Workers Press no. 747

workers press

TRADE UNIONS OR LACKEYS OF NIRC

CROSSROADS

THE TUC General Coun- cil meets on Wednesday under circumstances which must inevitably have the profoundest implications for the future of trade unionism in Britain. The Tories hope the rail leaders' retreat, endorsed by the TUC last Thursday, will become the official General Council policy. General Secretary Victor Feather, who pledged the TUC at its September 1971 Congress co-operate with the not to Industrial Relations Act, has already declared it is possible still finds ways and means not to co-operate with the Act.

Do we have to emphasize again that the NIRC is the main legal enforcement agency of the Act?

Without it the Act would be unable to function. If the TUC General Council participates, it will be legally bound to apply NIRC rulings and decisions inside the trade union movement. Trade union executives will become a kind of unpaid sheriff's department for the Tory court's anti-working-class policies.

If the Council accepts Feather's participation advice the jaws of this treacherous trap will snap shut. Co-operation with the courts of the capitalist state, which allow the Tory government to fix wages, is the end of trade unionism. The Tories and the monopoly capitalists, headed by Partridge of the CBI, are very clear about they want. The NIRC what injunction against the railway unions and the T&GWU, like the Taff Vale judgement of 1901, is a "judicial coup d'état conceived in order to create an atmosphere of shock and surprise. This is aimed at intimidating the

TUC

reformists. Indeed, visions of TUC luminaries being dragged off to Brixton jail have already been conjured up by the Tory mass media to intensify the • air of panic which the court's were deliberately findings designed to create. But every trade unionist in his or her right senses knows that there has then he slightest possibility e, never, at any any TUC leader going to jail.

These are faithful men, or, as the "Daily Telegraph' would put it, "decent men, tied hand and foot to the establishment.

"Sunday Times' editorial A yesterday about Victor Feather's week of agony' said: It takes courage for a TUC general secretary to speak up in public against the intransigent attitude of his most powerful superiors in the union establish- ment. Mr Feather showed last

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY G. HE/

week that he had that courage.'

The TUC gentlemen have done the dirty work of compromise for so long that the Tories must themselves feel embarrassed to have so crudely caused them 'discomfort. The TUC leaders also know that participation in the court would give them a powerful legal basis to expel and discipline militants who fall foul of the Act in the course of their trade union duties. • Tories' immediate objec- The tive is to create a diversionary split within the trade union movement through legal intimida- tion. They know very well that they cannot defeat the working Norman Rossington (centre) and blor actresses queueing for yesterday's meetir A SPECIAL meeting of Equity, the actors' union, was called at the Adelphi Theatre, Lon- don, yesterday to demand that the union deregisters under the Industrial Relations Act.

The fierce discussion, closed to the press, was still in pro- gress when we went to press late yesterday.

THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY APRIL 24, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

G. HEALY

class with a court judgement alone. History supplies the proof on this score. As a backlash to the Taff Vale judgement, affiliations to the Labour Representation Commit- tee jumped to 100,000. Between 1902 and - 1903 the figures escalated to approximately 850,000. This trend continued to the General Council of 1906 when, for the first time in his- tory, out of a total of 50 Labour candidates, 29 were elected to parliament. The Tories realize that the working class will fight back with enormous strength against the Act. If they can coerce the TUC General Council to join and blonde haired Peter Vaughan were am ay's meeting. The meeting was summoned by a group of 400 actors and actresses who signed a petition of deploring the decision Equity's council to register under the Act. The decision to register was taken without the consent of the membership; it was also IL 24, 1972 • No 747 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

them in the functioning of their then they will have court, acquired an important strategic advantage to face the coming storm. The Industrial Relations Act was designed to destroy trade unionism. In practice this amounts to nothing less than the destruction of all basic demo- cratic workers' rights. If the TUC General Council agrees to participate in the Tory court then the working class have only one remaining demo- cratic right. We must force the immediate convocation of the Trades Union Congress which decided not to co-operate with the Act, reaffirm this decision and expel those General Council members who have violated it.

were among the array of actors and completely against previous union policy and breached the policy of non-co-

TUC'S

operation. Leading the right-wing at yesterday's meeting was Marius Goring, who resigned from the miners' executive during the strike because of political influence' in the union.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BRITAIN'S

• railwaymen are not resuming normal work with any great en- thusiasm. Only skeleton services oper- ated throughout the country yesterday and the number of cancellations was higher than British Rail had wanted. If the schedules are not work- ing properly, the government could go back to the National Industrial Relations Court and accuse the unions of contempt of court. Drivers on British Rail's S region appeared yesterday to have decided to continue their indus- trial action which has disrupted services. About 100 delegates of the locomen's union ASLEF met in a pub by station. Waterloo They issued no formal press statement after the meeting be- cause of fears that action under the Industrial Relations Act could be taken against them.

A spokesman, however, indi- cated that they had voted not 'normal' to lift their ban on working. At Cambridge yesterday a meeting of 50 railway workers from all three unions decided to return to normal working.

But they declared that if no satisfactory settlement was reached during the 14-day cool- ing-off period, a national strike should be called. FIRST SHOTS will be fired in Sheffield today in the engineer- ing pay battle. A work-to-rule will be imposed at Daniel Don- and caster and Firth Brown there will be a strike at AEI.

The Communist Party-domin- ated district committee is now consciously leading workers into a fight which has already proven —in the case of Manchester-to have dangerous limitations.

INSIDE

3 State of play at Plessey 4 Manifesto comment 5 Foreign news 6 & 7 International Com- mittee manifesto 8 How England caused a civil war 9 Stalinist crisis 10 Lancaster 'nine' case

workers press

TRADE UNIONS OR LACKEYS OF NIRC

CROSSROADS

THE TUC General Coun- cil meets on Wednesday under circumstances which must inevitably have the profoundest implications for the future of trade unionism in Britain. The Tories hope the rail leaders' retreat, endorsed by the TUC last Thursday, will become the official General Council policy. General Secretary Victor Feather, who pledged the TUC at its September 1971 Congress co-operate with the not to Industrial Relations Act, has already declared it is possible to participate in the National Industrial Relations Court and still finds ways and means not to co-operate with the Act.

Do we have to emphasize again that the NIRC is the main legal enforcement agency of the Act?

Without it the Act would be unable to function. the TUC General Council it will be legally participates, bound to apply NIRC rulings and decisions inside the trade union movement. Trade union executives will become a kind of unpaid sheriff's department for the Tory court's anti-working-class policies.

If the Council accepts Feather's participation advice the jaws of this treacherous trap will snap shut. ..Co-operation with the courts of the capitalist state, which allow the Tory government to the end of trade wages, unionism. The Tories and the monopoly headed by Partridge capitalists, of the CBI, are very clear about want. The NIRC what they injunction against the railway unions and the T&GWU, like the Taff Vale judgement of 1901, is a "judicial coup d'état' conceived in order to create an atmosphere of shock and surprise. This is aimed at intimidating the TUC reformists. Indeed, visions of TUC luminaries being dragged off to Brixton jail have already been conjured up by the Tory mass media to intensify the the court's - air of panic which findings were deliberately designed to create. But every trade unionist in his or her right senses knows that there has never, at any any TUC leader going to jail.

These are faithful men, or, as the 'Daily Telegraph' would put it, 'decent men' ', tied hand and foot to the establishment.

'Sunday Times' editorial yesterday about Victor Feather's week of 'agony' said: 'It takes courage for a TUC general secretary to speak up in public against the intransigent attitude of his most powerful superiors. in the union establish- ment. Mr Feather showed last

INCORPORATING THE NE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

BY G. HE

week that he had that courage.'

The TUC gentlemen have done the dirty work of compromise for so long that the Tories must themselves feel embarrassed to have so crudely caused them 'discomfort'. The TUC leaders also know that participation in the court would give them a powerful legal basis to expel and discipline militants who fall foul of the Act in the course of their trade union duties. The Tories' immediate objec- tive is to create a diversionary split trade within the union movement through legal intimida- tion. They know very well that they cannot defeat the working Norman Rossington (centre) and blo actresses queueing for yesterday's meeti A SPECIAL meeting of Equity, the actors' union, was called at the Adelphi Theatre, Lon- don, yesterday to demand that deregisters under union the Industrial Relations Act.

The fierce discussion, closed to the press, was still in pro- gress when we went to press late yesterday.

THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY APRIL 24, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

G. HEALY

class with court judgement alone. History supplies the proof on this score. As a backlash to the Taff Vale judgement, affiliations to the • Labour Representation Commit- tee jumped to 100,000. Between 1902 and 1903 the figures escalated to approximately 850,000. This trend continued to the General Council of 1906 when, for the first time in his- tory, out of a total of 50 Labour candidates, 29 were elected to parliament. The Tories realize that the working class will fight back with enormous strength against the Act. If they can coerce the TUC General Council to join and blonde haired Peter Vaughan were am y's meeting. The meeting was summoned by a group of 400 actors and actresses who signed a petition deploring the decision of Equity's council to register under the Act. The decision to register was taken without the consent of the membership; it was also IL 24, 1972 • No 747 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

them in the functioning of their then they will have court, acquired an important strategic advantage to face the coming storm. The Industrial Relations Act was designed to destroy trade unionism. practice • In this amounts to nothing less than the destruction of all basic demo- „cratic workers' rights. If the TUC General Council agrees to participate in the Tory court then the working class have only one remaining demo- cratic right. We must force the immediate convocation of the Union Trades Congress which decided not to co-operate with the . Act, reaffirm this decision and expel those General Council members who have violated it.

were among the array of actors and completely against previous union policy and breached the TUC's policy of non-co- operation. Leading the right-wing at yesterday's meeting was Marius Goring, who resigned from the executive during the miners' strike because of 'political influence' in the union.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BRITAIN'S

railwaymen are not resuming normal work with any great en- thusiasm. Only skeleton services oper- ated throughout the country yesterday and the number of cancellations was higher than British Rail had wanted. If the schedules are not work- ing. could Properly, the government • back to the National Industrial Relations Court and accuse the unions of contempt of court. Drivers on British Rail's S region appeared yesterday to have decided to continue their indus- trial action which has disrupted services. About 100 delegates of the locomen's union AŠLEF met in pub by Waterloo station. They issued no formal press statement after the meeting be- cause of fears that action under the Industrial Relations Act could be taken against them.

A spokesman, however, indi- cated that they had voted not to lift their ban on 'normal' working. At Cambridge yesterday a meeting of 50 railway workers from all three unions decided to return to normal working.

But they declared that if no satisfactory settlement was reached during the 14-day cool- ing-off period, a national strike should be called. FIRST SHOTS will be fired in Sheffield today in the engineer- ing pay battle. A work-to-rule will be imposed at Daniel Don- caster and Firth Brown there will be a strike at AEI.

The Communist Party-domin- ated district committee is now consciously leading workers into a fight which has already proven —in the case of Manchester-to have dangerous limitations.

INSIDE

play 3 State of at Plessey 4 Manifesto comment 5 Foreign news 6 & 7 International Com- mittee manifesto 8 How England caused a civil war 9 Stalinist crisis 10 Lancaster 'nine' case

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday April 24, 1972

S VIETNAM GARRISONS FALLING FAST

apparently designed to AMERICAN imperialism

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Vietnam the and its puppet armies are

TWO.

area near the borders Cam- back from their positions around by the National Liberation Front's oi the Division and itsibas between several bodia, Laos and S Vietnam have on the brink of a crush- bases. the town. control of the countryside - s bankrupt. of Chon Thanh and The Saigon The towns government's ing defeat in the fighting have total They The liberation forces ruins coastal pro- ›au lieng suraleky of Hoai An and N of Saigon, capital of S f the S Vietnamese capital, wer have failed to inflict again their Crone vince oi Binh Dinh week of heavy fighting defeat . on the liberation superior ability manoeuvre, both the scene major om area. The littara- are Foai Nhon ares. month of despite the continuous air Vietnam. almost weekend and Radio Hanol libera-

LIOS

the Hoai And their reported that liberation forces torces nave mo mre boncv oi rel allalko. blocked non torces nave aneley Loc, had taken Dau Tieng and killed ing air strikes has proved consistently The of An the main highway from the coast total failure. element of surprise. for the last 17 days the central Highlands. besieged many pupper woops. Further central forces, On the ground, their tactics area, liberation forces the this by the liberation There reports that In an attempt were to Highlands from all four the two-battalion Vietnamese troops on offensive, US B52 bombers have attack Massine une vumer. under garrison in the town had pulled able highways—a policy dictated are winning a series of victories been flying mission after mission sides yesterday in the third the advancing liberation forces.

drop attempt to take it by storm.

noerouster Vietnamese The intensity of : is nercooter Death-cell Turks won't eat pilot who landed briefly in An the Ancais described the weekend

LOC

desperation as they watco niel liberation policy Torces cherished Talks between the city lounging outside shops THREE members of the left- tences, but parliament is due to the president and under the a LO sipping soft drinks. discuss issue again following the National Security Council Peoples' Libera- wing Turkish the weekend failed to resolve the sentenced to death successtul appeal to the It is from the state- what has word of tion Army, LUil clear There is no sparked stitutional ments of US quoted in court over orocedura

WILCH

Was happened by a martial been ona ring la strike tor sie law have aspects of their trial. Sunave cemano teat parlament Vietnamese who must dispatches Anter cans suspend political activity and be reduced to a handful The three men were sentenced grossly The days. allow rule by decree.

HOW

for allegedly to over- attempting strength orarecave derenders. prison authorities olaililila re mullary torce To the S. of An Loc, the much- Consululon Acting premier present have relusea lo une men. predicting the for the kidnapping Minister former Defence Ferit relief force composed Gezmis (24), Yusuf Aslan US who were later re- will last several the S Vietnamese 2lst (21), (25), and Huseyin Inan Melen. mainiy of time the leased unharmed. which solve the political situation more itself in danger their strike, Division. ane Dudaicize reasonsor Turkey is still without a talks with leaders next could gov- party was yesterday reported falling their lawyers said. . been completely ernment following premier Nihat Saigon. President Cevdet has proclaim a back down the road to Sunay week. ne IS lKCly lU crushed. Ermin's resignation last week. military dictatorship in Turkey.

ratified the death sen- forces Have Cul aircauy GEC women in Powell

REFORMIST DANGER

for

TO CANADIAN STRIKERS

pay picket Craig the strike the road for the break-up of

QUEBEC'S

provincial govern- despite denance me atuance ment yesterday passed emerg The Bill, introduced by premier Robert rally Bourassa, ordered the employees to return ency legislation ordering 200,000 night and

WORK

las l striking public service workers removed their right to strike for two back to work, but union leaders ycal». president of the Quebec Louis Laberre. RIGHT-WING anti- recommended that their mem- Federation o Labour ano spokesman 101 Tory MP immigration descrimed the Quebec Liberal gice unions, bers ignore it. Enoch Powell is expected Quebec Liberal government described Leaders of the three main labour to address a rally of the the ano lo ena

SLIIKC

Ulster Vanguard Move- federations backing the strike called said the of £20 to £100 a ment in London's Hyde to be defied, but penalțies for the legislation Park law made Saturday, day for persons delving remain individual nex! said it must walk-out April 29. cecision Conte decision because of the severe penal- 0UT the current situation be 'the Vanguard leader William ties involved. Craig By leaving the fight against the Bill on movement in Teuvenduon an individual basis, the union chiefs open Quebec. bring 1,000 supporters from Ireland for the demon- stration and rally Revisionist Chemical war Large contingents are aso exoecleo co ve c London from Liverpool threat to various parts of Scot- say guerrillas lana. Craig has announced that Spanish May 1 Vanguard power PORTUGAL is using chemical defoliants Will serze by in N Ireland and to starve guerrilla-held proclaim independent African told the Angola, SPANISH police broke up an anti- •British Ulster United Nations Committee on Decoloniza• allow a united Ireland. tion now visiting Lusaka.

Vietnam war demonstration in Bar- They alleged that indiscriminate celona organized at the weekend by In "a recent interview being carried out both in was bombing with United Press the Workers' the Commissions, The Angola Mozambiaue com- In national, Craig announced Party and the mittee, which is headed by Salim A.

Catalan Communist that there are organizations called on Portugal's NATO Communist Revolutionary Pabloite 1 anzania, connected with Vanguard for weapons to stop providing which have and League (LCR). the use in suppressing colonial movements the third demonstration against was weasons lo cany ou suci and an armed takeover at 'very Vietnam short notice. UNCTAD gas preparation for the week

ITOM

today until May Day called by the illegal women and 25 piecework

THE 200

here Commissions. Workers' men locked out by manage- bonuses. A series of walk-outs. sit-ins and lent- ment at GEC Osram, Erith, Said

G&MWU

,member DEMONSTRATORS chanted anti-Ameri- BP picket ning stoppages planned on Cookson: We Mrs Joyce say slogans and burned around Madrid, with picketing of Stripes in streets around the ultra-modern •tars-ang. sites get them back work

WIL SHICK IONE

town, culminating in around the except more money management gives in. So now

A MASS

the 60 Chile, where sacked terns Friday. General far they have not offered Sirike

ACAI

The locked men from BP Com bally meetings of the Tuesday them

OUT

us a belly. ence of Trade and Development is taking Chemicals' refinery at Llan government is already planning to 'We don't think much of after they began to work- darcy, Wales, three trv and crack down on the demonstrations to-rule in of a pay this firm now. We worked blacc. support months ago for holding Salvador Allende's President and strikes and leaders all through the black-outs _Tne uncer which would give Clan meeting on site police went into action with tear gas and ground have warned that their supporters with heat men f6 a week extra and or light and

LO T

forced delegates leaving will be prepared against such attacks.

water cannon and ouscuss reoucances oe this is the tanks we gel.

cided on Friday to continue several the conference hall to run for cover when The workers are picket- demonstration, average

AEUW

women picketing. This has they came out for lunch. marchers threw petrol bombs into the factory and there and ing the who preventec was organized by street in order to disrupt the traffic. LivcLy Hallase.

G&MWU

will be a mass meeting to- mem bers ment from filling their jobs.

the leftist

MIR

(Revolutionary Movement individual terrorism £12 for a 40-hour week as- morrow review the are advocated by the Pabloite LCR, whose sembling lights. situation. street regime, though it gives conditional history of opportunism and hostility to the It the presence the opposes at working class is worth recording.

'Stop Tories' and 'imperialists' Tackled conterence During the mass demonstratons agallst Next editor? "revisionists'. the Burgos trials at the end of 1970, the forerunners of the

LCR,

Comunismo COVENTRY Trades Coun- group. preached a policv of non-participa• A NEW editor for the Japan's ports cil has passed a resolution

ANTI-APARTHEID

tion since the demonstrations were called den- cal Heato the endin The 'New Statesman' will be an- the Workers' and the yesterday inter- and therefore nounced this week. Those rupted a training Party session of resolution says. retornis ano cass co aborduoast.

on the short list inter-

LUZO

Lealll strike-bound 'This trades Turning their back on this important which is to tour S Africa counci viewed last Friday are: working-class movement the Pabloites nestomly after pledges full support to the calls on the John Morgan, one of the the session raids to break win. full indus- 'UC to us of Har- the 72-hour dows and goods in the shops and wealthy dockers. started a inaucura alcectors Decani colnelon.

IWO

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quarters of Barcelona. lech Television: Karl Miller, men and a woman marched trial strength of the trade higher wages and strike on Saturday for Listener, on to the pitch carrying union movement bring However, their programme of solidarity improved working conditions. 30,0v0 men about downfall of this Pagenhe 'Don't play are in all the major ports. Over actions, self-defence Tactory Druce cachulve and affected by and 'generalized national editor of with apartheid. 300 already 1Uly Vesseis alc different Times': Francis do peepie, mosty in about struggles" no from secure Terlin sortia for ten dane This follows their has been literary editor, and Anthony mostly their Labour government pledged people, going on for ten days. ommission of the socialist policies and Howard, a managemeht. affer.. 'call for 'a'. General,' Strike CP general deputy climbed over unión's i rejection of. Carrillo has welcomed both of the 'New States- fence and sat down among the immediate repeal of the Santiago covernmacul lavour scaiclaly the players. Industrial Relations Act.'

man'. conciliate in wage disputes.

their parncipalion.

God has been a fantastic money-spinner for years. Cen- turies, if you please. His earthly brethren have self- lessly collected billions of pounds, dollars, rupees, francs and marks. Not to mention art treasures, gold, Silver, precious stones and property-square miles of it.

The money, you under- stand, is to • bankroll God's mission. This mission can mean anything from slaught- ering people in holy wars to exploiting colonial peasants and workers to blessing GIs in Vietnam before they napalm villages and torture Vietnamese teenagers, called 'Dinks', who are suspected of being 'Cong'. An American evangelical organization, the Osborn Foundation, has now a new concept in launched Godsell in Britain. As they relieve the faithful of their loose pound notes the Osborn organizers deliver this message: 'Do it the Jesus way-and prosper'. The Rev Tommy Lee Osborn lives in Tulsa, Okla- homa. He's been in the evangelical business for about 25 years. His worldwide Osborn Founda- with offices in America, tion, Britain, Germany Zealand and, Canada, Australia, New inevitably, Switzerland, operates a profitable line called 'Pact of Plenty'. The 'Pact of Plenty' is a pretty straightforward concept. From the British headquarters in Bir- mingham you may shortly receive through the post an item which looks like a colourful-looking cheque book. Inside there are 12 'cheques.

You simply fill in the form with your name and address and mail off £2 to 41 Tenby St, Birming- ham. The front of the form says: 'Honour the Lord with they first fruits: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty' In smaller foot of the type across the coupon: 'Mail this near the first of the month when world mission needs are most URGENT. At this point you might well ask-what do you get in return for your quid? On the two reverse side of the form you fill in your 'prayer request'. That is to say, you tell the Rev Tommy Lee Osborn what you most want in the world and he'll get down on his knees in Tulsa and prays for its fulfilment. A signed circular from the Rev says: 'You would be amazed at the letters we get from friends expressing needs and problems.

We lay each before God in You'd hardly earnesi prayer. imagine the stream of miracles that result. Sinners get saved; sick people are healed; people get better jobs, salary increases, new homes and cars, inheritances, business benefits; properties are bought and sold; farmers find God healing diseases in their crops and livestock and sending rain in time of drought.'

But what happens to the £2 you mail off each month to Tenby St, you might ask? That sacred money, sir, goes to spreading God's mission through- out the world. Osborn and his wife, Daisy,_are this very at Thailand moment in giving the locals touch of hot his gospelling. It would be interesting to be at one of Osborn's outdoor meet- ings with the exploited peasants of Thailand as he tells them: 'Many say: "I'd rather be humble and poor." We should say: Let us prosper for God's glory so we can identify with him in big action. We'll regard money as a sacred tool for soul-winning.

The Lord hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. God created wealth earth for on YOUR prosperity. Your act of faith (putting £2 in the post to Oklahoma) puts God's finance policy into full force.' How many people in Britain have had sufficient 'faith' to join the 'Pact of Plenty'?

Accounts filed at Companies House in London show that income for 1970 was £109,000. Current assets the same period stood at £31,402 and there was a general surplus of £65,032. • These figures show that at least 50,000 'soulwinners' are on the books. Which means some intense praying must be going on in Tulsa if Osborn is fulfilling his obligations to his customers.

What immediately comes. out of this little operation is the basic similarities with the con- ventional church organizations, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism and Judaism. They all send round the plate on one pretext or another. It's not many years ago that in Ulster the names of those who had not coughed up regularly were read out at church services, which meant they were ostracized in community until they mended their ways.

The only difference between the Osborn Foundation and the Catholic Church is that the Oklahoma operation is a little cruder and little less plausible.

Below: Wesley Warriker, Osborn's man in Birmingham WE

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FORE

Plessey occupation 1971 : defiant politic

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The Plessey: flagpole at Alexandria, 1 Dunbartonshire, once supported the flag of occupation. Now it flies the Union Jack. In place of the defiant political slogans that festooned fac- the tory's iron railings stands a large advertisement for Lyons, the Scottish industrial developers who are attempting to sell. the site and employ the remaining men - the remnants famous occupation which began on September 3 last year.

The first batch got jobs when Wire Products, a small engineer- firm, moved onto the site and began trading last Monday.

The rest remain inside the empty factory grounds, the employees of Lyons at 75p an hour. Originally 300 men took over the plant-when their occupation was lifted the 70 remained. Most say their struggle was neither victory or defeat—they are satis- fied to be guaranteed employ- ment. British The Confederation of Industry is stepping up its cam- paign to promote British entry into the Common Market. Financed by the big mono- polies, the CBI will introduce this week a 'Europe Train' '. From April 28 until June 16 the train around Britain will travel manned by high-powered propa- gandists for the Market. The train has been fitted out 'classrooms' which with special include video-teaching aids and closed-circuit television.

For the luxury of the business- men who will pile aboard there will be a restaurant car, bar and club room. The train will make one-day calls at various main centres throughout the country. Workers Press, Monday April 24, 1972 PAGE 3 ant political slogans once festooned the iron railings But the real winhers mové are Plessey shrewd as Plesseys. They bought the factory to get all the Mark

HANUCUTO

from the Labour government and 24 contract. Purchase of Alexan- opened up in January 1970. They dria eliminated a possible rival.

promised the hard-pressed town 2,000 but Alexandria jobs eventually there 15-per- was a cent male unemployment rate.

From the moment the com- According to a recent govern- pany started operations, a plan "hitch' has systematically ment statement, the to run down the been and factory to have overcome the appears been pro- gramme of development is steam- put into operation. After pro- ing ahead. The first Mark 24 tests and marches the workers occupied the should be operative by day the factory next year and Plessey stand to make Navy plant - - once the Royal a lot of money. Torpedo Works officially - Was closed September 3, 1971. Meanwhile men wait for work on Plessey bought the factory, vons are warv of confirmin about machinery and stocks for prospective pur- firm chasérs, but there one £650,000—they sold the building offering 600 jobs nibbling at the and land to Lyons for €350,000. bait. But the electronics has giant Once they get re-employed the retained the machinery-though building men say they will begin as concession their to ex- promised their trade union organization employees they- have They not it-for all over again. are eager, to move two years. for The greatest asset of all from example, to take up the the dal however, industry claim deal, however, the Mark engineering more money, shorter hours and multi-million Originally longer holidays. pound contract. the old RNTF factory had this But at Alexandria-which has con- was caused with the tract-its closure one thing in common by 'technical hitch' in torpédo of the of Scotland; rest development. lengthening dole queues — this Shop stewards now see the kind of struggle seems far away.

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

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

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

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IAIN HAMPSON

From Cumnock, Ayrshire. mines Worked in years. Young Socialists' joined the Right-to-Work nock en route from Glasgow to Carlisle. When the ushers heard about The Committee's statement the 'Morning Star' they were really voser doout It. One manure wev were giving us £100 for the cam- paign funds and the next minute unev were and making excuses about it. When gave the £100 back, we it was great, because it showed that we depend COnt on tneir money. The all voted unanimously the Toe dirty trick the

UCS

leadership had played. They wanted line to sand the tes of y CS t. thee money back. leaflet all that Was Byell ine Uls workers explaining wny we the money back was gave It to work on really went Sical.

UCS

Stalinists «Co. une toe ordinating Committee. I think myself that the workers in Clydeside will feel it most that ineir top men are aoing this to _youth of today. workers on the Clyde- 'It's up to the men on the Clydeside to stand up and fight their leaders' bank KnOW noW ther have suffered under the Tory govern- came down through the country going to get away Will rans they should also ment today and experiences taught me a lot longer-that going That is KnOW nOW Lne nave and fight them. stand up more about It. suffered. The working class must stand the only way we will succeea.

Clydeside to stand up and fight to the men up and fight this leadership with

J. KYDD

DUl" see that toeir eaters To this tically on revolutionary policies AUEW member, Dundee. doesn't happen again to the rid the Tories and get of workers five youth, because this sort was one It Is Labour Timex victimized in the auto- pledged to socialist policies.

shop dispute last and I'm year if they don't. If their leaders can do this the Labour government still without a lob. i am to doesn't carry out these policies, Communist Party member. they do the vouth of today. can I have read John Barrie's letter with them too. then the working class are the £100 turning their backs the un- and organized and can deal with regarding the return of on

UCS

these people. donation employed youth, then they will

SOOD

Tory committee, following Already under this ser men diso as quick as jook ar advertisements allegation That was the feeling of all covernment we are une incil. the marchers. or the 193s and it this nite n ne infive Star Ine if this of workers It's govern- taught us to stand up and of the Was "Tribune' had been that fight this sort of leadership even not tought. then that Is ment s deceit and determinedly. When I first what will happen. through more received fraud. The return of this donation We have to show them all over the march l knew very was the correct and principled are little about this fight, but as we the country that they not 7. Charter of Basic Rights 1. The right of every worker to a job deal means loss of jobs. We must a basie mece y o ires is not a privilege, but tivity emand : nghi Unemployment is DaSC nCeOSIL ol Ciccias y being created • No Measured-Day Work, no intensifica.

acuuc-alch to divide the working class and weaken them.

tion of working conditions.

• Full for group of workers are arainst new technology-we any CnOT wages strugtles. want to eliminate cancerous ana unnecessary • No sackito lts workers ronc kut every workers montr com•arabe any firm which continuus employment pro- MUSt seed wi tected. without the fighi higher WOrKED

COALTO.

• Wo oppone raciaam ut ery worker ln.

e re did orea de cor vorker hou of bis choice. Every ware settlement linked to a produc- 2. The democratic right to strike and organize work- THE STANDARD of living and everything trade union and political activity of the working class has is based on the right to which is basic in their strumale. strike and organize. The working class must give Torle not allow these the to sake the road of hitler rights, No employer ever gave anytning away, and Mussolini. *e ‹ nu o mcœ Without the right to torce oue WTUC General Conad they are entitled to the working nothing bole novement to lefeat the TÚC destroy Ae called Immedia The Tory anti-union Bill aims to the dete meion: unions and leave General Strike to defeat tee late amediately, the threatens 3. The right of the working class to retain the gains they have made moden industr lare sandai oot pne- modern industry The Bros os tre ihe improved standard of living that the dorking class bas we cannot accept that lving standaras can e driven down simply because the system won ln sturgic. private ownership- -capitalism-is breaking ep The working class has an absolute right to drep cison for cane teneri os the forne.

maintain these gains. of production for the of mankind. of the working class and power Only a socialist society can solve the crisis.

1he 4. The right to a higher standard of living

WE CANNOT

stand aside while prices, We call for trade unions confront the

ICLLS

tares alc alwe lo

LOCKO!

oracr to

CIDIOYCIS

covenmctt living for a selected muallall luxury Tew, aranst Senor es WIto Sier:Teel trade unions without were acuranos. accaorice the arCaLc SiRIC •roolce• any restcave sarris aa conclons. the tarous teis working. caritalist

GPSS.

the Agreements •sucae sause auSo

CARCAR

of stanaares WorkE DeOD e Can

WILCH

Increase Wees automenorv n ine 10c 10178 drose pensioners. Tane siniorcesa order that gains once achieved are not eroded by price increases.

chronic sick ane une quo wane arreements Wscal acca or Te starens Trade InGoe

•TONMOVI

oers are Halons anust čom zon of this principe and lead to greater «!! pen- beervu öe cont exvoon ane worsener concitons tor toe slons, also lor pensions to increase in with any increase in the cost of living.

Whole worklne cass. ine am t SopronT irrespective of political differences do under the circum- thing to all sections of the working stances. is to be regretted that the class. stewards' With that political under-

UCS

shop committee biased point standing at adopted this hostile, toere was no reason view regarding the Right-to- all attempt in the most in- of to fantile manner to hinder, restrict, Work marches organized by the this Young Socialists. This form of devalue the principle of or struggle was theirs in the demand Right to Work and march-the for 'Right Work' and defeat of this Tory govern- their to the supported by should have been ment. the broad all progressives in As communists and socialists, labour movement. we need to respond to the new The UCS shop stewards' com- forces that have come into action.

Of greai importance is the move- mittee's point of view is impos- their chal- of the youth, sible to accept or understand in ment tremendous lenge to the establishment and the light of the for the working revolutionary way support given by quest their forward. Marxism is not a series class to finance campaign and form of struggle for thé UCS of set formulas this march and workers' Right to Work. deserved the UCS workers' and stewards' committee sup- and Their support, moral shop financial, was given in good faith port.

POLICE BRUTALITY

ON POMPIDOU TOÜR

Young people who demon- strated against French Presi- dent Pompidou's visit to the depressed Lorraine province brutally last weekend were beaten by police in the full view of pressmen. While they were being beaten -up a few yards from the presi- dential rostrum, Pompidou was extolling the democratic charac- ter of the referendum on British entry to the Common Market, which took place yesterday.

Andre Passeron, reporter for 'Le Monde' described how five or six young people were picked out of the crowd at Pompidou's rally in Remiremont and taken to police headquarters close to the site of the rally. There police made them run the gauntlet for several minutes, punching them in the face with such violence that one victim was knocked to the floor and others bled copiously. A carload of journalists watching from a parked car through an open door into the police station were 'an edifying demon- treated to stration of how law and order are maintained, Passeron wrote.

Much the same happened in other towns on the President's whistle-stop tour. At Epinal, where Pompidou walked down the main street, demonstrators hardly had time to open their mouths before police chased them into alleyways and beat them up.

At Thionville, the police chiet censured by his superiors was for having failed to stop people distributing leaflets calling abstention in yesterday's vote.

At Saint-Die, where the mayor himself is a Socialist Party mem- ber, trade unionists and seven Socialist Party members who turned with placards against the referendum shut in the were police station for two hours.

Their organization complained that the slogans they were carrying 'not injurious, were either to the President or to the police'. They also complained that 700 members of the para-military CRS and numerous plain-clothes were drafted into the policemen during the presidential town visit. These incidents would hardly have been noticed if Pompidou had not devoted so much breath to proclaiming the 'freedom' of opposition in France. During his tour, at Gerardmer, he declared: 'In our country, thank heavens, there are many opinions and parties' At Remiremont said: he "Underneath diversity the of opinions, we must see what is essential.' At Epinal, he assured listeners: his 'We can have different political opinions, and we must have them because it would be very serious if this were not the case' He even added: "Today, everyone can say what he thinks.' Passeron quotes the cynical aphorism: alowed. .on not expressed.' how electoral exercis President many opinlons 'All opinions alc They are This is certainly Pompidou's Bonapartist ral exercise is shaping uD.

Pompidou: there are obinions and ere Proas, Monday April 24, 1972 PAGE 5 The Japanese government's attempts to annexe the Sen- kaku islands, NW of For- mosa, have sparked a dispute with China over the islands' sovereignty. Both Peking and the Nation- alist government on Formosa claim the Islands as part of China and sharp words have been exchanged over their future.

The islands are thought to lie over oil-bearing geological strata.

The conservative Tokyo gov- ernment, led by Eisaku Sato, is working out measures to install a taken force on the Senkaku chain after May 15, when the US is due to hand over Okinawa -mid-way between Japan and Formosa-to Japan. The Japanese government claims it is entitled to occupy the islands under the reversion treaty. According to Japan, they come under the 'areas of rever- sion' included in the treaty.

Early last month Sato's Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda claimed in the lower house of parliament that the islands 'belong to Japan'.

Prime Minister Sato His Ministry tried to prove this assertion by stating that a survey made in 1885 had shown that the Senkaku islands had never been ruled by China's Ching dynasty. pointed out Fukuda that Imperial Japan had annexed the islands back in 1895, which only served to inflame the Chinese even more. They described it as 'precisely a confession of the criminal act of the old Japanese militarists in annexing China's territory'.

Sato's land-grab in the Sen- kakus is backed by the Japanese Communist Party. At the end of last month, the Party issued a statement officially supporting the government over the islands.

'There is no historical evidence,' the Party said, that Chinese have ever lived on the islands.'

The Turkish military dictatorship has allocated £20m for 'modern- ization' its police force, of already one of the best-equipped in the Middle East. According to Ferit Kubat, the Minister of the Interior, £7m is being spent on the riot police and £13m on traffic, training and planning. Ihe riot police will get 1,000 extra sten guns—500 each for Ankara and Istanbul-and are also being provided with bullet- proof vests and tear-gas grenades.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday April 24, 1872 Part 2 period of unprecedented In this In its own through the the blows struck against them by way, Common Market, capitalism Stalinist crisis for European capitalism the tries bureaucracy Market takes Peking. European Common contradiction overcome on a new Its extension between the productive Tse-tung's approach to Torces blicalilils. to include Britain and those and the constricting limits of the Ni imperialism despite reurease national within imperialism bureau- with her historic states groupea willies which these Trade bourgeois rree ault cracy Common emphasizes character as struggles Itsell. but the Market counter-revolutionary coalition does not in fact transcend these The IC of the Fourth Interna limits of result affirms its solidarity with aimed working class and any merging tional In of the European national liberation antenced create conallions interests _Ine suruskit European Which canitasm Can runs casses. t opens up a more or ine arao peoble azanst word find a basis for survival in con- bitter struggle for hegemony imperialism and its agents in the United States and inside the so-called European Middle East-the state of Israel with the which the weak- the Community wards sallit est against the perfidious policy Heatin covernment supported by Party has hase in section The revolutionary movement the Soviet bureaucracy which is Britain the sensed orderery way bring of the Labour the situation Market 'new order' repre- Common about a dea with imperialism to Lo oIn one sinisiel sent Market, crush the revolution. preparation or CIvil COm. the hope that ailing British capi.

mon which constitutes These are transformed will be given injection main counter-revolutionary which Trotskyism talism conditions in of and capital strength. European revolutionary leader- 1O1 ship. The starting point for every against the working class. aim- rivalry between europene capitalist states will or Britis. ing to destroy its conquests. Fourth International section can with the entry Brezhnev's declaration that the this: after August appear now will modify only reach pitch Soviet bureaucracy 1971 qualitatively but will a new We WOrK

EEC

driving each govern- the ointersity. transtormed conditions ment to strike even hold out the highest possibilities, more neci. der aration willingness sively against the collaborate counter- and natches me me the treatest In Britain, the Industrial most intense which the the struggle: conditions in Tons surenzinent police forces and changes Market. the Fourth International political decisions of revolution- in Taf law part of this pr legal rights are calls for the taking of power by involve whole future this preparation. Shes or Eye The is li of the working class. British une Sallit finance capital States of Europe nrenares t take advantage of the new opportuni- only answer which accords with for profit which hopes the historic interests of the

WINNING

working class. within the Common Market.

of the workers' fighting Serions

THE

Britain which can no longer be demands. In every movement in e vance. can.

when tariff talist countries now. joins with of the competitive sections the struggles

LEADERSHIP

either be revolutionary come down will tional nght above all to ( the workers down procucuon will shifted to the continent. Specula- colonial Vietnam, working class, countres.

OF THE

and financiers fresare eagerly US imperialism is fought every partial struggle standstill. despite the interna- for pickings, looking bring the class tace to tac the Vietna- betrayal of

WORKING

regardless of the this COn- question or Ils own sequences. Bangla which involves a complete In the Common Mar mese revo union: ang ket, in the whole market. Desh the masses with the : Stalinists as nerzio

CLASS

which pre- Cien sour at so despire of the revolu- capitalist anarchy entirely and the building of mass yails. tionary parties. The nature of the crisis in the between

SECTION II

relationship the The Fourth Internationa means mar une task

HOW

the revolutionary movement becomes of winning the uncompromising the misleadership leadership of working class The class and, Ing International Committee Stalinist fought a tenacious and thorough- agencies inrougnour tne Stalinism going theoretical against doubly reactionary •all conceptions that the political the consciousness tne Working back class can be developed spontane ment of the productive to ously of the the workers' experience greed, corruption or of the Class listll At the same time it struggle only for its immediat demands. workle Cas. In every country, the cy its ee actionary bares he trade reactionary trade 'peaceful the unions only by fighting for 'peaceful transition leadership th Stalinism revolutionary tionary based on a struggle fo unions. brutal its intervention Marxist theory against trace 1968 union consciousness Sovakid sion of the tions now required could not be urgency December not be demonstrates understood 111CT TrOM together experience of the togeles and • name ore working class ing against bureaucratic p and dictatorshile ah make a Marxist analysis of the develop ing crisis of the capitalist econ- sovier ateneculas, selcli penetration into writers wei fast that the stateist omy and its relations between une to preserve classes at the level of state power Clary. and politics ase elations wimin well as economi- regime expression of artistic and cally, and in dissidence. In doing itself. the ruing class Such an analysis insepar able from struggle for Marxist theory of dialectical and the working class. materialism, The International Top: Czechoslovakia In August 1968. Stalinism showed its fear and against caceduca 01001- of the Fourth Internationa hatred of the working class fighting against bureaucratic privilege taneous development revO 1. Above: Podgorny, Kosygin-a doubly tionary consciousness. against all Brezhnev, and Incontional these dissidents propaganda conceptions of simply reacuionary toi. of part of the fight to construct a programme Trotskyist party which alone can the every country, Fourth Interna- carry out the political expropria- and fight above all to develop tion of the bureaucracy democracy litical independence of the restore proletarian the and intellectual freedom in to intervene in

USSR.

struggle in order to class face to face with At the same time thie Interna- Committee of the Fourth of its own power, tional International will fight to combat involves a complete break treachery Peking ne Stalinists and reformists, Stalinism's Moscow alike - which has of mass revolu- and condemned entire communist hundreds and thou- parties and sands of workers in Indonesia, Fourth International exists Sudan, Iran and other countries and continuous to extinction. of the French The collapse struggle against General Strike of May-June 1968 of the work- the constitutes the most decisive test particular, to date of the correctness of the and its of throughout the world, Trotskyist characterization counter-revolution- always plays Stalinism as stud- reactionarv role. It holds Initially opposing the ary. the CP leaders harmonious Jevelop- ents' struggle, of the productive forces in suddenly switched their line effectively control through its states order to more - in the the General Strike and corruption and parasitism.

same time it disarms the absence of a revolutionary leader- ship-steered the movement back in the capitalist ies and facilitates betrayal to 'normality and order. The Fifth Republic and French reactionary brainchild of saved, co-existence' and were not capitalism because of any intrinsic strength ul transition' to socialism.

but because of counter-revolu- of the regime, through and through. By Stalinist collaboration. the tal intervention in Czecho- Refusal of the revisionists of the OCI and the Ligue Communiste and suppres- and f the Gdansk uprising raise political demands in 1970, Stalinism post the Stalinist bureaucraer question power strates its mortal fear and powerfully the of the working class fight- contributed to subsequent betrayal o Stal- ainst bureaucratic privilege mists A Beginn General The continued retreat inists exile and torture of revisionism intellectuals, scientists and Strike of 1961, played an important role in pre- reminder grim et that the Stalinist bureau- serving the grip of Stalinism on the European working class.

to preserve its usurpatory The reformist counter-revolu repress every sion of artistic and literary ionary policies of international ince. In doing so it stimu- Stalinism not only help perpetu- ate imperialism, but by the same anti- expressions accentuate the isolation cratic revolt in the youth token the USSR and China and inten- Committee the social contradictions sify Fourth International fights within them. Stalinism cannot be reformed.

unconditional release of It must be smashed, overthrown an integral through the mobilization of the engage in this task under the leader- tionary optimism working class Every blow struck against ship of the Interna- parties ism intensifies tional Committee of the Fourth of the indicess osses International. The But this struggle policies requires bureaucracy, by patience, tactical resourcefulness clear dialectical under- working class and revolutionary tasks and ex standing of the present crisis and the nature and origins of Stalin- the to towards counter-revolut ism. dictatorships, No successful struggle can be Stalinist gravest danger to carried out against the of the October Revolution the

USSR,

leadership outside Europe China As the crisis deepens, Eastern and by or individuals ism is inexorably driven who base themselves on a one-sided analy- ways of reconquering in the sis and preconceived ideas.

lost World and after is the political Stalinism The danger of the interests of expression war threatens bureaucracy transmitting the more menacingly with ever pressures of world imperialism on towards reaction by the working class. But the inter- The alists. only ests of the working class which of war supports the Stalinist parties, struggle of the working thrown violent into its own power, by the of imperi- struggle crisis the building alism, demands that these parties parties. go forward for power. The In the epoch of the intensified stands for the crisis of imperialism these con- defence of the flicting and mutually workers' other of the exclusive aspirations against imperialism. class and the bureau- working for the cracy come into conflict and pre- capitalist every cipitate crisis after in the crisis effective only Stalinist movement. defence. colla-. The The Stalinist-imperialist CriSiS boration after World War II was affects part and parcel of the monetary and, in particular, compour and which permitted agitation arrangements policies be bourgeoisie inflationary to pur- petty oped sued the capitalist and by Dowels, however the termination of Unable alike. now Bretton Woods hatred of capitalism the agreement disrupts completely this revolutionary groups express their despa ship. This provides the Trotskyist political impotency by ind movement with unparalleled terror as well as opportunities to recruit from the Stalinist parties and destroy the violence. of The International political credibility their of the Fourth leaders. warns the working class To ignore these opportunities the of is to condemn the working class which to defeats greater than those adventurism 1930s. blind alley the The International Committee of the Fourth diversion of the Inter- historic national urges all its sections to from its in this task with revolu- of and the was seizure state power of the and audacity. replacing of private property by struck against Stalin- social None of these property. the death agony aims can be achieved by the US methods of the 'urban guerrilla' of the Stalinist -or the which —revisionist or anarchist- rural foco' of the Guevarists and turning the away from its Maoists. ionary tasks and exposing by The Pabloite revisionists, drive encouraging this trend as well as imperialist Ids counter-revolutionary by their attacks adventurist on constitute the the traditional of the parties conquests working class, display, in the October Revolution itself.

criminal way, their con- most deepens, for the work- tempt and hatred imperial- ment The to seek and Marxism. ing class tions the Committee of the International 1953 Revolution Fourth Internațional will continue Russian regime its irreconcilable struggle against of a third world this reactionary tendency.

working class nenacingly with every step

MOBILIZATION

by the imperi- answer to the is the united

OF THE

e of the working class for tion power, achieved through

WORKNG

revolutionary

MASSES

International Committee the the unc unconditional and the Only the mobilization of the in a war states independent working masses, in Preparation under the leadership of sition actions. proletarian revolution in Fourth of the Interna- the parties country is tional based on Marxist theory, road such to This workers' win power. can has been the consistent stand of of imperialism Committee the International section of society the revisionism in i particular, compounds the against all Fourth International. geois of the insecurity found the The struggle to bourgeoisie in the devel- Fourth International against Stal- colonial countries inism and its betrayals was at the their express time the struggle to con- in a really same revolutionary parties these struct new way, social Since the basis of Marxism. express their despair and Commit- al impotency by individual 1953, th the International fought the constantly as well as by pacifist non- tee tendency pablo, led by originally declared which Committee Michel class was no International that the working independent capable longer the working class against and that therefore the petty-bourgeois struggle. of Marxist parties leads to the construction must be abandoned in favour of and the Dressurizing Stalinism. working class to Stalinism the This adaptation goal Workers Press, Monday April 24, 1972 PAGE 7 is racked by fundamental internal crisis, being torn apart by the movement forward of the working class internationally.

the guestions it refused to face In now up but section is capable of providing any answers. The majority fac- tion preaches 'neo-capitalism' and 'structural reforms' the 1n advanced countries, while encour- aging the wildest guerrilla adven- tures in colonial countries.

It bears political responsibility for the assassinations by the

ERP

which occur precisely at the moment when the Argentine working class is going into deci- sive battles. The minonty, sup- ported by collaborates Stalinism with anti-war itself basing on all of middle-class protests manner American when the working class is forced to confront Nixon Democratic and Party the Bro- being ripped apart in cess. After a long within struggle International Committee the change the French its course, decided

OCI

has to follow the path of the SWP by breaking the International Commit- from The break has taken place over the most fundamental issue of all. What was at the root of the of Pabloism- degeneration the Marxist method.

TRAINI

G

ARXISM

At the Essen conference in the spring of 1971, the OCI and its youth organization, the

AJS

voted down an amendment, put forward by the the majority of Committee. International This that the amendment stated struggle against bourgeois ideo- logy among the youth was central the construction of the inter- to national Trotskyist youth move. ment. This struggle required study of the Marxist theory of knowledge and the actual train- ing of the youth cadres in the struggle for this understanding.

Following this action the

OCI

supported Lora's

POR

openly contributed to the defeat which forth a broad frent with stal.

Bolivian the bourgeois nation- inism and of alist regime Torres call upon the work- refusing to class independently to arm ing itself counter-revolution. the against result of abandonment Lora has since entered a popular Marxist method and thus with the front formation Torres, capitulation to the pressures of Stalinists and the Pabloites while the capitalist class. In the 1963. the OCI remains silent. Socialist Workers' Party, This political which course, originally supported the duplicates the Ceylonese events formation of the International the direct result of the refusal Committee, broke from the Inter-

OCI

the take up national Committee of the to support a to educate its members struggle reunification with the Pabloites, and Marxist method the in known in forming what is as the able to develop a Unified this way to be Secretariat. towards the orientation real This reunification took place in France and working without any discussion or assess- the construction of the towards ment of the fundamental ques- Fourth International. involved in the original There is only one revolutionary split. Instead the Castro tendency world and that in the uncritically Committee was sup- International is the ported as the new way to make of the Fourth International, fight- revolutions without constructing ing for independent revolutionary Marxist parties, the opportunist What in every country. parties Lanka Sama Samaja Party

(LSSP)

of the Fourth Inter- Trotsky said of Ceylon was held up as a model national in 1938 has even greater Trotskyist organization, and the Fourth Inter- force today: The programme of political revolu- exists; it has neither to national was completely thrown out nor created, nor be proclaimed, for China. reconstructed. The

SWP

having now be done in always What must is to develop the refused to take up a struggle for each country the Marxist method, cadres of the movement through ended up supporting what it broke from a serious struggle for dialectical each The Unified Secretariat 1953. materialism as 1n movement takes stands today complete Trotskyist OppO- the to Trotsky fight for the political everything the the working stood for. independence of preparation for taking The fruits of the reunification class, its revisionists these the power. It is in this way that revolu- Ceylon, where expressed in will be built and party calling itself Trotskyist, the tionary parties world SSP, actually bour- entered the socialist revolution prepared. The Fourth Conference coalition government, Committee cabinet The of the International accepting posts. of of the Fourth International calls unprincipled nature the the political working-class revolution- reunification upon

WAC

betrayal in this aries everywhere the preparation for to accept Ceylon. In 1971, the LSSP again challenge of the crisis opened up 1971, to rally this August 15. entered the government, since Fourth in a bloody banner of the the to participate rebellious International in every country, campaign against the revolutionary youth, ending up jailing Trotsky- and build parties which will lead the work.

ists and banning the press of the Com- class the of Trotskyist Revolutionary ing conquest munist League, Ceylon Section of power. Adopted unanimously by the the International Committee. This Fourth Congress the is the real expression of the role of of revisionism in this period of International Committee the Fourth International.

the sharp capitalist crisis. April 14, 1972. The Unified Secretariat today

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Aprli 24, In December 1920, Lloyd George's 'Home Rule' Bill for Ireland was passed. It contained provisions for the establishment of two parlia- ments and governments in Ireland, each having very limited powers. It also laid down a subsequent amal- gamation of both in one parliament and one govern- ment for the whole of Ireland.

This was different from the Ulster Unionists who wanted Ulster to be governed as it had been since the Act of Union of 1800—i.e. all nine counties to be part of the United Kingdom. Lloyd George the offered parlia- Unionists a subordinate ment of Six Counties as the-only alternative to Dublin rule.

Home Rule, had of course, been promised to tne Irish in during conscription for return this was but World War 1, certainly not the reason for the Bill. Lloyd George would have had no scruples at all about breaking a solemn pledge, but he was, in fact, under considerable pressure United States. from addition the Easter Rising of been warning of 1916 had things to come and this was underlined by the Irish results in the 'Khaki election' of 1918.

Redmond's moderate National- ist Party was virtually wiped out and almost every Irish constitu- Sinn Fein returned ency member pledged not to sit at Westminster. Indeed, the Sinn Feiners pro- nounced themselves the first Dail Eireann (Parliament of Ireland) in January, 1919, and issued the 'Democratic Programme of the First Dail'. This proclaimed the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland... and to all its material possessions'.

The Dail elected as President Eamon de Valera, who had com- the insurgent manded one units in 1916. From the first proclamation of the Dail there was intensified guerrilla warfare against British military rule.

This was inevitable, since the of Ireland Act was Government a settlement imposed against the wishes of every party in Ireland : the Unionists. And • pra -including most of the elected members of the Dail were either in prison or hunted by the British being authorities. The new Dublin parliament, in fact, was to have fewer powers under the than those granted abortive Home Rule Bill of 1914.

It had no control over peace or national defence, external war, relations or external trade. And the police and Post. Office were also under the authority of West- minster. In the N, the Unionists, were ready to sacrifice the counties of Monaghan, Cavon and Donegal direct rule from West- once because there minstér ceased, considerable nationalist were majorities in those three counties.

y April 24, 1972 Arthur Gritfin who succeeded De Valera as President of the Dail Two other counties-Tyrone and Fermanagh—also had nationalist majorities, but the Unionists were confident they could swamp these with the majorities large Unionist populations in the other four counties. It is important to stress, how- ever, that the British government the impression deliberately gave —indeed, wrote it into the Act- be that partition was to temporary. The Act which established the parliament for the Six Counties in the NE and the parliament for the , remaining 26 of counties also provided for Ireland, Council of Ireland which was to of both representatives unite parliaments for the declarea pur- ose of 'terminatin" partition'. In practice, the parliament of the 26 into counties never came existence and the Council of therefore Ireland never was formed. In the S, guerrilla warfare was intensified. British troops could powerful without not move and railway transport escorts had to be almost abandoned and by armed replaced convoys travelling by road. Communications between Dub- lin and SW Ireland became almost impossible. Moreover, the Royal Irish Constabulary was practically liquidated by whole- sale resignations resulting from boycotts and ambushes. Eventually, the British appointed Sir Hamar Greenwood as Chief Secretary for Ireland.

recruited Greenwood a new Auxiliary Police Force, mainly from recently demobilized army officers and a series of 'reprisals' This included began. burning houses, villages, towns and down occasion- the even-on one centre of the city of Cork.

The Sinn Feiners refused to collaborate in the 'S Ireland' which met only parliament once-attended by the four mem- bers elected from Dublin university, and no-one else.

In these circumstances, Lloyd George informed the old Unionist 1917: De Valera, in Irish volunteer offic leader Carson that 'the game was up' and the British would have to go some way to meet the Sinn Fein demands because 'the government could not get the troops to go on in Ireland'.!

Lloyd George's record in Ireland had been relation to devious in the extreme-even for um. In 19d ne had been one of the principal authors and advocates of the Home Rule Bill, which he sponsored as a Bill parlia- establishing one national ment for all Ireland. already In 1914 he was responsible for the attempted compromise which would have enabled four Ulster counties to obtain exclusion from Home Rule for six years if they voted for exclusion. In 1916 he had proposed • an immediate operation of the Home Rule Act, with exclusion for Six as a unit; and he had Counties the nationalists that persuaded the exclusion would be temporary and the Ulster Unionists that it would be permanent. In 1917 he had promised that the Irish Convention as should assembly constituent frame a new settlement by agree- ment for all Ireland. In 1918 he to placate insisted, in order America, that Ulster must acquiesce in any agreed settle- that the Convention ment proposed. His temporary triumph at the 'Khaki Election' following armistice enabled him to disre- gard the Irish problem for time. He then sought to crush the national agitation by outright When that military coercion. failed, he carried the government of Ireland Act, discussed above.

That Act had hardly come into operation in 1921 when entered into negotiations for a totally different scheme to establish Dominion status for all Ireland. This involved attempting to terms with de Valera come to who, having escaped from Lincoln jail, was theoretically open to re- involved capture. Intermediaries in these negotiations included of Perth, Archbishop Clune General Smuts of S Africa and a British representative (Sir James Craig) who travelled in a sealed car to meet de Valera. De Valera was at that time regarded as a hero by many Irishmen, but he did not, in fact, see the Irish people, least of all class, the Irish working as the achieving of Ireland's means salvation. Throughout this period, de Valera pinned all his hopes on the Paris Peace Conference and intervention by President on Wilson of the United States?

de Valera, however, Even steer officer's uniform, hears of his election as i would not swallow the Anglo- Irish Treaty which Lloyd George foisted onto Ireland in December 1921 by a mixture of lies and threats. The Irish • delegation to the Treaty negotiations signed the Agreement in the face of Lloyd George's threat of "immedi- terrible war' if they ate and refused which On signing the Treaty, they did on December 6, 1921, leaders were given to the Irish understand that a boundary com- mission would be set up to draw dividing line between the Ireland' and the so-called Irish Free State. Lloyd George convinced some of the Irish leaders-particularly Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins that this would enable in the NE with areas nationalist majority to join the Free State. specifically This was, indeed, promised-though with a discreet qualifying clause—-in the terms of the Treaty which stated: • commission... shall deter- with the mine in accordance wishes of the inhabitants, so far as may be compatible with eco- geographical nomic and con- boundaries be- siderations, the tween N Ireland and the rest of Ireland.' the boundary com- In fact, fell through before it mission really got started and the Six in • 'Ulster' remained Counties The nationalist section of the population-which included many Protestants-was never given the choice of joining the Irish Free State. The Anglo Irish Treaty led directly to civil war in Ireland.

The Irish delegation which signed it did "so without authority from Dublin and the storm over this was intensified when it was dis- covered that the Treaty required members of the Irish all Pro- visional Government to take an oath of loyalty to the English king—i.e., to recognize the ulti- mate sovereignty of Britain over the 'Free' State. After stormy scenes which tore Sinn Fein apart, the treaty was endorsed in the Dail by 64 votes to 57. De Valera resigned as President of the Dail (to be succeeded by the pro-Treaty Arthur Griffith) and formed a new Republican organization— Cumann na Poblachta. He held giant anti- rallies all over Ireland, Treaty expressing the fear that the Pro- visional Government (set up to 'take over from British') would replace the Dail. By March 1922, armed clashes occurring between were sup- opponents of the porters and Treaty. Civil war, however, could action as a Sinn Fein member of the Dail glo- have been prevented, even at this stage. ' It was the deliberate action of the British government which made civil in Ireland war inevitable. On May 20, 1922, the Collins- de Valera pact was concluded in This envolved avert civi war.

pledge by involved Collins that a government would be set up consisting of a national coalition panel drawn from both parties. But the British position was spelt out at • Westminster by Winston Churchill. Churchill declared that ratifica- tion of the Treaty would be withheld by Britain if the Irish drew which up a • constitution was 'unsatisfactory' or if the Irish government included ministers who had not taken the oath of allegiance to the British crown. Collins then repudiated his agreement with de Valera not to include the oath in the Irish constitution. In the ensuing Irish election 58 solidly pro-Treaty members were returned plus a further 35 who were committed to the Treaty in some degree.

Thirty-five anti-Treaty members were ranged against them.

Valera After the election de waited for Collins to honour his coalition pledge. Whether would have done so will never be known. Because, before any steps to form an Irish government could be taken, Sir Henry Wilson, a leading supporter of the Orange Order was assassinated—not in Ireland but in London. No con- nection of any Irish faction with this murder was ever established and the murderer was never It was, caught. without any doubt, a most convenient occur- rence for the British government.

Lloyd George declared that the murder was 'proof' that a Repub- campaign of terror against lican Britain and the Six Counties had started. And increasing British pressure was put upon Collins and Griffiths. On June 28, 1922, forces of the Irish provisional government, using artillery borrowed from the British army, opened fire on the headquarters of the Irish Volunteers, who opposed the Treaty. The Irish civil war had begun.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

1 Denis Gwynn: "The History of Partition', p. 195. 2 The Earl of Longford and T. P.

O'Neill: 'Eamon de Valera', p. 88f.

3 Gwynn op. cit., p. 222.

Just back from his 'goodwill' trip to the Sudan, Rumania's president Nicolae Ceausescu is embarking on a new flirtation with W European capitalism, despite opposition from Moscow. • By playing Moscow against Peking, Ceausescu has been •able to achieve a limited degree of major independence from_both the Stalinist bureaucracies world. He uses this position to with cement • closer relations imperialism. His government has now offi- cially approached Franco Mal- fatti, president of the Common Market commission, to request preferential customs treatment.

The Common Market grants such treatment to a total of 67 coun- as in the course tries described of development'. In this way it brings them within the orbit of the big Ger- man and French monopolies in for more favourable exchange treatment for their exports to EEC countries. The usual arrangement is for the Common Market countries to import manufactured agree to and semi-manufactured goods from the country involved free of duty or with very low tariffs.

limit is An usually upper imposed on the quota which can be imported in this way—usually 5 per cent above the amount of their previous exports to the

EEC.

Already involved in this scheme are most of the Latin American countries, the former Market colonies of Common states in Africa and other parts of the world and such countries as Ceylon and Afghanistan.

The only two Stalinist coun- involved to date tries are Albania, China's European satel- lite, and Yugoslavia. The rest of E Europe is organized in the Comecon bloc, oriented economi- cally towards Moscow. Despite signs that the Soviet leaders may be changing their position on the Common Market (notably Leonid Brezhnev's recent speech to Soviet trade unions) Moscow has yet to recognize the Common Market. At present the Comecon nations deal with EEC members individually, as if the Common Market did not exist. Some com- mentators have linked Rumania's application for special status with President Nixon's recent visit to Peking. They say the rapprochement between Peking and Washington has strengthened China's posi- made it easier tion and a more inde- Rumania to follow pendent line. The French government, which had close : traditional links with the pre-war capitalists of Rum- ania, is showing a particularly.

keen interest in Ceausescu's new turn. They are certain to support the application when it comes up for decision at the EEC Council of Ministers. There is likely to be whether some argument over Rumania can be classed as an 'underdeveloped' country.

Some members of the Euro- commission argue that pean Rumania is too highly-developed industrially as a result of the overthrow of capitalism there to be classed as a genuine pauper state. But the majority will almost certainly calculate that the advantages of including Rumania in their system far outweigh the Nicolao Conuscacu: proferential customa disadvantages. It gives the W European monopolists another opportunity to chip away at the monopoly of foreign trade within the workers' states. Yugoslavia, which has gone much further than Rumania along the road of economic collaboration with the W, has now been extensively opened up Yugoslavia's 'self-managing' enterprises have been accused of manipulating the press to favour their own interests. The accusation was made in a speech last week by Ivan Rican, an executive member the Croat League of Communists to a meeting of radio and regional newspaper editors. Rican began by trying to refute rumours spread after the recent session of the Yugoslav Communist Party presidium that 'a period of censorship is await- ing us. He claimed the YLC fav- oured the independence but also full responsibility of the media.

There is no record of whether his audience were convinced by in | customs treatment the penetration of foreign to capital. However, the commission could still be divided over the Ruman- ian application. W Germany's premier Willy Brandt, is eager to the Soviet cement his ties with Union and Poland and is opposed to anything that may cut across his 'Ostpolitik'. this assurance, but Rican went on to say that those who pro- vided the press with means also demanded 'appropriate behaviour' from journalists. This statement was amplified from the floor by the editor of the Sisak paper 'Jedinstvo' who observed: 'It is seldom possible to criticize anyone who buys pages of a newspaper or time on the radio.' Another editor, from Vinkovci, confirmed the point. He was forced to sell space in his paper, he said, because the republican bodies supplied his paper with only a fifth of the amount of money needed to keep going.

So, it would seem, money can buy its way into the press even in 'socialist' Yugoslavia.

Workers Press, Monday April 24, 1972 PAGE 9 right of appeal for tenants or the council against the decis- ions of a rent scrutiny board.

'Camden the objects to Continuing the of the saga penalty of up to £50 against a London Borough of Camden, thought by some to be tenant who stops a scrutiny the board member entering his most progressive in the GLC.

home to inspect it. Readers of the Workers 'Camden objects to the Press will remember that we gradual ending of controlled recently revealed a reactionary tenancies. from a lead- recommendation 'Camden objects to rent ing member of the Social allowances being paid only in Service Department to send families homeless back to choice in bigger where they came from. homes than they need or Now comes their proposals well-to-do neighbourhoods.

Tory for countering the "fair rents" Bill should "The government's Housing Finance include rent allowances for ('fair rents) Bill which will tenants in unfurnished rooms.'

large rent increases for mean Fair enough. Does that mean both council and private then that Camden is going to tenants. London Labour Join other Thousands of leaflets have Boroughs who have agreed not been distributed throughout to implement the Act? the Borough, published by the Not a bit of it. council, outlining how the Camden 'wants the govern- Bill will affect new tenants. ment discuss the Bill to After giving full details, the properly with local authorities leaflet lists a number of objec- and then to rewrite it in a tions which the council way that (they) could regard have to the Bill: fair, more just and as more condemns 'Camden the more realistic. introduction Bill of the But in the meantime: The because rent increases will Bill may become law more or the cost of living. raise less as it stands' and 'Camden 'The Bill fails to recognize council will, by law, have to that housing is a social ser- is rents ever put up every year vice. until rents" new 'Camden deplores • the level is reached.' ex- "fair rents" tension of the It was nice of them to go to deplores the system; whole all this trouble and expense to idea of placing local authority let know. I wonder why housing in London rents at they bothered. market value; and objects to Parliament to the proposed ways of assessing against 'fair rents' protest "fair rents" with no and fixing

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The case of nine Lancaster students likely to be charged for 'sitting-in' could prove to be of considerable political significance at the present only for moment, ( not students but for the trade union movement and all those fighting the Tories and employers. The events which led to the conflict in the university should trade have a familiar ring to unionists -- alleged victimization of left-wing elements in a depart- ment; attempts to negotiate; dissatisfaction and the growing feeling that official channels have exhausted; strike action been 'shop' spreading from one throughout the site, until nearly everyone is 'out; then moves to sack an employee alleged to be inciting the strike (or, as the 'disruption'); bosses call it, followed by more militant action.

The militant action taken is an occupation, or sit-in. And the authorities have replied by call- ing in the police. The nine students- including the leader of the students' union, Mike Murray have not yet been but they are already charged, being visited by detectives. They have been told that the charge most likely to be brought against is one of 'conspiracy to them commit a trespass' 'Conspiracy' has become , a handy legal tool. By adding it on to a charge it is made more The defendants in the serious. 'OZ' trial could have been pro- secuted under the Obscene Pub- lications Act and probably fined.

But they were accused of "con- spiracy to corrupt public morals' and given prison sentences.

students in- The Cambridge volved in a demonstration against ay April 24, 1972 of conspiracy to riot and re- Greek junta were accused ceived jail sentences. 'conspiracy The formula to a trespass' transforms commit civil action - trespass — into a matter for criminal charges.

The legal precedents for such a case are interesting. In 1946 there was a large-scale squatters' movement in Britain as homeless families moved into disused army camps, empty hotels and blocks of luxury flats.

(These had been requisitioned during the war as officers' quar- ters, etc. and were now being repaired and decorated by the Ministry of Works and restored to private owners.) The Attlee government be- came seriously concerned about challenge by working-class this to bourgeois property. families On September 16, 1946, Special Branch detectives from Scotland arrested Yard five people London, all Communist Party members. One of them, Edward Bramley, was London district secretary of the CP. The others Morris Rosen, a Stepney were councillor: Gabriel Carrit and Joyce Alergant, Westminster city councillors: and Ernest Hender- son, secretary of the squatters' committee at Duchess of Bedford Kensington, which had House, occupied been since July. The arrested five were taken to Bow St where they were 'conspiring charged with to- other gether with persons to incite persons to trespass on property: and to aid and abet such trespass against the peace'.

On October 4, when the de- fendants appeared at Bow St magistrates' court, their defend- ing counsel submitted that there was no offence known to the law of 'conspiring to incite trespass' or even of 'conspiracy to trespass'. He said that the 'incitement' had not been from the accused but from the abominable con- ditions in which the squatters had lived and the fact that the stood unoccupied for flats had months. He went on to say that in all the hundreds of years of recorded cases of conspiracy, the only one reported of conspiracy to tres- pass_ was that of 'The King v.

Turner' (Russel on Crime, Edition. p. 1464) and that it had been thrown out. On the authority of The King v. Rowlands' (170B. p. 11) the mere offence of civil trespass turned into a could not be criminal offence because two or more persons agreed to commit it. Nevertheless, the defendants' were duly remanded to appear at the Central Criminal Court.

October 30, they each Defending •pleaded not guilty. counsel now was Sir Walter Monkton, KC. The eventual outcome was that they were found guilty of the charge of 'conspiring together and with other persons unknown to incite people to trespass upon property in London' real :they were bound. over.in.the sum of £5 each to be of good behaviour. Mr Justice Sable said that he would not have hesitated to send had he thought them to prison that what they did had been for purposes of 'self-advertisement' or to advance their party, but he was satisfied that their motive was genuine concern at the plight of the homeless. Vice Chancellor of Lancaster Universi who has suspended English lecturer Now nine students at the university organizing a sit-in against the suspensio conspiracy trial. It must be borne in mind that at the time of this case, the Labour government wanted to • halt to the squatters' bring a movement. But it was also sen- sitive to the support which the squatters had in working class. This was a period when the government was turning to the trade unions for support for increased productivity and volun- tary wage restriction. The case avoided provoking a militant response by harsh sentences, but at the same time succeeded in establishing the legal precedent for the charge of conspiracy to commit a trespass. The important point is that cases of this sort are entirely political and can only be viewed context. The in their political will function as a wing courts of the state. r University, Professor Charles Carter lecturer David Craig for 'disruption'.

niversity face conspiracy charges for suspension. Below: arrests at the 'Oz' The context is that of an reactionary extremely Tory government which has shown that it wants to take on and defeat workers anyone, or students, who oppose it and its The Lancaster friends. nine could face jail sentences.

If a 'conspiracy charge is successful against the Lancaster occupation, then the implications are obvious for all trade unionists now involved in or contemplating factory occupations. This consideration is bound to have occurred to the Tories and their academic and legal friends. The working class should be equally alert. The students are already dis- cussing now what sort of actions to take at the beginning of the and next term will probably take it beyond the campus.

They have already won trade union support for their actions against the attempted sacking of a left-wing lecturer.

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want its organization Iney lodge a protest committee to BRITISH Aircraft Corporation against the registrations with from Preston the Employment Secretary strikers have demonstrated their determina- Maurice Macmillan. tion to remain solid and fight And they the TUC to want their 124- over Halarenenl with the com- allac a

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But as sole bargaining agent for 2,100 senior staff, Kodak has recognized the Kodak Senior Staff Association. With the Union of Kodak Workers the KSSA is on the provisional register established under the Act. If they get on the permanent register, life is not going to be easy gaining Brian Shemmings, the Association of Cinemato- graph, Television and Allied Technicians, told me. But it was abandoned by sec- tion delegates to the full AUEW conference a few weeks later.

This year the demand back, • with Coventry Central branch calling on the executive to 'campaign for a General Strike to bring down the Tory govern- ment'. • The branch continues: 'Although it will be necessary to return a Labour government, to demonstrate to the working class at large that they serve the same masters as the Tories, the prob- lem can only be resolved by a fundamental change the in system of society' Unless removed from . the agenda by manoeuvres inside the standing committee, orders Coventry's call will come during a debate on unemployment.

In a second debate on future policies, the same government branch will also call the on executive to 'associate itself with all sections of the broad labour movement who working are industrially and politically to bring down the Tory govern- ment. London City branch wants the conference to instruct all mem- bers institute political to aim pressure the programme, being to bring down the Tory government'. Still locked in struggle with the engineering employers at plant level for a £5.75-£8.25 pay claim, the section will be asked to bump up its targets for mini- mum-rate increases by £4.25 by the executive and up to £9.75 by branches.

ITV

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Upon a Got to Do. 4.05 Once Workers Press, I He admitted, however, that the unions were on thin ice with the TUC policy of no co-operation with the Act in challenging the 'That's why we're registrations. not suggesting unions go direct to the registrar themselves.'

A press statement issued by the five unions reiterates their 'complete support for the TUC policy decision of non-co-opera- tion with the industrial relations legislation, and would point out that the Act has now made it possible for employer encouraged THE Road Haulage Association is advising its members to seek charge increases of up to 5 per cent. This is in spite of average cost increases of 12} per cent during 1971. RHA chairman William McMillan, in a recent letter to the Association's 17,000 mem- bers, points out that they have agreed to the Confederation of British Industry's voluntary price restraint 'with certain reserva- tions. In a letter, McMillan—a direc- tor of James Hamphill Ltd, Glasgow, and a member of the P&O group-states: "The past year has seen a con- siderable recession trade in generally and the effect on the haulage industry has been very severe' The report on the industry, published earlier this month, showed that the haulage industry as a whole faced increases in costs, tuel, taxes, maintenance and repairs, wages, insurance and in replacing equipment. It also showed that the haulage industry's return on capital was lower than the other industries.

In some sectors where rates have not been increased since 1969, charges now needed to be increased by 42 per cent for the companies to remain viable, the report stated. outh Seas. 12.50 Lone Ranger. 1.15 ee. 2.30 Good Afternoon. 3.00 House- Milllon'. 4.40 Enchanted House. 4.55 . 5.50 News. E. A Private Nuisance. E. Death is a Seven Point. Favourite.

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Count'London. University 6.45 10.30 11.55 challenge. 11.00 Mannix. Epilogue. re Press, Monday April 24, 1972 PAGE 11 and dominated unions to obtain official recognition and bargaining rights. 'This factor alone, it says, 'makes it imperative for the legislation to be totally repealed at the earliest opportunity.'

The TUC organization commit- tee will meet to further discuss the issues involved on May 9, four days after the Transport and General Workers' Union must either pay the National Industrial Relations Court €55,000, or have its £22m assets seized. On May 17 a representative of the recognized CGT union at France's Kodak-Pathé plant will address a meeting at Kodak's Harrow plant.

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

Tory 'fair rents' Bill. N KENT: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, Essex Dartford. The Industrial Relations Act. DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue, Barking. The engineers' wage claim. LEEDS: Tuesday, Aprli _25, 7.30 p.m. Quarry... Hill Flats Trade Community Centre. unions and the Revolutionary Party. BRADFORD: Tuesday Aprll 25, 8 p.m. Rawson Hotel, Bradford.

Tory offensive against trade unions. Speakers: Trevor Holdsworth, Bradford AUEW district com- mittee (in a personal capacity), Jack Gale (SLL). SOUTHALL: Wednesday Aprl!

26, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Bridge Rd. Fight Tory rents policy. ACTON: Wednesday April 26, 8 p.m. Tenants' Hall, Hanbury Rd, S Acton Estate. Tory rents LUTÓN: Thursday Aprll 27, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Bri- gade Hall, Lea Rd. YS May Day rally. N LONDON: Thursday Aprll 27, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms'.

Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). The engineers' wage claim. SE LONDON: Thursday Aprll 27, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Rd (opp New Cross stn). Tory 'fair rents' Bill. LIVERPOOL: Thursday Aprll 27, 8 p.m. 'Swan Hotel', Lon- don Rd. Building an alternative revolutionary leadership.

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SOUTHERN: 2.05 Katie Stewart. 2.30 Good afternoon. 2.55 Yoga. 3.20 Out of town. 3.40 Lucy. 4.00 Hn separe ss 45 Cartoon. 4.25 Clapperboard. 5.30 Junkin. ondon. 6.00 Day by day. 6.45 London, 10.30 Man of the south. 11.00 Marcus Welby. 11.55 South news. ULSTER: 4.00 Yoga. 4.30 Romper 4.55 Clapper- 4.50 News. room. board._5.20 London. 6.00 Reports.

Funny face. 6.45 London. 6.15 10.30 Monday night. 10.35 Film: 'Mrs Minver'.

YORKSHIRE:

1.00 1.25 Pied Piper: 1.30 Sean. 1.40 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Matinee.

4.35 Calendar 4.40 Once news. 4.55 HR Puinstuf, upon a time. 5.20 6,00 Calendart weather. 6.25 Special. 6.45 London. .10.30 Name of the 11.55 Yesterdays. 12.25 ame. Weather.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday April 24 EX-IRA man Anthony 'Dutch' Doherty (22), has been acquitted by a Central Criminal Court in Eire of having guns under his control during a border incident in January this year. The jury after a 45-minute absence also found Doherty not guilty of possessing the weapons.

In his summing up the defence lawyer said there was a great, indeed overwhelming an

SUS-

picion that Doherty was one of those engaged in the gun battle on January 27. But, he added, suspicion was not enough for a conviction in a criminal or even a civil case- there had to be proof. He sub- mitted that there was no proof against his client. LANCASTER University stu- dents will hold a mass meet- ing today to decide on the next stage of their battle with the administration over academic freedom and stu- dent rights. In a bid to lower the tempera- ture on the campus vice Chancel- lor Charles Carter has withdrawn a regulation asking all students

APRIL FUND

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FROM PHILIP WADE

A WALK-OUT by some of Li could not be ruled out this mo claim that press speculation ab this stage was exaggerated.

to sign a 'loyalty oath' to get their grants. Significantly, however, the regulation has only been sus- pended until tomorrow--a day after the student meeting.

Students who returned at the end of last week refused to sign the oath or struck out clauses on the circular. Bill Taylor, vice-chairman of Students' Representative the Council told Workers Press the university was now attempting to establish another legal precedent in proposing to stop grants those students who, when signing the good behaviour pledge, wrote that they had done so under pressure. Last term students boycotted classes in protest over dismissal threats to English lecturer, David Craig, a Communist Party member, and three other mem- bers of the English department. The Student Representative its Council has already asked solicitor to look into the pos- sibility of applying to the courts an injunction preventing university authorities from with- holding grants of students who refuse to sign. • SEE P. 10 For implications of Lancaster. A BELFAST man claimed yester- day that the death of his 1l-year- old son was caused by a frac- tured skull he received after a rubber bullet had been fired at him. Frances Rowntree, of Clonard St, Belfast, was admitted to hos- Thursday last during pital trouble near the Divis St Flats.

He died last night. Paddy Devlin, Social Democrat and Labour Party MP has said he will demand a full inquiry.

WEATHER

ENGLAND will be rather cloudy with bright or perhaps sunny periods, but other areas, apart from N Scotland, will have good spells of sunshine. It will be rather cold over SE England otherwise all other areas will have normal or a little above normal temperatures. Outlook for Tuesday and Wednesday: Continuing mainly dry with near normal tempera- tures. одев. Press, 1806 Clasham High Street,

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le of Liverpool's 8,500 dockers this morning although stewards tion about a complete strike at The atmosphere remains tense following the £50,000 fine imposed on the Trans- port and General Workers' Union last Thursday for con- tempt of the National Indus- trial Relations Court. On Friday there was a near walk-out by men at the Glad- stone dock. They were insist- ing that the "black' the on three container firms be main- tained despite the fine and warnings from union officials.

• steward chairman, Said shop Jimmy Symes: *I have never felt such an docks. atmosphere on the The men told us that if any one of us attempted to lift the black we would be asked to hand back our shop stewards' cards.' Later the same day, the 12- man joint committee of dockers and transport drivers met and reaffirmed the blacking policy, rejecting a plea to lift it by regional officials. Although Symes warned of a dock strike because of the tense ELLESMERE Port No 4 branch 6/760 T&GWU has passed the following resolu- tion: This branch supports the Liverpool dockers in their stand and urges that the executive recommend council non-pay- ment of the fine imposed on our union' situation, he told me vesterday: 'I was surprised to see it front page in all the newspapers. Although anything could happen I don't see a strike starting on Monday. Another steward said although there probably wouldn't be a strike, anything could provoke a walk-out at Gladstone. 'The whole port would then it would lead stop and to a national strike,' he told me.

Heatons, the St Helens trans- port firm who began the NIRC action, send expected to another container lorry to Liver- pool docks either today or tomorrow. Jack Jones, T&GWU, general secretary has now publicly called 'not Liverpool dockers on to indulge in blacking activities.

At the same time it is reported that Jones is willing to submit sequestration of the to union's assets rather than volun- tarily pay the £55,000 fines.

Stewards feel that union leaders are now moving to dis- own the Liverpool men and say this could leave the road open for action against stewards by the NIRC. • JACK JONES, Transport and General Workers' Union secre- tary, said yesterday that at the moment' the union did not in- tend to appear at the NIRC.

Interviewed on BBC •World pro- gramme, however, he again pleaded with his Liverpool dock members to call off the black which has led to fines totalling £55,000. And he hoped that a negoti- ated solution could be found 'without strikes in the picture.

The situation at Liverpool fol- lowing the NIRC fines was 'very sensitive indeed', he said. 'It's most difficult to persuade the men to drop the blacking and work normally, but we hope they will' Jones added: 'We want to see a negotiated solution of the problem. I'm quite sure that any further intervention by the courts will create greater trouble for those of us who are trying to find a civilized, sensible solution to a great problem.' THE QUEEN has appointed Lord Cobham new Chancellor to the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Cobham who belongs to the cricketing family is a direc- tor of various banking and in- surance houses. In taking on the iob Cobham i will be required to purchase an extremely expensive royal robe from Ede and Ravens- croft, robe makers royalty, situated in Chancery Lane, near the Industrial Relations Court.

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MAY 1 PUBLIC MEETINGS

Mobilize against the Tories Hands off the trade unions Defend the right to work Force the Tory government to resign

LONDON

Poplar Civil Hall, Bow Rd. 7.30 p.m..

G. Healy (SLL National Secretary).

Sarah Hannigan (YS, London regional secretary ).

LIVERPOOL

Royal Institute, Colquitt St.

7.30 p.m. Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee).

Christine Smith (YS).

LEEDS

Art Gallery, Headrow, Leeds 1. 7.30 p.m.

Jack Gale (SLL) Ten Pearce (OTO in personal capacity) Joan Burrows (YS National Committee )

SHEFFIELD

Montgomery Hall, Surrey St, opp. Town Hall. 7.30 p.m.

Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee).

Frank McCabe (NUM in personal capacity).

Ray Jackson (YSNC).

BIRMINGHAM

Lecture Room 1, Digbeth Hall. 7.30 p.m.

Mair Davies (SLL Central Committee).

Alex Mitchell (Workers Press): William Aitken (YSNC).

NOTTINGHAM

7.30 p.m. Co-op Education Hall, Heathcote St.

John Spencer (Workers Press). Harry Finch (SLL). Steve Martin (YSNG)..

SWINDON

Locomotive Hotel, Fleet St.

7.30 p.m. Ray Howells (AUEW personal capacity) : Clive Norris (YSNC).

READING

Trades and Labour Hall, Minster St. 7.30 p.m.

Dany Sylveire (SLL). Trade speaker.

SOUTHAMPTON

Langley Hall, next to St Peter's Church, Commercial Rd. 7.30 p.m.

Frank Willis (AUEW in personal capacity).

P. O'Regan (SLL). Socialist Labour League and Young Soclalists

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

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 Vietnamesé 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, Piccadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Road MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hail.

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)

CHAIRMAN

C. Slaughter (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) I would like to come to the May Day Demonstration

NAME.

ADDRESS

Piease send me details of transport arrangements.

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