Workers Press no. 840

workers press

TIMEWASTING AS TROOPS PREPARE

JONES-ALDINGTON

TALKS STALEMATE

DAILY OR

BY DAVID MAUDE

AS THE THREAT of a full-scale mov loomed close yesterday, union leaders and increasingly dangerous round of d and the Tory government. The Jones-Aldington committee virtually admitted early yesterday afternoon that 12 hours of talking this week have produced no more than a tiny handful of job promises for dockers. But immediately the committee broke up after completing the first phase of its work' , Jack Jones and the other union men on the committee went into a huddle to assess whether they could gamble on a recalled docks delegate conference calling off the strike.

And as we went to press the Trans- port and General Workers' Union secretary and his colleagues were closeted with Em- ployment Secretary Maurice Macmillan.

The Department of Employment talks took place under the shadow of the first military intervention in the strike. Two aircraft taking supplies to Rippon sees Amin BRITAIN'S chief Common Market nego- tiator Geoffrey Rippon flew to Uganda last Amin's night to discuss President Idi plan to expel all Asians, many of whom hold British passports. He will return to London on Tuesday, also having seen the heads of government in Tanzania and Kenya. Amin has agreed to have personal discussions with Rippon on all aspects of the problem.

The object of Rippon's visit is to see whether Amin 'can have second thoughts'.

Rippon has been chosen for the mission, it is reported, because of his ability as a persuasive negotiator'. He is also a member of the extreme right-wing Monday Club, which has fre- declared its support for Enoch quently Powell's view that all immigrants now in be repatriated Britain should be free to and that no more be allowed to enter the country. NEARLY 700 workers at the Macclesfield, Cheshire, textile machinery firm of Ernest Scragg are to lose their jobs 'in view of the continuing extremely depressed trad- ing situation. Machine shops in Oldham run by the subsidiary William Bodden will also be closed. Scragg's was the only engineering firm in the Manchester district to concede on all three points of the engineering unions' claim, including hours, during the recent wave of sit-in strikes there. For doing so expelled from the Engineering it was Employers' Federation.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SAT

AILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

ale movement of troops into the docks leaders continued their time-wasting nd of discussions with port employers the Northern Isles were due to leave RAF Kinloss last night, one at 6 p.m.

the other an hour later. Earlier, a visibly worried Jones told We shall have our assessment reporters. and we may come to a decision, but we'll have to see.' The fact that he did not immediately declare a break from the committee and call for an extension of the strike is a warning to all dockers. Though the talks have proved not only time-wasting and dangerous, but fruitless as well, the union chiefs have decided to continue collaborating in moves to split the dockers. Both in yesterday morning's Fleet Street press and, it is understood, in his meeting with Macmillan, Jones was under con- pressure to recall siderable Tory the docks delegate conference on Monday.

Even then it was clear, as Lord Alding- ton admitted yesterday, that the number can offer the of jobs the committee delegates is very small indeed.

"The Times' noted that the strike had in fact stiffened container firms' resolve not to employ 'a group of workers who reach straight away for the weapon that should be a last resort'. But if the dele- gates were not recalled until later next week, after troops have been moved into the docks, the paper said, they would be near-certain to vote that the strike should go on. This, of course, is an admission that the troops will go in whatever the delegates decide. Because no one in Fleet Street seriously thinks dockers in Hull, Liverpool or London will call off their action, even if official backing is removed.

So the pistol the Tories are now hold- ing directly to Jones's head is very similar to the legal weapon levelled at him by the Law Lords and the National Industrial Relations Court.

The message is the same: either help us discipline your members, or we will blow your head off first. Only this time the threat is backed up with troops not just fines. 'The Times' holds out a more subtle threat. If the committee is not recalled on Monday, the paper said, 'the opportunity to reconsider the strike vote in a calm manner may be lost'. It complained that themselves the dockers showing were more ruthless on picket-lines than the miners. This lie is designed to cover up for deliberate police provocations at Keadby, Lincolnshire; Heysham, Lanes; Colchester, Essex and Montrose, Scot- land. But the message to Jones is clear. If do not act quickly to force your you the Tory strategists members back, are telling him, they may take their fate in hands and go beyond their own your reformist policies.

SATURDAY AUGUST 12, 1972

No 840

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAG

Lord Aldington yesterday talking to Jack Jones (t After yesterday's meeting of the Jones- Aldington committee, however, the bank- policies is as clear as ruptcy of these crystal to every docker. Outlining the results of his talks with port authorities and employers in "sensitive areas' the past few days, Lord over Aldington said: Each agreement or case does not add up to many people, but as the number of cases start to build up, this procedure can be counted on to add up to meaning- ful number of jobs for registered dock- workers.' Both Aldington and Jones were loth to be drawn on individual cases.

Aldington admitted to 'disappointment' in some of the approaches he had made.

'But it would not be right to say that in every case we have failed in what we set out to do,' he claimed. Jones's sole concrete comment was that the committee was waiting for confirma- chairmen tion from the of two port authorities of verbal assurances they had been given. The T&GWU leadership which took ten days to give its members strike pay, shows no such hesitation in talking to

R LEAGUE

k Jones (back to camera).

Lord Aldington, one of Heath's closest personal friends, or Macmillan.

Yet it is becoming increasingly apparent that these talks are no more than a Tory stunt to split the dockers and prepare the ground for the troops. Jones must be told in no uncertain terms: break off the talks and recall biennial conference the

T&GWU

to mobilize action in support of the dockers. Such a conference would have to decide a policy of no redundancies among any section of the T&GWU membership and work-sharing on full pay until the indus- try can be nationalized. The solution to the jobs crisis on the docks lies not in talks with the em- higher ployers, pay or sub- severance sidies to the container operators.

It lies in the bringing down of the Tory government and the election of a Labour government pledged to nationalization of the port and transport industries without compensation and under workers' control.

• SLL docks meeting p3 • CONTAINERS Series — see centre pages • The Keadby picket-see pages 4 & 5.

workers press

TIMEWASTING AS TROOPS PREPARE

JONES-ALDINGTON

TALKS STALEMATE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SAT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

BY DAVID MAUDE

AS THE THREAT of a full-scale movement of troops into the docks loomed close yesterday, union leaders continued their time-wasting and increasingly dangerous round of discussions with port employers and the Tory government. the Northern Isles due leave ninete de ato leave The Jones-Aldington committee were

RAFR

Kinloss last virtually admitted early yesterday the other an hour later. afternoon that 12 hours of talking Earlier, visibly worried Jones shall have our assessment this week have produced no more reporters. and we may come to a decision. but we'l than a tiny handful of job promises have to see.' for dockers. The fact that he did not immediatel break from the and declare a But immediately the committee broke the artension 'completing the first phase of warning to all dockers. up alter its work', Jack other and the hones Though the talks have proved not only union men on the committee went into and dangerous, but fruitless time-wasting could a huddle to assess whether they chiefs have decided as well. the gamble recalled docks delegate on collaborating in moves split to conference calling off the strike.

the dockers. And "eneral Workers Usi went the Trans- morning's Fleet Street Both in yesterday and Union secretary port closeted with F.m. with Macmillan, under con- on co engles were ployment Secretary Maurice Macmillan. recall the siderable Tory docks delegate conference on Monray Even then it was clear, as Lord Alding- admitted yesterday, that the number tha hect militami intervention offer delegates is v ry smati indeed.

committee "The Times' noted that the strike had in fact stiffened container firms' resolve of workers who 'a grour not to amniov reach straight away for the weapon that should be a last resort. But if the dele- BRITAIN'S chief Common Market nego- until later next were not recalled tiator Geoffrey Rippon flew to Uganda last after troops have been night the docks, the paper said, estrike should the docks, the paper would be nicenco Uracicent Amin'c expel all Asians, many of whom plan hoia British aspots. go on. This, of course, is an admission that the He will return to London on Tuesday, whatever the delegates also having seen the heads of government wil go in troone Fieet Tanzania and Kenya. Amin has agreed decide. Rananca AnA Tree seriously thinks dockers in Hull, Liverpool with Rinnon to have personal nicaccinna will call off their action, even on all aspects of the problem.

or London if oincial backing is removed The object of Rippon's visit is to see So the pistol the Tories are now hold- have second thoughts'. whether Amin can directly Jones's head ing Rippon has been chosen for the ver levelled legal at because of his ability as a the it is reported, cimilar him by the Law Lords persuasive negotiator. Industrial Relations Court. member of the Tala l is also AyttAmA The message is the same: right-wing Monday Club, which has fre- Aither hAT will for Enoch its support discipline vour memherg WA declared quently blow your head off first. Only this time Powell's view that al immigrants now in the threat is backed up with troops not Britain should be free be repatriated and that no more be allowed to enter the just fines. country. 'The Times' holds out a more subtle threat. not recalled If tho committee ic to reconsider the strike tote on calm calm to reconsider strike vote manner It complained that mor ho the dockers were showing themselves than the NEARLY 700 workers at the Macclesfield.

on picket-lines more ruthless Cheshire, textile miners. view of Couggg are to lose their iohs This lie is designed to cover up for the continuing extremely depressed trad- deliberate police provocations at ing situation. Machine sham Boden wim shops Oldham ing situation. Lincolnshire: Lancs: Koodhy Havcham. Colchester, Essex and Montrose, Scot- also be closed. land. Scragg's was the only engineering firm district to concede on But the message to Jones is clear, in the Manchester all three points of the engineering unions' to forgo mrt vour claim, including hours, during the recent members back. the Tory strategists are they fate in telling him, may take their For doing so strikes there it was expelled was from the Engineering their own hands and go beyond your reformist policies. Federation.

R • SATURDAY AUGUST 12, 1972

• No 840 • 4p

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAG

calking to Jack Jones (t Lord Aldingion y After yesterday's meeting of the Jones- Aldington committee, however, the bank- of these policies is as clear as • ruptcy crystal to every docker. Outlining the results of his talks with port authorities and employers in 'sensitive areas' the past few days, Lord over Aldington said: 'Each agreement or case does not add up to many people, but as the number of cases start to build up. , this procedure can be counted on to add up to meaning- ful number of jobs for registered dock- workers.' Both Aldington and ones were loth to be drawn on individual cases.

Aldington admitted to 'disappointment' in some of the approaches he had made.

'But it would not be right to say that in every case we have failed in what we set out to do, he claimed. Jones's sole concrete comment was that the committee was waiting for "confirma- tion from the chairmen of two port authorities of verbal assurances they had been given. The T&GWU leadership which took ten days to give its members strike pay, shows no such hesitation in talking to

R LEAGUE

• Jonas (back 1o camera).

Lord Aldington, one of Heath's closest personal friends, or Macmillan.

Yet it is becoming increasingly apparent that these talks are no more than a Tory stunt to split the dockers and prepare the ground for the troops. Tones must be told in no uncertain terms: break off the talks and recall the T&GWU biennial conference to mobilize action in support of the dockers. Such a conference would have to decide a policy of no redundancies among any section of the T&GWU membership and work-sharing on full pay until the indus- try can be nationalized. The solution to the jobs crisis on the docks lies not in talks with the em- higher severance pay or sub- ployers, sidies to the container operators.

It lies in the bringing down of the Tory government and the election of a Labour government pledged to nationalization of the port and transport industries without compensation and under workers' control.

• SLL docks meeting p3 • CONTAINERS Series — see centre pages • The Keadby picket—see pages 4 & 5.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday August 12, 1972

SDLP

FOREIGN NEWS

in more Riaht : centre comed in Peking by Tse-tung and Communist Party general secretary 'trial' of at the secret Abdel Khaled Mahgoub last year. Soon after this picture was taken, Mahgoub was executed.

talks with Numeiry Whitelaw ULSTER SUPREMO William takes second swipe Whitelaw Social and the Democratic and Labour Party yesterday resumed secret talks begun earlier this week.

Yesterday's discussions were the third get-together between the Secretary of State and the

SDLP

in the last few days By John Spencer - at CP the broke boycott of talks with the gov- PRESIDENT Jaafar Numeiry has stepped up his to Weitast yesteaday for the meer- Whitelaw was against the Sudanese Communist Party, campaign He cellare remate int once secret vente whose leaders were butchered by his troops in July North- Ireland the ern annual et last year. the Loyalist Appren- for Addressing celebration parade through Derrv nice Dovs Spokesman for the Rev Ian in his by given honour Paisley's Democratic Unionist businessmen, he accused the insisted that Party has alicaly parade will c0 anex even communists of having 'sub- though leaders of the Apprentice Boys have agreed to stop it. verted both the public and this For the bast three vears. private sectors'. Loyalist parade through the anti- Loyalist city of Deales has riots the wholesale Ducat railway LoroughouT orovInce altu were main targets there have been numerous at- Lucy during that munist subversion. tempts stop Ine communists, ne sala, naa made attempts to control the railway union since THE FIRST direct full-container Singapore and Decl service will be 101 PO ano United States unt firmness' on the part of the Peter aunched next anuary. people. In fact, several communist Albert, a senior shipping execu- of the said in Singapore members lalway tive executive prisons and Albert, vice-president (market- camps and at least ing) A mercar residenl all-con- has lost his signt as a result Lines, said APL's first ship, the 30,200-ton 'Pre- or torture. witch-hunt sident enterson'. would start the Numery s renewed does impede his good service. with the Stalinist states, The ship was one of six con- vessels which would be put particularly China and Yugoslavia, tainer APL's Singapore-Us servic praised

TOT

assistand into the east uropele But he the end next year, East added. Soviet for putting pressure dent said. He added that the pared by the Coulillies talinist students would tried subordinate the Their sucanese government not continue Ninth Czech trial become communists. CP nationalist Sudanese to suali business Those students who were now was more regime. private sector Eastern Europe had capable The Over 4,000 communists and studying now in sector was said, trade 5. The jails four women vul LICi governinents leaders yours', build up nano ane Told the because would prisons allu Call us business The audience country'. were executed summarily had But businessmen after farcical mock trials. good reason for celebrating. slar a bid This has training their personnel in regime economic STll1 announceu d sweeting Soviet ties the Union, programme EIGHT PEOPLE have been jailed for up to four wei perillance. WIll which would back small Numiery regime Czechoslovakia and other wast years on 'subversion' charges in Brno, Czechoslovakia, businesses to private owners.

entered into with European S rela relations British and firms with American to Maoists and according to a local newspaper. The highest sentence government had formed a Tito Yugo- Ine COLLOn ano sural une government committee lo suav mme swanon Vlastimila Tesarova. crops. contract, with slavia are particularly cordial. went to (ne by the pubis sessor, he said.

minor businesses taken over British-American And employers, group, It was the ninth trial of opponents of the Warsaw worth £240m. together with imperialists, "It Pact occupation since the current series of frame-ups unbecoming of the the benefits Numery's anti - communisi are government to sel cloth by the purge, modelled the treachery of the Stalinists in the began on July 19. shops, the presi- massacres in Indonesia, was pre- the Kremlin and Peking. meue or run Forty six people have now China to veto Bangla Desh been convicted trials. latest batch the Getendents was daughter of former Central Com- member Cars t years Sabata CHINA has threat- She entry into UN was selleuccu

CLU

iail. Her father is serving a 6*- ened to veto an year term imposed earlier this week. application from Four of the eight defendants Bangla Desh for the Brno trial were women. scribed, kitchen Desh. They have membership of the have mostly extended scribed Lenin as a

OCCL

of making its has the Indian army means Con- accused Bangla circulating peace with imperialism. quitted aler some delay. piere v United Nations. and subversive' leaflets The Chinese objection is But Bangla cer- Desh. Similar charges levelled ma was creed were extremely Bengalis, revealing. tainly every as then, by the sacrifice and struggle At the Security Coun against Sabata and most of the Peking admitted to workers and much right to ioin it as the no right to call for India Was of the Bengali cil meeting on Thursday, other accused so far. Peking government. Toe v oniv at the acce cave of foe cac peasants wno clean usen Chinese representative last The United The Chinese Stalinists, troops, thmple, had though year hundreds of thousands Huang Hua said Bangla States, which had objecting Two men sentenced at a pre.

previ- Banese are off the Pakistani IOr alc yesterday vious trial in Prague Desh qualified ously blocked all Chinese was yoke. Dancid precisely every nant to cannese as appealed against their UN cause it is the result of a istance against the Unite anolcarions cuccery wilo- Ior entry Yahya luto une Apart from viction. drew its objections as the armed revolutionary Nations in 1951 because it had failed to Khan government, its most Nothing prospects detente struggle. lemonstrate hol farette ould They are Jaromir Litera and resolulions vicious oddonesis were toe ti Thraised by the chinese chief with Maoism grew obiec nUS. adopted by the organiza- Chinese Stalinists and the Chinese leaders have come Josef Stehlik. Litera, sentenced Ine reking government Nixon administration in the seat the cougail have not applied from their own revolu- to 2t years' jail on July 20, is a Pakistan last December. despite the dullary past. The United Nations, of former Prague secretary of the released the Pakistar Over Chinese objections, relauoss now openi which actually organized thoroughly after Paya Khans dered war captured aligned with the forces of CP. Josef Stehlik was sentenced 1S a course. Tne Issue hasnow (been so the chinese war directed reactionary Thieves referred to a security coun- to two years' jail at the same December. the lineal the the but it must successor to cil committee, Icall Nor, complains, trial. tion. Entrv to the UN was of Leazue the Delore Stalinist media weigh in behind Allende again, and nina nas treat- ened to use its power of veto. The Chinese Stalinists

THE

INTERNATIONAL

Allende's of directed left-wing which the ate nose who make and coalition Stalinist social-democrats. Stalinists militants have coalition. not make suoDorted media have criti- who Pakistan's Yanya Khan re- It said: 'The real patriots tremble with pseudo- has weigned in on . une siae nadicals cized Anenaes concessions gime in its bloody attempts Chilean President Salvador the extreme right on without success Unile are …The workers revo luonar Datases. Bengali the nationalization. who are trying to increase who with their provocative suppress people last year. Christian Democrats. the down production, actions recently shot Moscow Radio with the manifestly Now it turns against the of Peking nas vet to recog- •werers vesteroa orcanicers successiu. cause nize the new state, though against the so-called 'ultra- attacked

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reactionary poor peasants of the santi- the Work. tney it is wno are Torces or got ago slums in a bloody hunt Revolutionary Movement) winning the even the imperialist powers

Make Tories resign is keynote of docks meeting By DAVID MAUDE and

JOHN SPENCER

will

THE

DOCKERS

only win their struggle

•OLY

when the • govern- ment is brought down, Gerry Healy, national sec- retary of the Socialist Labour League, told packed Conway Hall meeting in London on Thursday night. The 500-strong meeting, which heard speeches from two of the five London dockers jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court and a Liverpool port steward, raised £183.83} for the strike fund of the London port shop stewards' committee. Attended by workers from all sections of London industry, it marked a major step forward in the political developments of the dockers' struggle. "The English working class built trade unions. Take trade unions away from the working class Gerry Healy told meeting. Welcoming the two Pentonville prisoners, he said they the were appearing as representatives of the working class in Britain. "They do not stand alone.

the Industrial When Relations Act became law over 10 million trade unionists were placed in the dock, he said. 'We are back to Taff Vale. We are back to the period when trade unionists can jail for defending sent to their rights? The official leaders of the trade unions had agreed with the Tory employers of the CBI to keep wages down to an 8 per cent ceiling. They were engaged in a series of talks with Heath.

'You have to ask yourself: In what world do these union leaders live?' A million unemployed were faced with rent. rises, price in- unprecedented creases on an scale. 'Are we not on the verge of the pauperization of large sec- the working class?' tions of Healy asked. the forces of the state were being mobilized to smash the dockers' strike while the TUC met Heath in a 'congenial and cordial atmosphere' to the rapture of the Tory press Me said. Not a single Labour had opposed the Emergency Powers now being used by the Tories. He warned: 'It is now possible for the Tory government to deprive all of us of every right we've ever had.' The Tory government was a conspiracy of property specula- tors, bankers and financiers who had carefully concealed their policies from the electorate. The militancy of the working class was rising, but the more it increased the more the trade union leaders ran for cover.

'A protest against this govern- ment would be a protest in vain.

When these gentry have their backs to the wall they fight like rats.' The only thing the Tories respected was the working class prepared to fight it out. 'This is à crisis of class-collaboration, a crisis of illusions, said Healy.

Jack Jones of the T&GWU lectured his docker members against "brother fighting brother'.

Yet he and the T&GWU execu- tive had signed agreements for container workers at lower wages than dockers knowing full well the employers would use them as a threat to dockers' jobs. The policy of the union leaders was responsible for creating divisions within the union. Now Jones was negotiating unemployment with Lord Alding- ton, Heath's closest personal friend. 'For Jones to negotiate with Aldington is for Jones to nego- tiate Heath, Healy said. with can only 'You jobs preserve today by taking the industry over. The illusion that you can arrive at a solution by negotia- tion is dangerous. "To defend unions and jobs standard and protect the of living are all political questions.

We were the only tendency in the workers' movement to insist that the way to resolve the prob- Liverpool portworker Larry Cavana Gerry Healy, SLL national secr stewards' committee spokesman; legal thing to do. The Tory gov- fraudulent promises, Power by ernment came Communist The Party had accused the • SLL of being in front' of the working class. I read in the "Morning Star" that a great victory has been won at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. I always thought the essence of the Industrial Relations Act was to take away the right to strike' Yet at UCS the Communist Party stewards had signed away that right in a 'no strike pledge'.

• "This is something you can do any day of the week with a Tory employer. This is the use of intimidation of workers by the threat of unemployment, through unashamed class-collaboration.

'The reason the CP has never joined with us to make the Tory government resign is that they want to do business with the Tories. They don't want the gov- ernment to resign.' The revisionist 'Red Mole' and 'Socialist Worker' had crawled in behind the CP, comrade Healy said. "They are with them while this same Communist Party fronts it for the right wing of the TUC.

When we lobbied the TUC ry Cavanagh speaking at Thursday's meating. Al onal secretary; Mike Banda, chairman; Ray F kesman; Con Clancy and Tony Merrick, two of recently pickets our were attacked by the CP because they came demanding the Tory gov- ernment resign. 'Why do we have to muffie our drums? Why are the working class being marched up the hill by these leaders and, when they meet the enemy, marched down again? Without the support of the organized working class the dockers cannot win this fight.

The dockers will only win when the Tory government is brought down. We say that to defend the dockers the working class must be brought into action in every locality to create the political conditions to make the Tory government resign. 'Heath has created the con- ditions for a showdown. He is the one who has created it. Now let him have it. We will work with anyone within the labour movement who wants to make this government resign. Form Councils of Action to unite tenants, unemployed, dockers and all sections of the working class in a common crusade to bring this government down. Not a moment can be lost—into action at once.? Speaking on behalf of the London port shop stewards' committee, Ray Halsey thanked Workers Press, Sat reeting. Also on the platform (i to r) an; Ray Halsey, London port shop ck, two of the Pentonville Five.

the meeting for the support given to the dockers. The five men who were jailed were not dockers simply, but trade unionists, he said.

Merrick, of the Tony one Pentonville Five, said he and the other men imprisoned by the industrial court had been released because the Tory gov- knew what would ernment happen if they were kept in.

'Another four or five days inside and this government wouldn't have been in existence,' he said. Explaining the issues facing the dockers in their strike, he said that six years ago in the sector of London docks where worked there had been 3,000 dockers and 50 firms. Now there were only 300 men and two firms. The Vestey family and the Hay's Wharf group-the two biggest employers — had moved out their capital and were using unregistered labour in East Lon- don and elsewhere. Tony Merrick praised the role of Workers Press in putting for- ward the dockers' case. When the dockers had begun picketing the Vestey-owned Mid- land Cold Storage, private detec- tives had been used against Prose, Saturday August 12, 1872 PAGE 3 them, he said. The jailed men would never forget this. would They forget, never either, that within half an hour of their imprisonment a picket- line had been thrown across the gate which never left until they were released. I am sure they would never have left if we had been inside a year, he said. There was prolonged applause when, on Tony Merrick's insist- a large group of dockers ence, who had formed the backbone of the picket rose in the body of the hall. 'Our fight is the fight of every trade unionist, said another of the jailed men, Cornelius Clancy.

The dockers were fighting the prospect that later in life they would have no jobs at all, and that there would be no job- opportunities for their children.

They did not want to put any other workers out of a job. They were fighting for the right to work. Most of what was being printed in the press about the dockers' picketing was straight police propaganda, he said. There was certainly intimida- tion going on. When he and another docker had been arrested at Colchester they had found the men frightened to say a word to their employer because they knew fiye men were waiting to take their job if they were sacked. Where in London eight men worked down the hold of a ship, in Colchester the normal gang- strength was only four. The pickets had also been sub- jected to police brutality, he said.

Speaking in a personal capa- city, Liverpool steward port Larry Cavanagh warned that there could be no permanent solution to the jobs crisis on the docks without the return of a Labour government pledged to nationalization of the industry under workers' control. The impact of just the start of modernization could be seen in Liverpool where 64 million tons out of every 13 million were handled by 1,000 men. The other 9,500 dockers in the port handled the remaining 6f million tons of conventional cargo.

The Jones-Aldington report, he said, was simply a charter for cutting out further 8,000 a dockers' jobs nationally.

In describing the events on the picket-lines the last over few days, he said that if anyone believed in peaceful co-existence with capitalism that belief should have been destroyed by the actions of the police.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 BRitish

ALTHORPE

THE BATTLE OF

NEAP WHARF

It started on Wednesday morning with the police dragnet around Scunthorpe and ended the same evening when 22 dockers were brought before a special session of Scunthorpe magistrates' court and fined a total of £850. Between these two events, the peace of this quiet backwater by the Trent was broken as 500 police attacked dockers from Humberside (top right) trying to stop scab cargoes from leaving the ramshackle jetty owned by LSD Transport Ltd. The police search (top) of dockers' cars and coaches was to gather publicity to discredit the dockers. Every-day implements like garden tools and jack handles were collected and passed off as 'weapons' by the police and the yellow press. First trouble came in the early afternoon when one bulk lorry tried to smash its way through the cordon of dockers.

The driver lashed out angrily with an iron bar. Then police launched mass charges at the pickets (far right) and snatch squads went out to arrest the militants (below right). Dockers were dragged through the police were assaulted by whart gates where, it is alleged, they officers. A Home Office observer was present to report on the action —since the miners' strike dealing with masses of workers fighting for their rights has become quite a science. Special Branch men infil- trated the pickets and police photographers (above right) were busy building up dossiers on the dockers. The day's events had one parallel—Ulster. Troops have not been used against the dockers yet •.. but these are early days. Photographs by Martin Mayer.

Workers Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 PAGE 5

PAGE 6 Workers Prosa, Saturday Augual 12, 1972

BY IAN YEATS

A spectre stalks London's In the London area, inland canal side barge depots dockland - unemploy- employing a handful of men ment. The outbreak of using mechanized cargo- stubborn handling picketing of equipment similar to which those already exist at container depots by dock- Enfield and Brentford will ers is hard to understand augmented. L without a glimpse of the

A S H.

SEABEE

and

BACAT

ships barges carry size of the jobs axe hang.

from 350 to 1,000 tons each ing over their heads. which they offload at sea using The plight of the Port of their own shipboard stern gantries. One 24,000-ton London is graphic. Ninety-four vessel can carry 32 barges. miles of waterway, 4,000 crowded dockland acres, 16,000 stevedores all to be

EXPANSION

whittled down to just two major ports, Tilbury and Map- lin, a handful of giant 40h- tainer depots and up to 75 per Common Market countries already cent less men. planning a are major The bulldozers have already of the continental expansion moved St Katherine's into canal network with three Dock. London docks' 19th cen- cuts linking the Rhine-Scheldt, Elbe-Seiten and Rhine-Danube.

tury warehouses stare out on quays from which the last ship One of the EEC's biggest has sailed and Surrey Com- navigations, the Amsterdam- mercial Docks are a labrynth Rhine canal handles 30 mil- of disused waterways. lion tons a year compared to Dorkland once lapped at the just 7.5 million the tons of the Tower UK walls Lon- entire network-most of don. Now it begins at the Isle it carried the Sheffield- of Doxs. South Yorkshire link- svstem Now is Humber, containerization ing the Trent, Ayr nibbling at the India and Mill-.

and Calder. wall docks and the Royal state-owned The British Waterways Group. East India dock Board which made is already only a memory. € 196.000 the profit on Fifteen berths were closed freight side last year is look- in the two in 1971 ing into ways of groups rejuvenating 240 with the loss of jobs. Britain's canals deal with to 1,200 more iobs went when what amounts to giant, barge- Southern shaped, floating containers.

Stevedores announced their summer shut- They plan to begin with a down. new 15-mile cut along the line Many dockers fear that bu of the Grand Union Canal link- 1976 there will be no conven- ing Brentford to Watford and serving a vast London hinter- tional cargoes at all in any of the closed docks upriver from land. There will be at least Tilbury. road-rail one giant transit Port The of London terminal. The attraction of the LASH, Authority's tongue-in-cheek SEABEE and BACAT systems comment is that: 'Riverside and berths wharves in the is that one barge carries a load upper enclosed docks as well which would otherwise need 30 Tilbury will as continue to or more lorries to move. Using meet the needs of ships and modernized canal system, craft that want them. large cargoes can be taken dockland far inland with By mid-decade cheaply mini- will effectively begin at Tilbury mum labour-handling. 1,000-acre These ships, mere site like container- employing 1,800 men. whole. ization as ring the Victoria, Purfleet and Erith death knell for lighterage.

Deeps will handle

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and BACAT con- ships off Sheerness mooring tainer barges pushed or pulled have already but 96 men out of upriver from vessels anchored work with the collapse of the off Gravesend and Sheerness.

lighterage firms W. E. White These barges are stuffed and and Wrightson & Sons Ltd in stripped at inland depots and March this year. traditional The essence of containeriza- need never touch dockland. tion is the bulking together of items that would normally be handled individually. The longer the goods can remain unitized in the course of transit, the greater the saving in cost and time. Most important of all the size of the unit load of bulked cargo is limited only by the capacity of the smallest vehicle in the transport chain - normally the lorry or rail wagon. The huge cellular container at Tilbury ships which call and the ships which barge in anchor the Solent are examples of the special ocean- developed going vessels to carry 'boxes' of maximum size.

Japanese ships can carry 1,000 containers at a time.

ON THE DOLE

Lorries will, of course, become large along Continen- tal lines with tractor and two separate trailers to enable two 'boxes' to be carried of maxi- mum length instead of one.

But the effect of an expan- sion in the use of barge ships, an expansion of British Rail's Freightliner services, plus the rationalization of road haulage will inevitably be to throw large numbers of lorry drivers onto the dole. New labour-saving transport the inevitable systems are accompaniment of mechanical bulk-handling techniques. Ulti- mately the container operators will establish a minimum-cost, 'through' delivery service using sea, road, rail and air. The Maplin development planned for Foulness will be just such an integrated port which Tilbury dockers fear could be the kiss of death for them as well as the enclosed docks of the upper reaches.

Three hundred square miles of marshes and sands are to be reclaimed in and Essex Kent and by 1976 ships of up to 250,000 tons rising later to 500,000 tons will be docking at the all tides berths. Initially there will be two container berths and two oil berths and, according to PLA director-general John Lunch, the labour force could run into 'hundreds'. This 'hundreds of jobs' fore- cast contrasts sharply with the thousands of dockers who were needed at London's once quaysides. At the outset the port will be serviced by hauliers and a Freightliner service. It will be adjacent to the proposed Foul- ness airport built to deal with the world's largest planes.

Britain's vast dockland will be reduced to about six small, ultra-modern, capital-intensive units at Liverpool, Hull, Felix- stowe-Harwich, Southampton and Tilbury-Maplin employing a fraction of the 43,331 dock- ers at present on the National Dock Register. Job opportunities for dock- ers are falling at the rate of 7 per cent a year. This figure is increasing. And an equal num- ber of workers have been thrown onto the dole from trades-warehousemen, allied tally clerks and clerical staff.

Railway workers, too, will be hit as the rail network slashed to accommodate the Freightliner service operating at the expense of thousands of traditional goods wagons.

Top left: Albert Dock, Londonprivate pleasure crat of the Albert Dock pool. Top right: Hay's Whart b loading at Tilhury's common user berth.

The closure of railway work- shops reflects and anticipates this development. The £30m-plus Tilbury development is at the centre of the current reorganization of London's docks. It is Britain's biggest con- tainer port. its four berths- three of them shared and one owned by Overseas Containers Ltd — handling 201.744 con- tainers in 1971; 48 per cent up on 1970. The four berths dealing with pre-slung timber units shifted 957,000 tons in 1971—a rise of 5.000 tons on 1970. And the f6m bulk-grai terminal stored 1,528,746 ton compared with 525,778 ton discharged at the joint Spillers Rank jetty at the Royal Vio toria Dock. Fifty companies use Tilbur as a base for trading with 7 countries in Australasia, India the US, Europe and Africa. Apart from containers, tim ber and grain, the port handle oil and bulk wine. There ar conventíonal berths 28 rationalized and mechanized.

But even with the use unit loads, pre-slinging, pallet and clamps, productivity fron these berths is still far below the handled by the tonnage container berths and they are certain to be phased out.

Various claims made are about the effect of container- ization on productivity. Some shipping authorities put the at 400. percentage gain Ton- man hour has risen nage per from one to more than five.

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management estimates that one container berth handles ten times the cargo of a conventional berth.

On average the seven 30-, 40- and 54-ton portainer cranes load 30 boxes an hour and up to 60 in particular cases.

There are two roll-on, roll- off berths in the 'new' 13- berth western extension. Swedish-Lloyd moved to one of them from a conven- tional business at Millwall.

In its last year there the company handled 80.000 tons.

In 1971 at Tilbury it dealt with 250,000 tons and expects the figure to rise to 300.000 tons this year. upy a disused section It claims to shift the same Above: trucks amount of cargo under as conventional methods in quarter of the time and with bulk-grain third of the number of ored 1.528.746 tons dockers. with 525,778 tons at the joint Spillers- Dockers are split into four 11-man at the Royal Vic- groups. Ship turn- round has been cut from six days to eight hours and lorries npanies use Tilbury for trading with 70 are dealt with at the rate of • Australasia, India, one every 30 minutes. and West On the container side a ship carrying 960 "boxes' can tim- be turned round in 12 houre in, the port handles All three common-user con- Ik wine. There are tainer berths at Tilbury employ berths fully only 112 men split into three and mechanized. shifts working days a seven • with the use of week, night and day, 365 days pre-slinging, pallets a year. , productivity from Stuffing and stripping of con- tainers is not carried out on the dock. There are major container depots at Stratford, Hackney, Dagenham and Grays and a host of smaller ones close to Tilbury, some of them employ- ing only four men. Once containerization gets into full swing many of these smaller operators will almost certainly be put out of business.

AUTOMATIC

Ideal conditions for stuff- ing and stripping are giant transit sheds where fork-lifts and side-loaders wheel can about freely and a small labour force works with belt-driven automatic loaders. Much the same is true of quayside warehousing where fork-lifts have completely replaced the hundreds of men who previously were needed to stack and store. For containers all that is needed is a large open space "marshalling interchange.

for Tilbury's ompletely able ten- and 11-man ship- working gangs are aided by an army of carriers, trailers and towing units. Shipping and cargo move- ments are subject to as much automatic control as possible The radar-equipped Ship- ping Co-ordination Centre con- trols shipping movements in Thames, the including Til- bury. Inside the port a computer- ized cargo data system speeds handling. Inspectors are linked operations room by to an walkie-talkie and pneumatic Workers Press, Saturda tubes rush further details from gate report offices. Modernization through the use of containers and allied work systems is a matter of urgency for the Port of Lon- don. The port responds directly to changes in the pattern of work trade. Last while year, the switch to containers was driven ahead, total cargo handled fell by 1 per cent-2 per cent throughout the UK.

The technological revolu- tion on the docks reflects a situation, which is a classic capitalism's expression world crisis — falling trade, risig costs, diminished profits. Not only has conventional cargo slumped, but the growth in container trade has fallen below expectations. These facts alone will push employers to force the pace of moderniza- tion. Last year the port made a compared with losses in 1970 and £1.4m in 1969. Last year was the port's first profit- able year since 1966. But it is a misleading success. A close examination of accounts shows that it would not have been realized, in spite of all the moderniza- tion, without the sale of PLA assets. The PLA received £3.2m from the sale of East India Dock, a deposit on the £7.2m sale price of the Authority's old Trinity Square headquart- ers, £600,000 in port modern- ization grants and an increased bank overdraft of £800,000.

£2.8m of this was poured into new works at Tilbury. This method of maintaining solvency will be resorted to orkers Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 PAGE 7 in the future and PLA . esti- mates it has £150m of sur- plus assets to sell. The drive for profitability has already cost London dock- ers thousands of jobs-from 23,616 in 1967 to 16,000 today. And it has happened with the full co-operation of the Transport and General Work- ers' Union. A recent supple- ment in 'Port', the PLA subsi- dized quoted newspaper, T&GWU docks secretary Peter Shea on Tilbury: • "Dockworkers in London," "have he points out, CO- operated fully in the change- new methods of over to cargo-handling. They have co- operated fully, too, in the voluntary scheme severance which has enabled the docks industry in London to reduce the labour force from over 22,000 down to 16,000 with no industrial unrest at all.

• "The men have shown their true capabilities by adapting themselves to the new machinery that has been intro- duced into the docks—parti- cularly at Tilbury where the cranes, van carriers, etc. are some of the most advanced equipment you will find any- where." 'Nobody is more qualified to speak for the men than Shea.

He has worked in the docks with them, held office in his union branch and is now serv- ing on all the maior negotiat- ing committees.' 'The men' have indeed done all these things. But only at the behest of the leadership provided by the reformist and Stalinist shop stewards on the Now docks. they are paying the price for this treachery.

AGAINST THE TIDE

Yesterday's and today's articles were reproduced from 'Writings of Leon Trotsky 1938-1939'. Merit Publishers.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Augusl Yesterday's and today's al NOTE: The following is a rough uncorrected transcript of a discussion held in April 1939, between Trotsky and an English Fourth Internationalist, who had raised a number of questions concerning the devel- opment of the Fourth Inter- national in France, Spain, Great Britain and the United States. In his reply, Trotsky sketched the main reasons for the isolation and slow pro- gress of the Fourth Inter- national in the first stages of its development and pointed out how a new turn in the world situation, like the pre- would inevitably sent war, lead to a radical change in the tempo of development, social composition and mass connec- tions of the Fourth Inter- national. Trotsky: Yes, the question is why we are not progressing in correspondence with the value of our conceptions which are not so meaningless as some friends believe. We are not progressing politically. Yes, it i is an expres- is a fact which sion of a general decay of the workers' movements in the last 15 years. It is the more general cause. When the revolutionary movement in general is de- clining, when one defeat follows another, when fascism is spreading over the world, when the official 'Marxism' is the most powerful organization of deception of the workers, and so on, it is an inevitable situation that the revolutionary elements must work against the general historic current, even if our ideas, our explana- tions, are as exact and wise as one can demand. But the masses are not lay August 12, 1972 lay's articles were reproduced educated by prognostic theo- retical conception, but by the general of their experiences lives. It is the most general explanation — the whole situ- ation is against us. There must be a turn in the class realiza- tion, in the sentiments, in the feelings of the masses; a turn which will give us the pos- sibility of a large political success. I remember some discussions in 1927 in Moscow after Chiang Kai-shek stilled the Chinese workers. We predicted this ten days before and Stalin opposed us with the argument that Borodin was vigilant, that Chiang Kai-shek would not have the possibility to betray us, etc. I believe that it was eight or ten days later that the tragedy occurred and our comrades expressed optimism because our analysis was so clear that everyone would see it and we would be sure to win the party. I answered that the strangulation Chinese revolution is a thous- and times more important for the masses than our predic- tions. Our predictions can win some few intellectuals who take an interest in such things, but not the masses. The mili- tary victory of Chiang Kai-shek will inevitably provoke a de- pression and this is not con- ducive to the growth of a revolutionary fraction. Since 1927 we have had a long series of defeats. We are similiar to a group who attempt to climb a mountain and who must suffer again and again a downfall of stone, snow, etc.

and Europe is In Asia created a new desperate mood duced from 'Writings of Leon of the They heard masses. something analogous to what we say ten or 15 years ago Party from the Communist and they are pessimistic. That is the general mood of the workers. It is the most general reason. We cannot withdraw from the general historic cur- rent-from the general con- stellation of the forces. The current is against us, that is clear. I remember the period between 1908 and 1913 in Russia. There was also a re- action. In 1905 we had the workers with us—in 1908 and in 1907 began the great even reaction. Everybody invented slogans methods to win the and masses and nobody won them -they were desperate. In this time the only thing we could do was to educate the cadres and they were melting away.

There was a series of splits to the right or to the left or to syndicalism and so on. Lenin remained with a small group, a sect, in Paris, but with con- fidence that there would be new possibilities of arising. It came in 1913. We had new tide, but a then came the war to interrupt this development. During the war there was a silence as of death among the workers. The Zimmerwald conference was a conference of very confused elements in its majority. In the deep recesses of the masses, in the trenches and so on there was a new mood, but it was so deep and terrorized that we could not reach it and give it an expression. That is why the movement seemed to itself to be very poor and even this element that met in Zimmer- : Leon Trotsky 1938-1939'. M wald, in its! majority, moved to the right in the next year, in the next month. I will not liberate them from their per- sonal responsibility, but still the general explanation is that movement had the to swim against the current. Our situation now is in- comparably more difficult than that of any other organization in any other time, because we have the terrible betrayal of the Communist International which arose from the betrayal of the Second International.

The degeneration of the Third International developed SO quickly and so unexpectedly that the same generation which heard its formation now hears us, and they say: 'But we have already heard this once!'

Then there is the defeat of the Left Opposition in Russia.

The Fourth International is connected genetically to the Left Opposition; the masses call us Trotskyists. "Trotsky wishes to conquer the power, but why did he lose power?'

It is an elementary question.

We must begin to explain this by the dialectic of history, by the conflict of classes, that even a revolutionary produces a reaction. Max Eastman wrote that Trotsky places too much value on doctrine and it he had more common sense he would hot power. Nothing in have lost the world is so convincing as success and nothing so repell- ing as defeat for the large masses. You have also the degenera- tion of the Third International on the one side and the terrible defeat of the Left Opposition with the extermination of the Đ'. Merit Publishers. whole group. These facts are times more con- a thousand vincing for the working class than our poor paper with even the tremendous circulation of 'Socialist 5,000 like the Appeal'. Against the stream We are in a small boat in a tremendous current. There are five or ten boats and one goes down and we say it was due to bad helmsmanship. But that was not the reason—it was because the current was too strong. It is the most general should explanation and we never forget this explanation in order not to become pessi- mistic-we, the vanguard of the vanguard. There are courageous ele- ments who do not like to swim with the current-it is their character. Then there are intelligent elements of bad character who were never dis- ciplined, who always looked for a more radical or more inde- pendent tendency and found our tendency, but all of them are more or less outsiders from the general current of the workers' Their movement. value inevitably has its negative side. He who swims against the current is not connected with the masses. Also, the social composition of every revolutionary movement in the beginning is not of workers.

It is the intellectuals, semi- intellectuals or workers con- nected with the intellectuals who are dissatisfied with the existing organizations. find in every You country a lot of foreigners who are not so easily involved in the labour

Above left: a gathering of French Bolshe around 1920. Above : Trotsky.

movement of the country. A In Czech in America or in Mexico would more easily become a member of the Fourth Inter- national than in Czecho- slovakia. The same for a Frenchman in the US. The national atmosphere has a tremendous power over in- dividuals. The Jews in many countries represent the semi-foreigners, not totally assimilated, they adhere to any new critical, revolutionary or semi-revolu- tionary tendency in politics, in art, literature and so on.

radical tendency new general directed against the current of history in this period crystallizes around the ele- ments more or less separated from the national life of any country and for them it is more difficult to penetrate into the masses. We are all very critical toward the social com- position of our organization and we must change, but we must understand that this social composition did not fall from heaven, but was deter- mined by the objective situ- ation and by our historic mission in this period. It does not signify that we must be satisfied with the situ- ation. Insofar as it concerns France it is a long tradition of the French movement con- nected with the social com- position of the country. Especially in the past the petty- bourgeois mentality-individu- alism on the one side, and on the other an elan, a tremendous capacity for improvising.

If you compare in the classic time of the Second Inter- national you will find that the French Socialist Party and the German Social Democratic Party had the same number of representatives in parlia- ment. But if you compare the organizations, you will find they are incomparable. The French could only collect 25,000 francs with the greatest difficulty but in Germany to send half a million was no- Germans had in thing. The the trade unions some millions of workers and the French had some millions who did not pay their dues. Engels once wrote a letter in which he characterized French Fr the organization and finished with 'And as always, the dues do • gr not arrive organization suffers Our from the same illness, the traditional French sickness.

This incapacity to organization and at the same time lack of conditions for improvization.

Even so far as we now had a tide in France, it was con- nected with the Popular Front. Re nch Bolsheviks with their children In Paris In this situation the defeat of the People's Front was the proof of the correctness of our conceptions just as was the extermination of the Chinese workers. But the defeat was a defeat and it is directed against revolutionary tendencies until a new tide on a higher level will appear in the new time.

We must wait and prepare a new element, a new factor, in this constellation. We have comrades who came to us, as Naville and others, 15 or 16 or more years ago when they were young boys.

Now they are mature people and their whole conscious life they have had only blows, defeats and terrible defeats on an international scale and they acquainted or less are more situation. with this They appreciate very highly the correctness of their concep- tions and they can analyse, but they never had the capacity to penetrate, to work with the 'have not and they masses it. There is a tre- acquired mendous necessity to look at what the masses are doing. We have such people in France.

I know much less about the British situation, but I believe that we have such people there also. Why have we lost people? After terrible international defeats we had in France a tide on a very primitive and a very low political level under the leadership of the People's Front. The People's Front-I this whole period—is think a kind of caricature of our It is February Revolution. shameful that in a country like France, which 150 years ago passed through the greatest bourgeois revolution in the world, that the workers' move- ment should the Russian caricature Revolution. Johnson: You would not throw the whole responsibility on the Communist Party? Trotsky: It is a tremendous factor in producing the men- tality of the masses. The active factor was the degeneration of the Com- munist Party. From Isolation to reinte- gration with the masses In 1914 the Bolsheviks were dominating the absolutely workers' movement. It was on the threshold of the war. The most exact statistics show that the Bolsheviks represented not less than three-fourths of the vanguard. But be- proletarian with the ginning February Revolution, the most back- ward people, peasants, soldiers, the former Bolshevik even workers, were attracted to- ward this Popular Front cur- rent and the Bolshevik Party became isolated and very weak.

The general current was on a very low level, but powerful, and moved toward the October Revolution. It is a question of tempo. all the In France, after defeats, the People's Front attracted elements that sym- pathized with us theoretically, but were involved with the movement of the masses and we became for some time more isolated than before. You can combine all these elements. I can even affirm that many (but not all) of our leading com- rades, especially in old sections, new turn of situation by a • be rejected by the would revolutionary mass movement and new leaders, fresh leader- ship will arise in the revolu- tionary current. Chlang Kal-shek who turned on the Communist Party and mur- dered its members in 1927.

In France the regeneration began with the entry into the Socialist Party. The policy of the Socialist Party was not clear, but it won many new members. These new members were accustomed a large to milieu. After the split they became a little discouraged.

They were not so steeled. Then they lost their not-so-steeled interest and were regained by the current of the People's Front. It is regrettable, but it is explainable. In Spain the same reasons played the same role with the supplementary factory of the deplorable conduct of the Nin group. He was in Spain as representative of the Russian Left Opposition and during the first year we did not try to mobilize, to organize our in- dependent elements. We hoped that we would win Nin for the correct conception and so on.

Publicly the Left Opposition gave him its support. In private correspondence tried to we win him and push him forward, but without success. We lost Was it correct? It is time. difficult to say. If in Spain we an experienced comrade had our situation would be incom- parably more favourable, but we did not have one. We put all our hopes on Nin and his policy consisted of personal manoeuvres in order to avoid responsibility. He played with revolution. He was sin- the cere, but his whole mentality that of a Menshevik. It was a tremendous handicap, was and to fight against this handi- cap only with correct formulas falsified by our own represen- tatives in the first period, the Nins, made it very difficult.

Do not forget that we lost the 'first revolution in 1905. Before our first revolution we the tradition of high had courage, self-sacrifice, etc. Then we were pushed back to of a miserable position minority of 30 to 40 men.

Then came the war. Johnson: How many were there in the Bolshevik Party?

Trotsky: In 1910 in the whole country there were a few dozen people. Some were in Siberia. But they were not or- ganized. The people whom Lenin could reach by corres- pondence or by an agent num- bered about 30 or 40 at most.

Workers Press, Sal However, the tradition and the ideas the among more advanced workers was a tre- mendous capital which was used later during the revolu- tion, but practically, at this absolutely time we were isolated. Yes, history has its own laws which are very powerful -more powerful than our theoretical conceptions of his- tory. Now you have in Europe a catastrophe-the decline of Europe, the extermination of countries. It has a tremendous influence on the workers when they observe these movements the diplomacy, of the armies and so on, and on the other side a smal! group with a small paper which makes explanations. But it is a ques- tion of his being mobilized tomorrow and of his children being killed. There is a terrible disproportion between the task and the means. If the war begins now, and it seems that it will begin, then in the first month we will lose two-thirds of what we now have in France. They will be dispersed. They are young and will be mobilized. Subjectively many will remain true to our movement. Those who will not be arrested and who will re- main-there may be three or five-I do not know how many, but they will be abso- lutely isolated. Only after some months will the criticism and the disgust begin to show on a large scale and everywhere our isolated comrades, in a hospital, in a trench, a woman in a village, will find a changed atmosphere will say a courageous word. And the same comrade was unknown in some who section of Paris will become a leader of a regiment, of a division, and will feel himself to be a powerful revolutionary This change is in the leader. char: cter of our period.

I do not wish to say that we must reconcile ourselves with the impotence of our French organization. I believe that with the help of the American win the comrades we can PSOP and make a great leap forward. The situation is ripen- it says to us, 'You ing and must utilize this opportunity' And if our comrades turn their backs the situation will change.

It is absolutely necessary that your American comrades go to Europe again and that they do not simply give advice, but together with the International Secretariat decide that our should enter the section PSOP. It has some thousands.

From the point of view of a is a big revolution it not difference, but from the point of working it is a of view With tremendous difference. fresh elements we can make a tremendous leap forward. Now in the United States new character of we have a work and I believe we can be very optimistic without illu- sions and exaggerations. In the United States we have a larger credit of time. The situation is not so immediate, so acute.

That is important. Then I agree with Comrade Stanley who writes that we can now have very important successes in the colonial and semi-colonial countries. We have a very important move- ment in Indo-China. I agree absolutely with Comrade John- we can have a very son that important Negro movement, because these people have not passed through the history of the last two decades so intim- ately. As a mass they did not know about the Russian Revo- lution and the Third Inter- national. They can begin the history as from the beginning.

It is absolutely necessary tor us to have fresh blood. That is why we have more success among the youth in so far as we are capable of approaching them. In so far as we have approaching been capable of them, we have had good re- sults. They are very attentive to a clear and honest revolu- tionary programme. April 1939 Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 PAGE 9 The man from the Social Democratic Labour Party who go-between with has been William Whitelaw is the party's newly-elected general secretary, Julian Jacottet. Irish-sounding Hardly an name you may say. And you are right. Jacottet has French as well as Irish ancestry.

Before taking up his full- time political career, Jacottet was a producer with the BBC in general features. He belonged to the ill- starred team which brought out 'History of the British the Empire' series, the multi- thousand pound project which the BBC promoted with Time- Life. Jacottet was to have made the India episode, but he left the series mid-way through production and it was handed over to another worthy. When he was asked by an acquaintance about his political position, Jacottet replied that he was a 'Brezhnevist'. With his dealing with the imperial- ists, the term seems quite apt.

The Tories have just granted the Ombudsman and Comptroller and Auditor General a pay rise. Back dated to January 1 they will receive £15,750 and £14,000 respec- tively.

MODEST

Financial scandals rock Britain and France. Business as usual in the United States too.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has just released accusing two of a report America's largest of banks exercising inside information on the financial plight of the Penn Central Railroad before it went bankrupt two years ago. An 800-page investigation said that the Continental Illinois Trust Company and Morgan Guaranty Trust Com- as Penn Central pany, creditors, knew of the com- pany's troubles, one of the biggest failures in US history.

The report says the two banks sold their stock in the company only a couple of weeks before the crash. Thus the banks retained a modest return while the little investors went to the wall.

Angry dockers who invaded the : last two docks delegates' meetings will find that they may have greater difficulty if they try it at the next meeting.

Last weekend the carpenters were busy at Transport House putting in a neavy wooden door to keep the militants at bay. Interesting to think about: the union membership owns Transport House, pays the salaries of everybody who works there (including the Labour Party tenants), yet barricades have now been erected to keep them out.

The latest list of members of the National Union of Journa- lists in arrears makes interest- ing reading. Among them is Guy Rais of the 'Daily Tele- graph'. Workers Press readers will recall that Rais was the man the ludicrous who , began witch-hunt of our Essex Summer Camp.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 Fares: Up, up and up £3.7m profit loss by GKN giant BRITISH RAIL has

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profitability cent from September 10, white - collar commuters month and there will be it wole be madossible or expected yield 11 per face heavy many London workers to planned bevels. selective increases in cabin aLc this trend continued, travel on the underground full already soaring t15m in dualuonal ana berth charges. give reasonable year. discount for weeklv cost-of-living bill Jest Tne all All of these fares rises making ordinary working uD most of the short- The fares changes monthly and monthly The only exception go wate and jobs cut-backs stem hand hand with a been cut the new fares will people will pay more for lal ol une nast quarter. fur- son las Tory efforts to and the rich trom be through fares sta- every

LICI

CULUaCK the who use the Pullman luxury

LICI

1aliway to top 0,00 over tne nexu anne aosolute rse

SON

coverine JOUr capitalist Steel output unes. 12 months. ticket neys over british kall and serviced SHew for Even then will be round charges. Seat reservations The the Board Transport and sleeper fares railway workers and is down and fares inter- claims government inancial but monthly Das al c sengers lies the be nation- aid will and tickets skyrocket by a stag- available. also remain unchanged. ne t essential Canese WIll of all industry, Tory reluctance hand gering, 15 per cent. adjusted to take into cup even a and over much cash Business account earlier LT station buffet has gone up without compensation may executives who dical $p to all meals at under workers' control 5p and

BRITAIN'S

attord will be 12-monthly increases. aver 1s steel out- a secona rouna ol Call British Rail's within a socialist economy.

put for ing increases in 1973. ticket only mar- July was CreW restaurants and Caleleild per coul the 519.000 down

LOTS

average for June, the weeky Stanton work-in decision, Tuesday Journalists British Steel Corporations announced yesterday. the start of holidays in the indus- was mainly due to threaten TV try See out in very espared compared with the weekly blackout avelace or me seven months of the year of

MIST

464,900 tons. in Eire The July figure was however 8.6 the age cent 396,700 aver i971 but the for tons July weekly aver

MANAGEMENT

at Radio for the first seven months of Telifis Eireann—the Irish tele- still 2.7 have been corresponding figure for the first seven months of 1971. until 20 to given August resolve a dispute with journal- ists or face the threat of a sec-

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ond blackout news pro- OT grammes within three months.

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Talks to settle the dispute have the builders and Supoort Force the Tar been unsuccessur dockers. Tories to National Union Journalists resign. objects to management's staff to employ PRESTON: Wednesday August SIUl 16, 8 and year contract basis because, muey Railway Com- say, operate against 10k Street, mercial Hotel. Journalist

RTE

security. nee railey Support Some of the station instructed not have beer dockers building and people co-operale WIlD workers. The decision close for economic at the of the recruited in this way. Closure

WORKS.

1,500 Staveley which will mean redun- reasons their Walsall Staffs. fac

WILLESDEN:

Monday August Stanton and plant And they have been told that dancies, cody brity of to This which employs 1,400 people.

14,8 p.m. Trades and Labour near Ilkeston, Derbyshire, may if nothing is resolved by August announced was Hall, High Road, NW 10. their fight Cumulity 20 they should seek official stage a work-in in ton. Ine workers nave neia pro• against massive redundancies.

action.

NORTH

LONDON:

test demonstrations, lobbies of and omcials August 17, 8 p.m. Monday of and received big who had sought six-month In June RTE news programme: Co-of Hall, On representatives deferment were blacked out for two days Seven Sisters Road, N4. the backing from miners—all, as yet, National Unior a dispute situation that over working con- furnacemen will meet to discuss to no aval. Wall COVENTRY: Wednesday August the proposal and to test out pos- ditions in Northern Ireland.

re examine. sible Walsall council deputation 1.30 p.m. herrora lavern support. The St, adjoining (Junction DIRECTORS of Stainless Tubes will ne * Grant, Wednesday meet The final decision will be Butts). joint under have promised to taken by the blasturnacemen say wils. Antonly the next Tuesday when they meet at the in week whether they the Department of dearer secretary al per cent August 17,

LUTON:

Thursday Stanton Institute sports ground are prepared to postpone their Trade and Industry. than in London. according • TO Joll Prices Commission National published in Dublin yes- report

CORRECTION

terday. Socialist Labour League Subscribe! are twice as Potatoes and eggs the In yesterday's article on The daily

PUBLIC MEETINGS

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TODAY'S

BBC 1

10.05 Eisteddfod. 10.55 Weather.

11.00 Athlete. 11.25 Cricket. 12.45 Grandstand: 1.10, 2.10, 2.35, 3.05, 3.35, 4.35 Cricket: 5th Test; 1.55, 2.25, 2.50, Racing from Newbury; 1.35, 4.15 Road to Munich; 4.50 Final Score. 5.05 Last of the Mohicans part 4.

6.05 News, weather. 6.20 GUNSMOKE. The Well.

7.05 FILM: "THE SCARLET

BLADE'. Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley.

Pursuit of the King in 1648 by Cromwell's troops.

8.25

IT'S LULU.

With Dudiey Moore, Johnny Nash.

9.10 A MAN CALLED IRON-

SIDE. The Summer Soldier.

10.00 NEWS, Weather. 10.10

MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.10

PARKINSON.

12.10 Weather. All regions as BBC 1 except: Wales: 5.05 Sounds Glorious.

6.15 Last of the Mohicans. 7.10 Men of Sherwood Forest. 9.10 highlights. 12.12 Eisteddfod Weather. Scotland: 5.00, 6.10, 10.10 Sports- Sing Sing Lo. reel. 10.40 12.12 News, weather 6.15 News, Northern Ireland: Sports. 12.12 News, weather.

England: 12.12 Weather. John Alderton Is In the 1880s comedy

SUNDAY

BBC 1

9.00 Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan.

10.30 Eucharist. 1.20 Farming.

1.50 Steam Horse. 2.15 Made in Britain. 2.24 News Headlines. Laurel and Hardy. 2.45 2.25 Young Idea. 3.10 Countryman. 3.35 Film: 'Three Little Words'.

5.15 Onedin Line. 6.05 News, weather.

6.15 ALL IN A DAY'S WORK.

Retailing.

6.50 PRAISE THE LORD.

7.25 THE GOOD OLD

DAYS.

Old-Time Music-Hall. 8.15

TRELAWNY

OF

THE

WELLS.

Amusing play about theatrical life in the 1880s. 10.05 NEWS, Weather. 10.15

OMNIBUS AT THE PROMS.

Shostakovich.

INTERNATIONAL GOLF.

11.15 12.05 Weather. All regions as BBC 1 except: Wales: 2.25, 3.35, 4.40 Cricket— Glamorgan v Kent. 3.55, 10.15 Eisteddfod. 12.07 News. Scotland: 12.07 News, weather.

Ireland: 12.07 News, Northern weather. England: 12.07 Weather.

BBC 2

9.05 Open University. 3.00 Film: 'Bachelor Flat'. 4.30 Cricket. 6.35 Perpetual Harvest. 7.05 West- minster. 7.25 NEWS, Sport, Weather. 7.35 ALL IN A DAY. Part 2: The Auction. 8.05

TOP

CROWN. Champion of Champions bowling over the Crown Green. 8.25 CIVILISATION. Part 9: The Pursuit of Happiness. 9.15

SOUNDS FOR SATURDAY.

Thelma Houston. 10.00 EMMA. Part 4. 10.45 MONTREUX 72. The En- trance to the Garden of Dreams-from Belgium. 11.10 NEWS, Weather. The Man 11.15

FILM

NIGHT.

Who Made Dreams Come True-Anton Grot.

MIDNIGHT MOVIE: 'BOT 10.3

11.45

TOM OF THE BOTTLE'.

Joseph Cotten, Van John- son, Ruth Roman, Jack Carson. Attorney in wealthy ranching community has to choose between his drunken brother on the run from prison and his relationship with his neigh- bours. Is comedy 'Trelawny of the "Wells"' on BBC

BBC 2

9.35 Open University. 1.50 Cricket.

7.00 News Review, weather.

7.25

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

Story behind a religious ettigy in Peru, believed to protection give against earthquakes. 8.15

THE UKRAINIAN DANCE

COMPANY.

9.00 MUSIC ON 2. The Violin, from Stradivari through to William Luff. 10.00 FOR THE NATION. Ber- nini's Neptune and Triton at the Victoria and Albert Museum. 10.15

THE ROADS TO FREE.

DOM.

11.00

WORLD

CHESS CHAM-

PIONSHIP.

11.25 NEWS SUMMARY, Weather. ONE MAN'S WEEK. Kenny 11.30 Everett.

ITV

10.50 Primus. 11.15 Sesame Street. 12.15 Lidsville. 12.45 News. 12.50 World of Sport: 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing from Wolverhampton; 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Ripon; 3.10 Polo- England v USA; 3.50 Results, Scores, News; 3.58 Wrestling; 4.50 Results Service. 5.15 In for a Penny. 5.45 Sez Les.

6.30 SALE OF THE CENTURY.

7.00 FILM: 'RED TOMAHAWK'.

Howard Keel, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady. Aftermath of battle of the Little Big Horn.

8.20 POLICE FIVE.

8.30 SATURDAY VARIETY.

9.30 VILLAINS. Chas.

10.30 NEWS.

10.40 AQUARIUS. A Plethora of Poets.

VIEWS.

Peter

11.40 PRIVATE

Walker.

12.15 OFT IN DANGER.

' on BBC 1 on Sunday

INV

11.00 Communion. 12.00 Calendar.

Yesterdays. 12.20 12.45 Cat- weazle. 1.15 Stingray. 1.45 Odd Couple. 2.15 Big Match. 3.15 Film: 'It's That Man Again'. 4.40 Golden Shot. 5.35 Follyfoot. 6.05 News. 6.15 DILIP. A Young Indian boy contracts leprosy.

6.55 APPEAL.

7.00 SONGS THAT MATTER.

7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

7.55 FILM: 'VALLEY OF MYS-

TERY'. Richard Egan, Peter Graves, Lois Nettleton. Plane with desperate criminal on board crashes in South American jungle.

9.30 WHO DO YOU DO?

10.00 NEWS.

10.15 PLAY: 'SHARING THE

HONOURS'. Director of successful art gallery is offered knighthood.

11.15 ELEVEN PLUS.

12.00 OFT IN DANGER.

Workers Press, Sat

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 12.45

London. 5.15 Who do you do? 5.45 Sale. 6.15 Sez Les. 7.00 McMillan and wife.

8.30 London. 11.40 Weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 11.50 Make a wish. 12.15 Lids- ville. 12.40 Gus Honeybun. 11.40 Faith for life. 11.45 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 11.15 Yesterdays.

11.45 Thunderbirds. 12.42 Weather. 12.45 London. 5.10 News. 5.15 Avengers. 6.15 Please sir. 6.45 Comedians. 7.15 Film.

8.30 London. 11.40 News. 11.50 VK: Frighteners. 12.20 Weather. Guide- line. HTV: 11.15 Sesame street. 12.15 Farming. 12.45 London. 5.15 sir. 5.45 Sale. 6.15 Sez Please Les. 7.00 Film: 'Blueprint for Murder - 8.30 London. 11.40 Prisoner. 12.40 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales above as except: 5.45 Sion a Sian. 6.15 Eisteddfod. ANGLIA: 11.00 Yesterdays. 11.30 Film: 'Tarzan's Magic Fountain'.

12.45 London. 5.10 News. 5.20 Who do you do? 5.45 Primus. Sez Les. 7.00 Film: 'Moss 6.15 • 8.30 London. 11.40 Jason Rose'. King. ATV MIDLANDS: 12.10 Horoscope.

12.15 Captain Scarlet. 12.45 Lon- don. 5.10 News. 5.20 Takes a Les. 7.00 Film: thief. 6.15 Sez 'Destination Gobi'. 8.30 London.

10.40 Short story. 11.10 Name of the game. 12.35 Stories. Jane Asher plays the mistress of the director of a successful art gallery whose love life threatens a possible title in 'Sharing the Honours' on independent chan- nels on Sunday

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00 Service. 12.05 Big match. 1300 Wealt 2a match. 3.00 Film: Frontier'. 4.40 London. 7.35 Film: 'Battle of the V1'. 10.00 London.

11.15 Avengers. 12.05 Epilogue.

Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 12.20 Into 1.30 Farm the sun. 12.05 Faith for life. progress. 12.10 Weather. SOUTHERN: 11.00 Service. 12.37 Weather. 12.40 Talking 12.55 Farm progress. 1.25 Out of town. 1.45 Bush boy. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Film: 'He Laughed Last'. 4.35 News. 4.40 London.

Film: Woman of Straw'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Sez Les. 12.00 Weather. Guideline.

HTV: 11.00 Service. 2.00 Journey.

2.15 Big match. 3.15 Film: 'Seven Keys'. 4.20 Arthur. 4.40 London.

7.55 Film: 'Seven Women'. 9.30 London. 11.15 Avengers. 12.15 Weather. HTV Wales as above except: 12.05 Dan Sylw. 12.45 'Nabod y Cair. 1.15 Other Half. HITV Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales plus: 5.35 repeat of 'Nabod y

ANGLIA: 11.00

Service. 1.20 Remember. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farming. 2.30 UFO. 3.25 Dr Locke.

3.55 Match. 4.40 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Reward. 9.30 In for a penny. 10.00 London. 11.15 Saint. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 Service.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 Yesterdays.

2.15 Sport. Film: 'Mister Moses'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Spyforce Press, Saturday August 12, 1972 PAGE 11 ULSTER: 12.15 Skippy. 12.45 Primus. 5.45 London. 5.15 Who do you do? 6.15 Sez Les. 7.00 Film: 'The Ride Back'. 8.25 Re- suits. 8.30 London. 11.40 Frighteners. YORKSHIRE: 11.00 Yesterdays.

11.25 Make wish. 11.50 Woobinda. 12.15 Lidsville. 12.45 London. 5.15 Primus. 5.45 Who do you do? 6.15 Sez Les. 7.00 McMillan and wife. 8.25 Cartoon.

8.30 London. 10.40 Prizewinners.

11.25 Journey to the unknown.

12.20 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Sesame street.

12.00 Mad movies. 12.30 Cartoon.

12.45 London. 5.15 Primus. 5.45 Who do you do? 6.15 Sez Les.

7.00 Bugs Bunny. 7.05 Film: 'The Deadly Hunt'. 8.25 London. 11.40 Strange report. TYNE TEES: 11.00 Yesterdays.

11.25 Bush Boy. 11.50 Joe 90.

12.15 Dave Cash. 12.45 London.

5.10 News. 5.15 Primus. Who do you do? 6.15 Sez Les.

7.00 McMillan and wife. 10.40 London. Cartoon. Prizewinners. 11.25 Journey to the unknown. 12.20 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 11.25 Casebook. 11.50 12.20 Arthur. 12.10 Horoscope. Primus. 12.45 London. 5.20 In for a penny. 5.45 Who do you Sez Les. 7.00 Film: do? 6.15 'Belle Star'. 8.30 London. 11.40 Late call. 11.45 O'Hara. GRAMPIAN: 12.25 Beagan Gaidh- ilm: lig. 12.45 London. 5.15 Batman.

5.45 Who do you do? 6.15 Sez Les. 7.00 McMillan and wife. 8.20 Cartoon. 8.30 London. ULSTER: 1.45_Survival. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Film: 'Tarzan and the Desert Mystery'. 4.40 London.

7.53 Results. 7.55 Cartoon. 8.05 Film: 'Murder Inc.' 10.00 London.

11.15 Saint. YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 Service. 12.30 Songs. 12.55 Farming. 1.25 Cook book. 1.55 •Soccer. 2.50 Film: 'No My Darling Daughter'.

4.40 London. 7.55 Film: Life with Father'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Strange report. 12.15 Weather.

GRANADA: 11.00 Communion.

12.30 Children to children. 12.55 Living_architects. 1.25 Yesterdays.

1.55 Football. 2.55 Film: 'Marry Me'. 4.40 London. 7.55 Film: 'The House on Greenapple Road'.

10.00 London. 11.15 Out front.

TYNE TEES: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 Service. 12.05 Something sing about. to 12.30 Western civilization. 12.55 Farming out- look. 1.25 Rugby. 1.50 Jobs. 1.55 Soccer. 2.55 Film: 'San Demetrio'.

4.40 London. 7.55 Film: 'Sara- band for Dead Lovers'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Welsh landscape. SCOTTISH: 1.20 Out of town.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 Yesterdays.

2.15 Studio. 3.15 Film: "Ladies Who Do'. 4.40 London. 7.55 Film: 'Waltz of the Toreadors'.

10.00 London. 11.15 Late call.

11.20 Festival cinema. GRAMPIAN: 12.55 Cook book 1.25 Yesterdays. 1.55 Farm pro- gress. 2.25 Film: 'Who's Minding the Store'. 4.00 Place of her own.

4.40 London. 7.55 Film: "Two and Two Make Six'. 9.30 Short story.

10.00 London 1115 Untouch ables

UCATT leader tries to hold back site action, but PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Augu AT A recent meeting, the Lon- don Area Committee of the SLL paid tribute to all our readers and supporters who maintained the sales of the Workers Press during the period of our summer camp.

A very special effort was made by all our supporters who were unable to attend • them- . Daily sales, particularly selves. ( in the morning, early were carried out on the docks in the midst of the great struggles of these two weeks. All-night sellers were at the picket of the Pentonville jail.

From all over London, readers were drawn in to cover all the important events. The massive marches through London in defence of the dockers were well covered, whatever time of day they took place. of our sup- Over a hundred porters took part in the lobby we organized of the TUC on Monday July 24 to demand that the union leaders break off all talks with the Tories.

When our paper was unable to publish due to solidarity action of SOGAT with the dockers, our supporters were in front demanding that out special dispensation be granted to working-class papers such 'Morning Star' and as the "Workers Press' Throughout the fortnight hardly a major event was missed by our ardent sellers.

At the same time, in each local district our circulation maintained so that our was received their daily • readers paper as usual. A great effort , ensure that all was made to the normal local sales at tube and bus stations around estates, and at main shopping centres were also continued. This magnificent support en- abled us to carry out the vital political work of our camp while at the same time not losing an opportunity to win new readers out of this political situation. This very great effort makes us proud of the kind of sup- port that has developed around our paper. On behalf of the Committee, our warmest thanks go out to those who fought so well during those two weeks.

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IT UP THIS

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Steelworkers and builders to aid Scunthorpe pickets building site project at Scunthorpe steelworks STEEL and building workers in Scunthorpe are to come to the aid of the Hull dockers stewards Only and steelwork shop one who have been facing police brutality on the steward opposed the action.

picket lines. They have decided to tell the This will be a serious blow to the scores of scab drivers who are shifting cargo trom wharves on the river Trent near Keadby that drivers who have been paid to take loads from private wharves on the Trent through their lorries will be blacked if they cross the picket lines once more. the dockers picket lines. A considerable pro- The taken after dockers' portion of the lorries take traffic to and from was the steelworks and the building site.

leaders met shop stewards from the Anchor Builders step up action in areas MILITANT BUILDING workers stepped up their campaign to stop all sites in the country yesterday in sup- port oi the claim for a £30, 35-hour week. Strike committees in London, Birmingham workers at the nuclear aylor Woodron and the north west were touring their areas -ancs, hold a strike meeting to hear UCATT convenor Stan Jackson (right) bringing workers out. This is despite calls from their waged the Liverpool continue rolling strikes leadership to restrict action where buiding workers will mee1 But painters representative BIll on Tuesday at the city's Stadium Henderson, opposed this line and to selective strikes and over- to plan further asked men to support a full scale action. time bans. The leadership committee has national stoppage. A special strike Wigan 2,000 building been this action oincial. 1h ne Midanos to Should nake workers met and heard calls for picketing in Birmingham said. Henderson's resolution all-out Wolverhampton. was overwhelmingly accepted by strike action from Farley of the Wigan Acuon conn- outree member sale mat worker tue meets mittee He other workers had spontaneously come out at said Building workers have divided should support the struggle with had visited they every site the London area into sectors and Scotland representatives will be called out on Illalice

OLLICI

action. two unions involved in the The phased basis the Arthur Harrison, branch secre- dispute have said workers must cente ones ov colliery, all-out strike. tary the Parkside not a fortnight work in the city will Wigan, already

LOTO

be at a standstill that the miners would support all out strike continue on Trevor Riches, director of the the building 'Your fight campaign of selective overtime sor-west regor orme racond.

heht, he said

OLIIKCS

alle Dall Federation Building Trades bonus working. An ovu-strong lorce Employers has lashed out at the Wigan area went round in the In Aberdeen yesterday a mass and "lump 1,500 try stop sites' meeting

SLIIKCID

He said employers' threw

UCATI

that the wilere non-unlon WOIKeTS OU! workers are employed. All the recommendation to return to the offer (originally accepted by already sit by the strike.

union's area are selective strike policy

UCATT,

the biggest union) was local Charles best in the the the is being Kelly, called on the membership The same campaign industry. Coventry one-day Scottish Rolls jobs strike: One plant assurance

THE ONE-DAY

working strike in Coventry planned for Mon- day will not be supported by THREAT of strike action by Rolls-Royce draughtsmen workers at Triumph Motors, meeting, mass the join shop coincided with assur- Scotland the city's biggest stewards accept the decision onue Minister Aerospace employers Heseltine UNHe Michael yesterday democracy' future jobs in the about the This follows a Griffin said yesterday: 'If people decision against Scottish factories. company s do not accept majority decisions, the strike taken bv a mass meet About 400 draugnismen Iron ing on Thursday. There 3s no raure Glasgow to the factories met in Griffin, a right wing Labourite that they proposal The one-day strike was called consider is president of the AUEW distric by shop raf the okers- Trans. shoule relect une managemenl s slewards committee latest wage offer of an extra £2.90 Union ano General in protest against the per dustrial Relations Afterwards a union spokesman Act and the £55,000 fines on their union.

said: might come We don't know yet.' action. This week e Confederation com. ousunc

WESTERN

SCOTLAND

meeting top executives Alter mittee of the of of Northern Ireland and Isle of Rolls-Royce, Heseltine said: Shipbuilding and Engineering Man will have occasional showers "The company Unions orcers to in callie vul lavoul last them until 1974-1975, so am• sunny intervals the action. Anart from Triumph's.

Eastern Scotland, northern enough work main- to the whole city is expected to be England and Wales will be present at a standstill on Monday.

Jabour cloudy with some rain in places, until then. After the mass meeting the 212 Meanwhile. spokesman out orienter • wener will scal: shop tered showers is expected in the stewards caniev the draughtsmen's union sald works met and advised all em- afternoon. thethe was negotiations: ployees to work on Monday.

and eastern England men's negotiating com- •outnern The may mittee will advise them to reject committee and the Mining have little in but some oner. recommendalion expected. they accept this sunny intervals are AUEW works convenor sanctions will be stated: 'Despite our dis- mendation, emperatures wipe near or appointment at the result of the a little below normal. involveu. BRITAIN'S trade figures showed a surplus last month of £29m compared with the revised June figure of £14m. The improvement was largely a result of a fall in imports by continued £52m. Exports to decline. The floating f-which in effect amounts io a devaluation--also helped the trade performance.

Stock The Exchange barely reacted to the news. ton site, Heysham Harbour, Morecambe, nor Stan Jackson (right).

Leaders of Britain's biggest building union held out yesterday demands for national against strike action. About 60 of the 100 delegates Union of Construction, at a Allied Trades and Technicians conference came out in favour of calling the union's 200,000 mem- bers on strike. But George Smith, UCATT general secretary, refused to take this action until the three other union executives met in London on Tuesday. Smith said that he ruled out more action because we would not want to create difficulty by appearing to arrive at unilateral decisions just because we are the largest union involved'.

Last week the UCATT leaders accepted the employers latest offer, but had to reverse their decision after pressure from the rank and file. RATEPAYERS of five ties may face a bill of up to £100,000 for the police opera- tion to guard the Weap House wharf at Keadby, near Scun- thorpe, Lincolnshire, which has been pickered by dockers this week. police spokesman said LINCOLNSHIRE men had been reinforced by units from

LEICESTERSHIRE,

NOTTS,

DERBYSHIRE and NORTH-

ANTS.

The cost of keeping about 500 policemen at the wharf was £4,000 a day in overtime Additional costs alone. included meals, transport and accommodation. The overtime does not extend only to men seconded to the wharf. For overtime is being worked in many police offices made short-staffed by men being drawn away to Keadby.