Workers Press no. 872

workers press

RECESSION MEANS

MILLIONS STARVE

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE TOTAL outstanding de now amounts to close on £27,5 gross national product. The f underlines the forecast of risin tion for the colonial and semi international economic crisis.

SHEERNESS has been named as one of the new ports for the discharge of New Zealand meat. The announcement was made following the annual meeting on freight rates between the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, the New Zealand Dairy and the British Lines Board chairman, Mr D. G. Hollebone.

Already have arrangements been completed to send pilot of frozen ' and chilled cargoes meat through Sheerness where non-dock labour is employed in the cold stores. Both Sheerness and Avon- mouth will become the major meat importing centres while the Meat negotiator C. Hilgendorf at weekend meeting. is run down, Port of London throwing thousands of dockers out of work. In a letter to 2,000 Royal dockers employed in the New Zealand meat trade, Scrutton Maltby's and Lord Vestey's Thames Stevedoring have asked increase in 50-per-cent a productivity if any of the meat trade is to remain in the Royals.

But while they set out to hike dockers' productivity targets, the same companies go ahead with their plans to open Sheerness.

The meeting agreed to raise freight charges by a hefty 7 per cent. This will mean big increases in the price of New Zealand and other dairy products in Britain over the next year. A statement said that because of world inflation the increase *not unreason- considered was able' • The producers and ship- owners also agreed to hold six- reviews of the rates monthly because of the instability in world trade at present.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 197

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

ling debt of the underdeveloped countries on £27,500m, two-and-a-half times the British . The figure, released by the World Bank, of rising unemployment, poverty and starva- id semi-colonial countries as a result of the The World Bank was set up after the war as the main imperialist agency for so-called aid to the underdeveloped countries. It is domin- ated by the big American banks.

Headed by Robert McNamara, who was Johnson's the Lyndon right-hand man in counter-revolutionary Indo-China war, it industrial capital from the main channels and semi-colonial to the colonial powers countries. Last year the World Bank's total loans client key means of interest-bearing loans are a mically enslaving the recipient countries.

By concern, the World humanitarian the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America to a mountainous debt burden which requires more and more 'aid' simply to keep up the debt repay- ments. Even five years ago, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported that 87 cent of loans to Latin American countries were per used to pay debts and interest on old loans.

The figure is even higher today and by 1977 the that all its loans will World Bank has calculated immediately be swallowed up to pay interest on previous debts. The Bank warns that the increase in the rate of *serious debt foreshadows diffi- debt repayments culties in the future unless it is accompanied by a rapid increase in the export earnings of developing countries'. unequalled cynicism of this statement The would be difficult to match: far from export earn- increasing, they are plumetting at an ings precedented rate. and the Industrial recession in Europe, Japan United States has already taken a terrible toll in Prices of underdeveloped countries.

primary the coffee and iron roducts like copper, ore considerably and the market for these goods has shrunk. This means that precious foreign exchange is lost and their share of declines further. world trade and semi-colonial countries Where the colonial had a third of world trade in 1950, their share has now dropped to less than 20 percent.

dis- and the resulting The dollar devaluation ruption of monetary relations have intensified this

UNCTAD

crisis. Appeals, notably from the recent Santiago, 'equitable' conference in a more monetary system fell on deaf ears.

McNamara's report refers hypocritically to the grim realities of how life at the lower end of the This is what happened scale is lived by the poorest among nations and the lapsed during the war poorest within nations'. He and his big-business friends will that the certainly ensure sum total of misery and depriva- developed countries, therefore, tion in the underdeveloped coun- is not, as the Stalinists maintain, tries is increased to pay for the restricted 'democratic to crisis of world imperialism.

demands which the local capital- These moves are not separate ists are in any case quite the from the crisis in metro- incapable of carrying through.

where the politan countries ruling class is turning more and The road forward is in more towards Bonapartist repres- united fight with the workers America and Japan sion against the working class.

of Europe, and will imperialism Common Market entry to overthrow tighter establish the dictatorship of draw the noose even working class the which alone round the necks of both the of the economic workers and those can overcome colonial the backwardness of colonial western Europe. and semi-colonial countries.

The the under- struggle This is what happened in Biafra when cash aid col-

SHOP STEWARDS

representing boilermakers 5800 SLIKe the Swan Hunter's posal for a rear to work so prot rejected yards yesterday negotations could begin. Tho tho stewards made their ballot after a decision Dan hour meeting with president Tne УСУ, makers Society. The men stopped work a lort-

GUE

BY PHILIP WADE

ENGINEERING workers who have occupied a British- Leyland subsidiary at Basing- have stoke, Hampshire, refused to supply a UCS- style, no-strike agreement to its new owners. The occupation, at Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) began on August 15 in opposition plans to hive off the factory to the Eaton Corporation of Ohio.

It was clear from the outset that Eaton's—who paid Leyland £24m for the plant-had no real intention of keeping the factory going and employing the 1,200 workers. They announced from the beginning that they wanted to make redundant all those •em- non-transmission ployed on work. It was also revealed they only had a three-year lease on the 20 acre site. In the last few weeks Leyland management in Basingstoke has seized the initiative and sought out at their homes Thornycroft workers on the voluntary redun- dancy list. with *They had the cheques them and with the wives in the background persuaded the men to accept the terms,' Les Smart, the

ASTMS

representative on occupation committee, said yes- terday. Then at the meeting in York last month Eaton's blandly an- nounced they had enough redun- dancies for the present and asked for the occupation to be lifted.

•We said we wanted guarantees of job security for those workers retained. Eaton's replied they only give this until the could end of 1973, with the proviso 1 col-

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senting night being refused a ago On 17}-per-cent cost-of-living bonus.

ike in yneside More than 1,000 other shipyard workers have been laid off and a pro- work on orders worth more than so that £100m has been slowed down.

McGarvey claimed he had at- e their three- tempted to get the shop stewards 'more militant' McGar- into a way of Boiler- thinking. There is to be a mass which meeting tomorrow hopes will support the executive.

a fort-

workers press

RECESSION MEANS

MILLIONS STARVE

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE TOTAL outstanding de now amounts to close on £27,5 gross national product. The f underlines the forecast of risin tion for the colonial and semi international economic crisis.

SHEERNESS has been named as one of the new ports for the discharge of New Zealand meat. The announcement was made following the annual meeting on freight rates between the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, the New Zealand Dairy and the British Lines Board chairman, Mr D. G. Hollebone.

have Already arrangements been completed to send pilot chilled frozen ' and cargoes meat through Sheerness where non-dock labour is employed in the cold stores. Both Sheerness and Avon- become the major mouth will meat importing centres while the Meat negotiator C. Hilgendorf at weekend meeting. Port of London is run down, throwing thousands of dockers out of work. In a letter to 2,000 Royal dockers employed in the New Zealand meat trade, Scrutton Maltby's and Lord Vestey's Thames Stevedoring have asked in 50-per-cent increase for productivity if any of the meat trade is to remain in the Royals.

But while they set out to hike dockers' productivity targets, the same companies go ahead with their plans to open Sheerness.

agreed to raise The meeting freight charges by a hefty 7 per cent. This will mean big increases in the price of New Zealand and other dairy products in Britain over the next year. A statement said that because of world inflation the increase 'not unreason- was . The producers and ship- owners also agreed to hold six- of the rates monthly reviews because of the instability in world trade at present.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 19'

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

ling debt of the underdeveloped countries n £27,500m, two-and-a-half times the British . The figure, released by the World Bank, of rising unemployment, poverty and starva- id semi-colonial countries as a result of the The World Bank was set up after the war as the main imperialist agency for so-called aid to the underdeveloped countries. It is domin- ated by the big American banks.

Headed by Robert McNamara, who was right-hand Lyndon in the • Johnson's man Indo-Chinawat it counter-revolutionary from channels capital the main industrial the colonial and semi-colonial powers to countries. Last year the World Bank's total loans to its reached a record These client £1,300m. a key means of econo- interest-bearing loans are mically enslaving the recipient countries.

under the of By giving these loans guise the World Bank shackles humanitarian concern, the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America to a mountainous debt burden which requires more and more 'aid' simply to keep up the debt repay- five years ago, the International Bank for Even Reconstruction and Development reported that 87 per cent of loans to Latin American countries were used to pay debts and interest on old loans.

The figure is even higher today and by 1977 the has calculated that all its loans will World Bank immediately be swallowed up to pay interest on previous debts. The Bank warns that the increase in the rate of 'serious debt diffi- debt foreshadows repayments culties in the future unless it is accompanied by a rapid increase in the export earnings of developing countries'. unequalled cynicism of this statement The would be difficult to match: far from export earn- they are plumetting at an un- ings increasing, precedented rate. Industrial recession in Europe, Japan and the a terrible toll in United States has already taken Prices the underdeveloped countries.

of primary and iron have fallen considerably and the market for these like copper, goods has shrunk. This means that precious foreign exchange is lost and their share of world trade declines further.

Where the colonial and semi-colonial countries had a third of world trade in 1950, their share has now dropped to less than 20 per cent.

devaluation the dis- The and resulting dollar ruption of monetary relations have intensified this notably from the recent UNCTAD crisis. Appeals, Santiago, for 'equitable' conference in a more monetary system fell on deaf ears. refers hypocritically the McNamara's report to 'grim of how life at the lower end of the realities This is what happene scale is lived by the poorest among nations and the poorest within nations'. lapsed during the war He and his big-business friends will that the certainly ensure sum total of misery and depriva- developed countries, therefore, tion in the underdeveloped coun- as the Stalinists maintain is not, i tries is increased to pay for the restricted 'democratic' to crisis of world imperialism.

demands which the local capital- These moves are not separate incapable of carrying chroughute from the crisis in the metro- where the politan countries The road forward is in ruling class is turning more and more towards Bonapartist repres- united fight with the workers and Japan class. of Europe, America sion against the working will and Common Market to overthrow imperialism entry tighter establish the dictatorship of draw the noose alone the of both the the working class which round necks the workers and those of can overcome colonial colonial backwardness of the western Europe. and semi-colonial countries.

struggle in the under- The ER 19, 1972 No 872 0 40

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LE

• hanpened in Biatra when cash ¿ g the war there. STEWARDS rep

SHOP

boilermakers onl the Swan Hunter's rejected yards yesterday posal for a return to worl negotiations could begin.

The shop stewards by ballot decision Dan with vey, makers Societ • Society. The men stopped wor

AGUE

BY PHILIP WADE

ENGINEERING

workers who have occupied a British- Leyland subsidiary at Basing- have stoke, Hampshire, refused to supply a UCS- style, no-strike agreement to its new owners. The occupation, at Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) began on August 15 in opposition to plans to hive off the factory to the Eaton Corporation of Ohio.

It was clear from the outset that Eaton's-who paid Leyland £2tm for the plant-had no real intention of keeping the factory going and employing the 1,200 workers. They announced from the beginning that they wanted to make redundant all those em- non-transmission ployed on work. It was also revealed they only had a three-year lease on the 20 acre site. In the last few weeks Leyland management in Basingstoke has seized the initiative and sought out at their homes Thornycroft workers on the voluntary redun- dancy list. the cheques with "They had them and with the wives in the background persuaded the men to accept the terms, Les Smart,

ASTMS

representative on the occupation committee, said yes- terday. Then at the meeting in York last month Eaton's blandly an- nounced they had enough redun- dancies for the present and asked for the occupation to be lifted.

•We said we wanted guarantees of job security for those workers they retained. Eaton's replied could only this until the gIve end of 1973, with the proviso aid col-

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night ago on being refused a resenting strike : in 172-per-cent cost-of-living bonus.

Tyneside More than 1,000 other shipyard workers have been laid off and i a pro- work on orders worth more than k so that £100m has been slowed down.

ade their McGarvey claimed he had at- a three- tempted to get the shop stewards into a 'more militant' way of • McGar- thinking. There is to be a mass • Boiler- which meeting tomorrow he k a fort- hopes will support the executive.

Alf Garnett's back Students lead the attack on PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday Septemi UGANDA said yesterday it had retaken three towns lost to alleged Tanzanian invaders and confirmed that its planes attacked a Tanzanian town.

A Ugandan military spokes- man said the three towns— Mbarara and two smaller sites, Kyotera and Kalisizio, all in south Uganda-were western recaptured by air and ground forces. He said these units were now 'pushing Mutukula' very hard towards the Uganda- On Tanzania border. In Dar Es Salaam, a Tanzanian government spokesman said four people were killed in a Uganda aerial bombing raid on the northern town of Bukoba, situ- ated on Lake Victoria 20 miles south of the Ugandan frontier.

Bombs from one or two planes were said to have hit the market- place of Bukoba, which is one of the towns Ugandan president Idi Amin threatened with air force attack during last year's border fighting the between two countries. The bombing of Bukoba was the first incident near the com- East mon border of the two neighbours since African SOME 50,000 people at a rally in Dacca on • Sunday heard student leaders de- nounce 'Mujibism' at the biggest anti-Mujib gathering since in Bangladesh the country secured indepen- dence last December. The principle subject of the Minister rally, Prime Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, returned home last Thursday after seven weeks of medical treatment in Europe.

A key speaker at the rally, left- wing student leader Abdur Rab, warned Mujib: used in your 'You have speeches the metaphor of weapons. But have you ever used a weapon? We know how to use real weapons.' Rab, a former member of the Bahini guerrilla force, Mujib trained in India, now leads a the main splinter group from student organization in favour and 'scientific socialism of workers' rule'. His attack on the policies fol- lowed by Sheikh Mujib's bour- geois Awami League comes at a inflation and time of rampant widespread accusations of cor- ruption against League officials who are said to have engaged in wholesale smuggling of essential commodities to India. warned Awami Rab also League members of the Con- y Septomber 19, 1972 Uganda's claim-denied by Tan.

zania—that Tanzanian troops launched an invasion early on Sunday. Radio Uganda quoted President Idi Amin as telling a Libyan diplomat that Britain was planning to send troops to help Tanzanian invaders—since both London and Dar Es Salaam wanted to restore to power the General Amin ousted in man 1971, Dr Milton Obote. Tanzania and Britain, according to the Ugandan leader, believed Dr Obote would rescind General Amin's expulsion of non-citizen.

Asians. The first contingent of Asians from Uganda arrived in Britain yesterday to open what perhaps will be the biggest civilian air- lift in history. (See p. 12.)

Tanzania, whose president Julius Nyerere has refused to recognize the Amin regime and has given a home to Dr Obote, denies that its forces have crossed into Uganda. But there has been speculation in Dar Es Salaam that the invad- may have been com- ing force Posed of Ugandan refugees, mercenaries and anti-government guerrillas. stituent Assembly that unless they stopped taking relief goods 'the peasants and workers will make shoes from your skins'.

He accused Sheikh Mujib of failing to fulfil his pre-indepen- dence pledges, saying: 'Mujib said no one would be allowed to die of starvation after independence. Now people are dying of starvation in the vil- lages. Is this the golden Bengal he pledged?' THE SPANISH Public Order Tribunal in Madrid has stepped up the number of trials opponents of the Franco regime in the last year. A report shows that cases heard by the Tribunal included 587 for illegal propaganda, 282 for public disorder, 206 for illegal associations, 55 for insulting the head of state, 14 for sedition and for outrages against the one national flag. These figures do not include NO SYRIA was yesterday bracing to meet an and troops of the regular lebanese armv. Under its terms the guerrillas' supply lines which ano bases expected attack by Israeli troops the Arkoub close the frontier with area devastated southern Lebanon at the weekend.

the Lebanese govern- guaranteed by lol aci The attacks, allegedly to crush commando ment. Yesterday Palestine Liberation Organiza- bases, are in reality reprisals against Pales- accused the Lebanese army besieging tion tinian refugees, designed to impress Israel's Arab from guerrillas and them dispossessed military dominance baCk to Israeli withdrawal. Instead Lebanese army units Arabs living outside the borders of the have moved into the commando base areas.

Zionist state. erecting salu addition, Israel hopes barriers along roads In Torce The Sat The SolTi prevent and Lebanese to cut off assistance the guerrillas from to their old bases. in Damascus said the and of the the guerrilla take action against Its radio actions alreadi Lebanese dangerous ocen Cone anny were •rovocalve anu King Hussein. adding: 'These movements should stopped and of the Lebanon this the attack against the emergency should be appears Lebanon nave Chuc The right-wing Lebanese government has vio- emergency was not in force for sate Lebanon but for lated the Cairo facing the Israeli aggression on agreement guaranteeing the liquidation of commandos in Lebanon.'

the Palestinian ordered contanaos anu premier that them out or the boraer base areas.

1 1C auucu Salam Cairo was drawn in 1969 denying any had saeb been after a series of clashes between guerrilla forces issued deceptive and untrue. Salam should withdraw ultimatum resign. the radio said. Salam night concre aST with Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat, chairman thé

PLO

toured allu arcas

SOULI

which were invaded by Israel.

Cairo minis- council of terial the Federation o nao nevoucs meemnen wac Egyptian capital yesterday.

But the Seria na Liba, which groups Egypt, Syria and is enforce this demand, even if it wanted to. Rab charged that only handed over his arms to Sheikh the people getting crowd Tien were mne remains words. The army will not fire on the the Constituent statement Assembly (MCAs). people but if you encourage them goes the . council they take me ero or tae encerns Aleit you can providesa warning Israel that an attack on the ruling clique.' and hundreds thousands of Syria be regarded One of Rab's top lieutenants, as MCA's, why can- rupees for your Egypt Shahjehan Shiraj, warned: aul wal arallisl food for the you Libya as well. •rovide Mujib, Adve ocen people? ing us and taking Rab, who less than punitive action But of tour if we take action against you we montus aro Was Lull guerrillas who ceremonav can topple you In seven days.

those who are tried by military jailed he has because

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Farah, the in detention since. July been courts. which are becoming more dictatorial shan Meti 1971. active against intellectuals and Rawalpindi, yesterdas Last head of the on her first visit to After Soviet after visiting A military court has just sen- anter ne state medical military Pakistan capital, president Zul- Las Palmas six months' im- her fikar Ali Bhutto told her: 'We are barracks simsner insulting tour Spain and declared at prisonm visit is going to be Cellalllyoul Madrid airport: Marcelo's crime that most rewarding.' so happy to have visited wrote story entitled "The General's Uniform'® Set Spain when our The visit is a further step to-

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comatser Republic, it is South American wards cementing relations be- nothing tween Iran and the Peking friendship and unity between us?

Marcelo, however, will not be

Asians cash jumble Halifax busmen seeking pay parity BANKERS are eagerly watching the expulsion of the Ugandan Asian population which began yesterday. And their interests are clearly represented on the Uganda Resettlement Board by Sir Walter Coutts, former Governor of Uganda. Coutts has strong connec- tions in the City of London, He is best remembered for the 'strong man' role he played in long-running Pergamon affair when Mr 1 Robert Max- well, Labour MP, was ousted.

The Asians who hold a posi- tion of considerable economic dominance in Uganda have com- plicated problems money now expelled. that they being are General Idi Amin is keeping their exit allowance down to £50 per person-or less in some cases.

MUNICIPAL

busmen throughout the Halifax area of Yorkshire went on strike yesterday in support of a claim for £2 increase on basic rates. is being The increase demanded reduce the dis- to parity in earnings of about £5 with other local bus operators.

A management offer of fl. now, plus talks on productivity, was rejected overwhelmingly at the weekend. Pickets the Todmorden at depot-taken over by the Halifax corporation only last year-told Workers Press yesterday the WORKERS sitting in at the Beliot-Walmsley paper-making machinery plant in Wigan say they are determined to fight for a decent standard of living.

•dispute involving all 1,200 Ot of the US-owned firm's Lancashire employees at Wigan, Bolton and Bury-is now in its ninth week. The fight is for pay increases in line with the national engi- pay claim, but local neering union officials say the manage- ment is adopting an extremely hard-line attitude following the settlement of the claim at is national level. The firm refusing to negotiate until there is a return to normal working.

Only the Wigan factory has occupied been at present, atter what local engineers' union sec- retary Bill Brockstone described yesterday as 'fears that the police were adopting a less-than-neutral attitude' But the mass pickets are out every day at the other two fac- tories-particularly at the Bolton site. in July The dispute began when the workers decided to ban and overtime, work-to-rule black' outside work in support of demands for an increase in their consolidated time rate, a substantial rise in wages, extra holidays and shorter hours.

Management quickly suspended 30 at the Lodge Bank men works in Bury. The shop stewards and officials resolved the issue at Bury, only to find that the whole labour force at Bolton had been locked out. On hearing this, Wigan and both Bury plants walked out. In the fourth week of the dis- pute Beliot-Walmsley, announced the closure of the Lodge Bank works. Over the last 18 months the pan

BY ALEX MITCHE

This means that vast fortunes are locked away in Uganda and, because of tough exchange con- trols recently introduced, will be difficult to get out. The three banks who will be chiefly involved in unravelling this problem Standard, are Barclay DCO and Lord Alding- ton's National and Grindlays.

Being the resettlement on Coutts board will enable to directly advise on best ways. tor Asians to sort out their hinancial affairs. Coutts' business contacts with 'independent' Africa are exten- sive. He is a director of Assam and • African Investments, Mac- kenzie and Dalgety Company and Amgoorie Tea Company. Before the British were forced to quit Kenya, Coutts served in the

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strike was 100-per-cent solid.

li was unreasonable for the management to• refuse the £2 claim, they said. Others said the claim should have been higher. "This area has been cheap labour for too long. These local 'Operations room' at the occu- pied Wigan plant of Beliot-Walm- sley company has been engaged in big rationalization programme in which 500 jobs have been slashed from its British operation. Work has been transferred to its other sites in Canada, the US, Italy, Spain and Japan. year the Barley Brook Last works in Wigan shut, while this year before the strike the closure and sale of the Riverside works in Bury was announced, just six.

weeks after a management state- ment that no closures were expected for at least 12 months.

So there are two reasons for the 1,200 workers' determina- tion to fight on. At Wigan the sit-in is being organized on a shift basis, with 50 of the 450-strong labour force in occupation at any one time. The national engineering set- tlement has cut the ground from under the strikers' feet on their demands for shorter hours and substantial increase in earnings.

But they have no intention of returning to work on the com- the pany's terms.

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white, military-backed regime as Minister for Education, Labour and Lands. Coutts, of course, is not the only member of the board who ties with has close Ugandan business circles. Chairman Sir Charles Cunningham, the former permanent secretary at the Home Office, is a director of the pri- vate police firm, Securicor.

extremely Securicor has an and growing business in • large Uganda. In the past six years its number of police has grown to well over 2,000--almost as many as the regular police. Securicor's success has been • based on the fact that the police force, like the army, was riddled There is some with corruption. evidence that police officers were linked with robberies carried out

OWN CORRESPONDENT

good at all. agreements are no The union should go for national parity,' a picket commented.

Local Transport and General Workers' Union officials are con- tinuing their talks with manage- ment in an attempt to settle the

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Workers Press, Tuesdi by 'kondos' armed banditshe local name for Many firms decided to hire private police instead. Since the expulsion of the Asians was announced, Cunning- ham has stated that Securicor's Associated parent company, Hotels, will offer free accommo- dation to deportees. Among those hotels to be used by the British passport holders will be the Kensington Palace, the Prince of Wales, the Queens- land and the Parkway, all in west London. Associated Hotels have nine hotels in "London and company chairman Keith Erskine said the gesture was being made because deserved a friendly wel- they come'. Erskine made no mention of his company's enormously successful business activities in Uganda. Neither did he mention that a former director until the last General Election was Robert Carr, the new Home Secretary in charge of resettling the Ugandan Asians. Small world, isn't it! strikers are dispute, but the demanding no productivity sell- out. • Todmorden have men an added grievance. Since the Hali- fax takeover last year, route- times have been cut by five minutes each way without any increase in pay.

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ss, Tuesday September 19, 1972 PAGE 3

INTERVIEW BY KEEP LEFT

EDITOR GARY GURMEET

THE REAL

extent of the north east's unemployment is ' undoubtedly problem within the Young reflected Socialists' seven-day Right- to-Work march which began in Middlesbrough last Satur- day. Most of the youth on the march have given up all hope of ever finding work. Many of them are part of large families without a single 'bread-winner' in a job. Joe Lister (21), from South Shields has been unemployed for 18 months. His father was paid recently from the Middle Docks where he had worked for over ten years. In six years after leaving school, he says, he has. seen enough of the dole. 'I might as move my bed there, well at the employment office most of the time anyway. 'There is no hope of a job You can try different now. places day after day, but some- how you know the result before you apply. 'It's either the streets or you can stay in and become a house hermit.' Joe and his two other friends who àre also on the march have been in trouble with the police.

'If I had a job and money to out I would never be in trouble. But you can't explain policeman. That is that to a why there is so much violence among young people around here.

'Kids get bored doing nothing and they know there is nothing else. Lots of them hitch-hike around looking for work, but nothing. doing. I've been to London three times, but each time I came back worse off than I was when I left. 'Being on this march makes me feel good. We are not just fighting for ourselves, but for at work. everybody, even those Nobody is safe as long as the Tories. are in. We want the Tories out. And I think many people are beginning to realize there is no other way.

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Part 18 of a series on Picketing by Bernard Franks Blacklisting and 'surveillance' (ii) A vast network of com- puter files is being built and by both public up private bodies on tax, security, finance, social qualifica- health, work tions and other subjects which most people regard as their private own concern. No one knows for sure just to whom all this data is avail- able, but hire-purchase com- panies appear to be able to of check evidence 'credit- y September 10, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks worthiness' easily enough and the Home Office instructs police chiefs to pass on in- formation about convictions to professional and disciplinary bodies for the Civil Service, doctors, dentists, aircrews, of public drivers service vehicles and even the tem- porary Christmas postmen.

The recently published report of the Younger Com- mittee on Privacy listed a few of the spying devices and bemoaned the use of bugging boardroom for obtaining secrets, but naturally advised nothing that would prevent prying as a weapon of capital against labour. In the United States, check- ing on potential employees • tio an industry for companies is in itself, and, of course, the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion (FBI) has a huge sur- veillance system. Stolen FBI records published last year in showed the Washington Post' that spying. on dissidents at one Pennsylvania college in- volves the local police chief, the postmaster, •postmen, the college security officer and a telephone switchboard opera- tor. In Britain, the world's first instant nationwide, police system is records computer being built by EMI on an initial outlay of £250,000. It will involve a central records store at Hendon linked to 800 computer terminals at local stations all over the country.

The idea is that police on patrol can radio for informa-.

tion to local control rooms which will be linked to the Hendon store. According to a Financial Times' report, data will even- tually include 'several million names and descriptions, plus a code giving immediate manual access to files with more com- plete records'. The patrolman will get his information over the radio within one or two minutes. even more advanced An form is being used in Kansas City, USA, where the com- puter terminal—in the form of visual display screen - is a actually in the police car. In this case information, names and characteristics of people known to live at a certain address are on the screen within ten seconds of informa- es: tion being asked for.

The police claim that their only concern is with 'crime' as Labour MP Leslie but Huckfield commented recently: "The police could easily store on political sus- information pects and militant Post Office workers and militant engineers might have their names on file.'

arrested while Miners picketing outside Longannet power station in Scotland on February 14 were photo- graphed between two con- stables with their names set up in front of them. They were also fingerprinted. Along with the photographs of picketing dockers in East London pro- vided for the NIRC by private detectives this information will hardly avoid ending up in the Hendon police files. Recently engineering and building employers' organiza- tions have introduced compre- hensive information systems which could be used for black- listing and so on. In February this year, the building employers announced the formation of a building in- dustry surveillance system. The Employers' president of Federation said that the new Construction Security Service would liaise and collaborate with police forces throughout the country to reduce the un- wanted threat to building efficiency and progress that crime represented'. Measures taken included the establish- ment of a centralized system for distributing information to company security officers and the provision of professional on security sub- instruction jects. potice using Above: ar• now store files and computers to provide Instant racorde on mil lions of people Some right-wing organiza- tions specialize in collecting information and snooping on meetings and personalities of workers' organizations and cir- culating the material to sub- scribers. The Economic League, for example, sends out fortnightly news-sheets of this type, find- , conspiratorial reds ing under every bed, and attempting to victimize witch-hunt workers' leaders and socialists.

Thousands of leaflets were distributed by this organiza- tion in an attempt to smear the Young Socialists' Right-to- Work marches. As an article in Workers Press in May showed, the Economic League is a creature of big business, its funds coming from major companies like Leylands, Barclays Bank, GKN, ICI, Whitbreads, Rootes, and so on, and its leadership reading like a 'Financial Times' and Tory Party roll of honour.

Another public body which indulges in regular snooping activities is the Department of Social Security, with its secret force of 'special investigators' for spying on claimants — especially women thought to be 'cohabiting'and its files and dossiers on the 'workshy'.

and all Rent assessors manner of council snoopers will receive a major boost to their activities when the Tory rents policy is allowed to operate.

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Pakistan industry is facing a slump in profits and strikes are becoming increasingly fre- quent and bitter. The loss of the captive market in Bangla- desh, the former East Pakistan, has been a big blow. With a weak export position and a world trade slump there is much excess capacity, although the masses live in poverty and desperately need more consumer goods. Many of Pakistan's super- rich, belonging to the 22 families' which dominate the economy, would sell out their holdings if they could find a buyer. President Bhutto's demagogy has aggravated their fears. His last January announcement that ten year industries were to be 'nationalized' turned out to be a fake. It was done more to bring some of the indus- trialists into line after the defeat in the war with India than anything else. His promise of 'a new deal for labour' has turned out to (be equally empty. Meanwhile, President Bhutto. Empty promise of a ne the working class has been in unprecedented ferment the strike wave shows no sign of subsiding. The big industrialists, who enjoyed a bonanza under Ayub Khan, are obliged to accept Bhutto because at the moment they • can see no alternative.

And the President is just as dependent upon the support of the 22 families which own two-thirds of the country's se of a now deal for labour Industries and 80 per cent of bank capital. If they should withdraw their support there would be economic chaos bringing the collapse of his regime. Equally, Bhutto tries to retain the sup- port of the trade unions and the working class by forcing the employers to make some It is doubtful concessions. whether this uneasy balance can last much longer. Workers Press, Tuesd It was a worried Presi- dent Tito who spoke in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the first big battle of the partisans at Kozara in Bosnia, one of the main centres of the partisan movement. Faced with difficulties created by his continual right- ward shifts and compromises, the ageing Yugoslav leader tried to use the memories of the national liberation struggle to suggest the need for a new effort to overcome them. He began with a reference to the national question which, in the last year has threatened to tear Yugoslavia apart. He called on the League of Com- munists to purge its ranks of all opportunists and to pre- serve brotherhood and unity between the different nation- alities. He did not explain how a strong separatist movement supporters inside the with League of Communists had arisen in Croatia and other. parts of the federal republic.

Tito made a special appeal for support from the former organized in the partisans veterans' federation. He called them to rehabilitate the on principles of democratic centralism 'which • Like British politician appealing for a revival of the Dunkirk spirit, he asked his listeners to fight today for the long-term pros- pects of development as the partisans had fought. He went on to make sharp attacks on a number of fea- tures of Yugoslav life — as though • the policy he had A has Japanese team now begun prospecting for oil and in Siberia jointly with gas geologists Soviet and technicians. The Japanese dele- headed by gation president of the Overseas Petroleum Corporation. Soviet deputy Foreign Trade Minister, Ivan Grishin, told a visiting Japanese parliamentary delegation that the Soviet wanted long Union term credits from Japanese business for a period of some 15 years to develop Siberian oil reserves.

Unable to develop industry and transport in the region, owing to its own mismanage- ment and the baneful effects of "socialism in one country', the bureaucracy is now throwing open Soviet territory to the predatory activities of the profit-hungry Japanese mon- opoly capitalists. 355, Tuesday September 19, 1972 PAGE 5 pursued had not been respon- sible for them. He criticized the café-talkers and those con- cerned with private enrichment who built villas to let for rent and owned several cars. At the same time he admitted that Yugoslav workers still many lived in poverty: there should, he said, with reformist hypo- crisy be a 'solidarity fund' to assist them. As a figurehead, Tito is still indispensable to the Yugoslav bureaucracy and no doubt his criticisms were not taken too seriously. It was clear from his speech that real control over developments in the country had slipped beyond his grasp.

The aspects of life which he criticized most vigorously are precisely those in which the party and state bureaucracy is most deeply involved. His criticisms of individual enrichment, weekend villas and living in general privileged must have evoked some cynical smiles from the bureaucrats and not a little anger from the working class, hundreds of thousands of whom have had to seek work in capitalist countries. Tito himself lives in the style of a feudal grandee with palaces, hunting lodges, yachts When it comes and the rest. to privileged living, he is in no position to criticize his imitators throughout the bureaucracy. On his trips abroad he hobnobs with capi- talist politicians and million- aires, the enemies and butchers of the working class. His return to the scene of the partisan struggle seems to have filled him with foreboding about the future of the coun- try, suffering as it is from the insuperable which problems are the main legacy of his rule.

There are signs that Japanese car exports, which have soared facing in recent years, are increasing resistance in the markets of the world.

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Eiji Toyoda, president of the Japan Automobile Manu- facturer's Association, thinks that yen revaluation has reduced the competitive edge of Japanese car and truck ex- ports. He also told the Prime Minister that exports to Europe were not being stepped up to offset a fall in sales to the US.

Despite Toyoda, who heads the Toyota Motor Company, his rivals, Nissan, are to put up prices in Britain and the Netherlands to prevent an excessive rise in shipments.

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What is certain is that there will be intensified competition with the weaker manufacturers going to the wall. The Japanese carmakers are not going to be among them if they can help it.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday September 1 By Philip Wade To millions of workers, Tory talk about 'equal opportunity' in housing means a chance to con- tinue living in slum con- ditions under the rack of private landlords who stand back and reap their profits. The rights the Tories under- stand are those which sanctify the private ownership of land and property, rights which are used to batten down and exploit workers seeking decent housing. In the East End of London, Tuesday September 19, 1972 200 workers and their families are fighting the battle of their lives against slum conditions which almost defy description.

The 'Dwellings' we visited were built 112 years ago in 1860 and in their time would have been considered as flats for artisans and fairly 'upright' of the labour aris- sections tocracy. The conditions the tenants now have to endure and bring up children in almost dely description. It seems as if every effort is being made unsuccessfully -to crush their dignity. Many walls are rotted with London, damp and mildew and some ceilings are collapsing with the damp. There are no bathrooms, no caretaker, no hot water and cramped dangerous kitchens (where the only toilet is situ- ated.) The electric points and are dangerous and wiring tenants claim illegal. The drains are all blocked, which means that sinks and toilets are often filled to overflowing point with rubbish and filth of all descriptions. Huge communal dustbins stand open in the grounds without any cover. The court- themselves are full of yards cracked paving. Rats, bugs, fleas and mice freely roam these friendly con- about in ditions. There are few if any lights on the stairways and darkness has led to a number of accidents. In these degrading conditions workers still have to live and work But they not on. are taking the lying down. Brian and Pauline Callaghan recently decided with friends to form an action com- demand mutted ine Labour council Tower in Hamlets compulsorily purchase and in the mean- their slums time provide aecent lacintes for people to carry on living.

Ton left. Brian and Pauline laghan who formed a committee demand Council action. Right: alleyway. chen and toilet in the same room cramped, dangerous and unsanitary conditions. "These flats are in a terrible state,' Pauline told me, shortly before leading a delegation to the council's housing and man- agement committee to demand action. 'One of the worst things 1S when all the rubbish and filth trom the sewers comes straignt up into our sinks. We can do nothing about it at all. In fact, men who were trying to fix the sewers and aralls gave up the end because they were in such a terible state. "The thing same the regularly in toilets. can people live in these con- ditions?' she asked. 'Until we fixed it we had fungus in the baby's room and there is no daylight in any of the bedrooms. In the winter it gets so damo in my son's room we have to move him out. You see, there are no electric points the heater can't be put on.

'We had to put in our own But hot water. many people, Workers Press, Tuesday So especially the old age pensioners, have to do with- out. You have the toilet in the same room as the kitchen. And once the toilet door opened on the cooker and I burned all my arms as a result.' Just as Pauline was telling me about the lack of lighting • Joe Lonsdale on the stairs, from a neighbouring block in and verified came an accident that happened to his wife. 'When my wife was eight months pregnant she fell down the stairs when an ambulance- to take her man came to hospital. It was all because there was no light on the stairs. The ambulanceman went down with her,' he told me. Said Brian Callaghan, a docker in the Royal Group: 'Everything about these flats is illegal. Take the wiring. It is all pre-war and the mains is which is against wood-based regulations.' Brian and his wife have lived there for four years. 'We had to have a place when we got married like any other couple.' 'Everyone's got different names in their rent books and it seems impossible to find out 18 Pross, Tuesday September 19, 1972 PAGE 7 1. who the landlord is,' he added.

week, They pay • £3.84 bedroom flat. Others pay con- siderably more. To pay rates is an insult considering the state of the rubbish bins outside in the yards. Pauline showed me three large containers, standing open between two blocks. 'You can't let the kids out in the summer for fear of the diseases they might get,' she said.

'We just want to live decently and without fear. I just would like somewhere private to have a wash if I want to. Like this it is unbear- able.' Added Brian: They just collect the rents until the land value goes up and then sell it to the highest bidder. 'Labour councils should take over all the flats belonging to landlords. But the private Labour government once promised they would national- ize the docks and they broke their word. 'They should nationalize the land as well, but will they? It's like the docks. How can you force people to do some- thing when it goes to the executive council and that's that?'

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Septen As World War II drew towards a close, that old imperialist war-horse, anxious that the capitalist powers should hold on to as much of Europe as possible. He urged that the western armies should be driven as far as they could go into the centre Europe along the enclosing edges of Europe and then kept in place, in full strength, in order to keep the Soviet Union 'in line' Churchill declared: 'Before the Anglo-American| armies retire from any ground they have gained from the enemy, over and beyond the zones of occupation agreed upon, the political issues operative at that time should be discussed between the heads of govern- ments." In Europe the capitalist nations were particularly con- Poland, cerned about which bordered Germany on the west and the Soviet Union on the east. The Americans were more particularly concerned about the Pacific war against Japan and the future relations of the United States and the Soviet Union towards China. They were less eager for a show-down with the Soviet Union over Europe than was Churchill, partly because they had more faith in the possibility of a deal with Stalin, but also because they knew they were getting close to perfecting the atomic bomb. Henry Lewis Stimson, US Secretary of War and chairman of the Interim Committee con- cerned with the production and use of the atomic bomb, knew that its possession would be 'a master card' in the Americans' hand. But, until the bomb was perfected, the Americans were to play for time, prepared meanwhile, being anxious to establish how much co-oper- ation they could expect from Stalin in both Europe and the Far East. For this reason President Harry Truman dispatched Harry American diplomat Hopkins on a special mission to Moscow-to talk directly with Stalin and Molotov. Hopkins arrived in Moscow on May 5, 1945. Stalin immediately raised the question of Poland. He claimed that twice in 25 years Russia invaded through had been so he now wanted a Poland, 'friendly' Poland. (He said nothing about the Molotov - Ribbentrop pact which in 1939 had cleared the way for the division of Poland between Russia and Germany.)

He declared that 'there was no intention on the part of the Soviet Union to interfere in Poland's internal affairs, that Poland would live under the Churchill, Truman and Stalin at the Yalt parliamentary system which is like Czechoslovakia, Belgium and Holland, that any talk of intention Sovietize to an Poland was stupid. 'Even some of the Polish leaders, who were communists, were against the soviet system since the Polish people did not desire collective farms or other aspects of the soviet system. In this the Polish leaders were right, since the soviet system not exportable-it must was develop from within on the basis of a set of conditions were not present in which Poland." At Yalta, in February 1945, the heads of state of Russia, Britain and the United States had agreed on ways whereby the Polish provisional govern- ed ment, formed by the com- munist Workers' Party, was to be reorganized so as to qualify for recognition by the United States and Britain. Churchill, particularly, was anxious to have governments hostile to the Soviet Union along its borders. The declaration on Poland from Yalta that emerged declared that the government should be 'reorganized on broader democratic basis'. This meant the inclusion of leaders Churchill, Truman and Stalin at the Yalta conference where they agreed to reorganize the Polish government of other than the parties Within Poland and from Poles Party, from Workers' abroad. The West particularly wished to place in the Polish govern- Stanislow Mikolajczyk,

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former Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile and still its dominant political figure. Stalinist, Boleslaw Blerut The President of the Warsaw Stalinist The declared that Boleslaw Bierut, his government alone had the support of the Polish people, but that, in order to receive and British Amen Con 100 d they were and aid, economic prepared admit represent- atives from other parties.

reed to reorganize the Polish government This referred to the Peasant Party, the Socialist Party, the Christian Labour Party and the National Democratic Party. All of parties wanted these Mikolajczyk as Prime Minister.

Stalin, however, was deter- mined to secure the borders of the Soviet Union. But he was prepared to compromise with the West on the com- position of the Polish govern- ment. When the composition of the Polish provisional government of national unity was announced on June 28, 1945, one-third of its top posts went to men who had not been in the Warsaw government. Mikolajczyk was deputy Prime Minister. Stalin's policy was to defend Soviet Union by bureau- cratic means. That is, he dia not regard a social revolution in Poland as a desirable means of defence. Instead, he sought to establish a 'new democracy' on the basis of the old property relations, utilizing bourgeois social-democratic poli- and ticians in collaboration with loyal Stalinists. However, it was impossible to retain these 'governments of national unity' and private property in the means of pro- on a 'broader democratic basis' duction on the borders of the Soviet Union, especially in the conditions of upheaval that existed in 1945. The pressure of the masses the broke through and Stalinists were reluctantly forced to break with their bourgeois allies and take over the property. In addition, the maintenance 'national of unity' with politicians like bourgeois Mikolajczyk and the consolid- ation of private property would have meant an influx of western capital, the consolid- ation of eastern Europe in the •western sphere and thus con- stitute an economic as well as a political thireat to the Soviet Union. The agreement reached at Yalta and at the later San Francisco could conterence, not, therefore, be maintained despite the best intentions of Joseph Stalin. And in Asia, Stalin's efforts to retain the old political and social relations were also doomed to failure.

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1 Winston S. Churchill 'Triumph and Tragedy' p. 513.

= Robert E. Sherwood 'Roose- velt and Hopkins, an Intimate History' p. 900.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Shortly after she moved into a prominent position in the Provisional IRA, Miss Maria McGuire admitted that her new- found colleagues suspec- ted her of being a Special Branch infiltrator. 'They wondered if I was joining for kicks, Miss • McGuire told interviewers from the now-defunct 'Ink' magazine. 'The Continental affair won me quick acceptance as a working member.' This is à surprising state- ment, especially since the 'Con- tinental affair'—when McGuire and leading Provo David O'Connell travelled to Amster- dam to take delivery of a con- signment of Czech arms—was engineered and then thwarted before the world's capitalist press by British intelligence.

But whether McGuire is a Special Branch agent or not is irrelevant since her latest actions are completely in line with the requirements of the ruling class in Britain and Ireland. By breaking from the IRA and rushing to the capitalist press with her murky memoirs, McGuire has struck a blow against the oppressed peoples of Ireland and simultaneously given aid to the repressive British army actions. Broken ranks In January this year Workers Press attention to •drew McGuire's vociferously anti- working class, anti-socialist ideas. At the time there was a chorus middle-class and of Women's Lib opinion that we had treated this 'heroine' of the Irish cause unjustly. Now, in the capitalist press each Sunday, McGuire spews out to the venomous prose acclaim of that paper's Tory readership ... for an undis- closed fee. The Provisionals have re- acted with anger and hurt that McGuire has broken ranks and betrayed them. But it is illumi- nating to ask how • they ever let her into the inner sanc- tums of their command. After all, McGuire never made any attempt to hide her views.

In the January 'Ink' article she said: 'There's too much bloody emotion here. I tell people I'm tired of them sob- bing in their, whiskey. They should get up from their bar stools and fight." (This puritanism is forgotten in her 'Observer' memoirs where she reveals that during her arms-buying mission to Europe she met O'Connell 'in the bar where we drank a lot of Irish whiskey'). The 'Ink' article also clearly showed the sort of political she was taking: direction 'Dublin is the centre of all activity and too many suppor- expect Dublin to make ters even the most minor organiza- tional decisions. I think that we need regional organization on Nazi lines. By that I mean that we should use the Nazi ideal of disciplined organiza- tion down to street levels.'

McGuire need not explain to us what she means by organ- ization on Nazi lines. In the 1930s communists were beaten to death by the Black Shirts and their predecessors, the Shirts, in Nazi Brown Germany. In the 'next breath she hostility to her expresses socialism: 'We lurch towards socialism —but Marxism isn't our aim.'

Or again on her rejection of the Official IRA: "They are pseudo-intellectual Marxists.

They do nothing.' And again on her political leanings: "There is common ground between the two groups (the Provisionals and the Rev Paisley's party). secret to Paisley and there signs of some have been success. Paisley moves with the times and has proved to be the most able politician in Ireland. A bargain is not out of the question. So as early as January this year, at least publicly, McGuire had developed certain attitudes which could be defined as anti- Marxist, anti-communist, veer- ing extremely right wing.

But not only was McGuire to remain in the permitted Provisional movement on this publicly-stated basis, she was actually fêted. She spoke at rallies and carried out impor- tant central tasks for the military command. Indeed, at the pinnacle of her stay in the Republican movement she was a confidante of its leading members. It would be entirely justi- fiable if a senior member of Provisionals decided to the from the organization break on politically principled grounds. In some senses it has been a miracle that the top echelons have stayed together despite the fact that it has swung outright terrorism to from complete crawling before the Tories. Ulster Secretary, Wil- liam Whitelaw. McGuire's decision to leave the Provisionals has, of course, not an iota of such principle.

She has rushed to the bour- geois press, the unmistakable the Irish working enemy of class, and revealed intimate information on the state of the movement. At the same time blurting valuable out material for British intelligence, Above: Maria McGuire with lead ing Provisional IRA man, David O'Connell she has shrilly attacked the IRA for reasons that will only reinforce all the prejudices of the middle class against the struggle of the Irish working class to free itself from British imperialism. Although McGuire denied in the Provisionals she was "just for kicks', it's difficult to make this very con- not clusion after reading the first section dealing with the talks with Whitelaw, the ceasefire and the restart of hostilities.

Some excerpts will suitably «demonstrate this: Thinking it over 'Dave [O'Connell] was elated with the understanding he had Whitelaw, whom he with admired and respected. He certainly had a lot more time for Harold for him than Wilson, whom he had met in Dublin a few months earlier.

During those truce days Dave Whitelaw busy and were throwing bouquets at each other and we had quite a lot : of fun looking in the papers at the nice things they were say- ing about each other. cried when the truce ended. It was the first time for a long while that I had had think about chance to a things ... With the end of the truce, we were almost re- lieved to get back to what we understood. 'At about this time I began to think about leaving the movement. I decided to go to Madrid—where I had lived for three years and have many friends—to think things over.

It was after she 'thought over' that McGuire things decided to defect, come to an undisclosed address in England and tell the 'Observer' the in- side story on the Provisionals.

We have our sharp political criticisms of the Provisionals.

The McGuire experience is full confirmation of this criticism.

Their narrow ultra-nation- alist policies, their long-stand- ing refusal to build revolu- tionary leadership to lead the working class, has resulted in the formation of a petty- bourgeois, militarist clique.

Such an organization cannot meet the attacks of imperialism and lead the emancipation of the Irish working class. What it will do, however, is attract disoriented middle-class psychology students like McGuire. same time we are At the duty-bound to defend the Pro- visionals from imperialist at- from tacks-and the press witch-hunts now given more impetus by McGuire. Workers Press, Tuesday September 19, 1972 PAGE 9 lems might well have missed When the Marathon deal at away at Clydebank was signed on a small item tucked 5. the Communist the bottom of page 3 of last August Party's 'Morning Star' was in Star'. Thursday's •Morning declared, Hopes This

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Among those thousands of workers who stopped work when the five dockers were jailed were the printworkers and were published no newspapers during including this period, the newspapers of the working class. This branch feels that in this period when any issue can blow up into a major class conflict with the Tory government, it is a matter of extreme urgency that 'Morning Workers Press, Star' and other workers' papers are granted a special dispensa- tion to print in such a situation in order to combat the political propaganda that is used by the Tories and the employers against the working class with all the other of propaganda means that they have at disposal. their A similar motion has been passed by the engineering union's Woodside, Glasgow, branch and ВВС 1 9.38-12.30 Schools. 1.00-1.25 Ar y trywyda. 1.30 Trumpton. 1.45- 1.53 News and weather. 2.00-2.50 Schools. 4.10 Play school. 4.35 Adventures of Parsley. 4.40 Jack- anory. 4.50 Deputy dawg. 4.55 5.20 John Animal magic. Craven's newsround. 5.25 Scoby doo. 5.45 News and weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

TOM AND JERRY. Jerry's 6.45 diary. 6.50

FILM:

'THE

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GENCE MEN. Eric More- cambe, Ernie Wise. Eric and Ernie go to work for MI5. 8.30

MY WIFE NEXT DOOR.

The Nearness of You. New comedy series. 9.00

NINE

O'CLOCK NEWS.

Weather.

DOCUMENTARY: ' THE

9.25 BLOCK'. Poverty in to- day's Welfare State. 10.45

MIDWEEK-

11.30

LATE NIGHT NEWS.

11.35

THE OPEN PERSUADERS.

Joan Bakewell interviews , economist. Barbara Ward 11.57 MEDICINE TODAY. Anti- cogulants. ВВС 2 11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.35-7.05 Open University.

'REVIEW".

8.00 PICK

OF Theatre and Dance.

WHEELBASE.

8.55

'CIDER

LAURIE LEE'S

9.25 WITH ROSIE'. With Rose- Common Market cook book. Funı 1.45 Mad Shir 12.45 Dangerman. movies. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 Lon- don. 3.00 Delta. 4.00 Dr Simon Locke. 4.25 London. 5.20 Shir- ley's world. 5.50 London.

6.00 Cross- Calendar, weather. 6.35 7.00 Cartoon. 7.05 roads. McCloud. 8.30 My good woman.

London. 12.15 Scotland 3.15 9.00 Yard mysteries. 12.50 Weather. 1.25 GRANADA: 9.30 London.

12.15 5.50 Grasshopper island. 12.30 Gal- 1.00 Rainbow gourmet. loping . country. 1.30 Junkin. 2.00 Won- derful world. 3.00 Saint. 3.55 Dr Simon Locke. 4.20 News. London.

ing. 5.20 peyton Place. 5.00 London.

6.00 News. Put it in writing. 6.25 Dick Van Dyke. 7.00 Cartoon. .40- festival. 7.05 Film: 'Cutter'. 8.30 My good woman. 9.00 London.

5.20 TYNE TEES: 9.30 London. 12.15 Re- Alexander the greatest.

12.50 Edgar Wallace. 1.45 Jimmy Ste- wart. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 Amazing world of Kreskin. 2.59 News. 3.00 Gannon. 3.55 2.15 Calling Doctor sent to the executives of the AUEW and print unions. (The branch has also agreed the to send two delegates to the October 22 conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance in Birmingham.) Members of the Wimbledon, National Union south London, of Railwaymen's branch have unanimously passed a similar dis- pensation resolution and copies will be sent to the NUR south district committee, the west executive committees of the print and electricians' union and the Merton Trades Council. Tunbridge Wells All Trades Unions Alliance public meeting, attended by Creffield workers and Labour Party members, has passed the following resolu- tion: "This public meeting calls for from special dispensation the • print unions for the Workers Press and "Morning Star" as daily organs of the working class, to be published during industrial disputes? The Croydon council of action conference last Saturday unani- carried a resolution mously demanding that dispensation be given to the Workers Press and 'Morning Star' to enable them to continue publication in event of a strike in the printing industry. The Brixton No. 1 branch of Construction, Union of the Allied Trades and Technicians has called specifically on the EC of SOGAT for dispensation for Press and the the • Workers 'Morning Star' and any other labour movement papers in the during industrial action by print- workers.

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9.30 Schools. 12.00 Magic ball.

12.10 Sound of. 12.25 Women to- day. 12.50 Craftsmen. 1.15 Bell- bird. 1.25 Felix the cat. 1.40 Flint- stones. 2.05 Castle haven. 2.30 Good afternoon! 3.00 Charlie Brown show. :3.30 Danger man.

4.25 Sooty show. 4.50 Magpie.

5.20 | dream of Jeannie. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.30 CROSSROADS.

6.55 MY GOOD WOMAN.

7.25 FILM: 'APACHE RIFLES'.

Audie Murphy. Apaches flee from their reservation

9.00 ARMCHAIR

THEATRE.

Franklin's Farm. Maureen Prior, Shane Briant. 10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

10.30 James

HOME JAMES.

Mason Turns Again to Huddersfield.

PROFESSIONAL WREST-

11.30

LING.

: THE TOO DIFFICULT'

12.15

FILE.

mary Leach as Mother. 11.00 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.05 THE OLD GREY WHISTLE

TEST. The Everly Bro- Billy Joel and others. Funny Face. 4.25 London. 5.20 Shirley's world. 5.50 London. 6.00 7.00 6.35 Crossroads. Today. Cartoon time. 7.05 McCloud. 8.30 • good woman. 9.00 London.

My 12.15 News. 12.30 Scotland Yard 1.05 Junkies mysteries. are people too. SCOTTISH: 9.30-12.15 London.

3.10 Horoscope. 3.15 Women to- day. 3.40 Nanny and the pro- 4.10 Enchanted house. fessor. 4.25 London. 5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 5.50 London. 6.00 Crossroads. Scotland today. 6.30 Cartoon. 6.40 Adam Smith. 7.10 Columbo.

8.30 My good woman. 9.00 Lon- : don. 12.00 Late call. GRAMPIAN: 10.58 London. 12.15 Dick Van Dyke. 12.45 Dangerman.

1.30 Cartoon. 1.38 Schools. 2.57 3.30 News. 3.00 Let's face it.

Survival. 4.00 Lucy show. 4.25 London. 5.20 Flintstones.

5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.10 Top Team. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Car- toon time. 7.05 McCloud. 8.30 My good woman. 9.00 London.

WEST LONDON: Tuesday Sept- ember 19, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert, Wharfedale Road, Cross, Kings N.1. LEEDS: Tuesday September 19, 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel (upstairs room), Boar Lane. 'Lessons of the building workers' strike and the Right to Work.' SHEFFIELD: Thursday Septem- ber 21, 7.30 p.m. Manchester Hotel, Nursery Street. The builders' pay claim and the fight against the Tory Rents Act.'

MANCHESTER: Thursday, Sep- Hall Leansgate. Defeat the Milton •Hall, Deansgate. Tory Rent Act. WATFORD: Monday September p.m. Trade Union Hall 25, 8 Woodford (upstairs room); Road (opposite Watford Junc station). 'Force the Tories to resign.' SOUTH WEST LONDON: Tues- day September 26, 8 p.m. Hall, Clapham Manor Small Baths. Clapham Manor Street, 'ATUA national confer- SW4. ence.' HOUNSLOW: Thursday Septem- ber 28, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Bath Road.

Ron's 9 months alarm judges Monday Club prepares for influence at Conservative conference Right-wing Tories' economy Ron Bowler: Balled THE RIGHT-WING Monday blueprint for Britain at a specia

THE POWERFUL

Road Haulage Association has told the Confederation of British Industry that it cannot sup- port another round of the so-called prices 'freeze'.

The 17,000 members of the association have recommended to review the charges 'without delay. RHA chairman John Wells says in a circular letter to the members that a rise in costs is to blame for the higher rates.

Wells says: "So great is the burden of costs at present falling on members that the Association has informed the CBI that it cannot support the extension of the price-restraint policy.

strongly recommend all members undertake this to review and to discuss rates with their customers as soon as pos- this sible. In raising rates at • be a risk of time there may losing some traffic. But the reten- tion of jobs which are completely unremunerative can never be justified and those which are only marginally better may not be worth keeping.' He concluded: 'Road haulage, being both labour-intensive and itself highly-competitive, finds any longer unable to cushion artificially low rates.' This decision by RHA is a further clear indication of the massive wave of price increases due over the next few months.

COMMANDER Ernest Bond, former head of the Angry Brigade bomb squad, denied in the Old Bailey yesterday that he had developed an obsession about the case.

He was being cross-examined by one of the defendants in the Stoke Newington Eight bomb conspiracy trial. John Barker (23), a translator, asked Bond if his findings that the suspects.

were connected with the Angry Brigade started with his files. ne

LINCOLN

bus conductor, in the case were sent to the Ronald Bowler, sentenced to judge by the Crimina. Appeal Office at the High Court.

nine months' jar for allegedly In that sense the interven- stealing 6р fare money, was tion very much like the was freed on bail yesterday. way the Official Solicitor came The bail order was made in dockers' case into several weeks ago and secured London by Mr Justice James Old their release. at Bailey. Although the there was no formal application Busmen at Lincoln staged a 24-hour strike in protest against by Mr Bowler's lawyers, papers

BY IAN YEATS

Londay Club yesterday unveiled its economic a special briefing in London's Press Club.

Club chairman G. K. Young told reporters the 27-page document, 'State and Economy: The need for a Tory Rethink', had been drawn up in consultation with highest circles in the Tory government and among bankers.

Tory Trade and Industry Minister John Davies has given advice and there had been discreet talks with officials at the Bank of England. Young said the Monday Club, which at the weekend marched with the National Front against the Ugandan Asians, planned a strong bid for increased influence at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. He claimed the policy document had been rushed out as a challenge to the government.

Club member and prospective Tory candidate Harvey Proctor said that a large number of the economic resolutions before the conference next would be characterized by free market month concepts. In a ten-point plan, the Monday Club states that entry into the Common Market must be pre- the freeing of all controls on currency to faced by allow maximum freedom of capital movements.

It demands the denationalization of all state- owned enterprises including the Bank of England, an end to lame-duck subsidies and the replacement of Social Security benefits with a loans system.

Drastic changes in Britain's tax structure are proposed to provide the highest incentive to busi- nessmen and workers. In. a ruthless assessment of economic realities, the Club says a point is reached where markets become saturated. 'Attempts to prolong the upward movement of a cycle for reasons such [production] the main- tenance of full employment may well be counter- productive', it says. According to the document the answer un- Monday Club chairman employment is large-scale retraining programmes and the immediate repatriation of all immigrants. Red Moloch of ings to the Typical of the Club's language socialism. is this passage: 'And Tory ministers have no 'There is still time in the life other course. of the present parliament to set 'If they do not take it, there in train a series legislative will be the same tale as in 1964 and administrative at such and 1966: they will lose cred- alls a pace that if a future sociaiist ibility with the loyal rank and file of their party and at the next regime tried to reverse them, the British people would resist and General Election, ( disillusioned attempt strike back Conservative electors will abstain at any offer up their livelihood and sav- in their millions.' vestigations of the bombing of Mr Carr's house?

FROM OUR OWN

Barker: These kinds of political

CORRESPONDENT

were being made, but on Palac the whole developed Stuart Christie and Ian around Stuart Christie on obsession and Ian Purdie when you started Purdie and the advice of the with these Special Branch. two names and all your inquiries to do with (Christie is one of the Eight friends and of associates these Purdie and Ian was two people. Is that true?

defendant in a bomb conspiracy Bond: That is quite wrong. which he was trial last year in But his friend, Jake acquitted. The trial of the four man and Prescott, was given 14 years' jail.)

four women accused of conspir- In Bond Not reply said: ing to cause explosions in London necessarily. This started from in- and other cities is continuing.

Workers Press, Tuesday September 19, 1972 PAGE 11 the sentence on Mr Bowler.

on a scale likely to turn the law into an The big wigs in the judiciary Fearful that 'law and order were clearly very alarmed by will get a bad name, Mr Bowler For ex- savage sentence. is to be freed to appeal.

"Daily Telegraph' ample, the After his release Mr Bowler complained an editorial in said: 'I had started my life in yesterday: the prison. I had begun work 'Nine months' imprisonment in the laundry. I had been told for a crime of these dimensions I would go to an open prison in two or three weeks' time?

looks like doctrinaire severity

GOVAN

SHIPBUILDERS

Ltd yesterday announced an across- the-board £3 increase for its £4,000 manual workers few hours after taking over three of yards. the former UCS James Airlie, Communist Party chairman of shop stewards' negotiating committee, welcomed the award, but admitted: 'We originally set our - sights higher than the award finally we accepted' Chief of the com- executive Archibald Gilchrist, pany, said that the work people (read Airlie and the leading stewards) had a substantial amount shown of sympathy' with the difficulties facing the company 'in getting off the ground at a time when the market is so low'. He added: "That is why the settlement is as it is.' ALMOST 45,000 clerks in Social Security offices throughout the country were yesterday refusing to do overtime in protest at the mounting work pressure caused by staff shortages An ban also overtime was imposed yesterday by 18,000 executive grade offices in the Society of Civil Servants.

Peter Thomason, national officer of the Civil and Public Services Association said they estimated at least another 5,000 extra staff are urgently needed 'to ensure that the public gets the service to which it chairman: G. K. Young entitled'. The dolly saper the do th the Tories. {20.28 for 12 months (312 leaves) {10.14 for 6 months (156 (sues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 (scues) If you want to take Workers Pross taice a wook the rales are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and sand to: 186a Clapham High St., CIrculation Dept., Workers Press London. SWA 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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'DRAGGING FEET'

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday Septem!

ATTEMPTS by Labour Party right-wingers in the north- Young east to block the Socialists' Right - to - Work march have spurred the marchers on to even greater efforts. And they are winning big support in all the Co. Durham mining towns they are passing through. Yesterday the marchers set out in light rain from Haswell, where they had spent the night, for a 14-mile trek to Durham. When they were banned by the right wing from holding a meet- on Sunday they ing in Shotton did not take things lying down.

Immediately they began cam- paigning around the town against the ban. Almost everyone who had earlier bought tickets for the meeting donated money to

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDEI

THE BRITISH High Commis Kampala was yesterday accu "dragging its feet' in dealing wit applications by U gration Asians. Two groups, the National Council Liberties and the Joint Council for the of Immigrants, have sent a protest the Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas Home, com- plaining about the procedure.

The letter states: 'The NCCL gravely con- and the JCWI are cerned about this situation, par- ticularly as we believe that unless are speeded up consider- things ably it will be impossible for people to leave Uganda by the deadline.' The JCWI was one of the bodies which the Home Office to the banned from belonging Asian Resettlement Board despite the fact that it has probably the most experience in this field.

The first immigrants to arrive from Kampala told newsmen at

FROM PAGE 1

that there would be no further action and that the industrial rationalization programme would through,' said Mr pushed Smart. Meetings in the factory •have rejected these demands as a basis for agreement with the American firm and it has confirmed fears that Eaton soon want to close the Basingstoke plant altogether.

'Eaton's are now in a posi- tion,' added Mr Smart, 'to supply the TET gear box that Leyland want. But they must be develop- ing their own and will be helped technical knowledge with the they could gain. 'There is a distinct possibility they will close up here and move to their Bolton plant which they leased from the old Ministry of Aircraft Production when • Blue Streak packed up. y September 19, 1972 the campaign and 70 copies of Workers Press were sold. The marchers' message that the union leaders must call for action to force the Tory government to resign received a great response especially from miners who saw Shotton colliery close just two weeks ago and are now without work or have to travel long distances, Harry Bone, a retired miner, said: If I was not on a pension I would be on the dole today?

ESPONDENT

Commission in of ly accused ling with immi- by Ugandan Council for Civil Amin: Bloody repres cil for the Welfare protest letter to Stansted airport that the Ugan- was terrorizing the army Asian population. Their property was being stolen and some were threatened with instant execu- tion if they failed to hard over value to marauding items of soldiers. Chandra Patel said his family was stopped four times by troops on their way to Entebbe airport about 30 miles from the capital.

'One of the soldiers stuck a gun in my chin while they went through pockets. They my necklace from my grabbed a sister-in-law and even rings were removed from the children.

'We were told that unless we 'We know of Eaton's record at the ENV factory in north London.' The Basingstoke workers are still trying to force Leyland's hand through an extensive black- ing campaign. They say that the Guy's plani in Wolverhampton is on a three.

day week and lay-offs are coming this weekend at AEC's, Southall, Middlesex. At Leyland in Lancashire, four lines are not operating and a 15 per cent reduction in pro- duction has resulted. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published Workers Office. by Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London,

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: of Commenting on the right-wing Labourites' ban on the marchers' meeting, he said: 'I don't understand it when officials of the labour movement try to stop young people from fighting for their rights?

Marcher Eddie Cook (16), from Felling, agreed: 'It is disgusting that we should have been let down by one of our own class. 'I always hear that the Labour leaders are traitors, but I didn't think that they'd have their dy repression planned? shoot us everything they would declared Despite these well-documented accounts of terrorism; the Tory deliberately government obstructing the exodus so as to maximize their campaign to whip up racialism. If General Idi Amin launches a pogrom against the Asians when the deadline expires, the blood will be on the hands of the Tory government. Yesterday's first 193 Asians — 188 adults and five children— were heavily outnumbered by the forces waiting to receive them.

Over 100 pressmen jostled each other on the tarmac and scores of helpers from 40 charity and volunteer bodies stood by.

A 'soup kitchen' was set up by members of the Women's Royal Volunteer Service. The new arrivals were first in- terviewed by Citizens' Advice Bureau workers who asked them complete to form for the Uganda Resettlement Board.

This asks for details of the family as well as the address or area to which the family wishes to go. But if they have decided to on the go to an area listed Board's secret 'red list' they will be discouraged and even refused financial help to get to their chosen destination. The reception teams have been given alternative 'green lists' to encourage the immigrants to settle in an area of the Board's choosing. Homeless families were yester- day being 'advised' to accept temporary accommodation at Stradishall RAF Station in Suffolk, where doctors were wait- ing to carry out medical exami- nations. agents in a place like Shotton. It will make us fight all the harder to drive them out.? a good send-off from After rank-and-file miners and their families in Shotton, the marchers set out for the two-and-a-half- to Haswell on mile stretch Sunday. There they received another warm reception from miners and other workers who contributed generously to the Right-to-Work campaign and also responded enthusiastically to Workers Press.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BUILDING WORKERS in So and the Midlands stayed defiar against the 26-month pay-traj their union leaders and employ In Birmingham and on Merseysid decide whether to continue this acti later in the week. Sites in Stoke- already decided to remain out for at Ken Barlow, Birmingham regional secretary of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, said the pur- pose of today's meeting would be to 'seek the men's opinion' on whether to continue. He added: "Any return to work should be a dignified and disciplined procedure and we do not think a return to work today would be dignified.' Birmingham's Woodgate At valley site yesterday—the largest site in the Midlands, where 2,500 houses are uncompleted—a 400- strong meeting called by shop stewards decided to stay out to await the decision from today's meeting. David Parker,

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painters' steward at the site, told Workers Press: "The offer is diabolical. There should have been a mass vote on the offer and it would have been turned down decisively.

WEATHER

It will be rather cloudy over northern Scotland, but elsewhere there will be sunny intervals after a few early morning mist or fog patches. England and Wales will have a good deal of cloud although sunny intervals are likely over western England and western Wales. There may also be occasional showers, chiefly light rain or over southeast England. It will be rather cold over eastern England, and generally a little below the seasonal normal elsewhere.

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