Workers Press no. 805

workers press

THE POUND CONTINUES TO SLIDE

TORY REFLATION

POLICY COLLAPSES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER SATL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

THE BIG BANKS' decision to

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raise interest rates by 1 per cent Barber's French counterpart, Valery Gis- card d'Estaing, realistic showed more reflation' based policy grasp of things when he said in the French National Assembly on Wednesday: cheap credit for business and "The scale of speculative movements of consumers. capital is such that they can in a few days bring down a national currency.

This While Chancellor of the Exchequer on as long as the inter- Is kely to go Anthony Barber was defending his national community has not become cons- devaluation of sterling and claiming Mous one nee to come new es con cerning speculative capital movements and success for his economic policy in ti th itself. matcrnaulonal monetal SSLe House of Commons, City gentleme The absence of any kind of convertibility were making nonsense of the whole introduces an element of uncertainty and debate. paralysis, and we nave been able to gauge the effects in the past few days.'

And the pound continued to slide Not only are a whole number of cur- the foreign exchange markets the With rencies ready to go, including some, ike devaluation in Paris reaching 7 per cent.

the French franc, which seem temporarily Ine rot conunued yesterday and was only

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kept in check attack. The announcement of the United States balance of payments figures for the financial centres. bring a new will nrst hall or this year about sterling's strength and dollar which will force Nixon All talk run on the to take action as he did ast August une swe or use reserves was expodeco Barber's admission almost £1,000m especially the ending Those measures had fled the country in a matter of days America's problems onto aimed countries dollar convertibility, aimed This hot money, which had sought tem- porary refuge in London, rushing Is noW by forcing them to reduce their balance elsewhere and is unlikely to be attracted of payments surpluses. back by the rise in interest rates.

This has now shown up in the figures of payments in May, Much of the reserve holding of the Bank for Japan's balance of England and other central banks con- with the surplus showing a massive drop fact, not of gold but of dollars from the $1,183m of last year to only sists, in have been forced them by exports.

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ozam unis, despite a rise in American policy. The dollar declined heavily in forward

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sank to its lowest against the Hong Kong dollar,

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"float' point since which is tied to sterling, for the

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London foreign exchange market second time in two days. South Alrica is to Quoted at let the rand float yesterday arternoon. 2.4525 to the dollar this repre- line with sterling. Sterling sented an effective devaluation of weakened and in Zurich in 6 per cent. Reverberations of the copennarel. pound's devaluation continued to •

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Come wore can contes. China revalued its currency p. 12

SLL PUBLIC MEETING-SUNDAY

DEFEND THE DOCKERS' RIGHT TO WORK

DEFEND BASIC DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

DEFEND THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN

SUNDAY JULY 2 7 p.m. Acton Town Hall Acton High Street, W.3. Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) SARAH HANNIGAN (London YS secretary) CLIFF SLAUGHTER (SLL Central Committee)

CORIN REDGRAVE

LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool docks steward) ABOUT 500 printwo

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dealings in Tokyo and raised the possibi- lity of another yen revaluation before the end of the year. Bankers feared that for- ward exchange dealing might have to cease. The Brandt cabinet, soon to have to face a general election, has split on the measures needed to counter the effects of sterling devaluation. Economics Minister Karl Schiller is considering resignation following the measures adopted by his col- leagues to impose stiffer exchange con- trols. They fear that the capital influx will force a mark revaluation, harm German exports and spark off renewed inflation.

The Swiss franc continued to float while the pound weakened in Zurich. While other countries try to defend themselves as best they can from the storm released by sterling devaluation the effect on the British économy will be sharp and not long delayed.

The rise in interest rates makes it more costly for industry to hold stocks or invest in new capital equipment. It is bound to mean more closures and unemployment and spreading depression: So much for Barber's reflationary policy!

Prime Minister Heath refused to dis- close what he proposed to discuss in his meeting with TUC leaders on Tuesday, but later in Thursday's House of Com- mons debate he called on trade unions to "a reasonable wages policy'. The pursue new situation created by the devaluation of the pound will make it impossible to reach some patched up agreement on the

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0 printworkers from Fleet Street and chapels throughou erday to a mass meeting at Briant Colour Printing Ltd ave been working-in for more than a week in protest a ig print unions, and supported by delegations from London

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basis of reflationary measures. The bank- ers have seen to that. The Labour Opposition showed itself completely unable to comprehend the depth or source of the crisis. Both Harold Wilson and Denis Healey, its main eco- nomics spokesmen, claimed that sterling was basically strong, gave Barber credit where it was due for successfully carrying out the operation of floating the pound' and engaged in cheap witticisms which distracted attention from the crisis.

As reformists who want to make capi- talism work, they dare not admit that the system is heading for collapse. The measures which they called for to deal the situation such as price-wage with restraint, bringing back the Consumer Council (!) and keeping British beef in Bri- tain only revealed their crass narrowmind- edness and reformist illusions.

It was only equalled by the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' which proclaimed last Saturday that devaluation was Fiddle to Rob You' and succeeded in pro- ducing thousand words without several mentioning the international and insoluble nature of the capitalist crisis.

Neither the Labour nor Communist par- ties can face the reality of the situation.

The old reformist and parliamentary com- promises are finished. The need is to mobilize the strength of the working class to force the Tories to resign back a about gree meet which is held to socialist policies. This can only be done by the creation of a new leadership and the building of the revolutionary party in Britain on the programme of the Fourth International.

throughout London merched down the Old Kent Inting Ltd. The march to the factory, where 150 protest against closure plans, was led by officials m London docks and the Upper Clyde shipyards.

workers press

THE POUND CONTINUES TO SLIDE

TORY REFLATION

POLICY COLLAPSES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATU

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

THE BIG BANKS' decision to

BY OUR POLITICAL C

raise interest rates by 1 per cent Barber's French counterpart, Valery Gis- paid to the Tory virtually puts realistic card d'Estaing. more Swed 'reflation' based on policy of grasp of things when he said in the French National Assembly on Wednesday: cheap credit for business and "The scale of sneculative movements of consumers. capital is such that they can in few days bring down a national currency.

This While Chancellor of the Exchequer inter- to go on as long as the Anthony Barber was defending his community has not become cons- national devaluation of sterling and claimino cerning speculative capital movements and success for his economic policy in ti th international monetary itself. House of Commons, City syslen gentleme The absence of any kind of convertibility were making nonsense of the whole introduces of uncertainty and debate. and we have been curaves. able to gauge the effects in the past few days. And the pound continued to slide Not only are whole number cur- markets foreign exchange with The The rencies ready to go. Incesse le devaluation in Paris reaching 7 per cent. the French franc, which seem temporarily The o contineo verterer but heavily under the dollar is kept in check by central bank interven- annoncament of the limitan tion to support the pound in a number of States balance of payments figures for the financial centres. will hirst half this vear OrnO All talk about sterling's strength and run on the dollar which will force Nixon to take action as he did last August.

the size was exploded by of the reserves Barber's admission that almost £1,000m Those measures, especially the ending had fled the country in a matter of days. convertibility, aimed pass America's problems onto other countries money. porary refuge in London, is now rushing forcing them their balance to reouce elsewhere and is unikey to be attracted of payments surpluses. back by the rise in interest rates.

shown un in the figure. Much of the reserve holding of the Bank for Japan's balance of payments in May, of England and other with the surplus showing a massive drop centra banks con- sists, in fact, not of gold but of dollars from of last year to only the si.l8sm which been forced $22m this, despite a rise in have exports. on them by American policy. The dollar declined heaviv in forward THE POUND sank to its lowest dollar, the Hong Kong

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against point "float' which is tied to sterling, for the since

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South london foreign second time two davs. yesterday afternoon. Quoted Africa is to let the rand float in at 2.4525 dollar this line with Sterling to the repre- sterling. sented an effective devaluation of Amei 6 per cent. Reverberations of the Copenhagen. nound's devalnation cont nued to

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dominate world financial centres.

China p. 12 revalued its

SLL PUBLIC MEETING-SUNDAY

DEFEND THE DOCKERS' RIGHT TO WORK

DEFEND BASIC DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

DEFEND THE VIETNAMESE REVOLUTION

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN

SUNDAY JULY 2 7p.m. Acton Town Hall Acton High Street, W.3. Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) SARAH HANNIGAN (London YS secretary) CLIFF SLAUGHTER (SLL Central Committee)

CORIN REDGRAVE

LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool docks steward)

ABOUT 500

Road yesterday workers have from the big print un • SATURDAY JULY 1, 1972 • No 805 • 4p MMITTEE Of THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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basis of reflationary measures. The bank- ers have seen to that. The Opposition showed itself dealings in Tokyo and raised the possibi- completely unable to comprehend the Both Harold lity of another yen revaluation before the depth or source of the crisis.

end of the year. Bankers feared that for- Wilson and Denis Healey, eco- fts mein dealing nomics spokesmen, that sterling ward exchange clalled cease. Barber was strong, dave The have Brandt cabinet. where it was due for successfully carrying face a general election, has split on the out the operation of 'floating the pound effects needed to counter engaged in cheap witticisms which of sterling devaluation. Economics Minister distracted attention from the crisis. Karl Schiller considering resignation capi- WHO Want O following the measures adopted by his col- talism work, they dare not admit that the leagues impo: stiffer exchange con- system heading collapse. trols. Thev tear thut the capita intux wil they called for to force a mark revaluation, harm German with the situation such as price-wage and off renewed inflation. exports spark back the The Swiss franc continued to float while Council (!) and keeping British beef in Bri- weakened in Zurich. tain only revealed their crass narrowmind- While pound defend other countries themselves best can from It was only equalled by the they the Communist storm released by sterling devaluation the Party's Star' which "Morning British the économy will be last Saturday that devaluation was sharp and not long delayed.

Fiddle to Rob Yau' and succeeded in The rise makes without several

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aucing more costly for industry to hold stocks mentioning the international and insoluble It invest in new capital equipment.

of the capitalist crisis.

Halulc more closures and Neither the Labour nor Communist par- TO mean unemployment and spreading depression: face the reality of the situation. ties can SO for barber's reflationary policy. muca 1 ne old rerormist and partlamentary

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Prime Minister Heath refused to dis- promises are finished. The need is he close what proposed to discuss in his mobilize the strength of the working class with TUC leaders force Tories to resign and bring meeung 1uesady, but later in Thursday's House of Com- back a Labour government which is held mons debate ne called on tradt unions Socks bonees. reasonable wages policy. This can only be done by the creation pursue The the devaluation new situation created by of a new leadership and the building of the pound will make it impossible to the revolutionary party in Britain on the reach some patched up agreement on the programme of the Fourth International.

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O printworkers from Fleet Street and chapels throughout London marched down the Old Kent to a meeting at Briant Colour Printing Ltd. The march to the factory, where 150 mass a week in protest agalnsi closure plans, was lecov onclais g print unlons, and supported by delegations from London docks and the Upper Clyde shipyards.

PAGE 2 Workers Prees, Seturday July 1, WHAT WHITELAW thinks to- 'Democratic day, the Social and Labour Party says tomor: Now row-and the Republicans ther day after that. So it was with the ceasefire. So.

it is with the barricadesthe last remaining symbol of de- fiance to the British military occupation. It only needed a hint from the Ulster Defence Association- Vanguard group that 'selective' barricades were going, up this weekend for the SDLP-in the person of Bogsider John Hume MP—to immediately launch an appeal for the removal of the barricades. Together with representatives of Whitelaw and the Bogside Community Association, as well as various reformist-dominated tenants' organizations, he in- tend to make the first political go' incursion into the areas on behalf of Whitehall.

After meeting with Whitelaw's party issued a officers, his statement which urged that the full benefits of peace should be bestowed on those who had suffered the most during the fighting and that the barri- cades should be' removed in the interests of 'environmental improvements'. Synchronously with this appeal came the announcement from Republican sources that three come down barricades would because they were rat infested'.

The barricades, of course, have only a symbolic and provisional significance since the IRA agreed to bury their arms to- gether with the cause for which they fought-namely a united Ireland. Once the secret wheeling and dealing with Heath's viceroy the Republicans-des- bite rhetorical flourishes to the the contrary-quickly lost political initative and strength- ened every reformist and pro- imperialist group in Ulster.

The SDLP which, like the pro- verbial Sam Weller, lives not so much on its own political wits but on the absence of wit in its Republican rivals, pre- dictably has gained the most from this odious political manoeuvre. Sosion and the IRA (Official and thanks to the SDLP collu- Provisional) capitulation, and after the only a few hours SDLP meeting, the London- derry Commission bulldozer knocked a 12-foot path through the Little Diamond barricade The eight-page youth paper schools and on the dole queues. Please send me 'Keep Left' for one yer I enclose $2.86 Name Address lay July 1, 1872 to the paradoxical cheers ot the local residents. Now Whitelaw is optimistic -and there is no reason why he shouldn't be-that another ten.

will come down. The UDA is now expected not to go ahead with its threat to put up barricades and establish.

'no-go' areas in Protestant other areas of Belfast. .. This decision has nothing to do with the opportunist appeal of the Official IRA to the UDA to postpone barricade building by one month in the interests of the Protestant working class (sic). Nor is it due to fear of a Provisional back-lash. What the UDA-Vanguard leaders fear most of all is their cre- dibility within their own work- ing-class supporters—many of become disen- whom have chanted with the game of bar- . the viol- ricade-building and ence and callous indifference of 'anorak brigade' towards the ordinary Protestant workers.

This seems to explain the notice- able reticence of the bourgeois leaders-Craig and Smyth-to come to the forefront, and the emergence of Billy Hull-the Harland and Wolff shop stew- ard-as the chief spokesman for action against Catholic 'no- go' areas. Hull is cynically exploiting the fear and insecurity amongst Protestant workers that White- law will make concessions, to Catholic workers at the ex- pense of Protestant workers and thereby undermine wages, conditions and union organiza- tion in Ulster. This tactic of imperialism is not new. It was used effectively in the Negro ghetto of New York by the Republicans to U.S. undermine York the New Teachers' Union by inciting the 'Black Nationalists' against white teachers and to intro- duce non-union teachers under establishing the guise of SO- called community control.

So long as direct rule and imperialism remain so long will the danger of an escalat- ing sectarian conflict based on jobs and wages prevail. Marxists in Ulster, while pointing out the betrayal of Republican- ism, without must oppose, the anti-socialist, reservation, pro-imperialist doctrines of the Ulster Loyalist Workers' Asso- ciation and fight for the crea- tion of an all-Ireland revolu- tionary party based on Catholic and Protestant workers. There is no other way forward for the Irish workers-Pro- testant or Catholic. of viows and Plenty news, features at 3p a copy. Order your regular copy now.

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Send to Keep Left, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. or one year US PRESIDENT Nixon said in a televised White House press conference on Thursday night that America would return to the Vietnam peace talks in Paris on July 13. North Vietnam and the National Liberation' Front said yesterday that they would both attend. The US team, walked out of the peace talks on May 4 on the grounds that North Vietnam was not negotiating seriously.

his first press conference for 13 months, Nixon told re- porters that there would be no in the blanket let-up either. Bombing of the north or in the sea blockade. He said the war situation in Vietnam "completely had been turned round' since he ordered the stepping up of the bombing and the mining of North Viet- namese harbours on May 8.

He added that South Vietnam- the ese troops were now on offensive and yesterday Saigon forces continued their push into Quang Tri province against light North Vietnamese and NLF re- sistance. Nixon believes that the pul-

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THE CEYLON Prime Minister Mrs openly rejected a plea by the leader Party to call a summit meeting of th This call came as a move to patch up the differences now building up within the coalition parties. It was only three weeks ago some CP members voted that against the government's new 'Criminal Justice Commissions Bill'. CP secretary Pieter Keuneman, who is also the Minister Housing in the bourgeois govern- had accepted this • Bill ment, when it was discussed in the Cabinet. Last week when the parliamen- tary group of Mrs Bandaranaike's capitalist Sri Lanka Freedom Party met at her official resi- dence the party's right wing called for strong action against the CP members who voted against the government-sponsored Bill. One motion on the agenda which was not put to the House called for the expulsion of the CP from the coalition. This clearly shows the right- of the government, ward move survived Which the insurgent movement of stüdents and rural youth last year only with the help of the Stalinists and the rene- revisionist Lanka Sama While the right wing is getting more arrogant, the Stalinists have shown their real capitulation by withdrawing the Party's suspen- sion order on Mr Thudawe, CP MP and Junior Minister of Edu- with the cation, who voted the Criminal government on ustices Bill and defied the Party line. This was the preliminary con- cession made by the Stalinists to open talks with the right wingers in the government.

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verization of the north accom- panied by the strangulation of supplies of arms and munitions openly connived at by the Rus- sian and Chinese Stalinists has created which conditions Hanoi is, feady to make conces- sions. Saigon claimed yesterday that the communist side had asked them to return to the confer- ence table. Following his recent visit to Hanoi after Nixon's talks Moscow, Soviet President Pod- gorny said he expected the peace talks would restart "soon' with 'new initiatives' from North Vietnam. Nixon stressed in his 40-minute press conference that there would be no end to the bombing of the North until America's May 8 demands for an Indo-China cease fire and the return of US prisoners were met in full.

He said there had been three reasons for the bombing-to pre- vent the institution of a com- government in South munist Vietnam, remaining • to protect US forces there and to obtain the release of US prisoners of war. He said the US would not discuss the setting up of a coali- tion government in South Viet- nam which included communists.

ister Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike has he leader of the Stalinist Communist ting of the coalition parties.

the arrogant refusal a naked dictatorship as their only solution for worsening economic crisis. TROUBLE continued yester- day in the Argentine cities of Buenos Aires, Tucuman and Cordoba, and army and police made nearly 300 arrests. Unemployment in these major cities is., running at. over 7 per cent according to a report from the National Statistics and Census Institute. In Tucuman it has soared to 14.2 per cent. In Buenos Aires, with a third of the country's population, it is 7.4 in industrial per ceni, Cordoba 7.2 per cent and in the key meatpacking centre Rosario 6.2 per cent.

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govern- ment yesterday banned all out- door political meetings in the country. The move is aimed against the Rhodesian African National Council which led the recent campaign against the Anglo- Rhodesian settlement proposals.

It follows the that news military activity against African guerrillas nationalist on the Nixon: Flist pross conterence for 13 months. He said: 'We will not ne- with the enemy for gotiate accomplishing what they could not accomplish by themselves.'

Nixon's terms for 'serious negotiations' in Paris would mean a complete and outright surrender by North Vietnam and the NLF. Such a surrender would have been brought about largely by ing the calculated refusal of the Soviet and Chinese Stalinists to continue their aid to Hanoi.

In Paris on Thursday 8,000 left-wing demonstrators marched through the city in protest against American bombing of North Vietnam.

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Spanish leading workers' leaders jailed last week have been fined f1.500 each without trial or the alternative of two months' imprisonment for the 'crime' of illegal association.

OIL REFINERY maintenance workers throughout Australia yesterday voted at a series of mass meetings to go on indefinite strike after the oil companies had refused to negotiate claims for a 35-hour week, higher pay and doubling of shift penalty allowances. SERIOUS unrest threatens southern Sudan unless there is immediate economic aid for the region from international organi- and zations governments, Sudanese vice president Abel Alier said yesterday. ITALY'S airline pilots yesterday threatened new action if their present three-day strike ends without any concessions from the employers. NEWSPAPERS affiliated to the Social Democratic Party in West Berlin, the 'Telegraf' and 'Nacht- wadepesche? 'economic reasons: to close for are JAPAN'S 11-week-old seamen's strike continued yesterday after union leaders rejected a new offer from the Central Labour Commission for Seafarers.

Zambia and Mozambique borders are being stepped up. From now all political on, gatherings will be restricted to halls where they can be kept under close supervision and control. The ANC claimed yesterday that Rhodesian police arrested 40 of its members at Mtoko, 100 of Salisbury, miles north-east holding them for and were 'questioning'.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS' REGIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK CAMPAIGN

for youth in North West

FALKIRK THURSDAY

FALKIRK is one of the few towns in the industrial belt of Scot- land with a relative low rate of unemployment. The source of this re- lative prosperity is the Grangemouth petro- chemical site which sits on the south side of the Firth of Forth pouring its ugly pall of smoke over the water. British Petroleum are masters here. With ICI, they economy of the control the hinterland which includes Falkirk. The prosperity, however, is a façade which hides an ever- increasing drive for more efficiency and produc- tivity. The inevitable off-shoot of this campaign is redun- dancies. Denis Bean, head of BP chemicals, warned Grange- mouth and Falkirk this year: 'As far as 1972 is concerned no immediate improve- 1 see ment in the previous gloom which continues to affect the petro-chemical industry as a whole and performance our as a company.' His six-point battle plan to local managers included ar increase in prices wherever maximum productivity withdrawal from operations are not profitable where the prospects are poor.

Grangemouth's works man- already ager, Tom Curle, has announced that several of the older plants on the site will be closed over the next two that some redun- years and dancy or 'natural wastage' is inevitable. The cut-back extends to ICI as well. They plan a limited rundown of their Organics Division during the next 12 months. Squeeze In other words even in areas of so-called boom, the big firms are launching an all- out drive to squeeze every ounce of productivity from the working class. This, plus a number of minor closures, make Falkirk's future less rosy than it was two years ago. Unemployment figures in fact are already running at double the rate of last year.

The Falkirk authorities have a particularly vicious attitude to youth. One Baillie (a Scot- tish councillor who also serves as a police court judge re- cently attempted to sentence two 'hooligans' to 100 hours' hard labour in the Falkirk parks-—only protest from the unions stopped him. The same man likes to go out with the police patrols who disarm local youth going to the dances.

There the marchers were warned to keep off the streets by police and one lad was charged for carrying 'offensive weapon'—a catapult in his back pocket. Recently the police were out Workaro Press, Canaday July 1, 1972 PAGE 3

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Young deputy *Obviousal maters officer, Brierley warns that the situation understand that the Young many Socialists are fighting to get the Socialist regional Right-to- 5,000 will have At Tories out and we wholeheartedly found jobs, but it that Work march sets off from certain term figure onto the labour marke Preston railwaymen also Manchester today on a week- will increase considerably.

Few have a chance of earning : wage; the rest will 80 long campaign to Liverpool.

The gloomiest "This demand prospect is for from the classroom the to achieved would getting WIld queue. On said Tomm eve the march seek unskilled and labouring

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Support for march figures shop steward. 'What we need is a new leadership in the the disastrous levels of unemploy.

trade unions to fight this govern area. ment. We Dedg suppor for TATe employment is government fighting for socialis policies. Workers should be ycild has the right to work. fighting but the trade for this The city has 750 teenagers out years locally leadership, even Anon movement of work and a further 5,000 are is no better haven't done thing due socialist We wish all success to the chool this month. Salford, govern- Robert galoshes Driver, Careers Sociaists'

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Women shoppers in Falkirk on horseback in Grangemouth when rumours of gang fights stop watch the YS spread in the town. marchers arrive in the town Socialist Labour League There has also been an on Thursday

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by Falkirk attempt William Feeney to close down confidence OXFORD Wednesday July 5, 8 p.m.

bars with singers, dancers and the political discotheques ending what worker. Council Chamber little entertainment the youth that Oxford Town Hall loce certalniy have. vide the revolutionary cadre to fight the coming battle. I'm Speaker G. Healy (SLL national secretary) Our march was the longest of the whole campaign sure the experience wil be lot about 22 miles- same on the Manchester- despite Liverpool march. this youth went straight out with- out a rest to sell 100 Workers when they Press hour arrived in Falkirk. The local Camelon Labour Party has really helped They have given us a hall and and the secretary Alan Hendry gave a personal donation of £2 The march will almost ana tne youtn will de entering Glasgow on their last lap. The campaign has been The support great success. interest in the Young Socialists shown by local youth in the towns we visited has been par- But the most striking thing

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Tine way tne Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs youth on the march fought and fought all the way. 9 a.m.-6 p.m Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m Many of the lads are very 8at 9 a.m._5 p.m. young, one ace.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday July 1 1S By our industrial correspondent David Maude Tory Chippenham at first sight seems an unlikely setting for one of the most determined battle fronts in the engineering unions' nationay pay cam- paign — yet that's just what it is. Three days ago 2,000 work- ers at the Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co completed their fourth week on strike for a substantial rise. Now, halfway through the is still no fifth week, there trace of a crack in their will to win. The centre of Chippenham a genteel country town in the heart of rolling Wiltshire -presents no surprise to those who know it returned Tory MP Daniel Awdry by a 25-10 majority in the last election.

The Awdry family own a lot of property in the town and farmlands. surrounding solicitors" business Their stands with a gaggle of others in quiet, expensive St Mary Street. But down on the Westing- house picket-line the strikers have given up touching their forelocks once and for all.

'You still had a kind of squirearchy here, with one or day July 1, 1972

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11 R 1. Top: Pickets outside the Westing house factory. Their strike now enters its fifth week. Above: AUEW shop steward, Eric Cole.

two families dominating the town, until after the end of the war' , Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' shop steward Eric Cole told me.

"The way management's been behaving in this dispute, you'd think it was still in existence.

We're not having it, though.'

for men Average earnings are between £21 and £22 a week despite the high degree of precision to which they have to work and for which the company is world-famous.

Some take home as little as average £14-£15. 11% 1) 18 101) While they are anxious to avoid any implication that the strike is political in content, Eric Cole and Hector Walker, secretary of the local branch of the National Society of Metal Mechanics, point out that their members are as hard hit as workers anywhere else by rising prices, fares and rents. Stewards representing all four unions in the factory sub- mitted a claim in February for a substantial all-round increase plus the other points of the national claim. Towards the end of May the company, which last year made a profit close. on £3m, offered £1.50. It refused to dis- cusS demands shorter hours, more holidays and fur- ther progress towards equal pay for women. The unions-engineers, elec- tricians, sheet metal workers and transport workers-issued seven days' notice of intent to take industrial action and on May 31 sat in. At first management tole- rated the action because they felt as long as workers were in the factory there was a chance some of them might feel the urge to work. A letter sent out by execu- tive director David Pollock on June 2 referred primly to 'the position which has arisen at our Chippenham factory in the last few days', regretting that 'unfortunately, because of the action now being taken', there could be no further talks.

Clearly neither Pollock nor his labour-relations man, man- executive Morley agement West, took their workers' action very seriously at that stage. After all, it was almost the first such dispute in living No doubt they memory. thought the old relations would soon re-establish them- selves. But the company began to sustain real losses-estimated by stewards as amounting to £250,000 so far-and there was no ranks, the tone began to change. On June 7 West met full- time officials led by • Stan Franklin, district secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. He asked them to recom- mend a return on the under- standing that the company was willing to 'negotiate a settle- ment on improved terms. The officials refused. From this point on the com- pany line hardened. On June 23—significantly enough, the day after the Engineering Employers' Federa- tion decided it 'could not come near' the unions' anywhere national claim—Pollock sent out a further letter. This said curtly that 'to pro- tect further the future of the company... the company has no alternative but to inform you that we will have no work to offer you as from Monday, June 26, 1972, and, therefore, the factory will be closed'.

The factory would remain closed until workers promised normal working, to resume Pollock insisted. No further offer would be made while the strike continued. He claimed the Westing- house workers were 'having to bear the burden' of the unions' national policy in the South- West, but again held out the carrot of an improved offer on a return to work No one took the bait. There are still only 50-60 scabs work- ing in the factory. The attitude of the majority of towards the letter was summed up by Hector Walker, who told me it was 'an exercise in union-bashing which didn't come off'. Both Hector Walker and Eric Cole agreed that they were not just fighting Westinghouse, but the Engineering Employ- ers' Federation, of which the firm is the backbone in the area. They and their members are convinced they can the meet challenge.

BY OUR FOREIGN REPORTER

The Greater Israel Move- ment, an extreme Zionist organization, dreams of hegemony from the out- skirts of Cairo to the suburbs of Damascus. Its policies are being oper- ated by the present Israeli government, which is systema- tically settling the Arab lands captured during the six-day war in 1967. flagrant examples The most of this expansion have occurred in the Gaza strip, where hun- dreds of thousands of Pales- tinian Arabs were driven from their homes after the original 1948 war. Gaza has long been a hot- bed of resistance to Zionist domination and its teeming slums have produced hundreds of fedayin (liberation) fighters.

The Israeli regime is now in liquidating • this engaged opposition and imposing per- manent control over the strip's unfortunate Arab inhabitants.

Earlier this year General Ariel Sharon, commander of the Southern Front, activated army contingency plans to eli- minate the Bedouin population of the southern Gaza Strip and the area of occupied Egyptian territory immediately to the south. The plans called for the eva- cuation of all wandering tribes, the destruction of their pas- tures, the stopping of their water-holes and the enclosure of the depopulated areas.

These contingency were plans, not to be used without authorization. General Sharon had no authorization from the Cabinet. Yet he obviously decided the government would not object. After all, deputy premier Israel Galili went on record two months ago to the effect that the Gaza Strip was 'an integral part of Israel, while Defence Minister General Moshe Dayan has said Israel demands the right to settle on the territories now under occu- pation. After Sharon had carried the plans into practice, Dayan not surprisingly • backed him. To cover their tracks, the Defence Department reprimanded the Southern Front commander, promptly forbade then the press to reveal who had been reprimanded. According to the monthly Israel and Palestine' eight dif- ferent areas were fenced in:

SRAEL MOVES AGAINST THE

ARABS OF THE GAZA STRIP

'Four hundred dunums near Kfar Darom, 4,000 dunums near Nahal Netzarim the military village, 7,000 dunums in the Um Khaleb area (where a new to be built this settlement is year), 10,000 dunums in the between Samiri area Khan Yunus and Deir Balahk' The troops also fenced off the strategic pass at Pithat Rafiah, south of the old inter- The pass is national border. ideal 'for tanks on their way to northern Sinai region. the The army erected a 'security long and set tence' 7 miles Israeli guards along it. As a further "security' mea- the army then fenced off sure, two more areas, totalling 66,000 dunums to prevent un- infiltration. authorized From this area alone, 4,800 Bedouin were forcibly evacuated. At first the government pro- posed to make no payment for this expropriated territory held for ages which has been by the Arab nomads. By way of compensation, the evicted kilo- Arabs four

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g-vel grams of flour each. Under the pressure, sonne government eventually offered about Israeli pounds 2u.Uuu (about £33,000 sterling) to pay for this huge land-grab. Even this SUluu upped to about £1.3m sterling -still a derisory amount for expropriating such a large tract gunpoint. Especially as, under the utemauolal law, land belongs to Egypt. added refinement of An Zionist policy is the systematic division of the Gaza Strip into closely-patrolled segments.

Army engineers have driven so-called strategic roads across the retugee uno laoues camps, bulldozing all houses in their path. The roads are then constantiy patrolled by Israeli troops. Israeli agents buy lists of Arab resistance fight- wanted and ers systematically hunt them down. Their families are special deportation to

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camos and thev themselves get if they are life imprisonment, not killed outright. This process completed, the areas are fenced in. The cleared areas are destined to be settled with reliable Zionist colonists, making the annexation of the Strip a fait accompli. The liberal and left-wing Israel protested opposition strongly at Dayan's endorse- ment of these blatantly annexa- ,tionist moves. The government replied by clamping down cen- sorship on the affair and threatening close to news- papers, like 'Ot', the Labour Weekly, which refused to toe the line. Top: laraell detence minici Dayan. Above: Egypt's Sadat Dayan visited the area on April 25 and said Israel con- sidered itself the sole govern- ment in the Strip. It must therefore treat the inhabitants as inhabitants of Israel, even if they were "foreign subjects', he said. (The inhabitants of Gaza are Palestinians from the original territory usurped by Israel.)

Transport Minister Shimon Peres visited the Gaza Strip the following day. He said Israel would soon demand the annex- ation of Gaza in future nego- tiations. He advocated an apartheid system of government for the Strip, declaring that the inten- tion was to have a Jewish dis- trict and an Arab district with a government attached to the Knesset and local government in every district. The Mayor of Gaza, Rasheed Shawa, has been condemned by Israeli newspaper 'Ha'aretz' for urging the United Nations to take control of the Gaza Strip.

The paper described this state- ment as 'an anti-Israel gesture' Shawa's views were pub- lished by a Lebanese news- paper which asked his opinions about the possibility of estab- lishing a Palestinian state in the territories occupied during the 1967 war. Shawa replied that if, for the sake of argument, such an idea was put into practice, 'the sub- sequent state would be sub- servient to Israel, dominated by the Israeli defence army and controlled by the Israeli eco- nomy' This, he said, was unaccept- able "to any reasonable Pales- or outside the tinian, inside occupied territories. Workers Press,: General de Gaulle's manic determination to endow France with an indepen- dent nuclear deterrent and a military policy aimed to take on all- comers landed his suc- cessors with some tricky problems. One of them is the H-bomb the Pacific atoll of tests on Mururoa in French Polynesia, about which there have been protests from eight countries.

But if France is to have an independent deterrent, then a thermo-nuclear for warhead bombs and missiles must be developed. And that means tests. The USA and the Soviet Union developed their nuclear warheads many years ago and now have large and growing stockpiles. The US carried out nuclear explosions above 188 ground in the course of her of nuclear development weapons and still engages in underground tests — 350 to date. The Soviet Union has carried out 142 tests plus 112 underground explosions. By comparison the French programme has been small. It has been limited by the tech- nological lag and the fact that unlimited finances have not been available. In fact, by comparison with the nuclear giants, the French 'deterrent' has been operating on a shoe string and partly at items in the expense of other the military budget. This has shown up in the size, and particularly the equipment of France's mechanized divisions.

De Gaulle's determination to preserve independence from the US--while still by no means complete - has been bought at a price.

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It also means that French strategy is at odds with that of the NATO countries. The go-it-alone policy is clearly beyond France's economic and technical means and whether de Gaulle's successors like it or not, they remain dependent on NATO and thus on the Americans to ward off a hypo- thetical attack from the East.

Ever since the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968, French contacts with NATO, which were never entirely broken off, have tended to grow over the early warning anti-sub- system, marine defence and joint naval exercises. De Gaulle's policy, while it in caused some disquiet French military circles, acquired a momentum which it has been difficult for his successors to arrest. Its appeal to nationalism has been and still is very strong. For many years after 1944 the French military had to knuckle under the Americans with an to army equipped, clothed and shod largely from US sources.

rs Press, Saturday July 1, 1972 PAGE 5 right-wing Military and politicians alike, with some support from the Communist Party Stalinists, look on de leader who Gaulle as saved France from satellite status. of Possession nuclear weapons has become a national symbol of independence and those foreigners who protest about the Mururoa experi- ments are written off as hypo- crites. The idea of an inde- pendent strategy for their de- use, while it ployment and may be totally unrealistic, is with something clung to approaching fanaticism.

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All the contradictions of capitalism are ex- decaying pressed here. While the Com- mon Market is extended and its supporters in France, as elsewhere, lose no opportunity the need for closer to stress economic and political integra- tion, control over the forces of destruction, which expresses the sovereignty of the national state in the highest degree, is jealously guarded. Inside or outside NATO it is the same; the different ruling classes and their mili- tary representatives eye each other as rivals and even as potential enemies. Military power remains as factor in inter- essential an national politics. It is to main- tain and strengthen its position in Europe, against the United States and its Common Market partners, and not only against Union, the Soviet that the French ruling class spends the nuclear millions on 'deterrent'. Preparations for nuclear war must be seen as an integral part of the capitalist crisis against which protests are completely ineffectual. Yet even the comparatively small scale tests on a remote Pacific atoll represent a serious threat to the people of the area. The exact area likely to be affected by radioactive fall-out cannot be predicted with complete accuracy. Radiation effects arising from the tests, although weaker, may be felt anywhere in the world. Radio-active elements may be dispersed in the upper atmosphere and be felt • on earth months or years later.

The French Foreign Ministry has answered protests with reassuring statements claiming that the previous tests have produced no sig- nificant effects from fall-out or radio-activity. However, serious element of doubt re- mains, particularly because the long-term effects of even small doses of radio-activity cannot be known.. Some scientists maintain that the increase in the presence of the isotope stron- tium-90 resulting from even low power nuclear tests may cause death or disease among children.

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BY ALEX MITCHELL. PHOTOGRAPHS BY P. J. ARKELL

It's not everyone's cup of fetched f11.000. £980 for Nielson cognac, but the summer gave clock, a set of chairs was sold fine art sales have com- £750 to Grant, ship's menced in London. St plaque bought £260. an early for 10+h century sofa went Tames and Mayfair to be €580 to Bragge. more precise. gather If you can your breath, I should tell you that There, this week, the follow- this was only the small time.

This sort of stuff is really the ing sales have been transacted.

bought a Chien knick-knacks for the American Glatz Lung for 1,400 The really important boar's head tureen tourists. Impression- gns; Mortimer paid £460 for an were of the sales French oak coffer of ists, those artists who shocked antique Gothic style. Temple snapped the bourgeoisie a century ago Bohem- l6th central with their outrageous up century Russian of St Basil the ian demeanour and their icon prevailing Great of Cesarae for £2,400. reiection of the Bartfield paid £62,000 for artistic concepts. and book, the first issue of It was the paintings Cezanne, of of Renoir, Audubon's «The Birds sketches Manet and Toulouse Lautrec America, a letter written by excited the buyers this brother John Keats to his which week. Sous Bois by Cezanne for 78,000 went gns, an Edouard Manet sketch was bought by Eisenbeiss for 45,000 gns, a Van Gogh was bought for £88,000, Corot's picture of 'A young woman in a country lane' was bought for £64,000. Toulouse Lautrec The 'L'Abandon Deux les Amies' wasn't sold. Bidding went to £150,000, a new world record for the artist, but this was not high enough for the family of the late Professor H. R. Schinz of Zurich. So, with no bids over £150,000, the auctioneer withdrew it.

What, you might ask, is this about? vulgar extravagance all It is the art market having its annual fling. Dealers from all over the world gather at the two leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, buy whatever they can get their hands on. The purchasers may regard themselves as art connoisseurs.

But it's difficult not to see the whole exercise simply as a commodity market. Even the magnificent works of art are catalogued as 'Lot No 203' or 'Lot No 607'. Workers Press visited the Christie's sale to savour the atmosphere and dynamics of the international art scene. The foyer-or should one say entrance—was abuzz grand with activity. It must be one of the few places choked with treasures where the security men wear top hats and don't carry guns. Well not obviously, anyway. (By contrast the Museum of Modern Art in New York is almost a fortress. The uni- formed officer on the turnstyle has an ugly black pistol in his belt). We are presented with a catalogue of the day's com- modities and ushered into the saleroom. We stand around the walls while the bidders take their seats in the body of the suffocatingly small room.

The audience oozes wealth.

The man from the 'Sun' is cynical about it all. 'Don't they make you sick,' he says loudly.

'These stinking rich' The conspicuous most features are those of the Americans. The ones with the plastic faces and ivy league shirts. Their wives are sun- tanned, bejewelled and as hard as nails. They chew gum. It soon becomes clear that is at the the row to watch back, It's a set of neat Japanese gentlemen motionless sitting and expressionless. They face the front like children at school. They obviously mean business. The pulpit is taken by a ruddy figure, rather like a colonel, who wastes no time in calling everyone to order.

'Lot number 101, he says 'Tete de into the microphone, Chanteur de Rue' by Daumier.

At his left, a flunky in a iacket seizes hold of a charcoal drawing and holds it aloft.

By the time I've taken in this action, the bidding has skipped from 100 guineas to 300 guineas. Curious termin- At Christie's you bid ology. in guineas, Sothebys in pounds.

just tradition,' 'It's says a reliable source. In fact, of course, they talk simply in terms of figures: •'What am I bid? One thousand, thousand five hundred, one two thousand' etc It's as if they're not—or can't be! talking about pounds. Lot 105 gave me the greatest anxiety. It was a Renoir oil painting of a bowl of flowers.

standing direct line of a very vigorous bidder. As the bids soared from £2,000 guineas to 30,000 guineas, the repeatedly auctioneer swept his eyes across the room and fixed me. with his gaze as if waiting for a counter-bid.

Knowing the sort of situ- ations that occur in Ealing Studio films I kept my hands firmly by side, almost my standing attention, and to tried not to blink or wink.

One had the feeling that if one rubbed the tickle on the end of one's nose the bidding would go screeching into the 50,000 gns mark. Eventually it for went £32,000—which was a fantastic relief because I don't carry such sums around with me.

myself When I'd gathered together I discovered that the purchaser had been Mr 1. Raymond Wilson, acting on behalf of Japanese interests.

This was not Mr Raymond's only coup, if that's what it is.

went on to purchase a painting by German expression- Emil Nolde for €58,000, ist Renoir another for £70,000 and £45,000 for a pastel by Picasso. The Japanese themselves weren't short of a bid. They carried off a Modigliani for 100,000 guineas, the best price of the day. Fifty minutes later, when almost £900,000 been exchanged for the had works of art, the Japanese market had captured some 75 per cent of what had been under the hammer. An American turned to his companion as they pushed out 'These goddam Japs the door, are everywhere' Why the sudden interest by the Japanese? The auction houses would have us believe that the oriental savages are discovering the superlative beauty of Western art. This is only part of the story.

The Japanese are making their formidable offensive in the art world purely on the basis of speculation. Many have cur- rency tied up in Britain and fear for they correctly the future value of the pound The One dealer told Japanese are a new phenomena in these markets. A year ago you would hardly have noticed them. But this year they are tending to dominate most of Left: now on the scene-Japance bidders. Above: the saleroom- brought the commodities are forward, the auctioneer presides.

Right: Edouard Manet's 21ł by 177 inch pastel which went for 45,000 gns. ail It's the important sales. bound up with the instability of currencies really.' We asked one of the Jap- anese buyers what he intended to do with his purchase. smiled engagingly and said he didn't know. One got the impression it more likely was to move directly to a vault in the City of London than the foyer of Corporation the Mitsui Yokohama. There is only one way that the great art works of the world can be saved from the hoarders and speculators. That is the socialist revolution. Then these works can be per- displayed for the manently enjoyment and education of everyone. This is one of the gains of the Russian Revolution 1917. Today in the Winter Palace in Leningrad can be seen the world's finest collec- tion of Impressionist paintings.

These were expropriated from the aristocracy and placed in the hands of the first workers' state.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday July 1 The third part of the state Vanguard (Trotskyist) of Gree The deviation towards the Popular Assembly 'Information Ouvrières' , the OCI paper, informs us that after Miranda's unsuccessful coup and the significant demonstrations successfully instigated by the POR in Jan- uary 1970, the Lora tendency was 'the only one' which put forward the slogan for the 'Popular Assembly' as a 'lever to accelerate the struggle for a workers' and peasants' gov- ernment, a line fully approved by 'Information Ouvrières'.

Why? 'In order to channel revolutionary action to this end through a concrete organ.'

But how? And why did the POR not think of channelling the revolutionary flood towards the concrete historical organ of Soviets? The revolutions of 1905 and 1917 showed us that the only road to the workers and peasants' government is the road that passes through the soviets. Bolshevik tactics are not opposed to the slogan • for a constituent assembly. With this democratic demand we may seek a rostrum from which to explain our programme for real structural changes in the regime, tor the conquest of wider democratic liberties, and for the overthrow of capital- ism. In parallel, we seek to destroy the illusions held by the masses in the constituent assembly, and about parliamen- tarism generally. But the slogan for the assembly for Bolsheviks, con- nected with our central slogan for a soviet system which • a higher expresses not only form of the tactic of the United Front, is also a sure instrument, concrete, and his- torically justified, for the con- quest of power, for a workers' and peasants' government; and after the conquest of power it is the best and most demo- cratic system for the construc- tion of the workers' state.

The theses outlined by Lenin • the question of the con- on stituent assembly state clearly: '2. In formulating the demand for the convention of the Constituent Assembly, the revolutionary social-democracy, right from the start of the 1917 Revolution emphasized repeatedly that the soviet democracy is a higher form of democracy than the usual bourgeois "democracy" with a Constituent Assembly. "3. For the transition from the bourgeois to the socialist regime, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the democracy of the soviets of workers' soliders' and peasants' deputies is not only a superior form of democratic institution (com- pared with the usual bourgeois democracy crowned with a Constituent Assembly) but also a unique form, able to secure the most painless transition to socialism.' The Trotskyists could have posed the slogan of the con- stituent assembly, demanding democratic rights and exposing day July 1, 1972 le statement by the Workers of Greece in this way the falsehood of the Torres regime. Torres, like most dictators, made endless promises of election and the restoration of 'democracy', but he had no intention of rein- bodies stating the legislative which the previous dictator, Ovando, had abolished. Indeed, he refused to convene the Popular Assembly. psuedo-demo- Even these cratic institutions of the bour- geoisie are irreconcilable with the dictatorship. In the end, it was forced to accept its con- vention for demagogic reasons, at a time when it was power- less to crush the movement in any other way. In Torres the end was forced to accept its conven- tion for demagogic reasons at a time when he was unable to resist the of the pressure masses. However, when he was convinced that Lechin's party would dominate the Assembly, he accepted it as an advisory body. He was quite willing to accept the muted criticism of type of the April 21 the regime of the Greek colonels.

Let them make speeches to let off steam', , he was advised by his ministers. But he wanted the Assembly to be no more than a forerunner of the legis- lative body that would be elected after the drawing up of a constitution. Similarly in Greece, Papadopoulos created the "small parliament, a harm- less advisory body where 3,000 people appointed vote on behalf of 9 million—a cor- porate body cast in the mould of the fascist state of Musso- lini or Franco. Thus the POR, together with all the other parties of betrayal, played a leading role in the setting up of the Assembly which was to be designated 'Popular', a name indistinguishable from the dog- • but mata of 'People's Power' something which has nothing in common with the soviets of workers, peasants and soldiers.

The opening of the Assembly was postponed for a few days in order to give Torrest a little more time to cover himself by whitewashing this dirty büild- ing. This incident was typical of the relationship between the Popular Assembly and the government. Kart Kautal Bolivian workers In L Indeed the party consistently advisory character ( ular Assembly and of the government. tactic was pursued Moscow Stalinists Moscow itself did n Popular Assembly t and openly does elsewhere, ist regime as it was followed the

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voting Lecl and by sident of the bly, demonstrated treacherous nature. The POR, perha Assembly, entered t of opportunis HOdO of the service 'People's Power'. Soviets and Con Assembly However the comra POR omitted their to put forward the work for soviets, to which to only had bu mines, Soviet embryonic mittees on a nationa finally, to work ou constitution. Instead of onto the ro: masses and 1917, they 1879. The relationsh bourgeois and attacking the Constituent for the against Bolivia placed on the debasing soviets. Consciously sciously there tion from our basi that 'soviet democr erally form the ferent class basis. The leaders of the also the leaders of section, did not analyse the ences, not only betw and a Constituent but also between this 'Popular Asser soviet type. Soviets are orga evolutionary waging a life-or-dea against capitalism umphant victory of tarian revolution, fo type of the com the Before he gade and a defend power sultuent power, synonymous • Paz during the n he party of Lechin defended the haracter of the Pop-. bly and the support the same pursued by the pro Stalinists, though self did not find the 'sembly to its liking, supported, as Bonapart- the as it was. The Mao. same line, Lechin as pre- the Popular Assem- their real co-existentialist R, perhaps without , in fighting for the of the Popular entered the slippery the pportunism, the institution of nd Constituent ed their basic duty the slogan of work for the coun tension of the com- rich to their credit, had built in this Crown Soviet organization ngress of the com- , national scale, and work out a soviet of directing • the road of 1905 pointed to relationship between proletarian lenin wrote, Kautsky's support soviets, a basis of of concept nsciously or uncon- was a renega- our basic principle democracy is gen- democratic (Lenin) and a dif- ers of the POR, and aders of the French attempt profound differ- only between soviets stituent Assembly etween soviets and ar Assembly of a of are organs the proletariat, fe-or-death struggle for the tri- ictory of the prole- lution, for power of the commune became a i defender of con- against soviet nymous with prole- ring the fighting in september, 1971 tarian dictatorship, Kautsky once wrote this: "Today, the organization ot soviets has behind it a great and glorious history. And it has in front of it an even greater one-and not only in Russia. Everywhere it is proven that faced with the gigantic disposal powers at the of finance capital, from the eco- nomic and political points of view, the previous methods of be economic and political struggle are inadequate. We cannot ignore them. They remain indispensable during calm times. From time to time, how- ever, there appear before us such tasks as do not. corre- spond to these, the success of which can be guaranteed only by the joining of the economic and political means of But Kautsky renegued. Like the Mensheviks in 1905, he rejected the soviets as instrument of seizing power and of the dictatorship of the proletariat. In opposition to the Mensheviks and opportun- ists of his time, Lenin pro- claimed the soviets to be the basic organs for the taking of power and maintaining it after triumph of the revolution.

The Stalinists, after Ther- midor, demolished the soviet of the USSR, and structure propounded the idea that in capitalist countries the the soviets could not and should not be created before the 12th hour of the uprising. By thus disorientating it from the dic- tatorship of the proletariat, destroyed the Chinese they Revolution. The Maoists, with the guer- rilla nature of their new (northward) movement, not only failed to establish soviets throughout China, as Trotsky observed, but threw the soviet theory out of their ideological arsenal after they had taken power. The Pabloites passea on to the worship of 'new types of revolution', to the Cuban, Algerian, etc. 'roads to social- ism' ', which bear no relation to any of the principles of the Permanent Revolution or sovietism. Now, as a continuation of Pablo's Chilean parliamentary road to socialism, there appears before us the vision of the Bolivian 'soviet-type' parlia- mentary road to socialism!

The POR has turned its back on the soviets with the deceitful concept of the 'Popu- lar Assembly' which was to be of 'a soviet type'. The com- rades of the POR inform us that the Popular Assembly was convened by the political which nucleus developed towards the end of 1970 as and organ of leadership an guidance of the General Strike.

A General Strike committee, with factory committees and 'committees of struggle' formed around it, can play the role of council-soviets. With their clear class nature, Trotsky saw in these committees a form of soviet. But he always stressed that these committees should be, had to be, committees of revolutionary struggle. At the foundation of the Communist International in 1919, Lenin wrote that the soviet form was an interna- tional conquest after the crea- tion of soviets in Germany _and the committees of mass proletarian struggle in England (the shop stewards' commit- tees). He proclaimed: 'The soviets are victorious around the world. They have won the sympathy of the workers.'

What happened in Bolivia?

The General Strike committee could have created throughout the country a wide network of committees. These strike should have taken up the democratic and economic demands of the masses, oppos- ing the conspiracies of the right wing and the Torres dic- orientating tatorship, them towards the conquest of power by the workers and peasants.

In preference to this soviet road, the Bolivian Trotskyists attempted to sovietize the and thus Popular Assembly, entered in essence a 'new road to revolution'. • The Pabloites claimed to have discovered a 'new type leadership 'which is unlike the others'. They boasted that they had enriched the theory of Permanent Revolution; in fact they had shamelessly distorted it. Similarly the leaders of the and of

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'Information Ouvrières'-OCI claim the dis- covery of a new organ for the conquest of power, the 'Popu- lar Assembly of a soviet type' Why this distortion of the soviet theory? Why were they drawn to the parliament- assembly? Why, instead of of building soviets, did they try ary to frame a constitution, with which 'the Popular Assembly would deepen • its roots in the Committees'? Why the attempt to create a new, Bolivian-type of revo- lution, in place of the proven October? The Lechin tendency, the Stalinists and the 'Catholic Revolutionaries' dressed up the Torres regime with the cloak of parliamentarism. But what of the POR?

CONTINUED TOMORROW

The currency crisis trig gered by the Tory de- cision to float the f will have far-reaching consequences for the American economy. On the eve of the 1972 elections, presidential the economy has rarely been in worse shape. Unemployment went up again last month to 5;092,000 and business activity reflected in the index of commodity production continued to fall.

The floating of the f has not only plunged US businessmen into a fog of uncertainty, but it has also wiped away any gained America advantage from last December's Smith- sonian agreement which effec- tively devalued the dollar by 12 per cent against gold.

US exports again dis- are advantaged and this month's balance of trade recorded the fourth largest deficit ever, with losses running at over $500m.

The balance of payments figures are unlikely to be good, given the high cost of waging the Vietnam war by air and sea and bolstering up imperial- ism just about everywhere South America through from Bangla Desh to Israel and the Lebanon. In one week commencing June 18 the number of business failures rose by around 15 per cent and as the currency crisis broke, Wall Street share prices slumped.

banks, Last week more including San Francisco's giant Bank of America, put up their interest rates from 5 per cent to 54 per cent—this is the rate charged on short-term loans to big business. Industrial production was down last month, so were freight-car loadings. Produc- tion of oil, steel and autos also slumped America's machine-tool in- dustry is described as 'severely depressed' and although there was a marginal rise in orders last month, makers say there is no prospect of an increase in their labour forces. The unrelieved picture of the slide into slump finds another expression on the prices front where inflation has now reached critical levels.

On June 26 President Nixon lifted all quota restrictions on meat imports in a bid to curb inflation and further measures to, curb food prices are prom- ised-a sharp reversal of the Top: American car workers on the assembly line. Above: Nixon with the head of the American equivalent of the TUC, George Meany administration's policy last year. The problem of meat prices has been aggravated by US producers holding supplies off the market speculating on a further rise in retail prices.

American National The Cattlemen's Association | in immediately con- Denver demned Nixon's move wel- by beef - producing comed countries. Officials of the Nixon ad- ministration are about to have talks with their Tory counter- parts on the whole question of price and wage controls. The administration is con- sidering bringing a whole range of agricultural products under 'price discipline, but it is recognized that the real prob- lem is to increase supplies.

Scrapping import quotas is unlikely to have much effect on the price index and even if it had, given the weak position of the $, the result can only be to tilt the balance of trade further into the red. state of the The serious economy is forcing Nixon to clamp down more and more heavily on wage rises through Pay Board the national abandoned by AFL-CIO (TUC) leader George Meany and other union representatives earlier this year. The wage squeeze, plant closures and unemployment have produced a hefty anti- Nixon reaction among the American working class. Dockers, hotel and restaur- workers, butchers, car ant workers, transport crews, con- struction men and aero-space workers are simmering , with discontent over wage cuts and lay-offs and strikes and pro- tests are mounting. While union leaders like Meany refuse to mobilize the working class to bring down the Nixon administration, de- mands for a new American labour party are gathering momentum. The ball was set rolling last week when Minneapolis Cen- tral Labour Union Council pledged to try to build a Labour Party this year. Thousands of American farmers are being driven off their lands and forced to sell their farms to property speculators be- cause of the crippling inheritance taxes im- posed by the Inland Revenue Service. The taxes are assessed at what the farmland could be sold for, rather than its value as agricultural land. In the last ten years, the value of agricultural lands in large areas of the US within reach of the main cities has land risen enormously as speculators have bought every available piece of property.

However, the value of land for farming purposes remained the same as it was ten years ago. The Revenue Service insists on assessing all farm land at the 'price at which property would change hands between a willing seller and a willing buyer' Inheritance taxes run as high as 25 per cent of the property's assessed value, and since land prices for development can be • times the land's up to ten worth for agricultural purposes, many farmers are forced to sell to speculators simply to pay the tax. The big property interests in the have a strong lobby House of Representatives to see that the law on inheritance taxes is not changed. They stand to make millions of dollars a year out of these forced sales. Workers Press Harold Wilson's choice of economic advisers provides a searching insight into the party's politics. Last Tuesday Lord Balogh put the writing about the present currency crisis as firmly on the wall as any Tory peer. He told the Tory 'Evening Standard': 'What next? With economy still depressed the under a weight of unemploy- ment the (downward) floating of the pound might at least be expected to set off some degree Lord Thomas Balogh of export led expansion, 'If we succeed in this, our difficulties might yet be alle- viat 'd. But it won't be enough.

Only if wage-demands are only if the vicious curbed, circle of wage/price escalation is broken, will we be able to breathe freely. There is the rub.' The Labour government tried to break the unions with its industrial relations legislation, guided by Lord doubtless Balogh. But they foundered on the determination of the work- ing class to fight back. The Tories look like going the same way, and Balogh notes: 'While a few of the old con- servative Liberals still advocate the breaking-up of union outlawing though power, "monopoly" altogether, no Conservative government, whether French American or British, has yet done it.'

Balogh sees only too well ruling that the class and possibly their reformist lackeys in the Labour Party must take on and try to defeat the work- ing class if British capitalism is to survive. But he draws back from the brink of outright war between them. His answer is collaboration -just as it is the Tory answer.

He told the Standard: "The Industrial Relations cers Press, Saturday July 1, 1972 PAGE 9 Act may well have its merits, but it cannot hope to super- sede the changes in the func- tioning of the economy result- ing from the vast increases in market power on both sides of industry. Both the cooling-off period and the ballot are (and have been seen to be) wholly irrelevant from the point of view of Britain's survival as a competitive trading nation.'

is required? What, then, Lord Balogh explains: 'Only if the government changes its basic philosophy on incomes and social services, if it goes back on its industrial policy and heeds Mr Feather's advice to put the IRC on ice anywhere, could we hope for a ceasefire from Messrs Scanlon and Jones on this vital front.'

But he himself senses that the time for collaboration between the union leaders and the Tory government may be and he concludes passed gloomily: 'There is little sign that the cumulative evidence of all but three decades has penetrated either side. An early end to the inflationary spiral, there- anticipated fore, cannot be Consequently social malaise is The point Lord Balogh misses is that the only lesson either side can learn as the world crisis intensifies is that both are, very firmly on dif- ferent sides. The price paid by capitalism for the death of workers is invariably small. And so it was with Rolls-Royce last week when Derby magistrates found they had failed to ensure a worker wore the correct breathing apparatus. The worker died after enter- ing a retort and being over- come by the gas argon, the court was told. The company pleaded guilty to contravening the Factories Act 1961. The court was told that Mr Harold Blurton was asked to clean out the retort in the metal heat treatment depart- ment. A foreman went to fetch safety equipment but was de- layed by a telephone call. In the meantime, Mr Blurton climbed inside and was over- come and killed by the gas.

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But it will do other things too.

It will bring the working class closer together and in a united way to fight back. I agree, re-call the TUC, but will those at the top take notice? I think there is a lot of phoney fighters around, including some shop stewards.

I really feel worried about the developments taking place, as I have nine children and my basic wage is £20 for 40 hours. I have to take the overtime to live, but the future of the steel industry seems pretty bleak. I worry for my kids' future. I like the idea of the Councils of Action. Let me have any pamphlets it for me to read. on When Ernie Roberts, assist- ant general secretary of the AUEW, claimed engineers had forced the Tories hand along- side dockers, miners and railwaymen, he was greeted by roars of: What about the national claim?' After the meeting, two AUEW stewards at Sealed Beans, Brian Bird and Freddy Iden Wonder crisps factory in Corby who se the Tory rents BIll. SHEILA AND CHRIS. Two 25- year-old housewives whose hus- bands work in the steel industry.

They have three and two children each respectively. Both de part- time work to make up the money.

For working four evenings and all day Sunday they get approxi- mately £5 a week. And that's what the rent is! 'We need nursery schools for the four-year-olds and at the other end the 16-year-olds are leaving school and there are no jobs for them to go to. What with no jobs and very little to do they get into trouble. Either there's the Bowl for them or the pubs and the youth turn to drinking very young. This could be a pleasant town if jobs were facilities available, more youth and, of course, lower rents. All there is are plenty of pubs and churches.' Chris said: I support the dockers in wanting to strike. You've got to fight for your right to work and decent wages.'

Sheila said: 'The Tories try to work things out for themselves and try to keep the working class ignorant of politics. Some- you wonder about the times unions, they go back on their word and won't fight through to the end to win.' Hope told Workers Press about their disappointment with the proceedings: It's fine to talk, but what about some action? Look, we should have had a General Strike to bring down the Tories over the Industrial Relations Act, and it is the only way to proceed now. This government is opposed in every quarter over their policies, said Brian. 'Even if the council refused to operate this Bill they would send the Commissioners in' We also interviewed a num- ber of the Corby workers who joined the march held last Monday through the town. of their Some views are printed below: JOAN LOVELT is a bus con- ductress for the United Services Bus Company in Corby: I'm a Londoner born and bred, but we had to move to Corby two years ago because we couldn't afford to live in London any more. The prices you pay down there we couldn't find a decent place to live.

But Corby is no better. My husband lost his job. On nights he was only bringing home £18 He worked in ERW anyway. Tubes. But the steel's beginning to close down in Corby. He's gone back to London now.

I can earn more than he did on the buses. I suppose I was lucky because I'd been on London Transport for five years, so I got a job when I came here. But even that's in the balance now with the introduction of those one-man buses. I pay £8 to £9 tax a week.

And then everything I buy is taxed. Where does all this tax go to? I'll tell you, it goes to keep these factory owners and hangers-on in idleness. They must be really laughing at us. We work all our lives to keep them rich.

And now the rents are going up. Mine should be reduced— not put up—with my husband gone. I tell you, lots of people are going to be evicted. It stands to reason. If they don't earn the money, they can't pay, can they? You wouldn't mind paying all this tax and rent out if you got something back for it, if the council did something. But look at Corby! What has the Labour council done here? There's not hospital! (Corby's popu- even a lation is 55,000.) The only places in Corby to go to are pubs, bingo halls and two cinemas, and one miserable bowling alley. What can youth do here? We haven't got an open-air swimming, pool.

We no ice-rinks. There's no- have thing for them. The idea of a new town is to build a better life. Better life?

At least if there were amusement arcades and coffee-bars they'd have somewhere to go and some- to do. But they are left thing on their own. There's no family life these days. Both parents work to make have to go to No wonder there's ends meet. so much vandalism on this estate.

The Labour council gives us nothing. I used to be all for Labour, but now I have turned against rich them. They keep these people hanging on too. And it's a desperate situation under the Tories. We should have a General Strike. There should be a com- munist government—not like the Russian one a proper one, a proper socialist government. They'd have my support! They wouldn't be afraid to get rid of these hangers-on and give us the wealth we work for all our lives.

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DRIVING through the economy since the Torles took office has been mass unemployment.

This is a table of major jobs cutbacks since the beginning of the year:

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BSC, Newport 1,120 Alfred Herbert, Altrincham 1,025 Port of London Authority 2,000 600 Coats Patons, Bolton GEC/Marconi, Chelmsford 1,105 and Wembley

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Ransome, Hoffman Pollard, Newark and Chelmsford 1,475 Triang, Merton 1,500 Wiggins Teape, 500 Clackmannan Metro-Cammell, 300 Birmingham Clark Chapman/John 470 Thompson, Glasgow

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Their action-involving 500was started following management's announcement to shut down the plant. Redundancies are due to start next month. BUILDING workers at the £30m Amoco oil refinery site near Mil- ford Haven, South Wales, have been sacked for staging a one- day strike in support of a 25p-an- hour, cost-of-living rise. And 140 of the 350 sacked men claim they have also been thrown out of their hostel on the site. Many say they have to sleep in parked cars or in the open because there is a shortage of accommodation in the area.

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rday July 1, 1972 THE GOVERNMENT is to tie further financial support for shipbuilding on the Upper Clyde to new orders and increased productivity in the shipyard. This policy was announced yesterday by Trade Secretary John Davies in Glasgow. He warned that Govan Ship- builders, which begins trading in the Govan-Linthouse and Scots- toun divisions of UCS today, would face, "big, big problems' due to the depression in ship- building. The minister revealed that the condition for further government aid depended on workers and upholding management new agreements to reduce so-called restrictive working practices and increasing productivity in the yards, and getting new orders on terms acceptable to the govern- ment. WALSALL, Friday By DAVID MAUDE Our WORKERS at Stainless Tubes their jobs through closure, sh at the factory have formed a j decision, announced on Thursd every district will be mobilized Into Councils of Action to make this government resign. Our cir- culation must constanly be in- creased. We must reach out into areas and win fresh readers wherever we go. We cannot thank you enough for your magnificent effort-but we would like to make one last appeal. Next month we face a tough time with a number of our supporters away at our Summer Camp and on holiday. We would like to raise our target early, If possible by July 22. Help us therefore with an early start. Any more donations, post them to : Workers Press July Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London, SW4 7UG. 111\

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Govan Shipbuilders will start trading with no confirmed orders.

But two ships will be started in the yards in anticipation of win- ning two out of six contracts now under negotiation. redundancies-Davies would give no assurances.

Of Govan Shipbuilders he said: 'It would be right to say that the whole question of the work- force is a matter of direct dis- between cussion management and unions. I think it would be inadvisable at this stage to make any bold statement.' his After announcement, Archibald Gilchrist, managing director of the new company, said if the two orders were con- firmed immediate an major AUDE Our Industrial Correspondent s Tubes in Walsall, Staffs, will refus ure, shop stewards have declared. St med a joint committee to act over t Thursday. Alan Colpitts, 37-year-old works convenor for the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers, said: "This is not just our fight, it is a town issue.

This firm is the largest single employer at Walsall, and we could be facing an Upper Clyde situation here. We shal! involve MPs and councillors in our fight and we intend to stop here even after they have finished paying us.'

If the 1,400 men and women threatened are forced out of the factory they'll join 4,800 people without work in the area.

Closure of the relatively mod- ern factory at Green Lane would increase the local jobless per centage-now 4.7 per cent-by almost a third. Thursday's closure announce- ment from Tube Investments, who own the factory, came as a 'complete shock' to convenor Colpitts. And Stan Griffiths, district sec- retary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, told Workers Press from his Wolver-.

hampton office yesterday: 'We had been expecting a run- down of one department for some time, but there was never anything like any mention of this. This was a total surprise?

The first thing union officials would want to know when they met the company on the issue was: Why? He claimed the com- pany's circular did not explain anything. Tube Investments says the main reason for its decision was the world economic recession over-capacity in manufacturing facilities globally and depressed selling prices in world markets.

In other words, Green Lane is a clear victim of the trade war.

But Stan Griffiths, whose union is the biggest single organization in the plant, says he would think it unlikely that the company has no future plans for the factory.

Tube Investments is among the 30 biggest companies in Britain ranked by turnover. almost 70,000 workers With nationally, the £273m company has been marginally increasing its return on capital in recent years.

But the huge decline in world demand and massive pressure on redundancy could be avoided.

The Minister also hinted that there would be redundancies at the Clydebank yard. It has always been implicit in a major re-build of Clydebank that there would be some dis- location of employment,' he said.

UCS liquidator Robert Court- ney-Smith said the position at Clydebank would be clear after the yard holidays in three weeks' time. The format transfer of Clyde- bank to the Texan oil rig build- ers, Marathon Manufacturing, is expected at the end of July and Govan Shipbuilders will take for- mal control of their three divi- sions in mid-September. Yesterday's announcement does ill refuse to accept the loss of ared. Staff and manual workers t over the management closure world selling prices decided its directors on harsh measures.

Three years ago local facilities for making stainless steel tubes were concentrated at Green Lane, and last year a £1.6m depart- ment for making long-length tubes primarily for the nuclear industry was energy commis- sioned. Only two orders have come in for this, however. The last will be finished in six to eight weeks' time with nothing to follow. Some welded steel production and other work will continue for : While. a Redundancies will hit 950 manual workers and 500 staff.

ASTMS has 250 members at Green Lane who meet today and will demand their redeployment to other factories. 'We intend to keep out mem- bers employment', says ASTMS divisional officer Don Groves. The AUEW district committee will meet on Monday night to consider its plan of campaign.

STOCKPORT council's Labour group in Cheshire has been fiercely attacked by Tory councillors for a decision to defy the government's 'fair rents' Bill.

Tory Said leader Ald group Walter Knight: "To oppose the law of the country is anarchy or révolution.'

ALL TRADES UN

ALLIANCE MEEl The currency crisis and the working class CROYDON: Monday July 3, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe DAGENHAM: Tuesday July 4, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue, Barking.

SOUTH WEST LONDON:

Tuesday July 4, 8 p.m. Clap- ham • Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. EASTLEIGH: Tuesday July 4, 7.30 p.m. The buffet room, Town Hall. LEICESTER: Wednesday July 5, 8 p.m. Queen's Hotel, Rut- Trade Secretary Davies little to lift the threat of redun- dancies at UCS. The order posi- tion at Govan Shipbuilders is particularly bad. Gilchrist has gone un record stating that he wanted to begin production with at least a year's work in hand. In fact he starts with no confirmed orders and only two good prospects. And at Clydebank major redundancies seem certain after Marathon's announcement that they will only need an initial labour force of 137 men. THE STRIKE of 70 tool- makers at Smith's Industries, Cricklewood, is now in its 14th week. "Things are pretty stagnant at the moment,' a strike committee member "They are not said. making any offers and we are not budging!' This dispute is over a domestic claim for £6 plus the national engineers' claim for £6 and have 35-hour week. Stewards said they would be prepared to negotiate on £8 plus the reduc- tion in hours. 'We have refused to accept their latest offer which they say is about £5.40, but not everybody would have got that much. The guaranteed increase average would have been about £3.40 to £3.90, and there were loads of attached. One was that strings we accept redundancies. Another was that we would have to use our own tools. So we told them we were not interested' The strikers were a little bitter at the fact that trade unionists in other sections had agreed to use tools brought in from other firms outside. They consider these tools to be 'black'. Management has managed to resume five-day working. The Smith's strikers are still receiving money from a weekly levy imposed on AUEW mem- throughout the North bers although London district, questions are beginning to be asked about how long it is going to go on. 'The district have decided to support us as the spearhead of the national claim in this area as wins up to the others to help said a picket. 'Morale is high on the picket line, but we are really looking for some new tactical move beip us make a break-through, to

S UNIONS

MEETINGS

land St. "Build Councils of Action'. July Tottenham High Rd, (nr White Hart Lane).

LUTON:

Thursday July 6, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Brigade Hall, Lea Road. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs- day July 6, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opposite New Cross Stn).

ACTON:

Monday July 10, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Rd.

EAST LONDON: Tuesday July 11, 8 p.m. 'Aberfeldy', Aber- feldy Street, E.14. (nr Black- wall Tunnel).