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CRISIS consultation at London's Lancaster House yesterday. The British delegation their got heads together before starting talks with the Finance Ministers of the Common Market and applicant countries on the mone- tary situation. While the Ministers talked, the into flow of unwanted dollars Europe continued unabated. As as the foreign exchange soon markets opened dollar-holders began to unload their currency in Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris and the Swiss and German cen- tral banks were both forced to buy dollars to support the rate.

The two-day conference at Lancaster House was originally called to discuss the long-term reform of the international mone tary system. But the dollar crisis -threatening to undermine last December's currency realignment —is likely to be the primary topic in the talks. Picture below shows, left to right, Sir Douglas Allen, perma- nent secretary to the Treasury, Sir Leslie O'Brien, governor of the Bank of England and Tory chancellor Anthony Barber,

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A HIGH COURT judge yester- day recommended that Midland Cold Storage should pursue its action against London docks shop stewards in the National Industrial Relations Court.

Mr Justice Megarry said that in setting up the NIRC, parlia- ment had manifestly intended that its jurisdiction covered un- fair industrial practices. Proceed- ings should normally be brought in the NIRC than another court, he added. The vital judgement was handed down yesterday in the Chancery division of the High Court after a week-long hearing in which Midland Cold Storage sought further injunc- tions and orders agains the Hackney i who include Bernie Steer and Seven' Vic Turner. The way is now open for Midland's lawyers to apply to Sir John Donald- son of the NIRC for contempt orders against the dockers' leaders.

This is expected in the next day or so.

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BY IAN YEATS

Although he refused to make an and blacking order banning picketing at the Midland Cold Storage depot, Hackney, Mr Justice Megarry warned in his judgement yesterday that the importance of maintaining the rule of law had never been greater in living memory than it was now. Describing the dockers' fight for work, Megarry said: *This is a simple case ot a group of men using their strength to take something which has never been theirs. This is the law of the jungle. The law of the jungle is not law, but force.' While High the Court had no power under the Industrial Relations Act intervene in matters properly within the jurisdicion of the

NIRC

Megarry said it was nevertheless right for him to draw that court's attention to breaches of its orders. "There has been clear prima facie before me that the orders made evidence by the NIRC have been and are being breached, he said. He laid heavy emphasis on the fact that the industrial court possessed maxi- mum powers to punish breaches of its

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rulings and to enforce them. Midland Cold Storage were criticized for bring- ing a second action against the dockers in the High Court instead of opening enforce proceedings to the NIRC's ruling. There was no evidence to suggest that the dockers would obey the High Court any more than they had the NIRC.

By seeking a High Court order on the ground that the High Court was less likely to be disobeyed than the industrial court, the company was, at least by implication, denigrating the NIRC. To that extent, said the judge, the company's attitude to the NIRC was the same as that of the dockers. Megarry said that while it might be argued that sections of the Act had been "irresolute hand', never- drawn up by an theless it was plainly parliament's inten- tion that all industrial disputes should be subject to the jurisdiction and authority of the NIRC. For the past week, employers' QC Mr Alan Campbell has sought six injunctions from the High Court against seven named individuals and the port of London joint shop stewards' committee to ban all blacking and picketing at the Hackney depot. He argued that although Sir John Donaldson had already forbidden blacking as an unfair industrial practice, the acts which led up to this blacking were offences in common law. He accused them of conspiracy to interts ot vidence, Store entiredati of threats of violence, nuisance, breach statutory duty and inducement to others to break their contracts.

Megarry said there was no evidence that the shop stewards' committee existed for the sole purpose of regulating employ- on the ment docks and therefore no proceedings could be taken against it.

He said picketing appeared to be peaceful and that there was no proof that the dockers' action constituted a nuisance.

Intimidation, he said, was part of the process of blacking upon which the NIRO had alread ruled. He could not see that inducing people to stop contracts being -between the company and their made- customers—was a crime. Nor that it had been proved that there was a conspiracy to do so. Finally, he ruled that dockers could not be held to be in breach of their statutory duty merely by being in breach of their work contracts. Though none of Campbell's submissions were found, Megarry disagreed with the NIRC on one important point. And he ruled that an industrial dispute did, in fact, exist at Midland Cold Storage.

Settling it was the business of the NIRC and other could not consider courts segments of cases the whole of which fell to its jurisdiction. Campbell leapt to his Case md took is obeyed te case and took up his challenge. He said new proceedings would be started at once. The judge said that grave public issues were raised by the dockers' continuing defiance of the court and he warned that it would be wrong of them to regard his judgement as a victory.

'fair, just and Describing his ruling as in line with commonsense, he held out one carrot to the dockers, urging them to bear in mind that it was only the Act they repudiated which had saved them from his court.

workers press 'Don't regard this judgement as a victory'-judge

CONTAINER BOSSES SENT BACK TO DONALDSON

HIGH COURT BOOST

FOR THE NIRC

CRISIS consultation at London's Lancaster House yesterday. The their British delegation got heads together before starting talks with the Finance Ministers of the Common Market and applicant countries on the mone- tary situation. While the Ministe olksd, the fow of unwanted dollars Europe continued unabated. As as the foreign exchange soon markets opened dollar-holders began to unload their currency in Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris and the Swiss and German cen- tral banks were both forced to buy dollars to support the rate.

The two-day conference at Lancaster House was originally called to discuss the long-term reform of the international mone.

tary system. But the dollar crisis —threatening to undermine last December's currency realignment likely to be the primary -is topic in the talks. Picture below shows, left to right, Sir Douglas Allen, perma- to the Treasury, nent secretary Sir Leslie O'Brien, governor of the Bank of England and Tory chancellor Anthony Barber,

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITT

A HIGH COURT judge yester- day recommended that Midland Cold Storage should pursue its action against London docks shop stewards in the National Industrial Relations Court.

Mr Justice Megarry said that in setting up the NIRC, parlia- manifestly intended ment had that its jurisdiction covered un- fair industrial practices. Proceed- ings should normally be brought in the NIRC than another court, he added. The vital judgement was handed down yesterday the Chancery division of the High Court after a week-long hearing in which Midland Cold Storage sought further injunc- tions and orders agains the 'Hackney Seven', who include Bernie Steer and Vic Turner. The way is now open for Midland's lawyers to apply to Sir John Donald- son of the NIRC for contempt orders against the dockers' leaders. This is expected in the next day or so.

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BY IAN YEATS

Although he refused to make an order banning picketing and blacking at the Midland Cold Storage depot, in his judgement yesterday that the importance of maintaining the rule of been greater in living law had never memory than it was now. Describing the dockers' fight for work, Megarry said: "This is a simple case of a group of men using their strength to take something which has never been theirs. This is the law of the jungle. The law of the jungle is not law, but force, While the High Court had no power under the Industrial Relations Act to intervene in matters properly within the jurisdicion of the NIRC, Megarry said it to draw was nevertheless right for him that court's attention to breaches of its orders. "There has been clear prima facie evidence before me that the orders made by the NIRC have been and are being breached, he said. He laid heavy emphasis on the fact that the industrial court possessed maxi- mum powers to punish breaches of its

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rulings to enforce them. Midland and Cold Storage were criticized for bring- ing a second action against the dockers in the High Court instead of opening proceedings enforce NIRC's to the ruling. There was no evidence to suggest that the dockers would obey the High Court any more than they had the NIRC.

By seeking a High Court order on the ground that the High Court was less likely to be disobeyed than the industrial court, the company was, at least by implication, denigrating the NIRC. To that extent, said the judge, the company's attitude to the NIRC was the same as that of the dockers. Megarry said that while it might be argued that sections of the Act had been drawn up by an 'irresolute hand', never- theless it was plainly parliament's inten- tion that all industrial disputes should be the jurisdiction and authority subject to of the NIRC. For the past week, employers' QC Mr Alan Campbell has sought six injunctions from the High Court against seven named individuals and the port of London joint • shop stewards' committee ban all to blacking and picketing at the Hackney He argued that although Sir John depot. Donaldson had already forbidden blacking as an unfair industrial practice, the acts which led this blacking were up to offences in common law. He accused them of conspiracy to injure Midland Cold Storage, intimidation, threats of violence, nuisance, breach of statutory duty and inducement to others to break their contracts.

Megarry said there was no evidence that the shop stewards' committee existed for the sole purpose of regulating employ- ment on the docks and therefore no proceedings could be taken against it. He said picketing appeared to be peaceful and that there was no proof that the dockers' action constituted a nuisance.

Intimidation, he said, was part of the process of blacking upon which the NIRC had already ruled. He could not see that inducing people to stop contracts being made-between • the company and their customers-was a crime. Nor that it had been proved that there was a conspiracy to do so. Finally, he ruled that dockers could not be held to be in breach of their statutory duty merely by being in breach of their work contracts. Though none of Campbell's submissions were found, Megarry disagreed with the NIRC on one important point. And he ruled that an industrial dispute did, in fact, exist at Midland Cold Storage.

Settling it was the business of the NIRC and other courts could not consider segments of cases the whole of which fell to its jurisdiction. Campbell leapt to his feet immediately Megarry dismissed the 'obey-the-NIRC took up his case and challenge. He said new proceedings would be started at once. The judge said that grave public issues were raised by the dockers' continuing defiance of the court and he warned that it would be wrong of them to regard his judgement as a victory.

Describing his ruling as 'fair, just and in line with commonsense, he held out one carrot to the dockers, urging them to bear in mind that it was only the Act they repudiated which had saved them from his court.

Husak regime sets stage for purge of Dubcek supporters Anti-invasion intellectuals PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday July 18 BACKED by one of the most intense bombing raids ever seen in Indo- China, South Vietnamese paratroops were yester- day painfully inching to- wards the city of Quang Tri. They lost the town to the North Vietnamese ten weeks ago when . the Third Division ran from the battle- field For the last week they have been trying to retake Quang Tri against. well-entrenched libera- tion forces. Forward elements of South Vietnamese forces entered the city's citadel yesterday through a breach made by an American "smart' bomb. But they were driven out with heavy casualties.

Correspondents on the spot said the city, which has been a prime target for the US air force since it was captured by North Vietnamese, the is re- duced to a desert with hardly a building intact. The Saigon regime has several times prematurely announced the capture of Quang Tri, so eager is it to claim a victory and bolster crumbling morale among its troops and civilian supporters. In fact the South Vietnamese forces are advancing at a rate of no more than 50 yards a day-and taking heavy casualties.

In an attempt to smash the re- sistance of the liberation forces, the US air force has launched of he most concentrated one bombing raids of the current offensive. B-52 raids during the past few days in the Quang Tri area and north of it above the de- militarized zone reached a new peak of 21 missions on Sunday afternoon and evening. This meant that at least 1,500 tons of explosives were dropped in and around Quang Tri, given that an average mis- sion consists of three planes each carrying 30 tons of bombs.

the bombardment, Despite however, the North Vietnamese artillery in particular is taking a very heavy toll of the Saigon troops.

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lawyers and a doctor were freed from prison in Lima, peru, on Friday. They were jailed November backed military junta after a at the series of demonstrations mines in Cerro de Pasco, central Peru. ay July 18, 1972 THREE trials of prominent opponents of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia opened in the Prague city courts yesterday. Involving at least 12 people, the trials mark a new stage in the 'normalization' in Czechoslovakia.

Stalinist They follow almost four years of systematic purges of oppositionists and are plainly aimed at establishing legal precedents to jail other leaders of the Dubcek tendency. The accused included Jiri Littera, former the Prague secretary of city Jiri Mueller, former committee leader, Jan Tesar, a historian, and Rudolf Battek, a sociologist.

They were among the intellectuals who supported former Communist Party leader Alexandr Dubcek during 1968 and 1969.

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The first trial tourth young Munger Tesar, Battek and a young engineer identi- was believed also due to dips s as Mr Tira. named as Stefar Furek, with them, but he was not seen entering the court- room. i the trial began. of Two corridors awav Tiri Litter 'and associates'. These include Communist Party Josef Stehlik, former finial of unknown rank. Mrs svohodova and a Mr Rocek- -none of them well known.

The trial of Dr Krisanovsky 'and associates' Krisanovsky in a third room was said by the sources to be a sociologist and a former professor at the Prague Com- minist pariv college. Two others were reported to be on trial with him. One of them was identified as a Mr Belda. accused have been Some of the custody since last November. The others were arrested early this year.

the courtroom, Tesar gave entered a clenched-fist salute to shout 20 friende and waiting corridors. relatives smiles and waves. Mueller, Jiri twice expelled from Prague's prominent in 1969 Technical University, was as chairman Student Paria. the Prague Statich reades ip of Dr Custay to which refused ment, Husak. new He helped organize crudeni ctrite November 1968 and in March 1970 was his permission defend graduate retused thesis. charges against him were believed to The activities in 1971, but no further concern his details of the indictment against hım • The others were available. A number of other former leading party officials understood are trial be under arract one dile to ornn later on similar charges. Milan head They include Huebl, former of the Communist Sabata, head of the Brno party Kyncl, Karel Kaplan, a scientist, Karel once and television commentator. a journalist. Hoch- Another journalist, Jiri man. is in poor health and has either been released or is in a Stalinist leader hospital. nrison arranged who hac these show trials on orders from the Kremlin, is currently the

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and drivers fighting together would be 'un- stoppable', one of the depot men's leaders said yesterday. But because of the breakdown of communi- cation and the lack of a workable, united. policy, they were confronting each other on picket- lines. Ted Johns is leader of the Drivers' and Ware- Committee which is picketing housemen's Action Chobham Farm and counter-picketing other depots right to stuff where dockers are fighting for the and strip containers. Fivé supporters of the committee at Chobham Farm—all Transport and General Workers' Union members-have now been sacked after being moved to more menial tasks with the arrival of registered dockers at the depot. The chief executive of London. (East) Inland Clearance Depot Ltd, Bryn Llewellyn, has threatened legal action against the men unless they stop their picketing campaign. The sackings, Ted Johns said yesterday, were 'un- fortunate' and had 'created a fair measure of anger' among drivers and warehousemen who feared their jobs were threatened by the dockers' campaign.

He told Workers Press: 'We'd like very much to sit down with the dockworkers and get this whole problem thrashed out. "The danger in the situation is Ted Johns: At the cro that we will be seen as fighting other people's battles for them. That's not the case, - of course. By any standards the present But we're certainly at the cross- situation of pickets and counter- roads. pickets is dangerous and farcical.

'At the end of this week The dockers' struggle for the things'll certainly get • worse right to work has been and is when UK Cold Storage puts off determined and courageous.

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docks the Chobham Farm, but won at delegate conference demand to neither side'll have won there, no retreat from the jobs fight is will they? timely and correct. But the Chobham Farm sack- • 'We know this situation's ings have exposed other dangers, against the best interests of opened dockers' trade unionism, but what can we stewards' decision do? national to shelve the demand for nationali- 'We've been through a whole the of zation ports in- procedure of trying to get meet- dustry under full workers' con- through officers. ings union trol. We've tried to. get meetings with Only in the struggle for this Bernie Steer and the other docks policy can the danger No joy. growing stewards. of splits and the employers' argued for a long time I've divide-and-rule policy be fought.

that the dockers have got a good It is the port, road-haulage and case, but what they should have en coyers, warehouse of many done is called a meeting of all course, the whom are, same and then sides could have who have created the gone forward together. people, jobs crisis in the ports. It is they Personally, Ted Johns said, he and no one else who must favour of the nationali- was in made to pay. zation of the industry and a cam- Picketing of unregistered the working for cuts in paign Humber ports the by on week to solve the jobs crisis in registered dockers from Hull and the ports. Goole went into its third week yesterday. The dockers have sent He claimed, however, that the of the London attitude 'black transport present firms which they claim are using dockers' leaders had made such a campaign virtually impossible.

unregistered ports to the national At the crossroads Shop stewards comme blacken that the firms will be at all registered ports in Britain.

There was a surplus of more than 600 dockers at Hull yester- day, many of whom went picket- ing at the unregistered wharves.

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Workers Pross, i THE NATIONAL Council for Civil for a public inquiry into the Lady ham, south east London, after com and harassment of the coloured cor The south east London group of the NCCL claims in a report published yesterday there has been a 'total breakdown of any communication between black and the police' in the people area, states the group. The problems, are of two kinds: "(a) the attitudes of members of black community to the the police force.... '(b) the reaction of the police force to the black community.'

The report specifies a number of practices by the police which it says are either calculated to provoke conflict or are blatant infringements of the legitimate powers of the police. Harassment by police takes on various forms, including random 'stops' of black people returning home at night by patrol cars from which autocratic and some- abusive questions times are hurled. 'On stop, arrest, on on searches, complaints of assault by black people are so common that lawyers in our group accept this as inevitable,' continues the submission. Allegations of improper police such as the 'planting' practices, of cannabis, perjured evidence and policemen court, attributing 'verbal' statements— which made-to were never people arrested are other major complaints by black people.

Says the group:

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for Civil Liberties yesterday called the Ladywell police station, Lewis- after complaints of police brutality ured community. 'Cannabis frequently rears its head. Allegations of planting are common enough to be highly dis- turbing. When a "non-smoker" is alleged to be in possession, as has often happened, the presump- tion must be that there has been planting.' Another major difficulty in police attitudes to the black community, say the group, is the harassment of black youngsters who are known to have been in trouble, to the extent that the boy in this position scarcely home without expects to get being stopped. When people are arrested they are detained tor a long time and in most cases refused bail until fingerprints are given. After arrest there is an Un- willingness on the part of the police to communicate anything but the most basic and formal information, let alone rights.

Because of the highly-disturb- ing proportion of complaints about the Ladywell station, rela- tions are extremely tense and a simple situation easily becomes an explosive one, the group say.

And they warn: 'The risk of ghetto mentality is real; as is the risk real to the police that the black area will become a no-go area; an area where only strongly supported officers can enter.'

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PAGE 1 Workers Press, Tucaday July 18 First signs of a detente between the United States and Fidel Castro's Cuba were admitted last week by Ronald Ziegler, secretary. He told reporters in San Clemente, California, that an official US government deleg- ation had visited'the Caribbean island for the first time since relations with Cuba were severed 11 years ago. The delegation, consisting of four experts on oceanography, visited the island in June for a United Nations conference on the ecology of the Caribbean. The US delegation at the conference was headed by Harris B. Stewart, who runs the institute of oceanography at Miami. On his return from the island, Stewart said he and his three VIP reception a Cubans, who held a special party for them on the beach at Varadero. He added that their Cuban hosts had gone out of their way to avoid any discussion of hir a political nature which might have been embarrassing to the United States. Apart from the US delegates, representatives of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France various and Caribbean countries were present at the conference. The delegation's visit was originally revealed unofficially by the CBS television chain.

Ziegler made his statement only after the trip had been publicized. Charles W. Bray, a State Department official, said the visit involved no change in towards American policy Cuba. But he did not explain why, in that case, the government had kept silent about the delegation's trip. Bray pointed out that Cuban delegations to the Pan-Ameri- can Health Organization and Fisheries the International lary Juty 18, 1972 Commission had visited Wash- ington on numerous occasions.

For that matter, many American citizens have visited Cuba and some have taken part in Castro's work brigades.

But an official delegation is not the same thing. In his statement on the Visit, Bray recalled that there two main obstacles to are 'normalization' of relations between the two countries.

first is Cuba's The close military ties with the USSR; the second is its policy of encouraging revolutionary movements in Latin America.

rapprochement Given the between the US and the Soviet Union, particularly since Nixon's Moscow visit, both alleged obstacles have these turned into factors favouring a resumption of relations.

Fidel Castro visited the Soviet Union last month at the culmination of a lengthy and leisurely tour of the East European states. He received an exceptionally welcome from warm the Kremlin leaders and both sides affirmed their total solidarity on all major questions. Now that Castro has proved of himself a servile follower of the Moscow bureaucracy the way is really open for a settlement of the long-standing dispute with the US. During his recent trip to Chile, the Cuban leader also disposed effectively of the second of Bray's objections.

He declared his full support for the 'peaceful road to social- ism' in Latin America. He went out of his way to moderate his references to Nixon and paid a friendly visit to the Peruvian military junta. The Chileans and the Cubans, together with a number have attempted to have the Cubans admitted to the Organization of American States. The proposal was rejected but the at the last debate, majority in favour of keeping the Cubans out was quite small. The majority of Latin American counti doubtedly waiting Washington way before they comm But there is will be litt there United States ahead. Peru, after C decided to and opened up fi relations with were once the 'Red America. This number countries with Havana. Both Chi Castro for some 1 Other Venezuela, Ecuador, brink of recogniti Their position refection of the r Latin American rhetoric is not seriously. The American heart in relation illustrated Cuban the island's c on The arrests from the abortive invasion the

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Il be little opposition should the move States give the go- after Castro's visit, recognize Cuba red up full diplomatic the men who Menace' Latin to three the American embassies in Both Chile and Mexico with or some time. like • Panama and are tettering on the position is a of the recognition in ruling circles 'revolutionary is not to be taken American change of relation Cuba •to by the Florida of a group of Planning a raid far cry ггесс зга Bay of Pigs, the invasion paid for by But then Fidel long way Ex-king Talal of Jordan died earlier this month in the Istanbul mental asylum where he had spent the last 20 years. He spent only a few months Hashemite throne on before being abruptly con- signed to the mad-house by the Council of State and replaced by his son, the present King Hussein. Whether Talal presented a greater menace to society on the throne than his offspring, who has proved one of the butchers in the most savage Middle East, is a very mute point. And it has even been sug- gested that his court, with the backing of the British Tory government, exaggerated his madness as a convenient means of installing a more pliable successor. Talal became king on July 20, 1951, as a result of the King death father oi his Abdullah, founder of the Hashemite dynasty and a former officer in the Turkish Imperial forces. British stooge, Abdullah, a by a disgruntled was shot Palestinian refugee. His son was educated at Sandhurst and in his became general father's army. When his father shot he was undergoing was treatment for a nervous dis- order in a Geneva clinic.

At the time, the Jordanian parliament saw • the disease as no obstacle to his taking the throne and confirmed him as within six weeks of monarch his father's death. Before coming to Amman, the new king took the sensible precaution of prociaiming his intention to pursue a policy of friendship with Britain. Despite this statement, however, the new monarch's policies were not to the taste of the Tories.

One of his first acts was to make peace with Ibn Saud, his father's old enemy. The visit demonstrated that he did not agree with London's policy of linking Jordan with Iraq, Syria and possibly the Lebanon.

Worse still, in February 1952 he signed the Arab collective security pact which his father had previously con- demned at the instigation of the British Foreign Office.

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An urgent desire for increased trade with the capitalist countries was manifested by the Soviet delegates to the recent conference on East- West Trade held in Warsaw.

Organized by the Manage- Centre of Europe and ment the Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, it attracted 300 busi- nessmen and officials from the capitalist countries and Eastern Europe. ( The was set by the tone Soviet delegation which opened up vistas of virtually unlimited markets to the assembled The British had a short way with this kind of defiance from one of their supposed puppets: in May 1952, just ten months after Talal's accession, laconic communiqué from the royal cabinet announced that King Talal had to leave for of a "sudden Paris because aggravation of his mental state'.

who examined The doctors him did not think his mental state had got worse since he was designated Crown Prince.

the Jordanian cab- However, inet (which was almost entirely composed of British nominees) insisted that he go to Geneva for a further course of treat- ment. He refused and returned from Paris to an enthusiastic popular welcome in Amman on July 3, 1952. However, a further medical report drawn up by two Egyptian doctors clinched the matter with the parliamentary chambers, which deposed him 14 days later. The report claimed Talal was a schizophrenic and unfit to reign. Talal was hastily packed off to a sanatorium in Istanbul where he was confined until Hussein, he died. His son, evidently considered more receptive to British require- ments, was brought from Sandhurst and crowned in his stead. To this day nobody is sure whether the former king was really mad or simply the victim of a sordid palace intrigue dreamed up in the corridors of Whitehall. Below: King Hussein of Jordan, his 'mad' who replaced father on the throne. businessmen. Most of the East European speakers read from prepared scripts which had obviously been vetted beforehand. Polish speakers criticized the European Common Market, but mainly from the point of view that it would discrimin- ate against trade with the East European countries and be pro- the tectionist. The conference is one of many efforts being made to widen trade contacts with capitalist countries in an effort to overcome serious economic difficulties. These include shortage of modern machinery, lack of new industries based upon advanced technology and consumer demand for sophisti- cated products which local industry is not capable of manufacturing.

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PABLOITE REVISIONISTS

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

A special background series ex LSSP (R) leader Bala Tampoe's capitulation to trade unionism was so thorough that he did or said very little about the IVP 'guerrilla' movement until August of 1970! "The LSSP (R) had no clear idea of what the IVP was, but when they held their meeting on August 10, it was quite clear that it was entirely a genuine mass movement of Sinhala youth.' ('Intercontinen- tal Press', April 9, 1971. Emphasis added.) was not clear before It August 10 and quite clear on August 10! So much for Tam- poe's Marxism! On August 10, 1971, Tam- poe and the LSSP (R) 'recog- nized' that there is a radicaliza- tion among youth and without batting an eye-lid started un- critically supporting this move- ment. No analysis was made, not even an attempt to under- stand what this 'new' pheno- menon was. There is nothing here of surprise. If one capitulates to trade unionism, it follows that should accept petty- one bourgeois radicalism among rural youth. The lack of unified political perspective to unite the youth and oppressed masses under the leadership of the working class is itself a 'perspective' to separate youth other sections from and the working class. Tampoe, and the LSSP (R) consistently fought to maintain this division.

As the Revolutionary Com- munist League brought home all the lessons of Lenin's fight against Narodniks and Social Revolutionaries in preparing the October Revolution and the lessons of Castroism, in order to turn the radicalized youth towards the working class to build a force which can successfully challenge the reformist leaderships and thereby to unite workers and in a revolutionary youth Mrs Bandaranalke struggle to break the coalition ignored. government were Tampoe introduced the leader of the JVP, Wijeweeva, as a Marxist-Leninist to the Ceylon Mercantile Union in his general secretary's report.

European revisionists are very fond of eulogizing the so-called 'united front' between the LSSP (R) and the JVP.

But this is half of the truth, exaggerated by the 'Red Mole' and 'Rouge'. It is true that the Mercantile Union Ceylon (CMU) organized two meet- ings with the JVP, but neither the 'Red Mole' nor the 'Rouge' say what were the results of these meetings. As the workers' opposition developed against the murder eries examining the class struggle in of two plantation workers at Keenakelay, both the LSSP (R) could not simply and JVP ignore this movement. They organized a meeting at Haton under the slogans: 'Do not send police with 'Bring places and legislation against employers' The official organ of the LSSP (R) carried these two slogans on its front page at that time.

There was absolutely no the working response from class for this middle-class farce and less than 100 people meeting, as attended the against exaggerated figures in 'Rouge'. What was the result?

• The JVP analysed this meeting as a vindication of their assess- ment of the plantation workers -that they are a counter- revolutionary force-and Tam- started shouting about poe JVP's turn away from Sinhala communalism! The other point concealed by the European Pabloites about this strange 'united front' is that the JVP, while remaining in the front, not only denounced Trotskyism as an agency of imperialism, but in their study classes they branded Tampoe as an agent of imperialism as well! And they made it explicitly clear that their work with him and various other political carpet-baggers who wished to come into the light of day with the help of the JVP, was limited to winning political supporters for the JVP and eraze all the other organiza- tions from the political scene.

None of the public papers of the JVP even mentioned front' this so-called 'united and . when they reported the Haton meeting, they carefully omitted the DMK and

CMU.

Though the LSSP (R) em- braced the JVP as a revolu- tionary movement, when the JVP actually staged its insur- rection on April 25, 1971, Tampoe's policy towards the JVP changed dramatically.

Nobody in . the LSSP (R) dared to raise the slogan 'Victory to the IVP'. The only people who were bold enough to raise that slogan now, were the French Pabloites around 'Rouge' thousands of miles from Ceylon! A duplicated • leaflet issued by the International Marxist Group in Britain said pom- pously: 'Everything that has happened since the fighting began confirms that the JVP has tremendous support, not only in the rural areas, but in every part of Ceylon. Posters supporting them have appeared the countryside, and the urban working class and Tamil speaking areas? (Emphasis in the original.) This is a fantastic lie. The Pabloites consciously put for- ward this line to evade a real fight against the government and against the 'left' leaders who are still commanding the workers' movement. Accord- ing to them, the IVP actually resolved the crisis of leader- ship in the Ceylon workers' movement and united every oppressed section in a revolu- tionary struggle against the government. 'The JVP and the Ceylon section of the Fourth Inter- national, the ISSP. (R), defending them, and has been working in an alliance with them and the Young Socialist Front, an alliance which has done much to strengthen the JVP's political maturity.'

To understand the truth about this 'alliance' and its ggle in Ceylon from 1964 to the pres Bala Tampoe (foreground), of the LSS ability to 'strengthen the JVP's political maturity' only one has to listen to Upali Kooray writing in 'Red Mole' on Feb- ruary 28, 1972: ...it would be absurd today to talk about a JVP struggle against the govern- ment; today the JVP does not exist because it has been com- crushed.' (Emphasis pletely added.) the European While Pab- loites peddled this reactionary Utopia, Tampoe and the LSSP (R) did nothing even to fight the repression against the

JVP.

Instead he started a corres- pondence with Mrs Banda- ranaike. examining the con- Before tents of these letters, it is very important to understand the actual position of the United Secretariat of the Fourth Inter- national on Ceylon during the civil war. Its statement on Ceylon is a very clever attempt to evade all the political problems raised by the April revolt and it will of remain as a monument middle-class bewilderment in a period of civil war. Without even raising the slogan 'Down with the govern- ment, they put forward a slogan Down with the left traitors'. Unable for years to provide any perspective for breaking the reformist stranglehold over they have the masses, now come forward to give abstract propaganda pronouncements against the 'left' leaders in a situation of civil war. This is not a break from their pre- vious policy of adapting to the very same leaders. This is the specific form chosen by the Unified Secretariat to avoid any struggle against these traitors in that specific class situation in Ceylon. One compares this orienta- tion with Lenin's policy in a similar situation-'Down with the Capitalist ministers!'-can see the gulf between middle- class revisionism and Marxism.

Precisely at the moment where it is necessary to re- the present day. Part Eight.

f the LSSP(R) did nothing to fight the repress double the efforts to force the 'left' leaders to break from the government, we hear the revi- sionist shouting Down with the left leaders!' Tampoe, the expressing heterogeneity of the politics of United Secretariat, did. the nothing even along the line of its statement. Though the paper of the LSSP (R) was not banned in Ceylon, not a single issue of the paper has come out since April 1971. This time Tampoe tried in correspond- ence to 'convince' Mrs Banda- ranaike to stop repression against the youth. Is the view, that the young rebels should not be regarded as "terrorists" and that they are deserving of human treat- ment, a view that cannot be seriously in a country • taken where the teachings of the Buddha are revered, or by a government that professes to uphold those teachings. (Tam- poe's letter to the PM, 'Inter- continental Press' June 21, 1971.) After contributing to the Tampoe deteat of the JP, turned to teach Buddhism to Mrs Bandaranaike! The LSSP (R) completely abandoning the JVP after the defeat of the April revolt and tried to tail-end behind the so-called liberal wing of the

SLFP.

Now the LSSP (R) has formed another 'united front' with bourgeois liberals like Prince Gunasekeva to defend the 'human rights' Even the participation of the right-wing UNP members such as Gaminie Dissanayake in this 'front' has not created ' go any embarrassment for Tampoe and we cannot expect any 'united comment about this front' from the European Pabloites. Carrying forward this middle-class reactionary, im- potent reformist politics Tampoe has adopted a new policy of protest Criminal Bill which previous strike! concerned ation of Ceylon' dated Tampoe of the CMU: 'Our siders made by life, under ditions of is to have hunger willing who are capitalist method 'human stralegy oppressed ism. The created within Wite revolutionaries a leadership 'left' skyists Coll 20001 launch the the workers' tion.

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against the of the hunger that may be the preserv- libert1972, appropriate present con- of all of protest nation-wide dawn to may be as of 'united front' with the agents a ne itself and the achieve is also con- would- before the Ceylon. destroy the can be leadership changes by for build to such of force Ceylon Trot- hundreds of Marxism, TE• Trotskyist for struggle Ceylon as

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday July 18, 1972 Reginald Maudling is No. 2 man in the Tory government. He is deputy prime minister and Home Secretary. If Heath fell would assume under the proverbial bus, Maudling premiership. When he joined Heath's Cabinet after the 1970 General Election, Maudling compelled by law and was resign various company directorships. He held tradition to the Dunlop seven in all. They included lucrative posts on Rubber group, which had just successfully merged with Pirelli in preparation for Common Market entry, and with the influ- firm, ential merchant banking Kleinwort Benson. Questions remained, lowever, about his association with two other.com-.

panies of which he was a senior director. One was his presi- dency of the Real Estate Fund of America, an offshore pro- fund registered in Liberia and headquartered in the perty Bahamas. The other was his directorships with three companies founded by Yorkshire architect Mr John Poulson. The offshore fund and Mr Poulson both subsequently fell into bankruptcy.

Both ventures are currently being examined by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The situation has now been reached where the DPP, Sir Norman Skelhorn, is inquiring into the personal business affairs of his political boss, the Home Sec- retary. In these two articles ALEX MITCHELL reports on the Real Estate Fund and the Poulson cases.

Jerome D. Hoffman, des- accused Hoffman of engaging in a 'reckless, improvident and cribed as a 'financier', is fraudulent mortgage scheme.

serving two years in a This was putting it mildly.

York penitentiary New What Hoffman had been doing is this. In June 1966 he sent on fraud charges con- out thousands of letters to nected with the Real developers and building owners Estate Fund of America. in the United States, Canada and Latin America offering to The fund. known as REFA, raise mortgage money at a time To was Hoffman's brainchild.

when the mortgage markets the operation he hand- were tight. The offer drew 630 picked some of the most emi- replies. nent members of the ruling This is how Hoffman cleaned class from both sides of the uD. He first charged a $500 fee Atlantic. sending of his 50 for one His president was Reginald employees to inspect the pro- Chancellor Maudling, former The client then came to perty. of the Exchequer, and his Bri- Hoffman's plush suite on tish directors included former Madison Avenue where he was Tory MP, Lord Brentford, and told the amount of mortgage Brentford's son, lawyer Crispin money he would get. Joynson-Hicks. Lefkowitz alleged that Hoff- His other 'catch' in London called an appraiser man then William M. Clarke, for- was who would give appraisa! mer city editor of "The Times' an $2,500 and between and today director of the gov- $25,000. In all but three of the Committee on In- ernment's applications, the mortgage visible Exports. Clarke, a noted deal collapsed usually because economic pundit, can be read Hoffman told the client be in the journal "The Banker' or could not obtain the whole seen on television holding forth required Or mortgage sum on the state of the economy.

Hotfman because the terms Others who climbed aboard was offering were impossible Hoffman's offshore adventure Hoff- Inevitably, however, were M. Paul-Henri Spaak. the lucrative fees. kent man general of former secretary Lefkowitz said the 630 clients NATO and a Tory premier of had asked for more than $1.1 Belgium, Holmes Brown, presi- "The billion from the scheme. dent of the New York Board fact is, Lefkowitz said tersely, of Trade, and a clutch of White •Hoffman never had hor could Pentagon House and aides, round up that much money.'

Donnelly, including Dixon Henry Kuss and James Mor-

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ton. 'Maudling's But it was

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which really appointment made Hoffman enthusiastic. It Under the curious and com- was his passport to respectabi- administration of justice plex lity and acceptance. And this he badly needed.

in the United States, Hoffman was never called to answer the Only a few months before swindle charges. Instead he England to found coming to his fund. Hoffman had a nasty agreed to sign what is known as a consent decree. This bans scrape with the law. 1968 New him permanently from engaging March the In Louis in virtually any business acti- York Attorney-General vity in the State of New York.

J. Lefkowitz instigated Supreme A sample paragraph reads • Court proceedings against Hoff- It is ordered, adjudged and Institutional man decreed that the defendant be Monetary Corporation. In his indictment Lefkowitz restrained and enjoined per- from acting and manently engaging or attempting to act and engage as agent, broker, salesman, employer, owner, stockholder, director, trustee, officer, associate or partner of corporation, company, any association and trust . . . for the issuance, or sale, or promo- tion, or negotiation, or adver- distribution, tisment, or purchase, to or from the pub- lic within or from the State of New York' To any lesser man this legal strait jacket would have been inhibiting infuence on an future money-making schemes.

Hoffman. Within Not months he was beaming before a conference at the Waldorf Hotel in the Strand announc- ing the details of an interna- tional offshore fund. Seated next to him was the company's first president, Reginaid Maud- ling. Hoffman entered the off- shore world at a bad time. It was mid-1969 and the world capitalist system was involy d in its first serious convulsion since Bretton Woods. Sterling had devalued, there had been a gold scare and the wildly infla- tionary dollar was starting to show signs that it would soon come under the hammer. In the period of boom and confidence in the dollar these offshore funds had operated as had They cleaners. vacuum swept across the globe gather- ing millions of dollars into funds which were then invested achieve sound financial to had special They returns. appeal for the wealthy citizens underdeveloped countries who wanted to get their dollars of their unstable own out countries and into investment on Wall Street or the bank vaults in Geneva. The largest of these money- gathering machines was run by Bernard Cornfeld, the former Brooklyn social worker who discovered 'people's capitalism' used other promptly people's money to become a multi-millionaire. When Corn- feld's company began to crumble, it was certain that outfits, like Hoffman's, lesser couldn't last. During REFA's brief history it is estimated Hoffman accu- mulated some $100m. The money came largely from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America where clients are always anxious to find conduits through which they can filter out their private wealth.

His salesmen employed the most extraordinary tactics to avoid exchange control regula- tions. His senior executive in Latin America and later a board member, Señor Guillermo Guitterez, had a sales area cov- ering 29 countries. Yet it was only legal for him to operate the Hoffman fund intwo Rica and countries-Costa Panama. In the other 27 countries he ran the sales team illegally and clandestinely. One of his salesmen used to across a river paddle a canoe deep in the jungle with a suit- avoid. case of US dollars to Paraguayan customs officials.

team used code . Guitterez's names' and carried false pass- ports. Granada In an TV him about travelling country to country. ma res Q: Guitterez: Yes. Q: the fund salesman? Gu Q: Never? Gu kn it's America. Guitterez absolutely worried Br by out of the country, cracked down. They raided the offices and homes of Bernard Corn- feld's representatives and arrested dozens of them. Many were later deported. . This was the sort of twilight world to which Hoffman was drawn with his plans to build the fastest growing company in the world'. And it was also the world to which Reginald Maudling, the Tories' former Chancellor of the Exchequer, decided to lend his powerful name. 'Who's article entitled An Who in the Offshore World' by Charles Raw in the 'Sun- day Times' ended Maudling's honeymoon with Hoffman. The revealed Hoffman's article past escapades in the mortgage whether business and asked this was really the sort of busi- ness associate for the budding deputy prime minister.

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Maudling, it must be said, did not take the hint. It was some days before he agreed to leave and only then after a board-room tussle in which he attempted to get Hoffman to leave. If this is the case, it presumed that only be can Maudling still felt that offshore fund activities were quite in order for a Tory politician of his standing. And in leaving the company Maudling also took the pains to write a letter telling his and customers that friends REFA was 'a good and sound investment'. Were there any dangers in the Hoffman operation? For the record, Maudling told The In my Times': judgement REFA is a good and sound investment. It provides for people who wish to invest in American real estate, an oppor- tunity to do so with the bene- fit of expert management.?

But if Maudling was well- satisfied with the Hoffman outfit, some of the clients quickly grew disenchanted. At the end of last year a number of REFA subscribers launched a civil action in New York against the company including its British directors, Maudling, Lord Brentford and Crispin Joynson-Hicks. They are all named as res- pondents in the $10m fraud action though so far their lawyers have managed to keep them out of the New York courts arguing that they do not fall within its jurisdiction.

While the directors are fighting to keep out of the US courts, they are also facing legal problems at home. On February 21 last, John Pardoe, Liberal MP, asked the Tory Attorney-General, Sir 'When he Peter Rawlinson: expects to receive the report of the Director of Public Pro- secutions about the Interna- tional Investors Group or its subsidiaries.' (IIG was the parent manage- ment company of REFA. It was registered in Britain and Maudling, Brentford and Joyn- son-Hicks were all directors.

When Hoffman fled Britain in November 1970, this company landed with was enormous debts and subsequently went into liquidation.) Rawlinson's reply was sensa- tional—-although unreported in the capitalist He press. 'An investigation admitted: into the affairs of the Group subsidiaries by the and its police and investigators of the Trade and Department of Industry in consultation with is progressing. When counsel, these investigations have been completed, a report will be sent to the DPP for his considera- tion." These were the first hard facts that official sources were taking an interest in Hoffman's operation in this country.

He staffed his board here, he launched the fund here, and he managed it from the emi- nently respectable address- Kings House, Buckingham Gate, SW1. To date there has been no response from the DPP about his examination of the papers.

But in the midst of the Hoff- appeared there man case, another business associate of Maudling's-John Garlick Llewellyn Poulson. The setting for this affair was not the misty offshore havens of tax relief, but the middle of Yorkshire.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Workars Prose, Tuaaday July 18, 1972 PAGE 7 Chester Square, To: J.D. Hoffman Reginald Maudling From. september 26, 1969 Dew Deny You have shown me a copy of a leaflet in Spanish that is being circulated in Latin America contains some extracts British TrOn Ana newspaper about my resignation from the Real Estate Fund America. of Tampurpose of the leaflet must clearly be to do damage your business. It anonymous and there is no way on the face of it of telling who circulated it, nas but it appears likely that this has been done by a competitor of yours.

I would like to put on record once again that the reasons for Fosenent and one be anne ray stesenent set out in and no bore statement by saying that I considered the Real Estato Fund of America was a good investment and I set out quite clearly my own personal position. I am delighted that you have obtained the services of suma a distinguished American as Mr.

Holmes Brown, Chairman of the New York Board of Trade place together with other important figures in the to take my United States.

REGINALD MAUDLING

TO WHO IT MAY CONCERN

Should anyone query the authenticity of the above, are free to write to Reginald Maudling at the above address.

Mr. Top left: Jerome D. Hoffman. Top right: Guest of Honour at REFI Maudling (second from right) and Holfman. Above Christmas party, Hoffman's Real Estate Fund of America resigned from he fund t Maudling wrote this 'Dear Jerry' letter recommending the customers throughout the world. Hottman had thousands of the lette printed and circularized.

MANDEL'S INTERVIEW

RAQE & Workars Prosa, Tuaaday Listi, 18, 1972 By Cliff Slaughter On 12, 1972, April Workers Press published article Ernest an on Mandel. Mandel is the leading spokesman of the opportunists who call themselves the Unified Secretariat of the Fourth International. Claiming to be Trotskyist, the United Secretariat (repre- sented in Britain by the Inter- national Marxist Group) IS aday ility 18, 1972 based in fact on the programme and ideas of Michel Pablo, who abandoned Trotskyism in the years 1951-1953. Our concern in this article was with two interviews by Mandel published in the Ger- man capitalist press. The inter- views arose out of the West German authorities' decision to exclude Mandel from that country, particularly their act- ing to prevent his taking up a professorship at the Free Uni- West Berlin, to versity of which he had been elected.

Now the Workers Press article has come under attack be from two doughty defenders of Mandel—Tariq Ali and Pat Jordan, leading IMG members writing in the Pabloite 'Intercontinental Press' Among other things, Tariq Ali and Pat Jordan accuse the Socialist Labour League of whitewashing the German capitalists' decision, all on account of our blind sectarian hate of Mandel. Because of this sectarianism, they say, we oppose the defence of Mandel's rights. It is necessary to deal with this unprincipled accusation before turning to the very interesting ommissions from Jordan's and Ali's article.

The SLL has never allowed its criticisms of other working class and left-wing tendencies to stand in the way of defend- ing them from capitalist attack.

For example, when Communist Party leading members in the Electrical Trades Union were witch-hunted from office, we defended them at a time when the Party itself refused to do SO. When Pablo was arrested in the late 1950s in Holland we campaigned for his release.

Similarly, the SLL fought ab Loft: Pat Jordan, co-author of latest attack SLL. Above: on Rudi Dutschke publicly against the deportation of Rudi Dutschke by Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, despite our disagreements with Dutschke, primarily on which he shares with positions the IMG. When the homes of Inter- national Socialism members were raided by police, on the grounds of connection with terrorist bombing, Workers Press protested very strongly.

Socialist Labour the League's fight for the setting up of Councils of Action, we have insisted on the principle of representation of all work- ing-class tendencies, including the IMG. But we raise these questions always within the context of mobilizing the working-class movement. Thus, when the French government banned seven left-wing organizations after May-June 1968, the SLI raised support, political and financial, in hundreds of Labour and trade union organ- izations. In the article on Mandel which Jordan and Ali com- plain about, we said: ... we attack these infringements of elementary democratic rights mobilizing the by working class, behind whom the sup- port of other elements can be rallied'. This point was levelled against the campaign being conducted by the Pabloites themselves, which combines student protest with the kind of press interviews and state- ments by Mandel which we analysed. Mandel's election to a pro- fessorial chair was nothing more than the result of this turn away from the working class in the first place.

For years Mandel's collabor- ators in West Germany, as in all Europe, looked upon the SDS (students' protest move- ment dominated by revisionist and anti-Marxist ideas) as the vanguard of the social revolu- tion. Now the SDS is dead and Mandel lives on the reputation Let Sained among the New reformist residue which it has left. This lies behind the kind of approach he is making to 'public opinion' Now we have arrived at the points in . the Workers Press article with which Tariq Ali and Pat Jordan fail to deal in any way. They ignore com- pletely the point we featured most prominently: that, besides his interview in the magazine 'Der Spiegel', Mandel also gave a full-length interview to the fascist paper 'National Zeitung'!

The very same issue of this carried a full-page paper advertisement for an anti- communist march on Bonn. Such is the Unified Secretariat's method of 'defending demo- cratic rights'! Secondly, emphasized we one significant reply by Mandel to 'Der Spiegel's' questions. Asked his opinion of the West German government's ban, he replied that he considered it 'a blow against the preparation for the political integration of Europe'! Why do not Jordan and Ali defend this extraordin- ary statement? Either they agree with it, or we they consider it indefensible.

But its meaning is inescap- ght able. The Common Market

preparations' fact the are in main strategy of the European monopolists to unite and themselves against strengthen the working class. Mandel appeals to his bourgeois adver- saries not to interfere with his rights, since it may disrupt these preparations! The Stalinists are preparing internationally to support the imperialists' Common Market always, strategy. As the Pabloites anticipate and pro- vide a cover for the Stalinist bureaucracy. What an imper- tinence, therefore, for Ali and Jordan to accuse the SLL of repeating Stalinist techniques when we attack Mandel! What is instructive here is the co-existence, in the work • of the Pabloite revisionists, of, on the one hand, verbal con- demnations of Stalinism and that we are like accusations the Stalinists, and, on the in other, actual policies the labour which movement strengthen and cover up for the Stalinists. Today, the Pabloites will no doubt condemn the mass repressions in Ceylon, for example. But it was their own 'Unified Secretariat' which permitted its Ceylonese section to go as far as entry into the bourgeois coalition of Mrs Bandaranaike in 1964, a step which provided the necessary support for Ceylon the bourgeoisie to go forward to its policies have been examined recently in Workers Press.)

Communist The British Party in 1971 gave uncritical support to the dictatorial measures of the Ceylon govern- ment, just as did the Moscow and Peking bureaucracies.

But it was the IMG and the United Secretariat who lectured us that the word 'Stalinism' was no longer a 'scientific term for Communist Parties! • the And it is the IMG today which tails along behind the Stalinists in their 'Liaison • an organization Committees', which has been consistent only in its opposition to the mobiliz- ation of the working class to bring down the Tory govern- ment. The SLL has led the fight against the reformist and Stalinist leadership in the trade unions and has always been bitterly opposed by the IMG.

Jordan's and Ali's jibe that Top: IMG's Tarla All. Above: the SLU's influence is 'negligi- ble is a le and an especially crude one from coming an with no maepen- dent policy or organization in the workers movement. Publication of the daily Workers Press has created a new relationship between Trot- skyism and the working class in Britain and internationally.

At last confer- annual ence of the All Trades Unions on November 6, 1971, 1,600 attended and Draft Manifesto voted on Charter and Basic Rights, OI which has since been discussed by thousands of workers the preparation for transform- ing the SLL into a revolution- ary party. On this political basis, Young Socialists organized the Right-to-Work marches from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Southampton Deal and in 1972. February and March Political and financial support fought for and won in was trade cities tactories, Volos. and towns up and down the country, culminating in the Empire Pool. Wembley, mass rally of over 8,000 workers and youth. Ernest Mandel (left) This is not the work of an organization with 'negligible' influence. the It expresses achievements of the qualitative theoretical and political work of the Young Socialists and the SLL ever since its formation in 1959 (and of the Trotskyist movement before that). Along the road of this qualitative work, thousands of workers and youth are being educated to confront the historical tasks now before the British working class. The economic and political crisis of capitalism, particularly in Britain, is now so acute that it poses more and more directly every day the question of state power. In such a situ- ation, the fight to build revolu- tionary leadership becomes the most burning issue of all for the working class. When Tariq Ali and the IMG attack the SLL, it is because they react with all the panic of the frightened middle-class radical against the reality of the building of revolutionary leadership. That is why the their attacks is the target of Socialist Labour League and the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Workers Press, Tuesday July 18, 1972 PAGE 8 far from it—but that they have become formal rather than friendly and I blame largely People may be wondering why the desire of student politicians the unions withheld their votes for the change.? from Senator McGovern at the And advising them on their Democratic convention last future lives he emphasized the The reasons are sound week. need for tolerance for other enough. In 1966 there was a people's ideas and opinions. A crucial vote in the Senate.

university was a place, he said A labour Bill was before the where they should have learned House designed to repeal to debate and discuss 'with- vicious sections of the notori- out rancour' and to maintain Taft-Hartley Law. The ous friendships when they even southern reactionaries in the differed in opinion'. Republican Party and right- They could give such a lead wing Democrats staged a fili- if they could achieve this and the Bill from buster to stop pass it on, particularly in the When Demo- being enacted. industrial and political scene crats put down a motion to try (Rumours that the Rector of to end the filibuster, McGovern Glasgow University, Mr Jimmy voted with the right-wingers.

Reid is thinking of getting McGovern now says he cast together with Dr Smith must this vote for 'pragmatic be discounted.) reasons'. He wanted to save his skin in conservative South Dakota which he represents. He apologizes today by saying: Peter Bottomley, a member of It Transport and General was the only time in Senate I ever voted against my Workers' Union, this week conscience' tried to expel Bernie Steer and Vic Turner, the London dock- ers' leaders. But when the branch meet- Her Iline of the week: ing was held Bottomley failed 'One chance for Ted more to seconder for his get a to axe the rents Bill'. In the the motion. Interviewed by 'Daily Express'? The "Daily press, he said: I am a great Mirror'? No, this affectionate supporter union 'Ted' appears in plea to the latest edition of 'Labour the official newspaper Top: Turner. Bottom: Steer.

weekly' of the Labour Party Spare a thought for poor Dr R. A. Smith-the principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He finds that after four years on the campus, people aren't as friendly they be. as used to Not staff and students anyway.

Dr Smith says sadly that in the past students were in- volved in lots of committees and the whole thing worked very well. But something has gone wrong. And Dr Smith knows what it is (he's not nothing, vice-chancellor for you know). It is unfortunate that more and "student politics" more has infiltrated into this and I am aware of a clear deterior- ation of staff-student relations.'

Mind you, he's not preju- It's 'student diced. the politicians' he doesn't like.

'It is not that they are bad—

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday July 18, 1972 BUILDING WORKERS in Doncaster have brought Gilbert Ash's site in the Arndale Centre to a complete halt.

The few labour-only gangs who did not join the strike have left the area rather than defy the picket line.

The Union of Construction and Allied Trades Tech- nicians' regional organizer,

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George Brumwell told Workers

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Press that the unions' policy of an overtime

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strikes ban and selective was the best way to conduct the strike. Tom Farrell, one of But Mr region of UCATT, the picket got the pickets, was opposed to this 250 workers to strike about on line. "An all-out strike is the the Saturday and to impose to win. I blame the only way overtime ban from this week. Tory the Tories government; Said leader John picket have already pushed down our Broome: " Tf find out they we standard of living and we cannot have been working overtime we afford to let them push it down We shall be back. getting any further. tough and we don't mind if "ve IN

MANCHESTER,

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member of the Cardiff West Party has Labour resigned over the appointment of MP George Thomas to the Its board of the Bank of Wales. Mr David Berry said he had left the party because of Labour MP Thomas's decision to accept Sir Julian Hodge's a post with new bank to be opened later this year. 'You cannot be a socialist and at the same time sit on the board of private commercial bank,' he said. Mr Berry was secretary of the Riverside Ward Labour Party, and member of the executive of the constituency committee Egypt's Sadal (loll) with Gaddan. Dittera party. He is a university lecturer.

The ward party has passed a asking Thomas to resolution his directorship. explain Mr Berry now says he is con- sidering standing as an Indepen- A NEW 18-member cabi- dent Labour candidate in next year's local elections. net took the oath before Sir Julian Hodge's new bank-.

ing venture has attracted another Libyan leader Muammer former Labour Minister-former Home Secretary James Callaghan Gaddafi in Tripoli on —MP for Cardiff South East.

THE POPULAR Unity coalition standing with the opposition and offered to drop the bulk of President Salvador of Allende the government's nationalization won an important by-election, plans. but appeared to have lost ground the opposition Christian to Democrats. The seat, left vacant by the of Party death Communict MP. was won by fellow-Stalinist Amanda Altimirano. dress- WEST BENGAL'S government maker who is currently governor vesterday claimed have of northern Coquimbo province.

But the majority was cut.

insurgency capturing The election does not change Charu founder, 63-year-old the balance of forces in the Con- Mazumdar, middle-class in which is dominated by the Calcutta suburb where he gress. was Christian Democrats. opposition being treated for a chronic chest He is chairman of ailment. the The election was the first test 1967 of organization begun in the new rightward turn in which specialized summary Allende's He recently in attempted of support with terror against the police.

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PAGE 12 Workers Prees, Tuesday July 1 UNION CHIEFS represent- ing 5,000 state airline workers yesterday threatened to fight government plans to merge BOAC and BEA, set out in a White Paper. The 18 unions involved ex- plain their attitude by saying they have not been consulted about the British Airways Board proposal for eight task forces to carry through the mergers.

Introduced to the House of Commons by Aerospace Mini- Michael Heseltine, ster White Paper aims to push up profits and efficiency by bring- ing the two airlines under the BAB umbrella.

BOAC

and BEA would be- come divisions of the board. So would. BOAC Associated Com- panies, BOAC Engine Overhaul,

BEA

Helicopters, International Aeradio and British Air Ser- vices. 'Consideration of a common trading identity will be a matter of high priority • says a report David from

BAB

chairman Nicholson. One of the proposed task forces would be charged with examining the effect of integra- AN ISRAELI military court yesterday found Kozo Okamoto guilty of taking part in the Lydda airport massacre. But the prosecution urged against the death penalty for the young Japanese terrorist.

The was expected court to hand down its sentence later on the sole survivor of the three- man squad from the Japanese Red Army Faction which killed 26 people at Lydda in a guerrilla revenge raid. university The 24-year-old student who told interrogators the raid was planned in colla- boration with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has asked to be put to death.

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day July 18, 1972 WHEN THE Provisional IRA ended L nadoon Avenu its truce at 3 p.m. on July 9, the Catholic w.iat took place c districts of Belfast were under siege by where five peopl the British army. In the next few hours the girl and a priest, army opened fire killing a number of men, troops. In this ref and children. Press reporters ent pieces women centred their attention on the events in massacre. THE FIRST shots rang through the Ballymurphy Estate at 10 o'clock on that Sunday evening of July 9. There seems no doubt about who fired them -the British army. Within less than ten minutes five people were dead.

Army snipers fired from concealed positions in a timberyard owned by Messrs James P. Corry which over- looks the estate. Their shots were fired at driven by two being cars Ballymurphy residents along What the doing, West was army Rock Drive. The cars therefore, in Ballymurphy that screeched to a halt and the night? drivers and occupants dived Highly-trained don't snipers for behind make 'mistakes'. cover some directly Their action is in aluminium bungalows. line with the operation they car- ried in Londonderry One of them Martin Dudley on Bloody Sunday. On that (19) hit in the back of the was sion trained marksmen were used head and is still in a critical con- to pick off unarmed civilians. dition in hospital. Paddy Butler (38), the saw incident from his house and ran to the Corpus Christi Church 100 yards away to bring Father Noel national

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Fitzpatrick attend the on to to London and wounded Dudley. Before they had evening Brian newspapers have voted to accept returned John Pettigrew, both aged 17, ran our Dougal a new day deal on the advice of union negotiators. from of the bungalows towards Dudley. But the extreme narrowness of the majority (voting was 1,06l in A second fired from sniper 961 tavour, against) spells another position in the timber- Dougal yard; fell dead and Pettigrew hit chest was in the and liver. He is also critically ill in hospital. Father Fitzpatrick and Paddy Butler were at this time running between the houses with another McCaffery David (14). youth Further shots rang out- -again from the direction of the timber- yard. Father Fitzpatrick and Butler fell to the ground dead. McCaf- fery tried to drag the bodies to behind one of the houses.

safety. he And was shot several times the back. He In died shortly afterwards. At the same time a 14-year-old Dargan, who had gırl, Margaret been helping her father in the local community centre was walk- ing home to look after the rest of the family. She was also shot dead. There evidence that IS no those shot were armed; the Pro-

IRA

visional unit the Ball- murphy say that NO shots were fired at the military posted In the yard before the shootings took place. Furthermore they that say they had no confirmation at this the ended time that truce had NEWS OF a possible merger and it took them half an hour between the big four stevedor- to distribute their arms before ing firms on Merseyside has led they returned hire in the direc- to renewed fears of redundancy tion of the yard.

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n Avenue. No one fully reported ‹ place on the Ballymurphy estate, e people, Including a 14-year-old a priest, were shot dead by British • this report a special correspond- together the Ballymurphy Once again the naked force of Tory policy • in Ulster | revealed. The purpose of the military in Northern Ireland is to murder and terrorize the Catholic population into submis- sion. After the shootings, the army, issued a statement to the press that troops had opened fire and hit 'four seen gunmen'. tinuing trouble for the National Union of Journalists' executive.

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are in progress between Smith Coggins, Ocean Port Services, Port of Liverpool Seed rin and the Mersey Docks Harbour Co, the port authority.

Together the companies employ 7,000 of the 10,000 registered dockers in the port. No reason for the talks, which is given Harbour Co managing director George Brimyard insists are 'purely exploratory. But they by shop stewards as a are seen cost-cutting move in a decisive year for the future of operations there. All the companies concerned have considerable interests in the changeover to containerization conventional methods from of cargo-handling. A. E. Smith Coggins has con- nections with the owners of Chobham Farm container depot and the private container port of Felixstowe. OPS is a subsidiary of the powerful Ocean Steamship group, which also owns the OCL con- tainer business. Port of Liverpool belongs to shippers Furness Withy. in the port, aggravating manning dispute which has been going on since last Wed- nesday at one of the firms involved, A. E. Smith Coggins.

Talks about a possible merger CATHAL GOULDING, chief of staff of the Official IRA, has denied reports that his men will break their truce in Ulster. He said: There has been no official decision by the Republi- can Army to resume action in the north. weeks ago we with- 'A few from retaliatory action drew against the British army. At that time we said we were available for defensive action, so how can we adopt an offensive role if.

been offensive we have never in the flrst place! Our position is simply this: we shall maintain our defensive role unless the troops take such action that we have to defend ourselves again.' It is reported that five mem- bers of the Officials have been killed by the British army and the UDR in the past couple of weeks. Britain bought more than 65 per cent southern Ireland's record 1971 exports, an increase of more than one-fifth, according to the Board's annual Irish Export report published today. The British market increased or 21.7 per imports by £61.7m, cent to a total of £354.3m. This cent of represented 65.9 per İreland's export total of £537.5m, was £70.8m, or 15.8 per which cent up on 1970. The Board noted with satis- faction that increased sales to the UK were at a time when the economy was depressed and political events cast a shadow over the trading situation.

121 Clearly, a major factor in the merger moves is the huge capital investment necessary for con- tainerization and the need for a centralized drive to claw this back in terms of more profits and a reduced wage-bill. The 1,590 dockers involved manning in the dispute with Smith Coggins are due to meet at Liverpool Pier Head today.

They will hear a report from yesterday between discussions shop stewards and Transport and General Workers' Union district secretary Lew Lloyd. The dispute started with a small number of men on one ship last Wednesday, but by Friday had spread to the com- pany's whole labour force in the port, stopping work on 13 ships.

Yesterday 18 ships were held up. Five of the vessels had arrived over the weekend.

Smith Coggins have also threatened some of its clerical workers with redundancy follow- ing their attempts to gain parity with the dockers over wages, conditions and job-security.

All 800 clerical workers on the river-including checkers, fore- supervisory staff-may men and work next Monday as a stop result. •The dockers' stewards, who will themselves lead a one-day strike of all 10,000 men on Thursday week, had said they will not undertake the work.