Workers Press no. 882

workers press Heath wants to cut wages and smash unions

HALT TORY PLANS

FOR STATE CONTROL

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

THE TORY

has government

BY THE ATUA NATION

launched its most serious attack since it on the working class COMMON MARKET entry on January •- will bring a further next year, cut came to power in June 1970.

Prices per Sanentes. Will Value-Added cent as a result of the new With its proposals for the state Tax Heath alone. talks about regulation of wages, it wants to bring wages to increase no more than £2 in the standards under the interest of the nation. Earlier this year he kind legal control it same is was Irone Day resint in the interests of 'the consumer' attempting to exercise over their trade union organization through the But the divided into classes. nationis National Industrial Relations Court.

So Heath, who not long £100 a week pay ago awarded himself a In other words Heath and his Cabinet rise, speaks for the employing class.

-assisted by the cowardice and class- By Heath's accepting proposals as the

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collaboration of leaders basis for discussion. ne union leaders aid assembling bricks and mortar of tha his policy of splitting the middle class corporate state. from the class working by allowing him Unemployment, rising prices and entry the appearance of speaking for 'the nation' and the consumer'. Common Market all key into the are elements in this strategy.

The Tory package proposed at Chequers cannot entertained bv any member • FIGURES released last week showed either the middle class or working the another jump in hard-core unemployment. class for Wage moment. restraint 817.515 Britain Northern totally unacceptable, for the meone in reAsons Ireland are wholly without work. The already outlined. the And promise Tories hone price increases to per cent u1ce

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honleccnace зея limit means of blackmailing the leaders rubbish. union into cutting claims, and of under. Day Under capitalism, prices are the mone- mining militancy on the shop floor.

tary expression of the value of commodi- ties and thus fluctuate violently in periods

• THE OFFICIAL

TatA ot price of boom ericic increase is now running 6.6 per cent, Any attempt to freeze prices in Britain as the upward surge of wholesale prices only result massive flight the phonev price reaccarte

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restraint of the Confederation British capital abroad in search of higher profits.

This in itself would force unemploy- Industry. Over the up next three monthe and the union increases in steel, electricity, road trans- this. meTE Headers KnOW port and food costs will force up the rate They also know that the Chequers pledge to help the low-paid workers is a cynical still more sharply. This is quite apart from the wage-cutting of the Housing fraud. Finance which In capitalist society it has always been

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onerates trom Mon day (see p. 3.) the most strongly-organized and therefore

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

DOCKERS at London's mili- productivity was increased by 50 tant Royal percent on the docks would they of docks group no further guarantee closures. decided yesterday to lift their employers had refused overtime ban after shop give such an assurance, he said.

stewards told them that the Fenn also that the "anorted immediate problem of sur- national dock stewards' com- plus labour had been solved.

mittee had drawn up a new list of firms which would be blacked The move came on the day the on the docks. He said the black- Register Temnorary TInattache? ina in london of Minionancad officially part aholiched ac Storage and Dagenham Cold of the Jones-Aldington proposals.

Store would continue. Shop steward Micky Fenn said He warned that if men found the ban would be incontinued themselves without work in the from Monday. went on future would be necessary to re-impose Fenn said all the men on the the han

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had haan -in London To. allocated. claiming this was one The national stewards also dis- of the victories of the dockers' cussed the issue of pensions and struggle. have decided to establish cam- paign committees on this issue the higher In fact Caverance pay agreed by the union as part in the norte *he committed had also decided to extend its influ- Jones-Aldington has more the Scottish ence to than dealt with the 1,300 surplus Borte Dockers' shop stewards at Liver- verv re- Tandan little in charge of this pool will allocation was necessary. navalanment Fenn also said that the • See TUR figures p. 12: Cow- boy ports pp. 6 & 7. Steward Colin Ross employers asked them

& • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1972 •

No. 882

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGI

NATIONAL COMMITTEE

more highly-paid sections of workers who have made the pace in the wages struggle.

Without their efforts the earnings of the low paid would be even lower.

It is not the job of the union leaders hold back the but to to strongest, strengthen the weakest. Yet at Chequers the TUC leaders accepted precisely the opposite role. In the face of threats from Heath and his Minis- ters of more unemployment if they refused to toe the line, they started preparing to give up all workers' rights.

By accepting the Heath plan as a basis for discussion they disarm the working class in its hour of greatest need.

There can be no compromise with these men. There can be no compromise, either, with the Stalinists of the British Commun- ist Party who cover up for their treacher- ous retreat. On Clydeside, in fact, the Stalinists have in the position of front- put themselves runners for the TUC retreat.

Because the pay struggle of boilermakers at Govan Shipbuilders interfered with his plans for coming to terms with the Tories and the employers, James Reid, a CP member, executive accused them of importing the 'rat race' into trade union- ism. Yet it was Reid and his iellow-Stalinists in the shipyard, working hand-in-glove with the leaders of their Party, who split the yards and destroyed the most import- ant struggle against the Tory architects of unemployment of the last year.

Neither the TUC 'lefts' nor the Stalin- ists will fight for the independence of the unions from the capitalist state, or even lead the wages struggle today.

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olin Ross (I), chairman of the meeting which voted to 4p

A LEAGUE

The Heath plan has made clear once and for all that the struggle for wages is through and through political and can only be led by those who recognize this fact. The All Trades Unions Alliance, which is holding its national conference in Birm- ingham on October 22, has fought tire- lessly for this conception. We have fought to free the unions from the grip of capital- ist politics through building a revolution- ary leadership within the trade unions.

As we pointed out in our initial state- ment for the Birmingham conference, this struggle was central to Lenin's conception of trade union work and essential to the victory of the October revolution.

Lenin insisted: 'It is not enough that the class struggle becomes real, consistent and developed only when it embraces the sphere of politics ... Marxism recognizes as fully developed, class struggle a "nationwide" , only it it does not merely embrace politics, but takes in the most significant thing in politics—the organiza- tion of state power. Delegates are already being elected from stewards' committees, shop trade union branches and trades councils all over the country to attend the ATUA conference.

This is the only way to answer the Heath plan. We appeal to every one of our readers to put the biggest possible effort into the campaign for the conference. It is vital that the maximum number of delegates and visitors attend.

• All out for the Birmingham conference.

• Break off the talks with Heath.

• Force the Tories to resign.

• Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies of nationalization under workers' control. October 29, 1972 voted to lift the ban.

workers press Heath wants to cut wages and smash unions

HALT TORY PLANS

FOR STATE CONTROL

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

THE TORY

government has

BY THE ATUA NATION

launched its most serious attack since it on the working class COMMON MARKET entry ther antary will bring a further next year, cut living standards. rise 10 cent sanesult of the new Value-Added With its state Heath talks about alone.

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wages, it wants to bring wages to increase no mora than £2 fin the workers' living standards under the interest of the nation'. Earlier this year he kind of legal was urging pay restraint in the interests of same control it is 'the consumer' over their attempting exercise trade union organization through the divided into classes. But the nation is National Industrial Relations Court.

So are consumers. Heath who not long himself a €100 a ago awarded week pay In other words Heath and his Cabinet rise, speaks for the employing class.

-assisted by the cowardice and class- By accepting Heath's proposals as the collaboration of TUC leaders - basis for discussion, the union leaders aid assembling the bricks and mortar of policy 'splitting the middle class hid of corporate state. from the class by allowing him working the appearance of speaking for 'the nation' Unemployment, rising prices and entry and 'the consumer'. into Common Market are all key elements in this strategy.

The Tory package proposed at Chequers cannot entertained by any mam her • FIGURES released last week showed either the middle class or the working another jump hard-core unemployment. Wage class for in 817.515 people in Britain and Northern totally unacceptable, a for the reasons Ireland are wholly without work. The already outlined. the promise rising joblessness as a Tories hone price tog per cent 11SA Amit in crascas means of blackmailing the union leaders rubhish. into cutting claims, and Under capitalism, or 1nder• prices are the mone- mining militancy on the shop floor.

tary expression ties and thus fluctuate violently in periods

• THE OFFICIAL

of mira wota of hoom or increase is now running at 6.6 per cent, upward surge of wholesale prices Any attempt to freeze prices in Britain as the would only result in massive flight of over thA capital abroad in search of higher profits.

restraint of the Confederation of British This in itself would force up unemploy- Over the Inoustry next three montha and the union ment- leaders this. increases in steel, electricity, road trans- know port and food costs will force up the They also know that the Chequers pledge

TATA

to help the low-paid workers is a cynical still more sharply. This is quite apart from fraud. the wage-cutting effects of the Housing Finance which In capitalist society it has always been operates from Mon. day (see p. 3) the most strongly-organized and therefore

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

DOCKERS at London's mili- productivity was increased by 50 per cent on the docks would they tant Royal of docks group no further guarantee closures. decided yesterday to lift their emplovers overtime ban after shop give such an assurance, he said.

stewards told them that the Fenn also reported that the immediate problem of sur- national dock stewards' com- plus labour had been solved.

mittee had drawn up a new list of firms which would be blacked The move came on the day the on the docks. He said the black- Register Temnagary, TInattached of Midland Cold was officelly abolished as par.

officially abolished as part Storage and Dagenham Cold Store would continue. Shop steward Micky Fenn said He warned that if men found ban would the he discontinued themselves without work in the from Monday. on future want would be necessary to re-impose on the Fenn said all the men the ban. TUR in hean london har allocated, claiming this was one The national stewards also dis- victories of the dockers' of the cussed the issue of pensions and struggle. hone + torch rom paign committees this issue on fact the higher severance In in the monte The committep has pay agreed by the union as part also decided to extend its influ- Tones-Aldington has more to the Scottish ence ports. than dealt with the 1,300 surplus Dockers' shop stewards at Liver- very re- London …ittla will be charge of this in pool allocation was necessarv. Fenn also said that the • See TUR figures p. 12; Cow- stewards had approached the port boy ports pp. 6 Steward Colin Ross employers asked them No. 882 •

1 • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 1972 •

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGI

NATIONAL COMMITTEE

more highly-paid sections of workers who have made the pace in the wages struggle.

Without their efforts the earnings of the low paid would be even lower.

It is not the job of the union leaders hold back the strongest, but to to strengthen the weakest. Yet at Chequers the TUC leaders accepted precisely the opposite role. In the face of threats from Heath and his Minis- ters of more unemployment if they refused to toe the line, they started preparing to give up all workers' rights.

By accepting the Heath plan as a • basis for discussion they disarm the working class in its hour of greatest need.

There can be no compromise with these men. T'here can be no compromise, either, with the Stalinists of the British Commun- ist Party who cover up for their treacher- ous retreat. On Clydeside, in fact, the Stalinists have put themselves the position of front- runners for the TUC retreat.

Because the pay struggle of boilermakers at Govan Shipbuilders interfered with his plans for coming to terms with the Tories and the employers, James Reid, a CP accused them executive member, of importing the 'rat race' into trade union- ism. Yet it was Reid and his iellow-Stalinists in the shipyard, working hand-in-glove with the leaders of their Party, who split the yards and destroyed the most import- ant struggle against the Tory architects of unemployment of the last year.

Neither the TUC 'lefts' nor the Stalin- ists will fight for the independence of the unions from the capitalist state, or even lead the wages struggle today.

olin Ross (!), chairman of the meeting which voted to • 882 • 4p

? LEAGUE

The Heath plan has made clear once and for all that the struggle for wages is through and through political and can only be led by those who recognize this fact. The All Trades Unions Alliance, which is holding its national conference in Birm.

ingham on October 22, has fought tire- lessly for this conception. We have fought to free the unions from the grip of capital- ist politics through building a revolution- ary leadership within the trade unions.

As we pointed out in our initial state- ment for the Birmingham conference, this struggle was central to Lenin's conception of trade union work and essential to the victory of the October revolution.

Lenin insisted: It is not enough that the class struggle becomes real, consistent and developed embraces only when it the sphere of politics ... Marxism recognizes fully developed, class struggle "nationwide" as only if it does not merely embrace politics, but takes in the most significant thing in politics—the organiza ion ot state power. Delegates are already being elected from stewards' committees, trade union shop branches and trades councils all over the country to attend the ATUA conference.

This is the only way to answer the Heath plan. We appeal to every one of our readers to put the biggest possible effort into the campaign for the conference. It is vital that the maximum number of delegates and visitors attend.

• All out for the Birmingham conference.

• Break off the talks with Heath.

• Force the Tories to resign.

• Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies of nationalization under workers' control. October 29, 1972 voted to lift the ban.

Alex Mitchell explains how, in three years of continuous Trade war stakes PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Septon ONE OF the most contemptible relationships British in the labour movement today is the anti- friendship between the communist International Social- ism Group and the Stalinists of the Communist Party. The Clyde has been the great testing ground for this alliance of the unprincipled. At UCS the IS have con- sistently played handmaiden to the Stalinists, covering up at every stage the great betrayal.

From yesterday's edition of their paper, 'Socialist Worker', they will play the it seems servant to Stalinism right to the bitter end. In an anonymous article they described the collapse of the Stalinist 'work-in' policy and the split this has caused the ranks of the Clydeside shipyard workers. Govan Ship- Then men at fusing to pay their levy because the men at Clyde- redundancy bank accepted payments from the American company Marathon Manufactur- ing. Other factors were the and Scotstoun boiler- Govan makers' insistence on a wage increase before signing their own deal. The other problem, say the IS, is the way the work-in has been 'dragging on' For all these problems the 'the stewards' paper blames But throughout the entire article the main architects of the split, the Stalinists who, as the totally ignorant all but know, • the struggle dominate at UCS, get not one single mention let alone criticism.

But who was it who accepted the policy of redundancy pay- ment at UCS-James Reid. Who led the men into sign- ing the deal-James Reid. Who attacked the boilermakers at Govan for standing up for more money -James Airlie.

Who told the boilermakers that they would have to sign or their would be no yard Sammy Barr. And who in the first place subordinated the struggle for the right to work on the Clyde to a deal with the Tory government and two capitalist employers — Reid, Airlie and Barr. Yesterday's 'Socialist Worker' proves that these reformists place far more importance on the reformist antics of the age- ing gentlemen who head the 'Communist Party industrial machine' than the ability of the working class to defend its standards and force the Tories to resign. THE SPLIT over the election of a chairman for the International Monetary Fund's key Group of 20 shows that the conflict between the United States and the Common Market has not abated. Bank of England function- ary Jeremy Morse was elected chairman by one vote over Rinaldo Ossola of Italy, who was backed by the United States. lay September 30, 1972 THE PRODUCTION of the 12-page Workers Press six days a week, 52 weeks a year is an enormous technical, professional but, above all, political achievement. The celebration of our third anniver- sary as a daily is a complete vindication of our Marxist political estimation of the economic crisis and its implica- tions for the British working class.

We now intend to build solid this on foundation with wider coverage of industrial and international news and at the same time to introduce the latest printing technology to improve production. other Workers Press is In words, getting ready battles in for the front and for the crucial class task of training and building an alternative revolu- tionary leadership in the working class.

After three years af continuous publication we have the lie to those who scoffed at given our launch decision to revolutionary Marxist daily They said that the workers' newspaper. movement 'not ready' daily to support newspaper; they said the Socialist Labour League would break its back putting it out. But these impressionistic particularly the commentalors, had in revisionist circles, credible of the no perspective political situation in Britain and the internationally. As world of capitalism unfolded, the

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felt the question was not what was politically pos- simply sible, but what politically was working class necessary. The needed such a paper as a revolu- the instrument in class Lullary struggle. marches organized by the Young Socialists during the bitter winter WE HAVE unmistakably demon- February and March strated that on our programme months of the first Trotskyist daily this year. Reporter Stephen Johns news- the world could be marched the whole route from paper in founded with the support we Glasgow to London with the un- fight for in the working class.

employed youth. Then we have other huge ad- By the final week of the first-class national campaign we had a full printing highly-skilled tradesmen, team with the plant, reporting a professional team of revolu- marchers: Ian Yeats was with writers, Philip Wade tionary photographers the Kent march, with Liverpool and David Maude designers. But there is and of comrades and with the Welsh contingent. They further group the slept supporters whose work deserves lived and with special elaboration. marchers. Only capitalist one These are workers-and some- "The collect Sunday. Times'. times their wives-who the stations and air alongside a hired paper at terminals in the early hours of spent the night in a luxury the morning and undertake long hotel. delivery runs to ensure that the It would be wrong to give the Workers Press is sale and impression that our success has taken into factories in the morn- been produced out of some sort shift. of formula of insales are one crucial aspect of or simply out sacrifices made by our sup- the life of our paper, and so is Our success is built 'on porters. the monthly appeal fund. Each political often bitter struggle, day collect continuous but always educative. we stream of money to fill the fund; in the three we be- years since gan daily publication it has never THE MOST outstanding example gone short. What is forged, therefore, is is at the Upper Clyde Ship- of purpose between builders, the focal point of a big a unity re- readers, sellers and col- battle porters, against unemployment. Since the 'work-in' began over a It is common fight lectors. conducted against common capitalist year ago we have relentless exposure of the Stalin- enemy. The devotion and sacrifice by ist and reformist leadership warn- all those participants in this fight ing that their policies would magnificent. lead only to the break-up of the truly un- yards and the loss of thousands known the capitalist press. on Indeed, it couldn't happen there.

of jobs. This for the The Stalinists replied in their struggle paper best demonstrated during traditional way-they harassed the national Right - to - Work our sellers and one of out Only a last-minute switch by The American position remains of African delegations as hard as ever. President Nixon's the two prevented deadlock on the com- statement at the opening mittee, which is to be the forum mony and the plan advanced by for detailed discussion of a new his Treasury Secretary George international monetary system.

Schultz have done nothing to The clash over the chairman- change it, despite the misplaced ship pitted Britain and the Com- of European euphoria certain Market countries - except MOn CommentaTors Italy - United The US is still demanding that for -- against the States and its Latin American the other capitalist coun major and Asian supporters. tries foot the bill for America's The most intransigent oppon- huge balance-of-payments deficit, of the both by their ents compromise over again revaluing chairmanship French, currencies and by abolishing their were the are still who smarting from the protective trade practices.

US calculated attack the On August 15 last year Nixon on

IMF

present director-general reneged on his obligation to con- Pierre-Paul Schweitzer. gold at vert the dollar into the of But this is not the only reason one-thirty-fifth of rate an for the clash. The Group of 20 ounce for every dollar. is to be the main Since then America's creditors cockpit for the battle between Europe and have been left with piles of paper America over the ciming period dollars in their' bank vaults on trade and monetary questions.

nobody To which wants. add purpose has been forg merence porters was threatened with a dunking in the Clyde. Now we've come almost a full circle. James Airlie, leading Stalinist, is re- jected by the workers in his yard and the CP's glamour boy, James much-tarnished Reid, image. The Workers Press, on the other hand, has earned the most advanced respect of the section of UCS workers. OUR PAPER is bought and read Our analysis has with respect. proved We have con- correct. tinued to serve the UCS workers in their struggle and only three weeks ago we published in detail the agreement which the Stalin- ists signed with the Texas oil- rig firm at Clydebank. So with our coverage of the international scene. We have ex- posed the policies of the Eastern European Stalinist _bureaucracies as they reach trade agreements with fascist and neo-fascist countries like Spain, Portugal and Greece. these Guiding attacks has been the struggle for socialist internationalism in the tradition of Lenin and Trotsky.

We have kept the case of ,.prisoners in front of political the working class-George Jack- son, who was subsequently mur- dered a year ago at San Quentin, Soviet prisoners Grigorenko, Bukovsky, Czech prisoners, Ceylonese, Greek and Irish.

We have stood unequivocally for the defence of the colonial peoples in their struggles Vietnam, Bangladesh, Palestine, insult to injury, the US is demanding that they open their markets to American produce and accept even more dollars on the same basis. Essentially, this is what the Schultz package adds up to, sweetened with the promise that eventually - when it suits Washington - the dollar's con- vertibility will be restored.

All the participants know that the big battles lie ahead: which is why they are frantically jockey- ing for the key positions in the IMF bureaucracy. But though the Europeans appear to have won the first round by a narrow margin, the victory is likely to be shortlived. In the last analysis the ques- tion is decided by the relative economic weight of the con- testants-and here the US has the decisive advantage. The continuous forged ollectors. the Arab states and southern Africa. In Ulster we were the first to call for the withdrawal of British troops and we have consistently fought for the unity of the British and Irish working class in the struggle against British imperialism. Experiences over the past nine months have demonstrated the revolutionary movement mass which is under way in Britain.

This expressed itself first in the miners' strike, then with the railwaymen, the dockers and the workers. building struggles on the The bitter picket line and in the anti-union courts have left an indelible mark on the political conscious- ness of tens of thousands of workers. But the path ahead will be uneven and dangerous. It is in consideration of these future developments that we have laid our plans for the ex- pansion and development of our publishing. To train an alterna- tive revolutionary leadership- the supreme task of revolution- ists today-requires two essential stages: the publication of books at reasonable prices as part of a mass education programme and further increases in the circula- tion of the Workers Press.

TO THIS end in mid-1973 we are installing a brand new press to publish Workers Press. This will allow our present press to be used on a full-time basis for book production while the new , publish more machinery will quickly and efficiently our daily and the weekly youth paper, Keep Left', which we are so proud of. Coupled with the technical in- novations there will be new addi- tions to the editorial staff from national daily newspapers. These journalists who have decided to throw up the bourgeois media and give their talents to the revolutionary will movement help to greatly expand our coverage of industrial, economic international news. The other major development will be in film-making. We are now in the final stages of com- pleting plans for film production; the laboratories, cutting rooms and viewing facilities are being brought into service. This will enable us to produce drama based on working-class history, and education films for those coming for the first time into political struggle. In conclusion it must be em- phasized that our fight is to make the Workers Press a workers' paper which fights for leadership in the working class.

We don't and won't tail-end the working class. On this basis we are confident of winning the best sections of workers who are moving towards revolutionary politics. Our paper couldn't last another day without the support of the working class. Its continued ex- past three pansion over the years is living testimony to the power of the working class and The its revolutionary potential.

existence and growth of Workers Press is undoubtedly its greatest achievement. capitalist European economies have been regenerated since the war on the basis of their access to the American market. But the Nixon administration is threatening to cut them off they from this unless outlet terms. In a accept American trade war though both sides stand to lose the Europeans stand to lose far more. The biggest losers of all, how- the ex-colonial and ever, are semi-colonial countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America who appear at the meeting, as one commentator put it, 'simply as good public relations decoration'.

These countries are already living on the edge of bankruptcy as their staple trades decline and their debts to the metropolitan countries escalate out of control.

They will be the first victims of the trade war and the worst hit.

Workers Press, Saturday September 30, 1972 PAGE 3 Letter a Beware of rent strikes isolating struggle lock-out Defeat Tories to beat rent Act threat

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MONDAY is 'fair rent' aim of council Housing Finance Act Britain with the leading the day for millions of Lelalils silvale Only Councils of Action Call Dall A LETTER to 70 clerical staff Tories resign Tenants to follow next vear make the council tenants through- can now mobilize the mil- through a General Strike.

on sunke for over a week al on out Britain as the TenanTS Hunter's Liverpool food factory first I cases. and the threatened isrelai claimed be 'lock-out Unless the tenants have increases the litter means rest wil with the destruction this perspective, North-west Tory Housing Council hated John housing as we know it will a grave danger that group.

TRe clerical U010N. Finance Act and to strike. become like Allen, commented: Will Tell end 'In letter they state if we due. Embracing tenants' asso- into purely pro- the unions and do ciations, trade action isolation

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are Only handful of

LOOL

Subsidies to local coun- themist Party and the remi being given: notice of termination Labour working pontical orranzalons Class Labour councils - 50 at our are withdrawn movement, organized trade ot the.ahoir 26 implem ere rethe ato Councils Action that basis rent of the rents are unions. con sionist internationa Social- 1971. implement the being 'market level basis. have tried to strikes will be deleated nelanions Acl, divert oma 'Our legal advisers tell tenants anger into there such section in the harmless Councils of , We will not return Trades Council sets

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lory plans. under threat, only under nego- National Earlier Association of Tenants and this week 700 shop- up rents committee Residents staged a one-day

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workers oreanizca sympathy strike. petitioning Canvacus and lobbying of parliament Action vital and spread the illusion that on Mersey Ferry stops non - imprementanon would councis Labour maker the Tories drop the

TENANTS

'fair rents' Bill. and shop threatened by eviction and for participation commuters stewards meeting on in Mon.

AN INTERVIEW

day's Merse side strike were hit yesterday by a one-day was Their allies in IS joined also

BY PHILIP WADE

endorsed was call for hands hant the only real possibe.

with them to strike Mersey 10,000 dockers will strike the expulsion services between the which halted against the Tory rent Act Labour Liverpool and Birkenhead. The of all those to lorce AN ACTIVIST in the tenants' movement Monday have the Tories to resign. in protest against delays councillors who supported strike, decided to form a Liver- implementation. ended at mid on a south London estate, Mrs Veronica vasay caus With pool trades council co- The • an ed the rent increases night, and normal services will the unmoved, due, Tories operate from shortly after 6 a.m. ordinating committee. the recall of Gayle, talked to Workers Press about the The A 300-strong meeting on begin campaign the and the Labour councils returned today. their knees before them, fight against the Act and the Communist work on Monday after a five-day defeat of and Thursdas the the IS now says • Tories stoppage. unanimously proposal with Party leadership in her area. Her rent is that the committee should ernment to carry out a so- beaten' Call housing programme. strikes. comprise council and pri- going up 64p on Monday, making it £11.80

ROAD HAULAGE

Association Kippax Gartorth, But this is also danger- members and trades councils, those council were told yesterday a fortnight. increase their freight by Labour tenants, near Leeds, face

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nonsense June central 10 want to fight substantial question remains not to per cent despite Act and rent increases the the Tories' but to The tenants' leaders have had no policies to by because of Monday week 12 Labour make

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call Trade Secretary John Davies that izations on the basis that retreat the the fight this Act. Round here the CP Stalinists would permeate councillors who last the all assist Wed- the increase prepared t General strike to torce walked out of the Tories to resign and elect Eric he fight to bring dowr nesday have said the campaign was non-political and all 1LussC1l, three Labour government asso get on see y the orv government sala either they ever wanted was peaceful protest against it.

for imple- must or A call from the trades Tories to vote poli- abandoned'. council to support tenants mentation. cies and the repeal of the munerative Now the tenants are on their own. The lam. YS Right-to-Work campaign beth Labour council putting up the rents They have set no example

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and given us no lead.

YORKS REGION

They talked a lot about different ways fighting, Goldthorpe miners in

RIGHT

but al the time the Tories Yorkshire welcomed the

TO WORK

were in the front and the Young Socialists' Right- Labour leaders behind

MARCH

them to-Work marchers into

LEEDS TO SHEFFIELD

going this their welfare social club If you're to fight like something you for a midday meal on need good leadership. Thursday—the sixth day of the Leeds to Sheffield At the. moment you will only get a smal minorit campaign. In almost every tenants who won't pay town the youth have their rents. But tenants alone passed through, the cannot get the lories miners have been their ou, wac is whal s needed.

most stalwart supporters, Thev have to unite with other workers who are both financially, morally under from the pressure and politically. On the lories. Other workers are right are some of the It's the tenants. usuall same for everyone. marchers and miners along with the women who The rent goes up and wages the same. cooked that most stay With the uncrease welcome meal. cost-of-living you still have find the extras to pay the bills. Now the lories are go ing things even make harder for all of us. Increased fear for miners' jobs We definitely need Coun- cils of Action to work to- get the Tories out and put Labour back to carry out socialist policies. also must be considered NEWS THAT the govern- But the Stalinists don't ieonardv. facing the north west's

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

withholding ernment is will now 15,000 miners with a redundancy They want that money from the coal industry battle within the next 12 months.

round and say we in then difficulties will be mini- will couldn't have in a bid to curb miners' pay expected to be the main victim Other closures include done dil y a closures programme-though Smithi Wood—a have demands has increased fears mIZCU. near better Cano vou

NOW

NCB admits are many Sheffield employing 500 men.

the Board can- there to take everything. coalfields on the more programme he loses In South Wales, Fernhill, not go small ano They will blame • tenants -the Barnsley area (£10.5m loss) closures. programme Rhondda Valley the top of the for their own failures and chairman Derek Ezra says

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use us as scapegoats. Wall an assloce COSULeS.

DIOSCIOUS

1c on The leonare or ar oh the wintly be no repetition area like Yorkshire, eight pits are due for closure this leaders say output is rising and depends Tenants and workers 1973-1994. last how much money the Board and year through exhaustion coal remove it from danger. winter's strike hope to have the and se further six in clean up the the On other fields NCB officials tael blasted a huge hole

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likely be worst hit now. We must to readershin ernment norm. government.' deny that th the closures are have perple deterred to the which They the union view Yorkshire miners given north planned- -with proviso that union

WOOL

fight their Arthur Scargill, made the of the does need the gov. cut claim highest lOsS caucas Board's 18 areas. official strike ernment's £800m. wav gel £5.50-f7 decided at the trom the OlIC Tories out. area covers North Wales big National Union of Mineworkers' leaders. I his Clearly miners face two 'Problem pits' accept pit closures Older workers are un- annual conference. " an not _ano comperana. dangers: and I don't want pessimistic talk says the NCB, derstanding the base and Coal Board spokes- Nauoldi Workington which Whiter ex: near Their leaders will conspire of their troubles from The Walll 100l Haig fields admitted yesterday that with the Board to avoid a strike Tories Workers see the industry in LeTs Haustiull. are £800m aid the The Gressford and Bersham Wrex anim po arbitration. possibly send denuded making it their duty without the num- intimated that there Point understand and the are not as Der or munes Prestatyn. category 'uneconomic' was pit their bolnel are an y closures Denis Dackward as • The Tories will plough ahead main Lancashire field One, from Yorkshire, this area. to increase. make them out to be of its and close pits part Yorkshire contributed All the strikes workers gave a typical opinion: mas- or une ones oils were the NCB's £118m not making an operating profit ofensive sive £40mr to the have been in this year have or deberas. or couse. on strike. These working class. loss for 1971-1972. before the miners' us. If we can get a good full year and over ever given them confidence.

PACE & Workers Prea By Cliff Slaughter Part Two The revisionists of the International Marxist Group play a role which can be clearly defined. They use radical phrases and Marxist jargon in order to cover up for the crimes of the trade union bureaucracy and the Stalinists. Like all the followers of 'United Secretariat' Mandel's they object fiercely to our calling them 'Pabloites'.

But they follow precisely the logic of Michel Pablo, who tried in the early 1950s to make the Fourth International into the running dog of the Kremlin bureaucracy and the communist parties. Tony Hodges, speaking for the IMG in his article on the upper Clyde shipyards crisis in 'International Socialist Re- view", talks about the need for 'a new fighting leadership'.

He goes on to criticize the union Labour and trade leaders and the Labour 'lefts' but is silent on the Stalinists, who are actively carrying out the policies of the social democrats for them in every strike from the Post Office to the building workers. So when Hodges mentions the 'construction of the left wing' , what does he mean? He means crawling behind the Stalinists and their fake Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions and 'Action Committees', giving them every assistance in keep- ing militants away from the struggle to force the Tory government to resign. This is why nowhere in his article does Hodges raise the question of a political pro- gramme to make the Tories a Labour • th resign and return Everything is government. focused on forcing 'retreats' on the Tory government. Now this fits in exactly with what the Stalinists have done • st the Clyde. As the occu- on pation of the yards began, they announced that it would be a 'work-in'! Hodges dresses up this reformist claptrap as The trade unions follows: reorganized production under their own control!' What the shop stewards, under Stalinist leadership did, was to keep men working for the liquidator, tiding produc- tion over until new investment was attracted by government grants and no-strike pledges.

At no time was the question ownership of the yards- of a blatant case for national- ization-ever raised! The Stalinists argue that this was the only way to save jobs.

Of a labour force of 8,500, 2,000 left before the end of the work-in. In the same period there were 32,000 re- dundancies on Clydeside! This growth of mass un- employment could only have been fought by the Clyde shipyard workers being mobil- ized with the whole working class to bring down the government. Stalinist UCS leaders James Reid and James Airlie, directea by Bert Ramelson, industrial organizer of the Communist covered by the Party, up revisionists of the IMG and the International Socialists, isolate the UCS aimed to workers. They bitterly opposed the anti-Tory slogans of the 200,000 who struck in support on August 18, 1972. At the peak of the work-in, only 390 workers were at work, and it slumped to 177, even though redundancies were increasing all the time. In the Govan yard, when the boilermakers rejected the terms agreed by their leaders and decided to fight on for their differential, it was once the Stalinists again Reid and who condemned them. Reid brought into the middle of the fight all the corporatist been developing ideas he has in the last two years. The boilermakers, by pressing their 'sectional demands, were bringing the inevitability of 'the rat race' into the yards, said Reid. This is open col- laboration in all the prepara- disciplining tions for trade unions behind the emblem of 'national interest' representatives Like Reid, of the Stalinist bureaucracy everywhere will carry out this in order to prevent the role development of the revolu- tionary political independence of the working class. It is little wonder that what Hodges calls the 'victory of ur the Clydesiders' was summed up by the Tory liquidator as follows: 'It is greatly to the credit of the leadership of the shop one • stewards' co-ordinating com- mittee that, one or two short- lived and regretted incidents apart, they have exercized the for negative control potential with considerable restraint and have been ready to see that practical needs of the the situation demanded the co- operation of all the interested parties.' That is the employers' ver- dict on the Stalinists! The IMG has perverted and revised Marxism in 'order to justify its treacherous support of these Stalinist policies. Hodges article is called "The Crisis of British Capitalism', but he cannot explain one single word about the world crisis of capitalism behind the special problems of British capitalism. For him, the crisis is only a temporary downturn in an expanding 'neo-capitalist' economy. (As his mentor told us, Nixon's Mandel August 1971 measures would lead only to 'a cycle of slower growth'.) Hodges can write (early in La Stalinist James Reid the summer of 1971): 'The Tories decided to slash taxes in the March budget in order to encourage investment industrial recovery. and spur ensuing rise in employ- The ment will no doubt How wrong is it possible to be on economic and political perspectives? By September, unemployment was creeping up mark! "The to the million unions' are running , to the government, to collaborate against a rank and file radi- calized by unemployment and basic rights! the attacks on It is this faith in capitalism which paves the way for the petty-bourgeois IMG group to work with the Stalinists and their "peaceful co-existence'.

With such a view, then of course it is easy to see political work in the workers' move- ment as encouraging the unions —without a struggle for in- dependent Marxist leadership— to fight for concessions from the Tories. These middle-class radicals, selected and put into motion by the renegades from Marx- ism like Mandel, Maitan and Frank, are responsible to no- body in the working class.

They simply mouth lett phrases while refusing to fight against the reactionary bureaucracy which holds back the working class. Their opposition to the election of a Labour govern- ment sounds left, but it is really a refusal to take up the political fight against the Labour leaders, a refusal to Top: Voting to start the work-in' at organizer of the Communist Party Bert R fight to break the working class from reformism. Hodges, for example, can now write: "The return of the Conservative Party to power in June 1970 was itself decisive part of the capitalist counter-offensive.' A decisive part? Yes, but the IMG fell in with Robin Blackburn in advocating that workers did not vote in 1970!

They proposed to break up Labour Party meetings as well as Tory meetings. Blackburn called his article, referring to the Labour Party, 'Let Bleed'! Having 'corrected' this line -by a few words saying it was one-sided-Blackburn has now joined the IMG. The basic line is the same: to lead any- rk-in' at Govan yard. Above: Industrlal rty Bert Ramelson. one who will listen away from the fight against the main enemy. As the struggle grows more and more acute and the ques- tion of working-class state power comes to the forefront for millions of workers, the IMG, based as it is on thoroughly rotten revisionist foundations, will go even further in its service to Stalin- ism and to the trade union and Labour bureaucracy. This question of leadershir is exercizing the minds of thousands and thousands of workers betrayed in their struggles against the Tory government. The Socialist Labour League, through the All Trades Unions Alliance conference (October 22) and the transformation of the League into a revolution- ary party, will never rest in exposing the role of those like the IMG, whose only role is to cover up for Stalinism and bureaucracy in turning workers away from this central ques- tion of Marxist leadership.

TITO'S MEN ADMIT

'GREAT MISTAKES

BY JOHN SPENCER

Some of the basic prob- lems facing the Yugoslav leaders were aired in public recently at a lengthy meeting between activists of the League of Yugoslav Communists and their national secre- tary, Stane Dolanc. Dolanc was reporting to the Split and Dalmatia Party mem- on a recent meeting of bers the League's executive bureau which discussed the crisis situation facing Yugoslavia after almost a year of social upheavals. Dolanc is a hard-line Tito functionary, equally hostile to the emerging right-wing danger and the threat of political revolution by the working class embodied in the development revolutionary of clandestine groups among the youth. But his reply to discussion at the meeting revealed some of the main preoccupations of the Yugoslay bureaucracy and, above all, the fact that it has no answers to most of the questions. According to Dolanc, the leaders of the League of Com- munists proposing a are national campaign to reassert their badly-battered authority, sending of agitators teams round the country to all Party organizations to brief them on the leaders plans. The League secretary found it necessary to stress that the Party is in fact in power in Yugoslavia and admitted: 'We have already been through a time when it was shameful to admit this to anyone, and some people talked about the League of Communists being an ideological organization.'

sceptics, Against these Dolanc emphasized that the League of Communists is the 'sole political organization of the working class in Yugo- , adding that without slavia', 'this organization set up in this way I do not believe that this community could remain together'.

BUREAUCRATIC

INCOMPETENCE

however, the In practice, which actually bureaucracy holds the power is unable to put even basic policy decisions into effect. Dolanc gave an example: 'The summer before last we had a session of the presidium at which we adopted concerning agrarian stands policy. 'We fixed a term of until the end of the year to work out a platform for the republics to reach agreement on price policy, development policy and on other things: however, as yet nothing has been done...

the absence of this agreement is borne only by the workers and by the working class whose life is hardest.' illuminating this After example of bureaucratic incom- petence, Dolanc went on to the training of Party discuss officials, complaining that the is 'being generation proceed from positions that are ideologically inimical to • If this is the case, it is little wonder Dolanc regards the League's decision to abandon Two, who is preparing further. anti-worki its 'cadre policy' for educating leaders as a 'great mis- new take' 'We cannot carry on like this,' he said. which One question agi- tated many of his listeners was what Dolanc coyly termed 'the problem of social differentia- tion'. This refers to those sec- tions which have amassed con- siderable fortunes by fair means or foul over the last few years. Dolanc admitted that despite decisions of the presidium to combat the growth of a layer of rich Yugoslavs 'things are moving very slowly or not at all. 'In our legislation there are certain loopholes which cer- tain people are exploiting and becoming rich without violat- ing the law,' he said. Apparently the Yugoslav tax laws are even laxer than those in the capitalist countries: Dolanc advocated the Ameri- can system of surtax to take away up to 80 per cent of large incomes. The 'social differences' weigh most heavily on the working class, as Dolanc admitted: 'You tell me how a worker with a family of three and a salary of 100,000 or 200,000 (dinars a month) can afford to spend ten days by the sea? "These three members of his family at 10,000 dinars a day make 30,000 а day which makes 300,000 dinars for ten days and his salary is 200,000 He still has another dinars. 20 days to live in that month.

'We had many trade union holiday centres, but we abol- ished them. We had enter- prises in which the workers had an internal statutory right to a sum of money for their holidays, but on the whole we have eliminated these now things... In other words, the bureau- cracy itself has steadily under- mined the conquests of the anti-working class policles behind the 'clean-up working class in furthering the pursuit of its own privileges.

Later in the discussion Dolanc referred to a Party meeting at which one leading member had expatiated about 'social differ- entiation'. He added that over half the rank and file of the Party organization knew that this man was drawing wages from three sources! Yet no one at the meeting had the courage to get up and denounce him —indicating that the man in question must have carried weight in the considerable Party organization. He also referred to the swollen staffs of Yugoslav trade delegations abroad, par- ticularly in Germany where there are over 200 trade func- tionaries, 70 in Frankfurt alone. Among these people, Dolanc said, 'disloyal competi- tion, corruption, personal acquisition of riches and fraud' are all 'fairly widespread'.

'Many of our commercial representatives have foreign exchange accounts in foreign nobody can which banks check Yet these representa- tives are flesh of the flesh and blood of the blood with Do- land and all the other Tito bureaucrats.

THREAT TO

WORKERS STATE

The main source of the growing caste of wealthy and nouveaux riches in corrupt Yugoslavia is the bureaucracy itself—precisely the organism which Dolanc now claims is the only means of fighting this development. No wonder nothing is done to implement the presidium decisions on taxation. No wonder the 'social differentia- tion' gets wider despite all the speeches of leading League of Communists members. There is no need to seek fur- Workers Press, Saturda 'clean-up Yugoslavia' smokescreen.

for the causes of the ther growing and reactionary move- ment around nationalist demands in all the Yugoslav republics. Dolanc denounced nationalism of all shades as in esence 'directed against com- munism, against the working class'. These movements are grist the mill of the fascist to émigrés who want to disinte- grate and undermine the con- quests of the Yugoslav work- ers. These fascists - who in- clude the émigré Croat organ- ization of the Ustachi flourish only on the anti- working-class policies of the Tito bureaucracy. Dolanc's speech is clear evidence that these policies threaten the basis of the workers' state. His catalogue of planned measures to com- bat their results is a worth- less evasion by the representa- tive of a thoroughly discredited leadership: His parting shot, not unnatu- almost inco- rally, was an herent warning to both right and left not to step outside the prescribed bounds of Titoite orthodoxy: "That which goes beyond the line and which would present itself as being more left than the League of Com- munists is not more left, but further to the right of I do not know what political line, the and the same goes for political nd extremism. 'In effect both political lines, cy based on radicalism of the left or the right, merge into one line and that is anti-commun- ism and nothing else.' This attempt to smear the left is in the most contemp- tible Stalinist tradition and indicates that behind the smokescreen talk of cleaning up Yugoslavia, the bureaucracy is preparing further blows against the independent mobil- ur- ization of the working class.

3, Saturday September 30, 1972 PAGE 5 On June 24, in the small town of Pozuelo, between Madrid and the Guadar- rama mountain range, sun-bathing tourists were suddenly disturbed by the arrival of a van-load of Civil Guards. The Guards had been tipped off-there was a clandestine meeting of the Workers' Com- missions in the town. Within minutes, workers had been arrested. The workers were 100,000 pesetas and 250,000 pesetas (£600 and £1,500) respectively and released the same day. On June 27, by order of the General Head of Security, they were imprisoned and within 24 hours a special tribunal rati- fied this imprisonment, claim- ing that these men were mem- bers of the National Commit- tee of the Workers' Commis- sions. They were described by the judge as 'habitual subversive agitators' who had 'stood out for a long time through inten- sive activity as agitators, which represents more than a threat, reality concrete against a peaceful social harmony'.

The police, in tact, had no evidence against the workers, only their record of past militancy in struggle against Franco. The men include supporters of the Spanish Communist Party whose record shows they have faithfully followed Party policy of fighting for the Workers' Commissions through elected positions in the fascist union. Marcelino Camacho Abad was imprisoned, tried and interned concentration camp from 1939 to 1943 after the Civil War. He escaped and reached Algeria. He returned to Spain in 1957. From 1967 1972 to he has been fined twice, tried five times and had his positions in the state-run union taken away from him.

An engineering worker for the Perkin's factory in Madrid, he has spent most of the last five years in prison. Another of these militants, Eduardo Saboride Galan, has been arrested five times, fined twice, imprisoned tor a year deported—all in the last and five years. He was removed from his position as vice- president of the workers sec- tion of the fascist union in Seville. Now in the infamous Madrid prison of Carabanchel, they have sent a letter via the Workers' Commissions appeal- ing to workers in Spain and Europe to fight with them for democratic rights. The struggle of these work- is continuously ers threat- ened by the Spanish Stalinists' liberal policies of looking for- ward to a democratic Spain in the democratic Common Mar- ket. As the letter asks: 'How long can fascist forms exist in Spain which long ago Europe overcame?' 'democratic' However, less real every Europe seems day when the workers read regularly of Tory govern- ment policies against the British trade unions and see that European capitalist gov- are so friendly ernments towards Franco. The other development which sharpens the crisis in the Spanish Communist Party is continuous presence of the east European delegations in Madrid wining and dining with the architects of the fascist state which fills the cellars of working-. with Carabanchel class militants.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday September 30, 1972

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

On Monday the so-called the Tory randum sent to Minister John Peyton by Sir era on the docks new John Nicholson, head of Ocean begins with the official Steam of Britain's one abolition of the Tem- biggest shipping lines. For This stated: the Dock Unattached porary the ultimate Labour Scheme Register — hailed as one aim should be the substitution of the big reforms in the of normal industrial agree- and relations for the Jones - Aldington pro- present statutory regulations posals that ended the (the circum- of the industry of 1947 recent strike. stances no longer apply). This does not preclude The 1,650 men on the TUR work people's participation in were to be reallocated to the which govern the the process employers who would absorb of affairs, but running dock the surplus and receive finan- such participation would be cial assistance as compensation.

the consequence of agreement In fact the move proved to and between the employers be a fake. As militants fore- would not be the union and cast, the other provision of the dependent on statute report - the decision to in- The big shippers met, again crease the 'golden-handshake' and put these views in secret, dockers receive for leaving the to Jack Jones, Iransport general industry for good-has dealt tary the and the surplus and spared with General Workers' Union, and employers most any extra O'Leary, the Tim union's burden. docks national secretary, In fact employers have almost two this years ago to from their benefited own Adelphi day in Liverpool's The apparent generosity. Hotel. response to the new severance This meeting later was payments has been so great exposed exclusively by the ports that the surplus in Workers Press. has been more than wiped out.

The idea was for the even- By the end of last week 2,150 tual end of the statutory basis docking sad applied to leave of the National Dock Labour the industry more than and the substitution Scheme on the TUR. of some agreed procedure con- But despite the pious words trolled by unions and em - about dockers not being en- ployers, supervised perhaps by couraged to end their produc- à National Ports Council with lives and tive take severance, enhanced powers. both union and employers were The employers' leaders were expecting this result. able to report to their mem- For the employers, the bers that there was a measure the exodus from industry of agreement. In a circular they brings them nearer their long- Jones had said® warned there 50-per-cent term aim should change in the reduction in the dock labour be no until phase two of force. The 500 overlap is the structure the ill-fated Devlin scheme was contribution first towards The 4.000 established on the docks.

banishing the surplus employers accepted this advice.

the port bosses say they men Later Nicholson, as presi- already and there will carry undoubtedly be more voluntary dent of the Employers' Asso- ciation, told Peyton that Jones redundancies as more dockers hostile pass the 55-year-old mark and was to the em. plovers' of conception the qualify for the top severance NPC and would be prepared payment. discuss the idea of The first fruits of Tones- to sub- therefore, stitution the

NPC

for the Aldington, violate National Dock Labour Board— one of the principal demands of the militant dockers-that the existing guardian of the scheme. be NO further there should contre second they aim of the The second key aim employers has been to abolish

TOUGH

the statutory safeguard dockers over By law no docker can be fired and out onto the dole by his boss.

If All this is to establish that there is no work for him he is the employers and the union now reallocated to other have contemplated getting rid employers. of the scheme. Theoretically a docker can The second big task of the lose his registration, and therefore his right to handle Tones-Aldington report, and it appears in the latest Transport cargo, for indiscipline. But the and General Workers' Union final decision lies with the local Dock Labour Board, with 50 on the unregistered memo published last Wednes- ports, per cent employer-union repre- is towards But it is extremely day. move sentation. situation where this will be this body to kick rare for possible. man off the dock. Take first the more The employers have always recent document on the unregistered hated this important right won by dockers after the war and ports. The dockers' demand have stated their intention to on this issue was quite clear destroy it. well immediate registration of all Their thinking was the unregistered ports, wharves summarized in a secret memo- and jetties.

T&GWU

The proposals drawn up by O'Leary and sub- mitted to the NPC, which is leading a government-backed inquiry into the issue, sound tough. But in fact they do not …uphold this basic dockers' demand. The document begins with this bald statement: 'The union appreciates that one of the main obiectives of the inquiry will be to establish the facts as regards the impact of the growth of the smaller ports, and unregistered labour.

The wish Council to may distinguish between those large ports which though unregis- established tered firmly are and where acceptable rates and conditions are paid to workers permanently employed (although their failure to con- tribute to the NDLB level is a continuing problem) and those smaller wharves and jetties labour is frequently where casual or part-time, and where conditions are un- rates or acceptable.' It is not clear why O'Leary thinks a distinction might be drawn between the two types of port-certainly he does not state it. But is the implication that the big unregistered ports like Felixstowe, Dover, Shore- ham and Harwich Parkeston Quay should be left outside the scheme? It is fine O'Leary claiming that they might pay rates and conditions similar to those at registered ports — which they do not-but they do not come under the statutory obligation of the National Dock Labour Scheme. Significantly the union's detailed proposals on indivi- dual ports — produced as an appendix to the O'Leary memo —is still shrouded in secrecy.

Elsewhere O'Leary comes close to suggesting the type of revamped National Ports Council suggested by the em- ployers back in October 1970.

(Of course, he never mentions nationalization of the docks and transport industry — the policy of his union.)

SUPER-PORT

of super-ports He talks which will have under their scope every port in their par- ticular regions. The whole of the British coastline will be covered by these authorities to bad dock develop- prevent ments. The aim should be for one authority in each area which would effectively control em- ployment. He writes on page 7: Certainly, the port authority must be given effective control investment, over future tho within the overall powers the National Ports Council, to ensure that new investment is determined by the interests of the ports as a whole.' When it comes down to em- ployers operating in the smaller ports, again there is no clear commitment to bringing them National Dock under the Labour Scheme. He talks of firms employing regis- some tered dock labour 'by arrange- ment' with an existing port employer on a 'contract basis'.

will be allowed Othere open 'limited registers' if they can prove they employ workers at rates and conditions equal to registered dock workers. The exact status of the men on these registers is left unclear.

eil enjoy Whether they the statutory protection registered docker is not stated.

The OLat the intends of intention stating that the proposals is to get an early date on which registered dock workers only are employed on dany toas Now this may be O'Leary's claim. But it certainly is not clear from his document. Above: The ramshackle Gunness whart on the river Trent One o the score of tiny unregistered wharves and into 'ports' eating Cools Grimsby on the Humber. Left: One of their Aldington and Jones. recommendations_-the of the temporary unattached into operation on reaister comes Monday; the port employers. If this were the why case, not state bluntly that the un- should be registered ports registered forth with and the and coastlines riversaps Britain be judged as part of Dock the National Labour of the purposes Scheme for cargo-handling. In fact the status of the big unregistered ports is left open and even small employers are not required to seek registra- tion. The same deliberate con- fusion characterizes the Jones- Aldington report - - both the version and the later original clarification. On the key issue of con- will tainerbases, be mer allowed to work inland at depots where containers are unpacked packed and on release from existing port employers. But the containerbases them- selves will not have to become Workers Press, Saturday Se registered dock employers or pay the levies connected with the NDLB scheme. In fact this is no concession —it operates now at the Con- tainerbase Federation's depots in Orset, London. The key fact is that the management at the base still has the unfettered right to fire a worker, even if he is a registered docker.

The other alternative is to employ men who have 'tem- porarily' left the register. The big question is-suppose they want to get back.

FAILURE

Jones-Aldington propose to give them priority in any new recruitment to the register. The one big snag is that of another recommendation the report is closing of the register. Employers are highly unlikely to be demanding more dockers when their main aim is to axe in excess of 10,000 in from industry immediate future. This failure of the Jones- report and the Aldington O'Leary memo to recommend registration of bases and ports is extremely important. Press, Saturday September 30, 1972 PAGE 7 see in museum.

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It is quite clear from modern trends that more cargo, both in value and tonnage terms, is through inland going bases and unregistered ports. In other words, more economic activity associated with tradi- is moving tional dock work away from the shrinking regis- tered areas. Jones-Aldington and the union do nothing to combat this-on the contrary they en- courage it. By co-operating with plans to reduce the num- ber of registered dockers by more severance; by proposing a scheme that lets container the registration depots off hook'; by refusing to demand the immediate registration of all ports, and by encouraging a 'normal' and non-statutory relationship between cargo- handler and the boss, they are promoting the employers' two aims outlined in me mos written after Devlin phase two.

These were: a vast reduc- tion in the docks workforce and an end to the statutory basis to the scheme. dockers' In short the struggle is only beginning. By the end of the month the NPC will complete its investigation into the non-scheme ports. Dockers must be ready to reject its findings and insist on their basic rights.

A MASS BASE IS WON

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Septem Part three of a series by Tom K For the first two years of its existence the German Communist Party (KPD) remained a small cadre party with little influence on the working class as a whole, which remained faithful to its Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Independent Social Democratic Party (UPSD) leaders. Because of the illegal conditions under which it operated the local organ- izations had a good deal of initiative. It was not yet a centralized and dis- ciplined Party. At this period several prob- lems confronted it. The most important were: what should be its relationship to the new International being launched from Moscow? How could it establish a mass base in the German working class? What should be done about the deep divisions in its own ranks?

The last of these issues was forced to a decision by Paul Levy, who, assisted by Karl Radek, was the effective Party leader. He considered that it was necessary that the Party should separate itself from the advocates of putschist tactics if it were to win the support of of substantial numbers workers. The conflict came to a head at a conference held secretly at Frankfurt in August when Levy insisted that those who persisted with syndicalist con- ceptions and rejected the need for a centralized political party would have to leave it. Levy's propositions met stiff resistance and the opposition, based largely on Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden, left the KPD in the following year and formed the German Communist Workers' Party (KAPD). This split deprived the Party of about half of its member- ship, estimated at 107,000. In Berlin almost the entire mem- bership supported the split.

When a section of the army revolted and tried to establish a dictatorship headed by a Prussian reactionary politician Kapp in March 1920, the KPD was taken by surprise by the . response of the working rapid class in supporting a General Strike. The Kapp putsch col- lapsed after only four days.

The first KPD leaflet on the putsch urged workers not to take part in a General Strike: 'Do not lift a little finger to defend the Republic.' This was based on the view, strongly supported by Thalheimer, that the Noske government and the Kappists were equally reaction- ary. The massive support for the strike from all workers, includ- ing Party members, forced it to change its attitude to one of support on the following day.

In a number of areas the Party joined with SPD and USPD members' call for the working In to take power. class Chemnitz a workers' council, by KPD leader inspired Brandler, took over. The initiative in calling the strike had been taken by the trade union leader veteran Karl Legien, a typical reformist bureaucrat and wartime social patriot. Nevertheless he saw a military dictatorship that threatened the very existence of independent working-class organizations. He called for a General Strike and appealed to all working-class organizations, including the KPD, for support.

The massive working-class response to the Kapp putsch ay September 30, 1972 Tom Kemp on the history of the Ge brought a rapid reconciliation between the authorities and the army, which embarked its work of once more on repression. A big opportunity had been missed when the workers' parties had failed to respond to Legien's call tor a workers' government. The con- fusion of the KPD's policy, its failure to give a strong lead, was paralleled by similar faults on the part of the left wing of the USPD. by approached When Legien's supporters the

KPD

leaders went no further than to loyal promise to be opposition' to a workers' government of the type which Legien wanted to set up. The Central Committee later re- jected the declaration in which this appeared as 'deviationist' and this was approved by the KPD's 4th Congress in April 1920. The KPD took part in the Reichstag elections in June 1920 but won only 2 per cent of the votes, giving it perhaps 5 per cent of the working-class vote. However, the election saw a big gain for the USPD, which won almost as many votes as the SPD. Although the Party so far had experienced little but set- turn in its backs, a new fortunes came when a majority of USPD voted in favour of adherence to the Third Inter- national. The question had been debated ever since March 1919 and in June 1920 a party delegation went to Moscow to discuss affiliation terms.

It should be pointed out that i the German Communist Party the USPD right wing consisted of former SPD leaders such as Kautsky and Hilferding who bitter enemies of the were Soviet regime. There could be no question of adherence to the Third International, then, without a major struggle and a split in the USPD. In the tamous Li Conditions, the Communist International laid down the terms for mem- bership designed to exclude reformists, centrists and the type of leader characteristic of pre-war Social Democracy. A special USPD Congress was held at Hallé in October 1920 to debate whether the party should join the Third Inter- national. No doubt most delegates had already made up their minds on the 21 Conditions. It was an indication of the im- portance which Lenin, Trotsky and the Communist Inter- national attached to the Ger- man revolution that Zinoviev was sent to put the case for affiliation. He made a brilliant four-hour speech in a titanic debate in which Hilferding was the main opponent of entry.

Zinoviev emphasized that the conditions for revolution had in Germany existed for several years. What was lack- ing was a leadership and the creation of such a leadership was the task of the Congress.

The split in, the

USPD

brought approximately 390,000 new members into the KPD, which was transformed over- night from a revolutionary group to a mass party. At its 6th Congress in December the Тор: outside unification took place with 349 delegates from the USPD and 136 from the old KPD The Communist German Party now acquired mass and an enormous appar- base atus which, in fact, was to a large extent from the pre-war Social Demo- Party. It had dozens of cratic offices where counter-revolutionarles had barricaded themselves in during the Kapp putsch. Above: Zinovlev.

Ger- newspapers throughout the many, positions in trace Reichstag deputies (it unions, had formerly had only two and local governmen repre- The leadership wa sentatives. equally divided between now KPD and former USPD leaders.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

With the support of all the major capitalist powers, Rumania has applied to join the Inter- national Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Apart from Yugoslavia, which belongs to both institu- tions, the Rumanians will become the first East Euro- pean country to take part directly • in the regulating bodies of the capitalist monetary system. Rumania participates in the seven-member Council Mutual Economic Assistance which links the (Comecon) USSR and a number of East European countries. But Presi- dent Ceausescu has resisted Soviet demands for tighter integration of the Rumanian economy with the Soviet Union and other member- states. Rumania also has associated with the Common status Market which allows it so- called preferential trading status. Rumania's request to join the IMF and the Bank is not only a blow to Soviet economic strategy in East Europe, how- ever, it is also a major con- cession towards imperialism, which opens up considerable dangers for the Rumanian workers. The IMF and the Bank are primarily instruments through which the main capitalist powers-above all the United States-can dominate the eco- nomies of the rest of the capitalist world. institutions Both were created at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944. The IMF, with a capital of over $28,000m contributed by mem- ber-countries, loans money to states in financial difficulties.

One of its membership con- ditions is currency convert- ibility and the Rumanians will have to breach their tight cur- rency controls in order to bring the leu into line with IMF requirements. At present the Rumanian currency is not traded On international money markets and western businessmen will not accept it in payment. To make its currency convertible, the Rumanian government will have to relax its controls over foreign trade, which at present is a state monopoly. This monopoly is one of the most important barriers be- tween the Rumanian economy and the capitalist-dominated world market. It protects Rumanian indus- try and agriculture against an uncontrolled influx on foreign in most goods which would cases undercut the domestic products. Joining the IMF and World Bank will enable Rumania to Top: Rumanian President Ceausescu t (above) resulting in a rapid currency in for low-interest loans as a will also enable the Rumanian Stalinists to attract capital from the west and give them access to western technology.

Ceausescu sponsored a law last private year allowing foreign investment in Rumania and guaranteeing the property rights of capitalist investors in the country. Similar measures were taken some time ago by the Tito regime in Yugoslavia, resulting in a rapid currency ausescu taking similar measures to urrency inflation. inflation and creating g social tensions. Ceausescu has taken step restrain the expected influs wage demands from the wo ing class by a rigid inco policy which allows the ernment to cut wages by to a third. A number of other 1 European countries, not Poland and Hungary, reported to be eager to fol Rumania's example and o up their economies to capit penetration on a larger s than at present. Workers Press, Saturd 'Overpopulation' is one of the pet phobias of middle-class apologists for capitalism at the While the capitalist moment. system destroys food supplies and prevents science and industry being used to create the necessities of life, they put the blame on the number of people being_born. Workers Notebook recently showed how the present de- clining birth rate in many countries is forcing such people to look for more sophisticated arguments. Some are suggest- ing that people are now living too long and, therefore, govern- ment action should be taken to ensure that even fewer people are allowed to be born. Mr R. Now a letter from a D. Haigh of the City Health Department, Lincoln, appearing in the British Medical Journal, has come up with a new one.

'A country ... is overpopu- lated,' 'when its he writes, population density is the third .. when highest in the world it produces only half its food and animal feeding stuffs and has to import and pay for the rest by exporting manufactured gen is against fierce and in- creasing international com- petition to countries which are themselves becoming indust- rialized and which will soon no longer require our exports...

when there are 1 million un- employed, when the number of jobs is declining rapidly, and when the excess of births over deaths represents 700 new jobs every day... when the decline in the number of jobs is likely to accelerate owing to mechan- ization and automation and when the capital cost of pro- ducing new jobs is increasing when it can each year maintain its present population only by means of an organiz- ation and structure that is so complex and dependent on sophisticated energy systems that small groups of workers can, in a matter of two to three weeks, by withholding their labour, bring the country to the point of collapse, as has been clearly demonstrated by the power workers' strike and the miners' strike' Just what we are supposed to make of all this rubbish, only Mr Haigh would appear to know. Perhaps we ought to exter- minate a few thousand power workers and miners. Then they would not be able to go on strike, we would not have so THo reat s tó i of ork- mes Jov- up East ably are low pen alist cale ss, Saturday September 30, 1972 PAGE 9 many people wanting jobs and we would not have to import so much food. Or perhaps it would be etter if we did not have such "sophisticated energy systems' and made do with bonfires and candles instead. Or perhaps if other countries were not allowed to become so industrialized they could be forced to take our exports as in the good old days of the Empire.

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Those little bits of sticky paper have brought Tompkins such wealth over the years. As managing chairman and director of the Green Shield Trading Stamp Company, he is among the highest-paid execu- tives in the land. In 1971 his salary was £282,037, but because of his agreement' with the 'service firm he netted 15 per cent of the profits which took the sum he was entitled to above £418,700. His wage as a director was near doubled to £5,400 a week between 1970 and 1971. But Tompkins does not really rely on salary. He personally owns 49 per cent of the shares and thus received a further £440,000 in dividends and these items brought his total annual income to a staggering, £720,000, or £13,800 a week. His 4,132 workers get an average of £1,300 a year. In other words they would need 500 years to earn as much as their boss did in 1971—each day Tompkins £2,760, more than his gets workers earn in TWO YEARS!

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12.30 London. 5.10 Please sir.

5.40 Sale of the century. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: "Tycoon'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 All our yesterdays. 11.55 Weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.45 Make a wish. 11.30 All our yesterdays. 11.55 Faith for life.

SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 All our yesterdays.

Follyfoot. 11.05 Man from 10.35 12.00 Merrie melodies. Uncle. Weather. 12.30 London. 12.27 5.10 Smith family. 5.40 Sale of the century. 6.10 London. 6.15 With My Wife, You Film: 'Not Don't'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains.

10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius.

11.30 News. 11.40 Spyforce. 12.30 Weather. Guideline. 9.50 HARLECH: 9.00 London. Baby buggy bunny. 10.00 Tom- street. Sesame 10.30 Farming TYN 11.30 diary. 12.30 London. 5.10 UFO.

6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Horse 9.30 Soldiers'. 8.30 Variety. Benny Hill. 10.30 London. 10.40 11.30 Name of the Aquarius. game. 12.55 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 5.10 Dora. 5.40- 6.10 Sion a sian. 10.00 ANGLIA: 9.00 London. •Jumping 10.25 Film: Rovers. ( 12.30 London. 5.10 Rip- Jacks'. tide. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: "The Long Duel'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 10.40 10.30 London. Villains. Aquarius. 11.25 Film: 'Pink String and Sealing Wax'. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.45 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 Life and times of Lord Mountbatten. 11.05 Tom- foolery show. 11.30 Osmonds. Elephant boy. 12.30 Lon- 12.00 a thief. 6.10 don. 5.15 It takes Way 6.15 Film: 'The London. West'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains.

• London. 10.40 Aquarius.

10.30 11.30 Film: 'King of the Roaring Twenties'. ULSTER: 11.30 Thunderbirds. Shir

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CHANNEL: 11.00-12.25 London.

2.13 Weather. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: "Idol on Parade'. • 4.40 Lon- Black Beauty. 6.05 don. 5.35 London. 7.55 Film: "The League • 10.00 London. Gentlemen'. of 11.20 Avengers. 12.10 Epilogue.

Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.30 Let them 9.30 London. live. 12.25 Licence to fly. 12.55 Collecting on a shoestring. 1.20 Smith family. 1.45 Farm progress.

12.10 Faith for life. 12.15 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Farm pro- gress. 10.57 Weather. 11.00 Lon- don. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- 1.20 How. 1.50 Hogan's man. 2.15 Soccer. 3.15 Film: heroes. 'Saturday Island'. 4.35 News. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The House on Greenapple Road'. 10.00 London.

11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Fright- eners. 12.35 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 Lon- don. 12.25 Talking hands. 12.45 Journey of a lifetime. 1.00 Let them live. 1.25 Love, American style. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'The Young Lawyers'. 4.45 Lon- don. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'Tanganyika'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.20 Villains. 12.20 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 6.40-7.00 Llusern.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 London. 12.30 Citizen's rights.

1.00 Champions. 2.00 Soccer.

3.00 Film: "Tiara Tahiti. 4.45 You London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 ing London. 7.55 Film: 'The Hill'. pro 10.00 London. 11.20 Spyforce.

Stories worth telling. 12.20 Weather. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 HR Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Murder Most Foul'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.53 Sports 'The Glass results. 7.55 Film: Bottom Boat'. 10.00 London.

11.20 Saint. y September 30, 1972 elo- 12.00 Skippy. 12.30 London. 5.10 nza. Flintstones. 5.40 Sportscast. 6.10 sir. London. 6.15 Branded. 6.45 Film: 6.10 'Torpedo Run'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 8.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.25 Journey to the All unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 string. Follyfoot. 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan and the Leopard Woman'. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London.

'Stagecoach'. 6.15 Film: 8.30 ays. Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Jour- to the unknown. 12.25 ney Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.05 Craftsmen. 10.40 string. Arthur. Sesame street. 11.40 Clapperboard. 12.30 Lon- 12.05 don. 5.10 Big valley. 6.10 Lon- Way West. don. 6.15 Film: The 8.25 Variety. 9.25 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: 'The Gorilla'. ing TYNE TEES: 9.15 You and your FO. golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery Tarzan 10.35 string. Follyfoot. 11.00 Film: and the Leopard Woman'. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 Lon- 6.15 Film: "A Thunder of don. Drums'. Chicago teddy 8.05 bears. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains.

10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius.

11.30 Journey to the unknown. 12.25 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery show.

10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Joe 90. 12.00 Cartoon. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.30 London. 5.10 Bonanza. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Four Texas'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains.

10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Late call. 11.35 Spyforce.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Beagan gaidh- lig. 11.30 Tomfoolery show. 12.00 Rumblie jumblie. 12.30 London. 5.40 Protectors. 5.15 Batman. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Picculero of Red River'. 7.50 Two of a kind 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villians. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 rds. Shirley's world. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- 3.15 pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let _on- them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 5.05 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer.

2.50 Film: 'Love on the Dole'.

4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Warning Shot'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Weather. London.

GRANADA: 9.30-10.30

10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 London. 12.25 Merrie melodies.

1.00 Bearcats. 1.50 Football. 3.20 Film: 'Boys Will Be Boys'. 4.40 pro- London. 6.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Not With My Wife, You Don't. 10.00 London.

11.20 All that jazz. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Something to sing about. 1.50 Where the jobs are 1.55 Shoot. 2.50 Film: "The Truth About Spring'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Warning Shot'. 9.50 Car- 11.15 toon. 10.00 London. Strange report. 12.10 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 10.15 Master chefs.

10.30 • Skilful rugby. 11.00 Lon- don. 12.30 Coachbuilders. 1.00 Randall and Hopkirk. 2.00 Scot- . 3.25 Film: 'The Little Red sports. Monkey'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Ele- phant boy. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'That Riviera Touch'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Late call. 11.20 • Strange report. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 Farm 2.00 Scotsport. 3.25 progress. rce. 3.25 Film: 'Talk of a Million'. 4.40 ing. London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Betrayed'.

11.20 Untouchables. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- 12.30 Dr vival. 11.00 London. Cowboy in Simon Locke. 12.55 Africa. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farm- infg. 2.30 Name of the game. 3.55 Match. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Drop Dead Darling'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.20 Department S.

BBC 1

10.55 Weather. 11.00 Benn. 11.15 Harlem globetrotters. 11.35 Bar- rier reef. 12.00 Grandstand. 12.05, 1.50, 2.20, 2.50, 3.20 International boxing. 1.10, 1.40, 2.05, 2.35, 3.05 Racing from Haydock. 4.40 Final score. 5.05 Disney carnival. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore show. 5.40 News and weather. 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the generation game.

6.45

DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.

Time Out. 7.35 THE TWO RONNIES. Ron- nie Corbett and Ronnie Barker. 8.20

SATURDAY

THRILLER:

'THE VENETIAN AFFAIR'.

Robert Vaughn, Elke Som- Felicia Farr Karl mer, Boehm, Boris Karloff. An American • diplomat blows international con- up an ference. 9.50 NEWS. Weather. 10.05

MATCH OF THE DAY.

PARKINSON.

11.05 12.05 Weather. ITV'& Sunday night play has Shelley Wi (David Wood) into her flat.

BBC 2

9.00-1.00 Open University.

7.00 NEWS REVIEW.

7.25

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

Monkeys, Apes and Man. 8.15

MANTOVANI

AND HIS

CONCERT ORCHESTRA.

9.00

MILLIGAN IN AUTUMN.

An entertainment with words and music by Spike Milligan with Madeline Smith and Ray Ellington. 9.30

KENNETH MORE IN SIX

Equation.

FACES.

With Zena Walker and Kika Markham. 10.20

FILM: 'KISS ME, STUPID'.

Billy Wilder comedy with Dean Martin, Kim Novak, 11.

Ray Walston. 12.20 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 12.

BBC 2

9.05-1.00 Open University. 3.00 Film: 'White Feather. Robert Wagner, John Lund, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter. A young surveyor tries to help the Chey- enne Indians. 4.40 Man alive.

5.30 The restless earth. 7.35 NEWS, SPORT. Weather.

7.50 INTERNATIONAL

GOLF.

The John Player Classic 1972. 8.20 WAR AND PEACE. Part 1. Name-day. 9.05 THE BREAKING. An un- broken Arab stallion is be- ing schooled.

9.15 THE ROYAL BALLET IN

CINDERELLA. With An- toinette Sibley. Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann. 11.00 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.05 FILM NIGHT. A look at some of the films made about Egypt over the past 50 years.

MOVIE:

11.40

MIDNIGHT

'SECRET INVASION'. Stew- Granger, Mickey art Byrnes, Henry Silva, liam Campbell. War drama.

Shelley Winters as 'The Vamp', a fading Alm

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait.

10.00 Aventura. 10.30 Harvest thanksgiving. 11.35 A job worth doing? 12.00 Design by design.

12.25 Search for the ideal. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Britain.

1.30 Jimmy Young asks. 1.55 News headlines and weather. 2.00 Chigley. 2.15 Ken Dodd. 2.25 Story theatre. 2.50 Where there's brass. 3.15 Ask Aspel.

3.35 Tom and Jerry. 3.40 Film: 'Pillow Talk'. Rock Hudson, Doris Day. Romantic comedy. 5.20 Wonderful world of Disney.

6.05 NEWS. Weather.

6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET.

Glenda Jackson. 6.50

HARVEST

SONGS OF

PRAISE.

7.25

THE ONEDIN LINE. A

Woman Alone. 8.15 'CHARADE. Cary

FILM:

Grant, Audrey Hepburn. A CIA agent investigates the disappearance of a large amount of gold bullion. 10.05 NEWS. Weather. 10.20 Wit and OMNIBUS. The World of George Bernard Shaw. 11.20

KENNETH HARRIS INTER-

VIEWS. Sir Charles Forte.

12.05 Weather.

ITV

9.00 You and your golf. 9.30 Collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 The Osmonds. 10.20 Merrie melodies. 10.30 Return to Peyton Place. 10.55 Sesame street. 11.55 Junior police five. 12.00 Lidsville.

12.30 News. 12.35 World of sport.

12.40 On the ball. 1.05 Inter- national sports special. 1.20 The ITV seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30 Rac- ing from Chepstow. 1.45, 2.15, Newmarket. 3.00 Racing from LF. 3.10 International sports special.

3.25 Racing from Newmarket. 3.35 International sports special. 3.50 Results, scores, news. 4.00 Wrest- ling. 4.50 -Results service. 5.10 On the buses. 5.40 Best of Please sir.

6.10 NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 SALE OF THE CENTURY.

SATURDAY VARIETY.

6.45 David Nixon, John Han- Murray, Paul son, Anne Melba, Rios Brothers, Lionel Blair and The Sat- urday Dancers. THE ADVENTURER. Miss 7.45 Me Once, Miss Me Twice, And Miss Me Once Again. 8.15 FILM: 'TOM JONES'. Albert Finney, Susannah York. Tony Richardson's produc- tion of Henry Fielding 18th century novel. 10.30

NEWS FROM ITN.

Somebody's 10.40 McCLOUD. Out To Get Jenny.

PEOPLE MAKE PLACES.

12.00 ma. 12.05 SPYFORCE. The Trader.

ding fim star who invites a young fan

ITV

9.30 Service of dedication. 10.30 Return to Peyton Place. 11.00 Weekend world. 12.30 Forest rangers. 1.00 Film: 'Eyes of the Lion'. Tarzan film. 1.50 Brian Connell interviews. 2.15 The Big match. 3.15 Persuaders. 4.20 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius. Artists at Work.

6.05 NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 ADAM SMITH.

6.45 THY KINGDOM COME.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

Blackmail. 7.55

FEATURE FILM: 'HELL TO

ETERNITY'. Jeffrey Hun- Damoney Sess Haya Damone. Sessue kawa. An American brought up in a Japanese family has divided loyal- ties during World War II.

PLAY: 'THE VAMP'. Shel- 10.15 ley Winters, David Wood. 11.20 THE FBI. The Satellite.

12.20 BOOK OF WITNESSES.

SIX DATES WITH BARKER.

'ER- 12.30 1970—The Odd Job. Ron- nie Barker.

Troops fired on'... but A SOVIET commercial dele- gation, led by two specialists Titop and Kolbasnikop, arrived in Madrid yesterday.

They will spend three weeks visiting engineering and steel plants in Asturias and the Basque provinces. The delegation will draw up an agreement for the amount of strip steel to be exported to the Soviet Union, following on the recent Soviet-Spanish trade pact.

Peking is determined not to be' outdone by Moscow in estab- lishing relations with France.

Trade between China and Spain by a government was ratified decree of 1971. In the whole of 1971, Spain's purchases from China amounted to 105 million pesetas. Purchases registered in the first seven months of this year already are worth 700 million pesetas.

This sudden boost has been helped by the presence of Spanish firms at the Canton trade fair.

AN APPEAL was lodged in the Public Order Tribunal in Madrid yesterday on behalf of Fernandez Iguanzo. He received a heavy prison sentence when convicted of reorganizing the Asturian Party, which had Communist been destroyed by the fascists.

The 62-year-old political prisoner has been suffering from arteriosclerosis for coronary some years. A doctor from the Clinical Hospital in Madrid has said there will be severe con- sequences if Iguanzo is not taken another hospital apart trom to the prison hospital in Cara- banchel. THE DEATH penalty has been applied to a man in Soviet city Sverdlovsk who embezzled £45,000. This is one of several penalties carried out death recently for big-time swindling and many other economic crimes have been punished with stiff penalties. N. E. Sekisov had been involved with a number of accomplices in a swindle which vent on for years in a state gency where he worked as : buyer and a salesman.

UNIONS

ATUA Press and entertainment section The Equity Claim and the BBC Agreement Sunday October 1, 7 p.m. Shaftesbury Hotel Monmouth Street, W1 Speakers : Corin Redgrave (Equity) Roger Smith (ACTT) (Both in a personal capacity) ACTON: Monday October 8 2, p.m. Co-op Hall, High Rd, W3.

'The ATUA conference. MEDWAY: Monday October 2, 8 p.m. "The Greyhound', Roches ter Avenue, Rochester.

'ATUA

conference: Discussion on main resolution.' WOOLWICH: Tuesday October 3, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Arms', Burrage Road, SE18. 'Stalinism and the Tory government' HOLLOWAY: Thursday October 5. 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sis- ters Road. 'The ATUA confer- ence' SOUTH WEST LONDON: Tuesday October • 10, 8 p.m. Clapham Clapham Manor Manor Street, SW4. ence'. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday October 12, 8 p.m. Deptford En- opposite Now jineers cross Station. ference'. TWO PEOPLE who sur- vived a rain of bullets on a car were acquitted in Belfast this week of attempting to murder British soldiers. Two passengers in the car's back seat died when the troops fired on the car. Army officials claimed the soldiers had been shot at. But the judge this week directed the jury to find the surviving pair not guilty of having firearms in their possession with intent to kill. On trial were the car driver, William Davidson and front-seat housewife passenger, Mrs Florence O'Riordan (36). In the early hours of the morning on Saturday October 23, SOVIET officials are becom- ing increasingly concerned about the food shortage which threatens the Soviet Union in the coming winter.

Wheat, fodder crops, sugar beet and potato harvests are likely to be well down on what is necessary to maintain food supplies which, even in 'normal' years are less than abundant. Agriculture Minister Matshe- vich blames the weather, which has obviously been an important factor. • But more is involved than that.

There are basic defects in the agrarian sector which have their roots in the forced collectiviza- tion ordered by Stalin in the 1930s. critics, Bourgeois like the editorialist in yesterday's 'Daily Telegraph' draw the conclusion the Soviet Union's food from crisis 'that the state-owned or state-controlled system of agricul- ture is grossly inefficient'.

that The paper points out Russia, once the granary of Europe, now has to buy large quantities of wheat from the capitalist countries. What he forgets is that when RUMANIA expects to beco International Monetary Fund the end of this year, Fin Dumitrescu said yesterday.

Its application, •submitted two weeks ago, is reported to have almost unanimous sup- port from the capitalist mem- bers of the IMF and the Bank.

The country will thus become the first member of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) to join the governing body of the capitalist monetary system. There are rumours that other countries, Comecon including Poland, Hungary and possibly

USSR,

considering a the are similar application. 'We can only talk about our own situation. Other countries have the right to make their own decisions, Dumitrescu told reporters in Washington. He said Rumania had decided to apply for IMF membership because it wanted to develop relations with countries outside Eastern Europe.

The application conformed with Rumanian foreign policy based on the principles of independence 'equality, and sovereignty, Dumitrescu said.

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1971, two sisters, Mrs Mary Meehan (30) and Miss Dorothy Maguire (19) were shot dead in in cold the Lower Falls area blood when their car disobeyed an army order to stop. Workers Press reported after the incident: The army claims women dressed as men smashed the rear window of the car as it sped along Cape Street, Belfast, and fired two shots at troopers... 'Army spokesman Major Christopher Dumphie claimed there was no doubt his men were fired on first, but he added he had not actually seen the shots fired. (Workers Press, October 25, 1971.) But the eyewitnesses and Russia was main exporter of a grain, before 1914, the peasants went short of food and whole areas of the country were period- ically stricken by famine. Only the big landlords, the capitalist in farmers and above all the grain dealers benefited. The October Revolution put an end to that. It was clear that the peasants, who now took over the land, had to be cajoled or induced into producing a surplus and making it available to the growing urban population.

It would have been impossible to build up the Soviet Union's might industry on an agrarian base of small peasant holdings.

What was that went wrong Stalin's forced collectivizations which cost perhaps a million lives, earned the long-lived re- sentment of the peasant masses, reduced the number of livestock catastrophically and set back the development of agriculture.

Carried out with peasant con- sent and with industry under workers' control collectivization could have solved the agrarian problem. But this would have to become a member of the Fund and the World Bank by ar, Finance Minister Florea A NEW right-wing plot has been unearthed by President Salvador Allende's government in Chile.

According to Interior Minister Daniel Vergara it was organized neo-fascist Patria y by the Libertad' movement and mem- bers of the opposition National Party. Aiming 'to create chaos and overthrow the regime' it was the fifth plot of its kind to be defused since Allende came to power in November 1970. The burning down of Com- munist Party offices in the southern town of Puerto Montt was part of the plot, Vergara claimed. He cited other plot incidents, including thefts of explosives and an attack on a socialist leader in another pro- vincial town. Workers Press, Saturday September 30, 1972 PAGE 11

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Davidson and Mrs O'Riordon, told a different story: They the women were say touring the Falls Road area with the forensic experts that a discharged a from a foghorn warning the neighbour- had not been hood that troops were moving in the car. when their brought car was "Taking evidence,' this said bullets.' a hail of army under 'with the evidence of the judge, 25, (Workers Press, October the army personnel that flashes 1971.) came from the inside of the car, end of the three-day At the he [Boal] submits that either the trial at Belfast City Commission military personnel mis- were Thursday, the Mr on judge, taken the flashes they Justice or that O'Donnell, directed the did see were not flashes of a gun.

jury to find the pair guilty. not He told the jury that evidence 'However, I don't find it neces- that a gun was discharged from to say that the evidence sary military the the conflicts with e said that Desmond Boal, SO said that Desmond that of the forensic experts that defendants, appearing for the it would be dangerous to convict. was relying the evidence of

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required also a break with the by in-exile was suggested Presi- Stalinist policy of 'socialism in dent Sadat Egypt in the one country'. course of a long speech to com- Matshevich's statement there will memorate the second anniversary foreign pressmen that of the death of Gamal Abdel confession be no starvation 1s a Nasser. Sadat's militant-sound- of bankruptcy by the bureaucracy words ing are always contra- which solve the can dicted by his actions. He has no agrarian problem. intention of promoting such a What is required is not a re- or indeed, of pro- government, turn to capitalist exploitation and viding any effective support for the 'Daily the Palestinian guerrillas. The private farming, as Telegraph' assumes, but a genuine Egyptian president is only socialist policy which interested in preserving his own can only and finding some be carried out when the workers position way and peasants have thrown the of recovering territory lost to bureaucracy out. Israel in the Tune 1967 war. The daily paper that leads the fight agalnst the Tories. £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Dept., Workers Press, London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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A CAMPAIGN to save the iron- making department at two divi- sions of the Stanton Ironworks, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, has failed. British Steel Corporation The confirmed yesterday that the department would close, causing substantial redundancies. A total of 1,300 jobs will go. THE PROTESTANT Vanguard movement will hold a rally on the steps of Stormont today to since the mark six months imposition of direct rule by Westminster. The former prime minister, Brian Faulkner, has down an invitation to turned speak. BRITAIN'S anti-Common Market groups will stage a demonstra- tion at Buckingham Palace on October 17, the day the Queen to the gives her royal assent European Communities Bill. They will take part in a mass signing of the palace's visitors' book.

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ABOUT three hundred men laid off last night by the liquidator of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders are to be re-engaged on Monday by contractors completing a on cargo vessel, Clyde shop stewards said yesterday. electricians, They include caulkers, welders, plumbers, burners and platers. "The men leaving tonight will be starting on Monday morning sub-contractors working for the liquidator, said a shop stewards' spokesman.

day September 30, 1972

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

Right-to-Work campaign in Yorkshire rounds off today with a demonstration through Sheffield. Typical of the response re- ceived by the young marchers was that at the mining village of Goldthorpe, no far from Rother- ham and the last stop on their journey (see picture p. 3.)

Miners greeted them at their the miners' welfare club and wives cooked a midday meal.

Among those welcoming the

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THE £4,000 golden hand- shake agreed by the Jones-Aldington Com- mittee has already lured nearly three times the number of men out of the industry than there are on the Temporary Un- attached Register. 4,700 men had applied for voluntary severance at the end of this week with only compared 1,650 on the register. Jones-Aldington claimed that when the TUR was abolished, the men on it would be reallocated to port employers as extra labour avoiding any contraction of the docks industry. IN A YEAR of diplomatic realignments, none has been more rapid and sudden than the recognition of Mao's China by Japan. It is not quite a year since Japan sponsored an American resolution at the United Nations recognizing 'two Chinas'. In the agreement signed by Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka in Peking, it is accepted that Taiwan is an

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marchers Ted Sayles, were National Union of Mineworkers' branch secretary at Goldthorpe colliery and a Labour councillor; NUM branch Eric Norman, president; Stan Parkes, branch treasurer; and Manny Houtchins, Miners: President of the Dearne who is Welfare and Social Club. Said Manny, a Labour council- lor and ward secretary: "The Tories are bringing in wage restraint, but we're not having it and there are going to But the effect of the unusually terms has generous severence already trimmed the industry of more jobs than the port em- ployers ever dreamed of and the tide of applications has only just begun. In London and Hull the dock labour surplus has been more than cleared. London has 1,300 men on the TUR, but 1,700 have applied for severence. And at ports where there was no TUR problem, such as Bristol, Immingham, Middlesbrough and Southampton, the rush to accept the golden handshake has led to actual labour shortages.

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inalienable part of the terri- tory of the People's Republic of China. The haste with which the Tanaka government has moved has taken western diplomats by surprise. Despite President Nixon's visit, the US still does not have formal diplomatic rela- tions with China. The Japanese have not only agreed to immediate steps for the exchange of ambassadors; in return China has promised nego- tiations aimed at the conclusion of agreements on trade, naviga- tion, aviation, fishery and other questions. With the speed at which both sides are moving, such agree- ments could be sealed and signed before either the Americans or the Russians wake up to what is going on. Tanaka was obviously highly satisfied with the Chinese re- sponse. The agreement paves the way for a big expansion of Japan- 01-622 7029 01-720 2000 be many sections of the workers thinking the same. 'This is the basis of united a General Strike to action in bring the Tories down. 'We don't want wage restraint unemployment. We or want nationalization without compen- sation and with workers run- ning it.' Even the colliery manager ex- pressed admiration for the fight for the right to work. Advance- ments in technique should be used for the benent of the labour force, he said cruitment at least until February, so these ports will be forced to wring work from their more existing work forces. Most of those who have opted for voluntary redundancy are in the upper age groups and few of them are already on the TUR.

Their places will be taken by men who are. The national dock strike was fought on the principle of no contractions in the docks in- dustry, but even the initial stages of the application of Jones- Aldington have already turned this on its head. • See today's centre pages.

ese trade and economic influence on the Chinese mainland in the future. For that Tokyo is pre- pared to jettison the Chiang Kai- shek regime on Taiwan and per- haps lose some trade in the immediate future. Japan is driven by economic necessity: the need for markets.

The latest trade figures, which show a cut in the balance-of- . surplus, underlines payments this. Peking obviously expects that the Taiwan government will not long survive the loss of Japanese support and that after a year or two they will be able to re- occupy the island. Peking is prepared to overlook Japanese depredations in the past, which it now blames onto with the Japanese monopolies, the most aggressive, expansionist and ambitious in the world.

If Chairman Mao's thoughts do not include the saying 'he who sups with the devil must take a long spoon', the situation sug- gests it. Public Meeting Wages Jobs and the Fight against the Tory government Thursday October 5, 8 p.m.

Town Hall, Banbury Speaker: Gerry Healy, national Socialist of the secretary _abour League.

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demands which will be made at next week's Labour Party confer- ence for Britain not to join the Common Market, Labour MP for Kettering, Sir Geoffrey de Freitas, said such a course would be an 'abnega- tion of responsibility'. Sir Geoffrey is international president the Mouvement of Gauche Europeene (Europe left) and he was welcoming members arriving for a meeting to be held today. said: Despite Norway's He absence, socialists within the enlarged community will be the strongest single political group within the European parliament.

"To refuse to participate in the European parliament would b n abnegation of responsibility.

He said that a strong group of British Labour MPs woul join their continental colleagues in Strasbourg from January 1 to THE FUTURE of Britain's two remaining film studios is threatened. A portion of MGM's Borehamwood studio at Elstree has just been hived off for a cold storage project and British Lion's Shepper- ton Studio is awaiting the plans of asset-stripper John Bentley. Allied London Properties, who bought the 119-acre complex /at Elstree 20 months ago, is to sell 19 acres to Christian Salvesen. The new owners have plan- ning permission to erect Britain's • largest cold storage depot, cover- ing 500,000 square feet. In a statement issued today the National Film Finance Cor- poration, a government body to aid independent film production, said discussions with British Lion were continuing "to endeavour to find a satisfactory solution to the problem, which all parties are agreed must be in the best interests of the industry ard its employees' Millionaire John Bentley, who has earned the title of Britain's asset-stripper, bought British Lion earlier this year thus precipatating a crisis over the studio's future. Soclalist Labour League

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