Workers Press no. 758

workers press

RECALL TUC

CONGRESS MAJORITY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 6, 1972

• No 758 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE General Council is Congress minority

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

on the General Council. This voting from sources shows that the minority 11 votes in fact represents THE GENERAL COUNCIL vote against more trade unionists than the 15-vote right-wing.

would have been obtained And a clear majority recalling a special TUC conference to fight Those who had all members been present and voted.

against the Industrial Relations Act is a would certainly have insisted on a recall are George

(TASS)

of the Dougnty, teconcal secuon giant confidence trick against the rank and

AUEW,

Allan Sapper of ACTT, and Alan Fisher of the National Union of Public Employees.

file. The men who voted against were Lord Cooper and Sir Frederick Hayday of the G&MWU; Walter Ander- If examined carefully, the closely- son of

NALGO;

Edward Britton of the Teachers; contested vote shows conclusively that a Frank Chapple of the EPTU; Percy Coldrick of the majority of the trade union movement is TSSA; Dai Davies, ISTC; Roy Grantham, CAWU; Sir NUR; Stan Gretton, Bakers' Union; behind a recalled conference.

Sidney Greene, Tailors and Tom Jackson, UPW; Jack McGougan, Workers; The move to recall conference Garment Tack Peel, Dyers and Bleachers; was made at Cyril Plant, Inland Revenue Staff.

Thursday's General Council meeting by Jack Jones, All these union leaders are either quietiy in favour leader of Britain's largest union, the Transport and of the Act or they are equivocal on the question of General Workers' Union. that if a registration. ts also true ballot for The defeated-to the of recall was called in the membership of, say, the NUR move was oleasure Victor Feather and the right-wing-by 15 secretary would that an overwhelming number it is certain votes to Il. want a recall to hammer Workers Press has obtained precise details of the defeat the Act. In other words Feather and Second school revolt group trace union bureaucrats have been caught red-handed. They are debate on une Act by taking away democratic of trade and down the

JUSU

•ТЛе covernment is intent on taking away demo- of the trade umons unemselyes By launching this conspiracy,

TUC

the WInd obecuivery aids the Tories and their plans to smash the trade unions. September Last only nine the Blackpool con. months ago, ference clearly spellee our toe unions' united opposition to the which resolution Act in a I hat overweimne resolution states: "Congress views with concert the fact that certain affiliated already indi- trade unions have will not imple cared that tney ment recommendation One of the special March 18, 171 Greydon he Croydon continued attacks on the trade by the Tory government, there is a greater need for united acuon. Recognizing that the policy of non-registration only can if all affiliated unions act collectively Congress therefore instructs amated trade unIonS to register under the b) to Industrial Relations Act; take measures to remove mem. selves from the provisional register. This has been resolution clearl flouted undemo- oyan cratic minority. They have decided to co-operate the with Act without consulting Congress LUNCHTIME fury yesterday were stopped by police from Are we to stand by and permit the right wing take away marching to another school, at West London's Rutherford democratic rights? Quintin Kynaston, to raise comprehensive school where This clique clearly thinks it is for their 'strike'. support responsible

ONV

_LO 300 pupils walked out for the indirectly, of course, to the Tory government. second day running. They • See story p. 3. The union leaders who voted for the recall-who represent a • Turn to P.12 No 758 • 4p

IALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THOSE UNIONS WHICH

VOTED FOR RECALL

UNION

GENERAL

MEMBERS

COUNCIL VOTES

T&GWU

1,638,686

AUEW

1,202,218

NATSOPA

1 50,981

NUM

274,433

FBU

1 30,000

SMWU

1 78,281

TOTAL

11 3,274,599 3,045,996

MAJORITY

228,603

THOSE UNIONS WHICH

VOTED AGAINST RECALL

G&M 2 853,353

NALGO

1 439,887

NUT

310,536

EPTU

420,588

TSSA

75,194

NACODS

23,389

ISTC

116,632

CAWU

125,541 49,735

IRSA

UPW

209,479 Bakers 48,784 Tailors 117,573 Dyers 56,986

NUR

198,319

TOTAL

15 3,045,996 Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists

ALL OUT

DEMONSTRATE ON

Sunday May 7

HANDS OFF THE UNIONS

Defend democratic rights! Defend the right to work!

Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all internees!

Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

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

workers press

RECALL TUC

CONGRESS MAJORITY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 6, 1972

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

voting from General Council. This sources on the shows that the minority 11 votes in fact represents THE GENERAL COUNCIL vote against more trade unionists than the 15-vote right-wing.

And a clear majority would have been obtained recalling a special TUC conference to fight Those who had all members been present and voted.

agalnst the Industrial Relations Act is a

(TASS)

technical section Dougnty, giant confidence trick against the rank and AUEW, Allàn Sapper of ACTT, and Alan Fisher of the National Union of Public Employees.

file. The men who voted against were Lord Cooper and Sir Frederick Hayday of the G&MWU; Walter Ander- examined If carefully, the closely- son of

NALGO;

Edward Britton of the Teachers; contested vote shows conclusively that a Frank Chapple of the EPTU; Percy • Coldrick of the majority of the trade union movement is TSSA; Dai Davies ISTC; Roy Grantham, CAWU; Sir Greene, NUR; Stan Gretton, Bakers' behind a recalled conference.

Sidney Union; Tọm Jackson, Tailors UPW; Jack McGougan and The move to recall conference was made at Garment Workers; Jack Pee Dyers and Bleachers; Cyril Plant, Inland Revenue Staff.

Thursday's General Council meeting by Jack Jones, All these union leaders are either quietiy in favour leader of Britain's largest union, the Transport and of the Act or they are equivocal on the question of General Workers' Union. registration. It is that if a ballot for also true The Victor Feather and the right pleasure is defeated- pleasure recall was called in the membership of, say, the NUR secretary would it is certain that overwhelming number all votes to ll. want a recall to hammer out a proper strategy to Workers Press has obtained precise details of the defeat the Act. In other words Feather and group union bureaucrats have been red-handed. They caught are sume Act by taking away democratic rights of trade union and the the Tory country just • Tie rights cratic trade By launching this Coloudly the

TUC

right objectively Wing aids the Tories and their plans to smash the trade unions. Last So, eme Blackpool cone nine months ago, ference clearly out spelled unions' united opposition the which Act resolution was That overwhelmet resolution states: "Congress views with concer the fact that certain affiliated already indi- trade have unions not moe ment recommendation One of the special

TUC

at Croydon 1971. In of the March 18. continued attacks by the Tory government, there is a greater need for united 'Recognizing that the policy of non-registration only if all affiliated unions act collectively Congress therelore instructs affiliated Trade not register under the to b) Industrial Relations Act; take measures tc remove men selves the provisional register.? This been resolution has clearly flouted undemo cratic minority. They have decided the co-operate with Act without consulting Congres LUNCHTIME fury yesterday were stopped by police from Are we to stand by and permit the right wing take away to another school, marching at West London's Rutherford democratic rights? Quintin Kynaston, to raise comprehensive school where This clique clearly thinks it is for their 'strike'. support responsio e only 300 pupils walked out for the indirectly, of course, to the Tory government. second day running. They • See story p. 3. The union leaders who. voted for the recall—who • Turn to P.12 • No 758 • 4p

IALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THOSE UNIONS WHICH

VOTED FOR RECALL

UNION

GENERAL

MEMBERS

COUNCIL VOTES

T&GWU

1,638,686

AUEW

1,202,218

NATSOPA

1 50,981

NUM

274,433

FBU

1 30,000 1

SMWU

78,281 - 11

TOTAL

3,274,599 3,045,996

MAJORITY

228,603

THOSE UNIONS WHICH

VOTED AGAINST RECALL

853,353 G&M 2

NALGO

1 439,887

NUT

1 310,536

EPTU

420,588

TSSA

75,194

NACODS

23,389 116,632

ISTC

CAWU

125,541

IRSA

49,735

UPW

209,479 Bakers 48,784 Tailors 117,573 Dyers 56,986

NUR

198,319

TOTAL

15 3,045,996 Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists

ALL OUT

DEMONSTRATE ON

Sunday May 7

HANDS OFF THE UNIONS

Defend democratic rights! Defend the right to work!

Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all internees!

Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

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

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May 6, 1972

THE STORM

CLOUDS GATHER

WHAT WE THINK

ALL THE signs of an unpre- hated and they have no man- cedented radiçalization of the Bernadette Devlin: .. missing from vital vote working class and the prospect of a head-on conflict with the not hold a General Election un- Tories are now present. der these conditions-they can pally against US corporations.

and will prepare only to pro- It is this drive which creates rightly did not hesitate to make the conditions for the break up employers 28 days to decide on In the same way, these devel- the right of port workers to stuff Dicente to the vote te stake they absent themselves Labour renegade General Council on the demand independence of presumably because the Labour first avocated by Workers Press unions while another group be- 'lefts' did not do enough for the "integrationists' The defeat of this demand, vent advocates of entry into the formist leaders. As the railway despondency. The movement of We say that the only alter- It is the logical and sectarian pay talks broke down he rue- native to the Common Market outcome of middle-class protest fully commented: "This has not further to the right parallels the Socia socialisi ditan rithin of politics. It is doubly impermiss been a negotiation. It has been ible because the Irish working in the Labour Party in support- class — unlike the British — are Now the government faces the That is why we support-albeit ing the Common Market entry.

actually being given an oppor- prospect of another war on the It is a tribute to the militancy railways—without the element of Michael Foot against those 'lef entry in MPs who absented themselves The demand must now be made Late Thursday night the Tories from the debate on the European voted for a recall to call a con- refusal to break with the petty- Tories to scrape through trade bourgeois nationalism of Sinn the divisions with majorities as Fein on the one side and her gained 975 seats and not only continued political recaptured what it lost in the Among those absentees were Industrial Relations Act and the Tory government. the Ulster MPs Frank McManus with the anti-Marxist policies of 'Socialist Worker' and the Inter- also secured control of a number In fact the division in the trade national Marxist Group on the of marginal boroughs like Cam- When the question of their par- other, Miss Devlin could well ultimately from the liamentary immunity was at stake become the Barbara Castle of Lord Carrington dismissed the to reorganize and centralize its hesitate to use the so-called election results, but the verdict of the British workers is plain: and rationalize industry on the basis of European-wide Nixon reverses troop Tight army Expulsion causes Clamp on FOLLOWING the sus- S African withdrawals pension of the Paris peace Turkey campus talks, President Nixon is to reinforce US air and THE ARMY clamped a tighter outburst sea power in Vietnam.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

grip on Turkey yesterday in a new bid to smash resistance to Fresh combat troops are es ata ts and heavy visited the namese planes are city in an attempt to the martial law regime. and heavy being rushed from the boost morale THE University of the North for ulc duvalice guns towards Hué after the rout A number of small actions took Africans in Turfloop, South The forces were placed in US and from bases in the Saigon forces pla e near Saigon. In one, only of alert military leave Africa, state miles the was yesterday trom closec Capilal, cuy nightly Japan and the Philip- and ernment forces claimed to have Was cancerea following mass protest by Ankara, curfew the capital, killed six National Liberation students against the expulsion of was extended. pines. Front fighters. 750 shells their former president, who had coula begın next week wver The measures were taken after US air strength in Indo- the besieged city of An Loc, attacked education presided over government miles to the a cabinel China is now close to its level north. policy for Africans President of the Paris at the height of the bombing and The breakdown nave overrun iwo nredase attended by senior army officers.

peace : the secret Hostels were closed and 1,146 lalks as well as of the North and big raids on between North the the campus meeting discussed the Hanoi and Haiphong may be students orderec and the hijacking of Turkish plane, Africans -ure Jareesi

CIOI

imminent. any prospect South Africa. diverted to Bulgaria by Pentagon lists of heavy Russian early end the war through to of the Turkish People's Libera- Students boycotted lectures on military used diplomac is equipment being Thursday and marched en masse tion Army. had bv the North Vietnamese are the South Vietnamese forces. orderer negotiators office

HICCLOS

DOLES

They unsuccessfully excuse for drastic counter- demanded as a first step › that the tried against the expulsion of Abraham ransom the plane for the lives North Vietnamese should call of measures. president _of South Viet- three and Council. menoers awallllk huchican death at the hands of Sunay's Tiro was delegated to • make a hangman. vote or maos al graduatiol ceremony Saturday and The liberation group's mem- instead attacked the government's Student action creates Lon Nol crisis bers are auSO pereved been behind the wounding caucalor policy. of General Kemalettin tor ersat it termed Thursday for termed an 'emotional the head

LIC

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

political outburst' darmerie, who stands fifth in the military heirarchy The Turfloop part 1S THE STRUGGLE of students wounding several. responsibility for the shooting, ohe aparecerme ost only The Sunay under- regime Penh against demonstrations was the work apartheid regime only The Ine student claiming it since its CriSIs Cambodian puppet government against this massacre have won 'enemy elements'. Mios tene

WOLSU

among among students, came to power by military coup stated now threatening precipi- es oport from the have that to none workers ir veran wiwo me arcai last March. killed during the the puppet capital, of Ovambo contract ae ocea co studen s wan ing to Agence France-Presse.

and from section the shooting labourers Namibia (South Weeks. of fruitless negotiations But th force at a demon starion Buddhist clergy, turned The Lon Nol government has on West Africa) at the end of las have to an produce April just year. wiet wert Starea releeloul acceptable solution to the parlia- constitution, claiming the moved to the laculty oi law to eariler this week The mentary crisis. Sunay has Many Ovambo workers are still end a student sit-in The sirio Matant of result victory, though it Lor threatened military on strike and earlier impose Nol, and The troops opened . Matak boycotted the vast sor Wak the South African be. nue muess a covennent con Ngoc nre on tae students, killing and cented

ANTONIN

formed from within the parlia- announced stoppage anotner among fishermen at Walvis Bay ment.

The Mail's' amazing scoop

TORIES ATTACK

THE UNEMPLOYED

The Social Security Swindle 'The Social Security Swindle' by Bernard Franks. A useful handbook in the SLL pocket library series on state restric- social security. 5p. tions on (Post 23p)

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDEN

SEAMEN'S leaders yesterday executive's decision to registe Relations Act. Voting at the NUS annual conference in Folkestone, where executive members and full-time officials voting together can outnumber rank- and-file delegates, was 63-12 in favour of registration.

The decision also means that the conference has approved executive's decision to the apply jointly with the em- ployers for an approved closed shop. This application-sent by the Industrial Relations Court for investigation by the CIR-led to the union's suspension from the

TUC.

NUS general secretary Bill Thursday Hogarth, who on attacked the miners for going to 'the level of the gutter' in their strike, denied they had registered as a service to the shipowners.

It was a question of survival,' he said. 'We could not afford the spectacular collapse of this union as the price of a philosophic or- ideological gesture in deñance of the Act. would have SCHOOLCHILDREN from two West London comprehensives yesterday defied education authorities for the second day and came out on strike. Pupils from Rutherford and Siddons comprehensives Sarah refused to go back to their classrooms after lunch. They are protesting against the compul- sory wearing of uniforms and what they consider to be a harsh system of administration in the school. School authorities failed to keep them in school com- the pound in spite of padlocked gates and marshalling by prefects.

A total of 300 pupils are involved in the protest. THE DAILY MAIL, the Rothermere-owned newspaper which claims to be 'on top of the news', featured a front- page 'scoop' yesterday. Across the front page appeared this banner headline: 'EXCLUSIVE: As the row grows over Ministry sex spies the "Mail" reveals how they work

SNOOPERS'

HANDBOOK

The 'Mail's' smug claims are entirely misplaced. Workers Press published the documents series entitled The in a Social Security Swindle', by Bernard Franks in November last year. • says "Today the The story "Daily Mail" reveals in detail the extent of these spying methods outlined in a secret manual.'

SPONDENT

esterday confirmed their union • register under the Industrial WEST HAM Trades Council, London, has carried a resolu- tion demanding that the TUC Finance General Pur- and poses committee carry out the decisions of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations.

Act passed at Congress in September last year. The council resolved that the action of the TUC com- mittee in allowing unions 'to go to the National Industrial Relations Court was 'a com- plete betrayal of the trade union movement'. The resolution called the TUC to institute an immediate campaign in the labour and trade union movement to the Tories from remove office. The motion originally came branch from the electricians' at Tower Hamlets. The West Ham trade unionists passed the resolution with one abstention and one against. A PRIVATE member's Bill outlawing 'bootleg' recordings has been given an unopposed second reading in the House of Lords. The Bill's sponsor is Lord Goodman who claimed that the practice of 'bootlegging' records was 'obnoxious'. Moving the second reading of the Performers' Protection Bill, he said it increased the maxi- mum fine for illegal recordings from £50 to £400 and also introduced a penalty of imprison- ment to a maximum of two years.

Goodman said: 'A number of enterprising gentry are pursuing the profitable course of manu- facturing what are known as bootleg records. The method they use is to take recordings from radio performances, tele- With breathtaking modesty the reporter, Douglas Thomp- son, interviewed two_Labour MPs, Stanley Clinton Davis of Hackney and Miss Joan Lestor of Eton and Slough. Davis said: 'The "Daily Mail" is doing a great service to the public by publishing this code. I have never seen it and neither have many of my colleagues who are equally concerned? Miss Lestor, another 'left', said: 'The "Daily Mail" is do- ing a marvellous service by The nearly-completed Seaforth contain black on handling containers.

MERSEYSIDE dockers yes- terday ignored their union leaders' official plea for normal working during their 28-day strike notice. At the £50m Seaforth con- tainer terminal, men continued to ban the handling of newly- arrived containers. They have been refusing to deal with any fresh loads since shop Wednesday, when stewards' meeting extended 'blacking' action in support of the right to stuff and strip con- tainers. ..Behind - the - scenes talks between stewards and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, which owns the terminal, were held on Thursday. The terminal vision performances or film reproductions.' He said these recordings were then put on market at 'highly competitive prices'.

Goodman and his supporters are presenting the Bill as an act of defence of performers anc their rights. On the other hand, the Bill will also protect the huge profits of the big recording companies. Goodman is chairman of the Newspaper British Lion' The Observer. In Society and his private capacity as a lawyer he advises Granada Television, headed by Lord Sidney Bernstein.

contacts in the entertainment industry include Bernard Delfont, head of EMI, Sir Lew Grade of Associated Television, and Nat Cohen of Anglo-Amalgamated. Workers Press sty revealing what is allowed to go on.' When Workers Press revealed the details of these documents six months ago no Labour MP raised the subject in the House of Commons with a view to getting the pub- iniquitous document lished. If Davis and Lestor are so anxious to read the full inside story, they are invited to read "The Social Security Swindle' Socialist Labour League pocket booklet No 3. h container terminal on Merseyside where d

BY DAVID MAUDE

is due to come into operation officially next Wednesday.

But the talks appear to have broken down on the very issue is at the centre of the which national strike row. yesterday main- The dockers tained their black on the three Transport firms who took the and General Workers' Union to the Industrial Court. And at a mass meeting in the Liverpool boxing stadium tomor- row, they are expected to give backing to both the massive strike call and the national stewards' decision to extend the black. Reports will also be given from yesterday's London meet- ing of the national port shor stewards' committee. Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan yesterday morning saw representatives of the National Dock Labour Board for 30 min- utes in his room at the Com- mons. It was the third in a series of meetings Macmillan is having with everyone concerned with docks operation - with special emphasis the dispute over on effects containerization and its employment. He is also on expected to see representatives of the road hauliers. Macmillan later reported to a Cabinet meeting. PADDY SCULLION (73) of Jarrow-on-Tyne, one of the leaders of the 1936 Jarrow march, will march again to Downing St next Wednesday. In 1936 Mr Scullion, then a councillor, walked to London all the way. kers Press, Saturday May 6, 1972 PAGE 3 'SIR John [Donaldson, chairman of the National Industrial Rela- tions Court] has confounded the critics and shown that the law, even in the workaday world of industrial relations, can have a human and understanding face.

Sir John leaned over backwards to. show that he These are the dynamic thoughts of Keith Mason, industrial editor of the 'Sun'. Mr Mason, because of his great knowledge and sympathy of the trade union writes movement, a regular column for the AUEW "Journal'.

THE SETTING up of an advisory committee on night assembles, be headed by 26-year-old to Cambridge graduate Dennis Stevenson, was announced in the by the Minister for Commons Local Government and Develop- ment Graham Page yesterday.

It was the intention of the Environment Secretary Peter Walker to appoint the committee whether the Night or not Assemblies Bill, which would control the holding of all-night assemblies, became law. where dockers yesterday extended the

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

SLOUGH: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Slough Community Centre, Farnam Rd. Speakers, Frank Tomany, ex-convenor Omes Faulkner. Brian Bailey.

AUEW (in a personal capa- city). The Industrial Relations Act. Recall the TUC Expel the traitors Make the Tories resign SW LONDON: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. N KENT: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m.

SOGAT House, Essex Ra, 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: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m.

St John's Ambulance Hall, Lea Rd. N LONDON: Thursday May 11, Totten- 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, 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). Now he is' an Alderman and next week he plans to ride in a Pullman train with about 50 North East civil leaders who, in their regalia, will march from Kings Cross to Downing St.

The object-the same as in 1936—to draw attention to grow- ing unemployment in their area.

PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Saturday May 6, News and programme editors at the BBC have been issued with a circular warning them not to commit contempt of the National Industrial «Re- lations Court. was born after The document two telephone calls from NIRC headquarters at 4 Chancery Lane.

from Sir John One was Donaldson himselt, taking time of out from a frenzied round activity to explain the risks in- volved. The other was from a who explained that colleague Sir John, the court president, was anxious to make a firm im- pression from the start. The circular-and the contacts which led to it—highlighted the class nature and purpose of the Industrial Relations Act.

For the journalists in the BBC and the rest of the capitalist mass posed now media, the question the Act is in operation is simply how to adjust to a new tone in their masters' voice. In the work- ing-class movement and its press the issues are, of course, much more serious. The

BBC

circular says that 'there is a contempt risk if we publish anything which could be said to interfere with the func- tion of the Industrial Relations Court'. It goes on to say that while critical statements are permis- long as put sible, so they are 'responsibly in and forward balanced context', there is 'legal risk in allowing our facili- ties to be used by anyone who advocates law-breaking or who tries to use the BBC platform for inciting defiance of the court.

In other words, the Act puts a gag on all the media. lay May 6, 1872 Sir Sidney Greene, general secretary trade union leaders in Britain to be To the astonishment of the official the NUR staff slipped in a side door It shows Greene standing at his off period which was successfully soi meeting of the three rail executives and the official work-to-rule was lift It is now illegal for workers to fight to defend their jobs or even work to the safety-rules laid down by their employer. And it is illegal for them to speak their minds on these questions freely.

The BBC circular goes on to pinpoint another effect of the Act. While union leaders may be expected to have been warned of the legal hazard, it says, 'people at shop steward level or below are unlikely to have been given legal advice.' secretary of the National Union of Railw in to be served with legal papers under t e official from the National Industrial Rel side door and took the photograph reprod g at his desk in Unity House taking a coj sfully sought by the Tory Solicitor Genera xecutives later that night Greene decided te e was lifted. It goes on: 'Outspoken talk - th from them advocating lawbreak- ing should be handled with caution and advice obtained from duty solicitor if in any doubt.'

So while the bureaucrats are free the And further: 'Pronouncements at public meetings can generally reported without risk. The onus on us is greater when bring people into the studios. We 'generally'. The key word is Because as Lord Stow Hill QC, formerly Labour Attorney- Sir Frank General Soskice, pointed out to Workers Press last year, even to 'report favourably' statements out of line with the Act may be actionable. In the main, the BBC circular was concerned with contempt of court. Clearly any statement advocat- ing, say, non-payment of a fine imposed by the NIRC for con- tempt of its orders, renders both Left: Lord Chancellor Hailsham who told journalists that there was nothing to worry about in the Act. Above: Sir John Donald- son, who issued a circular to the BBC 'spelling out the risk of contempt of court of Railwaymen, was one of the first under the Industrial Relations Act.

strial Relations Court, a member of h reproduced above. ring a copy of the order for a cooling- r General Sir Geoffrey Howe. At a decided to abide by the court's decision talk - the author of the statement and anyone who publishes it liable to contempt proceedings. And since the punishment for • contempt is entirely at the dis- cretion of the judicial member of the court, here is a very power- ful weapon indeed. Clause 96 of the Act itself provides the other arm of the pincer. This makes it an unfair in- dustrial practice for anyone not an officer of a registered trade union to induce breaches of con- tract to further a trade dispute.

Unlimited damages can awarded against anyone who runs foul of the clause. where there is a big industrial plant, 99 per cent of whose workers the people who run the know will read their paper product. A strike is building up. A young journalist attends a factory-gate meeting and reports a speech made by one of the militants. He comments favourably upon it Under legislation', present Lord Stow Hill said last year, 'you could say he was doing this in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute and he would be reasonably well protected from being taken to court for damages.

'He would not be so protected under the Bill.' When Lord Stow Hill un- successfully attempted to move an amendment protecting journal- ists to the then Industrial Rela- tions Bill last year, he was told by Lord Chancellor Hailsham that there was nothing to worry about. Yet with the main clauses of the Act in operation for just two months, the screws have gone on in Britain's chief capitalist news agency. The Industrial Relations Act had been revealed as an attack not only on the fight for wages and conditions, but on one the working class's most basic rights: To know the truth and speak its mind. ... Evidence of the decline in shipbuilding continues to accumulate. The annual report of Lloyd's published Register, recently, noted that for the first time in five years the level of world orders falling. And the was Marine Equipment Council says many of their members will face serious difficulties if they do not government aid quickly. get They point out that 70 per cent of a vessels value comes from the industry. The latest cry of despair how- ever comes from the Chamber of Shipping of the United King- dom. They say that new orders shipowners by British have dropped alarmingly to a 'trickle' John MacConichie, the Cham- that in the ber's president says three months ended January 31, new orders under the British flag amounted to only 325,000 tons-which is equal to the ton- nage of three medium-sized tankers. British share of world The orders has dropped to less than per cent. The withdrawal of investment grants for shipping lines in 1970 is partly to blame, says the Chamber. They were introduced in 1966 inject some new life into to shipbuilding. Even now the British share of the total ton- nage of ships on order in the world was 15 per cent, but at least 13 per cent of those were placed before the grants were withdrawn. still had an Il-per- Britain cent share of the world total tonnage afloat. But the Chamber was concerned that the most recent figures showed that no new orders were being placed.

Five street actors who spat on the Union Jack as part of a play on the situation in Ülster have found guilty of been obstruction. They were performing the play in Tottenham High Road, North London, when they were arrested by police. Sgt Ralph Wilkinson said he was called to a 'disturbance' where he saw about 250 people blocking the pavement and holding up a lane of traffic. He said he heard a rattling noise and saw a Union Jack on the pavement. Three men two women were crouch- and ing in a semi-circle and were wailing in a trance. The only he could hear word was 'Belfast'. Sgt David Pilgrim, an off- duty policeman, told the court there was mixed reaction from the crowd. Some were good- natured and others were upset.

later The actors were charged with insulting behaviour and obstruction.

insulting behaviour The charges were dismissed by the magistrate, but they were found guilty of obstruction and conditionally discharged for a year. Before the court were Ralph Edney, (29), Robert Gardner, (35), of Bewdley St, both Islington; Sylvia Jeffares, (23), Jeremy Beatty, (32), both of Raydon St, Upper Holloway; and Diana Shelley, (28), of Platts Lane, White Court, Hampstead.

BY JOHN SPENCER

Italy's electorate goes to the polls on Sunday in the most critical election since the fall of Mussolini in 1945. The election follows the fall of the so-called centre-left coali- tion which has ruled Italy for over ten years. It is the first premature General Election since the war. The campaign so far has been marked by violent street-fighting and legal actions against the left.

Much of the fighting occurred at rallies organized by the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), whose functions were invariably well-protected by armed police.

The character of the Italian election campaign shows the polarization of class forces as the economic crisis hits Italian industry. The economic boom of the 1960s is over, unemployment and inflation are and Italy's rising key export industries have been affected by the growth of trade war. Witnin the last few days, two of Italy's largest private com- panies-Olivetti typewriters and Fiat motors-have announced a decline in profits and production.

Fiat president Giovanni Agnelli told a shareholders' meeting a week ago that unless the political and labour situations improved the company unlikely to was meet its 1972 production target.

The industrialists have spear- headed the demand for a stronger and more stable government, preferably_ excluding the one Socialist Party. The essence of this demand is for a government which will discipline the work- ing class and keep down wages.

Since 1969, Italian workers have been involved in a series of bitter battles for higher wages Factory and social reforms. occupations, strikes, partial stop- pages and demonstrations have become commonplace. But at the time, the same union leaders — Stalinist trade and social-democrat-have con- fined these actions to economic and reform demands and pre- vented the working class from challenging the government.

The Communist Party, which has the biggest following among working class, the has even dropped nationalization from its election programme, talking in- stead in terms of 'structural reforms'. It is grooming itself to take part in a Popular Front coalition with the Socialists and 'liberals'. To woo the middle class, the Party is at pains to stress its denouncing as respectability, "leftist' those workers and students who attack the fascist rallies. It was the Stalinists under their late Palmiro secretary Togliatti who saved Italian capi- talism after Togliatti the war. flew back from Moscow to dis- arm the partisans and even supported the continuation of monarchy despite King collaboration Umberto's with the fascists. The Stalinists' position today is every bit as counter-revolu- tionary. They pose as the saviours of the country's bankrupt parlia- mentary democracy. Yet it is precisely the corruption and decadence of Italian 'democracy' gives rise to fascist ten- that dencies among the middle class strengthens the employers' and demand for a strongman. In fact, it is out of the Italian state machine that the MSI has drawn its most prestigious can- didate-Admiral Gino Birindelli, who headed NATO's southern naval command until the election campaign began. in The fascists had 24 seats the last parliament (out of a total of 630) and 13 seats among the 315 elected members of the Senate. They are widely expected this increase figure sub- to stantially. At the centre of the political is the amorphous scene con- servative Christian Democrat + 4 Party which the majority was partner in the long coalition with the social-democrats, liberals and socialists. The Christian Democrats are moving sharply to the right in keep down effort to the an fascist vote. They are adamantly opposed Communist Party to participation in the government, which they fear would lead to further flights of capital from and interfere with their Italy participation in NATO and their relations with other Common Market countries. The outcome of Sunday's poll is unlikely to resolve the political crisis in Italy. The class struggle will dominate whatever parlia- mentary combinations are thrown up by the election. The Italian ruling class must now turn more and more directly to the repression of the working class. In turn the working class is faced with the pressing ques- resolving the crisis of tion of leadership through a struggle to revolutionary build party against Stalinism and social- democracy. Top: street fighting between fas- cists and workers in Turin. Below: a street decorated with election siogans.

PSIUP

Workers Press

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Electioneering in Australia has been a notoriously nasty business over the past 25 years while the ruling Liberal (Tory) Party has held office.

This election year is proving to be no exception to the rule.

William Mas skilled there Minister, skilled red- was baiting under Sir Robert Menzies and then under Harold Holt.

But he has diversified his techniques. has followed President Nixon's suit in whip- ping up law and order and his ministers have recently taken to the theme of racialism. There is no issue more deeply embedded in the Australian immigration. psyche than All coloured immigration was banned at the turn of the century under the notorious White Australia Act. But in 1966 the regulations were loosened to permit a trickle ot skilled, professional Asians to enter the Great White Land.

But having made these minute concessions to the Japanese and industrialists Chinese to the north (they wanted the rules relaxed so they could bring in their own trained executives), the government is now cutting back on all immigration regard- less of colour. This is being done, it is argued, to halt the growing unemploy- washing ment which shores of Australia for the first time for more than a decade.

But while closing the door, the Liberals are beginning a cam- paign to paint the Labour Party as the party of mass immigration.

It is reminiscent of the Tory campaign in Birmingham in 1964 when street slogans went up saying: 'Vote Labour for a nigger neighbour.' And just as the Labourites reacted completely without prin- ciple in this country, SO they are reacting in Australia.

The ludicrous situation has been reached where both Liberal and Labour politicians are mounting huge press campaigns to announce to the electorate immi- that they totally oppose gration, if it's particularly coloured. Everyone, in etect, is claiming to be a racialist to win votes. kers Press, Saturday May 6, 1972 PAGE 5 The most outspoken defender of Australian racial 'purity'—it has been worked out there are nationalities, something like 45 including Eskimos, in Australia- is Arthur Calwell, former leader of the Labour Party and an Immigration Minister in the Chifley government at the end of the war. Calwell has called for a stop to the 'flood of Anglo-Indians, Anglo - Burmese, Dutch - burgers Mauritians pouring into and Australia. 'A multi-racial society is a and what red- polyglot nation blooded Australian wants to see that happen? He said Perth was becomind the 'Durban of Australia' warned that 'the black tragedy of the United States must not be repeated here'. Calwell's racialist views are When he was Immi- not new. gration Minister between 1945 1949 he deported and a man named Wong who had illegally arrived in Australia to live with his brother who was a naturalized Australian. big press campaign was A mounted asking the minister to decision reconsider his on humanitarian grounds. Calwell's reply was that the younger brother must be ejected from Australia. After all, he said, 'two Wongs don't make a white'.

Top: present Labour Party leader, Gough Whitlam and below: Prime Minister McMahon of the Liberal Party.

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BY TOM KEMP

The "Third Indo-China War' they call it in Washington, the as troops of General Vo Nguyen Giap smash through the defences of Vietnamese town one after another and the shattered divisions of Saigon flee south in disorder. The anti-imperialist struggle of the Vietnamese peasants and workers has a long history.

There has been continuous war in Vietnam since the struggle against the Japanese at the end of World War II. When the Japanese invaded Vietnam in 1941 the French colonial administration put up no resistance and co-operated with the invader. At the same time a national front of resist- ance organizations was formed under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, leader of the -Com- munist Party, called the Viet Minh. After carrying on a guerrilla в,1072 struggle against the Japanese, Ho proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and States looked to the United for assistance. He entered into French negotiation with the government with the aim of securing autonomous status within the French Union. However, the French did not honour their agreements and broke while com- war out munist ministers were sitting in the government in Paris.

The French expected to be able to restore their colonial rule with little trouble, but it soon turned out that they had found a redoubtable foe.

The Vietnamese masses did not want to live under their exploiters, dis- old colonial credited by their humble colla- with the Japanese, boration and their corrupt local hangers- on and accomplices. A pro- longed guerrilla began war which soon pinned down a substantial part of the French and killed off officers army could faster than they be turned out by the prestigious officer school of St Cyr.

The Democratic Republic of Vietnam built up a highly- trained army with a strong morale. It was able to defeat he French army, despite its modern American-sunplied in one battle after weapons, another. The final blow came with the collapse of the French garrison of Dien Bien Phu in of decisive one the most battles since World War II.

MASSIVE

By this time the American Administration had become seriously concerned about the situation in South East Asia following the victory of the in 1949 Chinese Revolution the Korean War. Eisen- and hower offered to intervene with massive force before the of French defeat. The use atomic weapons was con- sidered. The war against the French was formally brought to an end by the Geneva Agreement 1954 of which temporarily divided the country at the Sou Vietnel. free elections were to be held by June 1956.

These were never held and meanwhile, with the support of the US, the old ruling class consolidated its position in the sóuth, of which Saigon was the capital. former The Emperor Bao Dai was deposed and a puppet government set up under Ngo Dinh Diem. By this time the USA had superseded France as the dominant power in Indo- China. Diem's army was equipped and trained by the Americans while the Central Intelligence Agency organized sabotage in the North. A large part of the south was effectively under the con- trol of the National Liberation Front set up in 1960 and backed by the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam.

Supported by peasants and workers, guerrilla units estab- lished firm bases in the coun- tryside. an effort to stop the In 'going com- whole of Vietnam munist, the American com- mitment to Saigon steadily grew. Under President J. F Kennedy the number of mili- : Vietnar advisers increased; tary was the basis was laid for a sub- stantial military commitment.

Without US military aid and supplies the Diem regime would not have lasted six weeks. Finally the State Department decided to kick out the cor- rupt and hated Diem in November 1963 before his regime was swept away by a popular uprising. Before long a military junta had taken over.

American troops and their puppets, were increasing their commando-type raids and infil- tration of North Vietnam dur- ing the first part of 1964. When an attack was made on US ships operating on the Gulf of Tonkin in connection with these operations, Presi- dent Johnson ordered massive well-selected air strikes on targets in the north. When these raids failed to of Han a rapid Guitulation about the capitulation American ground troops took place and during 1965 a sus- tained attempt was made to force the north into submis- sion by savage and unrestricted aerial bombardment. Bombing in the South included Chemical warfare, whee laid bare, in the hope of whole forested areas exposing the National Libera- tion Front guerrillas. By mid-1966 over half a million US troops were in of mili- : Vietnam and, General William 'vic- Westmoreland promised tory in 1967'. In fact the US army was led deeper into the and unable morass was to inflict a military defeat on the enemy. With of an enormous array military force, the US tried to crush a revolution which had the peasants and its roots in workers fighting for their basic rights against imperialism and its local Despite the agents. most barbarous weapons and a weight of bombs many times than that dropped in greater World War II (3m tons by the end of 1970) it was the morale of the US forces which broke.

Drug-addiction, desertion and finally open disobedience to orders showed that the GIs had no stomach for a war which seemed to have no end - and no purpose. The main aim of a large part of the US army became survival.

OPPOSITION

In America waves of anti- war feeling spread from Spread masses ne campuses to the electorate. Never had there been so much opposition to a colonial war. The Tet offensive of 1968 showed that the National Lib- eration Front and the North Vietnamese had the army initiative and could strike at the enemy in his strongholds.

The wearing down of Ameri- can morale went on and war weariness spread. After the Tet offensive the Johnson Administration began to 'de-escalate' the war. The bombing of the North was dis- continued and in April 1968, talks began in Paris between representatives of the United States and the governments of the North and the South. Richard Nixon's promise to reduce American .commitment in Vietnam played a big part in his election to the presi- dency in November 1968. The first slow outcome was a reduction in the number of US troops in Vietnam and the policy of 'Vietnamization', whereby a larger and larger share of the fighting would be over by the army of taken South Vietnam equipped with American weapons. The puppet state of South Vietnam, with a corrupt gov- ernment dominated by a hand- ful of close-knit families from the traditional ruling class, was thus endowned with an enor- mous army. Peasant lads were 'élite' forces were conscripted, trained and given special privil- eges and officers were sent to the US to receive the latest in military wisdom from the war schools. At the same time, in an attempt to break the links between the North and the liberation forces in the South and to open up new fronts, military operations were car- ried into Cambodia and Laos in 1970 and 1971 with the large American support of proved forces. These to be another disastrous miscalcula- tion which did not achieve their purpose. They could only have been carried forward at the price of a further big com- mitment of US forces for an indefinite period. Neither the US army, now demoralized, nor increasingly public opinion were prepared to tolerate what was required to conquer and hold all of There remained Indo-China. 'Vietnamization' only the policy as US troops continued to be withdrawn.

SMASHED

The offensive from the . North, which began last month, employing heavy tanks artillery and a whole panopoly of modern equipment, opened the 'Third Indo-China War'.

The main brunt of General Giap's offensive falls on the army of the puppet govern- ment of Saigon with results which are apparent to all.

The hope that soldiers could be found to fight US imperial- ism's wars in the semi- colonial countries of Asia has been smashed. The courage determination of and the soldiers of the North Vietna- mese army and the National Liberation Front, their skilful daring leadership and and their support from the popula- tion has had to be grudgingly admitted by bourgeois military experts and journalists. As for the ced his bets, it which Nixon has placed has shown itself to be even more demoralized and lacking in fight than the GIs it has replaced. Officers in the high command who hold their posts by political influence have shown themselves not only to but have be incompetent, thought more about saving their own skins than winning battles. At the lower levels of com- mand, the South Vietnamese officers have proved unable to with those on the compare other side. As for the soldiers, apart from a few crack units, they obviously have no heart Many for the have war. answered the appeals of the NLF or the northern forces to come over to them. Thousands have fled in disorder. Nixon's answer to the mili- tary successes of the North Vietnamese army has been a bombing offensive a savage directed against towns and vil- lages of no military signifi- cance. Indiscriminate bombing has in the past completely failed to break the morale of the population or turn the tide of battle. It has once again proved to be terror weapon obeying everything the precept "kill that moves'. The Saigon regime, propped у May 6, 1872 PAGE 7 1950: French troops (left) round fighters. Vietcong liberation Above: up twenty years aken in by taken suspects are soldiers, yet the fight of the Vietnamese people breaks into a new offensive up by the United States, is faced with defeat and now revolution. Always a puppet, it is now more than ever clear that it has no independent initiative. 'Vietnamization' or not, the great decisions will have to be made in Washington where the Administration itself is clearly divided as it sees the policy of the last four years fall into ruin. US imperialism, threatened by the loss of the whole of South East Asia, will either have to seek an arrangement through the good offices of Moscow and Peking or launch a new and still more danger- ous adventure to save its threatened positions. Tomorrow's Socialist Labour and Young Socialist League May Day rally will have as one of its slogans: 'Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peas- ants'. This demand takes on significance, both in more South East Asia and through- out the world, than at any other time in the past. From 1961 to the end of 1970 US casualities in Indo China were 44,24, • Killed, 293,529 wounded and 1,431 missing or prisoners.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday May 6, 1972

LOOKING

BACK ON

TAFF

VALE

BY TOM KEMP

The Taff Vale judgement possible, but the question of whether the workers had any of 1901 was a powerful rights of combination at all— blow against the trade whether the trade unions were union movement which legal bodies- -was now raised. In addition, trade unions could changed drastically its be restrained by court injunc- legal position. regarded tion from activities as tortious; in other words, the the Lords When five Law full power of the law could be 22 in sitting on July an action mobilized the hamstring taken by the Taff Vale Rail- unions. Co. against two officials way Taff Vale In this case the of the Amalgamated Society Co. was able to sue the

ASRS

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(ASRS)

and £23,000 awarded was that 'a trade declared union damages. The total cost to the was liable to be sued in its was £42,000 union which, in registered name' employers all large 1901, was a very sum. over the country were jubilant.

The case went through three With these few words, stages in the courts. In the judiciary, on behalf of the em- first court the judgement went ployers, had struck a crippling in favour of the Taff Vale Rail- blow against trade unionism, way brought the the only defence of the work- action. In the Court of Appeal class against exploitation. Ing this decision was reversed, but The decision made it virtually the company took the It to impossible to carry out picket- House of Lords where the ing during a strike and enabled first judgement was upheld. employers sue a union for The Taff Vale case arose out damages inflicted during ASRS for of a struggle by _the trade dispute. increases wage against A trade union would think number in South rallways calling a Wales which were largely con- twice about strike transporting which might result in it being cerned with coal. heavy During the South saddled with damages African war and legal costs sufficient prices had soared. But the rail The ruin it financially. judge- to bosses retused wage grant ment was thus a class attack increases. by the judiciary on the rights Taff Vale's general manager, trade were of unions which Ammon Beasley, was believed the under hold out against excl zermined to Acts of 1867 and 1875. wage increases when effective only was other companies had granted

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Taff Vale Railway. Men's Headquarters. lovourn street. Cathaya. There has been a strike on the Talf Vale Railway Tn? Management are using every since Monday las; means to decoy men here who they employ for the purpose of black-legging che men on Drivers, Firemen, Guards, Brakesmen and SIGNALMEN, are all out. Are you willing to be known as a Blackleg ? If you accept employment on the Tall Vale. that is what you will be known by. On arriving at Cardiff, call at the can get information above address, where you and

RICHARD BELL,

General Secretary.

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boss intent on smashing the unions. And he was far from alone. During the 1890s a general offensive against the trade unions was mounted by the employers. Hostility • to the was increasingly re- unions flected in the press as well as in a number of legal decisions which prepared the way for the Taff Vale judgement. One of these, in 1898, made it an offence to call someone a 'blackleg': Another important development was the systema- tic recruitment of strike- breakers. The best known of : scab organizers was the self - styled National Free Labour Association set up by William Collinson. Beesley turned to this Association during the strike which broke out on the Taff Vale railway.

As the railwaymen became increasingly militant Beasley became still more adamant. A rank-and-file militant, signal- man Ewington of Abercynon, was victimized by the com- pany and Beasley refused to. ad negotiate with the union.

The treatment meted out to Ewington, who had 20 years' service with the company, coming on top of the still un- claim put the satisfied wage men in a militant frame of mind. Despite the fact that the ASRS officials were look- ing for some kind of com- promise, a strike had become inevitable. Notices were handed in and the strike began on August 19, 1900. Beasley refused to recog- nize the ASRS. He sent them a wire which read: 'I am pre- pared to see any reasonable number of the company's ser- vants and give full and care- ful consideration ... but I regret that I cannot receive unofficially any officially or not in the company's person service.' It was a bitterly fought dispute. Beasley called on the National Free Labour Associa- tion to supply blacklegs. They were recruited from as far away as Glasgow and Hull and were given free beer, food and their fares to Cardiff. Here the union mounted a campaign to persuade them to return home many of them and got no further than Cardiff. About 400 men were recruited in all of whom only about half were actually employed. Those that were headed off were given a square meal and a ticket home after the issues in the dispute had been ex- plained to them. Blacklegs who were taken on proved to

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Railwaymen. Abov which was paid to the Taff Va pickets be incapable and joined in to make their life difficult. One anti-scab device was heavy grease on the track at a steep incline so the loco- motive's wheels could no grip.

Trucks were uncoupled so that trains could not run. The frustration of his union- busting plans infuriated Beas- ley. Strikers who were living in company-owned cottages mercilessly evicted were although their rents had been paid. He consulted the firm's solicitors with view to a getting an injunction to restrain the union officials from 'watching and besetting' the company's premises. Their • advice was that action could not be taken against a trade union 'in its registered name'.

Beasley thought, however, that given the action of the men and some statements made by the union he would have grounds for an action. In fact the way had already been pre- pared by the 1896 and 1898 legal decisions already men- tioned. At the end of August a com- promise settlement was reached between the ASRS and the Taff Vale Co. and work was resumed on September 1. The did not its keep company undertaking to get rid of the labour brought in during the strike and legal proceedings continued. The result, as we have seen, was a defeat for the ASRS and for the whole trade union movement which followed the court proceedings anxiously from the start.

Although the class bias of the judges could not be proved, it obviously existed and re- flected a growing ruling-class hostility to trade unions which visible in the previous was decade. Now that the trade unions were growing stronger and were being extended to relative tolerance which existed after the legislation of the 1870s disappeared. The trade union movement carried on a struggle for the reversal of the legal position, which could only be done through an Act of Parliament.

But the working class also drew the lesson from the Taff Vale case that it needed a

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Founde Banner of the Southend branch of the Natlonal Union of men. Above: railwaymen's £23,000 cheque he Taff Vale Company for strike damages.

political party to defend its The direct result interests. was a big increase in support for the Labour Representation Committee which, in 1906, became the Labour Party. By the Trade Disputes ACt of 1906, passed by the newly- elected Liberal government which depended upon working- class votes, the previous legal position was restored. Many Liberal members had been re- turned subject to their sup- port for the reversal of the Taff Vale situation. The new Act contained a 'that a trade union clause should under no circumstances be capable of being sued in tort'. It also upheld the right picket 'for the purpose to either of peacefully obtaining or communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person'to work or abstain from working... • The interpretation of these rights, of course, still remained with the courts which pro- ceeded, in subsequent judge- ments, to whittle them down.

Then, in 1909, another court the Osborne judge- union could not collect or spend money for political pur- poses. This made financial sup- port for the Labour Party illegal. This decision was reversed by the Trade Union Act of • 1913 which expressly permit- • a union to use its funds for political objects. Walter V. Osborne: brought his own union (ASRS) to court to Illegalize political use of unlon funds.

International Telephone and Telegraph is one of the ten biggest American corporations. In America it runs phone services, car rental firms, hotels, "Who's Who' and even a wood -preserving com. pany in Alabama. Its tentacles spread prac- tically everywhere else as well -ITT subsidiaries, including Britain's Standard Telephones and Cables, operate in 80 the world. countries round Among other things it runs the Washington-Moscow 'hot line'. The scandals that erupted round the ITT top manage- ment, however, have ripped the respectable façade away which has long concealed its dirtier deals and given a revealing glimpse of the attitudes of top US big business. ITT's problems began with the publication by a Washing- columnist of ton a memo written by the firm's Washing- ton lobbyist. The letter sug- gested the firm had paid $400,000 to Republican funds in return for favourable settle- ment of an anti-trust case.

Once this came out, the mud began to fly thick and fast. The papers carried stories about how some ITT execu- tives had sold substantial blocks of shares just before the anti-trust settlement was announced. They were able to buy them back at a substantially reduced price pushed as the news down the price of ITT stock- leaving the executives with a handsome capital gain. Then there were other memos revealing a plot to oust Chilean President Sal- vador Allende at the end of 1970 because ITT (Chile) feared it would be nation- alized. (As a result of the revelations, it will be.)

The revelations have dis- played not only IT's shady, dealing, but its complete con- tempt for 'democratic' forms.

The company does just as it pleases, makes its own law, and expects the administration to dance attendance to it. (It does.) The man at the top of ITT is Harold Geneen, 62 years old, with a salary of $812,494 a yearwhich must make him the highest paid executive in the world, if not in the uni- verse. He runs his company like a monastic order. The managers of the various sections are expected to report with scrupulous honesty the state of their affairs. Yet Geneen is not quite so forthcoming with the public at large. His firm has been built up by a long string of mergers and take- overs, and that means he must try to keep his share prices as high as he can. Accordingly every con- ceivable company gain is counted towards profit in his accounts — a highly question- able accounting practice which Top: Harold Geneen, $812,494 a has led some commentators to 'success' speculate that ITT's may not be all it seems. so tar the system has proved spectacularly effective in building the conglomerate, however. Since 1964 the has absorbed no fewer pany than 98 other firms- -and that doesn't count the subsidiaries of its takeover victims. The scandals around ITT are a particular blow to the com- pany's huge public relations department, headed by Edward

NEW YORK

COPS HIT

THE

BIG TIME

Twenty-four of New York's finest lawmen have been indicted on of operating a charges protection ring that col lected at least $lm from Brooklyn gamblers. This is big stuff, even for New York force, the police which is reputed to contain of not one straight cop. Une the policemen under investiga- case committed •Ill while the investigation succe was under way. District - Attorney Eugene Gold said the 24 policemen present or former plainclothes- men in the 13th Division, had Gerrity, right-hand $90m a year The PR links government. heading the section is Pulitzer close to Intelligence a four-vear OVel gamblers. The held monthly meetings regular agenda. sulted from cover About gamblers and P. William asked Hueston, notel was suicide, gation, acts as Geneen's man and has over ear to spend beauti- ITT image. department also the closely For example, Latin American Harold Hendrix, His Agency. ovided much of the for the plot to over- thly meetings with a and an id the indictment re- investigation licemen assigned to made the payoffs confiscation crime. death described an say is he was one jects of our investi- IcCarthy replied. Gold said that each named in the indict. aged about $10,000 while superiors got , $20,000. Workers Press, Saturday May 6,

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Reliable soldiers Socialist gospel members of the Dr J. D. Vorster, moderator When two Parachute Regiment appeared of the the general synod of in an Ulster Dutch Reformed Church, has court last week you might have been excused given a new twist to the old of for thinking it was Sacco and the Judeo-Bolshevik story Vanzetti fighting for life and world conspiracy. limb against the brutal forces Vorster's version, unveiled of oppression! recently in Bloemfontein, South Pringle, QC, for centres on the World Mr John Africa, the two privates in the notori- Council of Churches. He claims ous regiment said both soldiers it is the most powerful 'leftist' 'exceptionally keen and organization in the world.

were had something to offer above He told a meeting there last what was expected of the nor- weekend that the large-scale mal recruit to the army'.

withdrawal of American troops This was certainly true. On from Vietnam was, to a large January 18 last Privates from extent, due to pressure Michael Wainhouse and Costas the Geneva-based body, which Georgiou burst he said had become of into .a post part office at Clandebove and the ideological battle in which asked: 'Where are the keys of liberalism was the henchman They of communism. the safe?' then asked where the telephone was and 'The World Council of Churches has accepted the pulled it from the wall. They forced the occupants ideology of revolution and the to lie on the floor and threat- overthrow the existing ened to tie up the postmaster. order,' he said. There were still Speaking on behalf of Wain- and positive aspects strong Lieutenant Nicholas Christian principles in the house, Council, but it had become a Galbraith said he was a good, soldier'. He said front organization for commun- reliable Georgiou had passed out as a ism. champion recruit in his As an example of how the year and was an extremely plucky council had degenerated, Vorster said a Jewish rabbi, a and useful soldier. Pringle said it was 'a sad Hindu, a Moslem and a Chris- tian appeared together during affair': 'Both regret the offence for an international prayer meet- themselves and their regiment ing. in particular' he said. Outside the Court Wainhouse's fiancée broke down in tears and was comforted by friends. They each got five years for armed robbery. The honour of the regiment was besmirched, but the glori- 'victory' Bloody Sun- vus on day when the paras shot 13 innocent unarmed civilians would that, the ensure regi- ment's colours keep flying!

Cut and thrust This note in the 'Financial Times' the other day gives an indication of just how the big boys the and operate cut thrust of business: 'Rio Tinto Zinc is selling off Dr. J. D. Vorster its loss-making lead and Dr Vorster added that when zinc smelter at Avonmouth, near the Dutch Reformed Church Bristol, and its interests in left the World Council of three metal-trading companies Churches several years ago for about fllm to its associate many Afrikaners objected. This Australian Mining company, no longer was the he case, and Smelting, in which it has Its so-called said. 'social a 57 per cent interest.' gospel' had become 'socialistic No doubt the Australian gospel'. shareholders will be delighted Readers tempted to dismiss hear the that these lunatic ravings to news they will not loss-making have bought the be astonished to learn that Dr Vorster's brother is Balthazar recently Avonmouth smelter closed down because of lead- Johannes Vorster, Prime Min- poisoning fears. ister of South Africa.

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Name Address Neata Prents Workers on duty outside the Hattersley, Newman and Hender valve plant in Ormskirk, Lancashire

FROM PHILIP WADE IN THE NORTH-WEST

THE

FIGHT

the tion of the firm is being based on hones pay claim has bonus behind neighbour- -that the engineers' ing Liverpool scheme district, subsidized the to Ormskirk was rejected prepared for a long under the SoredtI

DOCION

ernmert the by fight. Family Incomes Lancashire where the men. Supple- factory main They pointed the They ment. are picketing been strike shut fact that production hac seven days a week profits action for the first 1970 and that the t3.60 and

LICI

in 50 years. declared official the the whole The It's workers at earned St Helens dis- made £44m. the hrst the factory of Hat- ValVe bonus trict committee. 10101e one orke Terses should shut for half a century

SCICH

COir "The Hender struck on May Malay lC solidated into basic pay. and we've got just Day for their f5 demand being backed the this one, Demands for a shorter employers he

WIL

basic rates working week and federation action followed Plans are now being inel of sticking laid contact

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involving even listened to by man- policy on wages, senior Yorkshire-based Guy told gement officials who Harry Hattersley group, endovers described the claims stewards and the especially those Amalgamated Union 'unrealistic. 'Some of the Trowbridge, Wiltshire, wages Engineering Workers. The men, who say the who are also claiming a 10W Management's wages the the foundrymen are on substantial wage rates and the introduc- 40-hour week plant £3 to £4 £15 for a

HUGE

This was. the firm unemployment that con- Carlt trumpeting its in tinues to steamroller its way

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

Into the area tention to award the people 2,00(

IN GLASGOW

through the Scottish economy, Instead the labour force crushing hope any consistently run employment now stands at 9.1 business recovery. rumours of closure consistently per cent. denied. The latest communities Burroughs blame the cut-backs Then- -just before the annual suffer are Cumbernauld, east on the US recession. They point summer holidays last -the of Glasgow, and the hard hit in the company's home- Michigan, 7,000 whole WOrK lorce got ine chop Vale of Leven, Dunbartonshire.

land, redun- the plant closed last and dancies have been declared Once again the is being September. swung from America- -Burroughs

ICCCILLY

Statistics show Burroughs slashing their ine Scottish labour alc the change in the nature to be travelling the same seems by machines business road. The firm took choice place market 670 in the Vale and 290 in the on the Vale Leven industrial use of electronic. new town. 1949. peak in the company's equipment. This will mean a leap in male Burroughs, in fact, are to employment was reacted laun unemplovment bv one-third.

late 1960s and early 1970s—after Cramling factory in on a new when decimalization the decline began.

ton, and government aid, to produce went in waus total will he Vat of Leven the 100 last printed circuits for most : year. growing list of Scottish towns of modern business machines Another 15-per-cent male un- "This process more auto- sackings is that they usually take employment rate. mated and just don't midst of a wages we place jobs,' men who ose their battle jobs the prospect nrm's spokesman put it brutaly.

the were year

BLAST

grim, are time-served The Burroughs workers, how- actually on strike when the one Burroughs this capitalist engineers and, as ever, cannot accept announced redundancies were they 'When wil fahi worker put it to me. Sney they and WeLC hits the buroo • here, sackings. about to work-to-rule the Tor stays on it? banning of overtime engineering industry national pay This steward from is exaggeration course, one shop when Sackin

WOLE

The Vale has just experienced the Vale plant told me. And we suddenly announced. run-down of Plessey have stated we will fight the But will have to All pleas for a reprieve and electrical engineering plant- -out closure. we been firmly 70 see which way the labour force negotiations have workers mere company. Now are still employed on the old relected. une After Burroughs the executives Monday to pet unions are hoping to meet site. Plessey split us will keep biggest by saving the factory Was une employer. And Cumbernauld, once open. But we think have We Their case of the got a closure on our hands.' *They killed two birds with one onest. said one worker I talked of Scotland, men and stone e The Burroughs have just over women are right to be wary. "the firm been lost year-cancelling out a 1,750 jobs memory of the Plessey closure wages fight and is trying to get 1969. Male is still vivid in the Vale.

rid of the men it wanted.

growth

MRS GOLDA MEIR's visit to Bucharest is not likely to produce any instant results in bringing nearer a settle- ment of the Israeli-Arab con- Aict in the Middle East. For Rumanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu, the invitation to the Israeli Prime Minister provided a basis for strengthening his diplomatic position by acting as an intermediary in the Middle East dispute. Rumania was the only Warsaw Pact country break not to diplomatic relations with Israel at the time of the June 1967 war.

In August 1969 relations with Israel developed to the point Sadat where embassies were opened in Bucharest and Jerusalem. In May Rumania 1970, however, con- incursions demned the Israeli into the Lebanon. This position appears to be in line with the United Nations Security Council resolution that Israeli forces should be with- drawn from the occupied territories. Obviously no settlement can be reached unless the Arab states are willing to negotiate with Israel. President Sadat of Egypt is expected to follow Mrs Meir to Bucharest in the near future, so is the Palestinian leader Yassir In these discussions Arafat. Ceausescu can only offer to play the role of honest broker.

In line with this, Moscow will no doubt be informed of the discussions with Mrs Meir and will make use of the information during the summit meeting with Président Nixon at the end of this month. Exactly what form the resist- ance to the sackings will take is yet clear. The not men are already refusing to shift finished machines out of the plant.

Any campaign of protest-even if it does involve a lengthy sit- in—is however inadequate in the present circumstances. The avalanche of redundancies unabated in Scotland continues and the other depressed areas of England. Despite the so-called UCS victory, and despite other deter- mined resistance movements against the dole, unemployment has increased by 50,000 since the UCS work-in began. Burroughs, Honeywell, National Cash Register-all the US com- panies who have a big stake in the drastically economy - are reducing their level of activity because of afall in world demand. The only adequate answer to these mass attacks is a political one. DAVID BONAVIA, 'The Times' correspondent in Moscow, was yesterday ordered to leave the Union for 'systematic Soviet activity incompatible with the status of a foreign correspondent.

He is the first such correspon- dent to be expelled for more than a year. His expulsion follows a violent attack in the last four issues of the magazine 'Liter- aturnaya Gazeta'. The paper said it had received a number of Bonavia's letters asking for expulsion. He has written a number of stories about the persecution of intellectuals dissident and Jewish would-be emigrants. Tass said he had been 'stripped of his accreditation status and ordered to leave the USSR'.

CORRESPONDENTS

Pachman is one of hundreds of were who have been excluded from a Prague court oppositionists held in Czech prisons during the for Thursday's trial of world- two Huby ears. They include famous Czech chess champion Milan former Czecho- and journalist Ludek Pach- slovak Communist Party Central Committee member, well as man. other Party members prominent including Jiri Lederer, Adolf He is accused of incitement Kaspar and tigernment propaganda Dorn, Jan and Taroslav Sabata. following support Former Young Communist liberal line of Dubcek expressed League leaders Jiri Muller in interviews with Dutch radio and and newspapers. Ladislav Miravec are also held in 10.15 Sesame Street. 11.15 World of Sport: Wembley Preview: 12.00

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The Warrior Pharaohs.

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Ethiopia. 9.05 GLEN CAMPBELL. With 11.15 News Summary, Weather. Pan's People.

11.20 UP SUNDAY.

Workers Press, the notorious Ruzyn prison.

Pachman went on hunger strike in 1970 after his arrest and recently undertook another hunger strike which lasted for several weeks. On leaving the courtroom he appeared to be drawn, thin and stooping.

He faces a five-year prison term on the present charges.

The demand should be made for the immediate liberation of Pachman and the hundreds of other political prisoners whose only crime is that they opposed the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968.

REGIONAL TV

All reglons as BBC 1 except: Wales: 6.15 Top of the Form.

6.35 Disc a Dawn. 12.07 Weather. Scotland: 10.45 Scottish Grand- stand. 10.30 Sportsreel. 12.07 News, weather. Northern Ireland: 5.45 Sports Results, News Summary: 12.07 News, weather. England: 12.07 Regional weather.

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12.30 Weather. Voyage of Dis- covery. HTV: 9.50 Tennis. 10.15 London.

9.00 Film: 'Columbo'. 10.20 If It Moves . .. 10.30 London. 11.25 The Prisoner. 12.20 Weather.

ANGLIA: 10.45 Yesterdays. 11.15 London. 5.10 Flintstones. 5.40 London. 5.45 Sale of the century.

6.15 London. 8.00 London. 9.00 Ken Dodd. 9.30 Jason King. 10.30 London. 12.25 Film: "The Skull'. Re 12.58 Epilogue. scope. 11.15 London. 5.10 Sale of the Century: 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'Savage Guns' • 10.30 Lon- don. 11.25 Dick Van Dyke. 11.55 Who Knows? YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Yesterdays.

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10.30 London. 11.25 Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Weather.

REGIONAL TV

All regions as BBC 1 except: Wales: 3.30 Spy Trap. 4.20 Rugby Union. 6.50 Dechrau Canu, Dechrau Canmol. 11.57 News.

Scotland: 1.25 Farm Forum. 6.15 Christianity Grounded. 6.45 Glory in Creation. 11.57 News, weather. Northern Ireland: 1.15 Farming.

11.57 News, weather. England: 11.57 Regional weather.

SOUTHERN: 11.00 London. 12.00 Weather. 12.05 Music. 12.30 Something to sing. 12.55 Farm progress. 1.25 1.30 Cartoon. Stingray. 2.00 Cup highlights.

3.00 Film: "Sahara'. 4.35 News.

4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'Brain- storm'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Something to say. 12.15 Weather. Voyage of dis- covery. HTV: 11.00 Service. 12.05 Music.

12.30 Something to sing about.

12.55 Farmhouse kitchen. 1.45 London. 3.15 Film: 'These Wilder Years'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'Return of the Seven'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Avengers. 12.15 Weather. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Wales as above except: 12.05 Dan Sylw. 12.40 O'r Wasg. 12.55 Llusern.

ANGLIA:

11.00 London. 12.05 Music. 12.30 Sing About. 12.55 Cooking. 1.20 Challenge. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farming. 2.25 UFO. 3.20 Dick Van Dyke. 3.45 Football. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'Betrayed'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Saint. 12.15 Epilogue. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 London.

12.05 Music. 12.30 Sing about.

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FRENCH

Finance Minister Giscard d'Estaing met Alexei Kosygin in Moscow on Thurs- day during a 36-hour visit to discuss carrying out the eco- nomic and technical agreement between France and the Soviet Union made last October. The agreement provides for French firms to undertake the construction, modernization and of factories in the extension Soviet Union. The French gov- ernment is concerned because Soviet exports to France have increased rapidly than more exports to the Soviet Union.

A big contract has just been signed for the supply of equip- ment for Soviet oil refineries which should give French exports a boost. SANDIE SHAW makes one of her rare TV appearances on BBC 1 favourite tonightin a special show from singing songs the Octagon Theatre, Bolton, at 11.30 p.m. TYNE TEES: 10.45 All our yester- days. 11.15 London. 5.10 Primus.

5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'Columbo, Murder by the Book'. 10.25 If it moves. 10.30 News. 10.40 Scien- tists. 11.25 Strange report. 12.20 Battle hymn. SCOTTISH: 11.20 Beagan Gaidh- Clapperboard. 12.00 lig. 11.35 Film (Part One) 'The Slege at Red River. 12.55 News. 1.05 Film (Part Two). 1.35 Scotsport Special. 5.10 Roadrunner. 5.40 American 9.00 Love London. style. 9.45 Scotsport. 10.30 News.

10.40 Late call. 10.45 Seaway.

GRAMPIAN: 12.30 Batman. 12.55 News. 1.00 Australian pools ser- vice. 1.05 International athletics.

1.20 Professional wrestling. 2.15 Film: 'The Leopard'. 5.05 Cup results. 5.10 His and hers. 5.40 9.00 Film: 'Murder by London. the Book. 10.20 If it moves.

10.30 London. 11.25 Strange report. 12.55 Kitchen. 1.40 Horoscope.

1.45 Yesterdays. _2.15 Soccer. 3.15 The secret. 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Forest rangers. 6.05 London. - 7.55 Film: "Wild and Willing'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spyforce. YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 Service. 12.05 Music. 12.30 Camping. 1.00 Farmhouse chen. 1.25 Camping outlook. 1.50 Calendar. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Film: 'Dangerous Voyage'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film 'To Hell and Back'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Aquarius. 12.15 Weather. TYNE TEES: 10.20 Farming out- look. 10.45 Talking hands. 11.00 12.05 Music in the Camping round. and caravanning. 12.55 Farmhouse outlook. kitchen. 1.25 Farming 1.50 Out of town. 2.10 Where the jobs are. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'The Mouse That Roared'.

4.45 London. 7.55 Film: "To Hell and Back'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Acquarius. 12.15 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 12.05 Music in the round. 12.30 Something to sing about. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen.

1.25 Yesterdays. 1.55 Scientists.

2.40 Zingalong. 3.00 Film: Kld for Two Farthings'. 4.45 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'Roman Holiday'.

10.00 London. 11.15 Late call.

11.20 Randall and Hopkirk.

GRAMPIAN: 12.05 Music. 12.30 Something to sing about. 12.55 Farmhouse kitchen. 1.25 Yester- days. 1.55 Farm progress. 2.25 Randall and Hopkirk. 3.20 Film: 'The Huggetts Abroad'. 4.45 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'Seven in Dark- Londol 9.30 Odd couple. 10.00 ness'. 1. 11.15 Yoga. 11.40 Job look.

JOBS THREAT AS TUBEMEN PREPARE

PAGE 12 Workors Pross, Saturday May I SIXTY - SEVEN - year - old leader of the Greek Com- Party's interior munist faction', Demetrios Partsal- ides, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment nine times on charges arising from the civil war 25 years ago.

• Partsalides heads the faction in the Greek CP which criticized the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

The composer Mikis Theo- dorakis recently resigned from this group. At his trial, staged at Karditsa in central Greece, Partsalides was charged with being the moral in- stigator of the murder of seven Greeks during the civil war from 1947 to 1948 and with having attempted to annexe parts of to Bulgaria, Yugoslavia Greece and Albania. not guilty to the He pleaded charges. The indictment said that Partsalides—-a minister in a Com- munist Party government formed in the mountains of northern Greece during the civil war-had ordered the murders but others carried them out. Partsalides was arrested with 16 others in Athens last October and charged with plotting to overthrow the colonels' dictator- ship. He is expected to be tried an Athens this charge by court in a few weeks' time.

MISS

Bernadette Devlin, mid- Ulster's independent MP, wants charges manslaughter brought against five soldiers mentioned in the Widgery Report on Bloody Sunday in Derry when 13 civilians were killed. She will ask William Whitelaw, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, to name and charge soldiers E, F, G, and H with man- These the slaughter. were soldiers who Widgery said had fired recklessly at people • in Glenfadda Park, Derry, on January 30. See What We Think

LATE NEWS

Osram workers want strike TWO HUNDRED GEC Osram workers locked out for three from their Erith, Kent, weeks factory, have passed a resolution calling on the AUEW to launch a nationwide strike throughout the Weinstock empire. AUEW convenor Len Foley said that the abandonment of the national pay claim in favour of plant-by-plant struggles was recipe for defeat. It could only be overcome by a strike through- out the combine. a newspaper at the Post Registered as Workers Press. Office. Published by Street, London, 186g• Clapham " High

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rdary: May 6, 1972 A JOBS warning went out to London's tube workers yesterday on the eve of their work-to-rule in support of a wage claim.

A circular issued to all under- ground staff said that the indus- action, due to begin on trial Monday, would cause 'good staff to leave the underground per- haps for ever. This is being interpreted as a redundancy threat by under- ground workers. The author of the circular is Mr W. W. Max-

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

GOVERNMENT and continued in deadloc RE Liverpool stewards entering yesterday's London. BACKING for a national docks strike came yesterday from shop stewards leaders from every major port in Britain.

A three-hour meeting of the stewards' national port shop committee in London endorsed the decision of the dock delegate conference to call national a stoppage over the container row next month. The dockers said they had no Late yesterday afternoon a spokesman for British Rail said they would consider the latest offer from Greene. 'We certainly have not rejected it, he said.

added there would be a He reaction later in the day.

well, London Transport Board's chief operations manager, rail- An LTB spokesman challenged this interpretation yesterday. He said that staff in the past had left the industry because "did not like the atmosphere. He added no detailed information on this was available. and unions drifted towa adlock. esterday's meeting at the Conway Hall, intention of lifting their black on haulage firms-for which the union have been fined £55,000 until they are allowed to stuff and strip all containers.

They warned that the black be extended if port em- would ployers and haulage firms con- tinued to use unregistered dock labour. It would also be con- as the serious tinued so long redundancy crisis on the docks continued. The meeting also condemned the TUC decision to recommend that the T&GWU pay the fine imposed by the National Indus- trial Relations Court. The actions of the right wing and TUC general secretary Victor Feather were described as leading to the 'destruction' of trade unions.

• See page 3—Merseyside black operated. • From Page 1 majority of trade unionists - must press on with their demand.

They must not passively accept this sleight of hand by Feather.

Their majority position com- pels them to recall conference— regardless of whether Feather is in favour. Jones. and Scanlon should call a conference to fight the Act and the Tory government and invite trade unionists from all unions who want to join this struggle. The circular also claimed that the rules for tube operations are clear and simple' and that them should not sticking to cause delay. This caused hilarity some among tube workers. One pointed out that the current rule book had 15 appendices and five books of amendments. towards a new show- Tory ministers met yester- day afternoon to consider what emergency powers they might take if there was another outbreak of indus- trial action. The three rail unions deferred discussion on what next steps to take after the refusal to im- government's prove on the Jarratt arbitration award. Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan warned

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on radio that the situation was 'very serious indeed'. He was echoing rail Richard Marsh who chief • said after the failure of Thursday night's talks that the unions had 'decided to take on the state'.

The deadlock was unbroken yesterday despite an offer from railwaymen's leader Sidney Sir Greene to meet the board 'half way'. He said he would accept the Jarratt award of 12} per cent minimum wage, £20 with provided it was paid from mid- May. Officially the umions still want it from May l and the British Rail insists it should date from June 5. • Despite these further con- cessions, however, it was clear that the government would not budge. Macmillan said that it would not be possible to get an exten- 'the 14-day cooling off sion of period, due to end at midnight on Monday, unless there was a good chance of this leading to a settlement. 'At the moment I am bound to say there doesn't seem to be a very good chance,' he added.

On the other possibility of a ballot, Macmillan compulsory said this course of action would only be taken if industrial action was taking place or threatened.

Greene said he did not know whether his union would accept a ballot, but added that in normal practice ballots were not used.

The Rail Board is at present preparing the names of employees ballot National for any Industrial Relations Court may order. Greene put his new offer to a joint meeting of the rail unions which lasted for 30 minutes. They decided to break up and meet again at 3 p.m. on Monday-only nine hours before the expiry of the cooling off period. They are understood to be waiting to see the outcome of the talks on the tube dispute.

These preparations are urgently meet the Tory necessaryto offensive which is now well under way. The Tories are sparring for a showdown with the unions: this can be seen in the arrogance with which they are treating the railwaymen and the dockers. The recalled conference must not only affirm total opposition to the Act, but Begin immediate preparation to create the political and industrial conditions under which the Tory government can be forced out of office. Last-minute talks between representatives of 18,000 under- ground workers and management ended after four hours yesterday.

Don Pullen, assistant general secretary of the drivers' union said: "Both sides know

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the difficulties we are in and both sides know we are trying to avoid the chaos on Monday. We cannot come to any agreement with them until agreement is reached with British Rail?

WORKERS who produce Britain's military aircraft voted yesterday to end a 12-week strike and accept the latest management offer. meeting in At a mass Preston, 3,500 British Air- craft Corporation employees voted for a £20 minimum cost of living wage and a increase ranging from 11.3 to 24 per cent. But with the increases come a number of productivity con- cessions by the men. One will allow management to the clock' time jobs 'against individual operator where an agrees to this. In the past, shop stewards embargoed this practice.

In addition the payments system by which workers' earn- ings in the three plants rose automatically with the factory average is to be abandoned in favour of a 12-month freeze.

In future the factory average system will merely be retained as in wage the criteria one negotiations. This new ruling does not apply under mutually- to workers agreed incentive schemes, or tool- room workers who come under a separate national agreement.

Preston plant convenor David Creighton-Smith told yesterday's mass meeting: "The BAC workers have won not only a just settle- ment, but have ensured • a fair deal for the future.' Bob Crook, Preston district the Amalgamated secretary of Union of Engineering Workers, said that the £20 minimum was part of the engineering industry wage claim. The BAC workers, however, had not won any con- cessions over shorter hours or longer holidays. The strike—which was one of the most bitter in the company's history-led to widespread sym- pathy action by workers North Lancashire and several huge demonstrations. The original demand was for a £20 minimum and a 12-per-cent cost-of-living increase with no strings.

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