Workers Press no. 875 (876)

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL C

550 Actual Seasonally adiusted 1970 1971 1972 Numbers wholly uding school leavers) In Gre Britain 1970-1972.

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

ANOTHER 8,500 workers joined the ranks of the hard-core unemployed in Britain this month, accord- ing to figures released by the Department of Employ- ment yesterday. The total number of people and Northern registered as unemployed in Britain Ireland on September 11 was 921,490. Of these, 817,515 were wholly without work.

In Britain the wholly unemployed figure was up 8,509the usual increase for this time of year is only 3,200. This bitter news comes with just 27 working days to go before the Tories take Britain into the Common Market.

demonstrates that the Tories with ruthless pursuing, are determination, policies aimed at making the working class pay the price for entry. Yet the D of E figures have in no way encouraged union leaders to break off their treacherous talks with the government and the employers, a further round of which is due in four days' time. Far away from the labour exchanges, in the oak-panelled safety of Congress House, TUC secretary Victor Feather delivered himself of this pathetic comment: "These figures show no clear trend and it is not possible to know from them whether a recovery is getting under way.

They are still appallingly high.

Yesterday's figures, which in fact underestimate the level of unemployment because of those work do not many without register, show that 3.9 per cent of the working population of Britain is unemployed. In Northern Ireland the per- 2,330 found themselves wholly centage is 8.3 (a slight drop from unemployed, and Scotland.

Worst- month's g.7 figure). act hit British regions are the The north-west (1.860 more north wholly unemployed was not far (7 per cent), Scotland 6.8 per behind Scotland's 1.922 more. There were another 1,481 hard- jobless core in the prosperous south-east. The jobless trend in Britain is obviously still upwards-the of number wholly unemployed has increased by about 4,800 a month in the three months June- September. thousand redundancies Twelve were notified to the Employment Department in August on ton of 17,000 in July. In the first eight months of the 135,000 redundancies year, were notified to the department.

These figures are the sharpest

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possible indictment tment of the and Labour failure mobilize the action to force Feather: Pathetic comment Tory job-killers out of office.

They must act as a spur for cent), Wales (5.4 les 1(4 Per cent and the building of Councils of the north per cent). behind the Action in every area The sharpest increases in hard- demand that this is done.

and a core unemploment came in the Labour committed government northern region. where another to socialist policies elected.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1972 • No. 876 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE UP 'work-in' at Clydebank. Downcast James Reid is on the right.

Second snub to Stalinists

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EMBER 22, 1972 • No. 876 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Photographer McCullin: Vultures settled every night.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALEX MITCHELL-

INTERNATIONAL photographer Don McCullin said yesterday that the military junta in Uganda was about to launch a pogrom against not only Asians, but other tribes in the republic. unless the British acted He warned that government immediately to provide refuge for the Asians, the marauding troops would step up their indiscriminate slaughter.

Speaking exclusively to Workers Press after his arrival in Britain, said that the army was roaming the countryside killing and McCullin looting. He said that the civilian population of all races and tribes were soldiers who equipped with up-to-date at the mercy were weapons supplied by Britain, Israel and Czechoslovakia.

Uganda for 'The McCullin on a photographic assignment in was Times' when he was arrested and thrown in prison for four days His experiences reveal the behind-the-scenes brutality which General Amin's henchmen are engaged in.

I was in a cell with two other civilians. We had to sleep on the floor and the food was uneatable. Each day we received some additional rations which were smuggled into the prison by Asians. It seemed terrible to me that people in this country are anti the Asians when it was them who were so helpful to me in prison. dignified "They such are people, so cultured. When we left they said not to say goodbye to them she freed ship s endanger But it may them. forgot myself-I went into one Asian's cells and shook of the his hand. But McCullin also told of the being committed atrocities by Amin against other 'enemies of the government. While he was in prison Africans were dragged from their cells and never returned. 'We did not hear gunshots only screams. think they clubbed them to death.' He said that on one occasion his sergeant-major gave bush knife to a soldier and told him go round and sharpen it. A to short time later African prisoner was led away and they later heard he had been hacked to death. *The most eerie thing occurred each evening when the vultures settled around the perimeter of the They prison. just were waiting for bodies the to be o resign If Govan doesn't back the new dropped the bush outside the prison in st James Reid is on the right.

McCullin and ten other British journalists arrested last were weekend and accused of being spies. Throughout their time in they warned that prison were they faced execution. Their most horrific when moment came began civilian guards digging trenches in the compound.

'We all thought we would be shot by firing s squads and firing buried. bit ridicu- lous now, but it's just the sort of thing that could happen in Uganda todav. McCullin said: 'Amin has a sort of private army of civilians around who with rove sub- They are like the machine guns. Tontons Macoutes in Haiti. These capable of anything. people are

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Everything should be done to get the Asians out in time. Other- wise anything could happen.

workers press

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL CO

550 500 Actual Seasonally adjusted 1970 1971 1972

DEMAN JASONO MAM JASOND MAM JASONO

Britain 1970-1972.

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

ANOTHER 8,500 workers joined the ranks of the hard-core unemployed in Britain this month, accord- ing to figures released by the Department of Employ.

people ment yesterday. The number of total registered as unemployed in Britain and Northern on September 11 was 921,490. Of these, Ireland 817,515 were wholly without work.

In Britain the wholly unemployed figure was up 8,509the usual increase for this time of year is only 3,200. the Tories take Britain into the Common Market.

demonstrates Tories with that the are pursuing, ruthless determination, policies aimed at making the working class pay the price for entry. Yet the D of E figures have in no encouraged union way leaders to break off their treacherous talks with the government and the employers, a further round of which is due in four days' Far away from the labour exchanges, in the oak-panelled time. safety of Congress House, TUC secretary Victor Feather delivered himself of this pathetic comment: 'These figures show no clear trend and it is not possible to know from them whether a recovery is getting under way. They are still appallingly high.

Yesterday's figures, which in fact underestimate the level of unemployment because many of those without work do not register, show that 3.9 per cent of the working population of Britain is unemployed. In Northern Ireland the per- 2,330 found wholly themselves centage is 8.3 (a slight drop from unemployed, and Scotland.

last month's 8.7 figure). Worst- The north-west (1.860 more hit British regions are the north (7 per cent), Scotland (6.8 per wholly unemployed) was not far behind Scotland's 1,922 more. There were another 1,481 hard- core jobless in the James Al once prosperous south-east. 'work-in' a The jobless trend in Britain is obviously still upwards-the number of wholly unemployed has increased by about 4,800 a month in the three months June- September. Twelve thousand redundancies were notified to the Employment Department in August on top of 17,000 in July. In the first eight months of the 135,000 redundancies year, were notified to the department.

These figures are the sharpest possible indictment oi the

TUC

and Labour leaders' failure to mobilize the action to forge Feather: Pathetic comment Tory job-killers out of office.

They a spur for cent), Wales (5.4 and per cent) Councils of the the north west (5.2 per cent).

behind the Action in every area The sharpest increases in hard- demand that this is done, and a unemployment came in the Labour committed government

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northern region, where another to socialist policies elected.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1972 • No. 876 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE UP work-in' at Clydebank. Downcast James Reid Is on the right.

Second snub to 'EMBER 22, 1972• No. 876 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Photographer McCullin: Vultures settled every night. warns

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY ALEX MITCHELL

INTERNATIONAL photographer Don McCullin said vesterday that the military junta in Uganda was about to launch a pogrom against not only Asians, but other tribes in the republic. acted He warned that unless the British government immediately to provide refuge for the Asians, the marauding troops would step up their indiscriminate slaughter.

Speaking exclusively to Workers Press after his arrival in Britain, countryside killing and McCullin said that the army was roaming the looting. He said that the civilian population of all races and tribes were the with up-to-date at the mercy of soldiers who were equipped weapons supplied by Britain, Israel and Czechoslovakia.

Uganda for "The McCullin was on a photographic assignment in Times' when he was arrested and thrown in prison for four days.

His experiences reveal the behind-the-scenes brutality which General Amin's henchmen are engaged in.

'I was in a cell with two other civilians. We had to sleep on the floor and the food was uneatable. Each day we received some additional which were smuggled into the prison by Asians. It seemed rations terrible to me that people in this country are anti the Asians when it was them who were so helpful to me in prison. 'They such dignified are people, so cultured. When we left they said not to say goodbye to them or show any friendship as I it may endanger them. But forgot myself-I went into one of the Asian's cells and shook his hand. But McCullin also told of the atrocities being committed by Amin against other 'enemies of the government'. While he was in prison Africans were dragged from their and cells never returned. 'We did not hear gunshuts- only think they screams clubbed them to death! He said that on one occasion a sergeant-major his bush gave knife to a soldier and told him to go round and sharpen it.

short time later African an prisoner was led away and they later heard he had been hacked to death. "The most eerie thing occurred each evening when the vultures settled around the perimeter of the They prison. just

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for the waiting bodies to be o resign If Govan doean't back the ne dropped dreppesh outside the prison in st James Reid Is on the riah McCullin and ten other British iournalists were arrested last weekend and accused of being spies. rhroughout their time in prison they were warned that they faced execution. Their most horrific moment came when began digging civilian guards trenches in the compound.

shot squads buried. lous now, but it's just the sort of thing that could happen in Uganda today? McCullin said: 'Amin has a sort of private army of civilians who rove around with sub- machine guns. They are like the Pontons Macoutes in Haiti. These eople are capable of anything

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Everything should be done to get the Asians out in time. Other- wise anything could happen.'

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday September 22, 1972 A SPLIT among Clydeside shipyard workers can only assist the employers and the Tory government. Unity must be rebuilt but the first condition for that is to get rid of the present leadership of the Stalinists James Reid and James Airlie. These men are now thoroughly discredited.

The magnificent unity and determination of the UCS workers have been frittered away by the Stalinist-inspired reformist 'work-in' Tories and a succession of specula- and collaboration with the tors looking for a quick profit at the expense of the shipyard men.

The Stalinists have, in effect, accepted the essence of both the plan and the Industrial Relations Act. They have Ridley 'Butcher' allowed the yards to be split up. They have seen over 3,000 men down road. They have accepted speed-up, no-strike go _ the pledges, mobility of labour and wage-restraint.

The Govan and Scotstoun men have every justification for turning their back on these leaders. After sticking with the fight right through to the end, the Govan boilermakers were denounced by Reid for fighting for a wage increase.

And yesterday they were attacked once again in the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' as being responsible for the 'breach' in the ranks of the former UCS workers by refusing to attend a meeting called by Reid to discuss 300 Marathon redundancies.

This is a slander... The Govan and Scotstoun boilermakers-and the labourers, who Reid also refused to attend the meeting-were right to blame for signing an agreement without definite employment guaran- tees. This, after all, is what the fight was all about.

Reid signs an agreement which doesn't guarantee a single job, denounces the Govan boilermakers (as 'rat-racers' and then comes running to them for help when the axe falls.

But It would be wrọng to make the Clydebank-Marathon workers pay for the crimes of their leaders.

They must not be left to The fight alone. Govan workers-and all other workers-must come to the assistance of the Clydebank men who have been led into a trap by the Stalinist stewards. If these men are left isolated, their position will be hopeless and the Tories will have gained a major victory on the Clyde. It is in the interests of every trade unionist to prevent the Clydebank from being thrown out of work and into poverty and men degradation. This cannot be done by yet another fruitless work-in, which is what Reid proposes. The 'work-in' strategy has led to a dead-end of The UCS shop stewards' demoralization, confusion and disunity.

co-ordinating committee spends its meetings in bitter wranglings and many stewards no longer take part in it.

But this strategy was deliberately used by the Stalinists as an Tory government to resign.

alternative to a fight to force the The men were told that by continuing to work for the liquidator and co-operating with the Tories and any potential employer who came along, their jobs would be saved.

But the bankruptcy of Stalinism is now revealed for all to see.

by a united workers—only government. There must be solldarity with the Clydebank men not their brother The Govan workers must reject their leaders, trade unlonists. The first step in the fight to win on the Clyde is to force the Stalinist leaders to resign and to replace them with new leaders Tory government. dedicated to fight the THE TWO-DAY session of the the discussion of pollution and measures to combat it. Supreme Soviet which ended in showed Wednesday Moscow on The judge who condemned Andrei once again that this 1,517 mem- opposition writers Yuli Daniel to Sinyavsky and ber body is nothing but a show- labour camps, Lev Smirnov, was piece. It has nothing in common unanimously approved as chair- with the soviets which were set the Court of man Supreme up as organs of workers' power the Soviet Union. during the 1917 Russian Revolu- Not the former surprisingly, tion. Ukrainian chief, Pyotr party The Supreme Soviet rubber- was deposed Shelest, who for his opposition to the Nixon visit, already stamped some decisions the Brezhnev-Kosygin re-elected the taken by was not to Presidium of the Supreme Soviet government, including the setting uD of a new Ministry of Oil and which handles its be- business A good deal Gas Construction. tween sessions. Sholest remains a of the time was taken up with member of the Politburo. THE CITROEN manage- ment in the northern Spanish port of Vigo yesterday threatened to sai dismiss its entire labour force of 5,000 who are now in the lith day of a strike for a 44 hour week.

This threat is the com- pany response to the decision.

by an illegal workers' meet- ing on Wednesday not to allow any negotiations to • an begin until all imprisoned workers have been released and the sacked workers are re-employed.

FOREIGN. NEWS

LARGE SHIPMENTS of Soviet g Zurich airport during the past informed sources. But there is no how the gold will be disposed of.

Rumours of Soviet gold sales to the west have brought a tem- porary fall in the free market price of the metal, which now stands at $64.50 ounce in an London compared with over $70 earlier this year. The Soviet Union has large reserves of gold and is one of the world's biggest gold pro- ducers. It customarily sells rela- tively small quantities (about 10 to 15 tons a month) to the west in order to earn hard currency.

But following President Nixon's visit to Moscow earlier • this year, there was speculation.

that Soviet gold sales might be sharply increased. The USSR is importing almost

FROM OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

The labour force be will to secked to. worness corded 2 to work. According. to Spanish labour law, the employer has the right to sack workers who strike or disrupt production in any way. All means are being used to break the strike. Apart from arrests and the breaking up of demonstrations by. the police, yesterday, two documents against the strike were being distributed in Vigo. One was a leaflet from an 'workers' organiz- annonymous ation' calling for a return to work. The other was a pastoral letter from the Bishop of Vigo, José Baeza demanding an end to violence, a peaceful solution . to the strike and a return to 'normal working'.

BY JOHN SPENCER

FORMER French centi Schweitzer, who now h Monetary Fund, is fighting attempts to drive him out Schweitzer has headed the serving out the last few mon term as managing director. | Soviet gold have been arriving at le past three days, according to re is no indication at the moment a quarter of the US grain harvest in order to overcome a severe agricultural crisis and the latest gold exports may be designed in part to pay for the American grain. Despite its talk of 'demonetiz- ing' gold, the United States is extremely anxious to increase its depleted hoard and strengthen its hand in the economic struggle with the Common Market and Japan. Part of their rapprochement with the USSR may well involve Soviet agreement to release gold onto the market and undermine the position of overseas gold- holders. Bishop Baeza has made no statement about the presence of the 2,500 a large number of police in the city at the funeral yesterday of a Citröen worker's father who died earlier. 'this About 1,000 week. strikers attended the funeral. In the Asturias, 400 workers in the Hunosa pits have now been on strike for four days for better piecework prices. The employers have locked out a group miners in the 'San Vitor pit of until the end of the month.

Franco's police have arrested nine Bilbao youth belonging to a Maoist group and nave con-.

fiscated two duplicating machines, four typewriters and books by Marx, Lenin and Mao.

The police said some of the in France. Their movements were watched once they were in France. h central banker Pierre-Paul now heads the International fighting back against American nim out of office. ded the fund since 1963 and is now few months of his second five-year irector. Last week, George Schultz, the American Treasury Secretary told him the US would not support his re- election. Despite the US pressure, Schweitzer says he will not resign before his term of office ends and intends to stand for re- election next year. This implies he has the backing of other fund members against the US, cer- tainly France and probably other EEC countries. Schweitzer originally was regarded as close to the Ameri- who campaigned actively cans, for his re-election in 1968. He thought to favour the was American position on the ques- against of gold, tion Gaullists. Relations between America and Europe, and particularly have deteriorated France, so markedly since that time, how- ever, that Schweitzer is now persona non grata as far as President Nixon is concerned.

The struggle over Schweitzer's position is a symptom of the extreme tension between America and the Common Market on the eve of the Washington

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meeting which opens on Mon- day. Pierre Rinfret, one of Nixon's economic aides, has said Nixon may well take the rostrum at the meeting to declare a new and series harsh trade-war measures. Rinfret said earlier this week the US was studying the possible effects of a 150-per-cent border key imports such as tariff on cars, steel and electronic goods.

World's End standstill A GREAT response to the Young Socialists' Right-to- Work march in the mining towns along the route with a promise trades council when the support marchers got there.

BY DAVID MAUDE

in the morning the march set out at top speed from Chester- THE VICIOUS beating le-Street in an attempt to reach of a Birmingham build to canvas Sunderland time In ing workers' leader at workers as they left factories and offices. his home on Tuesday This was the fourth day of the night has shocked, but seven-day campaign. not intimidated, strikers The mining … ot rence Houses turned out to greet the returning to work after Car horns tooted, coal march. their 12-week pay drivers cheered from their trucks and 45 copies of the Workers struggle. Press were sold. City officials of the Unemployed workers and old- Union of Construction, age pensioners greeted us from the squares of Hetton-le-Hole and Allied Trades and Tech- Houghton-le-Spring which are all nicians said yester- day they were taking the attack very seri- ously. understand that steps are being taken to ensure as far as possible the safety of leading members of the build- ing unions in the area. Mike Shilvock (30), a

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and militant Chairman of the Birm- builders' ingham action committee, was beaten up in his Stourbridge flat at about 10.15 p.m. on Tuesday. Shortly before he had been dropped near his UCATT full-time home by official Ken Barlow, who later described the attack as 'a professional beating- up' and claimed the men who did it were 'obviously hired'. Mike Shilvock's attack- called at the flat in ers Hoad, Stubridge, Col Court, College Road, the of pretext urgent union business. They forced their slashing way in, at him with knife, and then forced him into back room. The beating silent was a comments That will do. ending with a comment: Mike Shilvock sustained a broken arm, broken toe, BIll Lloyd (centre) Union organizer badly crushed ribs and discusses with pickets at the World's badly battered face. End site. Stourbridge police told Press Workers yesterday that they had

BY PHILIP WADE

as yet no the identity of Clues to the men who carried WORK AT the multi - million the attack. indigantly pound Cubitts World's End hous But they rejected a claim in ing site in West London was still yes- 'Daily Telegraph' terday's at a standstill yesterday morning 'detectives believe he that and pickets manned the gates.

may have been the victim of extremists who opposed Although the men returned on the decision ... to return work.' Monday morning, they were soon to 'We make such became never strike again as on said a police statements, obvious management were testing spokesman. 'We are keep- of the out the strength site ing completely mind. open organization following the end of official strike the for the pay claim. The men claim one sub-contractor, Mark Prince, refused to pay the new union leaders. agreed rates settled by decided Then another hrm, Wo men, including hunger strike not to take back two men, a carpenters' steward. At the same time, the World's End NINE PRISONERS at the men are demanding the employment of Curragh detention barracks 'Lew' Lewis, a leading member of the Dublin have refused near building Communist Party in the food and drink since unions. Tuesday. Their hunger Some months ago it was agreed by strike is in protest against the refusal of the authori- conciliation machinery to employ He Lewis when work available. ties to implement promises visits, letters and food had been working a few on on ine site him. parcels. days when management sacked Fertilizer prices grow

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fertilizer lar rise announced by manufacturer, Albright and Fisons a few days ago. Wilson, that if announced yester- estimated 11 IS other like day it was raising prices manufacturers

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it by from impose per cent add between October l. The would move, is bound to and which raise tl2m to the cost of food prices, follows a simi- producin? food. Trades council adds to support mining towns apparently doomed through pit but have life of experienced a new lease wind me constucion or me bine ley Industrial Estate some miles away. gathering economic nowever. some storms nave firms in neighbouring estates down has cast cloud over the future of Birtlev and the towns that depend on it. As the marchers entered Sun- Deal a 'non-starter'

FIVE THOUSAND

Mersevotee builders in Liverpool's Boxing Stadium yesterday voted by Lake

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on Monday. But they also overwhelmingly resolution carried deploring the and condemning the union's national negotiators Action committee secretary Bill Crichton said Merseyside was going to serve notice on the national executive of the unions that the nationally-negotiated package deal was a non-starter 28 Charlotte St London W1 Friday-9 a.m.-7.30 p.m.

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righawd they sunderine of the marchers got a further lift when saw copies right-wing they attended a public Echo', meeting which claimed that they in Sunderland called by the were 'weary and dejected'. trades council. Speakers included Ernie En- The claimed that paper youth had dropped president the new, of trades number of council, welcomed who the out of the march. marchers to the town. None of this is true. As march- He also pledged support to Green (16) commented: er John Young Socialists the said 'Dejected marchers don't walk trades council that the banner 20 miles in less than six hours.

would appear at Saturday's Right- Wednesday evening the to-Work rally at Newcastle.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

A MEETING of over 100 building workers in Lancaster unanimously passed a vote of censure on the national execu- tive of the Union of Construc- tion, Allied Trades and Tech- nicians and demanded the resignation of general secretary George Smith and the rest of the executive. in- Some builders said they tended to bring charges against Smith and the under executive rule 31, clause 2, which union provides for action against 'any- one acting against the interests of fellow-union members'.

Besides condemning the terms of settlement, strike the com- mittee chairman Dave Barnes criticized the increase in the differentials between craftsmen and labourers, when union mem- bers had called for their reduc- tion. 'We don't want to go it alone,' Several men questioned when he said. the agreement had actually been made. Some who lobbied the the Merseyside On Tuesday national talks said they had overwhelmingly rejected waited for up to ten hours and Communist proposal from Party got information. Billy Jones end the member to But Stan Jackson, convenor of strike. Woodrow Hey- the Taylor site, Now, however, with a return sham, said members had received to work in the other areas these printed copies of the settlement workers have been left isolated.

as early as first post Saturday.

The responsibility for this set- the Stalinists The voted back rests with meeting unani- who refused to fight the to keep the strike com- union mously leaders demand all-out in existence in order to or to mittee national action. prepare for future actions.

Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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HOW BLACKING IS BANNED

PAGE 4 Workors Press, Friday Septembe Part 21 of a series on Picketin Bogus company and 'non- Political' Unions The Industrial Relations Act aims to give an enormous boost to staff and professional associa- tions, enabling them to register as bona fide trade unions. Even an em- ployer-dominated of workers can sign on with the registrar provid.

ing it adheres to certain stipulations on independ.

ence of financing and con- trol. Some organizations already registered are staff associations at the Midland and Lloyds Banks, Courtauld's and the Guardian Royal Exchange As- surance. A trade union which does not come off the register puts itself on the level with these bodies and even enhances their status. A recent pamphlet for pro- fessional engineers, published union's by the engineering technical and supervisory sec- tion (TASS) exposes the 'non- political' nature of some of these bodies. For example, the vice-president of the so-called United Kingdom Association for Professional Engineers (UKAPE) is Ralph Clarke, member of the right-wing Tory Monday Club and author of its booklet 'Responsible Trade- Unionism.' One of the conclusions drawn in this publication is: 'The left-wing links of the present TUC should be cor- rected by the advent of non- party-political unions en- couraged by the new Industrial Relations Act. It will then be easier to establish a properly functioning union system in which each role is filled.'

Examples of other support from Tories to these organiza- tions are given and the TASS pamphlet comments: 'There is therefore an un- deniable link between these emergent "professional" bodies Conservative Party. and the We challenge the Engineers' Guild and its recent offspring the UKAPE to deny that amongst their officers and spokesmen are right-wing Con- servative Party members in- cluding members of the ultra- right Monday Club? ('Which Way Forward for Professional Engineers?') In the United States during the 1920s hundreds of com- pany unions developed, backed by favourable laws, reaching a total membership of 1.5 mil- lion. Trade unions had an im- struggle to re-assert mense their rights and organizations against these employer-backed bodies. In Britain today, the attempt to put genuine trade unions on a level with strike-breaking unions and under state control should alone have been suffi- cient for every • trade union leader to support de-registra- tion, fight for the complete repeal of the Act and demand a General Strike to oust the Tories. Sympathy action, 'blacking' The ruling class has always feared the great strength and solidarity of the working class September 22, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks and worked ceaselessly to iso- strikers late strikes and wherever possible. The Industrial Relations Act sets out to restrict sympathy strikes, secondary boycotts and other measures by attack- ing the leaders of such action.

Section 97 makes it 'unfair' to organize sympathetic call or industrial action where it is called for to further an action which itself is designated 'un- fair' , except when called by a registered union. Section 98 makes such call 'unfair' if intended to third party, not in- make a volved in the dispute, break a commercial contract which he holds with the employer in- volved in the action. For example, by ordering pickets to stop the supply of goods or services to him. In the Act this is called 'In- dustrial action against extrane- ous parties'. In respect of these legal proceedings practices, can be taken against the indi- or organization vidual con- cerned. Section 96 of the Act penalizes any action by an un- registered body or an unofficial leader to induce anyone to hits breach a contract. This at unofficial strikes and light- ning strikes in particular.

worker, to avoid breach A of his own contract of em- ployment, must give notice of the strike for as long as that needed to terminate his em- ployment (a week's notice to strike where he would nor- mally give a week's notice to quit the job and so on). This would severely limit workers' action where immediate retali- ation is often activities. Similarly, under this section, unofficial blacking of an em- ployer, for example, by turning away lorries preparing to enter the premises of a firm might be alleged in certain circum- stances to be committing an 'unfair industrial practice' by encouraging the driver to breach his contract of em- ployment. These three sections are open to the widest interpreta- tion by the courts, virtually allowing any judge to declare most sympathy strikes and all blacking illegal. have In fact, injunctions been served thick and fast by court to try to stop dockers defending their jobs against concerted efforts by the government and employers to use modernization and non- registered labour to drive them off the docks. Following court orders from the NIRC, the Chancery divi- sion of the High Court was also approached for an interim order banning picketing of the Midland Cold Storage Depot, dockers' East London. The leaders were alleged to be guilty of conspiring to injure the company.through unlawful intimidation, picketing breach of contract, ducing common law nuisance, and threatening unlawful conduct, including violence and obstruc- tion of vehicles. The previous NIRC orders even required the stopping of 'threatening by the display...

of signs or by any other means'. The injunction special An injunction is a form of decree issued by a court ordering a defendant to cease, or not to begin an act alleged to be illegal. The per- son asking for the injunction goes to court, gives evidence of the alleged action and the judge decides whether or not to grant the order. injunction is 'prohibi- An tory' if it forbids an action, and 'mandatory' if it orders an action to be carried out. If given at the conclusion of pro- Top: picketing at Midland Cold Storage of five dockers. Above : Mr Heaton (cent the National Industrial Relations Court against Liverpool dockers to restrain ther ceedings it is 'perpetual'-on the other hand, an 'interlocu- tory' (interim or temporary) injunction is given to take effect for a set period only; for example, until a case is heard. If real urgency can be proved, the injunction may be 'ex parte, meaning that the order is given without the de- fendant being heard or know- ing about it. Anyone ignoring an injunc- tion is said to be guilty of contempt of court and in con- fine or sequence liable to a imprisonment or both. In the United States the organized working class has waged a continuous battle for more than 70 years against capitalism's use of the injunc- tion as a major weapon in labour disputes. Following a case in 1895— US National Government y Eugene Debs-a whole spate of orders were issued to stop strikes, picketing and secon- dary boycotts. By 1914 some 500 injunctions covering d Storage which led to the imprisonment aton (centre) and his son (right) leaving ns Court after applying for an injunction strain them from blacking his firm.

labour disputes had been through American issued courts. In 1914, the Clayton Act re- stricted their use, but still allowed them for any picketing claimed to be illegal, and for blacking. Even this was de- stroyed by court decisions oi the following year and in 1919 injunction sweeping was used to break up the Bitumi- nous Coal Strike. In 1932 the Norris-La Guardia Act further restricted their application to cases in- volving violence or damage to property only. But the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act revised their use. The 80- day cooling-off period which the Act allows the government to apply to a strike alleged to threaten national health or safety, is an 80-day injunction.

In Britain today attempts are being made to similarly turn the injunction into a formidable tool for use against workers on strike.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

GUATEMALA: THE WORKING

Above: Guatemalan parachutists hunt o Guatemalan television show re- cameras often gime officials warning the population against the 'Red menace' - the same officials later tor- ture prisoners. The national press reports at least ten people killed every day and between 1967 and 1972 around 13,000 assassina- tions were committed by the army and police forces. This tragic history started when the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) trained and fi- nanced the 1954 invasion of against the government Jacobo Arbenz after having decided he was encouraging measures which benefited the people and which specifically affected the latifundist inter- ests of the 'United Fruit Com- pany'-the consortium that of the monopolizes most arable land in central America.

At this point Coca-Cola re- placed the native Guatemalan fruit juices and Wall Street took over the control of the , economy - while national 21,000 families fled the country or were assassinated.

since Ever Arbenz the regime was eliminated, politi- cal assassinations have been a systematic practice. The North American Con- on Latin America gress

(NACLA),

organization an which specializes in Latin studies, in 1971 American distributed an extensive re- port about the White House's the Pentagon's so-called and 'pacification programme against revolutionary activities in Guatemala. The term 'pacification' is a euphemism used by the US military technocrats when they refer to the elimination of revolutionary 'focos' — con- sidered 'subversive' by the Pentagon. NACLA states that the en- tire amount of military and its hunt out and systematically annihilate any o police assistance granted to the Guatemalan regime by the US is difficult to determine, but that it is in the neighbour- hood of $4.2m for public se- curity (since 1950) and around $3m a year for military aid; this does not include other 'grants' made by the Agency of International Development

(AID).

The repression of revolu- tionaries — adds NACLA - represents the institutionaliza- tion of the real violence ram- pant throughout Guatemala in the form of famine, sickness, high infant mortality and an alarming 75 per cent illiteracy rate. American advisers in the style of Dan Mitrione (who was executed in Uruguay by the Tupamaros in 1970) train Guatemalan agents in the most sadistic methods of execution and torture. This blatant butchery forced Guatemalan guerrillas to apply their revolutionary justice to Ambassador, John the US Gordon Mein, who was closely linked to the repressive forces.

When Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro was president in 1969 the Guatemalan Commit- tee for the Defence of Human Rights (who remain anony- mous for obvious reasons) sent a book to the United Nations documenting the systematic annihilation of the regime's opposition. An excerpt from the 200- page book published by the committee is eloquent: 'In the town of Morales, in the department of Izabal, one of these characters called José Smith Peralta (better known as Chepe Smith) was being paid by the army for torturing, assassinating and robbing his victims; he even kept a souvenir from each of victims in his macabre the museum.' José Smith was executed by the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) because of his many crimes. At that time Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio had completed his 'anti-guerrilla campaign' in the department of Zacapa. He nicknamed the "Zacapa was Ilate any opposition to the country's brutal regim Butcher' by the 8,000 peasants in the region. who suc- Arana Osorio, ceeded Mendez Montenegro in 1970, and all of a sudden was 'Mister called General', climbed to power as easily as the US economically pene- trated Guatemala. Soon after, investments_by foreign monopolies doubled in 1959 to from $137.6m $286.5m 1969. After in Arbenz's defeat, more than half of the Guatemalan terri- tory was handed over to the American oil companies while prices Guatemalan coffee yielded to the pressures of the international market. In 1970, 86 per cent of the total foreign investments in Guatemala were made by US firms or their subsidiaries in Panama and the Bahamas and one of the objectives of the repression has been to 'main- tain a favourable investment climate'. Osorio, ex-diplomat Arana in Washington and trained by American officials, doubled the number of murders, disappear- ances and clandestine workers' cemeteries. of One the cemeteries was located near the national amphitheatre and became a health hazard. Official and para-military terror is used by the power structure to stifle popular dis- content with .the systematic pillaging of the nation-such as the fantastic deal of the American consortium 'Boise Cascade' which owns the Guatemalan electric company.

'Boise Cascade'-whose con- tract expired in 1972—seeks a $52m settlement for the nationalization of the electric company and Arana Osorio and his advisers have openly accepted the terms in fear of a 'CIA coup'! The repressive forces have suffered serious blows, how- The Revolutionary ever. Armed Forces (FAR) claimed Oliverio the execution of Workers Press, Frida utal regime. Castañeda, vice-President of the National Parliament and head of the MANO (Organized National Anti-Communist Oliverio Movement). Cas- tañeda, who is the third most important personality of the regime, after President Arana Osorio and the president of the Congress, Mario Sandoval Alarcon, became a famous torturer during the Zacapa peasant massacres. The almost complete con- nation's basic trol of the by US companies, resources from the mining food and industry to the nation's agri- culture and farm lands, has been accomplished while the local privileged classes tighten their control with complete disregard for the workers.

In April 1972 the publica- 'Grito Popular' tion called the existence of revealed 'clandestine workers' cemeteries' where cotton labourers poisoned by the con- stant drizzle of insecticide upon them were secretly buried in the department of Escuintla.

This annihilation does not differ greatly from the 'napalm' bombings in the peasant region of north-east Guatemala or the methods used by the 'Green Berets' to hunt guerrillas.

The Guatemalan regime refuses to accept any labour demands and is constantly in- creasing its list of victims by adding the names of labour and peasant leaders. Any citizen of Guatemala remotely suspected of having connection with the govern- ment's opposition is cruelly tortured by the MANO. Iris Yon Cerna, niece of assassinated guerrilla the Marco Yon Sosa, was tor- tured and murdered in the MANO's medieval torture chambers. Thus, the United States con- tinues to contribute its exper- tise and equipment for counter-revolutionary repres- sion not only in Vietnam, but the heart of central in America, turning Guatemala into a laboratory for annihila- tion. Prensa Latina ross, Friday September 22, 1972 PAGE 5 German businessmen are highly sceptical about the prospect of European monetary union in the near future, despite the outcome of the Rome talks. The case against it was put sharply by Ludwig Erhard, former Economic Minister and Chancellor in Bonn speak- ing at a gathering in West Berlin to commemorate the of the Dresdner centenary Bank, one of the pillars of capitalism through German four regimes. Erhard, the father of the 'economic miracle' post-war and what was called 'the social economy' • attacked market monetary integration as a dangerous step towards plan- ning and control of capital movements. He feared that it would accelerate rather than check inflation. Erhard's outright defence of the free market is now rather old-fashioned and some bankers are convinced that monetary is integration in Europe essential to prevent the US running unlimited from balance-of-payments deficits.

Ludwig Erhard This view was put forward the conference by Kurt at Richebaecher, a director of the Dresdner bank. He feared the of European consequences banks having to absorb incon- vertible dollars which nobody wanted or of constant revalu- ation of European currencies.

union with a A monetary that could float currency against the dollar or controls, as supported by the French, would, he considered, be pre- ferable. Even Richebaecher did not think that the time had come for such a monetary union because there is insufficient political agreement between the Common Market countries to make it workable. His alter- native — a further period of 'muddling through' The antagonisms within the Common Market have by no means been resolved by the Rome meeting and the renewed monetary crises which can be expected this autumn are bound to bring them to the fore.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday September 22, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE

National Socialist Movement- was this time content to give In its 11th year of exist- out leaflets eagerly received by Birdwood and Dowager Lady ence the Monday Club of others waiting to enter the Tories right-wing has hall. forged definite and un- But while droves of Special Branch manoeuvred men mistakable unity in around - all the time taking action with the National notes of the speeches by coun- Front. ter demonstrators-it was the National Front which was Last Saturday they teamed playing the key role. They did not give out leaf- up in anti-immigration an lets until after the rally in London. Although the meeting. Instead they took effective meeting was nominally called control of the stewarding on Monday Club, the by the co- the the doors. About ten stewards operation between two Mon- was as solid and help- -fairly shared by the groups day Club ful as they want at this stage.

and the National Front-barred the small door- And hovering in the back- ground all the time was Colin way to unwanted elements.

the fingering of Tordan of the British Move- Leading 'undesirables' Martin ment. was one-time leader of Webster, National Front acti- Tordan- self-styled British the Nazi Webster vities organizer. organized the marches from Smithfield meat market against the immigration of Ugandan Asians. When the Workers Press representatives showed their press cards and attempted to follow other journalists into the meeting, Webster turned to our photographer and said: 'He's a troublemaker from the Socialist Labour League. He's not coming in.' And despite protests from fellow NUJ members, that's how it stood.

Monday Clubbers by Web- ster's side seemed happy enough to follow his direction.

Meanwhile a National Front taking pic- cameraman was tures of those thrown out as well as some of the demon- strators. Webster, like Michael Wool- Royal Navy com- rych-the mander who left his job to be Monday Club new the director enjoyed convivial and helpful relationships with the police hierarchy on duty in force. They seemed to know Web- 'Well Martin, how is ster well. going?' senior officer enquired. Later Woolrych dis- cussed in detail with police officers the atmosphere of the meeting and the numbers who naa attenaea the National Front Inside, provided the bulk of the 2,000- The Monday strong audience could Club MPs who spoke hardly make themselves heard the of paranoiac for rantings Wogs Out', 'Enoch In', 'Join National Front'. the It seemed to embarrass the MPs a little Not that the two groups dis- the question of immi- agree on gration. Said MP John Stokes: Workers Press, Friday Ser left) Colin Jordan (top was While inside right) (tor Where Ronald Bell centre left and next to him new chairman of the Club Jonathan Guinness wollady harangued There jubilation (far left • at the Enoch Powell. mention of National Fron a sten enjoyed friendly relations with the police (left) 'Attempts are constantly being made by the media and by so-called and intellectuals dressives we should brainwash us that despise our own history, , back. ground and culture duty, have to try to assimilate rapidly as Possible of the immigrants. culture An invasion Inis SIze [from Uganda] would finally and irrevocably alter the char- acter and composition oI beyond repair. The country English wretched remaining will then indeed be strangers in their own land.' In 'Spearhead', the National Front's magazine, the same line taken. Under title the "These Asians kept must out!' the article states: 'So we have to have another huge number of immigrants dumped us, immigrants with alien customs, culture and way of life.' Eventually Harold Soref MP r8 Press, Friday September 22, 1972 PAGE 7 united the meeting in acclama- tion for Enoch Powell, the saviour of the movement. And the one unfortunate who tried to interrupt with shouts of 'racist, fascists,' had by this time been bundled out of the meeting and reportedly kicked about by stewards. The meeting over, the crowd piled out to form up behind National Front banners and posters to march to Downing Street. The Monday Club dutifully assembled behind the real driving force. At the entrance to Downing Street there was a nice little scene involving Webster, the newly-elected chairman of the Monday Club - merchant banker Jonathan Guinness from the brewing family-and Soref, John MPs Harold Briggs-Davison, John Stokes and Ronald Bell. Webster Eventually dis- appeared - having no doubt out the business-and sorted the MPs and Guinness handed in their resolution demanding repatriation. Webster rejoined the march which returned to Central Halls. He led the crowd in three cheers for the police. And a nice party was had by all-the Monday Club, National Front and the force of law-and-order.

ORIGINS OF RACIALISM

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday September By a special correspondent Racialism was a device by which the ruling class sought to get the working class to do its dirty work.

The merchants, slavers and bankers were under no illu- sion that they were dealing in anything other than human beings. one trader explained: As "Though to traffic in human creatures may at first sight inhuman appear barbarous, and unnatural; yet the traders herein have as much to plead in their own excuse, as can be said for some other branches of trade, namely, the advantage of it.. The 'advantages' were purely financial. No one will ever know how many Africans were torn from their homes and but a successful families, slaving venture could bring in as much as 100 per cent profit on the outlay. Conservative estimates put the numbers of slaves embark- ing on the ships at anywhere between 1l and 20 million.

Nor does it include the millions who died on the forced marches to the coast, sometimes as long as 500-600 miles, in which they were chained neck to neck and on by the drivers' driven whips. For every slave who em- barked, at least ten died before they actually left Africa.

During the Middle Passage, the sea journey from Africa, Slaves were packed into the holds, allowed some 16 or 18 inches in width each, with head room rarely more than 2-3 feet. Exercise consisted of being brought up on deck once or twice a day where the men, wrists and ankles already raw and bleeding from the irons, were forced to jump up and wielding down by sailors whips, whilst the women and children had to dance around them. The smell of sweat, vomit and excreta was so bad that it was said you could smell a slaver five miles away. About 12 to 16 per cent of the slaves died on the journey, sometimes more. Some Just gave up, refused all attempts feeding and died at forced because they no longer wanted to live. Some went mad and were clubbed to death. Those who tried to fight back were flogged to death. away the Disease carried vast majority and it was com- mon practice to throw a sick slave overboard to stop infec- tion amongst the rest. Some- times, the human 'cargo' would be jettisoned when food or water grew short. captain Collingwood, Luke , threw of the "Zong' 132 sick slaves into the sea when water was scarce. He later claimed their value from the insurance company and was awarded £30 for each slave lost. In another court case in 1785, it was decided that slaves who had been killed during a mutiny on board, or who had subsequently died of their injuries, were to be paid for by the insurers. Those who died by jumping swallowing overboard, from water, or from 'chagrin' were not to be paid for, and the September 22, 1972 Top: Young African slaves being stowe branding as punishment for petty offence underwriters would not be for responsible held any depreciation in the price of the injuries due to survivors received during the uprising.

insurance The main com- pany at the time was, as it is for shipping today, Lloyd's. At time advertisements one runaway slaves listed Lloyd's address as the place to which they should be returned. In 1782 the Phoenix insur- ance company was founded by West Indian sugar interests.

who managed Those slaves to survive the journey to the West Indies or America could look forward to a life of hard labour, working from sun-up to sundown, half-starved, and subjected to various tortures designed to break their spirit sing stowed aboard a slave-ship. Above: ity offences and turn them into docile profit-makers for their masters.

Any sign of rebellion or insubordination was punished with the harshest severity or death. The slave-owners, far out- numbered by their slaves, lived which fear of uprisings in erupted often and violently, and they struck back with the utmost brutality. For minor offences slaves could be flogged, branded, castrated, or mutilated. A British physician in 1688 witnessing insub- reported ordinate slaves in the West Indies being nailed to the ground and then the masters 'applying the fire by degrees from the feet and hands, burn- • to the ing them gradually up head, whereby their pains are extravagant'. One contemporary account tells of several black rebels whose arms, thighs, legs and backbones 'were broken with clubs on a scaffold. They were fastened round a wheel [with] their faces... turned upward to receive the full glare of the sun' The judge who had decreed the punishment proclaimed, 'Here they are to remain for so long as it shall please God to preserve them alive'. After their deaths their heads were exhibited on poles. A few slave owners argued that if the slaves were better treated they would produce more. The vast majority, how- ever, believed that since the far population Slave out- numbered their masters, they could only be kept down by being in a state of constant terror. Besides, it made more eco- nomic sense to wear a slave out young and buy a new one, rather than allow him to live on into a less productive old age. Out of this traffic in human misery and blood, fortunes were made. Some traders were amongst the most respected wealthiest people in Britain. Several companies still in existence today their owe growth in no small part to the trade in 'black ivory'. Apart from Lloyd's and Phoenix insurance companies already mentioned, Barclays Bank, which has come under fire for its vast investments in South Africa today, is only carrying on its old traditions.

In 1756 David Barclay, member of that influential Quaker family and a slave trader and owner of a great plantation in Jamaica, married into a Quaker banking family of Gurney and Freame. The result of this amalgamation of wealth was Barclays Bank.

In addition, shipbuilding and supplying, Manchester cotton industry, the iron indus- try and many other flourished with the slave trade. However, it would be a mistake to imagine that it was black because Africans were that they were treated in this way. In fact, the first West Indian slaves were white.

Long before Africa was for the opened up slavers, starving British and Irish men and women were induced to allow themselves to become indentured servants, or were convicted of various minor crimes and deported, forced into lives of virtual slavery in the West Indies. Political and religious dis- sidents were also transported, and one year after the ending of the slave trade the penalty for trade union activity was still transportation. Travel conditions were not very different from those of Middle Passage from the Africa. The emigrants... were packed into the holds, each being allowed about 2 ft. x 6 it. space. A petition to Parliament in 1659 described how 72 inden- tured servants were locked up below decks for the whole of the 5t-week voyage, 'amongst horses, that their souls through steam under the heat and tropics, fainted in them' A whole host of judges, prison warders, merchants, public officials, it was even rumoured Queen Elizabeth I herself, had a vested interest in such trade. When supplies grew scarce, men, women and children were kidnapped and sent abroad.

Judges in Bristol, in con- junction with the merchants, would convict men and women on the slightest pretext, then threaten the victim with sentence unless they death would plead for transportation.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

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General Council seat at Brighton just over a week ago.

Since then, he said, he had letters from all sorts of people who saw the dangers of inject- ing a philosophy of class war into our and bitterness industrial relations'. A Royal College of Surgeons report states that patients are denied kidney being trans- plants because suitable kidneys are not being found in time.

But a group of doctors and computer scientists at London Hospital have questioned the value of transplants. Writing in the 'British Medical Journal', they claim that even if the time spent waiting for a kidney transplant was halved, very more patients would be few alive with their new kidney in five years. Many would have died and others would have returned to treatment on kidney machines. The team says many trans- plant deaths could be due to drugs used in fighting rejection.

while They also say that patients given a new kidney live a better life than they would on a kidney machine, they cannot on average expect to live so long. And only 28 patients cent of who per returned to kidney machine treatment after rejection of a graft survived for two years.

The two-year survival for patients before transplantation was 80 per cent. An editorial in the 'British Medical Journal' suggests the team is being 'un- duly pessimistic'. A row has blown up inside the Ethical Society which owns the Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. This is one of the few in central London pre- halls pared to open its doors to the National Front. The Smithfield who marched meat porters against the Ugandan Asians under Front auspices held their meeting at the Society's hall. The Society's general secre- tary is Peter Cadogan, who emerged from the Communist 1956 and spent Party in a brief period in the Trotskyist before moving movement smartly to the right. Among the Ethical Society's publications recent a pamhplet Club by Monday chairman G. K. Young. Young's club, which recently marched with the National Front against extreme-right influence inside the Tory Party. The pamphlet, called 'What are Europeans?' has 'nothing to do with race, according to Cadogan. Presumably, it has something to do with 'ethics'.

certainly says something about Cadogan's, anyway.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday September 22, 1972 WATFORD: Monday September 25, Trade Union Hall p.m. Woodford (upstairs room), Road (opposite Watford Junc station) 'Force the Tories to resign. SOUTH WEST LONDON: Tues. 8 day September 26, p.m. Clapham Small Hall, Manor Baths. Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

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Peyton also announced a £20m ABOUT 2,000 workers at the London Brick Company at Bed- ford were sent home yesterday after forklift drivers and belt setters refused to return to work.

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Without them, production there could not start. Stan Clarry, of the Transport Workers' Union, and General said: 'I met the setters and they are not prepared to move at all.

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Speakers Tony Gifford, are Polly Gaster and Pam Logie-all three just back from visiting Frelimo's in liberated areas Tête Province, where fierce fight- ing surrounds the site of the Cabora Bassa dam. The meeting is at 7.30 pm at Camden Studios, Camden Street, NW1 near Cam- den Town tube station.

Swindon Council of Action DELEGATES from the Trades Council, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers district United Tenants' committee, the Association, AUEW branches, the Socialist Labour League, the Communist Party and the Young Socialist Federation attended the inaugural meeting of the Swindon Council of Action at AUEW House Wednesday. on Observers were present from the EPTU.

The main resolution declared that the urgent political tasks before the trade unions and labour movement demanded not only a new form of practical struggle, but a corres- pondingly higher form working-class organization for the defence of all basic democratic:rights. This fight was inseparable from the struggle to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour gov- ernment pledged to socialist policies The two delegates from the Communist Party (one the Swindon CP branch secretary) abstained. from voting the the grounds on resolution on that, although they agreed with the position of the Council of Action, it 'went far beyond the level of the workers they were trying to get to'.

voted for the resolution and—on Everyone else of local Labour Party the proposal members-a sent asking why the Labour Party had letter was not replied to the invitation to them to participate on the Council of Action.

A FRESH dispute has led to the 3 p.m. dispute yesterday in a of all ferry over the disciplining of a seamen.

complete stoppage Liverpool and dispute began services between separate on Wirral Seamen Wednesday the Birkenhead yesterday. and on stage-hands stopped work from ferries over delays in pay talks.

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CRAFTSMEN from the giant British Steel Corpor- ation factory in Port Talbot meet this afternoon to discuss strike action in support of their pay claim.

They will hear a proposal offer submitted at the end of from engineering union shop last week rejected was stewards giving the corpor- totally unsatisfactory by the 28 of factory's joint ation days' notice crafts negotiating committee (JCNC). strike action unless the claim is met. The committee decided to boy- further round of talks An overtime ban has been in scheduled in London to discuss operation at the works since the the demand. beginning of August in support But AUEW district of a 6-per-cent minimum wage secretary Tal Lloyd declared whatever the demand. rank and file thought, he would Management has adopted an attend the London meeting and intransigent attitude towards the the JCNC switched its line and claim, saying that no more wage also decided to attend. increases are due at Port Talbot under the of the blue The latest offer amounts in terms 85p a week for book' manpower and productivity money terms to day £1.35 for two-shift workers, agreement. and f1.92 for workers workers on the full 21-shift continental BSC YESTERDAY announced the closure of the foundry Hallside steel- department at Despite Lloyd's recommend- Cambuslang, Lanark- works, for

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ation acceptance, shire. The 83 workers involved have voted to shop stewards told the shutdown have heen recommend strike action at the will take place in six months' meeting today. time. BURMAH OIL produced better- Craft met the representatives than-expected profit interim BSC management in London last figures. Yesterday Burmah said week and turned down two pre-tax profits for the half-year offers juggled which existing the to end of June were hours worked, hours paid and £19,658,000, £19,930,000. against hourly in order to give. After tax, the total is £14,218,000 workers the 21-shift con- tinental rota a £1.50 pay increase.

against £13,943,000. A statement said profits in the second half of These workers are already en- £1 the year were expected to follow titled by pay rise national agreement. A third BSC the improving trend. Electriclans' union leader Frank Chapple refuses to speak to lobbyists at power pay talks.

LEADERS of 105,000 electri- city supply workers yesterday a demand submitted for a £5.50 increase to bring the basic wage minimum up to £25 and proportionate increases the scale. The power workers also want a 35-hour working week and a fourth week's annual holiday. The employers, expected to announce next week a loss of about £23m for 1971-1972, are certain to complain that the claim would add about £70m to the £170m wages bill. The claim will also be dis- cussed at next Tuesday's Heath, the meeting between CBI and the TUC. A 15-PAGE document called 'Towards a New Ireland' has been drawn up by Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party. It asks the Tory government to declare that it would be in the best interests of all sections of the communities if Ireland were to become united'. Blandly ignoring 600 years of history, Irish the SDLP asks 'Britain'-the Tory government- to 'encourage the development' 'terms acceptable to of unity on all the people's of Ireland'.

In a temporary return to reality, the authors this original plan concede that im- mediate unity by agreement between all concerned is not likely. A statement issued by the party said they were prepared to discuss the proposals with any political party in Ulster or the Republic and that it hoped for 'constructive dialogue' Despite its anxiety ran comen.

Orangemen, William Whitelaw's refusal to end internment has prevented the SDLP arriving at a formula to permit it to attend the all- party talks at Darlington.

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UNION LEADERS of the 194,0 workers involved in a pay battle s yesterday to consider their next mor Although there has been a series of selective strikes and overtime bans, the feeling is growing among the rank and file for an all-out stoppage.

At the same time, militants yesterday were rejecting any idea that the claim for a substantial increase might go to arbitration.

Ted Cope, shop steward at the Royal Navy Dockyard Deptford, south London-shut down by strike action for 11 days now— told Workers Press yesterday: 'Arbitration or a court of in- quiry is no good. It would take too long and any increase they gave would be outdated by the time we got it. 'Some of the single men here only take home £13 or £14 a week. Many of them have never saved a penny out of their wages.

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y September 22, 1972 he 194,000 government industrial • battle since June met in London next move. Wednesday Deptford workers picketed the Royal Naval yard at Portsmouth where 9,500 men are employed. good Although they had response—there was a picket on the Portsmouth yard gates yester- day-the Deptford men are still bitter about the action of the Portsmouth Whitley Committee.

'About ago, three weeks added Ted, 'a mass meeting of 1,000 men decided for a strike but the committee men walked ofi the platform.' Committees which were set up in 1920 are established at • level throughout the in- every dustry. "They of joint are sort works' committee dominated by the management, said a Dept- ford picket. Deptford workers are deter- mined to win their claim. I'd rather take my cards than go this one,' said Ted back losing yesterday. THE STALINIST leader- ship of the 15-month-old work-in at the former Upper Clyde Shipbuilders received its second major snub in 24 hours yester- day. Although a mass meeting of 3,000 men at Clydebank voted to reimpose a work-in at the yard if the Marathon Manufacturing Company carried out its threat to sack 450 men next week, more than half the total workforce of all four yards stayed away. And • Communist Party mem- ber and convenor James Reid finally admitted that almost the entire workforce from the Govan yard had refused to attend.

Implying once again that the responsibility lay with the Govan boilermakers, Reid declared: 'It has got to be acknowledged that there elements split were apparent in the last number of weeks. It is too early to give an analysis of this, except to say that the pursuit of so-called sectional is always interest disastrous to the working class.'

A mass meeting of the 6,000 workers was to have been held on Wednesday, but had to be cancelled after a massive boycott threat by boilermakers and labourers. Stewards told the press the meeting was of little interest' and was being called to discuss a 'domestic' issue. Excuses for • ranged from the cancellation 'transport problems' to 'organiza- tional difficulties'. The need to quell rising fears among men at Clydebank made an immediate declaration of unity in the fight for jobs at all four yards imperative. After an emergency session on Wednesday afternoon the co- ordinating committee decided to call a four yards meeting at Clydebank. At 1l a.m. yesterday only seven partially-filled buses arrived at the yard and 23 others were sent back empty from Govan. Somo of the Deptlord, south east Londol

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The 400 workers who atiended from other yards were com- prised by Linthouse out-fitters and welders and Scotstoun out- fitters and labourers. This second expression of no confidence in the co-ordinating committee hammered the final nail into the dying fight for jobs at the four upper Clyde ship- yards. Yesterday's meeting, from which the press were pointedly excluded, voted to reimpose the work-in at Clydebank until all the men at present on the payroll assimilated by Marathon were and to reintroduce the 50p levy.

Although the co-ordinating committee was able to use yes- terday's decision smother to unrest at Clydebank, Govan said afterwards that workers there was next to no chance of them paying the levy. Govan boilermakers have told Stalinist convenor James Airlie that they will attend no more meetings called by the •co- ordinating committee, which has lost a third of original 40 work-in members since the began. To try to get round this difh- culty, departmental meetings will be held throughout Govan Ship- builders Itd on Tuesday to per- suade the men to agree to the levy. Pale and shaking Reid told reporters after yesterday's meeting: "The meeting unanimously re- affirmed that the fight is still on for all the jobs and that includes the jobs that are apparently in jeopardy at Clydebank. "The work-in will continue until all workers are assimilated either by the Marathon Manu- facturing Company or Govan Shipbuilders Ltd.' Complications are certain to arise with this new formula since agreements with both companies stipulated that the work-in had to end when they took over.

It is understood that mem- bers of the co-ordinating com- mittee told the mass meeting they would resign if men at all four yards refused to abide by yesterday's decision. Committee chairman Airlie ast London we

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told reporters: 'If the engineers at Govan do not carry out the pledge they gave 15 months ago, I could not betray my principles.

I could not represent them' conference Yesterday's press was taken by co-ordinating com- mittee members Reid, Airlie, Bob Dickie, Willie Holt and Willie REPRESENTATIVES of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz- ation in Brussels made their first examination this week of the Soviet proposals for a

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of British Industry is demanding that the government makes 'con- crete proposals' at next Tuesday's tripartite talks involving Heath, the TUC and the CBI. The boss's spokesmen are nothing clearly unhappy that solid has been achieved in the five meetings held so far. CBI president Michael Clapham said this week: 'I should be surprised if the pace is not hotted up!

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This follows the visit to Henry special ussinger. discussion will be required before NATO formally adopts a position.

due to end at the end of October and the employers have made it clear that it will not be extended under any circum- stances unless the union chiefs toe the line. and his TUC Feather have already agreed colleagues • improvement for the that any lower paid should be matched with restraint at the other end of the scale-but the employers want more than vague general- alities. Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Sunday September 24 Nature of the capltalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historical materialism today Sunday October 8

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