a week the engaged in Cabinet has been mobilizing the administrative and repressive force of the capitalist • state to bring the rail unions— the entire and through them working class-to its knees.

This is a political confronta- • which there can only tion from be one victor. Every ounce of and political industrial the the working of class strength must be mobilized behind the railwaymen at once. Any attempts at bluff would be disastrous. The Tories mean business because they have no choice. Such is the objective develop- ment of class forces in Britain as the result of the international economic crisis that even if a settlement were temporary arrived at, it could only at best postpone the all-out conflict for a short time. This is the irresistible logic of the class struggle in the crisis- conditions of today. ridden Relations between the classes are no longer governed by the sub- jective desires of men, but by the objective intensity of the class struggle itself. The arrogance of the Tory government and the determina- the working class to tion of fight can only be understood within this context. in Britain Trade unions are from the working inseparable class. All their hard-won demo- cratic rights, wage standards and working conditions are the result of over 200 years of increasing campaigns behind the banner of trade unionism. Trade unions are in fact the working class. For the Tory government to embark on a course of destroy- ing them through the Industrial Relations Act is to undertake the virtual destruction of all the basic rights of the working class.

There revisionist are Stalinist idiots who deny the existence of the economic crisis.

But how can they explain the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY G. HEA

enormity of a crisis which drives the Tory government forward on such a lifé-and-death conflict?

All the main props of so-called capitalist democratic government are being ripped asunder. The reformist illusions which in the past served to confuse the work- ing class by obscuring the real issues have been transformed into their opposite. Every trade unionist can now that the Tories are taking see away our basic wights. entire history .. of the working class is punctuated . with incidents in which they have fought back with the greatest determination when thesé basic rights are threatened. But that is, by itself, entirely Some of the men involved in the Davy Un

FROM PHILIP WADE

SHEFFIELD engineers are out to join those in the greater Manchester area and move into battle against local employers on their pay claim. Stewards in leading : factories had talks with management yes- terday. They knew beforehand that the Employers' Association was offering a meagre £1.50 rise, tied to productivity deals.

JEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY APRIL 19, 1972

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

G. HEALY

inadequate. If the Tories have destroyed the forms of govern- ment based upon class com- promise, they can only proceed to think in terms of the most ruthless political dictatorship.

A defeat for the railwaymen would have the most serious implications in this respect.

The miners, if they were given the leadership, could have the Tory_govern- brought down ment. But their leaders, Daly and believe in class compromise. So they settled for wages. • Here the danger lies once again. The TUC and the rail- men's leaders are also reformists and cannot be politically trusted to lead the kind of political fight e Davy United sit-in Procedure is now considered to be exhausted and in the next few days mass meetings will be arranged at each factory.

They are expected to decide on the various forms of action including a ban on piece work and overtime and strikes' to back up their claim. Already 900 workers at Davy United are sitting in. They took the action after management had made no substantial offer.

9, 1972 • No 743 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

which has now become impera- tive. Only the class determination of millions of trade unionists guided by a leadership steeped in the revolutionary principles of Marxism can accomplish such a task. The Tories have provoked the fight. Now is the time to create the industrial and political con- ditions to make the Heath gov- ernment resign. A General •Election is vital. The alternative to Heath is not • a reformist Labour government such as Wilson led between 1964- ......... It is a Labour government pledged to socialist policies which have as their cornerstone the expropriation of the capitalist class through nationalization without compensation of all the basic industries. Stewards came back from talks to find the men already sitting-in in anticipation of a break down. The employers' reply is essen- tially the same as that made at the time of breakdown national negotiations. document, which has The fallen into the hands of the union, takes the usual hard line on hours and holidays.

• SEE PAGE 12

Widgery reports THE WIDGERY report into the army killings of 13 people in Londonderry on January 30 this year will be published tomorrow and on sale at Her Majesty's Stationary offices.

WORKERS

tomorrow's PRESS for our own recon- struction of the killings com- piled on the spot. We were unable to publish this account after the Tory government gave the Widgery tribunal the status of a High Court and invoked the laws of contempt.

THE TUC's 'inner cabinet' was still locked in closed session late yesterday deciding whether to stage a confrontation with the Tory.

government on the rail crisis.

Earlier the government warned the rail unions that unless they halted the work-to-rule and held a ballot on the latest offer, the •Industrial Relations Act would be invoked. This would mean the enforce- ment of a 60-day 'cooling off' period which a court- controlled ballot would be held.

When the leaders of the three rail unions went to the TUC late yesterday they were 'grim-faced', according to reporters. None of them would make comment. A any government spokesman said arrangements had been made to hold night a session of the National Industrial Relations Court if necessary.

8.30 a.m. Yesterday's flurry of activity began at 8.30 a.m. when rail union leaders arrived at the Department of Employment to see Mr Maurice Macmillan.

The meeting broke up after 20 minutes. Macmillan told the union leaders to suspend their work- to-rule and ballot their members.

Percy Coldrick of the Trans- port and Salaried Staffs Associa- tion said the ballot plea would be considered. But he was 'very much in- trigued at the government now requesting the trade unions to go to ballot, in view of their own reluctance to go to a ballot on the Common Market'. 10 a.m. At 10 a.m. the Scottish TUC passed an emerg- unanimously ency resolution declaring solid- arity with the rail unions.

The resolution called on all affiliated organizations to pledge support for any action taken by the rail- waymen in pursuit of their claim.

• SEE PAGE 12

GENERAL ELECTION

. noW yesterday became the policy of Amalgamated Union Engineering Workers engineers' section. The National Committee of section the 1.2 million-strong accepted without dissent a resolution calling for TUC and Labour Party unity around a programme of action which could lead to the election of a Labour government.

PAGE 2 Workors Press, Wednesday April 19, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

AMERICAN Air Force and Navy fighter- flew the greatest number of bombers strikes in S Vietnam yesterday since re- cords of their missions were first collected in 1969. The intensity of the air strikes over the N was correspondingly reduced—a move which was repre- sented in Washington as a conciliatory gesture.

But there was no indication that the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong has ceased.

If US troops and air- US command The men were withdrawn sud- reported that 524 tactical would have denly it made air strikes were profound effect on S Vietnam during over like the Phillip- countries the 24-hour period end- pines and japan, he said.

ing at dawn yesterday. 'It would be a mistake of proportions. The largest number were He came under sharp made in the military region attack from of number around Saigon where pup- senators, including William are besieged pet forces in Fulbright. the of provincial capital A new feature of the war An Loc. is the N Vietnamese suc- They came as US and S cess in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Five US warships were set Vietnamese commanders the area on fire over the past two in anticipated fresh round of attacks days. and the city over Communist forces yester- against a wide area N of Saigon. day launched series concerted attacks key Puppet troops supported on Cambodia positions in by air bombard- massive and smashed through ment are still holding part abortive Cambodian of oper- of the town, most ation to surround the which is now in the hands ancient Angkor temples in of the liberation forces.

the NW. Gen Nguyen Van Minh The military command told reporters at Lai Khe, reported that national headquarters of the Saigon Highway 1 between Phnom military region, that a new Penh and Saigon was in N Vietnamese offensive by serious danger after 15 small troops working in attacks during the day in groups was anticipated. S the bordering provinces He claimed that the N Vietnam. There was heavy fighting Vietnamese had troops been broken around Kompong Trabek, up into 50 of Phnom small groups by the air miles SE where N Vietnamese bombardment. Penh, battalions are closing in on But Reuters' correspon- holding government troops dent the spot pointed on the road. out that it has been just 'The Highway has not such small yet been physically cut but amounting probably to onl the situation might have 1,200 which about men changed now, Com- by have tied down a relief Fighter-bombers o Capt mand spokesman column of more than Chang Song said. 10,000 government troops and 40 tanks Highway on 13, 11 miles S of An Loc for more than a week. William Rogers, Ameri- can secretary of state, BANKERS for the United together has States Grumman tried to justify the aircraft group until newed bombing of Hanoi corporation have said they surrounding and Haiphong as 'essential' financing dispute had the company after the end Towl told th for the defence the Saigon regime. of this month unless con- which is He boasted to the Sen- tract differences with the company's US F-14 ate Foreign Relations Com- Navy over the duce the fighter plane are resolved. that the US was disputed Company Grumman that 'this vice-chairman going to see Towi told a E.C. Senate very serious cr major invasion not successful. Sub-com- Armed Services after April If US troops were with. Washington He said Gru mittee in drawn and Monday that the company's need another immediately the Navy the Vietnamese left main bank. Bankers Trust to York. fight it out, it would Company of New 313 fighters prob- ably result in "a bloodbath', Grumman told would service he said. be possible to put

NOT

TOMTOO

URUGUAYAN security forces ahead their pressed with "subversion', Bordaberry is out internal war against Tupamaro attacking the basic organizations urban guerrillas and working- working His of Uruguay's class. has licensed class organizations yesterday parliament the soldiers after 20 people died in four to kill indiscriminately örder to break up the Com- days of violence. munist i Party and other groups Acting under emergency labelled 'subversive' powers voted by parliament on Naturally. being no action is Saturdav. President Maria Juan taken against extreme right-wing Bordaberry's six-week-old govern- believed who are Terroricto ment has banned the news media from reporting police and army official operations without sanction. But forces 'com- an confirmed

ARGENTINE

authorities muniqué that seven Monday yesterdav civilians were killed on announced that eight outside a Com- in a gun battle members of the urban guerrilla Party branch head. munist which kidnapped Italian cell quarters. industrialist Oberdan Sallustro- The Tunamaros have carried found shot dead a week ago- out campaign of terrorist been arrested. One is bad actions against the government. woman. including kidnappings, and assassinations of high officials.

Also detained were 18 people Under the excuse of stamping alleged to have been accompliçes.

bombers over Vietnam banking Even then, Towl si new until uncertainties the company woul $23m unding the contract on Grumman's credit pr te had been resolved. are part of a growin wl told the committee, • is investigating the in the ability to advanced US aer pro- F-14 industry. under the Boeing has embar contract, that would face a series of big cut a sacking thousands serious credit problem April 30. workers at said Grumman would factories. another $540m from Lockheed, builde avy to complete the the TriStar, were n which the saved from bankrup injection of it urgently says an from the government responsible for a series of bomb and other of explosions acts violence in the capital. Defence • Minister General Enrique Magnani held talks with the president and political leaders on Monday. He announced after- wards that the army operations were continuing. 'Positions are becoming more and more radical,' he said. ppers arrested in the operation, and six others sought by the were still being authorities, a statement from the office of President Lanusse said.

The People's Revolutionary Pabloite revisionist Army-a group which has turned away from the working class towards individual acts of terror- claimed responsibility for the Sallustro kidnapping. •• ... JAPAN will cut back a variety of exports to W Europe because of mounting criticism that Japanese goods are flooding the markets there, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Kakuei Tanaka said yesterday. Tanaka told reporters that exports of desk-top visions exported to Britain during the same period in- calculators, electronic creased by a massive 308.1 black - and - white tele- per cent, while those to the vision sets, tape recorders EEC increased by 14.8 per would and other items cent. be subjected to quota or Exports of tape-recorders price restrictions under a to Britain rose by 151.5 of self- projected series cent and to the EEC per imposed restraints. by 35.2 per cent, the Japan is officials added. these taking Heavily oriented towards combat the measures to exports, Japan is extremely threat of tariffș and restric- hit the world Com- badly by tions erected by the and the trade and recession mon Market other European countries who war. As a result of the slump.

to be claim victims of 'dumping' by imports of raw materials to Japanese being drastically manufacturers. Japan are 15 slashed. Since August last Bougainville Copper Inc Japanese exporters year agreed to a 10- have been has just virtually shut US reduction in its of their per-cent out main contract tonnage of New market. They are forced to try Guinean copper ore and undercut European Japan. seven-member Jap- The manufacturers in their own Netherlands, con- The anese copper-smelting markets. of the giant Phillips had wanted the home sortium contract tonnage cut by 20 electronics combine, has cent. already threatened to •in- per Now they take voke a safeguard clause in are of full delivery the con- trade to stem agreements tract tonnage, but will pro- imports of Japanese goods.

cess 10 per cent of the ore The increase in Japanese for Bougainville to resell exports. to Europe tells its outside Japan. story. of trade-war In 1970] consortium the competition. a 15-year concluded Exports of electronic Cole. import a total of the last 12 calculators in TrACT 1,025,000 of months showed an increase metric tons of 27.5 per cent to Britain concentrates from copper the Bougainville Copper Inc in and 26.6 cent to Del Guinea Market Common bloc, Papua-New an Tinto- of the Rio Tokyo officials say. affiliate Zinc metal giant. Black - and - white tele- his colleagues, together

YUGOSLAV

authorities Metalium with other have uncovered a colossal officials, founded a number financial operation in of firms in W Germany and which four Zagreb man- Liechtenstein. milked their com- agers The Metalium factory pany of more than 244 imported raw materials million dinars. German and from these firms and re- This is equivalent to Liechtenstein exported the finished goods £17m at current exchange Two of the four men rates. to them. n, Towl said, the involved, including Lazo The arrested bureaucrats would lose have used Vracaric, director of the said to are their official in Zagreb Metalium enter- position , credit problems Metalium to convey money have fled the coun- prise, a growing crisis Two others are under of the into out technologically country their personal accounts in arrest. aero-space The theft underlines the foreign banks. of They were helped by the corruption of sections las embarked on and the relaxation of terms the bureaucracy recent cut-backs. of for character foreigners borrowing of uncontrolled thousands banking operations as the in Yugoslavia and were its major Tito leadership does able to get large loans on away monopoly the basis of fictitious docu- builders of with the state and The German of foreign trade. ments. i banne matro were narrowly The State Secretariat for Liechtenstein firms now by Yugoslav banks $250m Public Security has estab- the of and total of 244 million dinars.

lished that Vracarik overnment.

CO-OPERATION

Spaniards later met the Deputy the between Minister Shipping, Stefan shipping and shipbuilding indus- of tries of fascist Spain and Stalinist Perkowicz, for talks on co- Poland is likely to be increased operation in the domain of and shipbuilding. of talks currently shipping result The Polish Stalinists became underway in Warsaw. for their strike- notorious A delegation from the Spanish breaking exports of coal during Nacional de Industria Instituto Spain's big strikes in two in the Polish capital arrived coalfield. Asturias recently and met Rvzskard The latest talks follow Minister of Karski. Deputy series of strikes in Spanish ship- Foreign Trade last week. yards which culminated of workers by The two sides examined pros- shooting two at El Ferrol, on Spain's pects for further development of police and the economic co-operation north-west coast. RUMANIA is also increasing its commercial ties with the Spanish the Bucharest news agency, announced earlier this fascists. Agerpress, week that government officials had signed two conventions to regulate the trade in livestock and plants between the two countries,

Shift this Tory gang say NEARLY 50 Labour. MPs have signed a Commons motion urging N Ireland Secretary William Whitelaw to grant an amnesty for MPs and all those sentenced for täking part in 'illegal' marches in the province. The motion also asks White-.

law to revoke the ban on marches. If an amnesty is granted, it means that the two Westminster MPs-Frank McManus and Ber- nadette Devlin - sentenced at six Eniskillen on Monday to months' imprisonment would not be jailed after all. A leading article in Tuesday's "Guardian' entitled 'Bad time for martyrdoms' also calls on White- law to 'suspend' the sentence on Miss Devlin. 'His new regime depends on all sorts of ways of letting by- resolute turning of the blind eye?

be bygones gones it states. A GROUP of Labour MPs are proposing utterly worthless policies to get the right to work for thousands of school- leavers. About 150 Labour back- benchers have signed a Commons motion 'urging the government to take emergency action'.

/ Sponsored by Ray Carter, MP for Birmingham Northfield, it special demands government action "to deal with employment that will •confront problems 532,000 children when they leave school this summer. 'special pleading' is This obscene. It refuses to recognize is that the Tory government directly responsible for creating the massive unemployment levels.

The motion makes no call for the ending of the government.

The Young Socialists' Right-to- Work marchers need no educa- tion about the bankruptcy of the Labour reformists. day after On March 13, the the Empire Pool rally, Wembley, the marchers went to the House of Commons and saw their MPs unmasked—unable to give direct Tory govern- the answers on ment or the 69 right-wingers who Tories on the voted with the Common Market. "Tribune? MPs'

TWENTY

members of the "Tribune' group of Labour MPs will stage an hour's vigil outside the American Embassy in Gros- venor Square today in protest against the bombing offensive in N Vietnam. At midday they will hand in protest letter addressed to President Nixon.

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOI

at the engineers' at Eastbourne. Scanlon drove back to London for an emerg- meeting of the ency

TUC

Finance and General Purposes Com- he mittee. And today flies to W Germany for the funeral of metal union leader Otto Brenner. the As a consequence, next question of the union's wages policy. will not be discussed until Fridäy at the earliest, since delegates were anxious that

AUEW

president should attend the full debate. Failure to attend the TUC meeting on the rail- waymen's work - to - rule could be 'completely mis- understood and misrepre- sented perhaps, Scanion told the National Com- mittee. No doubt he had in mind accusations levelled at him after a similar inci- dent at the start of the miners' strike.- that On occasion, he missed a F&GPC meeting to fight for the abandon- ment of the national pay claim at recalled National Committee. Yesterday morning, the National Committee carried without opposition a call from

AUEW

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1972 PAGE 3

AUEW National Committee-Eastbourne engineers' mid-morning, departure by union president Hugh Scanlon, the fight against the Tories yesterday took the centre of the stage.

delegates at the engineers' National Committee meeting UCS chief The National Committee in session from what the Tories were by The present actions doing. workers in a number of in- quits: '£35m dustries that they showed 'From the grass roots of determined end tho he tr n oo or tae inemployment r once rand • 8.0 Laban u desta thing on the abour Party there not enough' At Sharston Engineering kind of policies want second Man- WallCu chester delegate Stan Cole, to see carried out', he said. had von reect beooe Mnos eotover.

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be the sole objectives their determination to use of the capital- the Industrial Relations

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

preservation ist structure. enthusiastic PROSPECTS for shipbuilding ne vrace oos!: on MPs with 'elastic was needed to shift Dalsil sciences, he said, had con- Tory said. Upper Clyde blackened yesterday with gang, the But trade unionists did not

LE OUCT

oltCal the resignation of Govan Shipbuilders' apathy of the workshop see WAnT TO hem silted floor. kins Maple like Roy Jen- most experienced executive, Kenneth who had ensured Manchester delegate Bill Hawker hne continue• exstence Douglas. His decision to puli out of the Hulen WLOSe the Tory Party with their Siddeley, Woodford, plant the Common votes occupied by its company, which is expected to begin currently Market. 2,000 that said

WOLKCS.

trading soon, is bound to be interpreted 'We must fight and there should be a unity. class and the organize to get the Labour as a no confidence vote in its future.

committed rUC and the Labour Party.

Insis terr SoC anst pricipies , Douglas the old managing director of "The downfall of this said. was must Right wing AUEW gen- Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and was considered present government be- eral secretary Jim -Conway to be one of the tew men who had genuinely •e rour aoou oc fore we get to grips with improved the bankrupt consortium's aTer SAlT survival the the attack with a claim that it programme prospects. that Jen- Labour leadership must im- tragedy' Was kins, Dick MP and He and another ex-UCS executive have rented a plement. Lavelle The unemployed were others had been driven out 25,000 sq ft factory in Kilbride where they hope looking for the of their longer to produce high-class kitchen 110 He where the ola solutions ol demonstra asACu said Of his sudden departure Douglas said: I have tions and marches, labour movement WOTe NE delegate find of this calibre done the balancing act for too long. I'm getting out coast while I'm still active. Allen. again. Douglas £35m that csavs ure the government have promised NUJ: Nasty Act, but Govan •noouler insuficient to keep the company afloat. let's stay registered Over £17m of this money will to make go up losses on the six company hopes

OTOCIS

new wolld 'debase this PRESIDENT of the National ;registration inherit from the

UCS

conference as being non- llquidation. Four of are Union of Journalists, Mr representative voice in the union'.

be built at the

UCS

Govan Douglas Rees yesterday con-

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government's demned the yard—these are two bulk carriers Harrison line just Industrial Relations Act.

the re- the They Speaki conteren ce on Tenda, leased by LC ulcalor

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expected to incur delegate соле сно loss. Pembrokeshire, •Working class unity and the kees said. *As a piece of trade union law, against the Tory govern- fight This will give Govan Ship- it was one of the most pernicious ment'. la UCS yarde bullders, w ake over wwo items of legis ation to be pushed of the old and the AUEW Hall, 26 Southward Rd. through by any government steel fabrication at Lint- this country' Sunday April 23, 8 p.m. work. nouse. usi unuer a ycal s He dd e eutite had reatiy Speakers: Beyond this there are no

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56,000 dors The market Pr ae 26,0 regretted referendum deci- • Healy,

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national bulk carrier to register the union under sion

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secretary range which Govan's staple

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ship is almost non-existent and who David Barclay, YS Glasgow- warner Drancres news of Douglas' resignation will wanted to overthrow the decision Glasgow - to - London Right-to- to the com- many blow the conference Work marcher a luntec! pany's credibility. members were concerned tlat .de.

poll 10,1972

BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

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

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

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani.

festo discussion.

DAVID LAKE

Lincoln There are only one or two points wouleKe LO Draft Manifesto. I mention them only because in firm agree- am with the Manifesto as a whole There can be no doubt that Tory be the government must sense hat is implied by the 2). But aspiracy nichi term in that section? means ine Dontical schemes and élitist manoeuvres the ruling minority the big business, 111C and the banks, then mononores all well and good. The Tory government is the rule busines interest oi pared will the politat back- with political pared of Labour waruness ana trade union leadership of the labouring get rid of its tive economic weakness (as com- Daree with me crowine econonc strength of the unions). absolutely no doubt that Britain for moe rule o unis immense mator Labour and trade union prevent i. Heath, riding on tne backs this leadership relies heavily on its old-fashioned senti- mentalisa struggle to defend the minority interests of British capital.

Market entry is Common certainly the scheme of a ruling minority in the interests of capi- business 1! overall struggle llo position expense at the labouring majority, the working class. But does this term conspiracy describe it? To me it has rather moralistic overtones like the liberal humanist calling top man- agement people-and fit before possibly personalist individualistic, -as it a precious little tones loun clique secret plotters were behind the massive, social, poli- and activity tical economic which EEC entry is only a part.

It's point and per- The lessons of May 1968 in France are 100 important to be forgotten. haps so refined as to be irrele- if it were the not for Valll. power in the too much into such terms- -it all progressive

THOS

land? denends upon how they talk of do she duces or ries That I do not monly understood. Moral indignation about para- the forces right- lot- -as yet. sites is beside the point. if it is wing reaction, both speaking from implied here at all. It is simply combere within the indivictsac morals that the present level of develop- with the transitional rite assumptions of bourgeois overthrow (a) ideology. Labour Europe-our somewhat similar Tecino. nave logy and science with socialist policies, i.e.

doubt about at these things now alization With de industry; land and Section 4 (page 3). It draws work banking compensation to the fact that capital. such that this rule of the para- attention and under workers' control.

site' minority in the interests, the privileged une wealtn business, the banks and the But there unpaid big ere for example ons ruling few irom short, capital—is of detail here. example- extracted the labouring that no longer workable. and that this majority we are correct to suppose Tonger the present Labour and trade is progressive the no working Class Ical leadership is the union source of this wealth. counter-progressive power DuL prevent- But doesn't the word parasite in the land, not principal safety catches because r with it other connotations?

parasitical and therefore wrong, ing the explosive interruption Calmey direct aprica it tire making cope with Does it but because TaCT Ludl factories, streets, the rule of the 'parasite' minority the the coca ane economic really block of flats. the universities and capital, both which the developing productive the interests the like into living centres those gliss and , forces ree is possible tam réading far have ‚time of rate luc political energy and decision.- Industrial revolutions, was

ALL TRADES UNION

National Col Including the Charter o then throw off this leadership.

with European capital And as unstable as it is, you have this explosion on your hands almost immediately. Well that's fine as long as a well revolutionary is party enough organized to co-ordinate and sustain the mass movement as it breaks out. Are we ready?

I somewhat doubt it. In other words, what may appear to be easy-going, relatively to some 'reformist' demand, which might lead to a fairly long, stable period of social democracy before into the complete, developing dictatorship the unlimited of immense majority and the wither- ing away of the state, is in fact with revolutionary demand, very urgent consequences indeed.

The spectre of revolution is real, enough.. but so is the spec-

UNIONS ALLIANCE

I Conference Charter of Basic Rights tre of counter-revolution. The international workers' movement can ill afford the repeat of yet another abortive revolution; the lessons of May 1968 in France are too important to be forgot- ten. The revolutionary party, strong in organization and revolutionary strategy, is not expendable.

League The Socialist Labour critique of the Communist Party, the International Socialists and the International Marxist Group well- appears to me to founded, but I need to live' and 'experience' this critique to be sure of it—coming as I do from the middle-class, pseudo-Marxist humanism a Hegelianized Kojeve, Marx, Lukacs, Bloch, Goldman and company. So I need the training out- lined in Section 6(D. 4)...

THE DANZIG

TROTSKYISTS

A page from the history of the Shortly before the trial in Moscow of Piatakov, Radek and others falsely alleged to be "Trotskyists', a group of genuine Trotskyists belong- ing to the 'Internationale Kommunisten Deutschlands' (IKD) was put on trial in Danzig. Danzig was then a 'Free City' under the League of Nations. Although it was ruled by the local Nazis, certain poli- Trotsky Top: route from en Copenhagen to Prinkipo via Parls In 1932. Above: Karl Radek.

y of the Fourth International. By To tical freedoms of a limited kind still existed in 1936.

These did not extend to the Trotskyist movement or to the Communist Party which had, therefore, to operate illegally.

On the other hand, the trial resulted in prison sentences of two or three years; the same offences in Germany at this time would have qualified for • the concentration camp or the hangman's noose. Trotsky wrote about the trial of the Danzig Trotskyists in April 1937 when he had been forced to leave Europe for Mexico. He did so on the basis of information supplied by a member of the Danzig group, Siegfried Kissin, who had visited him in Norway the pre- vious year. Mr Kissin, who dropped out of the Trotskyist movement a few years later, lives in Britain and has supplied some remin- iscences about his experience in the Trotskyist movement before World War II. He joined the Danzig branch of the IKD early in 1934 when it was still smarting from a crisis caused by the defection Sobolevich of the • brothers. They had been Stalinist agents working inside the party.

The German group had been I. By Tom Kemp. re-constituted in exile after the coming to power of Hitler in January 1933. Its leadership, the "Auslands-Komitee, was set up in Paris with about eight members and issued a paper called 'Unser Wort'.

Kissin happened to know a 'Auslands- member of the Komitee' who came from the same town, Danzig, and it was through him that he was put the Danzig in touch with branch. As he tells the story: previously had not belonged to any political organ- ization, but I had been in touch with the Moscow Communists.

Eventually, having read Trot- sky's pamphlets • Germany on and seeing that his analysis was correct and that his predic- tions had come true, I found that I was sufficiently in agree- ment with his line to apply for membership of the IKD. "There was a group of about ten and within a few months were able to bring out a we duplicated paper called "Der co-operation with Funke" in some left-wing members of the Social Democratic Party which until 1936 was still legal in Danzig.' At this time Kissin, who had been trained as a lawyer, was working for the Social wa Workers Press, Wo Democratic trade union giving information and advice to workers on legal questions.

'When this paper had been out in existence for several months I was dismissed because it was known that I played a big part in it and the SD leaders felt that I was imperilling the legal existence of the union. 'Shortly after that the Nazi police arrested some members of the SD group which worked with us on "Der Funke". I succeeded in getting out of Danzig and went to Prague with my wife, who had also the Trotskyist move- joined ment. This was in May 1935, we stayed until Decem- and vas ber. 'At that time the Nazis in Danzig declared a general amnesty and the following month I returned to the city.

I resumed contact with my old comrades, some of whom had spent a few months in jail but had been released under the amnesty. We started up our activities again in a very cautious manner. After all, l the police. was known to kept my political activities very strictly separated from my personal life. Precautions were taken to ensure that I was not, followed in the street • Pross, Wadnesday Aprll 19, 1972 PAGE 5 when I went to a political meeting: 'Until April or May 1935', I was the Kissin continues, only intellectual in the group and I was also the writer of most of the articles for the paper. Then a member of the centrist Socialist

SAP

[the Party] returned to Workers' Danzig where his parents lived after studying in Switzerland.

He and I were more or less the editors when he started issuing a new paper, purely Trotskyist, "Spartacus" and called we issued leaflets, some of which were also signed "Spartacus", to establish the link." From this there appears to have arisen a certain confu- sion, because the name of the organziation was still IKD.

It is necessary here to fill in some background on the SAP members, Dr Franz Jakubow- sky, who shortly afterwards left the SAP and joined the IKD (Trotskyists). He was to be the principal accused in the Danzig trial to which Trotsky referred. He was at that time 25 years old and while at Basle University a thesis called had written •Ideological Superstructures in the Materialist Conception of History. It was unusual at this

PAGE 6 Workero Prose, Wedneaday April 19, time for anyone to take a deep Marxist philosophy interest in in bourgeois universities any- where in Europe. In fact Jakubowsky's thesis is a remarkable piece of work • considering when it was writ- it foreshadows the ten and interest in the younger Marx which was later to become fashionable and respectable in European inteilectual cricles.

It was, however, written very much under the influence of Karl Korsch, the German 'left' Communist, and Georg Lukacs, and before he joined the Trotskyist movement. It takes issue with Lenin on the question of the develop- of working-class ment con- sciousness in the direction of spontaneity. At the same time, Jankubowsky calls for the for- mation of the revolutionary party from what he calls 'the most advanced elements in the proletariat. "last sections of his The book are not free from a cer- tain confusion, excusable per- haps in someone who had had little contact with the working class movement and was writing in the rarefied atmos- university. phere of a Swiss (This is my appraisal and is not the one which Mr Kissin would accept-T.K.) By the time that Jakubow- sky had returned to Danzig and joined the IKD it had undergone some changes. A 1934 split had taken place in 'French turn'-the over the entry tactic adopted by the French section on the advice of Trotsky by which its mem- bers joined the Socialist Party.

A conference of the German section was held in Switzer- the Christmas of land over is how Kissin 1934. This remembers it: 'The conference of Xmas 1934 was really the only Ger- man Trotskyist conference ever held during the Third Reich.

We were never told the exact location of the conference. We Wadnesday April 18, 1872 met in Zurich, then early each morning (for four three or days running) all took a local train to Dietikon (a place some ten miles NW of Zurich) and then walked through the woods for about an hour to a sculp- tor's' studio where the con- ference took place. 'I don't remember the exact number of delegates from inside Germany, but it cannot have been much more than half a dozen. Apart from my- self (from Danzig) there were two delegates from Berlin (one pro-entry, one anti-entry); one from Gelsenkirchen; a woman man from Dresden and another from Magdeburg. There may have been one or two others.

There was also an emigré from Reichenberg (the Czech town of Liberec), three members of the Auslands-Komitee includ- ing Johre, a Swiss comrade, Walter Nelz, who had done the spadework for the conference, an Austrian fraternal delegate and Jan Frankel, one of Trot- sky's secretaries. 'It should be added that the five members of the Auslands-.

Komitee who opposed entry were not invited to the con- ference. 'In the event the main issue of entry was scarcely debated Delegates reported at all. on the activities of their groups and there were reports and dis- the German and • cussions on international situation. 'In a report on the German political scene, Johre launched his famous "Kirchenbewgung" theory, saying that the only effective political opposition to the Nazi regime emanated from the Protestant Church (Nie- möller et al) as the representa- tive of the petty bourgeoisie, and that revolutionaries should support the Church movement to the extent of joining congre- carrying on acti- gations and vity within them. (This pro- voked the final rupture the IKD between and the Maslow-Ruth Fischer group, if half- but supported, was heartedly to Trotsky.) 'When the resolution sup- porting entry was put to the it was carried almost vote, vote being unanimously, my the only cast against. one Even the Berlin anti-entry delegate voted for it. The posi- tion of his group was peculiar.

They had decided the In months preceding the confer- ence that getting out of isola- thing tion was a good for Trotskyist groups but that it was preferable to join 'centrist' parties like the SAP rather than the Social-Democratic ones. In fact the anti-entry Berlin group had already joined the SAP, while concealing the fact that they had kept their own IKD group intact. 'The Dietikon conference elected a new executive, con- sisting of the three members of the Auslands-Komitee plus of the delegates from some "inside Germany (who of course In 1935-1936 went back). nearly all members of the German groups were arrested by the Gestapo. When I finally left Danzig in • July 1936 the Danzig group was probably the only IKD group still active.'

Kissin- then explains what happened to the Danzig group in 1936. The position of Danzig changed as a result of the Abysinnian war which revealed the impotence of the League of Nations and thus encouraged the local Nazis to pull off the moderate mask which they had put on for the benefit of the League of Nations' High Com- missioner. Police activity was stepped up against the illegal groups and it was agreed that his presence there , was an em- barrassment and that he risked being arrested. After his departure it was not long before the Social Democratic Party dissolved. The was bourgeois parties survived until 1937 or 1938. 'I went to Denmark and then to Norway, Kissin continues.

"Trotsky's secretary at that Erwin Wolf, time was member of the German Executive with whom I was in touch. It was he who first suggested that I should go to and Norway him to see Trotsky' Trotsky at this time was living as a guest in the house of the Norwegian Labour MP Knudsen. At this time he knew about the Danzig nothing group to which the Nazi court claimed had that sent 'instructions'. As Trotsky put it in his article: 'Of the Danzig group I learned from Kissin only a few days prior to my internment and engaged in no correspon- dence with it. 'But this does not essentially change anything in the matter.

There is between us a bond of close ideological solidarity. As publications the Spartacus Bund [actually the IKD-Danzig branch] eloquently testify, its young leaders were perfectly able to find their way in political questions, without any of my "instructions": visited Trotsky Kissin on August 1, 1936. He told him about the Danzig organization.

While in Norway, the Kissins received unwelcome some publicity: 'My wife and I were staying Trotsky's at Hönefoss, near home. The local paper published an article which was headlined-'Has Ringerike [the name of the district] become a centre of World Revolution?'

'It said that Trotsky was receiving more foreign yisitors including couple from After Danzig. seeing this Trotsky sent Löffler article, who was then acting as his secretary to see us to suggest that we go to the editor of the • paper and explain that it was all mistake, that a we happened to know Erwin Wolf personally and that as I was Norway had contacted in him. I was supposed to say that I had just gone to see him at Knudsen's house for a friendly chat, then, finding Wolf was not there i had met Löffler on a purely social basis. 'I did not think much of the idea because it could easily have been established that was not just a simple tourist, but had a past and politica had already emigrated before to avoid arrest. "Trotsky went on holiday with Knudsen shortly after- wards and we went back to Oslo where we met another German Trotskyist, Walter Held. who wad probably shot in the Soviet Union when he went there, en route for the USA, during the war. Neither he nor his Norwegian wife and child were heard of again. Erwin Wolf. to who WAnt Spain during the civil war with the daughter of Knudsen, was arrested Statists and killed by the From Norway, Kissin returned to Denmark where he stayed until the Spo paris, 1937, moving then where he joined the secretariat German section, the the IKD, and became involved in petty disputes of the tha emgiré groups and began to develop which took positions Trotskyist of the out him movement. Meanwhile the Danzig Trotskyists had been arrested and put on trial, together with some members of the official Communist Party. At this trial Dr Jakubowski was the leading figure but, as Trotsky put it: 'In conclusion the presiding judge expressed his regret that the chief criminal, Dr Kissin happened to be in Copenhagen and not in the prisoner's dock.

The Danzig government had the intelligence. of course, to Top Knudsen's house where Trotsky stayed as wife refrain demanding the MP. with his fenm an an roon Above: Trotsky in court in Norway with one extradition of Kissin' Trotsky's article from Mexico was from

WILLICH

information and newspaper reports sent to him by Kissin.

As he pointed out, the IKD stood for the defence of the Soviet Union August and in 1936 negotiations were actually taking place between the Danzig CP and the IKD for a united front. When the Moscow Trial was under way the Danzig CP (i.e. the Stalinists) then perfidiously alleged that the Trotskyists the were agents Gestapo. Trotsky submitted the material on the Danzig Trotskyists to the Dewey Commission America to show the falsity of the charge. As the report "The put it: literature of both the Trotskvists and the Hitlerites in Danzig shows the character- relationship between 19T1G and revolutionary opposition the Hitler regime? In fact, by then the Danzig branch of the IKD was probably the only one able to carry on any kind of underground work. Jakubowski and his co- accused were found guilty and he received a three-year prison sentence. His family was able get him out of jail before the and he sentence was up emigrated and eventually went to the United States. the of this

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'odyssey' he broke the with Trotskyist movement, like Kissin himself and changed his name to Fischer-his mother's maiden name. In this he no doubt, signified his with the Past. He died in Amsterdam in 1970, leaving as memorial the thesis which he had written It was as young man. re- his published nowledge or authority Germany in 1968 and in French Etudes stayed as a guest of the Norwegian Labour translation at Documents Internationales and secretary disembarking Istanbul, December et :in Norway with one of his secretaries.

in Paris in 1971. Workers Proze, Wedneaday Aprll 19, 1872 PAGE 7

NAZIS SEND WEAPONS TO

SPANISH FASCISTS

STOP ARMS FOR THE SPANISH

COUNTER-REVOLUTION

Dockers! Class brothers! The German and Polish fascist governments have hypo- critically declared themselves neutral in the Spanish civil war.

In reality they are permanent arms suppliers for the Spanish fascists. On September 17, the steamer 'Sylvia' loaded arms for Spain. Although they were ostensibly Polish, workers testify that the name 'Krupp' was on the cases. They must therefore be German arms and munitions for the Spanish counter- revolutionaries. There were further loads on October 15 and October 22-24 and again in the last few days.

With these weapons the Spanish workers will be shot down. International fascism is making feverish attempts to drown the Spanish revolution in blood.

Under the cover neutrality, all the capitalist countries are helping the Spanish fascists. But no bourgeois government is helping the Spanish working class in its heroic fight for freedom.

Only the inter- national solidarity of the proletariat can save it.

Dockers! with your Spanish class brothers. Show solidarity The defeat for the Spanish working class is a defeat for the world working class. The fight of the workers in Spain is your fight.

No class-conscious worker must stab the Spanish revolution in the back. In Antwerp dockers have gone on strike; in Gdingen your colleagues have prevented the loading of arms. The Danzig dockers stood in the front line of the class have always struggle; they must not stand back this time. Don't let your solidarity be bought by a 20 per cent wage rise. Only if you help the Spanish workers through your struggle will you be able to throw off the yoke of fascism in Danzig itself.

Dockers! Stop all further transport of weapons and munitions to the Spanish fascists. If only a few workers refuse to load arms their cards can be taken off them. Therefore everyone must refuse. Strike resolutely against any further loading of arms for Spain! INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS OF GERMANY—Danzig Translation of a leaflet put out by the Danzig Trotskylsts during the Spanish civil The Nazis sealed off the docks in an attempt to war. responsible for it. distributed and catching those prevent being

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday April 19, 1972 The world economic depression of the 1930s, begin- ning with the Wall St crash in the autumn of 1929, struck German capitalism with special severity. It plunged it into a social and political crisis which cul- minated in the defeat of the highly-organized work- ing-class movement and the coming to power of Hitler. This series of articles deals with the economic aspects of the victery of Nazism, and goes on to examine the connection between the Nazi regime and monopoly capitalism and will conclude with an analysis of Nazi Germany's war economy. Part 3 by Tom Kemp recovery which was well advanced economic Nazi policy was by 1936 of when a fully in line with the require- new stare the began. In preparation ment of German capitalism.

next four years the economy was It smashed the trade unions, ordered to be placed on a war held down wages and living footing. Even the proportion of sO, standards, opened new up national product going on arma- opportunities for the middle ments was not much greater than and, above all, enabled class that in Britain, also began which the big capitalist firms and 1936-1937. British rearming in Intelligence consistently banks to make vast profits.

German military estimated production As industrial preparedness for strength and and beyond its climbed up to war in theseryears. 1929 level and the profits came The feeling that Hitler was rolling there no again, taking excessive risks with 1n doubt that German big business inadequate fighting forces and a was grateful to its Fuehrer.

still vulnerable industrial base The role which armaments was responsible for opposition to his policy the General played in the Nazi economy be- inside fore 1939 has caused some con- Staff. This appeared at the time Sometimes the extent of Munich and resulted troversy. in an of the preparations for war are army plot to overthrow him in This was led by a number exaggerated and it is important to see what Hitler's programme was.

General of high officers including Beck. Chief of Staff. First, the armaments industry was was at a low level in 1933 as a executed for his part in the other ill-fated plot in Tuly 1944 nominal result the at least adherence to the Treaty of Ver- It has to be stressed that there This severely limited the was a close between sailles. connection armed forces which Germany was the nature of German economic permitted to maintain. preparations for war and Hitler's first confidence that lengthy Until about 1936 the war phase of rearmament consisted of number of against anamiag basis could be avoided. establishing the air force Germany did not prepare for mechanized army, the kind of war which took place.

and a larger navy, including sub- This required an expan- Had she done So, armament marines. production •before 1939 of heavy industry-highly would sion the Ruhr steel have had to be on much approved by the would - the development of larger scale, or war magnates - and the have had to be postponed.

machine-tool production There is doubt, of course, material widening of the raw no that the Nazi economy prepared the establishment of base by for war and that its inevitability from substitute foil industries 'the continuation of politics coal, synthetic rubber, man-made as fibres). by other means' was fully War preparations do not con- accepted by the ruling class. There were differences about the sist only of producing munitions They require kind and about and weapons of war. war wisdom of Hitler's strategy. Most strong, industrial base, capa- city for production and adminis- doubts were removed when appeared be brilliantly trative machinery to gear produc- to suc- cessful against Poland in 1939 tion to war. and in the W in 1940. Once a certain level of arma- Whatever generals ments had been reached. there the may thought. have Hitler's of was no in increasing the type point war preparation was approved by proportion of production which big business. It had the advantage directly went arms. any on case, Hitler's strategy assumed a of giving them an assured market for by the of lightning wars- -blitz- state seriac armaments contracts cost-plus kriegs — waged against enemies WArA basis which meant big profits- singly, not a lengthy, total war coalition of powers while leaving the way clear against occurred the expansion of civilian produc- such actually after as 1939. tion as well. In the years after 1933. govern- So it was sufficient to have well- ment spending on public mobile striking force of works trained and heavily-armed and armaments gave a powerful divi- aircraft. unward thrust to the economy. sions with supporting Once had been achieved, Profits rose. investment went this ahead and unemployment fell.

there was a definite disadvantage It would have been possible to in further arms spending.

Already the 1930s, increase the scale of armaments in arms out of date raidlv. output considerably either by were going armoured fighting especially increasing total production or vehicles, anti-tank by reducing of aircraft and proportion total anti-aircraft guns. Beyond a going civilian and output on Neither of these were certain point it would have been production. senseless for Germany to prepare done: the primary reason seems for war by piling have been fear of inflation up weapons to likely to become obsolete within and the sound policies manav upheld Dr Schacht. Minister à few vears. by Nevertheless, the first phase of of Economics until August 1937 rearmament undoubtedly made a and the i President of the Reichs- vital contribution German bank until January 1939. to Top: armament manufacture in Germar Although Schacht was even- tually dismissed, his influence in 1930s considerable. the was Indeed, throughout, the represen- tatives of finance capital and heavy industry showed that they the masters by opposing were Hitler's more dangerous economic demands. not able Of course, they were to directly influence political and military policy in the same way.

part of This the bargain was struck between German capi- talism and the Nazi leadership.

The very limitations imposed on the armaments sector before 1939 indicate the predominance of to raise profits capitalist aims: by opening up a new market internally and abroad while keep- ing costs and wages down.

•Government expenditure had to be financed either by raising taxation or by increased borrow- ing. German capitalists opposed both. They did so with consider- able success even after war had broken They wanted out. 'business as usual' while backing Hitler and supporting the war.

The financing of the armament boom required close collabora- tion between the regime and the banks—a co-operation which was not always smooth, but in which, after all. the bankers had the last word. By 1937 production for the civilian market had reached or surpassed the boom levels of the late 1920s and unemployment had fallen below 1 million. Profits were more than double the 1933 and the giant firms which level dominated German industry had expanded and modernized their plants and put large sums to reserve. The counterpart of this was an enormous increase in the in Germany, 1937. Above: a military parade in national debt. The state got business poorer, private so much for the new, richer: non-capitalist structure!

The main weakness of the German economy from the point of view of war preparations and maintaining expansion its was dependence the world on was short of market. Germany crucial raw materials for industry, including iron rubber, ore, petroleum, non-ferrous metals and textile fibres. Recovery and reamament increased this dependence. be paid for: " Imports had to hence 'export or die' became the watchword. The question was how to export in a world market still afflicted by depression?

Nazi foreign economic policy, like its home policy, was designed the interests of big to serve business. First it ensured that German industry had . command of its own home market by a policy of protective tariffs and quotas on imports. Secondly, encouragement was given by the state to exporters with the main aim of increasing business profits. Thirdly, the national territory was extended by conquest, en- abling German firms to move in and take over the assets of their rivals. fully recognized Policy methods Nazi trade the predomin- ance of private business interests.

Foreign trade was conducted by private firms and banks. Policy was designed to make this trade as profitable as possible and to give German capital an advantage in world market competition.

Because of the addiction of German finance capital to "sound' parade in Berlin monetary policies, the mark was not devalued. Instead there was exchange a • rigorous control intended to protect the mark and make the best use of scarce foreign currency. •This meant that German trade was conducted to a large extent through bilateral agreements to balance off imports and exports with individual countries and to strike hard bargains to the advantage of German firms.

great This was done with success in the Balkans. Germany acquired vital raw trading materials while her partners were obliged to take German products whether they really wanted them or not. As this was a period of acute eco- nomic crisis, the alternative was not being able to sell their goods at all. By 1939 German economic domination of the Balkans had turned the countries in that area • virtual colonies of finance into capital. Despite the limited successes scored by Nazi Germany in the trade war, crucial weaknesses remained on the eve of World War II. Dependence on imported raw materials had not diminished and war preparations had tended to increase it. The Nazi leadership and its critics in the General Staff were agreed that Germany could not carry on a long war.

Hitler gambled on short, sharp and successful wars. His opponents in the army that Germany believed would become involved in a major war in which the material raw deficiencies would prove a fatal weakness.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

TV REVIEW BY ANNA TATE

The song has it that 'there's no people like show people they smile when they are down'. And the mythology of undaunted the- courage, show-must-go-on philosophy, the - actor - must-transcend- reality ideology, served its devious purposes well. More especially in times of crisis.

The depression the saw of Busby Berkeley emergence musicals, with a cast of hundreds, a cost of millions. Cascades of beautiful ladies dancing their way through fountains and sweeping, lavish gowns, down lavish, in staircases, whirling unending gracefully in the bid to create a and divert candy-floss world attention from the human disaster outside the safe walls of cinema- tic illusion. In the land of the image- makers the celluloid fantasy was king. But the entire mythology came in for somewhat of a battering last week with a play written, and over-indulgently directed by Don Taylor-'Actor-I Said'.

And from another end of the spectrum-the Oscar Awards—it seemed that show people may smile when they are down, but they certainly cry when they're up — to wit Charlie Chaplin. Hollywood banished and vilified him for some three decades, only to resurrect him again with an honorary Oscar and with that ghastly brand of self-congratula- tory emotionalism for which it is renowned. A galaxy of stars sang Charlie's song-'Smile though your heart is though aching, smile even breaking' - with tears streaming down their cheeks in one of the most expensive weep-ins in his- tory. It seems you can't keep a good trouper down-not for more than about 30 years that is.

cut-throat of professions, most finds the unctuous, most one incestuous, extravagant flattery. are wonderful, sweet 'Oh! You people!' cried Charlie. it's certainly true that And conversation will use actors in the word 'darling' with a pheno- frequency than , im menally higher any other sector of the popula- accidental, but tion. It's not seems to stem from a sickness might term depiction dis- one orientation, one of the highest symptoms of the malady being compulsion toward group a identification, forms The. diverse political which depiction disorientation has taken over the last decade agitprop, theatre are street theatre-in-the- guerrilla theatre, round, the people's theatre and so on. In his play, Don Taylor attempted to embrace all these while remaining contradictions, firmly entrenched within the framework of the BBC-that Cor- poration known, not by chance, 'Auntie' as Almost all the conflicts which arise when the consciences of liberal actors and actresses run into the irrelevance of much of their work, or the overriding relevance of being almost eternally out of work, were play than an internal! less of a raised in what was monologue, which Mr Taylor has obviously been carrying out with himself for some time. Revolutionary reality unfortu- nately lurked only too far from this enactment Qf a crisis of conscience. dramatic One has heard of delirium but tremens, this was a veritable delirium liberalis. A sort of anguished cry of 'What am I doing in Corona- tion Street when I really should be playing Mayakovsky!' For every painful recognition there was equally painful an evasion. The unemployment situa- tion for 90 per cent of actors was summed up in an anguishing joke, which went something like this. ... 'There was this actor and he met this other you see, actor, and the first actor said to the second actor-"How long is It since you last worked laddie" he says, and thè second actor "You laddie" ought to give advises his friend. "Can't laddie, it's my living", comes the inevi- table reply.' A belly-laugh and a belly-ache ... all in one quick repartee.

Guilt and self flagellation end- ing in despair and withdrawal or a desperate continuation of the profession was about all that Don Taylor could muster in the way of a solution. After ten years of selling his talent to predatory producers, the actor of Taylor's imagination opts out, gives the business up so that he can look - the Third World in the eye.

One could not help thinking the only thing he would that look in the would be an eye Above: the Marx brothers irate bank manager, arriving financial ba he would, at a ruptcy via the liberal route of a bankrupt political gesture of per- sonal, heroic withdrawal. 'Revolu- wouldn't touch tion the parts I've played with a barge-pole', he cried, as he disappeared forever from the spotlight. Living as they do in a class society,, actors and artists are caught in the contradictions of being enslaved within the mar- ket norms of the ruling culture.

In personal terms the problem would seem to be a moral one -the struggle for truthfulness and art. But this problem cannot be abstrated from the entire poli- tical fabric of society. As Trotsky put it in 'Culture and Socialism': 'Art is one of the finds his ways in which man bearings in the world; in this sense the heritage of art is not distinguished from the heritage of science and technique-and it is no less contradictory than they.

By opting out or engaging in profound despair, liberal actors are merely manifesting an igno- rance of the heritage of their art and turning their backs on the vital role they can play in the transformation of the bour- geois centre of artistic creation by the elimination of the bour- geoisie. will have to bear the One of appearing in psychic agony turgid telly serial after one another, or one aberrated drama another if nothing more after is olfered in this worthwhile buyers' art market) will engaing elsewhere in the struggle for a political solution. To look for a the dialectic in 'On Marxist one's head Buses' is to bang against the concrete wall of class culture. 'There's no business like show ' is the fabrication business. of the myth-merchants. Business remains, intractably, business.

MEANWHILE, the Marx brothers film series continues on Friday evenings. They remain great fun.

Awards, with The Oscar accompanying eulogy of Holly- wood brought to mind Groucho Marx's reply to a Hollywood club he declined member- to which ship saying: don't care to belong to any organization that. , will social accept me as a member' This Friday their film will be 'Horse Feathers'-the adventures Quincey Adams of Professor Wagstaff. i"% Workers Press, Wer The Tory Party continues to retain a completely secretive method of selecting election candidates, despite numerous reports by numerous .com- mittees. This is perfectly illustrated in the fight for a prospective parliamentary candidate for a y new seat in Staffordshire.

Contesting for the candida- ture are Mr Patrick Cormack, MP tor Cannock, Mr Fergus Montgomery, MP for Brierley Hill, and Mr David Hunt, a Bristol solicitor who is chair- man of the local Young Con- servatives. about the number Secrecy of people invited to the selec tion meeting has already led to the resignation of Coun Alan Kennard as deputy chair- of the newly-formed man association. He complained to the press that the entire handling of the election was 'suspicious and worrying' • meeting of local Tories has been called in Wolver- hampton Civic Hall on May 3 to make the final choice, but nobody knows who has been invited. The hall only holds 2,080 yet there are at least 2,000 card-carrying Tories Cannock alone. Ominous signs of a packed. meeting. Mr William Homer, the asso- ciation chairman, is attempt- ing to keep everyone pacified.

He said he had been trying to keep the 'glare of publicity from the meeting to away ensure that a 'truly competitive spirit' prevailed. If it is anything like the competitive spirit preached by Edward Heath, we can expect the knives to be out. Press, Wednesday April 19, 1972 PAGE 9 After pleading : financial diffi- culties, a church inquiry was launched into the state of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Some when consternation the priests discovered things weren't so bad after all. Total assets amounted to £250m.

ley We carried an item last week of the Get on the start Together campaign, a viciously anti-communist outfit aimed at encouraging strike-breaking, scabbing and class-collabor- ation on all fronts. It has begun a flm pro- motion campaign financed by some of the most reactionary employers in the country.

No real surprise, I suppose, to find one of their advertise- ments-a half-page-in this week's issue of 'Tribune'.

Remarkable incident in Porto- bello Rd, the market area of Notting Hill Gate, London, the other day. There shoplifting was a incident in the Marks and Spencer store. Shout went up manager: "Police, from a floor • police. Someone get the police.

were absolutely Customers astonished when through the door came a long haired hippy with beads round his neck: 'What's all this then, he said. I'm Detective Constable (inaudible) ... On the subject of the police, Derek Amoore, editor of BBC television news, recently had a visit from the boys of the Special Branch. (It was in con- nection with a film of the Bingham spy case). Were they knuckle - headed, short - back-and-sides types? Not a bit of it. wore shoulder-length All hair, sported expensive modern flashy wide ties and suits, smoked aromatic French cigar- ettes. Methinks they've all been watching too much television.

Roger Moore has gone to their heads. ... "The film industry is a curious mixture Bryan Forbes quoted in the "Scotsman' on April 15.

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Fourth The International Committee of the Interna- tional calts on the international working. class to campaign for the immediate release of Juan Farinas.

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Name Address Statement Committee o THE COALITION govern- ment which came to power in Ceylon in May 1970 was a crisis government. The devaluation of the Ceylon rupee, just after sterling devaluation expressed the insoluble crisis looming in -world imperialism which threatened the very basis of Ceylon's colonial economic setup. insurgent movement of The the radicalized students and the rural youth in April-May 1971 was the first sign of the out-

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DETECTIVES have been questioning Lancaster university students dur- ing the past week in connection with a report Director sent to the | of Public Prosecutions about a sit-in at the end of last term. Students administration building and computer centre for 24 hours in opposition to dismissal threats against left- wing lerturer Dr David Craig.

The police, called in after com- plaints by the university authori- Councillors LEITH. Scotland, councillors Sandy Ross (S Leith) and Ron Brown (central Leith) will boy- cott the Queen's garden party at Holyrood Palace in July. In a joint letter to Edinburgh Lord Provost James McKay, the coun- cillors say: •We feel, as socialists, that our attendance would indicate sup- port for the monarchy and the status auo in the countrv.

•Further, we deplore the use of public money-particularly at this time of high unemployment -in financing grandiose such events as garden parties.

incitement TWO freelance photographers been charged in Belfast have with inciting a crowd to riot.

They were both allowed bail.

They gave the court an under- taking to hand in their passports and photographic equipment to police. Kenneth Sims (42), of Heston, Middlesex, and Larry de Lane (29). of Vermont, United States, both pleaded not guilty and will appear again tomorrow. ee of the 4th Interr burst of mass struggles against the bourgeois coalition. This counter - revolutionary coalition government could re- tain power only through the treacherous policy of its Stalinist and renegade Trotskyist partners who barred the working-class movement's independent develop- ment by joining hands with Mrs Bandaranaike's capitalist party.

But these parasitic bureau- cracies cannot curtail the develop- ment of the class struggle, which is unfolding today as a direct of the new stage of result economic crisis since August 15, 1971. The Emergency Powers im- posed on the workers and peasants and the ban imple- ties, have a list of nine students far against whom charges SO may be made. The nine include the leader of the students' union, Mike Murray. Detectives say they may be charged with 'conspiracy to com- mit a trespass'. The only precedent for such a case is the 1946 squatters' move- ment. Some of the nine students named in the police report have received from also letters the University authorities saying that they may also face university charges for the alleged obstruc- tion of a person 'in the proper discharge of duties in or for the university ... The letter informs the stud- ents concerned that the charge has been prepared "but proceed- ings have been deferred pending clarification of the possibility of proceedings in a court of law'.

In a move aimed at counter- ing strike action next, term, the authorities have warned all 3,000 students their grants may be cut if they boycott lectures and sem- inars. All students will have to sign university's charter statutes before they can claim their grant cheques next.term.

The Students Representative Council has asked its solicitor to look into the legality of this move, to see whether the uni- versity is not exceeding its rights in the matter. The National Union of Stud- ents' Birmingham conference last week agreed to support the Lan- caster students and has decided "black the university: The to NUS has also pledged legal back- ing. The Lancaster Trades Council is expected to discuss recent events in the university at its next meeting. The Trades Coun- cil previously supported the stud- ents in their demand for an out- side inquiry into the university's English Department. Allegations of political victimi- zation in this department sparked off the original conflict.

in Furness Barrow Trades Council also backed an inquiry.

The students will now be ask- ing for more trade union backing in a struggle which is now seen to be of serious political signifi- cance. rnational ternational mented on the Trotskyist pub- lications of the section of the International Committee are the attacks government's conscious on the working class which is on the verge of massive struggles.

We demand the lifting of all emergency powers and the grant- ing of democratic rights of free assembly and free publication, immediately. We demand that the Stalinist Communist Party and the Lanka Sama Samaja Party leaders break • away from the coalition to fight for these basic democratic rights of the masses. It is only this way that a workers' and peasants' government can be fought for in Ceylon. JAPANESE manufacturers in the ball and roller-bearing in- dustry exporting to the United Kingdom are involved in the piracy of design and catalogue numbers. This allegation was made in the Commons by Frank Tomney, Labour MP for Hammersmith.

He said American experience of the import of ball bearings had resulted in the shutdown of their domestic production. The same thing is likely to happen in Britain, he said.

He showed MPs a ball origin-Japan-and the manufac- turer's name. It was also stamped with the same catalogue number as that of British manufacturers.

Tomney said: It is this kind of competition, which is resulting in problems affecting a vital part of the British engineering in- dustry? If Tomney thinks that the traditional pirating by capitalists of patents of the crisis in the engineering industry, he should think again.

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CROYDON: Thursday April 20, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Croydon. Tory 'fair Road rents' Bill WILLESDEN: Monday April 24, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Willesden High Road, Hall, NW10. Tary "fair rents' Bill.

SW London: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

Tory "fair rents' Bill. DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 25, 8 р.m. Coop Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue, Barking. The engineers' wage claim. LUTON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Bri- gade Hall, Lea Rd. YS May Day rally. N LONDON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). The engineers' wage claim. SE LONDON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Rd (opp New Cross stn). Tory "fair rents' E LONDON: Tuesday May 2, p.m. "Aberfeldy', Aberfeldy St (nr Blackwall Tunnel):..

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01-622 7029 LEFTWINGERS on the National of the AUEW Committee en- gineers' section yesterday climbed down on a move to withdraw from sponsorship three union MPs who voted with the Tories on the Common Market. The to 18 Committee agreed by 34 votes to refer the motion to the union's executive. FRANK McMANUS the Irish Unity MP for Fermanagh and S Tyrone spent Monday night at Westminster after he was sen- tenced in his absence to six months' imprisonment at Ennis- killen, Co Fermanagh, for taking part in an 'illegal' anti-internment march. used a bed in the Labour He Whip's office which is kept for MPs who have been kent late at the Commons. It is understood Miss Bernadette Devlin. that who was sentenced with •be on her McManus, may aiso way to Westminster. nesday April 19, 1972 to the court by Heatons Trans- port of St Helens and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton. These are two haulage firms whose lorry fleets are blacked by Merseyside dockers who object to unloading and loading containers RESISTANCE to pay demands throughout the engineering industry was 'necessity" if bank- ruptçy was to be avoided.

This is the message from Britain's most powerful group of bosses, the Engineering Employers Federation. In their April bulletin the EEF urges its members to present a united front against workers who demanding more pay and are better conditions. bulletin The congratulates engineering employers in Greater Manchester who are faced with 27 sit-in strikes over the claim launched in March 27 by 200,000 employees. 'has been Their resistance impressive,' notably the says It carries through an bulletin. trend that became important discernible over. a year ago: employers have been taking a far firmer line against militancy; for concessions to buy out trouble are, in the long run, simply not worth the price' The EEF challenges the unions" claim that important settlements shorter hours and money, longer holidays have been made.

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'It is of the utmost importance that concessions should be nO made in the length of the work- ing week! it says. And 'undue, pressure' by the union to seek concessions in this should be reported to the area Engineering Employers' Federa- tion. Despite the feeling of the rank and file for a real offensive against employers. leading Stalinists the CP-dominated on district committee will join and

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BRITAIN'S workforce was smaller in September last year than in September 1970, the Department of Employment said yesterday. The total at work last Septem- ber was 24,886,000 (15,885,000 males and 9.001.000 females)- a drop of about 214,000 (176,000 males, 38,000 females). The total in civilian employ- was 23,707,000, including ment 21,963,000 emplorees (13,472,000 males and 8.491,000 females)- a drop of 440.000 (363,000 males, 81,000 females). WESTERN areas will be mainly dry and bright, but E England will be rather cold with northerly winds and scattered showers.

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by non-registered dock labour at inland depots. The union has already to pay a €5,000 fine imposed by the court three weeks' ago for breach of an order granted to Heatons.

Last Wednesday Heatons and a

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*There a moral for the is unions here. Employers' organiz- ations, like some trade unions, fairly old hands at the are THE MANCHESTER engineering firm of Mather and Platt, one of the biggest in the NW has signed an agreement with workers on wages only. Stewards representing 2,000 workers who have been working- to-rule and banning overtime agreed to leave hours and con- ditions to be discussed at national level. Manchester employers are hailing the deal as a victory for checials were not needed to sion union their the deal. The deal which severely limitations of the exposes the union's • plant-bargaining tactics will probably not be ratified by the AUEW district committee.

But now employers are saying they wilf discuss wages with any- one on the same basis as soon as sanctions are lifted. solidarity business. They are not likely to shed the strength of unity in the face of this new challenge. prevent real district-wide action.

At a meeting of AUEW con- venors on Monday night leading Stalinist and district secretary George Cabon made this clear.

He said afterwards that each factory would be backed by the district committee in whatever action it chose to take. All along the line the Stalinists have district-wide opposed action. At a recent district committee a motion for such a move was lost by the vote of another Com- Party member, Herbert munist Howarth, district president.

Another district committee member Eddie Keys. convenor at Davy United, told me the same story yesterday. The district committee had no power to issue a directive on the question, he told me. Nevertheless there was a real feeling of frustration at the con- venors' meeting, one delegate said Seyeral speakers made the point that the time had come for offensive against united Sheffield employers: The meeting itself only was arranged after pressure had been put on the district committee. It is clear that Sheffield Stalinists want to keep the developing fragmented struggle as as possible. They want a situation where every factory is 'doing its own thing', one delegate said.

More than that they have not insisting been that the hours question be included in domestic claims. Many stewards say, however, that the reduction in hours is perhaps most important the question. All eyes were on last night's district committee where fresh moves for district-wide action were being proposed.

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At 11 a.m. an aircraft belong- ing to the Department of Trade and Industry at Heath- arrived third Bishop's Wharf company, three

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rOW with leaders, of Warrington, obtained per- and Jack Jones, Alf Allen manent orders stopping the George Smith, who have been in blacking. Dunoon attending the Notice was served on an official annual conference of the Scottish TUC.

of the union shortly aiter 1 p.m.

Noon yesterday. Both complaints will At ward Meant repoed be heard tomorrow. Edward to Heath When the union followed TUC Downing St. Also present at the advice and boycotted the court talks was Lord Privy Seal, Lord at the earlier hearing, Sir John Jellicoe, who co-ordinated the Donaldson said that their of the state emergency' during absence 'agravated the contempt.

strike, Minister, Peter Walker, He miners' warned that there was no Environment John limitation on fines for contempt Peyton, Transport Minister and of court. Sir Geoffrey Howe, Solicitor General and Tory legal expert on the Industrial Relations Act.

1 p.m. On the BBC radio programme 'World at One' Victor Feather expressed concern that a 'poli- tical element' being thrust was into the dispute. This was some- regretted, he said. thing to be He the in the said margın slight he negotiations was SO couid hoped the work-to-rule end 'very, very quickly. 2 p.m. the A 2 p.m. members of Finance and 'inner cabinet', the

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Committee, of General Purposes Congress the

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arrived at 'Resistance for a matter of House their emergency • it is all too clear meeting. necessily, that the alternative standing hrm is new explosion Wage the yet another twist to inflationary spiral, lost more orders and more bankruptcies.'

The solidarity of the employers

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claim clearly over is illustrated these statements. In £798.30 They further the bank- rupt policy. of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers leadership who have refused to

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to the end mobilize their members well over halfway own April. We are nationally, yet have the nerve to through this month and still some criticize engineering workers way to go to raising our target.

throughout Britain for their We have no doubt that you, our 'lack of militancy'. readers, ( everything will do pos- The of plant-by-plant sible to change this situation. strategy now the main talk- Do not sit back. Each day the bargaining is Tory strengthened ing point at the AUEW National government, Relations Act, Committee, which is taking place by the Industrial and to take at Eastbourne this week. prepares on more more sections of the trade union Meanwhile action the over movement. spread to the Leeds claim has Workers Press must be used to.

Five hundred workers build a revolutionary leadership began sit-in at the printing the fight back and defeat machinery manufacturers of Hoe- Torles and their vicious plans. We Crabtree after management therefore actien today. Pull up the position you. attempted to suspend fitters who Yesterday were working-to-rule. for April Fund. Collect as our spread to two dispute other Ine much as you can and post to: On Friday other engineer- plants. in the are Ing plants Workers Press April Appeal Fund dicd threatening to join in the action.

186a Clapham High St But again the weakness London, SW4 7UG. of plant-by-plant action has been highlighted. Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists Sunday May 7 We demand the Right to Work!

No retreat from the fight against the Industrial Rela- tions Act ! Hands off the trade unions! Defend democratic rights !

Withdraw troops from Ulster ! Release all internees !

Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants For the military defeat of US Imperialism!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Plecadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Road MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall.

G. Healy (Socialist Labour League National Secretary) J. Simmance (Young Socialists National Secretary) M. Banda (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) (In a personal capacity) Frank McCabe (NUM) Roy Battersby A. Thornett (Deputy Senior Steward Morris Motors)

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Complete form send to J. Simmance, 186a Clapham High and Street, London, SW4 7UG.