Workers Press no. 807

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS STERLING lurches downwards on the world's exchanges and the crisis in the monetary system deepens, Tory MP Enoch Powell returns to his insidious attacks on immigrant workers and their families. This right-wing poison is reminiscent of the series of speeches he made in 1968 after the pound entered the decisive period of its decline. Powell's outburst, therefore is, a direct reflection of the new stage of the crisis in British capitalism. It is an expression of the desperation in Tory circles sort of ultra- to rally some nationalist, right-wing grouping.

He senses correctly that the devaluation pound and the undermining of the dollar will lead to an enormous growth in unemployment and the shutdown of whole sections of out-of-date industry. And his orientation today is to the backward sections of lower- paid workers and the middle class. Recently he appeared in Ulster on a Vanguard platform, which only a few weeks before being shared with the was National Front. And his anti- Common Market speeches also cities

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towns and to become were going the 'ghettos of Europe, regarded by other nations with astonishment and revulsion', Enoch Powell said on Saturady night to a meeting of Islington Tories in London.

The ghettos will be peopled by the ever-growing coloured popu- lation. "The tide flows ever forward,' he added. Here of Powell's are some other 'theories. When I see rich man I give thanks to God,' 'Sun' in 1965. he told the The council housing scheme 'is immoral and socially damaging' and the 'two great evils are rent control and subsidy'. There is nothing impracticable denationalizing about nationalized industries. All of them.' And finally a poem by the man himself: 'I hate the ugly, hate the old I hate the lame and weak But most of all I hate the dead Who lie so still on their earthen bed And never dare to rise.'

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find week-the 'Daily Mail' great in these and the support 'Scotsman'-Hitler and his 'solu- extreme right-wing quarters. tions' to the 1930s economic Powell his As making Was resurrected. And crisis were attack on immigrants to Islington yesterday *Observer, in the Tories, the Monday Club national feature writer William Guttman conference was carrying a unani- returned to the same theme.

resolution urging their government to start an immediate of of programme repatriation Resentment immigrants. Powell and his proteges can again and be expected to return again to these racially-loaded Referring to the roaring policies in the coming months. inflation of the early 1920's, Guttman concluded: In that sense this is no different the to sort of language which Many of my fellow students, Germany erupted in during the who, together with their parents days of the Weimar republic had become victims of inflation, when economic depression swept to Nazism turned in their re- the capitalist world. sentment against the Weimar major newspapers last Republic. It was the In two disgruntled

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Josirs: 10 JLY 3, 1972 • No. 807 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ALL MEMBERS of the Socialist Labour League, the Young Socialists and readers of the Workers Press should be justi- fiably proud of the record success of our June Fund.

The target of £1,750 was ex- ceded by £436.30, which brought the Fund to the grand total of £2,186.30. What was most striking about the final figure was that we re- ceived the largest donations during the last days of the month, when the devaluation of sterling had sparked off a world monetary crisis. This is a good example of the political impact of the Workers Press, which alone explained devaluation as part of the world crisis of the capitalist system.

As every reader knows the Fund is only a part of the work which is being steadily carried out in the areas. Over the past week the Scot- tish region Right-to-Work march has been a great success and the North West region's march got off to a splendid start has (see below and p. 12). In all the Industrial Young areas Socialists are in the forefront of the fight against the Tory govern- ment. The transformation of the Left' youth paper 'Keep from monthly into a weekly publication has been achieved without difficulty of inflation and their slightest either editor- victims financially. sons and daughters who formed ally Each week the cadres of the Hitler regime' sees the sales steadily climbing.

These Important achieve- Economic devastation on ments which should be borne in much bigger threatens scale for mind during our campaign today. the July Fund. That is why the Right-to-Work This is the peak of the holiday Young marches which the and traditionally a season Socialists are conducting through- difficult time for raising money. out the country assume such We at propose to start once. mobilizing great importance in Please let us have all donations the working class to strike at its can so that as early as you we enemy— -the Tory main govern- well the by the are on way and its backers in banks ment middle of the month. and industry. Send all donations to: And that is also why the Socialist Labour League is en- Workers Press July Appeal Fund, the of gaged in transformation High 186a Clapham Street, the Socialist Labour League into London SW4 7UG. this a revolutionary party later year.

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The North West region of the Young Socialists began their week-long Riaht-to- Work march from Manchester to Liverpool on Saturday with an immediate response in the working class E50 collection in local factories. See fuller report on p.

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workers press

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AS STERLING lurches downwards the on world's exchanges and the crisis in the monetary system deepens, Tory MP Enoch Powell returns to his insidious attacks on immigrant workers and their families. This right-wing poison is reminiscent of the series of speeches he made in 1968 after the pound entered the decisive period of its decline. Powell's outburst, therefore is, a direct reilection of the new stage of the crisis in British capitalism. It is an expression of the desperation in Tory circles rally of ultra- to some sort nationalist, right-wing grouping.

He senses correctly that the pound devaluation and undermining of the dollar will lead to an enormous growth in unemployment and the shutdown of whole sections of out-of-date industry. And his orientation today is to the backward sections of lower- paid workers and the middle class. Recently he appeared in Ulster on a Vanguard platform, which only a few weeks before was being shared with the National Front. And his anti- Common . Market speeches also BRITAIN'S towns and cities going become to the were 'ghettos of Europe, regarded by other nations with astonishment and revulsion', Enoch Powell said on Saturady night to a meeting of Islington Tories in London.

The ghettos will be peopled by the ever-growing coloured popu- The tide lation. flows ever forward,' he added. Here of Powell's are some other 'theories'. 'When I see rich man I give thanks to God, 'Sun' in 1965. he told the The council housing scheme is immoral and socially damaging' and the 'two great evils are rent control and subsidy'. 'There is nothing impracticable denationalizing about our nationalized industries. All of them.' And finally a poem by the man himself: I hate the ugly, hate the old I hate the lame and weak But most of all I hate the dead Who lie so still on their earthen bed And never dare to rise.'

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find great support in these week-the 'Daily Mail' and the 'Scotsman'-Hitler and his 'solu- extreme right-wing quarters. tions' the to 1930s economic As Powell making his crisis were resurrected. And attack on immigrants to Islington the 'Observer', yesterday in Tories, the Monday Club national writer William Guttman reature conference was carrying a unani- returned to the same theme.

mous • resolution urging their government to start an immediate of of programme repatriation Resentment immigrants. Powell and his proteges can be expected to return again and these Referring the again to racially-loaded to roaring policies in the coming months.

inflation of the 1920's, early Guttman concluded: In that sense this is no different the of sort language which 'Many of fellow students, my erupted in Germany during the who, together parents with their Weimar days of the republic had become of inflation, victims when economic depression swept turned Nazism in their re- the capitalist world. against the Weimar In two major newspapers last Republic. It was the disgruntled 1 7+3 JLY 3, 1972 • No. 807 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ALL MEMBERS of the Soclalist Labour League, the Young Socialists and readers of the Workers Press should be justi- Mably of the proud record of our June Fund. The target of £1,750 was ex- ceded by £436.30, which brought the Fund to the grand total of {2,186.30. What was most striking about the final figure was that we re- ceived the largest donations during the last days of the month, when the devaluation of sterling had sparked off a world monetary crisis. This is a good example of the political Impact of the Workers Press, which alone explained devaluation as part of the world crisis of the capitalist system.

As every reader knows the Fund is only a part of the work which is being steadily carried out in the areas. Over the past week the Scot- Right-to-Work tish region march been a great success and has the North West region's march has got off to a splendid start (see below and p. 12). In all the Industrial areas the Young Socialists are In the forefront of the fight against the Tory govern.

ment. The transformation of the 'Keep youth paper Left' from monthly Into a weekly publication has been achleved without the slightest difficulty elther editor- victims of inflation and their who formed ally or financially. Each sons and daughters week the cadres of the Hitler regime.

sees the sales steadily climbing.

These are important achieve Economic devastation ments which should be borne in threatens much bigger scale mind during our campaign for today. the July Fund. That is why the Right-to-Work This Is the peak of the holiday Young which the marches and traditionally Socialists are conducting through- difflcult time for ralsing money.

the out country assume propose to start at once. mobilizing great importance Please let us have all donations the working class to strike at its as early as you can so that we Tory main enemy-the govern- are well on the way by the ment and its backers in banks middle of the month. and industry. Send all donations to: And that the also why 18 Socialist Labour League is en- Workers Press July Appeal Fund, the of Clapham gaged in transformation High Street, 186a the Socialist Labour League into London SW4 7UG. revolutionary party later this year. Second Right-to-Work march The North West of the Young region Socialists began their week-long Right-to- Work march from Manchester to Liverpool on Saturday with an immediate response in the working class—a £50 collection in See fuller report on p. 12.

local factories.

Bombs won't stop us-Hanoi

ULSTER: BITTER AFTERMATH OF BETRAYAL

Building strike goes into second phase PAGE 2 Workars Prose, Monday July 3, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

HANOI'S official daily, country President Nixon has ordered 'Nhan Dan', said at the unitary oressure weekend that President force Hanoi to make a settlement cease fire when the Hué Saigon Nixon was reviving Presi- shelled troops vinces, shooting down seven air- as July The I coulc UnLO

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dent Johnson's 'war of Paris decision return Tone big counter-offensive. An armoured cars and capturing conference was based on recent Loc, 56 miles from Siagon, was of equipment. destruction' and claimed with Moscow contacts also shelled. Pathet Lao claims to nave which have that the Vietnamization that B52 bombers US

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early boln want an end navad or the pounded the area northern Laos during a ground policy was already bank- naval South Vietnamese operation by puppet forces. Wal. rupt.

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seeking to re-take Quang Thai

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corporation has advance government nas beer US stepping up It maintained that the nextered ov protested appeared have pulled its Tokyo against the use of its bombing offensive 'definitely hilly to evade TV equipment in planes country territory nearly cannot stop the struggle of bombs drive monitor the pinpoint bombing. launcu Massive aralilsl in the Vietnamese people. Com- Desnite claims that the North constainist omensuas relied user is running short of rockets and north east of the country. Defence Department munications and transport shells of the block- Thailand has now become the man claimed that sets result are as good as ever, and the South- of the planes' it is still able to hit back part doc. Hall Dowel, bast

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fight continues. spectacular electronical voided had big successes in airfields. And to forces build-up of bases, The were selected because of nave US now has 750 planes in the artillery rockets Quang Tri and Thua Thien pro.

ATURDAY'S 'Morning Star' editoria of a devalued pound and the povert began: and unemploynient in Scotlan unblushingly The governmen announcement of financial support for That is why we have nothing but Govan Shipbuilders Ltd puts the seal of victory on the campaign for the right stand when described to work waged by the UCS workers.'

Davies statement as 'a statesmanlike Believe this rubbish and you'll be lieve anything! As the Workers Pres And we have nothing but contempt has stated on occasions and many as UCS workers know-the Stalin- most for this reactionary government by this ists' claims of victory are entirely fanci- Tory because government ful the The 'Star's' say indeed struck a new low in the Stalin- ren cance never, at any stage, intended to close doubt explicable. Only much is ist art of peaceful-co-existence: no down the Govan yards permanently.

two weeks ago they featured a three- column picture of Airlie at the London: As even the 'Star' was forced to have lived up to their responsibility for report: 'Mr John Davies recalled in a CP rally seated under a large banner Commons reply that on Feb- in the upper reaches of 'Sack the Tories'! ('Star' written June the Clyde and also for the community ruary 28 he had said that backing for 13, 1972.) the firm would be provided on certain ences we have had in the past, we have How conditions. These conditions- -an agree- to say the government has taken the ment on working practices acceptable the met." Instead the 'Star' tries to justify government- -had been (July 1, 1972, 'Star'.) the

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sell-out Witn from the CP Congress. states: The main objective of the work-in The situation is not without irony.

'Direct action of various kinds is the

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prevent redundancies in was to While Airlie was praising Davies' most important means of democratic and secure the operation all four OI struggle at the moment-operative yards as one unit. These aims have been [sic] involving democracv consciously betrayed by the Stalinist as a whole, people in industrial and political leadership at UCS and the orıginal was confessing his own bankruptcy bj Will create conditions plans of Ridley and Davięs to hive off acuivity-willch for a government crisis and a General Clydebank and introduce rationaliza- Scotland was 'horrifying and unaccept- Election.' been and reetnancese nor We prefer to believe Davies.

challenged by the two leading Stalinists Airlie's statement and the 'Star's attempts to conceal it is eloquent proof James Reid and James Airlie.

Despite all the ballyhoo about 'vic- rectly remarked that this was 'one of that the 'operative democracy' of the tory, there is no victory for the 2,300 comments passed Stalinists is nothing more than an at- the Warnest AVer Clydebank by a communist Conservative of who have not tempt revive the rotting corpse workers at To been guaranteed their jobs and are left government'. The 'Morning Star', of the 'Popular Front' and prevent the did not report Airlie's remarks working class from in a state of insecuritv and uncertaintv.

tearing down the It is a victory for the government in full. It cryptically reported that he "The said: government had taken a pledged and the exan milionaires who want government to make as much profit as they can out correct decision. socialist policies.

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Tory Ulster Catholic has the "The drums must be beaten. workers are opposed to barri.

William supremo remained quiet and even the But limits are known and and violence and wy hite am _The Bogside barricades have con- there no sign that any switch to a hot war with West- end, tinued to come them want go beyond the minster down. to would not only brin! The inabilitv of either wing of the rotestant be " token putung «needs wien fast and road blocks ten IRA to defeat imperialism has down strictly weekend the British army, but would also divide other northern towns left him discredited them in the barricades. their supporters. eyes unmoved. of their followers and leit All the huff and puff of the Pro- Both the IRA and the Protestants So exchanges Lettin Street others testant leaders is calculated to ala the Then tearing are really vying with imperial- between Kevin and throats. ism for amounts pressure Gardiner Place which ended in But his 'peace initiative, Nhitelaw agency rights in Ulster. the reformist leaders from the IkA Pro based on LP, Any move from right force coupe be met with the between of the SDIP However visionastar tricuoni counties are themselves and the

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ground Whitelaw knows he ultimately administered, the Officials could deteriorate into expect amount of Tory border, unemployment and must certain review Su• sidies to Ulster industry which 'physical' clashes. the drum oculallallolli Ichainas would make them as vulner- All this and the sporadic shoot- Protestants. Mark …The betrayals or the able as many Catholics. leaders of both sides, the bank- of troops and And if they are to maintain con- Saturday morn of their people, URD and their reformist top of that, they share with ruptcy Vanguard 'the Craig's policies and the scaves peace necess tvo intact. Movement know very well that a large number of Protestant a revolutionary party.

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6,000 building will strike today the campaign for the national £1,000-a-bedroom atives of all the jobs which have something of a living We Union 35-hour week claim of a £30, grant. The leaderships of the been callea out ana stewards wno enters its second phase. The second six to have helped picket them. Construction, Allied Trades today London include another The official strikes in the and Technicians the and 1rans In the first week of the industry, live hotels the the first for ten Workers cental alca. 6000 were stee campan _Covent response however, have no inten- the other site is the new were caned 6,000 workers came out on Garden wholesale market enormous rank-and-file pressure the sites all over Britain. Vauxhall, where 600 have already for a decent basic wage. workers six sites already out Ut th vote• to suike catsmen nave there is aso crowing •isomer a basic of only f20 for 40 hours region, From among electricians at the attitude new n une concor TOlE this Week them are hotels where the ordinating committee of unions and labourers £17. The outcome of EPTU leadership towards owners have to finish the build- begin meeting in London. will is that most have work the long Lu ings by next March to claim While another 6,000 of represent- up join the composed over me periods make THE SMITH regime has in- tensified its drive against the African National Council following the breakdown of negotiations with Britain.

The ANC claims that 40 of its members had been arrested at Mtoko, 100 miles north east of Salisbury. The government admits that there have been 13 arrests.

Last week six ANC officials were detained. Ian Smith said in an interview that he would not return to the negotiating table even if Africans reversed their 'No' vote to the proposals agreed on last Novem- ber with Britain. He made a strong attack on Lord Goodman who had acted the British government's as negotiator. He described as 'stupid' Good- man's that miracles statement could be achieved by just talk- ing to Africans. I go around regularly talking to Africans' said Smith. 'I have lived all my life in Rhodesia with Africans and have always treated them as human beings.'

Of course the white minority could not get along without African workers and domestics and they have to talk to them occasionally-mostly to give orders. The United States is continu- ing to import Rhodesian nickel despite sanctions. ship- Three imported through ments were Baltimore in April and May. Chrome ore is also being allowed to enter the US together with other Rhodesian minerals since January 1 this year. NINETEEN TUPAMAROS guer- rillas in northern Uruguay have been arrested by security forces, including a Roman Catholic priest. There are now 849 Tupa- maros under arrest. ITALIAN newspaper proprietors are refusing to employ journalists on Sunday and have sparked off a bitter dispute with printers and journalists. There will be no papers again today and the unions have called for an in-.

tensification of the strikes.

VATICAN has recognized the Oder-Niesse line—the frontier between Poland and Germany established after the war.

This follows the agreements concluded West Germany between and Poland and the Soviet Union.

The recognition takes the form of the appointment of Polish bishops to former German ter- ritory now incorporated in Poland. The West German Christian Democrat opposition regretted the church's step and claimed Polish that the frontier could only finally be fixed in a peace was welcomed by treaty. Chancellor Willy Brandt's own Social Democratic Party and by the East German press. PRESIDENT NIXON has ap- proved big subsidies for the building of merchant ships in an attempt to restore the position of the US as a maritime power. biggest peace-time Under the contract ever, 16 new merchant ships will be built including three of the biggest tankers ever built in the US—273,000 tons deadweight—which will go to sea in 1973. In a statement Nixon said that 'the US, as the leading nation engaged in world must in its trade self-interest have a merchant marine com- mensurate with its large stake in international commerce'.

strike today there is no guarantee that those called out during the first week will remain out. It is possible they will be sent back in favour of other sites stopping work. Meanwhile the union leader- ships apparently think nothing of the fact that work continues on the Cubitt's extension to the headquarters of the London National Federation of Building Trades Employers.

Although large numbers of women are remanded in custody awaiting trial, only one-quarter of them are actually given jail sentences by the courts. This is one of the findings published in a report recently produced by Radical Alterna- tives to Prison (RAP). The effect on the women of having spent those few weeks in jail awaiting trial can often be incalculable. During that time children have to be taken into care, jobs and accommo- dation can be lost, and the woman herself so completely shattered by the experience that she finds it even harder to cope with things after her release. 'Four out of five times she is thrown out of prison to face a situation that can only be far worse than the one she left,' states the report.

By far the most common offence is petty theft, mostly shoplifting, involving sums of less than £5. In a survey of the women .. sentenced to terms of imprison- ment in Holloway, it was found that help rather than punish- ment is what is really needed.

Mental health was considered a major problem in 20 per cent cases reported in one of the year, 25 per cent had been in a psychiatric hospital at some time in their lives, and more than 20 per cent had a history of attempted suicide. Over half the women were under 25. Much emphasis is being given by the government to the planned rebuilding and modernization of Holloway, in which treatment is to con- centrate more on group therapy. But as the RAP report points out, evidence from prisons abroad suggests that this is totally useless. Such treatment only has any mean- ing if it is carried out over a long period, at least a year.

The average stay in Holloway is three to six months, after which the woman is discharged to face even worse problems than the ones which put her "inside' in the first place.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. Above: Holloway Prison, where the average stay is three to six months. In the meantime, the Home Office has carried out a com- puter analysis of 12,500 men remanded in Brixton prison last year. It was found that they had to spend an average of 12 weeks in custody await- ing trial, some of them con- siderably longer. Conditions are chronically overcrowded with men often having to spend anything up to 23 hours a day just locked in their cells. Of the 30,000 throughout the country committed to prison awaiting trial each year, more than 2,000 are subsequently found not guilty, and just under 20,000 are given sentences other than imprisonment. There is no compensation for time spent in custody on remand, for loss of jobs and earnings, or for just disrup- tion of life and family relation- ships generally, even if the man or woman concerned is found to have been completely innocent of the charges. 28 Charlotte St London W1

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Workers Press, Quietly and unobtru- sively the police are mov- ing in on the press. In the past two years Fleet Street and the provincial press have dug out one irregularity and scandal after another leading to prosecutions of police officers and resignations from the force. Commander Kenneth Drury, ex-head of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, resigned after press allegations that he had with a Soho strip holidayed club operator in Cyprus. Charges of trampling sus- pects' rights, assault, corrup- tion and generally falling standards in the police have been rife. There is no doubt that the police are tired of playing ball to press bats, especially since many of them feel that a cer- tain involvement with the criminal world is indispensable to carrying out their duties.

Scotland Yard has disclosed that a series of meetings with Fleet Street editors and execu- tives are to take place after the summer holidays to look at the the press the way treats police. Harassment A statement says the talks will 'clarify top-level attitudes on both sides' and are aimed at 'a mutually satisfactory work- ing formula for most if not all eventualities' Ostensibly • the talks have been triggered by claims from journalists of police harass- ment at the recent Eltham train crash and the Trident disaster. the Daily On June 20 Mirror' chapel (office branch of the National Union Journalists) adopted a resolu- tion which urged its manage- ment to enter into high-level talks with Scotland Yard 'in view of serious police harass- "Daily Mirror" ment of

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r9 Press, Monday July 3, 1972 PAGE 3 Commander Konneth Drury reporters and photographers at recent major incidents'. The chapel instructed mem- bers to withdraw from stories if they felt they were at risk from police action. And Press Association photographer • Colin Macer, based at Heathrow airport, told 'UK Press Gazette' experience at the scene of the Trident crash. He said: 'Harassment is the right word to describe it. It was absolute chaos there' But by far the most signifi- cant thing about the new talks the police and the between press is that despite attempts to make it look as if they have been prompted by incidents the tells a different story. Mr G. D. (Bob) Gregory disclosed they were arranged before either of the crashes took place. The discussions are to be thorough-ranging around daily and Sunday newspaper editors, news editors and executives.

Since the meetings were planned before the crashes, wider, more long-term the of press coverage of aspects the police must be what is really at stake. The move is almost cer- tainly part of the quiet but sinister revolution new Metro- politan police leader Robert Mark has been pushing through since he ascended to power.

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BY PHILIP WADE, HOUSING COR

The so-called 'threats' made by • Environment Minister Peter Walker against the owner of Lon- don's empty offices, Har- ry Hyams, do not amount to much. As far as Hyams is con- cerned, it's one of the nicest warnings he's had. For seven been look- years now he has ing for an expensive tenant for Centre Point-the giant empty tower block at the Oxford St- Tottenham Court Road junc- tion. If friend Walker can assist him in this search, Hyams will be that much closer to net- ting the £15m profit on the building. Meanwhile, just down the road from Centre Point, at Piccadilly Circus, the Tories and their property friends are on the road to a gigantic coup which will net millions of pounds in profits for the developers. There five parties are involved. The two government agencies are the Tory- controlled Greater London Council and Westminster city council. With an amount of horse- trading and wheeling and dealing an agreement has been reached with three companies to 'redevelop' Piccadilly at a fantastic profit. published last The plans, month, include the building of 544,000 square feet of offices and at least two hotels right in the centre of London. And as shadow Housing Minister Anthony Crosland pointed out in the Commons last week, the whole deal has been cooked up behind closed doors. 'It is simply part of a horse- dealing agreement with West- minster city council whereby the GLC keep out of Piccadilly and Westminster keep out of Covent Garden,' he remarked.

High-flying property man Joe Levy is one interested party with his company Stock Conversion. In 1957 the com- unknown . on the pany was stock market and only valued at £360,000. Today it is worth £60m. In 1951 Levy bought the Cafe de Paris site adjacent to Piccadilly. His company now holds leases on the Trocadero site together with a few other properties in the area and the freehold of the Palace Theatre.

Levy's secrecy about the cur- rent deal was the sort of char- acteristic that enabled him to accumulate all the property he needed for the Euston Cen- tre, that mammoth structure of glass and metal which has made him millions. Controversial City man Sir Charles Forte hopes to develop the Criterion site on the south side of the Circus. In 1953 Forte paid £800,000 for the Criterion cafe and banqueting Today rooms. they're probably worth f7m on market values. The biggest plum, not un- naturally enough, will be swal- lowed-without the stone-by Britain's largest property com- the securities bally. Investment Trust. 1967 they took over the late Jack Cotton's City Centre Properties and with it the choice Monico block. Sir Harold Samuel-the first pro- developer knighthood has built a com- pany with almost £800m worth of assets. Samuel, interestingly enough, 1s also a member ent Garden Market Authority. In 1900, alter an exnidition 'Piccadilly demonstrating the Future', Circus the the OI developers insisted on 800,000 square feet of office space. The final figure of 544,000 square feet followed a strange sort of deal. Above: Anthony Crosland Westminster council sug- Securities buy Pested Artillery Mansions near Vic- Station. toria The property had outline planning perls- sion for mixed development of 377,000 square feet, including a hotel. Land Securities was to buy build the mansions, offices there and switch hotel tne scheme to Piccadilly. It worked. Tories Westminster on quite frank about council are it all. Said Hugh Cubitt, chair- man of the town planning com- mittee: We're not pretending there isn't benefit sonne We're acting as the developers. catalyst to public and get developers together.' It is estimated that the scheme will cost the ratepay- The ers tom. developers willi put another £100m in finance the project. If and when the Circus is transformed into a speculators' paradise it will be worth many times that figure. So the scheme rolls on. The GLC says the Circus is an 1968 'action area' under the Town and Country Planning Act which requires 'compre- hensive treatment by develop- redevelopment, or improvement. Peter, Walker talks about a 'public inquiry'. There is no reason to think it would stand Top: R. Clark left and Joe Lory of Slack Conversion (Lusion Centre In background). Above: P. Walker.

in the way of another orgy of Sald Hyams of Walker's statement: 'It is based on no evidence of any kind... no such evidence exists.'

property speculation.

Oll refinery in fraq: the French reap la In the struggle for Middle - East oil the French have scored an important success as a result of the agreement recently signed in Paris with the No 2 in the Iraqi regime, Saddam Hussein. It was the pay-off for many of patient diplomatic years effort intended to outwit the Anglo-American oil giants by sympathy and support for the notably at the Arab cause, time of the 1967 six days war.

Hussein given the was honours by the French govern- ment-from President Pompi- dou downwards—which has a in the controlling interest Française Compagnie des Pétroles (CEP), the leading French oil company. The agreement follows the June 1 nationalization of Iraqi oil by the Revolutionary Council which rules the coun- try. This aimed at the was Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC), which is a consortium and European of American interests; in retaliation for its deliberate policy of keeping down production and its re- sistance to Iraqi claims for a larger share of the proceeds of the oil business.

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The French company holds a 23.75 per cent interest in the IPC which the government has promised to uphold. It will be able to purchase this proportion of Iraqi oil produc- tion at cost price as well as additional quantities at the ruling world price for ten years. This is a distinct advan- Oll refinery in Iraq: the French reap large profits from this supposedly 'nationalized' Industry.

FRENCH PULL FAST

ONE ON IRAQ OIL

Iraqi oil is tage, more since than other Middle- expensive East oil. French to exports Iraq are to be increased and France is to supply equipment for the oil industry on a credit basis well technical, commercial and managerial Some issues have not been cleared up, notably the com- the French pensation terms for share of UPC. The CEP is now likely to play the role of a mediator between the Iraqi and the other government members of the

IPC

While drawing a distinct from advantage the the French agreement, government has strengthened its position in the Middle East and in the contest for influ- ence in the Arab countries.

Its the attitude towards other countries which have oil interests in the area remains conciliatory. Like them, France does not want to see a revolu- tion in the Arab countries to them fall permanently see The ecce aim is to bolster the national bourgeoisie at the same time as concessions are wrung from it under pressure. The Arab oil producers must sell their oil and they must have economic and tech- nical assistance produce more. It is at this point that the French have stepped in. But although there is a com- petitive edge to their policy, it appears that the agreement has the support of London and Washington where it is seen basis wider as the for agreement between the IPC and the Iraqi government.

Whether it is seen in this light by competing oil firms is another question. There difference obviously of within opinion international adly 'nationalized' industry.

oil circles: some see the French step as a useful pre- liminary to a general agree- ment, others believe that it is intended to establish French leadership which would be detrimental to the other firms.

The Iraqi willingness to ne- gotiate is also significant. It shows the true nature of the regime, which represents the national bourgeoisie. It also re- flects competition between the oil-producing states at a time when the market is slack.

Another battle for oil is taking place in the Arabian state of Oman where British mercenaries are leading the forces of Sultan Qabus bin Said against rebels backed by the neighbouring People's Re- public of South Yemen. The revolt against the back- ward medieval regime of the present Sultan's father began in 1964. He seized power in 1970 in a coup master-minded by British officers. The present is British-backed operation and the Ministry of Defence is directly involved in the re- cruitment and seconding of officers to the Sultan's forces.

produces Although Oman some petroleum, it is not one of the rich oil states and it is calculated that almost half the oil revenue is swallowed up in financing the war. But Oman, with only 500,000 in- habitants, straddles a large area, strategically placed be- tween the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. Tankers for the Gulf oil straits therefore have to pass close by . operation for This holding the oil imperialists is likely to go on for some years and will provide lucrative, if dangerous, employment for a smali band of British officers. Workars Press Massive lay-offs are con- tinuing hit the to aerospace industry in southern California. Since 1968 the level of employ- ment has dropped 30 per cent and the outlook is for further sharp declines in jobs. McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach is stopping production of DC-8s in September, and this will cause heavy layoffs, even though production has , started on the DC-10. Employ- ment stands at 26,000, down from a peak of 35,000. Economists in Los Angeles who have surveyed the situa- tion speak of a 'general wind- ing down' and point to a decline in commercial orders, the phasing out of the large Apollo programme and the lack of sufficient federal con- tracts to support the industry at its current level. Northrop Corporation in Hawthorne, a subcontractor for 747s, is down from a peak of seven and one half planes per month to three-quarters of a plane per month. Lockheed's Burbank production of S3As plans reductions in the work orce: It is significant that the aero- space industry has shown an overall decline of 3 per cent in sales over the first quarter of 1971. At the same time, profits have risen by 24 per cent. This is because of vicious cost-cutting and speed-up and the prospect is for more of the same. At Boeing this is reflected most clearly. With a decline in sales of 14 per cent, profits have dropped only 3 per cent over the first quarter of 1971.

Boeing, concentrated in the Seattle area, is a warning for southern California. A Boeing manager, John E.

Steiner, tells how it is done.

'We found for example that a man was at his place of work only 26 per cent of the time.

He was going around to get tools, to get parts, to get Hungary's Prime Minister, Janos Kadar. coro Pross, Monday July 3, 1872 PAGE 5 approvals from some modifica- tion engineer, to do anything but build airplanes The United Auto Workers' bureaucracy has completely accepted this attack. Indeed some union officials have even taken to using the language of the management speed-up experts to explain the jobs by the so-called loss of 'learning curve'. Management uses this term to refer to the process of eliminating jobs as more and more efficient measures are brought in. The situation is now so cri- tical in southern California that the fate of the industry is said to depend upon one or two up-coming contracts, most notably the Bl bomber. It is no accident that a good portion of the debate in the Humphrey-McGovern Cali- fornia campaign was devoted to demagogic appeals to aero- space warkers with McGovern promising better layoff pay and Humphrey promising jobs that are not there. Research and development funds are being cut to the bone and the air force is demanding new efficiencies to lower the costs on bids. There is no ques- tion of aerospace ever regain- ing its 1960s level of activity.

The future is one of deepening crisis. Paul Schrade of the UAW was booted out largely as an expression of his refusal to take up this fight. Now Whipple, who replaced him as

UAW

western regional dir- ector, joins Schrade in the McGovern delegation to the Democratic Party convention throwing his support behind the man who promises more layoffs. The only way forward in through the aerospace nationalization of the industry under workers' control with a programme of massive re- hiring through the shorter work week. This can only be accomplished through the con- struction of a labour party to take on the employers and their government. Hungary has signed a new trade protocol with Franco's Spain for 1972-1973 which makes possible payments be- tween the two countries in transferable currency, with unconditional trade under the most - favoured - nation prin- ciple. The latter clause means that concessions made by one of the partners to a third country will also be granted to the other. As a result of the agreement Hungary ex- pects to sell more chemical products, engineering equip- ment, ball bearings, textiles and foodstufis and to import raw materials, clothing and oranges.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday July 3, 1972 In four months the US presidential elections will be held. Next week the Demo- cratic Party convention will be held in Miami to elect a presidential candidate and next month the Republicans meet to renominate Nixon. At this time the Workers' League, the American Trotskyist organization in solidarity with the International Committee of the Fourth International, presents its manifesto for the building of a Labour Party. many pieces of paper. He did The 1972 elections are spreading like Dope IS plague among the youth while this for the simple reason that being held most the United States chime skyrockets.

LOLC

critical time in the his- 'Law and order' the gold back possessed is brought tory of American labour. to bear against those who these dollars. This that capitalism protest the conditions of life means It is now that all the and not against the as word system noW real gains made by this great bankrupt and be criminals. Taxes have reached can only preserved if the working class American impossible heights for small- movement is forced back into destitution.

wage-earners and home-owners labour are being threat- while the big corporations do The bosses must now seek to ened by Nixon and the inçrease the amount that not even pay taxes. corporations RACISM is openly encouraged workers produce while reduc- large he ing wages by the government itself which represents. In 1944 in Bretton Woods seeks undermine the Only American labour the Supreme Court and Con- present WOlO monetary breaks with two parties system was established. It The stitution was on the busing issue. controlled by big business and Wallace based on other countries as racist emerges constructs its own labour party demagogue accepting American dollars as seeking based on the trade unions can the labour movement if they were gold. The United with his these gains be defended. States guaranteed in campaign, while the 'liberals' return

INFLATION

un- in the Democratic Party like that the price of gold would Contucs checked the at $35 an eating up pay Humphrey chase along behind ounce and it SLay cheques of workers and driving would honour all dollars held him. workers' actual standard of gold. WAR continues in south-east abroad On Wita the Pay Whoard slashese tige, basis the whole post-war boom Asia and Nixon closet Board slashes wages and closer to World War Three was constructed and along by union workers while with it desperation an inflationary trend. before the profits to unheard of forward of the This allowed the capitalists to SUar movement heights and corporation pre- great profits, while workers and peasants. The alllass salary the same time compromising coents give unemselves American working people are hikes of 100 cent or more. per with the working class which still dying in Vietnam, and UNEMPLOYMENT remains at still also made modest gains in its forced carry per cent, while reaching as standard of living. heavy tax burden for a war 50 high as per cent for sec- Bretton Woods. was a they de- con: wanted never tions of minority youth. Hun- cession to the strength of the clared, while the large dreds of thousands of factory of working class. porations make billions with defence contracts and use the strength which workers. veals throws seniority, being laid off biggest are into war to protect their interests closed and plants are being not her Nixon bombs down the future wiping out When Nixon for older workers, while youth Hanoi homes of workers in do not even have a chance and Haiphong, when his bombs work. At the same time, the hit dykes which cause flood- unemployed are being used by ing and drowning of the poor the bosses to break the con- peasants- unis musi employed workers. all American warning to

SPEED-UP

is being openly Nixon will workers. the encouraged by the government same here if not stopped.

itself and a drive for speed-up Nixon determined led being destroy everything that stands the corporations country the way of the profits of in Motors. The like General he the large corporalons break bosses seeking to represents. The offensive of alc union conditions in the plants, and the workers peasants in by forcing workers beyond the Vietnam and now the deter- human endurance, point mination of American workers profits and while increasing organized in the trade unions pushing more workers out of defend conditions won work as fewer through difficult struggle stand This is the work. to do the his way. in of meaning of the statement the same time, the Godfrey of General Above: Samuel Gompers. Right: the corporations encoulage Motors: can occupy • Eugene V. Debs it we Wallace movement to the right man for 60 minutes, we've got workers. came benc Nixon. Wallace is backed of realization that unions were not that right. elements and the fascist enough, that labour party was

AGAINST THE

LAWS

Klux Klan. His state of Ku necaca to actrena workers.

UNIONS

being prepared are Alabama has an anti-union Taft-Hartley Now that the United States in Congress. "right-to-work law. Wallace already on the books. Now a will no longer honour dollars through racism to split aims new law is being written which held abroad, the whole world working class and openly the would outlaw strikes in monetary system is threatened destroy the unions. The trade industry and with collapse and world transportation union leadership arbitration. force compulsory seriously fight Wallace. Wallace trade recession or debression At the same time, the National is imminent. More than this, can only be answered with the Board and period Labour Relations construction of a labour party!

means That une all the courts in the land are compromise with the working being used to invalidate con- class is over. In every country tracts, jail union leaders, fire the capitalists must now take striking workers and take the working class seeking on basic rights the to break its class organizations away all the and force down its living unions have won.

CONDITIONS

OF LIFE

are On August 15, 1971, Pre- conditions so that the profit everywhere. The sident Nixon made a series of can be preserved. It decay system apart and and these pro- schools are falling decisions affecting the future this system few can learn anything in the of every worker in the United fits which is all that matters schools where working-class States and every other part of to the corporation heads. What youth must go. Housing in the happens to the working man the word. He spoke not for cities is in complete decay with himself or even his party, but is not their concern. It never of has been. cities de- whole sections for the large corporations and and boarded the profit which Second, and flowing. from serted up system to workers are crowded into the decision, Nixon they are dedicated. this first Health Nixon removed the imposed a surcharge on foreign tenements. First, nemains service costs have skyrocketed gold backing of the dollar, goods and took other steps to and clinic service is deteriorat- much of the burden the hoards of transtorming push as ing to 19th century conditions.

dollars held abroad into of capitalism's crisis So

VILLU

This that Europe. means Nixon and Connally are driv- ing the rulers of Europe-- the who sent troops men against workers in Malaya, in Aden, in Indo-China, in Algeria, in Ireland - to turn now against the workers in Europe. Some in the labour move- ment, including the AFL-CIO top leadership and the leader- ship of many individual unions, are seeking to line the working class up with Nixon in these attacks on other countries.

They reason that the way to save American jobs is to have even higher import restrictions than Nixon so far has advo- cated. They say let the workers in Canada, who are in the same international unions, and in England, Germany, Japan and France suffer that American jobs can be saved Such policies only weaken American workers, at a time when they face their bitterest battles, by separating them their from class •romers The American other lands. working class faces an inter- national enemy: that is, inter- national conglomerates with wealth VaSt Icsource the globe. The working span unite on class an inter front to fight back natonal these giants. against fact, it has been the heroic battles of the workers and Vietnam that have peasants in weakened Nixon to the point holds back from the that he kind of attacks against Ameri- workers he would like to out. carry At the same time, it is the great strength of the American working class, particularly ex- and pressed last year In which played im- auto an portant role in forcing Nixon his 15 de- make August To well as in holding cisions as Workers Press, him back from what he would like to do in Vietnam and else- where. Third, Nixon set up the Pa!

Board for the purpose of rob of bing Annenear workers their living standards, of hold. ing down wages prices and continued to profits soar reached all-time highs. At the same time, Nixon, Agnew and Connally, in speech after speech, goad on big business to step up its ruthless speed- penny i LO even profit possible out of American The full significance of the Pay Board can only be under- if we realize that it is stood aimed at destroying the one strength the American working has-its class trade unions. American workers do not have SE their own party as do workers other countries. American workers do not have a strong stewards shot have in England they But American workers have powerful constructed trade incorporating Unions factory in one workers in union, many and in cases all workers in whole industries in Workers union. in these through struggle, unions, win certain wages, pensions and working conditions, written up of contains all kinds of clauses written it through the betrayals of the which burcaucracy hamper and tie down the workers in the plants. But the contract is also the of result the power of the working class spelling out certain wage levels and conditions. Now the Pay Board rips up these contracts, imposing its and levels other wage 0W11 conditions. If the Pay Board is allowed unchal- lenged, it have in one great blow wiped the strength of the labour move- What good are contracts won through struggle can be thrown in the waste basket at the whim of a handful men called a Pay Board? What protection does the working man now have the profit - hungry against bosses ever after more work, lower pay, less jobs? In order to understand the full significance of the situa- tion American workers now face, and what must be done in this situation, we must look created history which at the the labour movement of today.

The

CONVENIEN

built through struggle, not through compromise. built by militants and revolu- tionaries, not bureaucrats and It came into being in lawyers. explosive way, through leap, through

LUL

the gradual addition old craft unions led Conservative the forerunners of George by Meany. William Z. Foster The labour move- ment was great national railway strike of 1877.

strike began virtually leaderless, in response to pay cuts, swept the country and became almost General Pittsburgh Strike. In the workers defeated the militia was and the city for run several days by workers. Then to the bullding of the CIO intervened and army Workers Press, Monday July 3, 1972 PAGE 7 bloodily suppressed the workers there and throughout the country. It was after this strike that the government built National Guard armouries in every major city—not to protect the nation from an ex- ternal enemy-but to protect the robber barons of industry from an internal enemy: the working man. In 1886, the year in which May country was swept by agitation for the eight-hour day. In New York City, the first labour constructed and party was Henry George received 67,000 Hall's Tammany votes to 90,000 even with lammany counting the votes! The heart of the struggle was in Chicago the where labour movement was led by revolutionaries who held anarchist views. The movement was broken through witch-hunting campaign a against anarchism following a bombing. Four labour leaders, the Haymarket martyrs, were hung for this act, even though evidence produced no was then or since to connect, them with the act. In 1892 Eugene V. Debs led another national railway strike.

This time court injunctions were used to break the strike and Debs was thrown in jail.

While in jail, he came to the realization that workers could not be defended just through unions but that a party was needed to fight to replace the profit system with socialism so the productive that great power of this country could be run and utilized for the working class and not the bosses. In 1912, revolutionaries of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Ied a strike of workers, who 20,000 textile spoke over 15 languages, in Lawrence, Mass. When the

IWW

sought to take the workers' children to homes in other cities so they would not have to face starvation, the police moved in to club women and children. The workers stayed firm and the strike was won. In 1919, William Z. Foster, later a revolutionary who joined the Communist Party, a national steel strike which was defeated through betrayals of the AFL the which claimed to support it.

When, in 1937, auto workers in Flint, Michigan, sat down in a General Motors plant, their action was based on 60 years industrial of struggle for unionism. These workers were led by socialists and commun- ists and through their militant the basis was laid for sit-ins, the building of the CIO almost overnight. With the growth of the CIO, the AFL was forced also to organize on a mass scale industrial workers and the 20 million strong labour movement we now know was built. It was the strength of this movement which created the standard of living of the period all post-war workers, union and non-union.

Nothing given to was American workers. The trade constructed unions were through bitter struggle facing time and again the troops of the government itself, which did the bidding of the big corporations every time. The trade unions were not built by the methods of the present leaders. Samuel Gompers lived off American workers. did not build the mass trade unions. These were built by revolutionaries. It took a sharp break from the old trade unionism to create industrial unions—pot just an increase in the old unions of the AFL. These unions must now be broken if the profit hungry bosses are to defend their system. These unions can only be defended in a new leap-not by just more the old methods, more unionism, more solidarity, pres- sure on the existing leadership.

What is required to bring this about is the construction of a new leadership in the unions.

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ors Prose, Monday July 3, 1972 The fourth part of a statement by the Workers Vanguard (Trotskyist) of Greece, continues to examine the bourgeois, counter-revolutionary nature of the Torres dictatorship. Dual power 'sui generis' it liquidation was and of the committees. castration The most serious problem of It was a passing over to the a revolutionary situation aris- side of parliamentary methodo- ing in any country is the and logy, conciliation com- problem of The power. with the bourgeois promise question of strategy and tactics regime of Torres. for the conquest of power is The Pabloite opportunism of of equivalent importance as Pierre Frank and Ernest that of the organ which will Mandel during the May-June achieve it. Any deviation from events in France in 1968 pro- this can prove fatal. vided us with another example Nothing could be more of the distortion of the duality than the view that erroneous of With their Men- power. Assembly the Popular repre- over-estimation of the shevik sented a duality of power. We of the students and role the Popular believe that and intellectuals, an anti- Assembly in Bolivia was an Marxist underestimation of the impediment to the movement role of the proletariat (take- objectively had which overs of factories, committees, of developed to a situation strikes of workers and dynamic dualism, preventing it peasants), they considered the from taking the road of the epicentre of the revolution and thus creation of soviets and of dual power to be the development of a dual the Sorbonne! It was not the proletariat but the students power. 'Of what does dual power who the bearers of were consist? In that, side by side Yet another road revolution. with the provisional govern- to socialism! ment of the bourgeoisie, there It would have been strange is formed another government if the Pabloites, with their which, yet weak and embry- knack of discovering roads to onic, indisputably exists in socialism in the most unlikely practice and is developing: the had not adopted the places, and soviets of workers' views of the POR on the Popu- soldiers' deputies.' (Lenin, 'On lar Assembly as 'an of organ Power'-April 22 (9), Dual soviet character', as an 'indis- 1917) putable lever', as an organ 'of quite Lenin is quite clear, 'pointed workers', which the definite, on the soviets as the workers' and way to only expression of dual power.

peasants' government'. He continues: 'This power is not at all of the same type as Support for Torres exists in parliamentary The POR did support bourgeois democracy.' It is not not the same thing as an assembly- Torres. The Pabloite Toussain POR on parliament of dual type', tried to slander the em- a few The bellished with com- this question. associates mittees of miners. of Pablo, Frank, Mandel and From the point of view of Alain Krivine who have sup- and democracy of Ben class essence ported the regimes Bella, Castro, Nasser, Makarios no Popular Assembly can be and all the Bonapartes of the compared with genuine soviets at the factories, the places of under-developed countries, work, the neighbourhoods, the ought not to discuss questions and the barracks, which really incriminate them.

villages in a local, district, The POR line is crystal clear.

organized national and governmental "It would be extremely and with elected dangerous to say that there is structure, recallable representatives a similarity of aim between the masses and the group of im- throughout. The soviets are perialists which formed itself real class organs, not plastic around Torres because it was substitutes. Dual power means that the obvious from the start that fighting and powers they both for soviet bourgeois were are engaged in a struggle.

The different ends.' the Stalinists of the soviets estab- Lechin and victory supported the pro- lishes a new kind of state, the naturally gressive' i.e. the dictatorship dictator Torres, and commune, of the proletariat. not only against the conspiracy

POR

correctly estab- of the right-wing junta. The to the lished committees in the mines.

This subordination been spread bourgeois "democratic' left is If these had the the in the nature of opportunism.

throughout country From the time of Varsky's sup- would possibility of victory been incomparably Pilsudsky in Poland, have port for the demo- But subordinated to in whom he saw greater. Popular Assembly, the cratic dictatorship of workers the and of the sup- committees faltered away from ana peasants', their natural tendency towards port for the dictator Pangalos whom the Greek in Greece on soviet power. The creation of the Popular CP called to 'do as you beast, Assembly was not 'a consider- my general' in 1925, the con- able victory for tinuity of support for Bona- the workers', as the leaders of the POR and partist regimes in the colonial Information and semi-colonial countries is OCI's Ouvrierès' claim, together with a result of the fellow travelling Stalinists with the Pabloites. On the contrary, of the the У до Коль - Commercess ContromaPl Cronina 'democratic' bour China, Spain, Ind It no Moscow Torres, and missions always Bolivia. We without against the opport sufficient to remit the struggle Mensheviks Revolutionariec Russian Soviets. But in the Popul we had POR with the Lec and the Stalinists, tain United Stalinists. If this was not it that 'the proposa presented

DOCTO

to be used as of thi

WONK

adopted with few mostly nanimous And how was it a POR comrade t mander Assembly? (Comr interview Ouvrières'.) Communists clear distinction 'democratic' government. moment it is neces centrate their fire direct interventio counter-revolution- support Torres in Stalinists and Lect not permissible struggle against nent and its lacke Popular Assembly The United F the Stalinists On what basis n with the Stalinists fought', says Lora, of the united front and against of some tendenci seems learnt nothing fro imperialism' of all which the a from content is remover is used to blunt against their 'own' Analysis of national liberati has taught us tha Partran ho slogan 'All P bourgeoisie (as in ain, Indonesia, etc). that acclaent always supported Soviet that operated nnot achieve power fight merciless le opportunists. It is to remind ourselves against the and the Social inside the Popular Assembly conciliation of the the Lechin tendency and Front with the was not so, how was e proposals and docu- the POR by for the a basis Assembly were vith few changes and animously"? w was it possible for mrade to be elected military com Popular Sossa's ? (Comrade 'Information nists must make a between and fascist At a t is necessary to con- their fire against the tervention of open to volution-but not orres in the way the and Lechin did. It is issible to relax the the govern its lackeys inside th Assembly. nited Front with it basis was the fron Stalinists made? 'W 'on the lines anti-imperialist against the banning tendencies from the Assembly'. Lora that has thing from the 'anti- m' of all opportunists ch the anti-capitalist • removed, and which • blunt their swords eir 'own' bourgeoisie. s of the experiences al liberation struggles it us that the bour- gan 'All Power to the Sovie geoisie of a colon colonial more progressive tionary THAn colonial country. The Pabloites support to the 'ant petty bourgeois leaderships.

POR

form a Unit sham 'ant such struggle? The ruthless ex the Bolivian imperialism and capital aroused hatred that foreign bourgeoisie base itself on the Barrientos, dictatorshins risings of the mas These anti-impe of the ings gressive and revolu depend triumph of Revolution. But the of the opportunist the local bourgeois accidental and Bolivian Stalinists who the Irom agent of US impe The Stalinists in programme view that the tion would character. This me unresolved problen agrarian ec racy, anti-imperialism solved by which would not b Hence their Mensh for Torres. What then of the strategy imperialist front' o the

POR?

bourgeois - democ would it be prolet the way on the bourgeois-dem The 'united an front' could question of nation since Bolivia is n occupied theory Revolution, even a problem exists liberation, democratic revolu the Soviets' during the 1817 a colonial semi- be revolu- and tnal or as non- gave their › the 'anti-imperialist' rgeois and bourgeois could the • a United Front in 'anti-imperialist' thless exploitation of US masses by and local finance such deep and the local ourgeoisie needed to I on the bayonets of Ovando and Torres the masses anti-imperialist feel- masses are pro- We nd revolutionary. them for the Permanent the 'anti-imperialism'

DOLLARS COLCE

It is steeped in сволоц the 1917 Revolution. proletariat which inscribes the tasks of the bourgeois-demo- cracy on the banner of the proletarian revolution, and carries out the struggle against imperialism while fighting at time the local same bourgeoisie and landlords.

For ussis, linked the anti-imperialist struggle to the historical task of world revolution in general and the local one in particular, and a front with opportunists on the basis of an illegitimate 'anti- imperialism' is inconceivable.

The underlying meaning of the treacherous fake anti- imperialism of the Stalinists shown by the fact that when Rockefeller visited Latin America during a period of revolutionary situations and intense strike activity, the opportunitists turned the towards anti- movement Americanism, thus disorientat- ing the masses from the con- quest of power. We would certainly form a tactical common front with the Banzer, Stalinists against Torres, and the whole junta- behind which stand the Penta- gon and the CIA-but on the basis of class demands, through concrete class organs and method of struggle, with the emphasis on the committee- soviets. Such a front should differen- tiate its responsibilities from the methods of individual terror and bombings, which have been in complete opposi- tion to the mass movement ever since the time of 'Iskra' at the beginning of the cen- tury. The Stalinists would have done everything in their power 'united to drag the anti- imperialist front' towards guer- rilla warfare in the mountains or the cities, and to turn the movement into a petty- bour- geois one, leaning on the peasantry and pushing the proletariat aside. (It was their love of guerrilla warfare which made the Pabloites betray the Permanent Revolution.) But we saw none of these important, concrete questions in the history of the United Front of the Stalinists and the Lora tendency (as we were Informations told by Ouvrières').

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Bovier Forcian Polley Sines Stalln. By H. Hand Death of: The World Study Series.

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ledge and Kegan Paul. I3. Intended for students, this book provides a col- lection of articles, state- and documents ments from Soviet sources con- cerned with foreign policy and covering the period from 1954 to 1970. The extracts are useful as they go in providing a general view of what the bureaucracy had to say for itself in that period. The limitations of the book are to be found mainly in the : introduction and text which links the extracts.

Such a book does not speak for itself from the documents, but conveys the views of the editor. No doubt had the book been put out by the Novotny Press it would have been compiled differently and would have told a different story. It might have had less to say, for instance, about Nikita Khrushchev, whose handling of foreign policy was certainly livelier than that of his pre- decessors or the present un- bending Brezhnev - Kosygin leadership. The speech which he gave to the Supreme Soviet on the violation of Soviet air space by a U-2 spy-plane sparkles with humour when put along- side the jargon of the usual statement. Speaking of Gary Powers, the pilot, Khrushchev said: 'Besides his own watch, he was also given for the trip two other gold watches and sever ladies' gold rings. Why was all this necessary in the upper layers of the atmosphere. Or perhaps the pilot was to have flown still higher, to Mars, and was going to lead Martian ladies astray?' Most of the extracts are written in the dull and life- less prose which comprises the literary sense of bureau- cratic thought. Unfortunately, the editor takes these state- ments largely at their face value and his introduction is therefore misleading in some important particulars. It is necessary in dealing with the foreign policy of any state to see it as a reflection of domestic policy. In the case of the Soviet Union, diplom- acy is used by the bureaucracy to serve its need for a deal with imperialism on the basis of an acceptance of the exist- ing division of the world. This is the essential meaning of 'peaceful co-existence' Soviet foreign policy can therefore only be understood as a product of the bureau- cratic degeneration workers' conducted in the and of Marxism determined by th the internationa class, in reality the counter-revoluti jectives of the burea Unless these principles are kept is impossible to tale of the zig policy. the bureaucracy anc gists would like it genuine Marxism-Le practice, which can o plained by some so theory. Mr Hanak adopt. of these positions is by no means fav Soviet the Union, western anti-commi the policies

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successors qualitative • break past, a return to th concept of existence'. The policy Khrushchev and cor nothing Leninism except was it intended to p most favourable con struggle peoples, for the stru workers in countries against ploiters' as the accepts. It was a policy with capitalism for ite period. Hence th which Hanak notes explain, that when Communist Party support, opposed course, 'pea existence', as practi bureaucracy end of conficit the perialism Such con herent in the relatio capitalism and states. The bureaucracy traditional diplomacy, which i probing out the position of othe in order to win and make deals. conflict of a differer with the ırn to the 'Leninis "peaceful co- practisec by and compan had with words. Nor ded to prepare the rable conditions for of ppresse the struggle of th the capitalist their ex- bureaucracy • and Mr Hanak policy of living an indefin Hence the paradox, ak notes but cannot it when France was- olution in 1968 the with Soviet the May se, 'peacefu co as practised by th does not mean with 11111 conflict is in- le relations between and the workers the uses methods of which include the weak spots in 1 of other countries win concessions This involves a different kind. evidence Ine whenever the lieves that it is in make with one or a group it is ist states behaviour. On the c it also at times u even deeds Khrushchev's ill-adv lishment of missile Cuba-to impress side or win concessi In this of Stalin-wł Sors pact with Laval in 1939, with Hitler in and Roosevelt War II and it—are his a after Circumstances, world forces, aims of the not. Undoubtedly used some new met! period of the Brezhnev-Kosygin t own style-but thes unique. enurely as 1934 Litvinov a new style in Sovi acy which brought Union into Nations, nounced by Lenin as kitchen'. certain episodes War' is to antithesis with which does not exis To see a comme Hanak, who national relations University defending building communisn sing for the world is really lamentable hensible in a Stalin not field. Anyone who wan compilation of Sov policy documents m book useful. It dea Sino-Soviet split an uprisings in their and cussions. The frame planation chosen by is so wrong that it taken as an object not to interp how foreign policy. that shows he bureaucracy be- it is in a position understanding : a group of capital- on its best On the other hand, times uses threats - such r's ill-advised estab- missile bases the other I concessions. respect the succes- talin-who made Laval in 1935, with 939, with Churchill during world Gaulle with de able pupils. the balance of change de onema Khrushchev new methods in the the 'thaw'—and the Cosygin team has its e in Soviet diplom- the Soviet League the of de- emphatically • Lenin as 'a thieves' • Stalin's misunderstand it create an later policy not exist. a commentator like teaches inter- London students, appar- whole the of the bureaucracy socialism, mmunism and pres- e world revolution, Compre- amentable. a Stalinist hack, it highly for scholarship in this who wants a handy of Soviet foreign ments may find this 1. It deals with the : split and with the Eastern Europe diplomatic reper- he framework of ex- hosen by the editor g that it can only be an object lesson in to interpret Soviet Grotesque scenes on of the Thames-at course. Debs and less wonders sprawli lawns quaffing cham duck paté sandwiche Hellman Camilla bunch in to her garden party Sanders rowed pa Venetian gondola gondola. Stockbroker's Diana Cavendish att then threw Anglo-Belgian the Belgrave Square, Lo Everything appalling by the the Russians were ing in upper ThIS the first time si for Is the the peaceful socialism?

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Get out your diary, make July 12 your 1 Day. Why? It's the Instead Morecambe for why consider not grouse with the toff People in the trac the 'Glorious Twelt! record fingers the on Britain's year. Grouse-shooting £800 a week of most popular shootin' and holidays for offered i portsmen ion agency. Since Sporting ternational announct a month ago, poured in from world-even 'We have had in shooting holidays r the board', Prince zine, spokesman for said. 'Grouse-shooting popular, probably b unique to this coun Most of the sport be businessmen to combining business visit.' Workars Press, cenes on the banks s sprawling on unt ng champagne and sandwiches. Hellman invited a place for Mrs Guy and past in daughter ndish attended and juare, London more that is were participat- rort class t time since 1964. ic school boat race Answer please company.

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lads, and It's the opening of dear, boy off diving to your holiday, shooting the toffs? • the trade say that us Twelth' will see of foreign trigger moors this nooting at up to proving • the package wealthy overseas offered by a Lon- announced its plans ago, inquiries have all over the Hong King. e had inquiries for olidays right across Prince Yuri Galit- sman for the agency shooting is the most obably because it is this country. the sportsmen seem inessmen who ale holiday with a ara Prose, Monday July 8, 1972 PAGE 8 Salmon-fishing holidays are also very popular, he said. The holidays, costing up to £225 a day, include staying in 'some of Britain's most homes and castles'. Visitors can hunt with a famous pack stalk deer in of foxhounds, Scotland, fish for salmon, sea trout or trout and shoot grouse, pheasants, woodcock, snipe or capercailzie. Meanwhile, their families can go beagling, sailing, pony trekking or learn to shoot of fish. The Prince says that no-one need feel out of place. Every- thing is done to ensure that the conventions and traditions of British sport are not flouted.

Visitors will be given advice 'safety, behaviour and on general sporting conventions'.

International sport at this level is a two-way traffic Prince Yuri said. 'We have many inquiries from people in this country who want to try sport in other countries-hunting wild boar in Turkey, shooting partridges in Spain, or fishing in Iceland, where we have fishing rights on the two best rivers in the country.' just the thing, Sounds doesn't it. Grab a gun and go out and slaughter tiny birds.

Thus the ruling class finds its pleasure. Capercaili

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PAQE 10 Workera Prea , Manday Jelty s Dear Editor, Having read your reply to the article published in the 'York- shire Evening Post' and the 'Doncaster Evening Post', I am happy to see you are not let- ting the Tory press get away with this planned witch-hunt.

But I believe you have failed to go deep enough into this article and expose the real reason behind this one of three articles. The first one on Lord Robens was just a lead up to an all-out attack on the SLL and the Communist Party, but you make no mention of this attack on the CP. It is League policy to defend all left-wing parties against the onslaught of the ruling class with the International Socialists. But you have failed to do this in your article. I would like to know who was this agent of the Tory press Graham Wiles gets his infor- mation from. To say that three Trotsky- ists organized the 1970 miners' strike is living in dreamland.

To make this statement to any sensıble mıner would mean being laughed out of the York- shire coalfield. It was the miners temselves who organ- ized the strike because of the falling standard of living and the onslaught being launched by the government on the working class. The Trotskyists in York- shire played their part, as always, but it would be impos- sible to organize such a strike by just three Trotskyists.

We also must look at the timing of this article by Gra- ham Wiles. It is too much of a cincidence that it came only two weeks before the union elections when a large number of left-wing members of the National Union of Minework- ers were coming up for posi- tions in different branches around Yorkshire. I will say this to Graham day July 2, 1872 Wiles. He has failed to whip up any feeling against the lefts in the Yorkshire coal- field because the working class is now fighting to defend its basic rights. Christopher Rigg, Bentley, Doncaster, Yorks. Chris Rigg is right, that much more could have been said in reply to the 'Yorkshire Even- ing Post's' witch-hunting series on the miners. Wiles (Industrial corres- pondent of the 'Post') included the Communist Party in his attack because the Yorkshire area NUM, the preserve of the : like Sidney Scho- right wing held, has in recent years voted along with where the areas Stalinists and their sympathiz- ers have a majority in the area executive (South Wales, Scot- land and previously Derby- shire). While the capitalist class has proven these Stalinists per- fectly amenable (for example, Will Paynter and Arthur Horner) they prefer as strong a right-wing ballast as possible, no doubt Wiles' article and was timed for the area elec- tions. It is certainly the policy of the Socialist Labour League to • defend the Communist Party and its members from such attack. It must be said, however, that the Stalinists were noted by Wiles as being very well- behaved. Undoubtedly his main target was the SLL and Work- ers Press. Not only that, but the Stalin- ists lent themselves to Wiles' plans. Whereas SLL members refused him any interviews, because we knew it was for the purpose of witch-hunting, James Miller, Communist Party secretary of the Kellingley NUM branch, answered a whole series of questions for Yorkshire miners during strike earlier this year Wiles and was quoted at length. Miller did not, of course, mention his own role at the end of the 1970 strike. Having made exaggerated grossly claims about his own part in that strike, he omits the fact that he personally ensured a return to work at Kellingley by giving the impression in a crowded branch meeting that other coalfields had already returned. This was in fact quite untrue, and indeed Kel- lingley's return was then used to drive back the other areas!

Graham Wiles, who took 90 per cent of his material from the Workers Press columns and the rest from his fertile imagination, did not choose to extract his particular piece of news which we printed at the time. We see that his witch- hunting was not quite indis- criminate! Chris Rigg makes the main point. What the Tories fear is the gaining support among miners for policies and leader- ship which allow them to get to grips with the Tory govern- ment, to answer the burning questions of wages, prices and unemployment brought about by the capitalist crisis.

The Stalinist leaders in the NUM have always separated the wages fight from the poli- tical struggle against the gov- Miller and Kane in ernment. Yorkshire and men like MeGahey nationally, fought tooth and nail against the policy of the SLL in the 1972 miners' strike, which was to unite the trade union move- ment behind the miners, create the conditions for the govern- ment to resign, and return a Labour government pledged to nationalization without com- pensation and under workers' control. Dear Editor, Alan Williams, Bernie Steer and Through your paper, I wish to Vic Turner waiting at Chobham Farm to arrested be express my admiration for the three dockers who were willing to face jail rather then become fighting. They saw what hap- Tory chattel serfs. pened to their parents years I am very pleased to see that This is what every trade ago. the dockers responded with a union man and woman should strike. Every one of us in the do instead of accepting a life employed working class, or on the dole. should stand and back not, Of course we must not blame these men to the hilt because the Tories altogether. We must if these Tories can break the blame those spineless people dockers, they will go to on who keep them there, also attack the rest of the work- the TUC and union leaders ing class. who have consorted all along Dockers have always been Tories. with the known for their militancy and Heath thinks that because he for the way they stuck together all his has cronies and capi- more than any other section of talist friends behind him that the working class in the world.

he can go on and suppress the My father was a docker in class. like Churchill working the old days under the same did. But he forgets that there Tories we have in now and I are a different breed of men can remember him to going who have learned from the the docks every day and stand- bitter experiences of their ing with other fathers. men in the pens like cattle begging for We must go forward now work. and clear out the compro- My father hardly worked for misers in the unions and the years under the same system TUC and the traitorous Labour which they are trying to return MPs who voted with the Tories to now and I saw him die a last year and kept them in broken man from suffering office. Mrs S. McInerney, misery and poverty of the Tory dole life. St Helens, I know why these lads are Lancashire. The dally paper that leads the fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) {10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issubs) Il you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: {1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) {6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Circulation Dept., Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Sl., London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Stewards enforce secret ballot on latest offer Chrysler deal is MDW The picket line at Consolidated Pneumatie In Frazarburg, noar Aberdeen, where the man have come out for. the FOUR THOUSAND Chrysler workers at the Stoke engine plant in Coventry will take part in a secret ballot today and tomorrow to decide on whether to accept the com- pany's latest five-point offer.

The offer is in response to a nine-point claim lodged for this year's pay review. The secret ballot was intro- duced because shop stewards could not decide at last Friday's mass meeting whether the offer had been rejected or accepted.

The stewards originally lodged nine-point claim based on the 13 points of the national engineers wage claim. In the counter-offer the man- agement increased wages by £3.60 as against a claim of £6; two days' extra holiday for 20 years'

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Pneumatic lools factory at Fraserburgh, 45 miles north of Aberdeen, is the northernmost factory so far actively • involved in the engineers' national pay fight. The 700 AUEW members there are involved with Aber- engineers-including the deen factory.

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therein the four-week old district-wide strike for the full national claim. The employers' latest offer of f2.25 across the board was dismissed by the men, who are mounting a picket daily to pre- vent the movement of goods out of the factory. Convenor George Lillie says there is absolute determination now to get at least the average engineering wage in Scotland, which would mean a f4 in- crease. UNION BRANCHES in lea Coventry are hitting back at manoeuvres by Communist Party leaders in the town to try to block the setting up of a local Council of Action by the trades council. The original scheduled meet- ing is due tonight when the trades council has a public meet- ing on the fight against un- employment. •AUEW Coventry No. 49 and No. 73 branches have tabled resolutions to the next trades council meeting re-affirming their previous resolutions calling on it to set up a Council of Action. The TASS branch at Rolls-Royce Parkside has also in sent rèsolution calling for the setting up of a Council of Action.

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No. 25 branch has sent the following resolution: 'This branch condemns the RAILWAY workers on Lon- don's West End Piccadilly tube line have passed a reso- lution supporting the call for a Council of Action. Members of the West Bromp- ton ASLEF branch called on the Hammersmith and Kensington trades council to set up a Coun- cil of Action in the area. The resolution goes on: 'The Councils should be made up of shop stewards, and repre- sentatives of all trade union organizations, plus the local Labour parties Labour League Communist Party, Socialist and all socialist tendencies with all tenants' committees, co- operative committees and or- ganizations of unemployed workers. "Thus it would bring together all sections of the labour move- service as against a week's extra holiday for all workers. They have also offered slightly better lay off pay arrangements and an increase in the percentage women's rate as against a men's rate with equal pay in 1975. There has been no offer on the 35-hour week nor other aspects of the claim. The company also wants the work force to accept the intro- duction of an incentive scheme and is offering an extra 40p per week if discussions with stewards can begin on this.

The picket line at Consolidated Pnoum Others on the picket line said that now that the fight was on they would stick it out for the full claim. Alex Lee said that he dis- agreed with the calling off of national action in January. Ernest Thom agreed: 'We've got to get rid of the Tories.

leadership of Coventry Trades Council for refusing action on the formation of a Council of Action. • We regard this as a particularly urgent matter in view of the fact that the meeting which refused to take action was only before three one dockers' shop stewards were due for by order of arrest the National Industrial Relations Court.' Coventry AUEW No. 49 branch has sent a resolution 'condemning bureaucratic the action of the Coventry trades Council president in stopping the resolution passed at the Mav meeting of the Trades Council from Coventry No. 49 branch for the setting up of a Council of Action from being carried out.

The branch demands an assurance that in future all resolutions from union branches will be adequately discussed and the chair be conducted in a demo- cratic manner.' ment. The programme for the Council of Action must be : • For a General Strike to defeat the Tory government and to force the TUC leaders to prepare such a strike or to be dealt with a re-called Congress. • To return a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist policies including: Nationalization of all major in- dustries without compensation and under workers' control.

Withdrawal of all British troops from abroad. Publishing all secret agreements and Cabinet minutes. Repeal the Industrial Relations Act and restore all Tory cuts.

"This is the only way to defend the rights and living standards of workers today and only such a Council of Action can prevent the sell-out by the union leaders and the growth of dictatorship and militarism.' Right-wing AUEW district Andrew Boyle, in- secretary, timated to the last Coventry dis- trict committee meeting that this represented some sort of victory over the company's insistence on the extension of Measured-Day Work in the factory. The company says that since efficiency at the Stoke plant has dropped by 10 per cent over the 12 months, they see past scheme as a • logical incentive refinement of MDW geared to output and attendance. Many Chrysler workers cor- ed Pnoumatic In Frazarburg, near Aberdeen, When Labour was in the firm got grants for new machinery.

That's not happening any more? CPT, by far the biggest factory in the fishing town of Fraserburgh, has already ex- perienced substantial redun- dancies. Last November, 90

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Roy Storey, an AUEW produc- tion worker, told Workers Press against the incentive was scheme. He voted against acceptance because he was against MDW incentive and sees the new schemes as a means of trying to get Chrysler workers to cut their own throats.

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4.10 News. Peyton Place. 35 Once upon a time. 4.55 Clapper- 10.3 kers Press, Monday Juty 3, 1972 PAGE 11 Internal truck driyer Noel Ring said: "This incentive scheme Is not a return to piecework where the man decides himself how fast he will work. It will be a means whereby the manage- ment can crack the whip more thoroughly. At present if there is no work for me driving, they cannot put me on production.

'We have never allowed this at Stoke like they have at the Ryton plant. You don't have to be a lawyer to know this is what they are after. And this is why I am against the new deal.'

le out for the engineers' national clalm carryl bey couldn't have got made compressors there. with it in a national away strike, said one of the pickets.

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS' REGIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK CAMPAIGN

Young marchers true spirit' PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday July 1

BY DAVID MAUDE

Our Industrial Correspondent A ONE-DAY national dock strike is now almost certain when union delegates meet in three-and-a-half weeks time to discuss the report of a 'high-powered joint commit- tee' into the industry's jobs: crisis. 'This week dockers' leaders are expected to demand shop stewards are represented on the inquiry team, which is chaired by Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union secre- and Tory banker Lord Authority. Dockers plan to be at the T&GWU delegate conference in force anyway to make their feel- ings about the report known.

One big port may bring 500 men to the mass lobby on a special train. A meeting of the national port stewards' shop committee the following Saturday will call an all-out unofficial strike if the re- port's terms are unsatisfactory. However, militants in the northern ports are disappointed and bitter at the outcome of meeting of committee in the Birmingham on Saturday. Communist Party stewards from London are believed to have voted against all three proposals betore the meeting for industrial action. Bernie Steer, secretary of the committee and one of the three London stewards who recently escaped jail over the container issue, 'blacking' refused to comment on what had been decided. 'We have nothing to say, he told reporters. But I understand that Steer Danny and Royal docks CPer Lyons had a great deal to say inside the meeting in opposition to all forms of strike action.

Two proposals were apparently withdrawn after hints of a walk- out by the London delegation.

The first was a Hull move, which had lain on the table since a previous meeting, that the port employers be given seven days notice of a strike for the stewards' longstanding four points'. The second was a Liverpool motion to call an all-out strike for the four points from mid- night on July 25, the day before the Jones-Aldington report is due to appear. (The four points are: stuffing and stripping of containers to be registered dockers' work; reten- tion and extension of the 1947 dock labour scheme; no misuse temporarily unattached of the register; no reduction in the cur- Originally rent overall register. there were nine points, including nationalization under workers' control. Some months ago the London stewards used the walk- out threat to get the other five shelved.) I understand that the London stewards also voted with those from Southampton against the proposal for a one-day token strike, leaving • it to be carried narrow 27-23 majority of by a northern delegates. Lyons' argument, which was taken up by Steer, seems to have been that the stewards had already proved they could stop the ports and didn't need to do it again. They said it was questionable participation in a whether mass lobby of the kind a strike would preferable bring was to an orderly picket just of stewards.

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day July 2, 1972 THE SECOND regional Right-to-Work march got underway in the bright Manchester sunshine on Saturday and the un- employed youth got their first morale booster with magnificent £50 in a factory donations. After a night in the Ashfield Labour Party club, Salford, the march set out on the first leg of its journey to Liverpool via the industrial centres of the North West. The march began Saturday afternoon with a demonstration through the twin cities of Man- chester and Salford. They got a warm response from shoppers and in the big Salford housing scheme by the central precinct tennants waved from the balconies of the high flats that lined the route.

Liverpool dockers and other trade unionists joined in the demonstration that the saw campaign off on its 80-mile journey. The marchers will take seven days to complete their journey which takes them through work- ing-class Oldham, towns like Bury, Bolton, Wigan, Kirkby and the city of Liverpool. Support is already building up along backing the way-the from trade unions and factories has already ensured that the youth will not lack places to stay or food to eat along the route.

If the support from the Man- chester area is anything to go by, the North West campaign pro- mises to be even more successful than the Scottish march, which finished triumphantly in Glasgow on Saturday. included £13.50 Donations YO DU The Scottish Right-to-Work march arrives AS THE Scottish Right- to-Work marchers entered Glasgow on Saturday on their last lap from Dundee they were joined at Parkhead Cross by Young Socialists and trade unionists in a march through the city's streets. As the march proceeded through the working-class streets of east Glasgow, shoppers lined the street. Many copies of Workers Press and 'Keep Left' were sold. A number of unemployed youth joined the march. The Dundee-to-Glasgow march had repeated the experience of the five week Glasgow-London march earlier this year in that it was the labour and trade union movement which had come out and supported the unemployed and the fight for basic rights.

But since the London march,

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN MANCHESI

from Massey Ferguson plant on the Trafford Park industrial estate; £5 from the Tesco ware- house workers in Winsford; £4 workers, from ICI Winsford. Other backers included Bredbury steel works, Stockport, the Wilm- slow tenants' association, Metal Box, Winsford, and Qualite, Winsford. Leader of the march, Young Socialists' national secretary thanked the John Simmance, workers who made the dona- "This kind of support tions: back means the workers demand of this march-basically that to defend the right to work the working class must be mobilized to force this Tory government out.' ch arrives in Glasgow after the five-day campaig there had been a tremendous change in the political situation with confrontations between the Tory government and dockers and railwaymen which made big advances in the political thinking of workers. Opening the end of march rally • Castle- Tommy Campbell from milk spoke about the way the Right-to-Work march had taken Tory fight against government into every town and village from Dundee to Fife and mid-Scotland. He particularly paid tribute to the miners who had given the march great sup- port in Glentrothes, Cowdenbeath and Dunfermline. March leader John Barrie said the most outstanding thing about the march was the way the young unemployed workers fought for the policies of had the YS. This was in contrast to Communist Party policy at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders appeals to the Tory government which had resulted in a big in- crease in unemployment on the imposing of Clyde and the retreats on workers. Sam Cameron, secretary of the outside branch of the Union of

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Mrs Constance Fahay, Labour Party n leader welcomed the spirit of the march AT THE first march public meeting in Salford, shop stewards and Labour Party members explained why they backed the youth on every step of their journey through the North West. Their words had a big effect on the young marchers because it made them realize they stood for something very important in the working-class movement. RAY HEDSON, Liverpool build- ing workers shop steward: "The demand for the right to work is a transitional demand

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y campaign from Dundee. Post Office Workers in Dundee, speaking in a personal capacity, said that the greatest tribute which could be paid to the Right- to-Work marchers, was to go back into the trade unions and fight for the YS and the Socialist Labour League policies.

'We must go into all the march has which the areas passed through and campaign for the setting up of Councils of Action, not committees of pro- rest, but real movements to fight to bring down the Tories.'

Ian Bannaghan, unemployed youth from Renfrew, spoke about the frustration of young workers on the dole. On the dole youth felt isolated from the trade unions. 'But I learned on the march that the employed and unem- ployed must unite to • bring down the Tory government.' Ian McCalman, SLL Central Committee, congratulated the marchers in carrying the struggle for the policies of the YS and the SLL through the industrial belt of Scotland. Greetings were conveyed to from lan Wallace, the rally member of Irvine Trades Council.

I Party member and Wilmalow tenants' the marchers. because it cannot only be achieved through socialism. This march recognizes that because it is calling for Councils of Action to get the Tories out and begin the fight for a socialist society- that is why it is important and that is why I back it.'

PETER MARTIN,

ex-chairman stewards, English shop Electric, East Lancs Road, Liver- pool: 'People think Victor Feather is the leader of the labour move- ment. But what is he doing now when the working class are facing attack from the Tory government? He is knocking on the door of No 10 Downing Street wanting to collaborate with Heath. 'I say these people are not the leadership of the working class— the true leadership will be walk- ing down that road from Salford Liverpool through the • industrial centres of the North West where the working class live. Yesterday's leaders are the men who knock the Tory on door. Tomorrow's leaders are tramping to Liverpool. I know who the working class will choose-these young marchers.'

MRS

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FAHEY,

Labour Party militant and Wilmslow tenants' leader: I was born in the slums of Manchester been and have Labour all my lifefor ten years I have been an active mem- ber of the Party but the leader- ship of my Party refuses to fight this government. 'We don't want councillors or MPs whose only difference between the Tories and them- selves is their political label.

This is not what I fought for.

I am sick of people like Roy Jenkins who devotedly kept the Tory Party in power when he voted with them over the Com- mon Market. "These young people speak for the true spirit of our movement.'

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

The currency crisis and the working class CROYDON: Monday July 3, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe WEST LONDON: Tuesday July 'Prince Albert, 4, 8 …p.m. Wharfedale Rd, Kings Cross.

NORTH KENT: Tuesday July 4, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, Essex Ra, Dartford. 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.