Workers Press no. 884

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AS LABOUR CHIEFS RETREAT ON HOUSING POLICY

MERSEY STRIKE

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DOCKERS, engineers, shipy building workers yesterday work and marched through I with tenants demanding the the Tory government and its f Act. With work on 76 ships held up and most Mersey construc- tion sites at a standstill, this was the first occasion since the which industrial war on workers have used their strength in a major battle against rent increases. A rent strike movement began throughout the country yesterday on day one of the Tory rent- doubling operation. amongst growing The mood numbers of tenants was that the only way to defeat the Housing Finance Act and stop the in- creases is to remove the Tory government now. This was in marked contrast to the attitude of the Labour Party leaders who at Blackpool yesterday opposed land nation- alization and refused backing to Labour councillors fighting the Act. In Liverpool, about 5,000 workers and housewives set off on a march to the Pier Head. By the time they arrived another 1,000 had joined them. About 4,000 workers from Plessey's Edge Lane plant had earlier joined dockers and building workers and walked out in solidarity with the tenants, while at Birkenhead, boiler- makers from the Cammel Laird shipyards went on strike.

The Pier Head meeting unani- mously accepted a resolution demanding: • Recall of the TUC. • Committees and workers' bracing organizations to fight the increases. • Expulsion from the Labour

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, shipyard and sterday struck rough Liverpool ig the defeat of nd its 'fair rents' From Stephen Johns in Liverpool and Alex Mitchell in Blackpool Party of councillors who voted for the Act. A campaign to defeat the • rents legislation and the Tory government. The crowd cheered when Barry Williams, boilermakers' leader, said: *This kind of demonstration is only the beginning. We must make sure that this legislation is defeated, but the aim must also be to defeat this government and put a Labour government pledged to socialist policies back into power.' Trades council vice-president Terry Mulherne condemned the leaders of the labour movement.

*Even as this Act comes into power the leaders of the TUC sitting down wining and are dining with the Tory leaders.'

Dockers' leader Jimmy Nolan warned that if a Labour govern- ment was re-elected it might not carry out socialist policies.

*Then it will be necessary for the working class to take over and do it for them.' These Mersey warnings were amply borne out at Blackpool when left' MP Frank Allaun, replying for the Labour Party national executive, said that they could not offer retrospective councillors victimized relief to for their opposition to the Act.

Reading from a prepared state- ment, Allaun said that 'neither as a party now or a future Labour government can we such retrospective guarantee action'.

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Workers and tenants unite on yes- terday's Liverpool demonstration.

Labour councillors who defied the Act 'must do so at their own responsibility There was uproar from delegates at this. Allaun also told conference the NEC opposed a nationaliza- tion resolution from Manchester.

This failure was condemned by several speakers in the debate.

Eddie Loyden, delegate from West Derby, Liverpool, said the responsible to a executive was great degree for the confusions and splits' created by the Act.

He said: 'No pious resolutions will get us anywhere. Loyden was seconding a resolu- tion instructing all Labour councillors not to implement the Act, adoption of an immediate target of 1 million new homes a year nationalization and the under workers' control of banks, insurance companies and building societies. The resolution, which came from Moss Side, Manchester, also called for the nationalization of the building and building supply industries and the land. This was defeated. There 100 almost were resolutions on housing before this year's conference. The debate was dominated by hypocritical references to 'fight' which Labour councils have waged against the Act. In fact only about 50 of the 385 Labour-controlled councils have defied implementation.

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workers press

AS LABOUR CHIEFS RETREAT ON HOUSING POLICY

MERSEY STRIKE

LEAD AGAINST

DOCKERS, engineers, shipy building workers yesterday work and marched through I with tenants demanding the the Tory government and its f Act. With work on 76 ships held up and most Mersey construc- tion sites at a standstill, this was the first occasion since the which industrial war on workers have used their strength in a major battle against rent increases. A rent strike movement began throughout the country yesterday on day one of the Tory rent- doubling operation. The mood amongst growing numbers of tenants was that the only way to defeat the Housing Finance Act and stop the in- creases is to remove the Tory government now. This was in marked contrast to the attitude of the Labour Party leaders who at Blackpool yesterday opposed land nation- alization and refused backing to Labour councillors fighting the Act. In Liverpool, about 5,000 workers and housewives set off on a march to the Pier Head. By time another they arrived 1,000 had joined them. About 4,000 workers from Plessey's Edge Lane plant had earlier joined dockers and building workers and walked out in solidarity with the tenants, while at Birkenhead, boiler- makers from the Cammel Laird shipyards went on strike.

The Pier Head meeting unani- mously accepted a resolution demanding: • Recall of the TUC. • Committees of action em- bracing tenants' and workers' fight the organizations to increases. • Expulsion from the Labour

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

, shipyard and sterday struck rough Liverpool g the defeat of nd its 'fair rents' From Stephen Johns in Liverpool and Alex Mitchell in Blackpool Party of councillors who voted for the Act. • A campaign to defeat the rents legislation and the Tory government. The crowd cheered when Barry Williams, boilermakers' leader, said: 'This kind of demonstration is only the beginning. We must make sure that this legislation is defeated, but the aim must also be to defeat this government put a Labour government pledged to socialist policies back into power' Trades council vice-president Terry Mulherne condemned the leaders of the labour movement.

'Even as this Act comes into power the leaders of the TUC down wining and sitting are dining with the Tory leaders.'

Dockers' leader Jimmy Nolan warned that if a Labour govern- ment was re-elected it might not carry out socialist policies.

'Then it will be necessary for the working class to take over and do it for them.' These Mersey warnings were amply borne out at Blackpool when left' MP Frank Allaun, replying for the Labour Party national executive, said that they could not offer retrospective relief to councillors victimized for their opposition to the Act.

Reading from a prepared state- ment, Allaun said that 'neither as a party now or a future Labour government can we such retrospective guarantee action'.

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Workers and tenants unite on yes.

terday's Liverpool demonstration.

Labour councillors who defied the Act 'must do so at their own responsibility' There was uproar from delegates at this. Allaun also told conference the NEC opposed a nationaliza- tion resolution from Manchester.

This failure was condemned by several speakers in the debate.

Eddie Loyden, delegate from West Derby, Liverpool, said the executive was 'responsible to a great degree for the confusions and splits' created by the Act.

He said: No pious will get us anywhere resolutions Loyden was seconding a resolu- tion instructing all Labour councillors not to implement the Act, adoption of an immediate target of 1 million new homes a nationalization year under workers' control of banks, insurance companies and building societies. The resolution, which came from Moss Side, Manchester, also called for the nationalization of the building and building supply industries and the land. This was defeated. There almost 100 were housing before resolutions on this year's conference. The debate was dominated by hypocritical references the to 'fight' which Labour councils have waged against the Act. In fact only about 50 of the councils 385 Labour-controlled have defied implementation.

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Yugoslav purge starts PAGE 2 Werlaro Prose, Tuasday Oclober 3, 1972 What

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we think British-Leyland, HOW JACK JONES ever came to be considers will be continuing discussions trial giants such as Courtauld's, Wiggins between the TUC, the Confederation of Teape, Ransome considered as a left-winger is becoming British Industry and the govert.ment.

Hoffman Pollard and the British Air- oi increasin: puzzlement to Hallol Corporation have told the CBI millions of trade unionists.

What emerges from all these state- that they feel unable to curb their is a picture not of a dedicated Yesterday's Labour Party conference ments prices beyond the end of this month.

debate on the Industrial Relations Act socialist working might and main Britain's The CBI's phoney the leader of price-restraint touna ones, trom the lory regime. Tenove

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is being biggest bideste nons attacking the alleged which is tormenting his members, but policy burst asunder. Retail own docker boss in the mould of prices are now again roketing upwards ot some of his of a trade union his right-wing forebear in the T&GWU, at an annual rate of 6.6 per cent.

Men DeN Arthur Deakin, calculating cold- Delegates heard him regretting this bloodedly The danger of Jones's demagogy, how he can come to terms year's increase in the strike figures, however, is that it loses further valu- with Heath. extolling the virtues of voluntary con- able time in the fight against the Tory ciliation and arbitration and arguing governmenl. repeal "good

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O ne Torul industrial relations can be restored'...

Militants who retain some confidence in ones's mına when ne spelt out to 'left' under capitalism. in his reputation may dis- orientated at a time when there is a On Sunday the Transport and General burning urgency to prosecute the fight.

Workers' Union secretary .was holding the Communist Party They could either take all decisions w o consc out the possibility of a deal with the which has diligently sown illusions at the centre by bureaucratic authori- government over wage restraint Jones, will help in this process.

or face massive penal- for a statutory 'freeze' tarian methods. in return ties if things went wrong locally. The prices in the shops, rents and the cost.

This is why Heath and his top Tory third alternative-mobilizing action to of houses. Ministers were so pleased with the force the Tories out response to their pay-curb plan speculators and Property gazumpers ently never entered into his thinking on they met at Chequers on Sunday.

should be jailed, he said, 'the same as the subject at all. porn and drug peddlers'. A E2 limit on Jones's call for is a This is the key to an understanding "insufficient', but puice ucere pay cynical bid to avoid the demand that but dangerous of Jones's absurd there could be 'a figure- -or figures'. the talks with the Tories are immedi- The T&GWU posal for a prices freeze.

On his way to Blackpool last Friday, ately broken ofl. At Blackpool this under capitalism, leader knows week he is emerging as one of the best Jones told a Birmingham meeting that such a measure is impossible.

friends in the labour movement that rewards for increased productivity must Already a growing number of indus- be taken into account in what he clearly Heath has. Purges, trials and lengthy

BY JOHN SPENCER

spee che nom o erissto conit A MAJOR purge of the economic weight decisive Tito leadership caught perialism. This the Yugoslav League of Com- 1S the Yugoslav factor WAlCI munists has been set in Stalinists choose to ignore.

between imperialism and opened T'he lito motion by its leadership CUC IaN the door to foreign capital, following top-level in the process making the con- convertible and aban- has sultations with President unlal workers at home aoned — as billc admitted — vir Tito. tually all state control over with the transactions west. It is intended to bring to While Bifc Was Sacakle television, the government was an end months of political possible. Infringe- for talks with the orecuc no kaowieoe or mese every Hacars preparing and economic crisis which developments. "This is the result ment of regulations had become Market countries Commor of the market economy, he said. the rule, he said. have racked the Balkan extena tne present rading agree ment to include industrial workers' state. The outcome was that indivi- operation, joint investments duals capital taken, it could be

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wein. become over running ordinary employment. Public pro- bearing' 'domineering' •to tel viewers. 'We shall week "justifiable". 11101€ test, he begin alter the system sald Was rid our ranks of all who do not the lito social relationships. consistently carry out the party's between the im- Individuals abroad had foreign- the perilism and exchange accounts. Cases of indi- layer called for viduals asquiring 'enormous' of wealthy one hold this necessary, through entective and the resources urest aane Tin e OI word trends. But what effective action despite une lact unal tuls deals

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110l has an undertone of an adminis- canershi while Whatever capital infrequent. bureaucratic and trative, even itself undermines the with the GoOSseosee aite Bilic said it was 'most incum- despouc way o1 seltune tunes. DaSIs „une workers „State bent' on a socialist self-managing introducing the 'market economy" laying Detailed criteria for carrying society by undermining very nature monopoly out purge TEne ha ve •nOl Deen such of foreign trade?

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mallicolallons Saval released publicily, but they have already been circulated to pro- Troops used in Latin American Vinclal party organizations.

.It has already been made clear that the victims purge The will be sacked from jobs in the revolts fighting between the army and administration addition

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government ocasalls wno are dene trowi stripped being party orsede i dor aniindenite peside from their land by a 'consortium membership. siege for an indefinite period.

of big landowners, backed by finance, As Bilic implied, the purge is A military plane has machine- Sunis siede is ammee ar oooosuon Ilcicoica l indeed a bureaucratic attempt to from students and guerrillas.

the possible mineral resources in gunned four workers bulding the the area. Irans-Amazon highway. the Minister the Interior, way Oul CuLORIC problems that beset Tito's Abelardo Benavides, in a message regime. Frame-up fragging case in the US House of Representatives to ure over the weekend, asserted that broadcast, his television the government had obliga- an to the heart Bilic went straight tion to keec order and take all of the matter. He warned against

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pins with ferred weapons of Gls steps to preserve it'. tem or the 'dangerous tendency of turn- Fort Ord them to decorate Herl ye bitti Who WAnt TO ing. into private property Since the beginning of June, themselves un- hats. Monterer. and stressed 96 that this tendency Army officers. There over Deoo e mave ocen The trial is being con- in ar esten un an deren der or rese the first paruculariy маткес trying nave ducted beCl dunereds under foreign trade. of being urbar defenders since military security. Last cases OI Iragging Castroite National Liberation the Vietnam war began American soll spectators He referred in particular to Army. There carefully checked number of Yugo- nırect the excessive Dear Smith evidence azallbi DulLa anneti Wect day cullerurises aurodue ll

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20,000 the hign the fact that names and units (if they men bevond Germany there alone, ne sala, Brazilian armed forces are being rett grenade pin was found are military nam were 800 such 400 transferred to the upper Araguaia killing two his and pocket after of been set up in the noted down. which had injuring others valicy Termorce une Cregons WILd artesl cune ConTTrOom last le monis. GIs in Vietnam com- is about 1,200 tiny building which can >,000 troopS. Irakmell miles from Brasilia. These are monly grenade hold only 50 carry Bilic said it was a fact that ore. the Yugoslav government had There reports of heavy are NORTH YEMEN yesterday confirmed the loss of a key town on its border with South Yemen after a six-day battle in which more than 50 South Yemen civilians were also killed. Fighting yesterday was reported to be continuing in the border area, despite a request for a cease-fire from the South Yemen government, which denied that it had occupied any towns over the border. South Yemen has asked other Arab states to mediate in the conflict and a conciliation mission politician Abdul Qawee Mack- awee has placed himself at the head of a provisional government in the hope that the present South Yemen government will be overthrown, according to reports from Beirut. Mackawee headed the right wing of the anti-British liberation movement before independence five years ago. His organization, the Front for the Liberation of Occupied South Yemen, (FLOSY) bitterly opposed the now-ruling National Liberation Front.

Mackawee's exile 'government' is likely to receive support from Saudi Arabia which " has been backing North Yemen against the South. North Yemen is ruled by feudal chieftains who oppose the land reforms and other social the : carried measures out in South. •reakdoWi JUST THREE months after it was concluded, the Simla cease-fire agreement between Pakistan and India is in danger of breaking down. Scattered fighting along the border between the two countries in Kashmir culminated on Satur- day with Pakistani charges that India was seeking to undermine the agreement. Pakistan charged that Indian troops had opened fire on a Pakistan border post north of Sohana village in the Kotli sec- tor of the front. General Tikka Khan, the Pakis- tan chief of stafi, said the in- cident, in which one Pakistan soldier was killed and two in- jured, was the most serious since meeting summit between President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Indian premier Mrs Indira Gandhi. Bhutto yesterday declared his intention of upholding the Simla agreement—in the present weak- ened position of Pakistan he is in no position to launch an offen-.

sive which would certainly be rebuffed. Tension over Kashmir has been one of the outstanding territorial issues between the two countries ever since independence. hem or use the army is deliberately corate their restricting the number in the court to 35. The is being con- atmosphere, according to ler intensive GIs on the Fort Ord base, is heavy with the are smell of frame-up. by The charges carry the ds and their units (if they death penalty and it is clear the army wants a y personnel) scapegoat for the failure is a of its Vietnam policy g which can and the collapse of GI • people, but morale.

Press barons have nothing to

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ALEX MITCHELL

BY Roy's the boy-for the middle class DESPITE what the capitalist press has to say, Roy Jenkins MP has been a damp squib at this year's Blackpool conference.

Quate of the from Labour chairman Anthony Wed His fan club, which met on Sunday night, was Party conference decisions: 'Conference never has and never will want exclusively a middle-class gathering.

They clutched Labour government. He went on to say delegates of their leader's copies recently-published works decisions deliberately reverse seriously and not janore them and wore floral rosettes to proclaim their allegiance.

Wedgie If they reverse them accidentally!

In the present eco- which nomic crisis, polarization is class rapidly taking place, Jen- and his followers kins walking from the are middle of the road to the -a dangerous place right- during peak traffic. fear from FCG and Jimmy Jenkins Thom- George Williams, Shirles son, Harold Lever, Barnes and trade union leader Jack Peel shared

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Communications Group quick to cover capitalis media. Common Market talk-in. L1 y 'He's Jenkins exposed the met during last year's Tor The ool bamace Lane aske not been well lately, He then developed the principled Confer- manoeuvrings Labour Party said, while that the only another theory the Party's com- execumve the Newspaper CuLC. censorship was self-im- when he announced he one today: mmy Was a ou Publishers Association is posed. reputed have 'Somebody writes the Sent The point is, of course, along some 'observers'. stuff, subs the somebody that 'Jimmy' has been poli- Their job was to get Scull. somebody prints tae oft for consider. stuff, he said. idea of the strategy part his profes- able *Journalists know what left-wing organization sional life. of them. It's seize control of the media.

is expected His excellent writing done by us, he added. If the NPA stooges did But abiities To be strictly, are accurate bother up what has always been in Cameron should

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of course, year to hear ex-Labour MP doubt his ticket have said 'the censorship is Moonman left-winger. done by me'. nalist ames Cameron. they And The of his speech BackDool would support Will be reporting Lord Cameron dropped that 11S was that the press wabul l and the Rothermeres in vote on the Lord Cowdray guise when he ment appeared as the bogev it wascracked on Wed- and the Market that be. ('Gone are the main speaker al a seminal

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nesday. on the press. of unel presses are quite sale.

tyrannical editors lays So while Wilson and the Cameron's He criticized those After miser- lasmune revorters. l 'lefts' claim they have able speakers who said there 1s problems, buprey and 'hard-line' lie problems, by the rabid large functioned Marketeer, Jenkins, who TOlO 121101. Guess who heard first? welcomes it. ence of young journalists The fraud of the lenkins whose incredulity faction revealed dur- Mrs Williams' speech.

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Driberg, Labour MP in The anecdote from Tom The other main speaker for Wilson the Labour party Is before Haro d June called was former MP for Graves- 1970 General Election, broadly-based party she he summoned the Party's National NATSOPA Worker Murray, party we have Executive Committee and the Labour Cabinet to No 10 • for the informal chats took 10L Murdoch group of news- then everyone went home. Next day Wilson named And place, papers. interrupted from someone June 18 day. Why hadn't he informed his he floor to shout ...and day? Driberg Murray derided calls for colleagues the According to he Were not pleasedenkinsites the had to tell two other people first-the Queen and Edward the

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Ilallallzallon Heath. press under workers' con- Doorstep lobby 28 Charlotte St STRIKERS who have been Tony Gallagher, T&GWU con- venor at Duple, told us: London W1 conducting a six-week struggle year we have new over wages and conditions in agreement based on productivity Blackpool itself and the company's profits. But yesterday

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has not yet Union. The and investment property giant the official the denied it controled Cranev. but made ane Fatal! EPTU is only backing it at local confirmed that it had an interest in the group.) level. Workers Press, Tuesday O L in Blackpoo! ood Benn (seen above with tans), rold Wilson on the supremacy of d never will want to dictate to a ct government to take conference lore them. Presumably it's OK by trol. Such said, were a bit too intel- "theories' lectual'. In a remarkable set of contradictory statements, Fleet he said that the was doing Street press well' with an advertise- ment boom. But later he admitted that the industry was being hit by closures and amalga- mations and fierce compe- tition from printing firms in Europe. Murray's 'solution' to all this centred on the Briant Colour 'work-in' in south- He said east London. every print worker should put in fl so the works could be bought from the present owners. 'Put your money where. he told your mouth is, those who argued for nationalization. Yet Murray's ludicrous suggestion is that every time closure occurs, workers are to shell out to buy the plant! He gave no perspective as to how his union plans to fight closures and re- dundancies. Referring to his own workers, said: "They he are perfectly capable of looking after themselves'

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Tuesday October 3, 1972 PAGE 3 THERE were riotous ironies surrounding this year's 'Tribune' brains trust. Chief among them was the fact that it was staged in the Planet Room of the main con- ference hall. Certainly the arguments put for- ward by the platform had an extra-terrestrial qual- ity about them. These gents are so pain- fully conservative in their except, it seems, politics when they are wheeled out onto public forums at con- ference time. This we had year Orme, Heffer, Allaun, and Foot telling us they were ready in the wings to attack the 'commanding heights' when re-elected to government. The euphoria was dashed to earth by a question from the floor from some- one who wanted to know why the Labour Party has failed to lead a fight against the Tories' 'fair rents' Act. Suddently the wise men were crestfallen.

Allaun muttered some meaningless phrases, to the growing irritation of the audience. 'Shame' , someone cried out. And others sought supplementary questions, With the atmosphere getting distinctly brisker, chairman Mikardo stepped in. He called for order and announced that a purse been found in had the ladies' loo. few wisecracks, After a an appeal for a collection other very unsubtle and diversions Mikardo, reports of whose retirement he says are 'much exaggerated' succeeded in cooling the situation. It was next topic and the panel eased their way back into orbit. As someone commented on the brains trust meet- ing: There's not much brains, and you can't trust the bastards either. LORD Longford failed show up for a much- to publicized meeting of the Communications Free Group at which he had been billed star speaker. It was announced his lord- ship had been unable to make the trip because of other engagements. 'He is up in pornographic tied activities in London,' the chairman of the meeting said.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday October By Virginia Strickland. Part Two As long as a person has to pay for dental care, he is more likely to get the kind of treatment he can afiord than what he needs. His dentist begins to see him as a prospec. tive customer. several The dentist has advantages over other business- men. First, his customer comes to him to fulfil a need, not whim. Health care • is no a' luxury. It's a necessity.

Also, his customer, no mat- ter what level of education he ignorant has, is probably about what is medically wrong with him and what treatment he needs. The present dental care system allows, indeed almost sanctions, the dentist's use of his patient's ignorance.

It's the dentist who has free- dom of choice in a range of treatment. Any businessman knows it's good business sense to sell a person the most expensive commodity he can afford. It's even ethical if one ascribes to the belief that cost is equivalent to quality. The art of persuasion can be a Sımple matter. Ihe very way a dentist describes various tech- niques influences a patient, especially if he's nervous.

the patient has free- 'But dom of choice whether he will have the treatment offered on the NHS, protest many dent- ists, 'or pay for another treatment as a private patient.'

Consider the situation: You are reclining with your mouth wide open, anticipating a quick end to your agony. The dentist gives you a • choice of paying him as a private patient and being done with it or getting up and walking out to search for someone who will do the job on NHS. What would you do? If you could afford it, that is. For all practical purposes, the NHS leaves the dentist free to choose the 'well' patients by refusing to do cer- tain types of NHS work. And persuade private he can have the latest, patients to most advanced forms of treat- ment. The private patient gener- ously makes up most of the dentist's profit, falsely believ- ing he is getting more for his money in terms of the dent- ist's time or effort. The Harley Street myth is a pervasive one. Few people to think there are no stop special examinations for dentist to pass before estab- lishing a practice on Harley Street. He only has to be able to afford the rent. Ironically, private the patient gives up most rights to redress. A person can't complain to his local Executive Council dental treat- about private ment. The Department of Health sa y October 3, 1972 on NHS dental checks up work, but no such check is made on private patients. li they get charged for a more expensive material, but get the cheaper one, who's to know?

The private patient is at the mercy-and integrity-ol nis dentist. And dentists have an easy they always way out: can extract their mistakes. The patient who, whether he afford to pay or not, can choses to demand the health paid service he has for through the NHS, is caught in one of several traps. An elderly man who had a persistent toothache could not dentist who would find a accept him as a patient. The reason? If a dentist takes a patient on the NHS, his part of the contract requires him to render the person dentally fit.

This man needed dentures. None of the five dentists he saw would make dentures on the NHS. The man couldn't afford private work, which he was told would cost £45. There was another possible way for the dentists to treat the 1 man. They could have taken him on the NHS as an emergency patient. But they wouldn't. It did not matter that the man had not been to a dentist in the 24 years since NHS was established. He had paid his monthly contribu- tions, but he couldn't get treatment. A teenage girl broke her front tooth and couldn't find a dentist to do a crown on NHS.

Nor could she get any other work done on NHS-not even a routine examination — until the crown was paid for. She finally found a dentist to take her as a private patient for the crown and promised to do all future work for her on NHS.

There dentists who take each new patient on a private basis for the first 12 months. All the important (and expensive) repair work can be done during the year and then the patient goes on NHS for routine care. One dentist reversed the procedure. He switched from NHS to private practice, send- ing letters to all his patients saying he would still be glad to treat them, but privately.

A woman who had been a regular patient for many years took him at his word. She made an appointment. After the exam- ination, the dentist told her that her mouth was in 'terrible shape'. Repair would cost her £900. A bank manager suggested the. woman get a second opinion-when she asked him for a £900 loan. She found out the treatment she needed was simple enough to be done by an undergraduate. Another trap for the patient in search of an NHS dentist is the receptionist. She is used as an efficient accomplice in salving the dentist's conscience good The dentist toe severa advanta fulfll a need, not a whim. Health care is t so that he honestly never turns hardship The away cases. receptionist is told to auto- matically refuse anyone re- questing NHS work. elderly woman who An needed dental work described how this operation works. She went to the dentist her child- and grandchildren were ren seeing, rang the bell, and made her request.' 'This bit of a girl opened the door,' she explained, 'and Brown isn't an

NHS

said Mr dentist. It's all private? So she left. The dentist is under no legal obligation to refer patients to another dentist when he turns them away. Fortunately, dental patients aren't likely to die from their discomfort. Where are patients to get help? A consumer group in Hertfordshire tried to com- plete a survey to give local citizens information about Your teeth c semen. i over h care ls no luxury. It's a necessity.

where to get dental care on the NHS. They ran into all sorts of barriers-beginning with the receptionists. All 33 of the local dentists' receptionists refused to say what services their employer offered on NHS and which ones patients could expect to pay for as private patients. If the consumer representative had a specific problem, she would have to go in for an examination. The dentist would then tell her whether he would take her as an NHS patient.

'But I don't have a dental problem, explained the 'Our consumer group woman. is doing a survey to save people and dentists time and effort. If a patient wants a specific treatment on NHS, we would like to be able to tell custo him not to bother going to Mr So-and-So because he only does that treatment privately.

Then we could send the patient directly to a dentist who would take him on NHS! 'Oh, I couldn't tell you that, replied the receptionist. 'Giving out information on treatment would be considered advertis- ing.' The only dentist of the 33 in who said Hertfordshire he would take some patients on NHS had a one-year waiting list. And Hertfordshire has 60 to 70 per cent more dentists than the national average.

As more and more dentists private, by encouraged business-management seminars on increasing profits in dent- istry, the shortage of dentists for all but a privileged minority will become even more severe.

Fewer patients will be treated with the latest, most complex techniques for higher fees.

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BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPOI

The centuries old alliance between the Portuguese and British ruling-classes has nothing picturesque folkloric about it, or whatever might be said over glasses of port at the functions of the Tory Anglo - Portuguese Society. President Caetano is pursu- ing a policy of industrializing the Portuguese economy. Like his predecessor, Salazar, who destroyed the trade unions in Portugal and set up a corpo- rate state modelled on the ideals of Mussolini, he can rely on British employers to bring ın capital, set up factories and start extracting huge profits from a labour force that has no rights. Already the Portuguese gov- ernment has begun a new industrial complex at Sines half-way between Lisbon and the Algarve. This involves the construction of a new harbour capable of taking ships of up to 500,000 tons and a 10 mil- lion-ton oil refinery with an associated petrochemicals plant that will eventually produce 200,000 tons of ethylene annually. production is to be Steel expanded as well. The National Steel Company • has plans to expand its existing steel mill at Seixal, near Lisbon, and to export steel to Europe at prices which will be more than com- petitive. An Anglo-Portuguese Indust- rial Corporation Committee has been set up to develop the 'exploitation of British research and development in Portugal'.

Plessey's, the British electronics company which has already closed factories in

IRESPONDENT

Caetano Above: Industrializing Portuguese Right: British-Leyland's motor assembly plant near Setubal. Britain, has set up a subsidiary in Portugal. Another firm pioneering in this country is British-Leyland which has a motor assembly plant near Setubal. Lord Stokes and his friends must have been impressed by the wages earned by Portuguese engineering workers as low as £5 for a 50- hour week. Rather different to packets in Cowley the wage and Longbridge! Other Portuguese-owned factories have been good customers of British manu- facturers of machinery-such as Platts in the textile trade.

It will not be long before more workers in this country are put on the dole by em- ployers who have decided to their investment switch to police-state Portugal, where are kept militant workers firmly in prison when they are not sent to fight the Portuguese colonial war in Angola. More massive aid funds from US into South Vietnam have gone astray—once again with the apparent complicity of the CIA and high military personnel. Readers remember may recently the amazing stories that poured out of Saigon about the which capital's black market could supply anything from a- crate of bourbon to a tank- for dollars of course. Now it seems a cool $400m have been gone astray—or rather the American taxpayer was never aware he was forking out such a sum in the first place. A General Accounting Office report has revealed that the official estimate of $1.5 billion in military aid for 1971 fell short of the true target by the $400m.

Announcing the scandal Democratic Party Representative Les Aspin of Wisconsin said 'overpay- diplomatically that ments' had been made. Whether by design or bureaucratic mis- management he knew not. The agency primarily respon- sible is a CIA front called Civil Lott: Thieu demanding growth.

Workers Press, TI Operations for Rural Develop- Supports (CORDS). This ment was hastly tacked together with staff from Department of Defence, the State Department and the CIA to run the disastrous programme in the pacification South of Vietnam. CORDS first two chiefs were CIA veterans Robert Komer and William Colby and until recently the CIA had a strangle-hold over the outfit. Now it is suffer- with the a slow demise ing winding down of US. involve- ment in South Vietnam. Throughout 1971, reports the accor st billion en CoRDs pen- office, the US accounting gramme. But it noted: 'Neither CORDS nor the Defence Depart- ment has developed a reporting system that provided reliable data • for budgeting funds. About $360m were supplied to South Vietnam officials as 'trans- fers' rather than actual expendi- tures. The US government never knew where the funds went or whether they were used effec- tively improve the to vast American murder machine in the south. 'Large quantities of food had spoiled, unneeded items had been purchased but not used for long been periods and items had diverted to ineligible recipients.'

multi- These revelations million dollar corruption come as no surprise. US imperialism can only survive in Vietnam by brute bribery of force and mammoth puppets who support its war effort. This is why the aid, poured into the south has not benefited the economy or the workers and peasantry. On the contrary the country is now on the verge of economic collapse. 3 Press, Tuesday October 3, 1972 PAGE 5 The money usually finds its way into speculative holdings or is spent by the tiny privileged few on lavish quantities American consumer goods. The problem now is to prevent any real industry in the country coming to a complete halt. The boom of US spending sent prices rocketing (inflation has been a staggering 420 per cent over six years) and imports have been sucked into the country with the result that the south has a desperate balance-of-payments crisis. Importers now find themselves.

with vast quantities of goods which they are unable to unload onto already overstocked an market. No one can buy and the distribution system and the con- nected financial system is near collapse. Outstanding bank credits are 80,000m piastres compared with 60,000m at the end of last year and the smaller banks, faced with ranks of panicky customers try- ing to withdraw their saving, do not seem likely to survive.

On the docks sacks of ferti- lizer and perishable goods lie rot- ting because the importers have no desire or money to accumu- late stocks. President Thieu's reaction to the situation was to demand an economic growth of 6 per cent and an increase in national sav- ings from seven to 15 per cent of total production. But economists have politely informed him that this just can- not be done. The American war so distorted the economy that it is stuck on the path of collapse-the economic crisis in the south is perhaps the greatest ally of the National Liberation Front.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday October 3, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

in for a shock. They have mis- In the labour and trade driving judged the ambition union movement Andrew self-made which propels this Cunningham is im- man. Born in 1911, Andrew Cun- broker. power portant the eldest ningham was represents about He family of nine. His home town 100,000 workers in the is Felling, a particularly deso- of Tyneside. He lated area north-east who belong to joined the Labour Party when the General and Muni- he was 18 or 19 and went to Workers' Union work as a docker and then in cipal a paint factory. and sits on the National He married a local girl and Executive Committee of they three children have the Labour Party, the 28- Andrew, John, who is Labour and MP for Whitehaven, man body which runs the Freda. party. At 28 he became a Labour alderman councillor at Felling and thus He is an on Durham County Council, chair- commenced a 30-year associa- of the local police tion in local government man chairman of the New- politics. mittee, He is chiefly remembered in Authority castle Airport Felling for his marathon ser- (which, incidentally, employs a union vice as chairman of the Felling number of his own ment he herd from 1953 nt.

members) and chairman of the held from Tyneside Passenger Transport ment Authority. (Complete list this 1967. busy They were extremely page.) the it can be said that During that time Indeed, has fingers in local council built no less than Cunningham many, many pies in public life.

7,000 homes, reputed to be a The Poulson bankruptcy hear- record, Local people believe that it precipitated the which ing resignation of the Tory Home revealed that he met John Secretary has now Cunningham's Poulson, the Pontefract archi- further pies in it has emerged, who built the largest He tect life. was, on Poulson's payroll and paid architectural practice in bank- by the I. Dan Smith organiza- Europe prior to his ruptcy. tion. his wife, Mrs Freda There is sourness in And come also Felling about the housing pro- Cunningham, May jects launched by Cunningham Poulson belonged the to 1965 Poulson and Poulson. In empire. During 1969 and 1970 Mrs appointed consultant was architect for two multi-million local magis- Cunningham, pound schemes in Felling.

'decorating worked as a trate, Crowhall the Newcastle The main project, consultant' in office on a salary of £1,250 a Tower, was built on the 'Ronan following Point-style' and, the year. in Newham Lon- The Cunninghams also took disaster in had be abroad paid for don's East End, to holidays two strengthened. The cost of these evacuated and by Poulson. jaunts-one of them to right- The other development, Nur- sery Tower, has been the sub- wing dominated Portugal-was ject of bitter complaints from £670. When he heard of the coutt tenants. told August two Nursery Cunningham In allegations Tower tenants were forced to the press with his accustomed consult a solicitor with a view bluntness: 'That's a laugh.'

When he received the news legal action against the to council. This followed serious he was in Sweden on a trade union trip. He told the press: water damage caused to their flat when it was flooded.

'I have nothing at all to say But in 1967 'Mr Felling', as about anything. Cunningham is known to the the revelations in the Since Bankruptcy Court, local press, moved to sweeter Wakefield pastures. He took up residence there have been demands that.

Chester-le-Street both Mr and Mrs Cunningham in £15,000 luxury bungalow on a all their public should resign which appointments. Perhaps because plush estate overlooks a large garden anc devastate the this would boards of a very large number park. of public bodies, the Cunning- Chester-le-Street, County hams have so far declined to Durham, is basically an town surrounded by market act upon this advice. When attempts were made Ten farms and pit villages to remove him from the police niles from Nawcastle and ius off the Al, it has become the committee the resolution dormitory town for rich com- ruled out of by the order The muters who want to get out of - Cunningham. chairman 'stormed grime and decay of the said he the press thon out of the meeting'. main industria centres. Those who! think that Cun- It a lavish quite the 'do address for man who ningham is going to moved the main resolution on Maudling' and stand down are Congress at Brighto thin 1990, unemployment calling for the Tories to pursue 'an expansionist economic which away steers Suralery rom incomes restraint freshly was €15,000 installed in his man- driving around the sion and a limousine, Cunning- north in 'We are "ham told delegates: still living in this imbalance of and the the pot-bellied south lean and hungry regions. He then started to reminisce: of you who lived in 'Those what I mean. the 1930s know [unemployment] is destruc- of the social fabric 11ve leads to the actual society, of the man or degradation unfortunate who Wollall enough to be unemployed, and, last and most alarming of all, of moral leads the loss fibre of that man or woman.' Although he also strident advocate of what called by all reactionaries 61. *law order' Cunningham has and and landed, Malalls T. Dan Smith, in the centre of the Poulson fiasco. During hearings the Wakefield Bankruptcy Court it has emerged that Cunningham, his wife and family were the and of financial recipients the Poul- other favours from son empire. They had holidays TUC Congress 1970. Above: The Nursery Tower developr Top: Andrew Cunningham at the

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daried Hotel. another at the Bournemouth. After the revelations in court Cunningham repaid the cost of the free holidays to the trustees in bankruptcy. One of the overseas holidays —worth £256—was in Estoril, Portugal. Ironically he is a prominent memder or tne Labour Southern Africa Solidarity Fund Committee has Walen pledged support to the African guerrillas who are engaged in activity to free them- military selves from the jackboot Portuguese colonialism Mozambique and Angola Guiné Bissau It is unlikely, however, that the who right-wingers prise this body will raise any fuss about Cunningham's Nor does his Portugal. union seem to think that there about his is anything strange position on Poulson's payroll. of regional committee ute the union met at the end of passed August vote of confidence mous tneir local leader. But the meeting was, to say the least, bizarre. was held in the Newcastle head- quarters. Committee members left in fleet of cars to hold their discussion al an the area and a r development, Crowhall Tower, and John Poulson, consultant architect to both.

destination in Workers Press, Tuesday press release was subsequently issued Cunningham is a typical reflection of both the Labour and trade union bureaucracies.

In an interview 18 months 'Evening with the ago Chronicle', , a lyneside news- paper, Cunningham said he would like the following words engraved on his tomb: 'Andrew Cunningham, Labour sup- porter and trade unionist.'

In another breath he added: 'They'll probably burn me, won't they.'

THE MANY

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ANDREW

CUNNINGHAM

1929- Labour councillor for Felling. 1967 1953- Chairman of Felling housing committee. 1967 1947 Nominated for Jarrow constituency, but lost. 1964 Appointed north-east regional officer of the giant General and Muni- cipal Workers' Union 100,000 representing workers. 1965 Elected to the 28-man National Executive Committee

(NEC)

of the Labour Party. Appointed director of 1966 Fairfield's shipyard, the Labour-inspired scheme kers Press, Tuesday October 3, 1972 PAGE 7 'rationalize' to ship- building on the upper Clyde at the expense of jobs. 1969 Appointed chairman of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority. Position was confirmed in 1970 for another Cunning- three years. ham is an ardent advo- cate of one-man- operated (OMO) buses. He is chairman of the Northern Region Labour Party.

the Newcastle Chairman of Airport Authority which em- ploys many of his members.

Chairman the Durham Police Authority. He Chairman of the was Northumbrian River Authority, a salaried post, but voted off.

He was chairman of Durham County Council, but voted He remains a Durham County councillor. He was a member of the Northern Economic Planning Council, chaired by 1. Dar Smith ('Mr Newcastle'). He has been chairman of Felling Labour and Party Felling Trades Council. Cunningham is a justice of the Peace and his wife, Freda May Cunningham, is a local magis- trate.

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STALIN CURBS

THEWORKINGGLASS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Octobe Part Five of a series by Tom K The French army of occupation in the Ruhr in 1923 met the opposition to its rule with a policy of repression. The German Communist Party (KPD), in agreement with the French Communist Party, worked out a joint policy of resistance to German and French imperialism. When the Ruhr crisis began, however, the Party was again • a split. The so-called near to right wing, led by Thalheimer and Brandler, adopted a policy united-front which sought an agreement with the Social Democratic (SPD) lead- ers. In Saxony and Thuringia the KPD and SDP had a majority in the provincial parliament, the Landtag, and Brandler pro- posed the establishment of a with 'workers' government' communist participation. The former partisans of the theory of the offensive--Ruth Fischer, Maslow and Thael- mann-opposed this policy in the name of the left and put forward instead the united front from below and . the con- stitution of a workers' govern- ment under Communist Party leadership. For Brandler and the 'right' the Social Democrats were the right wing of the working-class movement. For Fischer-Maslow they were the left wing of the bourgeoisie and no govern- could be supported ment which did not rest directly upon the armed working class and led directly to the dicta- torship of the proletariat.

At the Leipzig Congress in left wing was January the defeated by 118 votes to 58.

Although a compromise was reached on the definition of a workers' government as 'neither the dictatorship of the proletariat nor a peaceful and parliamentary means of reach- ing it... but an attempt of the working class to carry out a workers' policy by means of bourgeois democracy based on mass movements and the organizations of the working class' ', there remained a pro- found division between the two factions. The occupation of the Ruhr created revolutionary condi- tions in the region where the left communists strongholds. Disregarding th Leipzig decisions they applea the policy of revolutionary workers' oftensive, set up militias and adopted the slogan of a Workers' Republic in the Ruhr. The differences with the cen- tral leadership became so acute that the Executive Com- the Communist mittee of International called a special conference in Moscow in April 1923. Once again the two tendencies accepted a com- promise. The left agreed to give the revolutionary offensive in the Ruhr until con- ditions were ripe for revolu- tion in the rest of Germany.

The right dropped its policy of communist participation in the government of Saxony.

Meanwhile the revolutionary by the crisis sparked off Ruhr occupation and fuelled by the galloping inflation grew in intensity and spread to Part Five of a series by Tom Kemp on the history of the German Communi Top left: Barricades in Hamburg where the KPD took over the town Right: the occupation of the Ruhr. The many parts Germany. OI German whole of the society The flung into chaos Was KPD's ranks were swollen by Rela- discontented workers tions between communist and social democratic workers improved markedly. The occupation was opposed by the oi the population nationalist on The Thrench took stern action against opposition from whatever quarter. Among f the German Communist Party urg where the KPD took over the town.

Ruhr. Above: Radek. victims of the repression were several nationalists and National Socialists. When the Nazi Schlageter was executed, Radek, speaking before the Executive Commit- tee of the Communist Inter- national, called on German communists to honour such 'courageous soldiers of the counter-revolution •.. ready to die for a great cause' and to try to win them to the side of the working class. Some party organs carried this tactic to extremes, organ- izing debates with nationalists even anti- Semitic tendencies in the petty-bourgeoisie. During the summer of 1923 KPD's influence con- the tinued to grow rapidly while that of the social 'democratic leadership declined. Com- munist support in the trade unions and in the factories grew apace. Flechtheim* con- siders that in 1923 the KPD had behind it at least a strong minority of organized the workers and perhaps a majority of the unorganized.

Nevertheless the leadership was unable to give a clear lead. When a big anti-fascist which it had demonstration called for July 29 was declared illegal by the Prussian govern- ment the left and the right could not agree what to do.

They appealed to Moscow, where the responsibility lay with Zinoviev and Bukharin.

Both were away on holiday.

Stalin, who had just become Party secretary, wrote to Zinoviev: •.. if today in Germany, the power, so to speak, falls, and the communists seize hold of it, they will fall with a crash. That is the "best" case.

And, at the worst, they will be smashed to pieces and thrown back. The whole thing is not that Brandler wants to 'educate the masses', , but that the bourgeoisie, plus the right social democrats, will surely transform the lessons - the demonstration-into a general battle (at the moment all the chances are on their side) and exterminate them. Of course, the fascists are not asleep, but it is to our interest that they attack first; that will rally the whole working class around the communists (Germany is not Bulgaria). Besides, accord- information, the ing to all fascists are weak in Germany.

In my opinion the Germans be curbed and must not spurred on? (Emphasis added.)

Showing complete ignorance of the real situation in Ger- many, Stalin proposed a com- pletely opportunist course the KPD which prevented from taking the initiative.

A telegram was sent to the KPD ordering the demonstra- tion to be called off, much to the anger of many rank-and- file members. The tempo of the class struggle continued to accelerate, despite Stalin, and in August the Cuno govern- ment was forced to resign as a result of a general strike in Berlin which cut off the supply paper money from of the printing presses. A decisive stage was now being reached. The new Stresemann government, with social democratic participation, set out to bring the inflation to an end and to settle the Ruhr question by negotiation.

To do this it had to settle accounts with the working class. The central question was how the KPD leadership would respond to this situation. Brandler was summoned to Moscow where Trotsky argued that the time had come to pass to the offensive in Ger- many and make a serious bid for power. Detailed prepara- tions were begun for what was to be the German October.

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US Round-up by Tom Kemp President Nixon has told Jewish leaders not to bring about a clash with the Soviet Union over the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, particu- larly the payments demanded from emi- grants for the cost of their higher education. Nixon wants to avoid this being used during his election campaign in a which way might prejudice his efforts to- wards an agreement with the Soviet Union. He told the Jewish group meeting the Waldori- at Astoria not to take up the question in a 'demagogic' way, but to work through diplo- matic channels. Democratic candidate George McGovern has said that he would deny most- favoured-nation trade treat- ment to Russia in retaliation for the charging of high fees to Jewish emigrants. The group Nixon spoke to has already endorsed his can- didature. No doubt he can afford not to bring in the issue as an appeal to the Jewish vote. His circumspection will doubt be noted with no approval in Moscow: the Presi- dent obviously hopes it will.

By Sarah Hannigan Throughout the United States in the past few teachers' strikes weeks have been spreading rapidly. Last week in Washington teachers refused to end their nine-day-old strike in the face of threats of a $50,000 fine plus an additional $17,000 for • day they stayed out every beyond September 27. The 3,500 teachers were on strike in support of a 17-per- cent pay increase. They had been offered a 7-per-cent rise by the Washington DC State Committeecompared with a 17 per cent increase given to policemen and firemen. The swingeing fines were to be levied for contempt of a court order to return to work.

In the face of these threats, other school workers' unions indicated for the first time in nine days that they might not cross the teachers' picket lines. About a third of the city's 188 schools were closed by the strike and about 70 per cent of the 140,000 students missed classes since the beginning of the strike. In Philadelphia representa- tives of striking teachers and the city School Board last week reached a tentative agree- ment to reopen schools, at least until the end of 1972.

The 13,000 teachers there had been or strike for nearly three weeks while negotiations on a new contract stopped and started. About 307 teachers in the Nixon, top, wants to keep Soviet " campaign. McGovern, above, ls ma Barberton school district, Ohio, have returned to work after a two-day strike. In Mobile, Alabama, jani- bus drivers and canteen tors, staff have struck work in sup- port of their demand for union recognition. Teachers on strike in two areas in Wisconsin have stayed 1o da out orth making it an issue. out and have been teachers trom technica Fox River Valley Burlington, In setts, four officials of Education Association contempt found guilty of ignoring an injunc- court for tion against striking. Workers Press, Tuesday October 3, 1972 PAGE 9.

Merger activity took a sharp upwards in the first six leap months of this year. Where the first half of 1971 saw companies to a value of £227m taken only over, January-June this year had a crone trend See. be trend seems to getting back to that prevailing in the halcyon days of the late 1960s, when the value of take- over each year topped £1,000m and the number of companies involved ran into the 800s.

The table below - prepared by Labour Research Department-shows a number of very big takeover bids made Wall Streal spoculators watchiny since July 1. lapes during the Great Crash of One feature of these bids is 1929. that the companies two are that research and development quite often in totally different fields of business. British in the drug industry Watney Mann and Courage, would be weakened if either of fcr instance, have been taken the mergers were allowed to go over by companies operating through. mainly in hotels and tobacco total value of these The Quinton Hazell respectively. bids amounts seven to industry £1,012m. make motor At this it is com- rate, possible ponents while Burmah Oil is in that of value com- petroleum. P & O is shipping, panies taken over in 1972 may Bovis construction. exceed the previous peak in The Great Crash of 1929 1968, when the figure rose to was, of course, preceded by a the fantastic total of £1,946m.

There have been rich pick- similar very development as ings for of giant companies rushed into the shareholders promiscuous couplings in des- the companies taken over. For Courage perate pursuit of ever-falling example, price of rates of profit. shares rose from 156p to 220p bid by One feature of the interesting a result noted by LRD is that the gov- Imperial Tobacco. ernment has not referred There is opposition by a single one of these large bids minority of the directors to the Monopolies Com- P & O to the proposed merger mission. It did, however, refer by some big with Bovis, and the rival bids made P & O shareholders. All the Beecham and Boots for Glaxo other takeover bids which have earlier this year to the Com- been agreed between the direc- tors of mission, which reported against both companies seem them on July 13 on the ground likely to go through. bid approx. no. of workers value Em. involved Result successful Grand Metropolitan-Watney Mann 390 78,631 bid successful Consolidated Gold Fields-Amey Group 58 10,595 bid Imperial Tobacco Group-Courage 286 82,973 agreed bid Burmah Oil-Quinton Hazell 13,903% agreed bid 58 P & OBovis 137 24,574 agreed bid Keyser Ullerman-Dalton Barton 58 agreed bid n.d. agreed bid ime Darby-Clive Holdings 25 п.а. "Burmah Oil only

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Savages. THE MILITANT tone of the Young Teachers' conference at Nottingham yesterday reflects the increasing pressures on lowest paid and younger mem- bers of the National Union of Teachers. But, despite its opposition to overlarge classes, the arbitrary powers of headteachers and the Tory government's Industrial Relations Act, the conference revealed the limitations of milit- ancy. Supporters of 'Rank and File', produced by the anti- a paper Social- communist International ism group, failed to explain the teachers in the con- plight of text of the political attack on all workers launched by the Tory government. The IS group argues that the struggle for more militant poli- within the teachers' union cies has to be taken step by step.

'Rank and File' avoids calling a fight within the trade for union movement to force the Tories to resign. And, while opposing in prin- ciple the divisive five scales of pay, which is NUT policy, the for a paper merely calls reduction to four. the problem of Neither can "violence' in schools be solved by the reformist slogan of 'pupil power'. It is the Tory govern- ment which consistently attacks the standard of living of work- children and ing-class con- Warren's Profession' by dner mn 'Mrs

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TEST. Stone the Crows, Jim Croce. the demns them to a future of un- employment. 'Rank and File' avoids the central question that the basic economic crisis of the capital- ist system impels the Tories to attack all the gains made by the working class, including the right to education for its children.

There can be no solution to the problems of young teachers while the Tories remain in power.

The removal of this govern- ment and its replacement by a Labour government pledged to socialist policies is the main task facing young teachers along with all other workers. The experiences of 1972 prove that workers will fight, but that without the construction of a revolutionary leadership in the unions the main fight against the government will be diverted by the reformists and Stalinists.

As on the docks, the_building sites and at UCS, the IS group covers up for and supports the a real Stalinists. This prevents fight against the right wing and Stalinists in the leadership of the National Union of Teachers.

The militant phrases of 'Rank and File' are intended to pre- vent young teachers from devel- oping politically through such a fight. teachers should join Young other workers at the All Trades Unions Alliance conference at Birmingham on October 22 to develop revolutionary leader- a ship in the unions.

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THE LABOUR - dominated city of Leicester is at present preparing to repel any Ugandan Asians who plan to settle there. The council claims that there is an acute shorting of housing and social services in the city, which is already overcrowded. Some Ugandan Asians have lived in Leicester for some time, and have had to face problems similar to those laced by all workers living under a Tory government. Aruna (20) came from Uganda a year ago. Her parents are still in Uganda, but are coming to Leicester, Aruna hopes, in the near future. At the moment Aruna lives in a terraced house in the Belgrave area of Leicester with her sister. "Earning only £14 a week in a plastics factory, she does not find it easy to manage. Rents for terraced housing in Leicester are at present around but are increasing £8 a week, steadily, and Aruna fears that she will soon be forced to look for a house for her parents with the rents at £ll a week, and possibly more. For this reason she had to give up college and take a job.

Although she feels that educa- AN AMERICAN company has refused to take over British- Leyland's Thornycroft factory at Basingstoke, Hants. Ohio, Eaton's of Cleveland, should have taken over the gear- box factory but a yesterday spokesman said they would not do so until the seven-week-old workers' occupation of the plant ends. The sit-in began on August 15 after British-Leyland announced that Eaton's would whittle down the labour force from 1,100 to about 700. The Eaton's spokesman said: 'We have taken this stand under that condition of the contract which stipulated that the factory must be a going concern. 'We are still interested in taking over the factory. No of course, has yet money, changed hands. The dispute is one between British-Leyland and the men and we are on the out- side looking in.' UNEMPLOYMENT in the Al- trincham of Manchester area now stands at the highest Sep- tember total ever recorded at the local Labour exchange.

Last week exchange manager Mr. W. E. Bailey warned that could quite easily the figure reach the 2,000 mark before next March. At the moment a total of 4,528 people1,396 and men 132 women-are out of work in

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knows have three children aged from 12 downwards. years Although this family has been in five months, not Leicester for one of the children has a school place. The answer, Aruna feels, is not the racialist policy chosen by the Labour-controlled council, which is advertising in Ugandan news- papers to warn Asians away, but lies in the number of school places. 'There should be more schools,' she says. Her friend Jayshree (20) came to Leicester from Uganda eight months ago. Jayshree is living with her family in the High- fields area of Leicester.

Like Aruna, • Jayshree has given up a college education, and now works lockstitch as machinist earning between £12 and £19 a week on piecework.

Jayshree feels that the Asians here are caught in a trap. To THE LEADERS of Soviet Stalinism have initiated a new drive against what they term 'one-sided' literature and demanded that writers adhere strictly to the bureaucratic school of 'socialist realism'. is directed The campaign against writers like Alexander Solzhenitsyn whose recent novel, 'August 1914', has been officially attacked 'anti- as Soviet' and suppressed by the Stalinist censorship. • leading in "Pravda' article last week told writers to devote their energies to depicting mod- ern Soviet man in the struggle BRITAIN'S unemployment figures may reach 1.75 million by February, it was said yes- terday. the Altrincham and Sale areas.

Last month the figure was 1,489 -1,332 men and 157 women.

Bailey said that there are now more than 210 building trade workers on the dole as well as 70 fitters, 46 electricians, 74 motor drivers and over 180 pro- fessional and executive workers.

He added that on past experi- ence he thought that unemploy- ment would rise throughout the winter to a total of almost 2,000 before March 1973. find a home they have to pay very high rents, and these rents are increasing sharply with the rise in the number of Asians in Leicester. Many of these newcomers are old and cannot work. They usually arrive in a near penniless state. "There should be fixed rents, she says. "Then these landlords would not be able to own 25 houses and would have to face their problems like we do.

Rents and prices of houses will rise unless the council or the government intervenes, she says optimistically. Jayshree's brother, Hasmukh, agrees. 'We tried to buy two houses, but we were bid out of the market each time. The seller was able to add £200 to the price in ten minutes. Since then we have not tried to buy a house.'

So tremendous profits are for communism and warned them that the Writers' Union and the Communist Party would keep a close eye on their work. 'For the Soviet writer there is goal more lofty and more no noble than uncover the to spiritual riches of those who smelt steel, oil, build extract towns and dams, grow grain and reach the cosmos and cotton, the secrets of the living study cell, the editorial said.

The paper listed the heroes of novels and poetry published under Stalin as prime examples of socialist realism. 'We should not reconcile our- selves to publication of books A survey of 2,465 businesses Manpower Ltd, carried out by the international staff organiza- tion, showed there was no ten- dency for employers to take on extra labour on any scale.

The majority of executives questioned said that a shorter week would not lead to sig- nificant increases in employment prospects. The report said that 9.5 per cent of industries were planning to slash their labour forces in the coming months. SALES and service department workers at the Triumph Engin- eering Company, Meriden, near Coventry, struck work yesterday over the Board of Directors' decision to transfer the whole department to Birmingham by the December. beginning of The strikers are not meeting again until next Tuesday. Workers Press, Tue Some of Leicester's housing being made on the backs of the Asians. Prices of many houses in Lei- cester have doubled and are still rising. The solution is not to restrict the number of Asians coming to Leicester, but to nationalize land and housing, without any com- have torn livine and on whe been living on the fruits of their exploitation.

This can only be achieved by the mobilization of the entire working class to force the Tories to resign, and to replace them by a Labour government committed to socialist policies. Such a programme can only be achieved in opposition to re- actionary Labour councils like Leicester which has, through its on council policies on rents, building, and the houSe on Ugandan Asians 'crisis, shown its willingness to do the Tories' work for them-against British and immigrant workers and their families. em in which life is depicted in a superficial and one-sided way, which leads in the end to the impoverishment and distortion of the image of modern mar, it said. The Stalinists hate long insisted that literature must be subordinated to central direction and serve the political require- ments of the privileged bureau- cratic caste. A. Zhdanov, who was bureau- crat in charge of literature under Stalin after the became war, notorious for his Philistine attacks on novelists and poets, many of whom paid with their lives for their refusal to write hack literature to order.

The social realist' school, which the Kremlin is once again trying to enforce in Soviet litera- ture, is neither socialist nor real- ist. In reality it means what Max Eastman once described as 'writers in uniform' turning out propaganda tracts to glorify Stal- inism. Fill in the form below

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ABOUT 1,000 finishing trade workers at the Govan ship- yard of the former Upper Clyde Shipbuilders yesterday voted to reintroduce a 50p-a- week levy to support the work-in campaign of the men at Clydebank. Sam Gilmore, a Govan shop steward, said the decision was almost unanimous. "This means that two-thirds of the manual workers at the yards are now supporting the work-in cam- paign,' he said. Only the boilermakers and some general workers at Govan Shipbuilders are now not paying the levy. Last week the shop stewards' appeal to reintroduce the levy was overwhelmingly rejected and stewards, including leading Stalinist James Airlie, resigned.

decision proves Yesterday's that the Stalinist slander that the Govan men were pursuing 'sec- tional interests' and abandoning the Clydebank men was totally false. What they had done, as Workers Press insisted, was turn their back on Airlie and the other Stalinist stewards.

Once these men had been forced to resign, the Govan workers began to turn to the assistance of their Clydebank brothers. This underlines that the defeats inflicted at UCS in the form of sackings, speed-up and no-strike pledges are the respon- sibility of the Reid-Airlie Stalin- ist leadership and not the fault of the men. Yesterday's decision is a further vote of no confidence in the leadership of the Stalinists.

Joe Black, district official for the Confederation of Shipbuild- ing and Engineering Unions, said some of the shop stewards might now reconsider their deci- sion, but he hastened to add that it would be up to the men to decide on new appointments.

The building of workers' unity behind a principled leadership is vitally necessary at UCS.

Marathon, the new American of Clydebank, have said owners but they will not be able to build up their labour require- ments until Spring of next year.

This means imminent loss of around 900 jobs for Clydebank workers who are now completing the last of the ships at the yard for the UCS liquidator. Discussions take place today between Dan McGarvey and Jack Service, president and secre- tary of the Confederation, and local union officials about the redundancies. McGarvey, of course, was responsible - along with the Stalinists-for accepting sackings and conditions at UCS during the period of the work-in. information about ow and send to NATIONAL

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Industrial Relations Act Rent 'commandos' in action PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday October 3, 1972 THERE WILL be no debate on Northern Ireland during the Labour Party Conference. Emergency resolutions which have been tabled have been rejected as not coming within that category. THE LABOUR Party Con- The only reference to the ference yesterday unanim- subject will be during a speech passed a composite Mrs Shirley Williams, Shadow ously Home Secretary, will be resolution calling for the Wednes- making, probably on repeal of the Industrial Rela- basis of day morning, on tions Act by the next Labour of policy on The resolution Northern Ireland issued by the government. National Executive Committee.

was moved by Jack Jones, leader of the Transport and General Workers' Union. But Jones still appeared to be living in cloud cuckoo land as he told delegates: 'In the national interest we say this government should withdraw the Industrial Relations Act now." FARM WORKERS picketed the He told conference that the 'from Conference Act created situation Labour Party which nobody could benefit. The Blackpool yesterday to win sup- Tories' port for their policies of confrontation current campaign coupled the Act with made for a t25 minimum wage. Party delegates passed through 'ordinary workers' feel that 'the a line of balance of being men and women them'. Winter Gardens tipped against outside the pleading with the Apart from entrance carrying posters stress- ing the needs of farm workers. The pickets from Cumber- land, Westmorland, Lancashire Yorkshire handed and out leaflets saying that many of them £16.20 for a 42

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wrangle has received only Thursday's hour week. begun in the backrooms North prices and i western regional organ- of the Labour Party Humphreys told But izer Graham conference over whether Workers Press that his members the party will condemn unions, 'furious' with Tory premier the £2

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outright were wage Office Engin Heath's decision to limit wages. limit proposed by the *He'll never get away with it,' successfully Tory government. weekend bloody the the he said. It's absolutely At the specific crazy' conference arrangements He said the farm industry's committee refused lution national wages board meet again Moving t resolution

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30, the Heath back October when the attacking on National The the Farmers' Union is plan. committee union coul pledged to put a 'realistic' offer.

argued that the matter

BY PHILIP WADE

ABOUT 1,500 tenants in Greenwich, south London, are pledged to refuse to pay the fl rent increases imposed by the Labour-controlled council.

Yesterday leaders of the tenants' associations picketed the local rent offices, calling on tenants not to pay the extra £l. The picketing will go on for two weeks because rent payment is staggered. Local factories and trade unionists have pledged their against any possible support evictions for rent arrears.

those refusing were Jim and Among to pay Marion Richardson. As he wheeled his young child into the rent office Jim said: 'We just can't afford to pay the increase. Our rent is £6.09 already and that is without the central heating and things like that. 'As far as I'm concerned the Tories are making themselves,' said Jim, Greenwich tenant Jim money for who is a gas 'Last year I refusing to pay the £1 fitter. got a £2 rise and after all the deductions I got 30p out of it.' Greenwich Labour group solit favour in of non- Added his wife Marion: If But it implementation. when we pay this fl we would have to came to the council chamber, five cut back on food and everything Tories ioined the Labour right.

else. As it is we can't afford to to force home the rent wing go out now. increases. Jim thought a rent strike was One of the councillors against beginning. the the *fair rent' Act was Jim workers should come out and tell Spence. He joined the picket line the Tories that until they go we yesterday. don't go back to work." 'As far as the Labour Party One of those withholding the leaders are concerned there has the increase building worker been no campaign against Act. And it's contemptible Arthur Ditchfield, who has just for finished a 12-week strike Labour MPs to tell us it was a for a Vict y to spin some ared reduced paltry wage increase phased over • rents 26 months. from 'The working class still looks Things look like coming to to the Labour Party for leader- head with this government.' he ship. But it's no use saying things I just can't afford to told me. will be fine when Labour gets this increase. But pay in my back in in three years or so.

need opinion we to nehis Act if more more opposition 'We can't wait that long and going to win.' has to be there. action now get the Tories out, said Jim who is a docker. and i think est about me ship It is Press, Labour Party split from o don't bottom and let those who Printed by 1 London. (TU), Plough Press want to fight go with the Tories Clapham Street, or the Liberals.

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class enemy for 'sanity', Jones it does when it is in government as well.' into his speech introduced Jones said the strike insulting attack his own Matest showed nearly 20 mil- statistics members. lion working days lost so far this Describing the events outside the crucial dock delegates' con- year. ference at Transport House, Jones 'Whereas a few years ago the "The nothing average workers lost little more violence has than one hour a year, today it is to do with decent trade unionism.

nearer one day a year, he said.

Many were not trade unionists at all.' blamed this on the Indus-

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Relations Act and said that The secretary en- trial thusiastically welcomed discus- if a law was good people should But sions with the Labour Party bur- not be advised to ignore it.

if it was bad, as the Act was, it eaucrats for a plan to replace the repealed. should be thrown out altogther. Act when is "There The Act also gave the unions be government as- can the alternative either taking sistance in reducing unnecessary conflict. A industrial peace all decisions the new centre service should be given a central by bureaucratic authoritarian methods, place not only in the party's or facing massive penal- but in ties if things went wrong locally, election manifesto, what the 'shuffling drawn'. It continues, be raised during to one side' of such im- 'and if not withdrawn debate on should be ices and incomes. portant question. strongly His resolution opposed by the party. yesterday two con- the white-collar dems discrimination Neither resolution end to all calls for and the Post against public service ffice Engineering Union in the Heath talks with the Tories. workers But Clive Jenkins' yesterday all moved for plan. Late is parties in the procedure inclusion of resolution more were behind closed emergency reso- sweeping. rOW absolutely' 'rejects tion in the debate. It doors trying to reach the proposal and "de- decision as to which, if the reference Brian Stanley, of mands that the Prime resolution any, inequitable included

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said his Minister's in proposal should be with- Thursday's debate. nion could not accept

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enant Jim Richardson leaves the rent office with his wite and baby son ay the £1 increase. With them is Pat Jeavons (r), local tenants' leader.

house- no matter what. A lot of tenants IF HEATH thinks the admit they are in arrears already.'

wives of Britain are going to be Mrs Fahey said tenants' associ- pushover going to be Manchester's very surprised.' ations in nine divisions the rent strikes These were the defiant words expect to snowball as the week goes on.

of a militant Manchester tenants' 'We are working on the maxim leader day one of a that people who are sitting rent strikes against the operation the fence will refuse to pay once cf the Tory "fair rents' Act. they see others getting away with Under the new legislation many it. families face working-class 'We have told people to rent rises of up to fl a week. spend the money and go on as It is going like a bomb', Mrs the Housing Finance Act did told me. We Constance Fahey exist, iust the

TUC

not as commando have got groups out Re- doing with the Industrial following the rent collectors and lations Act.' 55 we estimate or even 60 per if Asked what would happen of Manchester's 93.000 cent were evicted, Mrs Fahey

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council tenants won't be paying Manchester claimed combined the increase. shop stewards' committee repre. The commando groups, made 33.000 had senting workers, UD of housewives, unemployed pledged their support. and schoolchildren even are She "They said: would act as rent collectors to they did for the dockers. witness tenants pay their normal At nearby Oldham, town hall rent and to prevent harassment.

pickets were out early vesterday and in Bolton alone 4,000 tenants Said Mrs Fahey: 'It is not expected withhold their question of will they pay the were they? The Similar is actions increase, can ineroaces occurred at Bradford, Yorks. is that they cannot pay anawar he said. Jessie Carnegie, Hillhead con- stituency Labour Party, Glasgow, warned of the dangers in Jones's proposals. She said there should be no legislation, voluntary or otherwise, while capitalism re- mained in existence. It was the duty of Labour Party members to have nothing to do with these industrial re- forms etc, lived while workers under capitalism. the Labour didn't join Party to further the interests of capitalism,' she added. Eric Heffer MP called for 'a powerful movement of the work- ing class to force the government retreat'. He said the Labour to Party must be on the side of those workers penalized by the Act. dustrial democracy, Harry Selby, prospective candidate for Govan, said his constituency party did not approve of what had hap- pened in the UCS struggle. He set of employers had said one simply been called in to replace the old ones. But the working class had shown it was capable of running its own industries. • See what we think page two.

RONALD HAYWARD, formerly the Labour Party's national agent, was yesterday formally confirmed by conference delegates as the Party's seventh general secretary.

He succeeds Sir Harry Nicholas.

THE LOCOMEN'S union ASLEF, yesterday called on the TUC to break off talks with the Tories and the Confederation of British Industry. The union's general secretary, Ray Buckton, told the Party conference: 'We Labour think it far better if the TUC withdraw from the talks and instead work strongly for the return of a Labour government.

We don't believe we have any hope especially after our ex- perience earlier this year-of arriving at any fruitful agree- ment.'

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