Workers Press no. 776

workers press

TORY CABINET ON

CLASS-WAR

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY CABINET has put itself on a war footing to deal with Britain's working class as the country enters a week in which a national rail and docks strike are threatened. Ministers have cancelled holidays and trips abroad to be near London for next week's all-out attack on the trade union movement.

The Tories have deliberately pro- voked this showdown with the unions and they have been preparing in secret to deal with it. Their plans include the introduction of the and jail Emergency Powers Act to arrest workers' unionists, the suppression of trade publications and the use of troops to move fuel supplies and maintain communications.

A further stage in their campaign will be press and against television witch-hunt hysteria-charged trade unionists. In this atmosphere the Tories hope to mobilize large middle class behind their sections of the vicious policies. Yesterday "The Times' became the first capitalist acknowledge the existence of the newspaper to government plans to attack the unions. In a front- page lead story, John Groser, of the paper's poli- tical staff, unveiled the thinking at No 10 Down- ing St. Groser what Workers Press has been wrote "The warning weeks: government has cided to "sit it out" in the dispute with the rail over their pay claim. UnIons Cabinet has only just arrived at all-out trial This will mean an this policy, he's wrong of strength. The Tory attack has been care- fully co-ordinated during a series the belated realization that ministerial of the railwaymen's of gatherings the result which culminated in the Chequers meet- ballot will probably be an over- whelming "yes" for further indus- last Monday. ing This is the the government has timetable for next week's trial action, clash that it is involved in a between the government and the accepted political battle in which there is unions: going to be no compromise.

MONDAY:

Rail ballot will be It has been 'brought home to declared in favour of the the government that it is in the country's 230.000 railwaymen middle of industrial war.'

who will vote 'yes' to further in- like dustrial These words *no action to get a decent

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Industrial war living promise' and are wage. not the words of the sedate quill- and-ink *The Times'. TUESDAY: The National Joint men Council between They more like the words seem dockers and of Edward Heath. port employers holds an emer- And indeed we believe they gency London in Caccian are! utopian attempt strike called the the docks national Groer then reveals: "At a two- Cabinet hour meeting vesterday (Thursdav) reviewed WEDNESDAY: Liverpool ministers dock- the situation anticipation of will hold in ers mass meeting the of the ballot decide to in ker om tol. which announcement certainlv result on Monday and thev laid contingency plans for a campaign Manchester. Hull, Tilbury their and Preston in defying the court, in which tactics will be quite simply "sit it out."

their union the routinn and the government and the «There container be 1in, questioe can no traffic. "giving whatever of nothing" railwavmen's *all

FRIDAY:

The National Indus- demand.' Relation trial Court's deadline But if Groser on the T&GWU and the Mersey thinks the

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SATURDAY MAY 27, 197

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dockers to lift their black on two firms expires. The firms are Heatons Transport (St Helens) Limited and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton. The T&GWU has previously been fined £55,000 for defying the court's orders.

SUNDAY: The 28-day national docks strike notice expires.

This is a calendar of events carefully contrived by the Tories. To resolve the crisis in their barbaric capitalist system, the Tories want to deliver a body blow to the working class. The demands of the hour are these: • Recall the TUC to plan a political and industrial strategy to force the government out of office. • Call a special Labour Party conference to expel the right- wing traitors who continue to vote with the Tories and pre- pare a socialist programme on which to fight the Tories in the event of a snap election.

• Build Councils of Action throughout the country made up of all tendencies in the trade union and labour move- These councils will ment. become the focal point of local organization in resisting the Tory offensive and preparing for the defeat of this hated government. AY 27, 1972 • No. 776 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

A police inspector intervenes with a wagging finger between a picket and a driver going into the Shell Stanlow refinery site at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire yesterday. There were no incidents reported as 200 police turned up at the site (see story p. 3). But Tory policy means the wagging finger can soon become the flailing truncheon or even the deadly: bullet under emergency power.

Socialist Labour League Public meeting

RECALL THE TUC!

DEFEND THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS!

BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION NOW!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

RETURN A LABOUR GOVERNMENT PLEDGED TO

SOCIALIST POLICIES.

Beaver Hall, Garlick Hill (nr Mansion House tube) Speakers : MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool docker) JOHN SIMMANCE (YS national secretary)

workers press

TORY CABINET ON

CLASS-WAR

INCORPORATING THE NEV

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY CABINET has put itself on a war footing to deal with Britain's working class as the country enters a week in which a national rail and docks strike are threatened. Ministers have cancelled holidays and trips abroad to be near London for next week's all-out attack on the trade union movement, The Tories have deliberately pro- voked this showdown with the unions and they have been preparing in secret to deal with it. Their plans include the introduction of the Emergency Powers Act to and jail arrest trade unionists, the suppression of workers' publications and the use of troops to move fuel supplies and maintain communications.

A further stage in their campaign will be and television witch-hunt against a press this hysteria-charged trade In unionists. atmosphere the Tories hope to mobilize large sections of the middle class behind their vicious policies. Yesterday 'The Times' became the first capitalist to acknowledge the existence of the newspaper government plans to attack the unions. In a front- page lead story, John Groser, of the paper's poli- tical staff, unveiled the thinking at No 10 Down- ing St. Groser wrote what the Workers Press has been weeks: government has de- warning out" in the dispute cided to "sit it with the rail claim. their pay Cabinet has unions only just arrived at will an all-out trial This mean this policy, he's wrong. of strength. The Tory attack has been care- In the belated realization that fully co-ordinated during a series of railwaymen's of the result the ministerial gatherings which culminated in the Chequers meet- ballot will probably be an over- whelming "yes" for further indus- ing last Monday. This is the trial action, the government has timetable for next week's clash between accepted that it is involved in the government and the unions: political battle in which there is be no compromise. going to

MONDAY:

Rail ballot will be It has been "brought home to declared in favour of the the the government that it is in 230,000 country's railwaymen middle of industrial war.

who will vote 'yes' to further in- dustrial These words like "no action com- to get a decent promise' and 'industrial war' living wage. not the words of the sedate quill- "The Times'. TUESDAY: The National Joint and-ink of men They Council seem more like the words between dockers and of Edward Heath. holds port employers an emer- And indeed we believe they gency session in London in are! utopian attempt to the get national docks strike called off. Groer then reveals: 'At a two- hour Cabinet meeting yesterday (Thursday)

WEDNESDAY:

ministers reviewed Liverpool dock- of the situation in anticipation ers will hold a meeting Inlass the announcement of the ballot which decide to join dockers from Lol they certainly Monday and they laid result on contingency plans for a campaign Manchester, Hull, Tilbury be in which their tactics will and Preston in defying the court, quite simply "sit it out."

their union and the government by continuing to black container *There no traffic. whatever of to the railwaymen's nothing" FRIDAY: The National Indus- demand.' trial Relation Court's deadline But if Groser thinks the on the T&GWU and the Mersey

THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 27, 197

•CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

dockers to lift their black on two firms expires. The firms are Heatons Transport (St Helens) Limited and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton. The T&GWU has previously been fined £55,000 for defying the court's orders.

SUNDAY: The 28-day national docks strike notice expires.

This is a calendar of events carefully contrived the Tories. To resolve the crisis in barbaric capitalist system, their the Tories want to deliver a body blow to the working class. The demands of the hour are these: • Recall the TUC to plan a political and industrial strategy to force the government out of office. • Call a special Labour Party conference to expel the right- wing traitors who continue to vote with the Tories and pre- pare a socialist programme on which to fight the Tories in the event of a snap election.

up of all tendencies in the trade union and labour move- These will ment. councils become the focal point of local in resisting the organization Tory offensive and preparing for the defeat of this hated government. AY 27, 1972 • No. 776 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

A police inspector Intervenes with a wagging finger: between a picket and a driver going Into the Shell: Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, Stanlow refinery site at yesterday. There were no Incidents reported as 200% police turned up at the site (see story p. 3). But: means the wagging finger soon : policy can Tory become the flailing truncheon or even the deadly: bullet under emergency power.

Socialist Labour League

RECALL THE TUC!

DEFEND THE DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS!

BUILD COUNCILS OF ACTION NOW!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

RETURN A LABOUR GOVERNMENT PLEDGED TO

SOCIALIST POLICIES.

Beaver Hall, Garlick Hill (nr Mansion House tube) Speakers: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool docker) JOHN SIMMANCE (YS national secretary)

WHAT WE THINK 3-prong Stalinists bolster corrupt Gaullists PAGE 2 Workers Prozz, Saturday May 2' THE MODERN sisters of Lysi- strata in Ulster are meeting with a predictable response.

The Catholic Church and the „are, if British establishment not overjoyed, certainly opti- mistic. Take William Whitelaw, for example. To opposition cheers depleted Commons he told a on Thursday: "The Commons will have noted with some hope, the clear, determined and courageous expressions of a desire for peace which have come from the Bogside and Creggan districts of London- derry.' The 'Daily Telegraph' endorsed this sentiment: "The popular protest in Bogside and the Creggan estate against the more recent manifestations of IRA brutality certainly brightest star in a generally dim firmament.' The "Telegraph' and Whitewash Willie have some reason to be optimistic because yesterday the Social Democratic Labour Party crept out of its reform- ist hole and advised everyone who withdrew from local government and public service to return to their posts.

To unconditional the prove nature of its capitulation the urged all

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statement give 'fullest co- Catholics to operation' to Whitelaw's admin- istration in all matters related to the positions they hold, and Advisory Com- to the new mission 'which we hope will strengthened and be further made more representative'.

The sinister statement commends what is Catholic workers to essentially a non-elected Bona- partist regime handpicked by Whitehall. The Advisory Commission con- sisting of four Catholics and Protestants is totally seven is There non-representative. trade unionist, Norman one Kennedy, and at least three businessmen (two of them from the CBI) who have a vested interest in smashing the IRA imperialist and perpetuating rule. The rest of the Commission are nonentities. The SDLP state- ment restores to some extent the fast waning credibility of Whitelaw's 'political initiative" and enables Whitehall to foothold in the secure a Catholic ghettos without with- drawing a single British soldier.

It has also weakened the fight internment against and the Special Powers Act. The

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reference that 'meaningful peaceful progress is now possible' is immediately belied by Whitelaw's latest decision to knock down several derelict houses-under Special Powers Act-to the facilitate operations against the

IRA.

The appointment of the Com- mission and the wooing of the so-called 'moderates' with a mixture of tea, biscuits and FRENCH Prime Minister Chaban-Delmas thumped the Bonapartist drum of law and order at the start of this week's debate on his govern- ment's policy. 'No society can survive, he began if order is not assured and thus if the authority of the state is not respected. 'Political institutions must decide the great question of public interest above the neces-.

sarily divergent interests of the social groups.' various Gaullist deputies were well with pleased the final much- needed 368-96 vote of confidence.

For the past year the govern- ment has been rocked by a series of scandals. One cabinet minister involved in the property scandals has just been dropped.

Gaullist deputy, Rives-Henry, has been forced to resign. Guizot, a famous prime minis- ter of the 19th century, called or the bourgeoisie to get rich.... day May 27, 1972 worthless assurances is all part of a gigantic political ma- noeuvre to undermine the IRA in preparation for an assault the Creggan and other on Republican strong holds. This plan is synchronized with attempts of the Lynch regime to stamp out IRA acti- vity through special courts and the increased activity of Garda on the i Donegal the border. 'Fear of a pre-emptive strike by the Army, Prepared behind the facade phoney 'peace offensive' 'meaningful and dialogue' with the SDLP, is compounded by the new threat of a Loyalist invasion of Lon- donderry around the June 3 Orange Parade. These sinister moves speak more stridently about imperialism's policies than all the parlia- mentary cooing of Whitelaw the reformist wooing by and Gerald Fitt, Hume and Currie..

That is why, with certain critical reservations, we support the statement of the Provincial IRA. Martin McGuiness, com- mander of Derry Command, said there is no need to go befere anyone and ask for a 'in this just war' mandate or put their trust 'in the word of an English puppet'. The 'peacewomen' would do well to heed McGuiness' advice to the embattled people of Creg- gan and Bogside. 'We will support any call for peace, but it must be a just peace, which must be lasting and peaceful. 'People claim to have been orga- nized into action by the death • of an unfortunate member of the British army. Can this action not be directed against the people responsible for the murders of over 30 of our kinfolk? 'All we ask is that they get their priorities right and and go demand from their murderers "the justice that their souls, cry out for and the peace that the people deserve.' We support the demands of the the

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unconditional release of political prisoners and an amnesty for men on the wanted list but we cannot agree at all with their demand for a return of troops to the barracks and a 'declaration of intent of eventual withdrawal of troops from Irish soil'.

If it is wrong to trust the word of an English puppet it is just as reprehensible to put faith intent' 'in a declaration of is from which a government hell bent on destroying work- ers' rights and establishing a corporate state in Britain.

Only the joint struggle of Irish and British workers under a revolutionary socialist leader- ship defeat bury and can imperialism. Otherwise the IRA-despite its heroism-will go the way of the Palestinian September 1970. using every 'legal' tax dodge augment his income. The government has also been writhing under criticism of the state-run TV, where programme- makers were getting rake-off a for 'clandestine advertising'.

And under the political surface Chaban-Delmas is by no means His job is coveted by secure. Minister Finance Giscard d'Estaing, whose Republican In- dependents are in coalition with the Gaullists. Relations with Pre- sident Pompidou also are believec to be strained. of the majority, Deputies elected after the May-June 1968 events, were relieved that. these conflicts did not come to the surface within a year, at the most, next General Election. the Their supporters want a con- of the present tinuation bona- partist-style rule with reinforced and heavily-armed riot police always on standby. h... Everybody.knows, that. the NORTH VIETNAMESE tr tanks have launched a thre attack on the Central Highla Kontum. Helicopters could n supply the besieged defen ammunition was being parac The roads out of the town | cut for the past month. Fierce fighting was reported o skirts of the city and 1,700 men tanks forced their way inside.

Saigon forces were making counter-attacks, in an attempt to dislodge them. American planes have kept heavy raids on the up attackers. The threat to Hué is also attacks and fierce growing behind the defenders' lines are seen as the prelude to an all-out offensive. More of the giant eight- engined B-52 bombers have been moved to the war zone to join the existing force of about 140 planes. The aid is to widen and intensity computer •- controlled dense pattern bombing which is steadily laying waste huge areas of Indo-China. Six B-52s can flatten every- thing over one and a half square miles. About ten such missions are taking place . day, which means 3,000 tons of bombs and hundreds of lives of innocent people. A LENGTHY statement condemi Sudan has been published by the journal 'Marxism Today'. '. The state committee of the clandestine Suda week as the latest Soviet greeti regime. Describing the conditions in the Sudan since the suppres- sion of the left-wing coup attempt last July, the Sudan CP says: 'The recent period has been marked by active efforts to revolutionary Ba liquidate the movement and at the same time to legitimize fascist methods in government and in political activity: • Executions, tortures, life sen- tences, sham tribunals, unlimited dismissals and detentions, expulsions. '• The sham plebiscite which misrepresents the popular will.

'• The imposition of the presi- dential system and personal rule.

massive vote and the assurances of Chaban-Delmas and his minis- concealed the growing ters popular hostility and indifference the government. This to was shown in last month's referendum on the Common Market when only 39 ner cent of the electorate gave a 'Yes' vote. Nothing has been the same in France since 1968. The working class is still being held back by the Communist Party and its trade union federation, the CGT.

A one-day General Strike has been called for June 7 to permit hostility to the government to itself, but under strict express control. Communist deputies did not put up a fight against the gov- ernment, although the proceed- ings were susnended for an hour when one of them referred to the government scandals. The seasoned Stalinist. Francois Billoux, began his speech by say- ing that the fundamental ques- tion was the sovereignty. and.. liv ESE troops and a three-pronged Highland city of could not land to defenders and g parachuted in. town have been ported on the out- 700 men and some PRESIDENT Nixon and Kremlin leader Leonid Brezhnev were nuclear following weapons yesterday what was described as a political breakthrough in their Moscow talks. Their advisers were putting the final touches to the SALT deal before it was submitted to the two leaders for signature.

White House Ronald Ziegler, press secretary, said there were condemning the repression in the.

d by the British Communist Party The statement, issued by the central ine Sudan CP, appears in the same et greetings to butcher Numeiry's '• The President's decisions and laws and Republican orders.

up ''• Anti-communism as a policy and a method. '• The open door to all neo- institu- colonialist bodies and particular the tions, in World and the monopolies to Bank which it opens the way. • The closing down of all democratic organizations, imposition of the single political party, the liquidation of the trade union movement and the sup- pression of the working-class movement to remove the obstacle ich to capitalist development and to the return of foreign capital.

The statement does not men- tion the position of the Soviet independence of France. France had a role to play, he said, in replacing the 'Europe of blocs by a Europe of co-opera- tion', thus paving the way for approval of the Common Market.

It was the same Billoux who defended the Communist Party's support for de Gaulle's foreign policy in the weekly organ 'France Nouvelle' when it came in for criticism. Now, as then, the Party supports the govern- ment's foreign policy and only wants to push it faster along the road of agreement with the Soviet Union. • For all the insults which other CP speakers shower the on and the attacks they received has no intention leading fight and is united with the Gaullists in preventing a repeti- tion of the events of May-June 1968. Contemptuous of these parlia- mentary antics, now transmitted ind... live on TV, the French working

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Wedding bells! two documents almost ready for signature. One is a formal treaty placing limits on the number of anti- ballistic missiles for defence, thus ensuring-it is claimed that neither side could be in- vulnerable to attack and tempted to launch a surprise offensive.

• The other is an executive agreement under which the two sides will place limits on num- bers of certain types of offensive land-based and submarine-based missiles. and Chinese leaders who con- tinue to support the Numeiry regime. Moscow Radio, in a broadcast earlier this week, welcomed the third anniversary of the May 25 coup which brought Numeiry to power.

The July repression was referred to in passing simply as 'the tragic events of July 1971' and the Radio cynically wished 'the people of the Sudan fur- stubborn ther successes in the struggle against imperialism and and in achieving the reaction hopes and aims reflected in the documents of the programme "May 25, 1969"? The programme referred to is the founding document of the Numeiry regime. The British Communist Party, which claims to support the Sudanese CP against Numeiry, maintains a persistent silence about the Soviet government's relations with his butcher regime.

class is on the move against the discredited Bonapartist govern- ment. 1969 Chaban-Delmas made In the demagogic promise that his government would bring a 'new opening society'. In fact, while of fabulous opportunities enrichment for its friends, it has hardship growing for meant working people. More sackings are on the way to add to the 'official' 500,000 jobless, the cost of living is speed-up and private soaring, drive on the rate of police exploitation in the factories and the government prepares to take on the working class with its huge security apparatus. The Communist Party and the other working-class organizations must be forced to lead a real struggle against a rotten and discredited They government. can be stopped from, once again, dissipating working-class mili- tancy in a series of separate and limited actions.

Tense picket line as 200 POLICE TURNED out in force yesterday at the trouble-torn Shell Stan- low refinery site at Elles: mere Port, Cheshire. A force of about 200 uni- formed officers warned pickets at the site's five gates that interference with traffic which blocked the main high- way would not be tolerated.

atmosphere remained The tense during the two-hour morn- ing picket but there were no incidents. The complex is near the Burmah Oil refinery where 45 pickets arrested and were handcuffed last year. total of 400 men from A various craft unions are on strike over what they claim is a bid by the American contract engineers to break

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up union organization on the site.

Men have been dismissed for refusing to work on undermanned and riggers have gangs been asked to do jobs which belong to scaffolders. The strike has won support from workers from other sections of the giant site.

On Wednesday the police read the clauses of the Industrial Relations Act relating to picket- ing to workers at the site gates.

The police say that by stopping site traffic thère is a danger of obstruction on the public high- way. A leaflet handed out by the strikers, however, does not ask transport to turn back from the site, but simply states that all support for the strike would be welcome. The Transport and General PANALPINA (Northern) Limited, the Bradford- based container firm, is expected to take con- tempt of court proceed- ings against the Trans- port and General Workers' Union and Hull dockers' leader Walter Cunningham next Tues- day. In the past week the Hull dockers have voted to con- tinue blacking Panalpina lorries at Hull docks. This leaves the way open for Panalpina's application to the National Industrial Relations Court and for the fining of the union and Mr Cunningham. In the event that Mr Cunningham refuses to pay the fines, he could be jailed for contempt. In a recent judgement, Court president Sir John Donaldson decreed that shop stewards who disobeyed union and court in- structions should be disciplined or dismissed. MEANWHILE Lew Lloyd, docks district secretary at Liverpool, called meeting for a mass Wednesday, May 31. He will pass on an instruction from the union to lift the black- ing. The meeting takes place only two days before the NIRC dead- line calling on the union and Mersey dockers to lift blacks against Heatons Transport (St Helens) Limited and Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton.

Lloyd's plea is expected to cut very little ice with the Liverpool shop On Tuesday the men. stewards' committee voted unani- mously to continue the sanctions, which means that a full-blown confrontation with the Court and the government is now on the way. Coupled with the legal action is the threat of a national docks strike on June 4, Sunday week.

None of this week's feverish round of talks between unions, the employers and the govern- ment brought a settlement any closer. Workers Press, Workers' Union is discussing the their work is part of a bid by He also warned that under the

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men's grievances with the Industrial Relations Act the cut down on to Tine scaffolding firms scaffolders were required to number of workers on on the site, but give Mick scaffolding. month's Under alci organizer has action. say cralts involvea in tne will dispute are boilermakers, riggers official pipefitters and mechanical fitters.

to use other crattsmen to STAFF at the headquarters the undiminished leaves him right to "fire" anyone-

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of the engineers' union are

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oI management power wnicl of accusing management would not tolerated by using arbitrary dismissal employees in private industry.

procedures against them. 'All we are asking is that

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are The charges came after ernolovees with the same respect and con Conwav. general sideration that secretary to decide who will be secretary the Amalgamated private employers Union Workers employed the general office, that mem- sack one employees cannot accept All strikers are mem- subjected the statt tecnica orooucuon ber bers of the

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studies department at Peckham, arbitrary dismissal pro- London. per consultation of charges made In a letter to the strikers. Con withdraw way refused to them. The Trouble hegan two weeks ago threat of dismissal. He argued they want a dismissal when the department's office hoey sav employee's of the told the employee to procedure which gives in view manager tnen sickness record over the element of mutuality sack- another job. would be in interests failed to 1n They add: The with the staff if he general secre- solve the issue and the staff job strike May 15. tary has made it clear that his on ooKe• o Werill of the procedure No one was avallable 1or com 1dea ment at AUEW headquarters yes- sub- strikers says: which he does not have not als- terday. pute the right of the general stantiate any charges and wach THE 20,000 members of Equity, the union of actors and actresses, are currently voting on two crucial issues which will determine the future of their union. First, they spell out amendments frivolous, Marlus Goring wants are motion to the rules. president to have abso- voting in a referendum vexatious, unnecessary, to One amendment proper V to decide whether or ls a mattel inserts the words for consideration at the the register under

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next Industrial Relations democratic rights of the freedom All now becomes Act. Secondly they are rank and file to express much clearer. through special voting to elect a coun- expression by the asso- The President be- itselt cil serve the meetings. to as ciation itself remaining the supreme Cones Whether the right leadership for union's the non-sectanal bluff these wing can the next 12 months. impartial and non- and the most political in powerful in the through its activities man resolutons L11C The membership annual conference next behalf of the union-not the member voting the month is another bership'. shipe also becomes the •ues knowledge that the But more sinisterly, it union is in considerable Equity members are in alters the duties of the whether sole arbiter in crisis. ferment. special president. the membershin Cali fen conference Unemployment It adds: 'It shall be hold special meetings to has reached almost the duty of the president topics now discuss urgent WeeKs ago a vers able group actors cent effect the to uphold the constitu- voted against livelihood and maintain the tens ananne teatrica com tion cil's decision to register panies are about objects the associa- thousands of actors and launch a round of wage tion.' under the Act. acuresses the

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The full implications Not content with the These union members

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has started to of this alteration are not power of veto, the are responding dramatic- thus taking appreciated also wages until resolution voring alv to the political anc huge by advantage of the resolutior economic changes second Diaces anancial burdens members Britain brought about inemniovment ano mne (rotino and his iriends weaknesses in the union studied. This call confer- of the wanting to by the advent leadership. subject the special ences movers They will not tolerate A look at the resolu- generai meelings. In the past year or so resolution at any future tions Equity has held special conference must two this year's annual con- ference-at the Victoria both called bv the rank LO and file to demand that whole of the costs ernment 'theit Palace on Sunday, Equity the incurred in the calling opposes Tories own the 11 - gives cearest Industrial Relations Act which indication of what the _it' — coula miast mean up to £2,000. Goring may get great right wing is proposing. Tornos recolution is successful, the chance In acreage of flattery the Two resolutions put of such 'The summoning to deposit of

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gossip colunis down by Marius Goring £500 with the treasurer •"Dails meelnes 1mes give the key. His resolu- It is patently obvious Mail', but in show- first states: "This Goring wants-to ı all the The tion states: what

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deplores the president shall 1 he install a president present economic crisis, recent intrusion or party nave the power to veto politics into the the calling such arbitrary power over the attempted putsch non Special General Meeting political association of and the faces bigger odds than his opinion, Equity and goes on to it, in the annihilation the he can see. rs Press, Saturday May 27, 1972 PAGE 3 SIX HUNDRED men employ- ed by Holland, Hannen and Cubitts (Southern) at Erith's giant Thamesmead housing site returned to work yester- day. The six-man works' committee, sacked with three days' suspen- sion last Friday, was re-instated after a promise to call off an overtime ban and guerrilla strikes in return for talks with manage- ment on wages and hours. Communist Party site convenor and Union Construction, of Allied Trades and Technicians member Bob Gordon said after a mass meeting of the men yes- terday: 'We are starting discussion with Cubitts today, but mean- while we have agreed to call off our overtime ban and one-day strikes. 'When we report back to the men next week, if these discus- sions have not been acceptable, action.' They have waged a four-month campaign for shorter hours and higher pay. On average, men work up to 50 hours a week and take home £25. Last Friday, after extensive lay-offs Cubitts íssued an ulti- matum to the works' committee to call off their campaign or face sackings. The threat was carried out and the men retaliated with a complete stoppage on Wednes- day. Said Mr Gordon: 'Cubbitts felt confident with the Industrial Relations Act in the background.

They used the language of the Act on us saying we had induced men to break their contracts.

'But there was tremendous soli- darity on the site around the campaign for hours and wages.

Also the Greater London Coun- cil was putting pressure on Cub- bitts to speed up construction because of the rent they were losing. 'Until last Wednesday Cubbitts refused to discuss our claim. But now they have agreed talk to we are hopeful something will come of it.' call to prevent pit

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was made yesterday at closures Union of Mine- the National workers South • Wales area con- ference at Porthcawl. Ron Saint, secretary of Coedely said: "Let us make sure lodge, one pit is closed in the that if British coalfield, the we as British miners, stand up and be every pit in the counted and coalfields grinds to a standstill until the Coal Board and the government reverse the decision.'

But the conference rejected this hard line and passed a reso- instructing the union's lution to oppose all closures executive where pits had not exhausted their coal reserves. Mr Saint said it would be an indictment of the union if pit closures continued. 'We have made mistakes in the past by not fighting pit closures.

Make the same mistake twice and there is no excuse whatsoever. Don't let this resolution before us today be a pious one. If we we will fight all are sincere future pit closures. Ten years ago in the industry were 750,000 miners and there 700 pits. Now there are 280 pits with 30,000 miners. Minister

JOHN DAVIES,

for Trade, is visiting Iran for talks to boost Britain's exports to the , He will have talks with country. the Shah and his price minister.

The Iranians want Britain to buy more of their goods to redress an unfavourable trade balance.

PAGE & Workiers Pro a, Saturday May 21, Michael Banda replies to Johnstone in the 'Morning S

PART 5

The £35m to the grant ex-Upper Clyde Ship- builders' could yards have been defined as a victory if the Tories were seriously determined all along not to subsidize the new company on any condition. This however was not the government's position. On september 23 his infamous when ohn issued Davies ultimatum to UCS workers, he made it plain that 'the price of government "help" on the Clyae would be that workers would have to accept new wage rates and work practices.'

('Morning Star', ; August 24, 1971) This is precisely what hap- pened. What encouraged Davies to make these remarks was the obvious retreat of the UCS stewards from an all-out fight on UCS—i.e. to retain it as one unit, by agreeing to meet the late boss of Stenhouse, in Septem- Govan-Linthouse ber 1971. The meeting with Stenhouse was a symbolic act of betrayal because a week before (Sep- tember 22) the UCS stewards prevented Stenhouse and Gil- christ from entering the Govan-Linthouse shipyard on the grounds that there would be no dialogue with the new company until certain condi- tions were met. of Stenhouse Recognition was recognition of Govan- Linthouse and the abandon- ment of the original demand for the retention of four yards in one unit. With tongue firmly Arthur Milligan re- in cheek, ported the retreat of UCS stewards, led by McGarvey, the boilermakers' president: 'When it came to the final press conference today both Mr Stenhouse [sic] and Mr McGarvey expressed the view that good progress had been made. 'Mr McGarvey said: "I be- у Могу 27, 1972 es to an article by Monty rning Star' of April 18, 1972.

lieve the first steps have been toward a final solution taken to keep the three yards open."

'It was announced that con- sideration will now be given to the inclusion of Scotstoun Division in the proposed Govan-Linthouse unit, and the position of Clydebank division is to be the subject for fur- ther discussions with the gov- ernment. Both Scotstoun and Clydebank yards are threat- ened with closure.... 'The descriptions of today's talks range from comments of "very helpful" to the stewards' "useful" 'Taking part were Mr Hugh Stenhouse and Mr A Gilchrist, respectively chairman and chief executive of the proposed Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. Mr McGarvey and other Dan officials of the shipbuilding engineering unions and and UCS shop • stewards led by chairman, Mr James their Airlie. [Our emphasis.] meeting with Sten- The house, and the retreat from the four-yards policy, was sup- plemented by a similar somer- the question of re- sault on leasing ships even before the £35m had been paid and any agreement about the future of UCS had been reached. The retreat was turning into a rout and the rout into a farce.

This was exactly what Ridley wanted in his secret report:

UCS

*Detach Yarrow from and allow it to be independent ... bail out the rest of UCS :. close one or even two of its three yards, appoint a new let it stand or chairman and fall on its own' The £35m was the reward the Tory government paid for this shameless retreat. What with the revaluation of the yen, the Industrial Relations Act, and the kind of discipline that Reid and Airlie were able to impose on UCS workers there was every prospect that not only Govan Shipbuilders —but also Marathon Manu- facturing could look forward to a profitable year ahead.

The UCS grant was also Arlie, stalnis snob entry. A week later motivated by which had nothing the so-called 'subst cessions' referred to stone. Once Common Market w the renegacy by company Tories realized could no longer dela subsidy

UCS.

Francis commented cent ance Telegraph': "The government concerned been make the most of to strengthe tunity in shipbuild •laKe into Market, when its subsidize at least of direct grants, tailed. The author analyse the drop dramatic world share cent the reasons for the ' ditch attempt to

UCS

'Britain's entry in European larged opens Une is builders will be put ing similar to tematic than the matter of subsidies torms of aid 'Another is that pean Community towards the shipbuildi common aimed at harmoniz ment programmes, cies and rales of co It is obvious fron the only answer to of integrati and to force the get a Labour and which will nationali compensation shipbuilding with ated steel, equipment suppliers' It is also Airlie and the moters are totally such a go Dared to Tories' plans. Why should Re policy Tory Brezhnev supports while and the munist Party is rep Brussels? And, we might about What Didn't Reid say Square that defeat a word in the UCS and that, 'you canno redundancies'? words. •Wil takeover Marathon: "The re the vital issues start These issues are re ist snop stewara at Ulo, ek later Airlle met Stenhouse Tory desires nothing to do with ed 'substantial con- ferred to by John- into the entry Market was secured of Jenkins in parliament realized that they E. As in Dail, re- the verment has also however to most of the oppor- strengthen Britain's before the hen its freedom to at least in the form grants, will be cur- on to the causes Britain's in world shipbuilding per cent to 6 per years) and reveals. for the Tories' last- mpt to reorganize entry into an en- Community possibilities. British ship Il be put on a foot- but more sys- n the rest, in the subsidies and other is that the Euro- will move le formulation of a policy shipbuilding harmonizing invest- price poli- tes of competition.' rious from this that iswer to the Tories' integrating British shipbuilding. he Tories to resign government nationalize without integrate Cune assocI engineering and suppliers industries. , obvious that Reid, Stalinist and are pre- ould Reid oppose while anyway

EEC

the Italian Com- ty is represented at • might as well ask workers? the in Trafalgar at "defeat' was not the UCS vocabulary rou cannot negotiate Tuesday Clydebank "The real talks on sues start tomorrow. es are redundancies f UCS. confronts Stanhouso Stenhouse to prepare to carvı ind dispute procedu Telegraph', May 10 needs only 2,000 2,300 men left in ( (A year ago there 1 men in the same ya Even more omino conditions being der Marathon and the r Reid and company. Reid and Airlie set a new precedent relations br year labour agreeme (ex-Clydeban athon while omitting four-year, no-strike a legally-binding theless accepts the reactionary principl tration. Nowhere in the is there any guarant present labour forc will be maintained new company. Mr Eldon Nuss, president of Marath facturing, praisec peration of the added: 'Extended convers. union representative stewards have they are honourable will live up to ments. Mr Nuss has worry all him through. allowed to pr are then will soon most profi of the intensively most comprehensiv of this subject is cr a forthcoming pam] ten by Stephen John No account of R be complete or trut out comment credibly reactionary (no doubt shared by Johnstone)—o and and religion Rectorial address. Thursday's Workers 6 and 7.) The essence of ! was an appeal to of industry to uphol Christian virtues so capitalist systen more made 'decent'. It was a plea for ciliation of the irr interests of hostile an attempt to trans ation not through c revolution as Marx through but and capitulation Like signation. Christian, Reid the meek shall earth and that must render unto O is Caesar's. It is not surprisin May 10, 1972.) has said that it 2,000 out of the left in Clydebank. were 3,200 same yard.) re ominous are the being demanded b ind. the response o 1 Airlie have now precedent in labour four- agreement in Mar- Clydebank) which, include to 10-strike pledge and nding clause, never- epts the hated and principle of arbi- in the agreement , guarantee that the of 2,200

OUT OICE

intained under the senior vice- f Marathon Manu- the co- unions and 1 conversations with sentatives and shop convinced nourable men whc their agree- need to of )-existence' will see If the Stalinists proceed un- Clydeside then centre become the ost profitable ig yards in Europe. prehensive analysis ject is contained in pamphlet writ hen Johns. unt of Reid would with- e or trutniul on actionary beliefs- shared by the party tone)—on morality expressed in his (See habl Workers Press, pp. of his speech both sides to uphold so-called virtues so Thattn could be more plea for the recon- irreconcilable hostile classes and to transcend alien- hrough conflict and as Marx predicted, its opposite- fatalistic re- good even believes that the inherit that the workers r unto Caesar what surprising that vir- hrist at the yard gates and r tually every reactio Britain leader. Here is ample trom Guardian' K. Wood of St Boni age in Plymouth: 'Mr L when he says Rectorial Address been spoken when not. that when age notice or listen men union However am the Holy that use James and I him the bishops ing' (Nor are the Johnstone, it ser Stalinist the only found his vocation! The vicar's ciation of revivalism is a timel of the correctness judgement of and its present day "The social Christianity preach self-contempt, abast dejection, mission, all the qualities of t and the proletariat ing to be treated needs its feeling, its pride an of independence bread. The duty placable defence truth and the scie ciples of the clas with a ruthless stru every expression and the religions sa of compromise. In this sense of Johnstone part of the struggl Stalinism and British working reformism so that i its revolutionary tas In conclusion: strength of this should like to apr Deutscher Isaac Prize Jury consider Johnstone credentals Whatever disagre Deutscher, always respected t and conscientiousn scholarship. Mr Johnstone's the negation within the labour It is the method of counterfeiter, distor principled calumnia It is high British labour mov tled its account on all with this politi

CONCLUDED

tes and refuses them у reactionary cleric the UCS supports but one ex "Th a letter to the Reverend f St Boniface Vicar- Christie is right that Mr J. Reid's en by a bishop, but when he says that bishops speak or listen. but wher speak they do ant quite Spirit should Reid to speak for think that s are not complair are the bankers! ar's letter of appre Reid's Calvinist is a timely reminder of Marx's - Christianity sent day apostles: cial principles of y preach cowardice apt, abasement, sub- a word in lities of the canaille roletariat, not wish- treated as canaille self- its courage, pride and its sens more than and Engels 'On y of every Marxist o combine the im- of historical the scientific prin- struggle class less struggle against ession of mysticism ligions sanctification sense the refutation integral an 1S e struggle to smash liberate the frọm orking class, so that it will fulfil the f this evidence, we e to appeal to the Memorial to seriously r disagreements w had with the lat the Trotskyists pected the integrity ientiousness of his method i of this tradition labour movement. ethod of the political er, distorter and un- calumniator. that the time our movement set- count once and fo ais political hack

HOPELESS LIBERALISM IN

ANGELA'S DEFENCE CASE

The Angela Davis trial will be wound up next week and a verdict by the san Jose jury is expected by Thursday. The defence came abruptly to an end two days ago when Miss Davis and her lawyers decided to call only 1l of their possible 30 witnesses. For the working class in the United States and internation- ally the defence of Miss Davis has taken a disturbing turn in the past week. It began when the Chief Prosecutor Albert Harris, Junior, ended his case with the words: "The people rest.'

Miss Davis's lawyer was im- mediately on his feet demand- ing that the charges of murder, kidnap and conspiracy be immediately dismissed by Judge Richard E.. Arnason, Junior. Her lawyer, Leo Bran- ton, was quite right to enter such a plea-because the state has completely failed to bring any hard evidence to prove she committed any of the alleged offences. But in seeking dismissal of the charges Branton made not a single political point. He made not the slightest attempt to expose the real nature of the state case-that it is a cynical frame-up aimed at communists black militants, and the working class. When the prosecution ended, to his feet and Branton got said: 'My initial reaction when the prosecution ended its case "What, you have was to say, kept this woman in jail for 16 months, subjected her to the and terror of these agony criminal charges and that Is your case? You mean that's all you have? 'After seven weeks of trial, 100 witnesses and 200 pieces of evidence. You've proven a hell of a case against Jona- than Jackson. ... (Miss Davis, the 28-year-old university lecturer and Com- member munist Party accused of conspiring with Jonathan Jackson to seize hos- tages in Marin County court- room of Superior Court Judge Harold Haley planning to ex- change them for San Quentin convict, George Jackson, Jona- than's elder brother. Instead, four people were killed in a shoot-out with police outside the court during which Jona- than, Judge Haley and two other prisoners were killed.

George Jackson, one of the Brothers, was shot Soledad dead by his warders a year later.) Having opened his attack in this limp vein, Branton then proceeded to crusade against the nasty behaviour of the pro- secutor. It's the responsibility of the prosecution to see that justice is done and for justice to be done, he declared. This being the case, the prosecutor should move for the dismissal of the case and thus 'return some dignity to the office of pro- secution'. He then railed against Harris for 'subjecting the people of California to millions of dollars in costs and this defen- dant and everybody else to all the worry and aggravation of a useless prosecution'. The theatrical Branton then placed himself in the jury box where he announced: 'If I had been in the jury box, I would wanted to turn to the have prosecution to say: "That's all have? Against Angela you Davis all you have proven is she is articulate a warm, human being and she has love and compassion, yes, for George Jackson, for all humanity and for black people particularly"' This is a defence Stalinist- style! This mawkish statement capitulates completely to the state's supposition that Miss involved in the Davis was Marin County kidnapping as a means to free George Jackson, 'the man she loved'. This crime of passion' theory, which the California is con- is lapping up, press temptible. Any political de- fence of Miss Davis would make no concessions whatso- ever to this grotesque distor- tion of the truth. Yet on another occasion in the past week Branton has made concessions to the state by allowing himself and his client to be drawn into this romantic flytrap. Referring to the letters from Miss Davis to George Jackson, Branton said: It becomes more incredible each time I hear it that Mr Harris should base his case on these letters. There is no men- tion anywhere in these letters of any criminal act whatsoever, either in the early letters or the later diary. Not one word.

Then he goes on: 'All the letters show is a deep-warm, personal, moving relationship between one human being and wish all another. I human beings could show such love for each other' It took the curt words of Prosecutor Harris to put an end to the flabby blusterings of the defence. When asked to reply to the defence submission he came swiftly to the point: 'We think our case is not sufficient to sustain only conviction on appeal, we think that the evidence compels a conviction. Miss Davis, he said, is charged with 'a crime that, in damage to human life and the system of administration of justice, has no parallel.

When Harris resumed his seat, Judge Arnason told Branton: 'Be prepared, Mr Branton, to call your first wit- ness Thursday morning.' When the court adjourned, observers got their first real indication of the paralysed state of the defence case.

Workers P Asked if he could name his first witness, Branton replied: 'No, I still don't know what the order of proof will be. If you're asking me do I think we have to put on a case, my answer is no, I don't know. If you're asking me if we will put on a case, my answer is that I do not know.' When the court resumed another defence counsel, Howard Moore, asked for an adjournment over the week- end. Reluctantly Judge Arna- son agreed. Outside the court Moore explained to the press: 'We have reached the position after careful analysis that if we alter our trial position we will have a substantial amount of time' -and save the state some of the millions of taxpayers' dollars? 'There is a substantial possi- bility we won't go forward with any witnesses.' At another press conference Branton was asked whom he intended to call. 'I can't tell you. 'Are you going to call Miss ase. Davis to the stand?' he was aro Prose, Saturday May 27, 1972 PAGE 5 asked. 'I don't know—because we have to decide if we want to put her on in her own defence.'

'Have you decided?' 'No, Branton replied. Moore's Branton and lethargy about the defence is conscious and deliberate.

Although they did eventually put 11 people into the witness box-but not Miss Davis-they largely regarded the defence as irrelevant. This is case because they are basing them- selves on the wholly optimistic vision that because the state's case is so flimsy no court will ter convict their client.

In other words these legal gentlemen and their friends in Communist Party are the operating under the well rs' known Stalinist delusion that there is fairness in the courts of 'justice'. The defence does have a responsibility, legally and politically to the working class to use every opportunity to conduct a political defence, exposing this trial as an attack on the basic democratic rights of the working class.

PAGE 6 Workors Pross, Saturday May 27, 1972

BY IAN YEATS

issues far removed from the constitutional perspectives of The voice of the army is the standing army. being heard increasingly And they do so with the approval of the Tory press.

in British politics. 'Mad Mitch' is always good Colin ('Mad Mitch') Mitchell copy for Fleet St and press and of ex-Colonel the Argyles radio were all but falling over uniform changed openly and themselves last week to pro- got himself elected to parlia- vide potted profiles of Gen Sir ment as. Tory MP for Aber- Walker Walter ex-C-in-C deenshire West. NATO, North Europe. But lesser-known names. like Thompson. Kitson and Since the Tories now came to power in June 1970 the ser- Walker. with appear growing frequency speaking vices have enjoyed access io out on the ear of government far more early and sympatheti- cally than under Labour. Although there has been little change in the overseas strength of British role and troops, all three services have benefited from a partial re- equipment boom. As slump has deepened the has expanded recruit- army ment in every branch, and corps and regiments Labour put under the axe have blos- somed. In many employment offices from Glasgow to South-East London often the only jobs advertised on the vacancies are in the services. posters Desperation forces a number of unemployed working-class youth to join 'the profession- als'. Taken together with the build-up of the armed forces and the unprecedented incur- sions of certain officers into Gen Walker's views politics, are of interest. He published a long article in the May issue of the anti communist 'East-West Digest', "The British reprinted from Army Review'. The 'Digest' is circulated gratis to all MPs.

The article purports to look forward on the world political mid-1980s situation until the and it almost certainly reflects the thoughts of others among the army's top brass. Indeed Christopher Walker noted in 'The Times', May 23, 'The evidence points to a grow- ing consensus among senior ranks that the army will devote attention more towards countering subversion of one form and ' another. On this there is widespread agreement on the ideas of Brig Frank Kitson, soon to take over as head of the influential School of Infantry at Warminster' Maj-Gen Administration Ronald Buckland at the new UK land forces HO at Wilton told 'The Times' reporter: "The most discerning of us are extremely depressed about he way things are going. W seem nearer and to nearer anarchy all the time.' There is no doubt that more than at any other time in its history the military bureacracy is identifying closely with the fortunes of the bourgeois state.

Added to the list of require. ments for military readiness to deal with an enemy-training and equipment-Walker signifi- cantly adds 'mental prepared- ness. He makes it clear that in his view it is not other merely states which are today's enemy but ideology-without and within-capable not merely of defeating the bourgeios state, but of destroying it. In this context his phrase 'We are paid to defend our country and are the pro- fessional advisers to the defence government all matters' assumes an ominous ring The 'Digest' article appears simultaneously with Walker's comments on the 'no-go' areas of Ulster. He makes it plain that what is at stake in these areas is the bourgeoisie's very right to rule. Speaking in his hypothetical backwards projection from the vantage point of 1985 Walker says: It was soon discovered, late in 1971, the extent to which the Red IRA had been infil- trated by Marxists whose self- declared aim was to subvert Ireland and convulse Britain.

Walker is as much obsessed with communist subversion the enemy within-as with what he claims to be the mounting communist threat from abroad. Co-existence and force are seen as but different facets of the USSR's single intention of colouring Europe red and by 1985 Walker visualizes Scan- dinavia neutralized by Soviet influence central and and western Europe surrounded by a ring of communist steel from the Balkans to the Atlantic.

Typical of the explanation for all Franco-type take-overs Walker notes: •Western governments, according to their political and standards of position integrity, concealed this awful situation from their people in because varying degrees it would have been political suicide to have been anything like frank.' Walker-and probably many others in the army--slip into the classical military belief that they alone are untainted by the corruption of politicians and can therefore save the nation from the evil which seeks to destroy it. As in the case of Weimar the alleged corruption politicians becomes all the more apparent as the effects of slump chop the middle ground from under the bourgeois politicians' feet and they thrash about more or less helplessly in mid-air. At this point the masters of capital have only one path to tread, but only the military can follow it. The hypothetical encircle- ment of Europe by overwhelm- Soviet ing military strength leads Walker to some interest- ing conclusions about the Common Market. Once the USSR's intentions were made clear to govern- ments — Berlin treaties not- withstanding—France rejoined NATO and Spain was admitted to turn Europe into an inte- grated anti-communist fortress.

One effect of these warlike preparations against the Soviet Union was that '... a common policy helped conscription Britain to solve the problem of its wayward youth for whom.

a variety of optional services to society were open as altern- atives to military service'.

Although Walker's attention the spread of communism in tandem operates with massive Chinese communist gains in Asia only checked by a rejuvenated Japan. Europe-with Japan in the east-is to be built up as the 'custodian of western civiliz- ation wherever [communism] to spread its seeks evil influence. In line with this objective it is worth noting that the fascist regime of the colonels Greece acceded to power with the open connivance of NATO.

Walker's most important point comes at the end of his article-a point which springs the military squarely into the centre of the political stage.

How can the capitalist class, which is a minority in any population, develop these Workers Proes, Saturday May 27, 1972 PAGE 7 Far left: Mad Mitch' of the Argylls plays war games on street comer in the Crater, Aden.

It was the night this regiment was forced to leave the district by Aden's guerrilla fighters. The Argylls had held this centre of nationalist rebellion months In 1967. Top: Mitchell.

Above: an ecstatic Enoch Powell hero of British meets the new Imperialism. It was 1970 and 'Mad Mitch' was now an addi tion to the Tory back bench. The two 'comrades' are pictured at the Savoy before the 'Man of the Year' luncheon. Left Gen Str Walter Walker. communism support? nations of to widen the study majority minds are their fundamental democratic that the truth would then day? The of Italian Admiral Gino Birindelli, ex- iterranean

PAGE & Workers Pross, Saturday May 27,

OVER-POPULATION OR I

CAUSE OF WORLD HUN

FRANKS.

PART SIX *

In the years up to the 1914-1918 war, there was an unprecedented leap forward in United States' agriculture and heavy industry. Millions of acres were opened up for farming through irrigation and reclamation pro- jects. But little enough of the wealth accrued to the new working class. Jack London wrote in 1910 of the contra- diction between the enorm- ously high labour productivity of workers and the poverty of their condition: and 'If modern man's food shelter-getting efficiency is a thousand times greater than that of the caveman, why then, are there 10 million people in the United States today who are not properly sheltered and properly fed? If the children of the caveman did not have to work, why then, today, in the United States are 80,000 out their children working factories lives in the textile alone?' ('Revolution'.) In 1915 North Dakota farm- ers denounced millers and rail- roads as thieves and demanded state ownership of the grain elevators, mills and packing houses. Four years later, in 1919, the capitalist economist J. M.

explaining in the Keynes aftermath of the death and destruction of World War I, that rapid depression of the standard of life in Europe to the point of starvation would of its high follow because density of population! In fact, it was during the war that food production had been made a priority in Britain, Canada, USA, South America and Australia. Millions of pounds and dollars were invested in developing and producing new mehods and machinery. It was the con- tinued operations of these new which, forces of production after the war, rapidly lead to gluts of food products, flooded world markets, and caused the collapse of farm prices. 1924 3 Between 1917 and million acres were withdrawn from cultivation in the USA and farm population fell by 1.2 million farmers and workers.

Food Aid, loans and credits were sent by the United States government to alleviate some of the starvation in Europe following the war, a process which helped to cut the US President Wilson surpluses. told the US capitalist class, frightened by the Russian Revolution: Food relief is now the key to the whole European situation and to the solution of peace. Bolshevism is steadily advancing westward •. it cannot be stopped by force, but it can be stopped by food' To deal with the 1920-1921 ay May 27, 1972

OR PROFIT? THE REAL

HUNGER. BY BERNARD

agricultural crisis the Macnary- Haugen plan for buying up sur- in the pluses was devised United States but voted down by Congress. A record cotton crop in 1926 and continued wheat over-production led to • the plan being voted by Con- gress in 1927 and 1928. It was vetoed on both occasions by President Cool- idge as 'impractical, unconsti- tutional class legislation'.

In 1929, a Federal Farm Board was set up to try to solve the over-supply problem which, however, continued over into the next decade and became even worse. By the late 1920s a leading English rgriculturalist could state: 'In the nine years of peace the efforts of the govern- ment have made England™ a dumping-ground for surplus products of the primary pro- ducers of the world.' (Address to the Royal Society of Arts, 1927) Thus the subsequent 'depres- sion' of the 1930s. was not built on insufficiency of goods or means of production to meet the needs of the population.

• On the contrary, hunger and unemployment existed side by side with jam-packed ware- houses and rusting machinery.

However, here was a sure period for the dusting-off of the Malthus theory once more.

This time none other than the 'Daily Herald', official organ of the Labour Party, laid the cause of starvation and misery Asia not at the door of in capitalism, of imperial domina- tion and plunder, but at that of population: 'There is only too much evidence in. India and China, for example, that the over- crowding of a too big popula- tion brings with it appalling conditions of misery. Either an unendurable suffering or the "natural checks" of famine and pestilence and a high death rate. 'Or, on the other hand, a deliberate and conscious lower- ing and controlling of the birth rate. These are the alterna- tives that face humanity.' (Daily Herald', August 8, 1932.) In the USA the 1929 Wall St crash had caught many farmers with unsold crops. The situation was made worse by a bumper world harvest in 1930. The US Farm Board pleaded with farmers to cut acreages by 30 per cent, but, believing that the government was buying up surpluses at some sort of price, farmers actually increased output to try and improve their incomes.

A drought in some of the Southern States did little to reduce surpluses but consid- erably worsened the position of the small farmers who were impoverished and ruined. Bar- ricades were , put up in farm districts and lawyers who tried to serve foreclosure notices got.

short shrift from the local population. The US Senate donated $25m to the American Red Cross 'for the relief of human starvation'. This was blocked by the government Adminis- tration. Eventually, on Decem- ber 20, 1930, a $20m fund for 'agricultural rehabilitation' was set up to give loans to farmers.

The loans only went to people who owned property. Farm tenants and others got nothing.

In 1933, massive dust- storms stretching from Texas to Canada wrenched the top- soil from the over-worked land and impoverished thousands of small farmers. In the South, black and white sharecroppers united in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union to fight for living standards and better against mass evictions. Banks taking over from ruined farm- ers often put in machines and few last managers to tear a harvests from the soil, so con- tributing to its final collapse.

In his novel 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck wrote of this period and of the ten- ant farmers who tell the men from the land-owning banks and finance companies: 'But you'll kill the land with cot- ton. We know. We've got to take cotton quickly before the land dies. Then we'll sell the land. Lots of families back East would like to own a piece of land.' The tenant men looked up alarmed. 'But what'll happen to us? How'll we eat?' 'You'll have to get off the land. The ploughs'll go through the door- yard.' But, in other areas, mechan- ization and hybrid grains used by the rich farmers produced "sensational' increases in yield.

Eventually, an act was passed replacing the buying of surpluses crop restric- with tion as a basis of payment. An army of agricultural agents drove through farm counties to persuade farmers to plough crops and cut production up of wheat, cotton, maize, hogs, rice, milk and tobacco. Out of million acres of cotton alone, 104 million acres were ploughed under in 1933. World War II finally helped to cut down the over-supply, and the Malthusians got into gear once more. In the early 1940s a book appeared in the United States advocating sterilization for people on Poor Relief. William Vogt maintained in 1948: 'One of the greatest national assets of Chile, perhaps the greatest asset, is its high death rate • the greatest tragedy that •. China would suffer, at the pre- sent time, would be a reduc- tion in her death rate.' In Britain, at this time, another consideration was being debated. A Royal Com- mission of 1949 was set up to look into the dangers of popu- lation decline and ended up advocating family allowances, and special concessions tax social services to mothers as an encouragement to have larger families. In both world wars and . in economic periods when work- ers were for a time in short supply, 'experts' have written works proving that population was in serious decline. A Pen- guin book published in 1940, written by a banking and cur- An Impoverished Callfornian migrant farmer leaves his dust- ruined homestead In 1935.

rency academic, explained that a fall in the birth rate in would "inescapably' Britain bring about changes leading to a fall in population from 48 million in 1940 to 46 million in 1960 and down to 40$ mil- lion in 1980. Prime Minister and Tory leader Winston Churchill made a radio broadcast in 1943 about the widespread alarm over the declining birth The rate. was to encourage our need people by every means to have large families' and to arrive 'well-thought-out at plans for helping parents to contribute this lifespring to the community'. The predicted falling birth rate trend did not come about, but neither did a fall in pro- duction. By 1955 heavy sur- pluses of wheat, butter, rice and wine were once more plaguing the United States, Canada and Western Europe.

In 1961, surplus food from USA was being diverted into a 'National School Lunch Pro- gramme' and Congress offered farmers incentives to invest in 'recreation' for city holiday- makers. In 1966, one American pro- fessor of history commented: ... almost every other year up to 1960 at least seemed to be cursed with record- breaking harvests due to new scientific methods which make each acre much more produc- tive than before.' ('Contem- porary America', by Harvey Wish.)

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

Two survivors of the Sunshine sliver min

US ROUND-UP

"The only thing we pro- pose in the line of safety laws is that they provide penalties for employees. This was Robert Launhardt's callous verdict on the mining Idaho, disaster at Kellog, which killed nearly 100 of his workers. The tragedy occured when the Sunshine Silver Mine caught fire and became a smoke-filled tomb for the workers. But the facts show that the deaths need not have occurred if the company had kept to a minimum safety pro- gramme. The blaze was caused by the spontaneous combustion of a stack of old timbers stored an unused underground in cavity. Company officials say the fire could have been burn- ing for a number of days but was undetected until pressure collapsed a bulkhead, gusting deadly smoke and poisonous carbon monoxide into the shaft and escape routes of the mine.

This cloud of gas was a killer men had in- because the adequate breathing equipment and had not been taught how to use the apparatus. Now there is widespread surviving the anger among miners and their families. One, Del Kitchen, who lost his father and brother, says when the disaster occurred the men did not know where the evacuation routes were since the management had never drilled its workers in fire pro- cedure. But the biggest cause of death was the lack of resus- citators, plus the fact that the men had never been shown the few that how to operate were available. Del was lucky. He managed to get hold of one and find out how it worked. This, however, was small comfort—the resus- citators only lasted for ten minutes. Two survivors of the Sunshine silver mine disaster, who were rescued after being trapped for seven days

MINERS TRAPPED

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Other men died in the hoist that was carrying them trom the lower part of the mine. breathing But there was no the hoist and apparatus in operators most of the died from smoke inhalation. Ira Sliger, a hoist operator who did survive, commented: "Oxygen one thing was we If didn't have. we running into that cab where the controls are located the men would be alive yet." The United Steel Workers of America has sent in a team of safety and men attorneys to investigate and a of this task force and the local union officials have decided to Congressional in- press for a vestigation. They are wary of the Interior Department's in- vestigation since this govern- agency had close links

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with big business. R. M. Federal Helm. Bureau of Mines official, said inspection Sunshine that Silver Mines revealed that the safety precautions were aver- age if not a little better than average. He's probably right illustrating the appalling dis- regard tor human lite in the race for profit. The company's own state- the disaster ment on are tribute to their brutal and callous outlook. Launhardt dismissed protests over the lack of safety drilling with cavalier explanation: 'We haven't tried to teach our hourly employees how to use them Ithe resuscitators], but if we did we would have to train them again a couple of months later. Carl Burke, another com- pany official, summed up the extent the management's con- He said ce overves the 'un- was sorry about expected' disaster and that the interested was in safety: 'We don't like to see injured. Besides

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mine can't effectively operate with too many accidents.'

d after being trapped for seven days

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Howard University scien- tists have found that blacks in America run a much higher risk of can- They cer than whites. blame this their on which environment, exposes them to carcino- genic substances. Federal health officials have backed the findings with their own findings based on a nine- area cancer survey. The Howard scientists found from 1949 to 1967 that the death rate through cancer among non-whites rose from 138 to 182 per 100,000 of the population—a 32-per-cent in- crease. In comparison the death rate among whites rose a tiny 3 per cent. The National Cancer Institute's third national survey made last year supports these findings. It found that the cancer incidence among blacks was 'substantially higher' than among whites. The federal study also found that black women suffered from cancer of the cervix more than white women, but that they had a lower rate of cancer breast and uterus. of the Whites in general had more leukaemia, skin cancer, brain cancer and cancer of the ovaries. According to the Howard finding, the higher cancer rate should be attributed to the more deprived and polluted environments of the blacks.

Workers Press, Saturday May 27, 1972 PAGE 9 Further item on the journalistic 'Leif Mills, 36, is an example career of Monty Meth, former of the new breed of union member of the Communist official.' Party, now industrial editor of The obscure Mr Mills is the Mail', the right-wing 'Daily cited Meth's only name in owned by the Rothermeres.

column. And what union does Meth tells us in his column this abrasive, boy genius work 'Almost unnoticed this week: for? amid the clamour and recrim- 'An ex-Balliol man, he ination the Industrial [Mills] takes over the £4,000- over Relations Act, a quiet revolu- leading iob as the a-year National Union of Bank em- tion is taking in the place back rooms of Britain's ployees this week. most powerful unions. Already, in Trade will note unionists four major disputes, the bosses that NUBE is one of the few have noticed tremendous unions to rush to register chauge in the negotiating room.

under the Industrial Relations 'For the fast losing unions, Act. Other their old cloth cap image, have ex-Balliol boys Edward Heath and Roy Jen- started Britain's tapping resources of traditional top kins. "think intellectual talent-the Balliol boys the trade union tanks" of our universities.'

movement can well do without, Meth Who does unveil to Mr Meth. this cliché-ridden stand up Below: Heath and Jenkins notion. Read on:

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Fighting the Tories Rent Bill Labour can't 'minimize' effects of PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday May 27, 1972 Reconstruction on the upper floors of Ronan Point tower block in Newham. In the back- ground are the docks where many of the tenants already in struggle face a day-to-day fight in their jobs Newham docker in two major struggles £12-a-week rents BY PHILIP WADE Our Housing Correspondent BILL CHAPMAN is in- The action committee was formed the on initiative of volved in two major West Ham Trades Council in struggles to defend his East London, of which Mr basic rights. As secretary Chapman is secretary. It in- cludes delegates from of the Newham Tenants' three constituency Labour Parties, Action Committee he is trade union branches and fighting against the Tory various tenants' associations 'fair rents' Bill. And as a in the area. the dock shop steward he is month over aco cour.cil Labour-controled facing the Tory onslaught to implement the Tory 'fair rents' Bill. Twelve Labour councillors on the trade unions. and one alderman voted against. Subscribe! The dally paper that workers press fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Lond SW 1G. Clapham High St., CIrculation Dept., Workers I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Name Address On May 8 these 13 were dis- ciplined by the Labour group.

They refused to go in one by one so the 13 were told together that they were suspended from the Labour group for defying the whip. The committee action demonstrated in their support outside. Said Mr Chapman: 'These 13 got out and spoke to their con-.

stituents and found everyone was against the "fair rents" Bill. Now we're asking all the trade union branches and so on to support the action of these councillors.

'Did the majority vote for implementation because they wanted keep in with the to hierarchy? In any case, we had been hoping all along that the other 21 Labour councils in Lon- don would refuse to implement.

But they haven't. 'The majority are saying that they will minimize the effects of the Bill when they implement it.

I've asked Labour MPs if that could be done and haven't got an answer. And I don't believe you can minimize the thing.

"The Bill will put council hous- ing on a profit basis, It brings in market value,' said Mr Chap- Transport and General man, a Workers' Union steward on the Victoria dock, London. 'In 1921 local authorities em- barked on providing homes for those in need. The Tories want this. Properties will to abolish be assessed as a means of invest- ment. 'And in mind bearing the maximum rebate is £8, what sort of rents do they have in mind?

I think they are talking about rents in the region of £12 or £14 a week. It is a vicious attack on our standard of living by the Tory government. As these vital issues we're raised beginning are to rouse the people.' What are the issues involved in fighting the Bill and the Tories? Can the law of the land be defied? "The argument I would use is this. During the Nuremberg trials after the war we asked the Nazis why they obeyed the law. Yet now we are told we mustn't fight bad law. 'We have got the position 1n reverse now. lhe view of the working man is that we must fight bad law and I support that.

'Look at the Tories with the Industrial Relations Act.

The Tories say there has to be a ballot on a decision taken by a properly-constituted executive committee. 'Yet when we ask for a refer- endum on the Common Market that is out of the question they say. 'Donaldson sees the law in the way the Tories want to see it.

What he says, every single word, is the gospel. 'We thought all these struggles we had in the past, like those behind us. on the docks, were 1354 BILL CHAPMAN secretary of the tenants' One could never have dreamt of so many things the Tories would in the short time take away they've been in. Now the Rent Bill aims to make people jump into buying their own property. But when those earning €3,500 a year can't get a mortgage, what chance do we have? 'The working class is faced with many issues which are all a single fight. Let's remove this as soon as possible. government It is the most reactionary one we've ever seen. 'Non-implementation of the Bill is our first line of defence.

Of course the Tories won't con- cede on it even it that does happen. 'But parts of this borough have been Labour for 50 years and they should take a stand on the question. 'The rebels are not those 13 who voted against the Whip, but the others who are against the Ch

ABOUT 450

workers in al northern Scotland paper mill lost their jobs yesterday when the firm announced it would not re- open after the Witsun holiday.

The Devonvale mill, run by Samuel Jones Ltd, is part of the giant Wiggins Teape Group and the largest employers in was ne tenants' action committee party line and the whole labour movement. 'Of course the Labour govern- ment will have to repeal the Bill.

But the Labour Party doesn't take too much notice of con- ference decisions. 'Nevertheless they absolutely have to nationalize land, the banks, insurance companies and building societies. 'We know two-thirds of rent income goes in interest charges.

If we can eliminate this we could put housing on basis it should be-providing homes for those who need them. 'If they don't carry out these pledges we will have to pull our sponsorship out and put in others who will do these things.

'As far as our action commit- tee goes we will carry on the fight even if the Bill does become law. It's a bad law and we have the democratic right to fight such law, said Mr Chapman. Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire.

As the recession hit the paper trade last year, Devonvale ran into difficulties and sacked 200.

Only two weeks ago Clackmann- anshire job prospects slumped with the NCB announcement of Scotland to close plans its (North) area HO at Alloa.

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UPW militants attacked for opposing productivity deals PAGE 12 Worker& Pross, Saturday May 2 Tilbury

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hundred dockers yesterday voted to defy union policy and continue black- ing container firms. Only three hands went up in support of the union appeal to end the black.

on LABOUR MPs hit back at the 'New Statesman' yesterday accus- ing it of a 'scurrilous' attack on Labour leader Harold Wilson.

MP for South Tom • Torney, Bradford accused the magazine's Anthony Howard, of a front-page editorial Howard, who once wrote an adulatory book on Wilson, accused his ex-hero of 'polluting the atmosphere of politics.'

Howard called for: Wilson's removal, but did not explain who should replace him. MORE than 8,000 workers at Vickers' Barrow in Furness ship- yard and engineering works will go on the dole after their Spring holiday instead of returning to work. Twelve hundred boilermakers who have been on strike for weeks over a pay claim seven voted overwhelmingly to stay out yesterday - less than five hours before the start cf holiday week. Vickers they will say close production temporarily holiday, on June 5, after the because of the strike. Vickers Lord chairman, Robens, is a former labor min- ister and ex-chairman of the National Coal Board. A STRIKE by BEA and BOAC ground staff at London's Heath- row airport was averted yester- day when agreed management to pay out a £1.65 wage rise they had earlier insisted in withhold- ing until agreement on the offer was reached with stewards and stewardesses. THE PRESERVATION of the Rights of Prisoners yesterday claimed responsibility for Thurs- day night's sit-in at Walton jail, and warned Liverpool, a jail strike in mid-July. national More than 320 prisoners at Wal- ton ended their ten-hour sit-in peacefully early yesterday morn- ing.

WEATHER

Central and eastern districts will be mainly dry and sunny at first but frequent squally showers in the west of the British Isles and near the south coast of England will soon spread into remaining areas. The showers will be heavy at times but there will also be clear or sunny intervals.

Later in the day increasing rain are likely to cloud and spread east into South Wales and England. It will be south-west rather cool in all districts. Out- look for Sunday and Monday.

Sunny periods. Occasional showers, perhaps more general rain in west later. Cool at first but becoming warmer in the south and west. day May 27, 1972

FROM DAVID MAUDE

in Blackpool POST UNION leaders yesterday defended their productivity dealing poli- cies by launching an angry witch-hunt against the 'lunatic left'. Attempts by militants to scrap all speed-up agreements and negotiations with the Post Office were heavily defeated by Union of Post Office Workers delegates at Blackpool. conference, which So the earlier this week delayed UPW leaders in implementing several important aspects of their poli- cies, broke up without decisively • stopping ; them trading jobs for wages. Dundee postman Sam Cameron urged the 1,450 delegates to end all productivity agreements with the Post Office and put in a claim for a substantial pay rise 'without trading many jobs for paltry wage increases'. He said that an extremely high proportion of the present unemployed had been sent there MORE THAN 6,000 assembly British Leyland's workers at Morris plant at Cowley Austin . have been laid off as a resalt a strike by 120 transport of drivers. The drivers are demanding for driving special payments heavy goods vehicles in line with the national policy of the Trans- Workers' port and General Union. The company has warned that lay-offs may reach 20,000 if the dispute continues. • At the Austin Morris factory Birmingham, pro- in Longbridge, duction halted yesterday after 200 crank shaft machinists walked out over a work-pricing dispute. Three thousand workers were made idle. EDWARD HEATH has accepted an invitation, to pay an official visit to Japan. No formal has yet been announcement made in London, but the details have been under consideration for several months. It is under- Minister will stood the Prime probably be going in September lengthhof the visit have not yee but the date and the been agreed.

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SOVIET culture Minister Ekate- rina Furtseva has attacked Nobel prizewinning novelist Alexander press confer- Solzhenitsyn at a ence for US and Soviet journ- alists as 'opposed to our entire society. TANOS KADAR, the man who pretended to support the Nagy government during the Hungarian revolution in November, 1956 and then went over to suport for the suppression has been bloody awarded the Order of Lenin on his 60th birthday. by East German speaks of easing travel betweer productivity deals. Union produc- leaders pedaled tivity were in the long run con- signing their members to the Only under workers' control of industry could mechanization and productivity show real benefits for the working class. The whole basis of producti- vity bargaining was to cut the wage bill and make a path to said London the dole. Overseas Telegraphist Al Reed. 'This is a philosophy which is backed _by the Tories through their National Industrial Rela- tions Court, he said. Its pur- is to take us back to the pose 1930s' Cardiff postman Derek Hodg- son opposed breaking off pro- ductivity talks because it would prevent the executive using this argument in their negotiations.

Jackson's outburst answering several the movers provoked delegates to challenge his right raise the issue of speakers' to political views. At one point he had said: 'I am prepared to lay my party • card on the table if he will put his there' He claimed the executive was not in business to put people on the dole and that in the long term it was the opponents of productivity who would be responsible for loss of jobs.

THE TORIES have hived off Thomas Cook and Son Limited, the worldwide travel hrm, to a powerful consortium of financiers made up of the Midland Bank, Trust Houses Forte and the Automobile Association. paying The consortium is £22.5m for the former state- owned firm. John the Transport Peyton, Minister, told the Commons yes- terday that Cooks 'have been condemned the langour of to public ownership for too long.'

The buyers won against oppo- sition from BOAC•and Barclays Bank. SCHOOLCHILDREN, supporters of the Schools Action Union, inarched 70-'strong' through Lon- don yesterday. It was the third strike called by the SAU. Later they handed in petitions at the education authority's HQ at County Hall demanding the abolition of school uniforms, free school milk and dinners, jobs for all leaving school and an end to corporal punishment.

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THE FINAL days in the campaign for our May Fund are proving to be a tough struggle. Our total so far reached £1,377.57 for which we do thank you all very much indeed. This month, however, we alm to raise an extra £500 over our £1,250 target to help us cover greatly increased costs. We know that all your support Is behind Workers Press. Let's make a really big effort for our Fund over these next five days.

This weekend there must be a special effort. Collect as much as you can and post Immediately to: Workers Press May Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. UPW secretary Tom Jackson 'We will not be used as political battering rams for any political group,' he con- small cluded. "This conference A second motion from Over- Telegraphists at London's seas Electra House, Cable Headquart- ers, wanted the breaking of of all productivity negotiations, except for past deals on which due. A national money was policy for all grades inthe union was also called for.

Jim Kane, one of the branch's delegates, pointed out that over- telegraphists faced a 40- seas cut in their grade by per-cent 1973 as a result of mechaniza- tion. They are an interesting group.

Sir Charles Forte, head of Trust Houses, was knighted by the Tory government and recently won approval for a plan to close the Criterion Theatre at Picca- dilly and redevelop the site.

He has just joined the Lon- don subsidiary of an Italian bank along with Lord Cobbold, a former governor of the Bank of England. of the AA is Lord The head Brenttord, a former lory • mini- ster and a close friend of Regi- nald Maudling's. They both serv- ed as directors of the ill-fated Real Estate Fund of America which crashed leaving bad debts around the world. MOSCOW Dynamo officials foot- ball team have conveyed regret to the organizers of their Barce- lona match with Glasgow Rang- ers over the injuries sustained by number of policemen. a The message of regret came from Konstantin Beskov, the senior coach, and Lev Yashin, the team Thirty-two manager. of the fascist police were admitted to hospital after clashes with Rangers' fans.

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The eight-page youth paper which leads the fight against the Tory government, for the work, in factories, right to schools and on the dole queues. Please send me 'Keep Left' for one yea I enclose £2.86 Name Address 'We cannot face this prospec under this system of society wit anything but fear, he said Mechanization could only be use to take men forward under system of society they cor trolled. What faced the working clas was the struggle for soci change, he said, urging suppos for a General Strike to force th resignation of the Tory goverr ment. The executive, said telegraphi had claimed . the Ken Pearce, policies would not result in sack He pointed out that eve ings. if this were true they woul take away 'thousands and thor sands of job opportunities fo our children'. The unions had the strength t obtain pay increases without th of productivit money' 'blood deals. Although these floc speakers were continually inte rupted by conference chairma Alec Reid, allegedly for makin political statements, Jackson wa again allowed to return to tr polițical attack. He claimed their main objer tive in the debate had been t win support for a General Strik would b 'Carriäge of this hailed by every lunatic left-win victory for thei fringe as point of view,' he said. ABOUT 1,000 engineerin have occupied th workers Sunderland factory of Hej worths and Grandage. The sit in began on Thursday whe 450 men were laid off fo taking part in a ten-day-ol work to rule and overtime ba in support of the engineer pay claim. The management had earlie threatened that it might clos down the works if sanctions wer not lifted immediately. WORKERS under threat redundancy and Ransome Hof man and Pollard in Anfield Plair Co. Durham, have decided t hand back their redundanc notices and. 'work on'. Many of the 2,000 worker want strike action, but the sho stewards' formula to 'work or was finally accepted. Consultations have begun wit management over introducting four-day week as an alternativ to the redundancies.

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