Workers Press no. 883

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SAME TACTICS BY TUC AND LABOUR PARTY

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TO HEATH PLAN

Retreat before they even start

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMIT

BY DAVID MAUDE

SENIOR Tory Ministers met at Chequers yesterday afternoon well pleased with the

THE

LABOUR

Party conference which first five days' campaigning in support of today in Blackpool will their pay-curb plan. make no direct challenge Tory the bid For premier Heath and his top strategists impose a wage freeze on the trade unions. recognize that among the thousands of The two resolutions commit the movement words spoken by TUC and Labour Party opposition incomes policy have fallen ir pre- leaders on the subject since last Tuesday conference compositing, there is not a syllable of real opposition.

and an attempt by

ASTMS

white-collar table emergency Since the union chiefs have agreed the form of motion attacking the wages the proposals as a basis for discussion, their re- owensive nas been reeced The only chance for jection of the present content is a sham. They have discuss this delegates accepted the principle of state regulation of wages.

issue. oversiadows the conference, will come This is why TUC secretary Victor Feather was so Thursday when anxious to stress. al a conterence or Natonal savings moon asking me lue and Torquay on Saturday, that the Tory plan Party work out for a zz hmit on will be dis- pay mercases policy mcomes pistol at our heads' or as an ultimatum. cussed. The manoeuvre And this is why Joe Gormley, president of the National big Union of Mineworkers, designed to spare the was so quick to emphasize after trade union leaders embar- executive meeting the same day that his members' €5.50-£7 pay claim was "subject to negotiation' (see 'NUM would be clearly COn- leaders retreat, page 1s).

tradictory the Party muttering darkly in Blackpool at out with policy Labour leaders were the far-reaching changes rejecting pro-

TUC

posals while the econome Poore price of cooperation decided to go on talking- with the Tory that Party leader Harold Wilson would unvei these censees a major speech tomorrow. Any such demands will be just leaders

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'opposition'. Having proposed themselves state regulaton in office, the Labour leaders' have the worked diligently keep Tories in power to carry the plan through. Shadow Chancellor Healev has Denis already wel comed the Heath plan. Heath's confidence yesterday was further boosted by news of the Labour leaders' "tactics'.

No resolution the opposing plan will appear on the agenda of the Labour Party conference, which starts in Biackpool today.

committee has refused to accept an emergency motion on the issue from the white-collar ASTMS.

The conference managers because there will be pt thy if because were will be plenty opportunity for opposition to be scheduled expressed during the debate on prices and incomes, which is fixed for Thursday.

But a clear hint of the nature of this 'opposition' came in Black- pool yesterday from Jack Transport and General Workers Union secretary (see above).

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after a meeting of Speaking

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OMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

as it will do on Wednesday when its Economic Com- mittee meets on the issue at Preston. Even alleged left-wingers like Jack Jones, head of the giant Transport Work- ers' Union, is against any LABOUR PARTY execu- tive member lan Mikardo MP said yesterday that he did not want to lose mera- bers from the Party, whether they were pro- Common Market or not. But he would not be black- mailed, he said. It would not be an unmitigated dis- aster if some pro- Marketeers decided to stand down at the next election. émergency resolution attacking the government's plan. He considers the issue outside the conference. On Wednesday, he will urge the Economic Com- mittee to carry on with the talks.

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Boilermakers' Society, and the Ebbw Vale and likeston constituency Labour Jones believes that a deal Par- ties. over wages can be agreed calls on Labour to It but not on the existing f2 figure. negotiate terms and scrap the Market's common agri- His union is insisting policy, Value- cultural also that the government Added Tax, and to must introduce legal reject curbs the British freeze on house prices and any on government's freedom curb rises in profits to rents, dividends and put the carry out its and economic Industrial Relations Act on policy. The composite also Ice. demands that Labour halts formula has A also any immediate entry nego- been worked the out on tiations until Common Market. new terms have been negotiated and At the debate on Wed- the assent of the British nesday, delegates will have electorate has been given'.

three resolutions before This is marginally only them. tougher than the One supporting entry will policy outlined in Labour's draft certainly be defeated. But programme, which calls on uncertainty surrounds the Labour motion from the Amalga- government to sound the feelings of mated Union of Engineer- out the Workers, which calls electors if agreement ing for 'complete opposition' to on satisfactory terms between Britain entry and commits a future and the EEC cannot be reached. Labour government to pull- On of Europe both main issues, ing out on therefore, the conference taking office. The has already been made resolution most likely to find favour is a virtually incapable in third alternative. of advance reaching any This is a composite of kind of principled decision.

BY PHILIP WADE

ABOUT

2,500 council tenants from all Britain rallied in over London's Trafalgar Square yester- day in protest against the Tory which fair rents' Act, comes into force today. They later marched to Down- ing Street deliver a resolu- to tion calling on the Tory govern- ment to withdraw the Act. Car- ried unanimously by the rally, it called on all Labour also coun- refuse implementation cils to and not to evict tenants refusing to pay the rises of around which will result. Earlier Mrs Millie Miller, leader of the Labour council in Camden, London, said: •Camden doesn't feel happy, secure in its confronta- safe or the but tion with government, we feel we have to make this fight. 'All the cards stacked are against your elected local repre- The fight is in your sentatives. OUT! LOOK OUT! Be sure of Workers Press this week during hands. Party's The rally organized by COSTETeCE was

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ants and Residents. to bring you all the views and background to this Before began, about 350 tenants and others marched from

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Camden to the Square. Telephone circulation dept. See page 12 rents story.

workers press

SAME TACTICS BY TUC AND LABOUR PARTY

SHAM OPPOSITION

TO HEATH PLAN

Retreat before they even start

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMIT

BY DAVID MAUDE

SENIOR Tory Ministers met at Chequers yesterday afternoon well pleased with the

THE

LABOUR

Party conference which first five days' campaigning in support of today in Blackpool will their pay-curb plan. make no direct challenge the Tory bid to For premier Heath and his top strategists impose a wage freeze on the trade unions. recognize that among the thousands of The two resolutions commit the movement words spoken by TUC and Labour Party opposition to incomes have fallen in pre- leaders on the subject since last Tuesday conférence and attempt white.colar table an emergency Since the union chiefs have agreed the form of motion attacking the wages the proposals as a basis for discussion, their re- The only chance for jection of the present content is a sham. They have delegates discuss this accepted the principle of state regulation of wages.

issue, overshadows Winien the conference, will come This is why

TUC

secretary Victor Feather when Thursday at a conference of National Savings anxious to stress, motion asking the TUC and enthusiasts in Torquay on Saturday, that the Tory plan the Party work to out an £2 limit on tom pay increases nad not been put as policy dis In comes pistol at our heads' or as an ultimatum. cussed. The manoeuvre And this is why Joe Gormley, president of the National designed to the big Union of Mineworkers, Spare trade union leaders embar- a5.0-CC executive meeting the same day that his members' 'subject to negotiation' (see 'NUM pay claim was if clearly party would leaders retreat, page Il).

tradictory Party muttering darkly in Blackpool at with policy Labour leaders were Callit the weekend about demanding far-reaching changes in rejecting the Heath posals while the rUC social and the orice of co-operation coconcy an It was said decided to go on talking.

with the Tory plan. Party leader Harold Wilson would cemenes a major speech tomorrow. will be just Any such demands Dogus as tne unlon extens 'opposition'. Having themselves proposed state regulation of wages in office, the Labour leaders' have diligently keep the Tories in carry the to

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pian through. Shadow Chancellor Denis healey «ureney wee comed the Heath plan. Heath's confidence yesterday was further boosted by news of the Labour leaders' 'tactics'.

the No resolution opposing plan will andear on the of the Labour Party conference, which starts in Biackpool today.

The conference arrangements committee has refused to accept an emergencv motion on the issue from the white-collar

ASTMS.

The conference managers will explain this morning that this is because there will be plenty for opposition to be opportunity the scheduled expressed during debate prices and incomes, which is fixed for Thursday.

But a clear hint of the nature of this 'opposition' came in Black- from Jack Jones, pool yesterday Workers' Iransport and General Union secretary (see above).

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of atter meeting delegation, Jones

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said the Heath plan was 'outside the conference. ....

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In Birmingham on Friday Jones

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A three-part series said that arrangements between which Virginia Strickland détails the vital 1 Orles allack unis MOSt section of the NHS

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• MONDAY OCTOBER 2, 1972 • No

COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

as it will do on Wednesday when its Economic Com- mittee meets on the issue at Preston. Even alleged left-wingers like Jack Jones, head of the giant Transport Work- ers' Union, is against any LABOUR PARTY execa- tive member lan Mikardo MP said yesterday that he did not want to lose mem- bers from the Party, whether they were pro- Common Market or not. But he would not be black- mailed, he said. It would not be an unmitigated dis- aster if some pro- Marketeers decided to stand down at the next election. émergency resolution attacking the government's plan. He considers the issue 'outside the conference'.

On Wednesday, he will urge the Economic Com- mittee to carry on with the talks.

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staff team, assesses Labour's CHELL and ST те- e Tories' Housing Finance in Blackpool to operates from today 6&/ news, views and conference.

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CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

three . resolutions from the

N JOHNS IN BLACKPOOL

Boilermakers' Society, and the Ebbw Vale and Ilkeston Jones believes that a deal constituency Labour Par- ties. be agreed, over wages can It calls on Labour to but not on the existing f2 figure. negotiate terms and scrap His is insisting the Market's common agri- union cultural policy, Value- also that the government Added Tax, and to must introduce legal reject freeze on house prices and any curbs on the British government's curb rises in profits freedom rents, to carry its and dividends and put the out economic policy. Industrial Relations Act on The composite also ice. demands that Labour halts A " formula has also any immediate entry nego- been worked out on the tiations until Common Market. new terms have been negotiated At the debate on Wed- and 'the assent nesday, delegates will have of the British electorate has been given'.

three before resolutions This is only marginally them. tougher than the policy One supporting entry will outlined in Labour's certainly be defeated. But draft programme, which calls on uncertainty surrounds the Labour motion from the Amalga- government to sound the feelings of mated Union of Engineer- out the if agreement ing Workers, which calls electors for 'complete opposition' to on satisfactory terms entry and commits a future between Britain and the EEC cannot be reached. Labour government to pull- On Europe both main issues, ing out on therefore, the taking office. conference resolution has already been made The most virtually likely to find favour is a incapable in third alternative. of reaching advance any This is a composite of kind of principled decision.

BY PHILIP WADE

ABOUT

2,500 council tenants from all Britain rallied in over London's Trafalgar Square yester- against the Tory day in protest which comes 'fair rents' Act, into force today. They later marched to Down- ing Street to deliver a resolu- tion calling on the Tory govern- ment to withdraw the Act. Car- unanimously by the rally, ried called on all Labour coun also refuse implementation cils and not to evict tenants refusing fI the rises of around to pay which will result. Earlier Mrs Millie Miller, leader of the Labour council in Camden, London, said: •Camden doesn't feel happy, safe or secure in its confronta- tion with the government, but we feel we have to make this fight. stacked 'All the cards are against your elected local repre- sentatives. The fight is in your OUT! LOOK OUT! Be sure of Press this week during hands. Party's organized by The rally was

ALEX

including the National Association of Ten-

STEPHEN TOHNS

are to bring you all the ants and Residents. views and background to this began, about 350 Before it tenants and others marched from

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Camden to the Square. Telephone circulation dept. See page 12 rents story.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday October 2, 1972 Gold British Steel - Rotherham S magnet It's still attractive YORKSHIRE Young Socialists ended their though ministers try Right-to-Work march last Saturday with demonstration Sheffield. marched in from kotherhan

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to ignore it to a meeting attended by local you te and crowaeo city and trade unionists. Mike Duke, a local militant durina the

BY JOHN SPENCER

strike congratu- reCenT workers' lated the marchers who walked for THE ONLY speaker at last week's Washing- days Leeds The marchers, he saia, ton meeting of the International Monetary allowed anvbody to stand in their Fund to mention the taboo word 'gold' was way. exposed the fake lefts Iney who also sold the building workers Dr Nicholas Diederichs, the South African strike. Finance Minister. 'We lave He referred to the IMF executive directors' General Strike to ve nave got to torce a get the said report, which speaks of the 'tradition, universal March leader Ray said the Jaxon use, limited production and physical character-

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emolove voum on ine marco nao saken istics of gold', the only reserve asset held by central banks that else's drove minds liability. bureaucrats unior do not want WIlU we received the capitalist world's largest gold producer, Tores

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enormous support from workers South Africa has obvious reasons for keeping driven into conflict with their own leaders.

metal in the forefront, and for arguing, as Diede- richs did, for a rise in the 'official' price.

At $38 an ounce, the official gold price is almost $30 below YS Right-to Work campaign the level 'free market'. on the For this reason. the gold reserves held by central banks are effec- tively frozen.

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US Treasury stopped selling the gold the banks Colilid oficial'

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price, no in his right mind has settled his debts gold when he could use special drawing nehts. dollars or other paper assets. This has given rise to the idea that gold is on the way out as an and

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aoscl capilausu countries will settle their debts with of entirely pieces paper. This being fostered by the Americans, who currently gold reserves and have iow wall the rest of wore to venere they have abandoned the idea piling up stocks of the metal Hypocritical Gold retains actually huge talk from Maoists va ter labour aie required to find it in the earth dig it out and refine it into bullon.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

However distasteful Diederichs' ABC observations to the be OFFICIAL Chinese journals yesterday accused the of interna. reoresentauves tional capitalism, they cannot fly United States and the USSR of preparing for a new of the basic laws of the war under the guise of a superficial compromise.

taca sull. In National Day editorials, the papers said that "though the The very faot that the free two super-powers, the Soviet Union and the US, have con- market price remains obstinately ducted negotiations and concluded certain agreements, their wel over 3o0 an ounce demon- superficial compromise and ease-off only serve to prepare for strates that wnatever Ministers may say the metal a new fight. has lost none of its attraction.

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Backed by Saudi Arabia, the conservative North more Yemen forces, government together with mercenaries, attacked border posts last week and killed a number of South Yemeni soldiers.

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PRESIDENT Hafez Al-Assad of Sy for Egypt and the Soviet Union strained since Anwar Sadat expe advisers. Last week Assad spent two days in Moscow on a private . he held visit during which lengthy discussions with Soviet leaders. Afterwards he flew to Cairo for three hours of talks.

with Sadat. As a result, Egyptian premier Aziz Sidky is to fly to Moscow on October 16 for further talks with the Russians. Deputy Minister of Culture, Mohammed Abdel Kader Dr Hatem, is due in Moscow on Tuesday for celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the over- throw of King Farouk. of the USSR's Syria is one few remaining close allies in the Middle East. The Syrian army is heavily dependent on Soviet arms supplies and the Ba'athist THE SOVIET Union is pre- pared to give technical assist- ance to Spain's nuclear energy programme. The offer came at a recent conference organized European Economic by the Commission of the United Nations in Alcala de Henares near Madrid. Spanish After delegate Colino had pointed out that developing nations had diffi- advanced tech- with culty nology, the Soviet delegate said aid would be in line with the recently-signed Paris trade agreement. This Stalinist offer of nuclear regime aid to the fascist follows a statement by Luis Cerón, minister in charge of negotiations with the Stalin- ists, that Spain would have abundant trade with Comecon countries if Common Market entry was not possible. This latest episode in the Moscow-Madrid alliance coin- cided the first anti- with student foray by the new ultra- falangist rector of Madrid uni- versity, Munoz Alonso. Without any explanations, he banned a meeting of teach- ing staff in the Law Faculty which was to discuss staff resignations and the barring of 27 students from the Faculty this year. The Ministry of Education has refused to renew the con- 50 university tracts of over lecturers who had built up a reputation as liberal academics.

Both students and lecturers are still waiting for the start of term to be announced. A Barcelona military court on Saturday sentenced four men to terms ranging from 15 to 18 years imprisonment for a bomb attack on a local police patrol car. North Yemen also claims to have shot down two planes belonging to the People's Republic of Democratic (South) Yemen. North Yemen to restore the semi- wants feudal system of rule which has been overthrown in the South. European mercenaries, most of them extreme rightists, are reported fighting alongside the North Yemen troops. sad of Syria is acting as a go-between : Union whose relations have been dat expelled 20,000 Soviet military recently signed government local the national pact with Stalinists. On Moscow's insistence the Communist Party agreed to sup- the Assad government, port though previous Syrian Ba'athist regimes have persecuted the party mercilessly. Now the Kremlin is hoping that Assad will help to bolster the thoroughly unprincipled re- the Soviet lationship between the Egyptian bureaucracy and ruling class. Though camouflaged as a com- Zionism mon struggle against : and imperialism, the relationship in fact subordinates the inde- pendent movement of the Arab workers to the increasingly right- стасу.

When Koy Jenkins became Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the businessman's weekly, the right-wing 'Econo- mist', produced a front-page headline which said: 'Roy's the Boy? And in his two years at the Treasury Jenkins proved that he certainly was 'their boy. By the end of his term he was being described as the greatest Tory chancellor since the war!

If Jenkins was favourite son of big business while in power, he has done everything to earn its continued gratitude while in Opposition. What happened on October 28, 1971, is one day that immediately springs to mind: 'He led 69 right wingers on the Parliamentary Labour Party into the Tory lobbies to give Edward Heath the necessary majority to take Britain into the Common Market. In voting with the Tories the right-wing rebels defied decisions oppos-.

"ing Market entry which had been overwhelmingly reached at the party's Brighton con- ference a few weeks before, the Parliamentary Labour Party itself, and the TUC.

But when they voted with the Tories, the Jenkinsites : served à double purpose they also perpetuated the hated Heath government, which has set itself on a course of mass unemployment, smashing the trade unions, doubling council rents and attacking the social security system and the , National Health Service.

Lincoln Constituency Labour Party has set an example by throwing out its Jenkins acolyte, Dick Taverne. But the rest of the right-wing fifth column remains. With the working class now entering a phase of unprece- dented onslaughts from" the government and the employers, these preachers of coalition and compromise politics must be removed. In this article Workers Press taken a selection of has quotations from capitalist press newspapers which serves to produce a revealing profile of Jenkins and what he stands for. 'One thing is certain. Roy Jen- kins will prove among the tough- est of tough Chancellors: he is a realist with great moral cour- age and understands the ordeals that lie ahead. James Margach, 'Sunday Times', December 1967.

'For a Labour politician, he does indeed make unusually an languid impression. No one in the Labour Party, not excluding the Earl of Longford, has a more upper class manner. Mr Jenkins has an evident liking for at first glance over a dinner table might be taken for a cultivated young Tory' "The Observer', February 1965. • • "Does your drawing-room, smoothie-chops wine-and-food, image bother you?" "No, because the old cloth-cap idea is dead"! 'Daily Mail', May 1968. 'Roy jenkins is a. curiously complex figure. In character and personality he is suave, elegant, something of a dandy with a taste for upper-class social life— indeed, there seems nothing to connect him with the son of the Welsh valleys. whose father was jailed for his part in the General Telegraph', Strike.' 'Sunday March 1968. 'So we might be forgiven for thinking : that Roy Jenkins was a languid socialite with a sharp brain and refined tastes but little That, however, would be a else. mistake. Roy jenkins is now the politician in most important His position Britain. is over- son dare not sack him.' March 1968. 'Some time ago I walked one' evening after dinner into the drawing-room of a great foreign in London. There embassy enthroned on a sofa surrounded by members of the post-war jeunesse doree sat a plump and balding figure. In his mouth was a large cigar. This he would frequently wave. about with expensive gestures. He looked caricature of capitalism.

like a The actor was Roy Jenkins.!' Lord Lambton in the 'Daily Express', June 1969. 'Watch this man! He could be Minister bar the next Prime none. Shrewdly and vigorously he has overcome every crisis that has hit the Home Office since he took control there. Knowing Roy Jenkins (and I have_known him now for many years) I would his back him to fight way through the other crises which will inevitably hit him in the future' Donald Cullimore in the 'Daily Mirror, December 1967.

: liberal. 'Jenkins is at heart a Indeed he has said that if he'd been born in a previous genera- tion he would have joined Liberal Party? 'Sun', March 1968.

'Remarking on the case of Roy Con- Jenkins, senior one , very observed; "Roy's got servative a lot of sides to him which appeal to the Tory conscience.

He likes high society, he has tastes in epicurean food and he's the best all-round 'wine, dinner party conversationalist in Westminster and, politically, he looks like a good safe drawing- room Liberal": Evening Stand- ard', October 1968. 'He Jenkins] has. never pre- tended to be a socialist in this sense, and if he had pretended socialist, his Budget to be a would have shown clearly that he is not. Yet he has sympathy in the Liberal Party and even the left. wing of the Conservative which is not enjoyed by Party His any, other Labour minister.

politics are the politics of the fragmented They centre. are entirely compatible with the his- toric traditions of the Liberal Party! "The Times', March 1968.

"Sinks right back in chair, right foot on left knee, head cocked voice, Deep upper-class up. stressing a full vocabulary like a wise Victorian lawyer. Thinks so almost intensely that you can and clicks. A sense humming warm, urbane, human man to whom it would be comforting 'Daily problem? to take. Sketch', January 1967. 'He was a Gaitskellite. He is a convinced European. He backed George Wilson and MI contest in the leadership. He experence

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director of financial of John n 1962 to 19645 from equipment allal. Jenkins poised Francis 'The club that week kitchens the become 'Roy Jenkins, the che de be deaten out deep leather Guards Whitehall. reemen clear and attention salute "T sworas In estly, Stephen besse well" smiled and smile. 'Sunday Times', Nov 'Jenkins, despite b of a Welsh miners' l times shows serious his dismis strated a re-nationalization Cessin Sunday lim the ber 1964. 'Jenkins lives in and raman Notting that is to contain so against for Laboul gained some tastes as I macc financial operations partnersn• intelligence i Persuasi veness and of curren

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self-confidence_ M has been the post-war establishment faces eaching flare-up than fire when he Chancellor that the Roy Jenkins, mem been invited the nwner ol Duke of Devon- y Express', July 1969.. of Minister ttled gnome-like into raten out high chat his onca! Archway into scampered rotcemen the traffic. jangled to their: ee non- colleagues sitting enjoy all said Mr len winningly "Well. mes, November 1964. flippant dismissal of sicti the "Monte Labour move- lives in a delightful Ladbroke oftiou Hill, collects and Potter of Asquith life contain some hitherto unpublished chill. His wife has elected Food Guide' September 1962. A glitter'ng report, is It enkils. hecome ecitor mist" Jenkins's Mr government post, Cabinet Jenkins Jenkins, tional necessarily dest Pauses. Lyreek food. Beefsteak.' and 'He ated carefully, With languor, good a way of as anything else produces life away suCh interes what's going think this of politics". "He beiones band in the who only can socia prototype. in this car the success Socialist your next then blatantly June 1969. Workers Pross, Mor ma Sunday Times', Can fore Mr Roy he should "Econo- the journal. He reaction? General Election. w..con TOrme offers him will serve Wilson oses give Mr ress, ecemner 1963. gourmet-though Molas ne taci. thẹ best cooking "but aute cuisine not me!' The TO1 "Oh, caret. it's the first one's mind' ane Sketch', observed unmistakable Balliol politics think of. a highly varlegated without sense all) one. arouno main attraction 'Sun', March 1968. ancreasıs described Socialists, and enkins CIsselv He and Chancellor of the condemn which ajoy?' 'Daily Express', ass, Monday October 2, 19 Though superficially look similar, fundamentally become

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Ilds nreclecor 1968. *He went to Oxford, as father paying for netore intensely specialy Heath ,awar( "The Times" common-room fire. uren exirene also there and Soled dominated found hehe 'The perks of pow Trutt tor after Prime days Wilson Suburb Garden sale. his Downing MCC•OUr Exchequer Roy Jenk forward to added receiving just secured ar for his Coung orin Square, Notting weekly rent Standard' Evening of late close junior has his mettle by book in This circumstances Jenkins, Express, that secret admirers. little nave his HP chateau 'Sun', March his was a political phases, found Jenkins There reacine front of the Denis Healey, Marxist, W de were Macmillan Communist- and Socialist Observer, May mun them Hamestead home up for next-door

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday October 2, 1972

BRITAIN'S

DECAYING

DENTAL

SERVICE

By Virginia Strickland. Part One

TORIES

UNDERMINE

THE NHS

The Department of Health is forcing the public to take over financial responsibility Sir Keith for dental care. Joseph, Minister of announced Health, has another in yet increase patient charges for treat- the National ment on Health Service. Patients will pay from 5 to 14 more for treat- per cent of ment to the maximum £10. The increase, became effective on October 1, follows announcement of an 8t-per-cent net pay rise for dentists few weeks ago. for the Someone pay 300 US l 'generosity. ministry's By slowly starving the den- care services of tal resources, Sir Keith is forcing dentists to treat more and more patients on a private basis. One might even say enterprise 1s being encouraged more than dental health. As it is, most dentists con- sider their practice a business. the need to They run say business interferes with the standard of dental care they would like provide for patients. Unlike doctors, whose sur- furnished by the geries are

NHS,

dentists think must about overheads which run 50 to 60 per cent of their income.

A modern dental surgery costs about £3,000 to equip and the dentist must pay his reception- ist, book-keeper, dental hygien- ist, technician, and a consult- ant anaesthetist. The recent 8t-per-cent pay rise didn't allow for expenses. And costs eat away rising increases as soon they're as dentists. For granted, say example, when 4-per-cent last increase announced was April, laboratories that- some do technical work increased their charges to dentists 8 per cent. The NHS pays a specified fee item treatment. per The dentist gets 64p for each 84p for routine filling, ordinary malgam 94p for extracting one tooth, and so on. If dentists only take NHS patients, their average annual £4,500 after income 1s Over- heads. The scale of fees established by the Dental Rates Study Group bases the income on 33-hour Some week dentists claim, however, they would only earn 60 per cent of the stipulated income if they worked so few hours.

The also biece lae system encourages the dentist's inter- est in disease rather than bre vention. He gets paid for each cavity he fills or tooth he pulls, but the NHS pays no fee at all y October 2, 1972 for preventive measures. dentists point Some out that their income has dropped while 'practically everyone else's' has increased. What they mean is that the dental bill to the nation has decreased. In 1949, the dental part of the

NHS

bill was 10 per cent. In 1970 it was only 4.6 per cent.

One reason for the drop is that the original dental fees were unrealistically high. The Minister of Health in 1948, the Aneurin Bevan, based dental payment system on the of his Harley Street advice dentist, Sir William Kelsey Fry. Another reason might be that the government is simply sawing off the dentistry branch of the NHS. And they're sell- ing the idea to dentists in the true spirit of capitalism: in- come is being left 'up to their initiative'. • Dentists can own supplement their NHS income many private by treating as patients as they like. They can •24 hours a day seven work days a week. Most dentists hire assistants to help them increase their intake of patients-—and pro- fits. One young dentist said when he was looking for a job dental assistant, the one as a question asked consistently was 'How much can you bring in a week?' No one asked him about the quality of his work.

Of the 17,000 registered dentists, about 500 are strictly private. The remaining dentists registered with the NHS spend varying amounts of time in from private practice, • an average of about 5 to 25 per cent. The NHS gives the dentist 'independence' to decide whom he will treat. The NHS pamph- let tells the patient: 'You can go to any dentist taking part in the Service, who is willing to accept you for treatment.'

In fact, the General Dental Service Committee recently reaffirmed that, as an inde- pendent contractor, the dentist has a basic right to accept or decline anyone for treatment for any reason he sees fit-or without giving a reason. One dentist who takes this 'right' seriously has mimeo- graphed pamphlets in his informing patients reception, should regard it as a they privilege to attend here. One should count one's blessings, that in remembering many countries modern dental tech- niques are not available at all'. The same dentist does not encourage 'excessively ner- 'unco-operative' vous' or patients either. And an inter- esting twist for someone who claims to be a health care worker: 'We DO NOT accept •patients whose mouths are badly neglected and very dirty.'

It looks like patients are now being turned away for being too ill. It's also the dentist who decides which treatment will be done on NHS an‹ be done on a privat Dusinessner. have learned to use Its convenie where where it's profitable They can use them paid fees a long shopping as which to choose wh they Treaten example, fewer dentists are bridges and denture because they receive doesn't mak their time. he would go did the bless the NHS. ments on The private patie dentist average an three Times would pay him treatment, with the but not guaranteed ence that materials may be Obviously costs more than a amalgam one. say more expensive treatment are nece dentist, of course. One dental practi he feels it is his 'e tell advanced forms are available

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fee thes say the worth dentist claims bankrupt ss profitable treat- ate patient pays the the WhaT the same with the possible differ- better quality used. gold filling ordinary But who's to of expensive forms are necessary? The ractitioner says is his 'ethical duty that of treatment offered with rapidity "ethical duty to tell' 'business necessity staggering A good same dentists 1 history. he resigned says because he patients achieve health' under In his plush Harley complete with and rosewood explained his flict over having a double standard. end has solved hi lict. He now runs on ethical re salesmanship for Hese A business executive friend of his came up with the idea that good dental care could be promoted and sold to the public. In 1969 they started their seminars which cost £20 a day. Last February, 26 dent- seminar in ists attended the the warm sunshine of Majorca.

According to the brochure, 'have the partners already helped several hundreds of dentists to convert many or all of their patients to becom- ing private patients'. The man- agement course is 'designed to help other dentists at all levels of clinical ability to move along the same road' Originally patients paid nothing when the NHS was established 24 years ago — other than their compulsory monthly contribution. In 1952, a flat fee of fl, increased to £1.50 in 1968, pushed a bit more of the cost onto the public. In 1970 Sir Keith quietly introduced a new for patients charge system with hardly a ripple of pro- test. We now pay one half of all dental work up to a maximum of £10. Next month's increases will range from 5 per cent to 14 individual cent on per items of treatment. For example, an examina- tion, scaling, a couple of x- rays, and a filling, which now £1.20 will cost the patient cost £1.32 after October 1, an increase of 10 per cent.

21, under persons expectant mothers and mothers with babies under 12 months of age are exempt trom charges. Discussion is under way to lower the exemption age to 18. At a time when so many young people are being forced onto the dole by unemployment, they're being financial the added given responsibility of health care. It only makes sense in terms' of Tory logic. FG

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When Sir Keith initiated the last increased charges, in 1970, he promised that at least half would pay the patients less. One dentist destroyed that myth by analysing 616 after the six months cases introduction of the new sys- tem. Eighty per cent of his patients paid more than before. A Manchester dentist argues that the regular patient pays less now than he did previ- Only patients ously. who 'neglect' their teeth will pay more, he says. In other words, treatment should be confined to patients who are already dentally conscious and con- scientious. The worker suffers from the increase in charges in two ways. First, his teeth are usually in need of more repair than his middle-class counterpart because his diet may be less nutritious and he's less likely to have been taught the rudi- ments of oral hygiene. Secondly, the £10 maximum fee is proportionally a much bigger chunk of his income.

The British Dental Associa- tion fought hard against increasing patient charges-but not for the sake of the patients. Most dentists were afraid that increased charges would discourage people from going to their dentist. And that would mean decreased income for dentists. So the BDA ran an exten- sive press campaign against increasing patient charges.

They hit hard enough to make the Department of Health squirm. Then suddenly and mysteri- the BDA campaign ously, stopped. A deal was made: the Department of Health would assist the BDA in persuading the public to go to their dent- ists—to the tune of £10,000 for a poster campaign. They called it public 'education'.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

By our foreign correspondent In the first week of Octo- ber, a delegation of Argentinian trade union leaders will once again fly to Madrid to consult with their leader Juan Domingo Peron. Once •again the columnists in Buenos Aires will ask: "Will he or won't he return for the next elec- tions?' Whatever advice the trade union leaders may have for Peron, they will certainly be to display a record of able holding back the struggle of the working class in accord with the philosophy of their hero: 'We maintain that social problems have never been resolved by struggle but through harmony, concilia- tion and a class-alliance which generally is expressed in a.

"third" position between capi- talism and socialism.' • This Peronist trade union bureaucracy has certainly lived in close harmony with capital since Peron's revolution purged the Argentinian trade unions.

Rogelio Coria, secretary of the Building Workers Union, José Rucci, secretary of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) and the rest live like millionaires, guarded by armed toughs. They fix union elections and speculate with union funds. Coria, for example, lives in a luxury flat in the north end of Buenos Aires, far from the shacks where many of his members live on the outskirts of the capital. His office in the new union building at 44 Rawson Street has been described by the CGT bulletin: 'First you have to open a glass-door leading to a hall lined by several rooms.

One of these is the secretary's office. If the visitor can show that he is not a worker, he will be taken to the waiting room.

In his office all the floors are covered with beige moquette and the huge windows have Havana coloured curtains. ..

'The arm-chairs are a natu- ral leather and the furniture is pale-toned wood. The only communication with the out- side is a bell for his secretary and a white telephone.' This refined taste is paid for Domingo Peron. Left: José Top: Juan Right: Rogello Coria, secretary of the E from union subscriptions which the employers dock from the wages of their workers and send to the local union federa- tion. Thus a union, like Coria's, has a fixed monthly income of at least 200 million pesos.

Not satisfied with this, the union leaders persuaded government to decree that the unions should get the first month's increase in wages of any increase granted: as a result of this 'discount' the building workers' union amassed 750 million pesos last year. The Minister of Labour also decreed in Resolution No. 266 that all firms should discount from each worker 500 pesos for the CGT. To facilitate this step, the National Bank printed forms for all its branches so that the employers make this deposit into the CGT account.

In order to benefit fully Coria from his new riches, set up a private firm, IRCOS, to invest the money. This firm, which is registered under name of the union's accountant and a certain Miss Teresa Espinosa, gets a 20 per Workera Prose, M Jose Ruccl, secretary of the CGT.

y of the Building Workers' Union.

cent commission on the profits it makes with the union's money. To ensure that IRCOS should collect all the money in from the building coming workers' wage packets, the union's finance was central- ized. Coria put branch finance under central control and reduced the number of branches from 110 to 55 in .

five years. Coria's lucrative harmoniz- ing of capital and labour iS perhaps best expressed in his speculation in the building industry. According to the Public Register of Commerce, in 1958 an industrial firm, Tucon, was established to deal with the making, installation and the sale of building materials: one of the main shareholders was suave, smiling Rogelio.

But Tucon is not the only one. The investment firm with the unlikely name of Lawful has as its chief shareholders, Eleonor Balizan (don Rogelic's wife) and the union's account- ant, Guillermo Lopez. Coria is also the main shareholder in : Press, Monday October 2, 1972 PAGE 5 the Panamby Company, dedi- cated to carpentry. Also in Panamby are Marcelo Coria, Rogelio's cousin, Esteban Crovatto and José Nicora.

By pure coincidence the last two gentlemen are brother-in- law and father-in-law of the architect Victorio de Lorenzi who Coria contracted to design the new union building. The furnishings in the whole build- ing were designed and bought for a fair price from the Panza and De Lorenzi Com- pany! The friendship with de Lorenzi also became useful when Coria had a moment of social conscience and decided to build some flats for his members. De Lorenzi was entrusted with the job. However, a year and a half after work had been started on the flats, despite loans from banks, Lorenzi owed the workers on the site three months' wages. Work was halted and an investigation was begun by a Labour Tri- bunal. This discovered yet more coincidences and scandalous exploitation of building work- ers by Coria. De Lorenzi's firm was registered at the address of Coria's luxury flat. What is more, the regional committee of the building workers' union, on Coria's advice, agreed to pay the workers the money which the company owed them! Not surprisingly it is impos- sible for building workers to vote in a new leadership as it is impossible for leaderships to be changed in other unions.

According to union rules, ratified by the government, in order to be a candidate for an elected position, it is necessary to have been previously a member of the national com- mittee, a conference delegate, or belong to a regional execu- tive committee. Since ex-members of the committees who oppose Coria have been expelled from the union and since delegates who oppose Coria are known to the leadership, no opposition can be elected. Not surprisingly, union con- ferences are held in top secret.

left-wing newspaper A described the congress of cater- ing workers in the following James Bond manner: 'In the Royal Hotel in Mar de Plata, there was an unusual atmosphere. About 70 people patrolled the exit and drove round the block in cars.

•.. Perhaps it was a meet- ing of Ministers or a secret symposium on nuclear energy?

NO. It was the Congress of the Union of Catering Work- ers. Severe inflation has hit Argentina. Factories are clos- ing; the value of wages is being cut. The radicalization of the working class has led to strike waves, as in Cordoba and Tucuman, which were brutally repressed by police and army. The possibility is there to build a'new leadership in the Argentinian working class and to break down the myths of Peronism. The Pabloite revisionists in Revolutionary People's the Army are extremely hostile to this task. They are inseparable the left wing of the from Peronist movement, trapped in 'will he or the won't he return' quandary. In this, their terrorism reinforces the grip of the Corias and the Ruccis over the working class. The group supporting the OCI/Guillermo Lora, 'Politica Obrere' adapts to the syndical- ism of the working class and thus to the militancy which the CGT syphons off in one- day strikes or isolated strikes only for 'rank-and-file commit- tees'. The answer to the corrup- tion in the unions in Argentina is not terrorism of the milit- ancy, but a struggle for a party of the Fourth Interna- tional.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday October 2, 1972 By Philip Wade housing correspondent - As delegates assemble duced into the House of Com- mons by Peter Walker. today for the opening of Anthony Crosland, shadow the 7lst Labour Party housing spokesman, said during a censure debate moved by the conference, millions of position late last year. council tenants will be the urge government, faced with a rent collec- particularly at a time of high to re-think tor demanding another unemployment, views on public spending their £l a week. and be willing to spend what- of course, It is, a mere ever amount of money is the Tory coincidence that needed to achieve a sustained Housing Finance Act, designed and rapid rise in council house to savage and destroy munici- he told building, the Tory pal housing, takes effect on the front bench. the conference same day as And this came from a man who presided over housing for opens. Nevertheless, it is adequately the last nine months of the dates that the fitting Labour government when The reason, should clash. as council-building reached its many tenants will vouch for, is lowest point since the war.

the leadership Crosland got worse as the that bears the ulti- Labour Party debate wore on. responsibility, in more 'Do the government really mate ways than one, for the fact that know what they doing are have been the Tories ever when they introduce this allowed to get away with their scheme? 'fair rents' Act. Tory backbenchers 'Do that Why is today understand what is happening?'

hundreds of thousands of ten- alleged 'cut-and- Amid the Labour-controlled under thrust' of a Commons debate, ants councils to pay another are all over Britain Tory backbencher, Peter Trew, threw out a famous reply being forced on their rent? o put Crosland's mind at rest Why, when the same tenants The extension of fair rents stupendous with will are faced to council ter-sin tenants to en- leaps in the cost-of-living-and courage better-off this before Common to homes of their own, all the move Market-are 50 said the man who declared his only about councils refusing to implement interest as a director of a large directly aimed at legislation building firm contracting for to destroying the basic right hospital work. decent housing at a reasonable rent? There are over 380 Labour- It was clear early on, there- run local authorities in Britain.

fore, that from the apart Yet the vast majority have phoney, self-delusory campaign after leading decided-many of 'fighting the Bill line-by-line', tenants into campaigns of opposition would be given opposition and non-implement- to the Tories, at least from the the last ation-to enforce leadership. full stop legislation which the Into the breach left Tories vacant had been preparing for by Crosland, the 'left' tried to some years. of NEC jump in in the form facts cold, but These are Frank member Allaun. He they represent the processes of fared no better. a vast betrayal of the working Writing in the Tory 'News the Labour leadership. class by of the World', on December 5 like For, all other vital on denounced the last year he facing workers, the questions Bill and then proceeded Labour leaders have gone down to accept it. before the Tories like lambs I urge tenants to see on their way to slaughter.

their councillors and MPs now would thought, One have and ask them, in turn, to press naïvely, that the Labour Party the men in Westminster to would have leaders put up a proposals.' water down these fight to prevent the destruction (My emphasis.) of housing which a system OT While embarking on a doom- had seen millions of tenancies laden and fatuous campaign of built since the war, mainly by then to get the Tories to drop Labour-controlled authorities. Allaun thought Not a bit of it. 'bright' idea. This was another It is now an appropriate time for tenants to put pressure on to examine the record of the local councils to refuse to fix Labour Party hierarchy on this 'fair-rent' levels. as well as their previous score, His thesis was that when the capitulations while in office to rent assessment committees did landlordism and Tory housing the work themselves, tenants policies. Necessity also compels would soon realize it was the à look at what perspective for Tories that put the rents up housing the national executive and not the Labour councils.

has planned out. Of course this was an insult Every- to tenants' intelligence.

one knows the source of the scene for betrayal 'fair rent' Allaun Act. was Wilson in fact set during the trying to find excuses for refus- government of 1964-1970 when ing to lead a fight to make the Tories resign. philosophy housing Tory accepted the Labour Millions of tenants had other leaders. ideas, though. And it was not Labour that part of history, it is as long before many the perform- councils were being forced well to go over by the question of the associations they had ance on tenants' Housing Finance Bill as it was helped to create to take up a last winter when it was intro- non-implementation stance.

A special supplement to the Party's paper, 'Labour Weekly, called on tenants everywhere 19 prepare for the 'big fight of "Their fight is your fight.

Support local Labour your it declared. It councillors, turned out to be nothing more than a cover for a confirmed retreat before the Tories.

The crunch came at an NEC meeting in March which left th door open fór Labour councils to carry out and im- plement the Tory rent-doubling Bill when it became law in the summer. This was how the sell-out was phrased. "The NEC have now given serious consideration to the likely effects of the Bill after October 1. The effects will be different from authority • to authority. Therefore the NEC decided it was not possible to give advice to local authorities on a national basis. This does legislation not this mean should be accepted without resistance. Each Labour group must decide in the interests of tenants and in the light of local circumstances its own method fighting the legislation.' In other words, the road was clear for implementation with sanction of the Labour Party leadership. 'In the interests of tenants', rents were to go up fl this year and increase consistently until they doubled. Then the process of reassessment of 'fair rent' levels would begin again.

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Yet on March 28, the Labour leaders had the effrontery to call a lobby • of the House of Commons by tenants. The thousands who did turn up demanding non-im- everyone plementation-were be to sorely betrayed. The Labour leadership and the vast majority of Labour councillors have proved unable • the 'fair to offer a lead on ients Act because their hands are already tied by reformism.

In a period where capitalism is in deep crisis and the Tories proceed to take away basic rights, reformists only can proceed to attack the working class. Out of power, it is done by aiding the Tory government to stay in office by refusing to call for its resignation by the of the working mass action the Labour class. In office, itself attacked government rights. That was elementary as far as housing was the case 1964- concerned under the 1970 government. In 1965 the Rent Act guided through parliament by Richard Crossman laid the basis for the Tories' 'fair rent' legislation by introducing the concept of the open-market rents into field of private tenancies.

The new class of 'regulated' tenancies created by the Act were soon to reflect the sign of things to come when it came round to the rent-assessment coSmittees to s* their rents is Seven years later it estimated that for rents regulated tenancies have in- creased some 240 per cent under Crossman's Act! The so-called Rent (Control of Increases) Act of 1969 was a deception. It actually allowed councils, most of which were Tory-controlled at the time, to increase rents by 37}p a time and more with government per- mission. It was the now-notorious Housing Act 1969 which was to become the most sordid and abject capitulation property financiers. It has sin proved to be one of the be enacted measures ever behalf of property speculato In one way or another, te of thousands of tenants mostly in the ageing centr areas of cities like London have been forced to quit th private rented accommodatio Landlords were then able cash in on generous gran by provided Labo government, refurbish the and sell them f properties tens of thousands of pounds Whole areas of London ha been denuded of working-cla families and instead ha ecome the playground of t idle rich and middle-cla trendies. And all with t blessing of the Labour leader Other aspects of Labou housing programme fared : In a futile attempt better. deal with land speculation, t Land Commission was set u This cumbersome and burea cratic machine was suppos to buy up surplus land and s it cheanlv to local authoritie Part of the operation was t introduction of a betterme levy which aimed at heavi taxing profits by land spec development' was to be taken native to the whole into public ownership. This ably. The sounds like the Land Com- • save the mission in another form. thing else.

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e-building fered too nded more After bringing hoary out king class 'policies' of full rating of un- P 500,000 occupied properties, the pro- 500,000 gramme returns to the bank- rupt strategy of improvement not com- years of grants pioneered under ruinious Housing Act 1969. It aber built seems the Labourites can never tically to learn. total in With the promise of security cent down of tenure for tenants of un- furnished properties, the 'pro- • total fell gressive' elimination of 'private t from the profiteering, the reform of the housing revenue account' and rogramme onference, other piddling little futile July? reforms, the section on housing sh of the policy grinds to a halt. played a It is nothing more than a the mass for disaster. If recipe the ne 1970, Labour leadership is allowed to in for the carry out such policies, it will further attacks mean on workers living standards and on of land document of the housing worsening "to nises situation. No amount of half-baked • in the reforms can replace a socialist ommunity increase. housing programme. In today's crisis-ridden capitalist system, eded for Workars Preas, Manda attempts compromise with to the landowners, property specu- lators and financiers will only lead to betrayal as much as did the 'efforts' of the Wilson administration. A socialist housing policy must be implemented by the next Labour government. This must include: the nationaliz- ation without compensation under the control of the work- ing class the land, building funds and societies, pension insurance companies and the building and subsidiary indust- ries.

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With the repudiation of the massive debt charges incurred by local the over years councils, these resources can then be utilized for a massive slum-clearance and council house-building programme to restore and advance the basic right of every worker to decent home at a reasonable rent. There are many resolutions down at Blackpool on the housing question. Thirty-eight constituencies, for example, demand nationalization of the land as the only solution to ockers Prana, Monday Octabar 2, 1872 PAGE 7 Above: While Labour slashed housebullding, thousands of war.

kers had to live in 19th century back-to-back slums. working-class housing and rent problems. It is important to pass these resolutions. But two questions still face every delegate Labour and Party supporter. They are how to bring the Tory government down before every basic right is of the working Class destroyed and how to make sure the Blackpool policies are carried out by the leadership.

Without mobilizing class to force the working Tories to resign and forcing Wilson and company back in to carry out these policies, the talk at Blackpool will be hot air. The Socialist Labour League's policy is to build Councils of Action in every area to unite all sections of the working class against the Tory attacks, and to force the TUC leaders to call a General Strike to drive the Tories out of office. Only in this way can a Labour government be returned pledged to carry out a socialist programme.

REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday October Part four of a series by Tom K The German Communist Party (KPD) after the 1920 fusion, had material and human forces which had hitherto been lack- ing. But it faced immense problems. Its membership, first of all, reflected diverse trends in the labour movement German back to the pre-war going years. The old KPD, despite the split which had led to the formation of the KAPD, was still afflicted with ultra-left tendencies. The traditions of were not all con- Spartacus ducive to the functioning of a centralized party. The party also had to con- tend with the weak sides of the Luxemburgist tradition. In addition, who the workers came over from the Indepen- dent Social Democratic Party (USD) were mostly militants with no theoretical training.

The USPD leaders who entered the KPD did not compare in political understanding capability with the former Spartacists who made up the KPD leadership. leaders Party were The themselves divided on tactics.

In opposition to Paul Levy and his supporters, who sought a united front with the SPD and USPD, the left, led by Maslow, Ruth Fischer and Ernst Thael- mann, pressed for a continuous revolutionary offensive. Meanwhile Levy came into collision with the leadership of the International, criticizing it for having admitted the KAPD as a sympathizing sec- while excluding the tion, Serrati wing of the Italian Socialist Party. In February 1921 Levy, Clara Zetkin (a Spartacist who sympathizer had stayed in the USPD until it split) and several others of 'right' faction were the expelled from the leadership.

A 'soviet faction' consisting Brandler, Thalheimer, of Frolich and Stocker took over the leadership, just when. the Party was moving into another crisis, the March Action of 1921. According to Flechtheim* the new leadership wanted to prove that the new party was revolutionary capable of a offensive and that the fear of putschism, which had gripped it after the defeat of January had definitely dis- 1919, appeared. Egged on by the representatives, Comintern Bela Kun, Pogany and Gural- ski, it adopted the famous 'theory of the offensive'.

The main arena which chose to demonstrate this was central Germany theory where it had considerable sup- port among miners and other workers. A bitter struggle had broken out between the copper miners of Mansfeld and the Social Democratic government which developed into an armed conflict. The KPD called for an insurrection on March 17 with very little result outside a few isolated towns. The working as a whole did not rise class and in a number of factories fighting broke out between workers favourable to and opposed to the party's call.

The government brought in the army to assist the police in putting down any risings.

By the end of March the movement had been crushed and the party called off the General Strike. The March y October 2, 1972 Tom Kemp on the history of the Gel Top: Young members of the KPD on a Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Rathena Action was a big defeat for the KPD, a defeat which was not necessary and could have been avoided. The leadership had completely misjudged the situation and had plunged into an adventure at a time when the working class was not ready for action. In 1920 it had not been able to see a revolutionary situa- existed. In tion when one March 1921 it tried to create a revolution where the con- ditions did not exist. The blow which the party suffered made it more difficult to build a revolutionary leadership and the German Communist Party.

CPD on a demonstration in 1922. Above: • Rathenau assassinated June 1922.

win the confidence of the working class. As a result of the defeat the Party was once again declared illegal. Some of its members were imprisoned while as many as half the total membership left. Supported by a minority of the leadership and the parliamentary fraction in the Paul Levy broke Reichstag, Party discipline and published a pamphlet called 'Our Way: Against Putschism' in which he criticized the leadership for ma'S •in the March Action. its role was immediately Levy …ex- pelled, after presenting his defence to the Party, and this was endorsed by the Executive Committee of the Comintern. The KPD leaders reaffirmed their belief that the March Action had been correct, blaming the defeat on to organizational and tactical defects. The situation, it main- tained, had 'been most fruitful for the carrying forward of the revolution. The debate on the March Action continued in Germany and in Moscow • where Clara Zetkin succeeded in con- vincing Lenin that the theo- reticians of the offensive had wrong and that Levy's been criticisms had been well- Levy was. founded. not rehabilitated and founded his own group which later fused with the USPD. The Third Congress of the Communist International insisted that the first post-war revolutionary wave had ended and that the need for the communist parties was now to win the masses. Only in this way could the preparations be made for the next revolution- ary opportunities. The Congress laid on the German party the obligation 'to increase its influence over masses, strengthen the broad the working-class organiza- tions, win the trade unions and destroy the influence of the Democratic Party and Social the trade union bureaucracy' It also aimed to maintain Party unity despite the great divergences revealed by the March Action. Despite that debacle the KPD made a rapid recovery, reflecting not so much the capacity of its leadership as the need which the advanced sections of the working class felt for a revolutionary leader- ship, an alternative to the SPD.

In the latter part of 1921 the Party was able to re-establish its influence mainly through the activity of its trade union and works' councils members.

economic growing The difficulties which Germany was encountering created favour- able conditions for the KPD's growth. Although the high post-war unemployment had fallen off by 1921-1922, prices began to rise rapidly. During the next Germany was en- two years gulfed in a runaway inflation until confidence in the paper mark disappeared entirely. The workers' purchasing power fell catastrophically and many middle-class people on fixed incomes were ruined. In addition right-wing terrorism was increasing, cul- minating in the assassination of Foreign Affairs Minister Walther Rathenau in June 1922. In accordance with the united-front tactic, the KPD co-operated with the trade workers' unions and other parties in calling for the demo- cratization of the Republic.

However, the law for the defence of the Republic passed in July 1922 became an arm in the hands of the police working-class against liberties. In January 1923 French troops occupied the Ruhr in a enforce vain attempt to reparations payments. The printing presses were turning out paper marks without check limit and the inflation or reached its paroxysm. The country was moving headlong towards a revolutionary crisis.

Would the KPD be able to live up to its historic respon- sibilities?

CONTINUED TOMORROW

A centrist group in the Labour Party has put for- ward a programme, described as a Red Paper, in opposition to the offi- cial Green Paper drawn National up by the Executive Committee. The authors of the pro- gramme are a group, headed by Ernie Roberts and | Michael Barratt Brown, which is con- nected with the Institute for Workers' Control. They claim that more radical policies are needed and offer 'a first attempt to firm up the radical commitment to such policies, so that rhetoric may be turned into reality and promises can be understood unambiguously for what they are, and those who make them can be held to them' The style is as revealing as the content of this 'thesis about the advance to social- ism'. The 'thesis', if such it can be called, is that we should not 'wait for the Revolution' or work for it-but get some immediate reforms. No, the authors say, this does not mean a reformed capitalism.

Rather 'in the process of pressing their challenge up to and beyond the limits of what capitalism is capable of, people will begin to make their own society, and see the society in all its detail, which they want to make'. Nothing about the role of the working and consciously anti- class, revolutionary, this key point reveals the authors' reformist position. The programme which fol- lows puts forward a series of reforms which go 'beyond the limits of what capitalism is capable of'. So while the Lab- our leaders realistically and pragmatically work within the confines of capitalism, our radicals want to go one stage further—in words. But even in their own terms it remains precisely within those confines. They want, for example, 'to correct the distor- the market and the tion

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the with some sugges- improvement. on this commentary uperfluous since the lod is defective from the prob- trists see forward gramme for an elec- not want to Above : Ernie Roberts mobilize the working class transitional demands. around Naturally they say nothing General Strike to about force the Tories to resign.

If it is true that 'the restric- tions on our freedom and the destruction of our capacities for brotherhood' comes from companies which the giant treat people as factors of pro- duction' etc, then what wrong with the demand to take over these concerns with- out compensation as the first task of a Labour government?

For this it would be neces- sary to mobilize the working class on a fighting revolution- ary programme, not propose a series of reformist measures as outlined in this pamphlet.

But the authors are confirmed supporters of the parliamen- tary road and their final pero- ration, despite its claim that 'socialism is an urgent neces- sity for all the peoples of the world, if humanity is not to destroy itself", bases its hopes purely on a Labour govern- ment, not on the working class.

Under different names and with varying mebership such groups have been around in the Labour Party for a long time. They might even be said to be necessary for its exist- the occasional despite ence, which the heated exchange, right-wing leadership accepts as such. The old term of 'left cover' retains all its validity in this case. and his Ernie Roberts friends do not fight the right wing but prolong the illusion somehow that it be can manoeuvred into adopting 'left' policies, which in any case remain reformist. So far as the ideas embodied here have any influence, they way of the stand in the development of consciousness in the trade unions and the working class generally. Begin- ning with a basically reformist diagnosis of capitalism, which ignores its contradictions and crises, we are given a recipe which can only open the way to defeat. Workers Press, M The Department of Environ- ment has been asked to plug amazing loophole in . the an 1969 Housing Act, which 1s said to be leaking large sums of ratepayers' and taxpayers' money straight into the coffers of property developers. The loophole is this: Under the Act house-owners can get grants of up to £1,200 for each new dwelling they provide. So if a property developer buys a big, old house and converts it into three flats he is entitled to £3,600 from the council so long as he had spent that much himself. With the cost of renovation thus subsidized the developer could then sell the flats indivi- He would have no dually. obligation to hand over any of the money from the final sale to the council. council housing com- The mittee in Hammersmith, Lon- don. claims that more than £800,000 of the £lm it paid house-improvement out grants last year went to developers rather than owner- occupiers. Hammersmith has drawn up a se of proposals for stopping this alleged abuse. They have been endorsed by Lambeth Borough Council and sent by the London Boroughs Associa- tion to the Secretary for the Environment, Peter Walker.

When Walker was appointed cabinet minister he left a lucrative post as co-head with Jim Slater of the fast-flying Walker investment, Slater financial and property con- glomerate. Where will it all end? One minute the nation's youth and (male) senior citizens are being corrupted by the moral-fibre- sapping porn threat, the next housewives all over the country are succumbing to . . . the dreaded

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menace. Sheffield vicar the Rev Robert Warren is very worried by it all. A few days ago he warning to issued a stern in such women who dabbie allegedly occult practices. He even compared it to the use of 'soft' drugs. 'People who indulge in this sort of thing begin by treating • he said. it as a laugh,' • Press, Monday October 2, 1972 PAGE 9 'But it can be very danger- ous. I believe it can be likened to the soft drugs which lead the addict on to heroin and disaster. It is causing much concern. 'I believe this kind of thing is widespread. Housewives may do it through boredom and the ouija board menace tends to go around schools.' The Rev Warren (33) is vicar of Crookes. A pop festival with a differ- ence has just taken place in West Germany. It was organ- ized by the big industrialists of Essen in the Ruhr district who are trying to win back the youth for 'free enterprise' The political strikes against the attempt by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to oust Chancellor Willy Brandt earlier this year scared the employers so much that they decided to launch a propa- ganda campaign for capitalism.

For weeks now the city has been plastered with posters saying: 'The freedom to work where and with whom you want!' and 'The freedom to go forward!'

The pop concert, which cul- minated the first stage of the campaign, was an interesting affair. Firstly it was free. (The em- were clearly not too ployers sure of their support.) stage where the Then the groups played. (They were just there for the music, they said.)

In big letters across the top ran the legend: 'Free Enter- prise. Free Living!' Most interesting of all was the light show which included subliminal shots of such sym- bols of capitalism as the Liberty. The Statue of subliminal advertising tech- nique involves inserting single frames of film into another film so that the eye cannot register the image consciously but the subconscious can.)

The employers themselves were there behind a row of police and a sheet of plate glass to watch the effects of their propaganda. It is not known how many signed the pledge for youth capitalism, but the employers satisfied yet. They not are intend to continue their cam- paign for another two years at least.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

A South Wales steel- worker, Jim Bevan, who declares himself a sup- porter of the Socialist Labour League, is chal- lenging the failure of the engineers' union leaders to fight the Tories. The challenge comes in the battle for the post of national organizer of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Voting takes place during the next four weeks. There are 17 candidates. Present incumbent is John Bromley, a former Stockport works convenor who, in stand- ing for re-election, will have the support of the Communist Party and many of the Labour 'lefts' in the union. Bromley talks in his address about the 'momentous issues confronting our membership and the whole trade union movement': unemployment, the Industrial Relations Act and wages. He says the problem of un- employment is a national one, demanding 'a national solu- tion' 'There can be no solution to the problem of large-scale un- employment under this Tory government,' he says. "The strength and vigilance of the organized movement is the only safeguard for all workers-both employed and unemployed. Our task is to remove this Tory government at the earliest possible oppor- tunity and return a Labour government pledged to sociai- ist ideals.' But he is completely non- committal on the crisis of lead- ership in the AUEW revealed by its failure to fight the Tories on any of the issues he men- tions; if he has any alternative to the policies of president Scanlon and his executive he does not say so. On the Industrial Relations Act, Bromley calls for the union to . 'stand firm for a of non-co-operation policy with this Act, as laid down by national committee policy.

Bromley does not make clear his position on last January's national committee decision to call off the pay fight at national level and pursue the union's claims locally. He simply calls for 'every ensure complete effort to success in order to compel the employers to recommence meaningful national negotia- manifesto was tions. The before the recent written national settlement. Jim Bevan, a shop steward from the British Steel Corpora- tion complex at Port Talbot, challenges the whole record of the existing leadership on the claim, the Industrial Relations Act and unemployment. A supporter of the Socialist Labour League, the All Trades Unions Alliance and Workers Press, he insists that without a fundamental change in thought, policy and leadership there is no future for the trade union movement. 'My political beliefs, he says, 'are based on the revolu- tionary socialist doctrines of Lenin and Trotsky... I firmly believe that this reactionary Tory conspiracy can, must and will be forced to resign in favour of a Labour government pledged to social- ist policies of nationalization ay October 2, 1972 without compensation and under workers' control. The engineering industry should be the first to be expropriated.

'But I am equally convinced that such a programme cannot be realized under the reformist leadership which presently dominates the unions.' Bevan, who is an AUEW district committee member and on his local representative trades council, says the union leaders put up no effective resistance to the Industrial Relations Bill. They refused to call for the maximum mobilization of the labour movement's industrial and political strength to force the Tories out. Their reform- ist policy of ignoring the Act led the situation where to leading 'lefts' like Jack Jones recognized the authority of the National Industrial Rela- tions Court. The record of the AUEW leadership is much not different to that of Jones despite a lot of presidential rhetoric, Bevan says. "The abandonment of …a national strike on the wage claim in favour of the reformist and dubious expedient of plant-bargaining is a dangerous precedent 'It has dissipated the ener- gies of union members in iso- lated struggles which have proved ineffective against the intractability of the Engineer- ing Employers' Federation. It has, moreover, confirmed the opinion of the employers that A regular workers' para- dise has been discovered at Halesowen in Wor- cestershire by . . . the 'Financial Times'. In fact the paper's story on town's GKN-Shotton the foundry* is a warning. What its Midlands correspondent sees as a workers' paradise proves, not unexpectedly, to be an employer's bonanza.

'You company, works convenor Cliff Pegg is quoted as saying. "We're given the information to know how the company is doing, and we're pretty certain that our leadership is not prepared to accept the challenge of the NIRC and the consequences of a major battle with the em- ployers and the government.'

The retreat must stop, Bevan says. Either the union goes for- struggle ward to lead the against Tory wage-cutting, un- employment and state control of unions, or it becomes an annex of the NIRC. There is no middle way. He adds: 'Every defiance of the NIRC and the Act poses question of a political the struggle to force the govern- ment to resign. Only those members who are prepared to act on this assumption should be elected to positions leadership in the unions.'

The candidate who seems likely to attract the bulk of right-wing votes in the election is Ken Cure, a branch secre- tary and district committee delegate from Birmingham.

The defeat of the Labour government in 1970 gave the Tories an opportunity to bring in the 'vicious and regressive' Industrial Relations Act, he that we must now stand firmly behind the Labour Party and and work, its constitution through our branches, in our wards and constituencies, for its return to power at the next General Election in what appears to be the only hope for a return to sanity in indus- trial relations' will go up with i the wages prosperity of the company"' the three years the so- called 'Charter for the Work- people' has been working, ton- nage output of castings has more than doubled. Meanwhile the labour GKN has cut force over 14 per cent, from 350 to 300, labour turnover has plummeted from up to 40 down to 4 per cent and the scrap rate has dropped from 40 to 14 per cent. What the workers who still have a job get out of it is earnings words which i in the 'Financial Times' 'can of the rise as high as £40 a week', , as against £24 three years ago.

Of the possible £40, as much as half could be bonus, which means that basic rate has probably dropped in real terms taking into account the rise in the cost of living. *'A workers' charter at GKN' by Peter Cartwright (FT September 20, 1972). Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 62½р

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Instead of co-operating with President Joe Gormley says he emplovers. the union leader the claim will be decided at compelled wage a must be the October 12 executive real fight for the £7 claim.

meeting and that it is nego- They must be forced to carry tiable. out the decisions of the union conference break off all So, before the claim and even is submitted, the Coal Board is told collaboration with the Tories.

that the leaders don't union really expect to get it! Gormley and his

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favour of are clearly in a lower claim than that decided at the NUM conference in July. And Saturday's executive meet- ing in Blackpool accepted the need for improved productivity 'support' justify government for the mining industry. This followed discussions with Tory Minister for Industry Tom demanded Boardman, who 'detailed agreement on produc- tion'. An NUM statement declared: 'The industry therefore under- concerned takes that all will thrash about like the make most The maximum and economic use of its own of the financial resources and from one less monster assistance to be provided, so that extreme it may have a viable future.

'It is essential that total costs should be kept in line with the and order achievement of this objective. The industry has agreed that wage negotiations should be pur- ranks. sued within the terms of the agreed conciliation weekend During a of and, in the disagree- violence British Ulster, in the fullest consideration would be given to arbitration, so avoid as to industrial action, of Belfast and Derry shoot- possible.' ing down virtually anyone So the miners' leaders are not even so much who as put only willing to co-operate com- the NCB and Tory pletely with -they also speed-up and closures- An 18-year-old youth On a the Tory version of the accept the Belfast rooftop watching industry's financial. difficulties.

funeral procession of a wallel This places the responsibility killed in bomb blast all for £118m loss the current on Catholic club last Wednesday was the backs of the miners. dead. shot Afterwards the army The seven-week strike said he was a gunman. recent is said to have cost £157m. But As men of the Royal Anglians this is the responsibility of the in the body moved

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a soldier was killed by a sniper.

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about to fire a pistol. Later they issued a second statement say- ing she was seen to aim a rifle at a soldier of the Royal Green- jackets. She was shot in the back. The funeral battle was followed by a night of bombings and dead and over a 100 injured.

Fresh fighting between snipers and army patrols broke out on a 19-year-old girl was killed and a boy of 13 wounded. Police and units in army Northern Ireland's major towns and cities came under attack but throughout a woman died and ten people were injured when bomb a car exploded outside a Catholic club in the heart of Belfast. Yesterday a man the army said then was seen to draw a pistol finally was alleged to and have New Lodge area. Troops recov- ered the body, but no weapon was found. While army retaliation against is terrorists and ruthless, Enoch Powell, was weekend in Ballymena at the urging them to go even further.

'There has been talk without end about detaching the gunmen from the minority ... people detach themselves soon enough from those who are bound to fail, he said. He told a Unionist. rally that alone at stake in what was Ireland was whether Northern province was part of the the United Kingdom. this corner of the Kingdom the Meanwhile a report alleged to have been smuggled . out of Long Hut 60, claims that on Septem- soldiers prison ber kicking them. The report said: "This went on for about an hour. Many men had to be washed down to get rid of the bloodstains.' mounts that While evidence in Ulster is repression Tory being intensified, the Provisional to the brink of IRA is moving its final betrayal. Provo leader Dublin which might conditions three make a truce possible. top-level talks, future removal of all legal curbs on the IRA and the removal of the vari- declarations and oaths of ous allegiance required of those seek- In other words, if the IRA is allowed to operate like any other Whitelaw's William new Workers Press, Monday October 2, 1972 PAGE 11 9.30 Labour Party conference.

11.00 Play school. 11.25-5.00 Labour Party 5.35 conference. Open University.

7.05 CHILDREN GROWING UP.

Mother and Child.

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Rents Labour retreat 5½ million face rise PAGE 12 Workers Prasa, Monday October 2, 1972

A LABOUR

PARTY

militant Party. They should be told, will have to pay coe ents 0 and tenants' leader in like Dick Taverne was But il W€ can Mrs wims ow. the trade union- Marcdesuer Luoit mal lacwee oro! orenier Constance Oraers Press yesterday in to vote in the same lobbies ists we can win. spoke Workers Tories, but to look after 'Only yesterday the secretar the lessons of- the of

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combine stewards the CoLLe Tenesarnl Ss.b way forward now for tenants. She said Manchester workers sent his support. Man many 'During the with- chester and Salford dockers year the tenants going majority vast of Labour voters are also backing us demanded IredC by the local Labour council.

but mier asI "With the backing of the people not worthy their of see how 'But are stressing all the uraoe

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Labour council- trust, many WC battle-that we lose this the increases spring elected Tme That is to this Tory govern- DasIs remove from the fact we Tory opposition rent (TO Ene and government that the only mcn oay retum lO POwe increases. government based on

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BY PHILIP WADE

'understanding' with tion million of them the lories, theit The next council meet- ucs bilc today face the first non - implementation others were meeting on October 11 could

TOUC

ing increases under the noises. junior minister in White. be where this reversa taker hated "fair rents' Act as seeking In August Camden voted hall, concessions making "London clean Dace for non-implementation, the the Act sweep of the the Tories begin their only Labour council in More passed be- Labourites. _letters demolition job on the London do Mrs tween the and Under the Act, 'fair' or Labourites basic right to housing. Millie Miller. Jeader of the the lories unti last week market rents will be fixed For most tenants council, declared at the the Department of the by local councils and rents in time: Environment told Camden the big cities rents will will rise until that level is their could • fl a week. soar by And 'We have asked that the 8p instead of the si. The Then a reassessment

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firmly in Barber's about how this could be them of the government's three achieved agement t the government, the Confedera- ot talks with

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TUC

must take into account port costs all rocketing, no trade Since the union leaders have productivity rewards. unionist or _Labour Party mem- carefully kept detail The 'left" leader of

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afford to allow their so-caled Call or unese laks. we do nOI KROW Britain's biggest union, in other Jeaders to continue crawilng u what specific undertakings from words, is not opposed to the the Tories in this way. the union chiefs Barber was able state regulation just _ the Amalga- ot wages Researchers for to cite in his account But three Engineering SO N OR ds arew mared union would certainly have

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speed-up deals on the side.

Workers have shown the figured: Against this background, it is for a £2 imple. plan Chan- wonder that As CBI director-general W. O small lory mented, would immediately meas Campbell Adamson celor Andon Daroet was aote to announce following his return workers the tuv. „ acreed

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from the International Monetary A worker with a wife and two the employers to work towards Washington £22 rund 8-per-cent ceiling on earning wage schoo ace chileren on The a week who the £2 would increases. I his Canne Oul in leading finance Ministers about in additional lose lengthy interview ver dami with whom I spoke believe thạt 9p additional Telegraph'. the 'Sunday Victor incorlt Lax Britain is where it Feather later claimed® on Adam- national a coulily insurance Conto Tone 50p on rates, 34D rents and nessine to wOrK out a sensio e behalf he had been SUll S

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and fair voluntary arrangement 87p free meals and on quoted'. down the spiral of rising to slow Shortly after the TUC leaders The him •uces, issue, course, agreed headings their £2 with one hand the detailed talks with the CBI and prices, but wages. And the other, they would take away finance Ministers' belief is rooted government at Chequers, The sl 40 lea vle leaders Britain's 105,000 tirely out of account the curren electricity-supply workers reduced of annual rate of price increases mention the theur memoers craim •.o ver cent. nor le

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South Hwrno anal hind the tuC and Labour leaders But even grades. important. be sem-sculed shulled Wales, and Northern Ireland Union leaders tabled claim with will be rather cloudy per- for £5.50 across the board.

their conciliatory words at first naos some ran is oace of the abandonmen Compicle Elsewhere dry weaiher On the same day leaders of 3 basic right of the working class with sụnny periods 194,000 government industrial to organize independently of the Early mist or fog workers sent their members' claim capitalist state. for substantial uataod Taeds

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C cal. increase and Wilson must i will be Trerne Temperatures near nor- arbitration- halted. All talks with the Tories -il ne lec• or nerce opposition from the union mem- must immediately be broken off. and Wed- Outlook for Tuesday concerned

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acLI0 If the finance Ministers needed nescav. conunulne mainly to force the Tories to resign, and with sunny periods and near further proof that the TUC chiefs create the conditions for the are in Heath's pocket, Feather election of a Labour government frost supplied i Saturday: 10cal al cas policies piedged lo HuC OT. off with The reformist top brass have vvc ar thiestives purp osli he said. "The already turned this week's Black- objectives all - the pool conterence into a dangerou: CB the and alternative government, Tarce tne only TUC-are the be posed at the All Trades saine Everyone wanted to see faster Unions Alliance national confer- rowtł 'in the interest'. national in Birmingham on Octobe ence differences 22. 1c callica u Mrs Constance Fahey charges debt which eats up cent of all local per councils' revenue. On top of this comes the introduction for the first time since the 1930s of a universal means test de- signed for those who want to claim rebates. Reassess- ment will take place as incomes change. Rebates will go down as wages rise, giving a built-in wage- cutting machinery. All these moves con- stitute a massive and planned attempt to de- molish the entire basis of municipal housing which is a basic right of the working class. The Tories have been unmoved by protest against their legislation, comforted as they were by the carpet- crawling of the Labour leaders. ORTY FORD door-setters are • meet in Dagenham today_to liscuss their walk-out last Fri- lay. Their protest followed the acking of a worker for allegedly litting a foreman. This militant ection recently forced the man- gement to retreat on manning The way forward for all trade unio

SUNDAY OCT

10-30 a All trade union branches, shop stewards' and district committees are cordially invited to send delegates and/or observers to the conference. Delegates fee 25p.

SPECIAL TRAIN FROM EUSTON, LONDON, £1.50. /

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SEPTEMBER

IT WAS a magnificent fight. We knew you would reach our target of £1,750 in time. We do thank you all over and over again for the wonderful effort. This month, more than ever before, there has been a very special effort to ralse our Fund.

We know that you, dear readers, face prices going up every day that eat into your meagre in- comes. And yet, not for a moment, have you neglected the Fund. In September, due to our greatly Increased costs, we were once again forced to put our target up £500 to £1,750. This did not deter you. In fact, a more deter- mined fight than ever was put up and now we are home with flying colours. And still money Is coming in. We promise to give you the final result tomorrow of this really great fight. Meanwhile, learning from the tough struggle we had during the month of September, let's try and make an early start for our October target. We need £1,750, so please start today. Post your donations to: Workers Press October Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. YOUNG TEACHERS have voted not to teach classes over 30 after January 31. There are still 4,500 classes in England and Wales with more than 40 pupils. Meet- ing in Nottingham, the National cils with decision-making powers on educational aims and internal organization. An amendment to replace head teachers with elected staff was defeated. Con- ference also voted for non-co- operation with Industrial the Relations Act. The All Trades Unions Alliance conference will be devoted to discussing the vital experiences of the last eight months, to analysing the problem of political leadership in the unions and to advancing the struggle for the implement- the ATUA pro- ation gramme. unionists

OCTOBER 22

30 a.m Please send all correspondence and applications to: Conference Secretary, R. Goldstein, 103 Lewis Flats, Dalston Lane, London, E8.

LONDON, £1.50. COACHES FROM OTHER AREAS.

orates fees. Sonature of secretary