Workers Press no. 836

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TUC-TORY TALKS COVER UP FOR

TWO-FACED

TREACHERY

DAILY OR

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE TUC and the Confedera- tion of British Industry met the Tories at 10 Downing Street yes- terday to put the trimmings on their scheme to break the mili- tancy of the working class.

They set up committees to stop strikes and hold back wage increases under the guise of help- ing the lower paid. These will go into action this autumn. This detailed plan for class collabor- ation was drawn up as the deadline for using troops on the docks drew nearer.

in Whitehall Tories and Elsewhere civil servants finalized plans to enact the Emergency Powers and smash the dockers after demands from the busi- ness and farming community.

These moves make the issue involved in the dock strike quite clear. The gov- to put dockers ernment is preparing with the down by force if necessary assistance of the trade union active leadership. Look at the facts. Dockers in Liverpool and Aberdeen volunteered for emergency work who were led to believe they would get Social Security if their wages went to charity.

This has been the practice in the ports in the past. But after a ministerial directive from Social Security officers London, local withdrew this right. This was a provocation. The govern- that dockers have known ment must would refuse to move vital supplies after such treatment. But the government did not care. Its action is designed to produce the emergency necessary to use troops.

But how does the TUC react to these ominous signs? Its leaders continue their Tories crawling collaboration with the and doggedly refuse to mobilize the movement behind the dock workers.

This is calculated, active betrayal of the working class. particular Jack Jones in stands con- demned for his actions. He is the leader General Workers' of the Transport and Union. Most of his members on the docks stare a Tory offensive in the face.

But Jones spends most of his time closeted with port employers and most of his energy looking for ways to get the strike called off. He would have been at No. 10 last night but for the fact that his schedule demanded a further meeting with Tory boss of London docks Lord Alding- ton. Despite noises from this phony inquiry to . 'solve' the jobs crisis on the docks, the attitude of the port employers is hardening. Even Jones was forced to admit that discussion so far had produced very little in the way of concessions for his members.

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

AILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL C

Part of yesterday's flying picket from back lorries arriving at Colchester y

ANGRY LIVERPOOL

dockers and their wives surrounded a Social Security office in Bootle yesterday accusing the Tories of using Gestapo tactics. They were demonstrating the refusal by the over Ministry of Social Security to pay benefits to dockers who had done emergency work but given their money to charity. In other cases the Ministry has refused to pay benefit to single men in extreme hard- ship. One, a diabetic, has been thrown out of his lodgings and has nowhere to live. Dockers' shop steward Bob McGuire said: "The

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icket from London which turned Ichester yesterday. See p. 12.

action of the social security in denying these lads pay- ment only demonstrates their Gestapo-like attitude.' Dockers in Liverpool un- loaded an educational crew ship so a party of school- children could have their holidays. They gave their earnings to charity, but were refused Social Security. Their action, said Mr Mc- Guire, has been an entirely spontaneous one made by normally called men anarchists. At the other flash-point, Aberdeen, men have refused to load supplies for the northern isles after being penalized at the Social Security. too, donated all They, a local their earnings to kidney machine charity. ST 8, 1972 • No 836 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BANKRUPT Yorkshire architect John Poulson paid Portugal for a holiday in Andrew Cunning- taken by ham, the North East regional officer of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, and his wife. And he also employed Mrs Cunningham, a schoolteacher, in his New- castle office in 1969-1970.

The relationship between Poulson and the trade union official revealed in the was Court Wakefield Bankruptcy yesterday on the fourth day of Poulson's public examination.

During the course of the hear- ing Poulson also answered of questions about payment Home salary to the former Reginald Maudling, Secretary. and other fees to civil servants and acquaintances. He agreed that he had paid for two cruises for Mr George Pottinger, a high-ranking civil Scottish Office, servant in the and his family. He went on one cruises with them. of the Mr Muir Hunter, QC, for the Poulson trustees, asked about Mrs May Cunningham, of Chester- le-Street, Co Durham, who was employed by Open Systems Build- Limited from October 1969 ing January 1970. to (OSB was originally formed by T. Smith, former head Dan the North East Planning Council, but it was later taken over by a Mrs Cynthia board comprising Poulson, Sir Bernard Kenyon, clerk of the West Riding County Council and members of the Maudling family.) Mr Hunter: She is the wife of a gentleman known as Andy Cun- ningham, local government dignatory, an alderman? Poulson: Yes. He is the secretary of one of the trade unions.

Hunter: Mr What she was employed by you as? Poulson: As a caretaker at the Newcastle office. Mr Hunter: Had she any qualifi- cation, professional or business?

Poulson: I think she had been a

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7 Ln 50 mi This vital, timely examination of the growth of the container trade and effect on dock workers' jobs starts on Wednesday on our centre pages.

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workers press

TUC-TORY TALKS COVER UP FOR

TWO-FACED

TREACHERY

DAILY OR

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE TUC and the Confedera- tion of British Industry met the Tories at 10 Downing Street yes- terday to put the trimmings on their scheme to break the mili- tancy of the working class.

They set up committees to stop strikes and hold back wage increases under the guise of help- ing the lower paid. These will go into action this autumn. This detailed plan for class collabor- ation was drawn up as the deadline for using troops on the docks drew nearer.

in Whitehall Tories and Elsewhere civil servants finalized plans to enact the Emergency Powers and smash the dockers after demands from the busi- ness and farming community.

These moves make the issue involved in the dock strike quite clear. The gov- to put dockers ernment is preparing down by force if necessary - with the the trade union active assistance of leadership. Look at the facts. Dockers in Liverpool and Aberdeen work volunteered for who emergency were led to believe they would get Social Security if their wages went to charity.

This has been the practice in the ports in the past. But after a ministerial directive from London, local Social Security officers withdrew this right. This was a provocation. The govern- ment must have known that dockers would refuse to move vital supplies after such treatment. But the government did not care. Its action is designed to produce the emergency necessary to use troops.

But how does the TUC react to these ominous signs? Its leaders continue their with the Tories crawling collaboration doggedly refuse to mobilize the and movement behind the dock workers.

This is calculated, active betrayal of the working class. particular stands con- • Jack Jones in demned for his actions. He is the leader of the Transport and General Workers' the Union. Most of his members on docks stare a Tory offensive in the face.

But Jones spends most of his time closeted with port employers and most of his energy looking for ways to get the strike called off. He would have been at No. 10 last night but for the fact that his schedule demanded a further meeting with the of London docks Lord Alding- Tory boss ton. Despite noises from This soothing phony inquiry to 'solve' the jobs crisis on the docks, the attitude of the port employers is hardening. Even Tones was forced to admit that discussion so far had produced very little in the way of concessions for his members.

TURN TO PAGE 12

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTI

AILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL C

Part of yesterday's fiying picket from back lorrles arriving at Colchester y

ANGRY LIVERPOOL

dockers and their wives surrounded a Social Security office in Bootle yesterday accusing the Tories of using Gestapo tactics. They were demonstrating over the refusal by the Ministry of Social Security to pay benefits to dockers who had done emergency work but given their money to charity. In other cases the Ministry has refused to pay benefit to single men in extreme hard- Seep. Ohrown diabetic his been thrown lodgings and has nowhere to live. Dockers' shop steward Bob McGuire said: "The

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TRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

Icket from London which turned Ichester yesterday. See p. 12.

action of the social security in denying these lads pay- ment only demonstrates their Gestapo-like attitude.' Dockers in Liverpool un- loaded an educational crew ship so a party of school- children could have their holidays. They gave their earnings to charity, but were refused Social Security. Their action, said Mr Mc- Guire, has been an entirely made by spontaneous one normally called men anarchists. At the other flash-point, Aberdeen, men have refused to load supplies for the isles after being northern penalized at the Social Security. They, too, donated all their earnings to a local kidney machine charity. ST 8, 1972 • No 836 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BANKRUPT

Yorkshire architect John Poulson paid Portugal for a holiday in by Andrew Cunning- taken ham, the North East regional officer of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, and his wife. And he also employed Mrs Cunningham, a schoolteacher, in his New- castle office in 1969-1970.

The relationship between Poulson the trade and union official was revealed in the Wakefield Bankruptcy Court yesterday on the tourth day oi Poulson's public examination.

During the course of the hear- ing Poulson also answered questions about of payment the former Home salary to Secretary,. Reginald Maudling, and other fees to civil servants and acquaintances. He agreed that he had paid for for Mr George two cruises Pottinger, high-ranking civil a the Scottish Office, servant in and his family. He went on one of the cruises with them. for the Mr Muir Hunter, OC, trustees, asked Poulson about Mrs May Cunningham, of Chester- Durham, le-street, who was employed by Open Systems Build- Limited from October 1969 ing January 1970. to (OSB was originally formed by T. Dan Smith, former head the North East Planning Council, but it was later taken over by Cynthia Mrs board comprising Poulson, Sir Bernard Kenyon, of the West Riding County clerk Council and members of the Maudling family.) Mr Hunter: She is the wife of a gentleman known as Andy Cun- ningham, local government Pouson: Yes. He is the secretary alderman? Poulson: of one of the trade unions.

Mr Hunter: What she was employed by you as? Poulson: ( As a caretaker at the Newcastle office. Mr Hunter: Had she any qualifi- business? cation, professional Poulson: I think she had been a

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This vital, timely examination of the growth of the container trade and effect on dock workers' jobs starts on Wednesday on our centre pages.

Be sure of your copy of Workers Press each day of this ten-part series which is essential reading for all dock and transport industry workers. Telephone our Circulation Dept now on 01-622 7029.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuasday August 8, 1972 'Intervene in Prague trials' appeal by oppositionists, but Davis snubs Czechs By John Spencer ANGELA DAVIS has ignored appeals from inside and outside Czechoslovakia to help the victims of the Stalinist purge trials. According to "The Sunday Times', she 'reportedly considers any East European communist who does not praise Mr Brezhnev (and presumably his aide, Dr Husak) a traitor to the socialist cause'.

When she was acquitted of frame-up mur- cannot hope tor moral or material support Irom California, iss Davis said: ta mauges kidnapping and conspiracy their countrymen because public expression of result automatically syll ballly who struggled for measures against such sympathizers.

head country and around the world are aware that At the same time, im renkan are rommer Ro Ce, chos appealed vision open livin Czechoslovak television now living in it [the acquittal] is a symbo! that we are going asking Miss political of political prisoners Davis to demand the release Czechoslovakia everywhere, including

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current wave of trials began in When the These appeals the 'Citizen's Czechoslovakia last month, DavIs neel Freedom Movement', an underground opposition which belongs. She June wany the letter country report either of Miss group, smuggled World' has carried no

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asking for her aid. It asked Miss Davis to use or of the trials to these appeals of rulers her authority Will serves. Cze aslovalour alory agritst at sed the ty als.

woen ner entry seemingly defence struggle: • is a powerful, arrogant bureaucratic machine to the Prague trials. of inspiration to her blessing following

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It went on: 'Unlike you, the [Prague] defendants Bilak, Kremlin's Vasil the servile supporter on the most Czechoslovak presidum,

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accused ulaves western opponents divert attention from …The Trials of trying tọ committed against 'the big crimes such EEC trade deal genocide Vietnam. This, Graves said, was a typical Obviously aids Portuguese endeavouring answering the charges of illegality own cross-accusations'. ment was only too well-founded.

atrocities Courtiuls resulted veroes A PREFERENTIAL trade agreement giving substan- tial concessions to the reactionary Caetano dictator- They were all opponents of the ship has been concluded between Portugal and the Common Market. prominent Party Under Alexandr Dubcel After the first stage of talks last December the Portuguese

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the proposals to requested fundamental changes in improve terms for items such as farm produce and textiles of the party college and a mem- competing directly with EEC products.

having circulated a leaflet remind made

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Costople killed ves but the ing voters of their right to strike stage of negotiations, names off the ballot papers in last Portuguese troops November's presidential election.

Portugal to keep tariff barriers 1971 and March 20 of this year. for certain products to protect DaS security ape he fort the tortured Muffled thus allowed to and killed a 68-vear-old man Portugal benefit of free trade in the village of Chimandbue and reaD married the theple, later burning the bodies.

military regard exports « TO protest same time threat fre trade might pinst trade might pose ally i He has heard of a case of a to domesuc mausury. Thirty other defendants were soldiers woman being lorcea Dy the flesh her slain lesser cesson te terms No government either from the given

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child, but did not include in trials

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candidate the

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provoked muffled protests countries which present his report because he was unable even alc French negotiations, to verify the story. ultra-Stalinist the TrON

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Communist Party and the British political objection. He the detail leaders. describes The Tory government's attitude forms of torture used by the was entirely favourable. Angela Davis was acquitted in Portuguese. California after world-wide With the agreement, Apart from prolonged physical campaign. She claims to stand as aiding the Common Market a symbol for the freedom of all interroraulon. dictatorship castration and mutilation are Blame Francone online political finance its brutal wars he says. colonial common in prisons, Mozambique and Angola, describes the how blatant ne ais( Irame-up Portugue. have Czechoslovakia so to Sel as concentration camps called relations with the Britain, West Germany, Italy 'aldeamentios' in Tete province.

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will Soon, he says, all Africans During Nixon's visit to Moscow states within the Common be Market aided and about in May, long enclose• mn unem WILl brezhnev ane kosvoin are believed testone raised gith financed these wars. Angela question Under the but it is not obtained in theory, Was her Davis' release ser vlit these same capitalists Will their easy in practice. support repression Tor to step up their investment Eastern Europe the price of her The troops, Portugal's African colonies, Portuguese freedom? says, also take hostages from the the intensilying 20 a time and Davis is now about to under- the African workers and peasants at Callios LCIl and the of the strengthening take a tour •over Union guerrilla activity by the Frelimo where she will no doubt be feted ship against the working class at iberation front. by the Stalinist bureaucracy. home. his Her const die persecution ok The priest attacks Bishop Joao superiors une OUl drainst persecution THE ATROCIOUS character of Belo and the Archbishop her comrades own rraque Mozambique Lourenço Marques, makes eminently suitable rule Portuguese guest for these heirs of Joseph report the government and have retused Incerined smuggled out of the colony by a to condemn the atrocities.

THE DECISION of the Social Democratic and Labour Party leaders on Sunday to postpone their talks with Ulster supremo William Whitelaw should • fool nobody. These political traitors have as much independence of Whitehall as a flea in White- law's hip pocket. If they erred in the timing of the talks, it was only because they thought that once the barricades in the 'no-go' areas were demolished by the mas- sive weight of British armour, the Catholic workers would permit them to freely perpe- trate another political swindle.

But treachery has its own reward. The nationalist and republican and file, rank although abandoned by their leadership, demonstrated thousands against the presence of the hated British army and the equally hateful policy of internment. At Casement Park, after a fierce engagement with White- law's armed minions and the burning of a Saracen armoured car, thousands of youth and workers vowed to repudiate 'any politician who dares to talk to Whitelaw so long as one man is interned and SO long as the British army occu- pies our areas. Although guns were not em- ployed against the army, White- law and the SDLP leaders were left in no doubt about the intransigent opposition to imperialism British among Catholic workers and their families. They have no trust in a negotiated 'settlement' of the Ulster problem. These sentiments run coun- ter to the wheeling and deal- ing of the SDLP leaders who, therefore, temporarily post- poned the talks with Whitelaw in favour of more talks with Whitelaw's representatives.

Utilizing the political bank- ruptcy of the Provisional and Official IRA leaders, the latter of which are believed to be negotiating with their erstwhile enemies in the Ulster Defence Association, the SDLP leaders predictably, come have, up with a number of preconditions which, they hope, will give them the necessary cover to resume the talks. Among these are release of internees, reduced military presence in the Catho- lic ghetto and the disarming of the Protestant loyalists.

Whitelaw has already anti- cipated these manoeuvres by proclaiming his own plan to JAPANESE premier Kakuei Tanaka said yesterday that though Japan had a favour- able international balance of payments worth over £6,000m a year the country could not afford another yen revalua- tion. Tanaka said the size of the yen to suggestions led surplus had that another yen revaluation was inevitable, then he added: 'But A MEMBER of the Uruguayan Congress has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity and a warrant issued for his arrest on charges of belonging to the Tupamaros urban guerrilla move- The deputy, Washington ment. Leonel Ferrer, went into hiding.

clamp down on gun clubs and to outlaw the wearing of para- military uniforms by civilians. He obviously does not want an armed militia which is stronger than the army • which is his main and most reliable weapon.

UDA men who paraded in Belfast on Friday, for example, have been reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions and under the summonses section of the Public Order Amendment Act (1970) are deemed likely. Having broken the back of the IRA's military resistance Whitelaw now feels free to curb the UDA. As 'The Sunday Times' stated: 'Mr Whitelaw's plans will provoke a howl of protest from extreme loyalists, already resolved but he has to face the inevitable confron- tation, even if it means the use of force.' All the SDLP leaders want is from Whitelaw a gesture against the UDA and possibly the treeing of a few more in- ternees and they will resume their 'talks'. John Hume, SDLP member for Foyle, summed up the policy of this treacherous group when he told the press that he was prepared to settle for 'some short-term assur- ances to balance what the army has done in the Catholic areas this week'. Predictably too, the SDLP leaders have remained silent on the feverish attempts of the Lynch regime to quell the IRA and, particularly the statement of Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley that his government would 'obliterate the IRA from Irish society and crush the guerrillas'. As a result of these measures, IRA men who fled to the south are now being forced to filter back to the north. In this situation the silence Bernadette of people like Devlin and Frank McManus, who refuse to call for a cam- paign to force the Tories to resign, who fail to denounce the SDLP and who ignore the common interests of British and Irish workers in a joint struggle to evict British im- perialism from Ulster, reveals thoroughly reactionary the nature of centrist middle-of-the- road politics. The task of creating a revo- leadership indepen- lutionary dent of and in opposition to all these reformist forces has be- come unpostponably urgent.

afford another Japan cannot revaluation would be a that crushing blow to medium and small enterprises' Japan is likely to come under heavy American pressure for a further yen revaluation at the Group of Ten meeting in Wash- ington at the end of next month.

The prospect has already caused convulsions on the Tokyo stock exchange. Last December, the yen was revalued by over 16 per cent as a result of US pressure. THE TRIAL in Colombo, Sri Lanka, of 41 students and young unemployed workers accused of plotting the abortive uprising in April last year was adjourned for three days yesterday owing to the illness of one of the five com- missioners.

Sandwich students

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

ABOUT 70 young workers are on strike at Campari Ltd, Cricklewood Trading Estate, which warehouses leisurewear and camping equipment. Most of them are in their • teens or early 20s. Although of them are actually none members of a union yet, they are demanding the right to organize. Discontent with pay,, condi- tions and hours of work burst into action last Friday when two young men were sacked. Jim Hennessy was fired for having omitted to sign the back something a packing note, of which the strikers allege often happens where there is a rush of work. Frank Angear was dismissed within five minutes. He was told an hour in he had spent half the toilet. Frank insists he was only off the job for ten minutes and there were others in the toilet with him at the same time against whom no action was taken. The other workers are con- vinced that the real reason for the dismissals is that Jim and Frank were trying to organize the whole firm into the Trans- and General Workers' port Union. 'When they found out we were giving out T&GWU leaflets' , said one controller stood watch- Jim, ing me for about three hours waiting for me to make mistake. When I did I was im- mediately called into the office and sacked.' When the others heard what had happened, about 90 per cent of the office and warehouse staff walked out. They immediately phoned the T&GWU office and were told that an organizer would attend this morning to see what could be done. The strikers are insisting on three basic conditions before they will consider a return to work: the immediate uncondi- tional reinstatement of Jim and Frank; no victimization of any who struck in their workers right to the and support; organize in the union of their choice. At 8.15 yesterday, the man- aging director told them that the chairman had agreed to reinstate Jim and Frank on a paid holiday basis pending negotiations. This offer was unanimously rejected.

The workers want their three basic conditions, and they want them agreed in writing. When this has been achieved company has been and the unionized, they expect the union to take up their other grievances.

In the meantime, they are organizing pickets all the on gates leading to the Trading Several lorries have Estate. already turned away. The youth are waiting to see what the union organizer will do. They are determined that no negotiations will go on behind their backs. They have elected a strike committee. 'When the organizer goes in to the management, Frank said firmly, 'we're going with him.'

Shortly after Friday's walk-out there a bomb-scare at was Campari's. Several police cars arrived. Apparently it had been reported that 'a girl with an accent' had Irish phoned the company saying a bomb had been to go off on Monday. planted The police said they were going to search the place and were looking for a 'brown paper parcel'. 'Many of us have Irish accents,' commented one picket, 'and the warehouse is full of brown paper parcels. It would take them days to go through them all. In fact, the police only stayed a short time and by early yester- day morning had not returned.

There's the carrot and here comes th

BY IAN YEATS

THOUSANDS of stud- ents in Britain's univer- sities are forced to live on sandwiches and take exhausting part - time because of the sities will face massive spread to almost all univer- jobs sities. of erosion grants by Nicern at residence £240 of the total student inflation. grant of £445 is set aside student And the crisis will get A ready

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TOr reNT. but rises in unions plan rent strikes at worse in October when, fees will mean that 78 per the heginning of next according National living-in CeNT students and President Digby

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will face extra charges Union of Students' sur- London press hacks told a which must be taken from undergraduates conference yesterday food, clothes and their 80 strikes per cent of univer- expected the book allocation. At Birmingham, Keele, Bristol and Manchester students will pay up £317 year-f77 more than the rent element in- cluded their Although this rose by 3.5 per cent last year, hall fees went un by 6 per cent and LUCAS WORKERS on strike at the company's even heavier increases are Burnley plant are calling for sympathy action from expected in 1972-1973. Despite pleas from all other parts of the multi-million pound Lucas TOrY vice-Chancellors, the empire. The 1,700 strikers have already won sup- government has refused to increase grants further. port from the Lucas Aerospace Combined Shop Jacks told reporters the Stewards' Committee, which represents 14,000 staff

NUS

hoped the autumn rent strikes would encour- and manual workers throughout the country.

universities to hold age but The three-week-old strike at Burnley-made official Gown Increases. ne warned that the NUS con- by the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers could recommend terence and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union-started when all-out action for higher grants if the situation did.

the company refused to pay employees working-to-rule not improve. in support of a pay claim.

He added that the plight Burnley workers are paid f6 10 99 to f7 a week less than those elsewhere in the aerospace divi- sion; they are campaigning to have this disparity eliminated.

61 B The Combined Shop Stewards' Committee said: 'We accept in the rest of the combine that the Burnley work- should Arc increase creater than ours since their wages are We will not appallingly low. stand by and see the company victimize them.' The company has offered Burn- workers ley the increase cama as that offered to other plants. Dan Conroy, chief shop steward aerospace factomes ot the ca at Burnley said: "This statement of action from the Stewards' Combined Chon Committee is most welcome as it will give fresh heart to the men

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at Burnley.' Workers Press, Tuesday A

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omes the stick! of thousands of students was far worse than even their survey showed. Many of them, he said, received their never parents' contributions to university grants and others at colleges of fur- ther education lived from hand to mouth on dis- cretionary awards. Mel Ingham, a 30-year- old ex-lorry driver study- ing German at the Univer- sity of Surrey, Guildford, where a rent strike is planned for October, said that students needed a minimum of fl per day for food but many had THERE was a strong rum- our running through the coal mining industry that there was : a possibility of 50 pits closing during the next two or three years, even though they had re- MP serves, Labour l claimed in the Commons yesterday. Edwin Wainwright Mr:

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Tuesday Auguat 8, 1972 PAGE 3 only £3 a week left after rent. He said: 'We have cases where students are forced to live on sandwiches and on top of their studies help out in local coffee bars to get extra money. • We have been caught up completely by inflation. Food has gone up and the price of imported text- books has risen by 25 per after the floating of cent the f' Mr Ingham claimed that factory closures and un- employment made it im- possible for many students to supplement their grants with holiday jobs. Nearly 40 per cent of undergraduates live-in and Jacks said the NUS would be pressing the government again to change its mind about raising grants: (Lab, Dearne Valley). had earlier asked when the existing arrangements for the importation of coal would be concluded. The Minister for Indus- (Mr Tom Boardman): try Imports have fallen sharply in recent months but we are keeping a close watch on the situation.'

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday August 8, 1972 An international discussion article in six parts The International parties, sections of the Fl, are called upon to take the leader- Committee ship of the workers' movement on an international scale. That and his col- When Trotsky laborators founded the Fourth is the conclusion of the Marx- of the International in 1938, the in- ist analysis present ternational workers' movement 'imminent was experiencing a great period period of reaction ('the FI arises from revolution' or in an 'objective through the most terrible defeats...).

process' which, different stages, methods Second and The betrayal of the leads the world and then the ways, to beternati of then revolution, has no other mean- betrayal of Third Inter- ing than to deny the struggle national had conditioned the international for the revolutionary party defeat of the workers' and to and capitulate "facts ras movement, fascism was advancing victori- matism, to the 'objective reality'. through Europe In ously Our epoch, as defined in the such conditions, the objective Programme of the FI, has two of determined events course that the FI was reduced in its alternatives: socialist revolu- barbarism, there exists sections to nuclei of militants tion or 'objective process' towards extracted from the basically no the central problem intelligentsia socialism, petty-bourgeois and workers linked to intellect- is the problem of revolutionary which only the Fi leadership but without ever uals, stituting powertul mass move- can resolve. The struggle waged by the ments. IC of the FI has been basically There did not exist any con- the for the defence ception of adapting to this, struggle but the composition of the FI and the development of Marx- ism, the only basis on which it was determined by the objec- is possible to talk seriously of situation and by tive Its in that period. the for revolutionary historic task struggle leadership. The struggle against The struggle for the construc- all attempts to revise Marxism tion of independent revolution- the permanent basis has been parties in each country ary totally for the building of revolution- took then in place 'against conditions, ary parties. adverse as Trotsky The revisionist tendencies the tide of history, revolutionary described it himself. reflect within positions 'When revolutionary movements the of the enemy classes, pressures which general is in movement in defeat permanent and which decline, when one are imply necessarily the building follows another, when fascism throughout the of the revolutionary tendencies spreading 1S world, when official "Marxism" in struggle against them. Only struggling by against the most powertul organiz- opportunist tendencies can the for deceiving workers ation inevitable in that Bolshevik party be built as a it is etc., that the revolution- revolutionary party. situation The Pabloite leadership of will have to elements ary the capitulated the against he genera to struggle if our pressures of imperialism, and tide of history even ideas and explanations are as by doing so broke of necessity exact and intelligent as could Marxism. The with struggle expected.' (Trotsky— against Pablo began as a rejec- be "Against the Tide') tion of his positions in rela- international tion to the Soviet bureaucracy Today the workers' movement has entered and entrism sur generis which led to the refusal to build a new period of development as a result of the deepening of independent parties of a Bol- shevik type. and the the imperialist crisis bureaucracy. The Pablo's revisionism was crisis of the joint crisis of imperialism and aimed at the very essence of the FI: has only one the bureaucracy conscious struggle for within the •The positive solution alternative leadership based on present framework. The only will open revolutionary theory? a which solution However, for the capitulation epoch new Stalinist the Inter- of Pablo to the national Socialist Revolution.

bureaucracy supposed a break with the Marxist method, development of the class and The from dialectical materialism. struggle internationally with 1968. with the French General The IC could only struggle not this that Strike and the revolution in only against or make the position of Pablo, but from an Czechoslovakia, understanding of the methodo- and predominant task urgent the problem of the revolution- logical bases of Pabloite re- leadership necessary visionism. It is for this reason ary the taking of that the struggle of the IC has power. Only the FI can resolve the been basically the struggle for Marxism of revolutionary the development of problem fact the and the defence of all the gains leadership and in (IC) Committee of Marxist theory. International of the Fl is the only tendency defines What a party as which subordinates is revolutionary only Its of the development of Marxism. questions tactics to A of alternative leader- be defined problem party cannot as workers' revolutionary' because of its the move- ship in 'social composition', because ment. Contrary to what happened of its links with the working in the period in which Trotsky class or because of the actual and his collaborators founded leadership of the working class the FI, there now exist favour- it might have. able conditions for its building.

quotation from Trotsky A which has opened The period shows this: up is that in which Trotskyist 'He who is swimming against Top: Franch General Strike, 1968 mark the tide is not connected with the masses. Also, the social composition of every revolu- tionary movement at beginning is not working class.

intellectuals, semi- They are intellectuals or workers con- nected with intellectuals who not satisfied with the are existing organization. You will find in each country a great number of foreigners who do not enter the workers' move- ment in each country very easily. A worker in America or in Mexico will become a member of the FI with much less difficulty. A new radical tendency directed against the general current of history in period is crystallized this around elements more or less separated from the national 1968 marked development of international clas any country and for life of them it is difficult to penetrate into the masses.' To accept quantitative a criterion to describe a party fundamental break means a Marxism and a capitula- with tion to empiricism; the Pab- loite crisis was but the struggle between the proletarian Marxist tendency and the empiricist petty - bourgeois, tendency within the Trotskyist Because of the movement. extent which the IC of the FI took up the defence of Marx- ism, we cannot affirm that the FI was liquidated. The IC of the FI represents the historical continuity of Marxism, of Bolshevism: 'But the sceptics will not keep quiet. But has the lonal class struggle. Above: Trotsky moment come to proclaim it?

does not The Fl, we reply, need to be proclaimed. IT

EXISTS AND IS STRUGGL-

ING. Is it weak? Yes. Its ranks are still rather thin, because it is still young. Up to now, it is made up above all of leading gle cadres. 'But these cadres are the only hope of the revolutionary future; they are the only ones really worthy of this name. If our International is still num- erically weak, it is strong in its doctrine, in its tradition and the unrivalled temper of its leading cadres. If that is not seen today, that is not of the greatest importance, it will be more in evidence tomorrow.'

the CONTINUED TOMORROW

The Spanish government has imposed rigid disci- plinary controls over Madrid's two universities in an effort to stifle oppo- the fascist sition to regime. Statutes providing some university autonomy and student representation were suspended for at least a year and new decrees established a virtual state of siege on the campus. It is that the expected measures, announced on Fri- day, will soon be extended to Barcelona, another centre of student opposition to Franco.

The new decrees follow a year of mounting struggle in the universities when thou- sands of students refused to attend lectures or examina- tions in a series of strikes and protest demonstrations. Medical students in parti- cular were angered by a new curriculum and by the dis- missal of large number of final year students for whom there are no places to do _clinical A boom in keeping pets in Japan has produced a wide new range of indus- tries, all struggling for a foothold in a lucrative market. Hotels, funeral homes and beauty parlours for pets have sprung up, and there is fierce competition between Japan and the US to control the pet food market. In fact some pets are living comfortable and a far more pampered life than humans.

Some animals now stay at that hardly luxury hotels differ from the facilities offered their holidaying owners. Rooms, at 5,000 yen (£6.25) a night are already booked up for the New Year holiday.

The rooms are furnished colour television, with air conditioner, bath and toilet. There is even the traditional Japanese painted scroll hanging on the wall. Do the dogs and cats watch Teruo Iwamoto, says manager of a Tokyo animal hotel. 'They definitely enjoy TV even though they cannot under- stand the contents. in anger when 'Dogs bark work in the hospitals. Students have been suspended wholesale from the universities and there have been number of violent a clashes between students and the police. The government took ad- vantage of the academic vaca- tion to put through the new decrees in the hope of present- ing students with a fait accompli at the beginning of next term. The first decree provides that the rectors of the univer- sities shall be named by the a list government from sub- mitted by the Ministry of Edu- cation. The Minister must find out the views of the candidates for rectorships. Previously university a board composed of professors and students proposed three names from which the Mini- ster had to select one. The second decree organiz- ing university life stresses discipline. It gives the Ministry the right to close the campuses temporarily or to transfer the centre of study elsewhere in event of trouble.

some actors or actresses whom they dislike appear? Iwamoto said colour TV is more popular than black and white among the discerning pets. He said the reason why the equipped with rooms are luxury electric appliances is that if their environment changes most pets cannot relax. 'We must create the same atmosphere as in their home,' he said. The pets left in the care of animal hotels receive medical examinations, are given medi- cated baths have their hair trimmed and eat well-balanced meals. Iwamoto said the most fre- quent users of his hotel were generally rich pet lovers and couples who have no children.

This new year holiday he expects to take care of 130 predicts animals and the number of hotel users will in- crease in future as more owners want to holiday without the problem of caring for their pets. Pets are now the latest status symbol for the Japanese middle-class whose birth-rate has dropped particularly in urban areas. In the previous decade the middle class were chasing cars colour televisions and air conditioners. Now that these have become commonplace the emphasis has switched to pets. There are more than 6 million dogs in Japan almost half of them registered with kennel clubs.

Anywhere for a fast buck —including the moon— might have been • the motto of America's Apollo programme. It seems that the astronauts took bags full of contra- band souvenirs with them to the satellite in order to sell them later at a profit. Last month, the Apollo 15 astronauts — Col. David R.

Scott, Lt-Col James B. Irwin and Maj Alfred M. Worden were reprimanded by the Aeronautics and National Space Agency for smuggling 400 first-day stamp covers to the moon. After their flight, about 100 of the covers were placed on the market by a West German stamp dealer who was said to have obtained them from an acquaintance of the astro- nauts. Scott has since been eased out of the space pro- gramme. it is the turn of the Now crew, who appar- Apollo 14 ently took 200 unauthorized silver medallions with them on their flight in January 1971.

The medals, which com- memorated the flight, were provided under the terms of a 'private agreement' between the Franklin Mint, a Phila- delphia concern, and the three astronauts, Capt Alan B. Shepard jr., Cdr Edgar D.

Mitchell and Maj Stuart A.

Roosa. The agreement with the mint was not known to the space agency, a NASA official explained, because at the time of the Apollo 14 flight, items carried by the astronauts in the kits were not subject to advance approval by the space agency. He said that, partly as a result of the incident, restric- tions on the carrying of per- sonal items had been tightened for subsequent flights. implausible According to statements by spokesmen for both NASA and the mint, no remuneration was involved, although the astronauts were permitted to retain 150 of the medals for their "private use'.

The medals were not taken to the surface of the moon but in the astronauts' remained "personal preference kits' on - board the Apollo 14 command ship in lunar orbit. The Franklin Mint said it the 50 melted down half medals returned to it by the Apollo 14 crew and used the silver to strike several thous- and 'mini-coins, which it dis- tributed as gifts to its sub- scribers. None was offered for sale to the general public, a States The United Public Health Service has just re- vealed details of an 'experi- ment' conducted in the Deep South in which 200 black syphilis victims were denied treatment for 40 years. The majority are now dead, though 74 are still alive-and still suffering from the disease which can cause blindness, deafness, deterioration teeth bones, and central nervous system, insanity, heart disease and death. so-called experiment, The carried out under the Public Workers Press, Tue said, adding that spokesman the additional 25 medals had locked in the mint's been vault. The space agency spokesman said the three astronauts kept some of their share of the medals and gave the rest to friends and co-workers as Health Service's auspices, was aimed at determining through autopsies what damage un- treated syphilis does to the human body. Of about 600 Alabama black men who originally took part in the study, 200 were allowed to suffer the disease and its side-effects without treatment, penicillin was after even developed as a cure for the re- disease. Treatment then could prob- ably have saved or helped many of the victims, Health Service officials now say.

They contend that survivors of the experiment are now too old to treat for syphilis but add that PHS doctors are thorough giving the men physical examinations every two years and are treating them for whatever other ail- ments and diseases they have developed. The syphilis experiment, Press, Tuesday August 8, 1972 PAGE 5 mementoes of the flight. He added that similar a consignment of medals had been scheduled to go on the Apollo 15 that flight, but 'because of the flap' the Apollo 14 medals raised within the space agency, the idea was dropped. Tuskegee study, called the began in 1932 at Tuskegee, Alabama, an area which had the highest syphilis rate in the US at that time. When 'experiment' the began, the discovery of peni- as a drug cillin cure syphilis was still ten years in the future and the drug was not to be generally available for 15 years. Treatment in the 1930s consisted primarily of doses of arsenic and mercury. Of the original 600 patients, a third free syphilis, from were another 200 had the disease and received treatment and the other 200 were given no treat- ment of syphilis at all. Men were persuaded to participate in the experiment by promises of free transport to and from hospitals, free hot lunches free medical treatment for diseases other than syphilis and free burial.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuceday Auguel 8, 1972 State of Emergency Act of 1920

BY PHILIP WADE

It is now almost 52 years In the previous general elec- Emergency tion in 1910, the new Labour since the Party had only obtained Powers Act was rushed 400,000 votes and 42 MPs.

through parliament in 1919 By the trade union had doubled its five days as the post- movement membership from World War I upsurge in

GIC WAT

4,189,000 in 1913 to 8,081,000.

working the class With it had come the develop- ment, for the first time, of reached a new point. powerful shop stewards' move- It was a short Act, just two ment. and three clauses in pages Discontent was also spread- of those was length (and one millions of ing among the Yet for the title). it was a soldiers, angry at the delay in device which enabled the state demobilization. The goverl- devastating and to assume It ment treading water. sweeping powers to deal with did not want the sudden influx the working class. of tired from the workers The government could from Flanders slaughterhouse yet then on assume whatever inspired by stories about the powers it chose 'maintain to Russian Revolution of October essential services' 1917. The Act spelled out that it On January 3, 1919, 12,000 for was soldiers rest at in the there to be an actual Folkestone and Dover demon- emergency. Even if the govern- strated against embarking to (and the of ment monarch, soldiers' return to France. course) felt there just might council formed at the was be it could an emergency service depot at army corps invoke the Act. London. Kempton Park, near Only two things couldn't be The men declared their inten- done by the government. There tion to fraternize with workers could be no regulations illegal- in the neighbourhood. izing strikes and none setting 7 there On January military or industrial con- up were three separate demon- scription. Whitehall. strations near The government could rule Although the government pub- days by these regu- for seven lished orders for swifter de- lations before them putting mobilization, unrest continued. before parliament for Canadian In the camp at debate formal and approval. Kimmel Park, near Rhyl, five be renewed They also had to men were killed and 23 injured once a month. in a'two-day riot over delays The dictatorial powers con- in repatriation. ferred upon the capitalist state It was not until the end of machine at that time are the 1919 that the million those introduced by soldiers finally left the army Collie the Heath government against for good. the dockers.

TROOPS IN

And when it comes to the question of illegalizing strikes,

THE CITY

Tory government can go Lloyd better than the The government had needed one Tory-Liberal coalition George the troops earlier that year to of 1920. They have the In- the General Strike in meet dustrial Relations Act with its Glasgow. own National Industrial Rela- The strike had been called tions Court and a battery of for January 27 to enforce the Tory judges-legal and lay.

demand for a 40-hour week. A end of World War I At the demonstration of 30,000 took in 1918, the working class be- place to George Square where offensive gan to a red flag was hoisted on the take up its against the ruling class in the muni pale tolloreng pole. same spirit as before the war.

Friday, The Russian working class were concentrated troops at key points in the city, had already taken power in armed October 1917 and the fear of with tanks and machine guns.

both frightened Local units were confined to revolution world capitalism and inspired barracks for fear they might millions of workers. fraternize with the strikers.

of December The elections Also in January both the 1918 the Labour Party and railwaymen saw miners the itself the had lodged demands for establish as main wage opposition forcing the increases. The miners also de- to the Liberals into dustbin of manded six-hour working day and the nationalization of history. Although the Lloyd George- the mines. Bonar Law coalition polled A ballot of miners produced 5,091,528 votes, electing 484 a six-to-one majority in tavour the Labour Party arrived of strike action. MPs, Coal stocks the scene with almost 2.5 on were extremely low. Allied million votes and 59 MPs.

workers with transport and Triple greement the in a power- position. The reformist leaders of the Alliance were clearly frightened ot an al-out confict with thi when And enhe acce govern- into ment buried. pre- pared. War Office instructions the use of were cant nut on signs of discontent among the National Police Officers. Daicam started before the war, had called a strike of the Metro- politan and City of London police on August 30, 1918, in a claim for raising the wages of the force. Over 6,000 police struck in London and Lloyd George settled quickly. At the same time he prepared to crush the union. Sir Nevil Macready was installed as the new commis- sioner. He had been adjutant- general of the army and had Welsh service against seen miners before the war. The second strike began on August 1, 1919, against Macready's policy, backed by a Bill in parliament making it illegal for policemen to belong to a union. In London 1,083, out of some 19,000 men came out on strike. Within a few days all the strikers had been missed. In Liverpool, 932 men struck, out of a force of 2,100.

The military were called in to quell a riot.

NO LACK OF

POWERS

But the union was smashed and the police made secure for the major class battles that were to lie ahead. The railway union had been negotiating with Sir Auckland Geddes since February 1919 for an increase in wages. He instead proposed a series of wage cuts. For many grades it would have meant a minimum wage of 40s a week compared with the current wage of 5ls.

suddenly The strike began on September 26 and quickly brought the railways to a halt.

The reacted government swiftly, denigrating the strike as an anarchist conspiracy.

Scabs were used to try and operate trains, and troops were called out in large numbers. 'Citizen Guards' were enrolled and 'The Times' called for a 'fight to the finish'. scheme emergency road transport was into put operation; drivers were regis- tered and 25,000 lorries requisitioned. The government had no lack of powers for these moves as the wartime of the Realm Acts Defence remained in force. All the machinery developed in this strike, including the division of the country into 16 separate areas, was maintained and became part preparations for the General Strike of 1926. Within a week the strike There was wide- was over. spread support from the rest of the trade union movement. But the settlement only pro- vided for the maintenance of existing wage levels for a year.

The year 1919 also saw the launching of a post-war inflationary boom, which was speculative to the core. Domestic capital issues in that year totalled £187m, and £331m in 1920. In 1920, some 235 companies issued bonus shares totalling £65m on capital of only £97m. index The wholesale price stood at 226 in January 1919, 249 in July and 300 in Jan- uary 1920. Wages failed to keep pace. In March 1920 the miners— having shelved nationalization demands-demanded and won increase. In June, wage further increases were demanded. At the same time, the work- ing in class moving was opposition to the intervention by British troops against the new Soviet state. In May, dockers refused to load a ship munitions bound with Councils of Action Poland. were formed and the with- drawal of troops demanded.

Almost exactly at the same time as the working class and began forming local national Councils of Action for the defence of the Russian Revolution, a break was being made with the social democrats and the Second International.

For July 1920 saw the his- toric foundation conference of the Communist Party of Great Britain. It immediately sought affiliation to the Labour Party and was just as quickly turned down. On October 16 a complete strike took place among miners for their wage demands lodged in June. On October 20, the National Union of Railwaymen decided at a special delegate meeting on a strike on October 24 in support of the miners.

The government chose the strike as the time to rush conferring through wide, dictatorial powers.

The Defence of the Realm Acts, which had enabled the wartime government to rule the privy council, through were fast being repealed.

So, on October 22, 1920, the government introduced the Emergency Powers Bill. By October 27 it was law and the government had assumed com- plete and unbridled power. It a permanent Act and was could be used as the occasion demanded. It enough to frighten was the union leaders. The railway leaders postponed their strike and the miners resumed nego- tiations. Although the miners won their shift allowance, the government was preparing to ake them on and inflict a bitter defeat only five months later. On March 31, 1921, over a million miners locked were out and troops were sent under the same Emergency Powers Act. Machine guns were set up near pit heads. Troops were brought back from Ireland and camped in readiness in London parks. A volunteer defence force' was recruited. The railway and transport union leaders refused to fight and the miners were left to fight and lose alone. It was Black Friday. Today the Tory government proceeds in the footsteps of its predecessors. Immediately they assumed power in June 1970 they were confronted with a national docks strike. Emer- taken. gency powers were These were also assumed in workers' dispute power and the recent miners' strike.

EMERGENCY

REGULATIONS.

The government can take emergency powers at any time.

• With a parliamentary majority it does not actually have to prove that an emergency exists.

It is suflicient to say one might occur. The Act of 1920 reads: 'If at any time it appears to His Majesty that there have occurred or are about to occur gency events of such a nature as to be calculated, by interfering with the supply and distribu- tion of food, water, fuel or or with the means of light, locomotion, to deprive the community, or any substantial portion of the community, His essentials life, Majesty may, by proclamation, declare that a state of emer- Workers Press, Tuesday Augual &, 1972 PAQE 7 No. 45741

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THURSDAY, 3RD AUGUST 1972

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A PROCLAMATION

ELIZABETH R.

the Emerge by Powers Act helme is a led that if it appeare us dat the year of our Counter Yach Biana fin hard day or Anyti year of Our Reign

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PrIce 50 nel Left: the red flag in George Square, Glasgow, during the General Strike there in 1919. Above: the Heath government's proclamation of emergency powers. Below left: Lloyd George. Right: Heath gency exists.' immediately be built in every A glance at the last occa- working-class area, consisting sion of emergency powers will of every political tendency in show how sweeping they are the labour movement, all in their effect. trade and groups of unions In the miners' strike, Regu- shop stewards well as as lations 3-5 dealt with control tenants' committees and co- of the ports. Regulations 6-15 operatives. provided for the relaxation in These Councils of Action restrictions on road transport.

become basis must the all A new Regulation, number 11, over the country to organize fave power to mened drivers massive resistance to the plans permitted hours of the Tory government. control. The TUC must be forced to Regulations 16-20 relaxed make nationally-co-ordinated the obligations and restrictions preparations for the General on public services and facili- Strike, preparations to be ties. Numbers 21-24 gave state placed in the hands of the control over the dis- Councils of Action. supply, of both tribution and price of The programme these fuel and food. Councils must be to force the Regulations 25-28 brought Tories to resign and elect power to control transport Labour government pledged to services and 29-30 power to carry out socialist policies.

commandeer buildings and A Labour government must transport and take control of disband the standing army to land. 31-39 Finally, imposed the prevent it from becoming severe penalties, including im- nstrument for ultra-right prisonment, those breaking conspiracy against the working the Regulations. class and the Labour govern- The introduction of emer. ment. gency powers by he Tories replaced with a It must be means they are preparing the with demo- workers militia, machinery for all-out con- an cratically-elected officers and frontation with the working the control of the subject to Under the class. of through guise working class the "legality' the being ground is trade unions and the Councils laid for an arbitrary dictator- of Action. ship. It is in this struggle that a Their introduction is an revolutionary leadership new challenge the trade will be built in to prepare the open to union and Labour movement.

working Class to establish a Councils of Action socialist Britain. must

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday August 8, 1972

LET HISTORY

JUDGE

STALINISM

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 Trotsky everything which wrote about the bureaucratic 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 1917 been of the October Revolution have not Conducts Medyeder writes as a communist intellectual, an destroyed. 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 submit Medveder's book to wrong. of articles detailed scrutiny with the aim of the struggle pursuing against Stalinism to the end. It will deal in particular with and omissions and point the way for rounded analysis which must begin with the works of Trotsky which are cited in the footnotes.

BY TOM KEMP PART 9

the city and the country.'

Later he writes about the

LIGHT

millions of Stalin's labour camps and con-

BEING SHED

'Industry would have devel- oped faster if these millions of

ON HISTORY

innocent people had worked as free men. Likewise, the use

IN SOVIET

the force against peasantry slowed down the growth rate

UNION

of agriculture, with painful effects the whole Soviet on economy to the present day. It Stalinism was unable to incontrovertible, arith- metically demonstrable destroy the basic con- that Stalin did not choose the quests of the working shortest path; he did not speed class made in the Octo- up, he slowed down the move- ment towards socialism and ber Revolution of 1917; communsl the Soviet Union remains Here Medveder is perfectly a workers' state, despite right against all the apologists for the bureaucracy, as well as its bureaucratic degene- argue that against nose ration. such methods are inevitable in Nationalized property rela- a planned economy: central tions and planning By maintaining that Stalin's made possible the establish- lawlessness derived from the ment of a powerful industrial of socialism, very base and impressive of from Marxism-Leninism, from rates growth. But the boastful claims the proletarian revolution, he of the bureaucracy the Soviet Union would 'catch up compromise ideas outstrip' the advanced Marxism-Leninism, and socialism, capitalist countries have and the proletarian revolution in the eyes of the masses. They mained unfulfilled. Cut off from full participa- to transfer to the whole try social system tion in the world economy, the the disillusion- Soviet is beset by and anger that rise in economy of they growing disproportions people learn wher bears much evidence of the Stalinist crimes.' of course, is not the backwardness which in- That, from the herited of least of those crimes-that for days Tsarism. many people socialism is seen The as inseparable from purges and continued threat from imperialism diverts immense repressions of the type which have taken place in the Soviet into Soviet still Unime which still eists, theugh Union, from the consumers badly served boln in quantily part Too large Medvedev does not say so.

and variety. that of the population still em reJects Stalin's crimes were just mis- ployed agriculture where forced collectivization has left takes, untoward which fade into insignificance If Soviet economic achieve- beside the carrying out of As put are attributable to the great historical tasks. ments planned and nationalized forward by Stalin's accom- economy which the 1917 Revo- the and apologists in plices Union, possible, the Soviet or by the lution made sacrifices offered sufferings, Maoists, an excuse is ana near disasters of for the carrying out of similar the period since 1928 have been the respons- crimes. Stalin 'In ibility of and the As Medvedev insists: 1936-1937 Stalin bureaucracy. was not en- gaged in a real struggle with Far from having been 'necessary' ' for industrialization counter-revolutionaries. On the collectivization was Stalin whose and contrary, methods of Stalin represented were in those years activis heavy overhead objectively Medveder puts it, cost. counter-revolution. opposed The main tendency of the as arv. of 1936-1938 not only to the Stalinists, but mass repression 'experts' bourgeois Party, assault on the sonde Was who have claimed that only old Bolshevik cadres, on on command metnoas could have industrialized back- intelligentsia that were ward honourably serving kussia with such speea. 1e - 'The serious mistakes made terests of the masses. during collectivization and in- 'In the 17 years I spent in Stalinist prisons and camps I dustrialization lowered the workers' standard of living counter-revolution- of food aries, of Stalin's disrunted the supply chae goods manufactured and victims of that pallbearers (left to right) Bulganin, Molotov, and period in an Top: Stalin lying in state in the Kremlin 1953. Bottom: Stalin's Open Letter to Mao Tse-tung.

weakened the alliance between Stalin's son Vassily, the new premier malenkov, and chlet or ine secret police berle

Above: Zhores Medveder. Fear of the !

decision to suppress Medvedev's book face the kind of discussion to which It meant a reckoning with the past which Testimony from many sources corroborate this as far as the great majority of the inmates of the camps and prisons were concerned. In them Stalin destroyed the Opposi- tion, hundreds of whom were shot down in cold blood. He smashed what was left of the Bolshevik Party. He tortured and killed thousands of his own loyal supporters. The bureaucracy today is as afraid of Stalin as it was when he was alive. But while then they showed it by adulation and his name was ever on their lips, they show it today in an silence. Some have uneasy tried to bring Stalin back on their side, making him out to bedespite some • faults and "excesses'—a great leader and even an outstanding Marxist- Leninist. Medvedev deals with these apologists: 'Such a formulation contains a hidden suggestion that great merits give someone a right to commit certain crimes. It would be immoral to suggest that a man who has saved a thousand people from death can receive an indulgence from history and then with impunity kill 100 or 200 innocent people' He rightly argues that Stalin's crimes cannot be balanced off against his cor- rect decisions: 'Any. rehabilitation of Stalin would be a crime gainst the Party? But the Party which • Stalin left is not the Party which he found: it is this dialectic which Medvedev does not grasp. The Party became the instrument of the bureaucracy, of the parasitic caste represen- ted by Stalin. It is not simply a question, condemning therefore, of Stalin, opposing his rehabilita- tion and making sure that his widely known. crimes are just this Medvedev takes rationalist position: as though the bureaucratic degeneration reversed, or at least has been stopped: r of the Soviet masses was behind the ev's book. The bureaucracy could not which It would have led. It would have ast which It dare not face 'We must discuss what must be done in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Socialism does not generate lawlessness, as its enemies maintain. But we know now that socialism in itself is no guarantee against lawlessness and the abuse of power.' The rise of the bureaucracy as a parasite Such a position eliminates the need for struggle because it does not see the contradic- in Soviet development tions which • permitted Stalin to emerge and become a bloody tyrant. In a socialist society a Stalin could not emerge. It was the degeneration of a workers' state-backward, isolated, pea- sant Russia-in a period of defeats for the international working class, which provided the conditions for Stalinism.

Certainly Stalin, with his narrow-mindedness and vin- dictive cruelty, gave the pro- cess its special character and bureaucracy parasitic as a created by the specific layer conditions of Russia and the isolation of the first workers' Stalin his state which gave opportunity. Stalinism was not the product of one man's will despite the monstrous and pathological features which it derived from him. Stalinism Moreover, was fought step by step within the Communist Party by the Left Opposition. The bureaucratic degeneration could have been arrested against all the odds; Trotsky's struggle derives its significance and its historical justification in the first place from that possibility. But that was not its only justification. In his person, in formation of the Inter- the national Left Opposition and then in the founding of the Fourth International in 1938 Trotsky was able to preserve for posterity the continuity of Bolshevism and Leninism. "Trotskyism', which was in- epigones to vented by the slander Trotsky in the eyes of the Party-by suggesting that it was something distinct and from Bolshevism that Trotsky sought personal power time the proper —became in description for those who car- ried the struggle for on genuine Marxism-Leninism.

Medveder believed, at least when he wrote his book, that 'all of the layers of Stalinist filth' could be washed out of the communist movement in argument and debate. But the lesson of his story, when it is completed by reference to sides of historical experience which he leaves out or inter- prets wrongly, is that it can only be flushed out as a result of a struggle against the bur- eaucracy and its supporters.

lessons of Soviet his- The tory since the death of Stalin in 1956, the experience of the East European countries, is that the bureaucracy can only be overthrown by a political revolution, it cannot be re- formed, nor will it reform itself under pressure or by per- suasion. The attack on the oppositionist intellectuals, such as the Medvedevs themselves, in the past tew years proves that it has not changed. It can, however, no longer resort with impunity • to the methods of Stalin. The weaknesses of the bureaucracy are now more apparent. The weight and self- consciousness of the working class have grown. The tensions in Soviet society are now extreme, just as they are in all the 'countries where the heirs of Stalin, the Stalinists of today, still rule. understand why We can they could not allow Med- vedev's book to pass into the hands of the Soviet reading public. It is certain that it would have been snatched from the bookshops as quickly as it arrived by young people, intellectuals and many work- piece of the ers avid for a "truth, which is still concealed from them or known only by oral tradition and the accounts of survivors. Fear of the Soviet masses was behind the decision to Medvedev's book. suppress could not The bureaucracy face the kind of discussion to which it would have led. It would have meant a reckon- ing with the past which it dare not face. The awakening of new Soviet generations to political precipitates them life evitably into a search for the origins of the present crisis of All the bureaucracy. the ground which Medvedev has traversed will be gone over many times. The archives will have to be opened and truth shed upon every detail of history• By its nature such a process cannot be completed. It will be, as it already is, part of the struggle against the bureau- cracy and the preparation for ind the political revolution and that revolution itself. For it is only after the over- throw of the bureaucracy that everything which can known will be made available.

require a return to This will the Left the traditions of Opposition and a study of • kind Trotsky's writings of a which Medvedev has evidently not made. its Despite weaknesses, its rejection of the despite Trotskyist alternative, Med- vedev corroborates much of what Trotsky wrote about Stalinism and the rise of the bureaucracy. Written under conditions much secondary where material, as well the sources which no one can see, was not available, his book has some- thing of a pioneer character as a book written inside the Soviet Union by a loyal Com- munist Party member. We can • be sure that it will not be the last book of its kind. of CONCLUDED

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In vain the pro- tested that his main source had been employers and pull of extremely a docker friend moderate political views. Objectivity is all very well, it seems, but only so long as it doesn't disturb top people's breakfasts.

EXPLANATION

On a spring day in May, five workmen had just molor way started work after their road- side lunch when they heard a bang. The men saw a Ford Capri heading straight for them. One two dropped their or shovels while the and sheltered others behind the lorry they had been loading.

While they watched, the car veered into a line of rubber cones and paraffin lamps in the nearside lane and then stopped.

It moved slowly off again with great noise and clatter because of the debris trapped in the wheels. Two police constables dashed to the scene on the M6 Fillongley. One at straight away smelt alcohol. The driver of the car was Lady Kenyon of Gredington, Whitchurch, Shropshire, wife of the fifth Baron Kenyon.

While the amazed workmen came out of their refuges to which they had fled for safety, of the police questioned one the driver. According to the 'He guessed by prosecutor: Lady Kenyon's demeanor that she had been drinking. We can only guess what this means. Lady Kenyon was given a but breath test, was twice unable to muster enough wind even to blow up the bag. Warwickshire magistrates were offered a letter from Lady Kenyon's 'medical adviser' which it would Claimed Was 'give some explanation'. The turned out be that Lady Kenyon had to 152 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood against maximum of 80. She Ine legal was fined £60 and was banned from driving for a year.

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THE HATED Housing Finance 'fair rents' Bill is now an Act. The Tories' plans mean that millions tenants face of council another fl a week on their from this rents October. Rents will go on increasing which One of the councils —if the Tories have their way hasn't made up its. mind yet is they Labour-controlled Lambeth -until more Or less The south London. double. Subsidies to local councillors ment the bave councils for building flats and reached so far is to do nothing.

houses will gradually be phased Tomorrow they meet for the out. final before the time summer For the first time the since The Lambeth Council of recess. 1930s, the notorious means test Action has called for a lobby and will be introduced on a massive the council demonstration at those and universal scale for meeting. forced to apply for rebates.

The demands non- Yet although hundreds of are tor implementation of the Act, the organized thousands of tenants expulsion from the Labour Party around their own associations of all those who carry out Tory have put up a hard. fight against of the Bill, they have been brutally policies, the resignation the betrayed by the Labour leader- Tory government and the return of a Labour government pledged ship, both nationally and locally. Few Labour councils have said out socialist policies. I spoke to Graham Nicholson, the Tory they won't implement of the Lambeth Act, designed destroy the chairman Borough Estates Group, which whole basis of municipal housing.

rent.'

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warned. Secretary of the Lancashire Hill Proposing the picket move, Tenants' Mrs Ida As it atas cutting of Ron Williams, chairman of Morris, said it was Thornley Lane Tenants' Asso- spite their their noses to faces'. ciation, said: withhold She added: If they doing the 'The first weapon to be used their rent, they are stupidest thing. There will government's against the Rent would be of massive evictions, and they will the picketing Act appointed have to pay what they have been government agent any wouldn't be landlord of council withholding. have to the dictating to me how tenants in Stockport. This should anybody should pay my rent. It is no be followed by picket lines, in the collectors, win a fight against the hope that rent way to who are trade unionists, will not Rent Act.' The dally paper that leads the fight agalnst the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Dept., Workers Press, London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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give a lead, saying it was The fight not v wen fe wre rave anishec- -TS "Fair Deal in Housing" came out. only started. There will be mne mava borouzas to macc council has known about the enormous reaction Whitting there were guide- it all this -but IliChl Tent anceases start lines from the top, the individual people.' Derd nave beenn

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timed have been member confronta- firm of Vosper Thorney- voTed LamouSy 101 could to force off. They have been based Wool- all-out crofts Strike agreements clocking-on for the past Southampton, until the men were re- SLUl, and three weeks, but have bonus determined instated the pay schemes #rl0 seem been offered no work. shiftwork under condi- major confrontation claim sentiee lay-offs Subsequently 19 ship- the with 2,000-strong their

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12.10 Weather. Guideline. THERE is strong evidence that 7,000 men will be sacked at the North Wales Shotton steelworks according to East Flint Labour MP Barry Jones. The British Steel Corpora- tion is believed to have de- cided on the shut down of Britain's steelmaking furnaces.

A top-level secret meeting be- BSC executives and tween Department of Trade and In- dustry officials was held in London last week. Mr Jones has demanded the statement future on Tore Shotton from Trade and Industry Secretary Tohn Davies.

SIR ROLAND E. WALL,

the In Scotland a government de- chiefly responsible for man in- on the cision long - awaited troducing the rationing points Hunterston steel complex has system during World War II. left been put off until at least mid- October. will published yesterday.

Davies said the Tories were 23,286S Ge George waiting to see BSC's estimation Greenways. Heath. of the market, available next month. served in Food from 1939 to 1946. was a former chairman of the Britain agree that Fitch Lovell food group tween 28 and 36 million tons of steel a year by 1980. If a lower figure is agreed, then such development eill not ahead anywhere in Britain. THE PRICE of gold rose in quiet trading German on the West official gold market in Frankfurt

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Engineering their transactions through the Emplovers' Federation has indi- Zurich bullion market because all gold sales on the West Ger- cated that Edinburgh's Miller & Co Ltd were willing to raise their man market are subject to the €2.50 wage offer to 200 engin- country's 1l per cent added eering workers in a bid to end which makes value tax. specu- he three month-old strike lative investments unattractive.

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Angry rank and file opposed to latest offer Countrywide votes on all-out action on builders' claim PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuosday Augus BUILDING workers from all over Britain will demonstrate outside the employers' London head- quarters today to try and stop union leaders selling out their claim for a £30, 35-hour week. The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians executive has already accepted the compromise deal worked out with employers two weeks ago. and General Transport Workers' Union officials decided yesterday to reject the offer, which falls miserably short of the original claim. At the same time the rank- and-file is bringing to end an the half-hearted official, six-week, which selective strike campaign has brought out 400 sites and about 30,000 men. Instead, meetings at Bristol, Barnsley, Birmingham, Leeds, Aberdeen and Manchester, among other places, have voted for all- out strike action to win the claim. London is expected to follow soon. All major building sites in Barnsley came to a halt yester- day as more than 1,000 men joined the strike. In Manchester, more than 500 building workers lobbied union leaders who were meeting to decide whether to accept the offer. One of the main demands has been for the resignation of the UCATT leadership, led by George Smith, chairman of the TUC General Council and one of the of the new 'concilia- architects tion' anti-strike deal fixed up with the Confedera- last week tion of British Industries.

Said Ewen Sinclair, secretary of Aberdeen No. 3 branch: "The executive is just selling us down the river. I had the full backing of the delegates when I suggested at the meeting that they should be removed from office by constitutional vote.'

Workers with Peter Cameron who originally accepted Limited an interim offer of a £25 mini- mum and a guaranteed fall-back of £30, have now rejoined . the strike. The National Federation of

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lary August 8, 1972 Building Trades Employers sensing a deal with the union leaders — yesterday rushed to , agr condemn the unofficial walk-outs.

Said a spokesman: 'Negotiations are being re- sumed and there is a good chance of a settlement being reached.

be Men will therefore well advised not to respond to these unofficial calls, which can only result in their losing money un- necessarily.' The latest offer only gives an immediate basic rate of £23 week for craftsmen and £19.60 for labourers, increases of just £3 and £2.60. In May. 1973, craftsmen would get another £3 and labourers an extra £2.40.

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Midlesd Cold Siorage, art of Vestey empire, agreed to employ dockers. The insists that men company still must come off the register if they want jobs. In other words the manoeuvres by Jones in the port of London tend to backfire on the dockers.

It's the old story, employers on their terms - want peace smaller dock that means a labour force and the destruction of the National Dock Labour Scheme. is emerging from this" Jones strike a discredited trade union leader. He was rebuked at the first delegate conference and inspiring despite the now, strength and solidarity of his members, can only drop to his knees before big capitalists like and plead for a few Vestey crumbs. His only honest alternative is to disband the Jones-Aldington farce, pull out of the TUC- government negotiation, pull his union together through a recall of its biennial conference and plan action to get rid of this government. These the most critical are days of the strike. Dockers must be continually on their guard against provocation and treachery from their union. They must demand that Jones starts fighting to mobilize the whole trade union movement behind the strike. • Recall the T&GWU biennial conference to mobilize the union around the dockers. • End the Jones-Aldington farce.

• Break off relations with the Tories. the TUC for • Mobilize a the General Strike to force Tories to resign. • Labour must nationalize the docks and transport industry without compensation under workers' control.

BY PHILIP WADE

ing back. We've already been out The rank and file, however, is six weeks and don't dare give in not interested in two-year despite the offer of We will let know , agreement, them BOWe bonus. what we think of this sell-out an extra guaranteed Workers point out that a bonus today. 'After tomorrow we're going to can disappear at any time, but call possible in basic rates cannot. every London. It's been done in other Opposition the deal has to places and it can and be also must mounted because the done here.' ployers have not conceded a off the working New He said hundreds of building minute Men on the McAlpine workers had been recruited to union in the of the Covent Garden Site, Vauxhall, the course yesterday voiced their strikes. To keep them the strike London, bitterness at the preparations for had to be won. I'm sick of going in and beg- sell-out by the union leader- ship. ging overtime so men can earn We want a John Bambridge,

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a decent living wage. told me: 'If £30 and nothing steward on the site, basic wage of they accept it, be go- won't less. we

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a Covent Garden site, Vauxhall, London, who wlll Join today's lobby of pay DOCKERS' pickets hit the un- He and other pickets were Colchester registered of determined not to be 'confidence ports Jones Aldington yesterday, disrupting grain and tricked by timber shipments along the River said they had been the they by Devlin report. Colne. In the early afternoon, 'We told there would two were everything pickets were arrested. be no redundancies, of would be rosy,' Bernie said. Two coachloads dockers from Tilbury Royals and the 'But we lost a third of our travelled 60 miles And that's what will hap- the to the pen this time if we're not careful?

port. Their main targets were Hythe Many pickets were convinced another Quay, Haven Quay and that the Jones-Aldington com- wharf at Rowhedge. small mittee had now run into serious for the Col- spokesman trouble in to end attempt chester Dock Transit Company and the strike quickly was at Hythe Quay claimed no more for a lengthy settling down cargo than usual was being campaign. handled. The pickets seemed to have But the dockers severely stretched the resources impressed. of the local constabulary, which 'It's cheap labour whatever mobile radio had to set up. a they're handling, insisted Tilbury control centre ón a hill between locker Bernie Whitwell, a Trans the picketed wharves in order ort and General Workers' Unio maintain contact between to member. groups of police. That's what is robbing us ‹ ur work and that's what we'r A mobile out to stop?

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

CONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUARE

LONDON, WC1.

END THE TUC TALKS WITH HEATH

VICTORY TO THE DOCKERS

NATIONALIZE DOCKS AND TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES

MAKE THE TORIES RESIGN

Speakers: Larry Cavanagh, dock worker G. Heaty, SLL national secretary

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schoolteacher. Mr Hunter: Had she any experi ence in your class of work?

Poulson: No. Mr Hunter: She claims to have by Ropergate been employed Services (another Poulson com- administrative pany) as an assistant and adviser on interior decoration? Poulson: Yes, I think it would be that. You didn't realize caretaker. had got a letter from her?

Poulson: I got very confused.

Obviously an ex-teacher would not be a caretaker. Mr Hunter: Was this just a sine- cure you created for Mrs Cun- ningham? Poulson: No. Mr Hunter: She was taken on at a time when the whole business was running into the ground—a retired schoolmaster and the wife • admini- of an alderman as an strative assistant and adviser on interior decoration? Poulson: Yes. Mr Hunter: Was Mr Cunningham on the payroll of OSB? Poulson: Not that I know of.

Mr Hunter: Or on • Dan Smith's which amounts to the payroll, same thing? Poulson: I don't know that.

Poulson said he had done a • Cunningham's work in lot of union offices and this was the reason he had paid for Cunning- ham and his family to go on a Estoril, Portugal, holiday at costing £256. He was not aware of having paid for another holiday before this. Mr Hunter: What relationship apart from the appointment of Mrs Cunningham and your having built offices for Mr Cunningham's union and having sent them on one or two holidays, was there between your side and Mr and Mrs Cunningham? Poulson: I remember going to a football match with them when I was in the Newcastle area.

In later replies he agreed that, at some point which he could not remember, he had sent a memo to the effect that Mrs Cunning- ham was to be paid £1,500 a year, but that payment was to transferred so it would be paid by Mr Dan Smith. Mr Hunter: Why should Mr Dan Smith be paying your consul- tants and out of what? Poulson: I didn't know he was.

Mr Hunter: Why is it if that was a genuine employment of her- self by Ropergate Services that she should be paid by Mr Smith? Poulson: At that time I had lost my business. I wasn't even going to the office. I was told to keep away. Earlier in the hearing Poulson was asked about a letter he had March 9, 1968, in written on which he said Mr Maudling was to be paid £1,500 which was for nine months as a director of

OSB.

Mr Hunter: We have seen the accounts of International Techni- cal Construction Services (another Poulson company which Maud- ling chaired) in which his salary is shown as £9,500 a year: Is that an accurate statement?

Poulson: I hope so. Mr Hunter: Do you remember paying Mr Maudling £2,000?

Poulson: No. Mr Hunter: Do you remember anything about this payment?

Poulson: Certainly not. Also during his examination Poulson admitted paying for two cruises taken by Mr Pottinger and his family. The first time I did it out of favour, Poulson said, 'the second time I wanted his company' Mr Hunter: Was the second time 1966 or the next year?

Puulson: It would be 1967 or 1968. Mr Hunter: In 1967 you were being desperately pressed for money to pay your income tax?

Poulson: Yes. He was also asked about a holiday for another unnamed civil servant and his family.

'Did he go at your expense on five other holidays the at Castle in the West Trefunna Country?' Poulson: Not five. Mr Hunter: He has deposed that he did. Poulson: It's staggering to me.

Hearing continues.