Workers Press no. 794

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DOCKERS' SENTENCE IS QUASHED

NOW MAKE THE

TORIES RESIGN

JAIL THREAT LIFTED: Three jubilant dock stewards (I. to r.) Alan Williams, Bernie Steer and Vic Turner, in the giant By our political correspondent THE COURT of Appeal yesterday quashed war- rants to jail three London dockers. This legal footwork does not solve anything for the Tory government. On the con- trary, it will only heighten its crisis. Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls, gave the dramatic judgement two and a half hours after the tipstaff was due to go to East London to pick up the docks leaders - Vic Turner, Bernie Steer and Alan Williams.

The sensational decision climaxed a day in which thous- ands of dockers went on strike throughout the country in sup- port of the London men. The three men under threat of arrest stood on the picket line at the blacked Chobham Farm depot throughout the day wait- ing for the tipstaff and the police to arrive. At 3 p.m. the Official Solicitor applied to the Appeal Court for the annulment of the contempt orders. The Official Solicitor's inter- vention is without precedent. Usually he acts only on behalf of lunatics who are unfit to plead or children too young to appear.

Legal sources said yesterday his intervention could have been prompted by either the Cabinet or the NIRC president, Sir John Donaldson. The man chosen to conduct the case—without the consent of the dockers-was Mr Peter Pain, QC, who has appeared for the Transport and General Workers' Union throughout the container blacking cases. Denning said the evidence before the Court was 'quite in- sufficient' to prove a breach of Monday's NIRC order against picketing. This is the second time this week that Denning has upset decisions made by the NIRC.

Bernie Steer said the Official Solicitor's move in the court could only be regarded as a victory for the dockers of this country', The decision of the govern- the ment to appeal through Solicitor General to the High Court for the three men's release has demonstrated the power of the working class. It is now entirely possible to make the government resign.

This is the most urgent issue of the hour. If the present opportunity is missed then the Tories with the connivance of leaders the right-wing union will plan more carefully next time. Here are the facts behind the crisis. Turn to p. 2 INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 17, 1972 • No 794 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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picket outside the Chobham Farm container depot yesterday.

DOCKERS — See p. 6 and 7

workers press

DOCKERS' SENTENCE IS QUASHED

NOW MAKE THE

TORIES RESIGN

JAIL THREAT LIFTED: Three jubilant dock stewards (I. to r.) Alan Williams, Bernie Steer and Vic Turner, In the giant By our political correspondent THE COURT of Appeal yesterday quashed war- rants to jail three London dockers. This legal footwork does not solve anything for the Tory government. On the con- trary, it will only heighten its crisis. Lord Denning, the Master of the Rolls, gave dramatic the judgement two and a half hours after the tipstaff was due to go to East London to pick up the docks leaders — Vic Turner, Bernie Steer and Alan Williams.

The sensational decision climaxed a day in which thous- ands of dockers went on strike throughout the country in sup- port of the London men. The three men under threat of arrest stood on the picket line at the blacked Chobham Farm depot throughout the day wait- ing for the tipstaff and the police to arrive. At 3 p.m. the Official Solicitor applied to the Appeal Court for the annulment of the contempt orders. The Official Solicitor's inter- is without vention precedent. Usually he acts only on behalf of lunatics who are unfit to plead or children too young to appear.

Legal sources said yesterday his intervention could have been prompted by either the Cabinet or the NIRC president, Sir John Donaldson. chosen to conduct The man the case-without the consent of the dockers—was Mr Peter Pain, QC, who has appeared for the Transport and General Workers' Union throughout the container blacking cases. Denning said the evidence before the Court was 'quite in- sufficient' to prove a breach of Monday's NIRC order against picketing. This is the second time this week that Denning has upset decisions made by the NIRC.

Steer said the Official Bernie Solicitor's move in the court regarded as could only be a 'victory for the dockers of this country. The decision of the govern- to appeal through ment Solicitor General to the High Court for the three men's release has demonstrated the power of the working class. It is now entirely possible to make the government resign.

This is the most urgent issue of the hour. If the present opportunity is missed then the the connivance of Tories with right-wing union leaders the will plan more carefully next time. Here are the facts behind the crisis. Turn to p. 2

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JUNE 17, 1972

• No 794 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

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picket outside the Chobham Farm container depot yesterday.

DOCKERS — See p. 6 and 7

SENTENCES QUASHED: NOW MAKE THE TORIES RESIGN

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday June

BY OUR FOREIGN STAFF

TWENTY-FOUR hours after the departure of the Soviet head of state, President Pod- gorny, for North Vietnam, radio and newspapers in the USSR had made no reference to it. But the visit had been cleared in advance with the US State Department and Nixon ordered a bombing nause over Hanoi to peaceful environment create a for Podgorny's talks with the North Vietnamese Politburo.

Podgorny will have to face from the hostile questioning North Vietnamese. They will want to know why the Soviet leadership was cavorting with Nixon while B52 bombers were sowing death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. While Nixon was in Moscow, scarcely veiled attacks on the Kremlin in the Hanoi press accused the Soviet Union of putting national interests before those of the world revolution and betraying the national libera- tion struggle. With US approval, Podgorny will demand that the North Vietnamese call off their offensive and put forward a peace formula will enable the American which delegation to return to the peace talks ili Paris. Although there few were signs during Nixon's Moscow visit that an agreement had been reached on ending the Vietnam both sides are anxious for war, a deal-at the expense of North Vietnam. The dropping of Pyotr Shelest from his important post as First Secretary of the Ukrainian Com- following munist Party Central Committee meeting

FOREIGN

NEWS

THE CHILEAN government has made an agreement with the Christian Democrat oppo- sition to end the constitutional deadlock which resulted last April when President Salvador Allende vetoed change a which would have limited his power to nationalize industry.

The agreement, which is strongly supported by the Com- munist Party, is intended as a sop to the opposition and the middle class. From p. 1 Behind the government's lies actions the great, one inescapable fact of the capitalist world economic crisis. In the rapidly-intensifying trade war, British industry, made by and obsolete the weak rapacious greed of the British over generations, is capitalists hopelessly uncompetitive. The position balance of payments once again plunges downwards, the there is open talk of devalu- ation by the autumn. Inflation is out of control. For the Tories, it is a life-and-death question to solve this crisis at the expense of the working class.

Tory strategy is to enter the Common Market, transfer masses of capital into Europe, producing millions of unemployed and mass revolutionary struggles in Britain under conditions favourable to themselves. This, we repeat, was the mean- ing of Heath's United Nations speech in October 1970, warning of 'civil war'. It is for this civil war of Heath that the Tories are preparing. The Tories have decided that irday June 17, 1972 which preceded Nixon's visit was a victory for the tendency which wants a speedy agreement with the US. With considerable progress made in Europe, having been following the ratification of the agreements with Poland and East Germany by the Federal Repub- lic, there is a growing desire to end the Vietnam war. A 'Pravda' article said that the summit talks had gone forward 'despite obstructionist actions by rightist and leftist foes , of relaxa- tion'. This was the first clear indication that there had been top-level disagreements about the Nixon visit. Nixon would like an early Vietnam peace settlement since this would make his re-election certain - an which outcome would not be unwelcome to the bureaucracy, as shown by the shift of emphasis in the Com- munist Party press. Veteran British Communist Party member Andrew Rothstein reflects the trend in a 'Pravda' article. He draws a distinction between the Tory 'diehards' who are blocking a settlement with the Soviet Union, and 'the broad circles in Britain which understand that important changes are now under way on continent, that tendencies the towards detente and co-operation are getting stronger..• This opens the way for sup- port for reasonable, peace-loving Tories and for such 'important changes' as Britain's entry into the Common Market. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's visit to Paris this week also ensured the support of the French government for the calling of a European security conference as soon as possible.

Both sides agreed 'that favour- able changes had recently occurred which contributed to the reduction of tension on the At the same time a list of 9l firms has been published which the government intends to bring into the public Com- sector. prising 60 per cent of industrial capacity, the firms include many in which the government already has some participation or which are wholly or partly foreign- owned. The Christian Democrats appreciate the moderate role of Communist Party, which the clinched this agreement. there is no alternative for them except to inflict wholesale degra- dation and impoverishment on the working class and the middle class. They protect the wealth the rich, and privilege of and condemn millions to penury.

In the light of this prospect, the conduct of the trade union leaders such as Jones, Scanlon and Feather, stands condemned.

Their discussions with the Tory their plans for con- government, ciliation and goodwill, provide a cloak behind which the Tories unfold their real policy.

These union leaders know full well what they are doing.

The more the masses are forced into action against the government, the more the Tories lay the law down, the more these leaders crawl before their masters. They only with fear react as government draws the sword and proceeds to wield it. The trade unions cannot be silenced by the government or by these leaders.

NATSOPA

leader Richard Briginshaw ex- pressed the feeling not only of his own members but of millions lof workers when he said on Wednesday that the Industrial Relations Act could be smashed, that and advocated a General Strike.

European continent and to the improvement of relations between different social with states • A reflection of this in a systems'. rightward shift in the further policy of the French Communist Party can be expected. While in Paris, Gromyko also had detailed discussions on the in with situation Vietnam Gaullist ministers and President Pompidou. He is believed to have given a full report of the dis- cussions which took place in Moscow with President Nixon.

Nixon's adviser on foreign affairs, Henry Kissinger, is to Peking next week visit in a surprise move also arising from the present stage of the Vietnam This comes after Chinese war. on "frenzied acts of attacks aggression' committed by the US in carrying bombing near to their frontier. comes at a time The visit when there are again reports of imminent shake-up in the an leadership Peking and the making of important new policy decisions. They may include the reduction in the powers, if not the actual dissolution, of the revolutionary committees set up during the 'cultural revolution' Moscow and Peking continue to abuse each other and to assert their opposition to im- own perialism and support for national liberation movements.

Both national interests put first and are anxious to reach an with the United agreement States at the expense of the revolution. As Moscow put it in a Chinese language broadcast, the Soviet Union, in its talks with Nixon "tactfully combined its realistic stand for solving pressing prob- lems with its unshakable will to national liberation support the struggle...' The Chinese could much with little say as as sincerity. In a recent altercation between Democrat senator a Christian and the President of their National Party allies in which the latter bitterly complained about this agreement, the senator for retorted: 'If it hadn't been the communists there wouldn't have been an agreement.' Allende is now reshuffling his cabinet in a further shift to the right. There are growing signs of discord within the Popular Unity coalition. With such a struggle, he said, .. you are embarking on a challenge for power'. That challenge is not just a question. trade union Trade have been built unions as essentially defensive weapons to wages, conditions protect the and rights of their members. It is necessary now to ensure that working-class action, on ce having made the Tories resign, returns a Labour government.

Would such a Labour govern- the ment question answer power? By no means! But, for 'the the working class to answer challenge of power', the working will have to go through the class experience of the fight to expose the Labour leaders in a series of bitter struggles to make the Labour government carry out socialist policies. There must be no repeat of the class-collaboration policies of the last Wilson government, way for the which paved the return of the Tories. Working-class power means the nationalization of the major industries and the banks, carried out by the struggle of the work- ing class. Such a successful in THE ITALIAN Christian Democra a right-wing coalition with Liberal Democrats following the failure of coalition'. Mentary stop Bemo approval liamentary group gave to premier-designate Giulio An- dreotti's proposal afer he had Socialist Party's reported the refusal the same to serve in cabinet as the Liberals. The Liberal Party stands on the right of the parliament and has been excluded from office since 1960. The decision to invite the into the govern- Liberals back ment marks a very significant swing to the right following the May General Election. In that election the most not- able gains were made by the fascist Italian Social Movement, which increased its representa- tion from 30 to 56 seats.

of the Liberals The inclusion in the proposed cabinet fore- shadows vicious attacks on the trade unions, which have been struggle for power, in the course of which the gripe of reformism is broken, carried out only through the building of an leader- alternative revolutionary ship, the_transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. In every city, town and village, the working class must brought together in Councils of Action to fight politically against the Tory government in defence of the democratic rights, living standards and the independence of trade unions. This was the Socialist Labour of the call League Manifesto of May 19th It is not a question of making the government think again or 'retreat, as • the Stalinists say, creating in struggle the but of industrial and political conditions in which the Tory government will have to resign and give way to a Labour government. The Councils of Action must comprise all trade union organ- izations in the area, all Labour Party, Socialist Labour League, Communist Party and other working-class political tendencies, as well as tenants' organizations, unemployed, and all those fight- ing the Tory government. U.S. RE- Democrat Party is trying to form • Liberals, Republicans and Social- ailure of attempts to form a 'grand a prime target of Liberal agita- tion for 'stronger government'.

The Socialist Party in a state- ment issued on Thursday night said the proposed coalition would be 'incapable of facing and re- solving the present problems of Italian society'. It added that the Socialists would 'fight in opposition for the of new conditions for creation democratic development'. The Christian Democrats vetoed the renewal of the old coalition after the Socialists re- jected demands that they break definitively with the Communist Party. Andreotti and his party are quite openly trying to patch to- an administration de- gether signed to deal blows to the working class under conditions of economic crisis. Inside the Councils of Action, the struggle to develop correct socialist policies will provide the best conditions for the develop- ment of revolutionary leadership.

The first demand must be for the immediate emergency recall of the TUC. There Briginshaw's policy can be debated. The dockers must on no account be left to fight alone on issues which concern the future of the entire working class and vast sections of the middle class.

We urge every Young Socialist, ATUA and SLL member and Workers Press reader to give us the maximum support for this policy: • Don't let the dockers fight alone! • Recall the TUC now! • Councils of Action in every area! • Prepare for the General Strike! • Mass action to create the conditions to make the Tory government resign! • For a Labour government pledged to socialist policies!

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speaker resolution Coventry trades council delegates their were to spea succeeded on Thursday McClusky refused to re-read the the issue of that had been carried McClusky took snap vote night 'in reversing the 49 of Coventry branch the Union previous decision for the of En- gineering Workers. setting up of a Council carried by Finally, • vote was carried by was how 49 resolu- the of Action. 22 the previou to issue for the tion on the from the

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resolutiol This was done by the most branch read again and de- of blatant negation bated. It read: right jointly wing who method of workers' this "This Coventry

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democracy in the trade union branch welcomes the proposal or coventry rades counci will • g revolutionary employed committee call President, Edward McClusky, millions in town against the Tory expostu and we sup action and just government's action ruled right from the start that meetings the had port Stalinists at move by for this meeting. branch letter from

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this considers in light of the

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Coventry branch situation which gave the opinions of the was, how- branch. meetne shout now be extended ever, defeated. in every section of the note soind the he said, was to working class now and not hold this the first It proposes that all working-class He then launched week accepted the : Labour League political attack on Socialist Lendilo committees, shop stewards' com- the said, he menders which branches, etc be mittee mittees, union going into branches alleging the majority this and trades council was setting up a recall organize Council of Action when in Council of Action set up to defence of workers Strike

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taken such a decision. it no not elect a Labou onslaught. Tories This blatant was government the mover from challenged by many delegates and full

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speaking McClusky accepted trades council meeting. McClusky motien from a right winger that repeal the Relations had not been there. Act. In a half hour of pandemonium, the resolution be noted margins shows that the ing losses for a lon! proceed-

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Indust- cutting-back time to come, said apace. of the big only a lew hedy ries, one spokesman surplus capacity has had Herbert-Inger- days ago Culls three machine - tool soil, the most advanced desired effect announcing the neWs firms, predicts a fur- The works manutac- although under- machine look mainly special- ther improvement tures Britain, called in the that even non machines over £490,000 had lost there is still some spare Drollls receiver. Dul DUS capacity.' the car industrv. and i for the first Six over f4m in tour years suffered from In plain language this

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months of this year. of trading. machine recession Staveley chairman Mr statement meals On the same day the generally where Moore thinks the have only H. R.

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announced the Ilin the basis of the industry runs creased on Wor- closure capacity sackings even if it only applies lay-Ulls allu cester works. do not feel shareholders. and more work

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those still with jobs. the The has In January the firm CullDally closure. They pointed doubled Financial commenta announced its intention bracucalv out it would produce 'a first-half profits over tors are Torecastno mod 140 improve- of Staveley will make last year, spite Altrincham machine least fitm the year ment' in the company's strike, on grinding plant cash resources Cheshire, sacking 1,025 which firm claims …tha waule. alla Overall, is expec £200,000. workers. the figures of are Ted that slaveer s re The little consolation to the will show closure of* proft increase has beer 'modest' increase at the the achieved on lower sales

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Darl the Archdale division means down their Con- about 6 per cent. ing vea Calls 400 will now effects the tinued trading As the 'City Press' pul lose their jobs. produce closure and it This improvement in DalT would in America unacceptably high trad The engineering •wei 'It would be lunacy for any Although it is not policy to BEA PILOTS have given their issue strike notice ballot figures, Mr issue leaders a clear mandate to call a pilots had rejected the said the unless it had the overwaeling strike, the British Airline Pilots' of its membership,' Mr support pay ofer out of hand' Association said yesterday.

Hurley adde There was also over- at averting whelming majority' saying they Gordon Hurley, the union's Whined to withdraw their strike, totally due to start on June us described as spokesman, were taking place at Kenneth were erroneous' claim by sentes le salu sectional panel Wilkinson,

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THE RETREAT on the en- gineers' national wage claim has its diametrical opposite- the acceleration towards Measured - Day Work - type wages structures. This trend is very clear in the Coventry district and the re- engineers' leader Hugh sult pf Scanlon's visit to Coventry on Wednesday June 7 has now brought these opposites into clear focus. The invitation to Scanlon to

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speak to the Coventry quarterly shop stewards' meet- ing was extended by the right- wing district committee in order to cover their own retreat on wages and conditions in the Coventry area. Scanlon's thesis, which he developed during the 1968 wage claim, is that the job of national negotiators was to build a skele- ton of wages, hours and holidays etc, and local officials put meat on the skeleton's bones. This theme, which led to the acceptance of MDW productivity deals in 1968, today leads to the strategy of plant-bargaining. Both have disastrous results for the working class. The applause at the close of the meeting was seen by one of the stewards as a sigh of relief with the realization that no one was being asked to do anything different to what they had been previously doing. That was in fact the meaning of the resolution placed before the meeting the district by he committee. Scanlon said warmly welcomed the resolution.

Policy District president Jim Griffin, convenor at the Triumph Canley factory, told the meeting the plant-bargaining policy was a union decision democratically arrived at and all union members must abide by the decision and fight for it. If no satisfactory offer was forthcoming the Standard at motor company in the morning, seven days' strike notice would be served on the company.

Before jumping over the moon at such fighting talk in Coventry, one is forced to remember that the Coventry leadership was un- able to defend the 30-year-old Coventry Toolroom Agreement and allowed to pass a method of payment which was giving regu- monthly increases lar pay without any norm of production.

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3 Press, Saturday June 17, 1972 PAGE 3 Since the termination of this agreement last year thousands of workers have been subjected to In 1968 productivity dealing. Griffin was one of the main national committee advocates of that infamous package deal.

At the June 7 meeting Griffin called on the Jaguar convenor at the Radford works, Ken Tyler, to give a report on the settle- ment there-£3.20 on the basic, £4 extra holiday pay, one day's holiday next year and a extra second bite of the cherry later in the year. A wonderful settle- ment, said Tyler. Griffin already knew the stone in the cherry was clause six, re- ported to the district committee the night before. It reads: 'Negotiations on a reformed payments system m which include other among things the question of lay- off pay.' The reformed payments system in Coventry's British-Leyland factories is the introduction of MDW-type payments system and everyone knows it. To link it to the national wage claim in this way, as Tyler did —and Griffin did not object-is to contravene point six of the national wage claim which reads: 'Any agreement concluded to be without strings or conditional on productivity's British Leyland has now offered the Jaguar settlement to and Coventry Climax, Triumph both British-Leyland factories.

Assistant divisional organizer George Butler was reported in the local press as saying: "The agreement reached in the light of discussions at present taking place at Triumph on a new wages structure .

was considered to be an interim setlement.' What the workers think of the deal can be judged from Jaguar worker Gavin Tully's remarks to 25 branch of the Coventry

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I've got nothing out of the settlement. It's been a complete sell-out by the shop stewards.

They had a 20-to-one vote for strike action on the national wage claim. And now what has happened is that MDW has been brought forward.' workers Coventry must beware. British-Leyland is not the only factory where the link- ing of the national wage claim with new wages structures is going on.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday June 17, 1972 Last week Lord Cooper, the right-wing leader of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, announced his retirement. In this two part series Stephen Johns examines his attitudes and career.

Lord Cooper's statements In 1957, again at the union's he annual conference, warned from the time he first delegates not to close their eyes made news, right up to to divisions in the unions.

'On the one hand we have the present day, are one those who spend all their endeav- continual tirade against ours in reducing conflict, and on the other, those who seemed the shop floor and the bent on the promotion of indus- militants who lurk there.

trial strife, he said. 'We are all too familiar with His intense fear of militancy the propaganda which fosters the be can aviace into a blasts unctious philosophy that all the the early days he called on virtues lie with the rank and file,' General the leadership of the he added. Municipal Workers' Union and "The Times' justifiably headed TUC to discipline their and the their piece on the conference, own 'wayward' members. "Union Chief Wants Shop He warned that a failure to Stewards' Powers Curbed'.

make would stern measures At this stage he wanted unions result in state intervention to set their own house in order. the movement. His plan was for industrial The second phase is one dominated by strong unions during which he came to believe 'to central body, co-ordinate the that state interference was justi- policies activities of the and fied and This led necessary. This require unions. would directly to his but ulti- substantial of surrender auton- mately abortive, attempt to get the Swedish pattern.' omy on G&M the to register under the

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November journal, Industrial Relations Act.

1963). Lord Cooper's statements, from But as working-class militancy the time he first made the news, increased, and Cooper saw the right up until the present day, Labour government's own are one continual tirade against attempts to introduce anti-union floor and the militants the shop destroyed, shifted legislation he who work there. emphasis of his arguments.

the There were two phases to He moved his second this 'communism', opposition to phase- advocacy of -open state 'industrial anarchists', etc. etc. compulsion in industrial rela- One was in the early days tions. when Cooper called on the union Already he had come near to of

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key features leadership and the to supporting the present Industrial Relations discipline their own 'wayward' Bill. members. The 'Evening News' article But even then he warned that quoted earlier ended with these do failure to this would result words from Cooper: justifiable government in inter- 'A before a strike secret vote vention in the labour movement.

for should be provided in my by all opinion unions in their Threats rule books' (Cooper's emphasis).

Again in the same article he The approached of second phase is one the concept where he legally-enforceable came increasingly to contracts believe and this when he wrote: support just principle of state interference 'How can the of great masses Tory and finally the Industrial decent trade unionists be

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Relations Bill itself. tected? failed his This when own 'Of overriding importance is conference came out union the need for both unions and against registration and recently employers to insist on carrying the group Cooper has joined in out at all levels, to agreements

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which is strongly in which they are parties? (Cooper's the favour of high-powered some emphasis.) of voluntary conciliation At the union's 1959 conference form However his ideology machinery. he repeated the same message: basically the same. remains 'Any union worth its salt can- In one of his earliest recorded of its not allow large numbers

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speeches, at the 1955 members to be put out of work annual conference, Cooper urged in defiance of by action well- unions to impose their own dis- established procedure agree- cipline. ments. 'As a 'Unless a strike is used only movement we have the as a final step after negotiations responsibility to ensure that failed,? 'then the entered have said, are consequences for the and off- nation are honoured by members serious and the duty of any gov- cials of the union,' he said.

the public ernment to interest is clear. Negative He coupled these threats with of virulent articles series designed Legal contracts, secret ballots the average to scare still a but there official over the dangers of com- was piece in the jigsaw-govern- missing mili shal The ammunition for these ment compulsion. from Now Cooper began to address attacks was drawn organ- himself to this missing link.

pledged izations who them- the In his iournal of May selves to subverting power 1969 he charged those in of the working class. anti-union written for sition to Labour's Thus in an article 'Evening News', July plans as being 'melodramatic and the London, titled Thin negative' and urged the 1955, Red Line move- 'In Place ment not to reject of Strikes', Cooper quotes Strife' as a whole. that a pamphlet issued by from "The Guardian' defender of the to well-known May of 1966, he had class, Moral Re-arm- working already called upon the Minister ament. Top: Lord Cooper. Above : Plikington v strike. Workers became so incensed wl of Labour to reverse his policy of 'doing nothing' about unoffi- cial strikes. There was, he said, for compulsory a strong case state conciliation when the 'pub- lic interest was at stake.

Finally he made this dramatic admission before businessmen at the Institute of Personnel Man- agers in April 1969: 'In our evidence to the Royal Commission, we argued for the compulsory introduction of a element into state conciliation.

We supported the re-introduction of the Industrial Disputes Order, 1951, which would enable one party to refer a dispute to arbi- tration' So it was that Cooper came to M offices at s Ikington workers sack the G & censed with the behaviour of their union that 1 forge the final link in the long chain of compromise with the capitalist state. Resistance By the time the Tory govern- ment was elected, had announced its plan for 'industrial reform and had provoked massive resistance of the working class, Cooper was ready for the ulti- mate in co-operation with the Tories - registration under the Bill, Industrial Relations the charter of the corporate state.

The ultimate responsibility for men like Cooper lies with the entire leadership of the labour at St Helens during the Pllkington nion that they left it en masse.

The fact his movement. that views can grow and flourish in damning indictment on their polidis nand reformist philosophy. How can men like Hugh Scan- Ion, the 'left-wing engineers' pre- sident, and his counterpart in the Transport and General Workers' Union, Jack Jones-who made their memberships' opposi- clear tion to the Industrial Relations Bill at the March 18 TUC-now co-exist with Cooper on the same TUC committees? Are there, in fact, others who do not speak with Cooper's own openly right-wing tongue who would like to register under the Bill?

GERMANY'S MISGUIDED

day The the after Japanese anarchist group 'Red Army' carried out its sensational attack on Lydde airport, Andreas Baader, leader of another famous terrorist group, was wounded and cap- tured in Frankfurt. With Ulrike Meinhof he gives his name to the so-called Baader-Meinhof group which for over two years has con- founded the police and alarmed the middle class in Germany with its bank rob- beries and attacks on army bases and newspaper offices.

The capture of Baader marks the climax of a massive police sweep involving 150,000 with men, many armed machine guns and driving armoured cars. Motorway ser- vice stations around Cologne were for a time manned by members of the Criminal Police Dept. This show of force by the state was ostens- ibly provoked by a series of bomb attacks throughout May in which four people were accompanied by a killed, declaration from the group on May 24 that: "The armed struggle has now begun. No exploiter will re- main unpunished.' In various raids on the group the have un- police covered an incredible arsenal of weapons ranging from bombs to heavy machine guns.

Who are these what is their aim? People and The origins of the group go back to about 1968 when the 'extra-parliamentary so-called opposition' swept through the German student movement in the aftermath of the French General Strike. Mass demon- strations and fights with the police took place over single issue questions like the Viet- war or the right-wing nam press. Ulrike Melnhof, one of the three leading members It was through these con- frontations that Rudi Dutschke came to prominence.

Already at this time Baader took a rather different road.

Although he took part in the demonstrations, his inclination was towards individual pro- test. He first made his name in April 1968 by burning down a Frankfurt department store.

A good insight into the think- ing behind such acts and in fact into the philosophy of his political activity is whole given by a note which was found when he was arrested.

It went: 'We are burning down this store so that you will stop buying. You are be- coming victims of the con- sumer society? This 'theory" is very much in line with Marcuse's ideas on Top: some of the armoury used to car Baader being arrested. Above centre: / alienation which were very popular in those circles at the time. The bulk of the popula- tion, working including the class, were seen as willing vic- tims of the consumer society and it was up to periferal sec- tions of society like students who were not yet integrated into the system to stir the masses out of their stupor by exemplary acts of defiance against authority. Mass punch-ups with the police were one interpretation of this philosophy; burning down department stores was merely another interpretation of the same basic idea. Baader's whole development from that day has been very much in the same mould. He has escalated his tactics from matches to bombs. But the basic idea is the same. Baader and his girl-friend, Gudrun Ensslin, the daughter of a preacher, did 14 months jail for that experiment.

When they came out in the summer of 1969 they formed a collective of about 50 young people who indulged in such schoolboyish pranks as "go- ins' into expensive restaurants in which they would rough-up the waiters and empty ash-trays into the wine glasses of the rich. ed to capture Baader and which has now be : centre: Andreas Baader. Above right: Gudrur Baader appeared to have access to considerable quanti- ties of money at that time, enough to run a brand new Mercedes and to live in some style. But the collective soon degenerated into drug taking even prostitution for and kicks'. • In November the court re- voked the shortening of the on Baader and sentence Ensslin and they fled to Paris where they stayed in the flat of Régis Debray, who was still in prison in Bolivia. When they returned to Germany in early 1970, Baader was captured after being led into a trap by a police spy who had been operating in the since student underground 1967. After only two weeks he was freed in a daring rescue masterminded by Ulrike Mein- hof. This was the period of the break-up of the extra-parlia- mentary opposition. Some sec- tions turned back to the Com- munist Party and the Young impatient Socialists. Others, with the slow development of the revolution, turned towards the guerrilla movements like Al Fatah and the Tupamaros for ideas. In particular the ideas of the Tupamaros 'theoretician' Workers Press, S , now become commonplace equipment for th if: Gudrun Ensslin, Baader's girlfriend who wi Carlos Harighela gained cur- rency. A number of groups • to call themselves after began the Tupamaros. Baader and Meinhof even- tually joined one of these groups and renamed it the 'Red Army Faction'. It is this group which has become a household word in Germany as the Baader-Meinhof group.

After a short visit to an Al Fatah camp the group settled down in Berlin and carried out robberies which three bank netted a cool £25,000. Since then the group have carried out a fairly consistent campaign of attacks on various symbols of bourgeois rule interspersed with bank raids to raise funds. Gradually the police have killed or captured most of the leading members of the group until now, with the capture of Baader, only Ulrike Meinhof and two other leading mem- bers remain at large. The campaign to rouse the masses through provocations against the ruling class has re- sulted in the total isolation of the group. The main effect of the cam- paign in fact has been to strengthen the hand of the state against the labour move- ment. • Press, Saturday Juno 17, 1972 PAGE 5 lent for the German police. Above left: d who was also arrested The mobilization of 150,000 police against the group can only be understood in terms of the preparation by the government for mass labour unrest. The sight of convoys of armoured cars on the motorways has become com- monplace, and even if the police do manage to crush the altogether, they will group certainly be keeping these vehicles in reserve for future use. Above all the activities of the Baader-Meinhof group have provided a heaven-sent opportunity for the press to whip up hysteria in the middle class against the left. The activities of this group coincides in time almost exactly with the first major independent movement of the German working class since fascism: there was a wave of unofficial strikes the autumn of 1969. The crisis in the middle class at the prospect of the class battles which this inde- pendent movement of the working class presages is ex- pressed in such groups as this.

But objectively their poli- cies, for all their anti- capitalist rhetoric, merely serve to strengthen the grip of the ruling class.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY P. J. ARKELL AND MARTIN MAYER

On May 12 the President of the National Industrial Relations Court, Sir John Donaldson, passed an his- oric judgement on the trade unions. In this judge.

ment, Donaldson called on the union leaders to dis- cipline shop stewards who ignored the Court's rulings.

Answering the charge that disciplining stewards would worsen industrial relations, Donalason declared: 'These dangers are obvious, but they are short-term dangers. They must be faced in order that in the longer term we may have an orderly system of industrial rela- tions of which we can be proud.'

In other words, the Tory Court announced it was prepared for big national strikes in its bid to crush shop stewards and militants. On May 29 Prime Minister Edward Heath told an audience at Luton Hoo: But let no one ask this government to surrender.

If there is anyone who still imagines that they can, for political purposes, pick an easy fight with us, I must warn them: You've come to the wrong place. You're wasting your time.' When the three London dockers-Bernie Steer, Vic Turner and Alan Williams-refused to show up at court this week, the groundwork had been prepared for a showdown. The sword had been drawn and now it had to fall on some heads.

As it did Labour MP Charles Loughlin told the press with deep anxiety: 'Unless this government is very careful, and unless the NIRC exercises its powers warned that if the situation escalated 'the government might even have to build more jails' to pack in trade unionists. Bernie Steer Vic Turner, chairman of the 33, married with Alan William, 29. is the younges! three children, is secretarv of the of the trio. He is a shop steward Loncon stewares com. tee, is steward at Scruttons in the stewards' commit- of National Amalgamated Loreoni shop Royal Group docks. says: 'On behalf of docker tee. Stevedores and Dockers' Union •We the country, we do not recognize the not recog fine ole Intony how can we be in contempt the Royal 'We are worin That of it? recognize is the right of any man prison for the right to work. this his country defend livine. MONDAY: Chobham Farm depot drivers go to get a court order against the the NIRC 1o three docks shop stewards. Order granted by Sir John Donaldson.

TUESDAY: Bernie Stee continue to turn away lo T&GWU leadership abused outside WEDNESDAY: Docks delegates call off national strike.

Transport Preston docker says: This has been the greatest sell out since the Last Supper.'

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th FRIDAY: West India dockers vote to k 'Donaldson was told that the dockers lla dockers vote to join the strike and the picket line at Chobham Farm.

old that the dockers had a banner proclaiming 'Arias Ye Workers', he con

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Worken stewards stand under a union ban • Chobham Farm. Below: the three jail-threatened Yo Workers', he commented dryly that It was 'a bit old-fashioned".

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday June 17, 1972

WHEN THE

TAILORS

LED THE

WORKERS

Our recent article on the history of the tailors' union aroused great interest among our readers.

Today we publish another episode which demonstrates the great courage and determina- tion with which the working class built their organizations.

The article is by Jim Hammond and is a re-print from the journal, 'The Garment Worker'. We publish it with kind per- mission of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers.

There was a time, during the period 1800 to 1867 when the tailors were the undisputed leaders and organizers behind the great social movements that significantly changed the course of our society.

The repeal of the iniquitous Combination Act: the Owenite Grand National Consolidated Union of the Chartist agitation in 1844; the Reform League demonstrations of the Kingdom 1860s; the United Alliance of Organized Trades or 1ooo, and limally the lamous First International of 1866, had as their backbone of organizers the ordinary, politically aware, journeyman tailor. This small group of cratts- men-'society' men- nurtured in its ranks men calibre and potential that set them on the same level as many ot the great men of their time.

The tailors can claim to be one of the first unions to exist as we know them today, having 1721 t0 illegally 'combined' in counsel to plead their case in the House of Commons.

So, they had built up a back- ground knowledge of organiza- tion and intrigue that made them well placed to participate Top: Robert Owen. Above Karl the social movements that Marx emerged in the 19th century.

ember, 1833. John Browne, their secretary, delegates from other trade grand lodges throughout

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country and within an incre- dible four months had organ-

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ized the 500,000-strong Grand National Consolidated Trade Union, with Robert

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Owen president and the tailor its John Browne as his right-hand The first leader of the tailors man and secretary. In his dual role of secretary was probably also the most to the Grand Lodge of Opera- capable, interesting and devi- ous. Francis Place was a for- tive Tailors and secretary of

GNCTU,

mer of the Breech- the Browne led the secretary tailoring trade into a prolonged makers' Benefit Society. He set Charing strike which failed disaster- up his own shop in the ously because supporting Cross and turned it into veritable den of conspiracy in unions did not levy their mem- the fight to repeal the oppres- enicient v ior Ders strike funds. Also the employ- Combination He Laws Sve ers made effective use of the was the arch conspirator. Using anna supported by roe masses or connicung evidence and sympathetic Members of paganda supported 'front Parliament as men' he 1imes'. was able to show that 'the law Eight years later (1842) an educated, efficient, but mysteri- was an ass' and that repressive ous leader named Francis Par- could control Teas alon

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rott of 11 Little Cross Street, the working man. Through his Islington, rallied the tailors by efforts the Act was

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sequently repealed in 1825. publishing rousing but learned document forming the The repeal of the Act in 1825 released a wave of pent- Metropolitan Tailors' Trade Society. The militant feeling in the Protection up reasoned and approach Robert •was workers Movemen. Owen's industrial firm. It escalated into a nati- on movement led by the democracy and national union- onal the They tailors, with Francis Parrott as ism roused tailors. Chartist tailor formed the First Grand Lodge president and a W. Parker Operative Tailors Dec- named as sec- retary. There is no evidence that Parrott was a Chartist, but there is ample evidence of his exceptional ability and know- ledge of the principles and aims of Chartism that were to eventually form the basis of social democracy. Unfortunately Parrott mys- teriously disappeared from the scene by 1845. Previous to his disappearance, his cause was given great impetus by the pub- lication in 'Punch' of January, 1844 the famous poem by Thomas Hood called 'The Song of the Shirt' depicting the plight of the outworker in the sweated trade; (space will not allow more than a few lines) Stitch-stitch—stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt.

The impact was nationwide and brought the state of the tailoring trade to the notice of everyone. Parrott and his orga- nization fully exploited the sympathy generated, and exerted pressure on parliament for reforms. Following the Owenite upsurge of 1833 and the Char- tist upsurge of 1844 there • a gap in the leader- occurred ship exhibited by the tailors. It was not until 1866 when the Manchester journeymen tailors forced 49 employers to accept a new 'time log' that a new movement began. By 1865 the stage was set for the last and most important confrontation against the combined force of employers and government. Tailors were now prominent in the Nine-Hour Movement, discussing tactics against employers' lockouts, and the Reform League's quest for poli- tical democracy. In the West End of London there emerged two formidable leaders, George Druitt and Matthew Lawrence, who were destined to become the leaders and spokesmen in the greatest confrontation between govern- ment legislation and trade union principles since the recent Tory Industrial Rela- tions Act. Druitt was president of the London Operative Tailors' Pro- tection Association and fought with dignity and constraint.

Lawrence was a dynamic orga- nizer and speaker, a close friend and compatriot of Karl Marx and a fellow member in International Working the Mens' Association which gave rise to the First International.

At the same time there in Manchester the emerged Amalgamated Society of Tailors was to gain national which leadership under the capable organizing of a Peter Shorrocks -later to become one of the .

prime movers in setting up the

TUC.

These men were well fitted for the task that lay ahead of them and the national confron- tation that swamped them. With the aid of the newly- organized unity of the United Kingdom Alliance of Organ- ized Trades, 68 unions with a total membership of 61,203, were prepared to pay strike levies to support the tailors in their confrontation with the sweat-shop. a Above: Chartist procession of 1842 had as its backbone of organizers a large proportion of journeymen tailors government-backed employers and legal forces. At a time when—as now— anti-union feeling was at its highest because : of the Com- mission of Inquiry into Trade Unions; when Reform League demonstrations in London relied heavily on the tailors marching with them; when the Hornsby-Close judgement took trade unions into the legal arena; when the brotherhood of international working-class reality solidarity became through the continental visits of Lawrence; the names of the tailors' leaders were prominent.

It can be claimed they led the attack on the local, parlia- international and mentary levels, and, though defeated, never to emerge again in such an influential role, the prin- ciples of legal rights, inter- national collaboration, mass support for individual unions, and, eventually the growth of the TUC through the efforts of Peter Shorrocks, surely dem- onstrate that the great battles of the socialist movement and trade unionism owe much to the calibre, support, and leader- ship of the tailoring workers of the past. New unions and new leaders have taken over the banner from m. the old journeymen tailors, but the issues are just as cru- cial now as they were over 100 years ago in 1867. We will always need men like Francis Place, John Matthew Lawrence and Peter Shorrocks to win and maintain the principles we stand for.

President Nixon's elec- toral supporters have coughed up more than $10m for his campaign fund, but their identity will remain secret. The main Republican cam- paign for the re- treasury election of the President sub- mitted its first full financial statement last week. It shows that gifts from supporters amounting to more than $10m were banked early in 1972. contributors have an The obvious incentive money into Nixon's campaign —an incumbent President has never yet been beaten at the polls. Thanks to some sly foot- work by Nixon's campaign managers— prominent among them is Maurice Stans, the former Secretary of Commerce -the donors have been able to give anonymously, as well.

of Nixon's great re- One forming' measures was to force disclosure of the names of political donors — but he cleverly fixed the operation of this law only from April 7 this year. Republican funds—the Fin- Committee to Re-elect. ance the President, the Media Com- mittee to Re-elect the Presi- dent, the Television Com- mittee to Re-elect the Presi- dent, and the Radio Com- mittee to Re-elect the Presi- dent — got their money in ahead of the deadline. They were also among the last to file their financial state- ments at the Washington office set up to receive details of their campaign funds. This has led to bitter accusations Nixon's from critics, who cite his own state- ment that the Federal Election Campaign Act was a mechan- ism for restoring 'public con- fidence in the integrity of the electoral process' Common Cause, a group of reformers who have set them- selves the task of watching how • the new law shapes up, called it 'a sad fact that the refusal of the President of the United States to reveal where $10m has come from can only lead people to con- clude that the office of the Presidency has already been sold to the highest bidders.

'Mr. Nixon, by his refusal to disclose, shows that he does not want people of this country to know who is sup- porting his campaign.' Nixon, the statement added plaintively, had a 'clear moral duty' to disclose the names of all his election contributors.

Under the pre-April 7 law, the Corrupt Practices Act of 1925, the course of campaign contribution could • legally be obscured. Now, thanks to the sterling work of Maurice Stans, Nixon appears to have the bulk of his campaign funds already under his belt before the dead- line. Beginning with Senator George McGovern, practically all Nixon's Democratic poten- tial opponents have disclosed voluntarily the sources of their funds. fact while Nixon In was promising that the Act would give 'full access to the facts of political financing', his campaign were managers stomping the country persuad- ing their donors to get their cash in before the deadline.

In the United States, this is known as the democratic process. Nobody is in much doubt as to why Nixon wants to conceal where his money from: the donors comes already are earmarked for lucrative contracts, jobs and other kick-backs in the event of Nixon's re-election. The bargains made behind the scenes are better kept that way, Nixon obviously thinks.

After all, it wouldn't do to the idea that the encourage presidential elections are in influenced by cash the least that the considerations, or presidency is 'bent'. Top: Nixon campaigning. Below: where the funds goa computer in the McGovern head quarters.

Workers Press, Saturday June 17, 1972 PAGE 9 two-year-old, Zone upset War God in a shock judge- ment which sent the press MIND, an organization dealing a-scurrying and set the pundits with the problems of the by the ears. mentally ill, reported recently Trailing Knightwick was the number of old people on Shorthorn Wellbank March who are forced into mental Wind and Devon Potheridge hospitals because they have Big Ben. And if that's not a nowhere else to go. lot of bull, we don't know The largest group of long- what is. stay mental hospital patients is aged 65 and Of the over. 116,000 patients in such hospi- tals today, 52,000 are over 65 and more By 1980 it is expected that the number of people over 65 and Wales will in England nearly 1 have increased by million and two-thirds of the beds in mental hospitals will be occupied by this age group.

As the MIND report points there is absolutely out, no need for many of them to be there. With proper facilities, they would be able to live in the and normal community finish their days in dignity and "The Times' rather fell over comfort. eagerness for a itself in its Instead, if they become un- the other day-causing scoop able to live alone and cannot some red faces not a million afford to be looked after, or miles from Hayes Court, ade the have no family who can cope electricians' union with them, they are commonly quarters at Bromley in Kent.

sent to the mental hospital.

cynical There The patients... sit around were sonic and, of totally course, un- all day just doing nothing but founded remarks from union becoming cabbages,' the report Wednes- wits at a report in decla 'es. day's issue of the paper that The various scandals which Frank Chapple, EPTU general hit the headlines, of patients secretary silent had won the elec- being robbed, assaulted and tion for killed even in overcrowded, For a leadership which came understaffed mental hospitals, after diffi to power certain forced some action from the shall we say, about culties, government. ballots, the report was just a Tory Minister of Health little embarrassing. and Social Security Sir Keith Counting in the ballot will Joseph recently issued a docu- not be completed until later ment about the future of ser- today. vices for the mentally ill.

was not, however, the great improvement the government tried to imply. All the Minister is propos- Kurt Born, a former Nazi doc- ing to do is to juggle tor, was aquitted in Frank- the de- furt last week of charges that creasing amount of money he had helped to kill thousands spent on the National Health Services, so that the of mental patients at the mental health service gets a bit more National Socialist Institute of and the rest get less. Euthanasia in Saxony during And it made no mention of the war. better facilities for the old.

Born took charge of the 'killing service' at the Institute in 1940 and made no attempt to deny committing the mur- ders. Down in Worcester, He told the court he believed some- he was 'helping to the thing stirred. While solve Lord problem of insane Denning was overturning the incurably persons' and claimed he did National Industrial Relations not commit murder for 'sheer Court in London earlier this the really considerations of utility'.

week important The court discharged him on action was at the Three Coun- Show the grounds that his claim to ties interbreed cham- have acted for reasons of hum- pionships. There, Knightwick 3 Crosby, anity had not been disproved.

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Fighting the Tories Rent Bill Tenants anger against Tories' PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday June 17, 1972

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Recently Wood End tenants Trades Unions attended an All Alliance meeting, and here they give their views all on aspects of the Tory attack on the work- ing class. Mrs Ivy Lowe, is a shop stew- ard at Standard Triumph's giant Canley works in Coventry.

"The have got shoes workers on their feet at the moment. But if this Tory government carries on much longer with what. it is doing and with its plans lu put will be in the rents up, we our We won't have stockinged feet. any money to buy anything with.

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Could Thev necessary ersThe Industrial Relations Act this scheme. need. are organize in order to get the *Every ought come Tories out. out into a general strike to force is completely wrong. unions "Ihe next Labour government persuade Can L _une emo overs. une covernment our, cverv inous must give us back everything the Speaking to them is no good must nationalized then Tories have taken away. The they don't listen. Strike the and the workers run them. industries must no longer remain only way show the The every- lories

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their rights. class. I support the essary: The just the crust. 'The Councils Action. They are of Action are necessary. pile. right. men have made their We have to unite every- class must have Is say industries should be taken poov acalast coe covernment and as to wnat it wants. over and run by workers' make the next Labour govern. Councillor Williams, one Mrs Hazelman housewife out our wishes. There ment carry of the younger Labour councillors IS with five children. She oucht to be people in parliament siliall ana a snoo stewara al sanaara Triumph, Canley, said: save uneaseen

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who have a rugge work since last November think the council totally opposed to when he was sacked from a con- should the down. Tory Housing put implementing the hirm was quine WorK should certainly reluse cly rinance ill. I unink every allack Coal Board home fire by the Tory government is con- TOr the out the lory rent Bill. I was having a baby and Jack Robinson, a shop steward plant. took at Morris Engines, Coventry, told because he time off work High Courts are directly was sacked Us connected to me oe unance cor.

five children and all 'The Tory Party is bringing in The increases in rents Ive got we get £18.90. Out of this this rent Bill to attack the work- houses will that only ensure £4.75 have rent. ers' standard of living. big bullding contractors will ge pay struggling just dav bv dav. If the une nouses even bigger pronts rent bill comes in government's high and you can't get any repairs 'The Tory sove working tas be starving when you done want it. ing to drive working class 'The Labour government Ical new Ldovul veeper ana accer into deou. inev has workers it be the point that KeeD the rices and must not carry out the lory rent rents right down. Ments out it tre Bill. The Industrial Relations Act frightened on the but the is dictatorship. Workers will not unemployment, speak their minds tear up ti we're no better to say what De able they unink veerowa our on we streets sold us and being put down.

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wholeheartedly unite all the The Labour government has got workers against the Tories.'

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secre- strike against the sack- against the individual dismissal orocedure involved. tary Jim Conway has Anomier mem- snould be negotiated in mated Union of the the department line with Trec to. All her of been accused of refus- Amalgamated of was also threatened. of ments the • tor ing to negotiate in a Engineering Workers The vulsiue inausuv. May 15 after talks with dispute over the sack- Conwav Believing that this say does not seem want to Conway failed to solve could, if accepted by to staff worker ing of a compromise on any of the issue. Conway, form the basis at the union's Packham the issues involved. was then ot a compromise settle. began

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MAGNUSSON.

6.45 MAGNUS

Appeal on behalf of the British Schools Exploring Society. 6.50

SONGS

• OF PRAISE.

7.25 BRUCE FORSYTH. At The Talk of the Town. 8.10

FILM: "THE INNOCENTS'.

Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyn- garde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Regree st story on Henry 'The Turn of the Screw' a study of evil and repres- told against sion the background of the super- natural. 9.45 NEWS, weather. OMNIBUS. Glenda Jack- 10.00

KENNETH HARRIS INTER-

FRANK MCFAD-

VIEWS

ZEAN. Britain's highest paid employee and chair- of Shell man-designate Transport and Trading. 11.45 Weather.

BBC 2

1.50 9.05 University. Open Review, Cricket. 7.00 : News weather. 725 MUSIC ON 2. Fou Ts'ona.

of artist whose admiration for Mao Tse- tuna brinas him into con- 8.35

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

Spirit of the Samurai.

ITV

10.45 Thunderbirds. 11.40 Sesame Street. 12.40 Jackson Five. 1.10 News. 1.15 World of • Racing ing from Sandown: 3.00 Tennis; 3.55 Results, Scores, News; 4.00 Wrestling; 4.55 Results Service.

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5.40 News. 5.45 Salę of the Cen- tury. 6.15 2 Gs AND THE POP PEOPLE. Variety

7.00 NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

Perfect in Every Way.

8.00 SATURDAY VARIETY.

9.00 THE

REG VARNEY

COMEDY HOUR.

10.00 NEWS.

10.15 INTERNATIONAL SPORTS

SPECIAL.

Middleweight Championship the World: European Football Third/ Championship Fourth Place Final.

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OF JUSTICE.

Position of Trust.

12.40 DEAR LORD.

8.30 CIVILIZATION. A personal Kenneth Clark. view by Part 1.

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10.20 THE VISITORS. Part 1.

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7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

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10.15 NEWS.

10.30 PLAY: 'CONSEQUENCES'.

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11.30 MUSIC IN THE ROUND.

The Perfect Accompanist -Gerald Moore.

12.00 DEAR LORD.

9.25 TUTANKHAMUN'S EGYPT.

Prog. 12. World of the Gods.

THE LOTUS EATERS.

9.45 Part 9. 10.35 NIGHT CLUB. International cabaret from Munich. 11.30 NEWS, weather.

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11.00 12.05 Weather. Something to Farm 1.45 dog. Tamily Man trom Uncle. Songs for 12.00 Weather. HTV: 11.00 Service. Sichin 1.40 1 20 12.55 Kitchen. artet, the MJQ (with pianis al TV London. 9.00 10.00 London. 12.15 Channel except: Honeybun. Lone Ranger. 12.10 (midnight) Weather. Yesterdays. 1.07 Weather. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 News 5.10 Sale London. • jolns the team presentins London. 12.05- roune. 2.50 Weather canna eyeon sing about. kitchen. Georde 35 Farm and Tales Edgar Faith for life. 11.00 Service. 12.00 12.30 Mulcle about. 12.55 the Training Stingray. 2.10 3.05 London delight your Epilogue. Service. 12.05 Music. University Workers Press, Saturday June 17, 1972 PAGE 11 ith planist John Lewis) provide the Sounds for Saturday at 9.20 tonight on

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Cabinet crisis session as ports come to standstill PAGE 12 Workers Preas, Saturday June' Build Council of Action THE AUEW's technical and section, supervisory North Wembley branch has passed a resolution supporting the call for the setting up of Councils of Action in every locality as an integral part of the struggle to force the Tory government to resign and replace it by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. It adds: It further calls on the local trades council to take steps immediately to set up such a Council of Action. The resolu- tion will be forwarded to the district committee. See p.3. Stalinists block Council of Action. THE TORY Cabinet went into a crisis session yesterday to plan the calling of a state of emergency. The plan which has been on the shelf for the past three includes months contingency plans for ensuring that essential supplies and communications are safeguarded. Those at the meeting included Attorney-General, Sir Peter Raw- linson, Solicitor-General, Geoffrey Howe (who drafted much of the Industrial Relations Act) and other senior ministers including Maudling, Barber, Carr and Carrington. The emergency declaration is for the also certain to provide use of troops if, in the view of the situation the government, gets 'out of control". has cancelled a week- Heath end yachting engagement so that he can be on hand to give the battle orders. In Scotland ABERDEEN yesterday dockers came out Scottish miners' pre- afternoon. sident, Michael McGahey, called emergency meeting of the for an general council. He called on the TUC to plan a national General Strike if any trade unionist was jail for contempt sent to court. He said pithead meetings should be held on Monday to

ADVANCE NOTICE

Socialist Labour League

DON'T LET THE DOCKERS F

DEFEND BASIC DEMOCRATIC

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMI

SUNDAY JULY 2, 7 p.m. Acton Town Hall, Acton High Street, W3. Speakers will include G. t Secretary), S. HANNIGAN (L Corin Redgrave.

LATE NEWS

BRITISH Steel Corporation's May figures show a weekly out- put decline of 8.3 per cent for the first five months of this year, compared with the corresponding period last year. In its statement said: Really the Corporation firm evidence of reflation is still awaited.' by Workers Office. Clapham WA hu Street, 186a Itd. Printed by Plough Press (TU), Street. London. 180b Clapham High

SW4 7UG.

day Jero 17, 1872 THE POUND slumped on foreign markets as a result of the docks yesterday and had to be supp French and Belgian central banks.

European dealers were on the ph early morning with orders to sell st by lunchtime there were indications York dealers were at their offices mu than usual to join in the selling of p "The market is very busy, one de "There is a lot of selling. I am not nt BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT demonstrate solidarity with the dockers. At LIVERPOOL the strike be- gan at 6 a.m. and a 10,000-strong was held at the protest _rally Pierhead. Fifty-two ships were laid up by the strike. At PRESTON the 270 dockers met at 8 o'clock and took • an immediate strike decision. They other trade also called on unionists in the area to support them. One steward said: 'We're years if ready to fight for two it's necessary.' At TILBURY the afternoon shift unanimously voted to strike are "per- until the three men released from jail. manently Earlier the early morning. shift out after a similar walked had meeting and vote. A lighterman called on all his fellow members to join the strike in sympathy.

At a separate meeting yester- day afternoon 500 Port of Lon- Authority white-collar staff don at TILBURY agreed to strike from Monday morning if the three shop stewards were jailed.

SOUTHAMPTON'S

2,000 dockers voted at a mass meeting to strike until Tuesday morning when the position will again be reviewed. The NUR branch on the docks voted to go on strike in sympathy • League Public Meeting

KERS FIGHT ALONE

OCRATIC RIGHTS

VERNMENT RESIGN

e G. HEALY (SLL National GAN (London YS Secretary),

WEATHER

EXCEPT for some scattered showers over northwest Scotland and local coastal drizzle in the west, most districts will have a dry day with sunny spells.

Temperatures will be near normal for mid-June in the southern eastern England and but it will remain rather cool in the north. Outlook for Sunday and Monday: times in Some at districts, but predominantly dry atures in the south. we seem to have got ourselves into a position foreign exchange solution.' By midday, the e docks situation where there is no down to two dollars 58.70 cents supported by ound was Thursday night's closing rate of two rom dollars 59.975 cents. n the phone from Things were no better on the Stock Exchange, o sell sterling and "The. old lady where one denizen commented: dications that New in Leamington Spa has as much of an idea as we offices much earlier have at the moment as to what exactly will ling of pounds. happen to prices' In fact prices rose slightly resterday morning, but the rise was said to br , one dealer sai technical' after Thursday's 15-point fall am not surprise shop stewards' committee which originally introduced the selec- and Vosper Thorneycroft ship- tive blacking of container firms yard workers are also discussing country will be throughout the whether to join in. whether call deciding In Wales BARRY dockers went national docks strike from Mon- on strike while men at Newport, day. Cardiff, Port Talbot and Swansea The works' committee at decided to strike when the men Longbridge, Austin Morris, arrested. BIRMINGHAM, which represents were 20,000 workers yesterday de- of the

FELIXSTOWE,

one shop stewards' cided to country's biggest container ports cal a Monday

IPSWICH

meeting on to recom- worked normally, but 'to support mend strike out during the action dockers walked arrested trade unionists any morning. under NIRC rulings'. HULL today the national In

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE 2,000 pickets at the Chobham Farm container depot were in the Court bitter and shocked by yesterday's intervention of Appeal even though it went in favour of the three stewards.

who had been The men, wait- ing all day for the arrival of the tipstaff arrest their three to leaders, immediately staged which decided meeting their unanimously blacking of the firm and not to recognize the NIRC. stewards' After hurried meeting Jim Carpenter, leader of the Port of London stewards at the Royal docks, told dockers: 'These people have done the and all dockers no service at AFTER months of prevarication, we condemn their activities.

President Makarios Cyprus has 'This movement goes on. The finally agreed reshuffle his blacking will be maintained, we cabinet in accordance with the do not recognize the NIRC and the Greek requirements of we will remain as solid as we are colonels. now' The reshuffle announced this urged dockers to attend He week is a response to the Greek the Tower Hill meeting fixed for demand in January for a 'gov- Monday at 8 a.m. ernment of national unity'.

Commenting on the Appeal The Greek regim favours regime jail- of the Court's move, one and the partition Turner, said a rhis is a bloody liberty.

threatened imposition of a right-wing gov- ernment subservient to the mili- and 'As far as I am concerned we tary dictators in Athens We appealing. want are not nothing to do with this court and clear want to make it quiet L'HUMANITE', the daily pape that this is doing us no favours of the Central Committee of th at all. French Communist Party, is to slash its staff, cut down its press He said he had no prior warn- out of in don't of yesterday's development. move part because of a financial anything about know premises 'It's this complete crisis. a front-page appeal it action. called on all party members to mystery The blacking will definitely buy the paper to prevent further Editor Etienne he added. Fajon continue. cuts. called the appeal a 'distress call' 12 Decline of the CHARGES against all the paper, which now only 160.000 against nearl sells defendants the Longannet pickets' trial were dropped yes- a million at its peak, mirrors the crisis of French Stalinism.

terday. WEST GERMAN police yester- The police claim the Baader- day the capture reported Hanover of 37-year-old police anarchist Frau robberies. arrested last week joint leader with Andreas Baader Baader was in Frankfurt. so-called 'Red Army Faction. the • See p.5 for background story.

PILKINGTON, Britain's biggest glass producers, announced a £4m profit_recovery and bigger dividends. Pre-tax profits in the 12 months to the end of March rose to £18,016,000. This was still not up the record £18,366,000 scored in 1969-1970, but was a good f4m ahead of the £13,940,000 earned last Shareholders collect a anal pay- ment of 54 per cent bringing their total for the year to 10g per cent or 3 per cent more than last year.

FIFTEEN

were more men released from Long Kesh intern- ment camp yesterday. This makes 553 freed since of the start direct rule, as part of Northern Ireland Secretary William White- law's policy of gradually releasing detainees and internees. Three hundred and eighty seven are still held. the National Association Local Government officers, yester- day refused to consider declaring solidarity with the arrest-threat dockers. By a narrow majority 2,000 delegates at NALGO's annual conference in Eastbourne rejected a call to urge the TUC to use every possible means to secure the dockers' release.

MEETING of 400 people in A Preston on Thursday night where Bernadette Devlin was billed to speak, broke up in disorder, fol- heckling and the lowing noisy singing of Orange songs. Open.

fighting broke out, but police did not intervene. Miss Devlin failed to turn up at the meeting organ- ized by the Northern Ireland Civil Right Association and the Official IRA. At the time she was in the House of Commons in London.

LIVERPOOL Trades Council on Thursday passed an emergency resolution pledging full support for the dockers and calling on union labour and trade the movement to support them by whatever means possible. It also called for a conference of all in working-class organizations Liverpool next Thursday. STORMONT MP Paddy Ken- nedy, 29, was yesterday sent for Belfast magistrates trial charged with promoting the aims of the IRA. The charge, denied by Ken- nedy of Upper Newtownards Rd, Belfast, was said to have arisen out of an IRA press conference in Ballymurphy last August.

Chief prosecution witness James Michael Calvert, a research fellow at Manchester University, said he attended the conference Kennedy and alleged that presided. PROFITS from Cavenham, the fast-expanding foods group which recently swallowed up Bovril and the Allied Suppliers retail chain, have topped an earlier forecast by well over flm, writes a City correspondent. Figures published today showed the group earned a record-breaking • total of £4.9m in the 12 months to the begin- ning of April, compared with £1,963,000 last year and the pre- level of f3.4m. Sales, dicted meanwhile, were more than trebled at £119m against £35m last year.

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