Workers Press no. 857

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AS JOBLESS AND INFLATION GROW

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1972 • No 857 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY PETER JEFFRIES

TWO NEW and decisive devel- opments have occurred in the last 24 hours which indicate a Picket run further rapid worsening of the economic and financial situation in both Britain and internation- down by car ally. They are developments which There have been many angry incidents on must be burned into the con- ine sullders picket lines during the pasi Tense to make l an alsout one Hale sciousness of every delegate to refuse to an all-out strike. the TUC Congress which our cameraman caches a men soeed scar

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car running into a picket as it enters the assembles at Brighton this week- Woodburn site in Coventry. FOR ANOTHER end. PICTURE AND STORY see p. 12

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comes the news that the French planning, decisive ale now moves against sterling and hoping to win the support of the Germans and other Common Market partners in this move. SECOND comes the current report of of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) which inflation- forecasts continuing rapid ary price increases as well as heavy unemployment in Britain. Despite the clearest possible threats from the Americans. the French in parti- cular seem determined on showdown with the US, at the expense of British Cabilalist meets Ger. When President Pompidou man Chancellor Brandt in Munich Willy the Tuesday he intends press

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which German leader to agree An end to the floating of the pound by December 31 at the latest.

• An increase in the price of gold.

• Restoration of dollar convertibility by the Americans. moves are aimed spe in aly All these A the Heath government. gold price would hit Britain harder thar major capitalist power she any allowed the gold component her reserves to fall drastically in favour of the dollar over recent years.

The of the sterl- ending Ing float would immediately of both Japan and the US.

earlier this week importantly. there more were wipe any little likelihood reportéd as saying:

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aavanlate seems he Thee uneas big or e which this move gives President's patience fall there- for unleashing mne exports and rapidly He ready after.' run out. vicious produce another balance of the create the equivalent ol Meanwhile the Ameri- between Does Burke-Hartke (Trade Pro- payments crisis. which the weakest will tection) cans and a panese nave be driven to the wall. The NIESR report under- moved closer agree- to an lines tradinge the cancer when The French clearl ahe se forecasts that next year the source said At the Nixon- British same intend that the will index likely that Administration retail price be the first to lanaka as a dawante had carried out Japanese will agree to pur- Pompidou regime itself Tise

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showed could which cent increase expected this cent, following involved in trade materials such enriched witnsland wal against inflatior Such will better than any of its rivals.

it intends to crisis uranium as wel as multary so ve the Asked if Nixon intended on v further undermine equipment and agricultural at the expense of its rivals competitiveness declare

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produce. exports. direction in the face of the While such an agreement most direct American warn- conne annua lateraaonal On unemployment the cannot be permanent, it Is Monetary in such the c. the Fund forecast nevertheless declaration report's the official replied: var against the Common hirm. It expects will if necessary. Senior Market tariff walls government be very nign cois winter by 'You can quote the post-war standards and, operate to the disadvantage sources No 857 • 4p

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A MAGNIFICENT achievement.

At one time, it looked like we might not make it this month.

But the tremendous last-minute fight that our readers, you, waged pulled us up well over We warmly our target. thank you all for this truly magnificent support. Clearly when the issues are posed for a struggle to defeat this Tory government, there is an enormous How response. else can we judge the fight

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Fund this put up for our month? But your overwhelming sup- port convinces us not to sit back, but to press on with our expansion plans. We are deter- mined to go into every area throughout the country and win new readers. Our paper must be read far and wide. cannot thank all We you great effort. enough for this Money is still pouring in and we will give you the final result let's tomorrow. start our campaign our immediately. September Fund Post all donations to: Workers Press September Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. SIR Alec Douglas-Home at was television in a pains to stress roadcast last night, the govern.

find places for efforts to ment's the Ugandan Asians in Common- wealth other than countries Britain. response to the growing In Party racialist mood in Tory he said the role of the circles Cunningham committee to was receive and resettle in an orderly come here. way those who •The He added: government additional fully realizes that burdens will be placed on local communities, many of which are already coping with considerable social problems.' Grudainglv. the Foreign Secre- tary said that in the last re- sort, if homes elsewhere cannot be found for them, we must take these unlucky people here.'

this' Workers President he cedented -crisis, on Press alone has warned the added. 'Our trading partners class of its real are turning out to be our working implications at all stages.

trading competitors. •President Nixon thinks Every reformist and it is better think revisionist trend has delib- now to about jobs for the Ameri- erately tried to obscure its can labour market, he said true nature in their des- to keep later. perate bid the from working class away Far from sorting any- revolutionary politics. thing out, the forthcoming

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meeting can only In this period of great bring these bitter conflicts danger, with the capitalist even nearer the surface. class daily being driven to showdown with •With intense American ruthless the working class, we call Europe, the pressure on main weight must fall on upon every worker to join weakest And the Socialist Labour League the link. doubts nobody that and play his part in build now ing the revolutionarv party Britain is the sick man of Europe. which alone can resolve Faced with this unpre- this crisis.

workers press

AS JOBLESS AND INFLATION GROW

NEW ATTACK

ON STERLING

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 1972 • No 857 • 4p

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

DAILY

BY PETER JEFFRIES

TWO NEW and decisive devel- opments have occurred in the last 24 hours which indicate a Picket run further rapid worsening of the economic and financial situation in both Britain and internation- down by car ally. They are developments which There have been many angry incidents on be burned into the con- must ine ollo ers picket lines auring the basi lew weeks. mainly because union officials sciousness of every delegate to refuse to an all-out strike. Here make it the TUC Congress which • cameraman caches a me socco sal EIDO REWARn car running into a picket as It enters the assembles at Brighton this week- Woodburn site in Coventry. FOR ANOTHER end. PICTURE AND STORY 300 p. 12

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the that the comes neWs French planning, decisive are moves against sterling and hoping to win the support of the Germans and other Common Market partners in this move. SECOND comes the current report of of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) which forecasts continuing rapid inflation- ary price increases as well as heavy unemployment in Britain. threats Despite the clearest possible from the Americans. the French . in parti- cular seem determined on showdown with the US, at the expense of British Capitalism. When President Pompidou me Munich • Ger- Brandt in Chancellor Willy Tuesday he intends press Ical plans which German ender to agree involve An end to the floating of the pound by December 31 at the latest.

• An increase in the price of gold.

Restoration of dollar convertibility by Americans. moves are aimed specifically All these in the the Heath government. gold price would hit Britain harder than any major capitalist power She ShaS allowed the gold component in her reserves to fall drastically in favour of the dollar over recent years.

The ending of the sterl- Ing float would immediately of both Japan and the US.

earlier this week there more were out little likelihood of saying: wiDe avalace Thee unleas beg of et which this move patience has fall there- for unleashing une British exports and rapidly ready after.' run vicious war produce another balance of the create mme ecurvalent ol will Meanwhile the Ameri- beTween rival payments crisis. Burke-Hartke (Trade Pro- which the weakest canved closer tones agree Tapanese tectonican label. "nder Act cans nave be driven to the wall. The NIESR report under- danger rading matters. lines the Wien The French clearly The se forecasts that next year the hemA ministration source said At the end of the Nixon. British intend that the will that retail price index the first go. had carried out it •surves Japanese will agree to pur- Pompidou regime itself rise showed could which cent, American raw tollowing Tne involved desperate expected this trade materials such enriched and wirestand wal against inflatior better than any of its rivals.

inflation will it intends to ycal. so ve its crisis onlv further undermine the equipment and agricultural at expense of its rivals. Asked if Nixon intended competitiveness warne claut it at the forth declare such produce. forced exports. direction in the face of the While such an agreement most direct American warn- On unemployment the cannot permanent, it is Monetary in such theon. the Fund meeting, Fem. Is expects its ell stiy forecast nevertheless declaration report's thill it mecessary: official replied: 'He war against the Common Senior government tariff ne very nich tas winter ov MarKet WalIs Washington 'You can. quote the post-war standards and, operate to the disadvantage sources No 857 • 4p

ST LABOUR LEAGUE

AUGUST FUND

£384 OVER

THE TOP

A MAGNIFICENT achievement.

At one time, it looked like we might not make it this month.

But the tremendous last-minute fight that you, our readers, waged pulled us up well over our target. We warmly thank you all for this truly magnificent support. Clearly when the issues are posed for a struggle to defeat this Tory government, there is How an enormous response. else can we judge the fight put for Fund this up our month? But your overwhelming sup- port convinces us not to sit 1A3:004 358] 4. back, but to press on with our expansion plans. We are deter- mined to go into every area throughout the country and win Our paper must new readers. be read far and wide. We cannot thank all you enough for this great effort.

Ewpon Money still pouring in and is we will give you the final result Meanwhile, let's tomorrow. for our start our campaign September Fund immediately. Post all donations to: Workers Press September Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. SIR Alec Douglas-Home was at in a television to stress, pains broadcast last night, the govern- ment's efforts to find places for the Ugandan Asians in Common- other than wealth countries Britain. response to the growing In Tory Party racialist mood in role of the circles he said the was to Cunningham committee 'receive and resettle in an orderly come here. way those who He added: The government additional fully realizes that will be placed on local burdens communities, many of which are already coping with considerable social problems.' Grudgingly, the Foreign Secre- 'in the last re- tary said that sort, if homes elsewhere cannot be found for them, we must take these unlucky people here' President this' he cedented crisis, Workers on added. 'Our trading partners Press alone has warned the are turning out to be our working class of its real implications at all stages.

trading competitors. •President Nixon thinks Every reformist and it is better now to think revisionist trend has delib- about jobs for the Ameri- erately tried to obscure its can labour market, he said true nature in their des- later. bid to keep the perate working class from away Far from sorting any- revolutionary politics. thing out, the forthcoming

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meeting can only In this period of great bring these bitter conflicts danger, with the capitalist nearer the surface. even class daily being driven to *With intense American ruthless showdown with the working class, we call Europe, the pressure on every worker to join main weight must fall upon on weakest And the Socialist Labour League the link. and play his part in build.

nobody now doubts that Britain is the sick man of ing the revolutionary party which Europe. alone can resolve Faced with this unpre- this crisis.

What we think Right wing still musters its forces PAGE 2 Workars Pross, Friday September 1, 1972 WHEN THE Ulster Social Democratic and Labour Party accepted direct rule, some people thought that this signified the ultimate in reformist treachery. They were the politica is no limit to There wrong of course. cynicism and capacity for betrayal of these traitors.

As the world economic crisis intensifies and the plight of Ulster's rickety economy deteriorates progres- sively, the SDLP-closely followed by the Civil Rights Association and official IRA — becomes the central strand of the rope on which Ulster Supremo William Whitelaw does his political tightrope walk.

For their servile collaboration the SDLP leaders will be treated to the unaccustomed privilege of meeting Tory premier Edward Heath and Whitelaw in Chequers on September 12. This meeting, which is to precede the on September all-party round table talks IS ostensibly being called to discuss the vexed question of internment as the SDLP leaders feel that their credibility will be imperilled unless they can get some guarantees on the ending of internment.

But Whitelaw sees this as a concession to the Pro- visionals and is determined to continue his policy of arbitrary arrest and internment of Provisional Republi- cans who are presently boycotting the talks. Whitelaw will have no truck with the SDLP's demand for dual control of Ulster or in giving Dublin any say in Ulster's internal affairs. The closer the SDLP leaders get to Whitelaw the more contemptuous and arrogant does the 'supremo become. Without making any overt political moves he is confidently waiting for his reformist collaborators to isolate the Provisionals and call off every resistance to imperialism. His confidence has proved to be justified. For a start the SDLP has begun to call off the rents and rates strike it began a year ago as part of its infamous civil Hundreds of families in the disobedience campaign. off no go' areas of Londonderry have begun to pay though there are still 1,500 out of 5,000 their arrears, tenants not paying arrears.

Following the SDLP the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association on Tuesday called on the IRA to halt its bombing campaign in Ulster. It is to send a three-man delegation to Sean MacStiofain in Dublin 'to impress upon him the revulsion which the majority of people feel at this murderous activity'.

The statement went on to condemn the recent explo- died-and Down- sions at Newry-where nine people patrick and called for an immediate halt to this sectar- ian campaign. Not surprisingly for this Stalinist domi- nated Association no mention was made about the necessity for the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ulster. The opportunism of this group on this vital issue is made even more blatant by its latest accusation that the British army is using Special Air Services (SAS)* personnel to carry out planned assassinations.

A British soldier in plain clothes captured by vigilantes is alleged to have admitted to being in the SAS. The army predictably denied this and maintains that he was on 'a routine secret patrol'.

If the SAS operates with impunity in Ulster it is mainly SDLP reformists and People's because the Stalinists, Democracy revisionists have acquiesced to 'direct rule' and refused, all along, to unite Irish workers to fight with the British working class to force the Tories to resign. The lesson of Ulster is crystal clear to all workers: those who refuse to fight for the replacement of the Tories by a Labour government pledged to socialist the dogs of principles running must become imperialism. *The SAS is an élite formation which specialises in counter-insurgency. Its activities shrouded in are alleged to involve assassination of secrecy, but are political personalities.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

scar us for generations and destroy the Chilean economy and human relations.

As Allende was speaking there were more vio- PRESIDENT Salvador Allende said lent outbreaks in the streets of Concención. Chile's yesterday he was horrified by sugges- groups of student demonstrators.

tions that Chile is on the brink of civil war. two demonstrators were wounded.

The clashes began when right-wing groups staged Speaking to students at the Technical State against counter-demonstration University in Santiago at the start of celebra- Popular Uniti rav or suboomers coalition Police surrounded the headquarters tions to mark the second anniversary of his where 200 party member the local Socialist Party, election victory, he said: •ao takes ence mom une non-wine moo I am horrified when I hear the talk of some irresponsible people that we are near to civil claiming a state of -although we would win war. a civil war wnich- it because we would have to win it-would against the closure or a ngal-wing raalo stauon.

The Popular Unity coalition of Stalinists, social-democrats iberals is committed to the so

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called peaceful road to socialism' which has in fact brought neither

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middle class and appear respect- of the employers able in the eyes tne government nas son-pedaled and demoralized many thousands workers, only served whet the of big which business preparing workers' movement. speech, Allende himself admitted the opposition reached 'unbelievable heights of in-

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YASSER ARAFAT, leader of the Palestinian Libera- danger fessed 'horror' the of civil war tion Organization, has denounced the movement's left It direct consequence of wing for a 'concentrated attempt to cause a split in the the Stalinist treacherous Leeory of the 'peaceful road' which is a resistance. virtual carbon copy of the British CP The suspect attempts and may be created. British D1U31al Kremlin has -endorsed by saboteur forces will not be also

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cretely urged them to climb on Stalin in 1952. able to distort the reality of netore it is Too Lic Valuwasull Fatah,' he said. late. Amman Radio, citing the Arafat, who has just returned 'Al-Nahar Beirut newspaper from a visit to the Soviet Union, the leaders commenting. accusa. was Satel Soviet during his recent asked Arafat been tion that his leadership has visit whether he had any definite secretly negotiating

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•King of intermediaries to come to terms ofter Plall lo with Jordan's King Hussein.

Hussein's plan' indicated, Amman said The accusation was levelled bv that the USSR felt the plan con- Nauef Hawatmeh, centrist leader Democratic Front tained some measure of realism of the Popular ana that the guerrillas must sub- Palestine 101 une Liocration plan consistent with He caic the talks nad been secretly for six months, with Saudi Arabia acting Radio, Moscow lene lily commentary the Palestinian

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solution Palestine National Council. who days ago, military Commano says: spokesman said in Phnom Penh tion. He added that nothing had yesterday. The experience of Palestinian been done to unblement madac tice the decision taken four Arab and said another 200 peoples, months ago to unify the various of missing along Highway Five, the peoples. shows that the policy only link between Phnom road into all or nothing at all is not in the Penh and its source fighting force. people's interests. 11l dill rich ricetields

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The bloody defeat of the guer- 'Every genuine revolutionary northern Cambodia. of hands rila must take into account at every Relief columns trying to rorces al the Jordanian army last year and stage distribution and the year before paved the way for strength of forces and distinguish miles irom rnnom tenn so lar between Hus- rapprochement what possible and made advance between realistic and what is impossible.

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against liberation troops The nationalists The Radio goes middle-class on to press Ing the road. who head the PLO are worried for the unification the Three government garrisons guerrilla already been overrun and groups that a separale peace concuucu of high- behind their backs will exclude the previously government acknowledged the political bank- way hands of portfolios and official posts that them from ruptcy of the present leadership.

liberation troops. America's States, while buying and Belgium-Luxem- AMERICA'S share in the from others, the import markets of the US study export most important

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United States points out that most in- Canada callucu commercial nations ex- share thus fell sharply in per cent in the last year falling sharply this year, fact declines total Canadian imports perienced some expan- according to the latest shown three rose at an even greater US Department of Com. the year, this was not re- unus leavin al flected in a demand for kets.' rica with a smaller share In West Germany, , for of that market as well. American goods. why, example, America's share is easy to "the report covers the Even measured in dol- first five months lar terms, over in light thest ortne Tine It reveals an 12-month period an fell from cent trends, year. of 9 pe last year only ruling class average decline overwhelming majority per are being forced into the this year. Falls 0f the US share CelI CUtl Coll 9 per total imports trading partners reduced more were

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Asians: Meat porters to march 'Screws provoked jail riot' Less strikes more RACIALISTS plan to take to days lost the streets again next week to protest against the immi-

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DAYS have been lost gration of Asians being ex- through strikes in the first six pelled from Uganda. months of this year than in any The Smithfield Workers' Against Immigration, led by meat other year since the 1926 General porters Danny Harmston and Ron Strike. laylor, said yesterday they would By the end of July 16,622,000 march on the headquarters of the days had been lost. This Transport and General Workers' com- pares with the 15.5million lost Union in London next Thursday.

in the whole of last year.

Taylor said he would be asking Jack Jones why he had not made The number of stoppages is about any statement the Asians. falling—but the ones that do occur Last Friday about 200 marched are larger in terms workers to the Home Office and handed involved and last longer. The a petition protesting against miners' strike accounted for more the government's policy on the than 10.75 million days lost, but Ugandan Asians. of the the builders' escalation Few meat porters took part, strike is now beginning to push the total up rapidly.

BY IAN YEATS

WARNINGS from prison officials that men taking part in recent disturbances would be severely punished have been followed up. Two of the leading 'militants' have been escorted off the island to Wands- worth jail, South London, and arother is to face visiting magistrates.

Governor Gifford Footer at Albany jail, Isle has punished 60 of 158 of Wight, inmates with penalties ranging from a caution to 14 days loss of remission. The spate of recent rooftop protests began last week at Albany after warders discovered a so-called escape plot. But as the police crackdown began to bite and fizzled on five weeks' home protests claimed the disturbances had release from Albany been provoked by the prison officers themselves. The man who preferred to be known his name, by christian 'Dave', told Christopher Walker of 'The Times' that it was untrue the riots had started by heen. high-risk prisoners. 'It was all caused by ordinary prisoners who were fed up with being locked in their cells for such a long time,' he said.

Trouble began on Friday after to Monday night. the discovery of an electric drill "There was just oppor- one in the cell of a man regarded by tunity a day to go to the recess police as the head of an escape (lavatory), whether you wanted committee. when to not. And you got was filthier and filthier. ordered The all there it governor the outbreak of prisoners be locked in their Describing he said: 'On violence, Saturday cells while a thorough search night the tea was hours late and was made. the screws (prison officers) were Said Dave: "To start with all round the ripping block of going thought were getting we boards and fitted furni- picture off work and getting paid for it, ture off the cell doors with so the fact that we were locked crowbar and a hammer. in was generally accepted 'About 7.30. shouted: a man Their feelings and tempers "The bastards have ripped the changed when they realized some board off the wall, two photos guards prison were determined are missing and the one of my to keep them locked up in their Up." wife is torn He picked up tiny the Bank cells throughout his and smashing chair started Holiday weekend the glass.' He said they had been unable The prison officers have been to leave their cells than demanding tougher treatment more of once a day from Friday morning inmates for some time and this series which in appeared Press in June, 1972 is now available as a pamphlet in the Socialist Labour League Pocket Library.

WHY A LABOUR GOVERNMENT?

A Reply to some centrist critics.

By Cliff Slaughter Price 5p Other titles in this series include: The Case for a General Election A reply to some By Alex Mitchell. The Ulster Dossier centrist critics The Social Security Swindle which includes the All Trades Unions Alliance Draft Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights.

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and the main contingent was made up of supporters of the extreme right-wing National Front, Dockers from the Royal and West India groups strongly con- demned the march and many stewards spoke out openly against racialism. Harmston_ led the 1968 pro- Powell march. He once stood as a candidate for the British Union Sir Oswald Movement, led by Mosley, who organized fascist and pro-Hitler forces in Britain in the 1930s. Harmston was also a member of the National Socialist Move- Jail, Peterhead Aberdeenshire, one of the new trouble-spots where 170 prisoners Joined the rooftop protest week's provocation has clearly given them a golden opportunity to press their view at the Tory Home Office. Twenty-one men were still on the roof at Parkhurst yesterday, alleged but two who were to at prison have shouted abuse guards were ordered to lose 14 days' association which means they will not be able to watch the Olympic Games on television.

Seven men continued their skyline protest Chelmsford at and 12 men refused to work at Leicester's Gartree prison.

At Camp Hill (IoW) all but three men have called off their protest and have 282 men received cautions and loss of remission. But during Wednesday night, trouble spread to four new jails - Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, where 170 were on the men roof, Walton, where two men were on the roof and 40 staged sit-down strike, Hull, where a 360 men staged a work strike, and Haverigg Camp, Cumber- land, where there was a demon- stration against the transfer of two men to another prison.

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Workers Press, Fri the predecessor of Colin ment, Jordan's British Movement. Meanwhile Praful Patel, a of the member government's Uganda Resettlement Board, went to the Foreign Office yesterday.

He urged them to set up a register of money and other belongings which expelled Asians are being forced to leave behind on orders of General Idi Amin, who heads military dictatorship the Uganda. Labourites yesterday continued to give credibility to the racialist fantasies of an Asian invasion'. The leader of the Leicester GLASGOW corporation's con- trolling Labour has group come out firmly against the Tory 'fair rent' Act, voting 57-5 on Wednesday night not to implement rent increases.

The decision will go before the housing full committee next week where backing is certain.

Labour group leader Dick said after the meeting: Dynes 'This is our decision. Now it's up to the government to do what it can.' Glasgow was the scene of a massive rent strike in 1915 when landlords, taking advantage of war conditions, imposed huge increases. Hundreds refused to pay the place in the city. • 31S0S

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Pross, Friday September 1, 1972 PAGE 3 majority Labour group, Alderman Edward Marston, led an all-party delegation to the Home Office on the question. There were fears, he said before going in to the meeting, that many Ugandan Asians were heading for Leicester. "Things are getting worse in the city every day,' he said. Many Labour councils have now made statements saying they do not want any of the immigrants to come to their particular towns.

The Yorkshire Committee for Community 1 Relations said the county could absorb up to 8,000 Ugandan Asians. A statement said there had been a net decline in total population over a num- ber of years in all three Ridings of Yorkshire.

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THE POLICY of signing separ- ate company deals and sending building workers back on site has rebounded on union lead- ers, employers claim. Many of those sent back in Scotland are out on strike again, despite the 'model' deals which only give a basic of £25 for a 40-hour week. Union leaders in Scotland have been going through a hard time forcing home the company deals signed there. Last Friday, the policy was unanimously rejectec by 6,000 building workers meet- ing in Edinburgh. One of the deals signed was with Peter Cameron, the Aber- deen-based building firm. employers now say that work has stopped on Cameron's sites in Ayr, Dundee, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Few workers had returned on other sites where separate deals had been reached. Among the rank-and-file, the vast majority are hostile to sepa- rate negotiations because they rightly fear it could split up • strikers and cause confusion.

The employers' federation is in- sisting on a national wages agrte- ment or nothing. But union lead- ers are in favour of separate deals and if necessary abandoning the established joint national council in favour of a regional structure.

In Canterbury another 300 build- ing workers have joined the strike since Tuesday and many more were expected to come out late spokes- yesterday afternoon. A man for the university site said: 'We think it should have been a national strike from the start.?

In North Wales slate quarrymen have joined the builders demanding £30 for a 35 hour week.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Septembe Part 3 of a series on Picketing b In 1819 the notorious 'Six Acts' prohibited un- lawful drilling or exer- cises of a military char- seizure of arms, restricted public attendance at meetings to local inhabit- ants only and banned carrying of flags, banners ings. New attempts to suppress the radical and labour press were made with a law enabling seizure of any printed matter alleged to be seditious or blas- phemous and with a new tax of 4d on all copies of news- papers and pamphlets. The preamble to this last Act ran: and printed •Pamphlets papers containing observations upon public events and occur- rences, tending to excite hatred and contempt of the govern- ment and constitution of these realms as by law established and also vilifying our Holy Religion, have lately been published in great numbers and at very small prices.'

especially Act This was aimed at news-sheets like Wil- Cobbett's 'Political Reg liam ister' and its cheaper edition, the "Twopenny Trash', enor- mously popular among agricul- labourers and tural town journeymen. In fact, the papers continued to be printed with- out the tax stamp and hund- reds of those who printed, pub- lished and sold them went to prison many times over. A parson-magistrate wrote to the Home Office in 1817 to say that he had seized two who were distributing men pamphlets and had Cobbett's them well flogged at the whip- ping-post under the vagrancy laws. Another such martyr to a free press was J. Swann who had already been in jail for selling Carlisle's 'Republican' and was once more up before court. The proceedings, the presided over by a Captain Clarke, ended as follows: BENCH: Hold your tongue a moment. DEFENDANT: 'I shall not! For I wish every man to read these publications (pointing to Guardian', Poor Man's "The 'Hunt's Address' etc. BENCH: You are insolent, committed therefore you are months' imprison- to three ment in Knutsford House of Correction, to hard labour.

DEFENDANT: I've nothing to thank you for; and whenever I'll hawk them I come out again. And mind you, the first that I hawk shall be to your house (looking at Captain Clarke). BENCH: Stand down. DEFENDANT: No! I shall not stand down for you. forcibly He then was removed from the dock and back to the New Bailey. During this period, violent was taken repressive action against any hint of political or other movement by workers.

In 1817 starving Manchester handloom weavers organized a march of the unemployed to London. Marchers were congre- gating in St Peter's fields, Man- chester, ready to move off, when soldiers arrived and dis- September 1, 1972 keting by Bernard Franks persed the demonstrators and arrested their leaders. Contingents that had already started • broken up out were by soldiers and yeomanry and Two their leaders arrested. years later St Peter's Fields was the scene of the 'Peter- Massacre', when soldiers and yeomanry rode at and cut down a peaceful crowd listen- ing to radical orators. Eleven and people killed were hundreds injured. fully The action was endorsed by the lory govern- ment. The poet Shelley, son- philo- in-law of the Radical sopher William Godwin, was moved by this event to write his 'Mask of Anarchy' of which a verse mentions one reptile politician: 'I met Murder on the way- It had a Mask like Castle- reagh- Very smooth he looked yet grim; Seven bloodhounds followed him:' later when A few years Castlereagh cut his own throat, thousands of workers lined the to his funeral and route heartily cheered as his coffin rolled by: Peterloo had a deep and continuing effect on the British working class. the capitalists realized that the growth 1824, of trade unions could not be and, if remaining stemmed illegal, could become even dangerous and violent. more The Combination Laws were repealed. rise in An unprecedented combination and strikes led to in turn this new Act being repealed the following year and replaced with a law allow- ing combination to discuss wages and conditions, but pro- hibiting almost every action associated with trade union agitation. Picketing against employers or blacklegs was virtually for- bidden. The Act declared: 'If any person shall by violence to the person ar property or by threats or intimidation or by molesting or in any way ... force anyone obstructing to leave work or prevent hiring or... force any manufacturer to make any alteration in his mode of business ... he shall be liable ... to a maximum of three months' hard labour.'

The courts put a wide inter- pretation on 'obstruction' and pickets to be sent to jail. Some examples of illegal actions by union men against employers and 'knobsticks' in subsequent given by Frederick are years Engels in "The Condition of the Working Class in England' These include the case in 1838 of the Cotton Workers' Union, a secret committee of which fixed a price ous manufacturers' and upon incendiarism in mills. The Committee was finally arrested after many murders and mal- treatment of knobsticks, and its members transported for seven years. But by far the main cause for concern by capitalism in or these years was the political agitation carried on by the Chartists. In 1839 Chartist demonstrations were fired upon by troops in Bolton and New- port and many people were killed or injured. A general Strike in support of the Char- throughout Lancashire, ter Yorkshire and enthusiasticall by the workers w from boiler out the called 'Plug Riots'- where th working tried to continue i 'Political power Social happiness o their war-cry. The strikers of control and other towns. 1 ter of Bradford the tneir rolnes of permission The authorities ha ate time trying to situation. Even were special constables with loss ener sions if they did n of Exampies from away having to de rescut occurred frequently the At head in 1841, a Ju Peace had to Act from resoued by was hours later. Colne, At 'tolerably police was by a body of disci armed ers garden palings. Authorities sending arms for f they might were afraid of prov eral arming class, though Chartists once armed in such sec Wat Tyler Brigade For the same Yeomanry were no These were from the Age of P more frig Even the authorities affection of some o When General Naj Nottingham in 183 rifieman Chartist meetings and another excla your eyes, we are a Napier pressed Office for 'The difference of country wrole. occurrea oelween and the new muc Midlands the ısiastically supported orkers who marched knocking

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oiler plugs—the so- ig Riots'-to prevent where the employers ontinue in operation. piness our end' was took Stockport, towns. in one quar- dford the police went special Chartists. the orities had a desper- the control Pen- sworn in as and threat 1 loss of their pen- ley did not take part. police running demonstrators, or he rescued by troops, frequently. village of Sheeps- 841, a Justice of the Riot read the window upstairs he flying missiles He cavalry thre strong' completely with firearms and were nervous of ems for fear of where end up. They also of the working 'physical- many were already such sections as the • Brigade. same reasons the were not often used. different times Age of Peterloo. for nore frightening was the dis- of some of the troops. neral Napier went to found m in 1839, he attending all the the town neetings in her exclaimed 'Damr we are all Chartists! pressed the Home troops: more Irish rence of religion and offers additional • the soldiers' fidelity Clashes between the military new much-hated pro-

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reason why more The examples of defeat for military and police did not occur is that rather than have state forces be seen to retreat before the workers' political offensive, the authorities would avoid confrontation altogether.

C. Mather in his book F. 'Public Order in the Chartists writes: Age of .. • as Napier never tired of pointing out, had a small detachment been overthrown by rioters the moral effect would have been incalculable. The disaltected throughout the country would have been encouraged to rise in rebellion and to throw them- selves confidently against the troops, and the latter might have led them to desert in large numbers to the side of the populace.' Trotsky wrote in 'Where is Britain Going?' that Chartism was an early historical over- "immortal by reason of ture the fact that for a space of ten it gave us in a com- years pressed and diagrammatic form apparently the whole gamut of proletarian struggle - from petitions in parliament to armed insurrection.' He added: 'As the Chartists threw overboard the sentimen- tal preachers of "moral action" rallying the masses under the standard of revolution, so the British proletariat will be con- of fronted with the task thrusting out from its midst the reformists, democrats and pacifists and of mobilizing under the standard of revolu- tionary change. In this way 'the British pro- letariat must see in Chartism not only its past, but also its future' Picketing was made legal for the first time in 1859, in the a period of middle unparalleled prosperity for British capitalism-and for a of British privileged layer workers also. This stemmed from the enormous industrial monopoly of world trade held by Britain and the ruthless exploitation and plundering of the colonies which enabled the ruling class to make conces- sions here to the more essen- tial workers on conditions of union organization. However, for the great majority, little and only tem- porary improvement occurred.

Large sections were even worse-off as machines brought and unemployment more intensified working for those still in a job. As soon as the system ran once more into crisis in the late 1860s, the ruling class looked to methods of taking back gains made by workers.

The 1859 Act was soon made ineffectual by judges' rulings. For example, in 1867 a judge held that the extremely effective well-organized and mass picketing by tailors of 9, where Chartists were fred upon. Left: ho was transported for his part in the the Masters' shops in London was illegal conspiracy to "molest' by 'abusive language and gesture' and by giving 'black looks'. A new attack on picketing occurred in 1871, following a report of a Royal Commission set up in 1867 to look into trade unionism after the so- called Sheffield and Manchester outrages of 1866. In Sheffield tin of gunpowder had a exploded in a non-unionist's house. In Manchester the authorities were extremely con- cerned about the power of the brickmen's clubs, members of which had used violence on shot 'unfair' scabs and employers. The Royal Commission had been extremely concerned at the powers of the trade unions, which, it claimed: 'had certain injurious effects on the char- acter of the working men'.

. For example, it found that brick- makers had designated a four- mile limit around Manchester within which no bricks may be used except those made in district and where no the brickmakers may work except union men. Restrictions on piecework rigidly and overtime were enforced by the men and strict in the entire demarcation building trade was made between bricklayers, masons and plasterers etc. A Manches- builder constructing a ter railway station at Bury was instructed by the union to employ Manchester men for at least half of his labour force.

Following the Report two new laws were passed. The Trade Union Act of 1871 gave unions a firm legal status, pro- tection for funds against legal liability and protection . from found in restraint of being trade. The second Act-the Crim- inal Law Amendment Act - a vicious anti-working- was class law. It repealed the 1859 legislation, thus removing the legal right to picket. It further confirmed the previous court restricting pickets decisions and laid a basis for magis- trates to send them to prison on the flimsiest charges.

The new law made it illegal to: • Coerce a master to dismiss an employee or make a worker leave his job. • To stop an employer offer- ing work or a workman taking • To demand payment of a fine to any temporary or per- manent combination. • To force any master "to alter the mode of carrying on his business'. The maximum penalty was three months' hard labour.

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BY IAN YEATS

The expulsion of most of Uganda's Asians will do President Idi Amin's economy little good and much positive harm. He is, of course in a difficult position. Things aren't going too well anyway and he figured 'alien' getting rid of a large population might help. After his first wild announce- ment that 80,000 people must immediately uproot 'emselves from his country, Amin him- self was clearly grabbed by a sudden fear. The original decree, made at a sumptuous banquet at a palatial villa on the shores of Lake Victoria, was changed to exclude doctors, dentists, lawyers and owners of indust- and agricultural enter- rial prises. The thought of plunging the handling of business, com- merce and the professions into totally inexpert hands was obviously too appalling to contemplate for long. Asians own most of the smaller factories, monopolize the cotton industry and sugar plantations as well as control- ling the saw and timber mills.

A single Asian family-the Madhvanis-have about $40m invested in Uganda. The family contributes 10 per cent to the country's annual revenue and employs 13,000 Africans. Although Uganda's Asians take no part in politics, they dominate business and the French workers' annual August vacatior rises pushed through by the Pompidou g of professions. In East Africa as a whole of 18,000 professional people 40 per cent are Asians and 50 per cent of the 49,500 technicians are Asians. The majority of shops are owned by Asians. As a community they have kept very much to themselves.

Intermarriage and even social contacts with black Africans has always been frowned upon.

Until the government ordered educational integration Asian children were taught separately.

All of this - their ethnic exclusiveness and their domin- ance of business and commerce —were, of course, a deliberate creation of British imperialism.

Britain imported thousands from the Indian mainland first as labourers and then as an intermediate caste between the Europeans and the Africans enjoying favoured treatment therefore, loyal to the and, British crown. Now Amin is trying to remedy Uganda's economic ills fanned by the world recession by • offering his people the chance of complete mastery of their country at the expense of the Asians. The effect would be short term at the best. But since Amin has deprived his country of virtually all its entrepre- neurial talent, the consequences are likely to prove more or less disastrous-immediately.

Top: General Amin. Right: in Kampala, Uganda's capital, a group of young Asians waiting for news of their future.

st vacations were soured by huge price ompidou government. On the eve of Common Market entry, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress have tacitly agreed with the Tory government and the Confederation of British Industry to tie wages to an 8 per cent ceiling. This is the purpose of the arbitration 12-man board established by the TUC and the CBI last month. It is aimed at policing strikes and pay demands in accordance with the so-called 'norm'. This is being done despite the wage increases consider- ably in excess of 8 per cent won this year by the struggle of the miners and railwaymen, which exposed the hollowness of Tory pay-freeze policy.

The real treachery of this back-stage arrangement is revealed by the latest figures for price rises within the Com- mon Market. Britain is due to enter the EEC in December, and workers will then have to bear the full brunt of the rising cost of liv- ing as never before. The most rapid rise in the cost of living is in the Bene- lux countries, where conserva- tive official estimates put the rise in the price of consumer Workers Pross, Fri goods at 44 per cent over the last six months. Like most statistics this figure conceals more than it reveals, because it lumps together all items of expendi- ture from relative luxuries and household durables to daily necessities. A far spectacular more glimpse of the grim reality of Common Market prices is given by the Paris newspaper 'Le Monde', which details the following percentage rises in prices over the last year: 'In one year the price of beef has risen 15 per cent, that of veal 20 per cent; camembert cheese has gone up 12 per cent; potatoes by more than half; many fruits (apples, plums, peaches) cost 10 to 50 per cent more than last sum- mer. 'Many prices fixed by-or in with-the govern- agreement ment have risen considerably over the last few months: bread (14 per cent in one year for a standard loaf), milk (8 per cent), tobacco and cigar- per cent on aver- ettes (10 age), gas and electricity (4 per cent), rents (16 to 17 per cent).

to the latest 'According va- official statistics shoes cost 6 per cent more than they did a ner year ago, clothes 5 to 8 per Press, Friday September 1, 1972 PAGE 5 cent more ... And the paper adds omin- ously: 'The rise in the cost of living is far from over; the next set of figures for the cost- ot-living index will be "catas- trophic" according to the authorities.' Prices will continue to rise, says 'Le Monde', , not only because of this year's poor harvest, but also because wholesale buyers have been able to borrow considerable sums from the banks, making them more ready to take in goods at a higher price. The paper also cites the con- tinuing rise in the price of such primary goods as cocoa, tin, lead and wool, which are bound to 'work through' into the shops. • And it predicts with cer- tainty that there will be fur- ther increases in the Common Market price of meat. Monde's' figures give 'Le some indication of the rapid price escalation within the Common Market, particularly for food products and essential goods. They show the future await- ing the British working class as a result of the Tory govern- ment's plans and give a mea- sure of the treachery of the per TUC's wage-freeze agreement.

PAGE 6 Workers Pross, Friday Saptember 1, 1872 The racialist outburst by a small group of Smithfield meat Several times this century right-wing porters is nothing new. and fascist forces have exploited the demoralization and sheer the decay of British 'capitalism desperation causes among workers and the poor. STEPHEN JOHNS describes here a little-known episode that occurred during the depression years in Glasgow-an event that is finding an echo in the same city today. The central area of Glas- dark and violent place quite Scotland unlike the 'real' of gow is still a city of tene- heather, hills and Robby ments, their stone stair- But _is. Yet more than half of Scot- ways lit by a feeble elec- land live tric lamp or even an old and around in this huge industrial The octopus. gas mantle in the more of conditions the working derelict areas of the Gor- class, whether they live in the the tenements bleak bals, Maryhill and Shet- 'schemes' scattered windswept tleston. around the fringes of the city, Britain. The wealthy Americans are worst In shiver as the coach to the air- But in Glasgow it has port speeds them through the always been the same-only worst south-side slums for the worse. the 1920s and 1930s connection to Paris, Rome or In and the hop and unemployment Palma next of poverty their European tour. drove down into people the To the international tourist desperate sub-strata in Glasgow is a one-night stop, a city's inner districts. especially, Young people faced the world with no pos- sible means of escape from enforced unemploy- hunger, They had ment and idleness. unions and the Labour no Party leaders failed in two ad- ministrations to make any in- roads on the capitalism that so oppressed the masses. unemployment figures The give some idea of the scale of During the 1920s a poverty. 15 to 20 per cent male jobless rate was the average. But with the advent of the 1930s the total leapt to engulf up to a third of the male population.

There are no statistics avail- able for unemployment in the but the rate poorest areas, must have been considerably higher. of While the workers Glasgow fought many heroic battles against the ruling class, others, broken in spirit, sank to the lowest depths of human existence. The statistics for violence, crime and drunkenness during this period follow almost exactly the rising graph of un- employment. The drinking habits in the slums give some glimpse of the of misery that swal- swamp lowed many healthy men. 'Red biddy', meths mixed with cheap wine was (and still is) common. More lethal were the bottles of cheap scent—usually Eau de Cologne -that the addicts swallowed.

The most desperate, who searched for immediate and oblivion, bought continued 'spirit crystals' (now illegal).

These, crushed in a little lemonade would cause immedi- ate collapse. When the addict came round a glass of water would be enough to make him completely drunk. When the effect wore off another glass was drunk until it was time to It was crush more crystals. said a man could remain drunk for two months for under a shilling with this method-not many lived to prove the theory. especially youth, Others, attempted to find different means of escape. They turned to gang violence, and soon Glasgow had reputation or Chicago. Whereas abroad the violence was often a part of organized crime, in Glasgow it expressed directly the immediate more of the frustrations im- poverished working class.

The gangs had begun before the 1914-1918 war but it was not until the 1920s that they grew to be a real force in the slum areas. The divisions sectarian within the working class were immediately exploited and the gangs developed along strict religious lines, reinforced by segregation be- the territorial Catholics and Pro- tween testants. They took their names from for - there streets were, 'Norman Con- the example, 'Conks' who querors' or assembled in Norman St, The 'Beehive' took their name from in Briggate where a corner boys used to from 'Calton gang Calton. But the most famous "The Billy Boys', of them all, were immediately sectarian and took their name from the hero mythology, of Protestant of Orange — 'King William Billy'. the gangs- In some cases comprising youth over the age of 14 and men up to their into - developed mid-30s crime. The Beehive gang came eventually to be controlled by a group of experienced house- surrounded breakers who bunch of themselves with a toughs for protection Their leader man was a called Peter William, from a 'respectable' well- family, educated and extremely elo- quent when it came to a defence in court. But the real The extreme right In the 18308 Mosley's British Union of Fascists.

the BUF East End. keep out of the Below left: Confrontation 1968. Enoch and a small number of dockers clash with pe Danny Harmston-a parliamentary candidate to mobilize a minority of backward workers b -aux batn men tried to si

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Mir' 'wheel' London safe- was cracker called Howie, a real planning expert with great ability. in Other gangs developed The radically-different ways.

'Conks' focus of became a Catholic aspirations while the 'Billy Boys' led by William Fullarton (sometimes spelt Fullerton) became the spear- . of militant and head right- wing Orangeism. fought These out gangs some of the fiercest and bloody battles ever seen in the city.

The weapons were crude and made to maim the opponent.

'chivvy' The razor or the implement. was a favourite These would be fixed in hats and used to slash the face of a rival. Sometimes potatoes em- of number bedded with a stick razors were fixed on a and thrown at the faces of the opposition. Other • weapons were more commonplace, broken bottles and coshes. Fullarton developed as an big patriot. The extreme battles were accompanied with a singing of the Orange hymn 'The Sash My Father Wore' and usually ended with 'God Save the King' (the Smithfield porters and company ended their jamboree with 'Land of Hope and Glory'). Fullarton would organize 'church parades' deep into 'Conks' territory as an excuse for a violent clash. The 'Conks' for their part tagged onto a Communist Party unemploy- Workers Press, Friday S Loft. The anti-fascist demonstrations staged by workers in the The anti-fascist crowd is fleeing from police who are charging at the other side of 1 Above: The police attempt to force a pathway for a BUF car at Royal encouraced a revival of the extreme riaht. Her ockers clash with police in Whitehall.

The organizer of the protests and the latest 1966. Like Glasgow's amentary candidate for mosity s workers behind the anti-working class policies of the extreme right. he came out of jail he joined ment march into the Protestant Bridgeton. There, the fascists and was put in homeland, charge of a section of 200.

300-strong, they were set upon 'Billy Later Fullarton told a news- by 200 Boys' yelling 'God Save the King'. I couldn't give you paper: definition of fascism to this In their own areas the gangs day. It seemed like good would organize petty protec- rackets local thing to belong to at this time tion among words tradesmen. But all the that might repeated by many of the business community were un- who marched from partners of the gangs workers willing Smithfield last week, but activities. nevertheless they did march.

Fullarton After the war relinquish seemed ally political commitment. He dropped from the news and lived out his days as a worker in the Clydebank shipyard.

But in 1962, when he died, of his The Billy Boys' came to there echo have powerful political back- He former notoriety. got ing from the right wing. VIP funeral from 600 of his walked intimidate strikers and in 1926 They were employed fellow supporters who behind the coffin to Riddrie followers Fullarton and his cemetery in a tribute to 'their suddenly rediscovered a long- former leader'. A cushion em- lost civic pride and began broidered with marigolds was laid on his grave-a symbol of scab the General Strike. on The pattern was emerging-the the Orange Order. In Glasgow dispossessed declassed during the fascism recruited being used petty depression were the demoralized and backward storm-troopers for most workers through the poison of vicious section of the business religious sectarianism noW community. the trick is race and hatred of Things became even more Fullarton 1930s. clear the black workers. In essence in and the activities of the gangs are the both methods same had produced a backlash. The -they provide a worker with illusive retaliate and to his police began to 40 of and and he was arrested, among frustration misery Toll Cross him object towards his supporters, at gIve an Glasgow which he can divert a hatred drunk with three-year-old his generated by the child in very con- ditions capitalism forces him arms. He got 12 months and when to live under. kers Press, Friday September 1, 1972 PAGE 7 In the East End of London against Oswald it the other side of the barricades, erected to at Royal Mint Street in the City of London. e extreme right. Here Smithfield meat porters the latest Smithfield march, below right, was lasgow's William Fullarton, Harmston is able ght. Harmsion uses racialism, Fullarton used But the hand behind such political expressions is always the hand of capitalism, whether it be the bigots among Glas- gow's petty trading classes or the big battalions like Krupp and Thyssen who paid the Nazis in Germany. Now the danger is growing once more. Not only in Lon- don. In Glasgow there is a noticeable growth in sectarian hatred. The extreme Orange- men behind Pastor Jack Glass have been out on the streets again much to the joy of the news media-after all it's all good The thinly- copy. disguised sectarian battles that rage around the Rangers-Celtic football matches (again accom- panied with massive Tory press fiercer than publicity) are ever. The scene of action may have shifted somewhat from the crumbling tenements to the schemes like housing Castlemilk, Drumchaple, Easterhouses and the Renton in the Vale of Leven, but the lesson is still the same-youth must not be fooled into fight- ing battles for the Tories and bosses, should be directed at the real enemy — capitalism.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday Saplember 1, 1972 abortive of August- The Bolivian revolution September 1971 which brought the CIA-sponsored regime of Col Banzer to power has had a consider- able impact on the Trotskyist movement.

Not only did these events prove the complete bankruptcy of the revisionist forces of the Unified Secretariat in Latin America, but they also revealed the theoretical degeneration and blatant political opportunism of the Lora-Lambert tendency within the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- national (ICFI). These grave events gave a vital the philosophical and fillip to a discussion on roots of the opportunism of the POR political (Revolutionary Workers' Party of Bolivia) and its subsequent betrayal of the Bolivian proletariat.

No development of Trotskyism we believe is possible without an understanding and assimilation of the lessons of the revolution and counter- revolution in Bolivia 1970. In the interests of such a discussion we are publishing this critique of the 'Workers' Vanguard' statement on the POR. It has been submitted for publication by the Greek section of the ICFI. Bolivian miners Part 4 in the series 'Workers' Vanguard and the Bolivian R

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temporary contact with the All the elements which International Left Opposition, they hid behind the books of seen in the we have Lenin and Trotsky until they Workers Vanguard's ana- began withdrew and their lysis-confusion, formal- fierce anti-Trotskyist efforts against the Greek section of ism, sectarianism, anar- 4th International, and the cho-syndicalist ideas, are against the International it- expressions of the same self, approaching the tempor- international focus idealistic method, which ary the London Office, centrism, is not unfamiliar, as we in with the English company

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said at the beginning, to the SAP, the POUM etc. the Greek as well as to the international Blessings of revisionism workers' movement. After the war, some of its Pabloite Contrary to the vestiges took part in the re- Novak ideologists of the grouping of the Greek section school, in order to examine a of the 4th International in method of thought, we do not 1947, with the blessings of of the make an abstraction Pabloite revisionism. rising within historical horizon Greek Trotskyism joined with which it comes into being and just what it had been fighting functions. throughout its whole history We cannot speak abstractly up to that time... without empiricism, about Stalinism always wanted to historical develop- seeing its of amalgamation make an the process of through ment Archeio-Marxism and Trotsky- English Revolution; nor the to annihilate its ism in order can we talk about pragmatism, Until now the opponents while ignoring the conditions slander

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Greek tries to development of bourgeois of Trotskyism for the criminal America; nor ideology in policies of the And Archeio. rationalism, about independ- at the time of the Albanian ent of the class struggle that the arch-Stalinist revolution, first formed it in France.

Enver Hodja used amalgama- The WV's formalist method tion, slander and assassination well, has of thought, as identify Archeio-Marxism to It is the historical origin. Trotskyism and to be with of peculiar method quite better able to drown in blood the Archeio- centrist sect, influence of the strong which developed Marxist one, the Trotskyist ideas in parallel to and against before, Albanian proletariat. Greek Section of the 3rd the When the EDE took up in International, the CPG against Greece the historic continua- the Greek Left Opposition and tion of the heroic Greek Trot- against the founder and guide movement against Trotskyism Pantelis skyist of Greek its Pabloite liquidation, in Pouliopoulos. Archeio-Marxist This great communist leader ranks were which crystallized and fighter of the 4th Inter- elements into a minority. national had correctly charac- Within the rapidly-develop- terized this current as ing crisis of Greek and world for social peculiar substitute capitalism, before the impera- within primitive democracy Greek communism'. new revolu- tive tasks of a Archeio tionary period when the Inter- The line of the national is called upon to play was: 'Education first and then the role defined by its found- action, 'not just a passive but ing Conference in 1938 and bv also a hostile stand against Transitional Programme, every political and trade union the action of the workers' (Circu- no co-existence with centrism lar of the Archeio 1928), 'a was possible, less with even of Árcheio-Marxist In cultivation type. systematic an hatred for every revolutionary 1967 the minority was expelled from the EDE and from that blow and organization, itself Workers split by terrorist means of the called time Vanguard. in the revolutionary wing the Some people will say that trade union movement, armed liquidation of the lat- these are old that the stories, ter's conferences, a Masonic, WV cut its ties with Archeio- despotic type of organization.

and its method. We Marxism (Pouliopoulos 'Democratic believe that not only does the or Socialist Revolution in WV always follow its method, Greece?') but also that it consciously n miers during street lighting In 1870 livian Revolution' sees itself as its continuation.

'innocent' An apparently phrase in their document about the POR suffices to show us this. They write: 'From the time of Varsky's in support for Pilsudsky Poland, in whom he saw the "democratic dictatorship of workers and peasants", and of the support for the dictator Pangalos in Greece on whom "do the Greek CP called to as you boast, my general" in 1925, the continuity of support for Bonapartist regimes in the semi-colonial colonial and countries iș a result of the fellow travelling of the with "demo- Stalinists the (as in cratic" bourgeoisie China, Spain, Indonesia, etc.).

In 1925, the general secre- tary of the CPG was Pantelis Pouliopoulos who was con- demned by Pangalos' court martial together with other communists, exiled to Fole- he re- gandro from where turned after the fall of the Pangalos dictatorship ' and fought in the Conference of Cadres of 1926 his first great battle against the ideological and organizational degenera- tion of the CP by the Stalin- ists. In relation to the WV's be- liefs, Pouliopoulos writes the following in 'Democratic or Socialist Revolution Greece?': "The political immaturity of Members of the junta that rules Greece i all the Party cadres the first time, and their uncritical faith of the the correctness strategic orientation of the 7th Balkan Conference and of the 5th World Congress ("for an immediate workers' and revolution in Bul- peasants' garia"), had initially led the to the mistaken idea Party that it could easily win over "left-ized" democratic many officers, if it simply unmasked the original demagogic pseudo- radicalism of Pangalos before the masses as well as the democratic officers, proposing really radical demands-arm- ing of the workers, alliance with the USSR, taxation, liber- ties to the proletariat, etc.

From here, we have said, came the articles of the "red major" the "down with the masks, do as you boast" etc. (That the Party with these policies sup- posedly called on Pangalos to overthrow the bourgeoisie at the head of the workers, this is an idiotic slander of the Stalinists, which even small children understand. No can Stalinist believes this. That this is an impudent lie, that it is a disgraceful political slander, can be seen quite clearly also from the fact that happening since it has been 1926, for eight whole years, a • fierce struggle of fac- very tions within the party, where all sorts of trivialities and dirt were called up against the Marxist opposition-but even so about such a great crime the Stalinists speak for the first time today in 1934! They had ... forgotten about it be- fore! And this now-just in They think: let us passing. go ahead and say it, and what- ever sticks in the minds of the new members who know nothing about history, well and good. Calomniez, calom- niez, 1l en restera toujours.)

'If however-we stressed at the conference-the Party, from the very first days of the had Pangalos dictatorship, found the correct orientation and come in at the head of a truly heroic fight against it, (for example, the great anti- Pangalos meeting of refugees in Piraeus, disbanded by guns soon after the proclamation of dictatorship, new persecutions, trials of "autonomists" etc.) further deepened the mistakes ... Political immaturity 'The fighters of the later opposition, then as yet un- formed, by reminding the 1926 conference of all this, were saying that the political immaturity of the new Party cadres certainly explained the and 1925 mistakes of 1924 (later it was revealed that a : leadership of a fully mature developed CP, like that of the Stalinist Varsky in the Polish Party, when in May 1926 • Greece at present. Papadopoulos Is front row 1 General Pilsudsky carried out his coup, called on the peas- support him-some- ants to thing which never happened in the CPG, in spite of the rela- tive Archeio-Marxist slander which, out of factional blind- ness, some of our more sense- Stalinists brought to the less light again)? We see again, after almost 50 years, the ancient anti- communist slander of the Archeio, used with such en- thusiasm by Koutvis-Zacharia- dis (later to become the butcher of the Greek revolu- 1943-1949) against tion of the Left Pouliopoulos and Opposition of the CPG, served up again in the document of the WV, disguised as an anti- Stalinist attack! The "political ichthyosauri" (to use an ex- pression of Trotsky) of the Archeio are repeating past history for the second time, inevitably in the form of a farce this time. A full discussion In relation to Lora, the statement of the IC of the 4th International on October 24, 1971, said that: in • he 'When appeared Europe in 1970, the SLL made the beginning it clear from that it would not support his engagement in the IC without a full discussion on his whole history and an understanding reached on this basis. We do not have one policy towards be- . the LSSP and the Pabloites and another for Lora' The EDE again had told its former minority — now the WV, that any work whatso- ever within a common frame- work would presuppose a of its critical re-examination whole history up to now, and a documentated rejection of the centrist policies of this Archeio-Marxist group, par- ticularly with regard to the time of the Occupation and the Civil War. Greek Trotskyism will fight implacably any capitulation to centrism in any form, Pablo- ite, Archeio-Marxist or other.

Now more than ever, in the presence of the mass struggles which have already begun in dictatorially-ruled Greece, any before retreat whatsoever centrism, any carelessness in the struggle against centrism will have catastrophic results.

The centrist policies of the POR again taught the Trotsky- ist movement bitter lessons.

We cannot have one policy to- wards Lora and another for Archeio-Marxism. member of S. Michael, the editorial board of the 'Ora tis Allagis', organ of the Central Committee of the Workers Inter- nationalist League (EDE), Greek Section of the In- ternational Committee of the 4th International. front row third from left.

The world-famous pic- of Manhattan's ture skyscrapers overlooking quays bustling with mer- chant ships from every corner of the world has been transformed drama- tically. The noise and movement of a thousand cranes stacking the piers high . with bags, boxes and bales has been replaced by a desert of rotting wooden spars and empty warehouses.

Mile after mile of Man- hattan's 72 piers lie abandoned, beams and planks falling, rotten, into the sea where they look like flotsam from some enormous wreck. A new report blames the decline in traffic using the port of New York on dockers 'steal- ing themselves out of jobs.

The report claims pilferage is so widespread and persistent that not even the use of con- tainers stops it—26 have been stolen in the past two years.

It adds that the International Longshoremen's Association forced stevedoring com- has panies to pay exorbitant wage rates through a series of strikes. World slump has forced shipowners into a bitter cost- price war which they are try- ing to resolve through the use of new technology, new work practices and new pay systems.

THEATRE REVIEW

BY BRIAN MOORE

Years ago a certain kind of 'North Country' play was the staple diet of many of the repertory companies. They were the sort of thing where there was always 'trouble at t' mill, the local mayor was involved and the woman next door was a gasbag. They were all written and performed in broad stage •North Country' dialect. Someone once described the essential northern play in three lines of dialogue. Brindley, Enter Alderman stage left, panting: BRINDLEY: As soon as I 'eard the news, I came straight on t' tram. DORA: But the trams don't run our way. BRINDLEY: I'm not without influence in Osset. And it's not a bad descrip- tion. Manhattan skyscrapers tower over a que Quite apart from the strength of the ILA with its implications for the employers costs, New York's choked and out-of-date harbour had be- come grossly uneconomic. Not only was the traditional waterfront unsuited to con- tainers but the cost in time and money of land transport through the city's dense urban jungle was prohibitive. The open land the shipping operators needed for their vast container marshalling new areas was to be found on the fringes of New York at places like Port Elizabeth and at other east coast cities like Miami, Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston and Port- land. Tom Courtenay plays who Leonard In 'Time and Time Again' at the Comedy Theatre. Alan Ayckoburn's latest play, 'Time and Time Again' sort of updated version 1S a of this genre. The setting has shifted to the south, the milieu is suburban lower middle class and there's not much more to be said for it.

The characters are stock, but fashioned out of the more updated stereotypes. There's Leonard, played by Tom Courtenay, a wistful, self- absorbed drop-out school job with teacher who gets a the borough council; Graham, his brother-in-law, the self- made man, all lust and pre- judice, his long-suffering wife; the sports fiend Peter; his dolly girl friend Joan, fresh from the cricket club social, airs and graces in angora knit- wear. over a quay threatened with closure Some mid-western shippers abandoned US ports entirely in favour of Saint John, New Brunswick and Halifax be- cause Canadian laws allowed railways and shipping com- panies to offer rates at sub- stantial discounts. The new ports also offered the prospect of labour forces willing than the New more York longshoremen to bend to the work practices and pay scales which followed inevit- ably in the wake of container- ization. Now less than 13 per cent of the nation's ocean-borne foreign traffic passes across the quays of the 833-mile labyrinth of piers stretching from New Jersey to western Long Island.

Put them together and you have a plot which goes thus: Leonard falls for Joan and Joan falls for Leonard. Peter thinks it's Graham who's stolen his girl, while Graham pursues Leonard with binoculars and envy. The mistaken identity is milked for all it's worth in the last act, while Leonard allows Peter to throttle Graham.

Because of Leonard's silent collusion Joan decides to leave him. The chaps go off and play football. Alan Ayckbourn, the author, has a good ear for dialogue, a fair amount of humour and a good eye for petty-bourgeois mannerisms. The trouble is he doesn't know what to do with it all. You walk out of the theatre neither farce, nor belly laugh, nor satire. A tentative hotch- potch of everything which ends up as nothing. There's a very good per- formance by Cheryl Kennedy as Joan. She has just the right pretentiousness of the subur- the self-manufac- ban belle, refined accent, the tured bored the petulance, coy giggle, which just reveals the knife edge of the hen pecker in the making. The rest give competent performances. thinks I suspect the play itself champagne and it turns salts - all out to be liver bubbles and burps. It's playing in London's glittering West End at the Comedy Theatre, where I was to death by almost trampled the middle class in the interval rush for the bar. Workers Press, Fri You will remember the moans, groans and chest-beating from the retiring, president of the International Olympic Com- mittee, Avery Brundage, when he was forced to expel the team of racialist Rhodesia from the games. After the Brundage decision fateful venemously declared: 'It was a blatant intrusion of politics. They had a gun to our heads. It was political —nothing but blackmail-and we gave in.' He expressed the fear that if this went on the games like the ancient woula die, sports in Greece. This is all very coy of the 84-year-old American million- aire who has ruled the games like a despot for the past 20 years. It's not the first time in involved has been he Olympic politics. Back in 1934, as president of the US Olympic Committee, he was sent to investigate the Germany to Nazi claim that there was no descrimination against Jewish sportsmen. To their credit the US com- mittee in 1933 had decided to boycott the 1936 Berlin games because of the anti-Semitism German displayed by the rulers. Then Brundage, who was already devoted to the sturdy principle of sport and politics don't mix, led an investigation Reich. This into the Third came after the Nazis had put a token 21 Jews in their team.

Brundage was very impressed by what he saw of the new Nazi civilization and convinced himself the authorities were observing the spirit of the games (it was about the time the first concentration camps got to the drawing board stage). On the strength of his re- commendation the Americans, by the narrowest of margins, reversed their principled stand and Brundage himself led the 383-strong American team in the march past Adolf Hitler on the Tribune of Honour.

Another one of Brundage's passions is to keep filthy lucre out of the Olympic stadium.

He is a stickler for amateurs-only rule (Britain's Mike Bedford underwent cross- examination by the committee for breaking this one). anachronism This places great obstacles in the way of Press, Friday September 1, 1972 PAGE 9 the working-class athlete, par- ticularly it he comes from a capitalist underdeveloped or country. Brundage of course is very much a professional. He uses his immense fortune to sup- port his sporting globetrotting.

He laid the foundations of his millions back in 1915 when he started a construction and real estate firm in Chicago. As he grew rich, so did his power in the administrative world of sport increase. Before the sporting 'progres- sives' start sighing with relief at his passing, they had better take a careful look at the committee he leaves behind.

The Olympic Committee (in flagrant violation of the prin- ciples of Greek democracy!) is oligarchy a self-perpetuating Avery Brundage of millionaires and reaction- aries. Brundage is succeeded by another son of the soil, fat, pipe-smoking Lord Killanin.

He owns a modest ten direc- torships and is a member of Lloyd's. His family seat is in Galway-motto 'If God is with us, who is against us?' (we could think of a few-Ed.).

But Killanin is a pauper compared to his other commit- tee members. From France we have Count Jean de Beaumont, cool f100m. King worth a Constantine of Greece is a • representing and member Britain there is the Marquis of Exeter, and Lord Luke of Bovril fame - both old Etonians. Committee members The enrole whom they like, when they like. The fee attached to membership is secret, but it no doubt accounts for a healthy bank account, in Switzerland of course.

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LIVERPOOL: Friday September 1, 7.30 p.m. Common Hall, Hackins Hey. 'Lessons of the docks and building strikes.' Speakers: Larry (dockers' Cavanagh steward), Mike Farley (building worker).

Both in a personal capacity.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday September 5, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue, "Lessons Barking. docks strike, UCS jobs fight.'

HULL: Tuesday September 5, 7.30 p.m. White Hart Hotel, near Dry- Bridge. 'Victory to the pool building workers.' SLOUGH: Wednesday September 6, 7.30 p.m. Slough Community Centre, Farnham Rd. 'Force the Tories out! Expose the traitors in the labour and trade union move ment!' Speakers: Frank Tomany and Brian Bailey, both in a per- sonal capacity. WEST LONDON: Tuesday Septem- 'Prince Albert' ber 5, 8 p.m. Wharfedale Road, (off York Way), 'Stalinism and the Kings Cross. builders' struggle' WOOLWICH: Tuesday September 5, 8 p.m. Queen's Arms, Bur- the dock strike 1a. 'Lessons of rage Road, SE GREENOCK: Wednesday Septem- ber 6, 7.30 p.m. Salon Hall, Town Hall. 'The rents struggle and the Scott-Lithgow engineers' fight.'

RHYMNEY: Thursday September 7, 7.30 p.m. Rhymney Working- men's Club, Rhymney, South Wales. 'Crisis of leadership in the trade unions.' SOUTHALL: Thursday September 7, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Bridge Road. 'Lessons of the dock strike.' EAST LONDON: Thurs- day September 7, 8 p.m. Market Festival In n, Square, Chrisp Street, Market, E14. 'What is Stalinism?' SOUTHAMPTON: Friday September 8, 7.30 p.m. 'The Glebe' , Corner of Brintons Road and Northam Road. Speaker: Alan Thornett (deputy senior steward Morris Motors, Oxford, in a per- sonal capacity). 'The les- sons of the docks strike and the fight for jobs.' HULL: Wednesday September 13, 7.30 p.m. Church Hall, Wayne Bransholme (opp 'The Road, Swallow'). 'Fighting the Tories' Rent Act. Monday September

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Name Address Ford car A warning to all car workers 600 face Ford: parts go sack threat Vhat we think Continental * Workers Press headline Aprll 17, 1971 2 FROM DAVID MAUDE, Our Industrial Correspondent Mon ing out of the Mal plant in Liharpool THOUSANDS of workers at the Ford motor com- pany and its supplier factories will lose their jobs if As national total tops 02,000 the company is allowed to carry through plans for a Ford's plan tog large-scale transfer of work from Britain to Europe.

E slash more New Sudan leader The plans-revealed in secret company documents released by I Hatch sarvice snatched jobs Ford clerical workers- -would mean that transmissions, gearboxes ot stake and body-panels would be produced in Germany and France rather than at Halewood, Liverpool.

A total of 30 British firms including Plessey, AC Delco and Workers Press, July 23 Lucas would lose all or part of their contracts to supply compon- German border, is the site ents tor the 1973 modification oi a of the Capri. The new transmission DaNT worere _contracts Ford is Is and capris , up production question cover 55 components.

'If Halewood goes on strike for Escorts and The documents released by the since mid-apu last year were have been of threats to first Halewood clerical workers, a polico we can simply step published in the Liverpool Free rOTO workers 10OS Icoull top-level policy decisions that reveal existing rreSS emanating from Detroit, Michi- the capacity transmissiol up production in Saarlouis' will not be used to plant there acelete arbores for 2000cc the The first, revealed exclusively make workers rress new CaDIl. 1971, was against tooling-design Again these will be imported stopped work to attend a mass and 80 ever jobs have workers at Dagenham, Southam ever from Germany. Ford's When the from the shop. meeting on the issue. The number of vehicles which LOn stewards at Dagen. codenamed Shop the

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successor fears of the work- descrined the will shipped Brenda, experoed ed pummer introduced 1975 trim and assembly concerned 'quite un- ham Halewood for assembly elsewhere Dalll le output is founded'. Eight weeks 500 1969 a total of 12 German whereas in will have slumped 13,500 alvision from even further. would sup- told they 1969 500 this year. worKers were LO , com- team of ave executives trem have to go. In 1969, Halewood turned out the houress had team 350 day with Cologne ¡allual y ot „ve Capris a On July 23, 1971, we reported figures Ford headquarters in Now the NseN

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This visited Britain take stock of to and Halewood are complete v reversed. nare Dagenham with general associated their British subsidiary. As their wood turns out barely 200 a day.

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pledged to increase of Ger. Licie will be all socialist policies elected. man-made panels. Ihis WOOd Call Already work in the Halewood simply step up production in the struggle would like information about The 1091C Saarlouis.' which which produces the Halewood workers press shop, Saarlouis, Franco- have now embarked. the panels, has tallen to its lowest.

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because they offer already have But the Battersea men have They have also given a fort- grab everv available hour hrm. Their reDIv lo Ine of overtime, up to 15 hours a week, representatives claim ments nouce combine management fails to improve order to make up living that storemen's rates lower are offer bonus pay the Waxe Fitters and assembly workers crease tied to don't thev fight to naise wages. who have been asking for the other storemen up to our auction in The are claiming a £4.50 bonus scheme were bluntly instead of asking men in- us to that formed accept a cut in our basic.

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Workers Press, Friday September 1, 1972 PAGE 11

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

The Olympus 583 engine being assembled at the Bristol engines division for the Concorde. Are those jobs so secure?

ROLLS-ROYCE management at the Bristol engine division fac- tories plan to implement a new wages agreement based on the Measured-Day Work flat-rate, speed-up system in two weeks' time. Last week the division an- nounced that it would soon be reducing the labour force by almost 1,000. Both these developments herald the beginning and dangerous period for all Rolls-Royce workers.

company statement on rationaliza- division says management constructed plan which envisaged substantial reduction in the numbers employed during 19/L.

'However,' 'in January weIT faced manufacturing were with very bad situation in relation to achieving scheduled deliveries Inis was aggravatea, the company added, by the strike at the end of 1971.

in ge that ridless Rolls have made it by the co-operate getting 1,000 voluntary means Toe present workers they no longer require, then larger will be compulsory redundancy the idea smaller voluntarv

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redundancy is nothing more than a move redundancy to get principle accepted. No guarantees have been made on The company says: It will of course be The company necessary continue to adjust balance continuousiv the level of Jobs threat at Rolls engine plants manning required to sustain our pro- which inevitably fluctuate con- sıderabiv.' backbone orne division stature rogramme is the Olympus 593 engine for the collapse offer no firm started in May this year with the merging these decisions only a start. plans to Rolls But Despite publicity alc recent press workers. In fact there is Bristol and Derby divisions They must be linked with a campaign to uture to BOAC-Air France orders for for believing the new divisions - manufacturing, all sections under every reason 1 ories unile WOIKeIS NOW aircraft, lack of firm orders now threatens intervention Rolls' paint and has suitened deter. Ing, commerca macane attack rom the ones ane ine emplovers further substantial redundancies mination to make its workers pay for its assembly. in it amst be repod hish y mament.

replaced crisis. As this reshaping continues, the pruning In act the tuture ol the division rests the dispute earlie 30-yearold the this vear of factories anu labour

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BY DAVID MAUDE

UNIONS who have broken ranks with the TUC and registered under the Industrial Relations Act will be in no danger of ex- pulsion until September 1973 if the TUC General Council has its way. A pre-Congress Council meet- ing yesterday approved a recom- mendation that delegates from the 34 unions suspended for registration will be allowed to participate and vote in a special debate on Monday afternoon.

If the vote is in favour of the recommendations, the 34 unions will have to withdraw from Con- gress, but a decision on their suspension will be postponed to 1973. Up to December 31, 1972, the have General Council will power to remove the suspension union which comes off the rest that on would remain suspended even if they did come off Unions who tougher want action against those who have defied the policy decided at two Congresses last year will be meet- ing today to decide their policy in Monday's debate. by THREE-DAY strike A dockers at three east Scottish ports ended yesterday when mass at Leith, meetings men Dundee and Aberdeen voted to return to work. A formula hammered out at in talks Edinburgh between and employers' unions repre- sentatives was accepted at mass meetings. The strike began after dock- ers refused to handle cargo on 'Fastnet' vessels-the at two the 'Paris' at Dun- Leith, and dee-claiming they had that attempted to use two non- registered ports during the official dock strike. the formula agreed at The talks in Edinburgh is that the two ships will not be worked when their car- until Tuesday, goes will be moved. ORD LONGFORD, the anti- campaigner, ornography was mong 200-300 supporters of the Festival of iltra-reactionary iot, many of them children.

sailed down the Thames esterday in a bid to recreate he 'Dunkirk spirit. A leaflet distributed by the irganizers onlookers to urged ›ray for 'another "miracle of de- iverance" such as had been een, it said, at Dunkirk 30 years go. 'With violence, crime, venereal lisease and divorce statistics onstantly rising' it is high time ve got down on our knees and sked God for another miracle ¡ our land.' The leaflet said nothing about ising prices, rents or unemploy- then neither Lord lent. But ongford nor the other partici- ants looked the sort who had mundane about worry uestions like that. Lord Longford has spent the ist three years trying to win moors murderers Myra Hindley nd Ian Brady for Christ. Lord ongford is 66. ‚LL districts will be dry with unny spells after the clearance f some mist and fog patches.

emperatures will be near the ormal for early September in orthern England and Scotland, ut it will be warm in southern ingland. y September 1, 1972

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE WOODBURN site in Co in a car on Wednesday-was 1 employed by Quinn, the secon following a picket by about 8( struck in sympathy to close the On Wednesday, UCATT picket Harban Singh injured his leg when knocked over by a be taken to hospital by ambulance. This incident occurred after scabs had openly threatened to run down pickets and two other cars had rushed the line.

In contrast, the picket itself had been entirely peaceful. Any- one seriously intent on crossing the picket line had only to ride across some rough ground. The nevertheless, swerved at call high speed through the pickets on the main gate, without even sounding its horn. Charlie McIvor, chairman of Coventry shop stewards action committee, was standing near to Harban Singh when he was struck down. 'We were picketing when I, as a representative of the com- mittee, hailed the car down. I only just managed to jump out of the way in time. I shouted to the police constable 25 yards down the road, that this car had knocked down a picket. 'The police officer hailed the car down, but it refused to stop until after a 400 yard chase. It appears that the driver was a sub contractor off the site?

which incensed their determination to pull out more sites in the district.

Tom McGuniness describes his fellow pickets' reaction: 'We were determined that no- body else going . to get was through. They would have had to have run us all down. All we wanted to do was to put our point to them and ask for their backing.' men still working the In fact were themselves Woodburn site visibly shaken by the incident.

Earlier in the morning pickets had already pulled one man out, and dissuaded some electricians and a Gas Board van from cross- ing the line. The combination of these the led circumstances to announcement by the main con- tractor on the site — Hartwood Ltd-that work would end at the end of the day. Eddie Donaghue of the Coven- try shop stewards action commit- tee, compared the justice of the builders' claim with the vicious reaction of the scabs. •We stopped them mainly to ask for their support for our claim for a decent basic rate. As we stand now, there is no build- ing society in the country that would even think of giving us a loan for a decent house on our basic rate. 'We build the houses, but they are for others to live in. No building worker can afford them.'

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Clapham 01-622 7029 01-720 2000 e in Coventry-where a picket was r —was tinally closea yesterday morn • second main contractor on site, c bout 80 men-including 60 corpora lose the site. Harban Singh, the Injured picket (sea boilermakers

CLYDESIDE

staged a dramatic revolt yesterday and threw out the latest draft agreement for Govan Ship- establishing builders. The shock decision was taken against the advice of the shop co-ordinating, stewards com- mittee and their local union executive at a mass meeting.

The move puts the future of Govan shipbuilders in jeopardy.

The company has warned all unions that if they do not sign the agreement by 3 p.m. today there will be no government money and no Govan Ship- builders. The rank-and-file boiler- makers want to negotiate a wage similar to the £l an hour paid by Marathon Manufacturing at the Clydebank yard. The company is insisting that the deal must be signed first be- bore negotiations can start.

At yesterday's meeting, boiler- makers' delegate Jimmy Ramsey said the firm had indicated that talks on a new pay deal could start immediately the ink was dry on the agreement. But this was not enough for the militant boilermakers. A show of hands for the recom- mendation revealed a substantial majority against. In a bid to recover the position officials held a ballot, but the deal was still rejected by 540 votes to 560. This is also a considerable et was run down by a scab ly morning. Workers site, came out on strike corporation builders who cket (seated on pavement) walting to go to h

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

blow to the Stalinist-led shop stewards' co-ordinating com- mittee. Sammy Barr, a leading Communist Party shop steward boilermakers' convenor put and the case for accepting the deal at the meeting. He repeated the old Stalinist argument —used to justify every one of the many retreats at UCS

THE

GOVERNMENT

was accused yesterday of squander- ing millions on lame duck ship- yards instead of modernizing the shipbuilding industry. The all-party Public Accounts Committee says that much of the £40.8m handed over between 1967 and 1971 was used by firms to avoid bankruptcies and losses.

Of the £35m the Tories have pledged to Govan • Shipbuilders on the Upper Clyde, half will be used to compensate for loss making orders. resistance by boiler- -that 'public makers would turn opinion' against them. Ramsey and the other boiler- delegate Willy Dougan makers also hinted that a refusal to might bring the boiler- accept makers' leader Danny McGarvey down to the Clyde once more.

Despite these pleas almost every speaker from the floor out against signing the came deal. The men are afraid that Govan

LEICESTER

Labourites yes- terday led a delegation to see a Tory Home Office minister in London saying they did not want any Ugandan Asians to come to the city. The controlling Labour group, the hysterical Tory press cam- paign. Said Marston after the meeting: 'If any more come it it will be a great handicap those already living in to Leicester. We already have about 30,000 coloured people?

Marston is too quick to isolate the coloured community when there is in fact a total population in the city of some 275,000 people. See p. 3.

to hospital in an ambulance Shipbuilders will drag out pay talks to hold back any increase for as long as possible. They point out that there has been a virtual pay freeze at the yard for over 12 months. The decision was a shock to Govan Shipbuilders. The com- pany thought that its pledge to employ by mid-October all of the 77 boilermakers left in the 'work-in' at the three old UCS divisions of Scotstoun, Govan and Linthouse would be enough to get agreement from the men.

A company spokesman said yesterday that the deadline for signing and the warning still stood. In a statement released im- mediately he heard the decision, Archibald, Gilchrist shipbuilders managing director of Govan said: If this is what the boiler- makers have agreed, it is very disappointing indeed. But I can hardly think they would refuse to sign on a matter of this kind.

It's nothing like so important as the employment situation, which, after much discussion has beer!

resolved. 'It is not a question of the company refusing retrospective refusing payments, but guarantee a date from which that payment can be applied be- negotiations have fore even started. It seems common sense that the implementation date of settlement should be a wage part of a negotiation leading to that settlement.'