Workers Press no. 888

workers press

LABOUR COLLABORATION WITH TORY PLANS

COALITION IN

ALL BUT NAME

NO WORKER should be in behind all the double-talk at The Labour leaders have cyn class in its hour of greatest nee Common Market entry, to be c ployment up way over the million rise in the cost of living. But the agreed on Wilson's resolution, wh entry and leave the Tories a free ha The conference also gave its blessing to the treacherous collaboration between the TUC and the Tory government, designed to freeze wages and shackle trade unionists. The plain fact is that the Tory faced with the government, enormous international crisis of capitalism, has to all intents and purposes got the Labour leaders coalition. The wretched a Labourite leaders give this ser- vice without even being given Cabinet seats. They hope that will come. All the occasional shouting about a General Election (see Wedgwood Benn's final speech, p. 11), is a deliberate sham. In desperate fear of the strength of the working class, and of the collapse of the capitalist economy, the Labour leaders are 100 per cent in favour of collaborating with the Tories in defence of the capitalist system. Harold Wilson, having secured Common double-talk on Market, said in a television inter- view that he would welcome Marketeer Roy - Jenkins back into the Shadow Cabinet. After Jenkins' sell-out to the Tories and his promotional cam- paign in the Tory "Times', this is a clear answer to the Com- munist Party's 'Morning Star's' talk about the 'militant mood' of the conference. According to the Stalinists: *Even Shadow Chancellor Denis Healey in his reply appeared to be affected by the mood and gave the impression of gingerly hinting to the TUC to drop talks with Heath.' These Stalinists have always opposed mobilizing the working class to force the Tories to re- sign and they here deliberately mislead their readers. Healey actually said: *We have got Heath on the run-now let us keep him on the run. He has reversed most of the policies on which he fought the election, and he may be prepared to reverse a few more before the next election harm in trying, rate there is no comes. At any This means-keep on talking to the Tory government. Every canitalist paper knows that is what it means. The Stalinists and the 'left' are helping Healey and Wilson to play their con- fidence trick. In fact the NEC-backed motion calling for Labour Party-TUC talks to devise an incomes policy for the next Labour government

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BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

I be in any doubt about the real talk at this week's Labour Party co ave cynically set out to betray the test need. to be completed in three months, will t million mark and speed up even more th But the Labour and trade union leaders tion, which actually commits the Party a free hand: was carried. But so was one from incomes

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opposing any policy! . veil, the Behind this flimsy reality is Labour backing for the TUC's decision to agree an incomes policy with the Tory government. Yesterday's "Times' editorial concluded: "There obviously is a desire among Labour leaders, in- cluding Mr Wilson and Healey, to develop a rational and agreed incomes policy : The TUC's Economic Committee has put forward reasonable negotiat- ing proposals.' capitalist These spokesmen know the game. They know that the whole purpose of the leader- ship at Blackpool was to smooth the path for Heath. They even comment that of course it is reasonable to ask for dividend restraint: 'One could even suspect that they were only left out in order to have something to con- cede.' Both TUC and Tory govern- ment, according to "The Times' 'are working very hard to make their talks succeed." In this parade of deception and betrayal "left' union chief Jack Jones abstained to save Wilson on the crucial Common Market vote. Benn did similar work from the chair for the whole week, a demagogic 'left' then gave speech at the close.

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he real meaning Party conference. ray the working Upper Clyde shipyarc yesterday they were 1s, will take unem- redundancy crisis at be solved at talks tom more the galloping stewards James Airlie leaders deliberately Labour Party chairma e Party to support at Blackpool, while Cl into the doubtful futur Michael Foot announced that he was prepared to be of service to the ruling class whenever required: *The democratic institutions could be blown to smithereens and we are the only people who can stop it.' He was answering the call of 'The Times': If voluntary incomes policy failed, the result will be rapid price inflation, rising unemploy- perhaps serious social disorders.' Now is the time for the whole labour movement to take a stand against the polities of coalition and throw out the treacherous reformist leaders. These leaders have every intention of condem- ing the working class to the con- of trade war, sequences depression and slump. Alternative revolutionary leadership, built in the fight to make the Tory government resign, is the first need of the working class. Councils of Action, must be formed in all areas to unite the struggles of trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, and all working-class political organiz- ations. First on the agenda is to win the maximum trade union and factory representation to the All Trades Unions Alliance Con- ference on October 22 in Bir- mingham. There must be the 4p • No 888

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shipyard stewards said in Glasgow hey were reasonably confident the I could crisis at the Clydebank yard talks tomorrow see p. 3 story). Below mes Airlie and Bob Dickie joke with y chairman Anthony Wedgwood Benn , while Clydebank's James Reid stares btful tuture. widest discussion on the problems facing the working class and the building of the alternative leader- ship. TEN THOUSAND people are expected to turn out at Londonderry today for a rally organized by the Civil Rights Association. Organizers say it the biggest since will be Bloody Sunday on January 30.

Yesterday a military jet air- craft crashed densely- on populated district of east Belfast.

Six people on the ground were hurt. The pilots ejected.

MIDLAND Cold Storage yester- day threatened that unless dockers call off their pickets from the gates the majority of the present workforce will be Edmund Vestey, joint sacked. head of the company which owns the store, said although Trans- General Workers' port and Union secretary Jack Jones had stated to him that the picket was unauthorized, this 'does not appear to have been brought to the attention of his members.

TORY MINISTERS meeting at 10 Downing Street yesterday welcomed the Labour and trade union leaders' decision to keep talking about the proposal for a £2 limit on wage increases. The meeting, called by premier Edward Heath following his re- turn from Italy, was attended by Attorney-General Sir Peter Raw- linson. (See Labour and incomes policy, p. 3.)

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who tried to stop people going to work or deliver- by simple force of ing goods numbers' were not protected by 1a w. Solicitor-General Geoffrey Howe told a Tory ladies' luncheon club yesterday. Howe, who largely drafted the Indus- trial Relations Act, warned that those responsible for obstruction in this way were breaking the law and may be punished'. (What We Think on picketing, p. 2.)

DICK TAVERNE, pro-Common Market Labour MP for Lincoln, is to resign his seat and fight the resultant by-election as a self- styled Democratic Labour can- didate. His constituency party disowned him when he helped keep the Tories in office by vot- ing with them for Market entry last October. (Benn calls for General Election, p. 11.)

FIVE South Wales councils who have decided not to implement the Tories Housing Finance Act —the fair rents' Act-were yes- terday invited by the Welsh Office to submit representations in the next month before they are declared in default of the Act. The five are: Bedwas and Ystradgynlais RDC, Swansea County Borough, Vaynor and Penderyn RDC and Cwmbran UDS. (See rents stories, p. 12.)

PROCEDURE talks are likely to be opened in London next week to form a new agreement for settling disputes in the engineer- ing industry. Approaches are be- ing made by officials of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions to the En- gineering Employers' Association to start negotiations on a new deal to replace the 50-year-old procedure agreement torn up by the unions last December.

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2,000 hospital ancillary workers met last night to discuss pleas to call off their pay strike, which has been going on since Wednesday. KNUCKLEDUSTERS are needed in the fight for the lower-paid worker, Feather dusters. not This is what Jack Sutton, secretary of the Manchester hospitals branch of the public employees' union, told a meeting of 300 hospital ancillary workers yesterday. The meeting opposed any government incomes policy, called on the TUC to break off its talks with the Tories and de- manded an £8 pay rise for both men and women plus a five-hour cut in the working week. WORKERS at Tube Investments' Stainless Tubes factory at Wal- Staffordshire, which is sall, threatened with closure, went on strike yesterday, claiming that there had been inconsistencies by the management over the shut- down proposals. WEATHER: Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia, northern England and east Scotland will have fairly wide- spread mist and fog at first, dense in places, but this will clear during the morning to give long sunny periods. Western areas will be rather cloudy with showers, but scattered also sunny periods. Temperatures will be near normal in the west but central and eastern areas will be rather warm by afternoon.

workers press

LABOUR COLLABORATION WITH TORY PLANS

COALITION IN

ALL BUT NAME

NO WORKER should be in behind all the double-talk at The Labour leaders have cyn class in its hour of greatest nee Common Market entry, to be c ployment up way over the million rise in the cost of living. But the agreed on Wilson's resolution, wh entry and leave the Tories a free ha The conference also gave its blessing to the treacherous collaboration between the TUC and the Tory government, designed to freeze wages and shackle trade unionists. The plain fact is that the Tory faced with the government, enormous international crisis of capitalism, has to all intents and purposes got the Labour leaders coalition. The wretched a Labourite leaders give this ser- vice without even being given Cabinet seats. They hope that will come. All the occasional shouting about a General Election (see Wedgwood Benn's final speech, p. Il), is a deliberate sham. In desperate fear of the strength of the working class, and of the collapse of the capitalist economy, the Labour leaders are 100 cent in favour ers collaborating with the Tories in defence of the capitalist system. Harold Wilson, having secured double-talk Common on Market, said in a television inter- view that he would welcome Roy Jenkins Marketeer back into the Shadow Cabinet. After Jenkins' sell-out to the Tories and his promotional cam- paign in the Tory "Times', this the Com- is a clear answer to munist Party's 'Morning Star's' talk about the 'militant mood' of the conference. According to the Stalinists: 'Even Shadow Chancellor Denis Healey in his reply appeared to be affected by the mood and - gave the impression of gingerly hinting to the TUC to drop talks with Heath' These Stalinists have always opposed mobilizing the working class to force the Tories to re- sign and they here deliberately mislead their readers. Healey actually said: 'We have got Heath on the run-now let us keep him on the run. He has reversed most of the policies on which he fought the election, and he may be prepared to reverse a few more before the next election harm in trying, Tate there is no comes. At any This means-keep on talking to the Tory government. Every is canitalist paper knows that what it means. The Stalinists and the 'left' are helping Healey and Wilson to play their con- fidence trick. In fact the NEC-backed motion calling for Labour Party-TUC talks to devise an incomes policy for the next Labour government

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

NO WORKER should be in any doubt about the real meaning behind all the double-talk at this week's Labour Party conference.

The Labour leaders have cynically set out to betray the working Common Market entry, to be completed in three months, will take ployment up way over the million mark and speed up even more the galloping rise in the cost of living. But the Labour and trade union leaders deliberately agreed on Wilson's resolution, which actually commits the Party to support was carried. But so was one from

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opposing any incomes policy! Behind this flimsy veil, the reality is Labour backing for the TUC's decision to agree an with incomes policy Tory government. Yesterday's editorial concluded: "There obviously is Labour leaders, in- desire among Mr Mr Wilson Healey, to develop a rational and incomes , policy The agreed TUCs Economic Committee has put forward reasonable negotiat- ing proposals. These spokesmen capitalist know They know that the game The woole purpose Tence shep pat for Hot they coth path for Heath. even course reasonable to ask dividend TOr restraint: 'One could even suspect that they only left

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order to have something to con- cede.' Both TUC and Tory govern- ment, according to The Times' are worke very nare …то паке their talks succeed.' In this parade of deception and betrayal 'left' chief Jack Wilson hones _ astained to „ save on the crucial Common Market vote. did similar work from Benn the week, chair for the whole then demagogic 'left" gave speech at the close.

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CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

he real meaning Party conference. ray the working Upper Clyde shipyarc yesterday they 1s, will take unem- redundancy crisis at be solved at talks tom more the galloping stewards James Airlie leaders deliberately Labour Party chairma e Party to support at Blackpool, while Cl into the doubtful futur Michael Foot announced that he was prepared to be of service to the ruling class whenever required: "The democratic institutions could be blown to smithereens and we are the only people who can stop it' He was answering the call of 'The Times': 'If voluntary incomes policy will be rapid failed, the result inflation, rising unemploy- price misor an perhaps serious social Now is the time for the whole labour movement to take a stand against the politics of coalition and throw out the treacherous reformist leaders. These leaders have every intention of condem- ing the working class to the con- of trade war, sequences depression and slump. Alternative revolutionary leadership, built in the fight to make Tory government resign, is the first need of the working class. Councils of Action, must be formed in all areas to unite the struggles of trade unionists, unemployed, and all tenants, working-class political organiz- ations. First on the agenda is to win the maximum trade union and factory representation to the All Trades Unions Alliance Con- ference on October 22 in Bir- mingham. There must be the . 7, 1972 • No 888 • 4p

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• shipyard stewards said in Glasgow reasonably confident' the were crisis at the Clydebank yard could talks tomorrow (see p. 3 story). Below Dickie joke with mes Airlie and Bob y chairman Anthony Wedgwood Benn , while Clydebank's James Reid stares biful future. widest discussion on the problems facing the working class and the building of the alternative leader- ship. TEN THOUSAND people are expected to turn out at Londonderry today for a rally organized by the Civil Rights Association. Organizers say it the biggest since will be Bloody Sunday on January 30.

Yesterday a military jet air- craft crashed densely- on a populated district of east Belfast.

Six people on the ground were hurt. The pilots ejected.

MIDLAND Cold Storage yester- day threatened that unless dockers call off their pickets from the gates the majority of the present workforce will be Edmund Vestey, joint sacked. head of the company which owns the store, said l although Trans- Workers' General and port Union secretary Jack Jones had stated to him that the picket was unauthorized, this 'does not appear to have been brought to the attention of his members'.

TORY MINISTERS meeting at 10 Downing Street yesterday welcomed the Labour and trade union leaders' decision to keep talking about the proposal for a £2 limit on wage increases. The premier called Edward turn from Italy, was attended by Attorney-General Sir Peter Raw- linson. (See Labour and incomes policy, p. 3.)

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who tried to stop people going to work or deliver- by simple force of ing goods numbers' were not protected by 1a w, Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe told a Tory ladies' luncheon club yesterday. Howe, who largely drafted the Indus- trial Relations Act, warned that those responsible for obstruction in this way were "breaking the law and may be punished'. (What We Think on picketing, p. 2.)

DICK TAVERNE, pro-Common Market Labour MP for Lincoln, is to resign his seat and fight the resultant by-election as a self- styled Democratic Labour can- didate. His constituency party disowned him when he helped keep the Tories in office by vot- ing with them for Market entry last October. (Benn calls for General Election, p. 11.)

FIVE South Wales councils who have decided not to implement the Tories' Housing Finance Act —the 'fair rents' Act-were yes- terday invited by the Welsh Office to submit representations in the next month before they are declared in default of the Act. The five are: Bedwas and Machen Ystradgynlais RDC, Swansea County Borough, Vaynor and Penderyn RDC and Cwmbran UDS. (See rents stories, p. 12.)

PROCEDURE talks are likely to be opened in London next week to form a agreement for new settling disputes in the engineer- ing industry. Approaches are be- ing made by officials of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions to the En- gineering Employers' Association to start negotiations on a new deal to replace the 50-year-old procedure agreement torn up by the unions last December.

BRISTOL'S

2,000 hospital ancillary workers met last night to discuss pleas to call off their pay strike, which has been going on since Wednesday. KNUCKLEDUSTERS are needed in the fight for the lower-paid worker, Feather dusters. not This is what Jack Sutton, secretary of the Manchester hospitals branch of the public employees' union, told a meeting of 300 hospital ancillary workers yesterday. The meeting opposed any government incomes policy, called on the TUC to break off its talks with the Tories and de- manded an £8 pay rise for both men and women plus a five-hour cut in the working week. WORKERS at Tube Investments' Stainless Tubes factory at Wal- Staffordshire, sall, which is threatened with closure, went on that strike yesterday, claiming there had been inconsistencies by the management over the shut- down proposals. WEATHER: Southern England, the Midlands, East Anglia, northern England and east Scotland will have fairly wide- mist and fog at first, spread dense in places, but this will clear during the morning to give long sunny periods. Western areas will be rather cloudy with scattered but also showers, sunny periods. Temperatures will be near normal in the west but central and eastern areas will be rather warm by afternoon.

Germans deport Arabs PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday October

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George Smith's optimism about the in- clusion of the anti-union law on the agenda for the next round of talks with Heath and the CBI is unfounded. Statements from leading Tory ministers inis week make it clear that the government is in no mood for any concessions whatever less on the much Industrial Relations Act.

Tory Home Secretary Robert Carr told of the in Association London on Thursday that crimes of violence, particularly where they were associated with picketing, must be dealt with firmly. He said magistrates should not shrink from imposing prison sentences to afford the public 'sufficient protection'. . 'I do not intend to shirk that responsi- bility', he warned. He said: The problems of violence, disorder and crimin- ality are growing all the time and are taking new forms.'

There was political violence as seen in the Munich tragedy and there was protest violence.

'And there is industrial violence in the form of violent picket- ing which seems frequently to directly involved inhe dist be inspired by pute.' In sharp contrast to the flabby phrases of diehard reformists like Smith, Feather and other members of the trade union and Labour bureacracy, Carr warned: "Our first responsibility must be a clear and absolute commit- ment to the preservation of that order which is the very basis of our society. Law and its proper enforcement are not the enemy of freedom, they are the very condition of its existence? While Carr spoke about violence generally, including picketing, the most vehement outburst against so-called industrial violence came from ex-Labour- ite Lord Hartley Shawcross.

- Shawcross was Attorney-General in 1945-1951 Labour government which long after hostilities with the axis powers ended continued to enforce the hated Regulation 1305. This decreed that all industrial dis- subjected to putes be must compulsory arbitration. Worse than that, he was the man Labour chose to lead the prosecution of seven London dockers in April 1951 for alleged offences against order 1305. Now chairman of the panel on City take-overs, he left the Labour Party to become director of Shell, EMI, Rank- Hovis-McDougall, Caffyns Motors, Morgan et Cie Inter- national, Morgan et Cie, Times Hawker-Siddeley Newspapers, Birmingham Small Arms Company. This week Shawcross branded picketing in recent strikes as an 'unlawful conspiracy' and he 'clamp- called for a severe down'. There can be little surprise in an ex-Labour Attorney-General taking this line when the present TUC and Labour y October 7, 1972 Party leaders are falling over themselves to co-operate in the Tories' corporatist plans to ride out recession on the backs of the working class. The Tories intend to press on ruthlessly with their plans to take the pressure of employers' profit-margins by forcing down workers' wages and living standards. Behind Carr's statement lies the certainty of fresh Tory pre- parations for attacks on working class this winter.

The Labour and TUC conferences have both shown themselves impotent before this challenge, throwing into relief the urgency of the fight for the All Trades Unions Alliance conference in Birmingham on October 22.

Carr and Shawcross have once again served notice on the working class that an altern- ative Marxist revolutionary leadership must be built in the trade unions and the work- ing class.

BY JOHN SPENCER

WEST GERMANY'S social- democratic government has intensified its witch-hunt of Arab and other immigrant workers and students follow- ing the decision to ban two Palestinian unions. have ranged the ernes or Are Throughout Germany organizations and the homes of militants and ordered many to leave the country immediately.

The Federal government has refused to disclose the number of orders, • and deportation arrests but the German Students' League has put the figure at more than 50 students and an unknown number of workers. The League is planning legal action to remove the ban on the Palestinian and organizations has accused the police of deny- ing arrested Arabs their right to legal defence. Arab students and the Bonn office of the Arab League say that hundreds of Arabs have been ordered to leave the coun- . try since the shoot-out at Munich airport when 1l Israelis and five Palestinians were killed.

Figures are available following 30 raids in Munich and other Bavarian cities. Seventeen Arabs have been deported, 30 arrested for protesting their deportation orders and 50 are under investi- • gation, say the police, who have labelled them 'agitators' nine In Baden-Württemberg, Arabs are under arrest awaiting expulsion. others have Ten already been expelled. In the industrial Ruhr eight Jordanians and two Egyptians are known to be in prison awaiting deportation.

On Wednesday the government outlawed the 800-member Gene- ral Union of Palestinian Students and the 1,000-member_ General Union of Palestinian . Workers. field, RUMOURS of 'broad does it look as it Nixon wants to end the war by serious agreement' between the Americans and North present Nixon is continuing Viet- Vietnam on a ceasefire to with the aim of namization policy end the Vietnam war Wal no sign is concerned

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were strongly denied by serious rumours North Vietnamese and Hanoi amented. sources in kumours or possible agreement Paris. were sparked by over Washing- own renresentarives todenner After Thursday's session of Nixon S Statement al a with supporters of the present LOn oress Come cact Saigon une rans lalks, flanol s cmel and other negotiations arenat. a Leanie sensitive Thuy said: negotiator Xuan tendencies stage'. 'The positions of the respective chiel conation 1s that president He refused to elaborate on this sides are still far apart'. Nguyen the present clear the South Vietnam dictator, must go.

slalculch vut maut 1l Mme Nguyen Thi Binh, leader bombing ana mıning of the north the National Liberation Acmordin sources" 'well-informed will continue if firm agreement is delegation, told the front on omatic quoted. not reached. Reuter, was this senior American official that talks we TIMe make a step later between President Nixon's envor forward, you make a step back- the Kissinger talks were Henry Kissinger and North Viet- This is why totally untrue' *The hard fact ward. une gap can. representatives broke namese break- cannot be reached: an agreement no nured one down. LuCIe Nas through, he said. The US has proposed But she added that the NLF Saigon "hieesterday, puppet electoral committee to supervize president was was willing together with other elections South with his Dartes

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out Conciele Cullsultaliuls vietlan rather than elections measures to implement the form- military aa vasers assembiv. consuluent ation of a 'government of national visit from Major-General Alex- Xuan Thuy, Haig, Nixon's who endede ander deputy concord In saigon. talks with Kissinger, said the US The 'other parties' may include securitv doviser proposal was absurd: said to be verne to faces which nels covere It poses as a precondition that said serious military situation on the the ground: liberation We-created Dresent troops were administration be accepted as the battalion Its role would be to assure the vesteltay

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that only legal administration, strength the only 1 miles irom Americans there Wil the Us- South Vietnamese capital. forcible seizure of power by the pré-arranged constitution and bombers

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B-52 heavv elections the flew their heaviest raids for more China is reported to have re- that dictatorial than two years against troop con- regime be accepted.' take Tole. around saigon. rour- COLLaLIOnS Kremlin has for months been echoed was -involving 1nis position teen missions more pressing North Vietnam to wind Monday by Hanoi Radio which than 40 of the eight- •Based on the situation u• une war. asked: at engined bombers- ilown The NLF has demanded a tri- within 40 miles rare acainst partite government composed of realities the Vietnam battle- the city.

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Willy Germany enter on The arbitrary mea- Brandt has followed up temporary working con- unemployment and fall- sures taken against the the witch-hunt of Arabs ing industrial produc- Arab workers and stu-

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The officials said they denis pur luto pracuce the 2.5 million foreign 10 Brandt's answer is to in Germany the similar Germany. the workforce the foreign workers cent drive out measures advocated and this could lead to

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Harold Wilson . in subject to approaching the 'critical severe social tension. already Britain. limit' and the present West German indus- criminatory legislation could total not be try has in the past en- and have few of the They are part of the which German international turn to the said. labour at low wages as workers have. The by social demo- Earlier this cheap of witch-hunt against the week means which today Bonn officials hinted af industrial condere servility to the require- steps in the near future production. But the eco- ning of reactionary to restrict the number recession is now nationalistic world cam- ments im- immigrant beginning bite paign. perialism. FOUR Croat student leaders the persecution in yesterday's the privileged ruling clique which were given prison sentences of 'Guardian': is striving to protect its position in Bonapartist manner by from true one years "The people at present being LO

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jailing Zagreb Wednesday for without on persecuted almost At the same time it is seeking 'criminal acts against the excention nationalists of various of imperialism the collaboration people and state'. The defen- shades, but hardly any of them the at least not publicily and not right-wing aralils l dants, who have been in nationalist groups abroad.

December, 1150 Depart- The American force return to pre- or tor a were said to have led a Croat ment is reported to giving revolutionary society. acuve conscendon to a reonest Zagreb they are the stu- 'In Zagreb University. from Belgrade for a curb on the Budisa, dent leaders around activities of Ustachi groups in

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bureaucracy Belgrade individuals - extremely agitated about the United States. Lne lawyer Subotic, the 82-year- growth of nationalist moods in These groups, many of whom Zubovic, three collaborated with the Nazis distuilall the population which have been

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students during the stand for the fostered primarily own war, by

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philosopher Djuric, while in the policy of economic and political restoraton provinces I don't exactly know Yugoslavia and have in recent imperialism. how manv "criminals" there are responsible months been une recume s answer is wooe- supposed to be, but there are sale repression-directed against than enough to serve the more both and left. The Zagreb The question of joint action right of intimidation ana émigré Ustachi

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against was trial is only the latest in a series Croatia, and from all classes and boilties. especaus the of talks of trials against people classed as washington earlier tnis week be- professions.' Secretary of State William former tween Tito's Foreign vice-president The political trials in Yugo- and Yugoslav

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Minister Mirko Tepavao. old comrade of Tito's attacked slavia reveal the desperation of

Horse trading over jobs Binding decisions? Not likely!

Wilson (seen with new Party chairman Bill Simpson of the AUEW): Keeping demands on a future Confused No. 3? The Wakefield

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

CHANCES of a new work-in at the Clydebank shipyard are This be- now very remote. came clear from discussions in Blackpool on Thursday between union officials, shop stewards and Texas oil-rig boss Wayne Harbin. Now the Communist Party leaders of the UCS struggle will meet the liquidator tomorrow to haggle over the timing of 500 redundancies. After week of threats Stalinist James Reid, the leading UCS shop steward, meekly admit- ted after seeing his new boss, Harbin: 'We can He added that only report that we the would 'almost certainly are very optimistic as a result of these discussions and immeasur- necessary. ably more confident that a good In tomorrow's of agreement has Stalinists will aim to per measure re sulted here liquidator the to Reid speaking after redundancies at Clydebank was four-hour summit with Harbin The first several hundred and Boilermakers' Society pre- expected yesterday, but McC sident Danny McGarvey. announced after seeing the

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exposure of this hypocrisy Cabinet came on Thursday during the Shadow the marathon economic de- meets the newly-elected bate. Labour National Execu- There were seven reso- Committee tive at lutions before the confer- from calls Transport House for a ence, ranging for a wealth tax, to con- the. post mortem on over multi-national trol Party's conference de- and the aboli- companies cisions. tion of Value-Added Tax. By far the most signifi- It will be a smug, self- meeting. cant, in terms of future congratulatory Party policy, however, was For the five davs of this the one from the Trans- conference all the huge Staffs' port and Salaried dangers facing the labour moved Association. by and trade union movement Percy Coldrick. at the which were kept lowest called for immediate talks key, political differences between the NEC and the were stifled and unity was Trades Union Congress to forged on a programme of 'let's-wait-and-see'. work out a prices and in- comes policy. This is precisely the sort of This unequivocally political environment worded call for an incomes that Wilson needs to create policy is at the very centre for himself: one where he of the TUC's talks with can conduct his politics on Heath, day-to-day basis, which the confer. all a endorsed ence options open. This question is: should For Wilson the obiect of the annual conference is the working class be blamed for inflation, keep demands and to on should the standard of liv- future Labour government ing of millions down to a minimum. But of wage- earners be cut to pay for if delegates do pass any it? When the debate

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Employees' resolution Michael A wit from which stated that "it is Foot's Welsh delegation not possible to have an in- commented: "The question comes policy even in a is—who is he riding?' mixed market economy which does not have harm- ful effects on the working which he does resolution not like he doesn't feel class'. How is it possible to them anyway. bound bv support both propositions Such irritating resolutions at the same time? will be consigned to the It means that the NEC dustbin. That's been the hallmark recognizes that an incomes of his ten-year leadership policy harms the interests the working of the Partv. He has con- of class the aspirations tempt for of the labour movement. construction just such anyway (TSSA). a policy In that sense conference has become a giant, organ- But this is the sort of Wilson and ized. hypocrisy. contradiction sickening his cronies lore. The astonishing most Workers Press, Saturday October 7, 1972 PAGE 3 would be solved by Monday The problem for the Clydebank dowever appear, despite the continued horse-trading. Even massive labour alter a workforce bank from 2,500 1,700 in besides cut of at Shipbuilders Govan. yards, the men still face further massive redundancies of 400 men

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Marathon demolishing the Clydebank yard. The liquidator said he will employ 800 me fit out four remaining vessels upriver at the Govan Blackpool-on-Clyde with McGarvey, Reid and Harbin leaves approximately -where the last ship was work-in Harbin that these being refused revea were launched on Thursday. ertainly be un- held over until Monday. how many were at stake. New By the all the With this hoped-for "con- "This would be unfair to the Year cession' contracts will be talks the from the liquidator, plus Clydebank he said. • workers. finished so bulk of his 800 nut the Clydebank con- Tence workers will join the 500 on the phase the jobs build-up at Marathon, the troversy down to "A beaming Har Clydebank. stewards hope persuade communication. dule Clydebank

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Octobe From Stalinism ... to the CL

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'Anti-communism became an important objective of trade union foreign policy, and the AFL-CIO (the AFL merged with the rival CIO in 1955) obtained as Director of its Department of International Affairs Jay Lovestone, former general secretary of the American Communist Party and now a professional anti- communist, who was one of Intelligence Central Agency's most important contact men. —Ioan Davies, 'African Trade Unions', p.

201. (Penguin 1966.) On July 5, 1969, the Kenya political leader and Minister of Econ- omic Planning, Tom Mboya, was assassinated in Nairobi. Within week Kenya a police had arrested Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge, (32). In court, the police claimed that Njoroge, a Kikuyu, had said arrested: Why do you when pick on me? Why not the big men?' Asked who the 'big men' were, he kept silent. Although Njoroge denied saying this, and denied respon- sibility for the shooting, he was found guilty and hanged. The British Press, true to its usual treatment of African aftairs, concentrated on em- phasizing possible tribal impli- cations-suggesting that the affair was all the result of rivalry between the Kikuyu and Mboya's own Luo tribe for political supremacy in Kenya.

The police, having got some- one for actually pulling the trigger, do not appear to have very far in finding out gone who had pulled the strings.

importance was grossly exaggerated. As a Minister in the Kenya government and a leader of the ruling party, KANU, Mboya's importance was never that of a tribal leader, but of a former trade union leader who, in the course of his political career, became associ- ated with America's Central Intelligence Agency. He rose to be a Minister responsible for promoting anti-union legis- lation and one of the most powerful men in Kenya politics.

The rivalries which formed the background to his assassination tribal but inter- were not national. The initials CIA have be- come notorious among politic- workers and ally-conscious colonial peoples throughout the world. They are a byword for and reactionary aggression intrigues carried out on behalf of American imperialism. It was CIA which launched the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, aimed at over- throwing Castro, in April 1961.

It was the CIA, also, which the programme of directed spy-flights over the Soviet Union, brought to an end in May 1960 when a U2 recon- naissance plane piloted by Gary Powers brought was down over the Urals. Among the more successful CIA operations was the part it played, in 1953, in the over- Mossadegh throw the ay October 7, 1972 the CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part ( Above: Tom Mboya, a leader of the rul government in Persia, which had nationalized the 01l industry. Kermit Roosevelt; who was the CIA agent in charge of this operation to open Persia for American oil companies, was made a vice-president of the Gulf Oil Corporation in 1960.

In 1954, the Arbenz regime in Guatemala, which had upset the US-owned United Fruit Company by its land-reform policies, was overthrown by a combination of air-raids from over the border and a military within-both from coup directed by the CIA. regime The new military returned to United Fruit the land which Arbenz had taken over and repealed amendments to a 1947 law protecting trade union rights. It passed a Preventive Penal Law Against Communism, which involved setting up a special Defence Committee empowered to meet in secret and classify people as ', rendering anyone 'communists', so classified subject to various and liable restrictions to arbitrary arrest and detention.

So Guatemala was made safe for 'democracy'-and the United Fruit Company. The CIA is not just an in- organiz- telligence-gathering ation, but a secret arm of US imperialism, able to use its agents, money, and arms, to intervene in any country to further of the interests American big business and the capitalist system in general.

Towards the end of World War II, the United States clearly emerged as the leading imperialist power in the world.

The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944, and subsequent arrangements, made American responsible capitalism capitalist maintaining the as a whole. As the system world's banker, it also had to become the world's policeman.

s. Part One of the ruling party, KANU, before his assassin The CIA was officially estab- lished on September 18, 1947, replacing the wartime OSS with a much more extensive and powerful organization. The National Security Act of 1947 its intelligence laid down functions, and also empowered it to perform such other functions and duties related to intelligence affecting the national security the as National Security Council may from time to time direct'.

The following year, worried about events in Czechoslovakia and the support for the Com- munist Party in Italy, the Council National Security authorized a special CIA division to be responsible for carrying out special secret operations in other countries that must not involve the US government. In 1949, the Central Intelli- gence Agency Act was passed, giving the CIA Director •the right to spend money 'without regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the expenditure of government funds. This was an important step in enabling the CIA to operate without too much Con- gressional or public examin- ation. December 1963, ex- In President Truman, who was head of state responsible for establishing the CIA, wrote that he had become 'disturbed' by the CIA's expansion beyond its original assignment. It has become an oper- ational and at times a policy- making arm of the govern- ment, he wrote. One area in which it has an important part in played determining US policy is Viet- nam. It was involved there even before US troops were officially committed. The Michigan State Univer- assassination. Jomo Kenyatta (centre), and sity was supposed to have an aid mission in South Vietnam to assist in training officials and police officers. But of this five-man team, only three were genuine university stafi. The other two were CIA agents!

It was through such means that the US sought out suit- to able stooges to rule South Vietnam. sald disturbed Truman he was by the ClA's expansion beyond Its original assignment. When open interference in South Vietnam was prohibited by the Geneva Agreement, this under-cover work prepared the way for military involvement..

The Michigan State Univer- sity provided with a was 'sweetener' in the form of CIA money for research to keep its mouth shut. A number of American uni- versities have received such funds and have set up various projects to carry out research for the CIA. Large numbers of American scholars — sociolo- political economists, gists, scientists, psychologists, etc.— have become effectively on the CIA payroll. Usually the funds are channelled through various "private' founda- supposedly ro), and Malcolm Macdonald (right).

tions and similar fronts, in the CIA work in co- which operation with the big corpora- tions. The activities of these academic mercenaries are not always confined to 'research'.

On November 17, 1966, the annual convention the Anthropological Association in Pittsburg was addressed by its former president, Dr Ralph A.

according to a Beals, who, 'New York Times' report, told them that scholars who went abroad to carry out their work were offered generous sums to serve as intelligence agents. He also alleged that some intelli- gence agents were posing as anthropologists. The CIA also makes use of various organizations which are supposedly independent of the government. On February 14, 1967, it was revealed that the National Student Association had secretly received millions of CIA dollars to finance political activities in student move- ments abroad. The money was channelled through various conduits, such as the San Jacinto Foundation of Hous- ton, the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs of New York, the J. M. Kaplan Fund of New York, and so on. It was also revealed that scholar- ships for African students in America were similarly • fin- anced. The disclosures caused great deal of commotion in America and abroad. But Vic- international tor Reuther, affairs director of the United Workers' union Automobile headed by his brother Walter, declared that the CIA involve- ment in the student movement was nothing compared to its activities in the American labour movement.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

DAMARAS DRIVEN OUT OF

MINERAL RICH LAND

BY JOHN SPENCER

To try and give some interna- semblance of tional legality to its con- tinued rule. in Namibia (South West Africa) the South African govern- ment is setting up 12 so- called Bantustans in the territory. The establishment of these which are nominally areas, accorded a certain amount of Ka is aimed at self-government, thwarting the United Nations demand that Namibia be given independence as a single un- divided country. South Africa originally held the former German colony under a mandate from the League of Nations which was later transferred to UN juris- diction. for years the United But Nations has been trying in vain to implement its decision ending the mandate and grant- ing independence to the Nami- bians. Further talks on the future of the country were held re- cently between UN secretary Kurt Waldheim and the South African government-but the issue remains unresolved.

The government of Baltha- zar Vorster maintains that the up 'home- policy of setting lands' for the various African tribes in the country amounts to implementing the UN re- solution. It is pushing ahead regard- less of protests from the UN, which has proved impotent to protect the inhabitants of its mandated territory. policy for The Bantustan Namibia was first drawn up in by the government outline Commission of Inquiry into South West African Affairs in 1962-1963. The commission was set up to plan the application of the apartheid policy (so-called "separate development') and its report has since been the basis of South African government policy. In the accordance with racialist theories of white Some of the most power- ful resistance to the South African Homeland policy has come from the Damara people, who were previously regarded as extremely docile. After the Ovambos, they are the second largest group affec- ted by the government's policy.

To try and overcome their opposition to the original pro- posals, which would have in- volved the migration of almost all the Damaras, the govern- ment is now offering a com- promise. In return for a relatively fertile chunk of 'white' farm- land it proposes to exclude from 1 the future Damaraland supremacy, the commission di- vided the population into 12 ethnic groups: nine African, one white, one Rehoboth and one coloured, each to be con- fined to a consolidated 'Home- land'. The greater part of these areas were in the north of the country where there have long been African "reservations' — along the coast and the Angola border and in the desert and semi-desert regions of the Kalahari. Scattered in the predomi- nantly white farmlands in the south were 'Homelands' for the Rehoboths (mixed - race German-speaking community) and the Namas. The 'Homelands' allocated to the Il non-white groups are naturally inferior and can- not possibly be economically self-suporting: this is essential if the white employers are to have a ready source of cheap contract labour to work for them. families from all parts South West Africa are being uprooted and transported to 'Home- their newly-designed lands', , many of them far from the areas where they previ- ously lived. The commission's report it- he self gives a glimpse of some of the conditions in the areas to which the various groups are being forcibly transported.

It points out that in Okavangoland in the north-east the extensive grassy plains in the south of the area can be grazea only as long as stored rainwater is available in the pans, while portions adjacent cannot be utilized at all be- cause of lack of water. Soils in the central area are already being extensively cul- tivated so that it is doubtful whether any increase in grain yields can be expected in these parts. And it adds cynically that irrigation would be uneco- nomic and therefore cannot be recommended. Owing to the unfavourable rainfall and the absence of large-scale irrigation possibili- some of its most arid areas.

What it has not told the Damaras is that these 'useless' lands are rich in minerals and extensive mining con- that cessions have already been granted. The facts, as disclosed in the Johannesburg 'Financial Mail', are as follows: The Damara proposed comprises 4.8 Homeland million hectares of wasteland.

Only 7,736 Damaras out of 64,973 were living there, according to the 1970 census.

The majority exist by working on the tin mines nearby or keeping goats and sheep. ten headmen Apart from paid a stipend of about £30 a month by the authorities, there is virtually nothing to keep an the Kaokaoveld, in the ties will always have ments. In Namaland, the commis- sion reported that, as in prac- tically all other 'Homelands' will remain de- the region pendent for its staple food supplies on other areas. Tswanaland — where under 3,000 people are to constitute 'nation'—is not at present a permanently inhabited, accord- ing to the commission, which adds that owing ; to the low rainfall field husbandry is not likely to play a part in the economy of the inhabitants of this region. The Bushmen who are being pushed into Bushmanland' will be even worse off. Apart from wild plants it is virtually impossible to pro- duce sufficient food for them, the commission said, adding that 'the Bushmen will always have to depend on environ- mental sorces of subsistence and on imported supplies' Even as a political concept, some of the 'Homelands' were theoretical, to say the least, Damaraland. for example, is an arra of land where less than cent of Damaras then 6 pel lived. economically active Damara in the area. The Damaras have described the allocated Home- land as 'a chicken run'. It is one of the most depressingly neglected parts of the country. That is why the Damaras have described the proposal to make it their Home- land as another step in the policy under which 'we are be- ing systematically disinherited and made strangers in our own land. We have been deprived of all humar: rights and forced to live in a form of slavery.

•Seemingly in acknowledge- ment of the claim that the offered land cannot sustain the Damaras, the Department of Bantu Administration and Development has raised the possibility of transferring a Workers Press, Sati To implement its policy the government has already bought more than 3 million hectares of land from white farmers at inflated prices: the ultimate bill is to be footed by the in- habitants of the 'Homelands'.

Nearly a third of those who are allocated to the 'Home- lands' do not live in the areas designated by the government: they will be forced to move.

instances virtually In some the entire 'nation' as consti- tuted by the government will have to move: 95 per cent of the Damaras live outside their designated area, as do 93 per cent of the Nama. To drive unwilling the people into their 'Homelands', the authorities resort to meas- ures like cutting off their water supplies and refusing their stock access to water- holes. Nevertheless the people of South West Africa have re- sisted with great tenacity and heroism the plan to rob them of their lands and herd them into the Bantustans. The mas- sive Ovambo strike last De- cember has been followed by other acts of resistance.

The essence of the apartheid scheme in South West Africa is completely to deprive the portion of the eastern white farmland in exchange for the apparently useless southern and central part of the territory. This is a virtual wilderness but for the presence of pros- pectors and geologists excited • D about the likelihood of a pr uranium find. Prospecting rights at Spitz-.

kop have been granted to the Bantu Mining Corporation, the David Graaf Investments, Di Gamma Mining (an Anglo-Vaal subsidiary) and Dr Peter le Riche. Concessions at Trek- •kopje have been granted to Goldfields, O'Kiep Copper and Desert Finds (Pty) Ltd The 'Financial Mail' com- the ments: 'Whether these areas will Press, Saturday October 7, 1972 PAGE 5 Above: Africans being deported from original homelands to 'new homelands'. inhabitants of the Bantustans of any rights outside the con- fined 'Homelands' 'temporary They become sojourners' in the vast 'white' area who are tolerated only if they agree to work for rock- bottom wages on semi-slave contracts. And even within their own areas, the inhabitants of the only Bantustans are allowed the most limited political, economic and social rights.

The real power is in the hands of the South African authorities who control the is the purse strings. There usual grotesque disparity be- tween their expenditure on the and that on the Bantustans wealthy 'white' farmlands.

For the 514,000 non-whites, the government allocates 35 per cent of the budget. The to provide for the rest goes luxuries of the 96,000 whites.

Meanwhile, Waldheim con- his polite exchanges tinues with the South African racial- ists .. • (Much of the information in this article is taken from 'X-Ray', bulletin of the Africa Bureau.) yield the same promising results Rossing, as near Swakopmund, where Rio Tinto Zinc holds a uranium con- cession, only time will tell.

But even if they do, it will make no difference to the ted . Damaras since discovery of oil, minerals and stones precious and uranium in the Homelands sole preserve of remains the the State in the granting of mining rights. The best the Damaras can hope for under these circumstances, therefore "is the creation of a few more jobs on the mines.' As the 'Mail' cynically adds: 'This hardly seems the way of going about sharing the wealth of the country? But then, who said anything about sharing the wealth?

PAGE 6 Workers Preca, Saturday Octob By Philip Wade. Photographs by P.

Tenants all over Britain have moved swiftly into action to fight the first increases imposed on them by the Tories through the justly hated 'fair rents' Act. The Tories' all-out assault on the basic right to decent housing at reasonable rents has been prepared over many years. Time and time again Tory spokesmen have attacked the 'rich council tenants'. Now they have moved into action.

But it was Harold Wilson who, in his 1965 Rent Act, gave the Tories the germ from which the Housing Finance Act monster grew. It was there for the first time that fair rents' were introduced private rented into accom- modation. The Tories' plan is simple.

Forced home by former finan- cial whizz-kid Peter Walker, it aimed at 'market rents' for council housing and the ending • 7, 181r. 21

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101 otographs by P. J. Arkell of government subsidies. If tenants cannot pay, they can always move out to private market, 'reasoned' the Tories. Aimed by the craven capi- tulation of the Labour leader- ship and the decision by most Labour councils to implement the Tories their legislation, confidently imposed increases of up to f1 as a starter last Monday. More increases are due to follow nex: April and at regular intervals until the 'fair rent' levels are reached In fact the Tories want to double within rents three years. On Monday, however, the Tories got their first major answer from Merseyside. Over 10,000 Merseyside dockers struck work for the day. They were joined by Plessey en- building workers gineers, from all over the city—who have just ended their 12-week strike - and shipyard workers from Cammell Laird's.

Many strikers joined tenants in a massive 5,000-strong demonstration through Liver- pool where calls were taken up to force the Tories and their rotten Act out of office.

Liverpool Trades Council then set up a co-ordinating committee to support the organization tenants. Every and tendency was invited to join on the basis that they supported the struggle to get the TUC recalled to lead a campaign to get the Tories out and return a Labour gov- ernment pledged to socialist housing policies. In nearby Manchester — another where city the Labourites decided to imple- 'with regret' (whatever ment means) that massive rent strikes are taking place. And the tenants have successfully adopted the *Aying picket' tactics used during the massive strikes by dockers miners, and building workers this year.

Only Manchester tenants dubbed their squads as the 'flying commandos'. They in were soon seen action following the rent col- lectors around to make sure no tenant was harassed into paying their rent increase.

More tenants toured the vast Manchester estates urging tenants to hold out against the Labour landlords. In other areas where rent collectors are a thing of the people turned up to pay their rent. When they saw the picket line most tenants felt en- couraged enough not to pay up and had their rent books marked up for arrears. Everywhere the rent in- creases are universally hated.

The Tory £2 wage freezing manoeuvres can now vividly seen for what they are -nothing more than actual wage-cuts. The determination to resist the Tories is there for all to see. Now the perspective must be to prevent the isolation of Top left: Liverpool marchers. Top right: Connie Fahey with flying commandos' protesting at fort The rent Ardwick, Manchester. collector stopped his round. Right: 5,000 demonstrators in Mersey Liverpool. Far right: dockers marching with tenants.

from the rent strikers the struggle of the rest of the working class. In themselves rent strikes will not halt the 'fair rents' Act. The Tories have no inten- of being deflected from their offensive which is aimed at basic destroying every workers' right won in years of struggle. Councils of Action Only comprisind in each area trade comprising tenants, unionists and every working- class political organization, lead the campaign to can make the TUC stop collaborat- ing with the government and call a General Strike to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour government pledged tu socialist policies and the repeal of the 'fair rents' Act.

ELEMENTS PURGED

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Octobe Part nine of a series by Tom K During 1925 the German Communist Party (KPD) moved into a new crisis. Matters came to a head at its 10th Congress held in Berlin in July in the same building, the prus- sian Landtag, in which it had been founded. Ernst Thaelmann made the opening speech. Manuil- sky, representing the Comintern, demanded that the party purge itself of ultra-left elements. A number of Ruth Fischer's former left associates struck back, claiming with some rea- • had shifted her that she son position, not they. Fischer warned that the same disci- plinary measures which had used against the right been could be used against the ultra-left if it resisted Com- intern policy on the trade union and other questions.

Despite the differences which had appeared in the course of the debate, the main resolutions, like the leadership, were elected unanimously. The Congress adopted theses which recognized the stabilization of approved the capitalism and equivocal position of the Fifth Comintern Congress. the performance of But Ruth Fischer apparently did impress the Comintern not leaders, who soon launched a bitter attack on her and Mas- low. Maslow once again made a issued. a blunder when he pamphlet called 'The Two Revolutions of the Year 1917' with a remark in the preface saying that Lenin had been wrong in 1921 in launching the slogan 'to the masses' and the policy of the united front.

This was used as proof that leadership the Fischer-Maslow wanted to be independent of the Comintern. Shortly after the Fifth Com- intern Congress, a KPD dele- gation was summoned to Mos- cow. All the skeletons in the Party cupboard were brought in the discussions. Mas- out low's pamphlet was attacked.

Ruth Fischer was accused of anti-Moscow instigating an tendency. Zinovier denounced his former supporters in the harshest terms: "The pretension of these intellectuals was to lead not only the KPD, but the Com- intern as well.' Zinoviev accused Fischer of having a system of double book-keeping, supporting one policy in Germany and another Moscow. Thaelmann In was spared from the attack and his report on the trade unions at the Berlin congress was praised.

An open letter was drawn up and addressed to the KPD members which attacked the Fischer-Maslow leadership for fighting energetically not enough against the ultra-lefts.

the All German delegation signed it, though Fischer did so only after a struggle.

was instructed to The left dissolve itself as a faction and in the Party all tendencies asked to unite behind were Comintern policy. The old leadership, which seemed had strongly SO entrenched at the Berlin con- ay October 7, 1972 Tom Kemp on the history of the Ge Above: Stalin (left) Rykov, Leo Kamene gress, was now doomed. Ruth Fischer attacked the letter on her return and won some sup- port; she was recalled to Mos- ultra-left The also cow. attacked the open letter as offering the Brandlerite right a way back into the Party. Above: Thaelmann who was praised and singled out for leadership. Maslow's place as theorist was now taken over by Heinz Neumann who launched a bit- Maslow's ter polemic on offending pamphlet. At a Party conference in i the autumn of 1925 the deposition of Fischer- Maslow was confirmed and the policy of the 'open letter' was endorsed. Zinoviev and the Comintern leaders had cleverly succeeded in separating Fischer and Mas- their base in the low from Party and from their former associates, such as Thaelmann and Neumann, who had now been singled out for leader- ship. They were flanked by former members of the centre and right factions known as the 'conciliators'. The main quali- I the German Communist Party o Kamener, and Gregory Zinoviev. In 1925 Sta leadership fication for now unconditional loyalty became to Stalin and, of course, hos- tility to the Left Opposition in the Soviet Union. There remained the prob- lem of settling accounts with the remaining left and ultra- left currents which tried to preserve some independence from Moscow's dictates. Meanwhile Stalin was pur- suing relentless struggle a against the Left Opposition. The break between Stalin and Zinovier and the right turn of the Russian leadership had repercussions Germany because, despite the fact that Zinoviev had led the fight against Fischer and Maslow in 1925, they had formerly been associates. In the new circum- stances they drew together again in a common opposition to Stalin: but it was too late to save Ruth Fischer. fragmentation The • of the opposition groups made it easy for the new KPD leadership, backed by the Comintern, to its establish hold the over Party. The ultra-lefts, such as Karl Korsch, Urbahns and after trying to organize oppo- sition were expelled and went their different ways with vari- ous short-lived groups. Opposition to Stalinism was wherever it broken up appeared and supporters of the Left Opposition were unable to get much of a toe-hold in the party. Some opponents of the line found their way over to the Social Democratic Party

(SPD).

The Brandierites founded their own Communist Opposition. From such varied and left-wingers elements breaking from the SPD the Socialist Workers' Party (SAP) later formed (October was 193.1). At the end of the 1920s • 1925 Stalin continued a relentless struggle a moderate prosperity returned to the German economy. Real wages tended to rise and un- employment fell, though not per cent. The below about 10 KPD leadership adopted more right-wing policy which conformed with that being pur- sued by Stalin, in alliance with Bukharin. Apparently a period capitalist stability of and peaceful co-existence was in prospect. In this short-lived right phase the KPD concentrated on its work in the Reichstag representative and other bodies, sought positions in the trade unions and carried on propaganda in support of the Soviet Union. It built up its organization and its apparatus along lines which resembled those of the pre-war SPD.

Despite the fact that every government in the Weimar period took the opposition of the communist deputies for granted, it did become, for a something like a time, 'loyal opposition', part of the repub- lic. Membership figures do not suggest much growth in these years and were probably in the region of 130,000 to 150,000; well below the peak of the early 1920s. In accordance with Comin- the KPD tern decisions, attempted to recruit and organ- ize workers on the basis of factory cells. The value of this type of organization had been demonstrated in the Ruhr dur- ing the French occupation. However, the Party continued to operate mainly on a local basis, despite repeated efforts to build up factory organiza- tion. In 1930 the party had to truggle against the left opposition.

report that it only had cells in 1,441 enterprises against 2,673 five years before, out of 191,211 enterprises employing people and upwards. The Party's influence seems to have ich • waned in the big factories and it often had more members in the smaller towns than in big ones. In the late 1920s the party had 34 daily papers and 19 printshops. In 1929 it arranged a fictitious sale of its property in the hope (proved vain in 1933) that in this way they would not be subject to state seizure. Much of the Party press was dull and mediocre with little appeal except to members. However, Willi Munzenberg built up a number of popular papers which were able to win mass circulations and com- pete with the capitalist press largely by adopting its meth- He also established a ods. number of front organizations which extended the Party's influence into various sections of the population. A most important factor on which the KPD was able to build was the sympathy which German workers in all parties felt for the Russian Revolu- tion. The fate of the Russian and German revolutions had been closely linked together.

Although few recognized it at the time, the failure of the German revolution was a major factor which, by con- tinuing Russia's isolation, con- tributed to the Stalinist degen- eration. And during the 1920s the KPD became an instrument of Soviet foreign policy. It was in the interests of this policy that it had to accept, in 1928, the final turn which • led it to disaster in 1933.

US ROUND-UP BY PHILIP WADE

The break-up of Ameri- can capitalism was clearly as the driving shown force for the collision between the unions and the Democrats at the United Steelworkers of America convention recently. After some three hours debate the 4,000 delegates voted by more than a two-to- one margin to support the of USWA president motion I. W. Abell and the executive to withhold any endorse- ment for the presidential elec- tions which take place next month. At the same time the hand of the wretched US Commun- ist Party was clearly revealed in the hall. The convention Stalinists' paper, 'Daily World', of a significant minority led delegates from large branches in for the endorse- pressing ment of George McGovern. The American trade unions threw in their support for the Democratic Party during the Roosevelt "New Deal' of era the mid-1930s. This relation- ship continued steadily throughout the years of the post-war boom. Now, with the declaration of ending trade war through the of gold support for the infla- tionary dollar, both Democrats and Republicans agree on the need to destroy the hard-won of the American gains work- class through pay freezes Ing. and anti-union laws and mass unemployment. the recent Democratic At convention in Miami, the trade delegates were publicly union snubbed by McGovern and his bosses. Usually party all- powerful in the running of affairs at the convention, the union top brass led by George Meany-AFL-CIO general sec- - were given the cold retary shoulder. That the steelworkers should break begin to openly with decades of working relation- Democrats ships with the flows from the depth of the crisis facing workers in the industry. Some 100,000 jobs have been lost in recent years through modernization and developing Japanese competi- tion. Every day brings news of new lay-offs. Since August 15 last year, the Bethlehem Steel Company, for has example, slashed 12,000 jobs at its Balti- more tidewater steel mill. Now the management at the largest plant of its kind in the world say an optimum work- force could be around 9,000- another 12,000 fewer than at employed. Labour- present will be gained with the saving use of new basic oxygen plants.

US labour Although the bureaucracy in the shape of people like Abel and Meany have made scathing denuncia- McGovern tions of and the whole Democratic Party set-up, which is entirely anti-union, there is still a refusal to break completely with the Democrats.

As a result the steelwork- ers' convention, for example, ended confusion amid some and without any political per- spective for its members.

rank-and-file It was left to from the floor delegates to pose the real alternative of of a Labour the construction Party in the United States to break the working class from support for either of the two

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general secretary capitalist parties. Workers Press, Sa The Camden Committee of Community Relations (CCCR) in north London is angry at reports that Ugandan Asians are being dissuaded from com- ing to the area. Singh, Gurmukh

CCCR

alleges: 'The resettlement counsel- lors at the airport have been instructed to bring pressure on immigrants not to travel to Camden, even temporarily, and have persuaded the Supple- Benefits Commission mentary refuse money destitute to to who wish to travel immigrants to Camden? Mr Singh claims that neither Camden Council, the

CCCR,

nor any other local organiza- tion had been consulted before Camden had been put on the 'red' list of places banned to Asians. It says, that been these areas selected 'on the basis of opposition vociferous by the authorities to the reception of Ugandans rather than any on proner investigation of the facilities available'. According to the CCCR, a Camden large number had answered their people appeal to help the immigrants when they arrive, of many them offering accommodation. The adjoining borough of Brent has also been declared a 'red' area, in spite of the fact that official figures show that about 18,000 people have left the borough since 1963. Alderman Council leader Philip Hartley (Labour) also says that he has been assured by the Brent Indian Workers' Association that all immigrants would be accommodated with- being made on out any calls council housing. A few weeks ago, he an- nounced that Ugandan Asian children could be barred from Brent schools. A statement was issued by the Executive of the Brent Teachers' Association last week, however, welcoming the children, and Hartley now seems to have changed his tune. education "The He says: sub-committee will be able to deal with the new arrivals and if necessary hold classes where these children not vet fluent in English will be educated in Meany. Contre: Geor George ident I. W. Abell. Press, Saturday October 7, 1972 PAGE 9 the first instance and then filtered into our schools' Hartley also announced that the council's co-ordination committee has decided to impose a trade boycott on goods from both South Africa and Uganda. 'We find both these regimes guilty of repulsive racialism,' he said, adding that while the effect of the boycott would probably be negligible, 'it is the gesture that matters' Wel-Care is a Church of Eng- land charitable agency set up to help unmarried mothers. They have an arrangement with a number of local councils to enable them to use short-life houses due for demolition, on condition that they are handed back to the council when required. Last week, Linda Sayers and Irene Bannon, who had been accommodated in Kilburn, north London, after the births of their babies, won a short reprieve against the one week's notice to quit they got from Wel-Care because Council Brent wants to demolish the property. They have now been given one month's security of tenure and Wel-Care were told by the Rent Tribunal that they will have to take out a proper court order to have the two removed from the girls premises, which would prob- ably take about another two months. Linda and Irene say they have been trying to get alter- native accommodation for a long time, bat have not been able anything. The council has said it cannot help.

The house they are living in at present, they say, is 'overrun with mice' , but at least it is a root over their heads and those of their babies. The only alter- native Wel-Care has been able to offer is in Norfolk, where the girls were told they could probably get jobs as domestic servants. The Church Commissioners, and who administer own Church of England property, are amongst the wealthiest landlords in the country.

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REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 10.40 Merrie melodies.

11.05 Puffin. 11.10 Bonanza. Lol 12.00 London. 5.10 Please sir.

6.15 Film: "Mutiny 5.40 London. On the Bounty'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aq 11.30 All our yester- Aquarius. days. 11.55 Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.15 Make a wish. 11.05 Gus Faith for life. Honeybun. 11.55 12.00 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 All our yesterdays.

10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Man from Uncle. 11.57 Weather. 12.00 Lon- don. 5.10 Smith family. 5.40 Lon- 6.15 Film: "The Yellow don. Rolls-Royce' 8.30 Variety. 10.40 Villains. 10.30 London. Aquarius. 11.30 News. 11.40 Spy- force. 12.30 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH: 9.00 London. 9.50 Bowery bugs. 10.00 Tomfoolery show. 10.30 Sesame street. 11.30 Follyfoot. 12.00 London. 5.10 UFO. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'The Key. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Benny Hill.: 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Name of the game. 12.55 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 5.10 Dora. 5.40- 6.10 Sion a sian.

ANGLIA:

9.00 London. 10.00 Rovers. 10.25 Film: 'Bandit of Sherwood Forest'. 12.00 London.

5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Fathom'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: 'Night of the Demon. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.45 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 Lord Mount- batten. 11.05 Tomfoolery show.

Osmonds. 12.00 London. 11.30 5.10 It takes a thief. 6.10 London.

6.15 Film: 'North By North West.

8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: 'D Day 6th of June'.

ULSTER: 10.30 Thunderbirds.

11.30 Skippy. 12.00 London. 5.10 Aqu

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00-12.25 London.

2.13 Weather. 2.15 London. 3.15 You Men and a Prayer'. Film: 'Four 4.40 London. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 7.00 Film: 'From Here to Eternity': 10.00 London.

11.15 Avengers. 12.05 Epilogue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

12.25 Tales of an exotic plant hunter. 12.55 Collecting on shoestring. 1.20 Smith family. Honeybun. 1.50 • Farm 1.45 Gus and country news. 12.05 Faith for life. 12.10 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Farm pro- gress. 10.57 Weather. 11,00 Lon- don. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- 1.20 How. 1.50 Hogan's man. heroes. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Believe in You'. 4.55 News. 5.05 Beauty. 6.05 Lucy. 5.35 Black London. 8.00 Film: 'Ambush Bay'.

London. 11.15 Strange 10.00 12.10 Frighteners. 12.35 report. Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.35 to remember. 11.00 Lon- Time don. 12.25 Talking | hands. 12.45 of a lifetime. 1.00 Let Journey 1.25 Love American them live. 3.15 "Film: style. 2.15 Soccer. 'The Swordsman'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.15 London.

'Destination Gobi. 8.00 Film: 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London.

11.15 Villains. 12.15 Weather.

• 7 and 41 HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 6.40-7.00 Llusern.

ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- vival. 11.00 London. 12.30 Dr 12.55 Cowboy in Simon Locke. Africa. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farm- ing. 2.30 Name of the game. 3.55 Match. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: London. 11.15 •Vicki. 9.30 Department S. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 Farming today. London. 12.30 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Soccer. 'Mozambique'. 4.45 3.00 Film: London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. Film: 'Nevada 8.00 Smith'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spy- force. 12.15 Stories worth telling.

Weather. ay October 7, 1972 Flintstones. 5.40 Sport. 6.10 London. 6.15 Branded. 6.45 Film: 'The Adventures Quentin Durward'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Vil- 10.30 lains. London. 10.40 0.40 Aquarius. 11.25 Journey to the ster- unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 UFO. 12.00 Lon- don. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London.

6.15 Film: 'Fort Apache'. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey to the unknown. 12.25 Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 The string. craftsmen. Sesame 10.35 11.35 street. Clapperboard. 12.00 London. 5.10 Big valley. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: "The Prodigal'. 8.25 Variety.

9.25 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: " Walked With a Zombie'. TYNE TEES: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. string. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 UFO. 12.00 Lon- don. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London.

'Sitting 6.15 Film: Bull'. 8.20 Cartoon. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Vil- lains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey to the unknown. 12.25 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery show. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Cartoon.

11.30 Osmonds. 12.00 London. 5.10 Bonanza. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Battleground'. 8.30 Variety.

9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Late call. 11.35 low. Spyforce. GRAMPIAN: 10.45 Beagan gaidh- Tomfoolery. lig. 11.00 11.30 Rumblie jumblie. 12.00 Loraon.

5.40 Protectors. 5.10 Batman. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: The Hallelujah Trail'. 8.30 Variety.

9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 10.40 5.10 Aquarius. 11.30 Jason King.

ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 3.15 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- er'. ing on shoestring. 1.30 a . 3.15 Film: Village of Daughters'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Sports results. 8.00 Film: 'Seven Ways From Sundown. 9.30 Lon- don. 11.15 Department S. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Calendar.. 1.55 Soccer.

2.50 Film: 'Stop the World I Want to Get Off'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: Maya'. 9.30 London. 11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30-10.30 London.

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

1.00 Bearcats. 1.50 Survival. 2.20 Football. 3.20 Film: 'Charlie's Big Hearted Aunt'. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: 'Belle Star'. 9.30 London.

11.20 All that jazz. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- ilm: look. 1.25 Something to sing about. 1.50 Where the jobs are.

ion. 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Film: 'Portrait bl. of Clare'. 4.40 Cartoon. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: 'Maya'. 9.30 London. 11.15 Challenge. 12.05 Football at night. Sur- SCOTTISH: 10.15 Master chefs.

10.30 Skilful rugby. 11.00 London.

12.30 To see ourselves. 1.00 Randall and Hopkirk. 2.00 Scots- 3.55 port. 3.25 Film: "The Last Man to Hang? 4.45 London. 5.35 ilm: Elephant boy. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: 'Apache Rifles'. 9.30 Lon- don. 11.15 Late call. 11.20 Strange report. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a 1.30 Farm shoestring. progress. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: 'Fools Rush In'. 4.40 London.

5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

8.00 Film: 'The House on Tele- graph Hill'. 9.30 London. 11.15 Untouchables.

BBC 1

10.00 Repondez s'il vous plait.

10.30 - 10.55 Aventura. 11.40 Co Weather. 11.45 Mr Benn. 12.00 Th Harlem globetrotters, 12.20 Bar- rier reet. 12.45 Grandstana. 12.50 Pla Football preview. 1.20 800 Grand- stands-a look back. 1.50, 2.20, 2.50, 3.25 Racing i from Ascot. 2.10, 2.35 Show jumping_from Wembley. 3.10, 3.45 Rugby Yorkshire Cup final. League. Dewsbury v Leeds. 4.40 Final 5.05 Mary Tyler Moore score. show. 5.30 News and weather.

5.45 Bruce Forsyth and the generation game. 6.35

DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.

The Fingerman. 7.25 THE TWO RONNIES. Ron- nie Barker and Ronnie Corbett with guests Alan Price and Georgie Fame. 8.10

FILM: 'THE FEARMAKERS'.

Dana Andrews, Mel Torme. A captain returns from the Korean War to find his business partner has died. 9.30 NEWS. Weather. 9.40

INTERNATIONAL

SHOW

JUMPING. Horse of the Year Show. 10.25

MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.25

PARKINSON.

12.25 Weather. Ray Charles Inimitable style Introduce Heat of the Night' on BBC 1's All Time Tom-type roles, plays a police medic s up against the Rod Stelger's Billy Gille well-tuned sol).

BBC 2

9.00-1.00 Open University. 4.10 Man at work. 4.35 Money at work.

5.30 Horizon. Tastes of Foods to Come. 6.15

NEWS REVIEW.

6.55 NEWS. Weather. 7.00

CAPTAIN NOAH AND HIS

FLOATING

ZOO. By Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz. 7.25

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

The Insect Man. A Tribute to Jean-Henri Fabre and Ralph Michael. 8.15

MANTOVANI

AND

HIS

CONCERT ORCHESTRA.

9.00 SCOOP. By Evelyn Waugh. Part 1 The Stitch Service.

With Harry Worth, Sheila Hancock. 9.30

KENNETH MORE IN SIX

FACES. Gallery of Faces. Kika Markham, Joss Ack- land. 10.20

FILM: 'ONE, TWO, THREE'.

James Horst Cagney, Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis. Billy Wilder's comedy about an American executive West Berlin. 12.05

NEWS

HEADLINES.

Weather.

ITV

9.00 You and your golf. 9.30 Collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 The Osmonds. 10.20 Merrie melodies. 10.30 Return to Peyton Plaçe. 10.55 Sesame street. 11.55 Junior police five. 12.00 World of sport. 12.05 International golf.

scot. 12.45 News. 12.50 On the ball B 1.15 International golf. 1.20 ITV six. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30 Racing from York. 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Ayr. 2.55 International golf.

3.50 Results, scores, news. 4.00 Wrestling. 4.50 Results service.

5.10 Black Beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

6.10 NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 THE ADVENTURER. Poor Little Rich Girl.

FILM: 'PEYTON PLACE'.

6.45 Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Ken- nedy. Small town American life. 9.30 SATURDAY VARIETY. Lon- nie Donegan. Keith Harris, Lily Yokoi, Lionel Blair and The Saturday Dancers.

10.30

NEWS FROM ITN.

10.40 McCLOUD. Top of the World, Ma!'. 12.00

MISCELLANY.

SPYFORCE. The Cripple. 12.05 Introduces the credits to Norman Jewison's 3 All Time Greats on Sunday 8.15. Sidney Pol a medic sent to investigate a murder in the di Billy Gillespie, a slothful, racialist cop. See

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan.

9.30 Repondez s'il vous 10.00 Aventura. Reformed church. 11.35 A job worth doing? 12.00 Design by design. 12.25 Search for the 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made ideal. Britain. 1.30 Jimmy Young in asks. 1.55 News and weather. 2.00 Chigley. 2.15 Ken Dodd. 2.25 Story theatre. 2.50 Where there's brass. 3.15 Ask Aspel.

3.40 Tom and Jerry. 3.50 Film: 'An Affair to Remember'. Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr. 5.40 Hole in the wall. 6.05 NEWS. Weather.

6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET.

6.50 SONGS OF PRAISE.

7.25 THE ONEDIN LINE. Fetch and Carry.

8.15 FILM: 'IN THE HEAT OF

THE

Sidney Poitier, Rod Murder mystery set in the deep South. 10.00 NEWS. Weather. 10.15 OMNIBUS. The Body as a medium of expression.

11.05 KENNETH HARRIS INTER-

VIEWS.

Laker, Freddie chairman of Laker Airways.

S. 11.50 Weather.

BBC 2

9.35-1.00 Open University. 3.00 Film: 'Wild River'. Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick. Jo Van Fleet.

4.45 Play away. 5.10 Swimmy. 5.15 Trans-African hovercraft. 6.05 MAN ALIVE. Out of School, Out of Work. 6.55

TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.10 NEWS, SPORT. Weather. 7.20

RUGBY

SPECIAL

1972. Introduced by Cliff Mor- gan. 8.10 WAR AND PEACE. Sounds of War. 8.55 OWEN WINGRAVE. Ben- jamin Britten's television opera. 10.45 NEWS ON 2. Weather. 10.50 FILM NIGHT. Preview of films including 'Hammer- smith is Out' with Eliza- beth Taylor and Richard Burton.

FILM: "THE THIRD VOICE'.

11.25 Edmond O Brien, Julie London, Laraine Day. Jewison's treble Oscar winner 'in the slaney Poltier, In one of his less Uncle r in the deep south. He naturally comes cop. See It in colour if you can (on a

ITV

ran. 9.30 Morning service. 10.30 Return to Peyton Place. 11.00 Weekend world. 12.30: Forest rangers. 1.00 Film: "The Prodigal Son. Ron Ely as Tarzan, 1.50 The Brian Connell interviews.

ung 2.15 The big match. 3.15 The ner. persuaders! 4,20 Golden shot. da. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15 ADAM SMITH. Andrew Keir. 6.45

THY_ KINGDOM COME.

7.00 APPEAL.

7.05

STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.30

DOCTOR IN CHARGE. A

Long Day's Journey into Knighthood.

8.00 FILM 'SEVEN WOMEN'.

Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Eddie Albert. Story of a mission on the Chinese-Mongolian border in 1935. 9.30

THE STANLEY BAXTER

PICTURE SHOW.

10.00

NEWS.

10.15

PLAY: 'WHEN THE MUSIC

STOPS'.

Edward Fox, Donald Churchill, Mary Peach. ER- 11.15 THE FBI. The Courier. er, 12.15

MISCELLANY.

12.25

SIX DATES WITH BARKER.

Ronnie Barker in 1915: Lola.

ALL TRADES

UNIONS

ALLIANCE

BRACKNELL: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. The ATUA national conference.' COVENTRY: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. 'Market Tavern'. Junction Street (off the Butts). 'ATUA conference' BIRMINGHAM: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. Lecture Room 3, Digbeth Civic Hall. 'ATUA conference'.

WEALDSTONE: Tuesday Octo- ber 10, 8 p.m. Wealdstone Labour Hall, Station Approach, Station Road.

'ATUA

confer- ence'. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Selkirk Road. SW17. 'ATUA conference'.

WILLESDEN: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hail, High Road, NW10. 'ATUA conference' CLAPHAM: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Clapham Baths, Clapham Street. SW4. 'ATUA con- Manor ference' MANCHESTER: Wednesday October 11, 7.30 p.m. Mil- ton Hall, Deansgate. 'Fight the rent Act! Build Councils of Action!' SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday October 12, 8 p.m. Deptford En- gineers' Club. New opposite 'The ATUA con- Cross Station. ference'. LEICESTER: Thursday October 12, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Hotel'. Rut- land Street. 'ATUA conference'.

KENT: Thursday October 19, 8 p.m. 'The Legion' Burgess 'Reinstate Wil- Road Ayiesham. liam Griffiths fitters. Prepare the conference.' Speakers:

ATUA

A Griffiths' striker and leading Kent miner (both in a personal capacity) DAGENHAM: Tuesday October 17, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall. Fanshawe Barking the Avenue. 'Force Tories to resign. CENTRAL LONDON (Entertain- ments and press branch): Sun- day October 15, 7 p.m. London School of Film Technique, 24 Shelton Street. WC2. Speaker: Royston Bull. industrial corres- pondent of The Scotsman' (in a personal canacity) Socialist Labour League

LECTURES

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

Given by G. Healy (SLL national secretary) in London; Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee member) in Leeds.

Historlcal materialism today Sunday October 8

EAST HAM TOWN HALL

Lister Room Barking Road, 7 p.m. The Marxist theory of knowledge Monday October 9

GUILDFORD HOTEL

Headrow, 8 p.m. The nature of capitalism Monday October 16

PEEL HOTEL

Boar Lane, 8 p.m. Historical materialism today Monday October 23

PEEL HOTEL

Boar Lane, 8 p.m. Bullding the revolutionary party Monday October 30

PEEL HOTEL

Boar Lane, 8 p.m. Dialectical materialism Sunday October 8, 7.30 p.m.

PARTICK BURGH HALL

Speaker: lan McAlman

BY IAN YEATS

THE ATTEMPTED as- sassination of Vanguard William Craig leader marks another step in the descent into blind terror and civil war in Ulster. Safe at his home on Wed- nesday night after gunmen had earlier sprayed the car he was driving with bullets, Craig immediately hinted at a Protestant backlash against the IRA. Indeed evidence has been mounting for some time of in- creased anti-Catholic-IRA activi- ties by Protestant extremists.

On Wednesday night Catholic Patrick Connelly (23) and three other members of his family were killed and injured when a bomb was thrown into his Portadown home. Now anti-Catholic a new council is to be set up, with Craig as president, to wage a 'vigorous campaign' against pro- portional representation.

The council will include Van-

FROM ALEX MITCHELL

LABOUR PARTY chair- man Anthony Wedgwood Benn yesterday called for a mass political action, starting with the Lincoln by-election, to force a General Election. 'We have demanded General Election—we have demanded it now, he said, He said the Lincoln by-election announced 50 minutes before he made his speech provided that opportunity. in Benn's rallying-cry, the closing minutes of the 71st in Labour Party conference Blackpool, came at the end of a week during which he steered the assiduously con- ference through a series of right- wing manoeuvres which leave the leadership free to crawl to the Tories. resigned Without mentioning Lincoln MP. Dick Taverne, QC, by name, Benn said: 'He would never be able to do us any damage. He said a Democratic Labour candidate was being put up, but the candidate was neither demo- cratic nor Labour. As he ranted against the pro- CONFERENCE backed the NEC statement demanding a new gov- initiative on Northern ernment Ireland. But an emergency resolution demanding a party programme on the Province was remitted to the executive, which had reserva- tions on one or two points.

The resolution had urged a ending programme including internment, enacting an Ulster Bill of Rights, banning gun clubs and disarming their members and declaring support in prin- ciple for a united Ireland.

The NEC statement regretted he scene MacStiofain : Interviewed by 'L'Espresso'. guard, the Loyalist Association of Workers, the Ulster Defence Association, Orange Volunteers and the Association of Ex-B- Specials. On Thursday the UDA admit- ted responsibility for an un- precedented across - the - border raid into Eire for arms, pre- sumably destined for use pri- marily against Catholiçs and the

IRA.

Admitting responsibility, a UDA spokesman said: 'Until the government of the Republic deals with the terrorists who have been using its territory as a base against Northern Ireland, they will hear from the UDA again and again? It is not only against Catholics that Protestant extremists are venting their frustration. More and more their anger is turned against all those who appear to threaten them, including even the army.

ITCHELL IN BLACKPOOL

Common Market faction in the Party and the Tory government, entire National Executive Committee on the platform, in- cluding Party leader Harold Wilson, looked distinctly uncom- fortable. And when the delegates broke into cheers it was noticeable that scarcely

NEC

member one joined in the huge ovation.

Benn singled out the editor of 'The Times', William Rees-Mogg, for a special vitriolic attack.

He said that last Saturday, for the first time in British political history, a political party had been invented by the press. The article referred to by Benn was the results of a poll which asked people what sort of party they would like to support.

The findings showed a significant body of opinion was in favour of a centre-left group which included pro-Marketeers Labour Roy Jenkins and Shirley Williams.

Benn said 'The Times' exercise like designing some soap was detergent or beer. 'As I said earlier in this con- ference, in our history we have taken on kings, landowners and factory owners. Now we are taking, on the mass media.'

He said that people must un- mistakably show their will as the giant media tried to exert themselves at the polling booth.

the failure of the Darlington talks and the continued violence still occurring in Ulster.

It deplored the government 'intention' to take no further initiative until the end of the urgent and demanded year, new action. The statement called for further new attempts to achieve talks, first between all-party Westminster and Stormont, leading to talks with Dublin. The talks should consider the 15-point programme put forward by the Parliamentary Labour Party last November. Workers Press, Saturday October 7, 1972 PAGE 11 visionals chief of staff Sean MacStiofain small hope leaves of the IRA that either wing IS back on their about to turn its policies. terror MacStiofain was perfectly right to tell 'L'Espresso' that peace in Ulster impossible without was the withdrawal of British troops, an amnesty for all internees and Protestant and conterence ot Catholic | groups on the future of the province. But the burning question is how is this to be achieved? In MacStiofain's view it will be as result of continued terror.

a He of his went out way to stress that even in the unlikely the Tories showing event willingness to negotiate on some the terms he set out, no truce would be possible. He said the fighting would go on simultan- eously with the talks. was to be Although there no let-up in the IRA's terror tactics, MacStiofain said there would be switch bombing to trom assassinations in order to protect civilians. innocent attempted the Presumably Craig part of murder of was this. But acts of individual terror political substitute for are no perspective and programme.

of After nearly four years hostilities and state repression, that the IRA refuses to this line of thought leads in- evitably straight back to square one. There has only ever been one On Wednesday night two off- way of uniting Ulster's Protestant duty soldiers the driving along and Catholic workers, of ending Protestant Newtownards strongly internment and of securing the Road, Belfast, were seriously withdrawal of British troops. injured after a confrontation with This is through the building

UDA

patrol. large, masked, Marxist of the revolutionary The troopers claimed bricks were linking British and Irish party, thrown through the windscreen workers in a united fight to force of their civilian car. the Tory government to resign Ulster Minister William White- and return a Labour government law has appealed to the 'murder forced to carry which must be gangs' of both sides to desist out socialist policies. after the assassination of two the nationalization Based on and Catholic young Protestant of all major industries without workers earlier this week.

compensation and under workers' The killings brought the num- these policies alone are control, ber of deaths in Ulster this year capable of coming to grips with 379- of them since July. to the economic crisis which lies at On Thursday there were more of the problems facing the root Ulster and bomb Killings when a 50lb ex- the working Class in ploded at the without warning throughout Britain. Pro- Capitol Bar where both The this perspective turn drink. testants and Catholics and the building of a new, prin- This week's 'we-start-shooting' cipled, Marxist leadership in the end Official working class requires an announcement by of terror and a clean break with Wednesday's interview IRA and by Pro- reformism. in Rome magazine The dally. paper that leads the fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) 210.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 1.2 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Clapham High St., cIrculation Dept., Workers Press London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Women councillor backs PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Octob TENANTS in South Shields yester press allegations of 'mob rule' and o of the local council earlier in the we It is six weeks before council tenants can be asked to pay the rent increases which will follow the collapse of Labour opposition on the council. Already 100 tenants on a private trust estate are with- holding an increase of £l, how- ever. The special statement issued by South Shields union branches and the tenants' federation re- 'grossly distorted butted the picture of events' painted by the 'South Shields Gazette' report of Wednesday's lobby.

It went on to hit out at coun- cillors who 'indulge in the luxury of their own conscience to vote against the policy of their party in betrayal their election • pledge and in defiance of their electors'. OVER 200 tenants attended a meeting at the Fort Ardwick estate, Manchester, on Thurs- day. Mrs Connie Fahey, secre- tary of the Manchester tenants' association, said that in Altrin- cham the rent collector had admitted that over 95 per cent of tenants had refused to pay the increase. No one could be evicted, she said, until they were £25 arrears. 'Commando squads' would be out every day. The only way to win, said Mrs Fahey 'is to clear the Tories out? Manchester regional secretary of the building union, UCATT, Jack Lavett, brought support to the meeting from his union. "Tenants have organized like the trade unions and if the TUC carried out militant policy a forced by the rank and file, the situation could move to a General Election.' All Trades Unions Alliance member Ian Hampson made a call for Councils of Action.

'In Liverpool on Monday 5,000 tenants and trade unionists voted on a policy to make the Tories through the building of resign Councils of Action. 'The Tories can and must be forced out. This is the policy that tenants will fight on.' Other speakers from various Manchester tenants' associations emphasized their determination.

not to pay the rent increases.

The meeting took a unanimous vote to continue the action against the rent Act and to step up the 'commando raids'-follow- ing rent collectors and picketing town halls-planned this week.

It- also elected a committee to in the Manchester fight area against the increases.

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Each day the Labour leaders move closer to the Tories. At Blackpool this week, they have no policy to challenge the gov- ernment on the huge rent in- creases, growing unemployment and constant price increases which face workers everywhere.

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day October 7, 1972 İs yesterday bitterly attacked local le' and 'outside agitation' at a lobby n the week. councillor: THE LABOUR - con- trolled city council in amendmer Labour Coventry has begun col- Williams lecting 54p a week rent resolves n increases. At the same the Housi time it is to ask the Housing Minister to give councillor: a further dispensation amendmer and grant a nil rent in- Tories the crease because Coventry 'traitors' has £lm surplus in the gallery. Housing Revenue Account. Coventry . will not 1 The Housing Minister crease. Tl has only just reduced the the rent s £l rent increase to 54p and known made clear that this was the week final. The Tory government lected fr will take no notice of yet Thursday. another council telegram.

At Wednesday's council one of the meeting only three Labour

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WORKERS at the occupied Britis stoke fear that national union officia their 12-week struggle against sa Thornycroft transmission and heav the factory on August 15 to stop Le plant. The buyers, the Eaton Cor- poration of Ohio, were sup- posed to have taken over last Monday. They bought the fac- tory off Leyland for £2}m.

Eaton's only have a three- year lease on the plant and want tó cut back the labour force.

workers Thornycroft say Eaton's have plans to shift much of the work to their Bolton fac- tory and will eventually close down the Basingstoke plant.

Tuesday Lowry, On Pat British-Leyland's industrial rela- tions officer, travelled to Black- pool for a five-hour meeting with national officials at the Labour Party conference. meeting is now A further planned in York for next Wed- nesday. And on the following day Eaton's will join the discussions.

At the Blackpool meeting British-Leyland promised officials plans of their future hiving-off

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Raise all you can. Post all dona- tions immediately to: Workers Press October Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. МИНІНІ MILITANT council tenants in Manchester continued their cam.

paign against Tory rent rises yesterday with their second picket of the city hall in two days. They argued with tenants who were going in the building to pay their rent. About 50 per cent said they would not pay the increase. One from the Miles man for the amendm councillors voted for an amendment moved by Workers Press: councillor Jim "The Labour c Williams 'that this Council going to the Mi resolves not to implement ask for further the Housing Finance Act'.

tion, but meanw. implementing the When other Labour 'A considerable councillors voted down the of tenants have : amendment along with the are not going to Tories there were cries of increase. They hav 'traitors' from the public to be very deter all the meetings Many tenants throughout attended. Coventry have stated they 'As a council will not pay the rent in- haven't paid this crease. The full extent of myself and I dor the rent strike will not be to pay it. There known until the end of no • rent the week as rents are col- especially as the lected from Monday to has £lm surplus. Thursday. tenants are payin Cilr Mrs C. Shortland, as it is. one of the three who voted I have taken t

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ed British-Leyland plant in Basing- on officials may try and compromise gainst sackings. Engineers at the and heavy gear box plant took over stop Leyland's plans to hive off the and manpower policy, said Tom Lewis, occupation committee member, yesterday. 'Apparently Leyland said they have already raised their f25m cash they were after. All we've found out about their future plans is that they want to hive- off two more factories involving 400 workers." The occupation committee is strongly opposed to next Wed- nesday's meeting. diabolical,' added Tom 'It's Lewis. It seems they want to separate us off from Leyland as a whole. I think they would like o clear us out of the way of a possible agreement with Leyland on their future policy. 'As far as we are concerned there shouldn't be a meeting at all. Leyland is in breach of a redundancy agreement they made with us last year. We shouldn't speak to them in this situation.'

"The only guarantee we've got is our ability to fight to keep our jobs. It would be wrong to we're suspicious of the say officials. But we have national our fears and that's why we're going to lobby the York meeting This view forcefully was national expressed to AUEW official Bill John at Blackpool by Thornycroft convenor Gordon Owen-Jones and Leyland con- venor Len Brindle. Yesterday the morning shift at the Basingstoke plant passed a motion declaring that no • deal was to be signed by a national official. Any Leyland offer had to be first brought back to the factory. They will be sending a coach load of men to York to lobby the Wednesday meeting. •Eaton's have again this week offered a 'guarantee' of work to 737 men for a 15-month period— subject to 'market conditions'.

But Thornycroft workers point Eaton's out that considering future production plans, there is not even enough work for this number. Bob Cars, Beswick council Platting among the 100- area tenants' said the first queue told me bitterly leader strong of their campaign were results ( that he simply could not afford good: to pay the increase. "There considerable "The rent where I live has in- We did resistance on our estate.

to f7 a week. I have survey of 290 houses and 44 creased said they had not paid the in- two growing children and a total crease. Only 27 said they'd paid.'

income of £25. This fl the Tories Elsewhere in Manchester flying have put on us is a direct blow against my kids and their right pickets were out on the estates to join the cam- with a decent urging tenants to grow up paign against the increases.

standard of living.' That paying £6.50 rent. amendment, told right trom the beginning.

would have voted as I did doesn't take into account even if I had been on my council is electricity. (These rents refer to all the high Minister to own. blocks in further dispensa- tower i central I will fight for anybody it is Coventry.) meanwhile who I think is being dealt nting the Act. with wrongly. support I think if all the Labour nsiderable number the old pensioners. age councils had not imple- nts have said they supported the Young mented the law they would going to pay the Socialists' Right-to-Work have had support from all They have seemed And march. don't forget, working, the The class. determined at private tenants are also threats regarding fines, etc.

meetings have going to pay extra in councillors the Act on anuary. have made me more deter- tenant I council "This Tory Act is all mined than ever. this increase I have had tenants wrong. "There should be a cam- and I don't intend come to me aready about There should be get this govern- paign to the so-called rebates. has increase at all, ment out. never the *A single been good for the council woman came any Council She is £17 working class. I think surplus. to me. earning are paying enough week. Under this Act Labour government should she gets no rebate at all take over the land and the re taken this stand though she will be banks.

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the told Workers Press that he tenants on hoped this fight would spread Caldwell, Grove Farm and throughout the country and Camp Hill estates in Nuneaton force the Tories to take note.

have organized a liaison com- the At this stage action was mittee to co-ordinate a plan added: But, he only a protest. of action. If I had there'd be a my way, General Strike to get the Tories Meetings of 200 tenants at out tomorrow Grove Farm, 150 at Caldwell and who The Liverpool dockers over 100 at Camp Hill voted to Monday arainst the struck on form tenants' associations, refuse rent rises had shown the way, the rent increases of fl and pay he said. And he spoke bitterly of to the association the increases the Labour councillors who had for a fighting fund. dropped their opposition to the During the Camp Hill estate, 300 tenants recent canvass on Tories' Act. niner from the Daw Mill A association. colliery, joined They Richard Milburn, agreed to that the big struggle tought that have gone which had taken place against rent man to the fund via com- the government over the last nine mittee members. months would be nothing to the Norman Ardle, a Labour Party which was coming this one member and a Keresley miner, winter. The Send for delegates' and observers' cre- dentials from: Conference Secretary, R. Goldstein, 103 Lewis Flats, Dalston Lane, London E8 GROCL TRAMI PIORA DUSTOM, LOMOOM, I1.5A. COACHES PROM OTHEM ARRAS Union. Branch Names, addresses and No of delegates/observers I enclose € as delegates fees Signature of secretary