Workers Press no. 748

workers press Ulster & industry-Cabinet confrontation

RAILMEN TO

FACE COURT?

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY IAN YEATS

THE TORY government is hell-bent on smashing the r to-rule. With 'irregular working' continuing throughou yesterday, it seemed certain that the powers of the Industrial Relations Court would be invoked for a sec against the rail unions. Rumours-later denied by the government-were circulating yesterday that provocative 'work-normally- or-go-home' notices posted at all depots on the militant S Region on Monday had the backing of the cabinet and Rail Board chief Richard Marsh.

Each ASLEF driver in London's suburban area was told about the notices when he arrived at work yesterday. Some were sent home and others walked off.

climb-down After Friday's leaders of the three by the -ASLEF, NUR and rail unions- Tories are deter- TSSA-the mined to whip the rank and file into line with the law.

Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan was standing by yes- tell the terdav afternoon to Industrial National Relations Court that he could not assure them of normal working on the under railways - the condition cooling off the 14-day which order will be enforced. Once he makes the statement, the Court can instruct the rail unions to take steps against any of their members disobeying the law of the land'. But yesterday 18 of S Region's virtually 40 depots were standstill, including four central London main line stations, Water- Charing Cross and Victoria. 100. Alfred Blyghton Legal adviser London Bridge. brought Jones' plea. Waterloo said A driver at yesterday: 'We are going to carry LIVERPOOL dockers yesterday book. working to the rule on turned down a personal request Nobody take can us court from their leader Jack Jones for working to the Board's own lift their black on three to rules? NW haulage firms. Feeling ASLEF and among This means a new crisis for

NUR

ticket collectors drivers, the Britain's biggest union, Waterloo and porters at and General were Transport of outrage and anger at the Workers. which is faced with

NIRC'S

compel them ability to seizure of all its assets if the and the notices to work put its Liverpool members do not up by S Region. lift their action. Said one ticket collector: No- Helens Tomorrow the St haulage firm Heatons will send one can compel me to do over- time or to work my rest day. another load to Liverpool and the likely to apply to Another ASLEF driver told Relations National Industrial 'We can't fight the Act. It me. action if it Court for further is not just our own trade union leaders who have climbed down.

does not get through. carried to It started at the TUC. Jones' What plea was union's legal Liverpool by the have got to do is to have this Alfred Blyghton. But Labour have adviser government down. a six-and-a-half-hour promised to repeal the Act.'

after the dockers' shop meeting Purley NUR shop steward Roy «the stewards emerged to say This. Act has got Hov told me: action goes on. will to be fought. otherwise we threatening Dockers are to fine They have no rights. can strike the court moves and take everything. us away of their members. against anv 'All we have done is work to Today the Warrington - based the rule book that is a 40-hour haulage firm of Bishop's Wharf week- -and I think it bit will meet the stewards for talks. • See Page 2

THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY APRI

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

g the rail work- oughout Britain of the National • a second time T&GWU secretary Jack Jones wi A PLAN for an inde- pendent industrial re- lations tribunal whose findings would be bind- ing on both unions and employers was accepted in principle yesterday by TUC • Labour and Party leaders. This is their answer to the Tory Industrial Relations Act which is now threatening four major unions. The policy emerged after a meeting at Trans- House between port Shadow Cabinet mini- the TUC and sters, Labour Party's National Executive members. It represents a further capitulation to the Tory anti-union offensive. DAY APRIL 25, 1972 • No. 748 • 4p

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry was planned and commissioned by the Tory cab- inet. This is completely substantiated by an exhaustive investigation carried out by 'The Sunday Times' Insight team which has been working in Ulster since January 30.

• SEE FULL STORY P. 12.

Jones with TUC secretary Victor Feather at joint meeting with Labour Party yesterday.

took The tribunal's de- The summit and Greene explained cisions would not have place at the climax of why the railway unions of law. the battle between themselves rejected arbi- the force But the both parties would be government and the tration. 'honour bound' Only one MP - Ian TO TUC: Mikardo, accept its findings. This The three leading member of the "Tribune' means, in the radically representatives, Tones. altered Victor Feather suggested that climate of in- group dustrial that railwaymen's leader Sir the trade unions should relations, be Sidney Greene, their employers would went continue with able to force from Transport House existing policy of dis- unions to accept tribunal decisions to discuss whether the regarding the Act and would switch the Court. in a civil court action. unions The is their policy and Further details of the scheme the co- with the NIRC. brainchild of Jack Jones, operate operation of the tri- bunal will be we worked leader of the Despite this, the cur- Transport General Workers' rent industrial relations in and Preten the neede Union, which faces the crisis was only men- all its £22m of tioned in passing. Jones meeting scheduled certire if it not explained that employers for May 22. assets does The Labour Party has fines totalling could go to the court pay £55.000 already declared its National and existing Tenore Industrial Relations arbitration machinery intention to repeal the Industrial Relations Act.

Court. within their industries

workers press Ulster & industry-Cabinet confrontation

RAILMEN TO

FACE COURT?

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY IAN YEATS

THE TORY government is hell-bent on smashing the r to-rule. With 'irregular working' . continuing throughou yesterday, it seemed certain that the powers of the Industrial Relations Court would be invoked for a sec against the rail unions. Rumours-later denied by the government—were irculating yesterday that provocative 'work-normallv- notices posted at all depots on the militant or-go-home' S Region on Monday had the backing of the cabinet and Rail Board chief Richard Marsh.

Each ASLEF driver in London's suburban area was told about the notices when he arrived at work yesterday. Some off. were sent home and others walked Friday's climb-down After the leaders of the three by rail unions-ASLEF, NUR and

TSSA

Tories deter- the are rank and mined to whip the file into line with the law.

Employment Secretary Maurice was standing by yes- Macmillan tell the terday afternoon to National Industrial Relations that he Court could not assure them of normal working on the - the condition under railways off which the 14-day cooling order will be enforced. Once he makes the statement, rail Court can the the instruct unions to take steps against any of their members disobeying 'the law of the land'. But yesterday 18 of S Region's 40 depots virtually at four standstill,' including central Water- London main line stations, 1o0, Victoria, Charing Cross and Legal adviser Alfred Blyghton Bridge. London brought Jones' plea. Waterloo said driver at 'We are going to carry yesterday: LIVERPOOL dockers yesterday working the rule book. on to turned down a personal request Nobody take us to court can leader Jack Jones from their for working to the Board's own black on three lift their rules.' NW haulage firms.

ASLEF

and Feeling among This means a new crisis for

NUR

drivers, ticket collectors Britain's biggest union, Waterloo and porters at were General Transport and and anger of at the outrage which is faced with Workers, them NIRC's ability to compel of all its assets if the seizure the notices to work and put Liverpool members do not its S Region. up by action. lift their Said one ticket collector: 'No- Tomorrow the St Helens compel me to do over- haulage firm Heatons will send one can my rest day.' Liverpool and time or to work another load to the likely apply to Another ASLEF driver told to Relations National Industrial me: 'We can't fight the Act. It if it Court for further action is not just our own trade union does not get through. leaders who have climbed down.

Jones' carried to

TUC.

What plea was It started at the we do is to have Liverpool by the union's legal have this got to Alfred Blyghton. But Labour adviser down. have government six-and-a-half-hour to repeal the Act' after promised the dockers' shop meeting Purley NUR shop steward Roy 'the stewards emerged to say Hoy told me: "This. Act has got action goes on'. will to be fought, otherwise we threatening Deckers are to have no They fine rights. can strike the court moves us and take everything. away of their members. against any 'All we have done is work to Today the Warrington - based the rule book-that is a 40-hour Wharf haulage firm of Bishop's week-and I think. it is a bit will the stewards for meet talks. See Page 2

HE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY APRIL

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

, the rail work- oughout Britain of the National a second time T&GWU secretary Jack Jones wit A PLAN for an inde- pendent industrial re- lations tribunal whose findings would be bind- ing on both unions and employers was accepted in principle yesterday by TUC and Labour Party leaders. This is their answer to the Tory Industrial Relations Act which is now threatening four major unions. The policy emerged after a meeting at Trans- between port House Shadow Cabinet mini- the TUC and sters, Labour Party's National Executive members. It represents a further capitulation to the Tory anti-union offensive, DAY APRIL 25, 1972 • No. 748 • 4p

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry was planned and commissioned by the Tory cab- inet. completely This is substantiated by an exhaustive investigation carried out by 'The Sunday Times' Insight team which has been working in Ulster since January 30.

• SEE FULL STORY P. 12.

: Jones with TUC secretary Victor Feather at joint meeting with Labour Party yesterday.

The tribunal's de- The summit took and Greene explained at the climax of why the railway cisions would not have place unions themselves rejected arbi- the force of law. But the battle between the both would be and the parties government bound' Only one MP - Ian 'honour to unions.

TUC!

Mikardo, accept its findings. This The three Mikardo of the Triadine leading means, in the radically representatives, ones. climate altered Victor Feather suggested that of in- and group dustrial relations, that railwaymen's leader Sir the trade unions should Sidney Greene, would be continue with their employers able to force unions to Transport House existing policy of dis- from discuss Act accept tribunal decisions to whether the regarding the and would the Court. civil court action. unions switch Further details of the The scheme is the their policy and therate with the NIRC brainchild of Jack Jones, the tri- operation of the Transport Despite this, bunal will be worked leader the cur-

TUC

and General Workers' rent industrial relations out by the in preparation for the next Union, which faces the crisis was only men- tioned in all its £22m passing. Jones joint meeting scheduled seizure of 220 if it does not explained that employers for May fines totalling could the The Labour Party has pay £55,000 National ignore existing already declared its to and Industrial Relations repeal the arbitration machinery intention to Industrial Relations Act.

Court. within their industries

A NEW MAN FROM THE PRU'-

PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Tuesday April 25;

AROUND THE WORLD

THE SOVIET government | American corporations agains priation in under-developed co . US government's The Overseas Private Investment - Corporation, which provides insurance for American in- vestments in about 70 coun- tries has revealed that part of its expropriation insurance has been placed through the London market with a Soviet firm. The Soviet firm, Ingos-

WILLY BRANDT'S

shaky W German coali- tion government suffered a double blow at the weekend with a defeat in the Baden-Württemberg state election and the defection of another coalition deputy to the opposition. Of the two events, the defection of Free Democratic deputy Wilhelm Helms is probably the more scrious. It Icaves the Brandt government with a wafer-thin majority to push through its policy of rapprochement with the Sovict Union and Poland. The 1970 Moscow and War- treaties signed by Brandt saw and Free Democrat leader Walter Scheel come up for ratification davs" in the Bundestag in ten Brandt now controls 249 time. votes: to the 246 held by the opposition Christian Democrats.

Helms is the fourth Free the floor Democrat cross since the coalition came to power The Christian Demo- in 1969. crats will now be exerting great down the bring pressure government by persuading other to vote against the deputies treaties. In the Baden election, the 53.1 Christian Democrats won per cent of the pool, the largest 'ever gained in vote they have aided by the state. They were the neo-Nazi National Democrat Party, which withdrew in favour of the CDU candidates. ** Ratification of the treaties is essential to the Soviet drive for a European Security conference.

There are signs that the Kremlin is becoming thoroughly alarmed over the future prospects of the Brandt government. ONE HUNDRED Madrid lawyers military demanded the have lawyer Jaime authorities free Miralles, arrested last week for insulting a section of the army distributing illegal propa- and ganda. of Miralles is the lawyer Dolores Sanchez Silvestre, widow • building Pedro Patino. the of worker shot by the Civil Guard workers' building during a strike at the end of last year.

Six months ago Miralles_sent Spanish Home letters the to Office, the Ministries of Justice explaining the and the army circumstances of Patino's murder.

Seventy Madrid lawyers, basing themselves on the letter, sent a letter of condemnation , the to Civil Guard headquarters.

"April 25, 1972. has agreed to insure against the risk of expro- oped countries. to safe- Black Sea and Baltic Insurance strakh, is now helping

OPIC

Bradford Co. president guard the of US security in- "This is the first time Mills said: Asia and vestments in Africa, that an arm of the Soviet govern- Latin America. ment has supported the United Ingosstrakh is operating States government in insuring London through its subsidiary, US private investment overseas. The escalation of the Vietnam.

war has sparked widespread demon- strations in the US. Up to 60,000 people marched through New York at the weekend, and students at a number of universities have struck against the war. Picture shows demonstrators at Columbia University 'Liberty' the campus's statue. More demonstrations are on shootings expected on May 4, the second anniversary of the at Kent State University, where the National Guard killed four students during an anti-war protest.

THE OUTCOME of But the The Communist Par cast. turn-out had called for a French referen- was far smaller than the in vote in the referendu previous referenda. dum on British entry with nearly 40 per cent a vote of con seen as the Common into of the electorate stay- dence in the is being Market ing away from the polls. administration. described in Paris as fact, the In govern- serious embarrass- 36 The Socialist ment only per president cent of the total backed by the ment to elec- Georges Pompidou. for its policy, revisionists, called torate The expected, Pompi- while the 'No' vote was abstention. As demonstrates the dou won a comfortable far higher than antici- pated. opposition to Pompid of the votes majority

UNION

for better The fines leaders in vice workers Montreal called a and conditions. threatened under em have pay General Strike The workers returned laws one-day gency through on May weekend Day at the after the to protest union chiefs had left it parliament to smash 1 Quebec govern- against individuals to strike. legislation which up to ment Il-day strike risk daily fines of up to ended an public ser- £100 a day for striking. The General by 200,000 'We hope this is the beginning of similar mutually satisfactory between our two arrangements governments.' The arrangement gives the vested Soviet government a in preserving interest US im- • perialist holdings overseas.

Among the investments insured by the deal are US holdings in Chile, ruled by a coalition of social-democrats, Stalinists and Liberals.

BY A FOREIGN CORRI

THE PENTAGON is report pessimistic about the S Vie chances of weathering the lib offensive. The Saigon counter-offen- sive promised two weeks ago has still to materialize, either around the besieged town of Loc or in the central highlands. And, according to US ex- perts, the liberation forces still troops in reserve who have have not yet been thrown into battle. The S Vietnamese government, on the other hand, has taken such a beating since the fighting began that it no longer has any • substantial forces in reserve. In fact, it is now being forced.

its troops from to shuffle one battlefront to another to fill gaps in the defences. The lith Airborne, Battalion has just been flown from the cen- the tral highlands to cover to Saigon, which is approaches believed to be seriously now threatened. To cover the highlands, where liberation forces are opening up a new front, the S Vietnamese other command had to move forces from the area S of demili- tarized zone. index of the libera- Another strength is the fact tion forces' and S that the combined US Vietnam air forces-some 1,700 inall-can no planes longer cover all the requests for air support from ground troops.

within the French. work- nunist Party 'No' ing class. referendum, However, the bureau- te of confi- cratic leaders have no he Gaullist intention of challeng- ing the regime in a alist Party, struggle for power. the Pabloite Their policies keep Pompidou in power called for despite the narrow basis The result support for his • the solid of • Pompidou regime. call is à face-saving were manoeuvre by the union under emer- chiefs, who have come rushed he Quebec under heavy fire from some branches. Many of o smash the their members say they abandoned the fight 'in a moment of panic'. leral Strike • From Page 1 - tough if you have got to work all the hours under the sun to get a living wage.' Meanwhile, ASLEF general secretary Ray Buckton said: 'I have been appealing to the men not to be provoked and In Scotland 3,000 ASLEF men decided to ignore his advice and carry on working to rule.

The nationwide turmoil among rank-and-file railwaymen is a •direct result of the Tory Indust- rial Relations Court forcing the rail union leaders to police their own members. The response of the rail union leaders, the TUC and the Labour Party to the first real use of the anti-union law confirms as never befcre the urgency of building the revolutionary party and an alternative revolutionary leadership in the trade. unions.

GN CORRESPONDENT

reported to be increasingly S Vietnamese government's the liberation forces' current Yesterday the liberation forçes overran the important firebase Tan Canh, in the central at Highlands and mounted an attack on the neighbouring air e at • Dak 10. Across the - border in Cambodia, heavy fighting was reported. By nightfall yesterday Dak To airfield was surrounded by some 6,000 troops with eight tanks.

Heavy fighting was reported and observers said there was scant hope the town could be held.

Earlier, liberation forces had ambushed two battalions of S they Vietnamese paratroops as in an moved towards the base effort to strengthen its defences.

The paratroops were weakened by the dispatch of a brigade from their military region to relieve the pressure around Saigon.

The collapse of S Vietnamese defences around Dak To leaves the city of Kontum, provincial capital of the central highlands area, wide open to an armoured advance by liberation forces.

Around Saigon, the liberation troops are still pressing forward, and significantly have not blown the bridges on Highway 13 link- ing An Loc and the capital.

American advisers the fear liberation forces intend to use the road to bring their tanks up for an attack on Saigon. S Vietnamese forces are also pressure in the under heavy Mekong delta S of Saigon, where several provinces have been vir- tually overrun. In retaliation for these new victories, President Nixon yester- day ordered renewed bombing of the N, sending B52 bombers to attack the town of Thanh Hoa, 80 miles S of Hanoi. American preparations to save the crumbling Saigon regime are being kept a closely guarded secret. But anti-war veterans in the US have been keeping a close watch on the build-up of planes, ships and personnel. Their re- searches show that a total of 798 planes, 38 ships and 63,000 men have been sent to Indo-China or alerted ready to leaye since the current fighting began. One GI at Da Nang wrote to his wife 10,000 US saying Marines dressed in unmarked jungle fatigues had landed at the base and moved up N towards the demilitarized zone. Ships have also been reported the Philippines loaded leaving with mines suitable for blockad- ing Haiphong, N Vietnam's main port.

Court threat to engineers

ENGINEERING

em- ployers engaged in sit-ins, strikes and lock-outs with 30,000 workers in the greater Manchester area could be on the point of using the Industrial Rela- tions Act against the

AUEW.

One of the leading firms in the Employers' Association has threatened union officials with a court order which would strike deep at the power of the union to make its own rules and enforce them on the membership. In effect the employers are questioning the power of the AUEW district committee, claim- ing it is 'unfair' for the com- mittee to exercise control. over wages and conditions in the area.

Employers know full well that - one of the main functions of the district using committee authority, given by Rule 13 of the AUEW rules, is to try and maintain uniformity of some wages and conditions. It is this power to ratify or reject agreements reached by thàt the em-, shop stewards ployers are seeking to break.

Last Thursday (April 20) John Tocher, divisional organizer of Manchester AUEW and district secretary of the Con- Division No. federation 29, received a letter from a London firm of solicitors. AUEW district secretary Bernard Panter and secretary of the boilermakers' section Wilf Haynes also received one.

The solicitors were acting on Bredbury convenor Alec Reese TWENTY-SEVEN factories in the Manchester area are occupied by workers in support of the engineers' pay claim. The action is spreading to Leeds and Sheffield. The men who started it off work for Güest, Keen and Nettlefold at Bredbury, Stockport. STEPHEN JOHNS talks to their convenor. Their 'sit-in' started six weeks ago. And they have faced one of the country's toughest employers with a solidarity unknown in the factory's history. Low wages, escalating living costs and a desire to end a situation where they are the underdogs in the area, makes them keep the fight going. BRITAIN'S old-age pensioners are pressing for more money. Several resolutions calling for higher will pensions come before the conference at Douglas, Isle of Man, of the National Federation of Old Age Pensioners on May 2. Demands range from an im- mediate rise to £10 for a single person and £16 a couple, to a pension equal to the average wage in industry. Workers Pross; Tuesday April 25, 1972 PAQE 3 ' but position as management the meeting

FROM PHILIP WADE IN MANCHESTER

were adjourned. Then the solicitor's letter from the diesel 2,000 f2-a-week workers on arrived. It insisted that any deal ISUrUCLOns manufacturers No oler was made or real con- at the lactory was no a large ltd. holidays-two integral cern of district officials. It warned Warener parts of the Manchester district them that if they went throug letter clear claim. meeting WIde Some 1,110 if locher and other oficials went workers voted in 800 through with meeting favour and opposed the under the workers by Gardner's settlement.

BY OUR INDUSTRIAI

Nevertheless John Tocher and

CORRESPONDEN

officials it would be considered ai District worried about e officials called mass Ulliall orner meeting in a local bingo half las action under the Industrial Rela- about the settle- were ment for two reasons Act. Friday. The decision to accept the

ENGINEERING

craftsmen the Act did sections Nhat of First it wasn't in line with the ofier was overwhelmingly repudi- yesterday set themselves a £40- thev have in mind? Preciselv the ated after Tocher had explained 5> nours one that was used against the one extra week's holiday. position of the district claim a-week basic wage target for Transport and Workers' On that basis alone the commit- Officials nego- the next round of pay negoti- that claim. on the three points the 120,000 ations no settlement is affecting reached in sever worKer electricity-supply industry will discuss reimposing an over- time ban and embargo on piece- workers later in the year.

work. The engineers' section nationa Employers' An Association the pokesmai couldn't say bullilled Hidamaice Gardner' Workers moves were part of a Unlon was told Len from chester employers to invoke the Industrial Relations not unrealistic Act against these days.

CLACCID.

has The top nowever, Proportionate for increases level connections with the Asso- workers sought. other Will ciation. One of its seven direc- The last agreement, dating from Mr W.

LOIS.

September provided skillec Association vice-president, John Tocher, organizer pressing for AUEW claim rate of .126 a week after three Gardner's years' service. Confederation Union on the question of con- tee was not prepared to ratify The engineers also tainer blacking at Liverpool the workers recall, the proved shift weekend and settement docks. Secondly officials claimed firm was involved in a bitter ten- holiday payments, , a reduction and backed in this by Section 96 (1) deals with were up 200 weeks

WCCA

WiLd

LOUI

the inducement to break a contract and men. At one point were retirement at 60. worKeS and applies non-registered ballot was conducted sacked although eventually The remitted the

AUEW

The 'intimidating unions like reinstated. Committed resolution executive handing ballot and - The AUEW National Commit- then breach of this out vendines urging across-the-board rather tee at Eastbourne decided to use section include damages and an people were not than percentage increases.

from continuing affected by the claim. the union's full power to back u order to refrain Officials tried to hold a meet. The debate which will memocrs allacked by me nel 1 key About three weeks ago a ballot may well soon be called upon to WILl WORKeRS barnesory decide the pay policy of at least was organized among Gardner's gates on April 17 to explain the carry that policy to action workers engineering industry takes place tomorrow.

PROPOSED

SYSTEM

15-2 12-68 16-719 THE MEN of Bredbury steelworks, Stock- began the action now spreading to port, Sheffield and Leeds over the engineers' pay claim. The factor has been the speed-up other introduced by management. Alec Reese, convenor to the factory's engineers, has witnessed this. In the maintenance department voluntary redundan- cies have risen to a level of 40 per cent over 18 months. was thé The man who introduced the new regime Geoffrey Wilson. ex-managing sit-in. He was promoted to head the bright.

division in the GKN empire.

Wilson commanded the Bredbury plant from the work's office block by the gates. In the six-storey evenings he travelled to the rich green countryside Cheshire far away from the grime of greater Manchester. the floodlit rock-pool, shaved Surrounded by the and if they come out Tols (been do lampost in the garden, Wilson was lawns, 'Victorian' co-ordination between let it be clear it's a strike the new kind of employer the big bosses of British semi-skilled until the claim is conceded there In the engineering want. Honeyrom work ourselves out of a job was a division and jealousy what we want to see even sit-in It is not for nothing that if we produce more. This of course, played into now. read about the the Engineering lads steel- the hands at of the claim the Tory papers Federation Employers «The have had enough like and

WORK

tim this. "The Financial Times". All Workers at the Bredbury Concer 1his simply 1s whal Is 'But the situation has Their Manchester struggle. behind our sit-in and the untruths and distor- changed So radically since steelworks, Stockport, message their members We the rest this area. 1n these print those times that we are papers industrial Cheshire, who are still massive We the want a decent wage and no we speak. The 'hold-out. acting oute mored have won't speak properly until sitting-in for the engin- week of the seatt which is Your fight is our fight.'

'You realize there of changes are the staff which port eers' pay claim They what people make in this Reese. together unheard But it us councy niec ot. were the first into action with Alan Well: -convenor 'I describe myself great sight to see even the What 1 and people sweep to the semi-skilled workers Who in the greater Manches- young typists come out and socialist. who don't take home £12 at Bredbury- -are in down road. would to see ter area and others in week. centre of this battle. Labour "The Chamber of 'Skilled Leeds, and Sheffield are men can earn as lOCa. talked to Alec in his squealing Hall laet low as £20 a week Commerce -not now. following their Bredbury Is this living wage? that we are birdse deodle nationalization by giving about the size of Wilson's think out of business; we should example. Things are so why we the managements huge garage. hold a ballot and all that. organized now that the are

SOLCCI

"They came to us and works in demanding a £10 Tel

LOS"

men have a 'computer 'I would not give them a talked about productivity: This is to give us don't need to hold a ballot increase. with the I know how . the lads penny-they blackboard with a shift had of • haa it out 0l enough all ally us for decades; men like Our that wages other

WOLKEL

system for actual duty and lads down continually swallowed in the district as well. want other thost Sed inside the factory. there. increases and. we 'Another big change at follow us in- Manchester-

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Workero Prose, Tueeday April 25, 1072 Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Tra the national conference at Birmingham last November? H views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Sociali a revolutionary party. This historic and vital task must students, the unemployed and people in the professions their views on the Manifesto.

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the W your local ATUA branch. Today we present further corre festo discussion.

A. THOMPSON

basic trade principle of "united we stand"?' Right-to-Work marcher from Scanlon and his As far as Renton.

AUEW

executive council are behind the Charter concerned, they relinquished that The message right on January 4 by not going of Basic Rights is being made for national wage claim. In a clearer daily. heroic Even after the miners' the situation has At present stand, they still adhered to their been reached whereby and men plant-bargaining decision.

be dragged through unions can The of the

AUEW

a court of law for taking indus- maxims 'Organize, 'United stand, we trial. action to safeguard their Educate, Control', have taken on work and defend their right to a diametrically opposed meaning places of work. to what was originally intended.

'Where is it all going to. end?'

- 'United we stand'-our execu- 'Do we, as trade unionists have tive council? 'Organize, Educate, to take to the streets for a crust Control. for what? so that they Can it happen here?' A set of can stifle the spontaneous.

revo- imploring. melodramatic ques- lutionary potential of its rank and tions, the answer is but un- file membership? Even they equivocally: Yes. now are using the power of the sit-in The UCS gave the trade union for reformist blackmail instead movement the lead in tactics of of taking un the cause politically.

fighting industrial action where The reformist policies our the strike normal action was so-called Labour leadership, both insufficient to meet the situation.

and parliamentary, is union and A work-in was tried. bane to our society and must be motivated, The reformist is although politically guarded against. equally treacherous the was aborted by not admitting, as as political man- their capitalist. and forcing its final extremity of Heath and company, although oeuvre to workers' Conservatives. control. they are arent for fast the moving enough The UCS tactic has taught a excrescence' of 'parasitical lesson to the rank and file.

which want see the society to The rank and file realize that worker his knees, deprived by a militant sit-in now even his hard won gains of past OI isn't just enough to make their struggles. employers cede to their wishes The only way to combat this they are also fighting by fighting for the menace Is the government aided and abetted of Basic They Charter Rights. by the Industrial Relations Act.

are your survival. It's up to you help build a revolutionary This another question: to poses will with the profound 'When the trade union party victions Socialist Labour of the leadership realize that they have divorced the League. themselves trom All Trades Unions Alliance at ber? Have you expressed your Press? Socialist Labour League into k must be fully discussed and trade unionists, their families, ssions are invited to express the Workers Press or contact r correspondence in the Mani-

NOEL RING

Internal transport driver at Chrysler, Stoke, Coventry.

I agree with the Manifesto that on the question of the Common people were Market the not fully informed or consulted. There should have been a referendum on an issue of this magnitude. The Tories have conned the electorate, except over Industrial Relations Act. They've gone to town on that, with the collaboration of the right-wing Labour leaders. It's these leaders who must be tackled. This is a real problem for the rank and file; how to expose and shift the Labour traitors. The average man or woman Common entry into the sees Market resulting in rising prices, but it has much deeper impli- cations in terms of employment and livelihood and working-class been which have not rights, revealed by the Tories. Relations I see the Industrial the context of the Act in Market, where you could have an influx of scab labour as a means to defeat any militant workers stand of our own this country to maintain their standard of living. think the International Socialists are trying to miscon- strue what actually went wrong in the USSR. They paint a pic- which denies ture of Stalinism gains made by the original the • leaders of the Russian Revolu- tion. Every effort must be made expose these people through to the fight for Marxist theory: The International Socialists lead workers up a cul-de-sac, as • Stalinist leadership also does. I think a lot of the rank and file of the Communist Party, through the events of the past few years, for example Czechoslo- vakia. through the are seeing deceptions of the leadership, hence the decline in membership.

One of the main things to • come out of the Right-to-Work marches was the smoking out of the right-wing bureaucrats, both in the Communist Party and the Labour Party. Many of the rank both parties and file in went against their own leadership in order to support the Right-to- Work campaign. I place much importance on the daily Workers Press as the organ of the Social- ist Labour League. because it Stalinist and Labour exposes traitors. The miners showed that the within the rank and militancy file is there, but what is lacking is the right leadership. That's didn't defeat the why they Tories. the leadership denied the militancy of the rank and file they should have been when leading them to further victory.

So in fact the miners were really fighting on two fronts, not only the Tories, but their own leaders as well. I noticed the intervention of the engineers in support of the miners, which brought them 7. Charter-of Basic Rights I. The right of every worker to a job We must but ivity deal means loss of jobs. FULL EMPLOYMENT is not a demand: basic necessity Unemploymessi Work, no intensifica- being No Measured-Day to divide the working class and weaken them.

tion of workins conditions.

• Full sroup of workers new We are axallot I wages strugzlee. but every workers 1gal controls tected. for higher wares we fight for in the ngol right to for the right Women must have equil pay as a right.

standards. Only this right of We rippo oracle more the contr worker has labour. the worker to the fruits of of his choice. Every ware settlement linked to a produc- 2. The democratic right to strike and organise ing class struggle, strike and organize. gave anything away, emloyer over the only to maximum pro right of unloa leeders and

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have mobilize hey are entitica to lic anti-anton Confereaco of the

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Bill aims destros organize a the detencelions unions working the threatens 3. The right of the working class to retain the gains they have made Tee Tos Of are pell and ne improved viding continuously rising standards of living.

have the capacity mo‹em mouse in this tae ting chasted cannot accept that living standards can won in struggle. be driven down simply because the capitalism-is breaking. ap The working class has an absolute right to the forcer in production for che benefit of maintain these gains. for the Only a socialist society can solve the crisis.

benetit producion The power of the working class and The right to a higher standard of living 4. employers were Agreements must ncrease order chical wages prices, gains pensioners achieved are not eroded by price increases organized. status agreements the productivity Trade • по-ре must Came in for Betrayal deals immediate of this principle and lead to -per- increase pen- also and for pensions to exploitation worsened conditions for the increase in whole workine class. any increase in the cost of living.

"Ulster is a testing ground to see how far they can go' right of asembly and freedom of but I don't see greater success, the miners has having won a total expression. This is how the violence began victory. can only be achieved by in Ireland, so I can only conclude This Ulster is not far that from the removal of this reactionary England. we'll is • when government, which There is no short-term answer Having all achieve victoryl. got Tories, the only answer the next step to Ulster, is an rid of the independent united socialist Ire- in Labour govern- is to put land. I want to see an end to a ment with a socialist defined pro- gramme founded on the Charter system in Ireland. whereby your as advocated in religion is passport to of Basic Rights, your This be the Draft Manifesto. livelihood. can only fight through to Ulster, the withdrawal of achieved In and eliminate the capitalist class, troops and an end to internment that I include The with the grip of be demanded. troops must. of all religious leadership. went there under the pretext I Socialist Labour democratic rights; the maintaining League as the only revolutionary actually happened is what has of demo- movement in this country today complete violation the credibility, capable, in terms of cratic rights. with concentration cold-blooded murder and of tackling the capitalist class. camps, can only with the credibility of the Socialism come about can't be of the honourable British internationally, role achieved isolation, and it is officer and the role of the army in

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the transformation of the completely exposed for what they revolutionary with into a party are-anti-working class. its present programme which will ground to Ulster is testing and mobilize the working see how they over unite far can this country and here pushing back the working class forces in would bring end this rotten class. classic example an to be the clamping down the system.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Prohibition of liquor which caused the era of the gangster in the United States is still a big political issue in India.

The constitution of the sub- continent pledges Indian govern- 'endeavour to bring ments to about prohibition of the con- except for medical sumption, purposes, of intoxicating drinks'.

The ban on drink has its roots religion and partly in partly in the revulsion felt for the use of cheap liquor by the British colonialists to keep the Indian masses enslaved.. But this part of the constitu- tion never been observed. enjoy their The Indian rich whisky too much and, of course, there are huge amounts of profit and excise revenues derived from illicit brewing. But several recent scandals have renewed demands for a more stringent approach to pro- hibition. More than 60 people died in the capital in a recent incident after drinking illicit liquor and others were permanently blinded.

This followed another tragedy • New Delhi in January when in Above: India's prime minister, Mrs Indira Gandhi. Below: peas- ants in Rajasthan threatened by famine, leave their homes.

about 120 people died after illicit liquor was served at a wedding. Deaths are common- place from India's crude and powerful brew, but these two shocking incidents have led to an outcry. A debate has begun on India's liquor laws and several states cal have attempted to enforce prohi- bition. The battle, however, is lost before it is begun. The politicians from the big meet resistance illicit brewing concerns and a web surrounds the of corruption efforts of campaigners against the lethal brews. addition most In of the country's bankrupt state govern• desperately • need the ments revenues from the trade. Take Rajasthan — now facing the spectre of famine. They decided to impose prohi- • the -bition throughout the state April this year. But Chief Mini- ster Barkatullah Kahn told the state legislature recently that the government was simply not in a position to bear the annual loss of complete prohibition. So the date of prohibition has been postponed and meanwhile the will government says gradually extend the area where drink is banned. Only the home of state Gujarat-the birthplace of the petty-bourgeois ascetic Mahatma Gandhi—is going ahead with the ban. Gandhi once said drink was 'more damnable than thieving and perhaps even prostitution'.

efforts The to get rid of drink have a long history. In 1964 a government commission recommended alcoholic that drinks should be phase out over a 12 months period, but in 1970- 1971 of imported consumption spirits in New Delhi rose by 300 per cent over the previous year, the consumption of Indian spirits by 200 per cent and beer by 60 per cent. consumption of illicit The liquor, of course, is directly re- lated to the abysmal state poverty and starvation forced on physically, morally Mahatma Gan

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* SHAT: NEW DELHI.

hi- • the Indian people by imperialism.

The poor and bitterly oppressed often have no escape from their other than wretched existences the transitory comfort offered by crude liquor. The history of drinking in during Britain the Industrial Revolution depicted in cartoons like Hogarth's 'Gin Lane' is evi- dence of this fact. Efforts to banish drinking of this nature while retaining all that the unbearable pressure force the exploited to drink, are, of course, destined to Utopian failure: In India, the massive consump- tion of illicit liquor has partly resulted from the high. price of less harmful drinks. Imported Scotch whisky costs 180 rupees —more than £9— a bottle and Indian whisky 40 rupees about £2.10. Such drinks are for foreigners and India's own monied élite.

They are far beyond the reach of the worker or peasant whose annual income only average equals the price of three and a half bottles of Scotch. The government therefore per- mits the brewing of beers bear- ing such appropriate brand names 'Rocket'. as Workers Press, Tue s one rally, and atma Gandhi

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But their sale is permitted in restricted areas and is banned- in the case of Delhi-on 150 days in the year. Consequently the bootleggers face a sellers market. They brew drinks from normal ingredients and also from bizarre range of products de- signed to give an extra kick. The adventurous can drink liquors which have had frogs, lizards, cockroaches, bird droppings and hat • dry battery cells added to enliven the maturing process. The illicit brews, sold clande- stinely on wide basis, are smuggled to the retailers. Inner tubes filled with liquor are a popular method, water pitchers bicycles • another and milk on pitchers with false bottoms yet another. The illicit brewers get the alcohol for their drinks by buy- ing back industrial alcohol, which contains poisons making it unfit for human consumption. The brewers distill off the poisonous elements before adding it to their brews. Deaths occur when a barrel of black market industrial alcohol somehow escapes the distillation process. Prose, Tuesday April 25, 1972 PAGE 5 Sweden's image has the home of liberal and tolerant capi- talism has taken a nasty knock. Its top-secret security police have found themselves under an unaccustomed: spotlight, with their own activities under in- vestigation by the, country's parliamentary Ombudsman. The official has been trying to determine whether people are in security. listed police files simply because of their political views— a type of registration which was outlawed in Sweden in 1969. The question is at the centre of a public controversy which has seen newspapers questioning the performance of the chief of Sweden's defence staff and the head of the security police.

The controversy began with incident the annual an at assembly of military servicemen -known as "The Conscripts' Parliament'-in March. A young corporal took the platform at the assmbly and pointed out four men in the hall who, be said, were apparently, security men noting the political leanings of speakers. The corporal said he had been sitting behind them and watched them taking notes. The men to identify them- were asked selves and explain their pre- sence, but they refused and left the hall, amidst angry demands for explanations. The incident brought both Defence Minister Sven Ander- son and the defence staff chief, Westin, to Lt-Gen Bo assembly. Anderson told the conscripts the government would conduct a tull investigation, and Gen Westin said the four men were from military security and were only noting which speakers were on which committees. He said the defence staff did not register servicemen's political views. But the next day several dele- told the assembly they gates had been questioned by officers about their political affiliations or those of other men, and that attempts had been made to recruit them to gain such in- formation. Suddenly, newspapers were full of reports from people who of recruiting attempts by told the security police. At this point the Ombudsman announced he was expanding his investigation of the assembly in- cident to cover the whole field security of activities by the police—who are supposed to remain anonymous except for their head. Security police chief Hans Homer admitted in an interview that parliament's three-year-old order to destroy files on people registered for their political views had not yet been fully carried out. Then, during a TV confront- ation with three questioners, Justice Minister Lennart Geijer acknowledged that security police were registering members • of a Marxist-Leninist party, which he said was out to sabotage the nation's defence. Gen Westin had told the con- scripts that the notes made by the four military security men at their assembly were being kept for the government in- vestigation. But the Ombudsman, pursuing his inquiry, disclosed that the four men had in fact destroyed their notes. leading pro-government The paper, 'Afonbladet', commented: "Gen Westin is still, chief of the defence staff today, although he cannot keep a check on his security men's important papers.

Can we afford to maintain' such a security risk?'-Reuter.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuaaday April 25, 1972 A big campaign has been launched to recruit Britain's non- than half workers. There are now more union white-collar a dozen trade unions in this member-grabbing exercise. In this article a special correspondent looks at the recent CAWU (Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union) annual confer- ence at Scarborough and notes some trends.

which reflects Under the slogan 'Building situation branch officers, credit upon our a Modern Union', the Clerical staff stacials, presenty level. and representatives our and Administrative Workers' voted by 49,170 Union has Now the leadership hopes to turn to a different layer of people votes to 48,880 to change its make the losses. By- up name to the Association of dropping the from word union' Professional, Executive, Cleri- title, recruit the aims to its and Computer Staffs anti-working cal most middle-class, class elements counter- (APEX). In doing so, it took balance growing restlessness a firm step to the right.

of clerks. the factory Always a right-wing dominated The name APEX has a history.

has up Two years ago the EC the leadership recom- able to rely on the mended the setting up of separate now attitudes of

APEX

the branches within more conservative workers and their CAWU to accommodate higher white-collar professional traditional dislike of joint action and salaried grade people. with manual workers. Tory of the drive being made to The attacks government on living standards is managerial staffs and recruit bringing about a rapid change in existing members were complain- ing that they dared not discuss such ideas. membership

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In 1970 wage claims or grievances in their 25 per cent to 125,541, by branch because every Tose clerical workers began word was being reported back to as move into action to defend their monasemen. same time, and jobs. In many At the organizers wages workers white-collar reluctance reporting inaustries, have borne the brunt of the sack- higher grade staffs to amons ings as computers and other new branch with ordinary 101n office machinery begin clerks and typists. take They are learning the hard The APEX branches were set over. action with up in the Midlands to begin with, way that only joint workers on the shop their fellow in tna come onesel from other bring results. London and floor can areas.

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Home Counties area flatly refused The bulk of the been in membership has always to have them. engineering the factories and What would be the role of the over the past year large numbers

APEX

it asked, members, was clerks have been engaged, clerical they ers. were in the could be with shop-floor workers, strike? not work-ins trusted to keep confidential the various sit-ins at the River Don places like discussions branch nicelys, steel-works, Plessey's and others. how could they be trusted not As one delegate from Sheffield on their fellow CAWU to scab explained: *The heat battles members? has fused shoes to ether.

At last year's conference, some however, ( very APEX members who had recently engage in such reluctant to been promoted and transferred of branches ordinary struggles

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such Delegates hapman todates pleaded unsuccessfully for the as Clarke Chapman winding-up of separate branches.

Ltd, British-Leyland's head, and It split the union, they said, and Cowley, Division, at themselves Service they were Oxford, where successful action meeting with people who had no complained of has been trade-union consciousness Takon. long delays before the EC would loyalty. sanction official strike action.

From the coal-mining districts talked in particular, delegates bitterly of instructions given them to report for work during strike. If they have the miners' gained increases from the strike, Now the has they pointed out, all thanks were

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ambitious due to the National Union and nAromA not to plans are being made to recruit The EC must be asked Mineworkers

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thousands of more conservanve elements by advertising we go from now to decide where stated the delegate from television, articles in the papers, here, was even Doncaster colliery staffs.

and other gimmicks. It the The membership stated that the Industrial spectacular allowing staff increase of 1970 was lost during current figure associations to register as unions, and the is n ye 118,388. This has largely res- is now making trade unionism pectable people who been due to factory closures and among would not have joined one before redundancies, against which there and APEX could take advantage has been no fight. General secre- tary Roy Grantham made it clear of this. But the leadership cannot yet at last year's conference that the over the cut itself off from the rising only fight would militancy in the factories.

amount of redundancy payments. The loss of over 7.000 of the Five hundred clerks are in the of their sixth week strike at militant members most

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the union leadership GEC, Liverpool, over a claim for accepted by £6 a Their last wage rise with complete equanimity.

week. Denis was two years ago and many of president As £15 Howell reported: them are taking home only to £19 a week after over 20 years' has been 'Although difficult year, we have much that work. The unions have co-operated cause for. satisfaction. membership is with recent The reduction in management over less than most of us would have years to reduce the lahour force from 17.000 5,000. Roy feared. To have a membership of to Grantham ruefully admitted that 118,388 in a year of wholesale the National Joint Consultative dismissals, redundancies and

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which affected office workers Committee in which on the CAWU sits along with other more than any other group, is a

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AL 1 Top: White collar workers in the morning rush hour. Above: Daly addressing miners during their strike jumped on to the militant band- has unions and management, 33o or ane strik coach workers wagon. dubbed by been strikers as a sacking committee Last year, thanks to co- Scarborough. Conference

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made them colected 5620 and standing operation, ovation the hardship profit. fund and joined in singing 'We with the Tory ent Armit ment behind 1 the GEC and the The EC Arnold Weinstock the end. round one have turned management bring il ces GEC offer the clerks no more would Lian £1.80. Although some clerks in al factories apprehensive They They had inished wish the would naturally strike

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strike action

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about first, their attitude changed com- received pletely they notices of rent

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creases. Management has now dismissed all the strikers and the dispute a lock-out. pas become Kevin staff Dove senIol representative at GEC, expressed attitude amongst clerks Edwards waved a large axe the new •We are air before the assembled when he told conference: press- site prepared see

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Listile to send this chopper is a new trend in If Arnold Weinstock to Sir Arnold. h proclaimed. shall go in and take said it over. The company him must obtain scab clerks to chop stop using some conscience. It's the men and real hard-case young ladies would deprive and if scabs try to push their worner lines they oi tnelr livellnoods wao maut lis £85m profits." All good stuff. But the GEC would lose Fearing Thes watch out. control of their members, the EC had better a, Tueaday Aprli 25, 1872 PAGE 7 Workers while at the same time perpetuate the •Tory ing to lull them to voting with them for sleep Common Market insisting that Act into entry the There coverinen beer being forced to change its amongst some delegates, « led b policies Party nembers Jenkins should The EC report specifically demand that not 'Clearly, the. union speak stales. alowed take all steps necessary to ensure they planned to lead a that members do not take action walk-out that will lay it open to claims for the event, Jenkins' visit was called off. dallasco conference: initiative came Lipson

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Voluntary self-discipline from him or from the EC is not discipline known, but it is certain. that our answer Act seeks hostile demonstration would have position much tourn une howel s At the same time, after stating more difficult. that 'the government had decided SW London General that it would deliberately Branch had submitted an Cocal motion men oyment in order to reoce menE to a The LOn• position

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Market, which criticized the trade unions, 69 as traitors to labour "The stand taken on to state: and declared movement condence mower as beseen!

coupled with the logic of Standing Orders Committee had argument, that low refused to accept the productior forcing up costs of industry 'impertinent'. that it was was stallis prevenue new novesoner. Sure forced the government back the Standing Orders Com change jhat its policies mittee report so that the certain is that the debated, ment could Was At the same irs Shirley stop policy that the government such as so well, and Mrs been Tolowing. nas resulted in post-war record corde te Williams, employment igures, threatened resign from with a substantial surplus on with Roy OUl Tenkins, were re-adopted ontne endeavours to reduce unemploy- parle opposit panel with • very ment with corresponding • balance of payments opposition. pact on Yet. ooposition to the Common although a minority, was the next two vears. Every endeavour SW London delegate convince delegates that with was interrupted no need to take thatinower her

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struggle to force the reference back, OlL. government interjected to demand an end to out such demonstrations. terence. The con- tough, Heath was sold to the

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the man would the Who in their place of the forces market al Can see

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not her in cl come, therefore, Conference went record of the Prime SIon once in support of the cause of reason in Market. Although relations, and his new

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number of hom were d the

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even speeches anti-EEC stressing the spectacular defeat to itself distin- Coolle working class the ranks of the labour movement. of were entry 'Little

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full of the which One delegate who e port of was entry, alone no wonder main better more intelligent than Mention must D Communist Party's

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For been co-exsence leadership national always been firmly in of the and wing, at area CP holds the ever important speeches about the to effective but 11U CP. When Trotskyists City and London •ecar lo molicie few years and • of them Demagogic gestures never won succee expelled from the on any strikes, especially

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he was charges the period of capitalist crisis, the Vic Feather (top) was a guest and the National speaker at the Roy Tory offensive this At vear c Industrial Relations Court.

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cancellea leading CP members no in fact, Conterence 010 nOL challenge EC on attempt even discuss the fining of the Guest speaker Victor Feather, the important

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Three ally resolutions were аттет paading uncer Comm speech with some of the oldest the before delegates and heard outside speeches corniest jokes were but attempt to them any debated dismissed by the walls of was une radalu. say: Orders Committee on to we shall come Cr1T1C1 Tory the crucible stronger than The fight against which MOli Luck government mean a fight against ever before. on ore agendash to take priority those leaders in the labour move agenda. historic have scored d the over ment who refuse to take up such

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strikers are in 201-106 undemocratic forces this a struggle. Those leaders such as of the midst of a fight with one

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EC to their who most ruthless employers in the the dangers Just what that victory consists of, he confusion conteren members only assist mie cove Tues demonstented confusion conference ment in their onslaught on the union is

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the possible consequences of such unions. was both the Unless new leadership a battle which ase paragraph or to Weinstock decides to take paragraph which stated: take up union the

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The netore believes that accept. become part 'Conference because ickets stopping capitalist to ensure by which what then? could the lorries- economic •oncies means the "Right to Work" can only be the workers' be state

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today. asce les secured with the early return of movement. APEX tomorrow. a Labour government pledged to The All Trades Unions Alliance The only way to fight in that that new fighting extend the strike to socialist policies. case which by helped Howell the things revolutionary government the

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keep control organizing the Labour resign and return real unity in struggl of the conference was the unions can government pledged to repeal the white- developed etwee the visit of cellaton or collar workers speaker of the Roy and But the APEX leadership uses guest tenkins. 69 Labour defend the unions and force our hold lowell is on the threat of the Act MPs who, with Jenkins, helped the Tory government. back their members' militancy

PAGE 8 Workors Proes, Tuesday April 25 Part two by Jack Gale on t civil war Eamon de Valera was, at one time, something of a hero to many Irishmen. He had been in command of one of the four Dublin battalions of Volunteers which took part in the Easter Rising of 1916.

He received the death sen- tence, later commuted to life imprisonment, and he was taken to London in chains.

In June, 1917, he was among prisoners released those Irish from jail. The following year, he won a resounding victory in the General Election the pro- on gramme of the Irish Republic proclaimed by Pearse at the beginning of the Rising. By this time acknowledged as the senior survivor of the Easter he became a member of days, national Sinn Fein council the and chairman of the provisional executive of the Irish Volunteers.

Soon after, he became president of both the military and political wings of the national movement.

May, 1918, was re- arrested for leading the opposi- tion to the British government's plans to force through months daring contrived later, escape from Lincoln jail, using a key smuggled into the prison inside a cake. In 1919, he became April, Eireann-the president of Dail body which established itself as the government of Ireland he was still liable to although re-arrest by the British.

It was in this capacity that, in March 1921, he declared that a state of war existed between Ire- land and Britain. The IRA, he announced, was not a • band of terrorists, but a national army of defence. . Later that year, when Lloyd George was anxious to negotiate, de Valera refused to so (against the advice of many of his col- leagues) unless an IRA com- mander — Sean MacEoin — was freed. Lloyd George gave way.

Throughout the Treaty negotia- tions, de Valera insisted on Ire- right to secede from land's allegiance to the British crown.

When his colleagues in the Dail -particularly Griffith and Collins y April 25, 1872 e on the history of the Irish —accepted the Treaty on British oath terms, including the allegiance to the British crown, de Valera broke from them (see previous article. During the ensuing civil wat, he re-enlisted as a private in his old Volunteer battalion. But under de Valera's leader- ship, the Irish national struggle moved markedly away from the socialist content which it had and Lander Athlike more olly and Larkin. fighter than Redmond, de Valera's political outiook basically was the same as the leader of 'the Irish Party. He was a bourgeois nationalist. after 1916 he In years placed his confidence entirely in the Paris peace conferençe. in which the victorious powers were cynically dividing the world up : themselves, and the in among leading spokesman of American capitalism-President Wilson.

He would commit himself to no political or social programme whatever, beyond the establish- independent Irish ment. of an Republic. In 1917, for example, he told a joint conference of the Volunteers and Sinn Fein: "The only banner under which our freedom can be won is the Republican banner. It is as an Irish Republic that we have a international chance getting of recognition Some might have faults to find with that and prefer other forms of government This is not the time for •• discussion on the best form of government. This is the time to get freedom. Then we can settle what particular form of govern- ment we may have.' De Valera laid consistent stress on the 1914 constitution of the Irish Volunteers-particularly the read: to unite in clause which the service of Ireland, Irishmen of every creed and of every party and class? (My emphasis.)

Yet despite his touching faith in the peace conference, the Irish President was unable to get the. 'great powers' assembled there even to discuss the Irish question nor to send more than the most cursory replies to his numerous appeals to them.

thing to It was cover for imperialist war aims; it quite another to was support against British imperial- Ireland ism, especially after the dreadful of Easter 1916! events In a letter to one of his sup- de Valera declared: porters trying to get Wilson (US am President) to know that if he goes in for his 14 points and a true League of Nations, men and of Irish blood will be women behind him.' Unfortunately for him, this delicate promise to deliver the Irish-American vote in return for Wilson's . support was not The victorious enough. powers had taken care to write into Article 10 of the League of Nations Covenant an undertak- ing 'to preserve the existing ter- boundaries of ritorial member nations' - and this included British imperialism's territorial boundaries in Ireland! This did not prevent de Valera Top: De Valera In Now York In 1919 wl IRA units 1922. from going to America, where remained from June 1919 until December 1920. His visit there had a very different purpose from that of Jim Larkin. De Valera was appealing, not class to the American working and socialist movement, but to the American • bourgeoisie. He with the was there to plead government and capitalist parties to recognize Irish inde- pendence raise an and also to American loan on behalf of the : Dail. A third aim, which he ex- pressed in a letter home, was "to interest wealthy men of the race in the industrial development of Ireland'. He encountered some difficul- here. ties Prominent Irish- American businessmen were loud in their protestations of love for 'the old country, but they loved their old dollars even more.

Needless say, everywhere to was greeted he went de Valera with rapture. He was given the freedom of New York City. Only when it came to doing something the Irish actually to assist struggle did things tend to get a bit cool. The Irish President was greeted with acclaim at the Conventions of both the Demo- cratic and Republican Parties (both wanted the Irish vote). Un- fortunately, the enthusiasm did not extend to actually voting to co recognize an independent Ire- land. It was, indeed, moved at the Democratic Convention by a Californian oil magnate, Edward L. Doheney but substantially de- feated. was to be moved at the It Republican by one convention Judge Cohalan. But Cohalan was given to understand that if the Republican candidate became President he might find himself in the be tactful to administration. Only-it would 'moderate' his support for the Irish cause.

To nobody's particular aston- ishment, Cohalan-despite his..

n 1919 with Irish-American leaders. Bottom: D love for Ireland-sud- burning denly decided to withdraw his resolution calling for the recog- nition of its independence and substitute a 'statement of sympathy' displays of Even after these high-mindedness; de Valera could still substitute see no bourgeois-democratic support. He accordingly wrote to the United States that President pleading 'the and principles standards approved by United States' prac- tice' entitled Ireland to recogni- tion. Whether they did or not, they apparently didn't entitle de Valera to a reply, because he got none. On his return to Ireland, the same political outlook dominated de Valera's activities. During the civil war, he became head of a 'Republican government', backed by the IRA, which established itself as a rival to the provisional government whose leaders had signed the Treaty with Britain.

Although provisional the government (with/ British sup- port) had begun the hostilities, the Catholic bishops of Ireland issued pastoral, in October 1922, denouncing the Republican struggle as 'a system of murder assassination'. and All who re- mained members of the Republi- can forces were prohibited from receiving the sacraments.

Yet de Valera, always a devout Roman Catholic bishops. refused to to condemn The 'unfortu- pastoral was, he saia, nate' but 'prompted by good lucentions'! Meanwhile provisional the government—without a word of reproach from the reverend and very reverend fathers-enforced ever-stronger repressive measures.

They authorized the army to execute all prisoners found guilty firearms possession taking part in an attack on the or on public or private army, property. The Irish Free State govern- ment came formally into exist- December 6, 1922. ence on his Within days it was ordering the De Valera reviewing of shooting trial. •allualy, members were way. Yet Valera declared Treaty did motives'! When, publican forces outgunned not neb communicaling soldiers. Monsignor my cut tually we keeping England—to murdering now But the nicoublicans internees. forced risked, dered. so that the Irish became This was Free State Affairs, announced: in power, de other enemy haye Valera, gone hac of government antl-treaty without 1923,

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'month, de the 'Irish somee une for the highest the Re- outnumbered working Catholic church, busily Republican Father Though from the Church [ex- ourse ver the . Vatican- subject same had 110 Thousands of •risoners 2,000 were hiding • being was This State

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The American dream is crumbling. The myth that anyone can be a Rockefeller has worn thin and capitalism as it decays creates pessimism and despondency. The days when films were ing America are past. There i- made about the youthful no point in trying to evoke that " spirit again. Westerns today are more con- cerned about what the young American did to the Indians, than they are in the enterprise of those pioneers. They have to be the period in which they are made demands it. The central character of this film is Georgie Soloway (excel- lently played by Dustin Hoff- man), a phenomenally successful pop song singer and writer. He is extremely rich. He has a pent- house of the General on Motors building in New York, an aeroplane, an enormous limousine with a chauffeur enigmatically Chomsky. He has called a psychiatrist whom he has been seeing for seven years. . But Georgie is not happy.

Suddenly, just as he is beginning at last (and after $52,000 to his psychiatrist) to feel able to love himself, and to start loving other people, crisis comes into his life.

He finds that someone he does • not know, called Harry Keller.

all his friends man, is phoning —in particular his girl friends— and telling them that Georgie is a horrible and dangerously vio- lent man. Georgie is so worried that he . is has not slept for six days. His only rest has been in dozing fit- fully whenever his accountant reads over the company's quart- erly returns, which only goes to show how much nicer it is to be unhappy on $1m, than when you are on the dole. Georgie resolves to find Kellerman, and deal with him. In the day and night which follow, while he is looking for.

Kellerman, Georgie also looks back on his own lte ana remem- bers incidents from it. His first the girl's pregnancy, love affair, the fact that they did not marry, his his unsuccesstul marriage, life at home with his parents.

of painful a history It unachieved relationships. He is a sad, lonely, and alienated man. He bear the noise and cannot bustle of the New York streets, nor the fact that such relation- ships as he has seem to be com- mercial with managers ones, offering him 80 per cent of a particular protégé if Georgie will agree to promote him. But Georgie cannot under- stand the predicament he is in, •and it is one of the failures of the film that its makers also seem unable to do so. A little element- ary reading of Marx and Engels would have been of inestimable value to them. The film seems to have been born out of a mating of lack of desire for consciousness and a commercial success. It is hardly surprising that the offspring is disturbing, nor neither very enlightening. pain is described by Georgie's them comedy lines, many of very good, and the viewer is never allowed to get close to his experience. He is a character . the world in abstracted from is observed which he lives. He likes world bys am political world has crisis, his country no conflict, no.

poverty, no depression. The film in trying to examine Georgie's them from fantasies, approaches world of its own, fantasy a where existence, although painful, is seen in personal and isloated terms. Some of the incidents in the film are well done. There is a beautiful performance by Barbara Harris, as a girl being auditioned by Georgie for a part in one of his musicals. She becomes the one possibility of human contact remaining for him; a girl as demoralized and alienated as he is, who feels auditioned by life every morning when she wakes up, and told by it that it will let her know. There is despair in all Georgie's encounters. In a final one, he goes to see his father. Georgie presses him to accept some money. The old man refuses, as he always has, but it is Georgie has to offer. The old that anyhow it man says would be pointless, as his doctor has just told him that he is dying. Georgie wanders out. For him it is an ultimate rejection.

The film ends with Georgie, in cemetery in which his father wants to be buried, heading to his own death aiming the plane at a church, and diving to his death. His urge for self-destruc- tion is complete. The film then is deeply pessi- mistic. It is an ártistic failure because its characters never live, and because it is unable to com- prehend what the alienation it seeks to describe is about. It is, in fact, a condition of capitalism, which human beings prevents relating to each other as human but makes them beings, employers and employees, exploiters and exploited.

But the film is still interesting because of its subject and the solution it offers. Only a few years ago, Holly- wood made a film called 'Wild in the Streets', in which a teen- age idol became President of the United States, youth took con- trol, and people over 30 were quietly disposed of. The film was à reflection of the post-war infla- tionary boom, in which the buy- ing power of young people made them a self-assertive and confi- dent group. This film is its opposite. The confidence is shattered. The cen- demoralized, tral character is a desperate idol, whose teenage only solution is self destruction.

It is a film very much of its the time. Workers Press, Thinking of disrupting a court case. Think well. Six students and an electrician were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Carmarthen Crown Court after they in admitted taking part 'disturbances' at a trial of nine members of the Welsh Language Society. Lord Leicester, a member of the House of Lords for 22 has made his maiden years, speech in a debate on the environment. He said he broke his silence 'because of the importance and urgency' of the topic. But he admitted that his family had never been over-talkative in the Lords. father never spoke, his. His grandfather was silent for 32 years, and his great-grandfather never made a speech in 67 years of membership, Pious Notebook's pious-wish-of-the- week-award goes to the Organ- ization of American States for its resolution asking members to limit their military spending to necessary defence. The motion was unanimously approved by the 21 Latin American OAS members in Washington. Diplomatic sources view the justifiable resolution with cynicism. They point to the Punta Del Este OAS summit five years ago, where a similar resolution was approved. Since then members like Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Venezuela and Colombia have acquired such sophisticated supersonic jet weapons as aircraft, submarines and tanks.

That's not to say they don't mean it this time, of course.

At least somebody has been heartened by the government's handling of the rail work-to- rulethe bowler-hatted gentle- men of the City. At the end of last week prices on the Stock Exchange shot up, companies said that the outlook for profit looked distinctly brighter and Wall St rallied. Two of the best contributors in pushing the index higher were Guest, Keen and Nettle- fold and Associated Portland Cement. 18 Press, Tuesday April 25, 1872 PAGE 9 It has always been known that the Vietnam war provides big opportunities for black market dealings. Almost every article of GI issue and general sup- plies can be bought in the street markets. Currency deals also provide the basis for large-scale rackets in which of the a number officials of the United Service Organization are now alleged to have been involved. The USo provides club facilities for US servicemen around the world. A girl formerly employed by USO claims that the head of its operations in Vietnam was involved in sales to the black market and the theft of soldiers' gift parcels. A ser- geant is said to have admitted together with the co- that ordinator of the USOs in Viet- nam, 1l air-conditioners had been stolen and sold on the black market. She also said that cigarettes veterans' donated by US organizations were sold on the black market in Danang. One cigarette manufacturer com- plained that receipt of $10,000 worth of cigarettes had not The been acknowledged. in these officials mentioned allegations have resigned, but no proceedings have been taken against them so far.

An American Senator has come up with a brilliant idea to fight inflation. He has put down a resolution in the Senate calling on families to grow their own keep down vegetables to prices. resolution also claims The that this will also improve nutrition and enable families to get healthful exercise and have fun. Brought forward by James B. Allen of Senator Alabama, it has been referred to the Senate Agriculture Com- mittee. The Senator has perhaps not heard that the United States farm already has enormous surpluses which are bought up by the Federal government. He may not have heard either that large-scale vegetable growers in the US and other capitalist countries habitually destroy part of the crop in order to keep up prices and profits.

As a remedy for infiation it has only one merit. The busy gardeners will have less time to notice how fast prices are going up or, indeed, to go shopping. Perhaps this was in the Senator's mind.

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Campus THE UNION of Post Office Workers will attend the National Industrial Relations trouble- Court even if the TUC forbids it, Tom UPW general secretary, Jackson, said shooter yesterday. It was imperative, he said, that the union itself against possible should defend recognition

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councillor The TSA, chairman of Blackburn Education Te ernoniss soste ro mne Urw LooK rs recoe. committee. day. Procedurals the UPW Sh outd now, The university's pro-Chancellor Procedurally Lord Greenwood that would be «oD CaLOR on .ae ave I avo

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reterence in which to 'recent consider Tne causes Jackson told disputes disruptions' and recommend policy changes any h court asocorane- wichacycuiWCONa- considers desirable. Speaking before Vice-Chancellor Charles Carter he C Faned t atd Ce UPW Pad asced ohe Tec still withholding students' revealed that a month following refusal S alits 'good-conduct' JaSI week decision nao en been mace pledges. 'minor' item on yesterday's F&GPC agenda.

Student Representative Council 'Even if the committee tells us not to appear, the welcomed officials have we'll 'belated' invesuzaton. misinev. It was foolsh for anv union to allow They have urged the university their case to go by default' before the court.

drop. proposals to But this did not mean he was in favour of English lecturer azaliist 'It is still my position that any union mend Craig ney registration. Communist Party member. have Relations a as o walca resusters uncer Tne DOuStNa lemanded abandoning of Act should be booted out of the TUC, he said.

complaints to the police about a 'We dealing with a "scab" union worked richt throuh our strike, but which still which recent occu•con or une univer- sity Hlure House. nas « supernca autracuveness to come eements effect these ditions ve uld onie con- We have to defend ourselves against that.

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ance men who are on strike in a pay dispute. EIRE'S power dispute, now in its 13th day, continued yesterday with no sign of a break in' the deadlock. Cuts came into force supplies again yesterday as reached 60 per cent of normal.

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LAST WEEK'S meeting of the Scottish TUC at Dunoon basked in sunshine and an orgy of protest against Tory policies. But even as the trade unions making suggestion after were suggestion to the Tories, some harsh facts emerged which chal- lenged the last vestiges of any basis for their apparently incurable optimism. I refer, primarily, to the un- employment figures. the Scottish Not only did figures show only an insignificant 0.1 per cent drop on the previous figures, but in certain key areas.

there was actually an increase.

In the so-called "boom' area the NE-the area of around Aberdeen-there were over 1,000 people unemployed this more month than last. In Aberdeen itself no decrease was recorded.

'boom' which The has been dominating the local press and radio and TV programmes over the last months has resulted in a 4.1 per cent unemployment rate, compared with 3.8 per cent this time last. year. Capitalist politicians — Tory, Liberal and Scottish Nationalist— staging endless debates and are conferences 'prove' to that properly administered the oil finds are the key to the prosperity not just of the NE but of Scot- as a whole. land This illusion was enthusiastic- ally supported by Scottish Labour leaders at their recent Inverness conference well as by the as cheery junketers of Dunoon last week. Certainly the major oil mono- polies see the chance of creating a new boom out of North Sea oil—a boom in profits. But only the crassest reformist confusion- monger will equate this use of the word 'boom' with the post- war boom in capitalist economy whole - the boom which as a permitted so-called 'full employ- ment'. To make the point more Alexander, explicit, Graham director of Weldex (International) Offshore Ltd, announced in Aber- deen last week that his company was paying off 13 boilermakers.

Weldex is one of Aberdeen's newest oil service companies.

Alexander explained blandly: "The service side of the oil indus- try has its ups and downs...It takes time for more work to come along. and we cannot The men paid off represented more than 25 per cent of the company's employees. an impediment to their hearing to the point where they are handicapped by it, then there are and 70,000 between 10,000 people brought to this condition by their jobs. quieter machinery Of course, or equipment for reducing noise is available, but industry is not prepared to pay the price.

The 'New Scientist' cites the example of a forming press which would work at 10 dB below the level of a drop hammer, but which would cost £200,000 rather than £50,000. However, another noise expert, Dr Elfyn Jones, vice-Chancellor of Loughborough University, has stated that quieter equipment need not cost any more to run in the long term. He points out that noises arise from impact and that means wasted which energy - energy could be used increase to efficiency, thus saving cash.

He estimates that in 80 per cent of British factories noise levels could be reduced by 10 dB without much difhculty. Meanwhile, the Department of Employment has plans for pub- the licising a code of practice and little else.

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SEVENTEEN toolmakers on It appears however that man- agement is prepared to stick it strike in N London for the past five weeks may get Their last offer was a bonus of 50p a week. financial assistance from The toolmakers understand that their strike is now begin- other engineering workers in affect work ning. • to in the the area. The local district office of of the Amalgamated Union Engineering Workers has de- EQUITY, the actors' union, is to cided to ballot all its members hold a referendum to make a final decision for a levy contribution to the on whether to strike fund. The men on strike register under the Industrial Relations Act. from Smiths Industries, are Cricklewood. Ballot forms to the 20,000- strong membership will out The dispute is claim over May on and voting will be £6 domestic rise for a plus the completed by June 2. national AUEW claim for £6— a total claim of £12-and a 35- Each ballot paper will contain hour week. and statements for against registration. Strike committee Bill member, Humblestone, told Workers Press the strikers were very pleased decision with the committee's if will which, carried, mean considerable their increase -In

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The resolution called on the union to follow TUC policy and withdraw from the register. After the meeting Nicholas Smith, unanimously to deplore the government's censorship of journalistic investigation into the Derry massacre of January 30 by making the events sub judice through setting Inquiry Tribunal"P the Widgery It instructed the executive to use the whole power of the union to resist any such attempted censorship on any subject in the future. As a follow up, the delegates also voted unanimously to amend the professional code of conduct to include, for the first time, an journalists instruction to struggle collectively to eliminate news suppression and distortion from the paper or programme they work for and to ensure that the media does not solely reflect the views of private proprietors or the government of the day.

Although these decisions are all still at resolution levet-and there is a between wide gap what ADM decides and what the executive eventually carries out—- the decisions, and the manner in which they were debated, never- that theless show clearly journalists, like other sections of workers and professional people, are beginning to respond to the political crisis. The debate on de-registration was the best there has ever been inside the NUJ and despite the executive's attempts to restrict the discussion to one about whether the union would look foolish in saying one thing in a

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FOLLOWING Derry's Bloody Sunday on Janu- • ary 30, Workers Press was the only daily paper in Britain which accused •Tory Cabinet of the direct responsibility. liberals report offended the and the protesters who wanted to see the events on January 30 in London- derry as a 'terrible mistake' or as 'army brutality' THE DANGER of civil war still remains in N Ireland unless Britain ends the frustration of the Catholic and Protestant communities, the N Ireland Civil Rights. Association warned yes- terday. NICRA organizer Kevin Mc- Corry said the two groups must be freed immediately from the policies which divided them. The time had now come for people to stop and assess the eflects of their actions. The community was more polarized, he warned, and only those who had this polarization an objective had achieved as their ends. CARWORKERS at British-Ley- land's Cowley. Oxford, body fac- tory yesterday voted to return to normal working, pending talks on a company offer of improved against lay-offs, guarantees Maxi The 2,350 workers, from and Marina productions lines in the factory, have been opcrating work restrictions in support of their pay claim since March 9 At i mass meeting," they were told that stewards recommended two points of a peace formula worked out by company and union ton brass. Rejection of the other points was recommended.

The two points are, i retuitn to normal working 'as quickly as posible, plus a company under- taking make an improved to) ofler relating to the pattern of lay-off guarantees in talks to start not later than 14 days away.

Most questions from yesterday morning's mass meeting were hostile to the proposed deal. But on i vote, it was carried with about 200 workers against.

The stewards recommenda- tion was unanimous. While David Buckle. district secretary of the Transport and General Workers' he Union. took position, no warned that 'nobody knows' how long the alternative of strike action might last. • Leyland has rejected the union's claim for a £l0 wage in- crease, plus other improvements in line with the engineering national pay claim. It is making a £12 ex gratia payment plus hours' pay to cover the eight fortnight the men were suspended for their restriction. ON MAY I the Communist Party-dominated Liaison Com- mittee for the Defence of Trades Unions has a one-day called strike against unemployment.

This • call has now been extended to include a protest against the government's opera- tion of the National Industrial Relations Court. The Socialist Labour League and Workers Press will critically give fullest support to this call.

We urge every reader of our paper to do their utmost to make it a success. Our support must be critical me by April 25,1972 The revisionist groups hated our report because it spotlighted again the main enemy-the Tory government-and reinforced our political demand to get the Tories out of office. consistently The revisionists shy away from this demand. Im- mediately after the shooting they marched to Whitehall with the slogan 'Victory to the IRA' and "Victory to Free Derry. Not a single demand to force the government out of office!

"The Sunday Times' reporting Insight, has interviewed team, several hundred eyewitnesses as well as military personnel, civil N Ireland Secretary of State William Whitelaw had inherited the arsenal of Unionism lock, stock and barred made no move So far, he had legislation rid himself of (0) designed with the sole purpose of institutionalizing divisions be- tween Cathelics and Protestants.

Unemployed youth in the Bog- side and Creggan and in other large Catholic housing areas had been so alienated from the system that their only retaliation to it could be violent confront- ation, McCorry said. He announced that. NICRA would be holding an illegal march and rally in the Falls Rd area ef Belfast on May 7.

DOOR-HANGERS

Ford's at Dagenham, Essex, car-body fac- tory yesterday accepted a back- to-work formula after fighting since fast Wednesday against a manning cut. fifichtime meeting, the men were told that the company prepared pending negotia- was tions to replace two men taken off the production-line last week. The 10,000 workers laid off by the dispute return to their jobs todav. There is no quarantee, however, that the company will not apain attempt to reduce the labour once it thinks support for the door-hangers • has cooled down. Ford want six less men on and eight less the line on days on nights.

APRIL FUND £655.2

THE USE of the industrial rela- lions court by the Tory govern- ment has brought the union lead- ers to their knees. in the struggle against the Tories, the fighting determination of the working class must push these cowardly leaders aside. An alternative leadership must be built to force the government to resign. Workers Press must remain in the forefront of this fight. There- fore, over these next six days we need all your support. Help us with a special effort to raise an £500 over our target this extra month. We need this amount to because a one-day strike will amount to nothing more than a protest unless it becomes the prelude to a campaign within the trade unions for a General Strike to make the Tory govern- ment resign. The Communist Party, together with the revisionists International Socialist group, have so far rejected this vital political demand. We call upon trade unionists everywhere to join with us on May 1 to make the strike the starting point of a nationwide campaign to make this govern- ical 1 ment resign. servants and politicians.

instalment major of the findings appeared on Sunday.

Chiefly they conclude that: "The operation was authorized by British ministers in know- ledge of the risks of civilian casualties? The several report names ministers as being involved in the final decision: Defence Secre- tary and newly appointed chair- of the Tory Party, Lord man Carrington, his two ministers of the ministry, Lord Bal- state at neil and Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

The decision, however, was not simply one by individual mini- sters. It was taken within the Cabinet committee, security by chaired Home Secretary Reginald Maudling. The Prime Minister, Edward Heath, has, of course, overall responsibility for the decisions of this body.

Next in the chain of command, which led to the paratroopers down gunning demonstrators, was Brigadier Frank Kitson, head of military intelligence in Ulster.

*According to *The Sunday Times' account, it was Kitson who told the paratroopers to pre- pare for action in Londonderry.

Kitson is no ordinary soldier.

He especially drafted into was Ulster because of his so-called expertise in the field of counter- insurgency. He decorated by. Tory was governments for his attacks on colonial peoples of Kenya and Malaya and also for his ser- vices in Cyprus. In a book published at the end of last year Kitson argued for firm ties between the political and military leadership to fight strikers 'subversive' influ-. ences. The Bloody Sunday massacre planned by Heath, carried out by Kitson, is only a blueprint for what they will do here-f they can get away with it. A NO SURRENDER call went out to BEA work-to-rule pilots yesterdav. Captain Don Laing, chairman of the Pilots' Council, in a letter to the men, said that the management had made it apparent that they intended to crush the

BEA

section of the British Airline Pilots' Association by intimidation. PRODUCTION at the Caterpillar Tractor factory at Uddingston, near Glasgow, was halted yester- day when 1,400 workers went on strike over a £7 pay claim.

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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 Civll 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 (SLI Centra Committee). Christine Smith (YS).

LEEDS

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

Jack Gale (SLL). Ken Pearce (OTO in personal capacity).

Joan Burrows (YS National Committee).

SHEFFIELD

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

Town Hall. Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central (NUM jn personal capacity).

Frank MCcabe Ray Jackson (YSNC).

BIRMINGHAM

Lecture Room 1, Digbeth Hail.

7.30 p.m Mair Davies (SLL Central Committee). "Alex Mitchell (Workers Press).

William Aitken (YSNC).

NOTTINGHAM

Co-op Education Halt, Hoathcote St. 7.30 p.m.

John Spencer (Workers Press). nauly ruc oLu Steve Martin (YSNC).

SWINDON

Locomotive Hotel, Fleet St.

7.30 p.m. Ray Howells (AUEW personal capacity).

Clive Norris (YSNC).

READING

Trades and Labour Hail, Minster St. 7.30 p.m Dany Sylveire (SLL). Trade speaker.

SOUTHAMPTON

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

_angley Frank Willis (AJEW in personal capacity).

P. O'Regan (SLL).

CANCUN

Partick Burgh Hall, Glasgow 7.30 p.m. Workers Press). Stephen Johns John Barrie (YSNC).

EDINBURGH

Trades Council Club, Albany St.

7.30 p.m. Jim Dormor (EPTU in personal capacity) Dave Barclay (YS). 7.30 p.m. Wheatsheaf, High St. Alan Stanley (Vauxhall shop steward in personal capacity).

John Simmance (YS national secretary).

AYLESHAM

The Legion, Burgess Rd, Aylesham.

7 p.m. Brian Lavery (NUM in personal capacity) Roger Smith (ACTT in personal capacity).

Socialist Labour League and Young Soclalists

MAYDAY 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 Ülster ! Release all internees !

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

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN !

ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The' Embankment, Charing Croas MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Piccadllly, Quourt Road, Euston Hoad Streel, Oxford Street, Tottenham MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Halt.

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 (ACTT) 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

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Piease send me details of transport arrangements.

send to j. Simmance, 186a Clapham High Complete and

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