Workers Press no. 829

workers press

JONES HAS NO MANDATE FOR TALKS OR FINES

RE-CALL T& GWU

CONFERENCE

Mersey dockers determined to tackle jobs and Tories General Workers' soever to re-open and port chief Lor Last Thursday's docks delegates' conference called for a national ports strike-not a fresh round of secret dealings with the port employers. Instead of rushing off to meet Aldington, Jones should be mobilizing the mighty forces of his union, the biggest in the country, to remove the government which has members, jailed his fined his union £55,000 and now threatens to confiscate its entire funds. With Britain's ports at a every single dockworker that he is in a fight to the finish—a fight to decide whether he has a future livelihood. Having rightly rejected the Jones-Aldington report with its hollow jobs promises, the dockers have the Tory govern- engaged ment head-on. It is impossible to sep- arate the fight for the right to work from the fight to bring down the Tories. Full employment in docks and transport will be ensured only through nationalization of these industries under workers' control. That can only be by forcing the done Tories to resign and return- ing a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

But as this showdow begins, the T&GWU has no to win the strike, policy no policy to unite its mem- bers. Such a dangerous position only be can remedied by the immedi- ate recall of the union's biennial conference. Mem- bers of the T&GWU in every section of industry must flood Transport House with this demand at once. This is the crisis in the T&GWU today: • While the docks dele- gates reject the Jones- Aldington deal and call for action, Jones goes strike off-without any authority from his members-to talk with the employers.

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open talks today with While the dockers need the support and unity of all union members in a common fight, lorry drivers have been thrown into competition for jobs with dockers because of the refusal of the union to fight containerization and Devlin scheme. the While his members boy- cott the court and are pre- pared to go to jail to defend their basic rights, Jones is preparing to again pay fines amounting to £55,000 to the NIR, along with £25,000 costs. • While Jones calls for the recall of the TUC to con- struct policies to fight the Act, he stays silent about recalling his own con- ference to defend his own docks members. • What is Jones telling its sponsored Labour MPs to do in the present crisis?

Not a whisper of support has come from these MPs. Most of them are grabbing any time or space in the capitalist media to tell dockers to accept the revised Jones - Aldington formula due out later this week. They must be instructed to lead a fight to stop parliament from going into its nine-week recess on August 9. The Tories want to use the parliamentary vacation to rule by state of emergency regulations from the and decrees Privy Council. For all these reasons the immediate recall of the T&GWU biennial conference is the burning demand. If Jones and engineering union leader Hugh Scanlon for joint were calling

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dockers yesterday voted unani- mously to continue their strike until their demands for docks jobs are met. A packed 45-minute meeting at Liverpool Box- ing Stadium heard Jim RPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JULY 31, 1972 • No. 829 • 4p

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Now is the time to defeat the Tories! Mobilize of every strength behind the dockers. Victory to the dockers! Force the Tories to resign!

Recall immediately the Trans- conference and General Workers'

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Union! dockers will win their strike only the policy put forward by the League: No sackings of dockers, lorry drivers or container- WOrKerS. Immediate shorter working week. Guaranteed full pay for all dockers! Registration of all non- scheme ports! Abolition of the unattached register! policy together I his with a T&GWU decision to whole heht tor udat organ- union movement to ize to force the Tories to and resign return would Labour government. The scene outside last Thursday's docks delegate conference. No man win the support of the union chief Jack Jones to re-enter talks with port boss Lord Aldington whole working class. Nolan, a shop steward who already on the dole in the joined the picket line the Pies on Wedn ization committee, warn able. The Pentonville Five had that the Jones-Aldington Tony Burke,

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workers press

JONES HAS NO MANDATE FOR TALKS OR FINES

RE-CALL T& GWU

CONFERENCE

Mersey dockers determined to tackle jobs and Tories General Workers' soever to re-open and port chief Lor Last Thursday's docks delegates' conference called for a national strike-not ports fresh round of secret dealings with the port employers. Instead of rushing off to meet Aldington, Jones should be mobilizing the mighty forces of union, the biggest in the country, to remove the which has government jailed his members, fined his union £55,000 and threatens now to confiscate entire its funds. With Britain's ports at a single dockworker that he is in a fight to the finish—a fight to decide whether he has a future livelihood. Having rightly, rejected the Jones-Aldington report with its hollow jobs promises, the dockers have the Tory govern- engaged ment head-on. It is impossible to sep- arate the fight for the right to work from the fight to bring down the Tories. Full employment in docks and transport will be ensured only through nationalization- of these under workers' industries control. That can only be forcing the done by Tories to resign and return- ing a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

But as this showdown begins, the T&GWU has no the strike, policy to win no policy to unite its mem- bers. Such dangerous a position only be can remedied by the immedi- ate recall of the union's biennial conference. Mem- bers of the T&GWU in every section of industry must flood Transport House with this demand at once. This is the crisis in the T&GWU today: • While the docks dele- reject the lones- gates Aldington deal and call for strike action, Jones goes off-without any authority from his members-to talk with the employers.

INCORPORATIN

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

open talks today with While the dockers need all union members common fight, lorry drivers into have been thrown competition for jobs with dockers of because the refusal of the union to fight containerization and the Devlin scheme. While his members boy- cott the court and are pre- go to jail pared to to defend their basic rights, Jones is preparing to again amounting pay fines to £55,000 to the NIR, along with £25,000 costs. • While Jones calls for the recall of the TUC to con- struct policies to fight the Act, he stays silent about recalling his own con- ference to defend his own docks members. • What is Jones telling its sponsored Labour MPs to do in the present crisis?

Not a whisper of support has come from these MPs. Most of them are grabbing time or space in the any capitalist media to tell to accept the dockers revised Jones - Aldington formula due out later this week. They must be instructed to lead a fight to stop parliament from going into its nine-week recess on August 9. The Tories want to use the parliamentary vacation to rule by of emergency regulations and decrees the Privy Council. For all these reasons the immediate recall of the

T&GWU

biennial conference is the burning demand. If Jones and engineering union leader Hugh Scanlon calling for joint were

MERSEYSIDE

dockers yesterday voted unani- mously to continue their strike until their demands for docks jobs are met. A packed 45-minute meeting at Liverpool Box- ing Stadium heard Jim

RPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JULY :

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question is certainly posed more clearly today than it was 18 months ago. The Tories are in deep crisis; they are weak. But they are conscious of their

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for the first opportunity to lash out at the working class. The working class is strong enough to make them resign, but is held back leadership by its from realizing this strength.

Now is the time to defeat the Tories! Mobilize every of ounce behind the strength dockers! Victory to the dockers! Force the Tories to resign!

Recall immediately the conference of the Trans- port and General Workers' Union! The dockers will win their strike only on the policy put forward by the Socialist Labour League: No sackings of dockers, lorry drivers or container- workers! Immediate shorter working week. Guaranteed full pay for all dockers! Registration of all non- scheme ports! Abolition of the unattached register! This together policy, with a T&GWU decision to fight for the whole trade union movement to organ- ize to force the Tories to resign and return a Labour government, would The scene out win support of the whole working class. union chief Jac Nolan, a shop steward who already on th area this wou sits on the port modern- ization committee, able. warn that the Jones-Aldington Tony Burk from the Sc eport paved the way for ; loss of 8,000 jobs nationally.

Liverpool do A total of 2,500 of these closure next would be in Liverpool, he of the tremen said. he and With 53,000 workers dockers had t AY JULY 31, 1972 • No. 829 • 4p

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been released, he said, but the South End meet at the Industrial Relations gates Act and the Tory govern- organize ment remained. he tremendous response hour other Mersey A further Liverpool registere kers had received when meeting will be held working at

Jobs crunch nearer at UCS PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday July 31, ON | MAY 12 the President of the National Industrial Relations Sir John Donaldson, Court, passed his historic judgement calling on union leaders to discipline and dismiss shop stewards who fail to carry out the court's rulings. charge that Answering the this would worsen industrial in tis inimitable say: Donaldson declared •These dangers are obvious, but they are short-term dan- gers. They must be faced in order that in the longer term we may have an orderly system of industrial relations of which we can be proud.' In words the Tory other court made clear it was pre- pared for a national docks strike in its bid to crush shop stewards and militants. Last week the House of Lords, the highest court in the land, came to the same con- clusion. It found that it was the unions' responsibility to disci- pline its shop stewards-or risk huge fines and confiscation of their assets. Edward Heath made a special appearance on national television last week to welcome the Lords' verdict. Heath said the Act was work- ing 'extremely well'. It had been 'completely justified and vindicated' Lords' by the decision, he added. statements are clear These enough. They spell class war.

And that-as Workers Press has persistently pointed out- is what this Heath government is all about. This being the case, what on earth is Victor Feather of the TUC up to? Tomorrow he re- joins the Tory government and the big businessmen's "TUC', of British the Confederation Industry, in talks about wages, conciliation and inflation, arbitration etc. These soirées at No. 10 Downing Street can produce nothing for the working class.

deadly dangerous They are because they form a deliberate part of the Tories' present strategy of time-wasting.

The government wants to spin out discussions with the union leaders while they build their counter-attack. In up particular they want to stave off their offensive until after parliament goes into recess at the end of this week. With parliament out of the way the Tories can wield enormous and unaccountable through the Privy powers Council. Under state of emergency regulations they can call in troops and slam the labour press with sedition orders.

Ever since the miners' strike, Feather has been beating a in and out of Heath's path bullet-proof front door. so he has been doing In creating illusions that the Tories are reasonable men seeking fair play. This myth- resoundingly w a s ology destroyed when five dockers were jailed. proof of the Absolute character of this government was shown last Friday when another 4,000 troops were despatched to Ulster. The TUC rank and file did not give Feather a mandate to reel around these Tory cor- ridors. All talks with the Tories be immediately broken must off. The TUC leadership should be seeking a recalled congress to formulate a policy to fight the Industrial Relations Act to force the Tory government to resign. ay July 31, 1972

NORTH

VIETNAMESE

moving in force troops are towards the ancient capital south of the de- of Hué, militarized zone, despite con- centrated bombing from American B52 planes. The North Vietnamese have turned the flank of puppet forces who were attacking the strongly-held provincial capital Quang Tri. This town has been held by liberation force since the end of April. The focus of the battle has now shifted as liberation troops press eastwards towards Hué from the A Shau valley. They have already forced puppet troops to abandon the key Fire- base Bastogne, punching a hole in the defensive arc around Hué.

The Americans dropped more than 600 tons of bombs on one location 15 miles south west of Hué, using seven waves of B52s.

They claim to have made contact with three North Vietnamese regiments moving towards the city. Liberation troops also are moving across the demilitarized zone (DMZ) to reinforce the at Quang Tri. The garrison South Vietnamese yesterday ad- mitted that the garrison's supply lines had never been cut during THE DOLLAR price of gold is now the West European bullion markets in London on Friday. Similar high levels were reached on other markets-in $68.59; and in Zurich Paris, The London $67.75-$68.25. price rose $1.55 an ounce in 24 hours. Dealers are confidently predict- ing that the price will be over well before the $70 an ounce end of the year. The increased gold price is a consequence of complete lack of confidence in paper currency. This has been increased by the latest American balance-of- figures - which show trade a $3,342.8m deficit for the first six months of 1972-and by the which mounting British crisis weakened the has further 'floating' pound. currency crisis A full-scale narrowly averted only a was the Tories month after ago floated sterling. There was heavy selling of dollars in all European centres and the French, German, Swiss, Belgian and Dutch central banks forced to apply were Draconian exchange controls.

of the basic issues in- None volved in this crisis has been resolved, though the US Federal TEXAN industrialist Wayne Harbin will visit Clydeside this weekend for talks about the jobs crisis at the Clyde- bank shipyard. Harbin, whose firm Marathon is taking Manufacturing over the yard, will meet the UCS liquidator and Lord Strathal- head of Govan Ship- mond, builders. They will be discussing the thousand men who will be left of without work by the end September when the liquidator's last two vessels will be cleared out of Clydebank and moved up yard con- river to the Govan trolled by Govan Shipbuilders.

About 450 Clydebank men will be transferred to complete this work and Marathon says it will be in a position to employ 500 to 550 by September 30.

But this leaves about 1,000 job men without Clydebank prospects. the attempt to retake the city.

North Vietnam yesterday replied contemptuously to Presi- dent Nixon's latest attempt to whitewash the bombing of the north. Nixon had said we are trying to avoid civilian casualties, not to cause them'. In view of the type of bombs being used by the US over North Vietnam, this is a particularly barefaced lie. These weapons include the

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24/26 guava each holding 260-300 bomblets, pellets and 50 grams of explo- They Sives. fused can to explode on impact, in the air or with time delay and spray small but lethal pellets in 360° a pattern. The CBU28 'dragontooth' mine is camouflaged to blend in with the ground. Thousands are dropped every month. They are designed specifically to blow the foot off any person who steps on the hand off them, or anyone who picks them up. The 'gravel' mine, a three-inch explosive cloth bag containing powder and two plastic pellets, has a similar purpose. Neither of these mines will destroy a truck tyre if rolled over by one.

They are exclusively anti- personnel weapons and in the 'gravel' of the mine the case are invisible on pellets x-ray necessitating ex- photographs, ploratory surgery. Id is now at its highest-ever point on I markets, reaching $68.25 an ounce Reserve Bank bought a certain amount of time by intervening in the market to the support dollar for the first time since last August. The breakdown of important Japan and trade talks between the United States just a month Nixon's before President scheduled meeting with premier Kakuei Tanaka is an indication of the extreme tension in rela- tions between the main capi- talist nations. The US was demanding sweep- ing trade concessions from the Japanese, who have already con- ceded a 16-per-cent revaluation, making their goods more expen- sive on American markets.

threatening The US is now wholesale protectionism directed against the Japanese employers.

Similar threats are being made against the Common Market countries. The political upheavals in class relationships sparked by Nixon's measures a year ago are driving forward the international monetary crisis which is now reaching its most critical stage.

BY STEPHEN •

There is also the further in Govan •threat that the 450 when the will lose their jobs vessels- one of which is already The launched—are finished. labour force at Clydebank when UCS went into liquidation last June was 2,500. Marathon originally pledged to employ 500 men immediately it took over. This was reduced to 151 and finally no one was taken on because of delays over the progress of a parliamentary Bill Clyde- earmarking grants for bank. The 151 men fired by the reported back at liquidator Clydebank last Monday after the were told summer holidays and to join the 'work-in'. Shop stewards admit they are facing a crisis over jobs. They

BY JOHN SPENCER

WORKERS at Briant Colour I work-in factory, have alrea provoked police attacks and f may be planned for today.

At 4 p.m. outside the gates o mill off the Old Kent Road, a made to break the picket whic gates since the work-in at Briar Horne's is the chief creditor of !

the printers have been picketing th tees that their own plant will be reo On Thursday night after more picketing, the 30 or so printers ou brutally attacked by police.

The police arived about 40 strong in transit vans and Rover squad cars. Pickets, in- of Graphical Society cluding and Allied Trades (SOGAT) mother of the chapel Christine slammed against Brazil, were a corrugated iron fence. "They just by the got me shoulders and pushed. My arm still hurts from the police man- handling,' she said. Pickets said one policeman in a Rover patrol car deliberately backed it into Society of Litho- Artists, and Designers graphic Engravers (SLADE) apprentice Roger Shill. Pennington, Briant's Norman SOGAT father of the chapel, gave me the policeman's number and the number of his car.

'We will be making a com- plaint to the police — not that makes much difference. that They are judge and Jury in their own case,' he said. 'When I asked this policeman what he thought he was doing he said: "Stand behind me and you'll find out"! Pennington himself was grabbed by the police and frogmarched maria. The police to a black 'hammered' him in the back of the vehicle before his fellow- pickets recued him, he said.

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The morning, next general secretary Vincent_Flynn was handed a letter from Horne's boss Kenneth Horne threatening action unless the pickets legal were removed from the gate.

'As you know we do not con- sider that we are a party to this dispute,' Horne wrote. ... we must now consider obtaining the | protection of the law.'

TEPHEN JOHNS

are asking Govan Shipbuilders.

which operates three of the old UCS divisions, to see if it can absorb some of the Clydebank But Govan Shipbuilders facing a struggle for survival: with a full quota of workers already the company is un- likely to want the extra burden of 1,000 workers. demoralizing there is horse-trading, still a substantial body of Clydebank men who want to fight against further run-down in the labour force. been considerably They have weakened by the formal division of a once-united labour force in the • four-yard consortium between two capitalist concerns.

The UCS struggle started last Colour Printers, the Southwark • already suffered two un- is and fear that a third attack • gates of Robert Horne's paper Road, another attempt may be et which has stood outside the at Briant began five weeks ago.

ditor of Briant Colour Printing and keting the factory to obtain guaran- ill be reopened. or more than a month of peaceful inters outside Horne's factory were Police were out in force the following day and an appeal to dock strikers at their Tower Hill meeting produced reinforce- ments for thè pickets as well. More than 500 printers and dockers stood outside Horne's facing a three-deep gates line of police as a team of negotiators headed by work-in leader Bill Freeman met the management inside. The workers sought a pledge from Horne that his lorries would not cross the picket line while negotiations on the future of Briant Colour continued.

About 4 p.m., after talks last- hour, the ing more than an workers' representatives were given what they regarded as a satisfactory pledge. The delegation left the office and the pickets waited good- humouredly while the pledge was typed. But the document finally produced was radically from Horne's verbal different pledge. It read: 'Our lorries will not cross your picket lines before 4 p.m.

on Monday, July 31, by which time have given us you expect to your proposals and we shall then decide whether it is possible to negotiate further.' Commented Bill Freeman: 'This is not what he promised us upstairs. It is totally un- acceptable.' His version of the meeting with management was corrobor- Royal docks shop ated steward Ken Marks, who sat in on the talks with Horne as an observer from the dockers' pickets. 'Horne quite clearly said he was willing to sign a document June when the consortium went bankrupt. Then the Communist Party- stewards' committee led shop their famous work-in' began which turned out to be a way of avoiding confrontation with the government, completing ships for the liquidator and trading over jobs and conditions.

These Stalinist manoeuvres caused hundreds of workers to leave the yards. When the com- was liquidated there were pany 8,500 workers. Now there are a little over 6,000 at UCS and this figure will be down to 5,000 if the Clydebank men go. Clydebank workers will stage a half-day strike today as part protest in the of the general West of Scotland called by the Liaison Committee for the De- fence of Trade Unions against the Industrial Relations Act.

Workers at the Govan, Scots- toun and Linthouse divisions are on their summer holidays.

Peaceful pickets are moved on by : agreeing that no lorries would • be cross the picket until the were completed, nego- tiations Ken Marks told me. Horne refused to see the full delegation following rejection of claiming , he had been his note, 'negotiating under duress' Meanwhile the picket lines started to thin out as some of the pickets drifted away.

While the police were ready- ing their shock forces, Tory MP Geoffrey Finsberg was trying in the Commons to generate a 'red plot' atmosphere, charging that leaflets against the imprisonment of the five dockers were printed at Briant in June. In fact, all Briant printing since the work-in began has carried the date when the occupation started. Finsberg's nonsensical charge was given headline treatment in the Lon- don 'Evening News'. SOGAT and Communist Party member Mike Hicks proposed that the pickets disperse to 'show goodwill', but this proposal was unanimously rejected. It was the moment the police had waiting for. been Their commissioner decided the pickets were causing an obstruction. He H Work-in committee chairman at Briant to the picket at Horne's.

THE TWO-MONTH law vaca- tion starts tomorrow - but not for the National Industrial Rela- tions Court. Court president, Sir John Donaldson, will take time off and plans to do some sailing in his 40-foot ketch. Press Association said yester- day: 'Contrary to rumour, there on by a well-prepared and large force of | uld began to walk towards the massed dockers and printers and suddenly a large body of police reinforcements appeared from a side-street. Truncheons drawn, they drove the pickets onto the Old Kent Road, forcing them to back into a bus queue standing opposite the factory. Women and children waiting for buses were driven against the wall as the police weighed into the pickets. Several were injured-and one picket had to have three stitches in his head.

Seven men were arrested and charged with threatening behaviour, obstruction and assault. They were remanded on bail of £10 to appear on October 10. They are: Thomas Cottrell, a haulage contractor, charged with threatening behaviour; John Franks, machine operator, charged with obstruction; Robert Grant, driver, threatening behaviour; Alan Pink, stevedore, assault; Peter Willson, docker, obstruction and assault; Barry Holmes, tally clerk, assault and obstruction; Edward Davidson, printer, assault. Friday's unprovoked attack on at Briant Colour, Bill Freeman, speaks are no plans to have him winched from his yacht to a helicopter in the event of a national emer- gency' However, Donaldson will be in telephone and radio contact at He and several all times. 'lay' judges will be available to reconvene the court if the need arises. force of police outside Horne's the Briant picket has roused deep anger among the printers and dockers. They regard it as the new order decreed by • the Tory government to break strikes and smash picket lines. •The arrogant police attack on the Briant workers' picket line, the arrests and the police provo- cations are a concerted attempt crush a of workers to grout fighting for the right to work.

The entire trade union move- ment must come to the assist- ance of the Briant workers and use its strength to answer the police provocations.

BRITISH-LEYLAND

shares aré expected to get a hammer- ing when the markets open today following the weekend announcement of price increases. Neither will the shares be helped by the comments David Malbert, city editor of the London 'Evening Standard'.

In his column last Friday Malbert said: Now that the truth of Mr. Victor Feather's boast that nothing can be done to the trade unions that the unions don't like is being proved, i would avoid investment companies with large and well- labour drilled forces. Like British-Leyland. if want to sleep you soundly,' he told the idlers who play the stock market, 'stay out of the market except for special situations and • maybe the finan- cial sector which is not domin- ated by the unions.' The decision raise prices to from between 3 and 6 per cent from next Saturday is a panic measure by the Leyland board.

Six months ago the company broke the CBI prices 'freeze' and the new charges mean that is again exploding the Leyland myth of the price restraint of the country's big corporations.

A company statement said: 'As a result of constantly rising costs we have not found it possible to subscribe to the three-month extensions of the CBI's undertaking on prices.

'But are undertaking to we maintain them at this level until 1973 at the earliest'-which is only five months away. A Mini will cost £695 instead of £663; the 1100 £867 (£833); Marina £949 (£913); Morris Triumph 2000 £1,775 (£1,687), and Jaguar XJ6 £3,071 (£2,925).

The new charges will strengthen the sales drive cur- rently being launched by Ley- land's Japanese and European competitors. Workers Pres ВВС 1 9.45 Mary, Mungo and Midge.

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CORONATION STREET.

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WORLD IN ACTION.

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LOLLIPOP.

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NEWS.

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One of the Girls in Re- search. 11.55

THE BISHOPS.

nes rise in tonight's 'Doomwatch' story HTV West as above except: 6.22 This is the West This Week HTV Cymru/Wales 25 above ex- cept: 4.15 Cantamil. 6.01 Dydd. ANGLIA: 11.25 Cricket. 1.40 World War I. 2.05 Arthur. 2.30 London. 3.15 Jokers. 3.45 Yoga.

4.10 News. 4.15 Cartoons. 4.25 Romper room. 4.55 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.45 London. 10.30 Brian Connell. 11.05 Spyforce.

ATV MIDLANDS: 2.25 Battle. 3.10 Good afternoon. 3.35 Horoscope.

3.45 Women. 4.10 Nanny. 4.40 Cliff's kids. 4.55 Forest rangers.

5.20 London. 6.00 Today. 6.45 light London. 10.30 Jokers. 11.00 1.42 Aquarius. ULSTER: 4.00 Let's face it. 4.30 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News.

4.55 London. 6.00 News. 6.10 Smith family. 6.35 Cartoon. 6.45 London. 10.30 Monday night. 10.35 Name of the game. YORKSHIRE: 11.25, 3.45 Cricket.

1.35 Cartoon. 1.45 Bewitched. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 Good after- noon. 3.00, 4.10 Teesside Eis- teddfod. 4.35 Calendar. 4.40 Cliff's kids. 4.55 Arthur. 5.20 London. 6.00 Calendar. 6.05 Car- • Shirley's world. 6.45 toon. 6.15 London. 11.55 Yesterdays. 12.25 Weather. 2.05 Cricket.

GRANADA: 11.25,

1.35 Yesterdays. 4.10 News. Pey- 4.40 London. 6.00 arty. ton place. News. 6.15 Journey. 6.40 London.

10.30 Crime and mystery. SCOTTISH: 3.35 Horoscope. 3.45 4.10 Casebook. 4.40 Women. London. 6.00 News. 6.15 Dick Van Dyke. 6.45 London. 10.30 At odds. 11.10 Late call. 11.15 Frighteners.

GRAMPIAN:

3.37 News. 3.45 Women. 4.10 Yoga. 4.40 Cliff's kids. 4.55 Rumblie jumblie. 5.20 London. 6.00 News, weather. Farming. 6.15 Lucy. 6.45 London: 10.30 Watts.

OF A MAJOR TORY FRAUD

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday July 31, By Peter Jeffries. Part 1 All Tory governments have been prepared to use secret spies to keep watch on workers' organi- zations. But they have also engaged in the crud- est form of anti-com- munist propaganda in an attempt to frame labour and trade union leaders. The most notorious example of Tories' lies and deceit this undoubtedly the century is "Zinoviev Letter' of 1924, which played a crucial role in the downfall of the first-ever Labour government. Largely through the 'red scare which the Tory press whipped up in the campaign, Baldwin was returned with a which then big majority allowed the Tories to make direct plans to take on the working class which they were to do in the General Strike of the following year. By producing a letter, pur- portedly from Zinovier, Pre- sident of the Communist Inter- Communist national, to the Party of Great Britain, urging them to make preparations for armed revolution and to start the creation of a work for British Red Army, the ruling Class, operating through the Foreign Office, the Tory Party, British Intelligence and Fleet Street, was able to scare the middle class and stampede them into voting for Baldwin.

the unquestionable Despite loyalty of MacDonald and his friends to the capitalist sys- tem and all its institutions, was still considerable there opposition to the labour gov- ernment from the ruling class.

To some sections it was no doubt still an 'unknown quan- tity, while there was general opposition to its diplomatic recognition of the USSR as as its plans for the con- well clusion of a trading agreement with the Soviet state. The government's downfall at the end of 1924 was directly connected with the build up of • Dependent this 'red scare' Mac- upon Liberal support, Donald's government fell over the famous 'Campbell case' The offices of the 'Workers' Weekly, organ of the Com- Party of Great Britain munist were raided in 1924 and its editor, J. R. Campbell, was charged under the Indictment to Mutiny Act of 1797 as author of an article urging the troops not to fire on their fellow workers. After the Attorney-General, Sir Patrick Hastings, had admitted that the charges were to be pressed, they were eventually dropped on the that they rested on grounds no firm legal basis. The Tories let out a scream of anger.

MacDonald and the Cabinet were 'soft on the Reds'. The government was defeated on a Commons vote of confidence and MacDonald resigned. But it was only now that the red scare really started to roll.

It reached crescendo with the Foreign Office release, five days before polling, of the letter allegedly sent by Zino- viev together with a stiff note of protest to the Soviet govern- ment, a move designed to y July 31, 1972 Right: Ramsay MacDonald, loyal to the Zinoviev who was on holiday at the tim authenticate the forgery.

For the Tory Press the letter, containing everything a anti - Bolshevik professional just what could desire, was they needed. Just before the letter was released, the 'Daily Mail' had attacked the plans for a com- mercial treaty with Russia in terms which were to become familiar: 'It is a fact declared Lord Rothermere's mouth - piece, 'that a British government is preparing to use the British taxpayer's credit and cash for the purpose of financing a gang of thieves and murderers who repudiate all social and finan- cial morality. The wrong is graver because this gang of alien criminals who have usurped power in Russia wish to destroy the British empire civilized system and our credit' But strident though this was the 'Mail' was to improve still further with the publication of the letter. Moscow issues orders to the British Communists . ..

British Communists in turn RI yal to the capitalist system. Top: G. E.

at the time. Above: Baldwin give orders to the Socialist government which it tamely and humbly obeys', said its editorial on the day the letter was released. And the following Monday it screamed in a seven decker headline.

THE ONLY THING LEFT TO

DO IS VOTE CONSERVA-

TIVE.

The 'Daily Express', lacking 'Mail's' the advantage of the 'discovery' of the letter, was slower off the mark. But the campaign it had showed it- self in no way inferior when it came to vitriolic anti-commun- ist propaganda. Imagine little dark- skinned Indian Communist, it said about Shapurji Saklatvala, 'harsh voiced, with a curious little "clip" in his accent, the fire of fanatic frenzy always leaping from queerly bright eyes, hatred of almost every- thing seeming to consume his nervously moving body, great cataract of words always spouting, frothing, foaming from him in a never-ending stream.' On election day the 'Express' splashed in red ink across every page 'DO NOT VOTE

RED TODAY'.

In the face of these vicious attacks, MacDonald's reaction was typical of a Fabian. Although, as we shall see, the Foreign Office released the text of the letter and the accom- the to panying protest note .. in chargé d'affaires Soviet London, without Kakovsky, MacDonald's permission, he continued to defend the Civil Servants as men of good faith.

'I make no complaints... They honestly believed that the document was genuine and on that belief they acted, he said after the event. Although he doubted the letter's authenticity MacDonald consistently also refused to order any official inquiry into the conduct of the senior civil who handled the servants matter while he was out of London conducting his election campaign. In fact there such were glaring contradictions in the form and content of the letter that the Foreign Office must have known it to have been the work of provocateurs.

Indeed many senior servants and police officers took the letter to be the forgery that it including the Com- was, missioner of the Metropolitan Police. But they kept their opinions to themselves. In the first place no original copy of the letter was ever seen. Only a transcripted copy reached the British Secret Service, which they then passed to the Foreign Office and the 'Daily Mail! secona, nobody commented on the fact that, even if the Communist International had wished to give the British Party such ludicrous instruc- tions, they would certainly have transmitted them not in letter form but via one of the many Party members who regularly visited Moscow. But to an experienced eye the letter could be seen as complete fraud; not only did it contain all the elements of a cheap spy thriller, which were simply too good to be true: there were innumerable textual inconsistencies and downright errors. • The letter was headed 'Third Communist International'. Yet there was no such thing as a third Communist international.

• Zinoviev used the letters IKKI in the text of the letter instead of the usual English form ECCI for the Executive Committee of the International.

• MacManus, one of the letter's signatories, was wrongly spelt as McManus. Zinoviev signed himselt 'Zinoviev' instead of his usual style 'G. Zinovier'. himself • Kuusinen signed and not O. W. 'Kuusinen' Kuusinen' • Kuusinen was not the Secretary of the International, the letter claimed, but as merely a member of its Secre- tariat. • On September 15, 1924, the date of the letter, Zinoviev was actually holidaying in Kislov- odsk and therefore could not possibly have signed any official letters. All these points, made by Zinoviev and others at the time, fell on deaf ears as the Tories, pushing aside such trivial matters, rushed ahead with their witch-hunt.

CONTINUED MONDAY

BY DAVID MAUDE

Fear of a new round of pit closures laid its cold hand on miners last week after allegations from union leader Lawrence Daly that there had been secret talks on the sub- ject between the govern. ment and the National Coal Board. The allegations were quickly by denied

NCB

chairman Derek Ezra. With consumption down, stocks up and a big new pay claim in the offing, however, the fear remains. The Wilberforce report which ended this year's strike said ominously that there was no 'special magic' in the level at which the NCB has recently been trying to stabilize out- put-130-140 million tons a year. And it suggested that 'con- traction below that size, if it must come, would result in closure of the least efficient collieries and greater concen- tration on those operating at a profit. The report went on: 'We recognize the social and eco- nomic costs of closure, especi- ally for the peripheral regions of the country in which unem- ployment is already high.

'Nevertheless, if govern- wishes to maintain ment employment in these areas and in the coalmining industry in particular, the specific costs of doing so should be identified and made plain. of subsidizing "The cost employment should not be reflected in a relative depres- sion of the wages of those who work in the industry? Most miners immediately recognized and determined not to accept the obvious tinge of anti-wage increase blackmail contained in this section of the report. A right-wing argument at the National Union of Mine- workers' Morecambe confer- ence earlier this month, how- ever, was that if the Tories were pushed too hard on wages this year they might hit at jobs in two ways. These were: hanging fire on writing off the industry's capi- tal debt, and delaying the implementation of their new integrated energy policy.

While this line was roundly denounced by the left, one the conference delegate to warned that between 30 and 40 of the present 290 pits might still be in jeopardy.

And, according to NUM sec- retary Daly, recent reports that the NCB was preparing changes in the redundancy scheme for the payments industry indicated that a clo- sures programme of this order might be under discussion.

Then came rumours that the NCB was having discussions with the government about closure of a number of pits knowledge the without union. So in Edinburgh last Tues- day, at a meeting of the Coal Industry National Consulta- tive Council, Daly demanded some answers from NCB chair- man Ezra. 'I said I wanted them to put their cards on the table' he told Workers Press later.

said we wanted full consulta- tion as equal partners in the industry, with nothing con- cealed or brushed under the carpet. 'I warned that if concilia- tion was not going to be full, open and meaningful, the feel- ing would once again grow among the membership up that we should withdraw from it" (The NUM withdrew from the conciliation procedure dur- ing the run-up to the recent strike.) Ezra denied that any list of pit closures had been drafted.

And he told the union chiefs that there had been no secret talks with the government on a programme of further cut- backs. Wilberforce The linchpin of his argu- ment was that the NCB could not know in detail what its future plans were until it knew the extent of government assistance to the industry in the wake of the Wilberforce report. This, of course, is a crucial reservation. Wilberforce added some- thing like f85m a year to the board's cost, and although it hopes to recoup about £56m of this through the 7t per cent price rise for which the gov- ernment has given it permis- its finances sion, still are shaky. Until last October, when the government and the NCB decided on confrontation a with the unions, and the latter began their pre-strike overtime ban, economists believed the board was heading for a £35m operating profit for the finan- cial year to the end of March.

In the event, despite the £100m grant the Tories made to pay for the strike, the accounts when published in September are likely to show a very substantial loss. No one will be very surprised if this works out in the region of £100m. The reason for the similarity between these two figures — the government grant and the expected loss-is simple. Above : Daly, NUM secretary, wants full Even in years where the industry achieves an operating profit, despite the partial and inadequate of the nature nationalization carried out in 1947, that profit is immediately wiped out by the crippling burden of interest foisted on it by successive right-wing Lab- our and Tory governments.

So in the financial year March 1970-March 1971, an operating profit of £34.1m was transformed into a meagre surplus of £500,000 by a huge interest bill of £33.6m. Since over the last ten years the average burden of interest has been £37.5m each year, there is every reason to believe that had there been no strike the £35m operating profit expected last year would almost certainly have been turned by interest into a slight loss. But if the industry is now he in severe financial difficulties this is entirely attributable to the Tories' malicious and unsuccessful attempt to beat the miners into the ground.

It is the Tories, and not the miners, who must be made to pay for the industry's plight.

indicators of the Other industry's position also point to the inadequacies of the 1947 nationalization. Output climbed back sharply after the strike, and is now running at just over 2.6 mil- lion tons a week. Productivity, measured in terms of output Workers Press vants full consultation as equal partners in the ir manshift (OMS), has per reached the all-time high of over 46cwt overall. Absentee- ism is down 10 per cent. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, how- ever, consumption is down in nearly every sector of the market. Power stations, steelworks, industry and the general domestic user are all using less. The fall is about 10 per cent from that in the same period last year. Ezra, the NCB chairman, attributes some of this short- fall to what he calls 'the ready availability of other fuels' while the South of Scotland Electricity Board says in its annual report that the strike robbed coal of its one market advantage—dependability. We can, of course, expect both statements to be widely quoted at the miners' expense if the rumoured closures materialize. But there is no substance in them more real than there is in the threats contained in Wilberforce.

The 1947 nationalization compensation gave massive payments to the old coal- owners, many of whom promptly switched the capital thus released into competing sources of fuel. At the same time mining machinery and coal-distribu- left in private tion were hands, forcing up the price of xor8 Press, Monday July 31, 1972 PAGE 5 's in the industry both extraction and sale on the market. The big capitalist and state combines meanwhile, obtained their fuel dirt-cheap at source and transported it at concessionary rates on the nationalized railways. The blackmail which is being practised by the NCB and the NUM right wing with the threat of pit closures is thus of the most cynical and despic- able kind. It is not the miners or their wage demands who are at fault, but the cowardly Lab- our traitors who allowed the employers who had ruthlessly robbed the miners for years to decamp with funds they sub- sequently deployed to attack their former employees' jobs.

Today these same Labour traitors • keep the government of these robbers in power, allowing it to carry out further depredations against the men who formed the bedrock of the Labour Party. If the spectre of pit closures once again stalks the coalfields, a socialist energy becomes a burning policy question, requiring the removal of the Tory government and its replacement with a socialist Labour government which will nationalize all sources of fuel, and all branches of fuel-distri- bution and its ancillary indus- tries without compensation, placing them, with coal, under workers' control.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday July 31, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

One unreported aspect of " told him to say his prayers as they were going to shoot him.

life in Ulster today is the Francis McCrea made an act continuous harassment the of contrition and said 'go ahead and shoot and intimidation of work- soldiers me'. ing-class families, particu- Then they took my overcoat, larly in the Catholic areas.

inside jacket and shoes off and Despite Tory that claims all they gave me back was my the engaged in army was They shoes. then told me to 'cool-it' phase while truce dis- get my shoes on and they made cussions proceeded behind the me put my hands behind my the army has never let head. soldier At this point a up in its terror campaign. grabbed me by the collar and Indeed. as the Official and rushed me over to the Saracen.

IRA have entered Provisional there All the time was talks with the Tories, this has soldier in front of me hitting only served to strengthen the the stomach with the me in forces of reaction and expose butt of his rifle. the Catholics When they had both of us sinister attacks. at the flats an officer was there Belfast, the In Divis Street, and he told the soldiers to of the headquarters Associa- make sure and not strike us Legal for Justice has tion on the face. the pooling point of hecome They then threw me head thousands of sworn statements first the side of the and against about army police Saracen. As my hands were brutality. behind my head all this time Since the army occupation head struck the Saracen my began almost three years ago, and my head was split. At this the Association has compiled point I blacked out. When I of crimes committed a library the Tory 'law-and-order' came round was by the Saracen and the soldier inside forces. the Saracen kept forcing Workers Press today pub- to the corner with the butt of some further lishes excerpts his rifle. This lasted for five from these files in massive order to reveal the real face of minutes or more. Tory policies in Ulster. At this point friend my Ulster the is testing Francis was thrown into the ground for the ruling-class's The back of the Saracen. attacks on the working class, soldier did the to him same we should know what they will with the butt of his rifle.

The of attempt to try on here. remainder the soldiers got into the Saracen then and

CASE 1

asking started us where we out. Sandy Row, wanted let Raymond Muldoon, 23-year- Shankill Road the Falls or of Frere Street, old porter, [Protestant areasl. At this Belfast, describes in his state- point one of the soldiers asked ment what happened to him on whose turn it was to make the the way home: arrest this week. What seemed (On the night of Thursday, be the senior TO

„MA TO

1972, around February 3, charge then 'We will said: 9.30 p.m I was leaving the have no arrest this week.' They Legion of Mary Hostel in Divis then told us they would take Street on my wi way home in the us to the Shankill Road. All Francis friend company the time they were beating us McCrea. As we were passing they muffled our screams.

St. Comgall's School the army At the first stop they made jumped out on us. They took one soldier got out. A couple the two towards the of minutes later he came back.

Divis Flats and they then 'what's the The driver asked started us with the beating heres doe soyier got in them not want them butts of their rifles. I could say how many of them not and closed the door of the attacked us as there were so off Saracen and started many of them. we again. Then they ctartao to nitec tion both of us asking us if we The next time they stopped We were IRA sympathizers. the same soldier got out again doing told them we were and returned couple of charitable work in the men's minutes later. The back of the hostel. They asked my mate Saracen was open then and we Francis McCrea why he did were both thrown out in the and he replied for this work street. At this point a crowd the love of God and his fellow of about 30 to 40 men came men. One of the soldiers said: out of a bar. 'As I don't believe in God this As the soldiers watched kind of work would not these men coming towards us interest me' Then he put the they got ready to leave saying boot in my friend Francis.

to one another: 'These are two All they did most of the fenians we have left vou.'

The time was to keep striking us crowd from the bar then with batons, butts and boots started attacking us. both fell. This was My friend Francis McCrea until we kept up for at least ten to 15 mentioned a couple of names and they then made of workmates whò lived in this minutes district and at this point they both of us lie on the ground.

At this point they out the rifle stopped attacking us. to Francis McCrea's head and friend Francis started explain- ing to these men what the army had done to us. He also told this crowd of men what we had been doing when the army lifted us as it was tor ..the good of both communities.

At this point I struggled over to a car that was parked for support as I was feeling very ill. Some of the crowd came over to me where I was standing and when they saw the blood running out of me they started to show a bit of compassion towards me. My friend Francis was still talking to the crowd trying to appeal to their sympathy. He repeated again the work we both did and told the crowd that the army was no one's friend and that both of us had you in common with more people' than the army. Francis then came over to where I was standing me against the car. He lifted me up and did his best to support me, complaining of his injuries, so he coula only lena me a certain amount of support. We both were in a very bad shape and we left the crowd and started walking. The crowd stood as we both walked away and then they all came after us and asked if we were Protestants or Catholics.

My friend Francis answered They Catholic. ( immediately started to beat us again. At this point we were separated.

I saw Francis being taken from the body of the crowd and I was beaten to the ground.

One man appealed to the crowd to stop beating me. A couple of young girls also appealed to the crowd to stop beating me. Two men pushed their way through the crowd and picked me up saying they were taking me to the hospital.

They lifted me to put me in a car with the probable intention of murdering me. At least this is what I thought they were going to do. A soldier the came on scene, a Land Rover had just stopped and he took me and led me to the Land Rover. They put me in the Land Rover and the soldier said to get me off the road as the crowd were in a threatening mood and making towards the Land Rover. The Land Rover started off and moved away to avoid the crowd. The soldier in charge asked me for my name and address and then he rang for an ambulance.

CASE 2

Mrs Rosena Ferguson of Leeson Street, Belfast, gives this account of what happened to her brother, Gerry Scott, after he was snatched by the army and interned in Long Kesh. I had a visit in Long Kesh this morning and I saw my brother. He looked pale and his eyes were heavy look- ing as if he had not got much sleep, but he did get eight hours' sleep. He had a red mark above his left eyebrow and another on his cheek bone.

he 1 asked how he got this, said he received I it while he was being kicked from one side of the room to the other.

He told me he had four interrogations. The separate first one wasn't so bad. At the second one three young Special Branch men came in. These ones were the ones who put him between two chairs and kicked the stomach out of him, and he said: I got the pin treatment. They stuck pins in my bare feet.' I nearly died at this but he said: 'Don't worry about it. I'm all right now.'

When I suggested getting a doctor he agreed very willingly, whereas I could not previously get him to go near a doctor about the rash on his feet. This was the worst. His third interrogation was with Inspector T. He said he was very nice to him and gave him a cigarette. He asked him questions about lads in the He tried blame area. to incidents that happened in the area on him. He asked him about arms dumps and said: 'Even if you can tell us where one gun that will be there is all right or even Provo dumps.'

He chatted to him and told him that he was a Christian himself and so were all his family whereas the Officials are prone to communism. All in all they had a great chat about politics. Inspector T. went on to McCann's that Joe explain death was an accident and had nothing to do with the Special Branch. He said that Joe was shot in the thigh and the bullet travelled up his spine. He said there were three other bullets in him but it was definitely an accident. His last interrogation was with a man who was only interested in the policies of asked Republican Clubs. He especially about the Joe McKelvey Terence and the Perry Clubs, but he said they weren't active any more. He got the usual treatment before each interrogation of looking at the wall for hours on end without moving.

CASE 3

This shooting concerns incident at the Glen Road bus terminus on June 22. We reproduce the statements of witnesses: First witness: Mrs E. Shaw, Belfast housewife, who lives opposite the terminal: ( About midday today, June 22, 1972, I was cleaning my window which looks on to the Glen Road bus terminus.

I saw two taxis parked there.

I saw Jim Murray, Joe Smith and Hugh Kenny standing talking. Shiela also saw McAree sitting in a taxi with a couple of others. Then I saw a blue car with two men-driver and one in the back-either moving very halted slowly possibly or opposite Mrs Hassett's house.

Then it moved down the Glen Road slowly. Next I saw the rear passenger window going down and a gun coming out of the window. I heard a volley of shots. I saw the three men fall and one of them bleeding I stood petrified and screamed: "Tommy (my husband). Get up, (he was still in bed). There's three men lying on the round- about. I ran upstairs, on the way I saw bullet holes in the walls at the landing. I saw through the of the bedroom open door Tommy was that the where mirror of the dressing table was shattered. I realized that Tommy must have been shot and I was afraid to go in.

I ran downstairs and on to the streets screaming: 'Some- body quick I think come Tommy is shot.' Mrs McGuinness and my son Brian ran up to Tommy. They found him shot in the leg.

Mary Second witness: Mrs Square, Marley, Rosapenna Belfast housewife: Thomas and my My son daughters Jean (12), Briege (8) and I were going up the steps from Bunbeg Park to the Glen Road terminus to get a taxi to go down town. We heard shooting beside us and pushed the small children back down the steps. We saw a blue car passing down Glen Road in the City direction at the same time. We didn't actually see a gun but we were quite certain that the shooting (two bursts) came from it. When the shooting stopped, we ran up the steps and saw three wounded men and a girl (not wounded) lying screaming on the ground. There was a lot of people gathered at the time Workers Press, Mond and putting the wounded into taxIs. We heard • shots fired • no at the blue car either before or after the shooting. There was no sign of guns around the wounded men. Third witness: Mrs Shiela McAree, Park, Bunbeg a Belfast housewife: At 12.10 p.m. today, June 22, 1972, I was sitting in the back seat of a taxi at the bus terminus on Glen Road There was another giri sitting in the front seat beside the driver. We were waiting for a full load. There another was car parked in front of us. Jim Murray was standing, with two other men beside this car, talking. I saw a blue car coming down Glen Road from the Hannahstown direction. I saw least two that there were at men in this car, the driver and a man in the back seat. The window beside him was open.

The man in the back seat aimed a gun out of the car window and fired i, volley of shots. I saw the three men at the car in front fall to the ground. The gunmen's car moved off from down Glen Road and kept firing. I tried to get out but Yorkers Press, Monday July 31, 1972 PAGE 7 couldn't. The taximan. then opened the door for me and I ran screaming after the blue car but it disappeared out of sight. I ran back and helped to get Joseph Smith and lim Murray, who were wounded, into the taxi I had been in. I travelled in the back seat with the two wounded men to the RVH. We kept saying acts of contrition on the way. Jim Murray kept saying 'I'm At 4.45 p.m. I was in my home when I heard the report of the shooting of three men.

It said that they were shot in a battle. I just couldn't gun believe my ears as there were in our area before no shots the blue car came along or after it sped away. Later that day the British army issued a statement say- 'Shortly ing: after midday a mobile patrol wearing plain- surveillance Ciothes and on eastwards duty was travelling on the Glen Road. A group of at a bus turn- men standing about opened fire on a patrol shot through the and rear window of vehicle, the narrowly missing a soldier. The patrol immediately fired back and the men were seen to fall.'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Juty 31, 1872 The book by Roy Medvedev translated as Let History Judge: the Origins and Consequences of Stalinism' (Macmillan £5.75) is the first independent attempt in the Soviet Union to under- stand the Stalin era which has come out of that country. It is a damning indictment of Stalin and Stalinism which confirms everything which Trotsky about the bureaucratic wrote degeneration of the first workers' state. From the great tension under which it is written, its passion drawn from the sufferings of millions of people, is also a testimony to the fact that the not been conquests of the October 1917 Revolution have destroyed. Medveder writes as a communist intellectual, an oppositionist who is harassed and persecuted for his struggle to tell the truth as he sees it. His book has great merits and deserves a careful study both for what it provides in the way of corroboration for the Trotskyist analysis and what it leaves out. On some crucial questions the book is fundamentally This series of wrong. articles submit Medvedev's book to detailed scrutiny with the aim of pursuing the struggle against Stalinism to the end. It will deal in particular with his errors and omissions and point the way for a more rounded analysis which must begin with the works of Trotsky which are cited in the footnotes.

BY TOM KEMP PART 4

The main emphasis was upon encouraging the stronger peasants to produce a grain surplus which could be ob- tained by the state in exchange for manufactured goods. This policy placed the kulaks and the better off middle peasants in a strong bargain- ing position that when So manufactured goods were not available, they simply withheld from the market and grain waited for prices By to rise. the end 1927 serious In his struggle against shortage of grain had the Left Opposition, developed in the towns. The Stalin had made use of agrarian crisis held back the development of indus- Bukharin, Rykov and the try and meant food shortages right wing of the Com- for the class. It working strengthened the position of munist Party whose the kulaks and NEPmen. who policy, in the framework favoured a restoration of capi- of the New Economic talism. and weakened the international position of the Policy (NEP), was to Soviet Union. conciliate the peasants. This position had been fore- Top: Members of the opposition on thei Trotsky, M. Boguslavsky, E. Preobrazhe Above: Against the opposition, Bukharin seen by Trotsky and the Left Opposition which had always emphasized the need to bulla up industry and to combat the growth of kulak domination of the agrarian sector. 'The Plat- form of the Left Opposition', drawn up in 1927, made out a powerful case for the stepping up of the tempo of industrial- ization and forging an alliance with the small and middle of the opposition on their way to exile in 1928—seated left to right, Preobrazhensky; standing, C. Rakovsky, Y. Drobnis, peasants and rural workers against the kulaks the While criticizing mis- takes and economic miscalcu- lations of Stalin and his right- wing allies, Medvedev does not deal seriously with this alter- native.

DUL,

as ne aoes point only a few days after out, the 15th Congress which had expelled the Opposition, Stalin called for a drive to confiscate ... ted left to right, L. Serebriakov, K. Radek, , Y. Drobnis, A. Beloborodor, Sosnovsky.

the kulaks' grain surpluses and set in train a campaign which was to put an end to private farming—but only at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and a dislocation of agri- culture which was to last for decades. The attempt to solve the grain crisis by a sudden move against the kulaks proved to be a failure. The peasants hid

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Above: Peasants forced by Stalin their surpluses and sowed less grain for the following year; in the winter of 1928-1929 the food situation worsened and extraordinary had measures again to be taken. As a result a breach opened up between Stalin and his right-wing allies.

At the 16th Party Confer- ence in April, 1929, a decision was made to speed up collec- tivization which until then, was taking place at only a modest rate. Then, in Decem- ber 1929, Stalin launched the campaign to liquidate the kulaks as a class' . Millions of peasants all over the Soviet Union were forced into collec- tive farms without preparation and without machinery. The countryside was plunged into chaos as millions were deported and kulaks and many other peasants slaughtered in retaliation. their cattle Collectivization was not a mass movement carried out with the support of the peasantry, but an empirical bureaucratic man- oeuvre which stirred up wide- spread hostility and opposition to the regime. Medveder recognizes the disastrous consequences of collectivization carried out under these conditions, as well as Stalin's hypocrisy in trying to blame others for a situation which was his own direct responsibility. Under his repressions instructions mass turned against local were officials so that they could be made scapegoats for his own blunders. Even now the official historians try to conceal the magnitude of the disaster and the responsibility of Stalin and the Party leadership for it.

Medvedev points as out: 'Collectivization was not some sort of uncontrollable process, as the events following publication of Stalin's the "Dizzy With Success" showed [this was the famous article in which Stalin tried to push the "excesses" blame for onto over-zealous local officials]. Thus assertions of Stalin's responsibility are by no means "speculative"; they are based primarily on the fact that he was head of the Party in 1929- 1930, that he was the one who the basic directives to sent local officials, orally as well as in writing. Local officials, un- prepared for such rapid and wholesale collectivization, did many stupid things. But it was the job of leaders, in approach- ing the problem, to take into consideration the abilities and preparation of the officials who had to apply the solution.'

Stalin, who a few years before had denounced the Left Opposition for wishing to exact a surplus from the peasantry to build up industry, was now doing just that, but БАТРАК « 0 ГЛАНЕ ВЕЛИСТи « СЕРЕДНИ ИДИ в КОЛХОЗ stalin Into collective farms Without preparation by brutal means which they had never advocated. Stalin carried on open war not only against the kulaks but vir- tually against the entire peasantry. In doing so placed of the the economy workers' state in great peril.

Grain procurements fell in the period of the first Five-Year Plan and the number of cattle was reduced by one-third. This the official figures, especially those published Stalin's death since in 1953, reveal for all to see. The Soviet Union is still paying the price for the brutal senseless way in and which agriculture was collectivized. Stalin's method, it should be repeated, because Medvedev confuses the issue, had nothing in common with the proposals of the Left Opposition for the speeding up of collectivization on a voluntary basis and with the support of the peasantry.

completely They were at variance with the well-known of writings of Engels and Lenin on the peasant question.

With good reason, Medvedev is equally critical of the way in which Stalin undertook industrialization during the Five-Year Plans. It should be remembered, first of all, that Stalin had poured scorn on industrialization a few years before and undertook an indus- trialization policy on a purely empirical basis. For Stalin it was a panic measure taken in view of growing economic difficulties internally and deteriorating international position. In a deformed and heavy-handed way he took the Opposition's over pro- gramme and tried to drive it through under intolerable pressure. Grandiose projects were put in hand and spectacular targets set for the first Five-Year Plan, which could not be fulfilled.

Heavy burdens were placed upon the masses. Millions flocked into the towns and suffered the hardships of over- crowding, food rationing and scarcity of consumer goods.

The benefits immediate accrued principally the to Party and state officials, the plant managers and executives who made up the privileged bureaucracy devoted to Stalin.

The crushing of the Left Opposition and the expulsion of the Bukharinist right turned the Communist Party into the direct arm of the bureaucracy which looked to Stalin for its source of authority. Master of the apparatus and particularly of the vast and tentacular political police (the OGPU, later the NKVD), which became a law unto itself, Stalin ruled by command, sup- ported by obedient henchmen reparation, undergo re-education and by a hierarchy of little Stalins throughout the Soviet Union. A lightning-rod was found for mass discontent by the selection of scapegoats held responsible for economic. breakdowns and shortcomings.

Already in 1930 trials of bour- geois specialists and so-called 'Industrial Party' were held. There is no reason to believe, despite what the official histories maintain to this day, that these were any less frame-ups than the trials of the Old Bolsheviks of a few years later. According to a survivor of of these trials, the ex- one Menshevik, whose lengthy deposition to the Procurator of the Soviet Union made in 1967 is quoted in full by Med- veaey, the 1931 trial of the 'Union Bureau so-called Mensheviks' was a complete frame-uP "Confessions' organized the

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were exacted by physical torture and the trial proceedings were prepared beforehand. D. B. Riazanov, a leading Marxist scholar and founder of the Marx-Engels Institute, was arrested and imprisoned. After Trotsky's expulsion all his sup- porters who would not recant and swear allegiance to Stalin were arrested, imprisoned and in some cases killed. Real or suspected critics of Stalin in various intellectual fields were persecuted from the early 1930s. Stalin's yes-men took over and creative work in fields like economics, history and philosophy, came to an end This was the period in which the cult of Stalin took shape in a finished form. His 50th birthday in December 1929 was the occasion for immoder- ate praise; the lie that Stalin had been Lenin's right-hand man in 1917 was launched. From then on Stalin had done and could do no wrong. Former opponents like Zino- Kameney, Bukharin and viev, Radek humiliated themselves before him and joined in the paeans of praise. Medvedev describes the development of the cult of vividly and in some Stalin detail. Rarely in history had such fulsome praise been lavished on a living person; the adulation became grotesque and, as Stalin could do no wrong, a scapegoat had to be found for every mishap, error or shortage. The opposite of the adulation of Stalin was the permanent repression which, after the genuine opposition had been liquidated, was turned against the bureaucracy and the Party itself.

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Ethiopia is known as the • where there are more country political than prisoners secondary school pupils! Selassie One obscene thing about Radio Belgrade broadcasts is that they still use the opening bars of The Internationale' as an introductory call sign.

We must acknowledge, how- ever, that they now have the decency not to play the whole music at the end of trans- missions as they used to. Coming after a broadcast like last Thursday's that would have been too much for my blood pressure. rkers Press, Monday July 31, 1972 PAGE 9 The Federal German Republic is, of course, a parliamentary has a democracy. It even Social Democratic government at present-just. In 'democratic' states, such as Britain and West Germany, the armed forces are sub- state. Or ordinate to the civil so the story goes. The 'new' Germany's army and navy reflects this democratic spirit, we are told. Ships of the West German navy recently paid a courtesy visit to the port of Vigo in fascist Spain. There were receptions and speeches to mark the occasion. An interesting contribution to the gala proceedings was made by West Germany's Admiral Herbert Numm. He said: 'I can tell you that Germany counts upon • Spain when it is a question of know defending Europe. We the spirit of the men of Spain, as it was displayed in the heroic deeds of the Blue Divi- sion.' The Spanish Blue Division was the force of fascist volun- sent by Franco during teers World War Il to fight along- side Hitler's Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. Franco The 'spirit' it displayed and its 'heroic deeds' are no doubt remembered by thousands of Russians who were victims of the atrocities of these fascists.

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However, Lithgow's can weather the storm longer. They can build almost every type of vessel now in demand, ranging from submarines and fleet supply vessels to 250,000-ton tankers. Versatility, plus the width and depth of the lower Clyde, is their strength. has just com- The group pleted a f6m expansion and they plan to expand the work- force from the present 8,500 to 10,000. Of course these plans hinge entirely on what happens to world trade and currencies in the immediate future. L027.

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Above : General secretary of NUJ Ken M Although the right-wing leadership of the National Union of Jour- nalists have narrowly escaped defeat in the sec- ret ballot over the News- paper Publishers' Asso- ciation pay offer, their difficulties remain. The 3,000 members working national newspapers in on l London and Manchester will become increasingly disillu- sioned with the 6.3 per cent deal as inflation grows in the coming months, particularly as the extra cash negotiable through house agreements is turning out to be far less than anticipated. First time cut No newspaper's journalists have so far managed to breach 10 per cent in their combined house and national awards despite the nearly 16-per-cent increase in the cost of living last journalists' the since agreement 18 months ago. It means that newspapermen are facing a cut in their living standards for the first time in a very long while. Many of them were already aware of this, which led to the unprece- dentedly close result on the officially recommended pay offer-accepted by only 1,061 votes to 96l. General secretary Ken Mor- gan and his National Executive Council colleagues used a variety of tactics to push the deal through and avoid a real fight with the employers.

First, without even consult- ing the membership and in order to cover their own weak- ness, they blamed journalists UJ Ken Morgan. Tactics and confusion to avoid for being unwilling to contem- plate industrial action in sup- port of the 20-per-cent claim.

Then they made sure that no different picture would emerge by forcing through the negotiating committee by a four to three vote the pro- posal for a secret ballot instead of mandatory chapel meetings.

Only a few months previously, such chapel meetings had pro- duced a majority vote for strike the provincial action during journalists' pay negotiations.

To get the offer accepted, the union leadership deliber- ately added to the confusion about what the split-up, 18- month deal was really worth.

They excused the low offer by 'considerable stressing the achievement' of getting free- dom for house agreements, although these had only been frozen in the first place as a result of the leadership's irresoluteness in the past.

Their calculation was that in the ballot the stronger chapels, which stood to gain from house agreements, could be played off against the weaker ones which cannot get much further under their own steam. But thanks to a campaign by unofficial committee of an Street chapel officers, Fleet which pointed out the pitfalls of this deal, the plan almost backfired. As it is, the ballot result has thrown grave doubts on the leadership's credibility and has particularly discredited their standard formula of 'the fight and journalists won't here's the secret ballot result on the offer to prove it'.

In the next few weeks as final negotiations are concluded at chapel level journalists will • realize how badly eventually this deal will treat them.

Another vote of censure on is expected at the Morgan n to avoid a fight next annual conterence. This could lead to a change in the rule whereby once elected a • is general secretary for man life. Industrial action Some chapels are consider- ing industrial action to force hand in the management's negotiations. house And they do go ahead, the leader- ship will be put on trial again they lead the to see how struggle. People are already fearing the worst. Such a situation would give further opportunities for the more determined elements in NUJ again to argue for the principled positions to be adopted in the struggle. Such an attitude is already within gaining ground the union as a result of the strong fight that has been put up to defeat the right wing on the question of registration, and the fight to get an NUJ mem- ber expelled from the union for joining the National Industrial Relations Court as a lay judge.

(He was on the bench when the five London dockers were sent down.) Journalists will be increas- ingly forced into taking their stand along with the rest of working class the the as pressures of the world crisis of capitalism press harder and harder on Britain's economy.

newspaper closures Further and real wage-cuts are inevit- able and will have to be fought.

On top of this, the political crisis that Britain is entering will mean that more and more attempts to shackle the already limited freedom of the press and television will be made. In the struggle to prevent this, the NUJ will be forced finally to turn to political struggle.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press Monday July 31 IT'S MAGNIFICENT and It's a record for our monthly appeal fund. Normally our target is £1,250.

This month raised you over £1,900 by July 22 which helped us over the holiday period and now, on top, you have pushed this figure to more than £2,000. What more say? can we Clearly, the great changes that have occurred since the first five trade unionists were sent to jail under the Industrial Relations Act have roused our readers everywhere. More and more trade unionists have begun to read FROM DAVID MAUDE, Our Industrial Co DOCKERS may be urged to c officially this week, even if Workers' Union delegates acce Aldington committee report.

Unless the committee goes a lo four far-reaching demands, a shop ately after the expected delegate c to strike on. A delegation of two shop stewards from each port will take this message today to T&GWU general Jack Jones, secretary and the committee's joint chairman. The four demands, reiterated at a meeting of the national ports shop stewards' committee in Birmingham on Saturday, are: • No redundancies. Maintenance of the present register of dock workers, cur- rently about 41,000 strong.

Retention of the National Dock Labour Scheme and its extension to cover all ports registered under it. Groupage containers, those filled with part loads at depots rather than completely at source to be dockers' work. These originally formed part of a more extensive nine-point programme, including reduction working week and nationalization of the ports under workers' control. A strong bid by Liverpool shop stewards at Saturday's meeting to re-instate the points-shelved on the insistence of the London a month ago-was stewards defeated. The Londoners' argument was that would be unwise to file in the middle of a struggle.

Some wanted stewards a 'strike-on' call to go out immedi- ately from Saturday's meeting.

This was also defeated after Bernie Steer, the committee's secretary and one of the five dockers released from jail last week, argued that the decision had to be taken after the delegate conference. One Liverpool move that was successful was that there should be another mass lobby of the T&GWU docks delegates when- ever their conference was called.

It was felt that last Thursday's had a decisive effect in forcing many delegates to vote for a national strike. The London stewards promised to raise a large delegation. Many London stewards also joined a majority from northern role in the present situation. I understand that at a meeting of the London stewards on Friday lay July 31, 1972 Workers Press. It remains the the only daily paper to demand that this Tory government resign.

Our responsibilities are very great. We must not rest back in any way as workers everywhere this decisive join struggle. Workers Press must keep Yts fighting lead. More readers must still districts won, new reached and finally a very great our effort made for August Fund, which starts • today. Post every donation to: Workers Press August Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London SW4 7UG. lustrial Correspondent ged to continue their strike un- ven if Transport and General tes accept a re-jig of the Jones- oes a long way towards satisfying , a shop stewards' meeting immedi- elegate conference will issue a call Dock stewards planning to continue action there was unanimous condemn- ation on behalf of his five jailed members. This is a significant change. In the past particularly London Communist Party mem- bers on the docks have been the main bulwark on Jones' support.

Jones will not be pleased the stewards' delegation see today. For one thing he has a meet- ing with Lord Aldington, Tory chairman of the Port of London joint committee nuiring inte inquiring joint committee the dock frisis. The stewards' delegation will be demanding that two shop stewards' from each port are represented on the committee- so constituting a majority.

One Liverpool steward thought that if this demand were not granted, the two existing rank- and-file members should be pulled out. But this was not accepted. more important, how- Even ever, if the stewards do decide strike in defiance of the to delegates' after decision, last week's Law Lords decision, the union will be held responsi- ble anyway. Even if the Jones-Aldington re-jig was enough to convince both the docks delegates and the majority of stewards, it is likely that Hull would remain out on strike on the demand that un- registered ports brought are within the Dock Labour Scheme.

They made an uncompromis- ing the shop statement to stewards' meeting. The impli- cation was that even if the delegates and the stewards recommended Hull a return, would stay out on this demand and attempt to turn the action once again into a national strike.

SECURICOR Limited, Britain's largest private police force, now has a total of 1,500 personnel at Heathrow Airport. And the 50-strong special security squad from the Metro- politan Police is to be with- drawn. ULSTER-No-go areas next target Paras ready to pounce THE BRITISH army intends to inflict has returned to the the seige mentality a bloody on IRA members massacre gaellos. While the IRA has made it plain it will make and civilians in the Catholic no-go no concessions to tne 1ories, tne leaders or me areas of Londonderry within a matter Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) of days-possibly hours, have been coaxed into condemning them.

The political and military prepara- Meanwhile the

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barricades that all - Protestant and in anticipation, the Protestant organizations have Catholic -must come down are as com- callea on their members to dismantle their barri cades so as to leave the path to the army a plete as they can be. IRA-controlled districts. they have also postponed Over past weeks, as Protestant no-go areas rem de rates sunke appeared and Ulster Defence Associa- have Having done everything possible to isolate the IRA, new facts revealed yesterday suggest tion (UDA) units have drilled openly in the that the iday deliberatelY died connived at Belfast's may streets, Catholics and Protestants have made ally Bloody Friday, which and over 100 the final moves out of each others' areas and were wounded, as a means of whipping up out- rage at Provo-planned explosions.

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gave over hour's warning of some an of the bomb blasts. afternoon and is dae There were 22 Samaritans Organization logged a total of 21 advance warnings. These were immediately passed on to the security forces. Accord- ing they army received none at all and only eight during the bombing spell itself.

If IRA claims are correct, the holocaust took place Walch Cavehill shopping centre and Oxford Street bus station could Have been avoided. Public telephone services to forces the security over. loaded that afternoon evi- dence points to frantic IRA calls direct to the security forces once they realized no steps were being away taken clean from the bomb-blast areas.

While the they denies army were tipped off, the police simply would have been impos- sible check all the DOne at the moment average 30 to . 40 a day. Since Bloody Friday-July 21 -army forays against gunmen been have markedly few and throwing into high suboved relief IRA attacks. Yesterday all-night riots by mods Lurgen, Co Armagh, left largely to take their own course, although bombs were thrown and a tap.

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