Workers Press no. 752

workers press

ANGER GROWS

AGAINST TORY

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE WORKING CLASS is b against the TUC's surrender Relations Act. The focus of movement is the docks, w Industrial Relations Court is port (see p. 12). Jack Jones, with the rest of th that 9 million trade unionists wi accepting laws that remove their b Jones agreed with the TUC edict that his Transport and Workers' General Union should pay £55,000 in fines to the Court. But this policy was unacceptable to the T&GWU Finance and General Purposes Committee. Instead Jones has been forced to call whole executive body together. This is a lay Britain's comprising men from major docks and factories. They Monday, May l, will decide on Britain's biggest union whether will capitulate to the Court or stand up and fight it. As Jones received this rebuff, another powerful body in the trade union movement came out This was the against surrender. of National Committee the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- Workers. On behalf of 1.2 million engineers it demanded a recall of the delegates to last September's TUC Congress to debate the issue. Now we have the technical and supervisory section of the AUEW - who faced their first Court action yesterday - re- affirming their determination not

DRAUGHTSMEN'S

union leaders were yesterday told by the National Industrial Relations Court to stop industrial action against members of the United Kingdom Association of Profes- non-TUC sional Engineers, a organization, at five NE factories of C. A. Parsons Ltd. The interim order, which lasts until next Tuesday, May 2, is the Court's first involving a section of Britain's second largest union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. And NIRC President Sir John Donaldson took the opportunity • Turn to P.12

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

SS is beginning to fight back render to the Tory Industrial cus of this developing mass cks, where defiance of the urt is spreading from port to est of the TUC leaders, is learning onists will not be railroaded into e their basic rights. to co-operate with the anti-union laws. These moves against the Tories only reflect a greater and more determined resist- ordinary trade ance among unionists. Workers were stunned when their leaders crumbled so rapidly because the Tories used the law.

But now the shock is wearing off, and they want the TUC Gen- eral Council to get off its knees.

This means that Victor Feather and his General Council are out of order. They have no right or mandate to reverse the TUC Con- gress decision of September and • hand the whole trade union movement over to the Tories.

Because this is exactly what Feather is proposing. He suggests voluntary concilia- tion procedures and further talks with the government to avoid the law. These are the words of com- promise used in a period when compromise has been abolished by order of a judge. You cannot compromise with a court of law you can only obey or face the penalties. And if Jack Jones wants to test out this idea, let him pay his fine on Monday as a gesture of 'com- promise. If he does, the Tories will be back on Tuesday still demanding he stops the action of the dockers which has been declared illegal. In short, there is no way round this Court. The Tories have the law and they will use it. Any employer can go to court and get a judgement because that is the law. The union leaders and the whole working class face two courses of action-surrender or a fight to repeal the Industrial Relations Act. And in order to do this, it is necessary to create the industrial and political con- ditions to force the government to resign. be the central This must demand at the May Day strikes and protests on Monday. We back the one-day strike, but declare it inadequate. To get rid of the law, the government must be removed and only a possibly Strike General can create the conditions for this.

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE •oiermakers leaoer baanv Meaarvey conference room at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, yesterday after he and shop stewards from wil maramon chiel wayne naroll Harbin promised government cash THE TEXAN oil rig builders, Marathon Manufacturing, will get government money it needs Clydebank to take over the division of Upper Clyde Ship- if with builders agreements the unions can be worked out.

This was annonced yester- day by Christopher Chataway, Secretary for Trade and Indus- try. A meeting began almost London immediate v chairman Marathon between boilermakers' Wayne Harbin, leader Danny MeGarvey and shop stewards and union cials from Clydeside. Harbin has already said he wants to negotiate a four-year, no-strike contract in exchange for a wage deal with a cost-

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No 752 • 4p

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through the door of AcGarvey seen a Lancaster Hotel, London, yesterday after le Upper Clyde Shipbuilders had talked of-living clause. Harbin said he intends to employ 2,000 at Clydebank. At present 2,068 hourly paid workers are employed there and 380 staff. If the company and unions can agree, it will give the green light to the other firm which wants to build ships on the upper Clyde Govan Ship- builders. Shop stewards have insisted in the past that there should no compulsory be redundancies. Marathon plan a £25m to £35m investment at Clyde- bank. The company hopes to start on July 24. Harbin will fly back to Texas today to dis- cuss the deal with his board.

FUND REACHES

TWO DAYS

TO GO

IT CERTAINLY

is a tough. struggle this month. But we set a tough challenge. We are aim- ing to raise an extra £500 to help us cover any losses during the rail work-to-rule. We are sure that you, our readers, will do everything you possibly can and make sure we raise our £1,750 target. The use of the Industrial Re- lations Court leaves no room for negotiations compromise or between the unions and the em- ployers. There must be a show- down between the working class and this Tory government. In this situation, Workers Press is needed more than ever. Help us therefore these last few days. We need every effort you can muster. There is not a moment to lose. By Sunday we need another E564.69, so we are you to pull relying on us through. Rush all your donations Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG Starting Monday two exclusive series The Politics of 'Private Eye' by Stephen Johns The Battle on the Docks: Devlin and After by David Maude And on Tuesday: The BBC introduces a Code of Conduct to tame the staff. Special Correspondent Leslie Stewart examines Censorship and the BBC Massey rejection MASS meetings of day- and night-shift workers at Massey- Ferguson, the Coventry-based tractor over- whelmingly rejected a week wage increase offered by the company yesterday. The offer was in reply to a claim for €8 across-the-board with no strings, a 35-hour week, four days' additional holiday and a pension scheme giving £1,000 on retirement.

workers press

ANGER GROWS

AGAINST TORY

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE WORKING CLASS is b against the TUC's surrender Relations Act. The focus of movement is the docks, w Industrial Relations Court is s Jack Jones, with the rest of th that 9 million trade unionists wi accepting laws that remove their b Jones agreed with the TUC edict that his Transport and Workers' Union General should pay £55,000 in fines to the Court. But this policy was unacceptable to the T&GWU Finance and General Purposes Committee. Instead Jones has been forced his whole executive to call together. This is a lay body from Britain's comprising men major docks and factories. They will decide on Monday, May, 1, Britain's biggest union whether will capitulate to the Court or stand up and fight it. As Jones received this rebuff, another powerful body in the trade union movement came out against surrender. This was the National Committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- behalf of 1.2 ing Workers. On million engineers it demanded a delegates to last recall of the September's TUC Congress to debate the issue. the technical Now we have section of the and supervisory AUEW - who faced their first Court action yesterday — re- affirming their determination not

DRAUGHTSMEN'S

union were yesterday told by leaders the National Industrial Relations Court to stop industrial action of the United against members Kingdom Association of Profes- non-TUC sional Engineers, a organization, at five NE factories of C. A. Parsons Ltd. The interim order, which lasts until next Tuesday, May 2, is the Court's first involving a section of Britain's second largest union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. And NIRC President Sir John Donaldson took the opportunity • • Turn to P.12

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

SS is beginning to fight back render to the Tory Industrial cus of this developing mass cks, where defiance of the urt is spreading from port to est of the TUC leaders, is learning nists will not be railroaded into e their basic rights. to co-operate with the anti-union laws. These moves against the Tories only reflect a greater determined resist- and more among ordinary trade ance unionists. Workers were stunned when their leaders crumbled so rapidly because the Tories used the law.

But now the shock is wearing off, and they want the TUC Gen- eral Council to get off its knees.

This means that Victor Feather and his General Council are out of order. They have no right or mandate to reverse the TUC Con- gress decision of September and • hand the whole trade union movement over to the Tories.

Because this is exactly what Feather is proposing. He suggests voluntary concilia- tion procedures and further talks the government to avoid with the law. These are the words of com- promise used in a period when compromise has been abolished by order of a judge. You cannot compromise with a court of law you can only obey or face the penalties. And if Jack Jones wants to test out this idea, let him pay his fine on Monday as a gesture of 'com- promise. If he does, the Tories back on Tuesday still will be demanding he stops the action which has been of the dockers declared illegal. In short, there is no way Court. The Tories round this have the law and they will use it. Any employer can go to court and get a judgement because that is the law. The union leaders and the whole working class face two courses of action-surrender or a fight to repeal the Industrial Relations Act. And in order to do this, it is necessary to create the industrial and political con- ditions to force the government to resign. This must be the central demand at the May Day strikes and protests on Monday. We back the one-day strike, but declare it inadequate. To get rid of the law, the government be removed and only must General Strike possibly can create the conditions for this.

THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 29, 1

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

Buiiermakers leader Danny McGarvey conference room at the Royal Lancaster he and shop stewards from the Upper with Marathon chief Wayne Harbin.

THE TEXAN oil rig builders, Marathon Manufacturing, will get government money it needs take over the Clydebank to division of Upper Clyde Ship- builders if agreements with the unions can be worked out.

This was announced yester- day by Christopher Chataway, Secretary for Trade and Indus- try. A meeting began almost immediately in London between Marathon chairman Wayne Harbin,_ boilermakers' leader Danny McGarvey and shop stewards and union offi- cials from Clydeside. Harbin has already said he wants to negotiate a four-year, no-strike contract in exchange for a wage deal with a cost- PRIL 29, 1972 • No 752 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

through the door of a Lancaster Hotel, London, yesterday after le Upper Clyde Shipbuilders had talked of-living clause. Harbin said he intends to employ 2,000 at Clydebank. At paid hourly present 2,068 employed there workers are and 380 staff. If the company and unions can agree, it will give the green light to the other firm which wants to build ships on the upper Clyde Govan Ship- builders. Shop stewards have insisted in the past that there should compulsory be no redundancies. Marathon plan a £25m to at Clyde- £35m investment bank. The company hopes to start on July 24. Harbin will fly back to Texas today to dis- cuss the deal with his board.

FUND REACHES

TWO DAYS

TO GO

IT CERTAINLY is a tough. struggle this month. But we set a tough challenge. We are alm- ing to raise an extra £500 to help us cover any losses during the rail work-to-rule. We are sure that you, our readers, will do everything | you possibly can and make sure we raise our £1,750 target. The use of the Industrial Re- lations Court leaves no room for negotiations compromise or between the unions and the em- ployers. There must be a show- down between the working class and this Tory government. In this situation, Workers Press is needed more than ever. Help us therefore these last few days. We need every effort you can muster. There Is not a moment to lose. By Sunday we need another £564.69, so we are relying on you pull us through. Rush all your donations to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG Starting Monday two exclusive series The Politics of 'Private Eye' by Stephen Johns The Battle on the Docks: Devlin and After by David Maude And on Tuesday : The BBC introduces a Code of Conduct to tame the staff. Special Correspondent Leslie Stewart examines Censorship and the BBC and

MASS

meetings of day- night-shift workers at Massey- Coventry-based Ferguson, the manufacturer, over- tractor whelmingly rejected a £2.50 a week wage increase offered by the company yesterday. The offer was in reply to a claim for £8 across-the-board with no strings, a 35-hour week, four days' additional holiday and a pension scheme giving £1,000 on retirement.

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AROUND THE WORLD

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OPPOSITION Christian- Democrats in the West German Bundestag yes- terday rejected an appeal for a parliamentary truce from Chancellor Willy Brandt. Brandt's appeal followed his narrow two-vote victory over opposition motion of no an confidence tabled on Thursday.

Despite defeat of this motion, the future of the ruling Social- Democrat-Liberal coalition is extremely shaky. It is now clear that two coali- tion members voted with the opposition on Thursday and that Christian Democrat one sup- porter abstained. This makes it doubtful whether Brandt can achieve the majority he will need to steer through the Moscow and Warsaw treaties which come up for ratification in the Bundestag next week. Though his opponents appear unable to unseat him, Brandt could well be unable to com- mand the absolute majority in the Bundestag he will need to achieve ratification. Such a parliamentary dead- lock could be resolved only by a premature General Election. Brandt discussed this possibility Thursday with opposition on chief Rainer Barzel. The sharp divisions within parliament reflect the growing antagonism between • the classes in W Germany. There were widespread protest strikes on the eve of Thursday's Bundestag vote as workers ex- pressed their hostility to the right-wing

CDU

and manoeuvres. The parliamentary crisis is directly produced by the em- ployers' need for a government which will take drastic measures a bid to against workers, overcome W Germany's economic crisis. The ground is being prepared for major class battles in Germany over the coming months. THE Bundestag yesterday rejected the government's Chan- cellory appropriations in 1972 Budget on a tied vote. The 247 for and 247 voting was one abstention. against, with This, under German parliamen- tary rules, is equivalent to a rejection. Chancellor Brandt must now win a majority on the final read- ing of the Budget Bill or it will be rejected decisively. Superman sued SCIENTOLOGISTS in California suing a second author for are book called Inside writing joined and Scientology-How I Became a Superman'. Proceedings were started in the High Court author. Robert against today Kaufman and his publisher Olympia Press. ay April 29, 1972 N VIETNAMESE forces are i tanks in their drive around Quang Tri and heavy infantry in the area. Saigon command The claimed to have stopped the advance and to have de- stroyed a number of tanks.

In the central highlands, pressure continued on Kon- tum where N Vietnamese tanks were also in action.

Some 20,000 troops are said to be massing for an assault on the town. The S Vietnamese chief of the air force in killed with was American adviser when • their helicopter crashed. Washington officials claimed that the N Vietnamese offensive had only scored limited gains so far. They said that the aim. of Hanoi was to gain _sufficient territory in the S establish to political and administrative con- trol over part of the country undermine the Saigon and government. The US Command are hoping will an early monsoon season slow the N Vietnamese advance, but admit that attacks across the demilitarized zone and movement of supplies to the S could continue. The official view in Washington is that the return to the Paris THE COMMUNIST Party is the main bulwark against civil war in Spain: that is the main theme of the Spanish Com- munist Party's May Day mani- militants festo which are currently risking their lives to distribute. The manifesto reveals a sharp swing to the right by secretary Carrillo's i Santiago party, first signs of which were evident in the last edition of the Party newspaper. This called for dialogue between the army and the people against civil war.

then nitree miss at the less than three times, that working class does not raise the flag of subversion and civil war'.

Subversion, according to the CP. is 'ultras', Blas Pinar, 'dreaming of a new blood bath against the people'. (Empha- sis in the original.) Carrillo opposes these prepara- tions for civil war against working class in an attempt to woo the middle class with the demand for a provisional gov- ernment which will call con- stituent elections! The more the class struggle sharpens in Spain, the more the Stalinists cling to their treacher- ous policy of a "peaceful road to socialism'. MOST . of Madrid's building workers an illegal have joined strike and all sites are patrolled by Civil Guards. Police broke up a sit-in by actors at the headquarters of their state-run syndicate.

No arrests were made, but on Monitor.

'Tulia Pena actress was arrested and charged with sedi- es are using amphibious PT-76 around the northern city of nfantry battles are taking place peace talks will give Hanoi an opportunity to take a more con- Soviet ciliatory stance under diplomatic pressure. The Nixon administration is uncertain how far this pressure will go and whether it will influence Hanoi.

• One of Hanoi's top men who took part in secret talks with Dr Henry Kissinger last year, Le Dục Thọ, has been in Peking on his way to the Paris peace • He was received talks. by Chinese: leaders including Chou En-lai. Speaking at a banquet in his honour Tho said that the US bombing raids were a sign of weakness not of strength.

He added: 'We are launching offensive against the US an and their running aggressors dogs on the entire battlefield of Vietnam and have won some victories.' A statement from the National Liberation Front's press agency accused Nixon of sending the US and S Vietnamese negotiators back to the peace conference in order to sabotage it. It denounced Nixon for "cook- ing up the story of N Vietnamese part of invading the southern their fatherland' when in reality they were supporting . the 'just struggle of their countrymen.

association. She tion and illegal will probably be tried before a military court. Spain's underground workers' organizations have called for strikes and demonstrations May Day. Suport is expected to come from many students and intellectuals. AMERICA'S huge trade deficit remained almost unchanged in March as imports continued to outstrip exports by near-record rates, according to the Com- DELEGATES from the. under- developed countries attending the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Santiago, Chile, have managed to agree to three draft resolutions piously hoping for more aid and trade conces- sions from the richer countries.

resolutions incorporate The the principle of additional for the least-developed 'group of countries, in which annual income per head is below $100.

"By 'making this concéssion to "'"mo the 'important' capitalist the IN a recent statement cond actions of the Bolivian mil country's Anti-imperialist (FRA). has come to a natio Banzer and his relations with The Front is an amalgam of Stalinists, Pabloites, nationalist followers of the ousted General Juan Torres, and the revisionist Revolu- tionary Workers Party of Guillermo Lora. It is well known that Lora's party subordinated the work- ing-class to General Juan Torres' regime to the extent of creating the illusion that Tor- res would actually arm the working class to defend his against last government August 22's right-wing coup during which Banzer took con- trol of the country. justified and still jus- Lora tifies this policy by pointing out differences between the nationalist' 'independent wing and the "pro-imperialist' wing of bourgeoisie. This was the the basis for the Popular Front alli- ance between Torres and Lora.

According to the FRA's latest bour- the Bolivian statement, geoisie's inner contradictions are deepening even more. Banzer's anti-communist repression-in which hundreds of militants have been arrested—is placating aimed at the right wing, which now threatens to remove him by a coup. This anti-communism and Minister of by the statements accusing the Interior govern- ments of various countries of pre- paring to overthrow the Banzer dictatorship described by the FRA in the following terms: 'This is only the application of the dictates of N America to force a rupture of relations with countries in the socialist sector, sign of inde- to liquidate any pendence in foreign policy; to frustrate any plans for independ- ent development of the vital sec- tors of our economy' the logic of In other words, Lora's with bourgeois alliance nationalists now leads to support "victim' of the for Banzer as a pressure of imperialism. This shows the significance of its statement issued in La Paz merce Department in Washing- ton. The deficit fell marginally by $13.3m in the month to $584.3m.

This was still the third largest countries the delegates hope to win agreement on other pro- posals. These include admission of imports on favourable terms by the advanced countries.

Delegates from the under- developed countries, 'the group of 77°, • agreed to special conces- sions for the least developed '25', including commodity agreements and special freight rates.

Serious divisions still remain including on. other issues, to "'"monetary reform and opening. of the Suez Canal. it condemning the repressive ian military dictatorship the rialist Revolutionary Front a nationalist defence of Col ns with the Stalinist countries.

Lora (above) sees Banzer as a 'victim' of imperialist pressure March 3, which demanded on that the working-class take power popular insurrection to through guarantee against the threat of a coup and to negate the bourgeois state. Such leftism is only a cover for moving closer to Banzer and endangering the whole thus Bolivian working-class organiza- Stalinist relations with Bolivia are used to prove Banzer's 'inde- pendence from imperialism' It is clear that the FRA is well to becoming the the way on • of main prop of the Banzer dicta- torship. monthly trade deficit the US has ever known. The overall deficit for the first three months of 1972 was the highest ever recorded. This was despite the Washington currency alignment agreement of Decem- ber 18 which was aimed at making American goods more competitive in world markets.

The American administration is still pressing for further con- cessions from overseas com- petitors to rectify the deficit in the US balance of payments. The huge payments deficit forced Nixon to suspend the sale' of gold for dollars on August 15 last year. target of the A particular trade-war drive is American Japan, which yesterday reported a record surplus on its balance of payments for the financial . on March 31. The year ending surplus wast$8,043m. Japan's ambassador in Wash- ington recently accused the US of making Japan a 'whipping boy by demanding further trade.

concessions.

Workers Press,: DUNDEE postmen a sharp conflict are wirh the SW leadership. certalniy

CORRESPONDENT

OUR

demanding that their The union is threatened by ar union fights in the TUC application in the National Indus- FOUR THOUSAND manual and General Workers' Union and Court he atone for a General Strike to the railway workers, this con. Telecommunications Staff Asso. Hebburn, Tyneside, began a force the Tories to resign.

demands that

TUC

ciation, ference the which about yesterday. should call General 10,000 recog- …TOl an emergency motion force the Tories to resign.

nition by the Post Office.

submitted for the Union of this Though has they shall destroy not union not removed now, been Post Office Workers' Black- named as a respondel D strength Association,

UPW

general organized Tine pool conference, the Dundee working class. We also call upon secretary Tom Jackson told Outdoor branch says that a the whole trade union Workers movement Press earlier week Labour would attend the NIRC to governmell lo ensure neXI Labou will restore all the defend his union's interests.

restore workers' basic rights.

asic rights of the class would so whatever the The motion-carried by

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which been by he have destroyed says overwhelming majority-reads: *if allowed to come before the

NO ONLOTS

'In view the vicious, dic- We examine the issues before th tatorial attacks on the Transport conference. conference, resolution THE Northern Resistance Move- ment is to defy new regulations on marches and stage a demon- ALL-OUT strike Yesterday the aCTION E . 1>-man DEA stration in Armagh today.

on the agenda

BY OUR.

CORDESPONDENT

pilots' council met in British Heathrow to discuss Airline Associa- Two days ago Ulster Secretar

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слесинс песинь. William Whitelan announced follows arrogant said yesterday, 'they are in breach Tiny were ropes or to rule

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added on hanr sacking of of and so hey they do work-to-rule bite. Their He that five All training notice. bite. recommendation to go days' Icely warning must given sackca bols rave been oard tell pension continuLons 1 sadys execuuve police in the case payment for any time off which body which on without notce wnich 1s the only 'traditional marches 'In fact,'

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spokesman is due to them, can call strike action. movement said team dor the movement, Armagh march been arranged time some They going to cancel

WCIC

it simply to formalize or legalize 'I feel very regulations institutionalize new serlanat ammon macis u political protest organizers must still give warning, he said The

NRM

which has clost with connections the Provisional

IRA

20.000-strong stared THE DECISION taken by the Amalgamated Union illegal march at Enniskillen two weeks after Bloody Sunday.

of Engineering Workers' National Committee to con- announced Under the amnest tinue the strategy - of plant-bargaining has been ..Newton-le-Willows by Whitelaw Thursday the GEd plant report for their dails Manchester district officials and "iai sentence welcomed by briefing before going onto their MPs Bernadette Devlin and criticized by some of the rank and file.

sit-in shift. Frank McManus will be lifted.

the 28,000 • rew . ot engineers the greater Manchester locked in, out or on for SaKe wanted the point claim re-opening of pay negoti- ations at national level.

What has disappointed them, however. that the national committee call for national

AUEW

by the win, the clalm. The dangerous situation where some workers are tempted accept wages. only deals leaving the anu demands can only by this decision, they bay. :There lot of frustration; a a steward near Warrington, told me.

end their third week sitting-in man- has HOL Ducker ar InCo. 'The have been up to me and say- ing, doesn't the national executive take bringing all engineers out?". uven national negotiations. national stoppie this doubt here is no whole thing be over lot more will now be will he said. wo weeks. ing to pay up,' The district would con- 'After a few weeks it becomes tempting for men unuc 101 -to be offered a fairly good cessions on pay, hours and wage increase if they can't holidays-nothing less, he his freedom he began his third spell.

SEAN

KEENAN,

leader of the 'old guard' Keenan could Seven his else added. weeks ago, ally lulla out of their action. 19-year-old Colm, a lot to Meanwhile negotiations or Londonderry Stell licans has been freed present tragic situation was dead by the Shot But the dangers inherent from Long Kesh. in this city British army Trafford Park, Manchester, in plant settlements do not On released be- Keenan, now arriving in Derry where 3,500 be seen by cause a group of Lon- night district officials. tuesday On hearing donderry businessmen Keenan said: 'Let's have weeks real No one une news rom eastbourne. remain truce. Well divisional organizer John And talks began vester" than us were LOre Tocher said: day on the sacking of 200 Ireland supremo during war and ed, peace. the 1950s be William Whitelaw during added, cannot be a on •The employers must Bredbury steelworks, one-sided truce.' now realize they have been 1,000 outs tear nectal

DONE

'holds large sway with years. sold The duction workers are in the oUs. local the ordin people of From the early hours know of any approaches Employers' sixth week of their sit-in. the Bogside Engineering 9, 1971- made to Whitelaw for of August Association has continually when the Tory told its members The first 23 went yester- one nameless his release. "No one har form because Hugh Scarion stand with the rest to follow "The group to decided to any right day to bargain ou

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which I belong which internment_ behalf, he said. introduce would be forced to go back as their notices expire. rs Press, Saturday Aprll 29, 1972 PAGE 3 manual workers at Reyrolles, gan a sit-in strike at Il a.m.

The action was taken because management sus- pended two welders who were involved in a piece- work dispute. Reyrolles threatened to sack the men for not working hard enough, but later decided to suspend them. A mass meeting of both piece- workers and time workers yes- terday morning decided to sit-in for the remainder of the day and to stay on strike until next Wednesday morning when the two suspended men return to work. Workers at the factory feel the move is part of the manage- ment's plan to dictate work speeds and output of piece- workers.

DUNDEE:

Sunday. April 30, 7.30 p.m. AUBTW Hall, Bain St (off Wellgate). Hands off the unions. St, N1 (nr Ireland. W LONDON: Tuesday May 2, 8 p.m. Shaw Theatre and Library, Euston Rd, WC1. Force the Tories to resign.

COTGRAVE: Tuesday May 2, 7.30 p.m. Cotgrave Miners' Welfare. The 'fair rents' Bill.

OLLERTON: Wednesday May 3, 7.30 p.m. White Hart. COALVILLE: Wednesday May 3, 8.00 p.m. Barden Rd Work- Men's Club. The Fair Rents' Bill and the fight against the Tory government.

SLOUGH: Thursday May' 11, Slough Community p.m. centre, Farnam Ra. Speakers, Frank _ 'omany, 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 Aid.

SW LONDON: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW.4. N KENT: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m.

SOGAT House, Essex Ra, 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 Arms, 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). ...

PAGE 4 Workera Press, Saturday April 2 By Harold Farmer Birmingham's slum clearance rate-supposedly about 4,000 year - is demolitions a l claimed to be the highest in the country. The Tory council says that all 'unfit houses' will be cleared by 1975. This is all part of the Tory 'brand-new scheme to create Brum' and solve the housing problem. But those on the receiving end of the Tories' housing policies over the last few years know differently. There are more than 20,000 names on the list for rehousing.

Another 11,000 joined it last year and there are still more than 12,000 people the slums waiting for rehousing. Those who have been moved to the estates are discovering what the Tories have in store for with the so-called "fair them rents' scheme. Mr J. Harris lives in Spark- brook, an inner city area which has been the subject of speeches, learned articles and whole books.

is being done Almost nothing now to regenerate the district or rehouse its inhabitants. Mr Harris came to Birming- ham eight weeks ago in the hope of finding a job; when he could not-unemployment in the West Midlands is now over 5 per cent, the highest in memory-he was forced to take a two-roomed flat in Sparkbrook for himself, his wife and two-year-old baby.

He pays £4.25 'for this dump'.

Two weeks ago the ceiling in the bathroom fell down. 'Now I can't use the bathroom or the kitchen as they are both in the one room. I have reported this the landlord and the to public health, but so far they have done nothing and the council say they can't give me a house because I haven't been in the area long enough.' has He doubt that the I no blame lies with 'this trash gov- ernment. In the long term he sees the need to bring in workers' control 'building a mass lay April 28, 1972 council estates are not entirely free from Mr Harris's problems.

And they have some especially their own. Kingshurst is a suburb that lies between Birmingham and the vast Chelmsley estate of new Wood. It was one of the first overspill Birmingham of areas and many of its inhabitants are suffering from the haste now with which it was constructed.

Councillor Allan, who is secre- the local Kingshurst tary Labour Party and lives in the area, has received heart of the many complaints of dampness, bad construction and almost total absence of recreational facilities. In one case, local people had to find the money to purchase some derelict land for a play area. Both Birmingham and Meriden councils have houses in Kings- hurst. Rents for Meriden have already been increased by 50p- before the new law comes into effect. And this, says Mr Allan, is despite the fact that Meriden last year had a surplus of £64,000. The council is, of course, Tory controlled and Labour coun- cillors are a small minority on it. Local Labour men have dis- tributed leaflets explaining and opposing the Bill and meetings and more publicity are planned Mr Allan himself thinks that the only real is to solution 'nationalize the land. and he is bitterly disappointed that the Tories are still in office: the Parliamentary Labour Party 'had a chance to throw them out over the Common Market, he says.

The Tory measures are disturb- ins many people in Chelmsley Wood too. This huge estate of over 70.000 people is virtually a in itself: only an expensive city bus service links it with Bir- mingham and many city workers are very reluctant to be rehoused there. Mr A. Harrison, a family man who lives in a newer bungalow there, is one of many who are deéply worried by the new Bill.

the He does not see where he will Top left: conditions in a Birmingham £4 tenants demonstratina aaainst rent inc money from the extra rent and is especially disturbed at the 'entry' provisions of the Bill.

He argues that council officers should 'have no right to come in here so long as I pay my rent and keep the house tidy. But even now, he said, he could not refuse them entry. Although he thinks that 'people are such that they don't take notice until things actually happen to them', he also believes that they have long memories and any future Labour govern- ment would have to watch its step. Across the road from Mr Harrison lives Mr J.. Coughling, vill at present unemployed. Behind ingham £4.25 a week, two-roomed flat. Top: Mr t rent Increases last week.

the paint of Chelmsley new Wood, he says, 'people are suffering - but they're too ashamed to admit it'. And he says ironically of himself: 'I make an ounce of tobacco last me a week-l'd do as well in prison.'

•His area is bedevilled with a Tory-controlled tenants' commit- You can't get any answers tee. from them.' Mr Coughling looks to the unions for action. They are, he says, 'more powerful than the government. 'They could do more if they got together and put their foot down. Talking enough. not Look at the miners: they got a good piece of what they wanted.'

At the same time, he says: 'If • Top: Mr Coughling. Above: Birmingham you got a Labour government in tomorrow, it would take a hell of a long time to get it straight.

And then it depends who we get it What this country really needs is not Tories or even Labour, but an entirely new type of gor- ernment; one with a wide sweep that will clean out the lot.'

Whether in the inner city or 15 miles out, housing conditions, and the Tory pro- rent levels posals lead to similar conclusions in Birmingham. Against all the expectations of a few years ago, it is the newer areas that will beat the brunt of the Tory attack, and it is there that the fiercest resistance be can expected.

After six years in power George Papadopoulos (right) is well on the way to making himself the undisputed die- tator of Greece. In a fifth anniversary broad- cast last week the ex-artillery made it clear that he colonel envisaged no changes in the which, regime's policies he claimed, 'had saved Greece from anarchy'. Prison camps, the police and suspension army, tortures, of all political parties and indeed all democratic rights, including the freedom of the press, have given Papadopoulos grounds for complacency. The underground various movements, including the cen- Democratic Defence, the trist Stalinist Patriotic Front, and the royalist Free Greeks, have not been able to harass the regime to any great extent and security authorities have managed to keep them under control. Massive injections of American money are helping the regime the economic crisis survive which is never far away. gradually Papadopoulos has eliminated all potential oppon- ents, including the military junta which helped him carry out the coup. Groups of young ambitious officers, who in the first years of the revolution played a vital in the shaping role of policy, have been brushed aside. They have been either sent to remote military units from which they cannot influence the regime, or have been retired and made under-secretaries of state with limited powers. In a cabinet reshuffle last year, Papadopoulos deprived the other two members of the Revolution- ary Triumvirate, Stylianos Pat- takos and Nicholas Makarezos, of their ministerial posts.

Pattakos lost his ministry of the interior and Makarezos his Economic Co-ordination Ministry.

Both became deputy premiers- a decorative post in the structure of the regime. The Premier's last move to consolidate his authority further was the dismissal, in March, of General George Zoitakis from the post of Regent, which he could "have used to influence dissident officers. Military experts believe that Zoitakis had become a focus of resistance for dissatisfied army officers and may have posed a threat to the authority of Premier Papadopoulos. The same experts have said that although in no sense a plotter against his colleagues in the revolution, General Zoitakis had lent a friendly ear to officers who have accused Papadopoulos of deviating from the revolution's aims and the concept of collec- tive responsibility and leadership.

Papadopoulos moved swiftly and successfully to eliminate this last obstacle and threat from within the ranks of the revolu- Workers Press, President Kaunda has thanked Zambian trade union leaders for their ser- vile acquiescence in his anti-strike measures. He was speaking at State House, Lusaka, after discussions with the entire executive council of the Zambia Congress of Trade Unions. The union chiefs, he said, had made 'unique and decisive a contribution' to the political, social develop- economic and ment of Zambia. The ZCTU leaders' main con- tribution over the past month has been to accept the directive from Labour Minister Wilson Chakulya giving employers carte blanche to sack the leaders of unofficial strikes. Their chief concern has been try and get guarantees that to employers will not 'misuse' the powers Chakulya has given them.

At their meeting with Kaunda, the union chiefs called on the government to 'work effectively with the ZCTU to fight the cur- prejudice in capitalist- rent oriented management'! They appear to have accepted Chakulya's assurance that Ministry would do everything possible to see that managements do not victimize workers on flimsy grounds. Kaunda's government is about to introduce a new • Industrial Relations Act, allegedly provid- ing 'adequate machinery to pro- tect and further the interests of workers and management'. Both the union leaders and the government have called for its implementation, immediate not- ing 'with dismay' that there have 'wildcat' strikes, been 1,378 involving over a million working days, since 1964. The government's attack on Zambian workers results the directly from the slump in the country's price of copper, the main export commodity. World at its demand for copper is lowest point since World War II as a result of the international recession. the union leaders' Despite readiness to crawl to Kaunda, signs that however, there are the rank and file in the unions want to fight the new measures.

Maxwell Chirwa, general trea- Left: Kaunda, already preparing now antl-union legislation.

tion, and emerged as the absolute ruler and arbiter of the situation and political developments Greece. The concentration of both the legislative and executive branches the hands of Papadopoulos has been interpreted as a first step towards establishing himself as President of a republic.

ers Press, Saturday April 29, 1972 PAGE 5 surer of the National Union of and Engineering Wor- Building said his office had been kers, flooded with telegrams and delegations of members from all • over the copperbelt. Many of them were planning to boycott the official May Day celebrations protest Chakulya's anti-strike measures.

The first direct challenge to the government came within days of Chakulya's speech. * Nine hundred miners at copper mine, Rhokana near Kitwe, walked out on April 21 after a fatal accident in the pit.

They said the management had not done enough to recover the body of the dead miner, Mr Musunga. The men were told they would be disciplined under the new regulations—i.e. the 'ringleaders' would be sacked unless they returned immediately to work. "Times of Zambia' The ful- minated against the Kitwe strikers in a manner which has become familiar to workers in Britain: •When the Kitwe strikers first downed tools over the recovery of a body after an unfortunate accident many had a lot of sym- their pathy with humanitarian approach ... But it has become obvious that the miners were just using this incident as an excuse to make a stand against Mr Chakulya's new measures.

No one will respect them if they continue with this nonsense.

'Do they want Mr Chakulya to revoke his directive and allow irresponsible elements within the country to bring unnecessary to industry through un- chaos official and childish stoppages?

We are sure, unless they are a completely undisciplined rabble, that they don't. 'Yet they have so far ignored pleas, even from the President himself, to return to work, and their walk-out from a meeting yesterday indicates that they are just being bloody-minded ... 'It is all very well having con- stitutional rights under which a group of workers are entitled to strike for a just cause, but when they abuse that privilege they don't deserve to have it.'

It would seem that the Zam- bian ruling class has little to Tories learn from the British when it comes to hammering the working class and taking away its rights. forces' current The liberation offensive in S Vietnam is creating panic behind the lines. This is most clearly indicated by the roaring price inflation in Saigon.

Not only is there a shortage of foodstuffs and other essential goods, but as doubts grow about the future of the Saigon govern- ment, so confidence in its cur- rency declines. Food prices went up by 30-100 per cent in the first week of the liberation forces' offensive, and have risen rapidly even more since. Rice is scarce and its price sugar and is going up, while milk prices have doubled.

The situation is made worse by rampant corruption. Some of the Saigon have newspapers accused the government of col- luding with speculators to delay rice deliveries to force the price up still further. and metal workers Engineers have recruited an all-time record number of members into their union in W Germany. The average number of members for 1971 was 2,312,294 for the IG Metall'. This was an increase of 90,000.

over the previous year. In the industrial area around where workers had Stuttgart, been on strike and locked out by the employers, trade unionism grew more than anywhere else.

by 44,261 members.

PAGE 6 Workera Preas, Saturday Aprli 29, 1972 A special general meeting of Equity, the union of actors and actresses, was held at the Adelphi Theatre, London, last Sunday. At 6 p.m., after four hours of debate, the meeting voted by 519 votes to 388 to stay on the register under the Industrial Relations Act.

The vote brought cheers and clapping from the right wing. Their euphoria, however, was conspicuously hollow. An actor in the gallery tore up his union card and threw the pieces dramtically into the stalls.

The first man through the doors at the end of the meeting hesitated momentarily to tell the waiting press: "That's it. This union is finished.'

The decision to register, as recommended by the union's council, is a setback to those in the union who care about the future of their profession and the trade But the union is union movement generally. not 'finished'. The vote last Sunday showed conclusively that a growing number of actors and actresses are opposed to the and reactionary totally arrogant policies of the present leadership. The special meeting on registration, therefore, marks a new stage in the fight inside the union. ALEX MITCHELL traces the This article by (top left) Nicholas Marius Goring and the Act and the Tory Act. under the leadership's retreat before Ernest Gerald Croasdell, Clark president government. Pluviez. No the that one can say leadership of Equity has been operating under any illusions about the economic dangers facing the union in the past ten years. The annual report for 1961- plainly 1962 ques- takes up …Toe of Britain's membership tion Common Market the immediately describes dangerous'. The report states: Treaty the removal restrictions films and, effect, the removal for national film state aids seen that full ThA ape catio of these articles of Treaty could be Rome for pro- •isastrous duction. 'If, therefore, Britain to Market enter the Common essential that equity should co the tet with the other unions industry and use possible hanuence

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the overnments ensure effec- safeguards these against potential dangers.' This annual report, compiled ten years ago, - is also important for another item regarding trade union soldarity. In that period Equity and the other were engaged 1cAl WIlk the newly-created commercial television operators. the struggle, Colliculls says: 'Firstly, it should argued for the report (top right) strenuously Smitn be recorded that this the three: general secretary, was first battle major industrial and assistant secretary, general Peter by whole undertaken Time pro- fession against a powerful group of employers. In the course of it, the mem- bership showed comprehen- sion of the issues involved and a unity which not only astonished dismayed the and programme attracted but the companies, admiration of other trade unions and of the public. 'Such attempts as were made to create splits in our ranks were to be rapidly shown not only futile but to be farcical. The Council wishes to record its appreciation of the friendly sup- port given by such unions, even though many of their members must have feared that their own employment would ultimately be endangered.' of trade This appreciation union solidarity looks sick today.

The Equity Council has aban- doned policy of non-co- the operation laid down by the TUC at Blackpool conference last thus destroying the September, much-needed unity of the trade movement to fight the union Act. Although the Council today is wanting to cuddle up to the Act, this was not always the case.

For newcomers to the contor- tions of reformist trade union leaders, it may be difficult to accept that the Council only 18 months ago produced a pamphlet entitled: 'Our profession in peril.' The document stated boldly: 'The Eauity Council is convinced that the government's proposals for an Industrial Relations Bill contain immense dangers for the future of the profession and of Equity. They would imperil the Workers Press, Saturda maintenance of standard our contracts in every field of work.

"These proposals only not our living standards. The attack Council of Equity with agrees "The the leading article in Guardian" of October 6, 1970, in which the Consultative Docu- ment as a whole is described as "an attempt to tip the scales of industrial bargain quite sharply against the unions" 'This is particularly dangerous for a union such as ours, which must organize and protect a pro- fession which is casually em- ployed, individually contracted surrounded by an almost and limitless number of aspirants undeterred low pay and underemployment of the prospect This policy statement went of under the signatures out Clark, president of Ernest Equity, and the general secre- tarv. Gerald Croasdell. Times change. The 400 mem- bers who drew up a petition to call last Sunday's special general meeting thoroughly and who agreed with the executive state- ment of November 1970 were denounced in various quarters on the Council as "trouble- makers'. Marius Goring' Case. star of such films The of the Frightened Lady' and 'The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By' Council resigned from the because he said the union was becoming "political. Goring mounted a campaign for registration in which he col- laborated with Nicholas Smith. A leaflet was issued which was information based from on orkers Press, Saturday April 29, 1972 PAGE 7 Goring. It contained so many Council inaccuracies that the instructed that it be withdrawn.

Nevertheles, come Sunday, the right-wing did stage a definite forces. mobilization of its One actress told Workers Press after the meeting: I was very embarrased in there. I was sitting surrounded by all my ex- employers.' The right wing contains not only employers, but also many of the older, established artists. As the profession is hit by the eco as the Tories drag nomic crisis, Britain into Europe, as the Act moves against the independence of trade unions-these sections of the membership rush to enlist with the Tory Act and thus the employing class. support of the Act is Their only to preserve their own not privileged position in the profes but sion, is also a conscious attack on the working class.

It is a reflection too of their fear of the growing militancy in the ranks of the union. With 90 per cent of the mem- work and less work bers out of available each successive month, actors and actresses many are demanding to know what's going on. Questions of fundamental im- portance are being thrown up. What is our union doing? What is our union for? Goring left Sunday's meeting 'delighted' with saying he was the result. But 388 votes showed their defiance. And those votes, they didn't carry the although day, are the decișive ones in the future.

PAGE 8 Workers Pross, Saturday Aprll 29 'The working man knou's too ue oft-repeated experience, that the bourgeois has prepared for him,' The working class re-learnt this lesson twice in one day On Wednesday, recently. April 19, the Tory govern- ment got the Industrial Rela- tions Court to illegalize a work-to-rule on the railways and hours before the Lord Chief Justice of England pub- a report that sanc- lished tioned murder in Ulster. On this fateful day the ruling class once more gave workers in Britain and Ireland a taste of its rod-the law of the land. to rub in the Just message, the Chancellor Lord Hailsham, and apex of the legal profession, issued this communique: 'However much may you criticize the government, it must -be backed if it comes to a show- down. The country cannot go on allowing individuals to behave exactly as they like. The country cannot permit sections or groups ...[the railwaymen, the dockers] either to hold it up to ransom away with deliberate or to get breaches of the law.' depression Once again, with and economic crisis snapping at their heels, the Tories are wield- ing the big legal stick. The fear- ful union leaders and unworthy in unison: Labour MPs chorus 'Respect the law. They all dis- agree with Fredrick Engels - particularly so Victor Feather- who that the stick could ay April 29, 1972 's too well, has learned from too That the law is the road which for him, Frederick Engels 1844.

perhaps be used by workers to their advantage. 'The unions, he declared, will now looking at the methods whereby they can safe- guard their members lawfully until such time as we can change the law.! In this statement Feather joins hands with Heath. The corner- stone of both their philosophies is that "democratic" government should be allowed to rule. Heath made clear what this meant: 'We have got this Bill, we are going to use it, and we will see this through.' There may be a difference of emphasis. but the head of the TUC and the head of the Tory government are in basic agree- ment-government has the right to enforce the law whatever the to the working consequences class of this country law under capitalismoncept of therefore very important for workers. We must all be clear what the law is and why Marxists reserve the absôlute right of workers to a principled stand against it.

The Tories say law is made by 'the state' which rules on behalf of *the whole nation'. The reformists like Feather have always agreed—was it not Tames Callaghan, Labour's shadow Home Secretary, who instructed «demo- Labour MPs to observe cratic procedure' and not to defy the law. :The Stalinists of the Come munist Party too worship at this The legalizing of the murder of workers their laws as instruments against the we their formal con- shrine since version to the idea that capitalism expropriated through be can parliament. Tory and Labour alike, they all argue that laws are made by an elected government and if it is elected, the people can change them. This utter myth, perpetuated He by the ruling class to maintain • in the illusion of choice and the through public will expressed thoroughly parliament, was exposed by the founders of Marxist theory. Marx in his Preface to the 'Critique of Political Economy', 1859, investigates Hegel's concept of ideal, absolute law, which is physical independent of the world. He challenged this idea and concluded: "Legal relations as well as forms of state, are to be grasped neither from themselves nor from so-called develop- the general ment of the human mind, but rather have their roots in the material conditions of life.

The material conditions of life are class conditions and the consisting of officials, state, police, judges and armies, is a public body used by one class to exploit the 'the other- it is engine of class despotism' In 'State and Revolution' Lenin summarized the Marxist theory of the state: 'According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another' He showed that for the work- ing class to take from the ruling class its means of exploitation— its private property--it is neces- smash the state which sary to capitalists use to protect that property: To take power the working class must build its own state, the proletarian dictatorship, with its laws: just as the own bourgeoisie had smash the to feudal state in 17th century England, to establish capitalism and legislate its individual rights.

was it necessary Why for Lenin to go over these lessons ind why us it necessary for us low? Because the reformists anc revisors of Marx, such the as Labour 'lefts' and the Stalinists attempt to deceive the working class and• say the state stands above class conflict: that it can

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GARDENS w of workers by British troops in Northern Irelan nst the working class. be used to moderate class conflict. For example, Jack Jones' ob- Tories' Industrial jection to the star chamber is not that it is a Tories to legal attempt by the destroy the trade unions, but that "im- it is not conducive to an in labour relations'. provement ted He implies that the state does 'improve labour relations'; that is reconcile class antagonisms.

This way the reformists do the Tories' job for them. As long as they can foster amongst workers illusion that the state is impartial between the classes— that it is the state for all society, not just one class-there is no real threat to the rule of the big corporations. And these same reformists, at the moment they make their weak protest, are their own Industrial planning Relations Act, and not for the first time! The working class must be clear on the role of the state, and just as clear on the law enforced by the police and armed forces. economic crisis deepens, As individual nations are themselves forced to expose the nature of their laws as blunt instruments used by the ruling class against the working class. The murder of black militants in the US and the legalized murder by British troops in Ireland show this. It is of crucial importance for the Tory government to empha- size the illusion. fostered by reformism, that laws are not tools • of class oppression, that they are universal. made by all and applied by all. This is why, when passing indgement on the railway unions.

Sir John Donaldson. chairman of the National Industrial Relations Court, stressed that 'since the NIRC was a court of law, it was independent of government policies'. But this is just the same idea as the one that savs the state is impartial. It is just the same illusion remarked on by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto 1847: 'Turisprudence [a legal system] is but the will of one class made into law for all.' 'the In German Ideology, they written the year before, state: 'In civil law, the existing ern Ireland shows how the Torles use property relations are declared to be the result of the general will' Further on in the same work, they explain: The individuals who rule in these conditions [again, material class conditions] besides having to constitute their power in the form of the state, have to give their will, which is definite determined by these conditions, a universal expression of the state, as law.' as the will The condition under which we live is capitalism. The capitalist class, through its Tory govern- ment, has to make its will, its laws look like the general will, the will of us all. who helps them? All And those in the labour movement who worship at the shrine of and who bourgeois democracy accept the 'rule of law' as if the law was something universal and valid for all men always.

It is absolutely necessary for British workers to build a revo- lutionary party which can expose what Lenin in 'State and Revolu- tion' calls the 'common opportun- ist prejudices and philistine illu- sions about "peaceful development of democracy"'.

Lord Hailsham

US ROUND-UP

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

With only six months to go before presidential elections, Nixon is faced with a wave of militancy from the stu- dents and the working class.

The N Vietnamese offensive in SE Asia and Nixon's decision to resume bombing has led to a rebirth of student protests.

day of April 22 was the demonstration. In New York a massive 30,000-strong column marched through the city in pouring rain and across the country at Los Angeles a crowd estimated at 5,000 took to the streets. The day before, Boston witnessed a 10,000-strong protest.

These in the actions come wake of strikes and violent incidents on campuses through- out the country. Boston students occupied their university after march and were only their cleared out two days later.

the National Maryland At Guard were called in to clear the main highway and in Texas and police used tear Michigan riot university recruiting gas after centres were wrecked. Even the Cambridge of America had a share of trouble when 200 stu- dents stormed through the campus and ransacked the Centre for International Affairs.

has not The new movement yet assumed the scale of the May 1970 events when students vir- tually controlled their campuses for weeks. But its character is radically different. The conflict on the campus expresses the sharpening between the Nixon struggle administration and the working class. The bombings of the N have triggered off the protests, but after series of they come a attacks by the government on fundamental rights in the form of unemployment, wage-freezing and budget cuts. has also pro- This offensive voked Nixon's other major, and serious, prob- potentially more lem-the mood within the unions.

Part of Nixon's package when backing he removed the gold from the dollar on August 15, 1971, was a 90-day wage freeze.

This was replaced by a govern- ment Pay Board to monitor wage rises and keep them to a sug- gested norm of 5.5 per cent.

After formal protests, the big US labour bosses treacherously joined in this plan to drive down living standards and five of them, including George Meany, the chief of America's TUC, took positions on the Board. * But the US docks settlement, portworkers 20 per which gave cent on their wages put an end The Board to this alliance. promptly pounced on the settle- ment and slashed the dockers' rise. This led to an outcry within American ranks of labour the and Meany—a faithful servant to Nixon's Vietnam policy — was forced with the others to resign.

The mood of militancy, had continued to spread • and the Board is now embroiled in a new battle-this time with the New York phone workers. seven-month After a bitter strike the Board has threatened to slash their 15-per-cent award, though the rise did not exceed the increases given to phone workers in the rest of the country. But according to George Boldt, the Board's "independent' chair- man, the "tandem' relationship between the New York phone workers and union members out- side the city no longer exists.

workers, the New York phone leaders, who did they could to break the resist- ance of their members and get an unpopular them to accept contract, are flying to Washing- ton to plead with the Board.

Manoeuvres like this, however, are unlikely to stem the tide of opposition against Nixon's home economic policy. figures from the The latest government's Commerce Depart- ment show that the bid to halt price rises has failed badly.

Price rises in the last three months of 1971 were down to a low of 1.7 per cent. During the first quarter they rocketed to 6.2 per cent, slashing the real growth in the national output to 5.3 per lower than the advance cent scored in the previous quarter.

On top of this, unemployment shows no sign of dropping from last year's rough average of 6 cent - that is 2 per cent greater than the British figure.

There is strong suspicion developing in US labour that the fruits of growth, wage freeze and inflation are being reaped by a small section of the community.

The real benificiaries of Nixon's regime are, in fact, not difficult to discover. Over the year top corporate enjoyed modest officials have wage rises of 27 per cent-no Pay Board for these boys.

for example, Henry Ford II, is nöt feeling the squeeze.

demanded and got $689,000 in wages and 'bonuses'. His salary raised $189,000 from the was previous year—a 37.8 per cent increase. Then there was, James M. Kerr, president of the Avco Corporation, who managed a 78- per-cent rise. But first prize for effort in the face of economic adversity, must go to A. Paul Fontaine of the Bendix Corpora- tion with a massive pay hike of 130 per cent. These are men the US the workers face. They out cry against the union demands for wages, are the backbone of the wages board and the men behind the Democratic and Republican Parties who will offer the workers and students of America 'choice' of leader in their November. Top: Nixon campalgning. Below: Columbia students striking against Nixon's war escalation.

Workera Proas, Saturday Aprli 29, 1972 PAGE 9 Those who think that the In 1911 trade was depressed sequestration order which the and prices were sky high. The National Industrial Relations government was determined Court issue is old hat may not to give in to the infla- should think again. tionary wage demands. That year A legal correspondent in one the railwaymen of the papers said the other fought a bitter strike against day: determined the ruthless and ( The order is tougher than railway companies. people think. The known, most As is well the writ, addressed to not less than Church is only concerned with four commissioners, binds all men's spirits and if it shows real and personal in- favour to one it shows favour estate, cluding land, to all. chattels, money and stores. Nevertheless at the height of It stops short, as in other the 1911 strike the Church of distraint proceedings, only England jumped to the service at the personal wearing apparel, of the bourgeois state. bedding and tools of the con- Its national shrine was The temnor. commissioners, instantly out at the service of otherwise sequestrators, must the government and of the not use force against the per- army. son but may break inner doors Military signalmen daily or boxes. manned the Golden Gallery of Property seized is held by St Paul's Cathedral flagging the the commissioners until messages to and from all parts contempt is cleared. None of of London the to ensure the property seized can be sold possible smoothest operation without consent y government's of the strike- of the court. breaking tactics. Left: Heath, right: poet Adrian Mitchel! when he appeared at the Young Socialists rally at Wembley Poet Adrian Mitchell shouted do. It was like striking some- at Edward Heath who is unable during a to strike one recent concert at Southwark back. Cathedral: I was astonished and dis- I wish you would stop your that appointed an extremely killing. talented man who had written a most marvellous poem should I wish you would stop your resort to that kind germ warfare. of behavi- wish you would stop sending our to make a political state- your terrorists to N 'Ireland.'

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Name Address Part two of 'The Lotus Eaters' is on BBC 2 tomorrow, with Ann Firbank, lan Hendry and Wanda Ventham.

British High Court judge and the Greek colonels THE BBC has struck another TV blow for democracy, freedom

REVIEW

and independence. OWIl To put it less dramatically, BY BBC has just begun the

BEN JONES

new series called "The Lotus Eaters'. sight land. judging took action Cinematogrape against

BURST

Ine nrst from the first last Associate vision splendid defence individual Sunday that the most that preceded by four freedom were rechnicians, will able take) photo- Dages . of publicity whose porcis to reuse lo sagor edious niece such as this does in Greece graphs week's In this not seem to rate high in the field The ACTT reached this policy Times', well as the cover result of requests anu thet the decision photograph. do a dignity the the Greek Presumably, the BBC is pleased Hial. IrON unions unc

BBC

seems to think differently colonels' junta has sought with itself. You see, convéniently coincid- smash. Many union members But even if it had not insisted with the fifth ing been imprisoned and have its choice of location, right-wing dictator- the colonels tortured. hasn't much to shout about. The BBC Ship ureece. une locaulon over the vears has shooting for the series took place The first episode ran something refused, still refuses, to Crete, a Greek possession. like this: On ACT, and at the Indeed, the series is set there, filming take An English couple run a bar. Line was

BAST

week we were

ACTT

He the girls _the was having fancies with pretty postcard shots of that discussions with the is sociati is wife gets upset. An attractive beautiful island Staffs -which young girl the island Broadcasting arrives on with shots of planes owned recognized by the BBC-with a 100K 2

LOT

Airways, Greek une view to amalgamation. husband goes off and helps her. national airline. The wife misunderstands the Greek Tourist Board itself The issued AL11 and then she herself situation, better if instruction to its members not to could have done 10U the be a British Secre Lurns out lo bought shoot

TOLS

Service agent! Yawn. Yawn. time BBC indicated was nol The Crete, English prepared be told where I hope that courageous fighters story the could and could not shoot.

Writs for Greek freedom Lady living In cavalilales were issued, granted, Fleming, who have been prepared But there was nothing the shown and the axecunve

TO ONE

TOU

regime which imposes its will on could not have agreed suspension its indicate policy series. Greece paid late BBC relation country were spared almost anywhere else in SPo Their sCL viewing of this insult the Case ne obe went to Court to maintain its right to costs. shooting went struggles and those of the Greek go shooting there. ahead. working class. Maxwell forced to answer US £8.5m damages case done in Great Britain'. ruling Maxwell the judge's file • had will be required to argued • be arouses unal LeaSCO answering the papers Labour MP for WaS 111r1S. that decide 'whether non- defend himself against inghamshire, has failed resident foreigners may the suit. in a move to have an sylvester J. Ryan upneld come country TORY Home practice fraud a n d Secre Reginald Maudling, dismissed from a New action. and then tary York court. of He ruled that Max- insist that the legality also the subject and large multi-million dollat well The other Toeir conduct may on ine law suit is being defendants 'cannot be reviewed by courts fraud suit now 1n The new brought by Leasco Data claim of foreign York courts. It concerns immunity from Processing Equipment Maudling's former presi- countries. applying their

A CL

Marvell, Mrs Elizabesh because the actual trans- lera stancaros. cenc Maxwe fer was result of the rupt offshore fund. Jean Maxwell, Isidore Kerman, former Lancaster: Lectures boycotted of Maxwell's

OLICCLOI

Press and Heroamon five corporations in New TROUBLE at Lancaster against the the university getting York. unrest is being handled. flared itse f brought the university Leasco where there November action in again yesterday as stu- Trouble began atmosphere of threat to 1969 because dents renewed their boy- after lecturer Lancaster university 'false relied on anc cott of lectures. Craig teachers. information three members of the Tronen Next Tuesday stu- The action came as when it entered into an English department were demonstrate dents will agreement with Maxwell Prof Ninian Inrentered one of the univer- to buy all of Pergamon's ouls de universil Coul' missal. sity's pro-vice- cil proceedings against three outstanding stock. Said Prof.Smart: "The' Dr Craig: in -Maxwell.. sought...to Chancellors. • protest

YOU WILL need to earn £40 a week to get a mort- gage on an average house in Tory Britain by the end of the year. This is the prediction of Willis, John director Shelter, the National Campaign for the Homeless.. He predicts that by 1973 prices will have rocketed nationally to the £6,000 average reached in the SE five years ago. He told a Royal Society of Health conference at Eastbourne yesterday that this would mean a man buying a £6,000 house and borrowing 90 per cent over 20 years would have to find £500 a year for repayment and rates-more than £10 a week. To pay that he needed to earn nearly four times as much.

But he pointed out that 78 per cent of manual workers and 52 per cent of non-manual workers would be earning less than this even with wage increases. "Through this display of gross the nation becomes inequality, more split than the commissioned non-commissioned ranks would have been in the army at the turn of the century, said Willis.

THE LABOUR

group on SE Lewisham council, London, has switched its policy and agreed to imple- ment in full the Tory rents Bill. The decision means that thousands of council tenants in the area will have their rents almost doubled by the end of the year. Councillor Nicholas Taylor, who opposed the turn-about by Labour, has forecast that 40 to cent of council tenants 45 per will be unable to pay the increases. The change in policy followed a resignation threat by the Labour leader on the council, Anderson Hawkins. He said he would resign the leadership if the group refused to implement the Bill. The final vote to co-operate with the Bill was 41 to 26.

Meanwhile the Labour group on Southwark Council, another high residential area, has decided implement 'with to the Bill certain qualifications'. The 'South London Press' said yesterday: 'The line to be taken by Southwark Council is that while against the legislation in principles they will implement it "under duress"?

CORRECTION

A final paragraph in yesterday's page 2 report on the Thursday morning session of the AUEW conference at Eastbourne sug- that the TUC General gested Council retreat before the National Industrial Relations Court was not discussed there.

Our later, page 12 report made issue of that the was, clear course, raised in an emergency motion on Thursday afternoon.

the AUEW We congratulate in National Committee its dècision to fight for a recalled I apologize for any con- TUC and fusion the earlier paragraph. may have caused.

BBC 1

10.00 Wie bitte? 10.30-10.55 Zarabanda. 12.40 Weather. 12.45 Grandstand. 12.50 International football preview. 1.20, 1.50, 2.25, 2.55 Racing from Uttoxeter. 1.40, Rac 2.10 International fight of the Inte week. Joe Bugner v Leroy Cald- well. 3.30 Rugby league. 4.40 Final score. 5.05 Basil Brush.

5.35 News, weather, sport. 5.50 Dr Who.

6.15 FILM: 'THE KING'S THIEF'.

David Niven, Edmund Pur- dom, George Sanders, Ann Blyth. Adventure set during the reign of Charles II. 7.30

INTERNATIONAL MATCH

OF THE DAY.

9.50 NEWS and weather. 10.00 THE BEFRIENDERS. Fallen Star.

10.50 BRADEN'S WEEK.

11.35 Weather.

BBC 2

9.35-10.00 and 10.35-11.00 Open University. 3.00 Film: 'High Time'.

Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey. A million- aire with a grown-up family enrols in college. 4.45 Tutankhamun's Egypt. 5.05 Look. 5.30 Television doctor. 5.50 Man alive.

6.40 WESTMINSTER.

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STRANGER. A

river reborn.

7.30 THE SEVEN LOCKS OF

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12.10 Faith for life. 12.15 Weather.

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Wie bitte? 10.00-10.25 Zarabanda. 10.30 The Eucharist.

11.30 Boomph with Becker. 11.45 Hardwick. Mistress of 12.10 Bellamy on botany. 12.35-1.00 Profit by control. 1.25-1.50 Farm- ing. 1.55 Hammer it home. 2.20 Made in Britain. 2.29 News. 2.30 Going for a song. 3.00 Laurel Shari Lewis and Hardy Film: "The Pride of 3.30 show. 3.40 St Louis'. Dan Dailey, Joanne star Dizzy Dru. Story of baseball Dean. 5.10 British empire.

6.05 NEWS and weather.

YOU BE SO

6.15 HOW CAN

SURE? Tariq Ali. 6.45

SING A NEW SONG.

7.25 FRANK SINATRA. A Man and His Music. Guests Ella Fitzgerald, Antonio Carlos Jobim. 8.15

AND

FILM:

'SONS

LOVERS'. Trevor Howard, Stockwell, Heather Wendy Dean Hiller, Mary Ure, Sears. A Nottinghamshire miner's artistic son strug- gles to find his identity in this adaptation of D. H. 10.

Lawrence's novel. 9.55 NEWS and weather.

10.10 THE SPINNERS IN SPRING.

10.40 OMNIBUS. Leningrad re- born. 11.30 Weather.

BBC 2

9.00-1.00 Open University.

7.00 NEWS

REVIEW

and weather. 7.25 MUSIC ON 2. Counterpoint, Stravinsky Remembered. 8.35

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

The Wildlife Safari to Ethiopia.

ITV

90. 11.15 10.45 Joe Sesame street. 12.15 Jackson five. 12.45 News. 12.50 World sport. 12.55 On the ball. 1.20 They're off! 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.05 Racing from Newcastle. 1.45, 2.15, 2.55 Racing from Newmarket. 3.15 International sports special. 3.50 Results, scores, news. 3.58 Wrestling. 4.50 Results service. 5.10 Sale of the century. 5.40 News. 5.45 Ken Dodd. 6.15

THE ROLF HARRIS SHOW.

Guests Millicent Martin, Manitas de Plato, Rod Hull, Design, Dagenham Girl Pipers. 7.00

NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

The Come Back. 8.00

SATURDAY VARIETY.

Frankie Vaughan. 9.00

FILM: 'THE LAST GANG-

STER'. Edward G. Robin- James Stewart. An son, imprisoned gangster plots revenge. 10.30

FROM ITN.

NEWS

10.40 THE SCIENTISTS. Sounds Fantastic. 11.25

THE

STRUGGLE

FOR

CHINA. The story of the Chinese Revolution 1900- 1949. 12.40

THE BISHOPS.

PRAGUE. Film about King Wencelas's crown | jewels. 8.20

SOUNDS FOR SATURDAY.

Elton John. 9.15 SUNSET SONG. The Song. 10.00 PETS AND VETS. Donkeys. 10.15 RUGBY SPECIAL. Rugby Union knockout cup final.

• 11.00

FILM NIGHT.

NEWS ON 2 and weather. 11.30 FILM: "DESK SET. Spencer 11.35 Tracy, Katharine Hepburn.

A broadcasting station installs an electronic brain to replace its reference department. SOUTHERN: 11.15 All our yester- days. 11.45 Thunderbirds. 12.42 12.45 Weather. 5.10 ....London. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: Primus. 'Phantom of the Rue Morgue'.

10.30 London. 11.25 News. 11.35 UFO. 12.30 Weather. Epilogue.

ANGLIA: 11.20 All our yesterdays.

11.50 Cowboy in Africa. 12.45 London. 5.10 Flintstones. 5.40 London. 5.45 Quiz. 6.15 London.

her. 9.00 Ken Dodd. 9.30 | spy. 10.30 10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 Family worship. 12.05 Farmhouse kitchen. 12.30 Something to sing about. 12.55 Out of town. 1.15 Stingray. 1.45. University chal- lenge. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Jason King. 4.10 Shirley's world.

4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Pretenders.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15

A PLAY FOR SUNDAY.

Don't feed the fish.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25

DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

The Black and White Medical Show. 7.55

FILM: 'FULL HOUSE'.

Anne Baxter, Richard We Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Dale Robertson, Charles Laughton. Stories of author O. Henry.

9.50 POLICE 5.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

10.15 THE ORGANIZATION. Eve and Rodney Spurling. 11.15

MUSIC IN THE ROUND.

Close Harmony.

11.45 SHORT STORY.

12.15 THE BISHOPS.

9.50 TUTANKHAMUN'S EGYPT. Sa Death and Burial. 10.10

THE LOTUS EATERS.

11.00 NANCY WILSON. From the Talk of the Town. 11.45

NEWS

SUMMARY

and weather. 11.50

UP SUNDAY.

Workers Press, S Paul Whitsun-Jones as Marshal and C tion part 4 of the Dr Who adventure The Mu London. 11.25 Film: 'Maniac'. don 1.00 Epilogue. . ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 Fireball XL5. 12.10 Horoscope. 12.15 Capt Scarlet. 12.45 London. 9.00 Film: 'The Secret of Convict Lake'.

10.30 London. 11.25 Dick Van Dyke. 11.55 Who knows? Weather.

ULSTER: 12.30 Enchanted house.

12.45 London. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'War of the Worlds'. 10.30 News. 10.40 Lon- don. 11.25 Odd couple. GRANADA: 11.50 Play the game. 10.3 12.15 Secret service. 12.45 Lon- rep

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00 London. 12.05- 12.30 Music in the round. 1.58 Weather. 2.00 Big match. 3.00 Film: 'Surprise Package'. 4.35 Date with Danton. 4.45 London.

7.55 Film: 'Sahara'. 9.30 Cinema.

10.00 London. 11.15 Aquarius. 12.10 Epilogue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 12.30 London. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen. 1.20 Homes of history.

1.35 Farm and country news.

12.10 Faith life. 12.15 Weather. SOUTHERN: 11.00 London. 12.00 Weather. 12.05 Music the round. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farm 1.30 1.25 Cartoon. progress. Stingray. 2.00 Soccer. 2.55 Film: Little Boy Lost. 4.35 News. 4.4: London. 7.55 Film: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Something to say.

12.15 Weather. Epilogue. ANGLIA: 11.00 London. 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 Lon- don. 12.55 Cooking. 1.20 Univer sity challenge. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 2.30

UFO. 3.25

Dick Farming. 3.55 Football. 4.45 Van Dyke. 7.55 Film: 'Operation London. Crossbow. 10.00 London. 11.15 Saint. 12.15 Book for today.

ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 London.

12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 All our yes- 8 Press, Saturday April 29, 1972 PAGE 11 al and George Pravda as Jaeger in e 'The Mutants' on BBC 1 on Saturday c'. don. 5.10 On the buses. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: "Rough Shoot".

10.30 London. 11.25 Dangerman.

SCOTTISH: 11.40 Beagan gaidh- lig. 11.55 Clapperboard. 12.15 Tom Grattan's war. 12.45 London.

5.10 Roadrunner. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: "Big House USA'. 10.30 London. 10.40 Sport. 11.10 Late call. 11.15 Seaway. GRAMPIAN: 12.15 Batman. 12.45 London. 5.10 His and hers. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'Encounter With Arles'. 10.20 If it moves.

me. 10.30 London. 11.25 Strange on- report. terdays. 2.15 Soccer. 3.15 Film: 4.45 9.47 Wild honey. 10.00 London.

11.15 Danger man. Weather.

ULSTER: 12.05 Music in the don., 7.53 Sports results. 7.55 Film: 'Roman Holiday'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Saint. GRANADA: 11.00-12.00 London.

12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 London. chen. 1.25 1.55 Rebel'. 4.40 London. 7.55 Film: Yellow Rolls-Royce'. 10.00 'The London. 11.05 Aquarius. SCOTTISH: 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farm- Zingalong. house kitchen. 1.22 1.45 All our yesterdays. 2.15 3.00 Film: 'A Place Scientists. To Go'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'Into Battle'. 10.00 London. 11.15 call. 11.20 Randall and Late Hopkirk. GRAMPIAN: 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 London. 12.55 Farm- house kitchen. 1.25 All our yes- terdays. 1.55 Farm progress. 2.25 Randall and Hopkirk. 3.20 Film: 'Go To Blazes'. 4.45 London.

7.55 Film: "The immortal'. 9.30 Odd couple. 10.00 London. 11.15 yes- Yoga. 1.1.40 Job look.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday April 2

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

ALL-OUT WAR on t By late yesterday unofficial blacks operating at were Liverpool, Hull, Preston, London and Tilbury. Dockers taking the are action blacking against advice of their general secre- tary, Jack Jones. At Tilbury yesterday a 1,000- decided unanimously tok inates strong meeting at the dock duce a black against non-regis- tered container firms. Dock shop stewards chair- man David Morris said: 'We would like to make clear to all employers, if one registered man is victimized in any way for sup- porting this policy, stewards will to the defence of that come man with all the force that the national shop stewards' commit- tee can muster.' A leaflet handed out at the meeting told dockers: 'As every dock worker is the aware, attacks on our traditional work has reached a serious situation in the ports of Great Britain, parti- cularly in London. 'The use of unregistered lab- our in and around our ports is the biggest threat to our very shop existence. The stewards believe that total war must be declared on the unregistered companies if we are to keep our jobs. Shop steward Ben Chataway told the dockers that a meeting of the national shop stewards' committee on April 8 in Liver- agreed that pool had dockers throughout Britain would take whatever action they could help each other in the struggle against unregistered companies.

From Preston, Philip Wade reports: yesterday Preston dockers voted to black a container firm which uses non-registered lab- our on dockland. Over 280 men also voted to strike on May Day in protest at the £55,000 fine imposed on the Transport and General Workers' Union. 'This is part of the national jobs, struggle to reclaim our told convenor Norman Wright the meeting. Preston dockers say the firm, Containerway Road Ferries, were Friday unloading spotted their container on the docks.

Dockers cheered when Phil O'Hagan, chairman of the shop stewards' committee, moved that their firm stay blacked until the work in their compound was done by registered dock labour.

'We can't win whole this thing at Preston. It has to be a for our jobs, national fight O'Hagan told the men. HULL dockers yesterday decided to black two container transport firms from Monday. The two firms are M. A. ' T. Transport Limited and Panelpine (Northern) Limited, which handle hundreds of containers every week.

• From Page 1 to repeat for the AUEW's benefit warnings he has already isued to and General • Transport Workers' Union and the railway- union officials to Advising comply with an NIRC order was enough, he said. If the not official disobeys union's the orders, the union must exercise such disciplinary orders as has and, if necessary, deprive him of his position as an official'. The order was granted under Section 54 of the Industrial Relations Act, which prohibits strikes, or irregular action short of a strike, on issues which have been referred to the Commission day April 29, 1972 container firms. Maurice Macmillan ... trained for the jok EMPLOYMENT Secretary Maurice Macmillan said yester- day more and more people were going to have to face the need to change their jobs-not once, but possibly several times—— during their working life.

In his first major public speech since taking over Carr's job, Macmillan stressed the import- ance of the Tory scheme for re- training workers. 'We can only achieve the looking for in success we are Europe if we have an adequately and trained labour Institute Personnel Management in London. Macmillan did not say the great retraining whether scheme by the Tory government applied to him as well. Macmillan, of course, was on Industrial Relations. The Court referred the union recognition dispute at Parsons to the CIR on February 29.

Since then, members of the AUEW. Technical and Super- visory Section were said in court to have blacked the work of UKAPE members who resigned from or refused to join the union.

Yesterday afternoon was the first time a union has set foot in Tom the Court directly. Jackson, Union of Post Office Workers' general secretary,. ob- served the proceedings for what he described as 'induction train- ing. TUC chief Victor Feather dashed N on Thursday night to investigate the Parsons struggle on the spot. decided to introduce for the job? trained to do one job-become a high priest in the Tory Party and maintaining capitalism which Harold Macmillan, father, did in the 1950s. Macmillan Junior was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He served in the Sussex Yeomanry over the and took family's lucrative business, Mac- millan Publishers.. From this position of extreme privilege Macmillan class told delegates at the Royal Garden Hotel, Kensington, yesterday: changes are to be brought about without unneces- unacceptable-hard- sary-and ship to individuals, training and retraining must be freely avail- able for those who need it.

"The government is determined to discharge its responsibility?

It sounds ominously like the work camps. IT WILL be rather stormy in areas, with frequent many showers and some bright inter- vals in the W, and more con- tinuous periods of rain in the E.

The showers are likely to turn to snow over Nand W hills, with some hail and thunder in W districts. It will be rather cold in all areas. Outlook' for Sunday and Mon- showery day: Generally rather cold, with longer periods of rain in the N and E, some bright intervals in the S and W.

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SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Mobilize against the Tories Hands off the trade unions

LONDON:

READING: Trades and Labour Poplar Clvil Hall, Bow Rd, 7.30 p.m Hall, Minster St, 7.30 p.m.

G. Healy (SLL National Secre- Dany Sylveire

(SLL):

Tony tary); (YS, Sarah Hannigan Richardson

(T&GWU|

in per- London regional secretary).

sonal capacity).

LIVERPOOL:

Royal Institute, SOUTHAMPTON: Langley Hall, Colquitt St, 7.30 p.m. next to St Peter's Church, Mike Banda

(SLL

Central Commercial Rd, 7.30 p.m. Committee); Christine Smith Frank Willis

(AUEW

per- (YS); Larry Kavanagh (Liver- pool docker).

(SLL).

LEEDS: Art Gallery, Headrow,

MANCHESTER:

Leeds 1, 7.30 p.m. Wheatsheaf, Jack Gale (SLL); Ken Pearce High St, 7.30 p.m. (OTO in personal Alan Stanley (Vauxhall shop capacity); Burrows (YS Joan National steward in personal capacity); Committee). Simmance (YS national John SHEFFIELD: Montgomery Hall, secretary). Survey Town Hall, St, opp. AYLESHAM: The Legion, Bur- 7.30 p.m. gess Rd, Aylesham, 7 p.m.

Cliff Slaughter

(SLL

Central Brian Lavery

(NUM

in per- Committee); Frank McCabe Roger Smith sonal capacity); (NUM in personal capacity); (ACTT in personal capacity).

Ray Jason (YSNC). NEWCASTLE: Hotspur Hotel, BIRMINGHAM: Lecture Room Haymarket, 7.30 p.m. 1, Digbeth Hall, 7.30 p.m.

Dave Temple (SLL); Hugh Mair Davies (SLL Central Com- Nicol (AUEW in a personal mittee ); Alex Mitchell (Workers capacity): lan Yeats (Workers Press); William Aitken (YSNC).

Press); Keith Radford (YSNC).

NOTTINGHAM: Co-op Educa- BRISTOL: Central Hall, 7.30 tion Hall, Heathcote St, 7.30 p.m. John Spencer (Workers Press): Alan Wilkins (AUEW in a per- sonal capacity). Harry Finch

(SLL);

Steve ABERDEEN: Trades Hall, 24 Martin (YSNC). Adelphi. 8 p.m. T. Brotherstone SWINDON: Locomotive Hotel,

(SLL).

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

p.m. Alan Thornett (deputy senior GLASGOW: Partick Burgh Hall, steward, Morris Motors. In a Glasgow, 7.30 p.m. personal capacity). Stephen Johns (Workers Press); John Barrie (YSNC).

SWANSEA: Lecture Hall, Bishop EDINBURGH: Trades Council Gore School, Bishop Gore Club, Albany St, 7.30 p.m.

Sketty. 7.30 p.m. Roy Battersby Jim Dormer (EPTU in personal (ACTT in a personal capacity).

capacity); Dave Barclay (YS).

(YSNC).

Gary Jenner Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

Sunday May 7 We demand the Right to Work !

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

Withdraw troops from Ulster ! Release all internees!

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

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN ! •

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

G. Healy (Socialist Labour League National Secretary) J. Simmance (Young Socialists National Secretary) M. Banda (Socialist Labour. League Central Committee) In a personal capacity: Frank McCabe (NUM) Roy Battersby (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

NAME...

ADDRESS

Piease send me details of transport arrangements.

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