Workers Press no. 858

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1972• No. 858 • 4p

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF

BRIGHTON CONGRESS 1972

TUC A COMFORT

TO THE TORIES

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE TUC starts its 104th Congress at Brighton on Monday faced Rough reception for conciliation with the gravest crisis in the history of the trade union movement.

It has been a year of unprecedented turmoil. Scarcely a week has at Deptford dockyard-see p. 3 passed without one major political confrontation between the ranks of organized labour and the Tory government.

This bitter class struggle will go and The Tories intend This cringing around be- Tory next 12 months fore Heath his Cabinet get worse. make the mini- will glaring

ROYAL NAVAL YARD

sters do not make de-

LICY

Contrase cisions in a vacuum. The the working class by dis- une courateous denance mantling right the working class. every economic crisis drives in two centuries of struggle.

The de mens he rai may- them forward-and miners who the latest unemployment Those say this the builders have all thrown revealed exaggerated nigures have alarmist themse ves InTO Darte. business activity is slip- same complacent are dragging a frightened and idiots who talk the rapidly reluctant leadership behind ping

HILO

jailing trade unionists was trough of depression. them "little exueme. iney The Tories have attacked The big clashes proved were proved wrong. on two fronts. • The Tory govern one tina The ment could be brought Dertormance of the With the Industrial Re- official trade union for lown, but one lations Act life-and-death ship this bureaucrac the

CLOTHESE

macocHucuce has top move- Dalut Deen The unions and trace which Steadily they have devoted itself these trying doned their positions of to holding back the work- powerful organizations the to tory poncy. Class slaves CaDilalist their Tory masters. state. They collapsed when the Delegates at the Brighton By driving up unemploy- Transport General accept the Congress ment draining Workers' Union was faced are responsibility that with which the sequestration its very strength on very tunds. The Crovdon polic Trace

UNIONS

tion, the which has militancy of the working complete non-co-opera- kept the Tories in power. class. tion with the Act and Industrial Relations What is at Court Already serious inroads whole fate of the TUC was flagranly and undemo- and have been Five mace. cratically overthrown. the WOrKIN CaSs. trade unionists have been To mares all told other jailed, , the

TUC

has aban- When trade union leaders their months line doned its of total non- representing conditions DOnCICS members co-operanon WItH voted the mass the and big unions like shes an Congress to discuss movement will suffer 3 ve transport historic retreat the defeat which will thousands signinhe minority of 3m Dald Over that of 1926 pounds or leir members stopped

TUC

The big battle is on and money. there is no middle road. counci from acung Meanwhile the dole The is embark- Democracy The stretch almost as queues road total facade in way did the reflecting the aspiration tney of dest uceon. late un- Every delegate must asl

CASE

the workers ne 1939 were himself or herself if the mployment who make up its members. tread he highes and

SHICC

Now the are TUC are talk- 164,000 as have been facade initiatives ing have with- loyalty are they going workers with the and ories out a job for over a year.

break and The THE TUC-CBI conciliation and arbitra- ment industrial workers' pay dispute (full big first monobones. speak out? Now the fascists and the one began yesterday. when at tion service got off to a bad start yester- story page 3). And after a meeting of the extreme right wing are The key question in this the

TUC-CBI

panel, their signed day. These striking dockyard workers from Jaguar's strike committee at Coventry, work. spreading stepped in stone goves. strikes, strugge to save The menu poison and blaming unem- the working class reception to the works convenor Mick Richards told Deptford gave an icy ployment on the coloured leadership. ment industrial workers' idea, mooted by their employers, that the Nobody's interested in Workers Press: workers. dispute Deptford, Lon- TURN TO p. 12 the TUC-CBI service at the moment.'

This is just a beginning.

don (see picture this page).

service might be called into the govern- Tuesday is new Govan deadline

CAMDEN

direct building wor- kers vesterdav refused to call ofi their four-day-old strike, despite plea by officials at GOVAN Shipbuilders yester- by filler story on her ar days to hear local officials and convened board meeting on Tuesday, which Handse Boilermakers' The other Sammy Barr warn that signed convenor is the final board meeting before mene gave the Society until Tuesday to sign a the delay would mean as cemcuryesterday mm turtner une starune-uD cate unal The mer decided instead to collapse of the company. board meeting, I will have to tell will Companys new neaceuarters go ahead agreement meet. a DOUT with their own the Linthouse division of the old the other board establish the company on the The boilermakers want imme- Wednesday previously arranged for next UCS consortium. diate talks for boilermakers pay DOSILOn ana ur tne workers Upper Clyde Camder Only which will be have not signed time, resisting Their opposition so are boilermakers LOaT This is i deadine extent down Increase WesO Toled une see Ke Tuesday then 'recommend backdated. Behind this demand is deadline' by a unanimous vote of 600 men.

the 'final down on September 11. start up I think that if we 21 les desire to start work deal contnues despite pleas tor the last week ov company cnairman paid to craftsmen at UCATT member Ron Wildego from union officials and the hour

HOL SILE

Lord Strathalmond. The Stalinist led shop stewards' Marathon Manufacturing the on Tuesday, we will have to go told Workers Press: was entire climbdown came shock the liquidator and and disgusting by the 1,200 co-ordinating committee blatant rank-and- Civaebank yara decision whole thing Lord Strathalmond told will have to put this up, Yesterday Dreak alvide ana Unen the men THe bore makers We have conquer us. conference: back lor a week or two. deal for the third time (see met for the second time in two

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2, 1972 • No. 858 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

BRIGHTON CONGRESS 1972

TUC A COMFORT

TO THE TORIES

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE TUC starts its 104th Congress at Brighton on Monday faced Rough reception for conciliation with the gravest crisis in the history of the trade union movement.

It has been a year of unprecedented turmoil. Scarcely a week has at Deptiord dockyard-see p. 3 passed without one major political confrontation between the ranks of organized labour and the Tory government.

This bitter class struggle will and go on The Tories intend This cringing around be Tory make the next 12 months fore Heath and his Cabinet get worse. mini-

ROYAL NAVAL YARD

sters do not make ae-

LICY

The working class defiance of cisions in a vacuum. by use courazeous right the working class. economic crisis drives in two centuries of struggle.

The dockers, the railway- them forward- -and now men, the latest unemployment Those who say alarmists this the builders have all thrown figures revealed exaggerated lave utense ves Date business activity is slip- complacent are same dragging a frightened and idiots who said talk rapidly the ping reluctant leadership behind jailing trade unionists was trough of depression. them. They extreme. The Tories have attacked The big clashes proved were proved wrong. on two fronts. one thing. The Tory govern.

The ment could be brought bertormance ot the Wilh the naustrial ke. official trade union leader- but for one factor, down, lations Act they are life-and-death ship this reformist bureaucracy the independence sylls battle has top move- Decid cane une Lace Steadily they have aban- ment which devoted itself trying make these doned their positions of to holding back work- powerful organizations opposition to lory policy. the Class alu slaves caDilalisi their Tory masters. state. They collapsed when the Deiegates at the Brighton By driving up unemploy- Iransport eneral Congress accept the Workers' Union they are was faced responsibility that is with strength on which the sequestration its VCLy toen very

OWI

tunds. The Crovdon policy trace even n e the which has militancy of the working complete non-co-opera- the Tories in power. kept class. tion with the Industrial Relations the working chase, l stake the Court Already serious inroads was flagranly and undemo- have been made. Five the cratically overthrown. the trade unionists have beer Tories are allowed another jailed, the

TUC

has aban- presen trade union million months to follow shir doned its line of total non- representing million policies conditions 1n with the Act members voted co overdcor for the mass the and big unions Congress to discuss movement will suffer wart transport have retreat the defeat which will paid over thousands right wing of 3m 1926 that of vounos or men menders stopped The big battle is on and money. there is no middle road. Meanwhile the dole The leadership is embark- Democracy in the TUC queues stretch almost total road facade in no. they did reflecting ohs aspiration 1930s. late Every delegate must ask the

WUIKCIS

employment figures were himself or herself they who make up its members. he highest since 1939 2384,000 tread going Now the TUC are ale talk. the road facade aliced ing about joint initives workers loyalty they going have …are with the Tories out a job for over a year.

to break and big The THE TUC-CBI conciliation and arbitra- ment industrial workers' pay dispute (full first monoles. speak out? Now the fascists and the one to ces yesterday when story page 3). And after a meeting of the extreme right wing are at tion service got off to a bad start yester- The key question in this the panel, de- their signed to save the right day. These striking dockyard workers from Jaguar's strike committee at Coventry,

WOLK

sorcaull? stop strikes, suncoe co the working class poison ana Diaming unem- convenor stepped in on the govern Deptford gave an icy reception to the works Mick Richards told ployment on the coloured leadership. ment industrial workers' that the Workers Press: Nobody's interested in workers. idea, mooted by their employers, dispute at Deptford, Lon- TURN TO p. 12 the TUC-CBI service at the moment.'

This is just a beginning.

don (see picture this page).

service might be called into the govern- Tuesday is new Govan deadline

CAMDEN

direct building wor- kers vesterdav retused to cal of their four-day-old strike, despite plea by officials GOVAN Shipbuilders yester- filler convened by story oner 2) board meeting on Tuesday, which Hialids Boilermakers' other signed convenor Sammy Barr the board meeting day the warn before ment. cave the agreement yesterday in Society until Tuesday to sign a would nical

LIC

une starune-uD cale AL teal The decided instead to mer collapse of the company. board meeting, I will have to tell labour which will Comodys new meet- agreement go anead with their own the Linthouse division of the old the other establish the company on the previously arranged for next "ne nolermakers want imme.

UCS consortium. boilermakers diate pay talks to start for bể and it the Upper Clyde. busilon Camder workers Only which will not signed resisting. Their opposition so ahe boilermakers increase have This is a four-day extention of CasI tuesday cannot recommend backdated. Behind this demand is by a unanimous vote of 600 men.

the September start cea conunues desoite pleas desire to start WOrk … Tor The last week bv company chairman officials from union and the an hour paid to craftsmen at 1 LAInK unal We Wildego Lord Strathalmond. Th shock big will have to entire Stalinist led shop stewards' Marathon Manufacturing in the on Tuesday, we go Workers Press: was 2 was climbdown cane after, Tole liquidator and co-ordinating committee. blatant and disgusting decision rank-and- Clydebank vard. by will have put this whole thing Lord Strathalmond told up, Yesterday morning the men orear and bonernaker 'We have conquer us.' press conference: back Ior a week or two. deal for the third time (see met for the second time in two

Appeal reveals secret Czech trial- Now Czechs welcome Angela Davis endorsement of trials Political prisoners PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday September 2, 1972 having SECRET TRIALS held a ten-month sen- for tence. 'groups, but during July are coming individual visitor to light in Czechoslo- the According to vakia. In three weeks' He prosecution, Kalina had Is also have voiced the Laci Kalina, a time played a record by the that a series of former professor at Karel Kryl singer to the Slovak Cinema 'groups' of people at the 'Pravda' on his house. School, is due to showed appeal against a two- The record is said to Semitism year sentence. official be a 'sentimental and policy. poetic' lament about Until his appeal was the invasion of Czecho- A number nobody nesses were call announced slovakia. knew that he had been Kalina pointed out in confirmed tried. He was sentenced his defence that the denial of this in Bratislava on July 26 record had been widely years' jail. The Some said they t to two sidered the artic prosecution had asked sale and denied on

THE CZECHOSLOVAK

Stalinists have publicly welcomed the support of Angela Davis for their repressions against the opponents of the Warsaw Pact occupation.

BY A FOREIGN COI

She is one of the very few Stalinists prominent western trials which sent 46 people to who have unreservedly sup- prison. The radio said her case had trials and ported the purge 'attracted the attention of some the Prague CP leaders are of the former leaders who took endorsement of using her part in the Prague Spring, who their and their policies as a means to

DATATA

counliy strayed to the West and are now hit back at their opponents.

first ranks of the anti- in the It provides them with the communist campaign. opportunity further to slander 'One of them, Jiri Pelikan, the the oppositionists and broad- former Director of Czechoslovak distortions cast flagrant Television, wrote a long letter to her their demands and policies.

Angela Davis, appealing to make against the In a broadcast beamed to to a stand present policy of the Communist Britain Wednesday, Prague on Party of Czechoslovakia and the adio noted her refusal to inter government, and ede against the recent frame-ur Czechoslovak

IROUND THE WORLD

SOME 6,500 Ceylonese MOSCOW RADIO is being bank employees were on forced to reveal the depth of strike yesterday in defiance the crisis facing the noW Soviet grain harvest. of emergency regulations report recent broadcast and despite a government was admitted that the harvest threat that 'stern' action being gathered in "complex con- would be taken against and ditions because of strong them. persistent rains'. A spokesman for the bank Harvesting was being done on basis with combines employees' said a selective union being transferred and machines strike would affect all the com- *from field one suitable to mercial banks including eight of admission another- -a clear foreign banks and about ISO both the shortage of machines branches throughout the coun- well as the waterlogged con- as try. dition of much land Other bank workers' unions admitted A later report also have strike in promised that in north Tazakhstan condi- days if demands for seven improved promotion prospects, difficult have not little more because and conditions pay had arrested temperatures been met. the ripening of cereal crops.

spokesman A government Fears being expressed said the strike came under are the the about size of winter regulations intro- emergency wheat harvest. March be- duced in last year Central The Director of the banks were an essential cause Non-Black-Earth Zone warned service. recently: Under these regulations 'Especially bad conditions for automatically lose strikers the preparation of the soil have and stand to have their jobs The arisen this year. prolonged entire property their drought has resulted in the soil fiscated by court order. considerable dried to being The land ploughed said depth. Informed sources that these penalties were likely was lumpy and it was impossible to to break well by subse- imposed because the it well tillage the rain strike's serious consequences quent chaotic came and to do the sowing in for the already the normal way.' economic situation. had anti-Semitic played it to only to tones. ual visitors. The prosecution pro- duced anonymous an is also said denunciation posted in oiced the opinion Vienna which accused series of articles Kalina of having Bratislava 'Pravda' attacked the 'Zionism' articles abroad. Kalina that anti- denounced this letter had become as a forgery. government He was also accused of having tried to pub- lish his book — an number of wit- anthology of political were called who led Kalina's sayings - outside the of this charge. country. aid they too con- The book was pub- lished in Czechoslovakia • the articles had

EIGN CORRESPONDENT

of other against the policy countries, too. Her socialist answer was a very straight "No"!

In fact, Pelikan specifically appealed to Davis to speak out trials of against the trame-up Communists in Czechoslovakia.

The broadcast reveals, if any- one was ever in doubt about it, that the trials were a policy question for the Czechoslovak Stalinists and for 'other socialist countries' (i.e. the Soviet Union).

The Czechoslovak stalinists maintained that the trials have were simply dealing with breaches of the law. The radio fails to mention that the appeals to Veteran peasant leader Maulana Bashan Minister

CHILEAN

Interior Jaime Saurez fiew to the southern city of Concepcion yes- terday to investigate the serious clashes . which have street occurred over the last two days.

Concepcion reported calm was but tense after 200 militant sup- Salvador porters of President Allende peacefully abandoned the Socialist headquarters Party, where they had taken refuge following the shootings.

Police had earlier laid siege to the headquarters following in 1966 and withdrawn from circulation on the orders of the Stalinists in 1970.

THE

JAPANESE

Defence in Kalina pointed out Agency has increased this year's that he had negotiated military budget appropriation by with (unsuccessfully) nearly a quarter part of a as western publishers while huge rearmament programme. Kalina his book was still which The sum the agency the bookstalls in Prague.

allocated for the fiscal wants year beginning next April is 22.2 Kalina is obviously the original per up on being punished for his estimate for that year. opinions, and for acts an for The Agency is asking undertaken before 1970. million 987,200 yen (over It the lie gives once £1,000m) pay for what is to again to the Stalinist termed the fourth National De- story that the trials are pub- fence Build-up Programme.

not political purges. Among the new weapons and proposed installations in budget are a Hawk surface-to-air be deployed unit to in missile Nagasaki prefecture, air unit Phantom equipped with

F.4ET

fighters in Ibaraki prefecture and air unit the recently an on acquired island of Okinawa.

During the next fiscal year the Defence Agency plans to re- cruit 2,143 men for the navy and 1,391 for the air force. tightened SPANISH police have security measures in the Basque provinces following a gun-battle with suspected members of the

ETA.

nationalist organization A policeman was killed during the Galdacano guntight, near Bilbao. Police have since arrested of

ETA

number alleged members. Angela Davle: Backed trial

CANADIAN

THE

government yesterday i introduced Davis came not only from Peli- legislation ordering striking British Columbia kan, but also from inside Czecho- dock workers back to work.

slovakia. tied The dispute has the Davis' support for the repres- up of Vancouver 24 port for days sion in Czechoslovakia is an and all other British Columbian fought insult to all those who shipping August 23. The her release from the Cali- since for dockers are demanding higher fornia prison where she was held on trumped-up charges. wages. Parliament, ordered into special Prime Minister Pierre session by Trudeau Tuesday, ordered employers to begin •and unions negotiations 'forthwith'.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE AWAMI LEAGUE,

the ruling party in Bangla Desh, has attacked a proposed hunger march due to start on Sunday led by the veteran peasant leader Maulana Bashani.

Bashani, (91) who heads the National Awami Party, has called for. the march to protest against the government's failure to organize food for the peasants whose livelihood was destroyed by the destruction and the mass exodus to India during the December war. Despite denunciations of speculators and grain hoarders, the Awami League administration has na Bashani proved unable to prevent the spread of corruption at the expense of the peasants.

Zilli Rahman, the Awami League general secretary, said on Thursday Bashani the march would only create 'chaos and He confusion'. said those who were trying to exploit the food crisis friends of the were not people. Shanno sly, conspiling he also accused Bashani against the the or man ty and independ- of Bangla Desh. allegations that allegations that police bus had There have been a number of went to quell of violence in the cit calls from outbreaks right-wing Awami The League chiefs centre. ( city and serround for legal action ing areas were under army Maulana Bashani con- against to trol following the earlier declara- stifle his criticisms of the new tion of a state of emergency.

regime.

Workers Press, Saturday September 2, 1972 PAGE 3 'Selective' strike to become all-out action?

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Magazine and Book branch members of the NUJ picket an IPC bullding in London dicatsurprise move forie furthee Development of Marxism indication Tories struggle inrough working-Class Lynch Tuesday Septeraber 12 Heath and June. This

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mass-meeting on Tuesday crisis back at the selective strike by resistance About 600 to Tuesday September 19 journalists A spokesman IPC Maga journalists on five of its Lon- tion of the North

IPC

Historical materialism today nave been zanes conneed notice don printing houses. stay in send on their des old inster waste in Tuesday September 26 IN

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THE OFFICIAL IRA

has con- demned the bombing Canoel movement's Provisional use wing. arbitration It would drag on The Officials have so man date from yard workers is visionals greater than they've ever known. the pubic Reg Robinson said: for months and 'When did they ever consult of the dockyard men alt the people on their views of the contact one an- bombing of shops and restaurants other. If they try to and

BY IAN YEATS

support of their claim for then we'd still phe us the here, men cocuially wher tnes workers of various £20-a-week minimum ever ask the OreI

THE

that factories whom they blasted out suggestion would be out immediately.'

basic ware of work get nothing' continually.' the government indust- Shop stewards and wor- But rounding on the

T&GWU

kers their leaders once rial workers' pay claim he Transport and General again, added: Allow left should be referred

T&GWU

Workers Union leaders. 'Instead of The the new CBI-TUC arbi- saying "We'll this trouble started get this Robinson told me strike tration and conciliation settled quickly and with our union that day received service was given an icy said Reg Robinson. 'In the get we Wedl papers to the government's want", they turned round negotiators haye lalco reception by striking JasL ofer on August 21 he had what a i at hai eve told dockyard workers in notice from the

GLC

print-plea made us disgusted. They sald we knew saying his rent was going London yesterday. 'They've come down here 99р. up by 'How long is all that palica And Charlie Bell added: take?' to asked us the back and on

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"Their offer's gone in the Shares dive Robinson, us how much they've won.' THE 1/667 branch of the shop broke since steward the Royal Transport and General Workers' at nOW Cosman been over the was Dockyard,

PRICES

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con- Union has called for dispensa- living shown on ford. "They these inued to drift downwards put which, without flon for the Workers Press and a family Stock

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the London things arbitration, week, overtime Jast aver- food, clothing, "Morning Star' in the event of drags on for months and change After yesterday. aged a paltry f12. eat would sill leas cigarettes, even the first half hour's trad- any industrial action by the months and then we get H. G. Sibley took home a lot the •Financial Times' Steward Charlie Bell ing nothing. men below the trade union movement which TOlO nue. caveni Index had back 2.3 lalic! And steward Charlie Bell cigarettes becoming can £17 10s poverty line. points latest affects the newspaper industry.

call TO 941. added: "What do think luxury. Wages The workers say dockers slide was set off by Thurs- week.

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The The bulk of the branch's mem- about our claim has substantially double government drivers are earn their money day's warning inflation on the com- offered a £1.75 rise, which, higher, but because for the job, bership is drawn from the Ford Tore only same and Nanonal mittee? don't think it claims, will per complain that they work up to 80 hours 16-vear-old tute Economic and body plant, Dagenham, London.

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PAGE 1 Workars Press, Solanday & Part 4 of a series on Picketing b The Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1871 revived all the vagaries of the Combination Laws concerning threats, inti- midation, molestation and obstruction. These were said to occur if a person 'persistently fol- lowed such other person from place to place, or hid his tools, or clothes or watched or beset his house or place of work or business'. The 'watching and besetting' stricture, in particular, enabled any judge to clamp down com- pletely on picketing, however peaceful it might be, and the was quickly inter- entire law preted by justices as making strikes illegal. In 1872, the leaders of the London gas strikers were sent to prison for a year for only preparing to strike. It was held as a conspiracy to molest the employers. In the same year, 16 farm workers' wives Wootton, Oxfordshire, were sent to prison under the Act for picketing in support of their husbands dur- ing a strike and 'daring' black- legs to enter the fields. Police had to guard the court from angry trade unionists during the trial. But the Liberal government which had passed the Act now faced a new and more power- ful, centralized trade union movement. In 1867 many more urban workers had gained the vote and had become a key factor in elec.

tions. But the phenomenal rowth of the Agricultural Labourers' Union and the determination of its members wages and condi- to improve tions and win the vote-which they had not been given in 1867—gave the ruling class, particularly the landowners, a severe fright. On February 12, 1872, a few hamber 2, 1872 keting by Bernard Franks Wiltshire labourers knocked on the door of Joe Arch's cottage at Barford to discuss the set- ting-up of a union. Fourteen months later the National Agri- cultural Labourers' Union had a membership of 71,835 en- rolled in 928 branches. A fur- ther 50,000 signed up in simi- lar farm-workers' unions in the same period. It is only necessary to reflect on the mode of communication and transport of those times in many rural districts vir- tually non-existent—-to realize in- what determination genuity went into this develop- ment. Nor were the members joining for penny benefits. Often on the day of signing-up they put in strike notices would to local farmers. At this time new socialist ideas were permeating sections workers' of the movement under the impetus of the First International and the agita- tion in support of the 1871 Paris Commune. In 1874, the Liberal govern- ment fell and the new Tory administration was forced to hold to promises made to re- peal the Act of 1871. It was replaced with the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act of 1875. This continued many of the strictures of 1871 as far as picketing was concerned.

Section 7, which still applies today, makes it a crime for who, with a view to anyone compelling anyone to do or doing anything abstain from lawful: (i) uses violence to, or intimi- dates such other person, his wife, or children, or injures his property, or nd (i) persistently follows him, or (iii) hides his tools or other property or deprives him of them or hinders their use, or or besets (iv) watches any house or place where he is, or approaches to it, or (v) follows him in the street with two or more other in a disorderly persons manner. Top: demonstration in 1877 of farm wor speaking (labelled No. 1) Is Joseph Arc Maximum penalty on convic- tion is £20 or three months' imprisonment, The Act also made strikes by water or gas workers liable to the same penalty. However, the new law ex- pressly enacted that attending at a person's house or place of work or business merely to obtain or communicate infor- mation was not 'watching and besetting'. Picketing was legal once more, but not to the ex- tent of the 1859 Act which allowed 'peaceful persuasion' as as communicating infor- well mation. (Picketing a person's place of residence is now illegal again under the Industrial Rela- tions Act of 1972.) In the following period the unionizing of semi-skilled and unskilled workers led to in- creased concern by workers to picketing. develop efficient Previously the skilled worker had depended to a certain ex- tent on the employers' inability replace him with other to skilled labour, to make the withdrawal of his labour felt.

With labouring work, however, always get the employer could workers to replace similar strikers. In this period also the em- ployers were setting up numer- ous strike-breaking organiza- so-called Free tions-the Associations-to re- Labour cruit scabs and, with the sup- port of the police, break the picket lines. These would at least make a success of some of the work. Agricultural work- ers were brought in to replace dockers, general labourers to replace stokers, and so on. At I farm workers, members of the National Labo oseph Arch, the unions' founder. Above : evicti the same time a massive cam- paign was launched by the em- ployers and the capitalist press against picketing. seamen's In the Liverpool strike of 1886, blacklegs were imported from all over the country, many of them fisher- men. The strike-breakers were housed in a depot ship, which was attacked by the seamen.

Sailors also travelled up and down the railways looking for blacklegs imported in this way and turning them away. The union leaders, including J. Havelock Wilson, tried to stem the anger of the sailors.

For example, he saved the lives of several 'crimps'-procurers of blacklegs, at a price for the companies—whom the sailors wished to hoist up on a lamp- post and riddle with revolver shots. He eventually got the men to go back to work, mainly on the employers' terms. The successful London docks strike of 1889 also involved battles with blacklegs. At the height of the stoppage 3,000 pickets were in operation, some operating from boats on the Agricultural labourers river. were being brought in their and thousands from Essex nearby counties to work in the docks for £l a week. In general the strikers were successful in discouraging the strike-break- ers. These strikes were deter- mined, but not so violent as the pitched battles in the United States between pickets and police, military, so-called Pinkerton 'detectives' and gun- men, During the Great Rail Strike onal Labourera' Union. On the platform ve: eviction of Union members In 1874.

of 1877, for example, 21 strik- ers were shot down and killed On another by troops. occa- sion a section of the militia was forced to run and hide and dis- band by strikers. Millions of dollars worth of damage was done to rail stock. Two thousand rail cars, 25 locomo- tives, two round houses and a station were destroyed, though not necessarily by the strikers.

Author Jack London wrote later: In America the capitalists destroy their own property as a matter of course. Mr Carroll D. Wright, US Commissioner of Labour, in his report to the government upon the great rail- road strike, announced that the I been railroads themselves had responsible for burning many freight cars. It is such a sim- ple device, and so handy. It always turns public opinion against the and strikers, enables the authorities to call the troops.' ('Strike out Methods: American and Aus- tralian' 1908.) In Britain • the authorities were always ready to show that they could use force if the need arose. Two bystanders were kil- led at Featherstone, Yorks, on September 7, 1893 when troops fired on the miners' pickets at the Ackton Hall colliery, fol- lowing the reading of the Riot Act by a Justice of the Peace.

An inquiry into the shoot- ing vindicated the troops and added that innocent victims of action by troops 'have no re- dress provided that the action was justified'.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

NIXON'S BOMB WAR BRINGS

DESTRUCTION TO THE SOUTH

President Nixon has ruled out any halt in the bomb.

ing of North Vietnam during the presidential election campaign. His decision, announced last week, will come as no surprise to the Cornell University team which has been painstakingly monitoring the US air war against the people of Indo- China. Their latest study, published in America last week, is an analysis of all the relevant official and unofficial reports on the policies, method and effectiveness of the air war in Indo-China. Air power is now paramount in Nixon's barbarous strategy for crushing the Vietnamese revolution. It is impersonal, automated, deadly and devast- ating—on a scale never before seen in human history. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dres- den and Coventry are minor incidents by comparison. To maintain capitalism in Viet- nam, Nixon is systematically murdering an entire nation.

Much has been written about the horrific bombard- ment of North Vietnam, but the Cornell study shows that this is by no means the biggest target. South Vietnam, sup- posedly America's 'ally, re- ceives over six times the tonnage of bombs. They estimate that of the 6.3 million tons dropped on Indo-China from 1965-1971, 600,000 tons were dropped on North Vietnam, while 3.9 mil- lion were dropped on the south. The remainder went into Cambodia and Laos, much of it on the Ho Chi Minh trail.

In the same period, the US and its puppet army fired off 7 million tons of munitions through artillery, mortars, rockets and naval guns. The bulk of this ammunition ex- ploded in South Vietnam. The number of civilian casualties in North Vietnam estimated by the US was Defence Department at 'approximately 52,000 civilians killed'. In the south, according Kennedy's to Senator Edward i investigators, at least 330,000 people have died as a result of US and Saigon government military action. Driven from the countryside oy the bombing, the influx of peasant refugees into the towns has made South Vietnam more urbanized than, for example Italy or Canada - certainly than any other state in Asia.

The figures contrast with the pious declarations of us general officers like Westmore- land, who was quoted in 1966 to the effect that 'One mishap —one innocent civilian killed or one dwelling needlessly destroyed—is too many'. The Cornell study shows the dramatic rise in US bombing from a thousand sorties a month in January 1965 to 20,000 a month by 1968—a level that has been maintained with fluctuations ever since. are Less than 10 per cent of these flights are undertaken in support of ground troops. More than 80 per cent is so- called interdiction' - which means, the Cornell team says, blanketing 'all areas with firepower . . . strategic war- fare ... directed against the overall reserves of the insur- gents which are in the popu- lation itself. Following this policy, the US had destroyed 70 per cent of the villages in Quang Ngai province by the end of 1967.

At one time in 1968 and 1969 more than 90 per cent of the area of the five northernmost South Vietnamese provinces became a 'free-fire zone'.

The study quotes one par- ticularly cynical Central Intel- ligence Agency (CIA) report which states that each month 4 per cent of South Vietnam's 'either bombed, Villages are strafed, defoliated or otherwise harmed during the course of friendly [sic] military opera- tions. Over a year, this could mean virtually every hamlet in the country was damaged in some way. A typical operation is described in the study like this: . ° .. after hostile sniper Workers Press, Satur Top: Devastation in Saigon atter Liberation Front. Left: Nixon. Far left: have been researching the extent of dest fire • Villages are warned by leafiet or loudspeaker, then bombed in reprisal and inun- dated with "I-told-you-so" leaf- lets. The pro forma advance approval of the Saigon- appointed province chief, usually an army officer, covers the operation with a fig leaf of propriety' The bombing is extremely inaccurate. Bombs dropped outside the target area, euphe- mistically referred to as 'con- tingent ordnance' amount to more than half the total bombs dropped. This includes bombs dropped in the wrong place by mistake or on purpose and those that are just 'dumped' in a con- venient spot. The sole purpose of this immense expenditure of bombs is to intimidate the population and break their will to fight. All the official US sources admit that even the most intensive conceivable bombing campaign would not prevent supplies reaching sufficient South Vietnam to supply the liberation forces. And most of the bombs are simply scattered over the countryside without any plan at all. In 1966, for example, two-thirds of the total ton- nage of bombs was dropped as 'unobserved fire'—i.e. on areas where the 'enemy' might be. According Penatgon to systems analysts, these bombs, which cost a total of $2,000m, killed at most 100 liberation fighters. The Pentagon analysts cal- culated that the 27,000 tons of dud bombs dropped among the 'unobserved fire' could Saturday September 2, 1972 PAGE 5 i exercise to 'root-out National Far left: Kennedy, whose investigators ent of destruction in the south.

have provided the liberation with more explosive troops than they used in the mines and booby-traps which killed 1,000 US soldiers in 1966.

However, they also report that the only effect of their report on the command-and the later capture of a training film showing NLF soldiers how to turn American duds into grenades — was an ettort to improve the quality of the bombs and cut the number of duds. Like the Nazis in the last war, the American pilots in Vietnam disguise their crimes behind an elaborate screen of jargon. 'There are no spaces on bomb-damage assessment forms for civilian damage,' the Cornell study says. The obvious reason, which apparently escapes the worthy researchers, is that in Vietnam fighting the entire the US is population. It is for this reason that, as the report says: 'The targets hit are assumed to be those described in the original briefing however ten- tatively their identification may have been ..• A hooch (house) becomes a "military structure' and sampan is a "water-borne logistic craft" • The jargon pervades the reports, invades the intelligence accounts and finally comes to influence even the policy think- ing.' A cursory study of the Nazi war records, with their talk of the final solution' and their polite euphemisms for genocide, would have shown the Cornell researchers that their own' imperialism is just as deadly and brutal as the war criminals of the past.

THE SECOND ASSASSINATION OF TROTSKY

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BY ROY BATTERSBY

'The Assassination of Trot- Director Joseph sky' Losey. With Richard Burton, Delon and Romy Alain Schneider. Technicolor. At one point in this film Losey quotes with evi- dent approval Trotsky's characterization of art as 'one of the ways in which man finds his bearings in the world'. Joseph Losey, at 63, is an artist of considerable accom- plishment; his films, since the Boy with frst in 1948 'The Green Hair' to the most recent like 'Accident' and 'The Go- Between', even when based on severe scripts or atter poor re-editing and despoliation by commercial interests, all bear of deliberate the a stamp creative intelligence. His reputation as a director much rests on the way very has always which he in struggled to say what he meant, sometimes directly, sometimes by allusion. His work is distinguished by its developing attempt to con- trol all the elements of film, image and sound that go to inake up moods, to strip down reality and rebuild it by con- trolling exactly light and tex- lure, by eliminating all useless inovement of actors or camera, by orchestrating the structure and the score through montage (editing) and so on. intention has always His been, he says, to create con- ditions where his audience can think. His ideas were deeply in- fluenced by his experience in 1930s and by his later with Berthold collaboration Brecht. Working for 16 years in the theatre before turning the first to films, he did production of American Brecht's 'Galileo' with Charles Laughton. In the 1930s, apart from a range of conventional theatre many plays did work, he including "The Living News- paper' for a year under the New Deal (1936) and a play about the Spanish Civil War Fights This 'Who called Battle?'

CONSCIOUS

I think the most important aspect of my theatre work up to the time I went to Holly- wood was its experimental nature and perhaps also its political nature' ('Losey on Losey' by Tom Milne, British Film Institute, 1967, p 99).

2, 1072 In 1935 he visited Moscow, where he did a production of Clifford Odets' play 'Waiting For Lefty', and throughout this whole period, like many artists in the United States and else- where, took a conscious part in politics with the Communist Party. For this he was later witch-hunted out of America during the McCarthy period.

So when an artist of this standing and that past turns now to give an account of the assassination of Trotsky, we can be sure that much more is at stake than simply the making of another film. And although Losey dis- claims political direct any intent in his work, preferring general formulations about the human condition etc, it is clear that this. film has the most important political implica- for the view it tions, both millions of the presents to meaning of the events sur- rounding the assassination and for the way in which an ex- Stalinist feels forced to face his history and attempts to settle with it. Let us say straight off, how- ever, that the bearings which the art of Losey gives us are completely false. What does the film-maker want us to think, and how does he set about his task?

The film begins with a series of still photographs of Trotsky at different periods of his life.

As a boy, as a young revolu- in 1905, as founder tionary, and leader of the Red Army in 1919 second only to Lenin.

The next still is from 1929, caption and beneath the explains that this was the year of his exile. Apparently nothing worth mentioning happened between 1919 and 1929. Only the New Economic Policy, the defeat of the German revolu- tion of 1923, the of death Lenin, Lenin's last testament Stalin, the 1926 against General Strike, the destruction of the Chinese revolution of 1926, the tounding of the Lett Opposition, Stalin's left zigzag Congress after the Sixth the Comintern in 1928, to forced collectivization at home and the policy of 'social fascism' abroad. Only all the fundamental that have be questions to accounted in any reckoning with the degeneration of the inheritors of 1917 into the assassins and mass murderers of the 1930s. But immediately we are caption. given another This one assures us that wherever 'we have facts are proven attempted present them to accurately' and where not 'we have left them open' It is certainly true that the

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film throughout pays the most careful regard to the repro- duction of minutiae. One feels confident that the rabbit-hutches are exactly and correctly placed in the garden, that the objects on Trotsky's desk are precisely matched for with contemporary accuracy photographs and that clothes, hair styles and weapons are perfectly chosen. There are 'facts' which are not so accuratelike the clear insinuation in the film that Trotsky knew in advance about the first attempt on his life and more important still the omission from his last words of Trotsky's famous testament: I am confident of the victory of the Fourth International- go forward.

APPARATUS

These 'facts', of course, have direct meaning, a much more which must at all costs be glossed over or misrepresented if a real reckoning is to be avoided. After all, it's a reckoning with the fact that our film- maker was able to lend him- the self wholeheartedly to that trained the apparatus. assassins. How to square that? Well, first of all it's implied the weren't merely the assassins agents of the Stalinist bureau- cracy that received Losey so courteously in the early 1930s.

film would have the Really, us believe, it's more complex than that. Losey's credo now is that people are the victims of circumstance. the painter Siqueiros, Both who led the first machine-gun attack, and Mercader (Jacson) who finally succeeded in kill- ing Trotsky, are presented as of psychological primarily interest. There is a brief 'visual re- ference to Stalin on a poster but apart next to Siqueiros, from that the role of the GPU (secret police) in the first attempt is kept to a minimum Siqueiros' passionate, and flamboyant artistic nature is vaunted to the full instead.

The extent of the operation, involving renting houses for the use of so-called prostitute decoys for the Mexican police and so on, is virtually ignored, even though the script writer Nicholas Mosley makes some play with it in his book 'The Trotsky', Assassination of which he wrote out of the film- script. And since we're led to believe from Trotsky's know- ing look that he knew the attack was coming anyway we relax about the whole can episode. Loit: Burton as Trotsky with plaque to Robert: of the real assassin, Mercader who lives today i The fact that Trotsky and his wife Natalya always in- sisted that such an account was false-that it originated in precisely the same Stalinist lie-machine that tried to go further and say that Trotsky even arranged that attempt in to win sympathy - is order again ignored. Our film-maker knows best and after all the artist must have licence-especially when the truth is so unpalatable to the artist himself. Again Sheldon Harte, one of Trotsky's young guards who was kidnapped by the would- be assassins and later found shot through the head and buried in quicklime, is further maligned in He is the film. shown opening the door to the murderers and leaving peacefully with them. No mention of the 'fact' that the later successful assas- sin was almost certainly on the raid, that he was known to Harte as a visitor to the house with the girl Sylvia Agelof. It was probably he to whom the inexperienced Harte opened the door. It is suggested that Trotsky's continuous assertion of Harte's innocence (we see a com- memorative wall-plaque arrive) at least deluded. Much was better for the film-maker if villainy can be created inside the Fourth International, too; if all the 'bad' men weren't just on one side- that is, Losey's side. If people are victims merely, if the struggle to change the world isn't decisive, if we're all just lost and at the mercy of the situation, then Stalinism was inevitable; the fight to the death against it by the finest generations in the of three communist movement can all be sadly observed as noble but doomed to failure. importantly, And, more those who supported Stalinism, those who worked for it, need never account for their involve- ment because they too were just victims, poor creatures of circumstance. interview in 'The In an Scotsman' (August 21), Losey describes watching a demon- stration in Moscow in 1935: 'It had tremendous emotional impact. The old bay up there was Uncle Joe. It was impos- sible to think of him as other than warm, lovely, of him as carrying forward the revolution of Lenin.' He goes on to describe the Khrushchev speech to the 20th Congress in 1956 as traumatic; it 'ended most of our lives'.

Who could believe it all? Yes, they had known, however, there liquidations and were murders-'there always will be. h plaque to Robert Sheldon Harte. Above: Losey'& Mercader (lon der who lives today in Prague with comfortable job and pension. R It's true, of course, that the idealism of scores of thousands of middle-class people, includ- ing artists, was traded upon by the Communist Parties of the 1930s and 1940s. But how these people came to be deluded, how the Com- SO munist Parties had reached this state is the prime question facing anyone so involved.

The one obstacle to all this 'inevitability', of course, is Trotskyism. The continuous fight for Marxism by Trotsky and the Left Opposition throughout the 1920s, a fight in which correct assessments of developments were made, in which correct policies were forged; the fight which led to the founding of the Fourth International to replace the utterly degenerated and counter - revolutionary Third International; the con- tinuous and consciously under- taken for struggle theory against all revision-it's this history that stands in the way of those who want to explain way their past as necessar ind inevitable So another tack must be tried. This time to show Trot- sky as noble-yes, as brave indeed, as wonderfully intel- ligent, as witty, dedicated and fine-but how sad that he was really so totally isolated, so ineffectual, utterly so' sadly doomed to be surrounded by people not up to his calibre. That is to show Trotskyism as correct and even splendid, but to show it as impotent, and as the voice of noble losers in the wilderness.

If that picture can be sus- tained then another reason not to get too fussed about the past has been fabricated. But more important than that, even, it's a reason not to have to be bothered about the present, except in the most general way.

DESPAIR

If the struggle for the con- tinuity of the development of Marxism was actually defeated and destroyed in the 1930s, especially with Trotsky's death in August 1940, then indeed no one can do anything except despair goodwill or express messages for its revival. And the film works hardest at pre- cisely this account. The central image of the film is of a bullfight. Jacson Agelof are (Mercader) and shown watching it. We the bull strong, see determined, courageous. charges and counter-charges.

The picadors get in some bloody lances but the bull never gives up attacking and Mercader (Ief) and GPU agent. Contre: the assassination • job and pension. Right: Trotsky with papers of the world Trotsk counter-attacking the horses and the mounted riders. Young, Enter the toreador. swarthy, a little unsure; he faces death too. A first few passes and the bull, becoming more and more frenzied but also more exhausted, is now bleeding profusely. Then the matador is caught by the bull. Some heavy but- ting but no sign of any goring.

matador The and recovers delivers the death-stroke. The bull roars, staggers, charges, blood gushing from its mouth.

Finally it falls, noble creature, in the sand. In the midst of all this we are shown one key cutaway shot of the crowd. Thousands and thousands of people sit- ting passively, quietly watching, detached, uninvolved. After death we see the bull's carcass, pulled from the ring pulled chains by horses, in through mud, finally we and are shown the butchers cutting the carcass, skinning it, up cutting off the hocks, sawing out the organs. The point of all this is clear: visual analogy with the a being drawn assassination is and, in case you doubt it, the images of the bull's death and Trotsky's are deliberately cut of together. Bulls, course, always lose. also shown Agelof We're the and Jacson arguing at spectacle. Jacson, the murderer, the GPU-trained assassin, made to care about 'suffering humanity' and reproaches Agelof (the Trotskyist) with caring only about the horses.

Heavenly choirs sing through- out. This is the only image in the film which alludes to the period after Trotsky's death. We are meant to understand clearly enough that it was one of mud and dismemberment, of degutting, of complete destruc- tion. Another important aspect of this bullfight device is that violence is turned into a fetish; it is objectified, alienated, put outside. involvement of Losey The is thus repudiated by a trick, and by employing the bankrupt liberals from image all he can join Hemingway on, in the chorus of concern and regret about that violence over de- there whilst remaining tached, even if a little titillated.

That way the assassination can be put in the distance, separated, and the subjective, responsible factor conscious, minimized. Also, of course, the bullfight allows the emphasis to be placed emotionally upon therefore and the ritualized sanctioned nature of the kill- ing. A further reduction of responsibility. •: the assassination scene. Aborre right: tha of the world Trotskyist movement.

And all this is deeply hidden in the film, none of this is regarded as a fact to be proven or left open. The undoubted isolation of Trotsky and the bitter struggle for Marxism in those years of defeat for the working class is dealt with as a forlorn and finished process. The 'crowd", the working class, just wasn't interested except as So really it's all spectators. their fault, too. The film even goes on to suggest that it was partly Trotsky's own fault that he was murdered! We see him look suspiciously and thoughtfully at Jacson on one of his early visits with his bogus Why manuscript. then let him in later? Ah, the death-wish you see!

FACELESS

Nicholas Mosley, in his book on the script actually puts the view that: Trotsky perhaps admitted Ithe faceless into silhouette his study just for this — to demonstrate that a person should behave with courage and with dignity, and by this faith in the to show some dignity of mankind. For the rest, it did not much matter.

'So even when the faceless man brought the pick down Trotsky's skull Trotsky on could still jump up and go after him roaring and bite him the finger and say - I on prevented him"? Examine the poison here. The murderer was faceless, i.e. anonymous and not Mer- cader, Stalinist agent. Trotsky, whose whole life was dedicated to the working class, admitted the killer de- liberately as an impotent liberal gesture to human dignity.

struck he behaved When His tireless like the bull. defence of October against Stalin and all he stood for was not really carried on to his last breath but was simply another impotent, empty, patently absurd claim. This is the philistinism with which we are dealing, but, of course, this is the philistinism of Stalinism. On this level Losey chooses to live and to advocate. All this is found in every frame of the film. Mercader's 'doubt' is em- phasized, his guilty depres- sions; it's even implied that he did it all from sexual im- potence to find an identity as the man who killed Trotsky.

Stalin is only once mentioned by name in the film and then as a joke. He is alluded to visually twice: once in the brief glimpse of a poster, the second time as a chimera in Water the Garden sequence. The Stalinist line that man of prin- Trotsky was a ciple, yes, but that they had socialism build - that to omelettes mean cracking a few eggs—is not only put by the GPU contact-man to Mercader, it is sanctioned. When the chief prosecutor in the Moscow Trials explained the alleged acts of his victims as "Trotsky's thirst for power' Losey finds Trotsky 'pretty ambiguous in his power drive.

I think he realized the price of power was more than he was prepared to pay'. ('The Scotsman'.) In other words we are asked it was to accept again that all Trotsky's fault and that is the inevitable Stalinism result of the working class taking power, that power and principle must always separated. Another version of the same humbug used to cover up for Stalinist bureaucracy's the monstrous crimes is peddled in the form of the old saw that men of 'action' can't be men of imagination, and that men of imagination can't be men of action. In other words we should accept that Stalin was just a of action and Trotsky man imagination, and the one of conflict between them was one example of this sad more paradox again, has which, exercised liberals looking for a way out since Goethe. Presumably Losey is thus excused on the grounds that he is an artist and not really involved. Unfortunately for him, Trot- sky was both a man of action and of imagination. who would There are many like to excuse their own in- action by making this false separation, many who try also to present Marx and Engels as merely scholars and not lead- ing figures in the class struggle.

But they, like Trotsky, were leading figures in this struggle; more, they were men to whom knowledge could only be developed in it. Many, too, try to speak of simply a man of Lenin as action-again trying to ignore his deep and scholarly study of philosophy and his under- standing of the relationship of theory and practice as a unity of conflict between opposites.

Losey joins these dualists.

He can't stomach the old Stalinist line that Trotsky was a fascist, although he says he believed it at the time (Scots- man' , August 21). Pravda said accept what said, that Mercader Workers Press, Saturday 8 was a disenchanted Trotskyist.

But he gives them their new cover, their latest lies.

Mercader 'resorted to vio- lence because destruction is the easiest activity by which a bright and lost young man can make notch In an arbitrary world' (Mosley, p.

153), or perhaps because the GPU held his mother. But no mention of the Order of Lenin awarded to his mother the assassination and atter none that she was maintained by the GPU for 20 years dur- ing his imprisonment. None, either, of his known involve- ment in the Spanish Civil War, of his training, of his intro- duction Sylvia to Agelof through the New York Com- munist Party. Instead: 'Trotskyism seemed to have come to mean just the voice of Trotsky-explaining, pro- testing, scintillating, enduring.

'This was heroic; but what heroics the end of in was war? ... His chickens clucked, his dictating machines clacked ...! ('Mosley p. 144.) All the scenes of Trotsky in the film are calculated to fos- ter exactly this. No sign at all that he even followed world events, especi- ally in the USSR. Just shots of a quick bit of brilliant dic- tation followed by a nice cup of tea and a witty remark about Catherine the Great.

What pathetic reductionism be working Losey's claim to at other levels of human ex- perience, more complicated than 'mere Marxism', turns out to be. Losey's 'psychology' cannot even resolve the paradox of its own making about Trotsky.

They say he was a man who looked for death, but on the other hand they are faced with him fighting. for 15 minutes with ice-pick over two an inches into his brain. They say: 'He verbally protested but not do things which he did could have done' ('Scotsman').

RECORD

And this is said by one who loved the Uncle Joe who had aleady killed one of Trotsky's sons and imprisoned another, murdered his first wife, driven his daughter to suicide, killed his secretaries and political associates that could be captured-apart from wag- ing of vicious campaign slanders and monstrous lies.

an antithesis is But such the sterile philistinism that be- as half-devil, half- wails man angel: the same philistinism that makes a film like this to defend the liars, the falsifiers ra Press, Saturday September 2, 1972 PAGE 7 of the murderers, history, those who tried to destroy October. No mention that Mercader is alive and very well on a job in pension and with a Prague; that he is still sup- ported by the apparatus that imprison continues to com- munist oppositionists including leading artists, or incarcerates them in mental hospitals.

about the No word force that created the Moscow Trials and ran the camps, that tried to murder and beat all that was best out of the proletariat in Russia and abroad. No mention because when all the liberal convolutions are done it's these men that Losey ends up supporting-in 1972 as he did in 1935. There's no accident or mis- Losey, take made when who backed the Stalinist line which led to the defeat of the Spanish War, Civil identifies in the film the Spanish centrist POUM with the Fourth Inter- national; no error in wilfully obscuring Totsky's struggle to keep alive in practice the truth about the October Revolution of 1917. No, this is precisely in the tradition of the trials and the frame-ups. This is exactly the tradition that must destroy the truth at all costs, not defend it. This is the continuity of counter- revolution, and it comes for- ward exactly during the deep- est crisis of imperialism, when the question of building a revolutionary leadership in the working class is the primary task. Trotsky's true greatness, however, is not obscured. Isolated, in exile, hunted by assassins, witnessing the des- truction of all the leading old Bolsheviks, fighting to create a new leadership against the historical odds of massive defeat and a state apparatus totally committed to the des- truction of communism-these were the conditions in which a tiny handful of devoted communists in different coun- tries fought to keep Marxism alive in the working class, through the struggle to build the Fourth International.

The day has now come when that fight and those enormous sacrifies can be fully appreciated. The principles defended then are today be- coming the weapons first of thousands and then millions task of over- who face the throwing capitalism. Trotsky was right when he assessed the work of his last ten years as the most impor- tant of his life. It's unlikely on this showing that Losey will be able to say the same.

HOW ROOSEVELT SENTENCED

CHILDREN TO DEATH

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BY JACK GALE

Early in 1939 a campaign launched in the was United States to create a temporary haven for 20,000 refugee German children. Senator Robert F. Wagner Edith and Representative Nourse Rogers proposed a Bill 10,000 to admit German 14 into the children under United States in 1939 and a similar number on 1940. This would be in addition to the regular quota of German im- migrants. Approximately half of these children would be Jewish.

A few days after the Bill was put forward, Hitler made speech threatening 'the annihi- lation of the Jewish . race in Europe'. In March, Hitler dis- membered Czechoslovakia, thus placing another 300,000 Jews under his domination.

Within a day of the Wagner- Rogers plan being announced, 4,000 American families had contacted the newspapers offer- ing to care for the children.

Eddie Cantor, the Jewish singer and comedian, and a great admirer of President Roosevelt, wrote to the presi- dential secretary Marvin McIntyre undertaking to find families to care for all the children. McIntyre replied: 'There is general feeling, I believe, even day September 2, 1972 ning for his election in 1932. Just seven years those who are most among sympathetic towards the situa- tion in which so many thous- ands of persons find them- selves abroad, that it would be inadvisable to raise the ques- tion of increasing quotas or radical changes in our immigra- tion laws.' The children's case was pleaded by the President's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. But Roosevelt was seeking half a billion dollars from Con- gress to expand the Air Corps and to construct naval bases, and he was always a man to put first things first. As the First Lady recalled: 'Franklin frequently refrained from sup- causes in which he porting believed, because of political realities. He would say "I can't alienate certain votes I need for measures that are more im- portant at the moment by push- ing any measure that would en- tail a fight"! * The congressional hearings to discuss the Wagner-Rogers proposal began in April 1939.

The first item was a letter from Secretary Hull warning against any departure from the estab- lished quota system. Supporters of the proposal included trade the union organizations, both the Ame- rican Federation of Labour and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The opposition was led by Francis H. Kinnicut, president of the Allied Patriotic Socie- ties, a group of 30-odd organi- which wou ven years later he dismissed a Bill zations who all wanted to keep the children out of the States.

This wonderful bunch included: The New York County organization of the American Legion, American Women Against Communism, Dames of the Loyal Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, United Daughters of the Con- federacy, Daughters of the Defenders of the Republic, Society of Mayflower Descen- dants, Sons of the American Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States. Kinnicut declared that the aim of the Bill was 'to go back to the condition when we were flooded with foreigners who tried to run the country on dif- ferent lines from those laid down by the old not a Refugee Bill at all, for It is most of those admitted would be of the Jewish race.' The female of the species was even more deadly. Speaking, or so she said, for the widows of World War I veterans, Mrs Agnes Waters proclaimed: 'I am the daughter of genera- tions of patriots. This nation will be helpless to guarantee to our children their rights, under the Constitution, to lite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness if this country is to become the dumping ground for the perse- cuted minorities of Europe.

"The refugees have a heri- tage of hate', continued this good lady. "They could never which would have allowed German refugees a become loyal Americans. (They were) motherless, embittered persecuted children of undesir- able foreigners, potential lead- ers of a revolt against our American form of government.

Why should we give preference to these potential communists?

Already we have too many of their kind in our country now trying to overthrow our gov- ernment.' A representative from Young Americans Incorporated, Mrs Charles Fuller Winters, also testified: 'If we are going to keep this country as it is and not lose our liberty in the future, we have got to keep not only these children out of it, but the whole of damned Europe.' Another opponent was John B. _Trevor spokesman for the 115 patriotic societies united in American Coalition. the He wanted a ten-year ban on all im- migration. Trevor had made a political name for himself by a prolonged campaign for the of 'deportation of the alien in- sane. Supporters of the Bill pointed out that in the six years from 1932-1938 only 26 per cent of the German quota for immi- had actually been gration admitted. In the same period, 5,000 more people had left the United States than had come.

But the die-hards had no in- tention of being confused by facts. The National Committee of the American Legion issued a fugees a home in America statement opposing the Bill that was staggering in its auda- city. It declared that the pro- posal would break up family life for the children concerned and wasn't the sanctity of the family basic to the American way of life? remarkable people These were actually claiming that it was better for the family to be united in a concentration camp than split up by some of its members escaping! In May, 1939, the second Congressional hearing began. More opponents had gathered.

In addition to the groups listed above there were now repre- sentatives from the Defenders of the Constitution, the Colonial Order of the Acorn, the Ame- rican Christian Crusade, Ame- Vigilant Intelligence rican Federation and the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America. But, despite their ludicrous names and pretensions, these reactionaries were not to be laughed at. They were a power- ful lobby. hearings ended The on June 1. Next day President Roosevelt received • a memo asking him for his views on the Child Refuge Bill. He scrawled on it 'File No Action FDR'. The Bill was dead. And so- within a few years-were the children. * Eleanor Roosevelt 'This Remember?

It looked almost as if the Tory Daily Telegraph' had slipped up last week.

On August 25 its front page stood out by carry- ing a huge picture ot police and demonstrators at the Republican Con- vention in Miami. All other Fleet Street papers, almost without exception, had chosen to give the front-page to a demonstration nearer home. In the end we weren't dis- appointed because on page two there appeared an equally large picture of the handful of Smithfield meat porters and National Front supporters who had marched to the Home Office the day before to pro- test about the influx of Uganda Asians. When it appeared, the pic- ture of the march, stage- managed by Mosley's Union Movement and the National Front, was invariably linked directly to President Amin's threat to dump his unwanted Indians on Britain. Murdoch's 'Sun' Rupert didn't bother with a Uganda story but got straight down to stating its view with a headline which blazed, 'Keep them out march'. • A front page editorial, three paragraphs long, warned that unless the government acted with urgency racial prejudice would find a richer diet than just the Uganda Asians to feed on. The 'Sun's' coverage of the march was only one step removed (if that) from its treatment of last week's saga in the prisons. On August 25 Rigby had a dig at prison indiscipline with a cartoon showing an officer being summoned to the cell of the prison 'Godfather'.

A week later he showed a bunch of ape-like thickies on the roof of a jail one of them scratching his head and saying: 'Let's see if I've got it right- we all get up on the roof, then we burn the place down.'

The Express' front page picture of the Smithfield march was probably the most misleading of them all, repro- duced in such a way as to make a handful of marchers look like legions. With a headline revelation by Mr Chapman Pincher that there was 'No need to let them in' the impression meant to be conveyed was clearly that Britain was on the march (workers at that!) and also agreed.

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NOT one of the thousands of Ugandan Alans Silly that Britain is taking in has any real right to here. This was confirmed for me by come Whitehall last night. season made by Mr. Enoch I had checker! on claims Powell, the Tory M.P. for South-West Wolverhampton, that their passports were not enough in themselves.

stuff, Thr Omice. fier nrolonged dis As meat says There a ten he • rer Top: the meat-porters' march. Above : s0 'Express' was almost The more blatant than anyone in using the demonstration as the organizers intended. The lead warned: 'As White- hall blandly sits planning the tidy invasion of Britain • by thousands of Uganda Asians the first rumblings of opposi- tion start from the people.'

This was the march about which meat porters leader Mr Ron Taylor is on record as saying as it formed up, 'It's a flop' and to which National Front activities organizer Mr Martin Webster replied 'It's enough to make a show.' This, of course was always the aim and the capitalist press seized on it with avidity almost to a man. The capitalist press barons didn't need asking to give the right impression. Even the 'Guardian' so-called liberal carried the march picture be- side a story headlined, "Air- lift posing huge problems for Whitehall'. Of the regional dailies Com- mander Hugh Fraser's 'Glas- Herald' easily won the gow 1 : for misleading headline title (and picture) of the year.

The headline on a story out- lining Tory plans to settle the Asians read: 'Cities prepare to resist influx of Uganda Asians'.

it was the There next to inevitable picture from Smith- field with a group of despond- ent youth and children down- cast with banners which read 'What about our future?' The 'Birmingham Post' fol- lowed suit with a huge front- non-political page picture of Ron Taylor and a headline say- ing 'We can't take any more Asians'. The purpose of the march, 'workers' organiza- which all tions and individual groups of Coup-at Coupeat £225,000 652-1

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Weather: Long sunny spells Price 3p e Express reveals nishing facts Above: some of the headlines workers like dockers and dust- men boycotted, was to give the Tory press barons a chance to say Britain hated blacks.

The chance was offered and they seized it. It would be interesting to know if any editors are actually members National of the Front march was so well timed. On the day of the march the right-wing 'Evening Stand.

ard' rushed a team to London's Southall to gather a news and picture spread calculated to show there were hardly any Britons left in the Borough.

Much weight was given to the fact that little Asian girls eat specially-made sweets - different from those eaten by 'ordinary' children. If nobody seemed particu- larly anxious to rush into print with an orgy of racist "The Standard' statements always had the march to fali back on as proof of what Britons really thought - and they did — right across the front page. Whatever the aims and motives of the march organ- izers one fact stands out a mile-the wilfully favourable coverage, with pictures deliber- ately linked to the Uganda crisis need never have been given but for the political par- tiality of the bosses' press.

Asians, convicts, strikers - they are all the same to the Tory press. Their coverage of the march fits in with their cam- paign to whip into line behind the bourgeoisie all the most backward elements, first in a bid to stem the tide of work- ing-class militancy and sec- ondly as a diversion from the real issue — recession and the employers' responsibility for it.

Workers Press, Saturday September 2, 1972 PAGE 9 Milit ing jobs for all school-leavers before the next term started was likely to be substantially unfulfilled. In July there were 269 on and few the 'youth b'roo' vacancies. Henderson said that many 16 and 17 year-olds in had few particular prospects. 'It is really quite distressing.

The same youngsters have been coming in almost daily. We have always been able to say of the that by the beginning new term there wasn't much of of young a back-log people. This will not quite be the case Madame Elena Ceau acu this year,' he said. Who was the mystery brunette who made regular visits to Orly airport Paris? When her plane Every so often, lucky middle- stocky landed a dark man class girls working in the City would whisk her and her diplo- of London and the West End matic passport away for a shop- get a free copy of 'Miss London around ping spree the high Weekly' pumped into their fast on spots. hands. The flying shopper has been Employment Put out by revealed Elena the wife of as Publications it is 'the work and 'new-look' Stalinist leader the for the London leisure paper president Ceausescu, of girl'. Usually it confines itself Rumania. to adverts for jobs and articles Fourty-seven year-old on the latest fashions. Madame Elena Causescu has The latest issue, however, been making a series of one- slightly different, to say was day visits to the French capital The front the least. page since her recent elevation to the screamed in a three-line, thick Rumanian Communist Party's 'Uganda's Asians headline: central committee. "No" to Mixed Marriages' She has making the been The first paragraphs quoted a rounds to bring her wardrobe

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Foreign Service pro- up to scratch so she can look stating that chic at the top of the bureau- Uganda Asians spurned their cratic ladder. people to marry English own and American girls. Then the article claims that While Aberdeen's Labour Party General Amin's reason for ex- leaders wallow in the false pelling them from Uganda is optimism created by the great that they were 'industrious but North Sea oil boom.- clanish' and there was a 'failure pro- spects for school-leavers in the to integrate'. story in 'Miss London' 'new Texas' do not look bright.

The Local youth employment offi- ends with a statement on Pre- Ross sident Amin's Henderson, 'paradox' which cer, announced recently that the is the 'fact' that although an approachable man, city is facing a serious youth he cannot for the take advice. employment problem But there is no explanation first time ever. He said that this year's figure of unemployed as to why this paper at all chose to headline the Asians' youth was three times as high as it had been three years ago, failure to intermarry-unless it and that for the first time in is supposed to count recent years the target of find.

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British-Leyland stewards agree on blacking Thornycroft men confident PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday Septem

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

HULL: Tuesday September 5, 7.30 p.m. White Hart Hotel, near Dry.

'Victory pool Bridge. • to the 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, Wharfedale Road, (off York Way), Kings Cross. 'Stalinism and the builders' struggle.' WOOLWICH: Tuesday September 5, 8 р.т. Queen's Arms, Bur- rage Road, the dock strike, 18. 'Lessons of GREENOCK: Wednesday Septem- ber 6, 7.30 p.m. Salon Hall, lowr Hall. 'The rents struggle and the Scott-Lithgow engineers' fight.'

MANCHESTER: Thursday Sep- 7.30 p.m. Basement tember Z, Theatre Town Hall. SUNDERLAND: Wednesday Sep- tember 6, 7.30 p.m. Trade Union Club, Frederick Street. Speakers: Ennew H. Nicol (ATUA), E. (President of Sunderland Trades Council, in a personal capacity).

'Build Councils of Action. Defend the right to work. Stop rents in- creases. Make the Tories resign.'

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 Community Centre, 8 p.m. Bridge Road. 'Lessons of the dock strike.' EAST LONDON: Thurs- day September 7, 8 p.m. Festival Inn, Market 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 "The Road, Bransholme (opp •Tories' Swallow'). "Fighting the Rent Act.' CROYDON: Monday September 11, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe : 'Lessons of the dock Road. strike.' Fill in the form below and

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THE 1,200 MEN who have occupied a Basing. stoke engineering factory believe they are going to win. They took over the 15 plant on August after British-Leyland an- nounced the sale of Transport Equipment Thornycroft to the Eaton Corporation of Ohio,

USA.

The Corporation has only a three-year lease on the 20- acre site and workers feared they planned a steady run down of jobs. A meeting_ of British-Leyland convenors at Preston on Wednes- day agreed to black all material supplied by Eaton's or factory at Thornycroft's twin Bolton, Lancashire. Deputy Basingstoke convenor said that this Francis Coffey meant they had British-Leyland over a barrel. 'When their stocks of gear- boxes for heavy vehicles run out they'll just grind to a halt,' he told me yesterday. agreed to The convenors extend the black to any firm . tries to supply British- which Leyland with equipment they would normally buy from Eaton's or get from the factories at Basingstoke and Bolton.

Mr Coffey added: 'The ball is British-Leyland's court. Now in it's up to them to make a move?

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so shom stewards, bucthe mens spokesmen local union British-Leyland 1,200 leaders confident they cost plain ale Call oficials have made it vehicles. fly. in the face all business the occupation stays logic to save their jobs.

are firm jobs guarantees.

British-Leyland Neither nor Eaton's have yet station the Whether they is all the can The hactory z0 and ener doubtful with dis- intention more the have already at the factory, meeting the men's demands for closure that while British-Levland and volunteered for redundanc cast-iron guarantees. ruthlessly rationalizing up to zou more may ao so. bl empire at home, diversi- this would still leave about 350 Indeed the logic capitalist fying abroad within the jobs surplus to Eaton's require- economics suggests that Common Market. ments. choice Levland

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British-Leyland is treading the jettison Part of the battle is for these the basingstoke plant In well-worn and inexorable path of effort to sufficient capitalize jobs, but other the ano even combine on a The to put the way Cal more vital asses hop on evine by and balin- all the want that and buying at the plant will be em- renan Equally, since Eaton's also out competitors on the other.

ployed virtually in perpetuity.

and must there make gearboxes Ship at Upper Clyde fore be regarded as buying off a down factory Builders, Briant Colour and The Shits there little competitor seems Investments, what the doubling local chance of them mean sustallill are really up it was always their intention to of against are the iron laws destroy. the men stand any chance capital. finding alternative jobs close by Nevertheless at this stage the The only way these can be for their specific skills behind their men are firmly overcome nes n nanonanzallol who talk If the blacking without compensation and campaign fails Tedders about factory's real under workers' control. to besi Mr British-Leyland The vale lying in the skills of the work. Coffey knees, told me, the As a first the Tory step gov- force callously joint convenors may consider being forced be following consigned to the scrap heap.

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About alone their skills. the , prospects 10,000 others were sent home.

There point in- 1,200 jobs at Basingstoke as bleak it is still this fight Coffey said Thornycroft's and that as ever, were 160,000 British-Leyland delighted with the response to is the fight for work that the the strike call which he estimated fore bread and butter. The men's workers should lead. Coventry builders' pickets feel they're winning too

COVENTRY

building weeks, some of us for present workers' well betore the Crane strike began, and is in responsible for putting this only two workers week up the cost of housing. *Practically all the complete defiance of an defied high-speed scab them In on i areement There must be some cars - - one OI Coventry. The Union of the 'lump', •waS knocking and down money Construction, Allied by the Midland made Something injuring a picket — in Joint Council Regional and Technicians recently paid urades was order to bring workers (UCAI1) must

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on the Woodburn site stronger after try in 1969. per cent problem is bee solved 'We must break lump out on strike. There has the strike. how much money After the strike there is about. Nothing been mat many beobe Javour. the incident Betore since the strike every site committee with the car a number short of nauonallzaulul started, that will see to it that every one pickets the site will solve it. of at union stewara nas lost count "There has been cave men views on w 'We talked mender an every en- strike to Workers Press. of argument about lot nationalization the ployer will have to go Said Joe Brown: But how do 1930s and with the violence. we got abso- along 'We definitely you deal these

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agreement, he added Nanon people that are pre- fight alization of the big firms windle another Dicker wreck pared every- Coventry it's nationalization think we have ano been done with Coven- better claim than even anne ocaos cont cart the land the pickets, without any what they do to wreck Though. use mouners your efforts. some big Earl get £26m It makes you laugh molence have been threatened, land?' of no uses. Batiders look for his plot of It there was a com front of the police for plete stoppage Des con- with plained bitterly about week. it would be are ngating lor piots o

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vile language. by federated land £2,000 and have • The didn't next thing £3,000. faith to theer gekers. 'Selective strikes firms of 'lump' labour. are man here you see in the paper 1s hang been One Suns, ne has out practice which occurred that the building non won stand tor ll.

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8.00 FILM: 'THE RARE BREED'.

Stewart, Maureen James O'Hara. Western about an English farmer newly arrived in Texas. 9.35 NEWS and weather.

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12.50 Olympic world of sport.: Filn 12.55 On the ball. 1.10 Olympics 72. 1.20 ITV seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing from Kempton.

1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Thirsk. 3.10 Wrestling. 4.00 Olympics 72. 4.50 Results ser- vice. 5.10 Olympics and news.

5.25 Sale of the century. 5.55 Sez Les.

6.40 THE COMEDIANS.

7.15 FILM: 'THE CHARGE OF

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8.30 SATURDAY VARIETY.

9.30 VILLAINS.

Belinda. Gwyneth Powell.

10.30 NEWS AND OLYMPICS.

11.20 THE AQUARIUS MAHLER

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7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE. An Officer and a Gentleman. 7.55

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Hugh Williams, James Mason, Michael Wilding, Roland Culver. During World War Il three men land in France to discover the underground nerve centre of the German command. 9.30 WHO DO YOU DO? Fred- die Starr, Peter Good- wright. 10.00

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10.30 COUNTRY MATTERS. The Sullens Sisters. 11.30

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7.10 ort. Film: 'McMillan and Wife: An Elementary Case of Murder'. 8.30 London. 12.20 Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 11.50 Make a wish. 12.15 Merrie melodies show. 12.40 Gus Honey- bun. 12.20 Faith for life. 12.25 Weather. SOUTHERN: 11.15 All our yester- days. 11.45 Thunderbirds. 12.42 Weather. 12.45 London. 5.25 Avengers. 6.25 Please sir. 6.55 Film: 'Bottoms Up'. 8.27 News.

8.30 London. 1.15 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 11.15 Sesame street.

12.15 Farming diary. 12.45 Lon- don. 5.30 Please sir. 6.00 Sale of the century. 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'Suitable For Framing'. 8.30 London. 12.20 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above ex- cept: 6.00-6.25 Sion a sian.

ANGLIA: 10.55 All our yesterdays.

11.25 Film: 'Tarzan and the She hil- Devil'. 12.45 London. 5.25 Primus. 5.55 Who do you do? SC 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'Space- flight IC-1'. 8.30 London.

ATV MIDLANDS: 12.10 Horo- всоре. 12.15 Captain Scarlet. 12.45 London. 5.25 It takes a thief. 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: GR 'Two of a Kind'. 8.30 London. 11.20 Stories worth telling. 11.25 Name of the game. ULSTER: 12.15 Skippy. 12.45

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00 London. 12.05- 12.20 Training the family dog.

1.58 Weather. 2.00 Big match.

3.00 Film: 'Barbados Quest'. 4.15 London. 6.54 Weather. 6.55 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'The House on Greenapple Road'. 10.00 London.

12.00 Epilogue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 12.20 Archery. 1.30 Farm pro- gress. 12.05 Weather. SOUTHERN: 11.00-12.00 London.

Weather. 12.40 Talking 12.37 hands. 12.55 Farm progress. 1.25 Out of town. 1.45 Bush boy. 2.15 London. 3.15 Saint. 4.10 News.

4.15 London. 7.55 Film: The Truth About Spring'. 9.50 Car- toon. 10.00 London. 12.00 Sez Les. 12.45 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH: 11.00-12.05 London.

2.00 Journey of a lifetime.

London. 3.15 Film: The £20,000 Kiss'. 4.15 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Night of the Walk'. 9.30 Who do you do? 10.00 London. 12.00 Weather. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Wales as above except: 12.05 Dan sylw. 12.45 Nabod y gair.

1.15-2.00 Other half. ANGLIA: 11.00 London. 1.20 Rome. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farm- ing. 2.30 UFO. 3.25 Match of the day. 4.15 London. 7.55 Film: 'Hot Spell'. 9.30 Shut that door.

10.00 London. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 London.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 All our yes- terdays. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Find the Lady'. 4.15 London.

7.55 Film: 'The Whisperers'. 10.00 London. ULSTER: 1.45 Survival. 2.15 Lon- States don. 3.15 O'Hara United Treasury. 4.15 London. 7.55 Car- Labour A reply to some centrist critics By Cliff Slaughter All are avallable from 186a Claphar Or The Paperback Contre, 28 Chark ress, Saturday September 2, 1972 PAGE 11 London. 5.25 Primus. 5.55 Who do you do? 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'Assault on the Wayne'.

8.25 Results. 8.30 London. 11.20 Documentary: 'The River Nile'.

YORKSHIRE: 11.00 All our yes- terdays. 11.25 Make a wish. 11.50 Woobinda. 12.15 Lidsville. 12.45 London. 5.25 Primus. 5.55 Who do you do? 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'McMillan and Wife: An Elementary Case of Murder'. 8.30 London. 11.20 Journey to the un- known. 12.20 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Sesame street.

12.00 Mad movies. 12.25 Car- toon. 12.45 London. 5.25 Primus.

5.55 Who do you do? 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'The Set Up'. 8.25 London. TYNE TEES: 11.00 All our yester- days. 11.25 Bush boy. 11.50 Joe 90. 12.15 Dave Cash. 12.45 Lon- don. 5.25 Primus. 5.55 Who do you do? 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'McMillan and Wife: An Elemen- tary Case of Murder'. 8.30 Lon- don. 11.20 Journey to the un- known. 12.15 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 11.25 Casebook. 11.50 Arthur. 12.10 Horoscope. 12.45 London. 5.30 Joe Primus. 90. 6.00 Sez Les. 6.40 Film: V1'. 8.30 London. 'Battle of the 12.19 Late call. GRAMPIAN: 12.25 Beagan gaidh- lig. 12.45 London. 5.30 HR Pufn- stuf. 5.55 Who do you do? 6.25 Sez Les. 7.10 Film: 'McMillan and Wife: An Elementary Case of Murder'. 8.30 London. 2.05- toon. 8.05 Film: 'Ivanhoe'. 10.00 London. YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 London. 12.05 Craftsmen.

12.30_Songs for your delight.

12.55 Farming outlook. 1.25 Com- mon Market cook book. 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Film: "Sands of the Desert'. 4.15 London. 7.55 Film: 'Yesterday's Enemy'. 9.45 Popeye.

10.00 London. 12.00 Strange re- port. 1.00 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00-12.00 London.

12.25 Children to children. 12.55 Living architects. 1.25 All our yesterdays. 1.55 Football. . 2.50 Film: 'A Woman Possessed'. 4.05 Bugs Bunny. 4.10 London. 7.55 Film: "The Inspector'. 10.00 Lon- don. TYNE TEES: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 London. 12.05 Something sing about. to 12.30 Western Nho civilization. 12.55 Farming out- 2.00 look. 1.25. Skilful rugby. 1.55 Where the jobs are. 2.00 Shoot.

2.55 Film: 'The Goose Steps Out'.

4.15 London. 7.55 Film: "The Greengage Summer'. 9.45 Car- toon. 10.00 London. 12.00 Strange report. 12.55 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 1.20 Out of town.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 All our yes- terdays. 2.15 Studio. 3.15 Soccer.

Jimmy 3.45 Stewart. 4.15 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'A Prize of Arms'.

9.50 Brenner autobahn. 10.00 London. 12.00 Late call. 12.05 Festival cinema. GRAMPIAN: 12.55 Common Mar- ket cook book. 1.25 All our yes- terdays. 1.55 Farm progress. 2.25 Theatre. 3.15 Soccer. 3.45 Simon Locke. 4.15 London. 7.55 Film: 'You're My Everything'. 9.30 Short story. 10.00 London.

A series which appeared in Workers Press in June, 1972 is now available as a pamphlet in 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 By Alex Mitchell. The Ulster Dossier The Social Securlty Swindle which includes the All Trades Unions Alliance Draft Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights.

• Clapham High St, London SW4 7UG.

, 28 Charlotte St, London Wi.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday September 2, 1972 Builders' Govan deal thrown out again

AUGUST FUND

picket

MAGNIFICENT

Clyde rejection a

FINAL TOTAL

stops OF £2,162 THE DECISION by the Clyde- lump site

IT'S A

MAGNIFICENT

final side boilermakers to reject the defeat for TeRun ane centane degi far. We are very proud of the Govan Shipbuilders deal is a great struggle that our

TWENTY

Camden Council sensational defeat for the Stalin- Tee o ers.

AUCUSI

building joined Fund. Our many, many thanks. workers st-led shop stewards' co-ordinat Since start Workers builders from several London ing committee. Will- Press. three sites in a mass picket of ucall ments site Hornsey Road, we pleagea to produce a paper In The leading Stalinists, two which, each day, told the truth Stalinists Where lume yesterday,

«OCIOW

James Airlie and Sammy Barr, deter- to its readers and fought still where men were •clt' working. suasien an doseade menget pee- ciples. From your tremendous which gets better each The 60-strong picket was support, suasion pleading to get the successful and was the site there clearly a grow

NOTE.

men to change their minds.

ing nis for srages paper.

crosca in an nour encourages enor- Several pickets insisted that yard on Septem- After the first vote

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

take over the and makes even mously police had found an air ber 11. pIstOl Thursday, Barr departed from in four his and soundly •aleumce Soresa a car carrying meeting and Was The men felt that if they lost past practice made our plans. But defeated more-this time WIlh lanncelie the once work „vddly ditc. this battle the management our main alm big circu- statement condemning the de.

by a larger majority. tne ponce demea tne Colese cision to reject the deal.

hand during the lation drive to win Wil0 The

"ICW

deasiot Tine key months ahead. So Ta deal was unanimous on the shop 'On this Colllnyn

MORE

than engineering occasion, he said, Scotland, this has proved co-ordinating the silan to many men Wainl make workers, Who Wereserv must my position huge success. NoW in the hour earned by crafts- walked off the site of the Yesterdas the hrst time clear. In some way this danger-

LCC.

to Manu- intend men working for Marathon Motorway Colull WOIIOg bridge at Avonmouth, Talok ano e elected must be decision over-

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their, call for compromise further down the River Ciydar 1r:Ve tallt ceds ar uce ulvacDallk

DIISLOL.

DICKCLCU

and dui ala the expand our sales. turned before tomorrow's sign- the capitalists who site on both sides of the Avon.

all these plans need you if it Clyde. ing, even means naving point fact LaKIL, UVCI EnAR Construction work, already help. Fund is very a recall meeting in the morn- The negotiațed its pay rates bole makers

STOOG

BINID

Marathon delayed by country-wide in- of box-girder for the right to set date for necesa oralen e cinloie insthe of the boilermakers. betore it set up in business.

You have already proved that negotiations despite vesuigalion Dnuses wage present decision Yesterday was the third time you are fully Let's and series industrial behind us. sive pressure from the press and have a disastrous effect not only disputes, has been halted.

the boilermakers and not of canve anel theretore. a moment and their jobs 1V, a anate and those of thelt rejected the Govan Shipbuilders' the fight raise our The trouble pers aiod from the union offi- end esenus is over coreaeues varos. oit o deal. September target. Post all and pleas from Stalinists and livelihoods the the of several thou. Day bonuse.

LICA

the threat donations to: like Bay boilermakers The argument over sand whose jobs depend on tors unat tney Willse reinsiated Barr Many sharacere Hte and eus saltinst have been told by the contrac- forward by Workers Press the TeCOOnYA

TO IODS

ouiL industry. only if they work thin pie de as a brian o rene e under existing The argument could have come Sentember Appeal Fund. Retd! with Shipbuild- character. 186a Clapham High St, from the most reactionary aoreemerss. James London, SW4 7UG. employer or Tory. But Barr got management who bridge els WOlt Ircs. carry Will Tne jobs with ATTiTe Soave

UCUCU

Birmingham Bristol motorway Marathon and Govan smpounla- Somerset. into ers for months. the exausting They devised This pre- Brielly... 'work-in' strategy. vented anv interruptior in the iquidator's task of winding UCS and finishing the ships and

JAGUAR

strikers Coventry to start gave the Stalinists time are to be Cale to mas ccr the. Tory gov niccucsons ind stri e esdamiutee members ernment and various buyers for strike members committee the yards. decided vesterdav. But it is un interlude In this demoralizing likely that the arbitration and yards over 2,000 left the conciliation service, which came will into being yesterday, at the peak oi tne work-mn taer be Thee only 390 men taking part.

into the cued zen-week Colece proportion of Miek dispute. Works convenor to men made redundant has now Richards told Workers slumped to 14 per cent. Press Was HuLCOLCU lI the the service at the moment.

The so-called voctory Clyde, amounts to guaran- Clydebank teed jobs at out

BUILDING

strike action com- an original 3,080 at the time leaders Wigan the liquidation ••uLLed alt Scotstoun and Linthouse calling for a conference of their Goyạn, opposite numbers throughout Govan Shipbuilders divisions, 4,000- North-west region about the lca No oe Lo cltoiuy this compares with the 5,369 last ericav. …une central c demane conference, which will be held in Wigan itself, will be for caling of an al-out national strike by the building union

CIRCULATION

leaders. 01-622 7029

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000

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Put Asians in army of all on the Tory govern- and working concitios. FROM p. 1 Talks with Tories ment. There esele ss danger joint initiatives that more are barracks-Alderman Vulg

ULULD(

our ana any comoromise is wl onv sao we suenur Two things are posed. out. of militants and cause de- New new leadersnip can only De leadership must moralization. built in total opposition to will start irom tnese premises.

The coming year reformist policies. existing But it cannot be a new be the most decisive in the

LABOUR

in been built settlement of councillors over the pans tor tne leadership seconcuv unere cal in name only. history the working years in this city could go Asians, Colin Jordan, Birmingham compromise have with Tne The aaded main task is class movement in Britain said. of the he extreme fundamental their the g0, Tories voice to up- UliC force the Tories to resign The opportunities He old right-wing British of democratic ai c suepesice ilal and replace them with 'influx' into IssuCs Tories roar at the enormous military barracks ment stood un "in the whlch

OUD.

Britain of rights, wages, empioymen Labour government Asians could be defeated, removec present lic gallery and showered re- expelled from Uganda. councillors below with leaf- He eed soc POll from power, never to and ruin' could be lack cies. This must be atr the They the lets while shouting slogans EUNe. al c UlSC maoe avaaoe co gose every trade centre Tory government to spread Asians. This a mobili- acanst mnaeradon requires

WEATHER

union battle. Ihis means the Asians throughout the of Birming- 'The people this zation of the working class country to concen- want the new leaders must and not ham's Housing Committée, pres. on the issues that concern trained to put an end trate It's ridi- them George cannne. sale surcu Millislatil and build houses,

EARLY

MORNING

fog capitalism most icucs. that the city could not cily areas. CulOuS ro nert jobs and basic rights. None over The city's General Pur- stand any large number talking about coping with atches Scotane sociausu. of the Pace han bre solme workers Las or England and Committee compris- them. You should talk- poses The issue of state nower.

solved without VUI LiiCA tla alllo both Tories and would be foolish for northern areas of who rules, the working ing ing about ways of stoppins mass ponluical mobild will soon class or the capitalist class Thurs to offer any hope •isoerse habourites meT On me Them conne nere. tion. Although cloudy at first day and passed a special this he Most of his remarks were housing city, the mosI England This is, first and fore- resolution the gov- lost in the uproar which eastern facing the Congress. urging

•VCI

Salu. are expected a task for the many of the most, the Resettle- followed, with sunny spells connkl allu The paralysing limitation ASIANS arriving at Heath- in all areas except and the trade-union move- Teste ment boare to Dear n e COUnCOS SHOLIls of protest opposition must north of Scotland. ment. the already high propor- row airport yesterday at Jordan. extreme also be rejected. The tion of already stated that they had been Ironically after the inter- will be warm in all mobilization immigrants Genera the down one-ca bring Tories ruption the Labour-majority in Birmingham and betore districts exceol east coasl

OL COCHL

CIOsC.y •car clicc Strike ben September leaving Uganda. districts of England where the Con other must start trom Clies Cola e over wne minely must supported. But will be gress. This would create a Deputy Mayor, Alderman Women complained that passed a resolution temperatures advis condition where the work- Victor Turnton, said that a the government that

UIIS

aclon Cannol selule jewellery had been taken ing MOTad the issues every Cano could force the housing, social security, Monday: Dry Sunday ing 'sudden influx 2100 Class lal se rom mem. Luc worker knows this. Labour Monday: in most carry number encer. Immoranıs neaua austo ecucalion oCl i The series through a socialist pro- could be the 'straw that special meeting vices of the city were

AI A

Continuing warm one-day •laces breaks the camel's back. Leicester city on already stretched to capa- or make way for in protests made no mark on „ Tne

SOUTN.

Deconnnlt the TUC leaders and least discuss cooler in the north. those that wil. "he good grace that has waui sudy billllu LILy.