Workers Press no. 815

workers press

TORY ANTI-ERE

BY DAVID MAUDE

Our Industrial C A LEGAL web is tightenin leaders meet today to dec government. The focus of the action in the courts is once again the docks, where in three separate cases road-hauliers and warehouse firms are seeking to stop dockers 'blacking' and picketing their premises in the fight for jobs. Actions are proceeding in the House of Lords, the Chancery Division of the High Court and the National Indus- Sch trial Relations Court. Were the employers suc- cessful in all these actions the effect would be to: • OVERTURN the Appeal Court's judgement that the Transport and General Workers' Union is not respon- sible for blacking by its docks stewards in Liverpool and Hull; • FORCE seven named Lon- don dockers to pay damages for conspiracy and intimida- tion to Midland Cold Storage Ltd; and • ORDER the London dockers' joint shop stewards' mic committee to stop picketing Midland. In the House of Lords, NIR three haulage firms are seek- ing to overrule the Appeal Court's June 13 decision to eight T&GWU appeals allow against the NIRC. The firms are Heatons Transport (St Helens) Ltd; Craddock Bros, of Wolver- as hampton; and Panalpina Ser- vices and Panalpina (Northern) Ltd, of Bradford.

They want to establish the principle that the union's national leadership can be penalized for failing to discip- line its members and stop the blacking. (The Appeal Court fail paid back the £55,000 fines imposed by the NIRC for failure to do this.) Yesterday in the Chancery Division of the High Court, counsel for Midland Cold com Storage complained on six judg counts against picketing at the company's Hackney depot.

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE (

ndustrial Correspondent ghtening around the trade unior to decide on further co-opera The counts were: con- spiracy, intimidation, breach wrongful procurement of of inter- actionable contract, ference with contracts and nuisance. The court was also asked to declare that work at the depot is not dock work as defined in the Dock Labour Scheme. A stop-picketing order has already been obtained by Midland from the NIRC. The company's action in Chancery is an attempt to get a double bind on the dockers, both under the Industrial Relations Act and in common law. Refusal to pay any damages of yesterday's arising out action, or any fines resulting from possible contempt pro- ceedings in the NIRC, could again hang the threat of jail attempting over dockers to combat the redundancy crisis in Britain's ports. Today, as the TUC Econo- mic Committee gathers for its meeting at Congress House, Midland will go back to the NIRC just half a mile away to challenge its refusal to make an order against the London port stewards' committee.

Sir John Donaldson, NIRC president, argued on Monday that the committee was not 'an organization of workers' as defined by Section 61 of the Act. The court had no evidence that it had sought recognition by the port employers, he said. No organization whose included principal objects regulation of relations between employers and workers could fail to seek such recognition.

Therefore the court could make no order against the committee as such. Midlands If succeeds in obtaining an order against the committee on review of this judgement, the scope of any future orders against picketing could be greatly increased,

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le union movement as TUC o-operation with the Tory laying the committee open to charges of contempt as result of activities by almost any docker. This, then, is the context in which the TUC chiefs will be considering Tory premier Heath's proposal for a joint working party on pay and industrial relations. The right wing of the 17- man Economic Committee can be expected to argue that the proposal reflects government desire to move away from its hard-line stance against wage increases. And if we allow Heath to save face on pay, they will reason, concessions may also be forthcoming which will stave off a clash between our members and the Act. Above all else, the lords, knights and gentlemen who comprise the Committee fear such a clash. The Tories, however, have no real room for concessions.

Only abject surrender by the union leaders will fit their bill. The steady tightening of the legal web goes alongside , to a rapid worsening of the ake capitalist economic crisis on a don world scale. For the so-called left union RC leaders to go along with day further talks with Heath, therefore, would be the most contemptible betrayal. Jack Jones of the T&GWU, engineers' president Hugh Scanlon and Richard Brigin- shaw, the printworkers' leader, have for too long played the right-wing game and refused ded to express the massive rank- and-file pressure for a recall of the TUC. This is why today's lobby of uld the Economic Committee, called by the All Trades Unions Alliance, assumes such great importance. • All out behind its three demands: 'Break off all talks with Heath!' "Recall the TUC!

Force the Tories to resign!"

/EDNESDAY JULY 12, 1972• No 815 • 4p

EE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

London dockers yesterday extended their picketing of container depots to the But they were met by depot London International Freight terminal at Stratford.

workers urging lorries to cross the picket line (below). And despite the orders issued against the dockers' leaders, pickets were out at Midland Cold Stores. The company has stated that in May it received 1,034 tons of goods for storage but this fell to 61 tons in June due to picketing. Meanwhile confusion reigned at Chobham Farm, the blacked depot involved in last month's showdown in the National Industrial Relations Court. The depot was picketed by drivers and other workers from container firms. Many of them belong to the 15,000-strong United Road Transport Union. They are 'settlement' reached anary because the month in which dockers were given jobs in Chobham Farm has resulted in their menial tasks. Some have been asked to take on floor-sweeping as being given dockers take over their jobs.

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the docks. the reserve list. The new The green-coloured orders bring up to date received his papers. He form states that he will the procedure to be fol- bouaht himself out not receive any further lowed by reserve forces the army vears ago after official notification about in the event of a sud- unhappy association his call-up. News of den call-up. with the military. emergency call-up married will be The recent issuance Now with broadcast over of these forms is the family, Mr Miller is radio or television. firmest indication of the Mr Miller said that in deeply concerned about behind-the-scenes plans the has such event he will papers he an seek the backing of of the Tory aovernment. Workers Press has He told a Workers Preston dockers in refus- Press reporter that on numerous he na to 0o to the servici that Heath thought the army might of the Tory government. occasions Cabinet Ministry have try to send reservists to The Def. laid Ulster. ence yesterday said the contingency plans to use troops when the I don't want to fight sending of revised need arises. the IRA; he said. I don't orders was not new and Over-stretched In want to have anything there was nothing for Ulster. to do with Heath's poli. the recipients to they are now WOrrY forced to rely cies in Ulster.' about. If anyone thinks on re. But Mr Miller can also servists. It is some sort of emer. This week a leading see the possibility that gency, this is a mistake shop steward Pres. is Ulster the Individual's oniu ton docks, Billy Miller, where the Tories need behalt.'

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE LOBBY OF

TUC: GREAT RUSSELL STREET WC1 9.30 a.m.

MEETING: HOLBORN LIBRARY: THEOBOLD'S ROAD11 a m Break off all talks with Heath! Recall TUC!

Force the Tory government to resign.

workers press

TORY ANTI-ERE

BY DAVID MAUDE

Our Industrial C A LEGAL web is tightenin leaders meet today to dec government. The focus of the action in the courts is once again the docks, where in three separate cases road-hauliers and warehouse firms are pro seeking to stop dockers 'blacking' and picketing their premises in the fight for jobs. Actions are proceeding in the House of Lords, the Chancery Division of the High Court and the National Indus- trial Relations Court. Were the employers suc- cessful in all these actions the effect would be to: • OVERTURN the Appeal Court's judgement that the and General Transport Workers' Union is not respon- sible for blacking by its docks stewards in Liverpool and Hull; • FORCE seven named Lon- don dockers to pay damages for conspiracy and intimida- tion to Midland Cold Storage Ltd; and

• ORDER

the London dockers' joint shop stewards' mic committee to stop picketing Midland. House of Lords, In the three haulage firms are seek- ing to overrule the Appeal Court's June 13 decision to allow eight T&GWU appeals against the NIRC. The firms are Heatons Transport (St Helens) Ltd; Craddock Bros, of Wolver- hampton; and Panalpina Ser- vices and Panalpina (Northern) Ltd, of Bradford.

They want to establish the principle that the union's national leadership can be penalized for failing to discip- line its members and stop the blacking. (The Appeal Court paid back the £55,000 fines by the NIRC for imposed failure to do this.) Yesterday in the Chancery Division of the High Court, counsel for Midland Cold on six Storage complained counts against picketing at the company's Hackney depot.

INCORPORATING "

DAILY ORGAN OF THE (

ndustrial Correspondent ghtening around the trade unior to decide on further co-opera The counts were: con- lay spiracy, intimidation, breach wrongful procurement of of actionable inter- contract, ference with contracts and nuisance. The court was also asked to declare that work at the depot is not dock work as defined in the Dock Labour Scheme. A stop-picketing order has already been obtained by Midland from the NIRC. The company's action in Chancery is an attempt to get a double bind on the dockers, both under the Industrial Relations Act and in common law. Refusal to pay any damages arising out of yesterday's action, or any fines resulting from possible contempt pro- ceedings in the NIRC, could again hang the threat of jail attempting over dockers to combat the redundancy crisis in Britain's ports. Today, as the TUC Econo- mic Committee gathers for its Congress House, meeting at Midland will go back to the NIRC just half a mile away to challenge its refusal to make an order against the London port stewards' committee.

Sir John Donaldson, NIRC president, argued on Monday that the committee was not workers' 'an organization of as defined by Section 61 of the Act. The court had no evidence that it had sought recognition by the port employers, he said. No organization whose principal objects included regulation of relations between employers and workers could fail to seek such recognition.

Therefore the could court make no order against the committee as such. If Midlands succeeds in obtaining an order against the committee on review of this judgement, the scope of any future orders against picketing could be greatly increased,

RATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDA

F THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF 1

le union movement as TUC o-operation with the Tory con- laying the committee open to charges of contempt as a result of activities by almost any docker. This, then, is the context in which the TUC chiefs will be considering Tory premier Heath's proposal for a joint working party on pay and industrial relations. The right wing of the 17- man Economic Committee can be expected to argue that the proposal reflects government desire to move away from its hard-line stance against wage increases. And if we allow Heath to save face on pay, they will reason, concessions may also be forthcoming which will stave off a clash between our members and the Act. Above all else, the lords, knights and gentlemen who comprise the Committee fear such a clash. The Tories, however, have no real room for concessions.

Only abject surrender by the union leaders will fit their bill. The steady tightening of the legal web goes alongside a rapid worsening of the capitalist economic crisis on a world scale. For the so-called left union along with leaders to go further talks with Heath, therefore, would be the most contemptible betrayal. Jack Jones of the T&GWU, engineers' Hugh Richard Brigin- Scanlon shaw, the printworkers' leader, have for too long played the right-wing game and refused ded to express the massive rank- and-file pressure for a recall uld of the TUC. This is why today's lobby of Committee, the economic called by the All Trades Unions Alliance, assumes such great importance. All out behind its three demands: 'Break off all talks with Heath!' 'Recall the TUC!'

'Force the Tories to resign!'

/EDNESDAY JULY 12, 1972 • No 815 • 4p

EE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

London dockers yesterday extended their container depots to the London International Freight terminal at Stratford. But they were met by depot workers urging lorries to cross the picket line (below).

And despite the orders Issued against the dockers' leaders, pickets were out at Midland Cold Stores.

The company has stated that in May it received 1,034 tons of goods for storage but this tell to 61 tons in June due to picketing. Meanwhile confusion relgned at Chobham Farm, the blacked depot involved in last month's showdown in the National Industrial Relations Court. The depot was picketed by drivers and other workers from container firms. Many of them belong to the 15,000-strong United Road Transport Union. They are because the 'settlement' reached last angry month in which dockers were given jobs in Chobham Farm has resulted in their being given menial tasks. Some have been asked to take on floor-sweeping as dockers take over their jobs.

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THE

ARMY Is sending

WORKERS

troops. The army could revised stand-by notices also be brouaht.on to to thousands of men on

EXCLUSIVE

the docks. the reserve list. The new The green-coloured orders bring up to date received his papers. He states that he will the procedure to be fol. bouaht himself out not receive any further lowed by reserve forces the army vears ago after official notification about In the event of sud- unhappy association his call-up. News an of den call-up. with the milltary. emergency call-up Now married will be recent Issuance with a broadcast over The of these forms is the family, Mr Miller is radio or television. Mr Miller said that In firmest indication of the deeply concerned about behind-the-scenes plans the papers has such event he will an of the Tory government. the backing received. gook Workers Press has He told a Workers Preston dockers in refus.

Insisted on numerous Press. reporter that he on the Tory thermen that Heath thought the army occasions might Cabinet and his have try to send reservists to The Ministry Def- lald Vister. contingency plans ence yesterday said the to use troops when the I don't want to fight sendina of revised the IRA! he said. " don't need arises. orders was not new and Over-stretched in want to have anything there was nothing Ulster, they do with Heath's poll are now tho recipients worry forced to rely on re- cles in Ulster.' about. 1f anyone thinks But Mr Miller can also servists. It is some sort of emer- This week a leading the possibility that 'this is a mistake see gency, Ulster shop steward on Pres- is not only on the Individual's where the Billy Miller, ton docks. Tories behalt.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE LOBBY OF

TUC: GREAT RUSSELL STREET WC1 9.30 a.m.

MEETING: HOLBORN LIBRARY, THEOBOLD'S ROAD11 a m Break off all talks with Heath! Recall TUC!

Force the Tory government to resign.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednosday Juty

BY PETER JEFFRIES

FACED

with a huge balance of payments deficit, the Nixon admin- istration is currently pull- ing all out stops to increase its purchases of Russian gold. This is bound to be a matter at the of the first centre session of the US-Soviet Joint Trade Negotiating Commission, which is scheduled to convene in Moscow on July 20. US Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, who heads the Ameri- can side of the Commission, said he hoped that a general trade package would be concluded with the USSR by the end. year Peterson is also to visit Warsaw later this year for similar talks with Polish trade leaders.

It appears the Kremlin agreed to sell gold to America in return for US commodities and indust- rial equipment at the suggestion of presidential adviser Dr Henry Kissinger during his visit to the Soviet Union last winter.

Although such sales have been made in the past, the current deals have two new features: • They were concluded directly between the governments con- cerned. Previously intermediaries in London or Zurich have been used. • The US Treasury was the a private buyer, rather than industrial user. Another significant feature of the deal was the gold sales were made at the then • current free market rate of $58 an ounce, compared to the official rate of $38 an ounce. The Russians intend to use their dollars to finance the huge with America which grain deal Washington announced last week- end. Under this arrangement, Mos- cow will buy $750m worth of US feedstuffs over the next three years. Of this, around $500m financed by the US will be Commodity Credit Corporation.

Backward agricultural methods, together with bad weather_have intensified the crisis of Soviet agriculture. The bureaucracy has forced to promise sub- been stantial increases in meat pro- duction which require consider- able increases in grain supplies.

Only America has grain sur- pluses of a size which can meet Soviet needs at this time.

Since Nixon's visits to Russia China, major deals, and five 1 the grain contract, apart from have been signed. Tenneco Inter- national will buy $25,000 worth over the of Soviet natural gas next five years. Gulf Oil will help develop a Siberian oilfield from which it will ship up to 50 tons annually for the million next 20 years. Two American tool and die manufacturers have won a $55m contract to equip five Soviet factories. America's Parson and Whittemore will build a $160m plant in Siberia. It will purchase 85,000 tons of cellulose from the sale in plant each year for France. As recently as last week Boe- ing announced the sale of $150m worth of jet aircraft and spare parts to the Chinese government.

As imperialism's crisis deepens, it is clear that the Soviet bureau- cracy will make every effort, in economice Reditical on rescue and American capitalism. asday July 12, 1872 AS FINAL preparations were being made for the latest talks which open tomorrow, North Vietnamese forces offensive began a new against Saigon's forces mov- ing towards Quang Tri city.

Fierce fighting was reported north east of the provincial capi- tal. Military sources admitted that government paratroopers who had moved into the south- eastern outskirts of the city were forced to withdraw under North Vietnamese intense artillery fire. Hanoi Radio reported last night

AROUND THE WORLD

SENATOR George McGovern, the slick South Dakota Demo- crat, now seems almost certain to win the party's presidential nomination. overnight Barring unforeseen defections, he will command a majority of convention delegates the first ballot at Miami in Beach tomorrow. Yesterday he won a crucial decision which him all the votes of the gave large California delegation.

• The decision was carried by a large majority in the convention against the opposition of Senator Hubert Humphrey and the bulk of the old Democrat "machine' politicians. It brought McGovern's voting strength up to 1,618—more than the 1,509 he needs to win the first ballot outright. the "It would seem that victory we have nomination anticipated is within our grasp, McGovern said from his hotel room where was watching he television convention the on while puffing at a big cigar.

McGovern's campaign has run foul of the Democrat political bosses-men like Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, whose 59- member delegation was unseated by a convention vote following the California delegation: Right. Now le that liberation • forcês in Quang Tri had wiped out 600 govern- ment troops south of the city and shot down one warplane.

Meanwhile US B52 bombers flew ten raids against North Viet- namese troops pushing out from regions the Laotian border southwest of Hué and fresh out- breaks of fighting were reported north and south of Saigon.

North Vietnamese forces also kept up their pressure on An Loc, which was hit by 250 rounds of mortar, rocket and artillery fire. About 40 miles south west of Saigon, in the Mekong delta, the district town of Sam Giang

JOHN SPENCER

Daley, who backs former vice- president Hubert Humphrey, Stop leading light movement. McGovern group also has the backing of the trade union bureaucrats who have long enjoyed a close relationship with the Democratic machine.

George Meany, extreme right-

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wing leader of the George McGovern trade union federation, is a powerful opponent McGovern's. This is not only because-like every other candi- date-he has a long anti-union record, but also because of his statements against the Vietnam and his alleged lack war enthusiasm in support of Israel.

Now let's talk! has been under bombardment for the last few days. Two battalions of North Vietnamese are involved.

While the North Vietnamese appear to be stepping up their military activities, Hanoi diplo- matic sources have remained completely silent about American and Chinese hopes that the war may be brought to an end by 'serious negotiations' in Paris.

Mr Xuan Thuy, Hanoi's chief representative at the talks who is now in Paris, would make no comment on these matters say- ing only: 'We will consider any new proposals the United States has to offer.' The union leaders are fighting desperately to prevent the break- up of the Democratic Party in order to preserve their own thoroughly reactionary relation- ship with this section of the US bourgeoisie. They fear that McGovern's nomination will eventually destroy their corrupt ties with big business politicians.

these McGovern himself is no friend of the trade unions, but neither are Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and the other contenders.

This has not prevented Auto Workers leader Leonard Wood- cock from allowing his name to be floated a possible vice- as presidential running-mate along- Muskie, though side given Muskie's weakness at the con- vention, the name of his pro- running-mate is posed an academic question. The way forward for American labour does not lie in ties with this or that section of big ¡usiness, but in the construction of an independent Labour Party in based on socialist policies struggle against both capitalist parties. It is this development that Meany and Woodcock are deter- mined to strangle if they can.

STATE Secretary in the Defence Ministry Dr Gunter Wetzel, has left the West German Cabinet and also resigned from the Social Democratic Party after 27 years of membership. Wetzel objects to Chancellor Willy Brandt's eastern policy and what he considers to be a lack of firmness in dealing with radi- cal elements in the Party and country. The resignation is par iculuarly embarrassing to Bonn coming as it does on the eve of the Com- mon Market monetary conference due in London next week. This third resignation in less than a week follows those of Karl Schiller, the Economic and Fin- Minister and Dr Johann ance Baptist Schollhorn, State Secre- tary in Schiller's former ministry: AT LEAST 14 people were killed on Monday in Pakistan as fight- ing continued between police and rival language groups. In Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, five people were officially reported killed-four of them by police bullets—-and in Hyderabad, 100 miles to the east, another nine were killed in fighting be- tween Urdu and Sindhi-speaking factions, Hyderabad and Karachi Both have been put under a 24-hour apparently curfew which has failed to stop the fighting. The Karachi district magistrates reported 'violent and massive violation' of the measure on Monday night. The fighting began nearly a week ago when the Sind province government declared Sindhi the sole official language. Many Pun- jabis living in the province speak only their own language, Urdu.

DOCKERS in Montreal, Canada, were forced back to work on Monday by a Federal law passed Friday forbidding last strikes there and at two other Quebec province ports. About 3,200 Longshoremen's International Association members struck on May 17 against management attempts to smash the old work- gang system to make way for computerization of the docks.

MEN AT the Wimpey site in Buckland, Portsmouth, are dissatisfied with the union leadership's failure to call for strike action. Two weeks ago they decided almost unanimously to inaugu- rate strike action by bringing out key workers for a week at a time. A union official told them that the go-ahead would take only a few days to come through.

At a meeting on Monday the men's plan to start unofficial action was averted when news arrived that 'substantial' action would start today. They were told that action would also start at another Wimpey site at Hill- sea. Union officials described the delay as part of the union's policy of 'not putting all their eggs in one basket'. Nevertheless construc- tion workers feel this policy has the effect of letting employers off the hook. It also leaves those already on an isolated position. strike in One worker told our reporter: 'We don't want the union to hold back any longer.'

MORE THAN 800

building workers at the Drax power station site near Goole claim they are being starved into submission by their employers.

The men who work for four contracting companies have been locked out for nearly seven weeks. The disputes are appar- ently over different issues, but because the lock-outs occurred roughly at the same time the claim the employers are men acting together. Thirty employed by men Steel Corporation pipe British erection department say they were locked out after winning a safety battle. This occurred when two men were suspended for refusing to work a rig.

Other workers went on strike in sympathy. Then after an inspector upheld their safety claim, they demanded compensa- tion for money lost. They were subsequently locked out. Workers for Yarrows were locked out when they went on in support of the to day rate national engineers' pay claim. Other men at Babcock and Wilcox and Parsons were locked out over bonus and safety issues.

The 800 are appealing for fin- ancial support, donations should be sent to: The treasurer, Site Shop Stewards' Committee, 72 Malvern Road, Goole, Yorkshire. A 24-HOUR picket is being staged at Goodman's Loudspeaker Company, Havant, Hants. AUEW members from the factory are striking for a £3-a-week cost-of- living demand. It follows token The strike stoppages last week. has been made official by district officers and union membership has risen from 200 to 300.

THE BUILDERS BATTLE

Growing demand for national strike action

BUILDING

workers in the Tooting (South London) UCATT No. 3 branch have overwhelmingly passed a resolution stating their opposition to the selective strikes policy and in favour of a nanonal strike. Il sala: we support tne tu revy lor the dent fit of building workers on the selective strikes now in strike action. But this support be given critically. Only must national strike of all building workers, to recall the TUC and to General Strike to make the Tories resign can prepare succeed. The fight for reformist policies can only weaken the working class. Only mobilization of the working class on a pro- gramme to force the Tories to resign and to return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies can succeed.'

Police at Bass site again An duty out does r

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Char- 109% hire. On Monday there were clashes between pickets, engi- workers enter the site ana the police.

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28 Charlotte St NEWS p. 10 London W1 Workers Press, We UGLY SCENES have broken out between pickets and police at the London Brick Company's works at Beeby's Yard, Peterborough. On one occasion last week management called in the police to remove shop stewards from the premises as they were talk- ing to other workers. Immediately the yard came to a standstill as 400 men . walked out the gates. These were then followed by 400 workers at the Orton and Yaxley works and 100 from the King's another Dyke yard. Trouble first flared when the LBC refused to pay 65p attend- ance money to 350 workers at the the Beeby's Yard, because they had stopped work to dis- pay offer. Work- cuss a recent ers retaliated with an overtime ban. Then 'blockers' started unofficial strike when the manage- also knocked back their ment

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Press, Wednesday July 12, 1972 PAGE 3 demands for a 10p increase on every 1,000 bricks stacked.

This increase would bring their rate up to 50p per 1,000 bricks, which would be the nOr- mal rate paid by a private con- tractor in the Bedford area.

Production continued in the Peterborough and Whittlesey yards at the normal level of 25 million bricks a week, but as there has been on 'blockers' to for stack them transportation, they have been piled up in the yards immediately on leaving the kilns. It was estimated that few loads left the yards last week.

Soon there would be no stor- age space left for the mounting piles of bricks and that this would inevitably force production to a halt. However, as the police moved in, the Transport and General Workers' Union district organ- 'action izer said that this was the union deplores'. At the same time he advised the men to go back to normal working. The union is now anxious for talks with management to start at Bedford as soon as possible.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday July 12, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE, HOUSING CORRESPONDENT

One of the leading mem- mentation and their replace- ment by those who will fight.

bers of the South London 'There is only answer one tenants' is movement and that a real socialist 1S Ron Brett. As chairman society. People say you can't get that in five minutes.

But I of the Lewisham Federa- disagree. It is true to say we've tion of Council Tenants' had Labour Party operat- the Associations he spends ing a capitalist system, or try- ing to, better than the Tories.

most of his time travelling If we had the will to carry the from meeting to meeting, fight through, it however, organizing against would be different. the I don't trust Labour the Tory 'fair rent' Bill. Party leaders. Nothing short of He is also deeply involved complete socialist housing struggle inside the East programme will do. That will Lewisham Labour Party against determine whether I stay in Mr Brett has the right wing. the party or join another left- fought for the lifting of bans wing group!' and proscriptions inside the I asked Mr Brett how the Labour Party. fight of the tenants against In the last period he has the fair rents' Bill could be substantial seen a movement drawn into such a struggle for within the. Lewisham Labour socialism. Wasn't it necessary which at the moment is group, to force the Tories to resign to for implementation of the defeat the Bill and also to Housing Finance Bill. open up the road to socialism?

He elaborated on the rela- tionship between the tenants' movement and a political fight against the Tories as far as he saw it. 'We have absolutely got to keep it political. The main basis on which tenants' 'Opponents asso- of implementa- ciations have been set up is tion have grown from nine to the basis of actions of on 15 to 26 in three months and governments. the Labour group has changed 'But,' he added, 'too full and On its mind three times. the comprehensive a political pro- last occasion, the leader of the gramme frightens people away.

council sent a letter to the The tenants' movement is meeting in his absence. pressure group and not a poli- 'It said if the group plumped The best way for tical party. for non-implementation he Lewisham tenants to fight would resign as leader. All the against the Bill would be to middle-of-the-roaders swept convince the council to follow back into line' lead of Greenwich the and Since then, however, the others and refuse to imple- left-wing group on the council ment. has the right-wing ousted 'Any other approach would deputy leader of the council be fatal. We haven't got the and won a number of positions strength of the trade unions.

from the old guard. We are too open. It wouldn't It was true, said Mr Brett, be the same situation as you that the tenants had been look- would get in a factory stop- ing for a lead from the Labour page if we called a rent strike, nationally. But he Party for example. queried for, how long they 'In factory they've got would continue to do so. We commodities sell. to 'All people can see at the -y haven't as tenants. moment is big brother talk- 'As far as this is concerned, ing from the top, whereas the the thing that could strengthen Labour Party is supposed to our fight is if we could get a be ultra-democratic. It was policy from the TUC which founded by trade unions the declares that if any tenant is "he who and we have to say evicted for withholding the pays the piper calls the tune".

rent, there would be a general The Labour Party leaders stoppage of labour until he was have had since October, and I reinstated. and others know why they haven't up with any- come thing. They don't want revo- lutionary socialist policies because so many of them have got their fingers in the pie.

'They would have to nation- alize the banks, insurance But didn't the political situa- building societies, companies, land, the lot in fact—with no tion nevertheless require And a lot of ants to join in this political half measures. would have fight as the only for- people at the top way to give up a great deal, Mr ward? Brett told me. I have never doubted that as an individual. We have to He said as far as local coun- We cils were concerned, Lewisham face these facts. must had demanded the work for a situation where tenants of those Labour this government retires. But resignation because of our vulnerability members in favour of imple- Top: Ron Brett. Above: tenants from S people are frightened. It is a struggle for us to convince people of the need for revolutionary policies. still think you have to take it in stages, said Mr Brett.

But, nevertheless, did he not think the situation so urgent that you had to mobilize against the Tories immedi- ately? Had he himself not said

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Top: Ron Brett. Above: tenants from South East London march against the vory rent bill none real questions standards of living of the ot the facing tenants could be solved working class and will, if not fought, set them back pre-war.

without socialism? 'Yes, you are right. The ulti- future Labour govern- mate solution in the fight ment has to be made to Bill is a General Labour Party is not against the that the Election. The tenants' fight is the whole labour movement- not an individual fight and can- that it is bigger than the party.

not be so. The day that is recognized, the "The whole range of legisla- Tories have had it for Tories has led good-and. so will the leaders tion from the to a drastic attack the of the Labour Party.'

THE CRISIS OF THE

COALITION GOVERNMENT

A special background series examining the class struggle in Ceylon from 1964 to the present day. Part three.

A special background series ex By the time the coalition government came to power in May 1970 with an overwhelming majo- rity, the post-war boom period in world capital- ism had reached a dead end. It was during this period— August 15, 1971—that Nixon prepared the break-up of the post-war relationship between the dollar and gold. Through the break-up of monetary arrangements at Bretton Woods, Nixon was threatening to strike the death-blow to all political relationships estab- lished by imperialism with the help of reformism and Stalin- ism. In this situation, where im- perialism and local capitalism needed a direct tool which would smash-up the working- class organization after com- ing to power, the government which came to power was a coalition with mass support election promises of for 'socialism'. While on one hand world capitalism faced its mortal crisis, on the other hand the mass upsurge reached a climax.

It was inevitable that the coalition government which came to power under these conditions would be a govern- ment of crisis. Within the first few weeks mass support drained from the government. The first Throne Speech an attempt at was conciliation by a government bewildered by the crisis and the mass upsurge. Although it did not contain any concrete promises, it also was unable to take any deci- sive step to attack the masses.

The Finance Minister ex- plained the grave balance-of- payments crisis and appealed to the masses to tighten their belts and sacrifice. At the same time the Minis- ter of Plantation Colvin de Silva issued a concrete assur- ance of no nationalizations in the plantation industry. Some leaders tried to compare the situation in Ceylon with the period soon after the Russian Revolution saying that social- ism could be built only through the determination and tenacity of the masses. A fund launched for national was development. The masses had expected at least some measures to bring down the cost of living and the government had to com- promise by re-introducing the full rice subsidy cut previously by the UNP; giving political freedom to government ser- vants; recognizing Korea, Viet- nam, East Germany and break- the relationship with ing Israel. These steps did not con- tain the radicalization of the masses, but sharpened it.

Realizing the government's despondent position and the complete defeat faced by the extreme right wing UNP, the monopoly capitalists and capi- talist newspapers came to the government's rescue. The large amounts contributed by Pfizer Co, Lever Bros, etc to the National Development Fund and the praise given by the Lake House press, exposed the alliance between the gov- ernment and imperialism. At this point the working class began to question the long stagnation in their stan- dard of living. eries examining the class struggle in As soon as the working class entered struggles the government simply could not maintain its 'socialist' face any more. When N. M. Perera's talk of 'tightening the belts' failed the government had to use the state machinery to break strikes. Workers from new industries who had no trade union rights came out first demanding the right for trade unions. While Velona, these workers Lucky Industries, Munchi, Davasa daily press, etc came struggle - defying the into advice of the LSSP and CP trade union leaders—the strike for union rights at Keuna Kelay Estate, which started during the UNP regime, took a new militant form. There was a one-day plan- strike in tations' protest shooting against the at Keenakely. The workers in the capital, Colombo, demonstra- ted on that issue. The 800 workers in Davasa Group came into direct con- flict with the LSSP bureau- cracy on the question of the help extended by the govern- ment to the employers. The LSSP reacted by expelling these 800 workers from their union. Confronted with militant workers on strike to defend their living conditions and trade union rights the 'left' leaders had to launch a cam- paign to force the government legislate against to employers. Minister of Labour The promised action. But under the conditions where world capi- talism was rapidly moving to- wards breaking up the Bretton Woods agreement, the possi- bilities for the government to waver in the face of the work- ing class were few. The govern- ment had to act steadfastly and urgently in order to face up to the problems raised by the economic crisis. Finance Minister N. M. Perera returned from the con- ference of the World bank and the IMF in Copenhagen and stressed that there was no for the Ceylon way out economy without foreign loans, that the necessary pre- and condition for such loans were definite deflationary measures.

While admitting the impor- steps taken in tance of the the sphere of economics by the previous UNP government, he said that Ceylon was mov- in stability ing towards foreign exchange position after rupee's devaluation. He the also stated that the cut in the rice subsidy was economically correct although politically it was fatal. He came back to this theme introducing in Budget speech in November 1970: 'We have to depend on the aid from developed countries for To get this aid some time. under conditions agreeable to us, we have to take some steps in order to cultivate some con- fidence among the foreigners about our ability to organize our own home'. The Budget, to a certain extent, tried to go along this road. Steps were taken to increase, directly or indirectly, the prices of cigarettes, toddy, hardwear goods, brews, tinned foods, cigars, furniture, elec- goods, trical suitcases and bags. The basis was prepared to increase postage and bus and train fares. The main theme of the Bud- ggle in Ceylon from 1964 to the pres Velona Top: N. M. Perera, Finance Minister. A get was to cut down consump- tion. In addition to the steps mentioned earlier, a new com- pulsory savings scheme and an increase in the deductions for provident fund were also intro- duced. To give a socialist colouring to this Budget, Perera also pro- posed to limit companies' pro- fits to 12 per cent. This had effect. The no chairman of the Employers' Federation, Malory Wijesinghe, stated that since it was very seldom that profit rates went above 12 per cent the pro- no effect at all in posal had Ceylon anyway. Although the Budget was a •deflationary step it did not solve any problems. The capi- talist class could not solve these without taking steps which are economically neces- sary but politically • fatal, as Perera himself admitted at the IMF's Copenhagen conference.

At the same time the gov- ernment decided to stop pay- ing the annual bonus for the Ceylon Transport Board em- ployees. Although the govern- ment tried its best to use the LSSP and CP bureaucracies to prevent any struggle develop- ing against this, the CTB work- ers organized a strike within a day. The Cabinet had to reverse its non-payment decision.

While the LSSP organ said had trade union questions become a headache to 'com- rade' N. M., Stalinists com- Workers Press, Wer the present day. Part three.

Velona Minister. Above: clothing workers walk-out duri plained the government was failing to take loans from non- imperialist countries. They said that the main reason for all the problems was that the government expected every- thing from the imperialists.

Instead they should open con- tacts with the Soviet bloc and nationalize foreign companies.

Divisions were due in the coalition as a result of the economic crisis and the up- surge started this way. to hold The UNP began public meetings. The second in command, J. R. Jayawar- dena, again raised the necessity of a stronger government.

Pretending to find a way to solve all the problems, the government started to draft a constitution turning the new parliament itself into a con- stituent assembly. But the nature of changes expected from the new constitution created another crisis in gov- ernment ranks. reports that There were while the Minister for Con- stitutional Affairs, Colvin de Silva, was drafting the new the right-wing constitution, Dias Banda- Minister Felix ranaika also was drafting his own constitution. The left' leaders said progress towards socialism would be accelerated after the new constitution was adopted! In the midst of the crisis 'left' critics were seen within the government ranks itself.

m- The government also got right- Press, Wednesday July 12, 1972 PAGE 5 k-out during the strike at Velona factory wing backers from the UNP.

Jayawardena stressed the fact join that everybody must together to rescue the gov- ernment. The essence of his position was to strengthen the coalition government against the working class as the initial step towards a Bonapartist dic- tatorship. While old opponents of the government became triends, conditions were ripe for old friends to become critics of the government. It did not take long to turn critics into ene- mies. But these enemies also began to arm themselves. The working class was strug- gling to move forward fighting the grip of the Stalinist and Samasamajist leadership. Every strike came directly into con- flict with the LSSP and the CP bureaucracies. At this point the bureaucracies decided not only to expel the mem- bers who were critical of the leadership but also to close down some trade union branches which defied their orders. When the enormous rise in unemployment came together with the rocketing cost of living, the radicalization among the petty-bourgeois layers in the society reached its climax. A variety of petty- bourgeois movements. devel- oped, and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) was prominent among them.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday Juty 12, 1972 By Tom Kemp. Photograph by Andrew Dark.

As Algeria celebrates its The balance of out. power shifted increasingly towards tenth year of independ- the army. ence it is clear that Pre- Finally, when that leadership sident Houari Boume- sold out the struggle and made the Evian agreement dienne presides over one with President Charles de thing above all - the Gaulle's Bonapartist regime in plunder of the country's 1962, it was the armed forces built up in neighbouring Arab natural resources by in- under the command states of ternational capital. Boumedienne who rapidly With the help of the natural became the dominant force.

gas and petroleum of the The transfer of power, as Sahara his regime has become, provided for the Evian in to all appearances, one of the enabled the FLN agreements, Islets of most stable in Africa. leadership to take the over modern industry have sprung state apparatus from the col- background onialists up against of without sharp and poverty, unemployment break. Personnel changed, but backwardness. the nature of the state From Italy, Spain, the remained essentially bourgeois: United States and Britain, as an apparatus of oppression well as France, capitalist firms turned against the oppressed are jumping in on the bonanza.

classes. Rich contracts and rich pick- Boumedienne's army came ings are opening up for many.

forward the stabiliz- as main Algeria's vast, but not inex- ing force, the backbone of the haustible natural gas reserves, Algeria. While the revi- have been sold in advance to sionists were ready to proclaim the highest bidder. that Algeria was a new work- Michel With go loans the plunder ers' state and Pablo which keep the regime going, himself became highly- enabling it to have a big army regarded adviser to Ben Bella, and apparatus. the head of the state state, army Development which leaves the was preparing to take over full masses in misery means jobs power. and opportunities for the new With the overthrow of Ben rich petty bourgeoisie upon Bella in 1965 there could be which Boumedienne's rule is no further illusions about the based. nature of the regime. Its path Product of a long and bitter had, in any case, already been revolutionary war for national she theN leadership. smothered Ben Bella and from French independence which the Nothing striking colonial rule cost was more after the achievement of inde- peasants and workers sacrifices, the Algerian pendence than the rapid reflux ous today the state of the revolutionary energies quaranlor It revolution. is tied of the This ebb, against masses. hand and foot to world imperi- which was to some extent alism as represented by the big inevitable. was assisted by the capitalist enterprises whose failure of the Ben Bella gov- representatives are everywhere.

ernment, despite its 'socialist' What happened to the to fulfil the hopes of phrases, Algerian revolution? Led by the masses. of the small Instead diver- representatives there were and weak national bourgeoisie like the of sions, occupation it found its elemental strength lands left vacant by departing in the movement of the masses.

colonialists and the taking over But the workers and by some enterprises under a peas- ants were never able to find a form of 'workers' control'.

party which gave expression to These harnessed measures of their historic needs as part the of the energies some the international struggle of the most active elements while working class. betrayals of the Com- The munist Party and its complicity Meanwhile new bureau- from the with imperialism, cracy into the time of the Popular Front of position the 1936 onwards, left a profound colonialists. mark. They reinforced the only mass hold of the petty-bourgeois force which pendence nationalists who the the ruling came to War II and fore after World clique, trade unions

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assumed leadership of the armed struggle which began in 1954, under the banner of the The way

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Liberation (National the taking Boume- Front). dienne i and the From the start the FLN was 1965. right in Bella a heterogeneous movement Ben was under without clear political perspec- house arrest he still Pushed into adopting a tives. remains. A purge was con- against ducted demagogic, including some of socialist programme mass movement, the leadership had Boume- gone into had no intention of carrying it Top: Algerian peasantslandless and home them this way, while it provides jobs and rich, petty bourgeoisie. Above left: Boumedien ourite of foreign correspond- ents. 'His sharp features and deliberate betray manner a natural dignity and reserve, occasionally relieved by smile, or a restrained laugh, and a twinkle of sharp, dark eyes', wrote 'The Times' man Charles Hargrove, in Algiers, in February 1971. Indeed, as representative of the rising national bourgeoisie -whose basis was in the richer peasantry and the petty bourgeoisie of colonial times- Boumedienne went about his task with deliberation. -landless and homeless. Development leaves provides jobs and opportunities for the new Jove left: Boumedienne. Above right: Ben Bella.

Dependent upon outside aid, especially from France, and obtaining credits from other including the Soviet sources, Union, his first priority was to continue to strengthen state apparatus. An increased supply of reliable cadres was necessary from the schools and universities for this move.

In addition, trained men were required to act as execu- tives and technicians in the petroleum, and other industries. In 1969 a Four-Year Plan was announced which represented a new stage in Boumedienne's policy. It was now possible reduce Fran Cor dependence and actohlich the hacic tronger national incurv better bar- the came time as from an acute crisis. It enabled it to set going a Process develonment partners imnerialism exploiting the rich recerves and petroleum on a vast national made gains from DODu Iation henefited one With employed eve There man inh illed, were low no agrarian revolution, was even an effective reform': the of the landless sup the marity o rural which made Algeria's continued to live in gruelling povender the Four-Year Plan a certain amount of develonment taken niac with heav. state participation of native absence of a big class the or not at all Without a state which inspired confidence the aid and investments from out- side promote develonment would not har been : forthcoming. As it is the bail ding of mita llurgical plants.

lucrative many foreign development visible Algeria- -huge industrial installations alongside primitive jet-set b inutenaced sutramo novarty Contradiction shaund and lnder the glitterina curface of apparent modernity pre- pare new explosions. The regime is only too aware of this. Behind the outward appearance of robust confi- dence must lurk dark doubts about Far from independent' an economic sensetied Algeria is closely more to the capitalist world market than ever. It is more susceptible to outside shocks, to the crisis of world capitalism and specifically to the demand for her raw products. The promises to improve the conditions of the masses have not been fulfilled. Even the regime's boasts to have reduced illiteracy and raised the level of education is double-edged. New generations are coming forward because of rapid population growth and they will not accept with resignation what their parents have put up with. In Algeria today there are democratic liberties no or working-class rights. The only party is the FLN, which is more a bureaucratic machine than a political party. Any signs of opposition rise give oppression by the police.

Foreigners report this as "no overt opposition to the regime discernible'. In fact they would not know whether it was there or not. As the articles appearing in the press to commemorate ten years of Algerian independence show, Boumedienne is a well- thought of figure. The bourgeoisie recognizes him as one of their own. They under- stand that the Algerian Republic has a regime which it safe to do business with. That flow of natural gas hides many odours of rottenness and corruption. Let's be friends with Boumedienne, he's a great guy, is the common call. Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, a former British Ambassador, writing in "The Guardian' for July 3, is full of praise. Do not worried, he says, because the Russians have been given naval facilitities. This 'does not betoken any of their political extension influence', he says. 'On the contrary, economic ties, such as the gas contracts, seem likely to draw Algeria rather towards the West'. And this accredited representative of British capital concludes: It will be worth while meeting her half way.' Is it necessary to say more? Workers Press, Wedner 1962 July 1: Mass vote in favour of independence inreferendum organized according to terms of Evian with agreement France. July 3: Ben Khedda becomes prime minister. August 3: Ben Bella arrives in Algiers in triumph. September 23: Ben Bella becomes Prime Minister with Colonel Boumedienne Minister of Defence. 1963 April: Ben Bella becomes general secretary of the FLN.

September: Discontent in the Kabylie region. 1964 March 13: Ben Bella and de Gaulle meet. September 20: FLN win 85 per cent of votes in elections.

1965 June-July: Boumedienne de- Ben Bella and takes nounces power. July 29: Agreement with France on gas and oil. 1967 January 3: Opposition leader Mohamed Khider sense mated Mav. une: forges tempted army oh cunniaccad February 1. French evacuate naval base El-Kebit (where fleet dactenna y Rainich condon an oce February Student dicoon. tent. 25: Attemnter ascassin. of koumedienne May-August: Nationalization of foreign many. Minister. January Four-Year Plan drawn up in. n 1969 beeins. Moto has Aconcintim From fart Keim Rollaram who plot insoiredi oumedienne in 1968. and pipelines. ver control of gas sioned October. Visit of Kosygin

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 nature of capitalist justice is revealed. Reprinted from the 'Bulletin' (April 3, 1972), organ of the Workers League of US. By Nancy Fields.

SACCO AND VANZETTI

PAGE & Workers Press, Wedneeday Jul Sacco and Vanzetti were arres carried out a few minutes afte nature of capitalist justice is r Part 4. The case. It is with an understanding of the history of the period (see Workers Press of July 8, 10, 11, 1972) that we can •nOW turn to the actual case of Sacco and Vanzetti and see it for what it was: vicious frame-up of two working-class leaders. Two days prior to their arrest, Sacco and Vanzetti learned of the death of their close friend, and fellow anarch- ist, Andrea Salsedo. Salsedo, and another anarch- ist Robert Elia, had been arrested by the Department of Justice and held incommuni- cado. Sacco and Vanzetti had received reports that Salsedo and Elia were being tortured in order to obtain 'confessions' from them that they had been involved in the so-called Wall Street bomb explosion. Vanzetti had gone to New York to learn the details and report back on the situation.

In New York, he conferred with Walter Nilles, the attor- ney for the two prisoners.

Nilles advised the concealment of all their literature. New raids were expected. Salsedo had crashed 14 stories to his death on May 3.

As Shachtman noted: •Whether the torture of eight weeks of barbarous persecution had made him seek immediate desperately for death rather than the contin- uation of living hell, or the fall was caused by the insane of the government anger operatives who, having been exhorting a unsuccessful in confession from his brave lips, sought to dispose of the evi- dence of their brutality by flinging him to his death, may never be known.' With the death of Salsedo fresh in their minds, Sacco and Vanzetti stood resolute in their refusal to answer any ques- tions concerning their political beliefs the night of their arrest.

Of course, they assumed that they were being arrested for their political activities.

Both were known as leaders and agitators in the labour movement. Vanzetti had led a strike in 1916 at the Plymouth Cordage Company which was the larg- est rope and cordage plant in the world. In the course of the strike, the employers called in the State Police, had men and women beaten and ridden over by troopers' horses, but the workers had stood firm.

When the strike ended with a small wage increase, Vanzetti was fired. He was black-listed throughout the area as a notorious agitator. Sacco, too. had aided the strikers at numerous textile plants in the He had area. played an active role in the Lawrence strike of 1912 and the textile machine workers strike in 1913. In 1916, he was arrested at a demonstra- tion in solidarity with the on the Mesabi strike Iron Range in Minnesota. In addition to their activi- ties in the labour movement, they had openly expressed their political beliefs during World War I. They opposed the war as an imperialist war and considered service in the armies of their exploiters as incompatible with their prin- ciples. They went to Mexico to escape the compulsory military service act. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested at a time when the press was stirring up hysteria over the two crimes and at a time when the State Police coday July 12, 1972 re arrested on May 5, 1920. They!

ites after midnight on August 22, 1!

tice is revealed. Reprinted from the was stalemated in its investiga- tions. A . resolution had been introduced in the state legis- lature which authorized the Governor to offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of the robbers. Chief of Police Steward had participated in the Palmer and had proven his ted raids hatred of the working class.

In addition, he had a vested interest in solving the crimes because he was in the pay of White Shoe Company in the Bridgewater. He had been informed by the Department of Justice that Sacco and Van- zetti were dangerous radicals.

The theory behind the crimes as well as the so-called evidence and the facts of the case, was established before arrest of Sacco and Van- the zetti. This was completely con- trary to normal criminal pro- cedure. Even one of the most respected servants of bour- geois justice, Felix Frankfurter, noted: "The build-up of the evi- dence against the accused usually occurs after the arrest; and the theory of the crime itself accompanies and follows it. The theory does not pre- cede the facts. ('Twelve Years After', p. 55.) However, that was not the the They were sentenced to die in the st 22, 1927. In the course of those se Top: the judge Webster Thayer. Abor demonstration for their relea: Const only break from normal pro- cedure to occur in the case.

In fact, throughout the trial all that had been formerly con- sidered normal, correct pro- cedure was thrown out the window by the prosecution.

had While the prosecution wished to try Sacco and Van- zetti for both crimes, they finally were forced to excuse Sacco from the Bridgewater case because it was clear that he had been at work in a shoe factory in Stoughton.

In accord with legal custom, he the South Braintree case e in the electric chair April 9, 1927 those seven years, one of the most 2), organ of the Workers League of ......

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ayer. Above left: Vanzetti (with moustache) heir release one of the many protests which should have been tried first because in the event that one is being accused of a series of crimes, he is to be tried for the most serious offence first.

Clearly, the robbery of $16,000 and the murder of two men in South Braintree was far serious than the more attempted holdup in Bridge- water. prosecutor had Since the nothing but circumstantial evi- either case, he dence for. hoped to strengthen his posi- tion through this tactic. Obvi- ously, if he could present to 9, 1927 and that sentence was le most glaring exposés of the gue of US. By Nancy Fields.

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Above right: and Sacco. ests which took place all over world. the jury a defendant who was already convicted of one crime, he would have an easier time getting a conviction for the South Braintree affair. The press aided Katzmann by giv- ing the Bridgewater conviction the most lurid publicity.

In fact, throughout the trial, the District Attorney employed racism, trickery, deceit and cunning in order to ensure the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

The trial in Los Angeles of Daniel Ellsberg (above) and Anthony Russo is another attack on civil liberties in the United States by the Nixon administration. Elisberg, a former top Pen- tagon 'hawk', leaked a top- secret history of the Vietnam war to the 'New York Times', exposing the cynical barbarism of the US regime. His action drew down the wrath of Nixon and the mili- tary top brass who discovered that American law, which incorporates certain constitu- tional protections, is not adequate to protect the secrecy of state papers. : And if every disaffected gov- "ernment employee were to Xerox copies of embarrassing memoranda and dish them out to the press, the Pentagon's would definitely be style cramped. The First Amendment to the constitution guarantees US freedom of speech and of the press. It forbids 'prior restraint' publication of material, though in practice this is a good deal less sweeping than it might appear. however, Last year, the Supreme Court decided by a 6-3 maJority that the New York Times' and the Washing- ton Post' were not endangering national security by their published extracts from the Pentagon Papers. The ruling the First relied largely on Amendment protections. Since then, Nixon has made a concerted effort to swing the judiciary to the right and systematically undermine the constitutional provisions pro- tecting elementary rights.

The President now has four of his own nominees on the Supreme Court panel of nine.

lo a man they are strong supporters of 'law and order' and their presence ensures that the court, which plays considerable political role, is the most reactionary for many years. Already in connection with the case it has ruled that members of Congress can be hauled before grand juries to they about how testify acquired secret government documents. This ruling, voted 5-4 by the court, concerned the publication of the Pentagon of Papers by Beacon Press Boston. The defendants were under the impression that the court was deciding whether a grand jury could summon assistants of Senator Gravel, an opponent of the Vietnam war who played a part in releasing the Pen- tagon study last year. In fact, the court decided that even Congressmen, who have traditionally enjoyed par- liamentary immunity for such actions, could be compelled to answer for them if they were - not degislative in nature'.

The last few months have seen a spate of similar deci- sions: newspaper reporters have been deprived of their immunity and can now be forced to reveal sources of information; political pamph- lets can no longer be distri- buted freely in privately-owned shopping precincts—a triumph for the rights of private pro- perty over freedom of speech and assembly. The also same court empowered the Justice Depart- ment to bar alien left-wingers from visiting the United States to attend academic confer- judgement and in ences described by the Tory 'Econo- mist' as 'reminiscent of the suspicious 1950s, ' it ruled that states sack public can employees for refusing to take a loyalty oath. Against this background, the Pentagon Papers case takes on some importance. The prosecu- is trying to prove that tion Ellsberg and Russo are guilty of 'stealing, embezzling and to their own use converting 'namely government property one of the original 15 copies of the Pentagon Papers'. The two charged are also with conspiring to 'defraud' 'impairing, the nation by obstructing and defeating its lawful governmental function of controlling the dissemination of classified government studies, reports, memoranda and communications' Finally, prosecution the claims they have broken the Federal Espionage Act - a World War I measure aimed der to prevent spying. By relent- lessly stretching the interpre- tation of this limited statute, the prosecution hopes, the decide Ellsberg court will 'communicated' material 'related to national defence' to people 'not entitled to receive' it. The trial is of considerable importance to the federal clas- sification system, which costs $50m a year to guard secrets, many of which are widely known to the public. Among the more recherche items of classified information is the number of paper-clips used in the space programme. One line of the defence is likely to be to try to demon- that much of the strate material in the Pentagon Papers was public knowledge anyway. The defence is also likely to make much of the Washington lobby system under which top-secret papers are unofficially dished out as 'background' to selected news- paper correspondents. The defence does not seri- ously challenge the facts in the prosecution's case. Ellsberg has publicly declared his respon- sibility for leaking the Papers and declared that he considers his action was a public duty.

The prosecution has so far failed to induce the judge to rule that discussion of the gov- ernment's policy in South East Asia should be barred as immaterial to the case. in particular is The press taking the trial very seriously -it vitally affects rights to information received publish 'secret" from government sources. Columnist Jack And- erson, the man who blew the scandal, says he fears the

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conviction of Ellsberg and Russo would dry up many of his own best sources. 'We can't • let it happen,' he said.

The Ellsberg trial is a fur- ther step in Nixon's concerted campaign to tighten the law I by-pass some of the key and It constitutional guarantees.

has obvious parallels in Britain, where influential police and Tory. Party. sections are actively working abolish to defendants' basic rights in the courts. Nixon's offensive against basic constitutional rights is part of a trend toward dicta- torship which is evident and growing in every major capi- talist country and is fuelled directly by the system's acute crisis. Workers Press, We

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The axe continues to cut a swathe through the BBC. '24 is killed from this week Hours' and 'Late Night Line-Up' is to be taken off. At a stroke the Tories have more than likely pressured the Corporation to rid the screen of two pro- which had some grammes vague reputation for candid reporting. How the Tories are prepar- ing to jam our screens is seen in the appointment of Alistair Burnet to the revamped 'Pano- rama'. • Burnet, now editor of the right-wing business journal, 'Economist', is Tory. the After the last General Election half-expecting a call he was to No. 10 Downing Street as whizz-kid adviser to Heath.

INSTANT MONEY

Mr Roy Wright's construction company, Joviel Properties, gone public, instantly has just turning its founder into a mil- lionaire. Joviel has offered 6m shares at 60p a share through brokers, Laing and Cruikshank.

Mr Wright conveniently owns 1.6m of the total stock. The 'Evening News' city pages have published a brief biography extolling Mr Wright's genius. 'Shortly after lea'ing the army he started on his own with just four nav- vies to build eight bungalows.

The venture was a success and since then he has never looked back' What happened to the four 'navvies' is not recorded.

DREADFUL

Overheard on the tube. Two pin-striped suited business- men: 'Good morning, Clive. How are you today?' Clive, gloomily: 'Good morn- ing. I'm all right, I suppose 'What's the old matter, man? You don't sound too cheerful.' 'What's there to be cheerful about? The army has no sooner settled with the Catho- lics in Northern Ireland than they are having confrontations with the Protestants — you would have thought the Protestants had enough intel- ligence to know who their friends are. The pound has all gone to pot. There was a time when you could get away from it all at the Club, but they are even murdering women in Pall Mall now. I don't know what the world is coming to' Press, Wednesday July 12, 1972 PAGE 8

DO-GOODING

'It has always been an axiom of British policy, and I trust still is, that peace is a func- of civilized standards tion throughout the world. The process may take a long time, and meet many setbacks; but it cannot be accomplished at all without the spirit of do- which gooding idealism has always been a salient factor in our public life. These words were written by the ex-editor of the 'New Statesman' , Paul Johnson, in this week's edition of that journal. He is a devout Roman Catholic.

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VISITOR

The second day of Mr John Poulson's bankruptcy hearing ended abruptly. The unfortu- nate Poulson suddently felt ill and had to be taken from the witness stand. This was unfor- tunate for the hearing which was just reaching some juicy about his entertainment bits bills. Mr Muir Hunter, QC, who was questioning Poulson said: 'We have lists of your invita- tions and large bills you paid at the Dorchester Hotel before paying your income tax.' At this point Poulson . col- lapsed. But the court official told the 'Yorkshire Post' that Mr. Hunter would pursue this line of inquiry when it resumes. " Meanwhile the Dorchester, one of London's swankiest joints, has confirmed that Poulson was indeed a cele- brated visitor. 'We remember Mr Poulson well. He frequently very booked in at the Dorchester. He did some entertaining, but he was never all that lavish.'

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Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill Dangerous wait-and-see policy on PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday July 12, 1972 women TENANTS in Cumbernauld have been told to wait and see' what Tory-appointed the Cum- action Corpora- bernauld Development tion takes against rent strikers.

This was the dubious advice given to local tenants in the Com- Cumbernauld Rents Action chairman David Kane, mittee by communist coun-

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prospective cillor. So far 550 tenants have with- WOMEN workers at the held rent increases. Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, With rates instalments due in July-when the full brunt of the GEC factory are on strike increases will be felt-there is the number of every indication over a claim for parity with non-payers will rise sharply.

other GEC workers. But Kane's 'wait-and-see' policy The basic minimum at Middles- brough for workers of women 21 £14.50 a and over is week, while at Hartlepool it is £15 and Coventry £15.25 Fred at says Gardiner of the electricians' which most of the union, to 1,000 strikers belong. He said had management offered an increase overtime I11 and holiday rates, but women at the factory seldom did over- He said time. he was trying to arrange a meeting with the man- agement. Shop stewards at the factory week's gave management talks broke down notice atter and the strike began on Monday.

Kent, male In Dover, super- of staff, members the visory of Scientific, Tech- Association

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and Managerial Staffs, nical employed by GEC at a new tele- phone exchange went on strike HULL DOCKERS have launch bad and what they pay Over unregistered ports on the Hu "bad management' at claim to be GEC headquarters. fight against cutback in jobs.

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Name Address is a useless marking of time in the political struggle to be waged by by tenants against Tory rent policies. Total confusion reigns in the misnamed committee of action, which is in fact a committee of protest, as to the nature of the Tory government. No attempt has been made to prepare tenants face the legal intimidation 10 which will certainly be unleashed upon them. They have been assurances of test lulled with cases, etc. Douglas Gilchrist, a radical

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• launched a campaign to close the Humber as part of their are also blacking several con- registered ports are employing the National Dock Labour A main target is Howden- + dyke Wharf where East Coast River Services (Goole) Lim- ited are unloading timber vessels. The dockers say that men working for East Coast in the registered port of Goole do not have sufficient work to keep them busy and that the company is diverting traffic to Howdendyke.

The dockers are picketing the wharf carrying such slogans as: "This is a scab wharf, 'Enter you will be blacked.' here and A dockers' spokesman said yesterday: 'This stevedoring firm is using what is virtually part- what is time farm labour for dockers' work. Our lads are under-employed at Goole and Hull. We can't allow this to go on. Our livelihoods are at stake.'

Unregistered ports do not come under the National Dock Labour Scheme of 1947 and therefore ignore pay and conditions can built up by registered dock labour over the years. EXPORT cargoes of refined are being loaded at sugar Immingham for the first time, say the British Transport Docks Board. Over 13,000 tons of sugar will be handled by the port this week.

Further amounting to cargoes between 15,000 and 20,000 tons are expected to be handled by the port in the next few weeks.

In the first six months of 1972, Immingham has handled 24,309 tons of foodstuffs, com- pared with 16,304 tons handled in the corresponding period last year. A PRELIMINARY police report on the 'Big Dipper' crash Battersea Funfair-which killed five youngsters-has been sub- mitted to the Director of Pub- lic Prosecutions. But no action will be considered until a fur- ther investigation and full report on the May 30 tragedy have been This will completed. include a large section compiled on the instructions of the Home Office by technical experts. schoolteacher recently censured ordinating Committee had affili- by education authorities for re- ated to it. velations to the press about this body Is to Smash the Act, The reformist Catholic corporal punishment in leaving the Tories still in power.

schools, s the treasurer of the committee. Under this reformist and big He outlined some particularly Stalinist leadership this unfortunate cases among pen- tenants' movement is in consider- danger and sioners. able of betrayal Guest speaker Finlay Hart, ultimate defeat. Intimated the formation of SCOTA Only by transforming the rents Tenants' committee into a real Council of (Scottish Council of The CP-controlled and Associations). Action can the tenants Scottish area NUM, Paisley AUEW mobilized for workers be protest - fight district and the West committee political - not of Scotland Shop Stewards' Co.

against Tory rent policy.

SHOP STEWARDS at yard was involved and only those Ports- who worked on Friday were still mouth dockyard met yesterday working. Boats, morning to discuss management tactories and workshops to sack all those who laid idle threats were as refused to work with men who other sections followed suit.

did not take part in their strike Management refused to remove those still working and said that last Friday. anyone working by yester- not Last week's strike was in pro day afternoon's muster (clocking- the government's Le L their would have wages £1.50 pay offer. paltry stopped. Work on the 'Matapan', which A young dockyard worker who had the was supposed to be on trial been working on stopped Monday 'Matapan' told us: yesterday, on when men who struck on Friday It's been very encouraging so refused to work alongside about far, but now we must be pre- ten alleged blacklegs. pared to fight this threat through to the end and not back down.

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PASSENGERS travelling by ship David Barran, former head of Shell and one of the country's and train to destinations beyond highest-paid executives, is to the continental Channel ports of directors board Midland Bank. will have to pay about an 8 per Since he left Shell, Barran has cent surcharge on the continental claimed number of a lucrative portion of their fare, British Rail directorships and here the 1n United has announced. States. joined British He has Ley- Since the pound was floated', General Accident and land, the British Rail have carried Burton Group and more recently the extra cost of settling with Euro- he has joined the American City railways for sold Investment Company. At Shell pean tickets Meanwhile, the sur- he earned more £76,000 Britain. than Ill charge level will be kept under He was knighted by the year. Tories last year. continuous review. FRANK CHAPPLE, leader of the headed his union's team opposing a claim by the 1,000-strong Elec- giant electricians' union, yester- became the second Supply Union day major tricity for recog- before nition at the Ferrybridge, York- union leader appear the National Industrial Relations Chapple shire, power station. Court. follows Clive Jenkins, leader of The

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these two major challenges with notable success, but it did not Employers' Federation with discredit either! emerge yesterday scoffed at trade Reducing industrial 'dishar- union leaders who want mony' would be achieved not 'This 'overnight'. was to to put the Industrial Re- be expected of it, for an exten- lations Act on ice. of the industrial sive reform relations only be system can As far as the EEF is con- about brought progressively. cerned, the Act is working Those who looked the Act •to as an instant panacea were bound well. to be disillusioned. In an editorial in this month's 'EEF News', the federation says: "The proposition trade union that the Act should be put into cold kind of storage as some pro quid quo for an understand- wage claims seems ing to seriously underestimate the res- ponsibility of government.

AN OFFICIAL delegation of four 'It certainly reflects a mistaken has visited Cuba for scientists assumption that the Act, having the first time since Washington found been tried, has been severed relations with Havana in wanting.' 1961. They were attending The EEF says that too many United Nations conference on people have made natural resources in the Carib- judgements' about Act's bean. Ronald Ziegler, President to the rail operation. Referring Nixon's press secretary, said no and docks debacle, the editorial political significance attached to 'A rapid and smooth solution to them would have the visit and it represented change in US policy towards the been little short of a miracle. 'The law did not surmount island. the financial affairs of Yorkshire THE TORY Cabinet will architect John Poulson. decide tomorrow whether to Ministers will have to decide stage a judicial inquiry into whether "far Proceeding for have allegations of 'corruption in enough advanced public life' inquiry decision or whether involving the would be preferable to await the Poulson empire. completion of Poulson's evidence at the resumed hearing on August The Attorney-General's Depart- ment was yesterday studying the transcript of the Wakefield bank- In the court last week Poul- his evidence ruptcy court which is examining interrupted com Leslie Philips, Dora Bryan and Edwar In' Woodward's hour-long show on inde led- HTV: 2.30 Yorkshire show. 3.20 Talking hands. 3.35 Enchanted house. 3.45 Ugliest girl. 4.15 Tinkertainment. 4.30 Crossroads.

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AN ORDER forbidding Lon- don dockers from continuing Fund THIS EARLY start to our land to flout the law of the Is very encouraging but we must should be granted as a matter step up the fight even more. We need to raise our target of £1,750 of Mr Justice urgency, even earlier this monthby July McGarry was told in the High Summer Camp 22- -betore Court yesterday. begins. Applying for an interim order Every day the treachery of the picketing banning dockers from leadership and union more Cold Storage at the Midland timely exposed. At more our depot, Waterden Road. Stratford, of the

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He claimed the NIRC had target mined to make our in become political shuttlecock tlme. We know with a struggle, which, encouraged by others, the you can do lt. So let's go into dockers had made plain they action immediately. There Is no would But he said there defy. time to waste. Post all your dona- were no political elements in the tlons immediately to: court of chancery and one Workers Press had ever suggested that its law July Appeal Fund should be disobeyed. 186a Clapham High Street, He said: If it is we shall have London SW4 7UG a situation of anarchy where the rule of law stands at the cross- aladse Crosed is already stands roads. Indeed it CENTRAL London branch of the Journalists Union National of Campbell quoted two state- considered yesterday a proposal ments he alleged had been made recommending that the national by dockers' leader Bernie Steer expel Her- committee executive to "The Times', 'Daily Telegraph' man Roberts, an honorary mem- and the 'Sun' in which he was ber of the union, because of his 'Carry on claimed to have said: National membership the doing what think is right. Industrial Relations Court.

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to policies have been synchronize troops prepare leave for Ulster it is becoming painfully by the events around Lenad clear that the bi-lateral truce between the First, the

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and the British army was a deadly for the anti-Unionist forces.

homeless problem. Then the trap these andi prevent CAnA said the dictator Mussolini, "is 'Peace', occupying flats which For Ulster only an interval between wars.'

allocated to them (the Catho supremo William Whitelaw and the Army gorillas, the "peace' Ulster- - the peace When the IRA tries to of the just', the IRA hopefully called it— homeless, the UDA retires an was nothing more than an interval between Army instantly appears. and one phase of repression and another.

barricades are put up to depr cans of their legitimate rights 'Direct rule' was the scaffold. The 'truce' the noose-for the Provisional IRA.

And when the Provisional I was 'truce' the In the weeks of the by the brutal savage, gained valuable imperialist conspirators provocation to end the truce they establish mence hostilities, the UDA time which used to political bridgehead, via the Social Demo- demand for the Catholic cratic and Labour Party and the openly calls for the Church, in the Catholic ghetto. military dictatorship. The barricades began to come down and The IRA Provisionals have tranquility British disarming atmosphere the an was deliberately created by the media and UDA sectarianism'.

UDA

army. No doubt on instruction from the CArament Frank psychological of government by Brigadier 'martial warfare department cartridge belts were than political brains' is a mu faces unblackened and the political ambitions stowed away, fraternization resumed with Catholic resi- minds of the army top brass But behind the facade of simulated dents. is the ventriloquist's dummy.

friendship imperialist conspiracies new In this context the IRA had were being hatched. truce and fight to reiect the The Ulster Defence Association was ever tardily. Workers Press, w given semi-official status. Its mobile patrols ing the policies of the IRA full freedom to roam un- the 'truce': nevertheless were given challenged in the Protestant 'no go' areas.

the disruption by reservedly, -including convicted murderers the cynical and fraudulent Its leaders- like Gusty Spence-were allowed to arm, perialism. also support We train and parade with impunity and to withdrawal of troops (not Catholic workers provoke and intimidate now) and the release living in the Protestant areas.

political prisoners in The UDA leaders—many of whom are For the same reason of ex-British -took advantage categorically the army men. the IRA retreat and the 'truce' to escalate cravenly middle-class of the Official IRA their campaign and amplify their sectarian and While " direct rule' Star' to the breaking of the ' demands. opposing publicly, these bandits secretly welcomed The Official Sinn Fein in it because it gave them all the scope they "regretted' the Provisionals to create an extra-parliamentary needed fighting. Their resume para-military force- -and to create new that *he resumption of links with the British army.

will take the pressure off Mr W The real purpose of the 'truce' and the Having made their peace with extent to which UDA and British army these reformist-nationalists If wanted really named dockers, including Bernie picketing and intimidation rough, Steer and Vic Turner, and also by customers and suppliers hit them. violence and the imposi stewards committee which they tion of nationwide Campbell laid heavy secretary and chairman. against vehicles crossing on the fact that picketing, which he said included threats The order would compel them

ILLICO.

vio- intimidation physical Thev are accused of conspiring allo lo cease du pickeling ana pack• lence, ing. said evidence accumu- to induce the firm to break its was a nagrant dellance ol the law. In his view it warranted lated by agents Eurotec contract with and provided private detective hrm. oi inducing them ailu iron case against He added that the organization cack The to break ineir contract with thelt dockers. 57 employees. ane ccae or cockers nickers wąs the of the The pickets are also accused NIRC not to move against three operation mounted by the miners committing threat- last will cockers excers a orument acc ening unlaw conduct, includ- Midland The picketing of Midland Cold Campbell said Cold ing physical violence, and Storage is costing the firm £2,000 Storage believed they obstruction of vehicles. and handled the week detalled and particular evidence Lonnake 1,900 to 61 had dropped from to dan all Dickeung-lawrul and tons a week. respondents -until the dockers 5.! are Campbell asked the court for accused of injure their conspiring appear in 1cvi coculalives seven company through court to clarify their position.

In uncon Lne of rank-and-file members.

union executive has visited China 'We have accepted in principle Engineering Workers recent chairman invited send a delegation to and details have to be discussed the pro-Peking Communis: Party China in September. Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

buck Arrangements Ive mova Came mn a e. Invitat come trori Unina • nave deen to any erase said cantai -certainly for pleted for visit to Peking by Hugh Scanlor, said Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Reg Birch, a member of the Douglas Home later this vear.

orcsiuenl.dne mace up many ON THE eve of the TUC Eco- possible for to assist the ought to hon movemear ın • make ll Committee Sir the dialogue? Holle Heelus

LIC

Lauts union Sir of the National Enion strairy Sidney told meet them. have „nev placed the Union annual conference in Scarborough difficulties appealed waymen, with that the government had tr the government: Make it possible spire people something TONS ACT So when you for us to talk to each other.'

abor the prepare positione take any action you do not know He was willing o talk, but what whether going to land prépared meet the are you Government. but 1 think up in court' said Greene.

was the government gong to do tney The this only chronized 1c reveac aesire to make wnitelaws job any more people

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housing difficult- or to embarrass Generals Ford fantastic and implausible rubbish are those who believe the Tory drive Catholic and Tuzo. reformists leopard will change •create

ILS SDUL

a lo -with sufficient they intimidate Whilst the Pro- even its fangs. an and British for havir reproving tenants from persuasion. Irish and workers, visionals talks with having will remember that similar calls che Cath licen have legally vy nitelaw ana accusing the briusa army Stalinists employing agents provocateurs kill were made by the innocent and inflame three years to defend the people rehouse the military Ulster. Then Officials occupation the Dassions. conclude retires and the British most pathetic display of capitulationism: British army was the were told that barbed wire alternative to the UVF and the B-Specials ip to deprive Republi and that the army was there to guarantee 'The close between the co-operation late rights! the implementation of Callaghan's reforms. British army and the UDA over the last week surely should have warned the anti- visional IRA is forced Now workers are against the position advised to le low and intolerable forces and accept Whitelaw' Bonapartist confrontation.' and alternative to the truce an British measures will they At least 16,500 British troops, aided by army and the UDA. say of Stormont and the most brutal police force in the British next? establishment of Isles, the Irish Slalu

OVCI

If Irish workers and the Fein says workers followed the Umcial sinn hac 'Don't fight!' Stalinist polite three Ulster ago, would today with •a fascisi instrument The same line of prostratior before and military dictatorship is not So. The the working peaceful Whitelaw the prospect _co-existence wild atel Class smashed. the Star ene de

UVA

1S The oralinist The decision of the Pro- The Stalinist attack on the Provisional muted echo end the the

IRA

reveals British Stalinism in visional to truce, says its the urut The "Why? rocause it gives the counter-revolutionarv this brass. olar canar be regretted'. attack Stalinism not accidentaly is joined ultras and ex-Prime Minister spokesman the Labour Loras • IRA had every right the and Liberal Lord Byers acuses ho congratulated Whitelaw and appeale auction democrane while criticiz- measures [!!], to step up demands for the to the 'moderates the Stalinist of force by the British Official IRA and IRA which led use troops against leaders, 'try down the atmosphere and the anti-Unionists and to iustity their own and tone use of force. get rid of violence'. of im. The 'Star' A defeat for the Provisional IRA would critically a vicious distorted account be a serious gain for Whitelaw and would

COUT

Myant: hand of Provisional strengthen Tories internees and

IRA

wide todav condemnalon to delena among anti-Unionists return to who stand by offensive actions against the army. Whitelaw conflict, condemn committing in the Suffolk unprincipled allu 1s cacuse. unparaonabic wreachery to un reformist area last night, ludicrous Irish and British working class. They must attituce •was considered the 'Morning because it fell into the trap be exposed and routed. g of the 'truce' The historical interests of t defence basic rights and Myant's apologetics for Whitelaw in Dublin have were Irish workers- Devlin MP. Bernadette decision echoed Protestan anel -anC statement alleges Sunday she criticized the Provisionals for workers are now more urgent than ever.

offensive action accepting Tuesday They will only be secured through a joint e off Mr Whitelaw. criticized truce! struggle of the Irish and British This is the could nave gone have without breaking the truce.' she said.

policy of the Socialist Labour League.