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RENT AND FOOD PRICES SWALLOW WAGE RISES

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1972• No. 871 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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BY OUR POLITICAL

CORRESPONDENT

ANY WAGE increases won by workers today will be consumed almost immediately through at least three new rounds of sky-rocketing prices en- next six months. Just as miners and railway- men found that their pay

ON WAGES

increases were quickly swal- lowed up by higher prices, so the building workers who back grudgingly go today will find the same. And this is the limitation of wages struggles which many workers sections of have launched determinedly against the Tories. They achieve few

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Torv-owned Sundav Tele graph' said in major news item yesterday: centre pages review of published today CINEMA technicians' leaders have threatened an immediate "black' of British Lion films un- less made at Shepperton studios.

They are to act immediately on a policy decided by a mass meeting of film union members last month to defend jobs at the studios. include a call to the These TUC to intensify support for the campaign to Shepperton stop being shut down and sold off by Barclay Securities. owners, Barclay head John Bentley has talked of selling the 60-acre site for property development.

A demand was also made that the Labour Party re- as soon as gains office it unequivocally com- mits itself to renationalize with- Shepperton out compensation and any other major film studio threatened by financial difficul- ties. SIT-IN strikers at Gainsborough Cornard's Great Yarmouth, Nor- folk, textile works yesterday staged an open day for their wives and families. The 300 workers involved have been engaged in a round-the- clock occupation since last Tues- day when the company an- nounced, without warning, that it was to close. They have re- fused redundancy terms. All cars have management been barred from the factory gates.

UNION officials and the London Brick Co management get to- gether in London today to try to settle a dispute which has halted production at all LBC yards. A shop stewards' report-back meet- ing will be held this evening to discuss further action. About 7,000 men from yards at Bedford, Bletchley and Peter- borough are on strike for a 16.4 per cent general pay increase.

LANCASTER tenants marched through the city on Saturday against the Tory Housing Finance Act. There was strong criticism at a meeting which followed of the Labour Party national execu- tive's failure to lead a fight on issue. Lancaster Labour the council has said it will not im- plement the Act, but Cll Abbot Brining said at the meeting that no one could advise a councillor or a tenant to take action which would be illegal. • See Manchester tenants, p.12.

workers press

RENT AND FOOD PRICES SWALLOW WAGE RISES

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 1972 • No. 871 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NEW TORY

BY OUR POLITICAL

CORRESPONDENT

ANY WAGE increases won by workers today will be consumed almost immediately through at least three new rounds of sky-rocketing prices en- gineered by the Tory government next six months. Just as miners and railway- found that their pay

ON WAGES

increases were quickly swal- lowed up by higher prices, so the building workers who grudgingly go back today will find the same. And this is the limitation of struggles which Warc sections of workers have determinedly against the Tories. They

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

achieve may few

YOUNG

SOCIALISTS

crumbs from the master's

NORTHEAST REGION

marching through table, but they leave the north-east for the right charge of the master in work got send-off

RIGHT TO WORK MARCH

banquet. on

TOM

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graph' said major news item yesterday: centre pages review of

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technicians' leaders an immediate have threatened 'black' of British Lion films un- less made at Shepperton studios.

They are to act immediately on a policy decided by a mass meeting of film union members last month to defend jobs at the studios. These include a call to the TUC to intensify support for the campaign Shepperton to stop being shut down and sold off by its Barclay •Securities. owners, Barclay head John Bentley has talked of selling the 60-acre site for property development.

A demand was also made that as soon as the Labour Party re- gains office it unequivocally com- mits itself to renationalize with- out compensation Shepperton and any other major film studio threatened by financial difficul- ties. SIT-IN strikers at Gainsborough Cornard's Great Yarmouth, Nor- folk, textile works yesterday staged an open day for their wives and families. The 300 workers involved have been engaged in a round-the- clock occupation since last Tues- day when the company an- nounced, without warning, that it was to close. They have re- fused redundancy terms. All management cars have been barred from the factory gates.

UNION officials and the London Brick Co management get to- gether in London today to try to settle a dispute which has halted production at all LBC yards. A shop stewards' report-back meet- ing will be held this evening to discuss further action. About 7,000 men from yards at Bedford, Bletchley and Peter- borough are on strike for a 16.4 per cent general pay increase.

LANCASTER tenants marched through the city on Saturday against the Tory Housing Finance Act. There was strong criticism at a meeting which followed of the Labour Party national execu- tive's failure to lead a fight on the issue. Lancaster Labour council has said it will not im- plement the Act, but Cllr Abbot Brining said at the meeting that no one could advise a councillor or a tenant to take action which would be illegal. • See Manchester tenants, p.l2.

Lebanon: Get-out demand Iraq: CP creating a new Sudan PAGE 2 Workers Preas, Monday Septem THE LEBANESE army yesterday issued an ulti- Palestinian matum to demanding commandos they evacuate all Leban- the Fatah villages, ese Arab guerrilla organiza- tion in announced Damascus. The ultimatum followed the biggest-ever Israeli invasion of the Lebanon, in which a mas- of tanks, planes force the soldiers and crossed frontier to ravage the country- side for miles inside Lebanese territory. Dozens of Palestinians living near the border were killed, and THE SOVIET Union has made major • concession to the a United States over the pre- parations for European a security conference. presidential During talks with envoy Dr Henry Kissinger in the the Soviet Kremlin last week, leaders agreed to link the hold- ing of the conference with talks on mutual force reductions in Europe, as demanded by NATO.

who returned to Kissinger, Washington at the weekend to brief Nixon on the results of his talks with the Kremlin leaders, said the new proposal was worthy of very serious consideration.

KISSINGER has told reporters "certain serious- he detected a ness' in North Vietnam's attitude to negotiations over ending the Vietnam war. On his way back from Moscow, Kissinger held his fourth set of private talks in the past two months with North Vietnamese politburo member Le Duc Tho in Paris, but refused to say any- thing about their content.

UGANDA claimed yesterday that 1,000 Tanzanian troops had in- vaded its territory but Tanzania denied the charge and Britain rejected Ugandan suggestions that she might be involved. A Ugandan militar invasion spokes- man, announcing this morning, said the Tanzanian heading towards a troops were key town on the road to Kam- pala. He said Britain had a plan to invade Uganda and 'that may be the beginning of this plan' said Tanzanian headquarters the troops must be Ugandans, possibly Ugandan guerrillas. They certainly were not Tanzanians.

Relations between the two countries have been poor since Amin General Idi overthrew Ugandan president Milton Obote in January last year. Obote took refuge in Tanzania.

IRAQI

president Ahmed Hassan Bakr is currently in Moscow to discuss Soviet military aid to Iraq, the con- frontation with Israel and Iraqi oil exports from the . li recently - nationalized oil- U fields. Since Egypt's President Anwar Soviet Sadat expelled 20,000 military advisers this summer, Iraq has become the Kremlin's closest ally in the Middle East.

Premier Alexei Kosygin, who spent several days in Baghdad in April, invited Bakr. The two leaders signed a 15- year friendship treaty with pro- visions for military co-operation, y September 18; 1972 the Lebanese army said 69 of its soldiers had been killed. The attack, on a 20-mile tront, in- cluded by napalm bombing Israeli jets and the systematic de- struction of houses and bridges.

The Israeli command described the operation as 'a stroll', though the Lebanese army had put up the stifiest-yet resistance to the invasion. A number of suspected commandos were captured and taken back to Israel in army half-tracks. The attack, beginning at dawn had been under on Saturday, preparation by the israeli forces Schweitzer: Embarrassment to US MANAGING director of the I has been squeezed out of this t the 'Washington Post'. The pa third five-year term beginning the United States. Neither the ment on the report. The 'Post' said American dissatisfaction with Schweit- zer, a French economist, was conveyed to him by Treasury George Schultz, Secretary who said the US would not back his re-election. Schweitzer, a tormer director of. the French Treasury who was once deputy governor of the Bank of France, was appointed to his present job in 1963 to give a 'European' face to the International Monetary Fund.

This institution, set up in 1944 to police the Bretton Woods monetary agreement, was always a tool of the United States. Now is to be Schweitzer replaced with a man who will follow Washington's instructions to the letter. The ousting is the or the IMF director part of American preparation for inten- economic sified and political struggle with Europe: at the IMF's annual meeting in Wash- ington in a week's time the US will resist demands from France for a major increase in the offi- gold price. cial including facilities for the Soviet navy at the head of the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Soviet cash is already helping to develop the northern Rumaila oilfield and much of the oil is the. likely to find its way to the USSR. The Soviet Union is also supporting Iraq's decision to nationalize the western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company. Bakr's government is the out- come of a military putsch in 1968 which restored the Ba'ath Party to power. This party, based on bourgeois-nationalist conceptions, is traditionally strongly anti- communist. When the Ba'athists overthrew General Kassem in the 1963 coup they unleashed a bloody Amid for more than week. a rabid calls for all-out inter- national war against the Pale- stinian commandos, the Zionist leaders massed troops on frontier for their most massive punitive raid ever. The purpose of the raid was to heap humiliation on the Lebanese and the Palestinians, kill army guerrillas and civilians and de- stroy the homes of Palestinian refugees. Israel has long de- manded that the Lebanese government take action to crush the commandos operating from its soil. of the International Monetary Func of this top monetary job by America The paper reported that Schweitze ginning in September 1973 had eft her the IMF nor the US Treasury |

BY JOHN SPENCER

The move against Schweitzer also follows the decision of Com- mon Market Foreign Ministers meeting in Rome to go ahead with the Paris summit meeting in October. President Pompidou of France, who now says he, is satisfied towards with moves EEC monetary unity against the US, has sent out invitations to his Market partners. Schweitzer's_presence at the top of the IMF was an obstacle to the Americans. According to the 'Post', US Treasury officials felt that, as an international civil servant, he was 'needling' the US beyond scope authority. He had earned the displeasure of former Treasury Secretary John Connally by criticizing the 10 per cent US import surcharge imposed last August as part of Nixon's package of trade-war measures. He also called for a devalua- tion of the dollar against gold as contribution to agreed realignment of exchange pogrom of communists and trade unionists. A milder version of the same treatment was handed out to the left after the 1968 coup. Bakr has recently released the pro-Moscow Communist Party leaders from jail and drawn them into a National Front to facili- tion tate the alliance with the Krem- lin. When Bakr's lieutenant Sadam the USSR in Hussein visited February, he was referred to by the Soviet communiqué as 'com- rade' Hussein, and the Ba'ath ons, Party accorded the status of a fraternal organization. This unprincipled alliance has strengthened the standing of the reactionary Ba'ath leaders in the eyes of the masses and left the With the latest army ultima- tum to the commandos, they ap- pear to have achieved much of What they set out to do. Lebanon did not take up offers of aid from other Arab including states, even Saudi Syria, Libya and Arabia, to repel the Israeli in- vasion. Instead it has now turned on the unfortunate Palestinians who made the scapegoats are to be for the vicious Israeli invasion.

Al Fatah, the main guerrilla organization said yesterday that Lebanon's government had taken part in a plot to liquidate the ry Fund Pierre-Paul Schweitzer American pressure, according to hweitzer's reappointment for a had effectively been vetoed by easury Department would com- rates. The latest flashpoint in re- lations between Schweitzer and the Americans was a report issued earlier this month by the IMF's executive directors.

It set out the sharp disagree- ments on monetary questions be- • the US and • France, In- tween cluding the French demand for a rise in the gold price. The United States felt it was being pressurized by the IMF stati, which is responsible to Schweit- zer, according to the 'Post'.

Nixon's measures of August 15 last year smashed the Bretton Woods framework of inter- national finance, based on the convertibility of the dollar into gold. Nixon ushered in a new era of international monetary rela- tions involving a ruthless struggle for supremacy between the US and European capitalism. Schweitzer's departure marks the end of an era in international and economic rela- monetary tions. The Americans are driving out the man of Bretton Woods to make way for someone who will be their obedient servant in the struggle against their capital- ist competitors. Communist Party rank and file as hostages to the regime.

So eager were the leading CP officials to show their willingness to serve the Bakr government that they did not even demand seats on the so-called Revolution em Command Council as a condi- ili- tion of their collaboration.

The reality of this kind of alliance - entered in order to serve the foreign policy interests of the Soviet bureaucracy - was by brutally shown in the massacre m- of Sudanese communists last • July. They too entered as subordi- nate partners into a nationalist- military regime. And when it suited General Numeiry to rid himself of their support, they were brutally butchered. Palestinian commando resistance in Lebanese territory. Fatah said the army ultimatum to the guerrillas on Lebanese soil contained the following de- mands: Commando presence was banned from Arquob and Bekaa • Commandos were banned from carrying arms outside the Palestinian refugee camps.

• Commandos must evacuate all Lebanese villages. The Lebanese regime, which only on Saturday was assuring the commandos of its 'un- breakable' for their support cause, now appears to have fol- lowed the example of the Hashe- mite king, of Jordan, Hussein, and turned on the commandos, as the Zionists want. POLICE have detained 66 workers in the north-west Spanish port of Vigo where industry has been paralysed by a series of strikes. The civil governor, who ordered troops into the strike-bound city, said the workers had been detained 'in the inter- ests of public order'. He issued a statement saying the labour dispute, which began when workers week a ago downed tools at the Citröen car assembly plant, must be settled through state-controlled labour unions and not by illegal strikes. Management and worker repre- sentatives at the car plant failed to reach agreement in talks on Friday over the demand for shorter working week and the reinstatement of five dismissed workers. There were at least five soli- darity demonstrations on Friday strikes spread through the as shipyards and factories in the their area. Drivers walked bringing . the privately- buses, owned bus service to a halt for two hours. The strike has erupted at a particularly embarrassing time for the Spanish Stalinists as the USSR has just signed a com- mercial treaty with the fascist regime, opening up the prospect of an early restoration of diplo- matic relations severed at the time of the 1936-1939 civil war.

The commercial treaty is a particularly vicious stab in the back for the Spanish labour movement, which is facing heavy repression and has always called on the Soviet Union and other East European states not to have any dealings with the Franco regime. Moscow will now have a permanent trade delegation in the fascist capital and the Spanish government will send a similar delegation to reside in Moscow. Discussions are going now ahead on the question of full diplomatic relations, the chief obstacle to which is the 510 tons of Spanish gold reserves shipped to Moscow by the Republicans during the civil war. Franco is demanding the re- turn of the reserves as a condi- tion of restoring full diplomatic relations between the two states.

FORMER ULSTER Home Affairs Minister John Taylor told mili- tant loyalists in Belfast on Satur- day that more guns should be given to 'law-abiding' citizens to shoot down 'sneaking' IRA men.

He said this at a 500-strong rally, organized by William Craig's extreme right-wing Van- guard movement, which followed a march through the city in which masked members of the para-military Defence Ulster Association took part.

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You've heard of the 'Working Together' cam- paign. Well now it's the turn of the National Coal Board to run its own cam- paign-this time directed mainly at young miners training. The NCB runs a four-day course for final-year appren- tices from its south Midlands at the Lindley Lodge area training • centre for young people near Nuneaton. And this course, it seems, is one that the Department of Science is Education and happily able to finance. established in April First 1970, the course was inspired number of leading in- by a dustrialists to 'provide an op- portunity for young people in the first years of employment to examine their attitudes to- wards work and society and to give them a greater awareness and understanding of other people and their problems' "other' Presumably the people referred to are the em- ployers, who, like those financ- ing the 'Working Together' campaign, see this sort of course as a basis for teaching young apprentices that their interests and the bosses are not after all diametrically opposed but somehow merge together. 'Attitudes', like the one adopted by the majority of miners earlier this year that Above: TUC chairman and UCATT secretary, George Smith they were engaged in a direct confrontation with • the Tory government which had to be waged ruthlessly if they were to defend their living stand- ards, would of course be out.

But an 'attitude' like that of the TUC in its grovelling haste to get round the table with the Confederation of British Industry and with the Tory government itself' would be much more welcome. Central to this 'attitude, of is the idea expressed course, TUC chairman George by Smith, General Secretary Union of Construction, the Allied Trades and Technicians, who warned delegates to the recent TUC Congress at Brighton: • we must never •• consider ourselves an alterna- tive form of government'.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. A fierce row over future pay and conditions policy is in progress inside the motor-industry section of the giant Transport and General Workers' Union. Next month the section's national committee meets consider the branches and regional bodies to a drait policy statement pre- the National Union pared by of Vehicle Builders, which now merged with the T&GWU.

The meeting is a crucial one.

Most shop stewards who have seen the statement are horri- fied by it the thought that might ever become accepted polcv of the section. chief objec- The stewards' the tion statement opens the way for corporate pay questions' to be settled in future on a corporate basis, direct between the union chiefs and says. P he national execu- employers. It says: tives of the and the shall have final company responsibility for agreeing the basis of payment and the main working conditions.' If this would accepted, shop-floor cripple organiza- tion. It would mark another mile- stone in the union leaders' pro- towards class-collabora- gress of the and clon most open direct character. A strong hint of the kind of collaboration envisaged can perhaps be obtained from part of its discussion of wages ques- tions, headed 'General observa- tions on varying methods" general object of any •he method must be to provide progressive improvement in productivity', this says, drama- tically enough.

EFFICIENCY

And it goes on to say that such improvement would be 'shared providing cucuate surplus for the firm for capital investment and improving fringe benefits, for maintain- ing an adequate return investors, to improving wages of operators and to reducing the cost of job to purchaser'.

Carworkers who believed the whole purpose of their strug- gle for wages was to maintain standard and improve the themselves and their living of families will no doubt be grate- ful for this enlightenment.

Trade 'unionism NUVB-style turns out to have as its chief aim raising employers' profits. 28 Charlotte St London W1 Friday-9 a.m.-7.30 p.m.

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Workers Press, Mond: Other key points of the NUVB statement are: of 'the • Union recognition in achieving and necessity maintaining the maximum effi- ciency in the company's opera- tions' • No withdrawals of labour without the authority of the union executive, according to rule. • Flexibility and mobility of labour between job-categories, grades and departments in cases where there are short- ages of work. • Acceptance by the union of job-evaluation as the method of fixing wages and deciding wage structures. • Union agreement that flat- rate pay deals—perhaps with a small incentive component — shall be the predominant form of pay system. Ihis is well on the way to being an employers' charter.

The first point-about effi- ciency-is by no means simply a half-hearted nod in the direc- tion of management which no seriously intends • one to observe. The clause goes on to say that 'it is accepted by both parties that the essential pre- requisite is efficiency. The union undertakes not to cause or engage in, or authorize its members to engage in, any strike against the company unless and until all the steps of the grievance procedure have been exhausted. Like the British-Leyland pro- cedure agreement signed earlier this year by the

T&GWU,

among other unions, the policy statement wants disputes set- tled at factory level, but pro- vides for full-time local offi- cials of the union to be involved in the final stage of talks. It does not, however, follow the Leyland pattern in leaving door open for national the officials to come in. This is taken care of by the second point, which blocks industrial action not sanctioned by the national executive. The policy statement seems to embody something like the principle of status quo. There are statements that management decisions altering working established wages, conditions and manning levels, or involving dismissals, will not be implemented until the pro- cedure is exhausted. It is laid down that 'conditions such as efficiency production, of methods of relief times, lab- our-loading relative to produc- tion • shall be mutually agreed at plant level.

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85, Monday September 18, 1972 PAGE 3 But the policy goes on to make the quite unnecessary concession union- for prepared document, that all parties are 'conscious of the desirability of improving pro- ductivity and quality'. to draw It also attempts shop stewards further into the web of collaboration with the employers through the setting- up of approved joint courses on technological and manage- ment subjects. Another pernicious side of the proposed policy is con- tained in its outline of desired pay systems. Two broad outlines are suggested. The first is for a simple flat basic rate system—obvi- ously on the lines of or on the way to Measured-Day Work - reviewed annually on the basis of improved pro- ductivity, level of cost living, profitability. is for a high The second basic rate with a relatively small incentive component, for production achieved over an agreed norm, to be reviewed on the same basis, but with actual productivity earnings taken into account. n the first case, the state- ment says, 'in order to func- tion accurately on this basis it will be necessary for the unions to have sound realistic knowledge of trends within the company' It is made clear that a lead- ing role in determining "eco- nomic labour-loading' - pre- sumably including cutting down manning levels when the com- pany says it is not making a profit—will be played by the trained stewards. The second outline pay sys- tem is possibly even worse.

In this case basic pay for each grade, the production norm for the factory in ques- of labour tion and the size force needed to complete this production would all be mat- ters for mutual agreement and between management unions. The worth of any produc- tion over and above the norm would be shared to give the worker a (small) incentive bonus and the management for investment. If the T&GWU motor indus- try leaders do not summarily reject this policy when they meet on October 13, they will deserve the condemnation of every carworker.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Septem Part 17 of a series on Picketin Powers of Arrest It is a middle-class fallacy that if you observe the law you cannot be arrested. The fact is, any- one can be arrested at any time if the authori- ties decide that you should be in custody. Every policeman has a hand- book containing a whole series of charges covering any eventuality ensuring that he can pull you in on one account or another, or on several.

The main factor on the picket line, for example, is not whether those acting as pickets can strictly observe all the laws, but whether it represents in . the widest possible way effective and determined orga- nizational strength, plus a clear understanding of the economic and political issues involved. In this way the importance of even the smallest dispute can quickly be imparted to others, making any arrest or by intimidation police a provocation bringing more workers into action. For example, if the arrest is a de- liberate political provocation, the employers and the state must expect a political strike in retaliation and realize that they must bear the conse- quences of their action. Assuming that the strikers are not breaking the picketing laws-using violence etc.—-the four main law common charges which may be used against pickets are: 1. Obstruction of the highway.

This is said to be an action preventing or likely to pre- the public from using vent the highway (pavement or road). The police do not have to prove that anyone was actually impeded, which leaves them a wide field of events which merely might have hap- pened. 2. Conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace. The word 'likely' allows an arrest on the basis of rowdiness or violence which might occur. In the printers' strike of June 1959, a policeman decided that two pickets on a door of the so- called Free Press Ltd' were sufficient. But when a third picket named Piddington attempted to join them he was arrested on the claim that a breach of the peace might occur. 3. Use of insulting words and behaviour. Here again, it is not necessary to prove that anyone was insulted, but only that they might have been.

This was a very old offence with a maximum £2 fine attached. In 1936, under the Public Order Act, it was made a serious offence with a maxi- mum penalty of £50 fine and/ or three months' imprison ment. By a further Public Order Act of 1963, maximum penalties were increased to £100 fine and/or three months ay September 18, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks on summary conviction and year imprisonment or one £500 fine on indictment. 4. Obstructing the Police.

A person who resists or wilfully constable in the obstructs a execution of his duty, or some- one assisting a constable in the execution of his duty, is guilty of an offence punishable by one month's imprisonment a fine of £20 or both. (Police Act 1964.) In the 1967 Tynan v Balmer case, a constable had asked Tynan to move pickets walk- ing in a circle outside a fac- and tory. He refused, was subsequently convicted of ob- structing the constable in per- formance of his duty. Other charges which the police can use against workers in this way include: Affray, if any two appear to be fighting; includes Assault, and this threat of violence; Unlawful assembly, where three or more persons gather together for a lawful or an unlawful purpose and a 'reasonable per- believes their action is son' going to lead to a breach of the peace; and Possession of an offensive weapon, an um- brella, pocket knife, poster stick, heavy belt and boots, have all done duty in the past, and in the notorious Challoner case of some years back, the police themselves thoughtfully provided half-a-brick per demonstrator to ensure con- viction. These are only powers of police constables. The Special Branch has enormously wide powers to search, confiscate and apprehend. It can raid homes and offices on any pre- text under the Sedition Acts, the drugs laws or on the basis of some alleged information laid about any criminal acti- vity. Blacklisting and 'surveillance' At the same time as em- ployers have violently opposed the combination of workmen to better their conditions, they have always been quick to combine themselves to watch and beset, witch-hunt and blacklist strikers, known mili- and who tants anyone questions the rule of capital.

As history shows, the state, through the police, Home has always been Office, etc, closely „involved with record- details and activities of ing militants. One comment on the grow- ing links between police and business stated; 'More and more experienced police offi- cers, particularly ex-CID men, are taking up appointments as security officers with big business firms, and they are able to maintain a close liaison with their colleagues who are still serving. This means that the countrywide network of intelligence and surveillance is growing all the time? ('Security Gazette'. November 1970.)

Modern refinements for spying include the use of

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motion, still and Comers television to photograph demonstrators and pickets, others; telephone tapping; secretly-placed 'bugging' with attached to microphones re: cording or transmitting equip- new mail-opening ment; tech- and the use com- puters to store all information.

A special laser system can conversations from pick UD vibrating window hundreds of yards away. Trail- ing bugs secretly planted a person to give of a continu ous radio bleep can be tracked special equipment. by In factories vast elec- work-watching

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systell is available via modern tele- and sensor systems hich can monitor a: action ny part of a works frot toe me hining of a component draught breeze blowing through a window.

for uses closed- ronce circuit television were recently mentioned in a 'Sunday Times' report: 'The specialist riot police almost all forces in countries have benefited from 1968 [the 1968 revolutionary evells France] and now well are Big. cities have считррес. installed television coverage of main roads-nominally for Loe traffic control (as we're told in.

In fact, London). main impetus came from the des- to monitor riots perate need forces accurately. move While I was visiting the traffic Munich, control room demonstration passed down a Effort- street a mile away. lessly, the policeman of the TV charge monitors zoomed in on the leading marchers: their faces filled the Exercising the policeman's Top: searching cars going 1o wowed. screen.' dockers picket line Neap House Whart near Hull. Above: warning

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builders pickets at the Stock Exchange site, London.

Two months after the re- establishment of diplo- matic relations between anti-working class the military dictatorship of General Velasco and Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba, a high-level Peru- vian government delega- tion visited Cuba at the beginning of September. official delegation, The headed by General josé Graham Hurtado, chairman of the presidential advisory com- mittee, included Carlos Del- gado, director of Sinamos, the corporatist trade union, and Julian Regalado, president of the Fishing Federation. Sinamos is the corporatist union body which Velasco is using as the spearhead for destroying the Peruvian trade unions. The Peruvian govern- ment is forcing workers to join Sinamos and abandon their independent unions with witch-hunts against militants and the organization of scab- bing during strikes. Castro gave Delgado full to his facilities explain reactionary views in Cuba.

With his delegation he visited the Havana fishing port and engaged in prolonged dis- cussions with the leaders of the Cuban trade unions. Delgado explained: We An American research worker at Cornell University has torn to pieces President Nixon's claim that half a million people were murdered in North Viet- nam after the departure of the French in 1953-1956. Nixon made the allegation in a speech in April 1971 and has frequently said that the regime North Vietnamese carried out a bloodbath' in the course of the agrarian revolution. D. Gareth Porter When went to work at Cornell to seek out the source of Nixon's statement, and after a visit to Vietnam, he found that it in a rested on an assertion book called 'From Colonialism to Communism' by one Hoang Van Chi, published in 1964, which was financed and pro- moted by the Central Intelli- gence Agency. Porter found that before leaving North Vietnam in 1955 Chi had not been a • Vietnam cadre, as the CIA claimed, or even a member of the ruling He was, in party. fact, a wealthy landlord who had been dispossessed and had left the country. In his book he put forward the figure of 5 per cent of the population as having been 'massacred'. At another point in his book he suggests that most of these were children who swing to the starved "isolation policy' of the Viet Minh. There was, Porter found, no understand the difficulties of the Cuban Revolution since we are beginning to undergo problems of all kinds in carry- ing through the revolutionary process.' He added that Sinamos was the embryo of the organiza- tion of popular power, of par- ticipation in the revolutionary process, and: 'For us, political differentiation longer can no be established between civilians and military, but be- those who are for the tween revolution and its adversaries' It is worth noting that these 'adversaries' included the miners on strike in Cobriza, 25 of whom were shot by state forces earlier this year.

Castro's welcome for the of butchers the Peruvian working class is in line with the counter - revolutionary strategy of Stalinist support for Velasco. While Delgado and his friends were in Cuba, a Czech headed delegation, by vice- minister of Foreign Trade, Jiri Hustoles, Lima was with the offer of a '$20m loan for financing development projects.

The Cubans and the Czech Stalinists in this give way credence to the revolutionary of Velasco and help rhetoric the Peruvian Communist Party bolster its collaboration up with Sinamos against increas- ing opposition from Party rank and file. ( Victims of US bombing of North Vietnam in April this year substantiation for any of Chi's massacres of US i allegations which were simply with the charge fabricated for propaganda pur- North Vietnamese poses to suit the needs of his National Liberation CIA paymasters. They enabled over in the south a Nixon to excuse the very real would follow. Workers Press, Monde Fifteen-thousand mem- bers of the Federation of Transport Workers in Uruguay are to come out on strike alongside 2,000 railway workers whose indefinite strike has paralysed rail transport in Uruguay for over a week. These strikes follow closely the decision of President Juan Bordaberry's to government extend the state of emergency and to apply it more rigorously to the trade union movement.

An official communiqué issued after a meeting with Defence and Home Ministers, along with military chiefs, on September 7 stated: 'Armed forces will strive to guarantee the freedom to work during strikes.' On Monday, the govern- ment Commission on Produc- tivity, Prices and Incomes called the transport strike "illegal'. The next step is to the transport industry put under the control of the army.

of US imperialism The workers are striking charge that if the against a government wage and the freeze which has meant that iberation Front took incomes have been cut 20 per e south a bloodbath cent in six months by rampant inflation. The sale of beef is 09, Mondey Septomber 18, 1972 PAGE 5 banned in Uruguay and the prices of fish and pork are soaring. The government clearly aims to make the defeat of the transport workers a stepping stone to the destruction of the trade unions and the imposition of a Brazilian-type police state. The determination of the railworkers to defeat Borda- berry contrasts sharply with the leadership of the National of Labour, Confederation dominated by the Communist Party, which has organized a series of futile one-day national strikes, but refuses to an all-out indefinite call strike on the grounds that parliamentary pressure will be suthcient for the working class to win its demands. There is also a sharp con- trast with the position of the Tupamaros who rejected the working class for urban guer- rilla warfare. Their terrorism only iso- lated them from the working class and allowed the govern- ment to pick them off during the state of emergency. Now, when revolutionary struggle has been engaged by the working class, the Tupa- maros are in disarray as well as engaging in talks with 'left- wing' military.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday Saplember 18, 1972 years he spent in concentration war for writ- camps after the of Stalin in his ing criticisms correspondence from private the front-line. Soviet readers will not allowed to read 'August 1914'.

They are treated instead lengthy and lying denuncia- tions of the book in the official The 'Literary Gazette', DICSs. organ of the Writers' Union, which expelled Solzhenitsyn, wrote as follows: •Although composition this seems to deal with an historical anti-Soviet elements subject, immediately grasped the rich opportunities offered them by 'August 1914'. by Alexander Sol- Solzhenitsyn. zhenitsyn. The Bodley Head. E3.

'Many 645pp western newspapers and magazines emphasize the anti-Soviet trend of this novel.

the "Washington For example, Post" said that "August 1914" is a real undisguised challenge to the present regime and its essence. if the Washington And Post' says so, well it must be true! These official attacks tell their Soviet audience nothing about the book, but they tell us great deal about the Soviet bureaucracy. For 'August 1914' is a novel days about the opening of World War I, when the Tsarist forced-marched armies were the frontier East across into Prussia and were crushingly defeated by the Germans. The Kremlin's spokesmen Alexander Solzhenitsyn: of perse consider that an account cuted by the bureaucratic regime.

this episode in the pre-revolu- tionary history Russia is 'anti- novel by A major new should Soviet Solzhenitsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn presumably have written only is a literary and political to the of glorify victories Tsarism. event of considerable im- Since there is no reference The literary portance. to anything Soviet in the novel, significance of a book it is hard to see how it can reasonably be interpreted as from the pen of the man being 'anti-Soviet'. But there "The First who wrote for are other reasons the obiections of the bureaucracy, Circle' and "Cancer Ward' which they would prefer not needs no elaboration. to announce too publicly.

Like his other books 'August For thing, distorted one and 1914' - published overlaid literally with today - is honest, and decades of lies is the official incisive, realistic compelling. Solzhenitsyn him- history of Russia that any self has described it honest historical novel as the in. first novel in the chief artistic stantly becomes threat to design of my life' the ruling clique. Stalinist For another, the exposure of But the rulers of Nicholas's Tsar the Kremlin think differentlv. complete un- For them literature must be 'in preparedness for World War I uniform' disturbing of and woe betide any raises echoes Stalin's equally lack writer who dares to step out- complete side the rigid confines of their of preparation for World War bureaucratic regime. II. But even, Solzhenitsyn not only refuses important, Moro to their bureaucratic perhaps is the fact that in

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uniform and write hack novels order to justify their rule the Stalinist bureaucrats to order, as do so many lumi- have be- naries of the Soviet Writers defencists come retrospective Union, he has the temerity to in relation to the imperialist write honestly about Stalinism war. and its infamous crimes against Stalin's To cover up for Stalin's the Soviet workers and peas- also for the ants. up covering bungles of Tsarism in World For this he has been Otherwise all sorts hounded. slandered and vic. War I. of timized by the Soviet literary disagreeable comparisons might be drawn. chieftains. not to mention the And perhaps most important of Solzhenitsyn's expressed intention not to stop the clock at the year 1914, but to proceed with an examina- tion of the whole history of modern Russia. A terrifying prospect indeed for the hacks at the top of the Writers' Union! For in this book, Solzhenitsyn turns his searing eye on the Battle of Tannenberg to devastating effect. Tannenberg has always been one of Solzhenitsyn's consum- ing interests. In an auto- biographical note he writes that he arrested by was Stalin's police 'in East Prussia, a region which is linked with my destiny in a remarkable year student, I chose to write "The a descriptive essay on Samsonov Disaster" of 1914 in and East Prussia studied material on this; and in 1945 I myself went to this area (at the time of writing, autumn 1970, the book "August 1914" has just been completed)...'

Tannenberg tore down the pasteboard facade of Tsarist militarism and revealed the rot underneath. The first clash be- Ger- the Russian and tween man armies brought all the inner contradictions of Tsarism into view. Subservient to its allies' wishes for an offensive in the East to take the pressure off its forces in the West, Tsarist m Russia launched a push into th East Prussia which rapidly degenerated into a bloody shambles. ed by bungling officers e concerned with keeping r noses clean than fighting proceeding and enemy 1 a half-baked strategic 1 which rapidly fell apart, Top: thousands of Russian soldiers were taken pris of the war. Left: before August 1914, the Tsar (l German admiral with the Kaiser dressed in Rus officer attempts to drive deserting Russian soldiers I the Russian troops were sitting or a lea targets German vulsive i ground, opponents. it can be claimed,' whether Solzhenitsyn it 'that writes, strategic was the first defeat which set gardless the tone of the whole course 'From of the war for Russia: having spirits our self begun the first battle with in- complete forces, the Russians regained never subsequently managed to both ol muster enough men in time allies we before an engagement. poor sh 'Unable discard bad to stigma had to 1 habits acquired at the start, went on throwing un- they lapsed; trained troops into action too, the direct from the railhead with- in us: out a pause for acclimatization, generals, thrusting them into the line they we wherever there was a breach onwards, a Russian general's badges of rank come to be seen as symbols of incompetence; and the further up the hier- archy the more bungling the until there is generals seem, from whom an scarcely one author can derive any comfort.'

'August 1914', however, is not simply a dramatic account important of an battle. Through the descriptions of Tannenberg and the reactions and experiences of his char- Solzhenitsyn acters paints powerful picture of an out- moded social system marching to its doon. To the superficial contem- early defeats the declara- porary observer, uniform of a tion of war in 1914 was the • Above: an salvation of the Tsarist regime.

posts. The voice of revolution was ies of con- muted under a murky wave of regain lost patriotic fervour. Many who had previously considering empts were regard the Tsar as an object d, and re- of hatred and derision sud- denly found themselves pro- first our strate at his feet and Sol- ened, and describes in his zhenitsyn opening chapters how Sanya, was never a young Tolstoyan pacifist, : very first volunteers for the army be- i and our nted by our he feels sorry for cause I with Russia'. the Like Sanya, his friend Varya, ntempt we atil we col- watching seemingly educated, very first, people intelligent gathering • awakened with serious faces to read the e the right Tsar's pompous proclamations, is unable to understand what know what has happened. first battle She him furiously: asks Who are you sorry for? That fool of a Tsar? Those disgust- ing little shopkeepers who join the Black Hundreds and beat up the Jews? The priests in their long robes?' This theme is repeated again as the story unfolds: a Jewish family argues over the father's decision to pay homage to the Isar on a demonstration of loyalty; ensign Lenartovich, a revolutionary, argues with a service doctor over the war and finally, the the system; young Vorotyntsev, a go-ahead staff officer, attacks the general staff during the post-mortem on the defeat. Vorotyntsev's efforts to pre- vent the inevitable outcome of the generals' incompetence and fail - he over- place-seeking steps the bounds of conven- tional subservience with his- bitter criticisms and is forced the general staff to leave conference. The generals return to con- templating their plans for the bloodbath, lying and next twisting to evade responsibility for the lost battle. The fate of Tsarism, unable to correct its mistakes, trapped in its own history of blood and hypocrisy, is sealed. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, alone of all the tendencies in workers' the Russian move- ment, stood out against the from the very first day. war Though Solzhenitsyn nowhere directly deals with the struggle

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of Bolshevism in 'August 1914', the book shows a society ripe for revolution. Again and again he contrasts the stubborn heroism of the Russian masses with the cowardice and hypocrisy of the generals: the representa- tive of the new order chafing at the outworn restrictions of the old. 'August 1914' is a masterly description of the first days of the war which brought to a head all the smouldering con- flicts within Tsarist society drawn into the maelstrom of international imperialist con- flict by its own provincial ambitions of conquest. With all the archives closed to him, Solzhenitsyn has none- theless amassed detailed his- torical data in a novel of considerable power. The epithets flung at it by the Stalinists will certainly rebound on their authors who want to keep the masses docile just as their Tsarist forebears did. Solzhenitsyn is not a com- munist. But like the Bolsheviks of 1914, he has the courage to swim against the stream. In the eyes of the Stalinists this is sufficient to damn him as 'anti- Soviet. But the pigmies can shout as loud as they like. They remain what they always were, Philistine dwarfs who are not fit to lick the boots of the man they revile.

A three part series by Juan García, our Spanish correspondent on how the depression of the 1930s hit the Spanish province of Catalonia, and the resulting struggles of workers against unemployment while the armed forces of the state prepared for Civil War.

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Strikes by building dockers workers and were two of the most militant strikes in a wave which swept Spain in 1932-1933. In 1929, the number of strikes was 96; the number of days lost 313,965. In 1933, the strikes was number of 1,127; the number of days lost 14,440,629. The different working-class a divi- leaderships developed sion of labour to contain these strikes with the basic economic demands of a reduction in the working-week and an increase in wages. Every left-phrase was used to avoid putting revolutionary socialist policies of the nation- alization of industry under workers' control at the centre of these strikes. Chief architect of this reformist stranglehold over the fight against unemployment impoverishment and was the Social Democratic Minister of Labour, Largo Caballero. He set up regional offices of which employment col- lected most efficient statistics of unemployed workers but which were formed by three union representatives, three employers' representatives and selected by the chairman a Minister of Labour. These bodies were organs of compulsory arbitration which had to be used before a strike or lock-out was started. The "jurado' would be set up a few days before possible conflict.

If an agreement was reached, but was rejected by the work- ers' leaders, they were liable to arrest. If no agreement was reached, the strike or lock- out could go ahead, although the law defended the rights to work of those workers who did not wish to strike. The 'jurado' also decided on compensation for of rates workers who were made redundant. This legislation, which was passed by the Cortes (parlia- ment) was accompanied by a Bill which stirred up a lot of 'socialist' debate and headlines, but which was thrown out of • the Cortes. This was Caballero's law for workers' control in factories employing more than 50 work- The Bill established the ers. creation committees of delegates elected every two years by their workmates. The 'control' com- mittee would make sure agree- ments were respected, would sacking and sanctioning employees and would examine accounts to observe i he the relations existing between pro- duction, profits and wages.

Having considered the rela- tion between wages and profits, the 'control' committee would be able to attend meetings of shareholders, management and directors and speak, but would have no voting rights. Caballero's policies may not have always got the support of the Cortes, but they were law for the UGT union, which became the spearhead of colla- boration with the state. ay September 18, 1972 • Juan García, our Spanish correspo ting struggles of workers against u Top: a meeting of the fascists in Valenc machine guns awaited the workers of Ma annual May Day procession in 1935.

The most virulent opposition to the UGT came, as we have from the anarcho- seen, syndicalist dominated working- class in Catalonia. The nature of this opposition will become clear from the parliamentary manoeuvres of anarchists and 'Marxists' during the period of militant strikes which they were leading in 1933. On February 12, 1933, a conference of working-class organizations against unem- in Cata- ployment was held lonia. It included various unions, the CNT Worker and Peasant Block (BOC), later part of the centrist

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the Union Socialista of and Catalonia, later part of the Spanish Catalan wing of Social Democracy. The Union Socialista was a member of the correspondent on how the depres rainst unemployment while the arme in Valencia in June, 1935. Above : these kers of Madrid when they marched in the coalition Generalidad govern- with the bourgeois ment Esquerra party. The conference called for a six-hour day and no reduc- tion in pay and the payment of unemployment benefits.

The BOC manifesto pro- claimed: 'The working-class must concretize its immediate aspirations in series a slogans. These aspirations must be concretized, but we should be under no illusion that the problem of unemployment can be solved within the frame- work of the capitalist regime.

We know too well that even though we accept a pittance, it will take a lot to get even that pittance to which we can aspire today.' So the BOC concludes from the impossibility of solving the depression of the 1930s hit the le armed forces of the state prepared problem of unemployment under capitalism that it is necessary to accept the pit- tance that capitalism hands out. This programme was defended in the Generalidad in.

April by five social-democratic deputies and Marti Barrera, a working-class deputy of the Esquerra, and later in charge of labour problems for the Generalidad. Although they dropped the demand for unemployment benefits, their measures were thrown out on the pretext that the Generalidad had no power to legislate on labour ques- independently tions of the Cortes in Madrid. The futility of the reformist combating programme unemployment became even clearer in 1935-1936 when the industry, which until textile then had avoided the brunt of the crisis, went into recession.

Unemployment in the textile in Catalonia industry rOSe from 11,263 in 1933 to 23,958 in June 1936 on the eve of the.

civil war. This development forced the reformists, the CNT and the POUM lefts into open, round- the-table discussions sponsored by the government Institute against Unemployment. Among employers' organizations taking part were the Association of Textile Manufacturers, Industrial Pro- gress and Industrial Union. Of the workers' organizations, the UGT, CNT and POUM were present. it the Spanish province of epared for Civil War. The CNT repeated its usual formula for a reduction of the working week. The POUM noted that the crisis in the textile industry could only be solved by the socialization of the means of production, but until that revolution took place 'only the class struggle will allow the working class to soften the consequences of the crisis which the employers want to thrust entirely on the shoulders of the working-class'.

A few months before the outbreak of the civil war, at a gathering thronged by big employers and bourgeois poli- ticians, POUM trade unionists advising that if the were employers' measures were to work, agrarian reform was necessary to increase consumer demand alongside class struggle which, by boosting wages, would also increase consump- tion... and create jobs. A week after Franco's up- rising on July 26, 1936, against Popular Front govern- ment, the Generalidad decreed a 40-hour week and a 15-per- cent increase in wages. After leading the Spanish working class for six years on a reformist for programme he. ment, POUM, along with the Com- munist Party and the Republi- cans in the Popular Front government, could legislate their programme. The Spanish ruling class had long since concluded that what necessary to crush the was working class was not just unemployment, but a fascist dictatorship, which would des- troy bourgeois parliament and all workers' organizations after three years of civil war.

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Stalinist Crisis The Communist Party's fortnightly journal, 'Com- ment, which is now little than an internal more bulletin for a few Party faithful, had a four-page spread on September 9 of answers to the question Why do we need a Com- munist Party?' The presence of the item it- self was a sure sign that doubts are running high inside the party. The nature of the questions themselves, as well as the painfully spelt out answers, can only mean crisis, decay and degeneration. Prepared by the Education Department for discussion in Party branches, the "the question which comes first is: 'Do militant struggles automa- , to political ad- tically lead vances?' followed by one about the smallness of the Party. On the latter there is no analysis or explanation of what the CP is or where it came from, simply the lame 'Our remark: present size does impose limitations on our influence and this underlines the importance of building the Party' The third question: What are the reasons for the special Communist contribution the Party makes? How does it give leadership?' is answered in a manner which can be re- garded as simple-minded or cynical - undoubtedly the latter. Here we have the claims that the Party 'understands the dynamic role of the class "is guided by the struggle', scientific theory of Marxism- Leninism' and, most breath- taking of all, 'puts forward a strategy for the socialist revo- lution in its programme the "British Road to Socialism"' We cannot help referring to the unhappy slip on the pre- vious page in which the Com- munist Party is made "to open understanding of the up nature of capitalism, of the change to socialism There are regimes in which such a mishap would have been denounced as 'Trotskyist sabotage' and merited years in a labour camp if not worse!

Taboos and allies The unnamed author ploughs on trying to keep up his spirits 'Comment' and those readers as he comes to questions four and five: 'Are we placing too much emphasis development of the on the mass struggle and not enough on the advance to socialism?

Or is it the other way round?'

It takes a while to sort out what this question means until it dawns that 'mass struggle' and advance to socialism' are shorthand terms for something else. "Mass struggle' is what happens when the Communist Party supports broad move- ments, such as peace cam- paigns, in which any talk of class struggle is taboo and members are warned not to which might raise issues frighten away liberals, vicars, pacifists and all other 'allies' socialism' 'Advance to means actually having the as good 'Marxist- temerity Leninists' to speak in a propa- ganda way about "socialism'.

Members are told that 'mass action and the ideas of social- ism need to be intertwined at all stages and at all times.' It would be difficult, indeed, to find such terminology, or such a conception, in the writings of Lenin or any Marxist. Nothing nasty must intrude into the so-called 'anti- monopoly fight' such as a bourgeois struggle against ideology and its reflection in the working class, trade union consciousness. The Communist Party claims that it wants the defeat of the Tories by what it calls 'anti-monopoly policies' and the return of a Labour government 'which is pushed and influenced by the mass movement in the country to operate a left policy. A living and tragic example of the way in which such a policy works can, of course, be seen today in Chile, where Communist Party the stands behind the reformist President Salvadore Allende to prevent a social revolution • and the eruption of the working class and poor peasants onto the scene. Allende: the Communist Party stands behind him to prevent a soclat revolution. And so we come to the last big question which every reader and many Communist Party members must have had in mind from the start: Is the "British Road to Socialism" a revolutionary document, or is it a sign that the Communist is "no longer revolu- Party tionary" as some assert?'

In the past such subversive questions could hardly have been asked, but the Party is now desperate. Many members have already left because they the conclusion that came to the Party's programme was not revolutionary. But how can a revolutionary party maintain 'anti-monopoly coalition' an with the liberals, pacifists, vicars et al? The answer is an inferior piece of casuistry which takes A nauseating aspect of the rule of the bureaucracy in eastern Europe is its depend- ence upon the support of the clergy, or at least a domesti- section of it. cated The latest example comes from Czechoslovakia, where the Association of Catholic Clergy, Pacem in Terris, has sent a fulsome letter of sup- port to Gustav Husak, the _ general Communist Party secretary installed by the after the August Russians 1968 invasion. The priests, thankful to the for their daily bureaucracy bread, assures Husak that 'they will lead the Catholic clergy and believers in taking part with alacrity and love in the following lines. Revolution taking state power, means political power away from the capitalist class and replacing it by the working class and those allied to the working class'.

The 'British Road', it claims, 'is to use every arena of the class struggle, to combine the extra - parliamentary and the parliamentary, to build up a position where the power of monopoly capitalism is chal- lenged and defeated'. good measure it is For added: "This is a process and calls for many battles, and will on the road to mean stages winning working-class power.'

Precisely here comes the rub.

What is meant by 'stages' on the path to winning working- class power! In fact we are not told what these 'stages' only that are, there are 'ultra - left trends which try to jump stages in the class struggle resulting in divisions and not in unity' The reader who honestly to know where the wants Communist Party stands on the issue of reform or revolu- tion can only be left in con- fusion by this statement. He is told about revolution, but he is not called on to prepare for one, for that is some stage in the future to be reached by unspecified means. Coalition of Criticism the reformist nature of 'The British Road to Socialism' has produced a re- action from the Party's King St headquarters which now sprinkles around a few revolu- tionary phrases while insisting as before, that the main task is the 'mass struggle' as de- fined above and the formation of an 'anti-monopoly coalition' with liberals, reformists and open supporters of capitalism.

Soviet bureaucracy apparently needs a Communist Party in Britain, even a small one, not to lead a revolution, one taking but to prevent place. The CP has a limited value as a supporter of peaceful co-existence, the European Security Conference and a pro- Soviet foreign policy. If the question is, does the working class need the Com- munist Party? The answer is emphatically no. It stands in the way of the construction of a revolutionary party and sup- ports policies which can only deflect the working class from the struggle for power. The ex- posure of the kind of sophist- ries found in the 'Comment' article is a necessary hygiene.

the construction efforts of the homeland. 'We are sincerely grateful to you', they say, 'for the formu- lation of the human principle underlying the relations of the socialist state to believers, as well as the support our associa- tion has been given. While faithful to the church, we shall make great efforts to satisfy the religious needs of our be- lievers and to document our love for our socialist homeland by our selfless work.' in Terris is an Pacem organization of tame clergy which the bureaucracy has on hand for statements of this kind. Its existence, however, is an index of its desire to reach a compromise with the Vatican and the clergy as a whole. A little holy water would not come amiss for a regime which is carrying out its own Inquisition against op- positionists. Workers Press, Mon At least 28 black victims of syphilis who were allowed to go untreated in an experiment in Alabama, died of the disease. The Public Health Service, under whose auspices the re- search was conducted, has re- vealed the findings, which were first published in the 'Journal of Chronic Diseases'.

The experiment, intended to determine through post- what damage mortem un- treated syphilis does to the human body, began in 1932 in Tuskagee, Alabama. Of 600 poor blacks involved, one-third received no treat ment, one-third were treated with arsenic-mercury and one- third were free of the disease.

A • report on the experiment said that patients with uncon- trolled syphilis suffered hard- ening of the arteries, abnormal lymph nodes and loss of vision. Detectives in Belfast are look- ing for gunmen with a diff- erence. These quick-thinking lads took over a car-park near the city centre, forced the attendant to leave his post and thui pocketed the parking fees.

It was a bargain for motor- ists as well because the gun- men charged only 15p. Ald- erman Jack Lewis, chairman of Belfast Corporation's police complained bit- committee, terly: 'This is another reflec- tion on how law and order has broken down in the city.'

Tess, Monday Soptember 18, 1972 PAGE 9 As any Fleet Street hack can tell you, the majority of build- ing workers do not want the being intimi- strike, but are dated by a tiny handful of militants. (Quite a feat when you think about it.) In the case of small isolated sites this can present some difficulties. In Wigan, the strike committee was phoned up by asking When are you sending Around Lancaster, a number of bridges are being re-con- structed for British Rail as part electrification pro- of the gramme. When pickets visited the bridge next to Lancaster station, one of them told us: 'The lads stopped straight away, no messing.' But an- of these bridges was other situated along a remote coun try lane and pickets only it by accident, came across while returning from another site. When they arrived they were greeted by the men em- ployed on the bridge who complained bitterly: 'Where have you been? We've been waiting. We even put signs down the bottom of the lane to to the site! Show you the way A case of 'Come and intimi- date us!' you might say. Below: Battersea builders march out of their site to join the strike during its early stages, this July.

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Builders draw lessons

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

COMMUNIST Party which had been passed by Leeds member Friday. Arthur Dale, chairman of the action committee They also denied the Leeds building platform workers' co- to an electrician from Whitney's, ordinating committee, played a Leeds, who wanted to urge con- key part in ensuring a return tinuation of the strike. to work vote at a mass meet- Instead Dale called up ing of 1,000 strikers on Satur- trom the body of the hall and day. urged the men to go back 'with He was called to the platform dignity and solidarity... though at Queen's Hall after right-wing this makes me as sick as it makes Yorkshire

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officials you'. had failed in attempts to Dale used the same scare state- decisive vote to end the strike ment as the rest of the platform, officials The expressed their saying any picketing on Monday disappointment with the would have official terms union Thursday night, agreeo on but support. urged the men to return to work.

His intervention was decisive A show of hands vote appeared in swinging the vote: a show to give a majority in favour of hands after his speech showed staying out, throwing the plat- 800 to 200 in favour of a return form into confusion. work, despite vociferous The officials refused to take a opposition from a section of the motion rejecting the settlement meeting.

BY IAN YEATS

SHEFFIELD build workers bitterly critic local UCATT after a meeting of of the city's 4,000 op tives voted to retur

BY JOHN SPENCER

work today by a maj of 13 to one. JIM ROCHE is chairman of the London Mike Duke (28) clai Steel UCATT branch and during the 12-week Stalinist officials builders' strike chaired the strike committee ately sought a go-back at the Laing's Heygate site.

early in the meeting. "They would not let He claims last Thursday's deal violated four speak. They read off a basic principles at stake in the original claim: list of all the sites that 'There is nothing on hours, which was an essen- gone back and then tial part of the claim. Nor is there anything in the agreement about the lump.

had two criticizing the "The differential between labourers and tradesmen and calling for the has been increased in the pay award and reduction to go on, but after the of this differential was of the main principles one they said was that was originally in the claim.

order' Finally, the agreement contains no guarantee

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official and against victimization, leaving the employers free Hylton member to sack militants if they so wish.

the men told "The so-called cost-of-living clause can really be two-hour meeting that discounted. And the union will though leaders had to accept claim this is the highest rise ever achieved in the ployers' deal or face lo building industry, this rise will be nullified directly solidarity among we are a tull member of the Common Market. workers. Long before the package deal runs out, this is going be to reduction of wages not an In. There's the crease. new rent rises as well: in a matter of six months the increase will all have been assimilated. 'I By Philip Wade expected basic principles to be maintained. We're going back THE TORIES in the Monday to the same old industrythe rotten canteens, facili- Club have moved into open collaboration first for the live like animals. time with the extreme right- Mr Roche was particularly dis- racialists wing organized in by gusted the attitude the National Front. Dropping Communist Party leaders who all pretence of being purely opposed the national stoppage: Satur- 'Their right-wing Tories, on excuse was that we dav thev worked hand-in-hand didn't have enough pickets.

But site where there with the National Front at an tor every WeTe who might have lumpers been anti-immigration rally in Cen- there against coming out, were tral Halls, London. a dozen that were ready and will- Not only did the Front provide to strike at the drop of a ing the bulk of the 2,000 people at hat. but its burlier mem- "There 300,000 the meeting, were about bers tight control of the and we were took actually out still stewarding. 520,000 adrift, on the sites still At the only entrance to the work. at hall Martin Webster, •If only a quarter of these was the Front's organizer who played trade were union members prominent part in organizing the would still have escalated the recent Smithfield marches.

strike to gigantic proportions. In He fingered any case they key people would all those he have come out—the crane drivers thought likely to oppose the meeting and they were promptly and plant drivers whose equip- barred entry by would just have been left stewards. ment Webster and the Monday Club to rust. 'The UCATT leaders saw the were clearly enjoying each other's threat of strike company as were the huge bat- national on 'How is it go- their hands backpedalled talions of police. and Martin? didn't high-ranking They "screw" anything ing one was offered meyers fore This deal inspector was heard to say to the NF man. was offered the the final talks-it finhe Guardian was published in Monday Club director, Michael Woolrych also chatted amiably Party members 'Communist with the police who asked how talk now about changing the things were. leadership-but if you think any Before the meeting, Colin Jor- of these people has even resigned dan and members of his British Movement out literature gave It isn't cuckoo which was warmly received by that's trying to get George Smith the Dowager Lady Birdwood and It's the rank and file.' other notables queueing up.

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12.00 Weather. Although it was a bad settlement, union leaders building would try to improve it once the men returned to erly criticized work, he added. officials Said Mike Duke: 'If we eting of 200 had stuck it out we could 4,000 opera- have won. The officials say to return to we've got to get George by a majority Smith out before we can do anything. 'But when we go back • (28) claimed now we've got to start deliber- from the bottom. People a go-back vote are wise now and realize why they have been sold d not let me out. ead off a long "The terms we are going sites that had back for are worse nd then took when we first came out. We were offered £26 right o resolutions at the start. I'm a labourer leadership so I Shall only get £22.20 or the strike and it goes into 1974. So after the vote we are tied for two years?

was out of •In another year the cost of living will go up and I ficial and CP won't be able to go in for Stuard another rise. This is the reason I fought so hard. • at a stormy ting that they We are going to be the lowest-paid the em- workers or face losing Britain. 'The Tories are smashing long building us one by one and it is up Jordan was once the leader of the British National Socialist Party, the self-styled Nazi or- ganization. Inside the meeting, Monday Club MPs Ronald Bell, John John Biggs-Davison and Stokes, Harold Soref obligingly churned out the anti-immigration pro- paganda. 'In 1958 this was a fairly homogeneous, British, White country ... We are always being lectured about Black noW Englishmen ... The idea is pre- posterous nonsense,' said Bell. Even this was not enough for the National Front. 'Enoch', Heath out join the National 'Keep the Wogs Out', and Front', they screamed, interrupt- ing all the speakers. One unfortunate who shouted 'racists, fascists' at the platform was promptly jumped on, thrown through a door and punched. Soref, who led the witch-hunt on the Young Socialists' summer camp, brought a little order when he called for a show of support for Enoch Powell. When the meeting broke up, the National Front quickly or- ganized a march to Downing Street to hand in the resolution calling for repatriation. Monday Workers Press, Mondi

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Mike Duke to working class people to stick together stop and them. It is going to be a hard fight but we can do it.'

'The likes of Feather should not be talking to Heath - they should be kicking the Tories out. 'They don't want to face the challenge of the Tory government directly. We have given them 1 the re- - sponsibility but they wont take it.' 'The unions have got to get together now. If Coun- cils of Action had been set during the building up strike would everyone have been together. They have got to set up immediately. It is one of the biggest lessons of the building strike.' Martin Webster, NF organizer, chlef door steward for Monday Club meeting Club members joined on behind.

At No. 10, newly-elected Mon- day Club chairman Jonathan Guinness, a merchant banker who comes from the famous brewing family, led the MPs to the door.

Back at Centrat Halls, Martin Webster led the demonstration in three cheers for the police. By this time, the Monday Club and the National Front had become old friends. 138, Monday Soptember 18, 1972 PAGE 11

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BY PHILIP WADE

full consultation with the membership. LONDON building workers are expected to though prepared verbally to declare opposition to return to work this morning on the orders of repeatedly retused demands that they the Stalinist-dominated action committee.

come out lor an unolncial strike, slannists trough- The committee voted unanimously on out the union have since moved quickly to wind up Friday to recommend a return. Lobbyers from the strike. The reason for this is that if the strike continues, north and east London were given a hostile the reception by leading Stalinists, including Pete politics of the union leaders and their Kavanagh. Rank-and-file builders were demanding Throughout the dispute, the Stalinists have fought

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reiection of the settlement and an immediate mass meeting in central London to vote on continuing the pany deals, opposing a national strike for the full Earlier that morning, Kavanagh had recom- £30. 35-hour week claim. mended a return at a picket centre meeting in west strategy has along been to try and with the LolluUll. the TUC to lead previous events ory government ane caling on when the £26, eo stadisti in hours a campaign to bring it down In compromise was signed, proposed have been the main prop of work with- the UCATT leadership. It was no that accent halfway through the strike George Smith,

UCATT

general secretary, full-page was given Star' his explain Morning policies. The CP refused to break from Smith, first even when on of the Brighton declared for co-operation with the Tories and warned that the unions should not consider them- of selves government. dine contras to to e In whelming of the UCATT leader signation Saturday's Star' leaders consult them before ratifying'. There was plenty of talk about 'cleaning up the industry but no call for a similar sweep out in the leadership. union YS Right-to-Work campaign On the upper Clyde, the docks the counter-revolutionary role Stalinists has been open for Great send-off from Middlesbrough lessons must all to see. Now the be learnt ana a new revoluuunaly leadership built throughout the movement. trade union precinct of Bil- ultra-modern

FROM OUR OWN

lingham See p.ll for responses from relatively new

CORRESPONDENT

Wirere une areas. beginning to bite hard. membered the hunger marches This month the town's big-

WEATHER

in the 1930s. employer C-cut down It was ten times worse than of apprentices by it is now. 100 to 60 a year.

IT WILL

be

DUT

mainly dry apart coming Modern

TATTOMSE

architecturally- from isolated showers in the east I have always taken great pride beautiful facilities built by the and south-east of ara. people sticking up council in the centre some light rain …leessite of Billingham stand out as a drizzle in extreme northern Scot- veneve right? sharp contradiction. Another shopper, young Thev are all far bevond the here will be some sunshine It's said: reach of the thous- sheltered westen districts Tein many nauseate Not very often you see young ands of unemployed youth in people organizing themselves the town. peratures will be about normal in fight for their rights? The first dav of marching the west, but it will be rather was undoubtedly a big success.

Trade backing cold in the east. Middlesbrough consisted of Nineteen - year - old George Spur, who gave out leaflets factory collections. Workers al said people

SONS

Conwed Lne Ltd and

ICI

donated shown real interest in its aims.

'Every working person around first eight miles of here hates the Tories. After the Print Cab PHR walking, the was march iner sW4 7UĞ busy ship,' sharch points the way horathe said. think passing through this time centre,

LOWL

I return to work-See p.11.

Soclalist Labour League

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

given by

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary) Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Sunday September 24 Nature of the capitalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historcal materialism today Sunday October 8

EAST HAM

TOWN HALL

Lister Room Barking Rd, 7 p.m. Nature of the capitalist crisis Tuesday September 19 Historical materialism today Tuesday September 26

AEU HOUSE

Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

LEEDS: Tuesday September 19, 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel (upstairs 'Lessons of room), Boar Lane. the building workers' strike and the Right to Work.' SHEFFIELD: Thursday Septem- ber 21, 7.30 p.m. Manchester Hotel, Street. 'The Nursery builders' pay claim and the fight against the Tory Rents Act.'

Sep- MANCHESTER: Thursday, tember 21, 7.30 p.m. The Milton Deansgate. 'Defeat the Hall, Tory Rent Act. WATFORD: Monday September 25, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall (upstairs Woodford room), Watford Junc Road (opposite station). 'Force the Tories to resign.' SOUTH WEST LONDON: Tues- day September 26, 8 р.т. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths. Clapham Manor Street, SW4. 'ATUA national confer- ence.'