Workers Press no. 760

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SWEEPING VICTORIES BY LIBERATION FORCES

NIXON PLANNING

VIETNAM GENOCIDE

West London pupils on the march yester OVER 1,000 schoolchildren BY marched round West London schools yesterday calling out support for a one-day strike obs today. At Quintin Kynaston boy's school, near Maida Vale, police detained two demonstration leaders, one from the compre- hensive school where the protest started last Thursday. The two were Steve Finch (18), from Rutherford, and Steve Wilson of the Schools Action Union. They were taken away in a police van. Finch was later charged with INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 9, 1972 • No. 760 •4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE happen. We are prepared to use our THE SWEEPING victories of

BY OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

military and naval strength against the Vietnamese liberation forces military throughout North targets

JOHN SPENCER

and the collapse of Saigon's Vietnam and we believe that the North Vietnamese are taking a very great risk puppet forces have brought the if they continue their offensive in the western Europe to take part in the Vietnam war to its most crucial National Security Council South. crucial and dangerous stage. I will just leave it there and thev meeting. Yesterday President Nixon can make their own choice,' he said Rather than acknowledge defeat, the Since Nixon made this ominous threat and his policy advisers American leader is preparing to unleash were the South Vietnamese deadly nave destructive closeted together in Washington even suffered further defeats and the Thieu attacks against the people of Vietnam.

planning desperate new regime is on the edge of collapse.

mea- Nixon flew Last week, to Texas to Now, as the liberation forces close sures to beat back the victorious tell businessmen that like Lyndon in around Saigon's demoralized and Johnson, his predecessor, he would not revolutionary armies. battered battalions in Hue and Kontum, 'yield respect for the office of the pre- William Rogers, Nixon's Foreign Nixon is about to translate his bluster sidency' by allowing a 'communist take.

Secretary, rushed back to Washington over' in Vietnam. into the language of bombs and shells.

Nixon and his advisers will muster overnight, breaking his of He said: I am not going to let that

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every ounce of malign, ingenuity and viciousness to try and rob the Vietna- mese of victory in the South. They are desperate men, driven by the insoluble crisis of their profit system to extremes counter-revolutionary violence.

Already Nixon has raised American air power to its highest ever level, send- ing giant B52 bombers to attack Hai- phong and Hanoi. There were reports from Washington yesterday that Hanoi had again been bombed. Nixon of 5,000 also has a force Marines standing by on his armada in the Gulf of Tonkin. There was specula- tion in Washington yesterday that these oops Vietnam ten harbours, Vietnam wreck harbours, depots and anti-aircraft installations.

Other desperate moves under consid eration by the National Security Coun- cil included breaching the dikes of the Red River the System Delta, flooding huge tracts of North Vietnam and drowning thousands of men, women and children. It seems clear that Nixon is even Moscow later this month in order to hit back at the Vietnamese workers and peasants. The world labour movement must be on its guard against these genocida The victory of the Vietnamese revolution is the direct concern of every worker struggling against capitalism in Britain and throughout the world.

€247.90 - A GREAT COLLECTION

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

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workers press

SWEEPING VICTORIES BY LIBERATION FORCES

NIXON PLANNING

VIETNAM GENOCIDE

West London pupils on the march yester OVER 1,000 schoolchildren BY marched round West London schools yesterday calling out support for a one-day strike today. At Quintin Kynaston boy's school, near Maida Vale, police detained two demonstration leaders, one from the compre- hensive school where the protest started last Thursday. The two were Steve Finch (18), from Rutherford, and Steve Wilson of the Schools Action Union. They were taken away in a police van. Finch was later charged with teac INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 9, 1972 • No. 760 •4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE happen. We are prepared to use our THE SWEEPING victories of

BY OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

military and naval strength the Vietnamese liberation forces military throughout North targets

JOHN SPENCER

and the collapse of Saigon's Vietnam and we believe that the North Vietnamese are taking a very great risk puppet forces have brought the if they continue their offensive in the western Europe to take part in the Vietnam war to its most crucial National Security Council South. crucial and dangerous stage. will just leave it there and the meeting. Yesterday President Nixon can make their own choice.' he said Rather than acknowledge defeat, the Since Nixon made this ominous threat and his policy advisers American leader is preparing to unleash were the South Vietnamest armies have deadly destructive even more closeted together in Washington suffered further defeats and the Thieu attacks against the people of Vietnam.

planning desperate regime is on the edge of collapse.

new mea- Last week, Nixon flew to Texas to Now, as the liberation forces close sures to beat back the victorious tell businessmen that like Lyndon in around Saigon's demoralized and Johnson, his predecessor, he would not revolutionary armies. battered battalions in Hue and Kontum, 'yield respect for the office of the pre- William Rogers, Nixon's Foreign Nixon is about to translate his bluster sidency' by allowing a 'communist take.

Secretary, rushed back to Washington the language of bombs and shells.

over' in Vietnam. Nixon. and his advisers will muster He said: overnight, breaking his of 'I am not going to let that

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every ounce of malign, ingenuity and viciousness to try and rob the Vietna- mese of victory in the South. They are desperate men. driven bv the insoluble crisis of their profit system to extremes ot counter-revolutionary.

violence. Already Nixon has raised American air power to its highest ever level, send- ing giant B52 bombers to attack Hai- phong and Hanoi. There were reports from Washington yesterday that Hanoi had again been bombed Nixon also has a force of 5,000 Marines standing by on his armada in the Gulf of Tonkin. There was specula- tion in Washington yesterday that these troops might be landed on the coast of North Vietnam wreck harbours, depots and anti-aircraft installations.

Other desperate moves under consid- eration by the National securitv Coun cil included breaching the dikes of the system in River Delta, flooding huge tracts of North Vietnam drowning and thousands of men, women and children It seems clear Nixon is even prepared to sacrince his projected visit to Moscow later this month in order to hit back at the Vietnamese workers and peasants. The world labour movement must be guard against genocidal on Its these The victory of the Vietnamese revolution is the direct concern of every worker struggling against capitalism in Britain and throughout the world.

£247.90 - A GREAT COLLECTION

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

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AT OUR MAY DAY RALLY

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PAGE 2 Worker& Press, Tuesday May 9, 1972 NEARLY 300 Spanish teachers after failing €1,500 Russell was not available at to pay a the have drafted a protest letter to ıme !ı weeken Oreceve the British Ambassador against allegedly an illegal because he was protest letter altenaing in Jerez for the annual spring the sacking by the British teachers meeting. Council of a teacher currently Mrs Crist, who was born in festa. trial for imprisoned without Treland, has taught at the British Institute School for 13 alleged political ofiences.

Mrs Crist's colleagues have The Mrs Pamela Her dismissal by the decided to await the outcome years. icacuel, of British Council implicates this between the was dismissed trom the Institute British School semi-official body the director of the British Insti- fascist state-controlled franco ano the

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cause'. She is a prisoner in the repression of militants. Sindicatos (fascist unions) be- British Ambassador Sir John notorious Carabanchel jail fore presenting the protest.

AROUND THE WORLD

Greek premier Papadopoulos kisses Archbishop Makarios' hand.

But the balance of forces indicate it may be Makarios who will soon be doing the kissing.

The Greek Maka- been forced to leave the

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ne nanged over to tae colones rios, the Cyprus Cabinet. United Nations and that want servile right- Other Makarios which will sident, is reported to Cabinet mini- wing regime 140 YY the une verse or acceol- siels are expecLeu caDinel W nICI would sules huc bell ing the Greek colonels' follow Kyprianou's ex- recognize of Cypriot the autnoritv Gence The demands for a Cabinet of the Greek regime in working class formulating policy. Makarios' reorganization to form a way its move udys Makarios has already the complete 'government of national tor Makarios Lo abe.

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Greek unity. ment the political U Tl- handedi over the. arms norowness His Foreign Minister, originally and the forced resig- the Stalinist syprus arty AKEL, which ha sented on of Spyros Kyprianou, February nation ‹yprianou that that seneddl weekend cemanlucu malcales civel lull SUDDUlL 'for health reasons', but arms imported from second i his section ot the the Archbishop made it clear at Czechoslovakia for the Greek note is about to phoney 'opposition' to Cyprus National Guard be applied. the colonels. GOVERNMENT and oppo- has Much statement been drafted in attitude of the Kremin. if Mos- hangs Bonn overcome Christian: sition leaders met in an cull lo Democranc oveciions to sranote CoW Is preparea to accept for their fourth yesterday treaties-his 'Ostpolitik' amounts a revision of the eastern round of talks in the political likely that he opposition argues that the treaties, seems West German will be able erisis in the win Meale iznte nn anlu DIanat Warsaw nearly two years ago temporary respite from the Bundestag. will seal the parliamentary crisis. ^ l .Ai Christian-Democrat leader At present he lacks the neces- Social - Democratic | chancellor laliy. Willy Brandt was again seking Rainer Barzel is unac oressulc dry dusurule mrla olily uccucu lo treaties in the opposition agreement to a joint from his own right wing to hold ratify Bun- The out against the pacts. destag. policy statement.

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the Terorism ane four people student. • detained iNctobeey security. investigation since last October, accused ünder swoop, last Mrs the Attorney-General may not Desai (51); Indhrasen Amina have been position to draw Suppression of Communism Acts was set for June Yussut Has. o in tne tre"

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uv an locc menl. (21). Supreme Court yesterday, san Essock toria 'I feel that should a postpone- protests from defence They appeared briefly before ment counse that n• •Cune l ucccosal v all dovilca yet been drawn up. cretona macstrates vestereay TOn Colld made tine The are: Mohammed hear the magistrate rule that Supreme Court,' the magistrate although the case had been under Essop (22), Indian medical said WORKERS from Burroughs Machines in Scotland met with American executives yesterday to argue over yet another massive redundancy. This time the US com- 1,000 jobs at their factories in pany want to axe Strathleven and Cumbernauld. For both communities it will mean a male unemployment rate of 15 per cent when the sackings begin at the end of this week.

The redundancies, which are a disaster for the two towns, have not given rise to any dramatic protests. One could even say that the workers are despondent-and it's not difficult to see why.

Since unemployment in Scotland was highlighted in July 1971 when the UCS workers began their work- in a further 17,000 men and women have gone onto the dole queues. In other words, all the protests and pleading, the sit-ins and work-ins, have completely failed to stem the relentless increase in the number of jobless. A similar pattern has been repeated in all Britain's depressed areas.

The Burroughs men-witnessing this failure to defend the right to work—must ask, 'what can we do then to save our jobs? The answer can be found on the Clydeside.

Here reformist trade union leaders and Stalinists of the Communist Party got together to confound and divert a massive movement against the Tories and their unemployment policy.

Their main aim was to keep politics out at all costs, and make sure the avenues of retreat were kept open in preparation for a later compromise with the Tories. This was why they appealed against political.

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slogans the huge demonstrations which on mobilized all the workers in the West of Scotland.

This was the great climax of resistance. The main slogan of the two biggest protests was 'Heath out'.

This showed that UCS was not just about UCS—it was undoubtedly a focus of resistance against the government around which the working class, particu- larly in Scotland, was prepared to mobilize.

From this moment the Stalinist shop stewards and the local and national officials did all in their power to confine the battle to the shipyards and get workers to accept the possibility of a Tory com- promise. Meanwhile, as we see, redundancies at the yards and factories outside continued to soar.

This is what Stalinists like James Reid call victory. The whole Tory cabinet will probably join in Reid's celebrations. They want to sack workers and make men who remain in employment work harder.

That's what they have at the yards and that is what they want at. Burroughs, Rolls-Royce and all the big Scottish combines. Workers in Scotland now face the battle of their lives. They must reflect carefully on the failure of the Stalinist policies of the Communist Party and the reformist union leadership to defend minimum standards. The issue before them is a political one-no one can deny, when faced with the tide of unemployment that is battering Scotland, that without the removal of this Tory government the 1930s-and worse-will return. A campaign to make this government resign and for the election of a Labour government pledged to full employment policies is the only way out for Scottish and English workers today.

SOUTH VIETNAMESE mili- hole where 30,000 prisoners tary police opened fire are held in conditions on squalor. prisoners of war on Phu Ouoc extreme The Saigon spokesman claimed island, killing 13 and wound- working of party prisoners ing 56, a Saigon military outside the prison compound had spokesman said yesterday.

refused to return to their cells. When they eventually did return, The spokesman claimed the he said, they attacked two police prisoners had staged a riot on Saturday guards who checking the government's cells. camp on the island. in the Gulf of Siam just off the Military sources said the riot border between South Vietnam appeared to be more a political and Cambodia. demonstration than a break-out.

Phu is described Last North Viet- Ouoc by August. five Saigon officials as namese prisoners of war escaped 'hardened' National Liberation from the island bloody in Front and North Vietnamese breakout which left nine other prisoners. North Vietnam prisoners and military has eight described the camp as a hell- policemen dead.

THE LEADER of the Labou Wandsworth, South London, h Labour Group voted to implem Bill. Councillor Ian McGarry (31) resigned as council leader and from the Labour Group, which voted last Friday to implement the housing finance regulations by 29 to 26. Councillor McGarry had wanted stated publicly he Wandsworth not to operate the Bill. Several committee chairman are expected to walk out over the decision. Commented Councillor McGarry: 'This is likely to be the most important issue that this council will ever have to decide upon and I feel I have no alter- native but to resign.'

AN AMERICAN

economist has offered some advice to Britain on how to beat infla- tion-abolish trade unions.

The genius behind this idea is Haberler of Professor Gottfried Harvard University. He made the suggestion at a conference of the 'distinguished' Institute of Eco- nomic Affairs. 'There is no synthetic sub- larger stitute for restoring a measure of competition in the labour market and elsewhere,' he said. unions he To curb the sug- gested withdrawing their legal changing and other privileges, welfare policies which 'effectively strengthen strikes', and strength- ening competition. Collectively, such steps should have noticeable impact on inflation. Professor Haberler is return- ing to America very shortly.

A LEADING shipping company forecast yester- day there would be no recovery from the present depressed conditions of the shipping market in the near future. Eggar Forrester Limited says in a ship sale market report that the soaring freight rates are making the running of a large number of vessels 'increasingly difficult'.

'Vulnerable as it may be and general and subject to very largely uncontrollable econo- mic forces, the shipping indus- try cannot lightly be con- defenceless. in sidered adversity,' the report says.

*Larger modern and more tonnage will feature in the sale lists. Such buyers must either have ready-made trades or indeed be in a strong enough : Labour-controlled council in ndon, has resigned because the implement the Tory 'fair rents' Steward Tony Hallinan inside the Erith

BY IAN YEATS

FIVE HUNDRED people have been sacked from Sebel's toy factory, Erith, Kent, two years after Barclay Securities Limited took it over. Angry workers said yesterday that they had broken manage- ment targets for increased output forcing up productivity by more than 80 per cent in a bid to improve the factory's trading position. Transport and General Wor- kers' Union shop steward Tony Hallinan said yesterday: 'Barclay's are just speculators.

All they think about is profit and loss. They seem to buy up factories and then rationalize

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financial position to allow them to ride the storm until better conditions set in? Commenting on the report, the *Journal of Commerce' says: 'Shipping is an industry which always looks on the optimistic side and so no matter how diffi- cult trading conditions might be, world's shipowners are always hoping for brighter con- ditions just around the corner.

'At the present time, however, hopes for better things do seem to be rather misplaced and the current ship sale market report of Eggar Forrester does paint a gloomy prospect. Eggar Forrester does not see any likely improve- ment in market conditions in the near future. 'No doubt there will be many people who will be watching the in the Far East as a situation possible influence to the benefit of shipping. Equally there are a EIRE'S 1.75 million voters go to to decide the polls tomorrow whether the Republic joins the Market. Opinion Common polls are predicting a 2-to-l majority in favour of entry. The votes will be counted on Thursday_and because it is a straight 'Yes' or 'No' vote, the result will be known by midday.

There is considerable apathy the electorate with the among government party and the equally right-wing Fine Gael, both in favour of entry. The main opposition has come Congress of from the Irish Trades Unions which has dis- the Erith plant: Firm rationalizing by closing do so that they can shut half of them down. Sebel's made a profit in 1971 but Barclay's were not satisfied.

Said Mr Hallinan: 'Twelve months ago they bought out Triang and then we were told this factory was obsolete that and that production was being concentrated at more modern factories at Merton, Triang and Merthyr Tydfil, London, South Wales.' Shortly after the Triang take- over Barclays announced the closure of three factories in- cluding Sebel's at Redcar and Birmingham. In March, after a mass meet- lot of people who would prefer the shipping business to be in the doldrums than to visualize any major escalation of involve- ment in the Indo-China conflict.'

Further echoes of the slump in the shipping world are recorded in an editorial in the financial pages of 'The Times' yesterday.

The newspaper warns that ship- building is suffering from the slump in world trade and the huge inflation and goes on to say: 'Shipbuilding depends a flow of new orders. For the past 12 months, following the down- in world trade, the ward trend orders flowing into Britain-and other shipbuilding countries — have been little more than a trickle. Shipping freight rates are in the doldrums and in the first three months of this year British yards secured only 142,600 tons gross of new tonnage. At the end of March the British industry's total order book reached its lowest point since 1968. 'Support for a shipbuilding industry has little point if the yards have no ships to build.'

Workers Press tributed 500,000 copies of "The Black called newspaper Paper attacking the Market. Both wings of Sinn Fein - the „political arm of the Pro- visional and Official IRA — are campaigning_against entry as is the Labour Party. Jack Lynch has Premier retaliated by sending 300,000 letters to people supporting entry. Entry into Europe would create massive unemployment in Eire and open up the Irish market to further exploitation by the big European combines. The nationalists in the anti-Market closing down plants. ing of the work force which decided to fight the sackings, operated a. three-week workers reciprocal black on components to and from the Triang factories in a bid to keep the Erith plant open. Despite protests from a num- ber of the sacked workers, shop stewards from the factory's four unions - the Transport and General, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, the Boiler- makers' Society and the iron, Steel and Kindred Trades-urged acceptance of the best severance pay terms they could get.

have About 400 workers already been dismissed, some of them with redundancy pay double their official entitlement.

Erith is rapidly joining Wool- wich as an area of mass un- employment with next to no chance of alternative work. Said Mr Hallinan: 'Officials from the Department of Employ- in the factory this ment were morning, but there were no jubs going.' Among those sacked is Com- munist Party AUEW arith dis- trict committee member Wally Woods. The opinion of Communist Party members in the plant is that workers were 'too conser- vative' to fight the sackings and fell for the inducement of extra redundancy pay. CP members did not challenge the policy of the shop stewards and instead urged the 'moderate' policy of attempting to postpone the closure. Stocks in the factory have and about 100 ware- plied up house and maintenance stafi and be 40 clerical workers will reprieved — at least until the autumn when the factory is due for total closure. The head of Barclay Securities, David Bentley, has just taken over Shepperton Studio, Middle- sex. There is every indication he will end film production and carve up the valuable real estate for property development.

Bentley's personal fortune is estimated at between £2m and €3m. He is aged 32. kers Press, Tuesday May 9, 1972 PAGE 3 lobby also complain that entry would destroy the country's culture and language. However; they ignore the fact that the fight against entry is linked with the British govern- ment's own campaign to get into Europe. The link-up between and Irish capital is so British close that capitalists in both countries must move together towards Europe. This raises the question of a united fight in Britain and Ire- land against this attempt to impoverish the working class and 'farming communities of both countries.

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workers at the Alvis Company, Coventry-part of the British-Leyland Combine continue their —are to strike over piecework rates. At a meeting yesterday they decided not to return to work until the day before • a works conference is conceded on the issue. The men, who are engaged in manufacturing equip- military ment called the Fighting Vehicle, walked out last Thursday.

Negotiations for prices on new model vehicles have been stretched over 16 months.

Essentially the firm is trying to reduce average earnings on vehicles. vehicles These new often take a number of months to build. The workers are demanding a guaranteed £1.25 an hour. The firm has countered this by saying they will give £1.15 an hour for the first two vehicles, provided unlimited overtime is worked. After that they will give only £1.05 an hour. As one worker said: 'How can older off we come an туре vehirle and then start on a new- vehicle working at £8 to type £10 less a week?' About 14 of the 100 original strikers were threatened with expulsion from the Birmingham Sheet Metal Workers' Union, if they carried on with the strike.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

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

AUEW in a personal capa- city). The Industrial Relations Recall the TUC Expel the traitors Make the Tories resign SW LONDON: Tuesday May 2, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. N KENT: Tuesday May 9, 8 p.m.

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

LUTON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m.

St John's Ambulance Hall, Lea Ad. N LONDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Totten- ham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). SE LONDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, • New Cross Rd (opp New Cross station).

PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Tueaday May 9, 1 Dockers must reject the arguments for co-opera- tion with productivity deals and the national interest, says a pamphlet* just published by the Communist Party on the jobs crisis in the industry.

of Such statements can, course, never be taken at face fact the eight-page value. In pamphlet is from beginning to the end a cover-up treachery of the CP Stalinists on the docks: • . and preparation to do the same again. Written by Bill Dunn, the pamphlet calls for nationaliza- tion of the docks, but makes no mention of the shelving of this demand by the Transport and General Workers' Union leadership and the CP's own dock stewards. mentions 'union agree- He ments' to productivity-dealing on the docks, while remaining silent, of course, about the role of the CP and its cne- time leading light, Jack Dash.

Dunn's analysis is treacher- ous from its first word to its last. 'The Tories', he says, 'are deliberately maintaining high unemployment by reducing purchasing power of the people.' The implication of this anti- Marxist garbage is that there is no insoluble crisis of the capi- talist system and that all we need is a bit of pressure on the government to change its poli- cies. Dunn fudges this over with militant-sounding, but the fundamentally meaningless formula: 'The only way to fight the employers and the government's Calls for 'action', 'a united struggle' and 'one policy covering all ports' are dotted throughout the pamphlet. But Dunn never mentions Dash's bitter fight against action to defeat the Devlin speed-up scheme, the CP's 1966 policy of preventing a united struggle of dockers and seamen and its work to split port from port during the 1967 dock strike.

He tells us that 'the em- ployers got the co-operation of the trade unions in pushing deals', through productivity but fails to explain why CP members consistently refused to come out in clear opposition to Devlin Phase Two. As for the T&GWU leader- ship, you might think it never existed. 'What price the em- ployers' pledge in safeguarding the National Dock Labour Scheme?' Dunn asks at one point. What price indeed.: And what is more to the point, what price a pamphlet that carefully omits all reference to the union leaders' secret talks with the employers about abolishing the scheme. What is needed is a call to y May 9, 1972 Top: Jack Dash. Above: John Gollan, Communist Party secre- tary action against the dockers' main enemy-the Tory govern- ment. The defence of dock jobs is today inseperable from the fight to defend the unions against attack, force the Tories to resign and . elect a Labour government committed to socialist policies. Hundred per- cent the nationalization of ports under full workers' con- without trol, compensation, remains the question of the hour. It is time to call a halt to the politics of confusion, com- promise and class-collabora- tion on the docks. With only token protests from the re- formist union leaders and their friends in the Communist Party, 20,000 jobs have been destroyed in the industry over And the past seven years. many more are now threatened.

Much more than jobs is at stake, however. The judge- new National ments of the Industrial Relations Court on the Merseyside containers row has called into question the very existence of trade unions as fighting organizations of the working class. . the union leaders' re- And treat before the court sharply reinforces Leon Trotsky's 1940 warning: 'Monopoly capitalism is less" and less willing to re- concile itself to the independ- ence of trade unions. It de- mands of the reformist bureau- cracy ... that they become transformed into its political police before the eyes of the working class. 'If that is not achieved, the labour bureaucracy is driven away and replaced by the fascists.' * 'Docks-the fight for jobs, by Party Bill Dunn. Communist 'pamph, st. Price 3p. The Right-to-Work marchers outside the !

BY KENT WORKER

Frank Allpress (49), a plater at Sovex, Erith in Kent, is about to resign from the Communist Party. But he will hardly notice.

the difference. Since the Tories came to power on June 18, 1970, he has not been asked to take part in a single campaign or indeed to undertake any form of work for the Party. He has not been asked for any dues for 12 months, nor has he been asked to attend meetings.

Said Mr Allpress: 'They have let me be a sleeping member really. The Socialist Labour League shows much more deter- mination to mobilize the work- ing class. 'In fact it is quite a shock to come into contact with mem- bers of the YS or the SLL after have been allowed you to languish watching television or doing the garden. I asked Mr Allpress why he became a CP member four and a half years ago. said: 'I thought it was a He before the revolutionary party war when I was in it for a very short time and when they came to me and asked me if I would consider rejoining I said I would.

"They said they wanted to keep the Erith group • together and but I joined because I expand, asked by my friends who was were Party members. 'We used have to tactory meetings once a month when there were 15 or 20 of us, but there are only three left now due to people moving and closures. 'The CP should have put up a fight against redundancies Erith, but they did nothing.

"There was a campaign on to stop Parsons shutting. I never knew what came of it. One part of the group wanted to take the Parsons were severance pay offering and another wanted nothing to do with it. l don't know what happened, but I do know that Parsons closed.'

It was the Party's 'leadership' at Upper, Clyde Shipbuilders and their approach to the Industrial Relations Act which set the final itside the Sovex factory In Kent.

seal on Mr Allpress's decision to resign. 'What they have done at UCS gn is terrible. There is no other word for it. 'They started off by saying there would be no co-operation with the liquidator, that ships were not going to be delivered and that all the jobs would be saved. 'But now it has deteriorated into a complete turnaround and to they have even managed to say They have that victory. is a deliberately deceived the working class on the Upper Clyde.'

He added: 'The way they with- drew the £100 from the Right- to-Work marchers from Scotland also completely unprin- was cipled.' why he thought the I asked CP behaved like that. 'I don't really know, said Mr Allpress. 'I have not really read Marxism. What I have read I have picked up myself. If the CP had classes I have never invited or even heard of been them.' Although he has not been to classes or undertaken a guided course of reading, Mr Allpress Star, subscribed to the Morning He told me: I took the "Morning Star" every day until I saw the Workers Press. The "Star" things the said sounded was nothing in fine, but there them. To be truthful, for the last few months I have not read the "Star" even though I have been taking it. I think theoretical know- ledge is very important otherwise in you miss a lot of the points what is going on. 'But if the CP did give theo- retical guidance they would probably lose membership faster than they are now. I would say a state of semi-ignorance is the best quality a candidate for the CP can have.' Political events, Mr Allpress said, are now moving very fast the CP shows no sign of and developing policies capable of meeting the situation. "The Party's attitude to the Industrial Relations Act is com- pletely negative' ', he told me. 'Their most revolutionary slogan was "Kill the Bill" , but looking back on that after the past few weeks their policy was an absolute shambles. 'The only way to do anything about the union law is to force to this government out because every minute the Act is on the statute book it is a threat to the working class. 'Under the Act whatever the want to do is working class only thing you can illegal. The do legally is exploit and make money. This government is definitely setting out to try to crush the working class, starting with the into the Getting trade unions. Common Market is all part of this. 'A General Strike is the only possible way of getting rid of this government. 'As a matter of fact I think the Tories are themselves preparing for a General Strike. I think they have organized to meet it.

They seem to be pushing all the big unions into this situation.

'But when I went to a CP meeting on the Act when SLL members called for a General strike the Crers said they were mad to even think of it. Instead they called for one-day strikes futile marches to parlia- and ment. 'I thought, if that is their are just diverting policy they the working class to defeat them and maintain their own position.

It was the same with the Committee for the Liaison Defence of Trade Unions. The CP were making the right noises but going in the opposite direc- tion. 'The sort of thing you get is that we can't do this or that because the working class is not ready for it. 'But I think workers today are ready. What they need is leader- ship. The people in my place of work are not militant, but they all see the point that where there is a wage confrontation it turns very quickly into a con- frontation with the government.

is very urgent to I think it build a principled, revolutionary Marxist leadership now because this time is dangerous for SO the working class. 'Pressure on the working class is being increased all the time with the trade union Act, the rent Act and now the Night Assemblies Bill. I think the SLL is a prin- cipled party that will give the working class the leadership it needs'

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The Argentine govern- ment, under Lt-Gen Alejandro Lanusse (above), recently tried to appease growing working. class militancy by award.

ing a general 15-per-cent wage increase. In fact, the measure is more real, for the symbolic than cost of living in Argentina is rising at something over 40 per cent a year. In 1971 it by almost 40 per cent rose and in the first quarter of this year the index rose a stagger- ing 20.9 per cent. increases Wage won last have already been year absorbed, and the 15-per-cent increases will go the same way in a matter of a few weeks.

was decreed The rise, which by the junta of armed forces commanders after talks be- tween the president and the unions, is being hailed as a triumph for Lanusse. Government inability to contain inflation In fact, it only underlines his government's inability • to contain the runaway inflation and its fear of the organized working class. Among the measures taken at the same time as the wage increase were decrees fixing a new rate for electricity supply. Increases in electricity prices gave rise last month to ex- plosions of popular discontent in Mendoza and other big provincial cities, the repression of which took a toll of three dead and hundreds of people wounded or arrested. The junta's measures were accompanied by threats against militants and trade unionists.

These were directed particu- larly against the workers' and students' organizations plan- ning a hunger march through Buenos Aires. The march was banned by decree. Demands for release of political prisoners On of the main demands of this movement is the release of political prisoners, including Agustin Tosco, who has now been held in prison for exactly a year without charge or trial.

Tosco was arrested in the city where he lives, of Cordoba, and taken off to prison with no explanation. Since then he has remained in Buenos Aires' Villa Devoto prison in isola- tion. Thus far the protests and demands for his release have been to no avail. Tosco has been never brought to trial—in fact no charges have been levelled against him. Government spokesmen have indicated his is preventive, imprisonment claiming that in the past year, 'things have been quieter in Cordoba' Tosco is general secretary of Electricity Workers (Light and Power Union) of Cordoba pro- vince in central Argentina.

This province, especially its capital of 700,000 people, is at the vanguard of the labour and popular struggle against the military regime governing Argentina since 1966. Besides heading the light and power' union, Tosco is deputy secretary of the local General of Confederation Labour (CGT). The Cordoba federation is by far the most militant in the country. During his year's imprison- ment, Tosco has continued to occupy his posts-although he is not naturally not exercising them-and he was re-elected to both. In his own 'light and power' union, with more than 4,000 members, the slate Tosco headed from prison ob- tained more than 85 per cent of the votes. As for the CGT post, he was last month re-elected • along with the incumbent secretary general Atilio Lopez, leader of the Cordoba bus drivers and a member of the 'hard line' Peronist current. Tosco's most spectacular as leader of the role was 'Cordobazo', a mass rising in Cordoba in May 1968 which meant the beginning of the end of General Juan Carlos Ongania's presidency. Striking workers, students and gave way only when the Third Army stepped in directly with tanks and heavy artillery.

Thirty people were killed, but the attempt to establish a military leadership for ten years of a real 'Pax Romana' type ended right there. Nine Ongania was months later his overthrown. Tosco was one of the leaders of the 'Cordobazo' along with Elfidio Torres of the auto workers' union. The columns of workers from the Renault nd factory and the power plants were the first to arrive in the centre of the city to control the strategic points. The army levied a steep price for "Cardobazo' the • Tosco Torres and other labour leaders were tried by military courts and sentenced to as much as ten years in prison.

Tosco, sentenced . eight years, was sent to a prison in the south and was released when a post-Ongania amnesty was decreed for prisoners sen- tenced by military courts.

Workers Proar American businessmen with lingering fears about the effectiveness of the Price Board set up by can They have been assured by Herbert Stein, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, that 'there is noth- ing in the (control) system to prevent a prosperous year for business'. In fact, the Price Board is little more than win- dow-dressing to make wage freezing more acceptable to the union leaders. In fact, addressing the Eco- nomic Club of New York last week, he specifically advised businessmen not to worry about the Price Board: For business to become frightened at this moment would not only be entirely without foundation, but could also precipitate controversy which would really under- mine the system and impede the recovery? Stein indicated he was responding to, 'some anxiety the business community in Bougainville, an island off the New Guinea mainland, is described as the "jewel' in the world ore holdings of Rio Tinto Zinc. Development of the copper resources on the island began years ago after vicious two clashes with the local inhabi- tants. Backed by a para-military police force wielding batons and firing tear gas, the com- pany moved islanders off their land and started the open cut removal of copper ore. After paying royalties to the administration at Port Mores- by, the copper still finished up with handsome profits. these calculations were taken, however, before the world economic recession sparked off by Nixon's decision to devalue the dollar. Now the company has found itself with a mountain of rich but no customers. The ore of Bougainville chairman Mining Limited, F. F. Espie, told the annual meeting last week the anticipated output kers Proes, Tueaday May 8, 1972 PAGE 5 over the more rigorous appli- cation of the Price Commis- sion standards' covering profit margins. These standards pre- vent price increases that would raise a company's profit mar- gin, as a percentage of sales, above the average margin in the best two of its last three fiscal years. This is hardly an onerous burden, and in any case it has signally failed to prevent prices rising as fast after as before.

This has. occurred despite a number of 'roll-backs' ordered by the Price Board. involved The products include a brand of sparking plugs, "Textron' snowmobiles and the magazine 'Sports Illu- strated'. Even Stein was forced to admit that the latest price showed a bulge indexes in industrial prices apparently from miscalculation resulting of costs' by the Price Board.

This admission did not pre- vent him expressing confidence that the 'price bulge' was over and that the control system should achieve its object of reducing the rate of inflation to 2-3 per cent a year. If Stein believes all this stuff, he is the only man in America who does.

for 1973 and. 1974 still hasn't been sold. He said the group had been successful in placing all its planned 1972 production with the exception of about 10 per cent, which it was necessary to stockpile. With regard to the next two years, however, the company had not yet sold all it expected to produce. He revealed that Bougain- ville had recently concluded a further sales contract with the West German Norddeutsche Affinirerie group for the supply of up to 12,000 long tons of copper in concentrates during 1972. Negotiations were also at an advanced stage for the supply to another smelter of between 7,000 and 10,000 long tons of copper in concentrates over a period of four years. Meanwhile, however, the huge stockpiling begins. This will almost certainly mean that the world price of copper will drop even further thus making the project extremely risky. In view of this it is difficult to share Espie's statement to shareholders that the future could be viewed with confi- dence. Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 62½р

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At a high point in the Glasgow rent battle in November 1915, when a demonstration had been organized to march on the small debts court where a test case against the strikers was to be heard, John Maclean had just learnt that he had been sacked by the Govan school board for principled stand his against the war. The march to the court passed Maclean's school. The marchers stopped, shouted for him to come out, and he joined the demonstration. It was a semi-conscious expres- sion of the deep class and of the political implications rents movements. At the small debts court, the sheriff, almost certainly acting on political instructions, dismissed the cases. The rents movement had extended to other parts of Britain and the urgency of dealing with the munitions crisis was upper- most in the thinking of the government. It had already decided on the Rents Restric- tion Act. This battle, of course, was only one incident from a whole history of struggle between the working class and the capi- talist class over housing con- ditions. And - as has been was only one indicated - it aspect of the class war waged during World War I Clydeside and in all the major engineering centres of Britain.

But it is important that the lessons should be correct drawn. For Marxists the study of history is not a question of providing interesting or colour- ful background' to present- day events. Nor is it a matter of plucking episodes out of the past to 'prove' the correctness of a current political line.

Real historical understand- ing comes only as part of an overall struggle for the con- Marxist theory. tinuity of Those who have abandoned that struggle and are im- placably hostile to it cannot teach the working class any- thing essential about even the smallest aspect of its history.

When the 'Socialist Worker' —weekly paper of the revision- ist International Socialists — carried an article on the 1915 Glasgow rent strike (April 8, 1972) it was inevitable that it would be misleading and inaccurate from beginning to end. Author Jim Kincaid, fol- lowing the editorial line of the seeks to disarm the paper, working class by turning its attention away from capital- ism's crisis and the revolu- tionary. nature of all the struggles into which it is now being thrown. For him the way to fight ay May 9, 1972 the rent Bills is by leaving the Tories in power and organizing rent strikes linked to indus- action. He claims that trial this is working in Ireland today and that the Glasgow rent strike shows that it can work in Britain. The first assertion carries the empiricist's petty-bourgeois method of making a meta- physical division between one 'aspect' of the situation . and new level of another to a Bloody Sunday for cynicism. this reactionary is the subject for another article from one on 'successes' of the rent strikes. The second argument leads into a thoroughly un- Kincaid historical account of what hap- in 1915. It is no pened relies coincidence that he exclusively and uncritically_ on source: the 'vivid' (Kin- one caid's word) Revolt on Clyde by arch-Stalinist William Gallacher. Gallacher's version is that the shop stewards of the Clyde Workers'.. Committee saw the the fight in need to link up the factories with the rents issue. They joined the demon- stration of November 17, 1915, to the small debts court and threatened a General Strike if not frozen. rents were phoned Munitions sheriff Minister Lloyd George. He was told to dismiss the charges— the government would intro- duce the Rents Restriction Bill. Gallacher's syndicalist illu- sions, so embedded in his con- sciousness after a decade and a half in the Communist Party and several years training in Stalinism that he was incapable even of accurately recounting his own World War I experi- ences, fit in with the require- of the state capitalists ments today. Kincaid writes: 'The moral is clear. An effective rent strike is a great achievement. But in the end what really counts is the industrial power of the workers in key sections industry. The Glasgow rent strike was won because it also became an industrial strike, it was possible to get though industrial action partly because the rent strike had evoked such exceptional fighting spirit and support. The combination of both forms of strike action proved unbeatable.' A sub-heading to the article says, explicitly: 'Historic Glas- rents victory points-the gow way for Britain's council house tenants today.' The whole story is abstracted from the reality of the his- torical process and slanted to show that the International Socialists are right to tell the working class that more mili- tancy on each issue can drive the Tories back on that issue.

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Top: Hospltal St, Gorbals In Glasgow. Ab In reality the historic failure of 'Red Clydeside' and of the shop stewards' movement as a whole in World War I Britain was its inability to build revo- lutionary leadership. Despite the enormous militancy of the working class the government was able to carry through its munitions drive and, more important still, to inflict defeats post-war years-with the aid of the refusal of the trade union leadership to face the question of taking power —which opened the way for the inter-war depression and the conditions of the 1930s.

At this period, because of the relatively strong position of Britain chain of in the world capitalism, the success revolution in Britain of the would have depended on the extension of October to the other advanced countries of western Europe. The opposite is true today. The historic crisis of British capitalism now meets up with international crisis the to throw the British working class revolutionary into the most struggles of all in defence of its basic rights. It is vital that correct lessons be learnt from the past. The rent strikers of Glas- gow - and other areas - wrested an important con- cession from the government at a period when such a tac- tical retreat was deemed neces- sary by the government. But

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Prisstans of Germany We'are fighting the Prussians of PARTICK only altematire asgow. Above: the tenants march of 1915 despite the more or less spon- taneous support from sections of shipyard workers, the most important rank-and-file leader- ship in the area — the Clyde Workers' Committee—was un- able to intervene in the rents struggle. They key section of workers in struggle with the government's munitions drive on the Clyde remained isolated from the demands which affected the working class as a whole. Such tactical failures by the leadership flowed its from inability to grasp the crisis of imperialism which gave rise to the war; and to draw the con- clusions for revolutionary internationalism from the capi- tulation of the Second Inter- national drawn by Lenin. If this theoretical limitation was almost inevitable in World War I Britain, it is certainly not so today. Those who refuse responsibility for take to building revolutionary leader- ship inevitably distort his- torical reality as part of the process through which they seek to contain the working within the limits of its class 'own' spontaneous, trade union and national level of conscious- ness. This is the reactionary role of the of co-thinkers Gallacher, and of the Kincaids.

For Marxists there can be Prussians no abstention in the fight of working class to defend its right to decent housing and to prevent rent increases. But this fight cannot be won by another 'Kill the Bill' campaign of protest. •À consideration of the his- tory of the fight against the Industrial Relations Act will convince every serious worker ich of that. The central question is to make the Tories resign and return a socialist Labour gov- ernment. This government must nationalize the building com- panies without compensation and under workers' control and put an end to all forms of property speculation once and for all. It must enact the All Trades Unions Alliance Charter of Basic Rights. The trade union and Labour leaders immediately must mobilize the working class on this programme. The working can ensure that this is class done only by building an independent revolutionary leadership. For workers thrown into struggle on the rents issue, this means joining the Socialist Labour League and helping transform it into a revolu- tionary party. Every facet of the betrayals, evasions and distortions of the reformist and Stalinist leaders, and of their revisionist allies, must be constantly exposed

'THE FORSAKEN LOVER-White people' words and black by Chris Searle. Published by Rout- ledge and Kegan Paul. £1.50.

'Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical consciousness, as it exists for other men, and thus as it first really exists for myself as well.

Language, like conscious- ness, only arises from the need, the necessity of intercourse with other men? (Karl Marx.) Here we have the material- ist conception of sociology tracing language back to. its origins and showing it to inevitably the product of an objective process — the neces- sary continual struggle between man and nature. The development of meth- ods of communication must not in any way be seen to precede the development of the objective necessary social conditions. This is the initial point on which Marxists will take issue with Chris Searle's well-intentioned liberal plati- tudes on the continuing effects of English bourgeois education on the colonial youth of the West Indies. • when our world speaks of division and guilt to us through our language, then we inevitably divided and are guilty? This is one of the not infrequent gems of idealism in this book, which was written in impossible circumstances.

How can a well-meaning mid- dle-class writer deal with the effects of British imperialism West Indies today on the without once mentioning capi- and without drawing talism, awkward parallels with life at home? The answer for Searle is to pick on the most super- ficial factors and make them the centre of the whole work.

result, we are pre- As sented with a contrast between 'white' 'black' culture and culture. Searle deftly lumps all works by all white poets and authors since (and including) Shakespeare, regardless of back- chronology or class ground, together as 'white' deals similarly and culture, with black writers. As an added diversion we have the fact that the West forced to Indian youth are learn textbook English, taking exams set in Oxford and Cam- bridge. For Searle the important fact is not that the people of the West Indies are oppressed by world capitalism, but sa question of culture: Education inside any other foreign culture means depend- ence and subjection to that culture. It is the way back to colonialism and absolute reli- ance on alien standards by foreign people.' Substitute 'bourgeois' for 'foreign' in this quotation, and it begins to make sense. The whole of the international working class is in this way subjected to an alien 'culture'.

The working class itself has no culture, since it is an oppressed class, required to struggle for its very existence. As Marx puts it: "The dominant ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas, and thus of the ideas make one class the which ruling one; they are conse- quently the ideas of its domin- ance.' Castigating Christianity as the 'white man's religion', as does Searle, tells us only a small part of the story. What class of white men? For what purpose their religion was used? Obviously, to intimidate the class enemy and strengthen the rulers in their position.

If that religion happens as a by product to aid repression of black slaves at a later date, this makes things that much easier. It does not really mat- whether the West Indian ter youth is taught he is inferior by one method or by another.

imperialism Under he will only be taught that which enables his ruler to keep him under control. It is in this sense a distor- tion to write: "The choice of syntax and vocabulary are political acts that define and circumscribe the manner in which "facts" are to be experienced. Indeed, in a sense they go further and even create the facts that are studied.' (R. D. Laing, quoted by Searle, p. 23.) red is To put it bluntly, red, a cabbage is a cabbage, in French, English or Japanese. The objective fact remains the same, and is in no sense changed by change of form in the language used. Yet Searle proceeds from this inversion to .a worse example: "To change from one langu- age to another is to change life itself.' Of course, Searle does not mean to limit the mystic power of language to that of changing objective reality; he wants it to make up for the social deficiencies of capital- ism, and '... build the struc- ture of belongingness and trust that most people need, giving the individual self the ability to experience the necessary social sense of continuity and sameness'. • Obviously Searle believes Chris Searle use conrect guage would enab class 'fool to people all of the the possessed though it is. belongingness' degrades willet it. it is im his language his own world, tha continuously betra liate him by the r of pressures images.' fiere we need the word 'language' in real relationships Searle's red working clas free from gling unaersta into practice Marxism. Some of Searle' from works vouth burst throu cation of his text. are these clear 'Lord, the negro too much Why should we from foreign | About all we've never s Central to this the recognition under imperialism for exploitation. glosses over political backgro start of the n the West Indie: through in a roun of text, though he these telling Secretary "The lesson colonial schools teach the mutual the dependencies, basis of their cor the domestic and of the coloured ra This is the voic tional imperialism, obscured accumulated As selectively quotes son as an endorse opinions. the lowest level ‹ from developed through point of the of Marxism method of not m standing the changing it As a result Jaci reflect a process ment whereas bogged down in fusion and futility se of the right lan- uld enable the ruling 'fool of the I of the time', and to working class, dis- in the system alienates ana it is imperative that reflects him and vorld, that it does not sly betray and humi- othe meanings and its dominani ve need to _substitute 'philosophy' for see the in oraer to ionships concealed by herrings. The only break • its chains by strug- and understand put science of of Searle's quotations West by Indian rst through the suffo- his text. Particularly these lines: the negroes have had work already, hould we learn again all kinds never seen?' to this quotation is that education perialism only exists Searle hastily this point. The to the background education system st Indies is scrambled n a round dozen lines hough he does quote words from the State for the books also mutual interests of and her country the rational their connection and stic and social duties loured races.' the voice of interna- perialism, its messag by Searle's point; endorsement for his Yet he remains at st level of conscious- which Jackson 1 through struggle, tr t of urging a study as the only of not merely under- world, but esult Jackson's letters process of develop- Searle remains in idealist con- id futility. Workers Press, Tueaday May 9, 1972 PAGE 9 before 1960, but in that year a survey showed an inclination of about 15 inches towards the north-west. How MPs busily 'No detected are our change was 1968 defending the interests of their until when a more constituents? How goes the cut accurate survey with modern and thrust of parliamentary instruments of greatly im- debate? proved design showed that the Mr Marcus Lipton asked the inclination was 9% inches in Environment Minister: 'By the same direction. The most how many inches, and in what recent test was carried out on direction, has the tower of Big March 1972, and from the Ben leaned perpen- dicular in the years 1952, 1962 With this sort of cerebral and 1972 respectively?' activity the top, it's at no wonder the nation Back came the answer: sleeps SO 'Figures available peacefully. are not ple to other sectors of capitalist business offers some interesting possibilities. However much we may want Mitchelville, Tennessee A in to believe that the grocer will be widely followed, Tennessee, who is firm a supporter of President Nixon's it is extremely unlikely that we policies has closed shall dealers in economic see property London his store rather than raise giving up their businesses because they don't prices. like to want to be fair, he put up prices. observed, I want to make In fact Mr Walker of decent, honest living, and if I Tennessee only exemplifies the power of the laws of capital- can't it's time for me to turn lose and do something else.'

ism: the alternative to obeying those laws, has auctioned his which in this case stock and is looking for a job means putting up prices, is to go out of business, or wait to as a salesman. The extension of this princi- be driven into bankruptcy.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday May 9, 1972 Chapple takes his union to Riviera Next conference in Rimini Italy

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Bert Hazell, president of the National Union oI Agricuitural and Allied Workers, told the biennial union's conference parts of the country, which will Wevmouth. Dorset. that British il calture must recognize that prevent them acnlevn The aloof from expansion called for by the gov- cannot remain affecting the whole indus- trenus Cullall. trial field. v mantait, Yill 'For without 40-hour, five-day be working Impossiule ¡lallilaill, overdue ao marde in ae la alone improve production.

Iwo awards overdue. 'Farming today is being carried two vears of £1.65 and tl.40 had on by an ageing population, for brought the present mınımum to people reluctant young £16.20, but these awards had industry has been absorbed by runaway infla- CHel tulal years torouenout tne Taleci tion. that its workers are the other The agricultural industry had same workers 1n received substantial financial aid lorms or emoioyment. assist further expansion and 'They have the needs, of all sallit to increase the prosperity the same aomestic responsıbill- ensased DroouCuoR ties, the same hopes for security food, Mr Hazell said. they need their homes and 'Unless farmers take a more the diligently rewards for salle realistic undertaking work carrying higher view ol their workers. they will labour degrees than is situation, already serious in some found in many other occupations.'

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It is unprecedented for a British trade union to hold its conference outside this country. The decision, taken by the union's executive in February, has already stirred up heated controversy in local branches.

The leader of the union, Frank Chapple, is a known pro-Marketeer. The union, which meets only once every two years, has been under pressure recently for more rank-and-file democracy. Several factors are worrying the membership: • Who is going to pay for the • accommodation • transport and of the conference delegates?

If delegates have to pay their own fares, what will happen to those who can't afford it? Will they simply • be disqualified from attending and represent- ing their local members? For electricians and plumbers who may be interested in the holiday atmosphere at Rimini, Workers Press has taken this extract from Clarkson's 1972 catalogue: 'Rimini is the most famous of resorts. For all Adriatic coast every good reason. This is not a small town. It spreads itself around the Old Town for miles every direction - from in the shoreline to the beginning of the and the fascinating mountains mini-country of San Marino. The beaches facilities of the are without equal--sailing boats of all sizes, rowing boats, pedaloes, water skiing, swings and diving platforms, deck chairs, sun umbrellas and countless beach bars. 'While you're there see the ancient buildings, and narrow alley ways - The Arch • of Augustus, built in 27 BC, the churches, Tiberius's bridge, the Amphitheatre, Roman the old city walls. At night the possibili- ties are endless.' PS: When we telephoned Chapple's headquarters to ask for details of the proposed Rimini venue, we were told that 'the man who makes press statements isn't in'. Asked about arrange- for delegates to get to ments Italy, the telephone line suddenly went dead. Probably an electrical fault! DEREK EZRA, the Coal Board chairman, is ready to announce that 46 brickworks will be hived off to private enterprise.

The decision will delight Tory who Party supporters support private raids on the nationalized industries. Whoever buys the brickworks profits; make attractive will THE GOVERNMENT is expected to launch an inquiry into the use of barbiturate sleeping pills and some tranquillizer drugs.

It is understood that the inquiry into the use of the drugs -some 30 million prescriptions are issued annually- has been urged by the British Medical Association. The BMA in its last annual meeting urged a close examina- tion of drug usage. On Thursday the Association's Board of Science report is to recommend expected the setting up of a government inquiry. Too breezy in Britain... Chapple's off to TOMORROW'S official openir Seaforth Dock complex has decision was taken by the Mer Company following Sunday's not to work at the new comple pay and conditions is reached.

there is a big demand for bricks at present. conference miners' uniont union passed a resolu- tion deploring the attacks on the coal industry by the Tory gov- ernment. Toledo back to normal LIVERPOOL'S Triumph car fac- tories will be back to normal after a three week tomorrow of most of the labour lay-off force. Only 466 men were without day-shift yesterday's work on of the Toledo and production restarted last night. were originally The lay-offs caused by a pay strike at Coven- try which was settled last week.

Last Friday 1,400 Liverpool production workers went back only to be sent home again because of a one-day strike of maintenance men. ple's off to the sun 1 opening of Merseyside's £50m has been cancelled. The the Mersey Docks and Harbour nday's vote by Mersey dockers complex until an agreement on dock The company was notifying its decision to more than 200 guests who had been invited to sail down the Mersey in a chartered ferry to inspect the complex. The port modernization com- mittee, which includes represen- tatives of the employers and the Transport and General dockers' Workers' Union was meeting to discuss the row. Merseyside Meanwhile the "blacking' container of three firms, which has already cost the transport union €55,000 in fines, goes on. Leaders of lorry drivers, who belong to another section of the union, arrived in London yester- day to see its general secretary, Jack Jones. the DELEGATES representing 188,000 strong Civil and Pub- Association over- Services lic whelmingly backed their execu- tive's decision de-register to under the Industrial Relations Act. their But the delegates at Margate conference, representing white collar Whitehall's largest union, gave the executive power to defend itself or its members before the National Industrial Relations Court.

AT LEAST five prisoners were shot dead and more than 90 wounded when police opened fire during a riot at a jail in Bhagal- pur, India, yesterday. the Bihar state police Units of were sent in to quell the trouble and were attacked by prisoners bows and using arrows and throwing bombs. Then the paramilitary central reserve police stormed into the prison and opened fire. First reports said the rioting began after the prisoners objected to the release of two student detainees. THE COLONELS regime is reacting with an iron fist to stirrings of militant opposition in the universities. Following open-air demon- strations at Athens and other universities, the regime has given security forces powers to open fire on demonstrators without first seeking judicial permission.

The police can now shoot after giving three verbal warnings to demonstrators. The students' main demand has been for implementation of their legal right to elect repre- sentatives of their own choosing to replace leaders imposed by the state. faculties Ten at Athens, Salonika, Patras and Crete are petitioning for this right, but their lawyers have been warned off handling the cases and a number of students have been arrested. Deputy Prime Minister Pattakos warned at the weekend that 'severe measures' would be taken if students continued with 'in- admissible and illegal' strikes. See Makarios and Greece, p. 2.

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... Trade. Second of six programmes on the widen- ing gap between the rich Bhutto going to Muslim states PAKISTAN president Zul- figar Ali Bhutto is to make a 12-day tour of Middle East and African countries later this month before his sum- mit talks in New Delhi with Indian premier Mrs Indira Gandhi. The tour will take Bhutto to a number of Muslim capitals which supported Pakistan against India and Bangla Desh during the war last year. He also plans to visit Ethiopia 'whose emperor, government and great people have given us vigorous support in the difficult days we have experienced'. Bhutto will be negotiating with India from a position of

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TEST. Tom Paxton, The Doors. great weakness following Paki- stan's defeat in the war and he plainly wants all the support he can get before the talks begin.

. He said he was neither opti- mistic nor pessimistic about the forthcoming summit: 'We will have to accept certain realities, but we can never accept dictated terms, he said. 'We seek durable peace, but we will reject that is imposed. We are one sensitively aware of our national interests and we will make every human endeavour to safeguard them.' He described the weekend fighting between Indian and Pakistan troops in Kashmir as 'pretty serious', adding that he hoped it would not 'topple things' at the summit talks.

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

impatience with the vacillations of President Salvador Allende's government. His reformist economic Workers in the huge open- ants are also becoming increas- ingly hostile to Allende's gradu- cast copper-mine at Chuqui- alist methods. camata staged a two-day On Thursday, Allende's strike last week for higher police arrested 40 peasants of Melpilla, wages. near Santiago, for illegally taking Their representatives claimed over a large estate. that nationalization In Los had Angeles, shooting not broke out when a large group improved their standard of liv- of unemployed ing and that if the government agricultural workers tried to take over a did not improve their wages, large estate. they would call an indefinite The Revolutionary Left Move.

General Strike. ment (MIR), has organized road A few months ago, Allende had blockades and stopped all traffic to intervene personally to pre- until the arrested workers are vent a strike the In copper released. and Fidel Castro, on mines, his The workers and peasants are Chilean tour, told the miners the with angry at slowness increase their productivity and to which the government body, the be satisfied with their lot. Corporation for Agrarian Reform, Allende has not helped matters carrying out legal by referring to the miners as expropria- 'a tions of landed estates in the labour aristocracy'. Workers area. in the Santiago fac- Trevira The peasants and workers the of company, he mai Chile are showing that they have supplier of synthetic fibres Chile's textile little faith in the reformist non- to plants, staged Thursday sit-in last sense of the 'third world' experts when the employers rejected a at the United Nations Conference demand for 360 Trade and Development In increase in wages and bonus pay- Santiago and that their illusions ments and offered a total increase in the ability of Popular Frontist of only 160 per cent. Allende socialism build in Agricultural workers and peas- Chile are fading fast. 4.15 Miri Mawr. 6.01 Y Dydd.

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Containers: Drivers and dockers to meet PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday May!

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

A MEETING between the docks and road haulage sections of the Transport and General Workers' Union will be held in London later this week under the chair- manship of Harry Urwin, the union's assistant general secretary. This follows a two-hour meeting at Transport House . yesterday between Jack Jones and a deputation representing

LORRY

from Williams Brothers of Queensferry, near Mould, carrying aluminium ingots failed to get unloaded at Preston docks yesterday.

Preston dockers decided not to touch the lorry in spite of assurances from management and their own Transport and General Workers' Union officials that the black on Williams Brothers had been lifted. The dockers' shop stewards contacted official of the an National Docks Labour Board who informed them that the black had been lifted by their union. They then spoke to Alan Tay- lorson of the local

T&GWU

branch. He also said the blacking was lifted. Through the T&GWU offices, Mr H. Davis was con- tacted in Liverpool and he also stated the blacking was lifted.

However, the Preston dockers have decided that no cargo in dispute must be touched. One leading shop steward said: 'This is nothing to do with the T&GWU. We put the blacking on we'll take it off. We and are waiting to get confirmation from National Joint Shop the Stewards' Committee on what the position is? Late yesterday after a series of telephone calls the dockers per- mitted the vehicles through. This followed assurances that dock labour would 'stuff and 'strip' the lorries.: AT HULL a spokesman for the shop stewards' list of all transport firms to be blacked had been circularized.

Hull dockers would operate the blacking procedure, he said.

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01-622 7029 sday May 9, 1972 lorry drivers from St Helens and Preston. For the past two months some container driven by lorries of members the commercial section have been blacked by dockers. Ken Jackson, national sec- retary for the commercial sec- tion, said after the meeting that the national committees of both sections would statement issued The press after the meeting, authorized by Jones, the call to reiterated to stop all unofficial dockers blackings. While the meeting was in

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

EIGHT HOURS before yesterday's midnight ex- piry of the rail cooling- off order, the Tories appeared hell-bent on•a showdown with the rail- An emergency meeting of top- ranking Tory Ministers at 10 Downing St called to discuss government moves to deal with the threatened rail crisis left no room for hope that they would authorize the Board to give in to the unions' demands. And the three rail unions broke up after two hours of talks last night having agreed to take no further action until 10 a.m. this morning. NUR leader Sir Sidney Greene said, 'We don't want to be pro- vocative. Tonight is the night'.

Sources said last night that it was unlikely that Tory • Employ- ment Secretary Maurice Macmil- would apply to the NIRC of the 14-day for an extension cooling-off period. He was known to feel that negotiations with the three unions had been exhausted.

His most likely move if the unions decided to stand by their claim was an application to the Court for a secret ballot of rail union members. NUR leader Sir Sidney Greene said before the joint meeting of Unity House, rail unions at Euston, London, that he would not be putting any new pro- posals to the Rail Board.

Office. 186a Clapham Ponted by Pour Stree High progress Preston dockers refused to unload a vehicle from Queens- ferry and Hull shop stewards announced that their unofficial black would continue. Today in the National Indust- rial Relations Court, the T&GWU will defend itself against charges of contempt of court made by two road haulage firms, Heatons Helens) Limited Transport (St Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton. The union last week paid £55,000 fines imposed for two breaches of contempt. Wednesday the Last court president, Sir John Donaldson, gave the union a short adjourn- tell the court how it ment to proposed to stop the continued blacking of container vehicles.

He said: 'We have nothing to say to them. In our view, there is no reason to expect a move on the union side. 'We have complied with the when cooling-off period and people come to look at the action in the Industrial Relations Court, side: Will find no fault on our And ASLEF leader Ray Buck- ton told reporters: 'We shall be going to the joint trade union meeting with the policy that we the implementation press date to be May 1 — no com- promise.'

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THE TORY government yester- day announced plans to cut back steel production and investment.

In a major review of the steel industry, the new Minister for Industry, Tom Boardman, said £200m would be spent 1973-1974 investment programme.

This was f65m less than pre- viously allocated. Boardman told the House that it was 'inevitable' there would be some closures of older steel mills and older plants, and there- fore, there would be redun- dancies in some areas. 'The number of redundancies will depend on the final outcome of the BSC's strategic plan, he added. URWIN ... Arbiter? Goes Weekly This weekend

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members of the white- collar union, ASTMS, yesterday staged a one- day strike and march through Lincoln in pro- test against redundancy procedures at local plants of the giant GEC-AEI combine. The workers are from seven factories in the separate Arnold Weinstock group. Already 90 supervisors and technicians strike are at on subsi- Dorman Diesels, a GEC diary. They have been out for a month in against the protest redundancy paid to a store super- visor. weeks' given He two was notice and paid £300 less than the agreement ASTMS has with another local GEC firm, AEI Semi-Conductors. Bill Brett, ASTMS divisional organizer in the East Midlands, that the union had been said negotiating for eight months success for the same without redundancy which agreement applies in most GEC companies.

He added: 'Despite the fact that one member has been made redundant, Dorman Diesels now refuse to negotiate, arguing that dancy is no large-scale redun.

there With the greater numbers of pickets at Dorman's, the police have been out in force at the gate, a development which one picket, who is also an AUEW member, described as 'unprece- dented' in Lincoln. A further 230 redundancies at all levels in the factory are to be announced in three week's time with the completion of an order by the made Pakistan government. day May 13 The eight-page youth paper which leads the fight against the Tory government, for the right to work, in factories, schools and the dole on queues. for one year