Workers Press no. 762

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NIXON RISKS

NUCLEAR WAR

DAILY OR

PRESIDENT Nixon's decision to mine the ports of North Vietnam means that American imperialism is prepared to risk nuclear war rather than acknowledge defeat in South-East Asia. The South Vietnamese puppet regime is now on the edge of complete col- lapse with its armies breaking up, 'defeatist' sacked by the generals government. The workers and peasants of Vietnam have within their immediate grasp the victory which was snatched from them by the Geneva agreement of 1954. Behind the latest war moves is the desperate crisis of US and world capital- ism. It would be suicidal for the working class to ignore or underestimate the real dangers. Nixon and his advisers under- stand that a total victory for the people of Vietnam would strengthen the working class in every capitalist country against their own ruling class. youth Already thousands of and students have demonstrated against Nixon's decision and the police have shot and seriously wounded one of them. What is necessary in every country is for the working-class movement to be mobilized A JUDGEMENT on whether the Transport and General Workers' Union will be required to disci- pline or dismiss its shop stewards will be given tomorrow by the National Industrial Relations Court. This was announced at yester- day's court hearing by the presi- dent, Sir John Donaldson.

T&GWU is • The answering charges arising from contempt the blacking of containers on Liverpool docks. The court has said the union will not face further penalties for disobedience of the order to stop the blacking. But it could face a further instruction on the action it must take against shop stewards.

The union has argued that it is not responsible for shop stewards who act outside union instructions. Already this line of argument has exposed stewards to attacks. Today in the Court the first case brought against a shop steward will be heard when the chairman of the Hull docks shop committee, stewards Walter Cunningham, will be named by a road haulage firm. Keeping up • Full Court story Page 12.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

in millions to stop the imperialist escala- tion of the war. Only this the Vietnamese can save people from mass destruction and from a sell-out through secret diplomacy.

There Nixon's Is speculauon everywnere about motives. The middle-class cynics who write in the press and inhabit the Houses of Parliament can afford such speculation; the working class cannot! Mass action to stop the imperialists is urgent; speculation breeds inactivity and leaves Nixon's hands Tree. Ever since the decisions last August to world the monclary arcements the danger of extreme reaction and world war has accelerated. Those decisions were necessary because of the great strength of the working States, class in the United forcing 'inflationary" settlements in the steel and motor industries, following on the France, struggles in Italy, great Germany and Britain. The coming together of this strength, with that of the colonial peoples, strikes the death-knell for imperialism.

That why the IS latest escalaton resulted immediately in a severe weaken- ot the dollar unprecedented rise in the price of gold in the last two days. Speculators are anticipating a rush into gold as the dollar slumps.

TGWU

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·55,000 Keeping up with the Jones's 4p THURSDAY MAY 11, 1972 • No 762

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Ford M cut back Exclusiv Anyone in the working-class movement who thinks that, in face of such a crisis, imperialism will hesitate to use the H- bomb when it is considered the only re- sort, would be guilty of the ultimate irresponsibility. Inevitably, the Stalinist bureaucracy will stand in the way of every effective working- class action. They will respond to Nixon's threats by doing their utmost to impose a sell-out on the Vietnamese people.

The time to act is now! Only the inter- national solidarity working of the class, mobilized independently of the Kremlin bureaucracy and its secret diplomacy, can stop the imminent drift to large-scale war.

This means supporting in every possible way the victorious offensive of the Vietnam- ese forces against Saigon and the American imperialists. Any concession to Nixon would feed the appetites of a system hungry for war because of its insoluble crisis.

The British working class must play its part in the urgent struggle of the world's working class to mobilize every support for the Vietnamese workers and peasants. Demonstrations and expressions of opposition to the Nixon war measures, directed against the complicity of the Tory government, must be organized from every factory and trade union organization and from every section of the youth and students. Every victory by the Vietnamese people is a blow struck on behalf of the working class in Britain and every other country. Every blow struck against the Tory government is a blow which helps the people of Vietnam in struggle for liberation against US imperialism. AaLi

STEWARDS

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SPECIAL FEATURES

FRIDAY

Ford Motor Company plans to cut back on its British operation.

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SATURDAY

A drawing of Angela Davis in court, exclusive to Workers Press. The Angela Davis Trial: A report from our own correspondent at the court in California.

EMPLOYMENT

Secretary Maurice Macmillan inter- vened in the rail dispute late yesterday and called unions and British Rail management to his office. If the talks break down, a second work-to-rule will go into effect at midnight tonight.

The decision to stage another summit with all sides followed a lunchtime meeting of the Tory Cabinet. It had been widely thought that the government would go back to the National Industrial Relations Court to seek a com- pulsory ballot of the revised Jarratt pay award. Announcing the new talks in the Commons, Macmillan said: It is clearly important that once again I should seek to

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NCB to cut staff 10p.c. THE National Coal Board is to cut its white-collar staff by up to 10 per cent in the next 18 months, a spokesman for the board said yesterday. The cuts are part of the reorganization of the board's operations throughout Britain.

Between 2,500 and 3,000 white- collar jobs will be cut from the total of 30,000 non-industrial workers employed. The reductions are to be made in the rest of the 1972-1973 period.

workers press

NIXON RISKS

NUCLEAR WAR

DAILY OR

PRESIDENT Nixon's decision to mine the ports of North Vietnam means that American imperialism is prepared to risk nuclear war rather than acknowledge defeat in South-East Asia. The South Vietnamese puppet regime is now on the edge of complete col- lapse with its armies breaking up, 'defeatist' generals sacked by the government. The workers and peasants of Vietnam have within their immediate grasp the victory which was snatched from them by the Geneva agreement of 1954. Behind the latest war moves is the desperate crisis of US and world capital- ism. It would be suicidal for the working class to ignore or underestimate the real dangers. Nixon and his advisers under- stand that a total victory for the people of Vietnam would strengthen the working class in every capitalist country against their own ruling class. Already thousands of youth and students have demonstrated against Nixon's decision and the police have shot and seriously wounded one of them. What is necessary in every country is for the working-class movement to be mobilized A JUDGEMENT on whether the Transport and General Workers' Union will be required to disci- pline or dismiss its shop stewards given National Court. This was announced at yester- day's court hearing by the presi- dent, Sir John Donaldson.

• The T&GWU is answering from contempt charges arising the blacking of containers on Liverpool docks. The court has said the union will not face further penalties for disobedience of the order to stop the blacking. But it could face a further instruction on the action it must take against shop stewards.

The union has argued that it for shop not responsible stewards who act outside union instructions. Already this line of argument has exposed stewards to attacks. Today in the Court the first brought against shop case a steward will be heard when the chairman of the Hull docks shop stewards Walter committee, Cunningham, will be named by a road haulage firm. Keeping up • Full Court story Page 12.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDA

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE O

• BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

in millions to stop the imperialist escala- tion of the war. Only this can save the Vietnamese people from mass destruction and from a sell-out through secret diplomacy. There is speculation everywhere about Nixon's The middle-class cynics who motives. write in the press and inhabit the Houses of Parliament can afford such speculation; the working class cannot! Mass action to stop the imperialists is urgent; speculation breeds inactivity and leaves Nixon's hands free. Ever since the decisions last August to scrap the world monetary agreements, and world the danger of extreme reaction Those decisions were war has accelerated. necessary because of the great strength of the working class in the United States, forcing 'inflationary' settlements in the steel and motor industries, following on France, Italy, the great struggles in Germany and Britain. The coming together of this strength, with that of the colonial peoples, strikes the death-knell for imperialism.

That is why the latest escalation resulted immediately in a severe weaken- ing of the dollar and an unprecedented rise in the price of gold in the last two days. Speculators are anticipating a rush into gold as the dollar slumps.

TGWU

ping up with the Jones's

THURSDAY MAY 11, 1972

• No 762 • 4p

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SPEC

Ford M cut back Exclusiv Anyone in the working-class movement who thinks that, in face of such a crisis, imperialism will hesitate the H- bomb when it is considered the only re- would ultimate sort, be guilty of the irresponsibility. Inevitably, the Stalinist bureaucracy will stand in the way of every effective working- class action. They will respond to Nixon's threats by doing their utmost to impose a sell-out on the Vietnamese people.

The time to act is now! Only the inter- national solidarity class, of the + Workin remin mobilized independently of the bureaucracy and its secret diplomacy, can stop the imminent drift to large-scale war.

This means supporting in every possible way the victorious offensive of the Vietnam- ese forces against Saigon and the American imperialists. Any concession to Nixon would feed the appetites of a system hungry for war because of its insoluble crisis.

The British working class must play its part in the urgent struggle of the world's working class to mobilize every support for the Vietnamese workers and peasants. Demonstrations and expressions of opposition to the Nixon war measures, directed against the complicity of the Tory government, must be organized from every factory and trade union organization and from every section of the youth and students. Every victory by the Vietnamese people is a blow struck on behalf of the working class in Britain and every other country. Every blow struck against the Tory government is a blow which helps the people of Vietnam in struggle for liberation against US imperialism.

EREDEMTIABA

ANDS

SPECIAL FEATURES

FRIDAY

Ford Motor Company plans to cut back on its British operation.

Exclusive details

SATURDAY

A drawing of Angela Davis in court, exclusive to Workers Press. The Angela Davis Trial: A report from our own correspondent at the court in California.

EMPLOYMENT

Secretary Maurice Macmillan inter- vened in the rail dispute late yesterday and called unions and British Rail management to his office. If' the talks break down, a second work-to-rule will go into effect at midnight tonight.

The decision to stage another summit with all sides followed a lunchtime meeting of the Tory Cabinet. It had been widely thought that the government would go back to the National Industrial Relations Court to seek a com- pulsory ballot of : the revised Jarratt pay award. Announcing the new talks in the Commons, Macmillan said: 'It is clearly important that once again I should seek to

• TURN TO P. 12.

NCB to cut staff 10 p.c. THE National Coal Board is to cut its white-collar staff by up to 10 per cent in the next 18 spokesman for the months, a board said yesterday. The cuts are part of the board's reorganization of .the operations throughout Britain.

Between 2,500 and 3,000 white- collar jobs will be cut from the total of 30,000 non-industrial workers employed. The reductions are to be made in the rest of the 1972-1973 period,

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday May 11, 1972 Irish YS member is shot in Belfast JAMES DOHERTY, a mem- April 30 as he came out of time. As he left he was shot the Venice Crumlin three times from black ber of the Irish Young cafe in Rd. When he was admitted Vauxhall car which Socialists, yesterday was to hospital his condition was sped away. undergoing an emergency described as serious. shooting is believed operation at Belfast's Mater of the to be of a political nature, "The circumstances Hospital, Northern Ireland. in line with a spate of other shooting indicate that he was trailed. Jim (21) gunned being He shootings was had only selective down at 2 a.m. on in the cafe for a short Belfast area recently. Sunday been

AROUND THE WORLD

'Ostpolitik' watered CHANCELLOR Willy Brandt Rainer Brazel met the Soviet down ambassador yesterday yesterday assured the KIn= aulemor destag that the Soviet Union afterwards position but said accepted had an all-party there still confusion resolution which modifies the the situatioll Moscow and Warsaw treaties Yesterday morning, the Chris- tian Democrats moved to strike signed two years ago. the treaty debate from the but the agenda, house Brandt the acolda was opening split 259-259 and unde German the ratification of aebate on parliamentary rules the motion treaties, which are central to 'Ostpolitik' policy his so-called still not Wad of detente with the Soviet and dav werner the codosion wolle vote with the government over East European Stalinists.

the treaties. all-party resolution said Sovie concession the treaty did not create legal important because leaves the foundation for . the present bora- West German government free to els _culove. salutal Ger. challence nothing in the treaties would many and the post-war frontiers affect rights the US, East Germany and Britain, France and the USSR in Poland. clary. The Polish government wanted. The resolution was drafted on

BRANDT

Tuesday meeting of settle the tuture of the Oder Niesse frontier once and for all parliamentary leaders attended by through the treaties. the Soviet ambassador Kremlin had valentin Falin. accepted the revisions proposed The vital to the treaties the meeting. Throughout the night there soviet government's plans for a Christian Democratic leader European Security Conference. were concuing rumours a cola Japanese dockers Hostages held for peasant demands in 4th walk-out

JAPANESE

dockers

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seamen's union has re- than 200 peas- hostage for nearly began a five-day strike Man alls

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over 1our hours. their handle car- courthouse in the yesterday vesse s demand- were goes wanish. Chilean town of Mepilla, 36 fourth walk-out in ing release OI monthly Tues- Santiago, peasants awaiting trial. back de- wallls ucal month-to Increase day ana neid The loCal mands for higher The 36 peasants wer 22,000 yen (£20-£27.5). judge and 17 court offi- wages and security of arrested after occupvin Professor banished a local ranch in protest employment. gant the The 80,000 dockers Inity to implement are demanding lallure molemen

SECURITY

police loannis Pesmazoglou: to monthly promised agrarian yes- security forms. 18,000 yen (£22.5) arrested ronow them former deputy of Gernce headquarters. He too have lan' They have accused Bank will be banished. gement ay offer ran the local judiciary who has On Tuesday, the gov- to 12,000 protested ing from being dominated by the against ernment said it was dis- yen' (£11.25-£15). _the banishment landlords. of seven Athenians the society for remote villages. Greek the study The occupation ended Ine strike colncides of which after with 26-day-old sea- According to his wife. problems. • coverer

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president, men's professor had rushed from stoppage. police called their Clais house yesterday morn- for having deviated from the capital talk with to The 160,000-strong ing and asked Professor its original aims. the peasants. Battery men return Monday WORKERS at the Birmingham was a bone of contention in the Battery and Metal Company meeting. have points still to off nine-week Ener strike yesterday and agreed to be decided an our necolate reasonable committee nave a return from next Monday.

platform to fight on now 300 AUEW members nine votes were Kieran Quinn, a fitter's mate, said aiter the meeting: ''m not cast against the acceptance happy with it. But I suppose it's £3 deal involving a rise a start. The union is on firmer £2 footing now to fight inside men. 1OI the women workers and one day's

WOIKS.

extra holiday.

AUEW

said: Personally I think cos poor.

The rises are pavable from the date of resumed working. would liked to have addition, the firm sand asted rise backdated. would like to improved holiday allowances, details of which have seen these men say they nave wouldn't go back until it's back- still to be negotiated. dated.! those who voted Among are men aiscussing united march back through the was JOCa

AUEW

branch president Alf gates Monday the on show Fellows. He said: Battery battle is not vet over want the company been on strike ane men to think we were unanimous in since March 15 in of a to It's claim based return work. a reason on national they able settlement. bui would claim Until vester- chauncens the not come across day's meeting the company had With The Birmingham Battery men when they were on picket duty amount to the women, and that made no offer to the men. THE SWING to the right in the new Italian parliament is a sharp warning to the entire European working class. It demonstrates that without revolutionary leadership, the working class is exposed in the present period to great dangers, created by the treachery: of reformism and Stalinism.

Last Sunday's General Election has produced substantial gains for the fascist Italian Social Move ment, led by Giorgio Almirante, a former member of Mussolini's murder squads. The party doubled its Senate representation and took 56 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, compared with 30 in the last parliament. It is now the fourth largest party in Italy.

The alliance of the Communist Party and the Proletarian Socialists, however, lost 21 seats in the Chamber, largely because of a big decline in the Proletarian Socialists' vote.

The Italian election was the first major parlia mentary test of the new situation resulting from President Nixon's economic measures of August 15 last year. These have disrupted the boom-time relations between the classes in every major capitalist country, forcing every employing class to try and take back what the working class has won.

The election was held against a background of falling investment, a decline in industrial production and rising described by leading in- unemployment, dustrialist Renato Lombardi as an 'evident recession'.

It was this crisis which brought about the downfall of Emilio Colombo's centre-left coalition government at the beginning of this year. Colombo faced demands from big business for tough action against the workers who have displayed great will to fight in the big strike struggles of the last three years.

The Stalinist leaders of the trade unions have held back these struggles to purely economic demands, hoping for a place in a Popular Front coalition with 'left' Christian Democrats.

The Com- munist Party's reformist policies have not produced a swing to the left in Italy, despite the powerful spon- taneous upsurge of workers' struggles.

The Party supports the Common Market, is not for Italian withdrawal from NATO and has dropped demands for nationalization of major industries from its programme. But these efforts to conciliate the middle class will not win the CP a place in a new coalition. Despite their proclaimed opposition to. collaborating with the fascists, the Christian Demo: crats, with the largest parliamentary representation, are certain to lean to the right. The fascists have already indicated they will support such a government in parliament. The new Italian parliament can only throw up another government of crisis. But it will be a govern- ment determined to attack the working class more vigorously than ever.

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SA FAIR DAYS WORK

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FIRM HAVE THEIR WAY

en they were on picket duty

Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill Islington protest as Labour votes

BY MARTIN MEYER

SEVERAL hundred council and private tenants demonstrated outside Islington Town Hall on Tuesday night in protest against the council's decision to implement the Housing Finance Bill. There were continuous chants of 'Out with the Bill! outside the hall, and inside nearly 100 tenants were ejected from the public gallery by a strong force of police.

Two weeks ago the council, which apart from Tory aldermen is 100 per cent Labour-con- six trolled, split 28-18 in favour of implementing the Bill when it becomes law.

The majority argue that they can only try to soften the blow because if they openly defy it they will lose a fl‡m housing subsidy and each member of the council will be liable to a surcharge of £500. All the speakers ing tone outing, enaich which was organized by the Islington Council and Private Tenants' condemned Association, this attitude as cowardly. Harry Weston, chairman of the Association said: 'This Bill is be a landlords' charter, a going to landlords' bonanza. It is going to decide how poor we be. The rent rebate scheme will are going to be intolerable. It will mean that any wage increases won by workers will be negated by loss of rebates.

"To begin to fight this Bill, we must first fight our own council. How can any Labour council say that it is best to implement this Bill? These men are nothing more than collaborators and Quislings.

They should resign and make way for those who are prepared to fight.' Victor Cordwell one of the minority group of Tenants' councillors and also secretary of the Association emphasized afterwards that one of the main aims of the Bill was to crucify the trade unions. rebate so the struggle of unions to increase wages would be simply neutralized by cutting the rebate.

An emergency resolution from the minority group on the council calling for non-co-operation with the Bill was finally ruled out of order in the early hours Wednesday morning, after the of demonstrators had gone home.

The minority group will now be arranging an to discuss council meeting Bill emergency the publicly. OW

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May 11, Slough Community p.m.

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Centre, Farnam Rd. Speakers, Frank Tomany, ex-convenor

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Brian Omes Faulkner. Bailey, AUEW (in a personal capa- city). The Industrial Relations Act. GLASGOW: Tuesday May 16, 7.30 p.m. Woodside Hall, St Georae's Cross. Glasgow. The Industrial Relations Act.

Recall the TUC protest T-sh A Above: new Below: Victor Cordwell, Expel the traitors councillor and tenants' Make the Tories resian tion leader CROYDON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe LUTON: Thursday May 11, 8 p.m.

St John's Ambulance Hall.

Lea Rd. 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). WILLESDEN: Monday May 15, 8 Labour Hall. p.m. Trades and Willesden High Rd, NW10....

An Islington tenant uses a newspaper-m

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

BRITISH-LEYLAND Motor Corporation, Britain's largest motor manufacturer, has been warned it faces a bleak future after 1974 unless radical policy changes are made. test T-shirt. This is the sobering advice well, Labour for Lord Stokes, Leyland's associa- chairman, from Dun and Bradstreet and the Economist Advisory Group. Their findings are contained in "The Motor Industry', a survey, produced by led by a team Graham Bannock, former econo- mist with Ford and Rover.

The main recommendation is that Leyland should cut back its product and range concentrate on fewer markets. Although Leyland can claim 45 per cent of the vehicle sales in Britain, the company is 'relatively weak' overseas. This weakness could be restored by a link with a foreign manufacturer, 'possibly Japanese'.

Within hours of the report being Workers Press, spaper-megaphone to voice his protest published, Leyland issued strong denial that it was contem- with the plating any tie-up Japanese motor industry. A spokesman said: 'Much of the information which the on report is based is out of date and consequently is often irrele- vant and occasionally inaccurate' Despite the official denials, there is no doubt that the com- pany is dangerously vulnerable to overseas pressures, particularly from the Japanese. Only a few days ago the rumour was being punted around the stock markets that Leyland was engaged in merger talks with Chrysler, the General part Motors group. The report also highlights the heavy dependence Leyland has on the recovery of its Austin-Morris divisions for future growth and viability. It adds: 'In the absence of changes in its policy, its outlook is unfavourable compared with that of its overseas competitors.

'The corporation does not have the management resources for its diversification, nor is it likely to want to divert scarce capital resources to this purpose.'

ors Press, Thursday May 11, 1972 PAGE 3

BY IAN YEATS

WITHIN 24 hours, Com- munist Party shop stewards at Glasgow's Clydebank shipyard will ring down the final curtain on their ten- month long saga of be- trayal at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. The stewards, union officials and executives of the Houston-based Marathon Manufacturing Co., are expected to reach final agreement on the takeover of the yard by tonight. The stewards have already agreed 'in principle' to the Texas oll rig firm's conditions of work- ing which include an American- style pay and productivity deal and a four-year, no-strike pledge.

The Stalinists were thought to tures to a contract leader Danny McGarvey felt free to leave Glasgow for York on 'other business'. Before he went, McGarvey told 'With the goodwill reporters: already expressed by local offi- cials and shop stewards, we'll find our way round the toughest snags.' And Eldon Muss, senior Mara- thon vice-president, said he expected no 'stumbling blocks' in reaching a deal with the unions.

Maintaining to the bitter end the fiction: that an uncompro- mising fight had been waged to defend the 'not a man down the road' policy they began with, Stalinist Clydebank convenor James Reid said on Tuesday: 'The real talks on the vital issues start tomorrow. These issues are redundancies and dis- putes procedures. The stewards are demanding that none of the existing 2,300 strong workforce lose their jobs as a result of the takeover.

Marathon want to sack 300.

But whatever agreement is reached about these 300 ree had remains these 30en jobs collapsed, Clydebank employed about 3,200 men. the Stalinists' 'fight', During 900 jobs have already been axed And under the proposed deal, some of those left in the yard will almost certainly be fired.

Marathon is prepared to guar- antee the size of the workforce, but it cannot guarantee that the men presently employed have the skills it will need to build oil rigs. The only other stumbling block to agreement is whether Mara- thon will agree to the rules of disputes procedure of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions applying under their management. With all sides, including the Tories and the liquidator, so obviously confident, it is unlikely that either of these issues will prevent the Stalinists from clinch- ing a deal with Marathon before tonight's deadline.

PAGE 4 Workers Preas, Thursday May 11, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

A militant power worker, that he is no clearly shown longer a suitable person to act expelled by the Edin- as a trade unions' side member burgh district committee of the works committee. Amalgamated I shall know the be glad to what action you propose to Union of Engineering take on this matter. Workers for backing the Yours sincerely, R. ANSTY'.

Did the district miners' strike, has been committee tell Ansty to mind his own reinstated. business? Ron Brown, The man, Did the district committee local Labour councillor, has

AUEW

tell Leslie the that now been fined £5 by the fully supported the miners' district committee and had his fight for a living wage and that, right to hold office as a shop in fact, the union completely steward withdrawn. endorsed solidarity action with the miners? Nothing of the kind.' The district met shortly after receiving the letter and passed a resolution that 'this district committee recom- mended to the executive com- The most astonishing feature that Brother R. Brown mittee of his treatment is that the be expelled from membership district 'evidence' committee's of this union .. In other words the district was based on a letter from the management's chief personnel committee enthusiastically officer at the South of Scotland carried out the Board's wishes.

Electricity Board

(SSEB).

Minutes from the meeting Workers Press has obtained state: copies of the internal docu- 'DO [district organizer] ments which factually trace the reported further of references history of Brown's dismissal of members employed in from the SSEB and his subse- establishments

SSEB

various quent expulsion from the the Division No. within union. making of the complaint We reveal the contents of of actions Bro. R. Brown in the letters because they provide press statements and TV inter- a sharp lesson in the tactics of views purporting to be speak- the right wing in the trade ing behalf of members on union movement. division throughout the em- On February 16, three days in this industry, this ployed before the miners' strike direct being a misrepresent- ended, the SSEB chief person- ation. nel officer, Mr R. Ansty, wrote to Mr E. Leslie, the AUEW's organizer in divisional Edin- burgh. The letter was headed: "Mr Ron Brown-Edinburgh' and began: I wrote to advise you that Concern was expressed by the Board have been increas- DC member, particularly in ingly concerned at the continu- regard to the misrepresentation unconstitutional activities in the electricity supply of the above mentioned mem- industry in this and division, ber of union who is your at the false view presented to a trade unions' presently side the other trade unions and member of the Edinburgh general public, of our union's works committee and is in fact policies during the present coal chairman of that committee in industry dispute.' this current year'. The motion to expel Brown The letter went on to des- was moved by Bro. A. Malcolm cribe the "unconstitutional and seconded by Bro. J. Mc- activities'. Nichol. 'As you are aware, Mr Brown After appealing the to of the employees

AUEW

was one headquarters, Brown with unofficial associated an had his membership union

"SSEB

letter issued to all restored. Brown and another workers" exhorting them to dismissed power worker, Rab take strike action in support appealing Jeffrey, are now of the and to join miners through procedure to get their miners' picket lines. jobs back. In addition Mr Brown per- Two questions still remain sonally issued these letters in about the Brown incident: Kirkcardine Power Station • Is the district committee to February 11, 1972, be allowed to take away a shop triday, where he was observed to be steward's credentials without a between 2.45 fight from the rank and file?

present p.m. and 4.30 p.m. having entered • Is the executive council of the station without permission.

the union going to let right- I would also confirm that, wing district committees con- having regard to all the circum- tinue to purge militants at the stances, the Board are of the explicit request of manage- opinion that Mr Brown has ment? tricly Board petent mather sense healer and walted to lettin 16th February, 9972 NI. I. Lendio, Diviolornl Organiuor, 1 Blentiolin Plaçe,

LINDUACHI,

Doar Mr. Leslie, Ms. Ron Brown - Foinburph Distrlet I writo to ndving you that the Board lave boon incronsingl conunrned at the continuin, unvonctitutional aotivitioa of the abov monis anai mandar of wana inion aba in nonsantlu a Mada Isonal nia bido momber of the Worka Conmittoo.

I shall be «lad to know what aotion you propose to tako on thie mattex. • Youra oinoorcly, Plundences: Chief Personnel

On Thursday afternoon, April 27, in a distant South American Repub- lic, thousands switched on their radios to listen to the following presi- dential eulogy of the Carabineros — the crack section of the nation's police force — on the 45th anniversary of their creation: 'Not for nothing is the of the Carabineros "Order and the Fatherland" moral based Order, authority, in the correct carry- ing out of duties, which in no way implies the negation of hierarchy. 'In fact, you have a sense of discipline and hierarchy which grows on the conception that this government has of social discipline and the use of pub- lice force.' The president then presented television-set to the Cara- bineros who make up his palace guard and received in return a frame of 15 photos of his personal guards. The centre piece of this moving tribute to the armed forces of the state was that epigone of the Stalinists, Salvador Allende. In the days before, Santiago, the Chilean capital, has seen first thousands of right-wingers and then thousands of workers demonstrate on its streets as towards the country moves major class confrontations.

In such circumstances, Allende's embrace of the Carabineros is a sign that, with all his rhetoric about Chilean socialism, he is prepared to some of look the most to reactionary forces in the capi- talist state machinery of Chile.

The Carabineros were created by the first administra- tion of General Carlos Ibañez in del Campo in 1927, and, homage to their founder, their training school still bears his name. Formed on the basis of the Carabineros of the Chilean and different regional army police bodies, they have always been one of the best organized and modern sections of the Chilean police force. When in need, Chilean capitalism has always been able to rely on the Carabineros to repress and movements of workers peasants. Only recently at the end of March, 70 families of 'Manuel Rodriguez' Committee in Chil- lan were brutally beaten up and moved off the unoccupied land which they had taken over. It was five o'clock in the morning when the settlers and their wives and children began Workers Press, Thuraday May 11, 1972 PAGE 8

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to put up makeshift homes on the site in the Francia Avenue.

Within half an hour, they were violenty interrupted the mobile section of the Cara- bineros; the families were back on the street and 17 squatters, including two women, were imprisoned. Among those imprisoned 71-year-old was the squatter Jose Hidalgo Cruces. Despite his age, he was one of those beaten most cruelly in the police station. A week after l1s release he began to sutter intense stomach pains: within 24 hours ke Under Allende, the Cara- bineros keep their anti- working-class traditions!

When Ibañez took power in 1927, he created the military Carabineros to wage all opposition his war dictatorship. continually They raided the trade and workers' unions organizations. ponlical They know they still have and the to fear from Allende Communist Chilean and Party. In 1938, Ibañez, i who backed the Chilean Nazi one possible oligarchy' presidential candi- it sainted de Care a dear on to outed of the o ning In Chite wing. Above: Allende with miners.

date for the Popular Front.

The Popular Front candi- date was in the end Aguirre Cerda, the leader of the Radi- cal backino was ex-dictator backing ex-dictator Ibañez. The reason for the support became clear. In 1941, soon the Popular Front Minister the Interior Arturo Olavarria Bravo obliged the Jewish com- munity of Santiago to pay for the installation of the city's traffic light system. Olavarria then thought out a plan to have all Jewish im- migrants engaged in commerce deported Tenore southern province of Chiloe. history this anti- of June Semitic Popular Frontism throws some light on the cor- of rupt opportunism police- loving "socialist' Allende. Olavarria was the Popular campaign Front manager in 1938. After the he wall organized anti-communist with rifles and machine In 1952 guns. he served as campaign manager for Carlos Ibañez. In 1964, i he acted as campaign manager for the Socialist - Communist - Radi- cal candidate . . . Salvador Allende! Allende's celebration of the Ibañez Carabineros re- minder that 'Don Salva' has another face, obscured behind demagogic speeches about peaceful road to socialism, which defends capitalist law and order-those armed bodies ot men whose business it is to the Allende masses repress Clalins to represent.

PAGE 6 Workars Pross, Trusaday May 11, 1972

BY BEN JONES

freedom under the famed te understand that the relation- of the time. That is to say the Without freedom under liberty of the employer not to ship of the law, and particu- 'freedom under the law'. the law, observed Sir larly the judges, trade have a union in opposition to need to know what that means John Donaldson, Presi- him, and the liberty of the and for whose benefit it is unions has been a tense one, and that it has been governed individual worker to starve if intended to exist. dent of the National In- Freedom is not an absolute from Streng or the casa orces tha so chose, take year he but not to dustrial Relations Court, action to alleviate his condi concept, and freedom under on March 28, 1972, 'there the law less The class identifications," rather tion. even so. What a would only be tyranny? law changes. man any concept of Girls Dy abstract justice. could do yesterday, he may not That was an observation of In a case of 1721, the judge- be allowed to do today. It Before some importance, because he depends Industrial ment said: whether he is Act, was explaining his reasons for "The refusal to work was free within the law today to 'experts" field imposing the first fine on the 'industrial relations' used often not the crime, but the con- do Transport and General Work- But law is not made by some to say that the most significant spiracy to raise wages. ers' for of union contempt It is true it does not appear aspect of those relations neutral force standing outside court. It is made by a their lack of regulation by law.

by the record that the wages our society. His his observation, in demanded were excessive, representing class It is true that there had not judgement in the railway been any attempt at a codifica- that is not material because it and it has to follow unions' case imposing a 14-day may be given in evidence.'

that becomes condi- tion of all the aspects of the 'cooling-off' period is law into one Act, and These enactments tional, can- that were not similar He said importance. der them not be neutral in areas such as some areas of rights permitted repealed unti and an that without the rule of law by assessment under discussion, the legislature remained under was one there would be freedom, no where it intervenes the obscure — dependent as they made as late as 1801. But in would only there be licence early between were on interpretation by the unions nevertheless struggle employers for a few powerful persons to and workers. judges. leaderth tess, ink would started to become established their will on the impose in the form of friendly socie misleading there had been few Acts ot that The mystique of the law majority. important since the Court was particularly ties and ruling class- has always been that it is the apprehensive of the results of cases glance at yay legal text embodiment of justice but it for the first time directly inter- the French Revolution and the A glance at is not. It is primarily, in this negotiation Industrial Revolution book covering the subject will society, the embodiment of the between and manage- responded by passing the Com- make that clear. They are there right to private property. The ment, and was prohibiting the 1799 bination in abundance and are a Acts of and sign- from carrying often-quoted phrase possession unions out 1800, prohibiting all combina- post to the struggles of the actions it had—until the pass- points of the law' is nine working class over the years, tions of workmen to regulate ing of the Industrial Relations orrect and it can only make the of their conditions its achievements and its set- work context of thi Act-been their right to carry the backs which have always led the old legislation had supremacy of private property.

VuL. petered out, informal attention Tar vane decision of That being so, it is easy to " The Ta What he said raises import- Vale had sometimes been paid to 1901 (discussed in Workers the views of the friendly societies in these matters), and Press on May 6), at the time the greatest legal set-back the even attending meetings for this unions had endured, was the purpose was crime. their ales Union Employers' associations prelude were Trades also banned. of the passıny Act of 1906 which was their The Combination Acts failed greatest legal advance. prevent combinations workers, in spite of the It is important, therefore, to crim- look back at the views of the inal sanctions. In 1824 they the had to be repealed. The judges in Cres occu larly up to the General Strike) of that year, and one of 1825 permitted as expressed their judge- but in combinations to find out what they for retained penal sanctions threats, mean meedom and individual liberty, when intimidation violence, molestation and obstruction. I1 as they often have done. was for the judges to interpret It the meaning of these words.

is again no surprise to find that From 1349, there was wage- in some cases. their interpreta- tion was somewhat wide. In a fixing in this country. The case in 1861, the judge said: Black Death depleted the lab- I think that several work- left the survi- our force and men have no right to combine vors. in relatively strong to procure the discharge of per- position against their employ- sons obnoxious to them by so the Acts of 1349 and threatening leave the at the pre employment at once in a body, Black Death level and imposed unless those persons are forth- Perwork for those was eerusing with discharged. It is a matter work for those wages. of common learning, that what Over the next years, singly he may a man mav ac those enactments were not combine with others to do extended and strengthened, the prejudice of another. with the justices of the .. [The Act of 1825] fixing the rates for all work- all by repealing previous men. Combinations of work- the subject, statutes on men acting in defiance of the to me have re- appears TO enactments were illegal, and established the common law as the men were guilty of criminal affecting combinations of mas- conspiracy. It is not surprising to find lers ana workmen the judges hot on the concept Another judge held in 1851, of individual liberty that was unlawful for in cases persons to combine to induce others, even by peaceful per- suasion, to leave their employ- ment with the object of forcing improve their employer conditions. A further result of such decisions was that peace- ful picketing was illegal.

Yet another judge held in 1867 that the publication by strikers of advertisements ask- ing others not to take work with an employer until the dispute during this period, that the Tolpuddle Martyrs received seven years transport- ation for contravening a statute 1797, which prohibited 'seditious 'unlawful oaths' for purposes'. The Prime Minister of the time, Lord Melbourne, was anxious to discourage agricultural growing trade unionism. The area in which the unions encountered the greatest disapproval from the judges during this period, was that of the unions' civil status. Ther were considered to be unlawful bodies, and the law would not be prepared to protect their funds. In 1867, a union tried to bring a prosecution against a branch treasurer who had The judge embezzled funds. held it had no right to do so.

Decisions such as these laid the seeds for the decision in the Taff Vale case, in 1901. The first great Trade Union Act was passed in 1871. It con- ferred partial legal status, and made clear that unions would not be liable to criminal prosecution because their purposes might be in unlawful restraint of trade. Within four years, however, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act of 1875 was passed, making breach of contract a criminal for workers in the offence public supply of water and gas, where the loss of supply was These likely to result. the addition with provisions, of electricity, still apply.

The wording of this Act also appeared to confirm the legality picketing. The peaceful judges, however, thought other- wise. In the famous phrase of a judge in a case in 1896.

'You cannot make a strike effective without doing more than is lawful.' The Act of 1875 was also intended to exclude conspiracy from trade disputes, but again the judges thought differently.

They continued to find unions liable in civil conspiracy, hold- ing that the Act referred only to criminal conspiracy. This the famous case of led to directy Lathem Tand alle and also directly to the decision. In the first case, it was held that the officers of a trade union were liable in damages for combining , to injure a butcher threatening to withdraw labour from one of unless his customers stopped the dealing with butcher. The men were trying to get the dismissal of non- union labour employed by the butcher. In their judgements in the House of Lords, the judges made their positions clear. Lord Brampton said: "The legislature in conferring upon the trades unions such privileges as are contained in Trades Union Acts of 1871 and 1876, does not em- power them to do more than make rules for the regulation of their own conduct and to provide for their own mutual assistance . . . and most cer- tainly it has conferred not upon any association or mem- ber of it a licence to obstruct or interfere with the freedom of any other person in carrying on his business or bestowing his labour in the way he thinks fit. 'It is at all times a painful thing for any individual to be the object of hatred spite and ill will of anyone who seeks to do him harm. But that is nothing compared to danger and alarm created by a conspiracy formed by a number of unscrupulous enemies acting under illegal compact, an together and separately, as often as opportunity occurs regardless of law, and actuated by malevolence to injure him and all who stand by him. Such a conspiracy is a powerful and dangerous engine, which in this case has, I think, been em- ployed by the defendants for the perpetration of ruinous oppression.' Lord Lindley was even more direct: "That they acted as they did in furtherance what they considered the interests of the union men may be fairly assumed in their favour ..

but that is all that can be said for them... • A combination not to work is one thing, and is lawful. A combination to prevent others from working by annoying them if they do it is a very different thing, and is prima facie unlawful. Again, not to work oneself is lawful so long as one keeps off the poor 'rates, but to order men h Top: Police charge during the Union Card of the cordwainers, 1844.

not to work when they are is work another willing to thing.' He added that: 'Your Lordships are asked . to destroy that individual liberty which our law so anxiously guards.'

Lord Lindley, still concerned about personal liberty, was one of the judges who heard the Taff Vale case. In that case, he said: I entirely repudiate the notion that the effect of the Trades Union Act is to legalize trades unions and to confer on them the right to acquire and hold property, and at the same time to protect the unions from legal proceedings if their managers or agents acting for the whole body violate the Workara Proza, Thuraday May 11, 1972 PAGE 7 and barons because the defence rested upon the law which they administered; it is not possible for the courts to do so when the legislature alters the laws as to destroy liberty for they can only administer law. The legislature make cannot evil good, but it can make not actionable... I regret the because I think it conclusion, inflicts a cruet hardship on the plaintiff and it is no consol- ation to him that far greater doubtless hardship will be inflicted in the future on persons even more innocent than himself the conduct of the defendants is unjustifiable molestation of the and and improper in- excusable interference with the ordinary rights of man's citizenship", but those rights have been cut away and the remedy for them destroyed by the legislature' It is probable that judges have not often considered their decisions in class terms, but the more sensitive them have sometimes been aware of some of the problems. In 1923, Lord Justice Scrutton wrote an article, which is quoted in part Professor Wedderburn's in book "The Worker and the Law'. In it, he said: "The habits you are trained in, the people with whom you lead having mix, class of ide to certain ideas of such a nature that when you have to deal with other ideas, you do not give as sound and accurate judgements as you would wish.

This is one of the difficulties at present with labour. Labour says "Where are your impartial judges? They all move in the same circle as the employers, and they are all educated and nursed in the same ideas How the employers. can labour man or a trade unionist justice?" get impartial It is very difficult sometimes to be that you have put your- self into a thoroughly impartial between two dis- position putants, one of your own class and one not of your class.'

How much more impossible then, for judges to deal with a the working situation where class threatens the security of the ruling class with 'imparti- ality'. Lord Donaldson's words are the quotations in relevant to this article, for they come from National that tradition. The Court is Industrial Relations becoming a government wage- fixing agency. It is not so very from far removed the early described the legislation at beginning of this article.

The uneasy peace made by the judges during some of the years of the 1930s -when after General defeat the Strike the unions presented no great threat-and during the post-war inflationary boom are tradition The legal over. is reasserting itself. English law is a law of precedent. It might well be that we will hear the judgement following being quoted again in the future. It was made on May 11, 1926, the eighth General day the Strike: 'The General Council [of the General Strike, 1926. Above: Trade Trades Union, Congress] has called so-called General a rights of other people.' Strike and the defendants have And it went The SO on. kindly explained the to me judges continued the battle for nature of that strike which has liberty. individual After the been so called. "The so-called General Strike of the Trades Disputes passing Act of 1906—the Act reversing Trades called by the Union Taff Vale decision- the -the Congress is illegal and persons then Lord Chief Justice heard inciting or taking part in it 1908 in which union a case in are not protected by the Trades members threatened industrial 1906. No Disputes Act trade action unless their employer alleged dispute has been or dismissed an employee who had shown to exist in any of the failed to pay a union fine im- unions affected, except in the posed earlier some years miners' and no trade case, breach of rule. The man was dispute does or • can exist sued the union dismissed and Union between the Trades for damages. His Lordship felt Congress on the one hand and that the legislature had let the other. the government on individual liberty down: The orders of the Trades Union It for the Congress above referred to are was possible therefore i.. and to " unlawful. the courts in former years defendants are acting illegally defend individual liberty in obeying them...? against the aggression of kings

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday May 1 Pages from Railway History 1 Part one. If there ever was a maxim to characterize 100 years of National Union of Railwaymen's leadership it would be 'when the advances enemy we retreat'. Not that the 12 general secretaries of the NUR and their successive executive com- mittees have themselves seen their decisions as retreats or their employers as the enemy.

J. M. Thomas: Joined MacDonald At least one general secre- tary, J. H. Thomas joined 'the enemy' by accepting a post in Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition government. Habitually described as a conservative by nature, Sidney Greene has no sense of political inconsistency in being a director of British capital- ism's financial heart—the Bank of England. What today's pundits call moderation always characterized the leadership of a union founded with the patronage of a millionaire brewer and a philanthropic clergyman; a union whose leaders saw their role as repre- senting to their servants masters with whose fate they ultimately, inextricably were, involved; a craft union whose leaders in the beginning could count on the active sympathies of members of the ruling class equally outraged by the excesses of brute capitalism.

Over the years the union's aims have changed little from the objectives set out in Rule 2 agreed by 62 delegates at the first conference of the Amal- gamated Society of Railway Servants held in June 1872: "That the objects of this society shall be the improve- ment of the general condition of all classes of railway • em- ployees, temporary assistance when thrown out of employ- ment through causes over which they have no control, legal assistance when necessary, and to provide a superannu- ation allowance to old and disabled members. And the union's first general secretary, George Chapman, day May 11, 1972 istory 1839-1972 by Ian Yeats.

wrote in the annual report for 1872: I would take this opportun- of ity of stating that the council lip is decidedly opposed to strikes, he the council being of the opinion that if railwaymen will only come forward and be firmly united, they would gain that to which they are entitled with- out having recourse to any cessation of work.' A combination of friendly society benefits and seeking to do the best they can for rail- way employees has unvaryingly dominated the policy first of the ASRS and, from March 29, 1913, the National Union of Railwaymen. election of railway The MPs within the Labour Party- in 1909 there were 50 of them-has never been more than an extension of the representational attitude characteristic of reformism.

It was the reformist belief, that the market in which including railways, industries, rise and fall is no part of the concern of trade unions, that led to the wholesale acceptance of Beeching after 1961. Reformism permitted the NUR leaders to accept pay rises often less than a half or two-thirds the figure their members demanding were every year since nationalization on January 1, 1948. It also led the NUR to accept a series of wage cuts in 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 to 'help the railway companies.

It was reformism which led J. H. Thomas to shift heaven and earth to break the General Strike of 1926 and with it a decisive threat bourgeois order to which he was tied hand and foot. The same J. H. Thomas had welched Triple the on Industrial Alliance in April 1921 rather than see it turn into a threat to the capitalist state. Previously • Thomas settled the 1919 national rail strike on terms no better than the rail- waymen had before they with- drew their labour rather than allow the spirit of 1917 in Russia dominate the working class movement in Britain.

It was reformism inherent in his every action which led the executive committee to

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call for a return to work in 1911 empty handed after the government has flung down the gauntlet of civil war. This same reformism led to the rout of successive all- grades pay campaigns in the companies 1890s by railway determined not to give an inch.

It was reformism which re- sulted in the dismal failure of the nine-hour day campaign of the 1880s which consisted of little more than sending memos to the bosses-which they ignored. is reformism which Sir Sidney Greene (top) present of the NUR: "we are lan allowed Sir Sidney F. Greene abidino and hope we can find a formula that can meet the situation JP and 'natural and satisfy the court.! George Chapman (below), first general secre COLDC Vaue tary of

ASRS:

'If railwaymen will only forward to say on April 22, 1972, after Would without having recourse to any he with the leaders of the two which Iney are entied cessation of work.' other railway unions had agreed 'with great reluctance' to Tory Industrial obey the Relations Court: I am vers concerned about satisfying the Court. We are all law-abiding organizations we hope that we can find a formula that can meet the situ- ation and satisfy the court.

The history of the NUR— of the three rail. the largest unions-is the history of way Te onese But it has not been without cost Membership is low 200,000 not least because was co the railway the union the down railway labour force from 641,000 in 1948 to 242,030 today. Mem. bership has also always reflected the disillusionment of its members with one retreat after another.

ASLEF,

the footplatemen's association, formed to preserve sectional craft character in its 1879, fared little has better than the NUR and on April 30 after their leaders surrendered Tories' to use National Industrial Relations talk of a breakaway Court, rife, was especially Wallul Southern militant Region drivers. history of both unions has been punctuated time with- out number by walted militant unofficial strikes as much against the leadership as the employers. aralliol test of the The first real rail fledgling unions during the depression of the

CONTINUED TOMORROW

BY JOHN SPENCER

Foreign investment is entering Yugoslavia at a rapid rate following the government's deci- US sion to extend insurance cover to businessmen investing there. The American decision fol- lows similar action by the German government, West which decided in June 1970 to non-commercial underwrite risks on investments in Yugo- slavia. France Holland, Belgium, and Italy have already taken similar steps, giving their own capitalists a guarantee against expropriation of their invest- ments in Yugoslavia. Their Yugoslav holdings are guaranteed under also the recent amendments to the con- Amendment 22 stitution. reads: "The right of an alien party to the resources that he has invested in an organization in of associated labour the country cannot be diminished by law or by any other act upon having entered into the contract.' This was designed to close loopholes in the original law which first opened of 1967 Yugoslavia to foreign invest- ment. Many businessmen were first reluctant to take at : advantage of the new con- because they feared ditions expropriation of their capital.

According to the ultra- conservative 'Journal of Com- 'the system of internal merce, foreign and guarantees... indubitably produces a favour- able climate for investments in Yugoslavia's industry'. past few And the over years, more and more foreign firms have been moving in. In 1968, five capital investment contracts were entered into ith Yugoslav enterprises Since January foreign firms. this year there have been more than 45. According to figures from the Yugoslav Ministry of Industry, 462 agreements on long-term co-operation between Yugoslav firms and foreign registered capitalists were ment amounts to more than 1.Im dinars-or 4.4m dinars when the share invested in the enterprises by Yugoslav partners is counted in. Agreements signed in the past few weeks include one between the New York firm, Bieler National Industries and the Sevojno rolling copper mills concerning the establish- ment of two mixed companies both of which will have great inside freedom to operate Yugoslavia. Similarly, a French con- sortium recently entered a joint deal to provide credit and finance for nickel mining Kavadarci, Macedonia. at Soviet companies also partici- pate in these arrangements—.

Moscow firm has con- one , deal with Energo- cluded a invest of Sarajevo for the construction of a second aluminium plant in East Bosnia at a : total cost of 4,000m dinars. Most of the foreign invest- ment goes into the metal goods; electrical engineering Above: Yugoslavia's Marshall Tho with More and more foreign Investment and busineca e'mbol goco up in Bolgrado.

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and electronics industries.

In the first two years of the investment scheme, foreign enterprises in the metal-goods industries signed 151 agree- ments with foreign firms, while electrical and electronics firms signed 65. The penetration of foreign into Yugoslavia capital taking on an extremely wide scope. It means that a con- siderable of the section country's industry is operating Tho with Nixon In Washington. Below tment and firms moving In; & German for the profit of foreign stock- holders. Yugoslav bureaucrats welcome this development as a means of overcoming pressing problems of credit and foreign exchange. But it poses an enormous threat to the nationalized property relations established by the revolution, and is one of the causes of the intensifica- tion of social antagonisms which has brought Yugoslavia to the brink of civil war.

Workers Preas, ' Rold, 'the Communist who Is a fan of Chr Alasdair Buchan, the Glasgow has reporter, just divulged about 50,000 words genuflect- ing to the Stalinist leadership at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.

Stephen Johns adequately dealt with Buchan's apologia for Stalinism in a recent Press review Workers of Buchan's book. Now young Alasdair has been joined by his mother, Janey Buchan, in worshipping Reid and In company. an article in the recent 'Tribune' she writes about 'the victory for the UCS workers'. She goes on to lavish praise on Reid for his rectorial address at Glasgow University. "To see the Senatus, the press benches, local dignatories and students alike rise to acclaim it gave some indica- tion of the intensity of feeling UCS work-in has that the aroused.' What work-in? But Mrs is untroubled by the Buchan deal Reid and his cronies have re Preda, Thursday May 11, 1972 PAGE 8 fan of Christ', with Wllson.

just consolidated with the Tory government. She gushes on: It has been a curious ten months of the work-in. The strain on the stewards has been enormous with the health of Reid and others giving cause for concern.' No doubt another trip to the on the 'Daily Isle of Islay Express's' private plane to (Cash- relax with Archibald down') Kelly could see them through. Not a word in this melo- dramatic article about the 2,000-odd shipyard workers who will lose their jobs when the Tories have completed their surgery on the yards.

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£16,000. Before becoming Cabinet The creation of the agency minister Walker was co-head of means that the government is Slater Walker Securities, one of fully engaging in the the fastest flyers in the property boom-which property market. was a millionaire walker deliberately created. by the age of 35. Heath said the agency would Handling the day-to-day affairs begin operations on September 1.

will be John Cuckney, chairman would provide management of Anglo-Eastern Ranz building services, undertake small but vigorous merchant construction and maintenance. Cuckney also hank. closely Heath 1s said the intention was connected with a larger banking to concentrate government group, Lazards. as far as property management Last year Cuckney took over practicable land and to he bankrupt Mersey Docks and the "best building were put to Harbour Board at the request of Like selling it off, perhaps?

use'. the Tory goernment. The most important asset in Cuckney took a keen interest the Tory land portfolio will be in the large acres of land held by huge held by the the tracts the board in Liverpool. Ministry of Defence. He recently resigned as chair- the Along with the railways, he had man saying other defence lands of the are some „press. estate in ing business to attend to. prime real Britain. THE Kilbowie branch of the with ation the Industrial Union Relations Act. The TUC Amalgamated of must Engineering Workers at Clyde- Strike, prepare for a General bank has passed resolution force the Tories to resign and demanding a recall of the TUC the elected Labour government discuss the Industrial all anti-working repeal Relations Act. class legislation- the rent Bill, Industrial Relations Act, ete- The resolution states: and nationalize the means of •We demand the recall of the production without compens- workers'

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reaffirm to last Septem- ation control and under ber's decision of non co-oper- This emerged yesterday after IT IS likely that workers at C. A.

call off a day of between Parsons, Newcastle, will talks manage- work-to-rule the end and representatives of their by ment

TASS,

the technical of of this week exchange for section the Amalgamated Union of management promise to reinstate Engineering Workers. 600 dismissed technical staff. THE Communist Party domin- decision of the union's execu- North ated London district tive committee to bow before the National council of the National Union the order of Railwaymen Industrial Relations Court and of did not com- ment at its Tues- call off the work-to-rule meeting on Greene's day on Sir Sidney fortnight ago. General Council Instead resolution was against vole

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passed pledging full recalling the to discuss suppor

NUR

the Industrial Relations Act. for the policies of the Nor did it comment on the leadership. local representative and a legal

THE

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govern- agent. ment has revoked the licence They were charged under the British the American Protection of Depositors Act. Bank Limited which operated The case is listed for hearing at Bow St on June 8. The bank was for a short time in Hope St, in such widely advertised Glasgow. distinguished capitalist journal: as "Time' magazine, the "Financia Times' and the 'Economist'.

The bank's operations in Britain have been the subject of The advertisements stated that British American was 'one of the intense fraud squad investiga- the Summonses fastest growing banks in tion. have been world'. three men, including served on Dr Federico Cruz, president of Since the police activity it has of the fastest dis- the bank, described as a Puerto become one bank's Rican chiropodist, the appearing.

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SOME 30 angry teaching staff at Lancaster univer- sity may resign this week from the Association of University Teachers after a meeting last Friday refused to oppose recent political witch-hunting on the campus. academics' 'union' The meeting, attended by a large of professors and number Heads of Department, passed attacking a resolution 'minority' and of stafi students for alleged 'disrup- tion'. Many of those who may resign are from the university's troubled Senior English Department. lecturer Dr David Craig, a Com- member, has munist Party recently been demoted from the because of his Department alleged support for a student sit- in last year. Last week's AUT meeting also voted against a resolution con- demning the university adminis- tration for banning the university 'Lancaster Comment. magazıne A joint staff-student publication, it was eventually duplicated by the Students' Representative Council after its usual printers, the university library, had been instructed not to accept it.

Most of those who walked out of the AUT meeting are already members of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Man- Stafis. agerial This union has increasing in strength been among Lancaster teaching staff since the trouble over the ever English Department. who have joined Lecturers ASTMS point out the AUT is not affiliated to the TUC and tends to be dominated by pro- fessors and Heads of Depart- vice-Chancellor ment even Charles F. Carter is a member and has attended recent meetings.

They • think the AUT is too concerned with such questions as 'professional status', instead treating the university authorities 'management', as ASTMS as does. In fact, last year, when the Lancaster women cleaners in dispute with the were university management, an AUT officer, Professor Harold Perkins, was also acting as an officer of university administration, the negotiating for the management side with the cleaners-Trans- port and General Workers' Union members. in the dispute, Following which the cleaners were backed by the students, Perkins wrote a letter to the local press in which he attacked left-wing staff, who alleged had encouraged he the cleaners and the students.

At the beginning of this term, teaching staff

ASTMS

in staged a one-day strike against moves by the authorities to dis- miss Dr Craig. The ASTMS Academic Group has also passed a resolution call- drop university to ing on the charges against nine students from their part in a arising student sit-in last term over the Craig affair. Although some of the junior have joined lecturers who ASTMS are not members of the other union, many others retained dual membership, hoping that they could to work continue and attempt to inside the AUT change its policies. But after Friday's meeting, with its display of reaction, they are no longer inclined consider it worth- to while remaining in this body.

One said that ASTMS mem- bers had tried to point out last Friday that the ban on 'Com- ment' contravened of the one university's own rules, which for- bids the 'denial of free speech' to any member of the university.

University authorities The were hoping last year to be able to recognize the AUT as sole negotiating body for teaching stafi, but the growth of ASTMS membership, and the union's in- volvement in the Craig dispute and related issues have compelled some measure of recognition for it.

Four arrested in picket clash Troops

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

FOUR MEN were factory decided yesterday to continue their two-week-old arrested and one police- strike in support of a £7-a- man hurt yesterday when . week pay rise. Management non-union workers tried has offered £4.50 spread over to cross a 200-strong 15 months. picket line at the Cater- policemen with arms Thirty linked tried to hold back the pillar Tractor Co, Tan- pickets as stafi tried to run a nochside, Lanarkshire. 30-yard gauntlet to the factory.

The police had been called in The 1,400 men at the by management in an attempt to AN OFFICIAL inquiry into industry is a complete evasion of the political fight now neces- the ownership and structure unemployment and sary end of the British film industry exploitation in the industry.

There mileage whatso- 1s no 'pressuring' the govern- annual conference ever in into handing out a few Theatrical, Association of crumbs to the film industry. Only Television and Kine Em- three days ago a Tory minister ployees (NATKE). announced that no would be given the National Albert Carnall, a member of Film Finance Corporation. the union told dele- cacculive. gates at Bournemouth: As the Tories react to the eco- nomic crisis, bodies as even I suggest that for many years as the NFFC must go anaemic the film needed industry to the wall. government support in one shape or another. Whether we believe nationalization in or not, we have to consider whether it may assist or solve the problems.

It the employers have NINETY electricians from Lon- seems that don's Thomas's been unable to with St Hospital supply us our bread and butter in a con- building site have received indi- sistent manner.' vidual letters summoning them He referred to the threatened to a special meeting this morn- Shepperton of closure Studios, ing. where, months, the work force has dropped from The letters signed Were 800 to 350. Albert Gray, area organizer The

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get 100 clerical staff through the picket lines. The strikers directed most of their fury against car drivers who tried to force their way at speed through the picket lines.

Cars were kicked and spat on and some were rocked violently.

During the clashes, hats were sent fiying, people tell to the strikers chanted ground and scab', scab, as non - union workers ran the gauntlet.

Four men were detained and taken to Bellshill police station.

Later a police spokesman said one man had been charged with assault and three men had been charged with breach of the peace. A police spokesman said that the arrested men would appear at Airdrie Sheriff Court today.

A BILL which lifts the ban on the Police Federation associating with bodies out- side the police service com- pleted its committee stage in the Commons yesterday. wondering where Gray obtained a list of their addresses, as did not consult shop stewards before calling the meeting.

The only list outside their hands, stewards say, belongs to Phoenix Electrical with whom they are in dispute. The men have been on strike for three weeks against the sacking of a militant on the site. . The Goodies are on BBC 1 tonight at 8

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SOUTHERN: 2.30 Racing. 3.45 Cartoon. 4.00 Houseparty. 4.15 Sean. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Richard Lionheart. 5.20 London.

6.00 Day by day. 6.45 Simon Locke. 7.15 Film: 'Britannla Mews'. 9.00 London. 11.00 News. 11.10 Drive-in. 11.40 Ceilidh. 12.10 Weather. Matter of life and death WESTWARD: 10.20 Schools. 2.32 Racing. 3.55 Gus Honeybun. 4.05 Yak. 4.18 News. 4.20 Funny face. 4.50 Skippy. 5.20 London.

6.00 Diary. 6.35 Crossroads. 'Blueprint for 7.00 Film: Rob- bery'. 8.30 This is your life. 9.00 London. 10.30 Report. 10.59 News, weather. 11.03 Theatre of HTV: 10.20 Schools. 2.32 Racing.

3.20 Cook book. 3.50 Dr Simon Locke. 4.15 Tinkertainment. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Huckleberry Finn. 5.20 London. 6.01 Report West. 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 7.10 Film: 'The Wrong Box'. • 9.00 London. 10.30 Giselle. 11.00 Saint. 12.00 Weather. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Workers Press, Thursday May 11, 1972 PAGE 11 hundred

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workers at the Norwich factory of Laurence Scott and Electromotors went ARMED POLICE and back to work yesterday after a six-week dispute over pay.

troops ringed Armagh They have accepted £3-a- a week pay rise and extra holidays.

jail yesterday after more Talks are continuing to settle than 60 remand prisoners affecting another dispute 260 refused to return to their and draughtsmen technicians who have not been at work for cells after an exercise nearly eight weeks. period ill ise reacted that agreem pat Several soldiers took up reached their pay roof-top positions in the area, time for them to go claim in back to work on Monday. but the prisoners later went back to their cells. A of prisoners delegation saw the and deputy governor, persuaded fellow later their that be sen- prisoners it would sible to back to their cells before force was used. incident Throughout the Gordon of Highlanders platoon and riot police were standing by. Last month ten remanded from Alfred Morris prisoners tried to escape (Labour, Armagh jail after holding Bill sashawe, sponson of sponsor the Bill, said the policeman and two prison officers did not get safe con- intend to affiliate to the

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hostage in a bid to the Republic. duct to More police parliamentary adviser They were overpowered after Federation to for five when fired soldiers England and Wales, said that his nours CS gas. Bill, which had all-party back- was also by the 1ng, supporteo Scottish Police Federation

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and men "The laws noW restrict the women from £20,000-a- ranging activities of the Federations by year directors company to men stipulating that they must not be a jobs' on the dole take 'shop- associated body ping list' with any to London tomorrow. person outside the police service.

Target for the vast lobby will This made 'no sense in the be departments, government circumstances of today, he said. MPs, private and nationalized in- Mark Carliste Home Minister of

TUC,

dustries, the banks and State Office, at the foreign embassies. welcoming the Bill, said: "There The job-hunters are travelling suggestion is in it which no by special train from Teesside, would in any way affect the im- where the unemployment figure partiality of the police?

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T&G accused of Dr Strangelove PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Thursday May 1

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE HEAD of Britain's biggest trade union was accused of failing to use his sweeping powers to discipline or sack shop stewards in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday. The allegation came on the second days' appearance of the Transport and General Workers' Union who are answering contempt charges arising from the blacking of container lorries. Richard Yorke, QC, for Hea- ERNIE ROBERTS, assistant gen- Amalga- eral secretary of the mated Union of Engineering is to address a rally of over ing workers in the City Hall today. The men are involved in stop- in ll Sheffield factories pages over the engineers' pay claim.

The meeting has been organ- by a special multi-union ized committee set up to co-ordinate the struggle at the 1l factories either on where workers are strike or locked out. Afterwards a march is planned to the local offices of the Engin- eering Employers' Federation.

general, offers made in Sheffield have been in the region of a £2 increase, one day's extra holiday and no concessions what- soever on hours. District AUEW official George Caborn, a Communist Party member, is encouraging the men to insist on a settlement on hours, but is not insisting on the full £6 increase. Last Tuesday workers at another engineering firm, Arthur Lee and Son, gave seven days' notice of strike action.

• FROM P. 1.

clarify any confusion which remains in view of the grave threat which has again arisen to the travelling public and the economy and I have accordingly invited both the board and the unions to meet me later today.?

After a 15-minute meeting on Tuesday night at Unity House, London, leaders of the three

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01-622 7029 A RESOLUTION calling for a special delegate conference of the National Union of Journalists was passed by a narrow majority at the union's Central London branch yesterday. The right wing in the union is campaigning for another confer- ence to try and overturn recent annual conference decision not register under the to Industrial Relations Act.

Annual conference voted against national registration, despite a ballot in favour of registration. HOME Secretary Reginald Maud- ling, questioned in the Commons yesterday about overcrowding and demonstrations at Brixton prison, told MPs that he had • asked the Regional Director of • Prisons to visit Brixton to see.

what improvements might be made. day May 11, 1972 tons Transport (St Helens) Lim- ited, one of the blacked firms, described the regime within the union as 'totally permissive'.

Quoting union rules, he said that despite his powers, T&GWU general secretary Jack Jones 'had talled to deprive shop • stewards of their authority and failed to reprimand their actions'.

He said that the various let- ters the union had written to their Liverpool docks members only 'advised' them to end the blacking and obey the court order. 'If the union say they will do nothing to the shop stewards About 50 civic leaders from Tyneside and Co Durham yesterday walked in the foot- steps of the Jarrow marchers and went to see a Tory Prime Minister about jobs. One of the leaders was Ald Paddy Scult lion (below left) who leader was a the original Jarrow marchers. On leaving No 10 Downing Mr Scullion said: 'The signs of the 19308 again. here are Delegation leader was Jarrow's mayor Don Dixon (right) unions agreed to renew their work-to-rule from midnight to- night unless British Rail con- £20-a-week minimum ceded a wage from May 1. said it cannot The Board has pay it until June 5. secret ballot would not require the direct co-operation of the unions. It Sir Geoffrey Howe, for the Rail Board, applies National Relations Industrial Court for an order imposing a it is granted secret ballot and the work-to-rule will have to be off until it has called been

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From the Opposition front Mrs Shirley Williams (Lab, action was being taken to relieve overcrowding. See story p.3 WEST ENGLAND and Wales will have rain in places at first but brighter showery weather will spread from the west later. Eastern England will be bright at first with rain in places later.

Scotland, except the North and Northern Ireland will be brighter early, with rain in places later. Northern Scotland will be mainly dry with sunny periods.

Temperatures everywhere will be near normal or little below.

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breaking instructions, is it likely they will act on mere advice?'

he asked. Yet Jones had the power to 'disavow, discipline or withdraw credentials from' shop stewards.

He suggested that a half-page national article in a local or disowning newspaper the stewards' actions might have helped the situation and his clients. He compared the argument advanced by Peter Pain, counsel for the T&GWU, that the union responsible were not action of their stewards to 'Doctor Strangelove situation carried out. It would be conducted by the NIRC and the Rail Board who have already supplied the Court with a complete list of railway- men's names and addresses.

A spokesman for NUR general secretary Sir Sidney Greene told appliesterday that if the Board to the Court for a ballot the union will almost certainly be legally-represented during the proceedings. The spokesman added that if the Court ordered a ballot, the work-to-rule would be called off to comply with the law.

MAY FUND

NOW STANDS

AT £626.90 A • DONATION of £100 arrived yesterday from one of our readers giving a great boost to our May This month we are trying Fund. to raise £1,750—£500 over our target. Let's : keep up this mag- nificent fight and collect our total in good time. With railwaymen, dockers, no- thing is resolved in the battle against the Industrial Relations Court. The Torles seem deter- mined to have their showdown with the working class. The fight goes on. Therefore the campaign for our step. up Fund this month. Press ahead as fast as possible. Let's try and make It another record month.

Post all donations immediately to: Workers Press May Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG where a man had no responsi- bility for the behaviour of his own right arm'. Yorke also quoted St Matthew's Gospel. Asserting that the union was legally responsible stewards, controlling he quoted: 'If thy hand or thy foot offends thy heel, cut them off and cast them from thee.'

Yorke maintained that any shop steward aware of the con- of affidavits before the tents court would know that the union proposed to take no action against anyone who failed to obey their advice. 'It may be that this is an

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

AMERICAN

planes launched a massive series of attacks on the Hanoi area Haiphong and harbour yesterday, and Hanoi Radio claimed 14 of the raiders had been shot down. The Radio said that from early morning yesterday densely- of the North populated areas Vietnamese capital were bombed.

Hospitals • and historic monu- ments had been hit, it said, and other targets included railway junctions and road networks.

Over the last week, the US air force has made more than 1,000 strikes North Vietnam, over bringing the intensity of bomb- ing to a level seen only at the height of the air war in 1967- 1968. The raids are supplemented by shelling of coastal areas from an armada of US warships ofishore.

There are now at least 60 ships off the North Vietnamese

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In his summing up Mr Peter Pain, for the union, said it was draw analogy wrong the law as it affected between companies and as it affected like shop stewards. He groups said that in a free society people would inevitably step over the policy line laid down by their union. Sir John Donaldson inter- rupted and observed: 'When you start talking about democracy and living in a free society, none of applies when you are talking of over- stepping the law.' including five aircraft coast, carriers with 350-400 planes, four cruisers and 30 destroyers. More ships are on the way, including carrier 'Sara- the Atlantic Fleet toga'. In the South, however the position of Saigon's puppet army continues to deteriorate rapidly.

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