Workers Press no. 838

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AS POLICE AND TROOPS THREATEN DOCKERS

PARLIAMENT ENDS

IN COALITION MOOD

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CON

BY ALEX MITCHELL

PARLIAMENT yesterday went into summer recess until October 31 leaving the Tories to rule with the Emergency Powers Act through the authority of the Privy Council. During the next ten weeks parliament- ary democracy could well be replaced by a form of Privy Council dictatorship which is answerable to nobody. government spokesman A con- firmed yesterday that emergency strike-breaking committees are now operating in all major ports and the troops are poised to go in 'as soon as the minister gives a decision'.

been able to The government has arm itself with these enormous powers due to the cowardly and treacherous policies of the leaders in the labour and trade union movement.

Tory As parliament broke up and unleash girded their loins to ministers dockers, their onslaught on where TEne were these so-called 'leaders'?

• VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was chairing an economic committee meeting at Congress House at which such weighty topics as local radio were under debate.

A stone's throw down the road at the

JONES,

Ports Council

JACK

National of Transport and secretary general the General Workers' Union, was again in Lord Aldington, the cahoots with merchant banker, ex-Tory MP and London ports chief. These time-wasting talks are deliberately aimed creating the illusion that the of jobs brought about crisis docks by 'solved' containerization can be by

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piecemeal formula. At his London flat HAROLD WILSON spent the day busily packing before setting his off today for traditional sojourn in the Scilly Isles. When parliament debated the emer- the House refused divide on the issue. This means that they really support the Tories' decision to seize sweeping powers to smash the dockers.

this is only collaboration at supporting Heath the top- -Wilson Hordes of police force a tanker throu

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and Ulster, Feather the dockers over Tories and the deals with the signing POLICE BRUTALITY erupted

CBI,

Jones rephrasing documents with Tories dockers' yesterday Aldington- -which Keeping the the on in office. picket line near Scunthorpe. A Yet no docker has been to the Natior al force of about 500 police No Industrial Relations Court. docker has paid any fines. launched mass charges at the Nor has any building worker. And they pickets to drive a pathway have just steamrollered their union for timber lorries attempting leadership into rejecting a paltry pay offer and demanded an immediate national to leave a private wharf on strike. the River Trent. battle lines this dual in power situation are now clearly defined.

After every charge dockers In this knife-edge situation the building were arrested indiscriminately of Councils of Action becomes imperative.

and dragged through the These councils, consisting of all ten- wharf gates. dencies and groups the labour and in One pushed the trade union movement, must prepare to defend the working class

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ground and assaulted by about trom the for General uniformed offensive and prepare une

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Strike to bring down the government.

officers. the and building Support COCKerS Ugly fights running broke workers. out after each co-ordinated End all talks with the Tories, CBI and push. police port employers. Return a Labour government pledged One docker, an ex-rugby socialist policies including repeal of the star, Mike Smith, had his ankle by Black Industrial Relations Act, nationalization iniured Maria. He told me: *We made docks and road transport, banks of the and basic industries. a pathway for the van but it INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 1972 • No 838 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

at Keadby, near Scunthorpe right up to me and Shot couldn't get out of the way. *They told the police foot. but the would not back off.' Other said they dockers eventually had to push the Some other van saw police laughing the dent. number the The police van was LVL 215H. The day when police Ulster. counues launched style search operation against the flying pickets Roadblocks were thrown across the major route irom the Humber

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cars. men and coaches were searched. police spokes- the said operation was designed deprive Ine of dockers any offensive

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weapons. He admitted that none so far had been used in the clashes which began on Monday. I watched as men were bundled out of their vehicles and frisked. The car seats were then upturned and boots and engines examined. Teams of police officers also entered the few coaches dockers were able to hire. After one coach search dockers found an insulting note fixed on the back stating: "You are a shower of illiterate bastards.'

By mid-afternoon 22 men had been arrested. Watching the police attacks, Mr Stanley Peck, Inspector of Constabu- lary for the. region, said: have had very encouraging reports of police behaviour.

• More details of the attacks on pickets on page 12.

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AS POLICE AND TROOPS THREATEN DOCKERS

PARLIAMENT ENDS

IN COALITION MOOD

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CON

BY ALEX MITCHELL

PARLIAMENT yesterday went into summer recess until October 31 leaving the Tories to rule with the Emergency Powers Act through the authority of the Privy Council. During the next ten weeks parliament- ary democracy could well be replaced by a form of Privy Council dictatorship which is answerable to nobody. A government spokesman con- firmed yesterday that emergency strike-breaking committees are now operating in all major ports and the troops are poised to go in as soon as the minister gives a decision'.

The government has been able to arm itself with these enormous powers due to the cowardly and treacherous policies of the leaders in the labour and trade union movement.

Tory As parliament broke up and girded their loins unleash ministers dockers, their onslaught on the where were these so-called "leaders'?

VICTOR FEATHER of the TUC was at Congress House at which such weighty topics as local radio were under debate.

A stone's throw down the road at the Council

JACK

JONES,

National Ports of Transport and general secretary the General Workers' Union, in was Lord Aldington, the cahoots with merchant banker, ex-Tory MP and London ports chiet. These time-wasting talks are deliberately creating the illusion that the almed crisis of docks jobs brought about by containerization be 'solved' by some Cola piecemeal formula. At his London flat HAROLD WILSON spent the day busily packing before setting off today for his traditional sojourn in the Scilly Isles. • When parliament debated the emer- divide the House refused on the issue. This means that they really the Tories' decision to seize support sweeping powers to smash the dockers.

this It only collaboration at supporting the top-Wilson Heath Hordes of police force a tanker throu Over and Ulster, Feather the dockers over Tories deals with the and the signing POLICE BRUTALITY erupted

CBI,

Jones documents with rephrasing Tories yesterday Aldington-which is keeping the the dockers' on in office. picket line near Scunthorpe. A Yet no docker has been to the Natior al force of about 500 police Industrial Relations Court. No docker has paid any fines. launched mass charges at the Nor has any building worker. And they drive a pathway pickets to have steamrollered their union Just for timber lorries attempting leadership into rejecting a paltry pay offer demanded immediate national and to leave a private wharf on dll strike. the River Trent. lines in this dual The battle power situation are now clearly defined.

After every charge dockers In this knife-edge situation the building were arrested indiscriminately of Councils of Action becomes imperative.

dragged through the and These councils, of all ten- whart gates. dencies and labour and groups in the One trade union movement, must prepare to was pushed to the defend the ground and assaulted by about class trom the working for the General eight uniformed offensive and prepare or nine Strike to bring down the government.

officers. building Support dockers the and Ugly running fights broke workers. after each co-ordinated out End all talks with the Tories, CBI and police push. port employers. Return Labour One docker, an ex-rugby to socialist policies including repeal of the Mike Smith, had his star, Black Industrial Relations Act, nationalization ankle injured Maria. He told me: 'We made of docks road transport, banks the and and basic industries. a pathway for the van but it

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ker through Keadby pickets

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

at Keadby, near Scunthorpe shot right up to me and I couldn't get out of the way.

"They told the police it was on my foot, but they would not back off.' Other dockers said they eventually had to push the off. Some saw other van police laughing at the inci- dent. The number of the police van was LVL 215H. The day of violence began police when from five counties launched an Ulster- style search operation against the flying pickets. Roadblocks were thrown across the major route from the Humber ports and cars, and coaches men were searched. A police spokes- man said the operation was designed to deprive the dockers of any offensive

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weapons. He admitted that none so far had been used in the clashes which began on Monday. watched as men were bundled out of their vehicles and frisked. The car seats were then engines examined. Teams of police the few coaches dockers were able to hire. After one coach search dockers insulting note fixed on the back stating: 'You are a shower of illiterate bastards?

By mid-afternoon 22 men had been arrested. Watching the police attacks, Mr Stanley Peck, Inspector of Constabu- lary for the region, said: very encouraging have had reports of police behaviour?

More details of the attacks on pickets on page 12.

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Fear of working class behind Czech frame-up trials PIM & Workers Preco, Thursday August 'A MOST unusual situation' is how yesterday's 'Morning Star' described the 'no-strike' sell- out at Clydebank. There are, says the Stalinist 'many discussions daily, and speculations' about the blunt declaration by Boilermakers' president Dan McGarvey that the Marathon deal definitely in- volves a four-year no-strike pledge. But there can be no doubt that McGarvey's statement is accurate. The relevant clause reads: 'The unions and man- agement agree not to resort to strikes, work stoppages, lock- out or other industrial action either before or after arbitra- tion.' The 'Morning Star'-clearly under pressure from its readers -is now attempting to inter- pret this crystal-clear formula to mean that there might be 'confrontations' if arbitration were not agreed upon. We say that the 'Morning Star' is deliberately misleading its readers. After last Friday's Clydebank meeting, James Reid declared: 'It is a good agreement No one in their right senses strike for the sake of wants a a strike' Reid is a member of the National Executive Commit- tee of the Communist Party and speaks on its behalf. 'No strikes' is now the line of the Communist Party. And that is the essence of the Tory Industral Relations Act. As yesterday's Workers Press pointed out, Marathon workers will be subject to a system of in binding procedure ending arbitration and if they do not hold to that, they can lose six months' bonus. And even the 'Morning Star' is forced to admit that the boilermakers' differential will go. This, again as we pointed out yesterday, destroys a vital weapon on Clydebank since it is the boilermakers' traditional forces up militancy which wages in the yards. No amount of twisting and turning by the Stalinists can hide the fact that they have voluntarily accepted all the essentials of the Tory Industrial Relations Act. And this makes nonsense of the one-day strike against the Act called by the National Liaison Committee for Defence of Trade Unions. Heath's government wants to use unemployment to destroy trade union rights-particularly By John Spencer PROFESSOR Jaroslav Sabata, former secretary of the Com- munist Party in Brno, Czecho- slovakia, was sentenced on Tuesday to 6$ years' jail on charges of subversion. Alfred Cerny, a former member, Central Committee was sentenced to three years and five other people were given sentences ranging up to five years on the same charges.

The five men sentenced with Sabata and Cerny Professor who got were Antonin Rusek, five years, Zdenek Prikryl (four years), Karel Cejka (two years), Karel Fridrich (18 months) and Jiri Zaoral (suspended sentence of 18 months). agency, news an- nouncing the sentences, said the sentenced men formed an illegal anti-state group in 1970 which engaged in hostile activities until January 1972. Their aim was to overthrow the socialist state system. It was the eighth in a series of "subversion' trials directed against supporters of Alexandr Dubcek, the former Communist Party first secretary. A total of 38 people have now been con- victed in the trials. There have been no acquittals so far.

Sabata was a leading member ber y August 10, 1972 the most basic right of all, the right to strike, won over of labour struggle. 200 years The Stalinists have already permitted the labour force at Clydebank to be slashed from 3,200 to 2,000 with further massive redundancies immedi- ately ahead. In collaboration with the 'left' McGarvey, they have produced a situation in which a mere 500 men will work on-and will have vir- tually no trade union protec- tion at all. the Morning Star' While cheers on the dockers and builders, it covers up a total workers' abandonment practice. Workers rights in against this Press warned from the start, while the re- 'Socialist Worker' visionist declared that 'Militancy can win at UCS'. Backed wholeheartedly by the revisionists, the Communist Party Stalinists isolated the UCS struggle and collaborated with the Tory strategy of deal- ing with the working class sec- tion by section. Above all, the Stalinist fought the UCS bitterly to prevent developing into conflict from a united working-class struggle • down the Tory gov- to bring ernment. They refused to demand that the TUC mobilize the working class in a General Strike to • in office a Labour gov- place ernment pledged to socialist policies (including nationaliza- shipbuilding and tion of the ancillary industries) as the only solution to unemployment.

Instead CP industrial or- ganizer Bert Ramelson, Reid and James Airlie presented a millionaire the capitalist as answer to the problems of thousands of Clyde workers.

Now, as this crisis deepens, Heath government and the prepares to use its emergency powers against the rising mili- tancy of the working class, only a fight to unite the working class against the Tories can bring victory. The Tories now have the whole force of the state at their disposal without having to answer to parliament or anybody. The working class is strong enough to beat them-but only through the building of a revo- lutionary leadership which will and challenge the expose Stalinists every single day.

entourage in 1968 of Dubcek's and 1969. He was elected to the Central Committee at the Extra- ordinary Party Congress held in Prague two a factory outside after the Warsaw Pact days invasion. Cerny was co-opted committee in onto the same September 1968. Both were later stripped of their posts and expelled from the Party during the purge conducted by the Stalinist Gustav Husak regime on Soviet instructions.

in Nov- Sabata was arrested ember last year with his two his daughter and his sons, daughter-in-law. His sons, Jan and Vaclav, have already been sent to prison for 24 and years respectively. two The trial of his daughter and is rumoured to daughter-in-law be scheduled for this week.

Like most of the other defen- dants brought before the courts the trials began on July since 19, the Sabatas are thought to have been accused of circulating leaflets reminding voters of their constitutional right to abstain in the presidential election.

This charge is a cover for the imprisonment of leading mem- por bers of the Dubcek tendency ing UGANDAN president Idi Am he was going ahead with pla Asians from the country. The that nationals from India, Pa would also be given 90 days to His statement followed talks with the British High Com- missioner in Uganda, Richard Slater, the Indian and Pakis- tani envoys and leaders of the Asian community in Uganda.

General Amin said he had signed a decree yesterday revok- ing the entry and residence per- mits of non-citizen Asians in Uganda. The only exceptions were doc- tors, dentists, lawyers, owners of agricultural and industrial enter- prises. and certain other cate- gories of professional people.

About 60,000 people will be affected by General Amin's decision. He said it would be up to those concerned to make their own arrangements to be out of Uganda before the 90-day deadline was up. Answering questions after mak- ing his statement, Amin said if they were not out of the country before the deadline: 'They will be sitting on a fire. They will be sitting very He declined to say exactly what he meant by this, but told a reporter: 'You wait and see.' At least 20,000 of the people affected by Amin's edict are British citizens, but they are barred from Britain by the Tory government's racialist immigra- tion laws. AMERICAN bombers carried out an 'extermination' raid yesterday on Hai Duong Town, about 30 miles east of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese News agency VNA said in a dispatch received in Paris yesterday. The agency said a one mile sector southwest of the town • was bombed. It said bombs hit a medical school, a killing and, factory, and cates, wounding 'a large number of One district of 100 people'. homes was wiped out, the agency added.. who have already been deprived of all their political rights. The regime's claims that the trials nothing to do with their have opposition to the Warsaw Pact occupation do not bear examina- tion. The Prague and Brno trials have been under preparation for many months. They were made possible by a ruthless purge first Communist Party and the then of the trade union organ- ization, in which the workers were formally stripped of all the rights they had gained in 1968.

Before Husak and his Soviet masters could proceed to the stage of court-room frame-ups, they had to overcome the stub- born • resistance of the Czecho- slovak workers. It was fear of the political revolution in Czechoslovakia which motivated the Warsaw Pact invasion. The Kremlin leaders and their co-thinkers in East Germany, Poland, Hungary in their Bulgaria moved tanks in order to prevent any independent movement of the working class. The trials of Dubcek's sup- rep porters are intended as a warn- ing to any section of the bureau- blir Idi Amin announced yesterday with plans to expel all British ry. The general also announced dia, Pakistan and Banga Desh days to leave the country.

PREPARATIONS are now well under way for the resto- ration of full diplomatic rela- tions between Tokyo and Peking. The Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party yes- terday approved a visit to by prime minister China Kakuei Tanaka to finalize the exchange of ambassadors. The new Japanese government already accepted that its has present defence treaty with the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa will become null and void as soon as diplomatic agreement is reached with Peking. Tanaka has moved with extreme rapidity to establish diplomatic ties since he over as premier a month took ago. He has already received the backing of almost all of Japan's biggest monopolies. The second- firm, Nissan, largest motor-car and the IHI shipbuilding com- pany yesterday announced they would accept Peking's conditions for trade ties with China.

The conditions, announced by Chou En-lai in Chinese Premier 1970, bar any Japanese firm from trade with China if it invests in Taiwan or South Korea, assists in the continuation of war in Viet- nam, or has close ties with the United States. which has not pre- Nissan, viously traded with China, said it hoped to send its represent- atives to Peking. IHI said the firm's president, Renzo Taguchi, had accepted the Chinese conditions at a meeting this week between leaders of the Mitsui Industrial Group and Sun ved cracy in Eastern Europe which may be tempted to try liberal- izing' Stalinism. feared Dubcek's The Kremlin reformist 'socialism with a human face' because it was a response to an upsurge of working-class hatred against Stalinism.

Dubcek and his supporters occupied centrist position between the working class and the Kremlin, with a programme of bureaucratic reform. Until the invasion, they made no real attempt to turn towards the working class, hoping instead to restrain the masses and thus make their reforms acceptable to the Soviet leaders. Soviet leaders, The however, recognized that Dubcek's regime could transitional only be a stage in the awakening of the Czechoslovak working class which was beginning to form workers' councils and advance the slogans of political revolu- gary tion. Since the occupation, the Dubcek tendency appears to have confined itself largely to moral protests against Stalinist repression. Dubcekism is in reality a eau- blind-alley for the Czechoslovak

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developing countries are taking a declining share in world trade, according to a report submitted at the Ministers' non-aligned Foreign Georgetown, conference in Guyana. world Their share of total trade has declined as has their trade amongst themselves as a percentage of world trade.

The report urges an increase in of trade among the countries Africa, Asia and Latin America and between regional groupings.

Ping-hua, visiting deputy secre- tary-general of the China-Japan Friendship Association. Nissan and IHI were the last two major Japanese firms to hold out against the Chinese con- ditions. Mitsui accepted the conditions last June. Japan's capitalists not are turning towards Peking out of any love for communism. They are driven by the threat that their markets in the capitalist world will undergo a catastrophic reduction, precipitating a deep slump. At the end of this month, Tanaka meets president Nixon for talks on Japanese-US relations. Yesterday a leading member of Nixon's party, Senator Jacob that failure by Javits warned fresh initiatives Japan to take in narrowing its trade surplus the US would undermine with relations between the two countries and could lead to a further revaluation of the yen.

'Prime has Minister Tanaka indicated that such a revaluation is not acceptable to his govern- ment, yet we know that exigencies of the market can overtake even the most urgent political pledges.'

he told the senate. The senator warned that US- Japanese relations were now 'in a critical stage', adding: 'Japan today is at the crossroads-one road could lead to ever greater participation and leadership in the world, the other to old and tragic nationalism. 'Let me bluntly state that a $4,000m (£1,600m) deficit on the trade account with Japan is un- acceptable in the United States.'

working class. It has no international pro- gramme for struggle against the bureaucracy in unity Stalinist with the workers of the capitalist states. Instead it peddles the empty platitudes of 'polycentrism' elaborated by the right-wing theoreticians of the Italian CP leadership. The British CP 'supported' Dubcek after the invasion only in order to curry favour with the middle class. Its protests carry minimum weight with the Stalinist puppets in Czecho- slovakia who justifiably regard them with contempt. The foreign Stalinists cannot Prague frame-up defend victims because they themselves are utterly compromised by their entire past. repression in Czecho- The slovakia is directed against the workers who are next on the list of Husak's victims. repression cannot be This halted by liberal protests. The struggle for the release of these victims involves frame-up for alternative fight revolu- tionary leadership against vak Stalinism throughout the world.

Stalinists unable to hold back all-out action Liverpool: Mystery flare-up

BY PHILIP WADE

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movement among rank-and-file building workers prevented their union leaders from signing a sell-out deal with employers this week. On Tuesday, the executive of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians-with 200,000 mem- bers-failed to turn up for scheduled talks with the employers where they hoped to sign the agreement.

Instead they met earlier in the day and reversed a previous decision - taken on Thursday last week-to recommend accept- ance of the employers' latest offer.

The sudden about-turn of the executive-led TUC General Council by chairman George Smith-was a reflection of the enormous up- surge in building workers' militancy as they learnt of the proposed sell-out of the claim for a £30, 35-hour week and another week's holi- day. The rank-and-file has abruptly ended the sham selective strikes strategy of which are now in their sixth week. In Liverpool yesterday, shop stewards called an all-out strike from mid-day. It is expected 20,000 Merseyside building workers will now join the strike. Mass meetings Scotland, Yorkshire, Lanca- shire, Bristol and Birmingham have been held in the last six days. Every one has voted for an all- out, indefinite strike. At the same time resolutions and telegrams poured into

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head office in London demanding the resignation on the executive betraying union the claim. Tuesday, 7,000 On building all workers from over Britain gathered in London and marched to where the talks were to take But the union leaders- place. frightened than 1n ways one of the rank and file- -failed to show. The employers' offer not only again to hold back political de- fell way short of the demands, building velopment among but was in essence an anti-strike workers. the of In fact London, where the CP deal. For payment Ine new guaranteed bonus was to be the is strongest, is last major on an uninterrupted area not yet organized on an all- conditional working week. out strike basis. This reflected the hand of Organized around the 'Charter' George who was one of Smith, the Stalinists have tried group, the architects of the new 'con- confine the struggle as an to ciliation' anti-strike deal reached economic issue for higher wages.

TUC and the Con- between the And when the cry of 'Heath federation of British Industry. militancy Out' taken by workers The tide of was up rising at Tuesday's lobby, the Stalinists, building workers among led by Peter Kavanagh, took at a time when the working class over the microphone and began as a whole- —led by the dockers- is moving for a showdown with singing songs, Every fight for wages today is the Tory government. Tory fight with the Yet it is precisely at this point a ponucal government. It is their declared that the Communist Party tries

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local and officials government social workers met for urgent discussions on gang riots at Liverpool the of the cause neighbourhood. But of those who flare-up remained a mystery.

the opted for new homes From Friday to Tuesday gangs number were coloured and some of white and coloured youths local officials say they turned Myrtle rampaged through the the streets into an enclave Faulkner Gardens and Street the midst of a white population area of Toxteth, Liverpool.

still living in the old pre-war Bricks, bottles and at tenements. stones, But this new view gains little least one petrol-bomb were used token from local residents of the riots and barri- support In colour and the truth seems cades of paving stones were ally lie much closer to the thrown up across roads into the to that the outbreak of fighting area. of was an extension gang war- One policeman was rushed to fare. hospital on Tuesday night with a Voluntary community suspected fractured skull after he cillor Barney Lunt said: 'Hous- was dragged clear from a vehicle trouble. This ing was not the which had been attacked by was just gangs fighting. We have bricks through throwing gangs had all colours round always the windows. here, black, white, pink and Yesterday, while top-level dis- yellow' cussions continued, a large force And Mrs Mary Evans of patrolled the Myrtle Gardens added: 'They are of police streets Ulster-style in Land Rovers.

of trying to say we are jealous the people the new houses, In The riots were in of but it's just not true. Liverpool's worst slum districts. 'The Corporation has just coloured Although white and lived modernized our houses inside, SO peacefully families have why should we be jealous of the together there for generations, I've been here for 30 new ones. housing scheme may figure new years with white and coloured in as one of the causes of the week- the area and there has been no end disturbances. trouble at all.' Faulkner Place, where the Mrs Sylvia Bouqdib, who runs windows of all the houses are a hostel for the homeless on the chicken now protected by wire edge of the area, said: comprised of screens, is new 'It's absolute rubbish say Corporation houses built after it's anything to do with housing slum clearance. and I was furious when I heard Many families chose to be re- the The trouble rumours. has from their been caused by gangs.' housed away policy to hold down wages, while allowing prices to soar. And with the Industrial Rela- tions Act they stand four-square behind the reactionary building employers who are notorious for their attempts to weaken trade unionism on building sites.

The employers - backed by Heath - will not concede an immediate basic rate of £30 and a five-hour cut in the working week. They now say their offer of an immediate rise to £23 a week is final. What is posed for building is the fight for the workers nationalization of the industry workers' control and under without compensation. Detailed accounts of the inci- dents which set the at gangs others' throats vary from each the stabbing of one Delroy Bur- ris to the ostracizing of a col- oured youth by white neighbours.

The 20-30 strong gangs are on the streets most nights and the position aggravated by the

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Workers Press, Thi Three thousand Glasgow building workers marched through the city centre on Tuesday. Even though it was led by the 'Chartist' group, mass rally, reflecting nation- wide rank-and-file un- anger, animously voted for an indefinite strike for the full claim.

on the basis of the Only elimination of the private em- decent be ployers wages can guaranteed, the 'lump' abolished and 100 per cent trade unionism ensured. The nationalization of the only be achieved industry can by forcing the Tories to resign and electing a Labour govern- ment pledged by the mass move- ment to socialist policies.

A new political, revolutionary built leadership has to throughout the UCATT and the T&GWU in opposition to the who to disarm Stalinists want workers as the fight develops, claim is only a insisting the wages issue with the employers.

A powerful unity of building workers and dockers has to be forged to lead the fight for the resignation of the Tory govern- ment. It is the only way forward for building workers. closure of two community cen- for the summer. A third tres closed when the troubles began.

Inter-gang warfare has raged at least since April, according to social workers. But now, with the and the of petrol-bombs use erection of barricades at the entrances to each other's streets, the conflict has taken a new and serious turn. All the barricades were removed, but police claim 'stoned were of the streets adjacent to Faulk- ner Street.

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THE BIG building employers yesterday continued their scare campaign in the Tory press claiming that their workers were being 'intimi- dated' by militants. president of John Westacott, of National Federation the Building Trades Employers, be- gan the campaign when he said militants were moving from site to site inciting workers to strike.

R. W. Campbell, a director of Scottish employers federa- the tion, yesterday supported Westa- cott's claim that selective strikes which have been going on for six weeks were sometimes pro- voked by militants touring building sites. 'I would say there are indica- tions here and there. There is no doubt that not all of the people are out at the moment willingly. It happened certainly in the Aberdeen where certain area sites were working quite happily until they got an invasion of chaps from other sites who per- suaded them to come out. And the same sort of thing was hap- pening in Glasgow yesterday' This is a rather weak-kneed attempt to whip up a scare.

Builders have never made any sending flying about secret pickets around other sites seek- ing solidarity from workers who willingly join the action when they realize the extent of the employers' latest miserly pay offer.

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PAGE & Workers Prose, Thursday Augua An international discussi The Communist Internationalist Organization (OCI) The International Committee of the Fourth International is the target of the attacks of all opportunists because of its principled position on the struggle in Bangla Desh. The political line up of the OCI with the Pabloites on Bangla Desh is not just an accidental or circumstantial fact. On the contrary, it is a manifestation of its move away from Trot- skyism on breaking with the IC of the FI. In the youth rally celebrated in Essen in July 1971, the OCI broke with the IC of the FI when it opposed an amend- ment suported by the majority of the IC (English, Irish, Ceylonese, Canadian and sections) which stated Greek that the FI is the only revolu- tionary international and that its parties are the only revolu- tionary parties. Obviously, in their opposi- tion to the amendment of the majority of the IC, they got the support of different cen- trist and opportunist groups like the Spanish POUM or the right wing NSA (National Students' Association) in the USA, which took the oppor- tunity to campaign for the slogan — supported by the Stalinists - of a Popular Treaty for peace in Vietnam'.

This action constituted the real break with the IC and the attempt to transform the International into a centrist amalgam. The regroupment of centrists OCI with the the against the FI constitutes the basic question and not the Bolivian revolution or the Bolivian POR. amendment presented The by the SLL and supported by the majority of the IC is clear •Without revolu- enough: theory, there can be tionary no revolutionary party..• When the OCI rejected the amendment, it opposed the FI being built on the basis of dia- lectical materialism, thus com- opposition to the pleting its defence and the development of Marxist theory which it had already revealed some- time before. The OCI, by re- fusing to understand and de- velop dialectical materialism as the theory of knowledge of Marxism, denies the essence of the struggle for the build- ing of revolutionary parties and prevents sections of the FI from transforming the spontaneous consciousness of the working class into class- consciousness. By adopting the position that only the programme con- stitutes the basis for the building of parties, it pre- pares the way for the liquida- tion of the party into centrism.

As the IC of the FI declares: 'Only a fundamental struggle against all the enemies Marxism, a struggle waged against the spontaneous con- sciousness of the working class can prepare the vouth for the building of the FI.' The OCI had denied the theoretical gains of the IC and the whole experience of the struggle in the SWP to such an extent that it has had to break with the FI in order to lay August 10, 1812 liscussion article in six parts carry forward its opportunist conceptions. The OCI tells us that we are in a period of 'imminent revo- 'proceeds lution' which through different stages and in different forms towards the of International Republic Soviets'. It is from this totally spontaneist conception of the struggle for socialism that the OCI works out its position to liquidate the FI. If there exists an 'objective process' towards the 'International Republic of Soviets' why do we need parties? Why do we need the International? Such is the logic which lies behind every spontaneist revision of Marxism. Thus Pablo stated that the new relation of forces on a world scale after the war and revolutionary processes' the which would be generated would force the Stalinist parties and the reformist parties to carry through the revolution in a general way.

According to the

OCI

itself, parties and leaderships 'correspond' to this 'process'.

This is a conscious refusal to fight against Stalinism and the other treacherous leaderships.

It is by following these con- ceptions that the OCI has maintained that the FI and its sections be 'flexible' must organizations and has refused the FI is the to accept that revolutionary only Inter- national. All backed up by the argument that we must not be "sectarian', 'ultimatist' or that we must remain 'linked to the masses'; in other words, the purest opportunism. During the Algerian revo- lution, raised the bourgeois-nationalist move- ment to the level of the revo- lutionary party. Its support for the MNA° was in the fol- lowing terms: "The programme of the MNA is undeniably a revolutionary programme with socialist content... Effec- a tively, when we analyse the MNA we must consider that we have before us a revolu- tionary movement which is almost unique in its form, that we cannot define as a Marxist party, but which, because of its policy and character carries within it all the revolutionary hopes of the Algerian people.

Such an analysis of the MNA, which is considered as 'revolutionary and socialist' without being Marxist and as a movement which is 'almost unique in its form', , only leads to the rejection of the struggle to construct revolutionary parties which are independent, and to placing 'hopes of the people' in movements which in their 'natural or objective evolution' lead to socialism.

Logically, like Torres in Bolivia or the government of Allende or Velasco (which were to protect the workers' government in Bolivia) the MNA had nothing in common socialism with and rather rushed to the UN when the situation sharpened in Algeria.

Since consider that they there exists a 'natural process' towards socialism, the struggle for the independent leadership of the FI can be relegated to the background; in its place can be placed hollow phrases or empty formulas without any revolutionary content, but The OCI abstained on the question of B of national liberation of the Bengali peop which are accessible to the masses. The slogan of the United Workers' Front raised to the level of strategy and to which the whole struggle of the party is subordinated is a typical example of this. In opposition to the position of Lenin and Trotsky, the OCI maintains that the UWF is a a permanent slogan strategy, and the body where the party will be built and will win its leadership in the course of the spontaneous development.

For Lenin and Trotsky, the UWF was a slogan which the • could put forward in party specific conditions with the aim of breaking the traditional leaderships and winning revo- lutionary leadership. For the hand, the OCI, on the other UWF is not subordinated to the struggle for independent leadership: carried through with the 'present leaderships' of the working- class movement and has as its final objective the leading' of the working class to govern- ment and the constitution of the 'party of the victorious proletarian revolution' The Bolshevik-Leninist posi- stion of Bangla Desh while the Internatlonal C ngall people. tion and the opportunist position of the OCI are com- pletely opposed. As the IC of the FI declares: the position of the OCI on the 'United Workers' Front' is transformed into a complete liquidation of the party and its subordination to the Stalinist and social- democratic parties and the union bureaucracies. Total abstention in relation to the struggle in Bangla Desh is but the culmination of the anti-Marxist evolution of the OCI and its adherence to con- templative empiricism. Only which with that conception rejects the point of view of transformation of the the world and which breaks con- sequently with Marxism, is it possible to work out theories like those put forward by the

OCI.

They have no other conclu- sion than the denial of all con- revolutionary activity scious and the capitulation to so- I 'objective processes'. called The positions which the OCI has taken in relation to Boli- via, first of all denouncing the theses of the COB and later swallowing these positions natlonal Committee came out in support completely and even accepting the position of the 'anti- imperialist united front cannot by be understood except examining the move away from Marxism by the OCI and its adherence each day to oppor- tunism. Serious and scientific analy- sis is replaced by a demagogic pose and propagandist activity.

Thus, after refusing systemati- cally to support the struggle Palestinian pompously salutes the 'soviet of Irbid' as part of the "pro- cess' which leads along differ- 'universal ent paths the to republic of Soviets'. . The com- bination of the refusal to struggle against treacherous and demagogic leaderships poses are the result of the break of the OCI with the IC of the FI.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

5 POUM.

Workers Party for Marxist Unification. A Spanish centrist party with which Trotsky broke when it entered the Stalin- ist Popular Front in the Spanish Civil War. 6 MNA. The Algerian Nationalist Movement.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The right-wing American Independent Party has picked California repre- sentative John Schmitz as its presidential nominee founder, after its Ala- George bama governor Wallace, told delegates in an emotional tele. phone call that he would not stand this year. Schmitz scored a first-ballot victory over Georgia governor Lester Maddox, publisher Tom Anderson, Richard Kay, who defended My Lai lawyer murderer Lt William Calley, Florida banker and Allen Greer. Schmitz is a fitting candi- date forward the carry Wallace banner. A 41-year-old philosophy teacher, he is one of the most active members of the John Birch Society and lieutenant-colonel in the Marine reserves. He has consistently been of the most conservative members of Congress, criticiz- President Nixon's visit to Peking and the admission of China to the United Nations.

has introduced legisla- withdraw States from the UN From 1957 to 1963 he ran an anti- Cali- communism course at fornia's El Toro marine corps air station. At his first confer- press ence after winning the nom- ination, Schmitz true to He said believed form. Democratic candidate George McGovern had been 'set up by President Nixon' lead to America to socialism. This he said, was part of a

BIRCHITE TO CARRY

WALLACE BANNER

Top: Wallace. Above: Bremer being arrested, later 1o get 63 years of He 'conspiracy history'. 'Where did McGovern asked: get his funds from?' and then strongly hinted that Nixon had channelled the funds his chief opponent in the presiden- tial race because McGovern was 'the weakest candidate' Schmitz another gave sample he or ns yews when told delegates that the Demo- cratic convention had been convention of perverts, abor- tionists, communists, bushy- haired racists, dope fiends and third generation welfare recipi- Much of Wallace's hard- support in the past has Core come from the Birch Society, many members whose believe the 'conspiracy' in eing arrested, later 10 get 63 years theory reminiscent of the 'Pro- tocols of the Elders of Zion'.

Wallace was always careful to keep them in the back- ground, but since he was shot and • paralysed at Upper Marl- boro in Maryland, they appear to have come to the fore. News of the 63-year jail sentence imposed on his assailant Arthur Bremer drew cheers at the Independence Party con- vention. Schulz's running-mate, elected at the convention, is Tom Anderson of Nashville, Tennessee, publisher of 'Ranch and Farm' magazine and also a Birchite. He defeated four other candidates, including a black supporter of the para- cy' lysed governor Wallace.

Workers Press, Thu The American Defence Department once consid- ered-but finally rejected —using laser beams as a weapon against liberation troops in Vietnam, according to syndicated columnist Jack Ander- son. He said Pentagon-sponsored research showed laser beams could explode the eyeball and blind the victim. Research was carried out for the Aero-Space Medical Research laboratories at the Wright-Patterson air force base in Ohio and presented to a conference on laser technology in San Diego, California, in the 1960s, Anderson wrote.

The Defence Department in a said statement that a 'ocular hazards of report on laser radiation' was presented to a San Diego conference in 1963 by a company under con- tract from the Wright-Patter- son medical centre. It said the work was con- tinuing , at another air force base in Texas. However, the Pentagon said: 'The Defence Department, as a matter of policy, does not com- ment on the possible use of lasers as weapons.' It said the objective of the research 'is to determine the hazards of laser radiation and related techniques. "These have resulted in establishment of safety stand- ards for air force and depart- of defence personnel ment using laser equipment and serve as a general standard for the entire laser industrial community.' The report presented to the San Diego conference made no mention of a laser beam being developed that would 'explode eyeballs' 'There was a reference to the possibility of retinal tissue A particularly crude form of political censorship is being exercised by the French Communist Party against 'Lutte Ouvrière' paper of a small French revisionist group. The paper, a weekly, is dis- tributed through the Nouvelles Messageries de la Presse Parisienne, a commercial pub- which lisher handles most French 'Lutte newspapers. Ouvrière' has some supporters working at the publisher's and they put out a cyclostyled bulletin their fellow- among workers. Criticisms of the Commun- ist Party's policy in this bulle- tin were not to the taste of the CGI, the Stalinist-led trade union which organizes the bring NMPP. In a bid to 'Lutte Ouvrière' to heel, they declared a 'black' on the paper for and several weeks bulk copies intended for news- and shops have stands Press, Thursday August 10, 1972 PAGE 5 damage which could lead to blindness,' the statement said.

"The damage produced is like that which would be produced by looking at an are welder or the sun without adequate eye protection' Jack Anderson, whose syndi- cated column appears in several hundred American newspapers whose revelations often and embarrass government and Congress, said the report pre- sented at San Diego discussed laser beam experiments which "(were) used to bring rabbit boiling and monkey eyes to Above: Jack Anderson point, causing bleeding and • an actual explosion in the eye.

result of This, the the experiments, is important in considering the anti-personnel weapons application of lasers,' Anderson quoted the report as saying. '... it would not mat- ter upon which portion of the retina the image was formed because the resulting micro- explosion of the tissue would lead to blindness.' The study also said protec- tion against a laser beam blindness ray would be diffi- cult because lasers can pene- trate most protective filters, Anderson wrote. remained stacked in NMPP's warehouses. In the face of protests from non-Stalinist printworkers and journalists, the CGT blandly denies that any ban is in operation. 'We challenge the leaders of "Lutte Ouvrière" to show that their paper has been CGT district blacked, the committee says. Ouvrière' But 'Lutte has copies of motions obtained passed at CGT branch meet- ings in various parts of Paris, "The of which reads: one workers of NMPP have to step banding decided . the weekly "Lutte from one week to the next elements of "Lutte until Ouvrière" put an end to their of the NMPP warehouses. 'Lutte Ouvrière' has described the Stalinists' talk nd of 'provocations' as pure invention'. But they add that on June 6, a group of about 20 CP and CGT members beat up three youths selling the paper. It is worth noting that the CGT's political blockade is exclusively directed at the union left-wing The press. chiefs have no intention of taking any action to prevent the distribution of extreme right-wing propaganda handled by the publishing agency.

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

'We all recognize the force non-conference international shipping groups, following behind economies of scale. A their economic objectives, can, balanced view is required. In old unlike the conferences, the UK there are at present form and reform and move eight to ten major deep-sea from port The port to port. the number will prob- ports, authorities' facilities, however, be halved to four ably or mobile and port are

LUL

five? Philip H. Shirley, authorities can no longer Cunard deputy chairman of much as in the count so past on their immediate hinterlands Steamship, at container providing continuing justifica- symposium, 1968. of tion for particular levels The giants of the con- deep-sea activity' tainer world are the ship- The ports get weaker and weaker as more cargo is con- ping lines. They dominate tainerized. Already large the ports, the road-haul- European, proportion of the Atlantic and industry, the North Austra- age con- lian trade travels roll-on, roll- and the tainer bases off This in stevedoring companies. year will see the containeriza- tion of the Far East trade and The container revolution and transport facili- only primitive 'through-transport' the prin- ties in the Indian and African ciple has shifted the emphasis continent, prevents the inland considerably and re- pletion of the process world- the importance of the duced wide. port and its immediate hinter- But the methods new land. also a severe headache for the The shipping lines have been big shipowners. The immense forced to follow this develop- capital investment involved in ment and buy a large stake in trade from containerizing the land transport industry.

destination has source This has placed them in a forced the lines into mammoth position of the power overn consortia. authorities. They can port One of them, Overseas Con- choose which docks to use for tainers Ltd (OCL) spent £14m their trade since they largely development in the control the inland flow of con- first two years of its container freight the tainer cast. This year service to Australia. Vastly-improved road and rail hopes to

OCL

break even communications have also cut the Australia trade, but any down the cost of land trans- surplus will be eclipsed by the need port and therefore the of the Far developing cost to minimize the land haul of East service, which container cargo. is just starting. Britain's ports, These great Liverpool, Southamp- Tilbury, on the individual ship- drain Felixstowe and Hull now ton, ping lines. The pre-tax profits compete madly for the precious of the Peninsular and Oriental favours of the big operators. Steam Navigation Co (P&O) £51m Seaforth At the new £5.25m in 1969 slipped_from container dock on Merseyside, to £1.45m last year because of for example, a substantial re- its share of OČL's losses.

The bate on freight is offered to trading results of Cunard new container custom - the Steam Ship Co were £5m down hefty investment must pay its on the 1969 results because of and attract new trade. waThis dependence was gloom- the share it bore in the losses of another consortium Atian- ily recognized by the National tic Containers Ltd (ACL).

Ports Council when they com- the deficits are so back- mented on a decision by two do the reaking why ship- of the container consortia to wners bother with containeri.

zation? split up and pull out of a joint berth at Tilbury. does One reason is, This development, said the eventually offer the prospect

NPC,

underlines the of multi-million pound pronts degree to which the new-style if the of dock resistance Shipe being loe containi workers can be smashed. The But a more important factor lines is that they simply had into th no choice. Sealanc A capitalist can only invest transat or choose not to invest within ately ti certain limits. If an important interes new technique is adopted by sortia powerful rivals, he must convert get into the sooner or later vessels same field or go under. The Ther ance il system is not made, or com- pletely controlled, by indi Japane vidual capitalists-it imposes contain its own rules. gramm This is the case with con- questio tainerization. The British busines lines would like people to be- efficien lieve that their desire to con- For tainerize was prompted by a perime sense of duty to humanity- across that it meant cheaper trans- Assc port, therefore cheaper food, portati found etc. eight-t from bourne corresp cost manage This, of course, is nonsense. veries The British lines ignored con- United tainerization for as long as stead possible. The Rochdale report days. on the ports commented: It Ther is a regrettable façt that the now. ] possibly and British ports ing th British shipowners have been handle less forward-looking than some cargo overseas interests in develop- an ing carriage of cargo in con- berth's tainers.' tivity s That was in 1962. It was not men c until 1967 that : the British in cor lines began their first deep-sea Fifty 1 container run. palletiz then the issue but tha Even was forced by the Americans. Con- for eigl tainerization in the United tons o States began in 1955 with the (The first sailing on the White Pass tivity and Yukon route. From then it berths spread throughout the US than tr trade. Sealand, one of the part fo world's biggest operators, be- In gan with a service from States New Rico, York Puerto then began to Matson started its West Coast- later A Hawaii run. By 1966, Sealand ing to had 19 container ships and (after Matson 14. ban al ury which Is used by shipping lines who do not have their own OCL sailing on the Atlantic uropean dragged began. 55 when The role of the unions and iter the the Labour government in en- Immedi- this trade is the couraging subject article. of a later uropean Suffice to say these develop- con- perately accompanied by ments were entional intense lobbying by the ship- ping interests to get necessary lers. erform- changes in customs regulations of hen the and transport laws—all which were granted. massive On the docks the Devlin re- pro- port recommendations, which nply r losing were urged on the dockers by the unions and Communist y more Party shop stewards like Jack Dash, dovetailed with the em- ears ex- ployers' requirements. • made e world. To keep the container berths • Trans- busy, the shipping lines needed 1

OCL

to control the flow of freight hift an and they began to infiltrate d load and develop the inland trans- to Mel- port network. The great era of containerbase building be- 67-the gan in the late 1960s and early entional 1970s, haulage firms y also were deli- bought out and new ones to the established. lays in- The growth of P& OCL, the onal 57 major shareholder of illustrates this greater concern g. back with inland transport. build- Their 1970 annual report rths to states: tons of 'In 1969 it was decided to with establish a small sub-com- entional mittee to review ancillary Produc- shipping and transport activi- that 20 ties of the group. The survey 00 covered 60 tons approximately hours. group companies in the field 1,800 which together contributed 5 t hours, per cent of the total revenue 90 men and 10 per cent of the group id 1,200 profit and showed some of the nighest returns in capital in.

cargo. produc- vested in any group company.

ontainer 'Clearly there was a case for antastic some measure of rationaliza- show in tion and integration of these activities and it was decided United to form a new holding com- service pany-P&O Transport Hold- a year ings. rst sail- 'Development over the years of in 1969 the P&O group's tra- ontainer ditional shipping activities lockers) brought with it a need to pro- not have their own terminal. (Picture from Port of London Author vide associated [services of] forwarders, packing storage, and haulage for shippers in association with shipping operations.' P&O own or control two international road hauliers, have a share in the giant con- tainer transporters Ferry- masters Ltd, Fleetway Con- tainers and Anglo-Overseas Transport Ltd. Their sub- sidiary, Coast Lines, own eight haulage firms, including Jarvis Transport Ltd Robinson offers groupage) and (which Link Line Ltd. OCL itself, with ACT, set up the Containerbase Federa- tion, which has under its um- brella six of the largest inland clearance depots (ICDs) in the country where about 20 per cent of all groupage work is carried out. All but two of the employ non-registered bases dock labour-with the full agreement of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Cunard (ACL) also have in- terests in London ICD Ltd, the Chobham Farm complex, scene of the first attempt to arrest the Industrial dockers under Relations Act. Another major principal of OCL, Ocean Steam Ship, ex- amples the drive of the ship- owners to get a direct grip on the employment of dockers.

Ocean Steam own four large stevedoring firms, Ocean Port Maritime Terminals Services, (Liverpool) Metropolitan Ter- minals and Renfrew Stevedor- ing. They bought out William & Son Ltd Cory recently wanted Cory's because they stowage and stevedoring opera- tions. The merit of controlling dock operations directly is obvious. lines It gives the power to mould them to their diminishing requirements and ort of London Authorlty.)

demand strength to greater higher productivity on the dock. industry The container therefore has developed as a maze of interlocking interests with operators who vary from the giants like OCL and the back-street operator who stuffs and strips two or so containers at a time. This unplanned development has led to profound contra- dictions. The consortia, for example, did not invest rationally, estimating total and con- trade requirements structing their land-sea net- works on this basis. Rather they rushed into the business out of fear of their overseas rivals. The result was that the big lines found that there was 50 per cent over capacitv on the North Atlantic trade last year. The problem, of course, was sharpened by the reces- sion in world trade. The out- come was a vicious rate of war and the possibility of a number of bankruptcies. A major crash was avoided when the Federal Maritime Commission stepped in. After a series of private discussions organized by Commission head, Helen Delich Bently, the consortia were forced into a cartel agreement. This carves up the North Atlantic trade. ACL took 20 per cent, Sealand 19 per cent, United States Lines 17 per Hapag Lloyd 14 per cent, Seatrain ll per cent, cent, Dart 10 per cent and Con- tainer Marine 9 per cent.

Now the giants tread more warily. Several big container projects have been cancelled and OCL, together with Ger- and Japanese interests, man have already come to a pool- ing agreement over the 2 mil- lion tons of Far East trade they hope to ship out of Til- bury. They call their Far East service Trio Lines. These latest moves destroy the capitalist myth that pro- duction and new techniques can best be developed by pri- vate industry because the owners must provide the most efficient service or lose out to rivals. The container industry has not been developed for the benefit of the consumer, but to sult the mutually antagonistic interests of the shipping mono- polies. Containerization demands forward investment. massive Its development therefore is continually threatened by fluc- tuations due to the slump in intensified world trade-now by the international monetary chaos which followed Ameri- ca's decision to go off the gold standard. increases This uncertainty the fear within the inter- national shipping community that the cartels might break Then another disastrous up. rate war would follow as the lines competed for shares in the shrinking volume of world cargo. All this means that in pri- vate hands containerization can only develop so far-and then not to benefit the people who consume the cargo. The McKinsey report on the future of trade commissioned by the British Transport Docks Board envisaged three or four ports, each serving the main trade routes. Freight could be conceived as travelling across the world via containers or modern methods other on huge 'conveyor belts' bringing a never-ending supply of goods to those who needed them.

Things have not turned out that Ports not way. are necessarily chosen on the basis of geographic merit or even the facilities offered. A cheap and docile labour force is a major factor to the capitalists who control trade-hence the development of places like Felixstowe and even the re- birth of tiny riverside wharves where non-registered labour can be employed on a casual basis. The mad scramble into con- tainerization produced over- capacity and now the cartels attempt to check and control the development of new trans- port methods. Inland there has been an unnecessary and wasteful pro- liferation of depots simply because some employ cheaper labour than others or offer an inferior service. Overall the slump in world trade-itself a direct result of the world capitalist production —jeopardizes all technical ad- vance in freight movement.

Only a planned system of world trade and its movement could resolve these contradic- tions. Then the fullest ad- of containerization vantages could be reaped to the benefit of all. the American Overseas Europe. Each charters including and capital. operations Workers Press, Thursday depending on the size of the

OCL

stake they hold. establis clearan The losses, however, are inevitable because of groupar the enormous capital outlay on clearan developing container fleets and

OCL SI

inland transport networks.

base F big_sh The consortia and their

ACT.

members stretch their tentacles The into every corner of the con- tainer industry - shipping, partner P&O haulage, container depots, insurance, panies, container manu- Ferries facture and even air freight.

tainer There are also cross-hold- took m ings. For example Cunard Panalpi Brocklebank are the main groupas agents of ACL in the UK, but through its subsidiary com- attempi Transpi panies Cunard also have a Worker share of ACT. The British members of the stewarc ninghar consortium are as follows: Relatio:

ACL:

Cunard-Brocklebank, P&O Eller- ten hau Lines and their sub- man giant F (foreign sidiaries. members way ( include three Swedish, one Overse: French, one Dutch line). interest

ACI:

and fi Blue Star Line, Port Lines, hundre Ellerman Lines, Ben Lines and connect ] & ) Harrison lines. In 19

OCL:

Ocean Steamship, Peninsular Lines proport and Oriental (P&O), Furness trade t Withy and British and Com- has sel monwealth. lines, i OCL control the Far East ship, and Australia container trade with ACT which is smaller.

and Ty It or

ACL

compete with the unit-loa American lines on the trans- atlantic run. haulage Subsidiaries of the big lines Robins Fu in the consortia operate the cent of container trade to Europe and Scandinavia. shippin ACU's major principle is the Manch‹ Cunard Steam Ship Company, ates service recently taken over by Trafal- gar House Investments Ltd.

Other foreign Cunard wholly owns light shipping lines including and t Thoma: Thomas Brocklebank Ltd, Cunard Line Ltd, Moss Tankers Ocea its hok and Port Line (part of the ACT consortium.) 49 per It has a 20-per-cent stake in contain ACT, 45 per cent share of and cl ACT (Australia) Ltd and a 21 consort per cent share of Lyons Con- It pl Inc, tainer USA. Interests in Tilbury Australia also include Freight- is com bases Ltd. contain It owns 39 per cent of West charter Coast Stevedoring Co Ltd lives. (Liverpool) and in 1970 bought expecte a 75-per-cent stake of Baxter break ( and Hoare, a long-established trade b haulage firm which offered Ocea sidiarie in Bootle near groupage Merseyside docks. Line, Glen L The other big partner in ACL is Ellerman Lines Ltd.

It co insuran They have eight wholly- owned shipping lines including agents compai Hall Lines Ltd, City Line, Ellerman's Wilson Line (Hull), One Ellerman Papayanni Lines Ltd quence has ber (Liverpool). Wilson Line, backs Ellerman's sidiary main employer is the of dock labour at Hull. Recently Liverpe about bought Key Warehousing and force 1 Transport Co Ltd, which Southa carried out groupage work near also owns other s Hull docks. It Maritir Lid, Marine Transportation Liverpo McMasters (Haulage) Ltd and minals Humber Keyways Ltd. ing. The modern ACL ships are lí is built for containers and heavy firm. Ir TIR vehicles on the roll-on, tax pre roll-off principle. At the new containerberth a wage Seaforth on is roug the Merseyside company on lab round a ship expects to turn In N carrying 6,000 tons of •con- prolons tainer cargo and 600 vehicles Willian in 18 hours. It has developed which container grid which a fuel, st equalizes land haulage costs by housins which a shipper in, say, New Cory York can get his containerized include freight moved out of any one Ltd, S of the British ports for the Johnso same price. Contine Though its main bases are at Cory S Liverpool and Southampton Service believes in the multi-

ACL

In its port concept. stated OCL is the biggest of the distribi consortia. Originally the main up to tl partner was P&O because of end of its traditional interests in the and ha Australia trade. But Ocean Steamship has now taken over as a ma profits due to its predominant position firm in the Far East trade which is Archib being Other containerized. subsidiaries include Furness transpo Withy and British and Com- compar monwealth Lines.

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Aug (Reprinted 'Fourth Internat These three historical docu- ments date back to the year 1926, a crucial year in the struggle of the Left Opposition against the bureaucratic degeneration of the party. They have not been published before in any language. The first of these documents comprises extracts from Trot- diary, sky's in which, in November 1926, he jotted down for future reference- in thesis form— a series of basic propositions concerning the development of the USSR.

additional They provide irrefutable evidence that Trot- sky never cherished any illu- sions about the meaning and gravity of the struggle against the bureaucratic tendencies which had then gained the ascendancy in the state apparatus, in the party, and in the country. These November 1926 theses were later ex- panded by Trotsky in a large number of speeches, articles and books. Here, in the most general- ized form, is Trotsky's analysis of the most complex historical namely, the mech- problem, society anics of class as expressed in the oscillations between revolutionary epochs and events and those of reaction and counter-revolu- tion. To young Bolsheviks these theses supply an object lesson in the method of rsday August 10, 1972 International' October 1941) Marxism. Trotsky here applies the dialectic to explain how the struggle for the emancipation of the working class is con- ditioned and determined by social their vast processes, political ebbs and flows, their effects on the psychology of other pheno- the masses and mena in the superstructure. From this kind of analysis and synthesis is derived our pro- gramme which alone makes possible a conscious interven- tion in events. Above all, these theses teach the lesson that in our epoch the decisive struggle is the struggle for the correct inter-relationship between the party and the class. The other two documents which likewise pertain to this (1926) cast same year graphic light on the conditions under which Trotsky con- ducted this great struggle. The ideological leader of the rising was none other bureaucracy than Bukharin to whom these two personal letters are addressed. In a certain sense, they con- stitute an appeal to Bukharin; at the same time they sound a warning about the disastrous consequences of the course on which Bukharin had embarked, and for which he paid with his own life, 12 years later, in the third of the Moscow frame-up trials.

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The Interrelationship Between Revolution and Counter-Revolution November 26, 1926 1. Revolutions have always by been followed counter- revolutions in history. Counter- revolutions have always thrown society back, but never back as far as the starting point of the revolution. The succession revolutions and counter- revolutions is the product of certain fundamental features the mechanics of class in society, the only society in which revolutions and counter- revolutions are possible.

Revolution is impossible without the participation of the masses. This participation is in its turn possible only in the event that the oppressed masses connect their hopes for a better future with the slogan of revolution. In this sense the hopes engendered by the revo- lution are always exaggerated.

This is due to the mechanics of class socie the helmible overwhelming majority of the popular masses, the objective need of concen- trating the greatest hopes and efforts in order to insure even the most modest progress, and so on. 3. But from these same con- ditions comes one of the most important-and moreover, one of the most common - elements of the counter- revolution. The conquests gained in the struggle do not with and in the correspond nature of things cannot directly correspond with the expecta- tions of the broad backward masses, who are awakened for the first time in the course of itself. The dis- the revolution illusionment of these masses, their return to routine and to futility is as much an integral part of the post-revolutionary period as the passage into the camp of 'law and order' of those 'satisfied' classes or layers of classes who had participated in the revolution.

4. Closely bound with up these processes, parallel pro- cesses of a different and, to a large measure, of an opposite character take place in the camp of the ruling classes. The awakening of broad backward masses upsets the ruling classes from their accustomed equili- brium, deprives them of direct support as well as confidence, and thus enables the revolu- tion to seize a great deal more than it is later able to hold.

The disillusionment of a considerable section of the oppressed masses in the immediate conquests of the revolution and-directly con- nected with this-the decline of the political energy and activity of the revolutionary class engender an influx of confidence among counter- revolutionary classes - both among those overthrown by the revolution but not shat- tered completely, as well as among those which aided the revolution at a certain phase, but were thrown back into the camp of reaction by the further development of the revolution.

The Conditions of the Rise of Stalinism 20. It would be wrong to ignore the fact that the pro- letariat today (1926) is con- siderably less receptive to revolutionary perspectives and to broad generalizations than was the case during the October overturn and in the ensuing few years. The revo- lutionary party cannot pas- sively align itself in accordance with every shift in the moods of the masses. But it cannot ignore any alteration which is produced by causes of pro- found historical order. 21. The October revolution, any to a greater extent than other in history, aroused the greatest hopes and passions in the popular masses, first of all, the proletarian masses. After • sufferings of the maximum 1917-1921, the proletarian masses improved their status considerably. They cherish this improvement, hopeful of its further development. But at time their own the same experience has shown them the extreme gradualness of this process of improvement which has only today reached standard of living. pre-war This living experience is of incalculable significance to the especially the older masses, generation. They have grown more cautious, more sceptical, less directly responsive to less revolutionary slogans, receptive to major generaliza- tions. These moods which un- folded after the ordeals of the civil war and after the suc- cesses of economic restora- tion, and which still remain undisrupted by new shifts of class forces-these moods con- stitute the basic political back- ground of party life. These are the moods which bureaucrat- ism—as an element of 'law and order' and 'tranquility'-banks on. The attempt of the opposi- tion to pose new questions before the party ran up against precisely these moods. 22. The older generation of working class, who made the two revolutions, or the_last one, beginning with 1917, is nervous, exhausted, and, now in large measure, fearful of all convulsions bound up with the perspectives of war, havoc, famine, epidemics and so on.

A bogey is being made out of the theory of the permanent precisely for the revolution purpose of exploiting the psy- chology of a considerable sec- tion of the workers, who are not at all careerists, but who have The theory of the permanent revolution which is being utilized in this sense, is of course in no way related to old disputes, long relegated to the archives, but simply raises the phantom of new convul- sions-heroic 'invasions' , vio- lations of 'law and order'; a threat to the conquests of the reconstruction period: a new zone of great efforts and sacrifices. Making a bogey out of the permanent revolution is, in essence, speculation upon the moods of that section of the working class, including Party members who have grown smug, fat and semi- conservative. The Interrelation Between the Party, the Youth and the Class 24. The young generation, only now growing up, lacks experience of the class struggle and the necessary revolu- tionary temper. It does not explore for itself, as did the generation, but falls older immediately into an environ- ment of the most powerful party and governmental institu- tions, tradition, party authority, discipline, etcetera.

For the time being this renders independent role more an difficult for the young genera- The question of the tion. correct orientation of the young generation of the party and of the working class acquires a colossal importance.

Parallel with the above- indicated processes, there has been an extreme growth in the role played in the party and the state apparatus by a special category of old Bolsheviks, who were members or worked actively in the Party during the 1905 period; who then left the Party in the period of reaction, adapted themselves to the bourgeois regime and less occupied a more or prominent position within it; who were defencists together entire bourgeois with the intelligentsia and together with the latter were propelled for- ward in the February revolu- tion (of which they did not dream at the beginning of the war); who staunch were opponents of the Lenininst programme and of the October overturn; but who returned to the Party after victory was secured or after the stabiliza- tion of the new regime about the same time that the bour- geois intelligentsia stopped its sabotage. These elements, who more or less accommodated themselves to the June 3 regime, can be, naturally, only elements of the conservative type. They are in general in favour of stabilization, and generally against every opposi- tion. The education of the Party youth is largely in their hands. Such is the combination of circumstances which in the recent period of Party develop- determined ment has the change in the Party leadership and the shift of Party policy to the right. The Soviet Thermidor 26. The official adoption of the theory of 'socialism in one country' signifies the theo- retical sanction of those shifts which have already taken place; and of the first open break with Marxist tradition.

situation of the peasantry, who do not want the return of the landlords but still not are interested materially in social- ism (hence flows the import- ties with the ance of political peasant poor); b) in the moods of considerable layers of the working class, in the lowering of revolutionary energy, in the fatigue of the older generation, in the increased specific weight of the conservative elements.

Bukharin in 1926 wal Two Letters to I two years ago durir I said that th Leningrad party w more than was the where. This express fess, a very strong used by me circle, just as you u personal note the conscionable demag To be sure, this c vent my remark con muzzling of the par the Leningrad parts from being broadc mess. But this is a and-I hopenot : But doesn't this the actu to certain comrades and a half, year three years ago. the during that : 1928 was the Ideological ters to Bukharin • perhaps recall that ago during a session „oen cn vnd ce of the mass party was muzzica else- was the case is expression (I con- strong one) was an intimate 1n as you used in your the words: 'un- le demagogy. ure, this did not pre- mark concerning the of the party mass by rad party apparatus broadcast through the through this is a special item -not a precedent esn't this mean that of the actual state contrast comrades, I saw it a a half, and two and saule SESSIUl pyarythina logical leader of the rising b mind, represented by does even truly shocking fact. What are those social (?!) conditions grad and Moscow wh such a drastic and 'u polar opposition? No for them, no one as about them. explanation? silently sa 100 per ce self: is the work This, N. I., is But Leningrad stand alone as regar routine'. day In we had on the Chita business, that Naturally son abominations* tions precisely becau excesses. But these symptomatic. al c things that happene e rising bureaucracy. sented by the pres Iwell on thi those special (?) onditions in Lenin- oscow which permit tic and 'unanimous' ition? No one seeks one asks himself Simply this, that ilently says to him- DO per cent opposi- the apparatus. is the gist of the ite of things'. does not as regards 'day-to the past yea the the one hand, and on the Kherson. in and I under- he Chita and Kher- are ely because of their ut these exceptions Could the happened in Chita

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not , the Chita summits mutual ank and file as its you read the report investigating Khersonovism? ent is instructive to degree-not only characterizes some rsonovist personnel, it charac- aspects of the whole. To n why all the local who had known respon or the kept quiet, Just try to speak lose your job, icked into a village, of quote, course. this is the Schlichter of this: now have told us that opinion allegedly (?!) kicked posts, But etc. do not protest actions for fear of ved, thrown into a village, expelled etc."cite a party, memory. i know Inal cel possibly rades, them, have been until recent times a what follows: workers in the nucle bility of criticizin guild and and at the same resolutely down 'opposition' upper ranks of In way, whole regime preserved by provid a broader base. But 1 ment was not at all The methods and ha apparatus-regime seep down from every criticism equated, under to a faction tions, for power, with all t to those who critici of its spnere powers, and under grad Committee the When 1923 in Mos tion arose out the aid and apparatus, resistance) the local apparatus bludgeon down skull peasantry.' oparatus-wa organization, and cr You don't rec middle peasant.' terrorizing centres of proletaria the ship hesi re-educa elements, from expressing alou their views, erroneous alike, but alarm concerning t questions of and socialism. And the democratic rural areas to the tionably being and intrenched Can't you see all that flow from this? N(ikolai) Ivanovich, I write this lette hand (although I h unaccustomed to it) as it is embarrassing to a stenographer n to say. You are of col accordance that in Uglanovs line conducted against n cow a half-conceale with all sorts insinuations from characterizin they deserve. By all sorts of m -in part and wholl of and degrading to ization-I am not p speak at workers' m the time spread

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through the bourgeoisie' speak WorKers. listen to what this soil, and this, accident at all not verbatim from worker party 'In our núcleus t) posed been has to give pa arrange The prices of these reports are ve the workers Consequent!! them. bourgeoisie attends. tary of our nucleus us in his talks tha reports you charge centages for vour o He tells us that fo of your articles an by-line you also tak he, you run shy of a member of the really have to sell You etc., etc. this silly nonsense? sorrow, it is not from the I cite again from that certain com- you among been carrying out times a plan some- the the nuclei the possi criticizing factory, regional matters, same time, crack every emanating from ranks of the Party. the apparatus- whole was to ase. But this experi- lot at all successful. ds and habits of the inevitably and even criticism Committee under condi- with all the ensuing the Lenin ittee will carry out ne policy in relation ho criticize it in the plenipotentiary the Lenin. ittee there are dis- sub-districts. the opposi Moscow (with. the local its against central and ratus brought the Moscow's • the slogan: 'Shut o not recognize the the same now 3, and crying, •Shut lon t recognize th sant.' You are thus the proletarian dictator- proletariar re-educating them ssing aloud not only correct or alike, but also their the general revolution sm. And meanwhile, ratic rights granted l areas are unques- strengthened u see all the dangers rom this? March 4, 192 Person: this letter in long ough ! have grown ned to it in as much barrassing to dictate grapher what I have • of course aware cordance with the being there is against me in Mos = Concere oce of sallies and which refrain acterizing here as orts of machinations nd wholly unworthy rading to our organ- am not permitted to orkers' meetings. At time rumours are systematically workers' nuclei for the and refuse to workers. Now just luxuriates on Once agaln accidentally. ty member. why you posed give paid report of admission t rts are very high and afford cannot sequently only The • attends. The secre- that charge fees, per- or your own benefit. s that for every one ticles and for

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also take a fee, that big family and, says of funds. Does of the Poltbureau to sell his by-line? will ask: isn't onsense? No, to ou is not nonsense. I Workers Press, Thu have verified it. At first it was decided to write a letter to the Centra! Control Commission (or Central Committee), signed by several members of the nucleus, but then they decided not to, saying: "They will drive us out of the factory, and we have families." ' In this way a fear has seized the worker-Party member that if he tries to verify the most infamous slander against a member of the Politbureau, he, a Party member, can be driven from the factory, for following Party procedure. And you know, were he to ask me, I could not in all sincerity say that this would not happen.

The same secretary of the same nucleus says-and again not at all accidentally: 'In the Polit- bureau the sheenies are running wild' And again no one dared to say anything about it to anyone - for the self-same openly formulated reason: they will drive us out of the factory.

Another item. The author of the letter which I cited above, is a Jewish worker. He, too, did not dare to write about the 'sheenies who agitate against Leninism'. The motive is as follows: 'If the others, the non- Jews, keep quiet, it would be awkward for me...' And this worker-who wrote me to ask whether it is true that I sell my speeches and my by-line to the bourgeoisie-is now also expecting that he will be driven any hour from the fac- tory. This is a fact. Another fact is that I am not at all sure that this won't happen—if not immediately, month then a from now; there are plenty of pretexts. And everybody in the nucleus knows 'that's how it was, that's how it will be'- and they hang their heads.

In other words: members of Party the Communist are afraid to report to the Party organs about Black-Hundred agitation, thinking that it is the! who will be driven out and not the Black-Hundred gangster. You will say: Exaggeration!

-, too, would like to think so.

Therefore I have a proposal to make: Let us both take a trip to the nucleus and check up on it. I think that you and I- two members of the Polit- bureau-have after all a few things in common, enough to and conscientiously calmly verify: whether it is true, whether it is possible that in our party, in Moscow, in a workers' nucleus, propaganda being is conducted with impunity which is vile and slanderous, on the one hand, and anti-Semitic, on the other; and that honest workers are afraid to question or to verify or try to refute any stupidity, • be driven into the lest they street with their families. Of course you can refer me to the 'proper bodies' • But this would signify only closing the vicious circle. I want to hope that you will not do this; and it is precisely this hope which prompts this letter. Yours,

L. TROTSKY.

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" Controlled Zinoviev- by Kamener allied in 1924 with Stalin. " Controlled at the time (1926) by the right wing of Bukharin- Rykov-Uglanov in a bloc with Stalin. 3 Controlled at the time (1926) by Zinoviev and Kameneu who had broken with Stalin and entered into a bloc with the Left Opposition. 4 In 1925-1926 numerous cases were laid bare of criminal abuse of power by ranking The provincial bureaucrats. Chita and Kherson affairs were the most notorious instances time of corruption, at the grafting, terrorization of the Party membership and of the Uglanov was one of the right- wing leaders of the inquisitions and purges against the Left Opposition during the period Right-Centre Bloc of the (1925-1929). Press, Thursday August 10, 1972 PAGE 9 Things are not going too well for the Tories up in Scotland.

With top civil servants being suspended and Labour MP calling for Willie Hamilton police investigations into the activities of others, they have now been accused of jobs for the boys. Rear Admiral Dunbar- Nasmith was given a job on Highlands and Islands the Development Board without even an interview with the of State, it was Secretary alleged in the Commons. Ayrshire Labour MP Mr James Sillars described this as 'a scandalous and disgraceful way to handle an extremely important public appointment' Harry Ewing And Mr (Labour, Stirling and Falkirk) was growing said the feeling north of the border that what was going on in Scotland was "jobs for the boys'. He said there was also disquiet about the appointment of the chair- countryside of the man commission. And shadow Secretary of State Mr William Ross said: "The Highlands and Islands Development Board is rapidly becoming known as the Inver- ness harbour of refuge.' Defending the appointments Tory Secretary of State Mr Gordon Campbell said they were made because the 51- year-old ex-Rear Admiral was the best possible person for the job. With regard to the chairman of the countryside commission, simply he said that the appointment had been success- ful. She was a lady and a very popular one. If General Idi Amin, the box- ing champion turned president of Uganda, makes good his threat to expel all Asians, he could find himself in some considerable difficulties.

The Asians are the most important economic community in the country. If they are forced to leave they will withdraw all their cash which could cause serious disruptions to the local economy. the Madhvani family. Take telephone In the Kampala directory they fill just over a page in home and business telephone numbers. At the main hotel, the Apollo named after Apollo Milton Obote) almost everything you eat, drink or sit on comes from Madhvani companies. For instance, the beer, the cigarettes, the matches, the • the table, the sugar, linen on the coffee and the furniture are from Madhvani's. doesn't Amin want to nationalize this vast monopoly for the benefit of the workers and peasants. He simply wants ownership transfer to to Africans, presumably some of his own officers.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday August 10, 1972 Security Barnsley rent benefits 'reviewed' by Tories strike call THE TORIES have begun their campaign to demolish security benefits for strikers and their families. Building from it te tycoon Sir Keith Joseph, the

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Minister for Social Security, LABOUR COUNCILLORS, who have has told the Commons he is overwhelming control of the Barnsley reviewing the position. council, Yorkshire, are preparing Rent Ac implement the Tories' "fair rent' Act.

national dock strike and For months Labour Group members nOW week nauona oucine workers sunke have been telling tenants that they were threatened, what Joseph is con- of survival inter- Act, but at their last templating opposed to the thousands meting then decided terrifinare for six class lamules. advertising campas launched plementation by „sne same agalos Social Security extra staff in the 'Barnsley Chronicle'.

during the miners' strike earlier At a recent tenants' meeting Brian Seton, the Estate South The involved secretary of the Athersley Tories attack system the security Tenants' Association, called for a rent strike Jock to begin on August 14 and to continue until South for the Labour council refused to implement the Edgbaston, Molent. Tory Act. Although the motion was amended Birmingham. the House this on that occasion to a canvass of the estate on Joseph said: secretary of Athersloy South Tenants' the question of paying the increase, Mr Sef- week Bruce-Gardyne's • think Mr tenants would Assoclation and his wife susan ton confident that disquiet ano Mr Sefton, his verbal need to get this govern- support a strike. opposition to that, while it is necessary to keep been fighting to set up ment out.' proportion, Bill this whole subject in 'We intend raise Council of another Action, the miners behind the entirely right

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1.40 Remember. 2.05 2.30 London. 3.15 Ran- town. Joe 90. PEUGEOT has joined other rise to cover the cost of the European car manufacturers downward floating of sterling.

M. Bernard Terquem, announc- in raising the price of its cur- ing the new charges, said he was rent models. pleased with Peugeot's perform- But the across-the-board Peu- Britain. The ance company geot increase is 8 per cent, well had sold 7,200 cars and vans up above the CBI ceiling and above to the end of July and expects to those recently announced by its meet its target of 12.000 for competitors. the year. spokesman for the French company said the rises are the This shows an increase of 160 result of a 3-per-cent increase in per cent on the first seven months factory prices plus a 5-per-cent of last year. A STUDY of British Railways to identify those services which can be run commercially, and those THERE WERE 190,649 firearm which cannot, is being carried certificates in force in England out by the Minister for Trans- and Wales atthe end of last vear and 715.453 shotgun certi- port Industries, John Peyton, said ficates (excluding visitors' shot- the Environment Under-Secre- gun certificates). tary, Eldon Griffiths, in answer to These figures were given by of the Commons questions. he Minister of State Home Office. Mark Carlisle, ir 'In the light of the studies he Wiliam Hamling tab Woolwich Commons written will consider what action needs to be taken about those services which strictly are not Carlisle said that both types nercial,' he said. of certificate mieht relate to more than one weapon. A FURNITURE factory in the Republic of Ireland, which went into liquidation three months ago, has gone back into produc- tion. The necessary capital has been raised by workers and townspeople and the factory has orders for about two months. at Navan, NORWICH UNION has stopped When the move was announced they staged a sit-in. Then they accepting private cor motor the Republic of insurance in began raising money to start up Ireland, following a refusal by again. the Irish Minister of Transport to allow an increase in motor insurance rates. FIVE factories in Hammersmith A spokesman said this was ar and Richmond stopped yesterday nterim measure, applying only in support of eight workers, in- in the Republic. until it could steward, sacked be seen if there was any prospec cluding Surrey from of motor insurance returning to Ltd. Fulham. profitability. Workers Press, Thursday August 10, 1972 PAGE 11 Russell Hunter does his Lonely bit for Max Bygraves on Independent channels tonight dall and Hopkirk. 4.10 News. 4.15

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Three-day battle of Scunthorpe-Massive police blockade Picket is nearly PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday Augi

BY DAVID MAUDE

WHETHER or not a docks delegate conference is called next week now appears largely to rest with the chairman of the port authorities. The Jones-Aldington commit- tee, it is believed, is hoping to persuade the chairmen to back up section B (vii) of its interim report, which calls on them to how they might help 'consider ensuring that all groupage in brought into their containers and stripped ports are stuffed under proper conditions of work'.

In other words, it wants the authorities to pressure container into giving registered firms more work at their dockers inland depots. The committee's joint chair- men put a brave face on things after a three-hour meeting yes- terday. 'Quite definite advances' had been made, claimed Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union secretary. 'We now have agreement as to how negotiations with other interests should go forward, Lord Aldington, chair- London man of the Port of Authority, commented. They then went off to report progress to Employment Secre- tary Maurice Macmillan. But whatever pressure the port authorities mount, the com- mittee is incapable of producing a solution to the jobs crisis in the ports. There are at the maximum 2,000 container jobs available nationally, while the committee accepts the employers' itself estimate that 6,000 almost dockers are surplus to require- ments. If dockers won all 2,000 an number of unregistered equal workers, many of them members of Jones's union, would have to be displaced. Jones made much of a claim yesterday that 175 dockers in the London area are already involved in container work.

'If there are as many as this, why can't there be more?' he asked. He did not comment on the fact that in the week before the strike there were over 1,500 dockers registered as temporarily unattached.

ANDREW

CUNNINGHAM,

North East regional officer of and Municipal the General Workers' Union, who was named in the Poulson bankruptcy case, should resign from all his public Newcastle councillor posts, a Kenneth Buckingham said yester- day. Cunningham and his wife had taken a £256 holiday in Estoril, Portugal, paid for by Poulson.

Mrs Cunningham, an ex-school teacher, had worked in Poulson's Newcastle office as a consultant during 1969-1970. Buckingham said the G&MWU official should resign as chairman of the Durham police authority, chairman of the airport authority, the Tyneside passenger transport authority and the Labour Party's northern regional council.

WEATHER

THERE will be occasional showers over the northern half of Scotland, otherwise it will be • intervals mostly dry with sunny in all parts. Outlook for Friday and Satur- day: Rain at times. Rather cool.

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coachloads of Liverpool dockers yesterday throttled in a picket of Heysham son ockers dock. On Tuesday there were scuffles with the large force ol police (see below) who prevented dockers and out trucks In

TOM

have told the or ine rallway they will not handle anything but 'regular cargos'. More than 100 police were on duty at the dock gate. From STEPHEN JOHNS at Keadby, near Scunthorpe Preston docker Ken Powrie told Workers Press: "The Jones-Alaington report is not wort we FLASHPOINT of police attacks on dockers' pickets has been at the It's printed on. The Torles want 5,000 workers for every 1,000 jobs so that the bosses can pick and Neap House Wharf on the River Trent at Gunness, near Scunthorpe.

If you don't do exactly what he wants, choose. During the past three days more than 30 dockers have been arrested you're out." while others have been manhandled by the massive police contingents.

Dockers from Hull, Goole, Grimsby and Immingham have been wharf picketing the

LSD

Trans- operators, port, because ot its use of unregistered labour. Yesterday's events

SEX

clashes at the timber wharf. pickets because Past All the

DICKELS

becaust superior police strength.

But one driver had his when windscreen smashed an iron bar. Ters pickets abouts the with shouts drivers 'Scab' and 'Have you killed miners today?' an There are total of 12 wharves about private and use

OUSI

Rivers and Hull dockers have launched deter- mined drive to stop them strike and to get them re- gistered. Tory newspapers have concentrated sively give scores or doe 1 g injuries, dockers have Deen cut.

KICKCU

dill one case nearly on the picket line. and version of the events. 'Police in several coun- Gordon Riby Hull picket. Trouble started on the docks wages docker and a St John Am- Monday when some of the docks. Now they are me ties used

TOO

being about the dockers' action: they clearly want con- started waving eroded by employers bulance brigade member, What happening here frontation. But this picket We is the ses tae mod for the this. don't nieces or timber at us on want will not be lifted. I hope it to take jobs off the men behind the police lines.'

me: gulle suitore. docker, these They are about 100 lorry drivers in active Another Len Will

MOST

Treated wharf and they are poline foere in the contry being exploited by the Monday for cuts, bruises Milne a shop steward from docker, Another employers. and gashed heads Grimsby, also supposed to be witnessed the is 'strangulation' incident.

'We want them regis "The case was oiner

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•nivers. remail anonymous they can earn are hundreds of police as knocked was just standing ir tered tola me now ne was arres man

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was well ted and charged. He the wages and conditions like stopping carrying says down in the rush. When I Sinoce

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rodu seized him and police cant up and et me The having a smoke when he us.'

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Garmste Hull shop the Black was picked by about Roy deputy on here is only one word Torew on

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came up and hit me. for this professional Maria. He his friend five coppers.' chairman and lad was describea in une they overheard Pete Cox, strike-breaking. This pick- say papers as being mate, Len's stewaras Commitlee. Las Leicestershire collapse". fact explained the issues be- been arrested ana charger eune nas been cole on tol Is clot say ot near hind the picket: breach of the peace months. They have obvi- nearly throt- othet •constabes. Workers ously decided to take us lads,, he's in our territory 'People Ben Tillet prevents tled by the pollce. Press telling This was peaceful fought all their lives for

HOW.

IrOM Combine-wide Leyland

AUGUST FUND

£304.66— strike against closure

SPECIAL

EFFORT

BRITISH - LEYLAND

on which the factory stands had lansterds decision ot wa 150- been sold to a property company unanimous accision stewards yesterday called a

NEEDED

350 workers would be sacked. strong meeting Le vaine Closure fears from stewards Birmingham. one-day strike throughout the arise steward acidly the firm which One

THIS MONTH,

need a than ever fact that Eaton's combine on August 28 against great North trade before, we cam-

LONGOI

Combine s the feared closure of Thorny- after a long strike in 1967, have committee, Fund who supported three-year lease on BMC-Leyland 1968, only taken a keep Workers Press right out in croft's heavy - transmission that after six years the chickens the front. factory, Basingstoke. were comme nome to roosu the While the Tories with behind them, emergency Next Monday aelegamons trom use the most brutal

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

most Leyland plants will stage a the police against the dockers, outside trade the union movement whole of the into

PUBLIC MEETING

must against the sack. workers' fight The dockers n ust and the Tory government be officials were tune UnIOn made to resign. told that the 1,100-strong factory

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alone, shows the paper, bad be of do the san spe had been way forward. We must not leave

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he raising of our Fund to chance.

the nel. finances begin Immeddle Stanton Thursday August 10, 7.30 p.m.

our • EN circulation drive. political situation, it is urgent inal new readers are won in every district. strike

END THE TUC TALKS WITH HEATH

At the we need an- moment, the end of

VICTORY TO THE DOCKERS

other by special effort August. Make

NATIONALIZE DOCKS AND TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES

ABOUT 900 workers in the Dale and we will raise fals in time. Post all your and 18-foot spun pipes plant at amount

MAKE THE TORIES RESIGN

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