Workers Press no. 799

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 23, 1972• No. 799 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE ARREST in Moscow of leading oppositionist Pyotr Yakir is the first fruits of President Nixon's visit to Moscow last month. Yakir, the son of General Ion Yakir who was shot in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, is to face trial his consistent struggle against Stalinism in the USSR. Yakir once declared: My father, like other Soviet citizens,

BREZHNEV

NIXON

was destroyed by Stalinism. And it is Stalinism I am fighting against.

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Un- fortunately there is a Lenacacy now- adays confuse anti-Stalinism with anti-Sovietism.' The frame-up charge him is against "systematically submitting information the western probaLanca agencies and indictment names Radio Free Europe, Liberty and emigré Radio organiza- NTS in attempt tion LU sinical opposiuon as anti-soviet Workers Press warned Monday, June 19: "The establishment Union cannot be linked with the noW excluded. of through United states

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acic President Nixon's visit, and zanon rom me soviet cr True to its past of lies the possibility lengthy talks that this neig British betrayals, with John Gollan and other by will Tolowed leading European security confer- Communist Party cowardly veil of makes the position counter-revolu- revisionists of the HOLIeSS une of Brezhnev Lonary

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International Marxist Group out more brecarous. and Mao. and 'state-capitalist 'And this applies par- Yakir's ticularly to the revolution- arrest was internadona socausts nave who rep- communists ported in four non- years maintained that

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Stalinism is a thing of the commital paragraphs a muenact the bot- te bourgeoisie in the away West as to the bureaucracy.

tom of p. 5 in yesterday's Masquerading behind "Morning Star'. phrases, "The way may be being "Trotsk vist' they prepared have fought clampdown tor d IT remains silent while the against the building of

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machine on une

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terror goes capitalist press, which has alicrnalive revolutonae InTO operation avainst anu. embraced the leadership and glorified the Stalinists in the USSR. Communist Party's policy opposition wittingly mass I has no comment on the

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a provocation.' secret talks about Vietnam.

Lones. They have tried to sepa- Yakir's arrest is IT shut confirmation of KeeDs Is mourn the struggle when Moscow Radio de- the Industrial Relations support for Nixon'S Cares Act from the fight to bring He himself wrong re-election, just as it tries was down the Tories and in- in his reported statement Communist the American stall a Labour Nixon's arrival. He Party's tracks pledged to socialist policies said: 'One would like concent ner SUDDOrI Their activities can now visit for the other big business Think ThaT аттет Tine be of Nixon, the reaction will candidate George Mc- crear y seen

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woal be intensified, that they really are: cover not Govern. for betrayals and will massive political arrests The British Stalinists' preparation of stopped and nobody will the direct be is time silence counter-revolution. undouotedly to put an to the Middle Ages.' The reverse is the case.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS SCOTTISH REGIONAL CAMPAIGN

And the reason tor this counter - revolutionary de-

WE DEMAND THE

velopment is the economic CrISIS or wona capitalsin and the emergence of the

RIGHT TO WORK

revolutionary forces of the working - class threatening -Sat 24 June-Sat 1 July Dundee to Glasgow- its very existence. swing to the right une by the bureaucracy there-

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active involves of betrayal in preparation Indo - China Henry Kissinger and the

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Peking Stalinists are also playing a role. Fully conscious of the of US imperial- ism, the Soviet and Chinese Headers are avnt to rorce the Vietnamese to knuckle under to Nixon. 1930s under As in the Stalin, though different circumstances, the Kremlin now move must inside all torces USSR that endanger the its alliance with Nixon. of frame-up wave

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trials aimed at terronas the workers in the Soviet FRIDAY JUNE 23, 1972 • No. 799 4р

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MAO TSE-TUNG

WE DEMAND

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WORK

ENGINEERING apprentices at Babcock and Wilcox in Renfrew are the latest group of workers to support the Young Socialists' regional Right-to-Work march which starts at Riverside Drive, Dundee, at 2.30 tomorrow. The apprentices' works committee which has backed the campaign will ask to take a collection in the factory and send six delegates. They join trade unionists all along the route who have given finance and will give accommodation to the youth.

These include Dundee Transport and General Workers' branch £5: Dundee students £10; Kirkcaldie AUEW, Glas- gow, TSSA and miners in Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline. Dunfermline town council has also supported the campaign and is open- ing up the town hall to the marchers.

At Airdrie and Coatbridge, the last stop before Glasgow, the trades council has given the march enthusiastic sup- port and is circulating all trade union branches in the area. March leader John Barrie said yes- terday more support is still needed.

He appealed for donations to be sent to 46 West Princes Street, Glasgow C4.

FUND STARTS

TO GROW

AT LAST a sign of change.

A great post yesterday of £190.30 brought our figure up to £807.32.

But there can be no sitting baek —we still have not reached our halfway mark The fight is on. Imperialism is constantly at war with the work- ing class. In Vietnam, the latest proposals by United States for rain seeds to flood the country, is sheer genocide. We cannot underestimate the Implications of this fight. All your support must be behind Workers Press. Our target of £1,750 can and will be raised in good time.

Post all donations immediately to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG

workers press

BEHIND THIS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 23, 1972 • No. 799 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE ARREST in Moscow of leading oppositionist Pyotr Yakir is the first fruits of President Nixon's visit to Moscow last month. Yakir, the son of General Ion Yakir who was shot in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s, is to face trial his consistent struggle against Stalinism in the USSR. Yakir once declared: My father, like Soviet many innocent citizens, colner

NIXON

BREZHNEV

Stalinism. And it is was destroyed by Stalinism I am fighting against. Un-

LINE-UP

fortunately there is a adays confuse anti-Stalinism with anti-sovietism.' The frame-up charge him is against 'systematically submitting information westeri •rovacanod anel Radio indictment names Free Europe, Liberty the emigré and organiza- NIS In opposition as anti-soviet.

Workers Press warned Monday, June 19: 'The establishment Union be linked with the recent Cannot

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or closer rearons wire the excluded. visit top-leyel States through Unitedi President Nixon's visit, and gation from the Soviet CP True to its past of lies the lengthy talks possibility that by this Which he d betrayals, with John Gollan and other

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WIll lolowed draws a leading Commanistrary European security confer- Communist ralLy cowardly veil on the opposition makes the functionaries. position over the counter-revolu- revisionists the

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…ane 01 Lullar y International Marxist Group but more precarious. and Mao. and the 'state-capitalist' "And thic applies par- Yakir's ticularly to the revolution- arrest was Icema cases cave who ported in four поп- years maintained that ary communists rep-

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Stalinism is a thing of the commital paragraphs

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menace the bourgeoisie in the Lucked away past. West as to the bureaucracy.

tom of p. 5 in yesterday's Masquerading behind 'Morning Star'. "The way "Trotskvist' phrases, they may be being have fought consistently prepared for a clampdown against the building

KGB

anne the terror machine goes capitalist press, which has against 801. suddently embraced the leadership and glorified the Stalinists in the

USSR.

Communist Party's policy wittingly opposition Illay. of have lent itself to IT has no comment on the

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a provocation.' secret talks about Vietnam.

… ones. They have tried to sepa- Yakir's arrest is powerful IT mouth shut rate the against confirmation of this warn- struggle when Moscow Radio de- the Relations Industrial ing. Nixon's support for Act from the fight to bring He himself was wrong to lection lust Americes down the Tories and in- his reported statement American cover stall a Labour government before Nixon's arrival. He Communist Party's

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pledged to sociilist policies.

said: 'One and Would 11Ke Their activities after visit the other big business Toink inat The _canow of Nite heretion mill candidate George Mc- clearly seen whaT intensified, that they really are: cover for will massive betrayals and [political arrests The British Stalinists' stopped and nobody will preparation taken to insane asylums silence undoubtedly counter-revolution. time to the Middle "Ages' The reverse is the case.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS SCOTTISH REGIONAL CAMPAIGN

And the reason for this counter - revolutionary de-

WE DEMAND THE

velopment is the economic •I wore caotausu and the emergence of the

RIGHT TO WORK

revolutionary forces of the threatening WOLAI • Class Dundee to Glasgow-Sat 24 June-Sat 1 July Its very existence. The swing to the right the bureau rac there-

MARCH

fore involves active of betraval Indo - China - 1n Henry Kissinger and the Peking Stalinists are also

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playing a role. Fully conscious of the barbarism of US imperial- ism, the Soviet and Chinese leaders are trying the Vietnamese to knuckle under to Nixon. As in the 1930s under Stalin, though different circumstances, the Kremlin now move must forces inside the endanger its alliance with Nixon. of frame-up wave

AAORIE

the workers in the Soviet FRIDAY JUNE 23, 1972 • No. 799 4p

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MAO TSE-TUNG

ENGINEERING apprentices at Babcock and Wilcox in Renfrew are the latest

MPAIGN

roup of workers to support the Younc Socialists' regional Right-to-Work marcł which starts at Riverside Drive, Dundee, at 2.30 tomorrow. The apprentices' woks committee which has backed the campaign will ask to take a collection in the factory and send six delegates. They join trade unionists all along the route who have given finance and will give accommodation to the youth.

These include Dundee Transport and General Workers' branch £5: Dundee students £10; Kirkcaldie AUEW, Glas- gow, TSSA and miners in Cowdenbeath and Duntermline. Dunfermline town council has also supported the campaign and is open- ing up the town hall to the marchers.

At Airdrie and Coatbridge, the last stop before Glasgow, the trades council has given the march enthusiastic sup- port and is circulating all trade union branches in the area. March leader John Barrie said yes- terday more support is still needed.

He appealed for donations to be sent to 46 West Princes Street, Glasgow C4.

FUND STARTS

TO GROW

of AT LAST a sign change. A great post yesterday of £190.30 brought our figure up to £807.32.

But there can be no sitting back —we still have not reached our halfway mark The fight Is on. Imperialism Is constantly at war with the work- ing class. In Vietnam, the latest proposals by United States for rain seeds to flood the country, is sheer genocide. We cannot underestimate the Implications of this fight. All your support must be behind Workers Press. Our target of £1,750 can and will be raised in good time.

Post all donations immedlately to: Workers Press June Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday June 23

AROUND THE WORLD

HECTIC trading against sterl into the foreign currency marl increase in the bank rate ar outflows of 'hot money' from L pound. THE DECISION of Italy's Social Democrats to join new centre coalition, which for the first time in a decade excludes the Socialists, ends five months of inter-party squabbling. Since the centre-left coalition collapsed in January, the pro- blems posed by recession, mount- ing unemployment and inflation have frustrated attempts to form including both any government right-wing Christian Democrats and the Socialists. Christian Democrat leader Sig- nor Giulio Andreotti now looks set to form a government with a slender overall majority com- prised party, the of his own Social Democrats and the right of centre Liberals with outside support from the small Repub- lican Party. The new line up reflects the polarization class growing fores no ously to ine with the more rigorously in present needs of the bourgeoisie.

Neither the Socialists nor the Communist Party will be repre- sented, although in last month's general 40 elections, over per cent of the electorate voted for these two parties. 1,400 commercial airline pilots will stage a 24-hour strike today in support of a new 'work con- tract' they claim which the employers have refused even to discuss. THE NATIONAL Union of Students is organizing a con- ference of solidarity today with Spanish students who are fighting against fascist repression in Spain. The expressed aim is to create 'greater public awareness' about these problems. 3 suche conterence biga a conference, Digby Jacks and the Communist Party leadership of the NUS hope to give themselves a radical cover after miserably •betraying the struggle of their own members against the Tory government crack-down policy. time they hope At the same to give a boost to the wilting Spanish Stalinists who are still clinging to the leadership of the Spanish student movement.

Franco's government has shown complete ruthlessness in silencing Spanish student Over protest. than 300 of these more been imprisoned or have suffered interrogation and torture at the hands of the social-political brigade. the beginning of June, At Faculties and Colleges in Madrid, Seville, Saragosa, Valencia, Bilbao у липа 23, 1972 st sterling again forced Belgian an cy markets to support the pound ye rate announced yesterday and cle from London had little effect in mo The Common Market central banks are pledged to support the pound when it falls below its parity floor in relation to their own currencies. Yester- day was the third day of which German and Belgian banks were forced to buy. American dealers are reported to be taking a cynical view of Tory chancellor Barber's denials that . a sterling devaluation is imminent. On Wednesday night there was heavy selling of pounds from New York and the price of sterl- ing for delivery in three months' rate'-fell time 'forward heavily. This indicates dealers believe the pound will be more worthless in three months than it is now.

An article in the business •Management Today, maga- zine said yesterday that there were sound reasons for this belief. It pointed out that most of the advantages of the 1967 dev- aluation have gone-only Ger- have risen export prices man more than Britain's since the end of 1967. LEBANON has accused Israel of mounting ground and air attacks against her territory 'with the purpose of creat- ing hostility between the Lebanese and their Palestinian brothers' Israeli forces striking at alleged Arab guerrilla bases in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed 40 Syrian and captured

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and Barcelona were closed or shut down. A hundred student leaders were arrested. In the Faculty of Science in Madrid university armed police opened fire on a meeting and wounded several students. The condition of Juan Manuel Mediavilla is serious. Sixteen of the students ex- pelled during this latest round of conflict have written an 'open complaining letter' that they without any were expelled at the instigation explanation of the Falangist vice-Chancellor of the University of Madrid.

The students write that they 'subversives' aghtingt , but are for justice, for the re- form of university structure and for a university education avail- able to all young Spaniards and those from the especially to working class'. claim that 'the They also omission of the Ministry to seek the legally compulsory participa- tion of the academic authorities in the disciplinary proceedings is an expression of absolute distrust in the university as a collective body'. gian and German central banks ound yesterday. The 1 per cent and clearly designed to stem t in moderating the run on the Additionally, against a 13 per cent rise in imports to the UK this year, export receipts will rise by only 8 per cent. The balance of payments on current account-including earn- ings from goods and 'invisible earnings' from shipping, insur- ance, tourism and finance—wil result fall by half this as a the magazine estimates. It year, adds that at the present rate there will be a balance of pay- ments deficit from the fourth quarter of 1972. NORTH VIETNAMESE troops and tanks yesterday launched a against South Viet- new attack namese units defending a line north of the imperial city of Hué.

And unconfirmed reports said South Vietnamese airborn units stationed between Hué and My Chanh had been hit by North Vietnamese artillery. North Vietnamese troops also counter attacked Saigon marines a foothold in trying to regain brigadier, four colonels and a Lebanese captain-all intelligence officers. In Hasbaya 30 Arab com- mandos and 14 civilians were killed in the Israeli raids and 30 commandos and 25 civilians wounded. Teams of surgeons, nurses and ambulances were sent to the area with fire-fighting units needed to tackle blazing houses, shops and cars. By writing such a letter, and signing it, these students open themselves up for arrest and more treatment from the fascist police. The idea that the struggle in Spain is for democracy and that the direct fruit of the Stalinist policies of CP secretary Santiago Carrillo. The aim of this policy is to disarm Spanish students and workers before the strengthening of the forces of fascism in Spain, which is preparation for the new 'European' role of the Spanish dictatorship. This role also receives new powerful backing from the Stalinist bureaucracy in Moscow and in Eastern Europe, whose representatives are constantly coming to agreement with the fascists who repress Spanish students. Recently, a Moscow academic was made doctor honoris causa at the university of Granada.

Lopez Bravo, Franco's Foreign Minister, recently inter- was viewed by the magazine 'Momento'. He said: 'To protect and foment our interests, we have contacts with representatives the Soviet DESPITE a rise in Krupp's group sales of 34 per cent last year, profits dropped by staggering 85.3 per cent-to £1.9m. Hard on the heels of the Volkswagen • losses the figures from the giant Krupp combine are a sure barometer of the downward turn in the West German economy. Krupp was reorganized in 1967 following a liquidity crisis and the past five years have been spent in a ruthless drive to modernize plant and prune manpower. Krupp blames the losses on decline the world in steel demand, sharp rises in over- head costs, subsidies to the Ruhr coal industry and the revaluation of the Deutsche mark, which weakened the competitiveness of German steel. Quang Tri province which Pre- sident Nguyen Thieu has pro- mised to recapture 'within three months'. US command said seven flights North of B52 bombers raided Vietnamese positions on Wednes- day night northwest of Kontum city. And North Vietnamese forces holding the strategic Chu Pap mountain south of Kontum held their ground after an assault by South Vietnamese Rangers.

Official Israeli sources claimed yesterday that the raids were in reply to a bazooka attack on a tourist bus and a mine ex- plosion in the occupied Golan Heights in which four people were wounded. But the Lebanese government say the attacks were a deliberate act of Israeli revenge for the Lydda airport shooting of May 30, carried out by Japanese gunmen. Franco's police at work on the campus Union, which you will know about because they are in the press. I myself saw their Foreign Minister, Gromyko, in New York; there is a Soviet maritime office in Madrid and we are carrying out preliminary negotiations to what we hope will be successful commercial agreements.' Of course, the Spanish • Com- munist Party will not make an outright denunciation of this diplomacy. Nor for that matter will the 'Morning Star', the daily news- paper of the CP which Digby Jacks belongs to.

THE

JAPAN

Seamen's Union decided yesterday to ten-week-old continue its strike indefinitely. The de- cision follows the collapse of negotiations between the em- ployers and the 160,000- union earlier this strong week. No further talks are likely future, in immediate the despite a growing wave of complaints from Japanese firms about the strike's effect on deliveries of exports as well as stockpiles of raw material for Japan, including Australian iron ore. Perishable cargoes such as vegetables and beef are rotting and the Transport Ministry has estimated 1,612,000 tons of goods held up, being including are 67,000 tons of steel, 5,000 con- tainers and 19,000 cars. The stoppage is the longest- ever seamen's strike in Japanese history. It has tied up 1,200 vessels including 860 ocean- going ships at 50 ports around Japan. Its extreme bitterness is an index of the growing class ten- sions resulting from the country's economic recession. The seamen were originally demanding monthly pay rises ranging from 16,000 to 20,000 yen (£20 to £27.5). Their leaders have now trim- med their demand to 14,160 yen (£17.70) a month, but the em- ployers have stuck. (€15) final rigidly to their 12,000 yen offer. The length and tenacity of the Japanese seamen's strike is a clear indication of the growing combativity of the Japanese working class in the face of the economic crisis and the em- ployers' attacks. WORKERS at Euratom centres in West Germany, Italy, Holland and Belgium struck yesterday in protest against dismissals and alleged discrimination in pay scales. An Italian trade union state- ment said that the one day strike was against the plan to close the research centre at Ispra and sack about 500 people.

If the NUS solidarity confer- ence is going to be anything other than whitewash for Stalinists, then it should begin with a denunciation of Moscow- Madrid diplomacy! Perhaps it could then go onto discuss stopping the masses of cheap tourist holidays to fascist organized by the NUS Spain travel department. What is needed is a fight for socialist policies in both the British and Spanish student movements as part of the struggle for revolutionary parties based on the working class.

Councils of Action demands grow throughout country JUSTICE, the British section of the International Com- mission of jurists, attacks the Home Office in its annual report for failing to remedy 'the four major causes of wrong convictions in the criminal court. says: the report, out today, 'We regret to record that letters from prisoners and cases brought to our notice by solicitors and still show these to be coursel major the causes of the mis- carriages of justice which un- doubtedly occur.' The causes are: • Lack of any real safeguards against mistaken or assisted identifications. • Concealment by the prose- cution and statements evidence favourable to the defence. • Lack of safeguards against distortion and fabrication of verbal admissions; and • Failure of the court to use its call witnesses whose power to is clearly evidence needed to arrive at the truth. executive of Justice is The undergoing a deep-going shift at The chairman, Lord present. dedicated and Shawcross, powerful right winger, is resign- ing. He arrived at Justice during its early days when its financing was believed to have come from influential governments abroad.

In however, recent years, individual cases have been taken up by Justice and exposed in way which is causing offence in government and judicial circles.

this trend in Justice's Noting number of people operation, a are quitting. THE SCOTTISH Liberal Party and the Scottish Nationalists are • the formation of a to discuss 'Scottish Movement, it was announced yesterday. The talks are as a result of an Liberals' invitation from the chairman, Mr Russell Johnston, to the SNP chairman, Mr MP, William Wolfe. Overtures be- tween the 'Scot Nats' and the Liberals have been for a on number of years; they were first former Liberal started by leader, Jo Grimond, who holds the Orkney's seat. In his reply to the Liberals, Wolfe said his party supports a move concerning the enlarge- ment of the already broad move- ment towards self-government for Scotland. This attempted collaboration by these right-wing parties has dangerous implications for the working clases. They both want to set up nationalist diversions to the political struggle against the Tory government. Johnson is a former intelli- gence officer in the British army.

Workers Press,

THE

MARGAM,

Port before dangers Tory formed in 1925 the Talbot, South Wales, branch General Strike. rights and called on the The Councils should be made of the Amalgamated Union of

AUEW

astrict committee execu up ol all trade unions, Engineering Workers has tive and the Port Talbot Trades tical tendencies, without proscrip- overwhelmingly passed Council to set up a Council of unemployed, abou resolution for the •..Due to the non-leadership Tories on of of setting up of the

TUC

and Labour issues and for Party in prepare Action. defending these the Tories resign and elect a Labour General Strike The work have rancis members ACtIon, Saint corporn albot British already been agreed by Liverpool government pledged true and Lambeth Corporation plant. Their socialist principles and restore all Trades Councils, bi they set up une On The Dasis ol those Pickets on the gate at GEC's Spon Street factory

THE

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engineering national the largest employers in engineers claim. claim. the Employers' Feder- pay battle has come to determined to

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workers walked The six Coventry with a strike Dulls alco hit hard at its Coventry •Ul ast minute wage 7,000 by talks with GEC's higher employees increase and an Increase management broke workers at eight rates, on minımum time

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workers are down. factories in the General four weeks' holiday equally determined. Jack Cherrington, average earnings, extra Electric group (GEC- Another member of chairman of the central strike

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the committee committee pay to anu shiit nolday and

AUEW

T&GWU

Con• at ten hours pay The strike has forced convenor Beardmore, venor, the main Stoke plant, instead eight hours, lay off told us: management told Workers Press: another 7,000 employees. overunt •remiums 'Our officials told the 'The talks The on Monday company, the • In crease. Cana equal company. that they pay for equal work for biggest never reall oit tne alt ground because of the not prepared to see our women. They are also makes tele- coventry. the members treated nature company that phone exchanges, acmanain. any second-class citizens. agreement be non-legally transmission and tele. our check binding. even phone equipment. workers in

GEC

to our notice that other The had This is the first strike Coventry

GEC

had are now out companies offered over the agreed strike pay une engineers' Strikes rate pay for points of our claim. shitt ten hours day's extra holiday when at British-Leyland plants centralized strike their statutory holidays, the original strike but Coventry were averted wien sood committee has been in they stewards accepted com- notice was handed in. refused have flatly Tormed. pany offers which At the talks on Mon- 'This is not a strike make pay concessions on £3 on merely gave the theatred be treated light- day management hinted this. day's at the possibility of Strike leaders are seek- DaSC rate. • ne heartedly. necessary and day's another holiday prepared for ims in the GEC we de ncrease long strike', he said. firms in the com- ОСРАОРВІТРИРОПР of £4 a week workers on the £1.50. bine well from as Obviously the Wein- These offers come claiming six nrm's original 13 points of the drivers in the city. nowhere near stock empire. as one of Moscow Trials Anthology waberoack.ozko

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ers Press, Friday June 23, 1972 PAGE 3 The Margam branch also unanimously passed a resolution calling for the recall of the TUC to reaffirm opposition congress to the Industrial Relations Act.

CROYDON Trades Council has decided to call a meeting within a month to set up a Council of Action in the area. The debate centred on a reso- lution from the Waddon No. 2 AUEW branch. The trades coun- cil executive was instructed to meet again before the weekend to organize a meeting and send a letter to all organizations in the labour movement by Sunday.

The Croydon Ford's shop stewards' committee has already decided to sponsor the setting up of a Council of Action. Stalinists voted against the motion, appealing to the 'mature' delegates to reject its 'infantile leftism'. They considered the call nationalization under workers' without control com pensation to be 'the polities of people who have no understand- ing of the serious situation facing the movement', and said 'we'll be lucky if we can set up some sort of co-ordination with the tenants' committees by the end of the year, and this is as much as we can take on'. The Waddon resolution read: The working class is facing the worst dangers of its long bistory. The NIRC and the Tory government prepare to destroy the basic rights of the working class. We call on the Croydon Trades Council to follow lead of other trades councils and set up a Council of Action as part of a national campaign to force the Tories out. The Council of prettor mast ernito all sections in the labour movement against the Tories for: The recall of the TUC to reaffirm the decisions of the special congress last September non-co-operation with the NIRC, and prepare for a General Strike to make the Tories resign.

The expulsion of all those right-wing traitors who collabor- ate with the NIRC and those in the Labour Party who vote with the Tories on the Common Market, and who implement the Housing Finance Bill. • The return of a Labour gov- ernment, pledged • to restore all the democratic rights lost under and implement a the Tories, policy of nationalization of the industries basic and finance under workers' control and with- out compensation to the ex- owners. We think that the Council of Action should represent all organizations in the working class-trade union branches, shop committees, political parties, tenants' organizations, trades councils, district committees, students and old age pensioners to bring together all struggles into one decisive campaign to remove the Tories.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday June 23, In this four part series Peter J of the British labour movemen the First International in 1860 ment of 1901. He examines h class built the unions as pov and then built the Labour Pa challenge in the courts.

PART FOUR

In England, questions of law have always been decisive in the develop- ment of trade unionism and of the working class generally. The legal attack which the Tories have launched against the unions is in this sense not a new experience for the British working class.

The union movement was founded in conditions of brutal repression and illegality in the quarter century follow- ing the introduction of the Combination Laws, 1799. As we saw in the last article, the Labour Party, on the revisionists which now wish to turn their back com- pletely, was born largely in response to the employers' attacks launched against the trade union movement in the 1890s. It is to this attack which we now wish to turn. For at its centre were a series of judge- ments in the High Court and the House of Lords which culminated in the infamous Taff Vale judgement of 1901.

Just as the establishment of the Tory Industrial Relations Court cannot be understood as an isolated act of policy, but only as part of a determ- ined strategy to destroy free trade unionism, so the Tafi Vale case was the outcome of a similar and equally determ- ined campaign. And just as the working class of the 1890s was forced to throw out its old leaders, the majority of whom were hand in glove with the Liberal Party, as part of the struggle to preserve their unions, so today the struggle has to be waged against all those in the working class who refuse to break with the reformists and lead a campaign for the defeat of this government and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to a socialist programme. Both the employers and the old trade union leaders recog- nized the decisive new element in the New Unionism. Not only had this movement brought into the ranks of trade unionism tens of thous- ands of previously unorganized semi-skilled and unskilled workers; it was also increas- ingly committed to socialism a break with liberalism and and the Liberal Party. In a series of essays, signifi- 'A Plea for cantly entitled Liberty', one writer noted this change: "The older unions presided over by men having some knowledge of political economy and of the conditions of trade, have a defined policy.

They desire, when it is pos.

sible, to improve the position of the working man... Ad- mission to such unions is a privilege not lightly to be This policy is obtained. stigmatified by the secretary of the new union .. • it claims • whole of the for labour the profits made by labour and capital combined; it aims to be In this four part series Peter Jeffries traces the history of the British labour movement from the formation of the First International in 1860 to the Taff Vale judge- ment of 1901. He examines how the British working class built the unions as powerhouses of struggle and then built the Labour Party after coming under

BACKGROUND

dictator the absolute of the conditions of toil; to say who shall work and how much he shall receive' This was typical of chr hysterical which campaign was launched with increasing severity throughout the 1890s.

It went along with the deploy- ment of large police and mili- tary forces to deal with strikes picket lines. and to break up But the spearhead of the cam- paign, both then as now, was systematic attempt to undermine the legal rights which the unions had secured for themselves in the period of the mid-Victorian boom.

Initially the Col Day li centred on the rights to picketing. This Was for the question new unions. The old, highly-skilled, craft have unions only rarely re- sorted to this weapon during dispute. Their skills had been scarce and they realized that once a dispute was over, the employer would normally be forced to take back. Now things had changed. Imported labour Not only had mechanization tended, as we saw in the last undermine partially allicie, to the position of the skilled catering worker; the unions for dockers, gasworkers other general labourers were continually subject threat of imported "blackleg' labour during a dispute. It was for this reason that "The Times' and other organs of capitalist opinion took the cry of the rights of 'free labour'. 'The general labour COl- troversy is going to turn upon the respective rights and duties of free labourers and it wrote in Febru- unionists, 1891. ary, cries of 'tyranny' against the unions reached a crescendo after the 1889 successful dockers' strike. The emp overs were bitter and determined to prevent the spread of trade union organi- zation to the many areas and industries which still remained almost cempletely unorgan- The only way in which ized. the new layers of workers joining the unions could de- fend themselves was by posing the closed shop. Hence bitter battles scab labour, which met with limited success as far as the concerned employers were after the initial victory 1889. was in the aftermath of the 1889 strike that the Ship- ping Federation created was to organize the supply of scab labour and unite the em- the ports against the Its new Whalon. historian later wrote: 'From the first, the Federation was founded fighting machine to counter the strike weapon, and it made no secret of the fact.' similar trend within the ruling class reflected in the National Free Labour Ban Tillatt, dockers : courts are Association, created by, Wil- liam Collison. This aimed spe- cifically to provide a register of scab labour in each town to which members of the Associ- ation could have access. A series of exchanges were created where potential scabs could apply to be placed on a register. They were such usually manned by ex-police inspectors. But even these measures proved inadequate for the capitalist class. Facing in- creasing foreign competition, they were driven towards cam- paigns for changes in the law governing union activities.

The unions had won their rights as a result of two Acts.

The Trade Union Act (1871) and the Conspiracy and Pro- tection of Property Act (1875) made it impossible for had employers to the the sue unions bodies as corporate and had also granted the right to peaceful picketing. Both these Acts came under increasing challenge in the courts after 1893. In 1896 Ben Tillett, the dockers' leader, could correctly say that the 'centres of cor- courts were ruption' and "class creatures and instruments for the mal- administration of the law' Most of these adverse judge- ments turned on what consti- tuted 'intimidation'. In a case decided in 1891 (Curran Trevelyan) a lower court had decided that any strike or threat of a strike which did not aim to benefit the men concerned, but rather to damage the employer, consti- tuted intimidation within the meaning of the 1875 Act. Despite the jubilation of 'The Times', which was now speak- ing of the leaders of the New Unionism 'our national as Mafia' , the decision on this was overturned in occasion the High Court. Interpretation of the law made it clear that different criteria were to be applied to combinations of employers as distinct from combinations of workers. Mr Justice Kay summed up the openly political stance which 'the judiciary were in- creasingly taking when he pro- nounced in 1896: I hold that it is illegal to picket the work or place of work of a man by persons who are distributed and placed there for the purpose of trying by persuasion to induce people who want to work for him to ourts aro 'class creatures and instrumants for th abstain from entering into an agreement with him to do so.

That seems to me illegal.'

Space does not allow us to go through all such pronounce- ments or to deal with all the legal cases concerned. But with the Taff Vale judgement a decade of struggle had closed in which it was clear that (1) the right to picket had been seriously undermined (2) heavy damages could be awarded against union officials or members if 'intimidation' could be estab- lished and (3) Taff Vale estab- lished that unions could be sued for their funds as cor- porate bodies. It was the change in judge- made, trade union law, which forced than anything more the working class to abandon its old politics-support for Gladstonian Liberalism — and turn seriously to the creation independent Labour of an Party, • cause for which Engels had worked so tire- lessly in the last 15 years of his life. Like Engels, Lenin recog- nized the great significance of these developments. At the Stuttgart Congress of the Second International, 1908, it was Lenin who led the campaign for the admission of Labour Party into the the International. He did so, not ignorant of because he was its severe limitations and the opportunist corruption of its leadership. Nor did he fail to see the fact that it retained many of its ties with the old subject on Liberalism — a which he clashed with Kautsky at the Congress. But he also saw that the 1k- Labour Party was a necessary stage through which the British working class would have to pass in its struggle to establish Marxist, revolu- tionary party. It was on this issue that he was to clash with the leader of the Social Democratic Federation, the self-styled 'Marxist', H. M. Hyndman. It was Hyndman who wished to write off the Labour arty as 'bourgeois' in the same ab- stract and idealist manner in which the revisionists today also wish to characterize a Labour government. And we should note, and perhaps point out to the sectarians of today, that within a short space of time Hyndman and many of his supporters were to swing violently to the right, adopt- ing an openly chauvinist posi- tion in 1914. Hyndman him- self actually became a recruit- ing sergeant in the war. But like all political de- velopments, the break from ants lor the maladministration of the law' Liberalism could not be an even one. The Labour Representation Committee (the forerunner of the Labour Party) at first drew only modest support from the unions and those were mainly ones covering the the less skilled trades plus those deeply affected by technical change, such as the boot and shoe operatives. Taff Vale made a consider- and many able difference unions affiliated to the LRC in the 12 months following 1901.

But even then, im- many portant sections still remained aloof and even hostile to the establishment of a Labour Party. Here the miners were the most important. They held the distinction of being the first trade union to send an MP to Westminster (in 1874).

But they were the last big group to come over to the Labour Party after its estab- lishment in 1906. lessons As in all periods—and to- day is certainly no exception— the working class attempts to find solutions to its problems within the old forms of organization and struggle. The miners, living often in isolated their communities where highly voting strength was concentrated, still felt they could get along through their traditional alliance with the Liberals, Only a combination of a series of crucial objective changes in the class struggle, combined with a sharp con- flict within the leadership of the Miners' Federation Great Britain ensured that the miners eventually came over to support the Labour Party.

And once the break was made, the miners were to be the backbone of the Labour Party from 1908 onwards. Here are vital lessons for the revolutionary party today.

The demand for the election of a Labour government on socialist programme is in- separable from the struggle to ay break the working class from reformism of all types. This break will not be auto- matic, nor will it be spontane- But once the working ous. class does reject social democracy in favour of revo- lutionary politics it will be a final and decisive break.

This is the real lesson of the events surrounding Taff Vale and the creation of the Labour Party.

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Chilean president Salv- ador Allende has dropped his deputy Economics Minister Pedro Vuskovic in a cabinet reshuffle which takes the Popular the right. Vuskovic, member of a Allende's own Socialist Party, was a determined advocate of further nationalization measures. He was dropped after talks between secret Allende and the Christian Democrat opposition. The cabinet reshuffle imple- ments a deal between the gov- ernment and the Christian Democrats, who have been demanding a halt to plans for nationalization. extension Allende's move had the back- the Communist Party, ing of which is on the extreme right of the Popular Unity coalition.

The Stalinists and the Chris- tian Democrats had accused Vuskovic of destroying busi- causing ness confidence and food shortages with his natio- nalization measures. Allende has now announced that lead- ers of the Christian Democrat Party are joining Popular Unity in a joint commission to define the three sectors of the eco- nomy: private, state and mixed.

addition, the president appears to have accepted the opposition's phoney programme of so-called 'worker participa- tion'-designed as a substitute for nationalization. In a broad- cast announcing the reshuffle, Allende said the government hoped to 'open the way for worker-self-managing com- panies defined by mutual agree- ment' The latest moves represent swing to the right a sharp along the so-called peaceful road to socialism'. They are an open betrayal by Allende and the Stalinists of their elec- toral promises to the Chilean workers and peasants. The Stalinists have been about 'socialist trumpeting advance' in Chile ever since Allende came to office 19 months ago. But despite the already taken to measures implement the so-called 'Chilean Road to Socialism' (a Latin American version of the British Communist Party's paci- fist-reformist programme), the have the big monopolies still decisive say. When the Popular Unity government took office in 1970, a group of 144 corpora- tions, of a total of 35,000 industries of all types, con- trolled 50 per cent of the capital invested in Chile's manufacturing sector. Economic studies (included those of the present under- secretary of economy, Oscar Garreton; the CESO organiza- tion of the University of Chile; and CEREM of the Catholic University) have revealed the existence of a monopoly in all industrial sectors, A study done by the Economics School of the University of Chile, for example, showed that in 1971, from a group of 833 units, only 227 or 25 per cent con- trolled 82 per cent of the capital, 80 per cent of total and more than 76 per assets cent of gross income. This picture is not complete, however. These 227 companies, or the 144 mentioned above, absorb almost all the capital income derived and from manufacturing activities.

According to their own list of shareholders, a closed group of ten clans, closely intercon- nected among themselves, con- trolled not only manufacturing but almost all productive acti- vity in Chile. These ten groups control the boards of directors of all the big manufacturing corporations (with the exception of the com- pletely foreign companies).

Some of the groups own only 15 or 16 per cent of the but even this low shares, figure is sufficient for them to monopolize the boards of dir- ectors. example of this is the An textile sector where two domi- nant groups (the Yarur clan and the Said-Hirmas group) controlled (today this sector is under state control) more than 20 large companies with shares that at times were lower than 20 per cent of the total.

The Alessandri-Matte group, which has connections with the Bank of South America, con- trols 82 corporations, big and small, from lumber and pulp industries to metals, chemicals, cement, etc. In each important industry where it has almost absolute control, it has a mini- mum amount of shares but large enough to ensure its rep- resentatives a place on the board of directors. each nucleus using With such manoeuvres, the final picture is a monopolistic group with close interrelations, a big family which one economist defined as a 'super group' Each time a clan has begun to increase its scope of action, it uses this interlocking sys- tem. Yarur, for example, opera- ting through a relatively new bank, the Credit and Invest- ment Bank (now nationalized), had healthy growth and pros- • rates. In 1962 it" had perity financial relations with only two other clans—the Alessan- dri-Matte (through the Bank of South America) and the multi-group related to. the powerful Bank of Chile. In 1970 Yarur, in addition to having increased its volume of operations in the banking sector, had extended its influ- ence to 11 companies, in tex- tiles, chemicals, plastics and fishing. In total, the clan in 1970 owned 3.4 per cent of the global investments in indus- try. Another, still newer group is the clan of the "pirañas which until 1971 had connec- tions with the Mortgage Bank, founded during the Frei gov- ernment, and is now national- ized. Consisting of a group of impresarios with high technical skills, this nucleus, unlike almost all others, does not have family interrelations nor a single leader, with the excep- tion of financier Carlos Vial Espantoso. In a few years this brain ost. trust developed their field of point where action to the they were competing for hege- mony with powerful more groups in strategic industries.

In less than eight years, for example, they obtained con- trol of the board of directors of the powerful South Ameri- can Steamship Company (one of the 23 companies with more than 200 million escudos of capital, still not national- main industries of ized), the the durable consumer goods sector, the most important sugar sector (CRAV), a petro- leum company (COPEC), in addition to executive posts in the Bank of Chile, the most powerful credit organization in the country. Naturally, there is a great deal of interlocking with foreign capital; during the last six years US industrial invest- ments increased by more than 110 per cent. US penetration in industry is most blatant in the power- ful industrial-financial empire Workers Pres of the Edwards. Its leader, Agustin Edwards, former dir- ector of the newspaper 'El Mercurio' , president of the Inter-American Press Associa- tion until two years ago, lives in the US today and is vice president of Pepsi Cola Inter- national. The Edwards clan owns 11 corporations but influences a total of 60. Their investments in manufacturing alone account for 6.32 per cent of global investments; they control the world, the beverage press industry, and exert strong influence on insurance com- panies, the food industry, fish- ing industry, etc. The Chilean IBEC Financial Company operates in almost all these sectors. More than 66 per cent of its shares belong to the International Basic Eco- Corporation which in nomy turn belongs to the Rockefeller SOn 1969 IBEC was active in all sectors of the Chilean eco- nomy: foods, metals, chemi- cals, etc. In the decade of the 1960s the powerful most groups had achieved such an interlocking of directorates that they controlled the entire power structure in industry.

In the food sector, 12 com- panies have more than 50 per cent foreign capital, and five companies have from 20 to 49 cent. PURINA, for per example, has • 80 per cent foreign capital. In the beverage sector eight corporations have more than 50 per cent foreign capital; in footwear two com- panies (CATECU and SOINCA) are 100 per cent foreign capi- talized; in metallurgy 17 big companies are foreign; in chemicals, 44.2 per cent of rkers Press, Friday Juno 23, 1872 PAGE 5 all investments belong to foreign financiers. Popular Unity's original programme envisaged establish- ing state control over at least 144 of the main corporations mentioned above. The govern- ment would intervene because of irregular financial practices; confiscate products and pur- chase shares through the Mini- stry of Economics. At the latest count, these tactics have been used against 79 of the biggest companies and these have been brought particularly—or in a few cases totally-under state control.

Only about a quarter of the enterprises ear-marked for- take-over have in fact been nationalized to date. Among them are the banks and some of the biggest However, a great part of their power is still intact and they have proved highly successful in using their parliamentary , knock back the to support government's efforts to take them over. Allende's agreement with the Christian Democrat opposi- tion on dropping plans for further wholesale nationaliza- tion results from 'a lengthy parliamentary deadlock over the opposition's Constitutional Reform Bill, which attempted to write protection of big busi- ness interests into the consti- tution. Allende's clamp-down now means that the right-wing oppo- sition will press forward with even greater force than before.

They want to take away the gains the workers have made through the Popular Unity government. By their capitu- lation before big business, Allende and the Stalinists are opening the way for big busi- ness to deal crushing blows against the workers' move- ments.

PAGE 8 Martaro Prose, Friday duns 23, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE, HOUSING CORRESPONDENT

The biggest landlords in falling by about 6 per cent a year. London have driven a • And with the increasing coach-and-horses through tendency for landlords to sell a loophole in existing off flats as leases ran out, the Rent Act legislation and fall has been proportionate even larger recently. are now eagerly awaiting in With the fall rented the passing of the new accommodation, these land- Housing Finance Bill. lords have been asking rents of between 50 and 100 per For a number of years now cent higher than outgoing hundreds of tenants have been tenants had been paying. The paying more rents than legally tenancies were supposed to be necessary; only now are some rent fixed by law. of them getting refunds. the landlord In three cases, asked for £1,250 for flats that A 'Guardian' inquiry has just pinpointed Mr William had a regulated rent limit of Stern Freshwater and the £580. Althogh the landlords group for taking advantage of have been charging more rent badly-framed law. than they are entitled to re- Rented accommodation in cover, it was not possible to London is Official scarce. bring a prosecution against figures show the total has been because of the wording them of the legislation. Tenants, however, do have the right to claim back excess rents and can resort to civil proceedings if all else fails.

Stern is one of London's biggest most influential and landlords. In evidence to a committee inquiring into the working of the Rent Act, he proposed the adoption of a national rebate for scheme those who couldn't afford to pay high rents. This proposal was subse- quently taken up by the Tories on their return to office in June 1970 and later incor- porated into the so-called "fair rents' Bill. Until the end of last year Stern was the managing direc- tor of the Freshwater group.

He then broke away from the group - taking substantial property holdings with him.

He was the brains behind Freshwater's expansion. ironically came at a time when other landlords moved out of rented accommodation, com- plaining bitterly of Labour's 1965 Rent Act. (now the 1968 Rent Act). When Stern left he took with him £35m of property, most of it residential, and formed his own company, Metropolitan Properties. has pledged himself to carry on renting , out flats along Freshwater lines. Buckingham Mansions is a 70-year-old block of flats in Swiss Cottage, highly- a desirable residential area in central London. Earlier this year three flats became vacant. Stern's com- pany put them on the market at an annual exclusive rent of £1,250 a year. The tenants who had moved out had paid a regulated rent of £580.

The new' tenants were pay- ing Stern twice what he was legally allowed to recover until they found out what the regu- lated rent was. They are now paying the old rent. Other Stern tenants in West London have found themselves paying virtually double what the previous tenants paid in rents. In other blocks, Stern has given notice he intends to increase rents 50 per cent when leases fall due. situation has £15,000. their tenants get money back? Commons by Richard Cross- ministration. In elsewhere. Under the paid by tenants when it came into force in December 1965.

This rent level is known as the rent limit and applies until a new rent is decided by the rent officer. be The only sums that can added to these limits are in- crease in rates, increases in the costs of providing services to the flat, or 12, per cent a year of the landlord's expendi- ture on improvements. But the Act does not say a landlord cannot ask for more than the rent limit. The word- ing 're- only says it cannot cover' more than the limit.

In other words, Stern was guite in order to ask tenants for 50 per cent more rent thar had been fixed by the rent nothing officer. There is to stop a landlord asking for more providing the tenant is willing to pay and does not know the registered about rent. The same Act, however, enables tenants, through clause 33, to recover rent paid above the rent during the previous two years. The two-year limit on re-

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covery nas meant, nowever, that tenants who have been paying excess rent for longer than that period will never get their money back. Although tenants in this position could recover rent and maintain security tenure through their leases, Tories will sweep this the limited protection away with the Housing Finance Bill.

Its intention is to make law- ful joint agreements | 'freely' entered into by a landlord and tenant for a rent which under the present Açt would not be by the landlord recoverable because it was above the regu- lated or registered level.

At present when a tenant applies for a vacant flat, he first has to agree to the land- lord's terms. Once he has taken occupation, he has the right irrespective of what terms were agreed, to recover any rent beyond the permitted amount if he finds out about it. And the tenant maintains his security of tenure. The Housing Finance Bill will remove these safeguards, flimsy they must have as seemed at the best of times.

In situation of a scarce supply of flats in areas like London, it is not too difficult to imagine what 'freely'-negoti- ated agreements will be like.

It is not surprising that in a Tory anticipation of such windfall, landlords have been willing to pay back excess rent.

There is, however, more to the tale. One tenant in East London recently a letter from got Freshwater asking for the 'accrued Following amount. the registration of a new rent, Freshwater sought to have the new figure paid retrospectively from the date of application for registration. The point is that under the 1965 Act, for tenants whose leases have expired, rent in- creases can only be paid after following due notice with registration. For those current leases no more rent is usually payable until the con- tractual tenancy or lease expires. This particular tenant checked up and refused to pay 'accrued', retrospective an amount. Freshwater also have tended to make interesting variations their leases in other 10 directions. Leases for their Workers Press, 1 158 properties state that an out- going tenant must 'in the last three months of the tenancy, completedly redecorate interior of the flat'. One former tenant last year was sued by the company for £220 in respect of dilapidations on the flat. The tenant refused to pay the tenants' and association was told outside the court that Freshwater would accept half the claim. The action was dropped and the claim settled.

One old lady got a bill for almost $150. Her solicitor argued for months and the bill was then upped by almost another £200! Freshwater solicitors gave the following breakdown costs: £221 for redecorating, reviving including doors': polishing floors, £20; 'rewash- ing and general cleaning' came to £5 and lubrication of the doors another £5. The former tenant's solicitors £50 and sent threatened to go to court if it wasn't accepted. It was. The landlords are prepared to go to extraordinary lengths in order to obtain increases— relatively small ones. even Freshwater has taken cases as far as the Court of Appeal.

The logic of forcing through Markers Press, Filly dune 20, 1972 PAGE T 3, Above left: Ex-Freshwater execu tive, William Stern. Above: the Freshwater headquarters in Shaftesbury Avenue. increased rents has very im- portant financial implications for such firms. It is not the • income that the main question, but an increase in the value of the property itself that is at stake. The mechanics of financial leverage devastatingly are simple. Blocks of flats are bought on a mortgage and increased rents. will put up their value. the increased value With you remortgage the block and use this money to pay back the You: then original mortgage. have a substantial amount of money. left over to reinvest in recommencing other blocks, the process. attempts to re- Labour's form' the private landlords came to nothing. Besides estab- lishing the notion of the 'fair rent', it opened the door to the more far-sighted landlords.

Stern and the Freshwater group now look to the horizon and see even more bountiful days ahead. If the Housing Finance Bill becomes law it herald the paradise of will "freely'-negotiated joint agree- ments.

THIS LAND OF IRELAND...

ANNEXED FOREVER'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday June 23, The Green Flag. By Robert Kee.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson. £5.95 877 pages. A six part review by Jack Gale

PART 4

Some years before the 1845- 1848 famine, the Irish move- ment had taken a new form, under the leadership of a wealthy Catholic lawyer, Daniel O'Connell. This rejec- ted both republicanism and revolutionary methods of struggle, questioning neither the British connection nor the authority of the Crown.

Indeed, on one occasion O'Connell presented George IV with a loyal address 'sup- posedly uniting '6 millions of brotherly love to one another' and expressing their 'affectionate attachment to Majesty's person and your throne'. O'Connell led the campaign for Catholic emancipation. He formed the Catholic Associa- tion, which organized the 40s freeholders (ie those with the voting qualification) to vote against their Tory landlords and elect emancipation can- didates. Catholics could legally be elected to parliament, but in practice were never able to take their seats because the members' oath denounced the Virgin Mary as an idol.

The Catholic poor, mean- fight in while, continued to their secret societies. O'Con- nell never mobilized them— but he was ready to use them.

He repeatedly warned the British government that he and his class were the alter- native to the threat of revolu- tion from the starving masses.

And this-rather than O'Con- nell's rhetoric-was the de- cisive weapon. When O'Connell won the Clare seat in 1828, the Act Emancipation Catholic of followed one year later. (The government also raised the Irish voting qualification from a 40s freehold to a £10 freehold, thus, in fact, dis- many Catholics. franchising But O'Connell was not unduly bothered about that.) With emancipation secured, O'Connell proceeded to organ- ize an Irish Party in the British Commons to campaign for repeal of the Act of Union' After the 1832 Reform Bill, which gave more political power to the middle classes and the new capitalists, there were 39 Irish 'Repealers' in parliament-though it must be remembered that the vast majority of Irish members, who numbered 105 at that time, never supported repeal.

O'Connell himself was always bitterly hostile to the working class. He was one of the strongest opponents of the workers' struggle for the Ten Hour Bill, for example. And he always preferred the form to the substance. For example, he welcomed the law of 1838 which made the land- lord responsible for paying June 23, 1972 Daniel O'Connell—always bitterly hostil and his class were the alternative to th tithes (a tax of one-tenth of the peasants' income to finance Protestant church in Ire- land), rather than the tenant.

But he said nothing about a Bill passed at the same time which empowered the landlord to raise the tenants' rents by exactly the same amount. In 1840, O'Connell formed his Repeal Association, the first two principles of which were: 'Most dutiful and ever inviolate loyalty to our most gracious and ever-beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria and her heirs and successors for ever. 'The total disclaimer of, and the total absence from all physical force, violence or breach of the law.' At this time O'Connell gained the support of a group of middle-class young men, half of them Protestant, who became known as Young Ire- land. Leading figures in this group included Thomas Davis, John Blake Dillon and Charles Gavan Duffy. Their paper, "The Nation', devoted much space to what could loosely be described as poetry, the following being a fair example: 'We want no swords, no savage swords, Our fetters vile to shatter With conquering mind alone we fight— 'Tis all we need for freedom!' erly hostile to the working class, he warned t ative to the threat of revolution from the starv But even a leadership such as this could command a huge following in Ireland. They held huge rallies all over the country. One meeting - at Cork in May, 1843—attracted 500,000 people. Despite the moderation of O'Connell and his Young Ireland supporters, the govern- ment was alarmed at the sight of of repeated meetings hundreds of thousands of people and finally banned them. O'Connell and his allies tamely accepted the ban.

They were nevertheless, con- victed of conspiracy and in May, 1844, O'Connell was year's sentenced to one imprisonment. His treatment was in marked contrast to the barbaric on- slaught on the Irish poor.

In fact, he was provided with the Governor's house in Dublin, allowed to hold sump- banquets, and after a tuous short while his sentence was quashed by the House of Lords. All the same, the experience cooled his ardour for repeal, and for a short time after his release, he began to tavour a federal structure for Ireland, within the British state.

•This led to strains between Ơ'Connell and Young Ireland which were intensified during the years of famine when calls for violent struggle were heard once again. O'Connell sought an alliance with the Whigs in the British parliament in the hope of getting food sent to warned the British government that he the starving masses Ireland, although there was, as explained above, plenty of food already in Ireland, much of it being exported to England for profit. This conflict finally split the Repeal Association. In 1847, the Young Ire- landers founded a new organ- ization known as the Irish Confederation-but this organ- ization had no policy for the Irish poor. It simply provided more of the old rhetoric about 'freedom' the unity of 'all Irishmen' and the importance developing Irish manu- of facture (most of its leaders came from the manufacturing class). Meanwhile, the Irish poor continued to die in their hundreds of thousands. Then, one revolutionary voice was heard—the voice of Fintan Lalor. Repeal, said Lalor, was an empty abstraction to the Irish peasant. What he needed was land. Labour on the land con- stituted a right to the land, Lalor declared, and he called on the peasant to withhold his rent. Only one leader of the Con- federation-John Mitchel—was moved by Lalor's fervour to conclude that constitutional methods were now useless. He broke from the Confederation and launched a new paper 'The United Irishman'. Then, once again, events in France affected the course of Irish history. In 1848, the overthrow of Louis Philippe stimulated even the Confeder- ation to talk of revolutionary struggle. But a rising planned by the was abortive. Confederation Under the recently passed Crimes and Outrages Act, many of its leaders — plus Mitchel - were hunted down and deported. However, as was often the case with these middle-class leaders, exile could be followed by a highly-successful new career. One of the deportees became a prominent New York judge and another ended up of postmaster-general as Canada. The : Confederation, though, was finished, and it was to be before another ten years attempt was made to launch a national Irish organization to fight the British govern- ment. In 1858, a secret new organization appeared in the South West of Ireland. One of its leaders was O'Donovan Rossa and its oath undertook 'to renounce all allegiance to the Queen of England, to take arms and fight at a moment's warning and to make Ireland independent, democratic an republic.' This new organization, to be known as the Fenian Move- ment, started from the premise that it was impossible to: win the Irish upper classes to its cause. It turned deliberately to the labourers, peasants and small tradesmen, largely under the influence of some of its leaders who had worked with revolutionary groups in France and fought against the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon.

One of these men, James Stephens, brought a refreshing change from the experiences of a few years ago-empty rhetoric was replaced by efficient organization! The Fenians built up close connections with the Irish- American Fenian Brotherhood -800 of whom actually in- vaded Canada in May, 1866.

The following year, the Irisn Fenians launched their offen- sive, which was to involve not only Ireland but England. (A plan to capture all the arms and ammunition in Chester Castle was foiled only be- cause of an informer.) The rising crushed, was however, and was followed by nationwide hunts for leading Fenians. Two of them, named Kelly and Deasy, were arrested in Manchester. A week after their arrest, as they were being taken to jail in a prison van, it was stopped by 30 Fenians.

A shot was fired to break the lock and a police sergeant was killed. Irishmen were rounded up throughout the city and five of them - Maguire, Condon, Allen, Larkin and O'Brien tried for murder. All were five were sentenced to death.

(Maguire had nothing at all to do with Fenianism, and the other four proudly pro- claimed their beliefs.) Maguire's innocence was so obvious that he had to be given a free pardon. Condon, American citizen, was an reprieved. Despite the fact that it was established that the clearly shot had been fired by a man called Rice (who had escaped) and though it was never proved policeman's death that the was other than accidental, Larkin and O'Brien- were hanged.

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John Paul Vann (47) died indulging in his favourite recreation. High over the outskirts of Kontum, South Vietnam, he was 'spotting' communist positions from a heli- copter and calling in air strikes against them. It was the high point of his regular daily routine. day the helicopter crew took him up even under typhoon conditions and heavy ground fire to inspect the battle area.

By drawing , 'enemy fire' he could pinpoint the places where the B52 bombers should strike.

Afterwards he could smell the charred flesh of the liberation troops. It gave him more pleasure than anything else in life. 'Any time the wind is blow- ing from the north the B52 strikes are turning the terrain into a moon landscape,' he told the 'New Statesman's' William Shawcross before he died.

'You can tell from the stench that the strikes have been effective. The bodies are every- where' On Friday, June 9, the fun stopped for Mr Vann. An NLF gunner brought his helicopter crashing down to earth and killed him stone dead. Vann was not only a psycho- path. He was also the third most senior US representative in Vietnam, next to ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Chreighton Abrams. President Nixon was most upset to learn of his death.

From his Camp David presi- he issued dential retreat a statement describing Vann as an outstanding citizen who had given 'unmatched service' to the US. Not unnaturally, the Viet- namese liberation fighters took another view. Hanoi Radio spoke of his 'countless crimes against our people' • It added that the news of his death had caused elation even among the puppet forces.

'It is also probable that the puppet generals who were dis- because of Vann's missed power to take ultimate deci- sions... may now be giving to rejoice over his parties death, it said. In his Il years as a US adviser in South Vietnam, "Dr Strangelove'- John Paul Vann. Vann had made himself one of the most hated of them all. He started out as a mili- tary adviser, resigned his com- mission and became a civilian adviser with special responsibi- lity for the Mekong Delta area.

About this time he lost the last vestiges of a liberal attitude towards the war and became a total 'hawk'. He also began to get an inflated idea.

of his own powers, claiming to have completely 'pacified' the Delta. He used to ride around at night on a motor-bike in peasant costume to demon- success of this strate the 'pacification', but the

NLF

have brutally. smashed his dio claims along with those of so many others. The Delta is now the scene of of the most bitter guerrilla war and Vann's successors there ridicule his bombastic boasts.

After his exploits in the Delta, Vann moved on to take charge of the South Viet- in the namese war effort Central Highlands, where liber- ation forces delivered devastat- ing blows to the demoralized puppet forces in the first weeks of their present offensive.

He became particularly noted for his solicitude for the lives of other US advisers, lifting them out of tight spots by helicopter and leaving their South Vietnamese charges to their fate. His justification: 'Americans put more value on life than do the Vietnamese? Similar con- siderations presumably lay behind his decision to evacuate Vietnamese many as as possible from besieged Kontum while leaving the Montagnard tribesmen with their families in the encircled town. Even the CIA was unable to stomach this callous scheme, though Vann tried to justify it on the grounds it would force the Montagnards to fight the communists. He abandoned the plan reluctantly when the CIA threatened to break him if he continued. Shawcross describes Vann as 'a very strange American'.

He can say that again. Even his family had grown to hate him. Last year, Vann's son wrote to him and said: 'Between you and Daniel] Ellsberg, I'd choose Ellsberg.

Thank God I don't have to take your money any more.

It's earned with blood. Ellsberg, once a 'hawk' and a friend of Vann's, is now on trial for revealing the Penta- gon Papers' to the press.

Nixon, after all, prefers the 'unmatched' services of psycho- paths to the revelation of the truth about the Vietnam war.

In case there was any doubt about this, the Associated Press reported from Washing- ton on June 16 that: 'John Paul Vann, the best- known US adviser in the Vietnam was given war, a hero's burial today and Presi- dent Nixon bestowed upon him the Medal of Freedom-the nation's highest civilian award.

'Mr Vann, who was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam, was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Secretary of State William P. Rogers was present as Nixon's represent- ative. 'Shortly after the graveside ceremony, Mr Vann's family the White House, went to where his 24-year-old son John accepted the medal and a citation that extolled Mr Vann as la truly noble American, a superb leader'. Workers Press, Friday June 23, 1972 PAGE 9 JAK the 'Evening Stan- their notice boards 'lest on they forget' undoubtedly dard' was drinks cartoonist his power worker cartoon.

at a pub in Fulham Road, It vicious that the was so Standard' refused Chelsea, called the printers to handle it and the presses 'Queen's Elm'. were temporarily halted. It's an average sort of pub The showed cartoon on the edge of 'hippie' Fulham brutal, mindless, heartless, of and in spitting distance his hand greedy worker with little homes costing modest thrust out aggressively demand- about £50,000 a throw. 1ng more. Whether the saloon bar is The 'Queen's Elm' exhibition always filled by blimpish sorts of about 70 cartoons priced at cropped heads, with mous- around £25 each is a repre- taches and fruity accents it's sentative cross section of his hard to say. work. It recently certainly was Pub proprietor Sean Tracy TAK-real when name Ray- would not allow any of JAK's mond Jackson-dropped in for anti-IRA cartoons because he but many of ü -pecial drink. is Irish himself, Around the walls hung the other old favourites are selection of his cartoons drawn there hammering strikers, for the pub and including demonstrators and immigrants.

couple with the race themes Earlier a high-powered team ex-India colonels and the like from the right-wing 'Standard', seem to enjoy chuckling over.

from editor Charles Wintour Unfortunately he left before downwards, had given their I arrived. I was naturally eager blessing to the exhibition and to hear the latest of his well- given away armfuls of free known views on the working copies of the paper. class from his own lips. couldn't discover what Not that there was any real workers playing darts in the need ask. to It was pretty bar thought of IAK's cartoons, clear from his cartoon show- but of them one gestured ing a railwayman about to be fairly pointedly with his dart. lynched by bowler- angry hatted commuters. When I dropped in only handful of the 150 guests who had assembled for the opening ot an exhibition of his cartoons left swilling fairly were liberally at the bubbly. At least one of them, police commander Roy Yorke, was available for comment. 'Terrific,' he said. 'He hits it on the head every time' What he hits on the head nine times out of ten is the Perhaps that's working class. why the commander of police found him so much to his taste? The most famous of JAK's recent cartoons which I under- The 'Jak' cartoon during the Rail stand some workers preserve Ballot portad.

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THE LABOUR group which recently won con- trol of Leicester city council has decided to implement the Tories' 'fair rents' Bill if it be- comes law, a meeting of the New Parks Tenants' Association was told en Monday night. The three Labour coun- cillors who represent the estate attended the meeting to explain the decision. It soon emerged that they were relying on a change of heart by the Tories so that they would not have to take up a fight against the Bill. All three councillors stressed that it was quite possible that the Bill would be thoroughly amended before it became law. But if it did become law in its present form, tenants told, then the Labour were council would have no altern- ative but to abide by the law.

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itself has recently been set up with the Stalinists of the Com- munist Party and the Inter- national Socialists prominent in the organization. The political bankruptcy of these two groups emerged clearly at the tenants' meeting when the Stalinist chairman let the councillors off the hook by allowing only 20 minutes for questions, ruling out order all statements of opinion and any questions that did not deal specifically with the rents issue. member of the Young A Socialists interrupted was while trying explain the to necessity for building Councils Action and forcing the of Tories to resign. The tenants themselves had come to the meeting looking for a leadership that was pre- pared to wage a fight against the Tories. Many workers tried • to that the express the view fight could not be limited to a single issue, but involved all the government's attacks on the living standards and the . organizations of the working class. The strength of feeling on » had already this matter emerged when our reporter spoke, to some tenants on previous visit to the estate.

Barry Laywood, his wife and their ten children live in a four-room council house for which they pay £5.99 a week.

Their oldest child is 14.

Asked how they were able to manage, Barry-a Hosiery Workers' Union member-said: 'According to my earnings we a rent rebate. Family get allowance helps too. But when sick for two weeks 1 was once, we could not get social security and they threatened to Barry's wife added: 'We wouldn't manage if we couldn't organize ourselves. You want to keep the children clean and tidy don't you? 'But it seems to me that you need to let them walk around in rags in order to get social assistance. The "fair rents" Bill is not fair at all, because when the rents go up that does not mean that the properties will get improved. the week after and six more the following week. One site has only 28 men on it and the six sites together cannot involve more than 1,000 workers. CP speakers said this didn't matter too much because they would mount a mass picket if anything happened. Leading Stalinist Jack Henry, executive: member of

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supported the proposal. A call for an all-out strike that the TUC and a demand mobilize the trade union move- ment to force the Tories to re- was opposed by Stalinists sign from the floor of the meeting.

"The Тогу government makes it hard for the workers.

Prices go up and the workers are made redundant. But ever if you have a job it is hard to get by. Every week is a struggle. Thanks to the family allowance and my own earn- ings we always just manage until Barry gets paid Mr and Mrs F . ... have lived in a council house for four years. 'We're fed up! You are not allowed to help yourself. You permission have to ask for everything. We would like to modernize : the kitchen. It is too small. But it takes too long to wait for permission.

"The government's decision to enter the Common Market shows that the MPs don't ask us what we want. All the food prices will go up, but will the wages? Mr F... is a Transport and General Workers' Union mem- ber. He commented on the working conditions in his place: This country is backward.

In my place, if a man does not do what the gaffer wants he gets the sack. But not just like that, because the gaffer does want to pay redundancy not sums. So he gives a man a job he does not like and lets him leave on his own.. You really get exploited as a work- ing man.' Mr and Mrs Moore's rent ind has gone up twice in the past year. 'It is hard to face the future, ek. Mr Moore told me. 'We should have had a vote about the Common Market. The Tories do what they want. They don't ask us. Everything will go up.

'Meat prices show that they are getting ready for the Com- mon Market. We won't be able to live any more. 'Scrub the Industrial Relations Act! The Tories want to show us that Big Brother is with us. They want to get rid of the unions and smash the working class. 'The trade union leaders let the government get away with too much. They want to put their foot down and get rid of the Tories! But there is too much bouncing among them.

'All our problems, whether rents, food prices or wages, boil down to the point—we've got the wrong leaders.' The union leadership-backed by the CP and 'Charter' its group-is absolutely hostile to mobilizing the full membership of the union for the claim.

Their feeble excuse that the unions are not well organized enough is echoed by CPers like Pete Cavanagh, who re- cently spent a week up a crane in protest against sackings.

But one steward pointed out that the question of 100 per cent trade unionism and the lump could only be resolved in by all-out struggle - backed other workers-to defeat build- ing employers and bring down the Tories.

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FEELINGS are mixed at Llandudno about the effect of Wednesday's decisions on the Indus- trial Relations Act. By over 1.3 million votes to 500,000, the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineer- ing Unions reaffirmed its total opposition to the Act and its agencies. It went on to express 'dismay' at TUC General Council's advice that unions should feel free to attend the National Industrial Relations Court and Council's refusal to recall Con- gress. What happens now is unclear.

The vote united all four sections of the powerful Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, and General the Transport Workers' Union, including its vehicle section, with smaller unions such as the Heating and Domestic Engineers, the Sheet Metal Workers and the Metal Mechanics. Against them were ranged the Electrical and Plumbing Trades Union, the General and Munici- pal Workers and the white collar unions ASTMS and APEX.

Presumably Hugh Scanlon, the AUEW President, who led the move, can now be expected to mount further pressure for a recall of Congress. Certainly Ken Gill, deputy general secretary of the AUEW's technical and supervisory sec- tion, thought so. 'This is a powerful expression of the rank-and- of the feelings file movement, he told me.

I'm very pleased with this decision. It seems at last that we are breaking through.'

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Scanlon But Len Edmondson, an execu- tive council member the AUEW engineers' section, was not so sure. He thought that a number of who , had unions supported the resolution did not feel it was a challenge to their continued with the NIRC co-operation when threatened. And he expressed concern about the danger to shop stew- ards which had been opened up by unions' participation in the Court so far. An indication of the pressure under which the CSEU leaders feel themselves was the heat generated by the debate. There were sharp clashes, par- ticularly between Scanlon and the leader of APEX, Roy Grantham, a pro-Common Mar- keteer who spoke against the resolution. Grantham claimed that the congress last Croydon special year had given unions the right to defend themselves when they were dragged into the Court.

But the main burden of his was that the Tories argument might call an election on a law- and-order platform if the unions were too fierce in their opposi- tion to the Act. He drew atten- Leopold Stokowski conducts the London on BBC 1 tonighi-60 years after condur with the same orchestra Flaxton boys. 5.50 News. 6.01 Rac Report West. 6.18 Report Wales.

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tion to the General Election which had been called in France following May-June 1968. 'We shall oppose this motion because we want to win the next ; he said, speak- General Election, ing for the CSEU right wing.

But as Scanlon pointed out, it was precisely Marketeers such as Grantham who had assisted last October's House of Com- mons vote which kept the Tories in power. remarks applied with These equal force to an executive council member of his own union, John Boyd, who must get some sort of prize for his per- formance in the debate. Amid a welter of double-talk, the engineers' leader performed the unusual feat of saying the exact opposite of what he meant, while making his real purpose absolutely clear to everyone.

As a result, two unions ASTMS and the EPTU-left the . camp and sizeable abstentionist voted against the motion.

Boyd insisted that the AUEW motion could not be supported on the basis of pseudo-unity.

He insisted that unions could for it if they only really vote consistently refused to recognize the Act. In a clear attempt to force the T&GWU to vote against his own union's motion, he referred to those unions who had "be- come involved with the Act in a way against the spirit of this resolution'. But it is precisely the fact that the resolution is so vague and could be supported by all these unions that leads to doubrs about its ultimate effect. And the fact that virtuosity of the Boyd stamp is necessary indicates the severe crisis in which the CSEU finishes its conference today. Workers Press, Friday June 23, 1972 PAGE 11 Saint. 8.30 Shirley's world. 9.00 London. Film: 10.30 'Reach for Glory. 4.30 Rom- ULSTER: 1.45 Racing. 4.50 News. 4.55 Thun- per room. derbirds. 5.50 News. 6.00 News. 6.10 Viewfinder. 6.35 Crossroads.

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THE PROVISIONAL IRA

yesterday called a ceasetire from midnight on Monday. The text of the statement, isued in Dublin, is: "The IRA will suspend offensive operations as and from midnight on Mon- day, June 26, 1972, provided that a public reciprocal response is forthcoming from the armed forces of the British Crown.

"The leadership of the Republi- can movement believes that a bi- lateral suspension of operations would lead to meaningful talks between the major parties to the conflict. "The movement has formulated a peace plan designed to secure a just and lasting solution, and holds itself in readiness to pre- THERE WAS little change in hard-core unemployment this month according to figures for June out yesterday. Seasonal employment gave jobs to 68,096 people, but total un- employment remained firmly pegged at 833,473. is always the lowest June figure of the year. But with seasonal openings closed and re- dundancies continuing, the job- less total looks certain to top the million again this winter.

The June figure was also de- pressed because of the absence of any large numbers, of people temporarily stopped. The jobless total for Great Britain alone (excluding Ulster) was 793,896-3.5 per cent.

It included 758,281 wholly un- employed, 8,369 school-leavers and 27,246 temporarily stopped.

In Ulster 37,894 were wholly unemployed, 906 school-leavers and 777 temporarily stopped.

Ulster is still the worst hit with 7.6 per cent unem- area ployed closely followed by Scot- land at 6.1 per cent. Socialist Labour League Public Meeting

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BLACKING of giant Cobham Farm container depot, Stratford, East London, called off at shop stewards' meeting in Royal group of docks yesterday after- noon. One shop steward said from July 10 dockers will be working at depot and the 60 lorry drivers now working there will not lose their jobs but will be found other work. у липе 23, 1972 sent it at the appropriate time' It was scarecly surprising that within minutes of the much- rumoured statement, the Tories at Westminster and the British were rubbing their hands with delight. Not so, however, down at the 'Socialist Worker' and the 'Red , who have campaigned on Mole', the slogan 'Victory to the IRA'.

The prospect of the Provision- als and the Officials now sitting at the conference table with the

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RAIN will cross most areas of Northern Ireland, Wales and England during the day followed by mostly dry but generally cloudy conditions. In Scotland and north east England it will be mostly dry with sunny intervals. It will remain rather cool in most places. Outlook for Saturday and Sun- also a few sunny intervals.

Tories is a monumental indict- ment of their policies. When they refused to take up a fight against the real enemy of the Ulster working class-the Tory government-it was no acident.

They now want to make peace with the master who is directly responsible for the poverty, the unemployment, the murder and the terror in the North. A further statement on the so- called 'pezce moves' will appear in Workers Press tomorrow.

McNaughton (r) finds It hard to explalı workers look on from inside the plant THE LIQUIDATION of Briant Colour Printing works in South London has been marked by one or two curious aspects. Meanwhile the 150 workers- told at 1.45 p.m. on Wednesday the factory was closing inl minutes time-are working-in.

They are working on the orders they have in hand, but allowing nothing to leave the factory. Bedding and food has been moved in for those manning the factory at night. The Old Kent Road factory is a brand new, custom-built plant.

Briant Colour moved there years ago. In July 1971, after a bad year, the company was taken over by Mr Derek Syder, with financial assistance from Robert Hornes, the paper merchants. also owned other printing nrinting sale companies, including

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Colourprint. Eventually mest of Briant's work came from

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Then two week ago the firm's ACTON: Monday June/ 26, 8 p.m. Co-op Hail, High Road.

'Support the dockers. Force the Tories to resign'. 8 p.m. EAST LONDON: Tuesday June

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN LLAN

LEADERS of two powerfu clashed yesterday over last mo deal in the shipbuilding indust Employers were warned not to expect that the long- standing pay claim in engin- eering would be settled for £2.75 and an extra day's holi- day • as that in shipbuilding and ship-repair had been.

The clash came at the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering's Llandudno con- ference after Danny McGarvey chairman of the CSEU's ship- building negotiators, had re- ported on the two-year deal con- cluded on May 1. to explain his position to the press as largest creditor, Hornes, appeared on the scene. Their managing dir- ector, Mr James McNaughton, quits his well-paid post to become joint managing director at Briant's. Yesterday at a press conference factory outside gates McNaughton said: 'What I did looks strange, but there's nothing strange about it,' he added. Asked by reporters if this was not a genuine liquida- tion but a chance for a quick he replied: "That will be profit, decided by the liquidator.'

for the work-in Spokesman committee, Bill Freeman, FOC, NATSOPA, said: 'There is sufficient work com- ing in here to make it a viable concern and we are prepared to take on new work. But we are workers' not trying to set up a commune because in this society one cannot survive economically like that. 'We are modelling ourselves on UCS-not in all ways but in most ways.

S UNIONS ALLIANCI

8 p.m. "Aberfeldy", Aber- 27, feldy Street, E.14 (nr Blackwall 'Defend the dockers' Tunnel: right to work. PRESTON: Thursday June 29, 8 p.m. Railway and Commer- cial Hotel (near railway station), Butler Street.

E IN LLANDUDNO

powerful engineering unions last month's controversial pay g industry. Boilermakers' president Mc- Garvey reported that the deal $2.75 this year, £2.75 next and three days' holiday by extra minimum 1974—gives £20 a wage in the industry this year.

But Len Edmondson, speaking on behalf of the engineers' exe- cutive the Amalgamaic. T Union of Engineering Workers, was soon on his feet explaining why the AUEW had at every stage opposed this settlement.

It fell far short of the de- mands laid down by the CSEU conference 12 months ago, he claimed. That conference had also in- sisted in no uncertain terms that no agreements should ex- ceed 12 months. And the settlement had preju- diced the pay fight in engineering at a time when shop stewards in many areas were firms at local level. In some members of areas CSEU affiliated unions had been involved in action after strike refusing settlements such as had been accepted by the shipbuild.

ing negotiators. The settlement had created par- ticular problems in areas where there was a lot of shipbuilding and ship repair going he on, said. In some cases members had been forced to take strike action by the settlement when they could have got better terms themselves without it. AUEW was not moving The the reference back of McGarvey's report. But his settlement would the INDUSTRIAL action on engineers' national pay. claim will continue, plant by plant, union leaders decided at Llandudno yesterday. Conference heard that the employers were not prepared to come anywhere near its demands. An industrial com- mittee meeting of the Engin- Employers' Federation eering on Wednesday had • seen no purpose in the kind of 'ex- ploratory' talks which CSEU delegates had asked for the previous day. not set the level for engineering negotiators in any talks with the Engineering Employers' Federa- tion. McGarvey argued that the job threats at Harland and

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Wolff, Cammell Laird and Yarrow shipyards had placed the nego tiators in a difficult position.

'Had we taken a negative stand in these negotiations all our good work would have been up the spout'. , he said. Dealing with the UCS situation, he said earlier that negotiations were proceeding well in the case of the Clydebank yard. There was not now a great deal of difference between the official trade union side and the company. When Marathon Manufactur- ing took over on July 25 the complete labour force working at the yards should be absorbed 'in one way or another', he claimed.

had said it While Marathon would only need 1,200 to 1,500 workers, there was one ship still being worked and 'who knows that we may not get another one'l Earlier the Technical and Super- Section (TASS) of visory the AUEW, succeeded in amending the General and Municipal Work- ers' Union resolution by deleting all reference to job-evaluation as a method of achieving equal pay for women.

ANCE MEETINGS

SOUTHALL: Thursday June 29, Community Centre, 8 p.m. Bridge Rd. 'Force the Tories to resign'. WANDSWORTH: Thursday June field Po. Balham anths. Build Balham. field Road, Councils of Action'.