Workers Press no. 755

workers press

PLEASES TORIES

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TUC SPLIT

THE Tories are hellbent on a show- down with the trade unions-even at the risk of provoking a national docks strike or a General Strike. It is known that preparations have been made in Whitehall for handling such a national emergency.

BE PROUD!

Since the miners' strike Tory ministers have been in close consultation laying the plans for Fifty years ago-representatives of nearly an attack on the unions. The Tories' absolute 300,000 working men and women met determination to prosecute the fight against to form the Transport and General Workers the unions can be seen in two incidents over Union. Today the figure of one and three the past couple of days. quarter million is within joining distance!

YESTERDAY

National Industrial in the Relations Court, Sir John Donaldson, the court report if president, said that applicants must the orders of the court are broken.

"They have a duty to do so.' "soft-peddling' of This means there can be no blacking incident or 'unfair court injunctions; every must be reported to the Court.

As we've said on many occasions, tnere is no com- promise with of law and Donaldson to ensure that this is faithfully adhered to. (See full court story on page 3.)

FURTHER

be seen in the ex- Change of letters exampie can between Employment Secretarv IRONICALLY only three months ago T&GWU secretary Maurice Macmillan and Jack Jones of the Trans- Jack Jones was celebrating his union's strength and port and General Workers' Union.

saying the anti-union poison should not be taken. Now Faced with the rising tide of militancy among his with Sir Donaldson's High cooperatine

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docks members, Jones wrote which seriously weakens the protection of his Маста? HaSE Cour Friday asking for "immediate' talks. the con- 1.5 million members. which is threatening thousands lamnenzauon Issue of docks jobs. the Late on Monday-after National Industrial Relations Court agreed to adjourn another trade union movement, represent- dangerous; positively can contempt charge apainsi Tne help million workers. LO create Macmillan replied with disarray. trade union davisions the complete Tory arrogance. movement, which in turn plays Tories' hands. Agreeing with Jones that talks The Tories have divided the into the Parliamentary Labour Party on were necessary. ne pointed ouT. however, that he would have the question of the Common Jones is playing lip-service to some suggestions of his to Market, they've the own now divided demand recall of the

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ana so "immediately, he said. Jones Daly. The man bearing most respon- He was refusing the meeting Tie down in denn the are he wanted to see what sibility for this split in the unions because willing to lie down front of co-operat nather. arguin tory happened the co-operation with the elations the Tory offensive. then the rank wednesaay (today) wnen jones Is file Only and isn't. Industrial vesterday due to answer the vationa official eards docks shop. latest contempt charges. the

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_reatner nas Violated jected advice to decision of boycott reached at In other words Macmillan has last September's Blackpool con- stop blacking. conner ornies. acoDLed openly Terence. position; he is saying to Jones: Workers' Turn up at Court today or no When the conference Over- whelmingly boycott Lalks. decided to the Act working man and every determination Wanted to the legitim- expectea tne UCto carr through such a policy to the end pay fines This decision by the Hull men Feather has abandoned the is but a microcosm of the deter- Blackpool policy and opened the mination workers ol millions of door for member to fight the Tories. unions wel Not, however, much ir That unionists to as indiviqual trade the way of menacing is needed be sub otted Thard to and epise Tore to frighten Jones these days.

attacks Donaldson's forward up During the private meetings at CAL Court. Transport house ana Congress Jones's response to the crisis The call must out for House the past week, Jones immediate recall of the among those who want in the

TUC

been union ranks nas been has threaten not to pay his union's that last policy can to 2o to court ana who wanl Lo affiliation dues to the TUC conference reaffirmed. pay the fines. mUSI alSO estaousn DOLICy In recommending these policies He thetanse was wed 455000 resist the Tory provocateurs and of collaboration with Indust- the the political and industrial because Was create Act the and

TUC

rial Relations following boycott policy the concluons to remove

LOLICS

the are both split therefore the TUC must foot the from office. down the middle. be Naturally the Tories and their trade Fleet St rubbing But the T&GWU's. policy is defended, this is the call of the backers 4aC i hour. disruptive but glee as the powerfu 1OE • 4р MAY 3, 1972 • No. 755

1E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TOMORROW

Watch out for

TRADE UNIONS AND

THE WORKING CLASS

By G. Healy SLL national secretary

NOT TO BE

TAKEN

1A!! tives of nearly omen met General Workers - Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists

ALL OUT

DEMONSTRATE ON

Sunday May 7 ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly, Regent Street, 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)

HANDS OFF THE UNIONS!

Defend democratic rights !

We demand the right to work !

Withdraw troops from Ulster!

Release all internees ! Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN I

workers press

PLEASES TORIES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TUC SPLIT

THE Tories are hellbent on a show- down with the trade unions-even at the risk of provoking a national docks strike or a General Strike. It is known that preparations have been made in Whitehall for handling such a national emergency.

BE PROUD-

Since the miners' strike Tory ministers have been in close consultation laying the plans for Fifty years ago-representatives of nearly an attack on the unions. The Tories' absolute 300,000 working men and women met to form the Transport and General Workers determination to prosecute the fight against the unions can be seen in two incidents over Union. Today the figure of one and three ; the past couple of days. quarter million is within joining distance!

YESTERDAY

in the National Industrial Relations Court, Sir John Donaldson, the court if president, said that applicants must eport "They have the orders of the court are broken.

a duty to do so.' This means there be no sott-pedaling ol CaL blacking incident or 'unfair court injunctions; every the Court. must be reported to In usa brace As we've said on many occasions, there is no com- with of law and Donaldson promise faithfully adhered to. intends to ensure that this is (See full court story on page 3)

FURTHER

be seen in the ex- example call change letters between Emolovment Secretarv ot IRONICALLY only three months ago T&GWU secretary Maurice Macmillar and Jack Jones of the Trans- Jack Jones was celebrating nis unions strengin and port and General Workers' se is theoperating won sir should not be taken. Now John High Faced with the rising tide of militancy among his co-operating Donaldson's Friday asking for Jones Court which seriously weakens the protection of his wrote vacuuman las! Friday "immediate' talks on the 1.5 million members. issue which is threatening thousands tainerization of docks jobs. Monday-after the National ®1 Late Industrial Relations to adjourn another Court trade positively dan route deeper the charge ing 10 million in only help create deeper Contens! axallio workers, union- replied the - Macmilan WiLt disarray. divisions trade union complete Tory arrogance. into me tories hands: which in turn plays Agreeing with he sinted talks, The Tories into the have divided the pointed Parliamentary were out, Labour Party on accosary, Jones is have playing lip-service to however. ThaT would •eston or Tine common some suggestions of his own Market, now they've divided demand a recall of the make. he would not see the unions on the Act.

TUC.

So Scanlon and so is 'immediately', he said. Daly. The man bearing most respon- He was refusing the meeting If the reformist leaders are sibility for this split in the unions because he wanted see Winal down in front of is Victor Willne To haednesday (today) when Jones court reather. algulls there sens on the yese rank co-operation Tory With Tine isn't. esterda! National Industrial Red ones the Que apocal alls wel Court Feather has

COCKSSIOD

latest contempt charges. jected official T&GWU advice to boycott reached accision In other stop blacking container lorries.

words Macmillan nas September's Blackpool con- aSI adopted openly menacing ference. position; he saying to Jones: Workers' When the conference up ar court today or. no talks.' whelmingly decided boycott every determination and Wanted to country legitim- woman ately expected the TUC to through such a policy to the end.

pay fines This decision by the Hull men Feather abandoned is but a microcosm of the deter- Blackpool policy and opened the mination millions of workers Goor lor member unions as well to fight the Tories. Not, that much however, individual unionists the Way subjected and file must com VIcIouS Jones these days. to frighten Sir John ake up the Tor Donaldson's forward allacks Hight Court. gauntlet. unne me onvate Transport House and Congress The House the past week, Jones to the crisis Jones s response In the union ranks has been to mmediate recall who want allulls luuse ariation dies to the TSC!

threaten union's that last September's policy can to go to court and wino want to The conference pay the fines. ¡calullicu must also to estable Pia Rabin the fue and was fined He argues that he reate the Torical and are al resist. with the £55,000 he because Was rial Relations following boycott policy remove the lories conanoes co

T&GWI

both split therefore the TUC must foot the from office. down the middle. bill. Naturally Totes and thing *his in the call of the the trade Fleet rubbing But the T&GWU's policy defended, backers hour. disruptive but names wild gee as use bowenui

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MAY 3, 1972 • No. 755 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TOMORROW

Watch out for

TRADE UNIONS AND

THE WORKING CLASS

By G. Healy SLL national secretary

NOT TO BE

TAKEN

lives of neary omen met ¿eneral Workers Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists .

ALL OUT

DEMONSTRATE ON

ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MARCH: vla Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly, Regent Street, ' 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)

HANDS OFF THE UNIONS !

Defend democratic rights !

We demand the right to work!

Withdraw troops from Ulster !

Release all internees ! Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants !

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN I

VIETNAM: Would desperate Nixon use the BOMB?

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday May

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE fall of Quang Tri and the most decisive victory ove Bien Phu in 1954. But it also exposes the Vietnamese revolution to the greatest danger. President Nixon's warning about the consequences for the North if the liberation forces con- tinue their advance is ex- tremely ominous. The Americans, rendered desperate by the 'Vietnamization' and the im- minent collapse of the Saigon puppet regime, may be pre- paring to use nuclear weapons to obliterate Vietnam. Such a course of action was seriously considered during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.- Having invested billions of dollars and thousands of lives in the cause of counter-revolution in Indo-China, US imperialism's policy is in President ruins. Nixon and his military cohorts are desperate men, driven by an insolüble economic crisis to desperate measures. Despite his desire to win the November election, Nixon may now be considering such des- in a last-ditch perate measures attempt to crush the Indo- Chinese revolution. The clear alternative is an unparalleled and humiliating defeat. Melted away Quang Tri fell despite Pre- sident Thieu's order that it must be held at all costs. Its garrison simply melted away, shedding their uniforms, their rifles and even their boots in a desperate flight to escape oncoming tanks.

Many were reported fleeing towards the south dressed only in their underpants. Other units are reported to have turned their guns on American 'advisers' pre- paratory to going over to the liberation armies. It was the first provincial capital to fall to the liberation forces since their offensive began five weeks Reports from ago. Saigon yesterday said up to 100,000 civilians and troops were in confusion yesterday fleeing down the road toward Hué, the next major town to the south.

Top South Vietnamese officers and US personnel were snatched out of the city by helicopter as defences collapsed, while Soviet- built T-54 tanks raced through the city in defiance of air bom- bardment. * The massive exodus was pro- 'duced by a ferocious American naval bombardment of the Quang Tri area. At the same time, US South Vietnamese and planes flew an unprecedented 435 strikes on and around the town. One US officer said: "There is nothing friendly left in Quang Tri. It is effectively a free-fire zone now? * Senior in Da . US officers Nang, the big naval and air -eut defeat and said it was by far aday May 3, 1972 ri and the collapse of South Vietnam's northern front is ory over imperialism in Vietnam since the battle of Dien RIGHT: An ammunition dump explodes after a direct hit by the advancing North Vietnamese and National Liberation Front fighters. BELOW: South Vietnamese troops, some caught without their helmets and uniforms, flee as North Vietnamese shells burst round them.

CEYLON Prime Minister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike has rejected a plea by the leader of the Stalinist Communist Party to call a summit meet- ing of the coalition parties.

The call came as a move to patch up the differences now building up within the coali- tion. Three a group of weeks ago Communist Party MPs voted the government's new against 'Criminal Justice Commission Bill'. the biggest made by the gain The Stalinist Party secretary, liberation forces in their current of Housing who is also Minister offensive. Bandaranaike's bourgeois gov- The liberation forces have had accepted this ernment, also made significant gains in the when it was discussed at Cabinet central highlands and the central level. coastal provinces. Firebase Lima Last week, when vital outpost north of the parlia- encircled Kontum city of the mentary group capitalist overrun on Monday night, leaving Sri Lanka Freedom Party, led by the liberations, forces, Mrs. Bandaranaike, "met at her ; an run-t official residence, the right wing impeded route to the city.

Irs called for strong action against the Communist Party members who voted against the govern- ment-sponsored Bill. One motión on the agenda, which was not put to the house, even called for the expulsion. of the CP from the coalition.

This clearly shows the right- ward move of the government today, which survived last year's revolt of students and rural youth only with the aid of the Sevisionist Lanka Sama Samaja and the renegade Party. While the right wing is harden- ing in this way, the Stalinists have shown their real capitula- withdrawing their sus- tion pension örder on Mr Thudawe, the Junior Minister of Education who voted with the government the Criminal Justice Bill in on defiance of the Party line.

This was a preliminary con- by: " cession by the Stalinists to open: her ; talks with, the sight wingers in ' ing the government. But the SIFP's

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

CUBAN Prime Minister Fidel Castro has left Havana for a tour of nine African and East European countries.

The two-month long trip will include visits to Guinea, Algeria, Rumania, Hungary, Poland, slovakia and the Soviet Union.

Announcing the trip at a May Day rally in Havana, Castro said that the interests of Cuba and the socialist countries required him to accept the invitations.

His extensive East Europe tour marks a further development of cordial relations between the Cuban government and the Stalinist bureaucracies; estab- lished whèn Cuba supported the 1968 Warsaw. Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.: East German The Prime Minister has also recently visited Cuba. arrogant refusal to talk shows the Ceylon capitalist class is pre- paring for naked dictatorship as their only solution the worsening economic crisis.

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FOREIGN

NEWS ON

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of breach orders the National granted by Industrial Relations Court must be reported by those who obtain them, the court ruled yesterday. "They have a public duty to that as far as he knew do so', stressed Sir John dock's was not blacked. Donaldson, NIRC president.

Sir John said that the This new buttressing of the should be mentioned court again today when a Court's powers came during brief, morning session in complaint by Heatons Tr which (St Helens) Ltd is due court orders against blacking action the docks and in heard. on toughened. 'It is very much to be engineering were On application by road- that the union will be : an deal with all matters outs hauliers Craddock Bros,

NIRC

Sir tomorrow, he added. president John Donaldson I do not want it to be declared the black on its lorries that Heatons or Craddo Liverpool docks unfair at an Bishop's Wharf [the othe industrial practice and made per- the firm to obtain a per an order telling age manent Transport and General Workers' order against blacking] are Union to hostile attitude stop the action. He heard from Richard Yorke organized labour QC, Craddock's these matters to the col appearing on behalf, said. that a temporary order An order for compensat had been broken. also granted Sworn evidence from the , but its Bootle deferred. This was becal of Craddock's manager John Rycroft, said loss depot, that was continuing. continued blacking The order that all brea because of standstill. orders must be the depot was at a court Seven out of ten employees had was made after Sir John, Arkell been laid off. judges John Boyfield, heard Rycroft stated that he had United complained Douglas from the to farrer, Lancashire regional secretary ot Association of T&GWU, who had replier Engineers. the TODAY Clive Jenkins will appear in a case of unfair dismissal under the Industrial Relations Act. On Saturday, the white-collar union chief will 'fight hard' for deregistration at his union's conference. The case is that of Anthony Hinton, group secretary of Jenkins' Asso- ciation of Scientific, Tech- nical and Managerial Staffs of at the service section Burroughs Machines, Park Royal. yesterday the And

ASTMS

general secretary said he thought there would soon be a flood of such cases since hundreds of of thousands people were affected each year. When he attends the 10 a.m. tribunal at Ebury Bridge Rd, London, Clive Jenkins will be only the THE 450 clerks who re- leader second to union turned to work yesterday formally before an appear at English Electric's Liver- institution of the Act. pool peeks plant, after a six strike, were But as an ASTMS execu- pur- suaded to do so by union tive statement issued yes- officials. terday points out, the TUC handbook the Act When 80 per cent of the on specifically allows such membership voted for And follow- strike action, after a year's appearances. ing the

TUC

climb-down the demand negotiations, on Monday there will cer- was for a £6-a-week rise tainly be many more. across-the-board. But after bitter six Action weeks, during which they. were sent dismissal notices, the clerks were persuaded to accept an increase of The executive statement £1.80p, a £15 lump sum also expresses total opposi- and further 80p in tion to the Act and urges August. conference delegates to give It was all very well for two-thirds the necessary national officials of the majority for a rule-change Association for Profes- would allow it to which sional, Executive and deregister. 'I expect we will get it, Jenkins said yesterday. Certainly we're to fight hard for it, going LAMBETH Trades Council has passed a resolution ASTMS is considering against the court action calling for the immediate Registrar of Trade Unions.

expulsion of union leaders The registrar has put the who co-operate with the staff of the association Guardian Royal Exchange National Industrial Rela- Group the register, on tions Court. claims that the despite The resolution says: association is not an In the Industrial Rela- independent organization.

tions Court the Tory gov- In documents which are ernment has established be sent to the Registrar Court new High which shortly, the union will deprives the working class that the Union of of its democratic rights.

argue Kodak Workers and the «We condemn the Fin- General Kodak Senior Staff Asso- and Pur- ance 'creatures ciation of Committee of are poses. . the .. management', Jenkins said.'

TUC for proposing to give Workers Press, W

T&GWU

climbs down on union with the enters co-Operaung Industrial Relations Act. At each stage of the union leaders retreat the screws tighten. Told of the

NIRC

decision, 32, Arthur scott. new and So fast resident sed di he knew Crad- This was for an extended order telling

TASS,

the technical just means things carrying on as section the My immediate Thanthe matter cuber VicOry oI normal. reaction is to the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- that if they can

DIT LAS OT TON

a similar workers. 14 days, they can put it off for Transport the work of UKAPE members at ever, and they have not flled us C. A. Parsons Ltd, Newcastle-on- due to with any confidence.' Tyne. Union officials and Parsons be hoped A hearing for "talks will be held on Mav management were having able directions about talks' Scarborough tters outstanding 16, when the new order expires.

yesterday on whether negotiations Sir John said vesterdav that anv could resume. TASS should be in * it to be thought ANSWAr trom Craddock's by May 12.

HAULAGE

firm blacked by Manchester will other haul- Six hundred of the 1,400 Par- dockers not ain a permanent draughtsmen have been the position for the chalence

DUIN

icking] are adopt- sacked for their action and are Springfield Transport of Traf- the financial reporting of the union. ford Park has decided not to

TASS

defy the attempt to collect Court's order. A decision at the containers. waiting at the dock. compensation was union's conference to stoD Iwo more of the firm's lories action was were turned away by dockers on assessment 1TC members was because the unanimous. Monday. Yesterday's ruling considerably A spokesman for the firm said it all breaches of strengthens the hand of the NIRC yesterday: 'We are now playing be reported intervening disputes. for time nending the nutcome o and lav gardless whether individual national level talks on the and Roy employers may wish to soft-pedal problem of containers' whole application Springfield Transport and •ind court orders tor purposes Kingdom negotiation. firm, Meadows, Thomas Professional significant that it should were LIst Diacked Dy Mancaester come the dav after the TUC and dockers last Friday.

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THACT NIN

Other workers from the area joined the clerks during their picketing

FROM PHILIP WADE IN LIVERPOOL

cumstances, considering the problems we were facing' Clerical Computer Staffs . bran- he told me afterwards. annual conference, (formerly the Clerical and dished the clerks as a symbol In any Roca Workers' Weinstock's were splite Toes me There was labour-cutting policy in his Union) to talk of more great go- negotiations in Deremher empire. ing back, even the the fact remains that but decided Thrown to the wind majority stay the beginning at of the were the executive's pro- out, he dispute the were mises fight the As there was a united narra to strike walk-out it would be better.

offered between €1.50 and through end and + ho £1.75. few to bring out clerks in other therefore, was if there !ıcr than the final settle- less united return.

TAPTOMAC

ment. of this de- What had happened to The accana all these feat English Electric promises, some at The man sent with the of the have to be taken seriously deal Monday's at the meet- to strike ing rightly asked Edwards?

by every

APEX

member. meeting was assistant There forward told them. no way Ray and general secretary firmed it with reporters for dashe withont s fiaht Edwards. He was told last afterwards, that they'd to remove the union Sir Thursday Tack leadership which is unable Scamp, thou could— personnel HAnA bearing mind the In- to challenge monopolists director, that the new offer in like Weinstock the dustrial Relations Act. or was final. Tory government which he It was the best we could Edwards the at he nons same the backs. have expected in cit- man who, ion condemned unions free hand before the This is a blatant violation policy non-co- operation decided by the Union Congress last September. the face of this mas- «iTo lambata Trades Council demands

FOURTEEN

48 hours. Failing maintenance within they immediat. mates at GEC Stoke Coven- will meet again emergency this TUC congress to Friday morning to con- on try who were on strike for 1) Expel the union leaders cidor thai, nout mone £9-a-week increase and who want to surrender and Iwo weeks ago 2.000 who were supported by 80 reaffirm the democratic workers walked out at skilled maintenance men decision non-co-opera- GEC against the action of yesterday tion. return who management were to work. 2) Prepare prolonged allegedly doing maintenance General Strike. until the They demanding work but. • they are. later talks with the patroned "tory roverment resigns. management 3 Press, Wednesday May 3, 1972 PAGE 3 EVEN government servants, it seems, are being leit behind by the implications of the National Industrial Relations Court. Commission on Industrial Rela- tions chairman Leonard Neal, speaking in Birmingham yester- day, complained that neither side of industry had sufficient relations training industrial for pay bargaining. Neal was opening the West Midlands Engineering Employers' Association management develop- ment centre. He claimed a 1970 CIR sur- vey showed fewer than one in five union and management per- sonnel had any industrial rela- tions training, averaging only two half days each. In just over half the firms there was no train- ing at all. He felt the might be narrowed by the new National Training Agency. But in these days of a 24-hour 'dial-a-judgement' service, myth ot industrial revations is exploded. Surprising ignorance from Neal, whose CIR is closely con- nected with NIRC's operations.

Court chairman Sir John Donald.

son should have a quiet word in his ear.

OLLERTON:

Wednesday May 3, 7.30 p.m. White Hart. COVENTRY: Wednesday May 3, 7.30 p.m. Elastic Inn, Cox St.

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

SLOUGH: Thursday May 11, Slough Community Frank Omes Faulkner. Brian Bailey, AUEW (in a personal capa- city). The Industrial Relations Recall the TUC Expel the traitors Make the Tories resign SW LONDON: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. N KENT: Tueaday May 2, 8 p.m.

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

LUTON: Thuraday May 11, 8 p.m.

St John's Ambulance Hall, Loa Rd. N LONDON: Thuraday 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 Workers Press, Wednesday May : The third in a series of articles our industrial correspondent, S leaders, official and unofficial 'modernization' scheme to desti Sir John Donaldson's disci- pline-your-members judge- in the National In- ment dustrial Relations Court last Friday is of particular signifi- cance on the docks. This kind of law-making has been the port employers' explicit demand right through their long struggle to implement containeri- zation, speed-up and mass re- dundancy, no doubt this was a major consideration in the draft- the Industrial Relations ing of Act itself. Early in June 1969 - two months after the winding-up of Dash's portworkers" liaison Jack committee--the chairman of the London employers made a speech which could well have come from Donaldson. 'The unions' ', he said, 'must put their own house in order, control their members and be prepared to pay a price if they fail to deal with members in breach of taking unconstitu- agreement or tional action!' Sir John Donaldson: 'discipline your members' judgement. The man who made the speech was John Kiernan, a director of powerful Furness Withy the group. He was to play a major role in the employers' battle to force Phase Two of the Devlin scheme on the dockers. 'Leadership was decisive in this battle. which lasted until Sep- tember 1970 when Phase Two finally went into operation in London. It is even more so to- day. That is why the lessons of struggle to date must be the studied. days after the liaison Ten committee was wound up in early April 1969, the deputy chairman of the UK-Australia shipowners' conference, R. E. S. Whitehouse.

sharp attack launched a Britain's 56,000 dockers.

Only one out of evary 20 ships Fe or New for Australia sailing Zealand was able to leave on schedule, he alleged in an inter- view?. At both and weeks three to load a ship where one would 'Slow working, irresponsible and unofficial strikes and activity" were sir , labour frustrating cited as causes. In their own way, these be sday May 3, 1972 articles in which David Maude, Ident, shows how the dockers' nofficial, allowed the Devlin to destroy jobs and conditions.

declaration of charges were a war. They meant the shrinkage of 6,000 in the dock labour force nationally since 1965 was not enouch for the port employers. a drive to slash They heralded another 20,000 by 1974. a pool of surplus Besides labour, the employers needed a new managerial structure for the disciplinary industry "of hire and fire. Under the powers scheme, the 1947 dock labour 'however, an employer was out of court if he tried simply to sack men as Hay's Wharf Ltd had tried to do in March 1969.

Dockers had at least the form of a statutory job-guarantee.

Both employers and govern- ments had campaigned tirelessly the confidence this to break situation tended to breed in the dockers. On the instructions of Attlee's Cabinet, seven unofficial Labour dockers' leaders were arrested in 1951 after leading a strike against and General Transport Workers' Union's acceptance of an unpopular pay award. They with conspiracy were charged war-time arbitration under after but acquitted order, a national dock strike in their de- fence. Attlee: on his Cabinet's instruc.

tions seven dockers were arrested later, a port em- Seven years ployer wrote in one of the in- dustry's most influential journals that the Dock Labour Boards set up in 1947 should be done away with?. the also proposed that 'blue' docks union, the National and Amalgamated Stevedores Dockers, should be merged with the 'white' T&GWU by legisla- tion, and the sooner the better.

Another of his bright ideas was 'that there was much to be said for provoking a 'strike to end all strikes'. During the half-day strikes of in February and March 1969 London, the employers piled up against suspension notices dockers knowing that the disci- of the Dock plinary procedure Labour Board would make them impossible to deal with. daily com- As one national 'Some [em- •mented astutely: ployers] see this crisis as a bles- sing in disguise in so far as their ability to impose discipline will be clearly shown,'

MBIA STAR

ONDON

With the employers introducing containe: allowed 21,000 jobs to be destroyed in Less than a month later George Cattell, the former Rootes direc- tor Labour appointed chairman of the national docks moderniza- tion committee, announced that he wanted substantial changes in the dock labour scheme. • "The Newsletter', forerunner of Workers Press, warned dockers double-edged' ceaselessly of the which was being set for trap them. These were very timely warn- ings. Militancy was rising. Both Two and growing con- Phase tainerization were coming to be by many thousands of seen dockers direct threat to as a their livelihoods. But the leader- ship crisis in dockland continued.

im- In February, a ban was working of any posed on new container berths in the port of London. Immediately reform- ists and Stalinists on the T&GWU No 1 docks committee group moved to make the ban condi- tional on a speeding-up of the Phase Two negotiations. Opposition to Phase Two then: . to be focussed in the began

NAS&D.

April 22. Ron Webb, the On dockers' union's secretary, announced that his London mem- bers would not accept the shift- . working concessions which had agreed to by already been A few T&GWU negotiators. weeks later a 'blue' union mass meeting threw out both the scheme and the offered rates of £24-£34 a week. decided The

T&GWU

to em- ploy 'steamroller' tactics and in steamroller soon the was action powered by a f3.5m loan from the Labour government to the port employers. No doubt could have existed about the purpose of the loan.

It was to improve severance-pay terms-to kill thousands more jobs in the industry in return for a few rapidly-devaluing pieces of green-printed paper. Yet by the end of June 1969 committees of the three docks T&GWU in London-the No 1.

lay and the Port of the ocean London Authority lay—had given go-ahead for Phase Two heir the negotiations without the

NAS&D.

| contalnerization, the Communist Party and refo troyed in the past seven years.

On Merseyside, Phase Two was running into more trouble. But Party there Communist even members on the local moderniza- conceded committee had tion shift-work, method-study, that and flexible work-measurement manning would have to form part of any agreement. An offer of £21 for 40 hours plus bonus was rejected by the stewards, however, and by July I the port had come to a stand- still over the container issue.

The crisis. was over the man- of the Containerbase ning Federation's Aintree depot by were not registered who men dock workers. It came to a head at about the same time as London employers to break were threatening Phase Two negotiations unless dockers lifted their ban on work- OCL-ACT's new, f5m con- ing It is tainer berth at Tilbury. to believe the two issues hard were not related. As the dockers completed their second strike, two on T&GWU leaders held talks with the man at the centre of both Andrew Maitland- roWs: of Makgill-Chrichton, chairman both OCL and Containerbase.

Andrew Maltland-Makgill. Sir Chrichton: chairman of OCL and Containerbase, the man at the centre of 1969 disputes. Jack The union were men Jones, T&GWU general secretary, and road-transport secretary Ken Jackson. Each of them had put their signature 13 months earlier agreement. which gave an for 'employment to preference

PORT

OF

INCAPOOL

y and reformist trade union leaders have dockers at Aintree, but allowed section road-transport to the negotiate their wages. first time dockers had The seen the deal was when it was reported in the local press on the first day of the strike. Jones and Tim O'Leary, the T&GWU docks secretary and another signatory, were on the spot. Chrichton pressed home his advantage and tried to raise the whole issue of Devlin, containers and modernization in the talks.

Jones. and both the But Merseyside shop stewards fought to limit their members' fight to Aintree. issue and the alone, nothing was settled by the stale- which the formula mate on dockers returned after four days.

Again Chrichton agreed that dockers would have priority for the depot. But nothing jobs at was said about the five other depots named in the May 27, 1968, agreement, three of which were inland. The agreement itself remained in force. By July 7, Chrichton was de- scribing as 'sweet news' a deci- sion by the No 1 lay committee in London to seek an early meet- ing with employers, government and shipowners on containeriza- tion. The ban on the OCL berth at Tilbury stayed. But at the same time moves were made to nego- tiate shift-work at the Container- base Federation's Orsett depot, near Tilbury, if Chrichton would give guarantees similar to those at Aintree. this horse- In contrast to trading, 'The Newsletter' warned: 'No agreement is possible with the port employers which does not concede points of vital prin- ciple". The fight for nationaliza- tion under workers' control was urgent.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

' 'Financial Times', June 4, 1969.

= 'The Times', April 14, 1969.

s 'Docks and Harbour Magazine', October 1958. • 'Financial Times', February 5, 1969. Neusletter, July 15, i The 1969.

FRENCH UNION LEADERS

lat Party leader, Marchals.

Co

BY TOM KEMP

The 38th Congress of the Confédération Générale du Travail held at Nimes from April 18 to 21 showed that the Stalinist bureaucrats have trade union the largest organization in France well under control. The main resolutions were voted almost unanimously with or four dissenting only three votes or abstentions. The pro- monolithic and ceedings were and kept striddly monotonous within the limits proscribed by the leadership. Apart from sup- port for the Communist Party's objective of a common pro- gramme with the Socialist Parts for the next election, it was very much a trade union meeting.

The CGT leaders are afraid of a repetition of the great General Strike of May-June 1968 which they did not call and which they had to struggle hard to bring under and control as speedily as possible. Their attitude towards strikes resembles that of the period when Communist 1944-1947 Party secretary Maurice Thorez was saving that strikes were 'the arm of the trusts'. Most of the hard-fought strikes which have taken place this year have arisen from rank-and-file pressure.

In number of cases the management has had to spend some time locked in its own offices. There have been a series chala. Inast: Maurico Thorez, CP sacrolary 1844 of factory occupations and mass picketing joined by other workers and strikers' families. There is no doubt that these struggles show the continued combativity of the French working class which is held in check by the trade union bureaucracy. In the case of the Joint Français, in Brittany, owned by giant Campagnie générale d' éléctricité, which has been hit by the recession, the struggle tor a living wage has brought support from the whole area. From the start of the strike on March 13 it has received big financial sup- port, while peasants have pro- vided the strikers with tons of food. The mass demonstrations and meetings show that the spirit of 1968 is still very much alive in the French working class.

The CGT leaders fear the ex- tension of strikes of this sort because the CP, which controls its strategy, does not want to frighten the middle-class electors it hopes to win to the united left platform to contest the legislative elections in 1973. Coming forward as it did in 1968 as the party of order, the CP does not wish to appear as a fomenter of strikes. Where strikes break it tries out to blame them onto 'leftist' agita- tors and trouble-makers, often accused of being the tools of the government. Its desire to culti- vate a respectable public image accounts for its hostility towards the protests which followed on the shooting of Pierre Overney, a former Renault worker, by a factory guard. In the plants and industries in.

which the CGT is strong, there have been few strikes in recent months. The big struggles so far have taken place among workers who are unorganized or belong to other unions and are the least influenced by the CP. That is not because the more highly-organized workers with stronger traditions of struggle have become less militant; it is a result of the stranglehold which bureaucracy has the Stalinist been able to impose. In fact, the situation resembles that in the two years before the 1968 General Strike. Then, too, the_CGT contained "letting working-class militancy, off steam' in small, partial actions -strikes for one or two hours, closing down one section of factory but not the whole, and frustrations on. reality SO were bottled up until they burst forth in May. Now the tactic is to take up some partial reforms as a diver- The CGT Congress agreed sion. to wage a campaign for the re- duction of the retiring age to 60 and for a minimum wage equivalent to about £78 per month. In a period of rising un- employment and inflation such demands are entirely inadequate.

Although it reinforced its con- trol over the apparatus at the

• CGT

Congress at Nimes, the an increas- leadership will have ingly difficult job to hold back the working class. Workers Press, W The rejection of the no- confidence vote in the Bonn parliament will have come as a relief to the government of the German Democratic Re- public whose own West- politik' has been the counter- part of Chancellor Willy Brandt's 'Ostpolitik'. In what appears to be com- plete harmony with the Soviet Union,_E Germany party leader Erich Honecker has staked his future on coming to an agree.

ment with Bonn. A number of practical concessions to the west, as the easing of travel such restrictions into E Berlin at have been intended to Easter, demonstrate good faith and influence opinion in the Federal Republic. Honecker has In this way, reputation for earned a flexi- bility which contrasts with the hard-line dogmatism of his pre- decessor Walter Ulbricht. But • Honecker cannot stomach even the Christian Democratic oppo- sition in Bonn: not that that makes it any easier to get on with the Social Democrats.

The E Germans are bound to Praise for "The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain' by Pierre Broué and Emile Temine comes from a strange source — ex-International Brigader Bill Alexander in 'Marxism Today' (April, 1972), commander of 'the British battalion and until recently assistant general secretary of the Communist Party. one time it would have At been ignored or denounced as Trotskyist interpretation. It is, in fact, one of the best books on the betrayal of the Spanish Revo- lution by international Stalinism which has appeared, fully docu- mented and irrefutable as far as the role of Stalinism in Spain is concerned. Alexander says: 'The authors have great sympathy with the view which was held in 1936 by important organizations of the people, especially in Spanish Aragon and Catalonia, that the. of 3 Press, Woldnesday May 3, 1972 PAGE 5 be called upon to make con- cessions in accordance with Moscow's desire to reach a detente with the capitalist con- tries. How far this goes remains to be seen, but the E German leaders know that they are in the hands of the Russians. censorship By easing and improving the supply of con- sumer goods, Honecker hopes to secure support for his policies in the GDR where life still tends to be drab and work norms are high. The 'Westpolitik' may increase the consumer goods available from Federal Germany and pro- vide industry with an outlet, if the Russians, who take : a large proportion of the GDR's manu- factured goods, are willing.

for the There is no future German working class in the pre- sent division or in the 'Ostpolitik' of Willy Brandt which reflects the expansionist needs of big capital. The defence of the gains made in the GDR can only be guaranteed by a socialist revo- in the Federal Republic lution and the overthrow bureaucracy in the east. Brezhner and E Germany'& Com- muntet Party leader, Honecker.

fascist insurrection against the Republic should be countered with revolution' The Communist Party main- tained that the main task was to defend the bourgeois Republic and to co-operate with the capitalists and landowners who remained loyal to it. Alexander says nothing about the activities of the Stalinist security police and murder gangs who killed Andreas Nin and in many other left-wing opponents.

Soviet military aid, which he exalts, was intended to prevent a revolution in Spain. Incidentally, soon after it was published France, a number of publishers who were approached in Britain turned it down (they did not include Messrs Faber & Faber who handle the American edition over here). One reason given was that the market had been saturated by the book by which, Huw Thomas on some points, is while fuller far inferior in its political grasp the. of the issues involved in Spain.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wodnosday May 3, 1972 been trying to hold down wages.

despite the tre stas Last. week's political strikes direction this letter stated that the in Germany Its entorts over the future I C° biow ceived major government consiaer. of the coalition government powerful metalworkers' strikes at Moscow treaty 'is not in contra- brought a dramatic indica- end of last year. diction with the aim of political strikes tion of the depth of the crisis The outcome of these the Federal Republic of German sealed the fate the Brandt to work for a situation of peace German capitalism. shaking and the big Europe the Germar government, where For long years, the revisionists Christian the regain in free selt deter.

•ourceols benind Dopie Democrats began mination their unity'. ano toe scebucs or a sadues nau determined written off the German workers campaign to bring it down They class, Common Market non-revolutionary government which will walll had been recognized as further Claiming incy Correspono Tne reouirenents the success of bought over of German capitalism—a govern- concession the German Miracle' modelled the Heath ment which took a severe to big business tns view. reclse outaln battering during the great metal There can be no question that The Soviet leaders industry strikes last year, betrayal of the social-demo- have the the German accepted this hypocritical formu.

exposed by cratic-liberal coalition has opened

LUILUCE

of the forming part restoration workers determinauo co cerenu the war TOr time, the Brandt government, not for Christian-Democratic rule. The treaty itselt. At the salllt sake, but Leonid Brezhnev recognizec because Social Democrats served an 1o UWil reality of the Commor Market' threatened from the right by the apprenticeship actuaiy ll Call- W further concession employers. with the Christian Demo- Germany's big until 1969, when a wave of busines many crats Germa the The Soviet Union attaches workers raised strikes heralded factories unoficia importance the pacts great slogan of General Strike on Brandt's election TRe chancelor fit with the eve of last Thursday's Bundes- He has proved unable to fulfill Delaust lucy the opposition's bureaucracy's plans for European on his reform and the lar

MULC

ol uses Security -i.e. joint policing of conndence. Holon OI nO CORiOl nadie ponces Stalinism and im- stand undoubtedly had an effect restraint and attacked the turope The on wavering members of the Free of the working democratic rights perlaism Soler cencer haye conducted their own cam- coalition's Democratic enoc als Coss. •lidi Brandt to be kept in paign for 'liberal' partners- -who were con- Party long ago dropped Tne sidering turning their coats.

'socialist' from pro- measures onice Their r supporters in the now and 'radical al allill 1iivs. legal Communist mezore nac vene çen Brandt appeals Brandt on creating form of a simi rally. dupooti basis. way, try for calm wealth tax. tney to subordinate the working class Even this mild reform has pro and restraint for to the coalition government. They voked opposition from the Free Democrats, to the struggles nave no versoecuve warkers against the government's reac of their MPs ot some acrecuon advanced the tionary measures. to the Christian Democrats. WOnKers only reform strike demand against the advice The other major in the lack. une of Brandt himself, who appealed Warsaw thoroughly carried out the government crisis is the Brandt government is that of the for on the eve calm and restraint treaties-Brandt's ane

SMOSCOW

The army and 'internal security' of the crucial poll. 'Ostpolitik'-due for ratification (ne soca- democratic are greatly by the Bundestag this week. The Budget force OT TRe security of has been than doubled by the upsurge with the more urgent MacAlenCU areales accord The so-called the fac- German under Brandt. requirements political mutancy 1n - tories dustrialists east for capital invest- who want 'open- bordel NOCeS by the been given new Brandt is caught milcar. status ing to the This is enough, but economic crisis and the resulting ment ane trade to German Brandt's ministers have not been recession in an impossible posi- The concessions contained tion. The boom of the in capitalism restrained OV neconauon. with the Stalinists from attacking well and truly over treaties are not enough to satisty Nurace are "the Communist Party and the the employers, however. They are compane. disastrous declines in faced with the same problem of The Home Secretarv has declared reporting that the Communist Party carries finding 'lebensraum which drove their bronts out unconstitutional activities This crisis has been enormous y tnem lo war in tne lysus. 1ne banned be intensified by the Nixon measures expansion of basic production in it medine ulal cal of August 15 last Over the year. Germany comes into violent con out or nana wnenever i sults tne government. vears the D-mark has flict with the breakdown in world CP members are already been forced to revalue trade and the international mone- 22 per cent in order tary harred from any bublic staggering system. to try and keep unwanted dollars job and from the teaching pro- this problem fuels In LUrn The Stalinists fession. protest nationalist demands for the unifi- out of Germany. This has hit particularly hard cation of Germany on a capital- about this state attairs. their like W course, but protests are at the big export industries ist basis. German capitalism directed against the coali- never motors •ano Chemicas posea witn the reconquest or basic production volks saee steel, Germany and E Europe if it

UON

and artificial fibres. Their campaign in favour bvercome catastrophic the treaties is on the familiar effects of the economic crisis.

1< n e e0 ą voc cdd basis of 'national interest'; they tions, barely covering itself through its ancillary production.

claim for example, ex- hnat tne Ambitions of pansion of trade resulting from Sode stee nousury Is Tunni the east will way below capacity, 180,0 inbs the restoring capitalism the agrement with scheduled for the axe Riobsohie, mines, jobs cut unemployment aret. not to be many! Thoroughly discredited by their the biggest coal _com eine. abandoned being saved from bankruptcy association with Erich Hanecker's of Such a task cannot be achieved counter-revolutionary wegner huge injection only by E Germany, the German by peaceful negotiations, however government second money, tne Stalinists in three years. we come TO f Concess ons Dresent inde In the chemical industry, where tracted from the Stalinists in the pendent alternative to the social be. Foreign Mini- democracy. This task can only treaties may hohting workers recenmy pecam Trotskyist for major wage increase, Schee. leader of the undertaken by ster walter Glanzstoff AG, a firm FDP, made it clear in a recent party fighting to restore the revo- major letter Moscow that the W lutionary traditi ns of the sacking 3,000 down Cosid will not German korkers struggle workers. German emplovers is against this background abandon their ambitions of against Stalinisn and re. DOTr that the coalition government has storing capitalism in the east refor. ism. Top: German demonstrators clash With police. enee of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Chancellor He is caught of Germany. ing militancy the class. Wit's s Right Barzel, Stücklen and Strauss. the Christian screece s Wille, Devanian aced cris Bavarian based Cocialists with

(CSU)

who are in close alliance partles in the German parliament.

Workars Pree May 8, 1872 PAQE Y Scheel, Germany's foreign minister, pictured here In Jerusalem, Is leader of the Free Democrats (FP), a llberal party which forms the other half of the Brandt coalition government.

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"nal's booner Liberanon 're-styler Issues of 'Socialiat Fancy that! These Itoms (below) culled from recent ing paper. designed stimulate and organize opposition Worker' and 'Private Eye' Indicate the close and harmonious relations to the present system of society * Private Eye relentlessly proves, but unnecessary' Socialist Worker Whatrome therefore, is to be drawn these articles 'Private Eye' and the menagerie it has gathered around it?

25 March 1972 crisis and social trauma the ruling

MR ROBERT EDWARDS, MP:

class does not always appear An Apology its traaltonal garo or te nign- illicit activities of Ellis Seillon or Tory politician or businessman.

alleged that Edwards, Labour and Co-op that he had participated directly the 1930s this In point was or Bilston in Staffs, had associatec Seillon which were divined th well demonstrated. A whole sec- which vith Ellis Seillon, an internationa tion of the he Coperative Barnatular midale ana upper ol radicalism died in ine tence We Further unders Robert Edwards, shareholder re-emerged days advantages The certain trom depression and class struggle as loans which that bank had made Consolidated. to Mr Seillon. of the we wish to doorse tort

NOSI

VICIOUS

It was also suggested that Mr the capitalist creed and racialism.

Edwards owned 12,000 shares in One recalls, for example, aesco consonualca bullicu, Vac of Seillon's companies. ex-Labour Minister O'swald is New acted coterie around collected Moses him in his of sons of the establishment who

PRIVATE EYE

claimed radical and 'left' views Mosley's New Party proved to be a staging oBst ish if nioad to British Union the Fascists. This is not to say that those involved the production of 'Private Eye' are moving towards the fascists. Indeed,

MR. ROBERI EDWARDS - AN APOLOGY

of Mr. selllon's companies or wulcu we has written extensively exposing Edwards was a director, is incorrect.

ana neo-lascism in this accept unhesitatingly Mr. Edwards dwards country. The point is, however, tied to a milieu Seillon. the magazine which is loaded with dangers.

capitalism As the crisis for The statement in the arlicle that Mr.

heightens, the question • is — Edwards owned 12, 000 shares in Mesco which the article may have caused him.

which way will they all jump?

Consolidated Industries Finance Ltd., Workers Press, Wed America, the beautiful, con- tinued •.. A sociologist at the University of Utah, Professor Gerald Smith, wants prison electronic paroles to have an bleeper surgically implanted in them so that their movements can be monitored 24 hours a day. Mobile 'card sharks' who make a practice of fleecing tourists have resulted in police warnings to visitors to the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

sharks operate The card out of taxis, luring gullible tourists into their cars at air- ports, softening them up with brandy and then stripping them of their holiday money at cards. The technique is to let the victim much win he SO becomes over confident. Then the card shark strikes. The trade union newspaper "Trud' reported the case of one tourist, unfortunate • a man named Omurbek who came from the far northern region of Siberia. He arrived at Sochi air- port, accepted some expensive h cognac from a pair of well- dressed young men, played a card game called 'Vaku-Vaku' with them in a taxi - and found himself winning wildly.

Then things took a different said: "As though turn. "Trud' through a fog, the Siberian remembers a quiet side street rising steeply uphill - a sum- mer-house covered with vine- leaves — a table with wine- bottles. More cards. Large wads of money exchanging hands ... 'Only one thing was certain.

Out of the £180 he had brought with him to the resort, the unsuspecting Omur- bek did not find even a single kopeck in his pocket.' Press, Wednesday May 3, 1972 PAGE 9 A major United States Protest- ant denomination is to ordain a self-proclaimed homosexual as a minister. The decision was taken by clergy and lay delegates of the United Church of Christ from 19 churches round the San Francisco Bay area. The church claims more than two million members through- out the United States. The conference agreed to ordination of William the Johnson, 25, a graduate of the Berkeley Pacific School of after he had Religion, addressed them on what he called his 'gay, sexual orienta- tion'. Sixty-two of the 96 dele- gates present voted for him.

There was loud applause after the vote was taken but some including an walked out, elderly minister who said: 'This is an effrontery to Chris- tianity'. Johnson, who clasped Mr his hands in silent prayer as announced, the vote was stepped into a pulpit to tell the delegates: I celebrate. You give me the opportunity to do the work I know I do best. God bless you'. During the gruelling four- hour debate, Mr Johnson first made a statement on candidacy and was then asked questions. asked The first questioner if he regarded his sexuality as a 'gift from God and a good gift?' replied: Mr Johnson regard all sexuality as a gift from Gad and a good gift.

He added: 'I hope some day to share a deep love relation- ship with another man' : would He was asked if he be willing to forego 'the per- sonal pleasurable practice of homosexuality' in order to become ordained. Mr Johnson replied: 'I hear you asking the question of celibacy?

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...months. Amount enclosed £ Authority chairman, Lord Aldington, said yesterday 2,000 docks jobs would be lost this year as part of 'technological change'. Presenting the PLA's annual report yesterday Aldington commented the port's on 'human problems. He said that at times of such fast technological change, re- lations between employer and employee must under come strain 'for simple human reasons'.

'Many relations and and attitudes of mind ractices rooted deep in history were, as it were, withered and blown away by the gale of change.' Blown away also have been livelihoods of many thousands of dockers. Last year the PLA fore- cast that 1,200 dockers would lose their jobs, this year; now the figure has jumped to 2,000.

The gale of change won't be affecting the income and privilege Aldington, a of former Tory minister and deputy chairman of the Tory Party. Apart from axing jobs on London docks, he sits on the board of the giant GEC-AEI

SAY

J NO A B ELECTRICIANS picket the St Water- Thomas's Hospital site, loo, south London, in their 12 of production' and 'absence from • without foreman's permis sion'. The men, employed by Phoenix Electrical Company, have now been on strike since April 21.

A GLASGOW company was yes- terday fined the maximum £100 for contravening the Radioactive Substances after a check Act, disclosed that a 'high dosage of radiation' being emitted was. from a store hut. The port employers" 'gale of change Drive for profits will cut jobs, increase speed-up which has sacked more than 30,000 workers since the big merger. in his Aldington makes clear statement ns sole mteresi the profits of the docks at the expense of workers' jobs. As It to this year, Salo BaST wien the heaviest sackings occurred, the Auihority made its first profit since 1700. The profit deficits of £741,000 was 2107,00 pared with and £1.4m in 1969. "The return on capital of about 4 per cent is clearly low, says Aldington brusquely, and my colleagues and with of the the full

SUD DOLL

are intent upon increasing Charges had been increased for good reasons, but they were not uncompetitive with ports generally, and some competing Sparks want reinstatement

PHOENIX

L

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Васко N The company has offered on baste pay and place the mi another on basic Joint «or lie Industrial Board. This proposal was overwhelm- ingly reiected by electricians the site who say that since the man was unjustly dismissed, only the St Thomas's site will satisfy.

Solvol (Metallurgical) Ltd, with office London Regent Glasgow, at St, west admitted the contravention which material related Woodville stored in premises at Glasgow. Continental ports had the advan- tages of dredging and other subsidies. The charges would continue to be kept under review, he said. 'These charges not the only item by which shippers and shipowners judge a port; speed and efficiency of operation are others, and reliability probably the most important. 'We need to foster the reputa- tion for continuous round-the- clock working at the container berths at Tilbury and of un- interrupted two-shift working elsewhere. 'Such a reputation will do more to safeguard the careers of those working in the PLA than anything else,' says Lord Alding- ton. Nothing good had been or would be done in the port with- out the co-operation of all who worked there. N MOTHERS and their young children lobbied parliament, Buckingham Palace and 10 Down- ing St yesterday in support of more nursery education for the under fives. Tory Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher was pre- sented with a petition signed by 360,000 people. It includes a call for the removal of a government circular restricting local councils from expanding already totally inadequate nur- sery education.

ounce GOLD is now selling at over $50 an ounce on the London bullion market amid rumours that big international buyers may be about to enter the market. Monday's closing price of $50.35 to $50.55 an ounce com- with the 'official' price, pares recently raised by the United States Congress from $35 to $38 an ounce. The rise in the gold price continuing reflects distrust paper currency, which has been intensited by the US decision to selling gold even to the stop banks at the 'official' central price. :: 4+ • It shows that the currency realignment deal reached in Washington on December 18 last has solved none of the year basic problems posed by the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system on August 15 last year. The relationship between gold and the dollar was the corner- stone of Bretton Woods. The various schemes proposed for so- called 'paper gold', in the form of International Monetary Fund special drawing rights, cannot overcome the resulting crisis from the breakdown of this relationship. The rapid development of recession, combined with con- tinuing currency inflation, has created a credit crisis for many * major firms which may well begin to buy gold in desperate efforts to dispose of their currency holdings.

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11.45 David Thompson. 12.15 Epilogue. re Pross, Wednedday May 3, 1972 PAGE 11 THREE Belgrade University students are to stand trial later this month for alleged Trotskyist activity, the Yugo- slav news agency Tanyug reported earlier this week.

They are Milan Nikolic (25), a philosophy student, Jelka Klaajic (25), a sociology stu- dent and Pavlusko Imsirovic (24), a transport student.

Arrested early in January, they have been charged with 'conspiring against the people and state' under Article 117 of the Criminal Code. Their 'crime', according to the prosecution, involved 'writing, Tearedu in hostile constributing and reproducing. maliciously and falsely presenting social and political conditions in the country. The indictment also cites a number of their public state- ments criticizing the Tito bureau- their leaflets One of cracy. defended victims of apparently bureaucratic persecution, includ- ing. Vladimir Mijatovic, a philo- sophy student, and Ivan Kamban, retired officer known to be a critical of the bureaucracy.

The prosecution lays particu- lar emphasis on the allegation that the three students tried to influence workers both in Yugo- slavia and abroad. It alleges that Imsirovic travelled as a delegate to the International Youth Rally in Essen last year. Tanyug also claims that the recent visit to Belgrade by Pab- loite leader Ernest Mandel was at the invitation of an illegal group of students at the univer- sity to which the three accused belonged. They claim his visit was 'aimed at creating or rather reviving the Fourth Trotskyite International'. ABOUT 2,000 students yester- day demonstrated in Phnom •Penh against the Cambodian government, which they accused of covering up: the shooting of their comrades during a riot at the law faculty.

Speakers told the demon- strators Military police killed four people and wounded another 22 last Thursday when they fired at a stone-throwing crowd at barricades outside the faculty building.* President Lon Nol blamed communist snipers in nearby houses for shooting down the students and said only nine people were wounded. The shooting has aroused un- precedented public indignation here and provoked strict official censorship.. Police have been accused of hiding the bodies, pressuring officials at hospitals which treated wounded, and destroying press photographs of the shooting.

A Reuter correspondent on the scene of the shooting saw no gunfire from the student side and could not corroborate the report of sniping. The riot followed a police attempt to surround and starve out militant law students. who occupied the building for seven "week's "in' ' an anti-government protest.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

J EDGAR HOOVER, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 1924, died in Washington yesterday. He was 77. Hoover, a virulent anti-com- munist who earned an honorary Knighthood from King George VI, was one of the most powerful men in the United States.

Under his rule theFBI functioned as a virtual state concentrating within a state, left- particularly attacking on wing organizations. The 7,000 G-men-all armed with law degrees as well as fire- arms-function a virtual as private army, bullying and terror- izing Hoover's political opponents and even putting pressure on Presidents and attorneys-general.

It was Hoover who branded Angela Davis 'the most wanted woman in America' and last year he demanded more money from the Senate to 'combat increased terrorism from radical leftist and Black extremist organizations'.

Hoover was obsessed with the danger of revolution. He had a fleet four bullet-proof limousines-one more than the President himself-and lived in constant fear of assassination.

One of his more bizarre quirks was a paranoiac dislike of anyone whose hand felt clammy when he shook it. Despite a budget of well over $100m a year, the FBI notably un- under Hoover was successful in breaking the Mafia and other huge crime rings in the US. SLATER WALKER, the invest- empire, yes- ment and banking terday announced a flóm fund- raising operation as part of its planned drive into Europe.

Two Eurobond loans under- written by offshoot, Slater Walker Inter- national Finance. The first is a $20m, 15-year convertible bond and the second f8m, 15-year sterling/mark loan. Proceeds of the issues will be lent back to Slater Walker Ltd, the UK banking subsidiary and used in the group's inter- national investment and banking business. Slater Walker is already setting up a number of offices in Euro- pean centres.

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Edward Heath yesterday staunchly defended Chancellor Anthony Bar- ber's much - criticized 'blackmail' speech against the railway union leaders.

While talks aimed at settl- ing the rail pay dispute were still in progress at Maryle- bone, Heath told the House of Commons yesterday after- noon: 'I entirely approve what the Chancellor said.'

Labour MP Patrick Dufly, from Attercliffe, Sheffield, said climate whole of industrial this country had relations in been soured by the intervention of the Chancellor on the eve of

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n court with her attorneys the government's application for a cooling-off period. He complained that Barber had 'converted the railway diş- pute into a political conflict ...

and had raised the temperature and the stakes.' West Fife Labour MP William Hamilton asked Heath: 'Did you know and approve of the use of "blackmail" by the word the Chancellor?' RAIL union leaders expect to hear British Rail's new pay offer at talks set for tomorrow.

After. six hours of informal meetings yesterday-day two of the resumed negotiations — no new offer was forthcoming.

move BRITISH Steel Corporation management have decided to moving the first start machinery from the River Don steelworks, Sheffield, tomorrow. The machinery. is to be trans- ferred under the Tory deal to hive off the River Don drop forge and an ancillary department to Firth Brown Ltd. The move is a direct challenge to stewards who have promised to resist, physically if necessary, the movement of machinery.

River Don is also involved in the district engineering pay dis- pute and stewards have threat- ened a work-to-rule. THE JUDE in the Angela Davis trial is to rule later this week on the admissibility of letters she is said to have written to Soledad Brother George Jackson in San Quentin Came "This the reply: was •CHICCuy DrobeI Doll lo bul what the Chantilor I entirely approve what the said and if to be held Opposition want of sectons community, had better tell the country' s on me s dispute were later adjourned until Thursday. But Ray Bukton, general secre- tary of

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said as he left BR's headquarters relations chief, Board's industrial Herbert Farrimond, 'hopes he can put a proposal before on us Thursday morning to resolve the matter'. Employers and union meet on containers A UNION-employer meeting, on the containers crisis will follow hard on the heels of today's National Industrial Relations Court airing of the issue.

Tim O'Leary, and 1 ransport General Workers' Union docks officer, expected attend to tomorrow's meeting of the indus- try's national joint council.

But late yesterday afternoon still from there no word the trece was about who wil alicia today's NIRC hearing of further allegations of blacking action against Heatons Iransport Ltd In Bristol yesterday, Transport Minister John Peyton said hoped the row could ullailcs be settled 'without bloodletting - ter this week on the letters she is said to • Soledad Brother in San Quentin The prosecution claims the letters are crucial to its case, which hinges on proving that Angela Davis conspired with Jackson's brother Jonathan to spring three black prisoners from Marin County courthouse. Four people, including Jonathan Jackson, two of the escaping convicts and judge they had taken as a were killed in hostage • a police fusillade as they tried to escape. The prosecution has yet to introduce any direct evidence to the linking Miss Davis escape attempt. The first part of the prosecution's evidence centred on the actual events at the courthouse and now wants to use the letters to prejudice the jury still further.

The letters describe Angela Davis' growing love for George do not con- Jackson. They tribute iota to proving one conspiracy. The defence has claimed that the prosecution has suffered a major setback in its conduct of the trial.

But this does not mean the state of California will relent in its campaign to lynch Angela Davis. Any illusions in the character of bourgeois "justice' in the State of California would be completely misplaced.

The trial is a frame-up from start to finish, but this will not prevent the state using every device it can to obtain a con- viction. BRITAIN'S sixth largest union, the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, which voted on Sunday against TUC policy by staying registered under the Industrial Relations Act, will give away about £35,000 a year it will receive in tax concessions.

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general secretary, told the union's annual meeting yesterday that delegate the executive unanimously had agreed with his recommendation not to seek any taxation advan- tage from continuing be to registered. FEWER but longer strikes are now the trend in Britain, Em- ployment Secretary Maurice told the Commons Macmillan yesterday. He pointed out that 86 per cent of the days lost in the first of this quarter year were for by the miners' accounted strike. In the three months to March 31, 1972, there were 448 strikes.

This compared with 627 in the corresponding three months last year; 1,212 in 1970; 718 in 1969; 518 in 1968 and 529 in 1967.