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TOMORROW'S meeting of the TUC Economics Committee must decide to break off immediately all pay and industrial relations talks with the Tory government. If the TUC leaders do decide to hold further discussions with Heath, they will be trampling in the most deliberate manner on the wishes of millions of rank-and-file union members. The Tories, their policies in tatters, are now desperately trying to come to a deal with the union leaders against the working class.

In his weekend speech at Altrincham, Chancellor 'minefield' Anthony Barber said that if the inflation was to be avoided co-operation with the TUC was essential. That is why we have asked both the CBI and the TUC to join with us in a combined effort to curb the rising cost of living.

*The leaders of both sides of industry know full well the importance of these meetings.

Those who they represent should also be under no illusions as to what is at stake. Certainly every conscious trade union member will be under no illusion that the decision to float the pound will mean savage cost-of-living increases and further attacks on his living standards.

Far from attempting to control inflation, the Tory government is now deliberately stimulaing price increases in order to undermine the standard of living of millions of workers and their families.

The TUC chiefs are fully aware of this fact. That for threshold agreements' is why their proposals fraud. with the Under such employers a ara arrangements, wage increases would be limited to a fixed increase over a period of would months perhaps 18 and those who refuse to break with of living if the only rise the government? coct increased by more than an agreed Since Chobham Farm. the percentage in the first year.

Stalinist 'Morning Star' has such deliberately dropped this slogan.

With prices soaring, What the King would Street Stalinists agreements mean savage with reductions fear above all is an exposure of in real wages. union members prevented from their friends Jones and Scanlon fighting legally-enforceable which such a Congress would deals, backed up by the National bring. Industrial Relations Court.

As usual the revisionists follow closely in the wake of the Stalin- Every union leader who votes ists. state cast list scalise orker Last week's issue the 'yes' to more talks at Downing Street is thus playing the Tory not only declared that Tory infla- game. was a 'con trick', but called tion After the CBI leaders went to for "the

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to stop retreating Downing Street yesterday, it was and start fighting' made clear that while they are But it consciously avoided any all too willing to take part in the mention of the role of the lefts' proposed joint working party in the discussions with the with the TUC. they had nothing Tories and it made no demand positive to say about their price- for an immediate recall of the being continued restraint policy TUC to deal with these people.

when it runs out at the end of We therefore appeal to every the month. worker who wishes to fight this rotten and In other words. the emplovers corrupt. government: the betrayals these unconditional answer want surrender Stalinists and revisionists.

Help from the union leaders. make to tomorrow's lobby Tomorrow's lobby of the powerful strength show of Committee Economic against all those who are acting meeting is now more vital than Tory agents in the working. class movement. The All Trades Unions The TUC must end all talks Alliance has consistentlv called with the Heath government.

immediate recall of the for an

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How the can nrecent • Recall the TUC immediately.

policies of class collaboration between the union leaders and • Force the Tories to resign.

the Tories be broken unless such a Congress is held and expels all July 10, 1972 INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JULY 11, 1972 • No. 814 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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Builders march on council ABOUT 300 building workers from a council site marched to Wandsworth council head- quarters yesterday on the first day of their pay strike. The men work for J. Dean (Contractors) Ltd. They were marching in support of the national pay claim which has brought out more than 180 sites throughout Britain. They also demanded that the council end the lump labour system. Container complaints DETAILS of the complaints which are to be made today in the High Court by Midland Cold Storage became known in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday afternoon.

They include intimidation, breach of statutory duty, wrong- ful procurment of breach of contract and unlawful picketing.

An injunction will be sought ordering stewards to stop these activities, plus a declaration that work at the store is not dock work. Damages will also be sought for conspiracy. • See Law Lords hear case, p.12

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STATEMENT BY THE ALL

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TOMORROW'S meeting of the TUC Economics Committee must decide to break industrial relations talks with the Tory government. If the TUC leaders do decide to hold further discussions with Heath, they will be trampling in the most deliberate manner on the wishes of millions of rank-and-file union members. The Tories, their policies in tatters, desperately trying with the come TO a union leaders against the working class.

In his weekend speech at Altrincham, Chancellor Barber 'minefield' Anthony said that of It the inflation was to be avoided co-operation with the TUC was essential. 'That is why we have asked both the CBI and the TUC to join with us in a combined effort to curb the rising cost of living.

'The leaders of both sides of industry know full well the importance of these meetings. Those who they represent should also be under no illusions as to what is at stake.' Certainly every trade union member conscious will be under no illusion that the decision to float the pound will mean savage cost-of-living increases and further attacks on his living standards.

Far from attempting to control inflation, the Tory government is now deliberately stimulaing price increases in order to undermine the standard of living of millions of workers and their families.

The TUC chiefs are fully aware of this fact. That is why their proposals for "threshold agreements' fraud. Under with the employers are a such arrangements. ware increases would be limited to a fixed increase over a period of would perhaps 18 months and those who refuse to break with if the of living only rise cost the government? increased by more than an agreed Since Chobham Stan the percentage in the first year.

Stalinist 'Morning has With prices soaring, such deliberately dropped this slogan. would What the King Street Stalinists agreements mean savage in real with reductions wages. ear above all is an exposure ( union members prevented neir friends Tones and Scanlo from by legally-enforceable which such a Congress would fighting deals, backed up by the National bring. Industrial Relations Court.

As usual the revisionists follow closely in the wake of the Stalin- Every union leader who votes Last week's of the ists. issue 'yes' to more talks at Downing state capitalist 'Socialist Worker' Street is thus laving the Tory not only declared that Tory infla- game. 'con trick' but called tion was a After the CBI leaders went to for the TUC to stop retreating Downing Street yesterday, it was and start fighting'. made clear that while they are But it consciously avoided any all too willing to take part in the mention of the role of the "lefts' proposed working proposed lot working party ioint the discussions with in the Tories and it made no demand positive to say about their price- for an immediate recall of the restraint policy being continued TUC to deal with these people.

when it runs out at the end of We therefore appeal to every the month worker who wishes to fight this In other words, the employers rotten and corrupt. government: the betravals of these unconditional surrender want Stalinists and revisionists.

Help from the union leaders. make tomorrow's lobby hobby Commite the powerful show strength Economic against all those who are acting meeting is now more vital than Tory arents in the working.

as ever. class movement. The All Trades Unions Alliance has called The TUC must end all talks consistently with the Heath government.

for immediate recall of the How the can present • Recall the TUC immediately.

policies union leaders and between the • Force the Tories to resign.

the Tories be broken unless such a Congress is held and expels all Tuly 10. 1972 INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JULY 11, 1972 • No. 814 • 4p

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Builders march on council

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building workers from a council site marched to Wandsworth head- council quarters yesterday on the first day of their pay strike. The men work for J. Dean (Contractors) Ltd. They were marching in support of the national pay. claim which has brought out more than 180 sites throughout Britain. They also demanded that the council end the lump labour system. Container complaints DETAILS of the complaints which are to be made today in the High Court by Midland Cold Storage became known in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday afternoon.

include intimidation, They breach of statutory duty, wrong- ful procurment of breach of contract and unlawful picketing.

injunction will be sought ordering stewards to stop these activities, plus a declaration that work at the store is not dock work. Damages will also be sought for conspiracy. • See Law Lords hear case, p.12

Cost of living jumps, unions are attacked so Argentine workers take towns: Military in a crisis PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972

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By JOHN SPENCER

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A WAVE of occupations, strikes and militant anti-government demonstrations has thrown the IN Argentine military regime into crisis.

THE

In at least two provincial areas, taken workers have over their towns demanding the resignation

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of provincial governors and an end to the repression against the trade unions.

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yesterday pro- The rocketing cost of living, combined leadina en- with the repressive anti-union measures titled: 'An inquiry needed' The gentlemen down at Printing and growing is leading House Square said: to a head-on clash between the military clear that there must and 'It is now regime powertul Argentine junis made during into the working class. the allegations made On Friday, in at trade sident retaliation, Ale- bankruptcy hearing. jandro froze bank Laliusse less than inquiry Noting accounts and unions demanded toat The with full High Court powers The union had orelene thee out of the political arena will be sufficient.' Curiously, the editorial does not mutary unla wild violent revo- lution' unless they showed menon me name or you know for 'the will of the wno, ine home secretary. yer it respect is no gin one ording. as chair-

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people. Poulson's one of The confrontation followed the take-over of the city of General Maol Comess. wine more than a passing interest in of Koca in the southern province the affair. K10 Nearo. 1 ne local people set up a breakaway 'provisional gov- (Maudling's wife, Beryl, his son, ernment' and broke off relations Martin. and dauchter. Caroline.

were also directors of Poulson WitH provincial mountary directly with outfits.) to deal central government. in Wake: The bankruptcy court They told that more demanded Une resiend- ocen tion Vicente Requijo, £330,000 Than Tees extreme right-wing officer he stre nishan of the Rio Negro.

lavished incilding MPs. various people, kequnjo sent in the sixtn Moun- T. Dan Smith, ex-chairman of the XUAN THUY, head of the tain Brigade North Vietnamese delegation, governments wortner uprising. Economic Development General arrived in Paris yesterday to commander Council, received no less Alberto Numa proclaimed. his prepare for the resumption of £155,000 Did readiness to put down any further Cilaltiall the 'peace' talks on Thursday.

and know about alrectors Manuestallons nicals these payments? possible'. Thuy, who travelled from 'The Times' that 'grave Elsewhere the says A toen ot In. Hanoi via Peking and Moscow allegations have been made. miners took over the LUWIl after consultations with the everybody's interest Malargue Hanoi leaders, province and declared that 'there 'nes initiatives. that allegations should dynamite to blow bringing back enough be investigated as soon as either they the whole localitv it our protests possible that Washington is guardedly hope disposed of or suit- that ful he new talks entire region is strike rouna able action taken.' will lead to following of the Terns the occupation Is The Times' fully aware of the 'sériouș negotiations the prepa-

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health service. survivor He none The Argentine military regime Secretary, the lie the is preparing for a general elec- while 'law-and-order' post, March 1973 and Lanusse admits to possible Hion WaS invesuealitie challenge companies with which he was closely associated. former dictator who has lived shooting for many years in exile in Madrid.

'The Times' can exert its righte- ous inquiry noonaron or ine Counts Sak y economy but it will mean losing their has been badly battered by the beloved Home Secretary, international monetary crisis and KOZO OKAMOTO three-man the sole and the architect of internmen inflating at a rate survivor the Lic Culicucy Is of more than 20 per cent a year.

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It is an attempt to revive the infamous Front of the Popular 1930s which united Socialists, Radicals and Stalinists in sup- THE TRIAL of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, charged ir 'leakage' of connection with the the secret Pentagon Papers was due to open in Los Angeles yesterday. The two men are accused of 'stealing, embezzling and con- verting to their own use' one of the 15 copies of the top-secret history of the Vietnam war. The indictment claims this action DECEMBER 3 has been ten- tatively fixed as the date for a General Election to break the West German parliamentary crisis, according to an official There are indications, how- that the long-awaited ever, imperial attack on the old capital of Hué may begin about the same time as the Paris talks open. has The town been under heavy bombardment from liber- ation artillery in the surround- ing countryside. At the same time, the thrust of the South Vietnamese puppet forces towards Quang Tri, north of Hué, is causing alarm among of the more far-sighted some US advisers. They fear that the light resist- ance so far encountered by the South Vietnamese troops is designed to lead them into a trap and that once in Quang Tri they will be blasted by the liber- ation artillery. port for the government of Leon Blum. It contains the most timid me reformist measures with the aim of diverting workers' militancy perpetuating parliamentary illusions. Since the agreement was drawn up, the Communist Party concentrated on explaining how 'reasonable' it is.

The agreement accepts con- membership of tinued French the Common Market, the Bona- partist system in presidential only slightly modified form and calls for the nationalization of 'key? industries, totalling less than 1 per cent of private capital.

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BSC London workers urged to attend lobby Long steel plant marched against the 100 redundancies due in August.

At a meting held later a calling all resolution workers employed by British Steel Corporation to wage a massive campaign against 'this butchery was passed unanimously. The resolution also de- manded that the Parliament- Labour Party adopt ary policy to restore all damage inflicted by the Tories on the steel industry secretary of the noy hawills. shop committee, who sucw al us moved resoluuOR. accused the BSC management of refusing Refinery picket stays

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expansion scheme, which nearing completion. , you'll sink us! rom the Redpath, Dormer and arched through Greenwich, outing Heath out, in protest incies due in August. to invest in steel and of pursu- ing 'death by policy of a starvation' in the industry. He said: 'The present govern- ment has to go. If they run three years it may be too late.'

In calling for support of the Unions All Trades Alliance the lobby of TUC General Council tomorrow Mr Rawlins said: We are not very happy about the postures and gesticulations of the TUC, especially over the Industrial Relations Act. Even the leaders of our own unions are waffling on the subject.'

Earlier in the meeting Arthur official, had Wellar for a half-day stoppage

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called backed by shopkeepers and local government officials for a mass lobby of parliament. Guy Barnett, Labour MP for Greenwich, expressed concern at the unemployment situation in south east London and said that unless steps were taken 'we may be at the beginning of a des- cending spiral. He had tabled two questions in parliament asking what steps trade secretary John Davies was taking to expand steel markets at home and abroad. He had also seen Lord Melchett and trade union officials. ASSOCIATED Automation, Willesden, London, yesterday joined the fight for the engineers' national pay claim by starting a one-week strike. They have been offered only 90p in reply to the £5 to £6 claim. At Stanmore Queensbury and Wembley, workers locked out over the claim have the engineers' union called on executive for a national 'black' on their company's products.

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Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972 PAGE 3 PRESIDENT of the National Union of Railwaymen Harold McRitchie yesterday attacked British Rail Board chairman Richard Marsh and indicated that his resignation might "restore industrial goodwill.

In his presidential address to the NUR conference at Scar- borough, McRitchie said: It is the present chairman who, during the negotiations, has devalued the currency of indus- ON APRIL 5, mid-way through the rail dispute, NUR general secretary Sir Sidney Greene called on Richard Marsh to intervene to reach a settlement.

He said the unions looked upon Marsh as a 'guardian angel' who might be able to keep the peace.

relations trial at times with Machiavellian deviousness and leads me inescapably to the view that he did not disapprove the government's use of the Act against railwaymen as a means of restoring its credibility lost at the hands of the miners. 'Indeed,' he said, 'the impres- sion persists that negotiations designed to end short of were agreement with a minimal dif- ference between the sides in order that the press, with its scheming capacity for presenting selected information, calculated to draw mentality the mass through preconceived channels, could reveal the railwaymen as deserving blackmailers and of the full rigours of the Act...

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The executive committee Amalgamated of the Union of Engineering Workers referred the engineers' pay claim to local level because they afraid were of being drawn into a struggle together with the miners which could have forced the Tory government to resign. This is the opinion of Brian Hamilton,

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shop steward . at the turbine com- ponent division of Hepworth and Grandages, Yeadon, near Bradford. At a meeting of over 100 AUEW shop stewards in Brad- ford recently, AUEW secretary Jim Conway described him- self openly as 'a right-winger, a pro-Marketeer, and anti- strike. I don't approve of strikes - they don't achieve anything', Conway told the.

stewards. 'With a leadership like that we're not going to make any progress at all, particularly in ousting the Tory government' comments Brian. 'Our factory took part in the one-day strikes against the Industrial Relations Bill and attended the mass meeting that was held in Bradford. That strength could have been mobi- to stop the Bill and it lized could still be mobilized now that people have seen how the Act can be used to send work- ing-class people to jail for fighting for their livelihoods.

It's obvious that the gor- lay dety 11, 1872 ernment would have fallen but for those MPs who voted with the Tories on the Common Market. Jenkins and the others should have been expelled immediately. 'And that goes for Ben Foord, the Bradford MP. Foord should have voted with the policy of the union and the Labour Party. Any MP who is a trade union member and who voted for the Common Market should have been branched and expelled from the union. "The only way to force the Tory Government to resign is by the force of the working class. We should get them out now, and not give them time to rally. 'I don't see that there's any- thing the union can do about the Industrial Relations Act, short of a General Strike.

• "Non-co-operation" sounds good, but when the crunch comes, they can't ignore the Act. The Act itself has got to go. We lost out in the first place by allowing the Act to be passed, but the Labour Party and the unions didn't publicize the effects it would have order to mobilize against it. In March, 1971, there was a move against the Bill, and nd if its consequences had been really explained, there would have been tremendous a response. But people were kept by the Labour in the dark Party and the trade unions.

'The Labour Party didn't really fight; they themselves had . The unions could stop a Labour Party Bill without Top: Swindon engineers from February, the 1971 march on against the Industrial Relations Bill. Above Brian Hamilton.

calling on their members for unions action because the finance the Labour Party. But they couldn't get the Tories to drop their Bill, because it's in the interests of the people who finance the Tory Party to have a Bill against the workers.

'It's the Labour Party who weré the traitors. The Tories aren't traitors to their class. They are not "selling out" the working class-they're carrying out their function. "Their job is to use us for their own benefit. This is the best Tory government the ruling class has ever had.

I think the Councils of Action are a good idea, but the problem is getting participa- tion from Labour Party and trade union members. There has got to be a change in the type of people active in the unions.' The clothing employers have offered a fl-a-week wage increase to date from October and a fur- ther 60p in March 1973 in reply to a claim for da sub- stantial increase' submit- ted by the National Union of Tailors and Gar- ment Workers. The union has rejected this out of hand and was meeting the employers again yesterday.

But the union leaders have avoided committing themselves to fight for a definite sum. At the last NUTGW conference, in June 1971, delegates were persuaded to remit to the executive all resolutions for specific wage claims in order to 'leave their hands free' Resolutions side-stepped in this way included demands for a minimum wage of £20 for 40 hours, a 124p-an-hour rise for men and 15p for women, and a six-monthly review of 5-per-cent wages plus a increase on minimum rates over and above the annual increase in the cost of living.

Last month a town meeting of all Leeds clothing workers called for an increase of £5 a week for men and £6 for women. Leeds No. I branch had already demanded £6 and £7.

An amendment to the town meeting urging a claim of £6 and £7 was defeated by only 94 votes to 73. The amend- ment also declared: If the employers do not meet this demand this meeting expects the executive board to mobilize all clothing workers and to call for assistance from all other workers' 1970 strike: 'a mistake to go back before The vote would have been even closer had not several Communist Party members voted against after an execu- tive board spokesman had warned them 'the mover of this amendment would not deny that he is calling for a General Strike'. The amendment was moved by Frank Pattinson, chairman of shop stewards at Sumries Clothes Ltd. Frank Pattinson told our reporter: 'Nobody expects the union leaders to come back with very much. If they want anything, they've got to fight for it— and that means strike action.

But a strike within the cloth- ing industry would be limited.

'Going back to the big strike of 1970—it was a mistake to go back to work before any- thing had been gained. It paved the way for "split wards" —i.e.

4d (old pence) for men and 5d for women followed by a fur- ther 4d and 5d several months later. 'Last year it was the same— £l in June and 80p in Decem- ber. The cost of living swal- lows up the second part before you've even got it. 'Now the employers are trying it again. One employer in Leeds was openly boasting after the 1970 strike that we'd "scuttled back like frightened rabbits" 'Now the floating pound puts all employers in difficul- ties and as far as I'm con- the clothing cerned workers shouldn't pay for it. 'As recent Workers Press articles have shown, clothing workers have given the work- ing class a lead in the past.

Why shouldn't clothing work- ers do it again?' ick before anything was gained'

FROM THE FIRST COALITION

TO THE SECOND 1964-1970

Part two of a special background series examining the class struggles in Ceylon from 1964 to the present day.

Part two of a special backgrou Coalition between the United National Party (UNP) and the Federal Party was the basis of the Ceylonese government of Dudley Senanayake which came to rule in 1965. • During the period of its power, the UNP devalued the rupee, curtalled partially the rice ration and froze aid to the private sector—causing un- employment among the private sector workers. While applauding warmly these policies the World Bank warned the government about approaching the economic and political problems through old 'democratic' methods. Their "economic advice' included a suggestion to get rid of the old legislature, and to create which tied one was not directly to the masses. Though the UNP right wing, especially J. R. Jayawardena, the need for a presi- raised • dential system in which enor- mous powers are concentrated in the hands of the President, the UNP government retreated in the face of the workers' struggles repeatediy which threatened its very existence.

The government resorted to emergency for a larger part of its rule. But it also relied i on the counter-revolutionary support of the Samasamaja and Stalinist leaders. As loyal 'oppositionists', , they played a far more decisive role than in 1964. The bankruptcy and weak- ness of this rotten capitalist rule was clearly expressed by the UNP's inability to legis- late two important anti-trade the Naticnal union bills: Wages Councils' Bill and the Ramanathan Committee Re- port (in essence these bills are similar to the Industrial Rela- tions Act in Britain). And the wage freeze policy was repeat- edly disrupted by the wages struggles between 1966 and 1969.

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Prevented by the left' leaders from a united struggle against the government, the workers came out in sectional struggles to defend their trade unions and living conditions.

workers' plantation The strike in 1966, the private sec- tor strike in 1969, the public sector strike in 1968 and the co-operative sector strikes in 1969 were the major pay fights in this period. To avoid a major confrontation with the trade unions, the government against its own had to act wage freeze policy to give concessions some mild these strikers. In 1968 in the middle of the public workers wage battle, the leader of the state, J. R. Jayawardena clearly stated it was not merely an economic strike but one that posed a grave threat to the state and private property.

What the position of was the 'left' leaders? The 'Sama- samaja' paper in one of its editorials stated: 'The strike be settled, without should provoking more and more sections of the working class into the fight.' But in 1969, when the UNP ackground series examining the class tried to use emergency powers to break the oil co-operative strike, the whole trade union movement pushed the 'left' leaders to take up the fight for a General Strike to defend the trade unions. Instead they organized protest demon- strations and rallies and asked workers to vote for the coalition government in the next General Election to safe- guard the trade unions. But in the face of the mounting working-class resist- ance, the UNP withdrew their plans to legislate the two pro- posed anti-union bills. While the 'left' leaders were fighting to contain the work- ing class within trade union struggles, all the other sections of the oppressed masses moved against the UNP, on the questions of living conditions and demo- cratic rights.

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ACCUSED

Exploiting the division between the proletariat and peasantry created by the the 'left' leaders, the UNP tried to build a base in rural areas 'food - drive' through its campaign and often accused the workers of destroying the national income created by the peasantry. But these fraudulent manoeuvres failed because the UNP gave nothing to the peasantry. The enormous radicalization of rural poor against the UNP regime which was abandoned completely by the 'lefts', , who tried to keep the working class confined to the trade union struggles, found its expression through the emergence of extreme petty-bourgeois move- ments and through electoral support for the SLFP. The same thing happened in the northern and eastern provinces. The Tamil minor- ities, realizing their position, pushed the Federal Party to end the compromise with the UNP. So the FP member who served in the UNP cabinet, Mr Tiruchelvam, was forced to resign from his post in the last year of the government.

As the UNP went to the polls in 1970 all the sections of society were about to launch a direct assault on the govern- ment. Realizing the danger of an eruption of mass struggles before the elections, the 'left' launched a campaign against various 'provocative' actions which were supposed to dis- rupt the democratic set-up of the country and allowed the UNP to establish dictatorship.

Each and every independent action of the working class and the youth was branded as a 'provocation' During the port strike, which took place a few months before the elections, the LSSP unions openly black-legged and joined with the UNP gov- ernment to disrupt the strike.

The consequences were very serious. Workers rebelled against the LSSP leadership and some voted against their candidates in the Colombo municipal election held during the port strike. A long-standing ISSP member for Mahawatta (where a large section of port workers are concentrated), Mrs Vivenne Goonewardene faced defeat at the hands of the he class struggles in Ceylon from 1!

Above: following the port strike of 1970, workers rebelled against their leaders. Mrs Vivenne Goone- wereet. Right: N. SS. Perera.

LSSPer, faced UNPers. This clearly showed, how the capitalist agents gained ground due to the reformist treachery of the 'lefts'.

• But the "lefts' interpreted this defeat as a result of the 'provocative' and 'premature' actions by the workers. By sabotaging the indepen- dent actions of the workers, the 'left' leaders bound the masses to the SLFP. At the same time they gave promises to the workers that the coming SLFP coalition would restore all basic rights as a first step towards 'socialist democracy'.

In this way they laid the foundation for a massive SLFP election victory. Their betrayal was so great that the SLFP won two-thirds of seats in the parliament.

All power of the cabinet was concentrated among right- wing

SLFP

members. The 'lefts' got four ministerial posts, but they were incompar- able with the positions they held during the 1964 coalition.

example, the public administration, which was pre- viously tied to the finance ministry, was separated and N. M. Perera got only the portfolio for finance, while public administration went to Felix Bandaranaike. The SLFP government of 1970 had more support than the pathetic coalition of 1964.

To the same extent it was much more arrogant towards the unions. This class arro- gance was interpreted by the 'lefts' as its 'modesty', because Mrs Bandaranaike, having an enormous majority inside the did not exclude parliament, • her cabinet! them from

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 197

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

The establishment of the National Health Service in 1948 by the post-war Labour government rep- resented an enormous victory for the British working class. It laid the basis for ensuring better health and longer life for millions of men, women and children. In all the great struggles for the unions and for im- of living and provements the de- working conditions, mand was raised again and again for the protection of health and life, regardless of money working the amount of people could afford. The Socialist Medical Asso- ciation has been an active campaigner for a comprehen- sive national health service since its foundation in 1930.

To celebrate its first 40 years, Dr D. Stark Murray, SMA until President from 1951 1970, has outlines the history of the movement. 'Why a National Health Service?' reveals the all idealism and concern of the professional who scientist wants to place his abilities and training at the service of society, as well as the politi- cal weaknesses of the middle classes who themselves see fighting as individuals and not as part of the working class in struggle. Many doctors at the begin- ning the century were watching in despair the effects on the health of their patients of the conditions under which thousands of many poor families lived. All their hard work and dedication was being undermined by the appalling day-to-day conditions working-class life. Instead of curing and eliminating disease and prolonging life, they were engaged in constant and hopeless battle to patch up human bodies destined to be- damaged again and come again. addition, In enthusiastic young men who had trained for many years in order to alleviate suffering, found them- hours trying selves spending to collect money from people who were unable to pay and competing with each other for 'business' instead of collabor- ating scientifically against disease. As a result, doctors were reluctant to practise in the poorer areas and a survey undertaken in 1912 showed in which the bad the way distribution of doctors con- tributed to the death rates: Hampstead had one doctor to 476 people, a birth rate of 14 per 1,000, an infantile death rate of 60 and a death rate from infectious diseases of 0.56; Walsall had one doc- tor to 2,096 people, a birth rate of 29, an infantile death rate of -133 and a death rate from infectious diseases of ruesday ly 11, 1972 1.52; Bermondsey had one doctor to 4,065, a birth rate of 31, an infantile death rate of 157 and a death rate from infectious diseases of 3.93.

Writing in 1910, Dr Benja- Liverpool min Moore longed for a time when 'book- keeping, debt collections and bad debts would have vanished like an evil dream, and the doctor would at last feel that he was an honoured member of a scientific profession, with time and interest to study the problems which he had chosen for his life work, instead of being, as he is now, a small with a declining tradesman business'. Many years ahead of his time, Dr Moore called for 'a scientific and continued real endeavour to deal with the problems of poverty and disease in a way that means eradication from the race and of note merely amelioration the lot of the individual.

He outlined a scheme for a national service, preventive and curative, in which all doc- tors would be salaried in a 'unified system of hospitals no longer in and doctors deadly opposition to one another but working for a common cause: in short a modern machine and weapon of warfare against disease, in- and stead fragmentary of survivals motley museum from antiquity.

VOICE IN

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WILDERNESS

Dr Moore's was a voice crying in the wilderness at that time, but his ideas had a profound effect on a handful of other doctors and he was able to found the State Medi- cal Service Association in 1912 to work for a 'service to be to every man, woman open and child-rich and poor The SMSA thought that if could sufficient convince right-minded people to sup- port its aims, the government could be persuaded to grant such a service without a poli- tical struggle having to be undertaken to achieve it.

George's famous Lloyd National Health Insurance System, introduced in 1911, however, did not arise from propaganda of right- minded people, but out of the whole ferment in the labour and trade union movement. The formation of the Labour Party at the beginning of the century forced sections of the ruling class consider to making various concessions to the working class in an effort to hold back the struggle for real power. The National Health Insur- ance System, of course, was limited to as little as the government felt it had to con- cede. Only general practitioner care and drugs were covered, and then only for those at work who were paying weekly stamps and who were on low incomes. World War I gave an impe- tus to the SMSA's work. Many doctors returned from the front, having had direct ex- in a perience of working salaried medical service, to "customers' find that their were on the dole and unable to afford their fees. growing de- To head off mands, the post-war govern- a Ministry of ment set up Health, which immediately set about drawing up a report.

Many

SMSA

members thought their task was now and membership began done to fall off. But when it was eventually published, the report was quite different from what the SMSA had hoped for. It accepted the 'the best means principle that maintaining and health curing disease should be made available to all citizens', but put forward no proposals for achieving this fine idea. In- deed, the main SMSA demand, a full-time salaried medical service, was explicitly rejected on the grounds that 'by its adoption the public would be serious losers ... whole time salaried service would tend by discourage machinery to initiative, to diminish the sense of responsibility and to encourage mediocrity'. The General Strike of 1926 polarized the whole of British Large numbers of society. middle-class people scabbed on the strike and helped to break it, but others saw the who struggle and the poverty and suffering that followed its de- work for feat determined to a better and more equitable society. This was the time when many professional people turned to the Labour Party in horror at the misery they wit- nessed and the ruthless greed of the capitalist class. They the need for a political saw solution, but they turned to Labour at a time of working- class defeat. They saw the working class not as an inde- pendent force capable of over- throwing capitalism and estab- lishing socialism, but as poor, downtrodden people whose lot they hoped to be able to better. For them, the struggle for socialism was not through the heightening of the class struggle and the expropriation but a of the capitalist class, wonderful ideal for the future which would come about gradually by well-meaning people like themselves doing their bit to make capitalist society more humane. best elements in the The SMSA began to realize that a political struggle would be achieve their to necessary aims. • Affected by develop- ments in the labour move- ment, they began to press for an organization which would be affiliated to and work through the Labour Party.

The Socialist Medical Asso- ciation was founded in 1930 in order: for a Socialized To work Medical Service both prevent- and ive and curative, free open to all. • To secure for the people the highest possible standard of health. • To disseminate the prin- ciples of socialism within the medical and allied services.

It became active very arranging meetings, providing speakers, drawing up reports, issuing leaflets and articles. It attempted to establish rela- tions with the trade union movement. A number of its members were elected as Labour MPs.

INTERNATIONAL

AID

TEAMS

Differences in political ideas caused endless discussions and splits in the SMA. When Sir Oswald Moseley formed his 'New Party, some of his strongest supporters came from the SMA, although he failed to drag it entirely away from the Labour Party. The organization also be- inter- very involved came aiding refugees nationally, from fascist Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, collecting money for the fight against Franco in Spain and against invasion of the Japanese China, and even sending medi- cal units to both Spain and complete with doctors, China, and specially equipped nurses vehicles. collaborated They with various international medical bodies and close contacts were maintained with medical the USSR. organizations in During the 1930s many middle-class intellectuals were under the influence of the Communist Party and sections of the SMA were no exception, others bitterly although opposed them. Stalin-Hitler Pact, The which threw so many 'lefts' into political disarray, height- ened this split. At the 1940 Annual Conference a resolu- tion was moved which sup- ported the Russian position, and several amendments were tabled German opposing fascism. Conference voted in favour of the resolution, in opposition to the official Labour Party position, but it vas later decided to hold a postal ballot of all members and as a result the resolution was heavily defeated. With the outbreak of World War II all the 'socialists' in the leadership of the Labour Party and trade union move- ment immediately forgot their internationalism and were wholeheartedly engaged soon in the war effort. The SMA swung into line behind them. Questions war-time nutrition, the evacua- tion of children and the danger of tuberculosis in war time conditions were all explored.

'Better food for the workers means increased man-power' argued an article in the SMA Journal, 'Medicine Today and Tomorrow', and added that it was not a case of guns in- stead of butter, but of against more guns out of providing butter of the and other foods to those in ciation the munitions industry. main tl When the Minister of general Health estimated that 'possibly better-‹ a quarter of a million casual- of ord ties would have to be dealt favour with in England within three service. weeks of the outbreak of a A B immediately war, the SMA that 6 began advizing him how to voting deal with them, general proposing: nore bomb-proof shelters and or all. that hospitals be organized as favour a single service to cope with hospita air raid casualties. vice, 8. The overwhelming electoral the ar majority given to the Labour work i government after the war en- the wa sured that changes would have medica to be made in the running of favour society. The working class was Thus such changes and demanding ment h the Labour leaders were under from but als enormous pressure to comply.

of the The introduction fession National Health Service was a the ner priority. But The National Health Service Labour has been described as 'one of unwilli the great achievements of the capitali 20th century'. Somewhat of an spite of course, when exaggeration, gıven compared to, say the complete electior overthrow of the capitalist willing class in the Russian Revolu-

BMA (

tion for example, but neverthe- Dr Aneuri less, in its own right, no small Health achievement. first time in For the the BN the Britain principle was to mo established that everyone, re- goes 01 gardless of income, phere en- was titled to every necessary medi- were cal care as a right. The basis moves had been laid for a longer and Bevan healthier life for everyone and not gri the eradication of disease.

make In establishing the National the pas Service, however, the Health It Labour government came up strange Above: nterests modern operating 1 Asso- theatre If the Tories have their way the enormous advances in in the the Health Service will be wiped ints and out. in the rhetoric, Bevan remained tied majority to reformism and finished his were in career by shocking his erst- f health when he while supporters openly opposing came out showed disarmament f those unilateral betrayal The greatest ir of a was the decision not to establish service salaried were in whole time Ser- vice. Private practices te free were allowed to continue within the int ser- ctors in National Health Service and nted to £66m was offered to the pro- fession for re after as compensation the buying cent of the abolition of and selling of practices.

ere in Private pay-beds continued res. NHS hospitals. govern- to exist in occupational not only There was no ulation, health service, the setting up of health centres and group cal pro- delayed with all laboratories was indefinitely. No mention was eformist made of the nationalization of the drug industry which could s were ge the -and does-continue to milk wer, in millions of pounds from the mandate health service each year.

le 1945 Within a year the govern- ment was already cutting the ere un- ully the amount of money to be spent on health and the SMA began drawing attention to the dis- es that the spending ster of parity between re in to on defence and on health.

A year after the introduc- em time tion of legislation to provide ces. He free medical care for all, the • atmos- first proposals for the imposi- people at new tion of prescription charges SMA cam- ge that were made. The nd did paigned vigorously, but unsuc- inity to cessfully, against them. They welcomed ak with had the introduction of the NHS, but pointed out its weaknesses and course, continued to urge the govern- his 'left' Workers Press, Tues ment to do more. They were shocked to find the govern- ment in fact doing less. The BMA, however, was no longer kicking hard very against the National Health Service. The retention of private practices, as well as a guaranteed regular income to consultants working part- time within the hospital, was proving very lucrative. In addition, Merit the Award System was introduced which gives consultants secret bonuses. Specialists in the main hospitals are graded so that about one-third become eligible for Merit Awards. This system was accepted by Bevan on the basis that the scheme would only about cost £300,000 a year. however, The SMA, was able to point out correctly this only that took into account specialists in muni- cipal hospitals. If all the others were included, as was in fact done, the cost would be about £2m more. However, if full- time consultants were employed instead part-time, of there would be a saving of £12m a year. Anxious not to antagonize the BMA more than necessary, Bevan ignored these warnings and millions of pounds are today paid out in Merit Awards. The refusal of the Labour government to introduce the changes demanded sweeping by the working class in 1945 opened the door for the return of the Tories in 1951. One of their first actions was to draw up proposals for cutting back on the health service.

CAMPAIGN

AGAINST

HEALTH CUTS

The SMA was pitched into a national campaign against the cuts. Protest meetings and petitions were conducted over the country, but to little avail. The Editor of 'Medicine and Tomorrow was Today moved to write bitterly ('pes- simistically' Dr Murray calls It is clear that Health Centres, an Industrial Health Service, proper arrangements for the aged and chronic sick, a prompt attack on tuber- culosis and other advances depend on the early defeat of this present Conservative gov- ernment. the Labour But Party, which when in government had introduced the first pres- cription charges, had no real alternative policy to offer. A resolution carried unanimously at its 1961 annual conference calling for the abolition of health charges and the natio- nalization of all pharmaceu- surgical and hospital tical, industries was promptly for- gotten when Labour returned to power in 1964. Another resolution at the calling for conference same the abolition of pay-beds in hospitals was narrowly defeated when Bessie Braddock pleaded that the hands of the future Labour government could not be tied in this way.

The Labour Party NEC con- tinued, year after year, to oppose resolutions calling for the abolition of pay-beds.

With a Labour government again in office, the 1967 Labour Party conference heard Bessie Braddock promising that 'no Labour government is going to rebuild the financial barrier between the sick and medical facilities which can make them well again'. As Dr Murray says: 'This pledge was broken almost at once and the SMA found itself once more fighting to prevent a prescription charge.' There was almost universal condemnation of the proposed charge and Murray points out that its only effect was to lower still further the prestige Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972 PAGE 7 of a government which, it was clear, could not be expected to carry out a socialist policy if it could so far forget the 'basic principles which social- ists had laid down for the health service'. Today, the Tory government again cutting is once the amount of money spent on the health service. In order to make the working class pay for the crisis in world capi- talism, the Tories are attempt- ing to take away all the basic rights which have been won in generations of struggle. The right to health and life is the most basic of all human rights.

It they get their way, the enormous advances in health which have taken place since the war will be wiped out.

They will not, after all, pay out millions of pounds merely to keep people healthy on the dole. Doctors will once again be reduced to • the position ot "small tradesmen with a declin- ing business'. Science today has the ability to deal with a whole range of illnesses, such as tuber- culosis, which only a few were considered years ago With the fatal. invariably money and facilities to enable researchers to carry out the work properly, these and many other diseases could, in a very short time, be completely overcome. Instead, what research is carried out is either so finan- cially handicapped as to make progress painfully slow, or else turned into its opposite.

skills of The abilities and scientists are prostituted and their work turned into the most vile means of destruc- tion, such as in chemical and biological warfare research.

In addition, overcrowded and slum housing, homeless- ness, unemployment and speed- ups at work are all creating their own quotas of mental a physical illnesses and acci- dents. The defence of the National Health Service is the defence of one of the most important working-class rights. Its exten- sion to include the nationaliza- drug tion of the and other allied industries, the abolition of all charges and of private practices and pay-beds, the establishment of the medical profession on a whole time the building, salaried basis, equipping and stafing of health centres and group practices and • laboratories and more hospitals, proper facilities for the care and treatment of the chronically ill, the aged and and physically mentally disabled, as well as decent housing preventive measures in industry-all these advances are dependent on the fight to remove the Tory gov- ernment from office. Only a revolutionary leader- ship in the working class can ensure that this fight is car- ried through and to ensure that the next Labour govern- ment carries out such policies.

Dr Murray, for all his con- can give no such per- cern, spective. All he can suggest to answer the Tories' attacks is that 'there should be a special- ist body inside the Labour Party, looking after all aspects of health and endeavouring to see socialist principles more firmly applied and adhered to more strongly'. Those doctors and other health workers who under- stand that the battle against disease cannot be separated from the fight for socialism, cannot remain, like the SMA, firmly tied to the coat tails of the Labour Party with its history of betrayals. A new leadership has to be built in the working class which will not compromise with reaction- ary elements. Only the building of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party, leading the working class take power, can ensure the forma- tion of 'a modern machine and against weapon of warfare disease'.

Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920. They were sentenced to die in the electric chair April 9, 1927 and that sentence was carried out a few minutes after midnight on August 22, 1927. In the course of those seven years, one of the most glaring exposés of the Reprinted from the 'Bulletin' (April 3, 1972), organ of the Workers League of US. By Nancy Fields.

SACCO AND VANZETTI

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday July 1 Sacco and Vanzetti were arres carried out a few minutes afte nature of capitalist justice is r Part 3. The Red Scare The second front of the govern- ment's strategy against the working class in the 1914-1918 period involved the whipping up of racialism, national chauvinism and patriotism. These forces were unleashed not only to effect the conscrip- tion of workers to fight a but more . ruling-class war, working class itself. The first target of these forces were the immigrants.

Between 1897-1914 over 10 million people had come to the US from southern and eastern Europe. The government whipped out the myth that the American "racial stock' was being diluted by Latins and Slavs in order to justify the passage of racialist anti-immi- gration legislation. Thus, in 1917, an Immi- gration Commission appointed by Congress gave allegiance to the notion of 'Nordic superi- ority. A law was passed barring Asians, Indians and people from the south west Pacific entry to the US. Literacy tests were established and a strict quota system enforced. day July 11, 1972 re arrested on May 5, 1920. They tes after midnight on August 22, 1.

ice is revealed. Reprinted from the The capitalist press used patriotism to create an atmos- phere of hysteria over 'aliens' as being spies for the enemy.

This hysterical, jingoistic atmosphere was created for one purpose only: to provide excuse for attacks on an immigrants and to divide the working class. The government and the press joined together to pave the way for the growth and expansion of the fascist Ku Klux Klan. The Klan served the interests of the capitalists and very well by attacking murdering union organizers in the South and Midwest. • Patriotism was used by inspired mobs of "patriots' to attack workers' organizations.

In 1918-1919 300 over workers' halls were raided by these fascist goons. Throughout the war, social- ists were imprisoned and hundreds of rank-and-file workers were thrown into prison, for their simply opinions and activities in the Labour labour movement. were ruthlessly sup- papers pressed or intimidated out of existence. They were sentenced to die in the st 22, 1927. In the course of those s om the 'Bulletin' (April 3, 1972), orga Furthermore, as Max Shacht- man noted: 'Many of those who escaped and conviction under arrest the vicious Espionage Act, were dealt with by silk-hatted bands of thugs who meted out "justice" in the dark of the moon with tar, feathers, horse- whip and pistol. 'Not a single instance of a real crime was ever proved against these victims at home of the war for democracy; it sufficed that their activities had earned the enmity of the ex- ploiters.' these measures However, were not sufficient to stop the determined march forward of the working class. In 1919, a General Strike brought ruling class of Seattle to its knees. In Chicago, ten Com- munist Party had form- ally launched and proclaimed its support of the Russian Revolution and the principles of Bolshevism. It became necessary to create more extreme measures defeat the labour movement destroy its most and to conscious and energetic forces.

It was now absolutely imper- ative to lay the basis for the e in the electric chair April 9, 1927 those seven years, one of the most 2), organ of the Workers League of 'open shop' offensive, the lowering of the rate of wages which had risen during the war and to smash the trade unions.

Thus, the stage was set for a 'Red Scare'. The campaign developed under the was direction of Attorney General Palmer. The brutal Palmer raids were made on hundreds of headquarters, meeting places and homes of so-called 'Reds' throughout the country. Wholesale arrests and de- portation of aliens and citizens were made without warrant or process of law. People were jailed and held without access to friends or counsel. Homes were entered without search warrants and property either seized or destroyed. Palmer invoked the familiar machinery of provocation and malicious propaganda. Bombs ridiculously and desperate leaflets were distributed by agents provocateur. It is clear that this was done for, as Shachtman noted: "The bombs never hurt any- one seriously, and the com- bined efforts of the entire police and detective forces of the country were unable-to he this day-to fasten the 9, 1927 and that sentence was le most glaring exposés of the ague of US. By Nancy Fields.

The Ku Klux Klan attacked workers' organizations and mur- dered union organizers in a brutal racialist campaign against immigrants and the working class in general. responsibility for them upon a single individual' On November 7, 1919, hundreds of labour 1 meetings and headquarters were raided.

All the offices were wrecked and the men and women taken to New York to be placed on the 'Buford' ('Soviet Ark'). The deportees forced to were leave their families behind in a destitute condition. On January 2, 1920, the most massive raid was con- ducted in Sacco and Vanzetti's neighbouring area. The raids were particularly intense in Massachusetts because it was highly industrialized, had a large proportion of foreign- born workers, and a credible radical movement. Galleani, the leader of those circles to which Sacco and Vanzetti belonged, was de- ported along with hundreds of other workers.

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THE RED-BAITERS WORKERS

Perhaps you have heard the story already? About the schoolboy who came home late for tea, and shocked his parents by bringing home with him •.. a copy of a left-wing paper! If you live in England, then remember, it all happened in Liverpool. But by June 25, when the Scottish 'Sunday Post' came up with its version of the chill- ing tale, the boy, aged 17, and his distraught parents, appear to have moved to Glasgow. We will let the 'Sunday Post' reporter take up the story: 'A 17-year-old Glasgow schoolboy was late for tea. He came home with a newspaper mother had never heard his of. ... A left-wing publica- tion preaching revolution and the overthrow of our way of living.' Terrifying, isn't it? Not only, it seems, is some dastardly group of conspirators engaged in a sinister plot to overthrow Scotland's way of living-with its hallowed traditions of low unemployment and wages, slums — but the villains are actually corrupting innocent 17-year-old lads with their ideas! 'It turned out her son had stayed on after school to attend a discussion group held by one of his teachers.' "They'd been asked to give their opinions on various topics - the Common Market, Ire- land, Vietnam. 'Afterwards her son was given the newspaper. 'Just one instance of a sin- ister new influence creeping into our schools and colleges.'

It really is sinister, isn't it?

That the youth of Glasgow, who are well-known for their sheltered nature and tender, upbringing, should be exposed to such dreadful influences and activities! 'Asked to give their opin- ions..? indeed! Why, at this rate the next thing you know is that the young people will be coming out of school expecting to have some say in the running of their country, expressing their opinions on things like unemployment and expecting exploitation, even to have some say in the run- ning of their everyday life, by having their opinions taken into account in the running of the factories. The 'Sunday Post' tells its supposedly—horrified readers that there are ' .. disturbing signs that secondary schools and technical colleges are being infiltrated. "The Sunday Post has infor- mation of at least two schools in the south of Glasgow where there are avowed Marxists on the staff. The same holds for some technical colleges.'

Like the 'Daily Mail' article, which its opening closely resembled, the 'Sunday Post' article is particularly con- cerned with the alleged activi- ties of the International Socialism group. But whereas the 'Mail' writer was able to spice his article with a num- ber of quotes from IS mem- who ful in this respect, the 'Sunday Post' reporter appears to have contented himself with the sort of information which could have been quickly and easily obtained by glancing at the back of a copy of the IS weekly paper 'Socialist Work- er'. He reports the IS London address, and that they have

OF SCOTLAND

Dranches in in the article. The the and League 'Another reckoned are on their books. "They Then after about the 'exploiting day Post' branches The to refer to two schools Glasgow' in wrong The there 'Often, teachers staff which known

HOW

general studies. 'One example, of week ma tonic Or piece: "That the technique. 'They of youngsters tnem to stay discussions. tor That's time. 'Pamphlets fifth and are often more apprentices

ICECO

etC., are certain towns in the paper. It is only factual material• 10ols Action Union Communist ce thrown in for ure, and the 'Sunday e also says: revolu- cal calle up, tie ırolskyisls. have to as 0,000 teenagers and ple in this country organize football ampine expeditions, some remarks Schools Action Edinburgh, allegedly grievances' and › trouble' the 'Sun- article goes on to group are planning and ch for young people Glasgow plications of an this are quite plain that left-wing e stopped; and to Marxists' he staff of 'at least the south such a manner as that there is some- with them being their jobs. of the ist' article are tha something sinister political education converted e in that group of handle subjects modern for studies, ns. or- choice hemselves speak of "such t teacher as who seems to put across fairly". turally is part of the confidence and encourage ay on after school vhen most damage the teachers' own produced alre freely among sixth form pupils. 1 activities such as cieties can form the ecruiting campaign. plot goes schoois too accord. just left school More and who send technica co- ay-release courses, worried influence I fellow students.' npanies are finding the apprentices are returning to the factory full of revolu- tionary ideas which help foment trouble' So there we have it. The employers want the youth as a reservoir of obedient, cheap labour, turned out from the schools and colleges with the right indoctrination to serve the boss, docilely and loyally, and ask no questions. The youth leaving school are said to be 'at risk' Not from the dangers of unem- ployment and demoralization, being exploited or as sweated labour, or from join- ing the army because they mis- takenly think it is a way out, but from the danger of pick- ing up ideas which will encour- age them to demand some- thing better from life, and to take up the struggle for it.

That a newspaper owned by D. C. Thomson and Co. should consider this a threat to 'our way of life' is hardly surpris- ing. Although many of Thom- son's publications give Fleet Street or retter Lane addresses, the real centre for their production is at Dundee has two big The company office buildings in the centre of the city, and a large photo- gravure plant on the Kingsway bypass, to the east of the city.

An article in 'New Society' (November 19, 1970) by a journalist formerly who worked for the firm, said: 'If ever there was a non- union shop it is D. C. Ihom- son & Co.' The journalist, George Rosie, also says: 'Wages and condi- tions inside the firm are, gen- erally, pretty bad, especially in the lower reaches. My starting wage (in 1963) was around £10 a week, which meant that I took away just over £8. My what is wife, who was doing everywhere else National a Union of Journalists job, was earning £6 10s a week after four years with the firm.'

Early in 1970, a Sunday Post' man John Duckworth, was sacked a few days after he had joined the NUJ. He was given half an hour to leave the building, and as he was still there 35 minutes later, the police were brought in to escort him out. Of the 'Sunday Post's' own politics, Rosie says: "Thomson can be relied upon to support the Royal Family, free enterprise, Rhode- sia, and common sense, and to against socialism, fulminate strikes, demonstrators, Harold Wilson, long-haired layabouts and fluoridation, with stead- fast fierceness.' The 'sinister plot' article in 'Sunday Post' says, in the drawing its conclusions: 'Every parent should have a good look at what his teenage son, or daughter, is reading weekend.' this Does this include D. C. Thomson publi- cations?

THE FIRM D. C. THOMSON:

'If ever there was a non-union firm, it is D. C. Thomson and Co. Ever since the General Strike of 1926 it has been fighting a spasmodic and suc- cessiul rearguard action against the unions' - George Rosie, 'New Society', November 19, 1972.

THOMSON PUBLICATIONS:

Twinkle, Topper, Hotspur, Beano, Romeo, Jackie, Victor, Hor- Bunty, Mandy, net, Rover, Judy, Diana, People's Friend, Red Letter, My Weekly, Sun- Dundee Courier, day Post, Evening Telegraph. The company also owns some 24,833 'B' shares in Southern Television. Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972 PAGE 9 nationally wanted sex maniac.

News hesitates reader and wanted face of man dis- A spokesman for appears.

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the state-run televi- sion network, says later that it was 'a technical slip up made by one of the technicians'.

There's an epoch-making court has just drama which caught our attention. Lawyer Yitz- hak David is asking the Israeli Supreme Court to state why it would not issue a decree declaring that Jesus did not receive a fair trial when he appeared before the Supreme Jewish Court Jerusalem in about 2,000 The years ago. supreme court is now looking into the case. British PM, Heath Call the Holy Ghost! In recent cartoon in the Express' Edward Heath 'Daily was depicted on the telephone saying: 'Is that the wages office? Could I have my salary in pesetas, please' Pretty droll joke, we thought. But not in Spain. It seems that for the next two days the radio and newspapers were full of the most sober reports tha* Spanish currency was the filet and most solid in the world. 'Even the British Prime Minister wants his salary in pesetas, the media declared.

Reg Birch The Maoists throughout the Lucas combine should be well pleased. Their bosses are cur- function rently hosting one the another after for chair- man's trade counsellor in Bri- tain. At the Royal Lancaster Hotel on Bayswater Road Mr Peng Jun-min was greeted at an elaborate and costly recep- tion organized by the 48 Group of British Traders. There 21 Chinese were guests including Mr Feng You- French PM, Messmer lu, member of the governing Picture the The draw- council of the China scene. Mech- ing room of an average bour- anical Engineering Society. geois French family last week.

Was Reg Birch there? Or Mike The telly is on. The announcer Cooley? This we don't know. is detailing the new cabinet But we do know that the formed Prime Minister by Chinese delegation was later Pierre Messmer. lunched by Mr Ewan McEwen, As he their names, vice-chairman (engineering) of says their photographs come on to Josenh Lucas recently who the screen. visited Peking with Mr Murray Suddenly, however, the Gramer, vice-chairman (over- photograph of a seas operations) Joseph Lucas.

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Name Address Federation secretary Les Tom- linson, in proposing the mati of revealed that 200 members his own Sherwood Association had already pledged not to pay.

But the local 'Evening Post' last week carried a warning by leader Alderman Eric Foster: carried out the action they propose they will find themselves up against the law. We believe in law and order.' So far not a single Labour councillor has opposed this reactionary invitation to the carry out reprisals Tories to against the tenants. But the reaction from tenants' leaders has been rapid and sharp. Mr R. Coward of the New Radford Association, who chaired week's tenants' meeting last said: 'If Alderman Foster doesn't in do something for the tenants this city he will find himself in the hot seat. 'We would sooner prefer the present council to help us. And if they change their views..we ENGINEERS at the CAV components factory, Acton, London, are due to strike next Monday for their unions' national pay claim. But there is growing criticism of the factory leadership's failure explain the issues claim, or to mobilize practical support for laboratory workers who are in the third week of a pay sit-in. It is felt that the right-wing convenors would like to put the management's last offer of £2.70 to a vote with the alternative of either accept or strike. Such a move would meet with widespread opposition, however. CAV is part of the Lucas combine and Lucas work- in Birmingham have been ers offered much bigger sums.

Only one group in the factory has so far failed to back the joint shop stewards' committee's policy of dropping departmental claims to press the national policy. Last week 200 work engineers abandoned a departmental claim.

The storekeepers, however, still insist that they are the lowest- Paid workers at Acton and are pressing ahead. The laboratory dispute now involves skilled workers in model shop, electrical labs, diesel labs, proving labs and engine and pump-test departments. Many Nottingham people thought these they first appeared opposite the city's : wooden barracks have been provided | will give them support. But Fos- ter's statement was not called for, especially since the Sheffield working party has not yet reported. 'The Labour councillors must come out into the open and declare a policy-they must not hide behind the law. 'You only have to see what an ass the industrial relations law has proved to be. 'We are hoping to involve local trade unionists in our struggle as much as we can.'

With no less than three Lab- our councillors sitting on the works committee of the giant Raleigh bicycle factory in Rad- ford, this is going to be one of the key questions of the day.

Malcolm Wakefield a Transport and General Workers' Union shop steward at Raleigh a tenant on the council's new Crabtree Farm Estate.

'The question of Councils of Action is raised', he told Work- ers Press, 'because tenants' asso- ciations on their own can only protest. 'A Council of Action must bring everybody in. "The shows its movement ENGLAND'S Post Offices are not doing enough to tell old people about benefits to which they may be entitled, claims a report pub- lished yesterday. The conclusion was arrived at by Age Concern after 100 spot- checks carried out by volunteers in different parts of the coun- Director of Age Concern try. David Hobman said that the Post Office is an ideal local place' to tell old people about their rights. Yet, although. most of the offices visited supplied leaflets about pensions, supplementary two-thirds to produce failed leaflets about dental treatment.

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The currency crisis and the working class EAST LONDON: Tuesday July 11, 8 p.m. "Aberfeldy', Aber- feldy Street, E.14. (nr Black- wall Tunnel). 'Build Councils of Kirkgate. Action'. NEWARK: Wednesday July 12, 'Rutland', Newark 7.30 p.m. 'Fight redundancies. Build Councils of Action.' NORTH LONDON: Thuraday July 13, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Rd, (nr White Hart Lane). SOUTHALL: Thursday July 13, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Bridge Road WANDSWORTH: Thursday July 13, 8 p.m. Balham Baths, Elm- field Make the Tories Rd. CROYDON: Monday July 17, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe 'Build the revolutionary Rd. party? ight these were contractors' huts when he city's Sneinton Market. In fact these provided by the council for pensioners.

but weakness, the right-wing and centrist leader- ship. 'If Saltley depot could hap- pen spontaneously, then this is strength of the the enormous working class. But I think there is much in the more involved £l rent increase than just eco- nomics. 'Has anybody looked at the opposite? is showing This up sharply in the bankruptcy of the recognized leadership. Every time the Tory government has forced withdraw been to because it is not strong enough to carry out its aims, this lead- ership has rushed in to save it.

weak, 'But if the Tories are the Labour Party leadership is dead, because it is willing to let in the rent increases and the pauperization they will cause.'

The T&GWU branch the at Plessey Telecommunications site at Beeston has pointed the way by calling for the setting up of a Council of Action in the area.

Now Malcolm Wakefield plans to campaign for a similar call from the Raleigh shop stewards' committee. Post Offices should also display leaflets and posters telling people how to claim benefits, the report said. Only half the offices visited had posters or leaflets on : dis- play and none displayed all the leaflets which old people might need, claimed Mr Hobman. London offices were particu- larly unsatisfactory._Of 13 East London principal Post Offices, had all the leaflets none requested; nine did not have envelopes for supplementary pen- sions claims and eight had no leaflets on display.

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'Stalinism and the Tory gov- ernment.' W LONDON: Tuesday July 18, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfe- dale Road, Kings Cross. 'Stalinism and the Tory govern- ment.' N KENT: Tuesday July 18, 8 House,

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Action comprising all sec- tions of the labour and trade union movement was launched on Sunday with a for the mandate to prepare fight to force the Tories out.

A committee of 12 was elected unanimously to pre- of action pare a programme for the council's next meeting.

The talk of conciliation between the Heath govern- ment and the TUC leaders was smokescreen to cover the Tories' real plans, insisted Trades Council secretary Vivienne Mendelson in opening the meeting. 'If they agree on Wednes- day co-operate in this TO A section of the audience : smokescreen, it will be valu- able time lost to the working class, she said. "The union leaders must be called to account for these policies.

'We must also call to those Labour MPs, account like Roy Jenkins and others, cil of Action should affiliate to whose so-delicate consciences the Liaison Committee for the would not allow them to vote Trades Defence of Unions against the Tories the on of the came from Dick North, Common Market, but which Lambeth Teachers' Associa- did them from not prevent tion. being in the front rank of the witch-hunt against the left in 'We hold no brief for the their own party just a few leadership of the present years ago. Committee', Liaison he said, The biggest danger facing 'but we have to recognize that the working class was that they represent the largest with the of assistance these organization of rank-and-file people it would be taken by militants organized their at surprise by the Tories, who place of work. were desperately weak, but I believe that so far this knew their weakness. organization has acted simply Councils of Action must be for left bureau- as a cover but not set up in every area, but that's where the cracy, to sit around and chat. They militants are. The only other must prepare for the General alternative we have is to try Strike. and build up from the base all They should embrace all the over again.' tendencies in the working-class Harry Searle brought back- Vivienne movement. Mendel- ing for the Council of Action explained, from trade son from Vauxhall Gardens the union branches, through ten- Tenants' Association. ants' associations Labour to Parties, branches of the Social- The first job was to get rid of the ist Labour League, Communist Tory government, he Tories Party, International Socialism The said, had always socialist tendencies. been the No. 1 enemy of the and other A proposal that the Coun- working people. Richard Vernon and Blille 'Tarzan's Fountain. Dear father. 9.00 London. 11.40 Farming. News. Weather. Guideline

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2.30 Yorkshire show. 3.45 Let's face Junkin. 4.30 Report V 4.55 London. 6.01 Report Wales. 6.35 18 7.10 8.30 Couple. audience at Sunday's meeting 'When the working pe of this land get together fight for th their rights, soon the knowthatin they can win through.' Heath's invitation to trade union leaders was blind', he said. the Council would win of Lam Tom Porter, International Socialisin, m the addition to the resolu of 'concrete demands' on trade union leaders. These, he said, should tivity deals, jobs for all, replace Labour cillors who sueport the H Finance Bill and sup ing associal Tor Cocal TenANTS' and their national link-up He agreed witn speakers Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972 PAGE 11 Peter Tinniswood on BBC-2 tonight Is another in The Sextel' series.

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The miners, the railwaymen and the dockers had all badly ple capitalism was proceeding 'at the shaken Tory government. and a tremendous rate'. but at each stage a section of y'll Ken Muller, also of Lam- the labour bureaucracy was end IS, beth said that while he able to step in. And the CP agreed capitalism was in crisis, IS in 'the Liaison and Com- it was 'ridiculous to say its the mittee covered up for this.

collapse was imminent. nly The proposal that the Coun- steady ped The system was in cil affiliate Liaison to the decline', he and neither de- said, Committee, he said, was a pro- a Tory nor an incoming Lab- les. turn itself into our government would be able for for cover cover eth to do anything about it. cover-a triple blindfold on ved Supporting the working class'. the proposal of ion affiliation to the Liaison Com- He urged delegates to reject the mittee, he said this was simply the proposals and fight to 'a case of realism'. force the Tory government to be He agreed with every criti- resign. ис- that had been made of cism meeting rejected botn The pay the Liaison Committee leader- un- amendments by overwhelming but thought ship, that the majorities. us- leadership could be only ort fought from within. Representatives of the Lam- ons Cyril Smith, from the Lon- beth Trades Council. trade Economics don School of

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union branches, ASTMS branch, said there was IS and tenants' groups were ous of no doubt the working class elected the committee.

Tories cheer Wilson's PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday July 11, 1972 LABOUR leader Harold Wilson was cheered by the Tories in the Commons yester- day when he praised the Tory Secretary for Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw.

Commenting on the Provisional IRA's decision to end its ceasefire, Wilson said no blame could be attached to the army or security forces for the latest very grave development'. Whitelaw replied: I entirely agree with you.'

of Tory Wilson's crawling endorsement provocation followed a Commons statement from the Tory supremo on his meeting with Provisionals' leaders last Friday.

He said the Provisionals had 'made demands that I could not accept, sider. They called British all British for ts British forces declare its intention to withdraw Trom usa son. Concica on or before January 1, 1975.'

Pending withdrawal, said, the such British troops withdrawn immediately Wallcall addition called Trom sensinve areas. inl for a general amnesty. oi all polltical prisoners in Irish and British jails, for all internees and detainees and all persons on the wanted list.

Whitelaw hoped it too late for the was Provisionals to again' Think

ADOUT

ute ramile truce', broken on Sunday night by a British military provocation. the IRA 'during the meeting on Mridaw Mr whiteaw cave persora assurance unal the wanton killings and internment people in ot Unionist would come Belfast extremists leaders that end. nie assured Lne Catholics in UDA no-go areas would be protected by the British army. But while this meeting was in arrested two IRA men progiess, lact that two british oncers were released when the Republican leaders returned from London. 'Mr Jack Steele, Continue. member of Mr whitelaw s omce, contacied nepud Sater Belfabo about the tension on the over housing allocations Lenadoon Estate. authority and was OuL Lilt Housins Ellar families one edin Tamines

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unreals Catholic families being re-housed and OCal Republicans decided to defy the army by rehousing ronic ess. would oppose "Mr steele said the brush army as the UDA would such a move not tolerate it. later the Twenty Maudling and mon utes British army moved its Torces Wilson in estate and began to into the jovial mood The and people. at the ICTU searci Cals brutality with which they did was shown on television and just hours later the leaders

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that this provocation decided breakdown. should lead to a 'He [Mr Steelel promised look into the situation but heard from further was leadership him. the announced the ena or ine truce and the British forces this offensive involved in

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congress Maudling said Architects. and events-shows Labour leader the world The institute that the fighting in Lenadoon 'The Wilson had a quiet ter through period evidence deliber- carefully 'the Mr Poulson nomena Chained ately provoked by terday prior to the 10th possibilities for good tions concerning army authorities under cover of world congress of the and evil are greater professional conduct Ceascull c Confedera- they member of the RIBA have And the army took the initi- international ever Free been'. Then ative when most ot une Unions. been referred to Fein leaders out of town He added: 'We see in They chatted in Institute's Investigatio the attending a Republican protest at so many countries the foyer of the lavish Committee Curragh army Could. Illics Centre Bloomsbury Wnetner south of Dublin and knew mankind letting them- Hotel. formulate charges attack in Belfast. selves loose." of the surnrise Maudling's professional future The IRA statement, however, a cloud following Yesterday John Poul- against Mr Poulson shows Fro isionals that revelations made 'Ine disciphnary Wakefield bankruptcy tect who once had the cedures the about biggest in court the col practice Pouson Europe. was renorted to investioation

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army againste struction and design investigation com- investigate The the taken completely by empire. mittee of the Royal fessional conduct of an prise by an institution they had fought tor three years. d. By caiss Miss The Mic- visten Bernadette Devlin said: ing off the ceasefire the Provision-

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East BRITAIN'S highest appeal court man dos for serial duty as Craig south-east England Anglia and sat for the first time vesterdav to The truth is that Miss Devlin will decide whether the Court as guilty as the Republicans cloudy with some hern Scot Appeal's decision the con- Official and Provisional-of play- sunny intervals, northern should tainer blacking be Last ing into the hands of the British land intervals will have sunny reversed. by commending sO. ano scatere cowers. Mr Richard Yorke OC, for peace with honour to a Wales, Northern Ireland, called Heatons Transport Ltd, Craddock confused Catholic working class, southern Scotland and remaining brothers and ranainina Northern instead of denouncing the cease- Services Ltd told the House fire as breathing space for rain mOst v with Lords appeal court that there betrayal of imperialism and was no grounds lor quashing une Republican hopes. National Industrial Relations will develop witn Court's £55,000 fine against the around patches

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western coasts. Cool. Clapham Outlook for Wednesday and He told five law lords, led by Thursday: Changeable and rather Lord Wilberforce, that there was cool elsewhere, with facie case against the 1 all times. union. WE NEED an even greater effort acti for our Appeal Fund this month.

Our total now stands at £374.84 and it is getting very close to our Summer Camp. We must have most of our July Fund raised by We appeal then Jul to all of you rally therefore around immediately. Pull our figure right uP leaders continue union The their talks with Heath and prop- up the Tories' capitalist system.

At a time when the Tories are crisis-ridden through and through, member and to formu- British late such charges as it thinks fit for determina- said: ton by the professional • given by conduct committee. aises ques- Parallel with the Poul- his there are conduct as son case Investigations the RIBA. by the stions have police and the Depart- Trade and ment of the vestigation Industry into Inter- • decide national Investors Group, a management to company run by Maud. of misconduct ling to operate an off- fund shore property registered in Liberia. linary pro- the RIBA This company also collapsed, although institute's committee Maudling was no longer connected with it when pro- duct of any it went into liquidation.

Yorke claimed shop stewards of the union had continued their blacking of container lorries in defiance of the National Indus- trial Relations Court's orders instructing them to refrain.

He said: 'I am in great diffi- culties to see on what grounds the Court of Appeal reached its decision except by the admission of new evidence.' If the court had taken into consideration the NIRC's review of contempt findings showing that T&GWU leaders were urging their officials call off the to blacking he said this was 'com- pletely impermissible'. Technically the appeal court action by the trade union move- ment would force • this govern- ment to resign. The role of Workers Press Is more important than ever.

All your help is therefore needed to during this hollday assist us period. Start today. Make a very Collect special effort. extra amounts wherever you can. Post these Immediately to: Workers Press July Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. LAST NIGHT a group of London lorry-drivers and ware- house workers lobbied Labour MPs and talked to haulage employers in a bid to stop what they feel is a threat to their jobs by dockers' pickets.

The meetings represent a dis- turn in the con- turbing new tainers row which has once again thrown the shadow of the Indus- Relations Act over trial the ports. Edward Johns, leader of the Warehousemen's Drivers' and Action Group, which organized the lobby and the get-together with the employers, says it Is 'unfortunate' that there is a con- flict with the dockers. Bernie Steer, a leading steward from the Royal group of docks, was quoted as blaming the pos- sible clash with existing workers on the T&GWU's past recruit- ment policies. If they had to lose it their jobs would "unfortunate', he said. It is particularly unforunate, although not accidental, that the demand for nationalization of the ports has now been shelved by both the official and unofficial docks (the leaderships on the latter on the initiative of the London stewards). What has never been chal- lenged by either side is the idea that there is an inevitable con- flict of interests in the first place. The dockers are fighting the threat of mass redundancy on result of rapid the docks as a changes in technique, the effect of past productivity deals and the gathering world trade slump.

More than 30,000 jobs have been destroyed in the last ten years. Close on 2,000 men are already temporarily without work. The employers claim that one in seven of those they have their books are surplus to on their requirements. stewards' national The port started out with nine committee demands, including the right to stuff and strip what are known containers (those as 'groupage' which are not handled at source) the nationalization and of the ports without compensation • and under workers' control. This was also the policy of the Transport and General Workers' Union docks and waterways com- mittee. The London stewards, how- concentrated mainly on a ever, selective picketing policy, hoping to pick off container firms one after the other and force them to take on registered dockers.

was obliged to limit itself to points of law and not to points of fact. day-long submission In a Yorke said a circular sent out by Merseyside shop stewards authorizing the blacking had been written on T&GWU note- paper by recognized officials and that at least since mid-March the blacking had gone on with the full knowledge of national docks officer Tim O'Leary.

The employers are seeking to establish that the national leader- ship of the T&GWU is in fact responsible for the actions of its officials and can therefore be penalized for failing to discipline its members.