Workers Press no. 868

workers press

TORIES HOLD TWO

THREATS OVER TUC

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

A CYNICAL betrayal of Britain's 10 million trade unionists is in the wind today as TUC leaders talk with top employers and Tory premier Edward Heath. The talks take place against a background of rapidly- worsening crisis in the capitalist economy on a world scale-a crisis which can only be resolved in the victory of the working class or its most bitter defeat. Yet the central assumption of the union chiefs' participation in today's talks is the continuation in office of a Tory government whose sole aim is to plan such à defeat. Before the all-day meeting will be Treasury papers whose message is that if and other the TUC does not help cut its members' real wages, hundreds of thousands more workers will be thrown out of their jobs.

And Heath and his senior economics Ministers can be counted on to spell out another threat: the brass cannot stop pay claims, the union top government will do ll by law.

Even to take part in such talks is a betrayal. Yet not "left' Communist Party a single Labour

FROM OUR OWN

union

SAST

week s chalented Sane

CORRESPONDENT

General Council's right to engage in them.

Financial Times' shrewdly pointed And as the A THOUSAND men at the out yesterday: The TUC is formally committed former Upper Clyde Ship- oppose wage but the wording of the last week's builders yard at Clydebank resolution passed congress. was extremely TUC representa- face redundancy at the end vague and leaves the tives free to negotiate if they wish to do so of the year unless Marathon Again-as Workers Press pointed out last Friday Manufacturing, new -there was complete unanimity between right, win a contract for left and the Stalinists behind this resolution.

Owners. conversion of an oil rig.

This, of course, flows logically from the whole reformist policy of these tendencies since the Tory This was disclosed by union to office in June 1970. Their government came officials yesterday after awo- against the Industrial Rela. Detraval or Ene meeting with management nour tions Act has proceeded in step with their betrayal representatives from the four on these economic issues.

upper Clyde yards. At the same time that the March 18 special Joe Black, Clyde district chair- Congress at Croydon last year voted down industrial man of the Confederation of Ship- Bill, General anti-union action to stop the the building and Engineering Unions, Council was sowing illusions in the possibility of said: It is a temporary problem, negotiating price controls and a cut in the jobless probably for about six figures with the Tories. and we feel alternative provision The refusal of left leaders. Jack Tones and Hugh should be made for these people.'

Scanlon, Sent and allower complete restine challenge thạt legislation He explained that most of the labour force of 1,900 Clyde- of the phoney economic perspectives of the right bank were employed for the time wing. could not challenge right-wing TUC being by the UCS liquidator on scanton completion of ships. president George Smith's talk last week about the possibility of co-operative effort' economic Marathon planned to build up problems with the Ariac bacatica cinca March its labour force to about 900 by this year he has been busily peddling the idea of the end of the year, leaving 1,000 "abrasiveness' reduced and between government facing the possibility of redun- unions. dancv bv Christmas or the But let us look again at the background to end of January. The Texas-based com- today's talks. pany hoped, however, to obtain The Tory government is committed to entry into and order

TOT

conversion the Common Market on January 1, 1973. On Tues- modernization of an oil-rig.

dav the Finance Ministers of the enlarged Market Black said: Failing that order agreed in Rome to take co-ordinated action to we will have a very real problem fight inflation throughout the Community.

(See over about 1,000 men. p.2) This is the clearest possible declaration that the chairman of the co-ordinat- shon stewards' Tories intend in iust over three months to nush ing committee, said that his through massive increases prices, to bring would be meeting to- in line with and at the same committee Britain's Europe's, day to decide policy. Time settle accolinic with the workina class.

No doubt the Finance Ministers had some sharp Meanwhile Fox. chief Tames Clydebank things to say executive at the wokid be about the determined builders Marathon struggle, the big Ford pay claim and the forth- said that coming battles involving power and local-authority ordering steel this week for its manual workers.

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• THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1972• No. 868 • 4p

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

OCL

LGL

Deptford pickets try to turn a lorry away from the local WORKERS at the naval Union, came out on strike establishment on Tuesday in support of storage at Deptford, south east Lon- their pay claim and in sym- don, are calling on men at pathy with the workers at other naval yards in south- Rosyth yard. England to support The 4,000 Rosth work- ern their wages fight. ers have been out for a In particular they are month after an insulting asking for solidarity strike pay offer from the govern- action from men at Ply- ment. mouth, Chatham and Ports- The 200.000 state in- mouth establishments. dustrial workers have been The 250 Deptford offered an increase which men, all members of the Trans- does not bring lower-paid port and General Workers' workers within the even 14670 GB local dockyard depot yesterday TUC £20 minimum wage. Deptford shop steward Ted Cope said 70 stewards representing government workers throughout the country met in London on Monday and unanimously called for escalation of the strike. Another steward, Charlie Bell, said the Deptford men would have to consider picketing southern England establishments if they were reluctant to come out.

workers press

TORIES HOLD TWO

THREATS OVER TUC

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEI

A CYNICAL betrayal of Britain's 10 million trade unionists is in the wind today as TUC leaders talk with top employers and Tory premier Edward Heath. The talks take place against a background of rapidly.

worsening crisis in the capitalist economy on a world scale-a crisis which can only be resolved in the victory of the working class or its most bitter defeat. Yet the central assumption of the union chiefs' participation in today's talks is the continuation in office of a Tory government whose sole aim is to plan such a defeat. Before the all-day meeting will be Treasury message is that if and other papers whose the TUC does not help cut its members' real wages, hundreds of thousands more workers will be thrown out of their jobs.

And Heath and his senior economics Ministers if can be counted on to spell out another threat: the union top brass cannot stop pay claims, the government will do it by law.

Even such talks is a betrayal. to take nart in Yet not a single Labour 'left' Communist Party

FROM OUR OWN

week's

TUC

challenged the union leader at last

CORRESPONDENT

veneral councils right to engage in tnem.

And as the 'Financial Times' shrewdly pointed A THOUSAND men at the "The TUC is formally committed out yesterday: to former Upper Clyde Ship- oppose hut the wording of the wage restraint, builders yard at Clydebank resolution passed at last week's was Congress

TUC

vague and leaves the face redundancy at the end extremel tives free to negotiate if they wish to do so.

of the year unless Marathon -as Workers Press pointed out last Friday Again— Manufacturing, the new right, there was betweer comelete owners, win a contract for left and the CP Stalinists behind this resolution.

conversion of an oil rig.

This, of course, flows logically from the whole the Tory reformist noliev of these tendencies since This was disclosed by union government came to office in June 1970. Their officials yesterday after two- the fight against the Industrial Rela- betrayal of hour meeting with management tions Act has proceeded in step with their betrayal representatives from the four on these economic issues.

upper Clyde yards. that the March 18 special At the same time Joe Black, Clyde district chair- Congress at Croydon last year voted down industrial man of the Confederation of Ship- action to the anti-union Bill, the General stop building and Engineering Unions, possibility Council was sowing ilusions in the said: It is a temporary problem, negotiating price controls and a cut in the jobless nrohahiv for months, figures with the Tories. anot and we feel alternative provision The refusal of 'left' leaders, Jack Jones and Hugh should be made for these people.'

Scanlon, to challenge that retreat on legislation He explained that went hand in hand with their complete most of the acceptance Clyde- labour force ot 1.900 at or the phoney economic perspectives oi ine rigat bank were employed for the time wing. Scanlon could not challenge right-wing TUC being bv the UCs laudator on president George Smith's talk last week about the completion of ships. possibility of 'co-operative effort' economic on Marathon planned to build up with the Tories because since Marci orontens its labour force to about 900 this year he has been busily peddling the idea of the end of the year, leaving 1.000 'abrasiveness' reduced and between -government facing of redun- end dancv bv or the But let us look again at the background to of January. The Texas-based com- today's talks. hoped, however, to obtain pany The Tory government is committed to entry into for and order conversion the Common Market on January 1, 1973. On Tues- modernization of an oil-rig.

Ministers of the enlarged Market dav the Finance Black said: 'Failing that order agreed 'take co-ordinated action to in Rome to a very real problem we will have fight inflation throughout the Community. (See over about 1,000 men.' p.2) James Airlie, chairman of the This is the clearest possible declaration that the

UCS

stewards' Tories intend in just over three months to push shop co-ordinat- ing committee, his through massive increases prices, bring that committee would be meeting to- Britain's in line with Europe's, and at the same day to decide policy. Time see accounts wild tae workine cass.

No doubt the Finance Ministers had some sharp Meanwhile Fox, chief executive at the Clydebank yard things to sav ahout the determined builders' pay pay claim and the said Marathon struggle, the big Ford forth- that would be coming battles involving power and local-authority ordering steel this week for its contract-a manual workers.

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• THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1972 • No. 868 • 4p

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

OCL

LGL

1307 Deptford pickets try to turn a lorry away from the local

WORKERS

Union, came out on strike at the naval in support of establishment on Tuesday storage at Deptford, south Lon- their pay claim and in sym- east don, are calling on men at pathy with the workers at other naval yards in south- Rosyth yard. England The 4,000 Rosyth work- ern to support their wages fight. ers have been out for a In particular they are month after an insulting asking for solidarity strike pay offer from the govern- action from at Ply- ment. men mouth, Chatham and Ports- The 200,000 state in- mouth establishments. dustrial workers have been The 250 Deptford men, ofiered an increase which all members of the Trans- does not bring lower-paid port and General Workers' within even the workers 14670 636 GB • local dockyard depot yesterday TUC £20 minimum wage. Deptford shop steward Ted Cope said 70 stewards representing government workers throughout the country met in London on Monday and unanimously called for escalation of the strike. Another steward, Charlie Bell, said the Deptford men would have to consider picketing southern England establishments if they were reluctant to come out.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday September 14, 1972

PICKETING

What we

AND SLANDER

think

ATTACK

building workers' conditions and I also disagree with violence. All meetings on workers'

INCO

attacks on working-class organizations.

Where vOLe lace nave concuace Leonard Neal, is part with assurances that decisions will not chairman his There doubt that. Neal and result in violence or intimidation.

Tory covernment s orensive aralist the Tory government are workers' rights. encouraged by the capitulation of the

TUC

a Labour Party member, Later Symes, Picketing is not justified.

repeated: Speaking Trest Lines Near alleged the Industrial Rela- programme it's Weal, She Daily Madi Your Neal alleged tions Act and the government's wages Was enous us assistance policy: (Neal himself ex-T&GWU to Neal, the was announcing CoaT monev on pious sources Wak confidential intelligence service official.) being used to finance flying pickets.

screen Trotskyist militants who apply for The more these leaders back down, the He went on: 'I am not talking about jobs'. CIR cI sonard Noal Red gold from Moscow. I am it is more aggressive the ruling saying A spokesman for the far-right Economic which yet some workers leaders lena tnemserves being nOT trace union lunas and will soar still more with entry into to these attacks. According to yesterday's League told the 'Mail': 'If a member-firm used. is money being acquired from

TUC

Journal of Commerce', this is exactly what approaches us for private information the Common Market. Yet the leaders other further and this stage ared too made it clear at Brighton that hee Tore would tell him of the Know. Our pur. further Callal to co-operate with the ally anxious dockers' shop stewards has done.

pickets pose is to oppose subversion.

the Claimed

WORT

were government. "invaders' who were 'miners today, dockers Symes is reported as having attacked The 'Mail' also quotes a building execu Under these conditions, workers have a building tomorrow and workers next tive who said he gave the Economic League picketing at meeting of the English to fight for wage greater right inan ever Speaking Union in Liverpool Monday of 18 building workers who WeCK. on increases. Talk of 'subversion' when work- Within 24 hod so thebs with his company the 'What ers' their established rights is 1121t exercise to picket, like the right to The right opinion or a tne metnoas used tney were «oe o re e anal Liar wise rais micuscive art over years of struggle eight of the dockers picketing?' the Journal men had been involved in under attack. ' quotes Symes as saying: disruptions at other sites.

ana 1s essential to the working class.

TAS

Commerce' the economic crisis worsens, Neal's slander middle class and I did not agree with the leaders Symes, encourage- is intended to alarm the Hull, and do not support picketing at ait.

ment to the enemy, must be repudiated create a climate lavourable to turner dory NLF supplied for Cash crisis will two years - CIA govern EEC summit

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE CENTRAL Intelligence Agency believes that the North Vietnamese can continue the war at its present rate for two more years according to reports in the 'New York Times'.

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

It quoted a high-ranking intel.

tinued around Quang Tri, where ALL THE BASIC problems surrounding the enlargement of the Common Mar- saying of Saigon shock sleence group troops -even though the Rome agreement to set up a Euro.

ket are still left in suspense- although the heavy bombing had tried force lls way Into Lne had Ten possinetary Co-operation Fund now makes the October 19 Summit of the designated targets, They came under North to meaningfully slow the fire from Vietnamese failed men and equipment to artlery

HOW

The Ministers of Finance would have South Vietnam'. opened and Foreign the wav for a fresh rounc Affairs of the of currency peculation Kissinger stays in Moscow The Hanoi paper 'Nhan Dan' six-member and four appli- the kind whicl brought 450 US planes claims that meeting in cant countries cown ne bouna in use. have been shot down over the Rome were under North since April and that hund- pressure greatly nave

PRESIDENTIAL

Henry from a number of factors to North Vietnamese to make weakened the hand of the adviser. reds of airmen have been killed held his Kissinger, third day of compromise peace in return for European at the reach some kind of an agree- or captured. Another 1,500 planes talks in Kremlin some US the yesterday concessions to the bur- The International Monetary situation has had been destroyed by guerrillas and is due in London todav.

on September 23 on olner quesuons. «lie runo meeuine ne e changed since June when calling of Europear Security in Wash- mn use sould. Obvious v solte

HIDO IT

Conference, French President Pompidou ington. troop questions were involved the The paper added that Sundav's trade probably Moscow talks began to cast doubts on the The uncontrollable infla- guerrilla attack on Bien Hoa air- entered into the talks. utility of a summit. Saigon, in which tior near been expectea lo nave a sweepile ever pULL for sightseeing. As the faces strength ATTeT

VISHENS

Come. Cane une 00 were London, will on to Paris, of the working class which go mounting damaged, Failure to continue talks and wastne neaviest pun likely that lays is a secret ehind has ishment to the US-Saigon desnerate hold WICIe becomes more the would have of will settle differences with capitalist Communiti since start meets LaKe

WELL

all coco forces precipitated open split in North Vietnamese Politburo states on the lines of peaceful co- covernments

WITA

The need South Vietnamese people's often. the enlarged Com- member Le Duc Tho. Huronean do something The hope Vietnamese sive more than five months ago.

exiolence.

LIC

ICY•

before Britain's that munity even inter- deal have been made olution willingly sacri- may

WIT-

with the Kremlin to force the ficed to' this end. Heavy ground-fighting has con- entry. nativnal allion can succeed every government Were has failed utterly is another symptom of crisis. Gun-law patrol against left?

The Americans con- tinue WILt pump thousands of millions dollars the market. These world dollars, no longer backed and brutal terror-bombing of THE ISRAELI demand for

COMMENT BY JOHN SPENCER

by gold since the measures 19, 1971, Nixon on Augus Norin vernam ov tae Amencas international action against flagrant violation inter- convertible Federal In- stand on the topic at the In West : Germany, al c terrorism nothing These actions have more national law. Nations and Hans-Dietrich United strengthen unLO Curences able to do anything beer blueprint for civil Terior vuister be- than the stamp of respectability country has approved Genscher has already co-operation among cause they are waged with the international the formation of special security forces all backin limitless of huge state machines Kurt Waldheim has the UN scale. terrorse

DOLICE

Will cu with destructive The antagonisms between himself' In the Knesset debate on reserve for all European Tederal emergency secrelaly generdi, sources. and American governments. for the Munich shoot-out, premier te Trigger-havery called international actor capitalism, which this flood post-Munich German against 'increasing terrorism' Under the new Mrs Golda Meir stated that dollars represents, murdered and the question is to be regime assassination is to become certain Dolice recenlly Israel would 'smite the terror- matter for the 'security Come mOle acute every the ot the Kritish husinessman aiscusseul

SESSION

a sualilic day. Both sides are prepar- reach ists wherever can course of an anti-terrorist man- General Assembly starting next forces' and the so-called counter.

ing for an escalation of the them'. She added: "That is its Tuesday. terrorist units The shoot-out be- hunt. trade national duty to itself and to comes the norm in the pursuit of war with the apan for these The among the im- atmosphere 'law and order'. ese forcing une pace measures is peace.' being intensified by benanst uns issue is The haste in reaching dangers Opposition leader Menahem Arabs all huge i here are agreement did mean of the West capitalist and this development. special former leader Europe. Begin-a over the differences squads demanded by Begin, Wil- that deer rule Zionist terror organization Haga- Germany sitopille gull will between which operated against the laws to introduce tighter oppressed and Genscher be used revolt.

SOR

countries on monetary the against anyone dares Arabs controls over north WhO and questions had been sinister methods challenge the master class.

migrants and a manhunt is under ralesune Hallualt resolved. by US Central The political assassination further: way Palestinian the tor _commando used will be The new Fund 'Israel must safeguard the lives supporters. Intelligence a world. workins-class multants alreauy administered by the cen- citizens wherever they are German wide system, the phoney seen in Ireland, is foreshadowed of its The social-democratic tral banks and merely in these imperialist British slogan law and and SuCa precavuons government

WIL

unell replaces less existing, plans. 101- violate the sovereignty colleagues close behind is proving ot tne ma amangements tor where terrorists heir nations in man camerican stace operation to deal with need for condemn the waged by -Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil Scheidemanns and Voskes who operate. It there is a balance-of-payments prob- them- -such among actions are special squad SeT

U• IOI

seT rent-wire mountary muracI changes to kill Rosa •CA- this purpose, let it be set up.' squads Luxemburg glory alread evervady occurrence change rates. Labour and Karl Liebknecht in 1919. In the course Uruguay's Last week leader The differences between recent 'internal war' against the The of terrorism was against Harold Wilson the European

DUI

lorward capitalist of urban guerrillas dozens similar proposal, calling for tron a concon The agend Tne ariven countries are too deep to Market Foreign Mini- special units Common workine-Crass mullant. wert by have meet sters' Rome. They of Israel to gunned down in cold blood by 'anti-terrorist' opera- meeting trained for get-together after the holi- the police and military. take a decided days, in Rome or anywhere tions at ruse areos. coc.

'Zionists try to blacken us'

BRITAIN'S

trade plunged

I XCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY IAN YEA

heavily into the last red hefty €193m month with ZIONIST efforts to foreign trade deficit. smear Palestine freedom This was the biggest deficit fighters as international since August 1970. As in August year, the figures gangsters moved to Lon- affected docks by don on Tuesday. strike. Pro -Zionist The Trade writer Jon Department claimed that the figures were Kimche wrote in the no guide to underlying trends.

right-wing 'Evening Standard' Figures will be influenced by that the Palestine Liberation the dock strike for some Organization's British envoy months until import and export backlogs are cleared.

Said Hammami had been called home because he was Teres it said conditio- too soft. cedures', it said, 'August showed a He wrote: 'The decision had ures much heavier fall in exports than in imports.

been taken before the Munich and is part "In the meantime', it claims, 'the monthly statistics will be genera! of little or no value in assess- Palestinian representation in ing current trends.' western Europe.'

BY ALEX MITCHELL

AT ISLINGTON Town Hall week, shortly after 1.30 p.m. a black Mercedes pulled up. A man, hand.

cuffed between two Special Branch officers, was hustled into the building for his wedding. Mike Sirros was marrying Pauline Conroy at the registry office just down from Pentonville Prison where Sirros had been an inmate for the past four months. Accompanying the bridegroom were not only Special Branch with suspicious men bulges in their jackets, but also an assistant commissioner of police and a deputy governor of the jail. There was electrifying moment when one one of the more exuberant wedding guests whipped out a plastic machine gun and began waving it about.

After a 20-minute Siros ceremony, bundled into the Mercedes and driven back to his cell. Last Saturday under similar stringent security he was taken to Heathrow Airport be to deported to Algeria. Sirros's 'crime'? His visa had Why all the heavy run out. security? Was he a notorious criminal? Not at all. There is not a single conviction against him in this country although he had been frequently charged with minor offences-none which of have been proven. His wife, Pauline, was origin- ally picked the massive up in Stoke Newington last arrests year and charged with bombing and offences. conspiracy But when the committal pro- ceedings began the police entered a nolle prosequi-that is to say they offered no evidence against her and she was discharged.

That was early this year.

Since Miss Conroy has then been action for habeas corpus in the arrested and charged with having High Court and won. possession of a weapon to which In releas- Greek-born Sirros ing from she is pleading not guilty.

Sirros was then picked up and prison, the judges severely held for Mr Oswell in Brixton criticized Justice prison Britain after Searight MacLeay for committing remaining in his Sirros to visa had run out. prison. Sirros's lawyers launched When he got out, Sirros took an Workers Press, Thursday September 14, 1972 PAGE 3 According to Kimche, five- na been Britain sent replace Hammami. They •...had arrived in Lon- don in the midst of the crisis ana dia not at all like Mr Hammami's handling of the affair.' In second exclusive inter- Workers new Witn Press The Arab envoy denied he had been ordered the Middle return East by the ratah leadership It is absolute rubbish. There is no truth in it at all,' he told me 'Evening Standard'

1 COOLLCIS

turned on were away Money empty-handed from the PLO's at the Picaditish British headquarters Sald Hammami, PLO envoy, in his London office Cure Arab League. Hammami said that He said: 'He has done hysteria at the slaughter made gloss Kimche had not spoken it in a very clever way. the whose finger was on the their athletes him mixing some things decision to an ears the triggers the a Vi confirm the which are true, for bloodbath Fursten- which mowed story published that instance that Leila feldbruck •allsul! Was dow ano une extent night. Khaled is pregnant. with clan- the complicity of the taken The He denied: destine complicity Israeli ruling class. He added: I think • That Fatah leaders Moshe Dayan who was And the impression is grow- are dissatisfied with his based ing among nglish in Munich and traveled on accusations work. the Olympic Village of mindless terror people the that • That he has been 7.30 p.m after been whipped not killers recalled. arriving through a side the and he wants give brush under carpet been That five men have the idea killers airport. real objective for enrance The ale sent Right up to the last which the Palestinians being sent. him. the Arab commandos fighting al c • That the Palestinians Hammami postponed their their restorator anonymous letters and line toughening up their the homeland occupied by ere• sunrer phone calls -he suspects 11 sportsmen and they Zionists. He from alleged Kimche finally died COnC the believes Hammam deliberately trying threatening was

HOASTS

military Kimche's efforts are blacken to burn him alive and Palestinians field in a hail of German calculated to destroy blow off his head. eyes police bullets. PLO's mission world. Despite Every effort has been Zionist

PHOTOGRAPHS: DAVID WILLS

Abova: Handculled 1o a Spacial Branch pollce officer, bridegroom Mike Sirros, with drink still in hand and wife Pauline on his othe arm, dragged from his wedding reception back to jail. Left: Mike and Pauline dol caller du me recoonor.

served on the judge, he registry office, the guests managed was drain and placed in prison to smuggle in a veritable banquet, pickea up prior deportation. including champagne. to Then followed an astonishing To the consternation of the of series and diplomatic Ital council officials and _oonce.

MOVES

wich no less . Than the lavish reception was suddenly countries declined to allow Sirros staged. Sirros's lawyers believe enter. The police were having none that Illay Lave been of it. these exerted countries With handcuffs on wrist, onf prevent their client from gaining Sirros was almost dragged from the reception to waiting couple of weeks ago, how- limousine. beautiful ever, ne learned inal Algeria, one their demo Sirros of the last countries to which he was on his way to deportation.

had applied, had agreed . to grant spokesman for Sirros's but him a coucce at the North Kensington marted Neighbourhoo Law Centre staged salu Islington week vesteroav meal Ine actions agalnsi the judge, the police com- out a writ against Oswell Searight curious WIll scl missioner and the MacLeay policeman people'

JOI

In aren- would go ahead. imprison- dance. assault •ang Writs also ssued Sirros, social 'These actions are not a stunt, many rosends in the squatting and worker, the Metropolitan Police against he said. Important questions ale Commissioner and Special Branch communirv acuon world. stake. officer who had arrested him.

Although no food drink The preliminary hearings will Two days after the writs were allowed the be held in October. environs of the

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Septe Part 14 of a series on Picketin Ever since the early Pinkerton operations nu- merous private hire pol- ice forces have been created, ostensibly for the protection of prop- erty and finance, but also available for direct pol- icing activity against the organized working class. Today in Britain 'security' is a multi-million pound in- dustry with more than 20,000 employees in 400 firms. The three largest companies are Securicor, Security Express, and Factory Guards. SECURICOR originated in 1935 as Night Watch Services Ltd. It was formed as a com- by the Marquis of pany Willingdon and Henry Tiarks, the merchant banker, for the protection of penthouses in the Park Lane area. From the early stage work- were extremely dubious ers about its Even existence. George Lansbury, the Labour MP called it 'a first halting step to fascism'. The company was re-constituted in 1938 as Night Guards Ltd. concentra- supplying 'static ting on guards' for houses and other premises. In 1947 the name was changed to Security Corps, but on an objection by the Home Office that this was too much like an army title, it was short- ened to Securicor. The com- pany was taken over in 1960 by Kensington Palace Hotels Ltd, and in turn, through the parent company, bought up the Armoured Car Company, which included 100 American- style armoured vans complete with gun-ports (at one time they had also included shot- gun guards). According to Thomas Clay- ton, author of 'The Protectors' ex-owner of Armoured the Vans, Roy Winkelman, left for USA to join the CIA, the £250,000 richer. Today, Securicor has 13,739 from 153 staff operating branches. It has a network of 35 specially-built strong points country, 70 throughout the from short-wave radio masts which it controls its forces, 738 dogs, and 1,091 armoured security • vehi-les. A mass of information is filed and cata- and a data-processing logued centre is linked via computer terminals to the main branches.

opened its dog- Securicor training section in 1966 under a former Colonial Police officer who had developed the use of animals and established the police dog sections in Palest- ine, Kenya, Ghana and Mau- ritius. Scotland Yard data is un- officially available through the 'old boy' network; easy enough with so many ex-CID men on the firm. Securicor spends £100,000 a year alone on checking-up (screening) its own employees and prospec- day September 14, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks employees. In 1971 it tive made flm profit. Clayton states: "Throughout several changes of name and identity, Securicor has retained a strong army ring, which is now being in some ways modi- fied by the disciplines and ideas brought into the firm by several kinds of policemen, from Scotland Yard, from former colonial police forces and, in one or two cases, from former colonial police forces and, in one or two cases, from Royal Canadian Mounted Police. If one adds to the police and military elements the and tech- accountants nicians, one begins to see the profession of the new way Security Officer is being com- posed.' For workers a much clearer insight into the role of the 'new profession' the was revelation that Securicor has its own detective division, in- cluding a 'spies for hire' sec- tion available to employers. In division 1963 the detective had 20 investigators and according to a Securicor official quoted by the 'Daily Mail': 'All are former CID officers, and have to be used again and again. So it is vital that no one they To discovers who are. make sure of this they stay in their undercover jobs for some time; we have faked even arrests to get them out.'

Securicor subsidiary, One Complete Security Services Ltd., offered prevention 'misuse and wastage of time by employees' and of 'laxity of discipline on workshop or stockroom floors'. • It added: 'We specialize in preventing sharing of this unwarranted your profits' and listed its ser- vices as: 1. The supplying of under- cover agents - a man planted among your employees to provide you with a com- plete appraisal of any un- authorized happenings. 2. The following of vehicles used by employees during the course of their work. 3. The investigating of thefts, frauds and embezzlement. 4. Reporting on any person suspected who may causing dissension or inciting employees to disaffection.

5. The screening of prospective into employees - a search their antecedants and background. The letter from the com- pany's manager added: 'Our agents are carefully selected and thoroughly vetted and their methods of approach, discretion and lovalty are of the highest standard'-as is generally known, one director of the parent company to this was Robert Carr before firm he joined the present Tory government. Advice and instruction on the affairs of the labour move- ment is always on tap. Clay- that employees states ton ...are carefully educated in the attitudes of trade union- ism. At Securicor, this side of Above: Securicor man and police at the their training is in the hands a senior of Jim Matthews, rade union official for mant years' Further inside informa- tion is available from two board members: Ray Gunter, ex-Minister of Labour in the 1964 Labour government and • Lord Williamson, former TUC chairman. Above: Robert Carr, a one-time director of a security firm.

Clayton claims that the Compléte Securities' approach would be 'strictly ruled out today'. What was disturbing the employers was, of course, that the scheme had been dis- covered, not that it existed.

In addition to its activities in Britain, Securicor operates in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singa- Borneo,_ Kenya, Swazi- pore, land, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, Malta, Ethiopia and Norway.

It is also the European agent for Pinkertons!

SECURITY EXPRESS

was established in 1960 in a joint operation by De La Rue Inter- national and Wells Fargo. Its first chairman was Sir Percy Sillitoe, former head of MI5.

By 1970 the company had 300 armoured vehicles and 1,800 staff. It has links with similar lice at the Henley Regatta this year.

firms in South America. known as Group. 4 Security, is a subsidiary of a Swedish firm and was formed in 1952. It developed a cash- transit and a store detective section. Under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald Howe, former deputy Commissioner at Scot- land Yard-previously quoted in connection with the Special Branch—it now has 2,500 em- ployees and over 50 armoured vehicles. Sister companies exist in Switzerland and Japan.

Trading profit in 1969 was £193,224 (Labour Research figures). Clayton says that the has its own technical division 'bugging' and 'de- advisers on bugging' and the use of eaves- 'Peeping Tom' dropping and equipment. The remaining firms are small, often one-man-and-a- dog operators. Not included here are a further 30,000 em- ployees in various associated industries; locks, safes, burglar alarms, identity systems, etc.

In 1966, the main security firms formed the British Security Industry Associatior to promote the industry, en- courage the development of new security equipment and methods and to improve links with Whitehall and the regular police. fact, the fundamental In 'security' that this association is concerned about is the pro- tection of capitalist property.

Such security measures or 'active' more means, as capitalism thinks fit. The out- look of the Association along these lines can be seen from an article by its honorary secretary Peter Hamilton, also connected with the security in the 1971. This was subsequently and published obtained 'Labour Research' and various trade union journals. Hamilton noted Enoch Powell's assertion that there are hidden forces working to destroy the British nation from within and stated: 'If one the moment the ignores for doctrinaire, subversive and the dedicated professional criminal who will always take advantage of any social or security weak- ness, one is left with the man or woman who for much of the time may behave quite rationally as a student or worker. 'Suddenly, on some slight provocation, as often imagined become as real, they may violent maniacs burning down their university, destroying their school, sabotaging vital supplies and services, such as electricity, and attacking those who disagree with them. In cases where a claim for more money is the underlying cause, it is still disturbing how quickly a resort to bullying and coercion is made. It may be, for example, that an extra arm will be needed to cope with violence beyond the capability of an unarmed and already heavily-committed police force and to maintain the supply of the essentials of life such as food, water and electricity' Remarking the on inadequacy of existing laws he concludes: •..a passive saboteur is one who uses his position as a purveyor of some social service vital to the community to demand money by threat of withdrawal or actual with- drawal of that service. This man is, of course, the striker, go-slower, work-to-ruler or and although he is a social criminal, his action is lawful even if violence results.'

CONTINUED TOMORROW

THE WAR ON THE

TUPAMAROS GUERRILLAS

-METRO M CASA

The Uruguayan govern. ment claimed last week to have broken the back urban of the guerrilla National Liberation Movement - popularly known the Tupa- as maros. Of 172 guerrillas who escaped from Uru- guayan prisons last year, 126 are said to have been captured and Il killed. Forty-seven-year-old Jupa- maros leader Raul Sendic was arrestea with a bullel unrougit his jaw. The government also claims to have captured sen- 25-year-old dic's deputy, Henry Willy Engler, and another member of the group's executive committee, José Ramon Piedecassas (32). Events in Uruguay, particu- November's larly since have shown the in- elections, ability of terrorism and „Te. visionism to overthrow capital- ism. At that time a 'Broad Front' was established movement of the the cadence President dictator Jorge This con- racheco sisted of the Christian Demo- the Socialist Party, the crats, Communist Party, the self- 'Trotskyist' Party proclaimed of Posadas, and the Revolu- Party, tionary Workers which proclaims grouping its Pabloite adherence Secretariat', but 'Unified which is not actually a mem ber of it) and the 'March 26 Movement of Independents', a gro vie res es the Tupamaros.

the pollti cal views of the 'Broad Front' antici- This pated an electoral victory along the 'Popular the thes Unity' coalition of President Salvador Allende Chile. In the event, it was massively defeated hand- ana picked Juan M. successor Bordaberry was elected president. dominated was The Front Communist It by the Party. was the Stalinists who engin- the selection of eered general Liber Seregni and Dr José Crottogini as the Juan Front's presidential and vice- presidential candidates - two highly acceptable candidates in bourgeois circles. But the Tupamaros-practi- tioners of urban violence and kidnapping — also joined the In a statement pub- Front. lished in the Unified Secre- tariat's 'Intercontinental Press' in March, 1971, the Tupa- maros declared: 'We do not honestly believe that we can achieve a revolu- tion in Uruguay today by means of elections. 'The present rulers have jailed more than 5,000 workers in a single year be- cause these workers exercised their rights. Such rulers are not going to passively turn the government over to the same workers if they win an elec- tion? the conclusion drawn But, from this was: 'Nevertheless, we are willing to offer our support to the Broad Front.'! And the revisionists of the Unified Secretariat published statement without com- this ment! same 'Interconti- nental Press' they also justified the decision of the Revolu- Party Workers' tionary PRT(U) to participate in the Front. 'The of the position PRT(U)', it declared, 'is that a popular front headed by a of the national sector bourgeoisie and committed to maintaining bourgeois property relations can neither win inde- pendence from imperialism nor solve the economic and social problems confronting the masses.' in fact, the PRT(U) But, was joining just such a Front!

'Intercontinental Press' tried to avoid saying that this was happening: 'The PRT(U) is the only group participating in the forum provided by the Broad Front that opposes the forma- tion of a class-collaborationist popular front. This was a deliberate lie.

The PRT(U) was not partici- pating in a 'forum' büt in an electoral alliance. This was excused on the grounds that the PRT(U) was 'alert danger to the sectarianism' and, therefore, was 'doing its utmost to ex- tend its proletarian base by in the actively participating country's living political pro- cess'. Only after the 'Broad Front' was defeated did Joseph Han- sen of the Socialist Workers Party in America and an edi- tor of 'Intercontinental Press' make any criticism of the PRT(U)'s participation in the Front-it was, wrong, he said, to ask workers to vote for Seregni and Crottogini.

Hansen does not analyse the electoral defeat so lessons can be learned in order to build revolutionary party in Uruguay. He simply leaves all that out and expresses the hope that the Uruguayan workers will win within the next five years: "The Uruguayan workers Will hardly wait for a half a decade to go through another with : a Broad experience Front. It is much more likely that they will pour into the hundreds of streets by the did thousands as they on November 24—but this time to change the entire system.

And they will do it in perhaps the ten days that it less than the Russian workers in took 1917' the Uruguayan What workers need is not just and treacherous flabby optimism, but a real leader- ship that can only be built in struggle against popular front- ism and terrorism. In fact the aftermath of last November's elections has not been an easy progress towards the revolution (quicker than the Russians and without all the bother of building a Bol- shevik Party). Workers Press, Thursda Instead it was the right wing which went on to the offensive. Last March, the Uruguayan Congress lifted the restrictions on civil liberties which Areco had imposed in July 1969, ostensibly to use against the following Tupamaros. But clashes in which two Tupa- maros leaders were killed — Alberto Canadan Grajales and Tabare Rivero Cedres-Con- gress voted 97-21 on April 15 to declare a state of 'internal war' This was later extended and, although since called off, laws tough security new meant that most of the sweep- ing powers of arbitrary arrest and detention without trial re- main. The regime was able to use the adventures of the Tupa- maros to launch an attack, not only on them, but or working class. Two days after the 'internal war' was declared, a pre-dawn raid was launched by the army on the Communist Party head- quarters in Montevideo and seven CP members were shot.

Despite a ban on all non- government news accounts, it became known that by April 28 over 1,000 opponents of the regime were in jail. These killings were followed by a two-day strike organized Communist Party. the by Commenting on this the May 'Intercontinental issue of Press' declared: It remains to be seen whether the government's attack the Communist on Party will prod the CP into action taking consistent against the repression.' Thirty-four years after the International these Fourth self-styled Trotskyists have to 'wait see' whether the and Stalinists will lead a fight against capitalism! the right-wing Meanwhile, offensive continued. On May 27, 1972, police in Montevideo recaptured two hostages — former Agricultural Minister Carlos Frick Davie and Ulysses Pereira Reverall, the head of the State Telephone Company.

, Thursday September 14, 1972 PAGE 5 Above: arbitrary arrest and deten.

remain without trial tion Uruguay Press' 'Intercontinental called this 'one of the most setbacks since the serious MLN (Tupamaros) was formed ten years ago.' But more was to come. In June, Minister of the Interior Rovira declared: Alejandro 'We have information that will make it possible for us to de- stroy the subversive organiza- tion.' The same month a report in the French daily 'Le Monde' said: 'Several cells of the MLN have been destroyed - and 100 so activists and sympa- thizers have been arrested. In rapid succession, the security have discovered three forces "people's prisons, a field underground hospital an shooting range, laboratories for preparing explosives and arms and ammunition dumps.'

Yet opportunities to build a revolutionary movement un- doubtedly exist in Uruguay.

Dominated by a handful of ranchers and landowners, the economy is heavily dependent on exports of meat and wool.

There is a foreign debt of over $600m—an astronomical sum for a country with a popula- tion of only 2.8 million. At the beginning of this year the peso had fallen to 700 to the dollar.

In 1971 the cost of living cent, the rose by 36 per ran at a 20-per-cent budget deficit; there was a drastic of and decline exports Uruguay's so-called 'social welfare' built up in system, the boom years just after the to bankruptcy. close war, was To meet this workers put forward wage claims of up to demon- 40 per cent. They strated in their thousands during last November's elec- tions. But the dead-end of and the class- terrorism collaboration of the Stalinists and revisionists hold this class back.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday September By John Spencer The Palestinian masses' desperate fear of a sell- out Middle East settle- ment negotiated behind their backs underlies the kidnapping of the Israeli hostages at the Munich Olympic games. The danger of such a settle- ment, carving, up Palestine between Zionism and the reactionary Arab capitalist the class, has haunted Palestinians since the procla- mation of the state of Israel.

At that time, in 1948, the war between the Arab states and the infant Zionist colony ended with annexation of what remained of Palestine by the Arab rulers of Trans-Jordan and Egypt. dynasty, The Hashemite grabbed the Palestine Arab Thursday September 14, 1972 west bank of the river Jordan and and Egypt took over the Strip. Gaza The Palestinian people's right to a state was ignored and they were made homeless in their own land.

They were robbed of their homeland by the reactionary Zionist movement which has whath the a racialist state in remaining Arabs which of internal constitute a kind colony for ruthless exploit- ation. The massacre at Deir Yassin village and a massive terror campaign spearheaded by the Zionist Hagganah extreme movement drove more than a million Palestinians into exile after the 1948 war. They became refugees, living in hugely overcrowded camps in dire poverty, stripped of all their possessions ana relying on hand-outs from the United Nations. The youth grew up in the camps with a burning hatred of imperialism and Zionism and determined to avenge the crimes committed against their people. They had 'no trust in the Arab bourgeois rulers who had contemptuously neglected their legitimate demands.

Since 1948, the Arab states fought two wars with have Israel; in 1956 against the joint Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt, which demonstrated Israel's close ties with im- perialism, and again in 1967— known as the six-day war.

But between the Zionists and the Palestinians there has never been peace. The Palestinians cannot rest until their right to self-determination is restored and the imperialist excrescence state is that is the Israeli destroyed. No other programme can satisfy the Palestinian people.

for the present state of Israel is directed at the very basis of their existence as a nation. The Jewish colonization of Pales- encouraged and tine was financed —particularly after the war—by the United States as a spearhead against the Arab revolution. The founders of Zionism openly talked of the establish- ment of a state in • Jewish Palestine as a bastion of Europe against Asia and their success- ors have carried out this 'civilizing mission' with all the zeal of latterday Kitcheners.

The formula of the Israeli high command is simple: to stamp out Arab resistance wherever it raises its head and reduce the remaining Arab inhabitants of Palestine to second-class status and dis- courage them from remaining in Israel so as to make room for more Jewish immigrants.

Those refugees who left their lands in 1948 and 1967 have no automatic right to return.

they do, they return as aliens find their land has been to parcelled incoming out to Tewish colonists. But any Jew in the world has the automatic right to Israeli citizenship and can settle freely in Israel under the Law of Return. Significantly, Black the September commando at Munich took the name of Birim and Ikrit, two Arab villages whose inhabitants were forced out by the and have army never been allowed to return to their homes. The army for reasons' has 'security over- ruled a Supreme Court ruling that the villagers should be allowed to return to their lands. Speaking to her own Labour premier Party, Golda Meir made clear the real reason for the refusal: the main danger was that it would create a precedent. If Birim and Ikrit were restored to their rightful owners, thousands of Arabs would start demanding their lands back-a prospect to terrify any Zionist. The Palestinian struggle has constantly been betrayed, not only by the Arab governments which have paid lip-service to their cause only to turn round and knife them between the shoulders, but by the Stalinist which originally bureaucracy formation of supported the Israel and now subordinates the Palestinian struggle to its opportunist relations with the Arab capitalists. In Jordan the Palestinian commando was movement crushed under King Hussein's Hashemite tanks and the monarch now has his eyes on the formation of a separate on the Israeli- puppet state West Bank of the occupied river Jordan to be manned by his own nominees and remain- ing under Israeli occupation. At the same time, the right- ward moves of the Egyptian gathering speed government, since the death of Nasser and the accession of Anwar Sadat, pose another threat to the pre- carious situation of the guerrilla organizations. Syria, the Lebanon and Iraq, . the guerrilla fighters are token reduced to entirely actions and have been brought more and more closely under the surveillance and control of the governments. Before the bloody massacre of the commandos in Jordan— which gave its name to the Black September organization —the Iraqi Ba'athists insisted liberation fighters that the move their bases into Jordan.

And since then the Lebanese government. under acting Israel, away have only have only been restrained s restrained the country's population are refugees ympathize with the guerrillas

SETTLEMENT

In Egypt the movemen he movemen any. operations commando ideal a Significantly, th gives donoremont tho mnst nutcanhan honking to behind commandos, ront Muammar Moslem who right-wing con- struggle siders the against Zionism a Jihad (holy war), provides money for the com- mando groups and many of them are trained by Libyan personnel. The most vicious Arab enemy of the Palestinians is King Hussein of Jordan, whose predecessor, King Abdullah, robbed the Palestinians of the West Bank establish the to Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Abdullah was later assassinated by a Palestinian refugee in Jerusalem. Leaders of the Palestinian from resistance, who range right-wing nationalists former Maoists making liberal left phrases, directed of use of their fire most against Hussein after the six-day war.

Their boast that they would march to Tel Aviv via Amman, was an empty one. By inviting a conflict the well- with Jordanian equipped army (financed by the US and com- posed of Bedouin mainly soldiers with little sympathy for the Palestinians) the leaders of the commando organizations led their men into a trap.

Hussein took the opportunity to butcher the guerrillas in a series of battles culminating in the massacre of September 1970. For Hussein, this was an essential preparation Workers Press, Thursday Sep coming to terms with the Zionists. But for the Palestinians, it was a catastrophe. They had been driven into a corner with of escape and the no means combination of political betrayal and the Hashemite bloodbath fed the belief that every man's hand was against them. The nihilist philosphy of a Palestinian section youth, intensified by the cynicism and political bank- of the movement's ruptcy 'elder statesmen', found its outlet finally in the Black September organization. Black September is divorced from the Palestinian masses by its very nature as a secret And its actions-like society. all individual terror-have only, played into its enemies' hands. They have enabled the Zionists to whip war-hysteria inside and have un- Israel doubtedly alienated hundreds of thousands of Jewish workers who might otherwise have a threat to the presented Zionist rulers. Yet the terrorist action con- tributes nothing to the military defeat of Israel, which is even now planning new and bruta!

punitive raids against defence- Press, Thursday September 14, 1972 PAGE 7 In the Olympic village: left- police run to take up their posi- tions. Right: Head of Munich police and German Minister for Interior discuss with Arabs.

less Palestinian refugees in the surrounding countries. Zionists' The vast war machine always operates a terror policy more effectively than the Palestinians. Most important of all, the terrorist actions of the Black September and similar groups cut them off from their best allies-the world working class.

Individual terrorism is the dead end of a bankrupt middle- class leadership attempting- through assassinations and hi- jacks——-to escape the con- sequences of its own mistakes.

is no road for the This Palestinian who are masses left in misery with only the consolation of the terrorists' individual heroism to console them. many lives are However in this form of sacrificed struggle, they will not bring any closer the overthrow of Zionism or the restoration of the Palestinians' rights.

This cannot be achieved outside the independent mobilization of Arab and Jewish workers to overthrow Zionist rule and establish a secular, socialist Palestine with equal rights for all races.

A LIBERAL'S VIEW OF POLICE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Septem "Scotland YardA of the study Metropolitan Police' By Peter Laurie. Penguin 45p. Mr Laurie (yet another 'Sunday Times' liberal!) spent eight months ob- serving the work of the 'Met'-the Metropolitan police force. He makes no secret of his sym- pathies and draws a revealing comparison be- tween the work of the Fleet St journalist and the CID man. superficially Despite the glib account, Laurie expresses deep concern at the crisis within its ranks. He sums up the predica- ment of the 'Met': 20,000 cannot force 8 policemen million Londoners to do any- thing, and particularly since the low temperature of rela- tionships between the state and individual is one of England's most priceless possessions, it is important that they do not try.? (p. 289.) Hence: 'The real effect of lies in its social policing y September 14, 1872 symbolism rather than in any it mechanical effects which produces by restraining law- therefore breakers, and almost impossible to measure.'

(p.5l.) Laurie is more concerned with tracing out the difficulties for the police that arise because of increasing social animosity and antagonisms, explaining exactly this than 'social symbolism'. He points out: 'The rise of disorganized, indus- large, trialized populations had com- pletely wrecked the Tudor system of policing based on the parish constable? (p.295.)

the then asserts that founding of the 'Met' in 1829 'only completed a gradual series of improvements which had begun in 1789 with the establishment of the Thames river police. However this 1829 decision followed the repeal, in 1825, of the 'Combination Acts' outlawed labour which had organizations. A new, more flexible, although still authori- • tarian system of policing was necessary which would not provoke the bloody confronta- tions which the army and yeo.

manry did. To disguise this real meaning of their 'social symbolism' Laurie presents the police as primarily a crime- prevention agency. comparatively small This body has an enormous array If of powers at its disposal.

the police wanted to-and if there were enough of them— they could find reasons to exercise their power on every- one every day.' (p.9l.) policeman The art of the lies therefore in that wondrous, unofficial quality of 'dis- cretion'. The trainee policeman receives only 16 weeks' formal instruction as compared with three to four years' "real' edu- cation on the 'beat'. 'Discretion' does not exist in strict legal theory, but as Laurie points out: 'Since, in a typically English way, cannot be made to police enforce the law, no one can in them from practise prevent choosing? (p.10.) Laurie becomes vague as to yardstick of this 'dis- the cretion'. Not until p.275 dces ...thumping a he admit that ' prisoner to make him collect his thoughts, manufacturing a fragment of evidence, are all things which policemen deplore,, but which are done ... He is equally coy about the class bias of the police (well- Known to strikers, immigrants and youth). On p.128 a traffic policeman complains to him of a maniac in a Jaguar who warning deliberately ignored beacons in a mist on the M4, but who turned out to be 'one of the leading barristers in one of the Inns of Court'. On p.157 a CID constable investigating comments on fingerprinting break-in about '"I could get the occupants: them up the nick and take their prints with ink, but that's really for slags. You don't want to get nice girls' hands dirty like that. When I go back I'II take them some flowers-I usually do that for the lady losers ... "' the police Laurie explains tolerance of 'porno' on p.293: 'People in powerful positions who want pornography can get it without having recourse to corrupt organiza- secret and tions that have power over them, and so, to some extent the state' there are over apparently more in the civil service fles and cabinet brief cases than plans to restore British industry's profits!).

'Discretion' thus is exercised to keep the wheels of capital- ism turning. By maintaining an appearance of a vigorous fight against crime they 'persuade people to live honestly far more by their existence and example than because they physically remove wrongdoers from society' (p.311). Laurie attempts to maintain the myth. He haraly mentions the enormous proliferation of private security agencies who guard building sites and empty cash and offices, transport shop-lifting thus counteract covering the gaping holes in the 'appearance' of the police maintainence of law and order.

Laurie exercises Similarly 'discretion' his in not even mentioning the Fraud Squad' the Met' is jointly which responsible for with the City of London force. Despite its understaffing and ludicrous lack of resources it uncovers more crime in value terms in the City in some years than the rest of the country put together, and there are no 30 years sentences handed out there either. Laurie starts his account with the visible manifestation of the police, the foot-patrol- ling constable and the 'panda' 'area'. cars (Rovers and and Triumphs) which tour a pat- tern of districts. Contrary to the TV image of Sgt Dixon and Z-Cars they do little crime detection. The effectiveness of the pat- in his lies rolling constable power to stop and search any- one suspected of carrying Top: police in action at the 'Oz' Trial demonstration. stolen property. This produces 'about 40 per cent of the Met's 50,000 crime arrests a year, although only one stop in 20 is fruitful' (p.65). Laurie avoids the thorny ground of harassment of local youth and immigrants by the 'friendly bobby' on the beat.

The 'area' cars respond mainly to their radios, following up complaints or directions from Laurie HQ. hardly mentions the 'Special Patrol Groups' of 130 tough coppers in clearly marked crew-buses who are called in to deal with 'flare- ups'. The retiring Chief Com- missioner of the Met, Waldron, enthusiastically reported on their use in affairs like the 'Metro' and Stephen McCarthy' raids: 'The advan- tages of having in the force a self-contained highly-mobile, unit have l been emphasized during the year.' The heart of the 'Met' is the CID who protect the gross of private accumulations wordly wealth. Contrary to the Sherlock Holmes image, this has been based largely on close informal with the contacts underworld itself! Laurie found it .. disconcerting to discover that nine times out of ten, when the police disappear into the undergrowth after some spectacular crime and re- apparently miracu- appear, lously with a man who I with their in- "helping them ', it is because some quiries", third party has told them for whom to look' (p.206). The 'Observer' was more ex-

plicit on this relatio CID are 'on first-n with professional cri at ease in their comj share a fascination and common have a vehement dis "dissident." taker, the homosex haired young protes even have a lary, scene... Apparently prepared to cretion' on they receive the ne formation about la and, prits, they are in tur to do deals if the pr plead guilty. (Laurie that the police and courts is dependent on a hi guilty pleas'. p.216) in turn is prepared information about o Laurie expresses major activity snouts must valled In return the 'snou conviction sometimes the CID I 'the reward in a di gentlemanly fashion However concerned here to Robert Mark, Chief Co police over question these cosy ships which have sin the centre of so mu versy. Prof J. Mack, on the Scottish researched recently changing crime patte have undermined th of these informal cor 'known' criminals. ful and skilled crim get rich and caught: "The full-scal are respo networks half the major crim The country. out of stay they don't take man Laurie's crude emi explain unable ing crisis. Among ott the post-war the criminal-lumpen as to what they cou and acquire, means do to fast cars, etc. of 1963 k Robbery this tendency 'Challenor the aralleled the earlie Rhino-Whip faced wit policemen ing tide of crime, si suspects into blatantly planted inc evidence. Laurie that Sgt Challenor spectacularly cleared protection gangs, gested at I found policemen as somel to a saint These events mark low-point in their tion-s because of thei to cope with the pressures congestion (growing the time), the new is relationship. The n first-name terms sional criminals and heir companv. Ther cination with crime prejudices: ement dislike of the drug T.ne homosexual, long- protesters. They common vocabu- flowery and ob- (March 5, 1972.) detectives are exercise minor crimes if e the necessary in larger ones, the cuonl Cu- if the prisoner will . (Laurie points out • working of the courts is completely s'. p.216) or orepared to pass on • about others xpresses some J10 - essing the efficiency his 'arrest be culti- outs m uin (informants). cent rewara and perhaps the CID man shares 1 in a discreet and , fashion' (p.214). Laurie was too here to justify the , Chief Commissione all to really cosy eaon- have since become of so much contro- Mack, on behalf of Home Office, searched into the which Huse aLLens mined the viability He pin- ard-core of success lled criminals who are selaom e full-scale criminal responsible for crimes in the heavyweights prison because take many risks.' rude empiricism is the grow- mong other effects, inflationary ased the vistas of elements they could illegally innovated The it—motorways, The Great Train affair' which 'Sheffield scandal that aced with the ris- crime, simply beat confessing anted incriminating y cleared Soho of as was sug inquiry on his Nevertheless, I found, by some something near ..' (p.274). public rela- e or er a0l new social especlally motor (growing worse all he new crime pat- terns, and the big protest movements of the early 1960s like CND and Anti-Apartheid -in their old The ways. savage beating they inflicted on a large number of Com- mittee of 100 demonstrators in Trafalgar Square in Sep- tember 1961 highlighted the latter aspect. In A. Sampson's 'Anatomy of Britain', a senior police officer asserted that one of the two major factors in the re- vival of police morale in recent students' the years demonstrations (Vietnam Soli- darity Campaign 1967-1968) which made people see how much better our police were than those of other countries' Laurie is ecstatic on the police handling of these demonstrations, which he de- scribes as 'a big, stupid, and animal' sometimes vicious (p.274). He points out that crowd control is the oldest police skill' (p.103) and de- scribes how the police de- veloped their tactics in in- flating the number of police casualties and wholeheartedly co-operating with the press •.. a profound change from the traditional police mistrust of journalists' In fact the police astutely judged the revolutionary posturing of the International Marxist Group and Inter- national Socialist leaders of these bankrupt, confrontation- ist adventurers, who deliber- ately misguided the aspirations of so many young people who really wanted to fight the system. The police were easily able to handle these hollow echoes of the massive demonstrations of the 1930s when the work- ing , class had no alternative but to fight unemployment and fascism on the streets because of the treachery of reformism and Stalinism. Meanwhile the Labour government was able to pro- with significant techni- ceed cal and administrative changes that prepared the way for the present Tory government, Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, reorganized the into appointed Robert Mark to the assistant Commissioner's post at Scot- land Yard. The new-style police opera- tions emerged at the same time in the gang-busting moves of 1967-1968 which aimed at pre- venting the newly-rich thieves from combining legitimate business with intimidation and 'Mafia'-type thus creating a corruption in society. Clearly the days of the old- style CID and Flying Squad informal contacts and selec- tive prosecutions were being outmoded by the new Regional Crime Squads, backed up by the Criminal Intelligence de- partment (which pools all available information on crimi- nals whether they are under suspicion or not). Laurie's cryptic observations on the refusal of the Flying Squad to talk to him and the contrasting helpful attitude ot Criminal Intelligence can be seen in retrospect to be use- ful public relations work for the 'necessary changes' in the Met. 'The Times' subsequently carried this forward in its ex- posure of corruption in the CID which resulted in the im- prisonment of Det Inspector Robinson and Det Sgt Harris.

The newly-appointed Chief Commissioner, Robert Mark (who has since proved he is no 'softy' as disgruntled CID ele- ments tried to suggest) used this unfavourable publicity to completely subordinate CID to the uniformed branch and to put for the first time a uniformed officer-Woods— in charge and to sack Com- mander 1 Drury and his deputy Morrison from the Flying Squad Significantly Laurie devotes twice as much space to the handling of the Vietnam Soli- darity Campaign demonstra- of the 'Special latter, apparently, s pal liculat observing the main reading all their and periodically which light in the labour They establish of contacts on the alleged these 'microcosms 1 selves their once a channel of tion and through contac up Special Branch ma Laurie is retice collaboration Special Branch and organizations. whether phone-ta letter opening is i extensively (p.203). In fact thi of the police shac innumerable other Sunday revealed the proce police of reporting the part of superiors 1n the strict beyond reference. More important co-operation police and their n within the labour r the right wing. Party premises of occasions expulsions Callaghan was representa Police of years, ber secrelary ne relus 'Younger the vestigating privacy' to sinister and discussions place with with will become increas the sal y force of the work the right wing and becomes outmanoe Mark, Commissioner, has campaign rules of evidence deprive a prisoner silence once charged, and Mark spoken critically system. Presumably the lines of the i Relations dustrial more to his liking. The new-style putting an going procedures

CID

and want the exercised directly see. We saw strike this during strike with arrests of pickets a ruthless and attempted intir dockers in their st This "tough-line' stuck though depot during 10,000 wicH workers struck an in defence of the m Mayor Rizzio delphia, Nixon's 1 the former super- on aeclared didn't slee TV: night I saw away'-and he The same Laurie. He pleads for ac the easy-going emp: tion of the the same ume as paid, motorized, trolled, computeri: hitting élite takes o from one another. Laurie writes at his book (p. 312): the his In behaviour strates the true va society we can agree with le does to the work Branch'. The arently, shadow each Donuca movemenı the main figures and publications. intions nothing about and riodically comes to comes e labour movement). 'a network 's on the shop floor' doing dea actor work and rocosms police them- special way annel of communica- retribution set is contact with the is reticent between anch and employers' He doubts phone-tapping and ning is practised as 'fashionable would suggest' 1 fact this key work off into lice shades le other facets. "The imes' itself recently he procedure in the reporting offences on f employees to their secret, and far he strict terms of portant is the direct between the their natural allies • labour movement— evicted the cialists from Labour number On a during the mass 1964. James the epresentative of the as Home and he refused to allow Committee in- infringements examine police in this field. negotiations taking now army chiefs combine operations son-style nreasures le increasingly neces- internal police the working class- wing and its alies— the has led the un- the to get vidence changed to prisoner of his right he been has ind Marks has also itically of the jury court along of the National In- Court is police are 1 end to easy. old want the law to be for all ic aw the first expres- s during the miners' the wholesale pickets and the sub- harassment pted intimidation of strike. came un- at Saltley _coke ng the miners' strike engineering truck and marched of Vixon's friend, and r super-tough cop, this seeing well dn't sleep the run he should spectre frightens ds for acceptance of oing empirical tradi- British 'bobby radio-con- omputerized, hard- e takes over, tearing flash - point to vrites at the end of 'The police- state made flesh. true values of his -and for once ree with him. There are connected with Congress of the of them appalling lack of principle. more obnoxious tional vote of tha ceremoniall by the general secr end of another we tion and misrepres the _interests ot papers. And always afte of hypocrisy bigger piece of hyp reply the vote delivered by a jou the industrial This A great opportunit Some do cock offensive practice. Costello

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not condemn the 1 for speaking about the accepted the thank on behalf of his c the 'Express', 'Tele Times', etc. make 10 then rounded with the story', usually calle Workers Press, Thursday September 14, 1972 PAGE 9 several traditions before from colleagues in the annual the bar. of the TUC-many But it was the nature of the appalling for their 'stories' that really revealed rinciple. One of the how thoroughly integrated into oxious is the tradi- the bourgeois way of life the e of thanks to the 'Morning Star' has become.

remonially delivered Costello told two. The first neral secretary at the blatantly racialist. was other week's distor- Irish friend had tried to phone Dublin. When the phone was misrepresentation of of the working picked up, he asked: Is that the capitalist news- Dublin double two double two?' ways after this piece 'No,' the voice replied. "This two two.' isy comes an even is Dublin two two 'Oh, sorry,' said the first Irish- ce of hypocrisy-the the vote of thanks man. 'Oh, that's all right,' said by a journalist from 'the phone was ring- the other, trial lobby. "ing anyway'. The second 'joke' wrote off ar, the honour fell costello, of the Com- the whole Irish nation-both rty's 'Morning Star'. working class and bourgeoisie pportunity at last for —for political backwardness.

1 speaking about this An airline pilot, approach- ing Belfast airport, said over stello not only did the loudspeaker: 'We are com- mn the TUC leaders ing in to land at Belfast in speaking the truth Please fasten your minutes. capitalist press. He safety belts and put he thanks graciously of his colleagues on But Costello did make one ss', 'Telegraph', 'The in his revolutionary gesture speech. He called the assem- re things worse, he bled trade union bureaucrats ded off his remarks 'Brothers'. obligatory 'funny ally called the night Below : CP's Mick Costello *

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MEETINGS

CENTRAL LONDON:

Inaugural meeting of the entertainments and press unions.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

17,7 p.m. 11.00-11.25 Play school. 4.10-5.30 The crisis of technology Show jumping and unemployment.

7.05 OPEN UNIVERSITY.

SHAFTESBURY HOTEL

MONMOUTH STREET,

7.30 NEWSROOM. Weather. WC2.

8.00 HILLABY

WALKS.

The South Downs Way. John Hillaby. capacity).

8.30 LOVE AND MR LEWISHAM.

A London docker. Part 3. The North East.

LIVERPOOL:

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

9.25 FILM: "SEVEN SAMURAI.

17, 10.30 a.m. First of three films by 'Crisis in the car indus- Japanese director Akira try. Fight for the right to Kurosawa. Takashi Shi- work.' Toshiro Mifune, mura, Yoshio Inaba.

STORK HOTEL

11.00 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

QUEEN'S SQUARE

Speakers: Alan Thornett 11.05 FILM continued. (deputy senior steward Morris Motors, Oxford. In

REGIONAL TV

a personal capacity). Mike Banda (SLL Cen- tral Committee). WESTWARD. As Channel except: 3.45 News. 3.47 Gus Honeybun. 6.00 Diary. 10.59 News. 12.00

SWINDON:

Faith for life.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

SOUTHERN:

12.55 News. 1.00 17,7.30 p.m. Yoga. 1.25 Odd 1.50 couple. 'Join the fight to Freud on food. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 3.00 Saint. 3.55 House- force the Tories London. 4.10 Twizzle. to resign' 4.25 London. party. 5.20 5.25 Crossroads. Sylvester. 5.50 6.00 Day by London. day.

LOCOMOTIVE INN,

K-sper 6.40 Junkin. 710 Film:

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of the Flame'. 9.00 And inother makes three. 9.30 London. 11.00 Speakers: Tim O'Sullivan Guideline. News. 11.10 11.15 Film: "The Quare Fellow'. 12.50 (senior night steward, Weather. Morris Motors, Oxford, in personal a capacity). ANGLIA: 1.45 Racing. 3.40 Jimmy Member of the Swindon Stewart. 4.10 Sean. 4.20 News. building 4.25 London. 6.00 About Anglia. strike commit- 6.20 Arena. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 tee. Representative from 7.30 Film: Sale of the century. the Thornycroft (Basing- 'The Large Rope'. 9.00 And stoke) occupation. mother makes three. 9.30 London.

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ULSTER: 1.45-3.45 Racing. 4.00 Romper room. 4.20 News. 4.25 Cowboy in Africa. 5.20 London.

6.00 Reports. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Protectors. 7.30 Film: 'Right Cross'. 9.00 And mother makes three. 9.30 London. 11.00 What's it all about. 11.20 Champions.

YORKSHIRE: 1.45 Ugliest girl in town. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 London.

4.00 Cartoon. 4.10 3.00 Corwin. London. 4.25 Funky phantom. 4.50 Junior showtime. 5.20 Lon- don. 6.00 Calendar. 6.35 Cross- roads. 7.00 Film: "The Long Duel'.

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has humbug reached the astonishing pro- portions embodied in the report on mining companies and the environment. First, a little history: About 18 months ago a storm of protest broke over the mining exploration activi- of Rio Tinto. Zinc, the ties world's largest mining con- sortium. In particular the residents of Wales and parts of the northern counties were complaining about the stealthy manner in which exploration permits were being granted and national parks and being other beauty spots were ripped apart by RTZ explorers.

Protests were made to MPs and the press but RTZ, with Lord Byers, the leader of the Liberals, on the board, seemed impervious to the angry clamour.

Then the company pulled a deft stroke. Unexpectedly, RTZ decided to get together with other exploration companies to launch an investigation into their own activities. Those familiar with the intricacies of bourgeois rule in Britain will recall this tactic. It is used constantly: MPs investi- gate the conduct of other MPs, police investigate other police.

In the case of the mining scientific companies a leading figure was chosen to lead the inquiry-Lord (Solly) Zuckerman.

He became famous for his

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Grasshopper island. 12.35 Galloping to gour- met. 1.05 Joe 90. 1.30 Towards the year 2000. 1.55 Racing. 3.40 I dream of Jeannie. 4.10 News.

London. 4.25 Lone • Ranger. 4.50 Rainbow country. 5.15 Peyton Piace. 5.50 London. 6.00 News.

Police file. 6.30 Dave Cash. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 Film: 'McMillan and Wife'. 9.00 Mother makes three.

9.30 London. 11.00 Saint.

TYNE TEES: 1.45 Ugliest girl in town. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 London.

2.59 News. 3.00 Calling Doctor Gannon. 4.00 Cartoon. 4.10 Lon- don. 4.25 Woobinda. 4.50 Junior showtime. 5.20 London. 6.00 To- day. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Film: The Rebel. 9.00 And mother makes three. 9.30 London. 10.30

BY ALEX MITCHELL

to mate Chi-Chi attempts the panda with the Russian An-An. Following this unfulfilled attempt at peaceful coexistence, he left his job as scientific adviser to No 10 Downing Street-and the mining companies job fell into his lap. Yesterday, his report came out.

What's intriguing is that there was heavy speculation as to its contents in Tuesday's press.

Now the only people who had copies of the report were RTZ and its associates. It seems reasonable to assume, therefore, where the 'leak' came from.

Charles Quant of the Liverpool 'Daily Post' wrote in a lead story on page 3: 'Mine probe: Findings may shock RTZ' It said: ...I believe that Zuckerman will come out with some unexpectedly tough terms companies which on mining should be allowed, if at all, to operate in areas like national parks and other countryside of high landscape quality.' People reading Quant on Tuesday will assume that his 'inside' information is based on scrutiny of the report that a 'tough terms' will be applied to the mining companies. But Thursday's which will paper, presumably carry the official version, will show that Zucker- proposing far less than man is that. Interestingly enough, how- ever, it has been proven through

ITV

11.30 The church and revolution.

12.25 Women today. 12.50 Com- mon Market cook book. 1.15 Bellbird. 1.25 Zingalong. 1.40 wg. Arthur. 2.05 Castle haven. 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Cartoon.

3.15 Marcus Welby. 4.10 Nuts and bones. 4.25 Land of the giants.

5.20 Dave Cash radio programme.

5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.40 CROSSROADS.

7.05 ... AND MOTHER MAKES

THREE. Gather ye mush- rooms while ye may.

7.35 FILM: 'ONCE UPON A

DEAD MAN'. Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James. Adven- ture comedy.

9.30 THIS WEEK.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

10.30 CINEMA.

11.00 THE AVENGERS. Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40?

12.00 WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

NESS.

ent Sport. 11.00 Police call. 11.05 Cinema. 11.35 News. 11.50 Divi- sion four. 12.45 Revolving chair.

SCOTTISH: 1.45 Racing. 3.10 Horoscope. 3.15 Women today. 3.40 To see ourselves. 4.10 Lon- don. 4.25 Lost in space. 5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Scotland today. 6.30 Dick Van Dyke. 7.00 Film: 'Witness For the Prosecution'.

9.00 And mother makes three.

11.00 Late call. 9.30 London. 11.05 Benny Hill. GRAMPIAN: 2.30 London. 3.00 News. 3.03 Yoga. 3.30 Survival.

4.00 Cartoon. 4.10 London. 4.25 Elephant boy. 4.50 Junior show- time. 5.20 London. 6.00 News. 6.10 Mr and Mrs. 6.35 Crossroads.

7.00 Film: "The Battle of the Villa Florita'. 9.00 And mother makes 9.30 London. 11.00 Spy- three. force. 11.55 Meditation. numerous studies that it is the version which the first public believes. So we come to the real Z- Plan (the PR boys even gave it a trendy title) which was em- bargoed for release at noon yesterday. Does it level stiff criticism at the mining companies? Does it hell! It simply proposes that the government, the Tory govern- ment that is, should set up code of practice for the mining community. And very helpfully, Zuckerman draws up a draft code: 'stringent' It contains such measures as this: prospectors must complete their exploration activities on any site within 18 months. (Considering the fact that this can be easily done in less than 12 months, this is scarcely the sort of regulation which will frighten RTZ et al.) In conclusion it can be said that Zuckerman, predictably, has not bitten the hand that feeds him . • • despite what the Liver- pool 'Daily Post' would have us believe. His report will be wel- comed by the mining companies and by • the Tory government which now has report mining and the environment - albeit unofficial - which they hope will satisfy public disquiet.

But the point remains: as markets and ore bodies diminish,.

the private mining groups will march anywhere in search of profits.

leaves THE LAST SHIP from the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' division at Scotstoun was launched this week. It was a brief ceremony with none of the usual celebrations nor a champagne bottle crashing on the bow. cargo ship, The 18,200-ton to be named 'Hilla', was _built for a subsidiary of Zim Israel Navigation. A sister ship is due to be launched from Clyde- soon bank. This will be the last one in 'a four-ship order placed with UCS before the con- sortium went bankrupt. This week's launching was a grim reminder to many UCS workers of the much-vaunted claim by the Communist Party leaders of the shop stewards' committee that they would not let any of the ships leave the and the yards were received from the Tories.

No such guarantees were ever given. And now the Clydeside is paying for these treacherous manoeuvres by the Stalinists by huge jobs losses.

DISASTER lies ahead for bus transport if the industry tries balancing its books by raising public fares, • transport oper- were told in Eastbourne ators yesterday. The lay in only solution aid-quickly and gen- revenue erously, Mr J. Brooksbank, Director of Finance and Admini- to the Merseyside stration Transport Executive, told the Association of Public Passenger Transport Operators' conference. During the 1960-1970 period, he said, there was a loss of 31 Those of custom. per cent who remained were customers paying fares over twice as high as in 1960. Economy cuts which would have to be made would further worsen services. 'So, like snowball rolling a downhill, the destructive force it would increase the longer continued in motion, he added.

subsidies, though Existing welcome, were inadequate and did not fit into any overall strategy. 'To my mind everything points to one solution •.. some form of aid of passenger revenue transport should be given quickly and generously,' said Brooksbank.

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building workers have warned they will try to have their national pay agreement scrapped if a report giving MPs and senior civil servants more pay is implemented. A committee investigating pay in the public sector has SPANISH OFFICIALS say tra completed and will pave the w cow and Madrid. The first ste in Moscow and a Soviet office One of the obstacles in the negotiations has been the gold reserves which Spanish were shipped to Moscow by the Republican government during the Civil War as pay- ment for Soviet arms ship- ments for the Republican army. Franco's fascist regime has always maintained that this gold $500m-was stolen -valued at by the 'Reds' and must be re- turned. As a counter in this debate fascists and Stalinists, between 'Pravda' has claimed that the Spanish government should re- a $50m loan granted by pay Stalin to the Republic. So the Spanish revolution and Franco's butchering of the Spanish working class is reduced by the Moscow Stalinists-whose Popular Front policies were re- sponsible for Franco's victory- into a bargaining point in the cementing of a counter-revolu- tionary alliance against the Euro- pean working class. A Spanish diplomat stated that the gold question would not hold up the signing of a trade agree- ment: "The talks are making good progress and we hope a trade agreement may be signed soon.'

The Franco regime, drawing strength from its alliance with Moscow, has been cracking down on the Basque nationalists and preparing repression against the student movement. 'good progress' While was

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Eke premier dack Lyr recommended a £3,000 rise for Prime Minister Jack Lynch and big increases for ministers, deputies, senators and the judiciary. It would be their first rise for four years. Recently the unions agreed to new pact limiting rises to £2.50 a week for the next year.

A spokesman for the building section of the Irish Transport say trade talks with Soviet diploma re the way for concrete diplomatic I first step will be the opening ot a sp et office in Madrid after the trade being made in Paris on Tues- day, police arrested three youths in the Basque province on the charge of being members of the separatist organization ETA.

Altogether 70 people have been arrested in the industrial around Bilbao since the area beginning of September and two suspected

ETA

militants have been killed in a gun battle with the police. In Madrid university, there Is those witch-hunt against students who participated in the student protests of the last year.

Rectorate has The university sent out a memorandum and lists of the names of students who must be refused matricula- tion this year to Faculty Offices and the various university schools. This renewed policy of re- pression is leading to a wave of resignations of those responsible for university authority, Following the resignation of Rector Botella, three vice-rectors, four deacons, ' four vice-deacons and secretaries have resigned their positions in the Faculties of Law, Science, Philosophy and Letters ana economic, science. The Head of the Institute of Educational Sciences, Garcia Hoz, has also resigned. These were the men who pre- sided the university last over year when it was closed for most of the academic year and over final exams which were boy- cottea by almost all students.

The university campus was permanently occupied by police.

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Workers Press, Thursday r dack Lynch: Expecting a rise General Workers' Union and said: 'Our members are going to demand explanation why an their has been earning power curbed while alarming increases have been recommended for a selected few.' He warned that other unions felt the same way and if the implemented they report was would call a special conference to have the national pay agree- ment rescinded. liplomats in Paris will soon be matic relations between Mos- , of a Spanish commercial office trade agreement is signed.

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bank, National and Grindlays, has recorded a 34-per-cent increase in pre-tax profits for the first six months of this year. To June 30 profits were set at £6.4m, which has enabled the board to pay out an 8-per-cent dividend to shareholders.

The bank, chaired by Lord Aldington, the head of the Port of London Authority, has sub- stantial interests in the military dictatorship of Uganda. Indeed, one of the bank's clients in Uganda is none other than General Idi Amin. The interim report says that recent incidents in the African republic would affect the like- lihood of profits.

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than 300 workers at a textile works in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, staging a round- are the-clock sit-in to protest against their factory closing. The factory — Gainsborough Cornard, who do warp knitting for part of the group-closed without warning on Monday they say, putting 340 I would like infor Fill in the form below and

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Name Address Thursday September 14, 1972 PAGE 11 BRITAIN'S biggest instant coffee makers—Nestlé's-fore- cast yesterday that Britain's housewives will soon be paying more for coffee. This comes directly after the announcement on Tuesday that the price of eggs could increase by as much as 6p a dozen early next year. said the world's Nestlé's coffee-growing countries were further determined to establish increases in the price of coffee on international markets, despite from coffee- strong protests consuming countries. The price of coffee beans has jumped 25 per cent in already the past year. Referring to the egg price in- Dame Elizabeth Ack- creases,. royd, director of the National Innovation Centre, a former director of the Consumer Coun- cil and a member of the Tory Party, said: "The price of eggs has been low, there's no doubt about it.'

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THE THOUSANDS of build lobby the pay talks today will sage for their union leaders: claim for £30 for a 35-hour wee They will have to be on their guard. For yesterday, George Smith, general secretary of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT), said thar compro- mising was not a dirty word.

He wanted to negotiate an 'honourable and just settle- ment. For 12 long weeks tens of thousands of building workers all over Britain have shown a real determination to fight. Despite the union leaders' selective strike and company deals strategy — backed all the way by the Communist Party- 300,000 are now out in the first mass action by building workers in 50 years. They have been unanimous this week in rejecting any compromise of their claim. On Monday 8,000 Merseysiders voted not to go back' until their demands were met in full. A mass meeting of Preston building workers passed a reso- lution on the same lines.

At Transport House yesterday London builders lobbied a meet- ing of the Transport and Gen- Workers' Union builders' eral national committee demanding no retreat on the claim. Most were from the Camden in north direct works scheme London. They have twice defied attempts by union leaders to send them back to work. Their feeling was summed up by T&GWU militant Robert Cousins who said: 'We want the full claim, but the union leaders have to go one way or the other Gerry Fift (second from left) leads the St LEADERS of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party met Harold Wilson yester- day in another effort to find a formula which would enable them to attend William White- law's all-party talks on the future of Ulster. After saying they were "de- termined' not to attend the talks without an immediate end to in- ternment, they announced after Tuesday's meeting with premier Heath that a final decision would not be made until after their talks with Wilson. Wilson, who is anxious to pre- serve the Labour-Tory unison on clearly has the job of Ireland, 'persuading' the all-too willing SDLP leaders to go along with Whitelaw. On Tuesday at Chequers Gerry Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press. 186a Clapham High Street, London.

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reday September 14, 1972 of building workers who will day will have one simple mes- eaders: no retreat on the full our week. -and I think they're bound to sell us out. 'They, were all "left" wing when elected. 'Now we can see them for what they are and they will be swept away by the rank and file. What we want is a total stoppage and a General Strike to throw the Tories out, nationalization of the building industry under workers' control and an end to the lump once and for all.' Today's talks between the two sides were fixed up at last week's TUC Congress at Brigh- ton and are the first for five weeks. Yesterday George Smith made it clear he was in favour of a compromise with the employers.

He told 'Daily the Tory-owned Telegraph' there 'a was now desire on each side of the indus- try to end the dispute'. They were now attempting to negotiate 'an honourable and just settlement'. These words can only mean that Smith and UCATT leader- ship are in favour of the pro- posed deal. It is thought that it only offers an immediate basic rate of f26 a week without any reduction in the working . week and also lasts for an incredible 26 months. A £3 guaranteed bonus would be paid from next May, but the basic rate would stay the same until the following October when it would rise to £28. Also in October 1973 a cost-of- living clause would be introduced.

Then in June 1974 the minimum guaranteed earnings level of £31 ads the SDLP delegation to see Wilson Fitt and his colleagues had in- sisted that an immediate end to internment was a pre-condition of their attending the talks, due to take place on September 25- te- 27. However, their 24-hour meet.

ing with Heath and Whitelaw on Tuesday produced no pledge whatever. Whitelaw insisted that the 171 remaining internees were 'hard- core extremists', and that the 'all-party' talks will go ahead with or without the SDLP.

Meanwhile, the right wing Ulster Vanguard organization has threatened to 'bring Ulster to a standstill' if internment is ended.

A Vanguard spokesman said: In some cases it may mean that the UDA will attack Roman Catholic areas. We know that this could play into the hands of the IRA as troops will be important pulled away from targets. 'But Mr Heath and the British government must learn that the Loyalists of Ulster are not to be trifled with.'

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asterday lobbled Tr London bullders y Union officials and delegates when they latest offer before today's pay talks. B one would tell the lobby what they de builders sęen here earlier ran into unio you doing here, what do you want?'

they replied. 'You won't get that here,' s would come in. The deal would finally expire in November 1974 —26 months from now. On August 8, attempts to settle a deal giving f3 on the basic rate and a no-strike clause the guaranteed bonus on was TORY Monday Club has booked Westminster's Central Hall for a 'Halt Immigration' rally on Saturday... Four Conservative MPs will speak-Ronald Bell, QC, Harold Soref, John Stokes, and John Biggs-Davison. Enoch Powell was invited to speak, but pleaded a previous engagement.

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All this information is abso- lutely clear, open and available to every one of the union leaders participating in today's talks. It must also be clear to them that the British economy is heading into a major crisis perhaps even earlier than Market entry.

The politics of their participa- tion at Chequers are the politics of coalition. Having made their peace with the Industrial Relations Act last week, the TUC General Council is preparing to make common obbled Transport and General Workars' when they met to consider the employers y talks. But when the meeting broke, no at they decided had happened. Camden into union leader Jack Jones. 'What are want?' asked Jones. "{30, for 35 hours,' at here,' sald Jones. thwarted by a mass demonstra- tion and lobby of 7,000 builders from all over Britain. Any settle- ment below the full claim now after three months' bitter strike action will represent a gross betrayal. The union leaders must be told to stop retreating and start fighting. A national strike must be called and the TUC made to organize a General Strike to back the builders, throw the Tories out and elect a Labour govern- ment pledged to nationalize the industry under workers' control and without compensation to the construction tycoons and • pro- perty speculators. 01-622 7029 01-720 2000

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It will be cool in the south and east with occasional rain or showers. The north and west will be rather cool and mainly dry with some sunshine. cause with the Tories against the inevitable working-class upsurge as Market entry approaches.

The Tories are well aware of this. It is not difficult to read be- tween the lines of Tory reaction to the call of former Home Secretary Reginald Maudling for possible statutory incomes policy. This is what 'The Times' poli- tical correspondent David Wood had to say on the subject yester-

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yesterday continued their strike in protest guarding against paratroopers one of Belfast's main power stations. Ulster Supremo William Whitelaw had talks with his ad- visers in Belfast on the worsen- ing black-outs after flying back from London BORROWERS in the Republic of Ireland will have to pay 1 per cent more for loans as a result increased interest of rates announced yesterday by the Irish Banks Standing Committee. Rates on bank deposits will also rise by the same amount, but holders of £25,000 or more will get an additional If per cent. whom Mr Maudling's arguments are obviously thoroughly familiar, continued to hold that a statu- tory policy, except in a desper- ate economic crisis, could not be carried by the government through the present House of Commons' In other words, behind the smokescreen of today's talks the Tories are preparing to hit the working class hard. A 'national emergency election is not ruled out. These are the dangers behind the Chequers meeting.