Workers Press no. 751 (750)

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SMOKESCREEN

OF BETRAYAL

T&GWU defers decision on fine The T&GWU's Jack Jones was at Victoria bus station, London, yesterday to launch a double-decker recruiting bus painted.. blue

THE TORY-TUC TALKS

THE RETREAT started over the anti-union laws by the railmen's leaders last week has now become a full-scale rout. During the last five days workers have witnessed the TUC leaders accepting all the principles of the Industrial Relations Act- -despite the solemn and repeated pledges not to co-operate with this vicious Tory legislation. The great surrender has been led by both the 'left' and right factions on the TUC General Council.

WE HAVE

Sir Sidney right-wing Greene. His own members on the rail- ways are told by the Industrial Relations Court that their fight for a just wage increase is illegal. this challenge Greene Faced with capitulates. Now he says unions should court because they "might' go to the win their case. WE HAVE Jack Jones. His members on Liverpool docks are in bitter jobs. The struggle to defend their National Industrial Relations Court has fined the union £55,000 because of this fight. Now Jones is on the brink of paying the money. On Wednesday he went to Heath and promised to do all in his power to stop the dockers standing up the with nationa to government strike. WE HAVE the greatest left' of them all, Hugh Scanlon. Over 100,000 of his war with Manchester members are at the employers. Leading officials in the district have been threatened with court So Scanlon turns another neat 'left' phrase about 'not acquiescing to the court. But then weakens the Manchester men by opposing national strike action over the engineers' pay claim.

This, he says, would mean a dispute with the whole industry, "with all that implies from a legal viewpoint'. Scanlon, is ready to abandon a in other words, strike because of the Act. Like Greene, he has surrendered. FINALLY WE HAVE TUC chief Victor Feather. His latest plan for a voluntary body to settle disputes would, he says, make the National Industrial Relations Court redundant'. worst reformist idiocy. This is the Do the TUC leaders want workers to believe that after their stunning victory the Tories will abandon the Court? Or that the employers, in a mood of wild will beating their magnanimity, stop workers with the law? Did they believe Heath when he said of the Act: 'We have got this Bill, we we will see it are going to use it, and through.' It was Feather himself who exposed INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY APRIL 28, 1972• No. 750 • 4p ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Starting Monday two exclusive series and conditions in complete indepen- The Politics of

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

whether 'Private Eye' dence trom any committee, 'voluntary' or government controlled.

by Stephen Johns the real nature of this voluntary dis- On the wider issue of the Act, it is body. After Heath clear that the point of extreme crisis The Battle on the Docks: putes seeing to discuss it, he said it was a method of within the labour movement has been Devlin and After The leadership 'steering attention away from the Act.

reached. about to by David Maude 1s It is, therefore, another attempt, along throw workers to the Tory wolves. This with the pathetic kits, must be stopped. And on Tuesday: campaign The decision to co-operate with the disarm the working class in the face of the Tory offensive. Court is a flagrant violation of TUC The BBC introduces a The idea of voluntary disputes policy decided at the Congress last Code of Conduct to must be tame the staff. machinery was first discussed by Jack September. A new Congress called to reverse this betrayal. Mean- Special Correspondent 'New Jones the Statesman' two In Leslie Stewart examines It must be rejected by while a massive industrial and political months ago. campaign must be launched within the Censorship and the BBC The working class all trade unionists. unions to halt the rout. has the absolute right to fight for wages The T&GWU's Jack Jones was at Victoria bus station, London, yesterday to launch a double-decker recruiting bus painted... blue and white. Court. The of justice.' A SPECIAL meeting of question Is He the 40-strong Transport nOW Lo Go Il added: 'Natural! thought on we the advice of the 100 and General Workers' issue like this we would in relation to the fines to find out what Union executive coun have we will demand goes to the consider cil on Monday will de- thought and the final This could be Monday. cide the union's future decision will be taken taken separate TUC-See page 12 attitude the In- from to al me soccial

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resolu- for two breaches of the voted hat hour meenna or the Finance an d *There is certainly no Court's orders in rela- tion stresses: co- immediate Call chance of my tion to blacking at limited Purposes Com- appearing recall the General OveraLIon told before Liverpool docks. fight the Industrial form will open up the mittee, Mon- ones Relations Act. speedy large-scale day. doubt whether Jones said he had ad- there is much chance of TUC began trade union Since the 01 *There was very me personally appearing vised me cockers to call retreat which

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mUSt feeling for con- off their blacking and strong Press has been challenged by the united after that. Workers 'work normally. Fur- opposition the only paper union don't think the against Act and negotiations could The See full report p. 1- cemand -ne recall the National NIRC is a place where opened at national Relations we can get a great deal level. Industrial

workers press

SMOKESCREEN

OF BETRAYAL

T&GWU defers decision on fine The T&GWU's Jack Jones was at Victoria bus station, London, yesterday to launch a double-decker recruiting bus painted.

THE TORY-TUC TALKS

THE RETREAT started over the anti-union laws by the railmen's leaders last week has now become a full-scale rout. During the last five days workers TUC leaders. have witnessed the accepting all the principles of the Industrial Relations -despite Act- the solemn and repeated pledges not to co-operate with this vicious Tory legislation. The great surrender has been led by both the 'left' and right factions on the TUC General Council. WE

HAVE

right-wing Sir Sidney Greene. His own members on the rail ways are told by the Industrial Relations Court that their fight for a just wage increase is illegal. Faced with this challenge Greene capitulates. Now he says unions should go to the court because they 'might' win their case. WE HAVE Jack Jones. His members Liverpool docks in on a hitter struggle defend their jobs. The National Industrial Relations Court has fined the union £55,000 because of this fight. Now Jones is on the brink of paying the money. On Wednesday he went to Heath and promised to do all in his power to stop the dockers standing up to the government with a national strike. WE HAVE the greatest 'left' of them all, Hugh Scanlon. Over 100,000 of his Manchester with members are at war Leading officials in the the employers. district have been threatened with court action. So Scanlon turns another neat 'left' acquiescing' to the phrase about 'not court. But then weakens the Manchester opposing national strike action men by over the engineers' pay claim.

would mean a dispute This, he says, 'with all that with the whole industry, implies from a legal viewpoint'. Scanlon, in other words, is ready abandon a strike because of the Act. Like Greene, he has surrendered. FINALLY WE HAVE TUC chief Victor Feather. His latest plan for a voluntary body to settle disputes would, he says, 'make the National Industrial Relations Court redundant'. the worst reformist idiocy.

This is Do the TUC leaders want workers to believe that after their stunning victory Tories will abandon the Court? Or the that the employers, in a mood of wild beating their will stop magnanimity, workers with the law? Did they believe Heath when he said of the Act: 'We have got this Bill, we are going to use it, and we will see it through. It was Feather himself who exposed INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY APRIL 28, 1972 • No. 750 € 4p ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Starting Monday two exclusive series and conditions in indepen- complete The Politics of

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

dence from any whether committee, 'Private Eye' government controlled. 'voluntary' or by Stephen Johns the real nature of this voluntary dis- On the wider issue of the Act, it is body. After Heath clear that the point of extreme crisis putes seeing to The Battle on the Docks: discuss it, he said it was a method of within the labour movement has been Devlin and After 'steering' attention away from the Act.

The reached. leadership about by David Maude 1S It is, therefore, another attempt, along throw workers to the Tory wolves. This must be stopped. with the pathetic campaign kits, And on Tuesday: to The decision to co-operate with the disarm the working class in the face of the Tory offensive. Court is a flagrant violation of TUC The BBC introduces a The idea of voluntary disputes decided at the Congress last Code of Conduct to policy must be machinery was first discussed by Jack September. A new Congress tame the staff. 'New this Mean- Jones in the Statesman' two called to reverse betrayal. Special Correspondent months ago. It must be rejected while a massive industrial and political Leslie Stewart examines by Censorship and the BBC all trade unionists. The working class campaign must be launched within the right to fight for unions to halt the rout The T&GWU's Jack Jones was at Victoria bus station, London, yesterday to launch a double-decker recruiting bus painted... blue and white. A SPECIAL meeting of Court. The question is of justice' how the 40-strong Transport to do it. He added: 'We thought we would on the advice of the

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Workers' and General issue like this the fine in to relation Union executive coun- find out will demand goes to the cil on Monday will de- consider could be have thought and Monday. This cide the union's future taken decision will be taken TUC-See page 12 the special executive attitude to the Int- at opposition council on Monday' to the Act.' dustrial Relations Act, Asked would what general Jack The the Blackpool

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resoli- half hour meeting of the for two breaches of the voted union's Finance "There is certainly no Court's orders rela- for immediate tion co- Call Suroscoi blacking chance of my overdid! LI01 fight Industrial form will open up the mittee, Jones told re- Court before Liverpool docks. Mon Relations Act. large-scale ero- day. doubt speedy porters: Jones Since TUC began union there is much chance • said ne naa aa- the sion "There very vised the dockers to call was retreat me personally appearing mUSI feeling off their blacking strong for con- and Press has been challenged by the united Workers after that. the only movement. paper to union Tanned. opposilion

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Brandt survives— but only PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday A

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

CHANCELLOR Willy Brand no-confidence vote that coul W German coalition governm The vote, on an opposition motion of no confidence in Brandt, was 247 for the motion and ten against. This was two short of the absolute majority of 249 votes needed if the opposition Christian Democrats were to succeed.

The result implies that only one coalition MP voted with the : opposition. He is thought to be Knut Kuehlmann- Baron von millionaire Stumm a cattle- for the Free breeder who sits Democrats, Most Brandt's coalition. members of partners. Brandt's own Social-Democratic Party abstained on the confidence vote. The no-confidence motion was the climax of a right-wing cam-* paign to oust Brandt and install Christian Democrat leader Rainer Barzel as chancellor in his place.

But Brandt's troubles are not A NEW round of talks between countries concerned in the Middle East crisis comes significantly before US Presi- dent Nixon's visit to Moscow.

President Sadat of Egypt has arrived in Moscow for his fourth visit. He is likely to ask for more offensive weapons in view of his reiterated pledge to tacrater.

Jerusalem and the other Israeli- occupied territories. Israeli Prime Minister Mrs Golda Meir, speaking about her forthcoming visit to Rumania, said: 'We are well aware that since the Six Days War [1967] Rumania has not ceased to seek a way to peace in the Middle East.' She was not optimistic about the prospect of peace through mediation. The United Nations. Middle East envoy, Dr Gunnar Jarring is to resume his efforts to bring about a settlement next week.

UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is believed to attach considerable importance to the Meir visit. THE Australian Liberal Party (Tory) government is planning tougher Arbitration Laws to widen the for scope court. controlled ballots of trade union members and increase the fines on workers who defy the courts.

Minister of Labour Philip Lynch told parliament on Wed- nesday changes were the the most significant in 25 years.

He said the two functions of the Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Commission will be sepa- rated and it will be required to take into account the effect on the economy of any wage or holi- day award when making a deci- sion. Lynch said court-controlled ballots be held before must unions could amalgamate. Con- ciliation and arbitration faced strains against a back- severe ground of increasing, industrial which he unrest and inflation attributed to wage increases.

The Commonwealth Concilia- tion and Arbitration Commission has operated in Australia for about 25 years. Lynch's state- ment means, however, that its powers now become more overtly responsible the to economic requirements of the Tory gov- ernment in Canberra. 3, Friday April 28, 1972 y Brandt yesterday survived a at could have overthrown his overnment. BRANDT: Another crisis next week Next week he faces an- over. other key vote, this time over 'ratification treaties signed with Poland and the USSR in 1970. The Christian Democrats have been whipping up opposi- not : tion to the treaties on an anti- THE war in Vietnam reacher Hanoi's troops, assisted by t positions. The sweep on Kor bomber raids and the town h Hanoi claimed big suc- 'cosses in the battle for the was being bat- which city tered by artillery fire, some of it from captured American 105mm howitzers left behind by the fleeing S Vietnamese.

Hanoi claimed that the defence line to the N and NW had been destroyed and that dozens of strategic hamlets had been liberated. Many prisoners had been taken and the command staff of Saigon's 22nd Division had been wiped out. On the northern front, Quang Tri was under heavy rocket and artillery attack as tanks moved the A S Vietnamese city. 0)n suffered heavy losses battalion attempt to repulse in an an attack from the SW. S Viet- namese sources admitted that the situation was critical. Hundreds of rockets have been fired into besieged An Loc and two Hercules transport aircraft trying to drop supplies have been shot down. A relief column of had been forced to paratroops dig in eight miles S of the town, when they came under heavy fire.

The Paris peace talks have President Nixon's resumed after He said that announcement. withdrawals American troop would go on, but threatened con- tinued bombing of N Vietnam as long as the offensive continued.

Big increases in US naval and air forces in the Vietnam area have been ordered by the Presi- dent in a frantic effort to prop up the Saigon Nixon regime. warned that there would be several more weeks of very hard fighting in which some battles would be lost and others would be won by the S Vietnamese.

It is likely that Hanoi Polit- bureau member Le Duc Tho will fly to Paris for secret talks on ending the war. The way for them may have been prepared by Dr Kissinger during his trip to Moscow last weekend. JAPANESE ambassador Nobu- kiko. Ushiba yesterday accused the United States of using Japan as a whipping boy for its own economic problems. He argued that Japan has already gone out of its way to aid American ex- porters, both by cutting tariff and by revaluing the yen.

rates Japan's overall tariff rates com- pared favourably on average with the US and EEC, he said. communist basis and winning some support among the Free Democrats. Barzel has attacked the govern- ment's economic policy, saying the time has come to turn away of from paths illusion and promises the course and tread of stability. If Brandt remained in office, he said, Germany would be plunged into a long period of instability. The anti-Brandt campaign is aimed at imposing more vigorously anti - working - class government- a fact which I is clearly understood by the Ger- man working class. On the eve of the decisive vote in the Bundestag, workers in different parts of the country staged pro- test stoppages against the CDU campaign. at steel- There were strikes works in the Ruhr, engineering plants in the Rhineland and at a motor factory on the Dutch •border. At the Duisburg, Ruhr, reached a new pitch of intensity as d by tanks and artillery, pressed on Kontum in the central highlan town has been largely evacuated.

Part of the massive demonstration again Overney THE killing of former Renault worker Rene-Pierre Overney by an armed factory guard caused widespread indignation and big solidarity demonstrations in Paris. . To read the comment on the event in the May issue of the British Communist Party theo- retical journal 'Marxism Today', which unable to get was Overney's name right, one would think that he deserved what he got. There is not a single word of condemnation of the practice guards. of using armed factory The only regret seems to be that 'leftists' not rough- more are handled. Basing itself on a report in the French Communist Party's maga- zine, 'L'Humanité-Dimanche', the article gives entirely false an impression of the situation in the Renault factory. manage- the It claims that ment favours the 'leftist' groups while in fact it is the communist- steelworks, workers urged leaders of IG Metall, Germany's largest union, to call a General Strike in support of the Brandt govern- ment. Union leaders in Dortmund, another steel town, warned in letters parliamentary party leaders that 'calls for a General Strike are becoming loud'.

proved These actions an embarrassment to the social- democratic leadersav.- Brandt appealed on Monday for 'friends 'the coalition' 'avoid ill- to considered actions. However, the organized workers have shown in action they are pre- pared for a real fight against the party of big business.

This week's actions were the first major political strikes in W Germany since the Adenauer government began re-arming in the early 1950s. They are ex- tremely important as an indica- tion of the political resurgence of the W German working class.

nsity as the three-front drive by ressed hard on S Vietnamese highlands went on despite B52 tion against the shooting of Rene-Pierre led CGT trade union which works hand-in-glove with the management to control the workers. It is not the CGT and the Communist Party officials that menaced by the armed are guards but militants who any oppose their domination of the factory. To try to add some credibility to a series of falsehoods and slanders, 'L'Humanité-Dimarche trotted . out the old story that the student revolt and General Strike of May, 1968, were the of provocation result police in which 'anarchist and ultra-left manipulated groups were to spark off violent incidents.

That the organs of the French should stoop Communist Party to conceal its counter- so low is not revolutionary role sur- prising. Nor, for that matter, is •Marxism Today Surprisins that it any more should spring to its defence.

FROM DAVID MAUDE

IN EASTBOURNE

NATIONALIZATION of all major industries-and Britain's North Sea oil resources — was urged yesterday by engineers' leaders meeting in East- bourne. The engineers' section National Committee of the Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers reaffirmed its resolution passed last year pressing the Labour Party, when returned to office, to nationalize private industry and take back into state ownership any hived-off interests. Middlesex delegate Arthur Gibbard drew attention to the urgency for Clause 4 of the Labour Party constitution to be implemented in a period of rising unemployment. And Aberdeen delegate John McConnachie spoke of the need ownership of the the 'most efficacious use' of these important resources. The committee accepted an addition to the nationalization resolution on these lines.

Delegates went on to approve a motion calling on the AUEW executive to 'press for and sup- which improves action port women's social, economic and political status'. The motion also asked for greater emphasis on recruitment women workers into the union. Lancashire delegate Len Brindle pointed out that the wage claim for which the union is now fighting at plant and district level provided an opportunity to involve women workers in action of this sort. No hint of delegates' anger at Council's the

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General retreat before the National Indus- trial Relations Court was expressed in the conference pro- ceedings, however. PRESIDENT Bordaberry's Uru- guayan government is intensifying its repression of trade unionists and Tupamaros under a state of emergency soon to be extended by Defence Minister General Enrique Maganai. Already 1,000 oppositionists have been arrested by the 30,000 troops and police involved in house searches and raids on the headquarters of left-wing organ- izations in operations 'Hunt' •and 'Surprise' Since the murder of seven Communist Party workers, at least eight Tupamaros guerrillas.

have been shot. During the one-day strike, called by the trade unions on Wednesday, the Tupamaros kid- napped the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Hector Gutierrez Ruiz. He was released the after agreeing to support demand for an 'independent in- vestigation' into the wave of murders put forward by the Democratic Broad Front. This Broad Front, including urban guerrillas, Stalinists and Christian Democrats, turns away from mobilization of the working class in defence of its organ- izations and a standard of living, destroyed by monthly 6 per cent price increases.

Earliest date for Kirkby negotiations—June Rent man won't wait, so engineers stage pay sit-in LAST WEEK'S decision of the National Industrial Relations Court on the railway dispute could put industrial workers in the same position as the armed forces, a lawyers' magazine said yesterday. 'In theory it could bring the normal master-servant relation- ship enjoyed in industry closer to that obtaining in the armed forces, in which a man's free time is dependent on the exigen- cies of the service, with the needs service being of the the sole arbiter of how, when and if, that him, lime is made available to says the Law Society's Gazette. The article deals with the court's acceptance of the gov- ernment argument that workers have a contractual obligation to work iovertime and that the rail- way workers were in breach contract in not doing so.

POMPOUS claims in the Tory press that pro-Marketeers 'purged' have voluntarily themselves from the Labour Party Shadow Cabinet do not bear close examination.

For instance the new deputy leader of the party. Wilson warmly welcomed by shadow ministers, is Edward Short. Short was one of the 69 Labour with the MPs who voted Tories to take Britain into the Market last October 28. Another example is Roy Hatters- ley. When Wilson reshuffled his front bench spokesmen after the departure of Roy Jenkins, Hattersley was made shadow defence secretary. Yet Hattersley held an last year official position with one of the right-wing pro-Market organi- for zations and campaigned •British entry. The other big Marketeer still harbouring in the Shadow Cabinet is Mrs Shirley Wil- liams, spokesman on Home Office matters. During the Brighton Labour Party conference last year Mrs Williams was a prominent spokesman at a pro-European rally. She openly called for the Labour Party to join the Tories in supporting entry. Because Wilson and the Parlia- mentary Labour Party refuses to discipline right-wing rebels, the Tories are enjoying majorities bigger and bigger during divisions in the Com- mons. Three nights ago the Tory majority was swelled to because of the Labour 41 defections.

"I WANT A CLEAN CUP"

INTERRUPTED THE HATTER:

"LET'S ALL MOVE ONE PLĂCE

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- ALICE IN WONDERLAND

The Kirkby occupiers in the firm's clock | FORD workers at Dagenham facing a massive drive are against their jobs. Shop stewards have been told by management that the body plant is 50 per cent overmanned.

They want to slash the 2,000- strong labour force there by 700 men. Dagenham pro- Last week duction was halted when man- agement attempted to move door hangers off the body plant line.

This is now being treated as a test case and talks over the issue have been going on this week.

says it Management will attempt to move the men again next Tuesday if no agreement is reached. It claims the 700 workers can be transferred to other areas in the Dagenham complex, particu- larly the foundry. plant workers But the body are opposing this move because they say it will inevitably lead to redundancies. In addition work in the, foundry is unpopular because of the extreme heat and bad conditions. Stewards view the move as part of Ford's general strategy to run down the labour force at and . British Dagenham other plants by transferring production to their factories in the Common Market countries. of this is the One example production of metal stampings for Granada model the new at that would Cologne-work normally go to Dagenham.

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m's clock house. THERE WILL be further disasters scale as the Vehicle and General In expert has warned. Reginald Wors the European Federation of Insuran safeguards operated by the Departr were totally inadequate. Motor policies underwritten by Lloyd's syndicates offered maximum security, but there was no such guarantee for companies outside Lloyd's.

'Legislative pressure must be brought to bear on the industry to guarantee solvency for the insurance of motor policies, he said. Worswick warned that unless urgent and there was some stringent precaution taken at departmental and parliamentary level, there would be further disasters and scandals this year on the same scale at the V&G crash. 'Are we to have a further series of collapses touching on the savings and investments of the public before the legislators and indeed the industry take steps to protect those who must need insurance?' When V&G abruptly ceased to operate on February 27 last year, one in ten of British every motorists lost their motor insurance.

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Workers Pross, Friday April 28, 1972 PAGE 3 WORKERS at a Liverpool engineering factory have begun the area's first sit-in in a fight for demands based on the AUEW national claim. Within hours of taking action, the 100 workers at the fork-lift factory of Wingrove and Rogers, Kirkby, management attempted to serve them with a court order to leave the premises. Despité police stewards refused accept the writ and as yet, to as yet the company has taken no further action to remove them.

oCcupying the administration block, management is an attempt to prevent management is working its own round-the-clock shift system.

at Wingrove and Rogers produce The engineers fork-lift trucks customers' specifica- specialist to tions. At the time of the sit-in they working were vehicle for the Australian atomic energy on authority. have toured the surrounding factories on They the Kirkby industrial estate and have bęen promised widespread financial and moral support.

sit-in, I talked On Wednesday, day two of the to convenor Jim Baxter in the clockhouse formerly occupied by the timekeepers.

There was no security in evidence and entry into the plant was strictly controlled by the sit-in committee.

'By midday Tuesday we had registered failure to agree on our demand for a substantial increase in basic pay and better conditions.

The earliest date they could offer us for negotiations was June.

'Well, we said the milkman, breadman and rent- man wouldn't wait long tor called a meeting, a committee was formed and we decided to occupy. explained of the The wages, were some lowest among Liverpool's 60,000 engineers.

Skilled men were only on £26 a week, semi-skilled £20 and labourers were supposed to manage on £18 a week.

behind the sit-in And part of the motivation the knowledge of the came from poor decision conditions endured by working the men. Jim Baxter took me on a tour of pointing out the the factory, 40-year-old machinery, the over- head belts, the 'canteen', which platform consisted of a raised floor and the overlooking shop the lack of an inside toilet.

'The engineering pay claim is going to come to a crunch sooner later. or 'If district action is not going disasters and scandals on the same to work the national leaders will eneral Insurance crash, an insurance have to turn round, and say all ald Worswick, national chairman of our members are coming out.

f Insurance Brokers, said the present I think we have to learn the somehow, lessons of Manchester • Department of Trade and Industry factories are being picked where off one by one, Jim told me.

IF YOU can trouble is still brewinter une mouth, where 200 employees are brewing working to rule. Brickwoods Ports- Brewery, fighting for The are 20-per-cent wage increase while management has replied with an 8 per cent offer. Since the pay fight began, the brewery workers been have locked and they have out once held a number of mass meetings.

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Trades Council has Workers' officials Engineering carried a resolution condemning have supported the pay demand.

the TUC's retreat in the fight But convenor Vic Powell told Tory against anti-trade Workers Press he dis- was laws and deploring union the with the appointed assistance to the Transport advice given from the Transport his union, and General Workers' Union to and General Workers'. The trades council pay the fine. 'Co-operation hasn't been also sent solidarity messages to the Liverpool dockers and to the forthcoming in the way we would like it,' he said. railwaymen.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday April 28, 1

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The Gloucesters made their triumphant from return Ulster recently and swag- gered through the streets of Bristol in a victory march.

The march originally was banned, but after an outcry from the right wing of this old slave- trade city the decision was reversed and the Ist Battalion had the freedom of the streets.

This was a gay public-relations affair with children and mothers out waving at the parade.

One wonders how many smiles would have frozen on the faces of the naive populace if they had learned of the farewell the regi- gave to the embattled ment i Criticism continues to mount against the way the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' shop stewards' co-ordinating com- mittee attacked the Young Socialists' Right - to - Work march after it set out from Glasgow on February 5 for its five-week trek to London.

The committee gave £100 to the campaign but then placed advertisements in the Communist 'Morning Star' and Party's "Tribune' suggesting the money had been obtained by false pretences. Following the massive Right- to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12 the marchers unanimously decided to give the £100 back to the committee. Bob Dickie received the cheque and signed a receipt on behalf of the committee.

Pat Kelly, an ex-General and Municipal Workers' Union con- venor at the Robb Caledon ship- yard, Dundee, gave us his com- on the co-ordinating com- ments mittee's conduct: 'Morning Star' advertise- The ment, published after the UCS : £100 to the Right-to-Work gave march was definitely a slander on the marchers. It was quite right to give the money back. The Young Socialists and the Press had been very Workers critical of the policies of the co- ordinating in the committee 'work-in'. . But the money was given because they saw the mass support the Right-to-Work cam- winning in trades paign. was councils and factories-they saw that they had to give it. As to the advertisement repudiating the march, I'm sure there must have been outside pressure on the co-ordinating committee.

April 28, 1972 Catholic inhabitants of the Falls Rd, Belfast. night of uproarious After a celebration and women children of Divis Towers in the Lower Falls left terrified were standing guard in the corridors lest men of the regiment stuck by their promise to 'be back in an hour' A Union Jack was painted by the soldiers on a gable wall with the 'Glorious Gloucesters' battle honour around it. sounded The last post was several times and shots were fired cowboy style into the air.

visited Other soldiers public houses to insult and taunt men they had arrested - and later released — because they were innocent. The 'invasion' of Divis Towers occurred when Saracens were driven into the courtyard and soldiers mobbed the along corridors. Mrs Susan Carson described the intrusion: 'There was pandemonium here.

I was hit on the arm with rifle butt. The people were just Si Above: wall with battle honour of Glo in a state of terror. They were ringing bells and blowing bugles and the children were hysterical.

Other women in the flats claimed they had been spat at, indecently assaulted and gener- Citizens' ally insulted. The Defence Committee headquarters was inundated in the Falls Rd with complaints. an incident Residents the fracas in say Divis Towers. was witnessed by an army major who just smiled ur of Gloucesters. Right: Kitson, British mita at the behaviour of 'his' boys.

In Raglan St soldiers stood in doorways with their rifies at the ready singing The Sash' - the extreme right- battle song wing Orange order. Another soldier climbed up on the roof of the Clonard Cinema and hoisted the Union Jack. John Citizens' Watson, Defence Committee member, said that the area had been peaceful for some time and it appeared the army wanted to provoke an incident.

How did the army describe the behaviour of the Gloucesters, who have also won their spurs in such ex-colonial outposts as Aden, Cyprus, India, Kenya and Palestine? It was more or less a prank carried out by soldiers who were leaving the district, said spokesman. Tory legal experts from Lord Chief Justice Parker downwards have for some time been considering changes in the law. When some of these-such as scrapping police caution the officers are presently obliged . to give suspects-were published 12 months ago they • were met with considerable criticism the in 'liberal' press. Despite the reservations of the 'liberal' press, the Tory Criminal Law Revisions Committee formally proposed some of the reforms first shown the light of day by Parker a year ago.

The 3,000-strong British Legal Association expressed immediate alarm. At their annual conference Emanuel Garber told members: 'What happening is a reversal of the rule that a man is innocent until proved guilty.

'Now he is deemed in effect to be guilty at the outset from the mimentil he is proved i touches moment the touches He described the Criminal Law Revision Committee as a "reactionary bunch'. The Association's general secretary George Bates said: 'My alarm is not lessened when I see they have the support of some of the leading judges in the country.' What are the proposals which have created alarm section of the legal profession? * among They include axing the tradi- tional caution and also the dis- closure an accused person's previous convictions before con- viction and a requirement that he must go into the witness box.

All of these do clearly reduce the safeguards against there being miscarriages of justice and increase the prospect of excessive penalties being meted out in the courts. tish mittary Intelligence chlol in Ulster.

With a decreasing demand for oil and chemicals, fore- casts of gloom prevail in the oil barons' boardrooms these days. Retiring chairman of the Shell Transport and Trading Combine David" Barran's recent address to shareholders made it clear that the industry throughout the world was not 'having it so good'. a 'disastrous There has been decline' in world demand for chemicals and oil, he told them.

And he added: 'I do not expect early return to the former an high rate of economic growth and 1972, in particular, but be very disappointing Cannot This gloomy forecast came less than two weeks after a similar another dismal statement from oil baron, Sir Eric Drake, chair- man of the British Petroleum complex. Sir Eric's annual report said: 'At present, prospects for 1972 are extremely discouraging' In both the Shell and boardrooms the blame is put on 'downturn' in the business activity throughout the western world. And Sir David Barran sees 'very few • signs • in any of our major markets of any upturn in business activity'. As a result of the 'disastrous decline' David also Sir announced that the company would have to trim its payroll and curtail further expansion on capital expenditure programmes.

Therefore hundreds of the workers at the giant Shell Car- rington plant which employs 4,000 men-face redundancy in the next 12 months. Not only Shell process workers and en- gineers, but also sub-contract construction workers on the site will be hit.

AFRICANS REVOLT AGAINST

LAND RESETTLEMENT

BY JOHN SPENCER

S Africa's racialist policy of Bantustan 'homelands' is coming under attack from the stooge African 'leaders' who helped the apartheid regime set it up. • The policy, which involves the black majority segregating the worst land under onto conditions of semi-starvation, leaving fertile the for areas white farmers, is an integral part of the apartheid system. It gives the African majority a semblance of phoney indepen- dence without shadow of Pretoria-are supposedly responsible for such matters as roads, education, health and agriculture. But in practice, since they have no sources of funds to do any- thing about these pressing problems, the 'homeland administrations completely are dependent on hand-outs from the central government. Among the government- appointed stooges is Paramount Chief Kaiser Matanzime, chief minister of the oldest and largest Bantustan in the Transkei. He has proved himself in the past to be a willing pawn of the S African government. Yet he has recently become critical of the government's policy in recent years. He began by claiming. land for the more Transkei, including those white enclaves which still exist within plus land by the it, taken British at the end of the 19th century. He told the annual congress of his ruling Transkei National Independence Party that political relations between the two sides 'stagnant point' had reached a because of the white govern- ment's refusal to return 'that portion of land which was taken from us without consultation'.

The S African government, he said, had been 'negative in the of conclusive documentary face evidence produced in support of our admissions'. Just one day later, he told the Transkei legislative assembly that a motion would be debated on the advisability of asking S Africa for full independence.

Soon afterwards chief executive of the Ciskei legislative assembly, Chiet Justice Mabandla, announced that he also wanted independence for his homeland soon. Ciskei, also populated by Xhosa people, adjoins Transkei. The Minister of Bantu Admin- istration and development, M. C.

Botha, has promised that the question of more land for the Ciskei and Tswana Transkei, homelands would be taken up by the S African government.

One of the problems was how to divide land already earmarked for the homelands between the térritories, he said, but added that plans for the 'consolidation' of Ciskei were expected to result in a considerable enlargement of that homeland. The original aim of the home- Workers lands was said to be eventual independence. But whenever the topic has arisen in the S African partiament, government ministers assured their supporters that full independence will never materialize. The nationalist Government maintains currently complete control over the homelands' foreign affairs, defence and com- munications, and has shown great reluctance to lessen its grip.

Criticism of the whole found- ation of the present system has W. from professor H. come chief councillor. of Ntsanwisi, the legislative assembly for the Shangaan, whose homeland is split into four main groups in the NE part of S Africa. He maintains that the govern- ment's policy has resulted in uncertainty, insecurity, and frustration' among black people.

'It is sad but true to say that the black man : considered a not only in sojourner urban Vorkers Press, Friday April 28, 1872 PAGE 5 Above: People line up at a Bantu administration bullding to apply for securlty passes.

areas, but in the homelands as well', he said. The homelands still belong to the central government. They allocate the land and people a1 will without ever looking at the energy and money used by people to establish themselves', he added. In comparison with other homelands, we took over mighty little from . the previous regime. This we feel gives us the right —like [Charles] Dickens' Oliver Twist-to ask for more.' Other homeland leaders have joined in the protest, invariably linking independence with more land. The S African government has not the slightest intention giving independence. It values the Bantustans of as sources docile cheap labour and intends to keep them under rigid control.

But its blatant land-grabbing policy now threatens to alienate even its stooges in the 'home- land' administrations.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday April 28, 1972 Meanwhile people are supposed

BY PHILIP WADE

with awaiting there. runnie develon. To ve cowo The roadside by the council. But tenants strewn with to ve in conciuons wace mus are boarded seem the same as those In Liverpool thousands of have to some time bricks. louses WalL 100 years when the houses ago walls talling down. It look: working-class families are because me councu says cien the little money to build the prom- ever hence scene on occe were ust out. watte faced with a crisis in housing, ised parks and recreation areas.

street-to-street fighting toilets have been demolished bi but none more so than those council workers. On the other side of the hous- Young Carol Smith has livea living in the Everton area.

there her parents for over a There can be no doubt that estate, however, with al c of these tenants the prospects des. in the last house in a street where There are two parts to this a osolute pair, in the most wretched con- others are been pulled

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Heroust! I d. ste those all over coun Tenants in council mats. die staField Five handed a people or boo ofer of a The boarded They still have worsened by the Introcucons ok like country, in the area. hated Tory Housing Financ Priory with a El-a-week are threatened She be Tory savs someone has to under the wrove mens ave m suee waca Ical Incicase the house all the time or vandals aims to double the sunci although nominally described as This is the which "fair rents' Bill. will break in. Yet the council has a clearance area, are more appro- • council house In the new Everton housing told Smiths and hundreds identified been de ended or priatêly. disaster no and miales, million they live estates do renL the earliest England ment which has areas. ¡amiiles lIKe anel subletting time for rehousing is two years test of the 19ths despised mean: John and Shirley Bird have Tacuues wue went off. test of the been with the old tenement housing •n a rent and rates surike It will, if passed, force thou- place of the public houses for three weeks now demanding Time time the tenants alter e ust you saved to justified thing: have marched down into town sands tenants out and the shops, there are boarded- one oI inell to the council. homes and the see their complain city up propertes ese uncle are us. like market vast areas of devastation, piled street to imagine It seems to have had no effect.

demolition Top left: piecemeal that many of sum people noses and boarded-up streets. Children glass-strewn streets 1o only lave Huge areas

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of waste ground, resulting cut-back money for Parks Left: John Department. with nearly others are demanding to housed. Above: Mr McGrean is fighting for his rights and who against rent increases Workers Press, Friday April 28, 1972 PAGE 7 Liverpool hardly exists at all. 'And why should we allow any- The rents will become so pro- one to pry into our affairs? The hibitive should be that people wanting words means council-housing be unable scrubbed out of the English dic- will tionary as far as I'm concerned.'

to afford to live in one.

On this basis councils will be For two bedrooms David pays zione reluctant to build new housing.

of £3.89. Another 21 tota total rent October would make it Add to that the withdrawal of subsidies to councils and the very difficult for him to pay the rent, he told me. Troy she vosis of municipal hous Torior aunwed. intention 'The working class is getting this the started and aposit iriory no lead trom antone question, Party. Starfield Priory least of all from the All local Grove families looks even worse.

Labour our councillors seem to be running Secretary of the Cavour, Gari- award froke it. baldi and Mazzini tenants' asso- like a lead from David Lucas worker canon the Labour Party, but they seem Great mete totinie Nothing wide split bed-roomed …onen. 40n- structive is coming forward from eighth floor of a high-rise block same time the them and at the in the middle of Everton.

Tories are having a tea party •Everyone is keep trying to last year or two I've 'For the of this Bill under the the effects Strike would dreamt a General it is too late to do carpet until it's be the But not answer. We can't anything about it. get bevond the Tory Party Mories bring to Labour the anyone, not another gunboat even Party, to tell us what's going to 1911. like they did in happen. 'Have we got a group of army like «This Bill is another officers in control, rent fill Greece, ruling under the guise of It will speculators' measure. coffers. far the democracy?' asked Davill their As as Bill is an concerned working. class is "The doesn't bear thinking of.

extra notch in the belt, beer. but you It 'We fighting for can't pull it in any tenants to the point where We must bring to the could come our rights. will be pushed to of others that things notice are extreme measures to defend our underneath that happening rights.' one knows about.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday April MARXISM IN OUR TIME by Isaac Deutscher. Jonathan Cape. £2.95.

'For over 30 years after I had studied "Das Kapital", 1 never went back to it, although all its volumes reposed on my shelves, said Isaac Deutscher in 1967 in a talk on the centenary of Marx's great work. The admission casts some light on the character of Deutscher's 'Marxism' which many in the past 20 years have taken for the real thing. Like Kautsky and others, he seized on certain principles of historical materialism which enabled him to analyse historical events but offered no guide to action. In Deutscher the division between theory and practice was carried to its limits. Equipped with 'Marxism' as he understood it, Deutscher mastered the prose style of the Whig historians, great English although he did not know the language until he was over 30.

The reverence for linguistic form a characteristic trait and was make his works suc- helped to cessful with the reading public.

Combined with this was a continental width of interest and culture which shone general against the empirical superficiality and overspecialization cultivated in the Anglo-Saxon universities.

These qualities made Deutscher an outstanding intellectual figure.

But they did not qualify him to speak as a Marxist. Deutscher's political record is eloquent in this respect. Break- ing with Stalinism before even the German defeat, he was, nonetheless; unconvinced of the urgency of Trotsky's appeal for the foundation of the Fourth International. At the founding conference in 1938 his vote was cast against. Becoming a successful journa- list for the quality bourgeois press he reflected the moods of the time and did not avoid becoming a worshipper of the accomplished fact. Moving dangerously near to a conciliation with Stalinism, he became the prophet of the self-reform of the bureaucracy, which nourished the Pabloite revisionist trend in the Fourth International. The abandonment of the political revolution as a necessity in the countries ruled by the and belief in some bureaucracy kind of liberalization process became the hall-mark of Deutscherism. Acclaimed by the New Left, he deliberately avoided calling for the formation of revolutionary party. Often con- "Trotskyist', he was sidered a scornful of the task to which Trotsky dedicated the last years of his life-the building of the Fourth International. Characteristically, Deutscher's main work was as a biographer, first of Stalin, then of Trotsky.

day April 28, 1972 Painstaking methodical and research could here be combined with his prose style to produce as ostensibly Marxist study of the Russian Revolution and its consequences. But why the bio- graphical form? Why not a study of the great social forces which were behind that revolution and its degeneration? Deutscher's for preference heroes, demonic or tragic, was surely • no accident. His view of history was that of someone aloof from the struggle. He offered counsel and advice, saying many. true things, but leaving them strangely dead because his conception of Marxism was in practice completely divorced from the party and its practical tasks.

The essays in this book illus- trate these several sides of Isaac Deutscher and reveal very plainly his major shortcomings. He lived on the interest from the 'Capital' which he had read many years before enrich but did not Marxism by testing it and apply- ing it in the class struggle.

While Deutscher reveres Marx- theory, he ism as a body of actually underrates its import- ance. He even says, at one point: ward ereated a body of theaty!

far in excess of the narrow prac- tical needs of the movement for which he intended his work to serve' In fact the task of preparing the working class for the over- throw capitalism and the establishment of and a. new higher form of society requires the most advanced theory.

It is not sufficient to read 'Capital' once in 30 years to qualify as a Marxist, however learned and formally correct one's pronouncements may be. Deutscher was not unaware of the importance of winning the working class for Marxism; in fact he makes the point a num- ber of times in these essays.

But he addresses himself prin- cipally to intellectuals and he accepted personal respon- no sibility for building a revolu- tionary party. Karl Kautsky Whether Deutscher was really satisfied with the position as which he held as appears from his writings is difficult to say.

His thought was a product of defeats and of some disillusion- ment. At the same time he was always looking for a break in the clouds, for an easy way or a short cut to the realization of socialism.

A number of the pieces in this book are autobiographical character and among the most interesting is that on the Polish Communist Party where Deutsçher was able to draw upon experience. Mrs own Deutscher, who edits the volume, omits to mention that it had already appeared in an English version published by the Socialist Labour League not long To after its appearance in French.

TAKING LIBERTIES

TV REVIEW BY ANNA TATE

Last week's 'Radio Times' blazed with a declaration of intent - 'ALL ABOUT WOMEN' the cover promised 'Marvellous Maggie Smith on the hard slog of being a top actress; 'My husband is going to the Moon' by Dotty Duke-Dotty being her name and not a reference to her sanity; 'How Good is Princess Anne? - The Expert's Ver- dict'. A fair question; 'The Rolls-Royce wives, Eleanor Bron, Megs Jenkins and Mary Whitehouse... plus lots more all about women and all by women'. It seems the BBC took a big breath, stretched itself to the full heights of tolerance and dragged itself protesting into the stormy 1970s. The winds of change have steal apparently contrived to beneath the glass doors of the Television Centre and blow gently down the corridors of power. Not real change, that is, but a grand gesture of recog- nition, extended with all the : magnanimity of the mas- polite saging medium. This column was to receive the first body-blow from the Corporation-Women's Lib amal- gamation. Last week's review had had the temerity to suggest that the Marx Brothers great fun. are According to Margaret Hinxman, Chico, and however, Groucho, Harpo, (Zeppo didn't get a men- tion-not, I would say out of admiration, but mistaken ommis- sion? are the arch male chauvinist of them all. The fact that they themselves constitute their own principal object of ridicule seems to offer no redemption for the quartet, alas! particular Women's To this Lib attitude I offer the Groucho sado-psychotherapy: 'You're head- ing for a nervous breakdown, why don't you pull yourself to pieces? After all, the female libera- tionists' have really asked for this act of generous contempt which has been bestowed upon them by the BBC. Juliet Mitchell, one of their intelligent spokeswomen, more claimed in her book 'Women's Estate'. , that women constitute 'an international class'. This non- sensical, anti-Marxist analysis was bound to be adopted with ardent enthusiasm by a ruling class which can only benefit from a blurring of class lines, i.e. that Princess Anne and the wives of the Rolls-Royce workers have common class interests! So no female was excluded from the all-embracing united front of the 'Radio Times'—Mary Whitehouse figuring large under the banner "Mrs Whitehouse: Member of the new Avant- Garde'. Had that heading been written prior to the Reformation one might have understood it.

All comedy programmes of the week (with the exception, I insist, of the Marx Brothers) were easily surpassed by the com- ments voiced by or descriptions of these women. Pamela MacGregor-Morris, Equestrian Correspondent of "The Times' quoted thus was on Princess Anne: 'The Princess has innate ability. She's got natural balance, looks almost part of the horse. She's also got the rare gifts of hands.' Jimmy Tarbuck in his comedy show on Saturday was hard put to it to cap that one, although he did his 'best'. He jumped on the Women's Lib bandwagon with a take-off of Helen Gurley Brown, editor of 'Cosmopolitan', the magazine backlash to the emancipation of women. Then take Irma Kurtz, who in this edition of 'Radio Times' to beat all editions of 'Radio Times'.

produced this prime actually in her piece on Maggie turkey Smith: 'Maggie Smith at home (all the best actresses have real ones) is Mrs Robert Stephens.'

Well, there you have it, all the actresses have real ones.

best What Groucho would call a wise quack. Seriously though, I suppose one could have detected the odd tinge of 'male chauvinist piggery' in Groucho from last Friday's 'Horse Feathers'. Perhaps this rude appeal: 'Are you Miss Bailey? Come on, come on, one of us is Miss Bailey and it's not me.' Or this cosy remark (also to Miss Bailey): 'I love sitting on your lap. I could sit here all day if you didn't stand up? There is, of course, inherent in all comedy, an act of aggression against some hapless character.

But then Independent Television's 'Love Thy Neighbour, a racial situation comedy, is undoubtedly a better example of pleasantry erected on prejudice, of belly- laughs based on bias. You laugh in spite and spite is the ope all the eternal clic and white out. The the supposedly suburban, home-lovin Crude black neighbour the tight Spade, Black Power rythmn all over the k The whole thing ca the on assumption English averare And st as thick as a backward. the liberal niceties, t nas contries English couple as going gradually to see carobean pal are yo and powerful. Beautiful. Black is The whole thing Sidney h in spite of yourself s the operative word ternal clichés of blac co-existence are it. The white one lovel bour the typical, up- blowing blasts of brooding alle over the local pub. e thing can only stand that the working man is o really ensur niceties, the produce the present to seed, while tin as a trifle the is thing a sort of and Harry beta. Workers Press, Friday April 28, 1972 PAGE 9 Lord Wigg, along with almost every other Minister the Labour government, has rushed into print with his version of events. From the first excerpt, which appeared in last week's 'Sunday Times', we would like to take some quotațions for the record. On the leadership same struggle, Wigg says: I attached of only one condition my Wilson, offer to help and it mention only because of suggestions that R. H. S. of Crossman played the role "kingmaker". Crossman, I in- must be excluded from sisted, knowledge of our plans any because he could not be relied upon to keep his mouth shut.

On Callaghan again: "Callaghan appointed was (Chancellor of the Exchequer) of Wilson's fatal as a result tendency to appease rivals and because he was impressed by Callaghan's ability as an articulate extrovert to deliver, with nice rotundity of phrase, well-sounding speeches gener- ally devoid of content.' Callaghan, Wileon, 10p right. The Vietnam war has brought Crossman surge of new business for Callaghan remember astrologers and sooth-sayers describing to me, way back in who advise on the right time the 1940s, his own recipe for to bury the dead. political success: wait till the Rows and rows of dull decide their line draped with S trade unions brown coffins, and follow them.' Vietnamese flags, lie under Before the Labour leadership awnings at a military cemetery struggle in 1963, Wilson asked just N of Saigon. Wigg do the political Adorned with candles and to organizing. burning incense sticks, they Wigg says: At the start the are waiting for most there was an amusing incident auspicious moment to be in Wilson's room at the House.

lowered into the ground. found Without guidance him completely this on immersed preparing point, the relatives of the dead soldiers and speech for a Boy Scouts' meet- fear violence perhaps, writing death will result for them- article for a Scout magazine.

if their selves kin are not It invoked buried at the right time.

my comment: "You want to The coffins have been piling make up your mind whether you want to up at the rate of about 50 a become leader of the day the N Vietnamese Labour since Party and Prime Minister or launched their massive spring Chief Scout"! offensive.

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that in the past management have been 'reasonable'. But they say a new younger generation of Taylors is now at the helm.

'They have offered us nothing , said one man. except our cards', The men are due to meet today to review the position. A number of the pickets earlier this week expressed the opinion that the AUEW leaders had let them down by leaving them to fight on a plant-by-plant basis.

They feel that the strength of the bigger car plants should be used in concert against the EEF.

The management has claimed any will • concession on wages force them into insolvency. A measure of the state of the machine-tool trade is that at the BSA factory, two miles up the road, tools are being auctioned at knock-down prices. 'SEVEN weeks on' at Birming- ham Battery and neither side is showing any sign of budging.

fifty Three hundred and AUEW members have been out for nearly two months; their main demands are for a f6 rise, a 35-hour week and improved holidays. The management's offer extra day's leave and of an resumed, contemptuously was knocked back last week at a mass meeting. How do the strike committee members feel about the progress of the dispute? Alf Fellows, president of the branch, feels the local AUEW mass meeting last week had a particular significance. 'Because of how long the strike had gone on and how un- productive have been our claims Social Security, everybody for was destitute by last Wednesday.

When the company offer was put, the interim payment was only a was really promise. There no offer of any figure to entice these men back to work. 'We had a solid vote to stay out. It surprised really me because the men must have been at their lowest ebb. This deter- mination shows how justified the strike is.' The strike committee members did not believe that the traumatic events of last week-the £50,000 and Transport on General Workers' Union and the use of the Industrial Relations Act against the railwaymen-had any real effect on the strikers.

'The men were just ing their own position, said one "The man- committee member. agement made a mere promise of a rise, and our men cannot go back on the basis of promises from this management.' They do not feel that there is much likelihood of the Battery itself resorting to law. 'There's not chance,' much Eric Curtis. 'This says treasurer firm doesn't like publicity. They ickets with convenor Len Tisdell (extreme left would not like to come before the courts.' As part of their 'publicity drive' against the company, the pickets have put up signs at the gates pointing out wage and accident rate figures. strike committee seems The its strategy of fighting united in it out eyeball-to-eyeball with the management. A number say they do not feel that wider district action would have much effect.

If what we've done up to now hasn't moved them, nothing •will, says Kieran Quinn.

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BIRMINGHAM Small Arms, ailing and the motorcycle engineering firm, is still in the red-to the tune of £1.6m.

in interim This is revealed figures for the six months to the end of January. In the previous six month period the loss was £2.8m. ALMOST HALF the children at two Brighton schools stayed away yes- terday in protest against conditions. More than half the child- ren at Moulsecombe primary were absent. Moulse- Allan Rosthorn of combe Parents' Committee, who ATTEMPTS to close any GEC factory will be met by factory occupation, with clerical workers in the lead. English Electric Liverpool clerks, in the sixth week of their pay strike, hammered out this message to Arnold Weinstock at a mass meeting yesterday.

The 450 strikers were joined by a delegation of 40 clerks from Leyland Motors, Leyland and LANCASTER University stud- their ents yesterday renewed boycott of lectures. The new boy- cott was ted byestudents of the English Other department. departments were meeting yes- terday afternoon decide to whether they would join the pro- the dismissal pro- test over ceedings against English lecturer Dr David Craig, who allegedly incited students to disrupt the University last term.

REGIONAL TV B

CHANNEL: 1.30 Racing. 4.05 Zingalong. 4.18 Puffin. 4.22 Dick Van Dyke. 4.50 London. 6.00 News, weather. 6.10 Report. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Sky's the limit.

7.30 | spy. 8.30 His and hers.

9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'Konga'.

12.05 News, weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 3.55 Gus Honeybun. 4.18 News.

Diary. 6.25 Sport. • 10.28 News, weather. 12.05 Faith for SOUTHERN: 2.00 London. 4.00 4.30 4.15 Paulus. Crossroads. 4.55 Voyage. 5.50 News. 6.00 Day by day. 6.40 Out of town. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Jason King. 8.30 His and hers. 9.00 London. 10.30 Week- "The Mummy'. end. 10.35 Film: 12.00 Weather. Epilogue. HTV: 12.25 Arthur. 12.40 Sea- spray. 1.05 Captain Scarlet. 1.30 Racing. 3.35 Enchanted house. pe 3.50 Women. 4.15 Tinkertainment.

4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Voyage.

5.50 News. 6.01 Report. 6.18 Report. 6.35 Bonanza. 7.30 Film: 'Sword of Sherwood Forest'.

10.00 News. 9.00 Jason King. 10.30 Cinema. 11.00 His and 12.25 hers. 11.30 Budgie. Weather. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Wales as above except: 4.15 Cantamil. 6.01 Y Dydd. 10.30 Outlook. HTV West as above except: 6.18- 6.35 Report. ANGLIA: 1.30 Racing. 2.30 Good Racing. 3.45 afternoon. 3.00 Yoga. 4.10 News. 4.15 Cartoons.

4.25 Romper room. 4.50 Bottom News. 6.00 of the sea. 5.50 About Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 His and Hers. 9.00 London.

10.30 Probe. Film: 'Bitter Har.

vest'. Workers Press No interim dividend for share- holders has been declared and is unlikely to be a final there one later this year. Although Barclays Bank is continuing to underwrite the BSA operation, this source of support is balanced on the wages fight in the engineering industry.

organized the boycott, said: 'We are delighted with the response.

Now we hope Brighton council will do something to improve conditions.' The two schools were built to accommodate 600 pupils, there are now more than 1,000 Temporary classrooms have been built, but parents say they are inadequate and that toilet facili- ties are deplorable. parents demon- Last night strated outside the town hall when Brighton council discussed overcrowding at the schools.

Chorley, BAC Preston and GEC Traction Preston. Cheques totalling £135 were presented to the English Electric Strike committee by the delega- tion before they joined strikers in a mass picket of the factory.

Plans are now being made for a national levy of all APEX (ex- CAWU) members in support of English Electric clerks. 'Our message to employers is clear--all mass redundancies and site closures will invite the of factories occupation by workers employed there, APEX organizer Keith Standing area told the meeting. And APEX will continue to: play a leading role on factory occupations defence of the in right to work ... and we will by threats.' not be deterred Their demand for a £6-a-week rise has been met by a derisory offer of between £1.15 and £1.75 dismissal by and notices management.

BBC 2

11.00 Play School. 6.05 Open University. 6.35 Crime and the Criminal. 7.05 Open University.

7.30 NEWSROOM, Weather.

8.00 MONEY PROGRAMME.

9.00 GARDENERS' WORLD.

9.20 REVIEW. Walker Art Gal- lery. John Moore's Exhibi- 10.t ATV MIDLANDS: 1.30 Racing.

3.35 Horoscope. 3.45 Women. 4.10 Julia. 4.40 Zingalong. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 News. 6.00 Today. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 His and Hers. 7.30 Jason King. 8.30 Shirley's world. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: "Two on a Guillotine'.

ULSTER: 1.30 Racing. 4.30 Rom- per room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Thun- derbirds. 5.50 News. 6.00 Reports. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Jason King.

8.30 His and hers. 9.00 London.

10.30 Spectrum. 11.00 Film: "The Monk'. YORKSHIRE: 1.00 Woobinda. 1.25 1.30 London. 3.40 Pied Piper. Jimmy Stewart. 4.10 News. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Zingalong. 4.55 Flaxton boys. 5.20 Flintstones.

6.00 Calendar, News. 5.50 Partners. 6.30 7.00 weather. Sky's the limit. 7.30 His and hers.

8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 London.

Film: 'Lord Jim'. 1.15 10.30 Weather. GRANADA: 1.30 Racing. 3.25 Yoga. 3.55 Camera in action. News. Peyton Place. 4.40 4.05 London. 6.00 News. 6.20 Guns of Will Sonnett. 6.50 Kick off. 7.00 Dr Simon Locke. 7.25 His and hers. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 Lon- Epi kers Press, Friday April 28, 1972 PAGE 11 CASTLEFORD, Friday, April Magnet 28, 6.30 p.m. The Airedale. The Industrial Rela- tions Act. 30, DUNDEE: Sunday April 7.30 p.m. AUBTW Hall, Bain St (off Wellgate). Hands off the unions. E LONDON: Tuesday May 2, 8 p.m. (Note change of venue): 'Three Wheatsheaves, Upper St, N1 (nr Angel tube), N Ireland. W LONDON: Tuesday May 2, 8 p.m. Shaw Theatre and Library, Euston Rd, WC1. Force the Tories to resign.

SLOUGH: Thursday May 11, Community 8 p.m. Slough Centre, Farnam Rd. Speakers, Frank Tomany, ex-convenor Omes Faulkner. Brian Bailey, AUEW_ (in a personal capa- city). The Industrial Relations Act. Recall the TUC Expel the traitors Make the Tories resign CROYDON: Thursday May 4, 8 p.m. 'Ruskin Hall, Coombe Pld.

SW LONDON: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. N KENT: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m.

SOGAT House, Essex Rd, Dart- ford. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Ave, Barking. LUTON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m.

St John's Ambulance Hall, Lea N LONDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arrns, Totten- ham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). SE LONDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, New Cross Rd (opp New Cross station). tion. Vladimir Nabokov. The Soldier's Tale by Stra- vinsky. 10.15 NEWS, Weather. 10.20 BEYOND A JOKE. Eléanor Bron, John Bird, Barrie Ingham.

10.50 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

don. 10.35 Film: 'Desire Under the Elms'. TYNE TEES: 12.25 Pied Piper.

12.30 Forest rangers. 1.00 Time to remember. 1.30 Racing. 2.30 Yoga. 3.00 Racing. 3.40 Jimmy Stewart. 4.10 News. 4.15 Cross- roads. 4.40 Make a wish. 4.55 Flaxton boys. 5.20 Flintstones. 5.50 News. 6.00 Today. 6.30 Partners. 7.00 Sky's the limit.

.00 7.30 His and hers. 8.00 Dr Gannon. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'Harlow'. 12.45 News. 1.00 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 1.30 Racing. 3.30 Kiri. 3.45 Crossroads. 4.10 Date- line. 4.55 Skippy. 5.20 Cartoon.

5.50 News. 6.00 Dateline. 6.20 Cartoon. 6.30 His and hers. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Andy. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 London. 10.30 In camera. 11.00 Late call. 11.05 Film: 'No Room at the Inn'.

GRAMPIAN: 1.30 Racing. 3.38 News. 3.45 Women. 4.10 Smith 4.40 Zingalong. 4.55 family. Rainbow country. 5.20 Ivanhoe. 5.50 News. 6.00 News, weather.

6.05 and Mrs. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.35 It takes a thief. 8.25 Melody inn. 9.00 London. 10.30 Hogan's Film: Son heroes. 11.00 of. and Frankenstein'. Report.

12.25 _on- Epilogue.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday April 28, 1 FIRST BLOW in the fight back against the TUC retreat before the National Industrial Rela- tions Court was struck yesterday by represent- atives of 1.2 million engineering workers. Yesterday afternoon, the engineers' section conference of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers un- animously condemned the

TUC

General Council's actions in opening up a form with the of co-operation Industrial Relations Act.

It called for the immediate re- call of Congress to discuss the new turn of events. All 52 delegates to the sec- national tion's . policy making committee supported the move. Hugh Scanlon, the union's Presi- dent, pledged that the executive from would not be prevented A MASS meeting of Liverpool dockers will be held the at Sunday Liverpool Stadium on week to discuss the blacking of three container firms. The decision was taken yester- day by the shop stewards' execu- tive committee, which also decided to call a full meeting of the port's 120 stewards some- time next week. Meanwhile the blacking of the firms goes on. 'THE GUARDIAN vesterday apologized in the High Court Eric Morley and Mecca to Limited, organizers of the Miss World contest and agreed to "substantial damages. pay The plaintiffs claimed that the newspaper suggested the 1970 competition had been rigged.

Mr Robert Alexander. for Mecca, told Mr Morley and Justice Bean: 'The Miss World contest has always been an open competition, with the independently judged Impartially on winner :selected ('The Both defendants merit. Guardian' and the Manchester Evening News") now recognize that suggestions to the contrary were without foundation.'

The 1970 Miss World was Miss Jennifer Hosten of Grenada.

She was chosen by a panel of judges who included the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, singer Glen Campbell, Peter Dim- mock, film-maker Nat Cohen, singer Nina, actress Joan Collins, Maharajah of Baroda, the the Malawi High Commissioner and the Indonesian Ambassador.

IN ANOTHER libel action yes- terday Winston Churchill, Tory MP for Stretford, received sub- against stantial libel damages •Private Eye'. His counsel, Robert magazine said the Alexander, had suggested that Churchill had personal motives for introducing a Bill before parliament. the magazine's He had sued editor, Richard Ingrams, and its printer, publisher and distributor, Pressdram Limited, Leo Thorpe Limited and Moore Harness Limited. Mr Peter Bowsher, for the they defendants, said now realized the statements that should never have been pub- lished and were sorry for any been may have that distress caused. CRIES of 'Shame' were heard in yesterday when the Commons the Leader of the House, Robert Carr, announced that the govern- further ment would guillotine debate on the Common Market legislation. April 28, 1972

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE

fighting for recall by the defeat on the proposal at last inflicted Monday's TUC and Finance General Purposes Committee.

Moving the resolution Arthur Gibbard, delegate from Middle- sex, said that the events of the last few days had given cause for alarm at what must be re- garded as a very grave situation.

'Our basic trade union rights are at stake', he said. The form co-operation between unions and government discussed by the general council with Tory premier Edward Heath was contrary to TUC policy. The unions were now coming under attack the AUEW at C. A. Parsons Ltd and the T&GWU on "the docks. "This could mean, he said, 'that within a very short space of time our movement could MEN at British-Leyland's tru called off a threatened strike y a management pay offer. At il mass meeting about 5,000 workers agreed to a deal which gives an across the board pay rise of £2.50, and better holiday pay improved pay for women. The deal, howerer, is a break the official policy of the from Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers which insists new in the engineering agreements industry should include provi- sion for a shorter working week.

AUEW district secretary Bob Crook admitted this yesterday. but said the question of hours had to be negotiated at combine big company like level in British-Leyland. The meeting took the advice of shop stewards and accepted the deal with a large majority, though there was some criticism of the size of the rise on the grounds that it would be rapidly and croded by rent price increases. Shop stewards say they are happy with the terms, which are not legally binding, because they provision for contain no Measured-Day Work. This was demand that the manage- one negotiating team, led by ment British-Leyland's personnel chief Pat Lowry, were pressing.

The meeting also called for £l-a-head combine levy to sup- port the British Aircraft Cor- poration workers from three N their Lancashire plants now in 12th week of strike over demand for a cost-of-living rise.

UPPER CLYDE shop stewards will fly to London today to meet Wayne Harbin, the head of Mara- thon Manufacturing Corporation is bidding for of Texas which Clydebank yard. After negotiations with the and of Trade Department Industry on Wednesday, Harbin said the two sides were 'only around flm apart. THREE HUNDRED transport drivers employed at the Lucas factory at Formans Rd. Birm- ingham, walked out yesterday in support of a wage demand.

Transport and General Work- ers' Union shop steward K. Jackson said the men were claiming £2 to £2.50 to give them parity with skilled men. The men deliver electrical components to all the major car factories.

become fragmented.' • exactly what the This : was Tories had intended in passing their anti-union legislation.

Sid Harraway, delegate from S Essex, said in seconding the that next Monday could motion be a very important day for the trade union movement. ,It was then that-the I&GWU would decide their attitude to the TUCs advice that they pay the £55,000 fines. Parsons' action against the AUEW technicians' section was due to be heard by the NIRC the same day. 'We are making a call to the broad trade union movement,' he said. •What we, are saying is that unions themselves should have the opportunity of reappraisal of the trends that are now appear- ing.' id's truck plant near Preston strike yesterday after accepting

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A GREAT post yesterday of £188.67 leaving £737.19 to raise by Sunday. We knew you would do everything possible to there yer. We must not sit back raise this money. But we are for a moment. The shameful capitulation of the TUC to the Tories' Industrial Relations Act opens the door to grave dangers for the working class. The government, and employers everywhere, will only be strengthened by this cowardly decision. ...We urge you all therefore- use Workers Press to bulld the revolutionary alternative. Keep up this magnificent struggle for our April Fund. Make sure in the next three days we raise our target of £1,750. Rush all last minute donations to : Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4, 7UG #fill N AND central Scotland will be cloudy with occasional rain although some bright intervals may occur in the NE. S Scotland and N Ireland will be bright at first but it will become cloudy with some rain later. Elsewhere it will dry with mostly variable of cloud. amounts Temperatures will be near the seasonal average. Outlook for the weekend: Rain and strong winds spreading to all areas followed in the S and W by brighter showery weather.

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SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Hands off the trade unions LONDON: Poplar Clvll Hall, Frank Willis (AUEW in per- capacity); P. O'Regan Bow Rd, 7.30 p.m. sonal G. Healy (SLL National Secre-

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Leeds 1, 7.30 p.m. Wheatsheat, Jack Gale (SLL); Ken Pearce

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(OTO in personal capacity); High St, 7.30 p.m. National (Vauxhall shop Burrows (YS Stanley Joan. Alan Committee). steward in personal capacity; Simmance (YS national John SHEFFIELD: Montgomery Hall, secretary). Town Hall, Survey St, opp. AYLESHAM: The Legion, Bur- 7.30 p.m. Slaughter (SLL Central goss Rd, Aylosham, 7 p.m.

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Press); Keith Radford (YSNC).

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Fleet St, 7.30 p.m. OXFORD: Cape of Good Hope, Ray Howells (AUEW personal 8 capacity); Clive Norris (YSNC).

Oxford. Plain, The p.m. Alan Thornett (deputy senior READING: Trades and Labour Morris Motors. In a steward, Dany Mister SL Tony personal capacity).

(SLL);

Dany Sylveire Richardson (T&GWU in per- SWANSEA: Lecture Hall, Bishop sonal capacity). School, Bishop Gore Gore Sketty. 7.30 p.m. Roy Battersby SOUTHAMPTON: Langley Hall, Church, (ACTT in a personal capacity).

St Peter's next to Gary Jenner (YSNC). Commerclal Rd, 7.30 p.m. Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists Sunday May 7 We demand the Right to Work!

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

Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all internees!

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

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall.

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

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

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