Workers Press no. 891

workers press

UNION CHIEFS ONLY DISAGREE OVER THE CEILING

TUC AGREES

TORY STATE

PAY PLAN

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11 1972 • No 891 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

closer to THE TUC GENERAL COUNCIL yesterday moved accepting state control of wages by the Tories. It reaffirmed its opposi- tion to the £2 limit on rises proposed by Heath, but endorsed the alternative package of its own economic committee. There is no difference in principle between this and the Tory proposal.

Despite some left-wing opposi- of rather than a f2 limit, but are prepared to tion to the whole process' settle for t2.00 or tz./).

talks between the TUC, the Since the TUC has already accepted Confederation of British In- the government's right to call the tune on pay, it is a ready well on the - way dustry and the government, a fully-fledged system of state next Monday's meeting of these regulation of Tories nant to back up this state une bodies is still firmly on.

control with the Industrial Rela- wage tions Act already on the statute book.

When continuing opposition This is the logic of the decision by the talks with the government and the the 194,000 leaders of government in- CBI was put to the vote, only iWO dustrial workers to accept binding arbi- General Council members stood firm their members Claim Lation George Doughty of the engineering pay In crease the 110,000 Already power workers- Technical and Supervisory union's leader, Frank Chapple of the Elec- whose Section, and Alan Sapper of the cine- trical and Plumbing Trades Union. was in matograph technicians. an extremely jovial mood following yester- But whatever the left' and other •dis- day's General Council -have had meeting- like think, lack of real senters' to may claim reduced. Laci Day Instead of the expected claim for £5.50 Has duowee me near wint the TUC General Council to prepare for minimum oportionately on semi-skilled and skilled workers negotiations, which must re-

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their " from Chapple lodged LICal CYCl

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proposals. neconaline team other words, they would like a E3.40 limit a claim for £5.50 across the board.

will certainly evidence in the near future backstage deals Ther mones of TUC-ory talks. made over Durine these six montas the left of the

TUC

have the mildest only chanentes Lner Con tinuation the right

TUC

Congress last month nOT single challenged the Jett ender of state regula- ton ot wages. And at the conference LaDoul Part last week the big unions sat silent smallel ortanizanons the scribed talks around the the trade union movement Walter Anderson, leader the union able Wy die In reterring to tne alternative package: 'It's all gone through. See Feather's Chapple: Jovial mood Sapper: Opposed talks comments p. 12. 4p

OCTOBER 11 1972

• No 891

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Heath's £2 pay limit had 'a rough passage' print union chief Richard Briginshaw (below) said after yesterday's General Council. But the talks with the Tories will go on.

OCTOBER

FUND £130.27

A LONG

WAY TO GO

IT'S GETTING better but we still have a long way to go.

Our target is £1,750 to collect by the end of this month. Let us build up our campaign in the areas immediately. leaders' The trade union proposal to accept a ceiling on wages is just another step in the direction of this Tory government. Prices continue to rise, rents continue to go up and the only action these union leaders propose is to join up with the Tories against the working class. Workers Press is needed more than ever today organiz- ing workers everywhere fight back. An alternative revolutionary leadership must be built. Let's make an all-out effort for our October Fund. Don't leave it to the end of the month. Raise all you can to- day—if possible add an extra amount. Post every donation immediately to: Workers Press October Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. scare

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BOILERMAKERS' president Dan McGarvey was yester- day joined by the employers in trying to scare 3,800 Swan Hunter strikers on Tyneside into returning to work. McGarvey said that if the men did not return to work their shipyards could close and some might not reopen.

The union leader was backed by Sir John Hunter, chairman of the shipbuilding group, who claimed: 'If things go on indefi- nitely, the whole Tyne will be ruined and there will be no ship- building on the river.' Swan Hunter's have a £110m order book which is being hit by the walk-out, now in its sixth week. The boilermakers are demand- ing a £4.72 per week cost-of- living bonus and claim that boilermakers elsewhere get higher pay than they do. So far, the management has refused to discuss the claim before work. to return McGarvey is seeking to rescue the management. 'Swan Hunter's are in difficul- ties' he pleaded yesterday. "They cannot get credit for some of the orders they already have.'

workers press

UNION CHIEFS ONLY DISAGREE OVER THE CEILING

TUC AGREES

TORY STATE

PAY PLAN

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 11 1972 • No 891 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE TUC GENERAL COUNCIL

closer to yesterday moved accepting state control of wages by the Tories. It reaffirmed its opposi- tion to the £2 limit on rises proposed by Heath, but endorsed the alternative package of its own economic committee. There is no difference in principle between this and the Tory proposal.

Despite some left-wing opposi- of rather than a £2 limit, but are prepared to tion to the 'whole process' settle for f2.50 or £2.75.

TUC, the talks between the Since the TUC has already accepted Confederation of British In- the government's right to call the tune way It is already well on the the dustry and government, a fully-fledged system of state next Monday's meeting of these WaDI the ores bodies is still firmly on.

control with the Industrial Rela- wage tions Act already on the statute book.

When continuing opposition This is the logic of the decision by the talks with the government and the the 194,000 leaders of government in- CBI was put to the vote, only two dustrial workers to accept binding arbi- General Council members stood firm their members' for George Doughty of the engineering pay sues annal Increase Already the 110,000 Technical Supervisory union's and Dower worKers- leader, Frank Chapple of the Elec- whose Section, and Alan Sapper of 'the cine- trical and Plumbing Von was i matograph technicians. an extremely jovial mood following yester- But whatever the 'left' and other 'dis- day's General Council -have had meeting like think, lack of real senters' may to call rcuucca. has allowed the right wing Instead of the expected claim for £5.50 opposition the TUC General Council to prepare for rates, proportionately on negotiations, which must involve re- semi-skilled and skilled workers, 11101C 1U1 their tron Chapple and team lodged lical cycl

OWIL

proposals n1s negotiating other words, they would like a £3.40 limit a claim for £5.50 across the board.

There certainly be the backstage deals made over six months of TUC-Tory talks.

During these six montns the left of the

TUC

have only the mildest ssued con- caulences usel tinuation the right

TUC

At Congress last month 101 challenged the lett leader principle of state regula- ot wages. And at the conference ILa DOUr last week the big unions sat silent smaller orranzauors oe. scribed talks the noose around the neck the trade union movement water Anderson, leader able W an in reterro alternative package: 'It's all gone through. Feather's See Chapple: Jovial mood Sapper: Opposed talks comments p. 12. OCTOBER 11 1972 • No 891 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Heath's £2 pay limit had 'a rough passage', print union chief Richard Briginshaw (below) said after yesterday's General Council. But the talks with the Tories will go on.

OCTOBER

FUND £130.27

• A LONG

WAY TO GO

IT'S GETTING better but we still have a long way to go.

Our target is £1,750 to collect by the end of this month. Let us build up. our campaign in the areas immediately. leaders' The trade union proposal to accept a ceiling on wages is just another step in the direction of this Tory government. Prices continue to rise, rents continue to go up and the only action these union leaders propose Is to join up with the Tories against the working class. Workers Press is needed more than ever today organiz.

ing workers everywhere to fight back. An alternative revolutionary leadership must be built. Let's make an all-out effort for our October Fund. Don't leave it to the end of the month. Raise all you can to- day—if possible add an extra amount. Post every donation immediately to: Workers Press October Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St. London, SW4 7UG scare

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BOILERMAKERS' president Dan McGarvey was yester- day joined by the employers in trying to scare 3,800 Swan Hunter strikers on Tyneside into returning to work. McGarvey said that if the men did not return to work their shipyards could close and some might not reopen.

The union leader was backed by Sir John Hunter, chairman of the shipbuilding group, who claimed: 'If things go on indefi- nitely, the whole Tyne will be ruined and there will be no ship- building on the river.? Swan Hunter's have a £110m order book which is being hit by the walk-out, now in its sixth week. The boilermakers are demand- ing a £4.72 per week cost-of- claim living bonus and that boilermakers elsewhere get higher pay than they do. So far, the management. has to discuss the claim refused before return to work. McGarvey is seeking to rescue the management. 'Swan Hunter's are in difficul- ties' he pleaded yesterday. 'They cannot get credit for some of the orders they already have?

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday October 11, 1972 Awami League 'killed left wingers' MAULANA BASHANI, leader of the Bangladesh National Awami Party has accused the ruling Awami League of killing 19,000 left- wingers in the nine months since independence. He accused the Lal Bahini—the private army of the Sramik League, the labour wing of the Awami League-and the Mujib Bahini, supporters of the prime minister, of 'secret killings.

Informed Bengalis Secret London regard Bashani's figure for the number of killings exaggerated, as though there is no doubt that political murders have been widespread. Bashani himself narrowly killings' escaped assassination allelmpl lasl mollu. bashanı is toe olsta•- figure ing the Bangladesh, with ToNOWC annone become pea Atran has alleged in Awami Home LalLeL. NeCCully Minister

ADON

Valoi anl accused the Maulana of polltical murders destroying independence. The League's propaganda Bangladesh as so coe OC OlLe treacherous Peking position of support for Pakistan and Bangladesh ODO IUll UN. entry _Toe Daskal himself. has publicly attacked the Chinese policy une Leakuc Tóday it serves to bolster attempts to identify him headed by Sheikh Mujibur tided go quens frequently with Peking. against the regime of Mujib, whose Rahman. nave spear- left-wing the His "The militants in immense popularity is wear- lewspape neadea a virulent campaign past few months factories. thin after nine Truth' has closed alleged "banditry" days of League Last year, down ov coveramenr orocı asallsl hwaill together with other left- and subversion', before the Pakistani army • Flections for a new govern.

ment are due to be held, wing opposition papers. Sramik League in what began its massacres probably March headed by bands named Abdul Mannan was The armed wien Last Denzdi. Home Minister- Sramik League squads and Bashani is the -not the vedl. basnam ae Illalll one Dacca factory only record of entered serious bulwark the shaky notUlIous against Mujib. Awami League government, strikebreaking to kill hve NAP supporters amo nas Cold water on Vietnam deal Cattenst the us-Banerad called uprising

US PRESIDENTIAL

Lon Nol Henry Kissinger met North regime. Le Vietnamese negotiator The Saigon government has Duc Tho yesterday for the estimated. 10,000 the capital third time in three days, the north to

LIOUUS

fight oi longest session since the two Darralo -saed

IOICC

liberation troops about 12 miles men began secret talks three from the city centre. years ago. The liberation troops, split up

ACCORDING

to yesterday's Clydebank-Mara- But both sides poured vesterdar "Times', the nave InTO smidt vinS were cold water on the idea that the to be holding out, reported 'an Loon seruenenl deserves aerial bombard- settlement despite heavy honorable place in the unique Lalks mcal imminent. history of labour the menl. Liberation forces are closer to American h-»nom nerd Livat Saigon than time attacked targets around Hué and since .any in the north of South It was 'an act of self-rehabilita- ure er oersive m 1700 ana Vale 111 tion by the workers, says this Cambodia Prince Sihanouk has Vietnam. the ruling class, • ot 1ory babel bemoaning ralCu elsewhere Spanish mothers demand have the same type of leader- Sillp. The Stalinist lams the daal education facilities deal as acclaims Coulsc. one oi tne greatest

WOIKII..

The work- cla s vé tories ev d. T) the Stalinist claims, FIFTY mothers with their children demonstrated in front of prevented the Ridley "butcher" the town hall in Valladolid on Monday against the lack of plan being operated Une Clyde and won 'the demand school-places for their children. This followed a demonstration 15 over the last pursued by over 200 mothers and children in Ermua in the Basque montis to teram au our varo.

and all jobs'. provinces against the lack of facilities for their children.

This unity between the bourgeois A report published over the and Stalinist press breed The opening Madrid and closer examination. weekend Madrid revealed Barcelona universities has been 100,000 Certainly, capitalist that working- when The the that Times'

DICLOAL

like class children without are ncwsbdoc] there enough places ПO1 starts pra sink school places this year. a victory Il 1s available for students. 'Victory time whom?' This break-down of the educa- In Barcelona, 4,500 students tional system is also part of the have registered for The courses. Communist Party steward James crisis in thẹ universities which for aulnoriues nac planneu Re ow ea æ de c franco has Just purgea oi oppo- intake mum number of unemployed new SuldentS sition. Doctor Caballero, the university will be fewer one time any •Society commented:

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Than ou axo unal no-one be out of work for more than Wants everooov

SIUOV

SOUL

this is impossible. In the present four weeks. circumstances, there no But the engagement by Marathon univeisily. of the total Civdebank …aDol

CIRCULATION

force depends on a number of In Madrid the government has factors which are alc dowa aes somdon (TO unve- of these is the sity overcrowding; disciplinary sett ed. One council of three winning of orders for convert- 01-622 7029 ing vessels into drill established been lana has not yet punishment stud- Marathon to anu-ranco

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ents, including the penalty of obtained these orders. instant expulsion. Another the transfer orders from Marathon's other

NEWS DESK

There cash in abundance facilities Clydebank. Mara- for cementing cultural ties with thon executive chier anes Fox said, ominously, that walraw Poland has onica of this will depend on Clydebank 01-720 2000 signed a cultural has just quicker achie ng denvery University and low costs'. arcene r wila at Salamanca. Spanish consul Not only are future jobs not recently presented the Poles with 1,300 tomes of Spanish literature.

erious election rival to Mujib claims spate The Awami League forms a government of landlords and capitalists which can solve none of the colossal problems facing the and peasants of workers Bangladesh. Unemployment continues to groW and starvation is the order of ves to bolster the day for millions who Mujib, whose have returned from en- larity 1s wear- forced exile in India. nine months rule. The Awami League's use of political terror against i new govern- the opposition is an indic- to be held, next ation of the crisis facing shani is the Mujib's regime and its inability to keep the sup- contender port of the Bengali masses.

guaranteed, but the 'victory' claims gloss over the unpala- table fact that over 2,500 UCS jobs were lost in the course of the work-in. And unem- ployment in the West of Scot- land went up by 17,000. During the same period hard- unemployment through- core out Britain seriously increased.

All this was a result of calcu- lated Tory policies. Yet the Stalinists deliberately obscured the political impli- cation of the UCS struggle.

They refused to mobilize the nationwide working-class sup- port for the Clyde men behind a campaign to bring down the Tory government. Jobs will not be safe on the Clyde or anywhere else as long as the Heath gang re- mains in office. The choice fac- • ing the working class is clear: either bring the Tories down or knuckle under. Right at the beginning of the work-in-on August 10, 1971 -Reid declared: We have kept clear of politics. Our job is to save UCS. Political issues may come into it, but only in the fight to save UCS and not in bringing From starting out by refusing to fight the Tories, the Stalinists ended up by accepting the AGRICULTURAL export earn- ings of the so-called developing falling further countries are behind those of the advanced capitalist countries, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Commodity The FAO's Review and Outlook for 1971- 1972 said that in 1971 develop- countries' earnings from ing agricultural exports dropped while those of developed coun- tries went on rising. The developing countries share of world agricultural trade has been falling for the last ten years and at the same time the rise in prices of im- ports of manufactured goods from Europe and America has produced, a fall in the purchas- ing power of their agricultural exports. value of world agricultural the re- only slightly last year, ports said. But while the centres of capitalism in the US, Europe and Japan showed a rise of some £784m in the value of their trade, that of 'developing' the countries dropped by about £164m. The FAO report is a further the worsening indication of terms of trade for the colonial and ex-colonial countries of Africa, and . Latin Asia America, which are being squeezed out even of the mar- kets they once had by the im- perialist powers. Tories' strategy. They allowed the government to use the threat of growing unemploy- ment to secure a worsening of working conditions on the Clyde. At Marathon this means the loss of six-months' bonus if pro- duction schedules set by the employers are not met. The bonus is also lost if the workers put in less than 900 hours in six months due to any reason not accepted by Marathon. Since the Stalinists have also accepted compulsory arbitra- tion, this amounts to a no- strike pledge with built-in penalties. And this is valid for four years. Yet co-operation with the em- ployer is the order of the day for Reid, who declared yester- day: 'We can now concentrate to make a success of the Marathon venture' The Stalinist 'victory' consists providing the employer with a labour force committed to reduced working conditions and with the constant threat of unemployment hanging over its head. The UCS deal can only encour- age the Tories. The Stalinists have strengthened the govern- ment in its determination to drive down workers' condi- tions. Reid, Airlie and McGarvey have assured Heath of the con- tinued collaboration of the 'lefts', Stalinists and Labour while the attack on wages, prices and jobs is rents, speeded up. Coming as it does at a time when the TUC seeks closer collaboration with the govern- ment's state pay plan and the Labour leaders' move towards coalition, this settlement repre- sents not a victory, but a set- back for the working class.

GAS PRICES

may goup record- again in spite of breaking sales and a £l5m surplus for the industry last year. This is indicated in yesterday's report from annual the Gas Council which disclosed the sales record and surplus along with statements from some area boards on the need for gas price increases. The council's report says that eight gas boards and itself made surpluses totalling £20.2m and four deficits boards made totalling £5.Im. The industry's therefore total surplus was £15.1m in comparison with a £2m surplus the previous year.

major factor in the latest surplus was an increase in total gas sales of 30 per cent over the previous year. Total sales were more than 8,000 million therms- 'easily an all-time sales record'.

CHAIRMAN of the Demo- cratic Conservatives Against the Common Market, Mr R. E. G. Simmerson, an- nounced yesterday that his organization will put forwaro a candidate for the Lincoln by-election. follows the The by-election resignation of Lincoln's pro- Market Labour MP, Dick Taverne, who was expelled by the party branch for voting local with the Tories for EEC entry in October last year. Taverne is fighting the by-election as Democratic Labour candidate in favour of entry. Simmerson said that Labour voters would be provided with a choice between pro- and anti- Market candidates and that his organization was dedicated to providing the same choice for Tory voters. He also stated that Prime Minister Edward Heath was not a Conservative and that he was sure Conservatives : would soon 'rumble' him. forecast' COASTGUARDS have been told by the Civil Service Union to stop sending weather reports to the Meteorological Office in pro- test at a government decision not to continue payment for the voluntary service. About 130 of the union's 800 coastguard mem- bers regularly send in the reports and the sums involved in pay- ment are small. The Met Office said: "The weather reports supplied by the coastguards are of great value, particularly in the provision of forecasts for shipping. We hope this dispute will be settled quickly." CHENG TZU-TSAI, the state- less architect taken unconscious from an airliner at London's Heathrow airport five weeks ago, was again remanded in custody for a week at Bow Street yes- terday. Cheng, who was convicted in New York of conspiring to assas- sinate General Chiang Kai-shek's son, appeared in connection with extradition proceedings initiated by the United States. There was no bail application. Last week Cheng's colicitor, Benedict Birnberg, said the date of the hearing had been fixed for November 21. Cheng fied to Sweden while on bail in America and was being taken back to the United States when he was taken off the plane. Workers Press, Wednesday October 11, 1972 PAGE 3 First victims - We're releasing nothing?

of Lucas

WORKERS

area committee was also against us but nothing will be released • the Lucas CAV they are asking what th ation at convened last from the site night to drive into discuss what help could with In the Midlands 23( „olall rankedy. Liverpool, given to the Faz- Central Services Depart- rice for an maintenance akerley men. ment, which supplies at Lucas's Europe David Mar- other north-west strike support througnout Convenol the combine tin The management has extra fl a Gores s In

WEEK OVE

bine' the management's offer shop stewards' The stewards say that of £4.25. Lucas not made any move

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

LUCAS

WORKERS

Fazakerley, at CAV occupiers Liverpool, are convinced they are the first victims of the firm's big drive into Europe. The concensus of opinion from the they settled into their men as second day of occupation was that they out to win the were pawns in the big Common Market game. Certainly there is evidence to sup- port their suspicions. In his last annual widest support report company president Sir Bertram Waring, vice-president of the Engineer- ing Employers' Federation, reported on the delightful prospect of business on the continent. He told of the continual expansion of the The sign set up outside Lucas's CAV plant at Fazakerley, Liverpool, on Monday immediately the workers occupied the plant against the combine's firm's subsidiaries and said they European would 'diligently' for the 'changing closure plans. prepare patterns of trade' entry 11L1 would bring. The Lucas ШНИ! balance sheet shows that already one third of comes from abroa profit the combine's

URRENDER

- CAV

'But with the £12-a- the coo week wage, top

HALSIT IN

skilled men get in dicsel" that's hardly sur- Howe, prising,' John

TORY IS NOW

young shop steward leading the occupation, told me.

REWORKERS

Condiesel is a shortened form Equipas Diesel SA, associate company Lucas' based in Barcelona, Spain. At the factory gate, now banner icee man held up Condiesel and read from invoice. was Kys-pumps, etc.'. "We send them the com- and they do the ponents assemblv. Then the Dumps come over here for dis- tribution to stockists,? he explained This consoment a small but back this will worth builof bound for the firm's depot lenge the right of native not profit, we Pater they grants

TOT

in Aylesbury, Bucks. of politically-moti- kind of action. is my never be safe.' up group threaten all firm 2,000 jobs. Now want conviction that they own Other straws are in the one or me was dos o site still their own and ripe for The our ivellnoods. Lucas as aaker a cecro the will to out. wind. In 1968 Lucas added occupation "The next step will be to to write off Merseyside Simms Motors and Elec- prevent the movemen property development. and move greener Company Ltd tolch me that John Howe tronics combine. Then told me combine lies This pastures. the Ahead for them emolic. cave throughout the whole trade them. a virtual monopoly "There was trouble Europe • where thev already no were

CON.

said of the car pump market. union movement,' lads to back plex at Gillingham. have plants in three coun getting our Dave. now four since their this action. Their own tear 'There are stocks of new phasing 'Now they are acquisition of Italy's main The first declaration of is real. years this

TAW

machinery in plant- our our tange of pumps- unemployment was a blow, suppliers, solidarity from the car corne they sa tor there all bought with Calle ral Covere could recover Fausto Corello. 500 workers at the Lucas but workers My belief is •ave tartin told demand them, ment grants. Industrial Equipment plant But this that bound for For of since his the workers venor government has become in got in Merseyside this grandiose on the same site. me. Gillingham.' power The of the the afternoon

CAV

game or pront means 'At Simms Finchley GLucas Came dole and poverty. voted, almost sit-in they Merseyside with their bag production is being stepped promises a decade the CAV unanimously, to pay a fl But 'Quite brutally - though ago. men up. We are just pawns in levy. Fazakerley, a game with this big mono.

one They with all the brothers or almost scared

LOOK

ove. Collion Their Ray say - until we get Fazakerley from the site poly. Convenor. Reynolds, told me: government and promised Merseyside, far from socialist system where pro- ale The workers' prompt 10.000 defeat and degradation. "We have rot no alter- Millions 10T

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action has, Tem.

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

decimale close Lucas CAV's last interests in the north-west.

'This came to a head said couple days asy ago,' OI 28 Charlotte St Martin. went

NOW OPEN

offering people round Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs If they week's notice London W1 y alm.-b p.m ccept they would get thei Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. ull redundancy money plu saty a.m.-s p.m Obviously elgnt weeks pay. they wanted to destroy the

BOOKS • PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

resistance before it started.'

Friday-9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. The company, however,

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

has first lost round. une Only an estimated 170 workers and staff picked

CHARLOTTE ST

cash before the une sit-in Strike was deciarea on Monday. At first it seemed that the would company until January or February start the closure. But updated they obvious when

GOODGE ST

THer plans we smoked them out over the

& TUBE

closure.

TOTTENHAM CT RD

'We are determined It's not the win this one. first and the occupation the the Issue s right to work. We chal-

THE JAY LOVESTONE

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday Octo From Stalinism ... to the CIA Between 1926 and 1928 Jay Lovestone was the main channel through which Stalinist policies and ideology travelled into the American Com- munist Party. In the United States, there was a little '1926' experience The strike of textile too. workers at Passaic, New was the Jersey, in that year first big industrial struggle to Communist be led by the Party. Some 16,000 workers involved, many new to were trade unionism, and facing the full force of police brutality and repression. AFL United Textile The Workers' Union had never interested itself in organizing these underpaid workers. But in August 1926, following con- sultations with Moscow, and campaign sup- as part of a against 'ultra-left' posedly tendencies and dual unionism, the Party leadership instructed its members leading the strike to step down and let the UTW leaders take over and nego- tiate a settlement. As a result, Passaic workers the were eventually driven back with little more than a promise of no victimization. The Party leadership under Ruthenburg, with his ally campaigned for complete Comintern. At the Seventh Plenum of the Comintern in 1926 they voiced strong sup- port for the policy of 'social- ism in one country' Just as the supporters of this theory in the Soviet bureaucracy always argued from the weaknesses and set- backs of the working class and communist movements, so the rising little bureaucrats of the American Party began from the same sort of premise, but emphasizing particularly the strength of American capital- ism. Lovestone told the Seventh Plenum: 'Comrades, the Soviet Union plays an extraordinary role for us in America. The objective conditions are far more favourable in Germany, in France, in England; there the class is far more working developed, the revolutionary interests far are more advanced. The lack of these forces, the absence of these elements for the revolution- izing of the American working class, presents us with a situa- tion in which precisely the example, the role and the experience of the Soviet Union are revolutionary factors.'

And he read out a declara- tion signed by the American delegation which stressed the special significance for the American party of 'socialism in one country': 'The Communist Party was founded in America when a mighty wave of enthusiasm was brought forth by the out- break of the Russian Revolu- tion. In America (with its limited number of other revo- lutionary factors)-where capi- talism is still on the upgrade, in the country of the strongest imperialism and the most reactionary labour aristocracy, where so few independent actions of the working mass class occur, where the work- ing class does not yet have a political mass party — the existence of the Soviet' Union aday October 11, 1972 the CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part and the successful building of socialism within it plays a relatively more important role as the revolutionary stimulus of the working class than in other countries... Zinoviev commented on the tendency displayed at this meeting by the American and other delegations: 'We have noticed the fol- lowing attitude among indivi- dual foreign communists: the proletarian revolution is not yet coming for us...so at least let the Russians build socialism for themselves, Several other points can be about this attitude made expressed by Lovestone's dele- gation. First, it indicates that the tendency to bow before the seemingly invincible strength of US capitalism, which later Stalinists tried to attribute to Lovestone às a special characteristic, was in fact one which he shared with the rest of the American CP leadership at this time. Secondly, it indicates that of 'American the theory which exceptionalism, has specific form of been the ideology for opportunists in the American labour move- ment, grew up not in opposi- tion to Stalinism, but in intimate relationship with it, 'socialism the counterpart of in one country'. how a Thirdly, it shows cloak of fake internationalism can be used to disguise its opposite. 'Let someone else make the Revolution, let some- one else build socialism, or say they are doing so, and we will stand by and applaud. We the Cuban Revolu- have seen tion used in the same way by revisionists in more recent times. in the Finally, there was American CP leaders' state- ment the acceptance of the idea of 'socialism in one coun- try, not because it was valid, or offered the real way forward for the Russian working class or the international working it would class, but because serve as a source of 'inspira- tion'. Behind their spurious inter- lay nationalism' the most narrow opportunism, that of a bureaucracy concerned first foremost with building and its organiza- and preserving tional base. It is this organ- izational opportunism which has been the consistent policy of Jay Lovestone, from the time when he was a servant of the Stalinist bureaucracy, through his period as a cen- trist and reformist, until ne became what he is today, the of servant open imperialism. In the spring of 1927, Love- stone became acting secretary of the American Communist Party. He was nominated by Benjamin Gitlow, aiso later to become a notorious renegade.

Another of his supporters was • D. Wolfe, who later went with him when he was expelled from the Party. Faced with opposition within the Party at this time from a group headed by Foster and James P. Cannon, Love- sought, stone and his clique and generally received, Mos- cow's backing. In May 1927, the Eighth Plenum of the Comintern was dominated by the events in China and by the struggle between Stalin, at this time backed by Bukharin, and Trotsky. . Part Four Bertram D. Wolfe, Lovesto The American delegation, led by Lovestone and Gitlow, joined enthusiastically in the They attack on Trotskyism. obtained the privilege of being one of the five parties to pre- sent a resolution for Trotsky's expulsion from the Comintern EC. James Cannon says of this period: 'The qualification for leader- ship in all the parties, the criterion by which leaders were judged in Moscow was; who shouted loudest against Trotskyism and Trotsky.' ('The History of American Trotsky- ism', p.36.) He also says of the way anti-Trotskyism became a campaign at this time: 'Bertram D. Wolfe, Love- chief lieutenant, stone's was one of the greatest Trotsky- baiters. At the slightest provo- cation he would make a hours long, speech two explaining how the Trotskyists the agrarian were wrong on question in Russia. I could not do that because I didn't He understand the question. didn't understand it either, but, in his case, that wasn't so much of an obstacle.' (ibid p.44.) Before coming to Moscow in 1927, Lovestone had walked out of a plenum of the Ameri- can Party, showing a • con- attitude of not temptuous even bothering to discuss with his opponents. This arrogant • un-communist behaviour may have led Stalin to recog- nize in him a like-minded fel- low. While in Moscow, Love- stone and Gitlow, together with five others, gained the distinction of being the first group of American CP leaders to obtain a personal interview with Stalin. They were told that he had put off a visit to the Caucusus to meet them.

, Lovestone's chief lieutenant, and one of the The discussion was cordial.

It was with the backing of Stalin and the Comintern leadership, and the prestige derived from it, that the Love- stone group consolidated its hold on the American Party, and Lovestone became in general secretary, effect although taking a new title, 'executive secretary'. Party. positions were re- allocated, so that Wolfe be- came editor of the party monthly 'The Communist, and ten out of 12 district organizers Lovestone were supporters. It was the following year, in 1928, at the Sixth World Con- gress of the Comintern that a young Canadian Communist, Maurice Spector, together with Cannon, managed to ob- tain Trotsky's document "The Draft Programme of the Com- intern, A Criticism of Funda- mentals. From their discussions and reading of Trotsky's document came the beginnings of the in North Left Opposition America, and American Trotskyism. Cannon - Foster The old faction had broken up and Foster and Lovestone vied each other in anti- with Trotskism. After Trotsky's exile to Alma-Ater, it was Lovestone's friend Wolfe who produced the first official anti- Trotskyist pamphlet for the American Party. Meanwhile, the GPU had been watching Cannon, and passed on through Bukharin a report on Cannon's Trotskyist leanings to Lovestone. On October 27, 1928, Can- non and his supporters were expelled from the Party. On ne of the fiercest Trotsky-baiters.

December 17, they appeared before party's Central the Committee to appeal against the expulsion. Already they had been subject to both slanders and physical attacks from the Stalinists and the violence was to be stepped up later. But on December 17, thanks existed to the split which still between" Lovestone and Foster, they were able to gain speak- ing rights. Cannon attributes attempted this to an manoeuvre by Lovestone to compromise the Fosterites.

Nevertheless the expulsion went ahead. Cannon says: .. in those days the people who constituted the Lovestone group were the leaders of the American Com- munist Party. It was they who carried through our expulsion.?

About a week later, Cannon came home from a meeting to find his place ransacked. Files, correspondence, documents, stolen. The letters were burglars were working for the CP leadership. Stolen docu- ments were passed on to the Canadian CP secretary and Maurice Spector was subse- quently driven out of the Canadian Party. The Stalinist bureaucracy in Moscow fully supported Love- stone in all this. In September 1928, following criticism of Lovestone from the American Party's opposition, the Com- intern issued a decision de- "The charge against claring: the majority of the Central Committee of the Party repre- senting a right line is un- founded.' But a new turn in the bureaucracy's policy was coming, and one that Love- stone would not be able to stay with.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

SPLIT OVER TERRORISM

The conflict in the Pab- loite Unified Secretariat between the European and American sections is now being conducted blow for blow in their press. Last week, 'Rouge', paper of Krivine's Ligue Com- Alain 1 muniste in France, published a statement "Terrorism and class-struggle' the and the 'Militant', organ of the So- cialist Workers' Party in the United States* a statement, "Trotskyism and terrorism'.

Both articles are in reply to an article in a recent issue of 'Newsweek' which claimed: "The Trotskyite Fourth Inter- national ... founded in Brus- sels two years ago . . . repre- sented the most ambitious current effort to set terrorism firmly into a multi-national frame.' That is the only point of similarity. 'Rouge' presents a picture of the world bourgeoisie frightened by the 'spectre of terrorism'. In feverish tones, the murder of General San- chez by the Argentinian ERP and the activities of the IRA in Ulster are exalted as revo- lutionary orientations to the working class which both Lenin and Trotsky would have favoured. 'Militant' In the contrast, gives a very bland, 'orthodox' exposition of the Marxist view of terrorism. The mild generali- ties of the SWP allow a quota- 'Rouge', tion from vaguely critical of the Palestinian 'Black September' group, to create the impression that all are good friends in the Secre- tariat—a typical Pabloite dishonesty! Piece of However, a brief comparison soon gives the lie to this impression and reveals the deep crisis racking the or- ganization of the revisionists.

'Terrorist actions by small groups actually hinder the pro- cess of winning over the masses of people to struggle against their oppressors because such acts tend to create confusion over who is the real source of anti-social violence and injus- tice in society' ('The Militant.)

•. acts of minority vio- lence, which are today given the general label of acts of terrorism, will find their place, as one tactical recourse among others, in a strategy for the by conquest of power the masses' ('Rouge'.) 'In Ireland, for example, no doubt many Catholics applaud when they hear of a bomb hitting a symbol of their oppression. But in general the bombings have been counter- productive. While they may be popular among the Catho- lics, they are not a strategy in mass mobilizing them for struggle against their oppres- ('The Militant'.) sors. 'The deep crisis of imperial- ism favours the birth and development, at a mass-level, revolutionary of new van- guards. These vanguards, when in the they try to get roots workers' which movement, they know or feel to be the only force capable of resolving with the the crisis, clash bureaucratic shell of the social- democratic or Stalinist bureau- cracies. Thus, there is every believe that the reason to strategy of the IRA would have been different if it had had immediate international support from a qualitatively more powerful revolutionary workers' movement in Great Workers Press, Wedm Britain? ('Rouge'.) The rapid development of the • economic crisis and the revolutionary movement of the international working class have provoked this sharp crisis in the Pabloites' ranks. They have built themselves the petty-bourgeois rejec- on tion of Marxism and the theory vanguard - the of the new student, guerrilla, the peasant, 'natural' Marxist be it the Cohn-Bendit or Fidel Castro.

In bitter hostility to these conceptions, the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- national fight to build cadres of Marxists in the international working class, based on the conceptions of Bolshevism.

In this fight, the struggles of Lenin and Trotsky against petty-bourgeois individualism are developed and enriched.

The situation in Argentina reveals the bankruptcy of the Pabloites, which is embodied in the present polemic. The opportunists in the SWP sup- port the Revolutionary Wor- kers' Party of Moreno which fights against terrorism ... by supporting Coral's Socialist s0e, Wednesday October 11, 1972 PAGE 5 Top: British soldiers search sus- pected IRA 'terrorists' on the streets of Ulster. Party praises the of Lanusse, the General who heads the Argen- tinian military dictatorship.

The ERP, backed by Krivine and Ernest Mandel, favours murder of the bankers, generals, and other 'exemplary' acts. It is the gun of the terrorist against the rationalist. argu- ment of the opportunist. In these conditions, co-existence in the Unified Secretariat must get more intolerable every day.

* The SWP broke from the International Committee of the Fourth International - repre- sented in Britain by the Socialist Labour League-in 1963 to re-unite with the followers of Michael Pablo in the Unified Secretariat. British, French and American Trot- skyists (SWP) had broken with Pablo with their signatures to the 'Open Letter' in 1953. Pablo maintained that the threat of a third world war would push the Soviet bureau- cracy to the left and force communist parties to carry through revolutions.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday October 12, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

President Tito's legal openiv the tendencv towards the break-up of the fragile machine is rolling against the war forged unity a stace the Croat nationalists the various national- between ities in Yugoslavia. whose activities sparked It encouraged also the off a major crisis at the emergence of nationalist beginning of this year. trends in the other, poorer, republics Tear bipart Yugoslaviate federal and threatened Four student leaders, all of them arrested follow- structure if left unchecked.

ing a student strike at But it won support precisely section which was from that Zagreb University, were to uphold the gains supposed sentenced to from one to the Yugoslav revolution: four years' jail last week.

Croat leadership of the tne League of Communists. Arrested with numerous Croat The leaders of the Croats in December, the stud- Party organization have since ent leaders were charged with been Belgradurged at t orders from Come eventy but this does not and with trying to separate remove the basic causes which Croatia from Yugoslavia. the rise of nation- They could have 15 got alism. but in the event years apiece, the rapidly former these me in Drazen presi- expanding ties between the Student dent the and top bureaucratic was sentenced to four aver ties which are imperialism not merely political and diplo- Cicak, former Ivan but increasingly com- matic, student pro-rector, and Ante and are Paradzic, the former president mercial and economic more and more outside the Croatian Students' of the sphere of state control. Union, both were sentenced to This direct is conse- three years. of the of rosion and They had refused to testify quence the abandonment state questions the or answer on of foreign monopoly trade— that trial grounds institution which Lenin rigged. The defendant only Loe dest bed as that only serious did co-operate who for Goran Dodig, Budisa's form conomy of the workers' state former deputy, was given Yugoslavia, factories and one-year sentence. businesses which were origin- were credited The students ally under state control have with all counter- OI progressively been decentral- revolutionary connections, con- Croat fas- ized into what the regime calls émigré Will 'self-managing' These cists, money from accepting enterprises to overseas, and the like. economically sink swim But their real crime was the or within the 'market economy'. Zagreb student strike, in

SUD-

Theoretically, these institu- port of a demand that foreign controlled by the tions are exchange earned Croatia but since should be applied within the workers in them the workers are politically dis- spread republic rather throughout the country the richest of Yugo- izations independent Croatia, the bureaucracy the self-managing slavia's six republics, are practice country's main tourist centre Culer rises produces most of Yugo- dominated by the management and slavia's exports. bureaucracy fields for New self-enrich- has always been Croatia opened for something of a problem for ment save UD these bureaucrats in Tito's regime: during the war recent has it the base of native years as was

LUDENCE

imperialism which towards an fascist organization under Nazi attempt overcome puppet state Une country's economic backward- domination. Many of the Ustachi fascists ness and avoid economic crises.

The impossibility of genuine who served Nazis under Tne Canada, economic independence for in are now in exile Sweden and Yugoslavia isolated West lia and Ustachi terror- workers' state has now forced Australia and ists have waged a secret and bureaucracy to open The TO the doors to foreign capital on bloody the Codel axalilsl Yugoslay government. an unprecedented scale. that if national- Tito tears

BLUEPRINT

ism is allowed to grow, it will of tear apart the tederation

FOR

Yugoslav republics which has become increasingly loose over

CORRUPTION

recent years. Hence Tito's purge of the his Croat party and police The monopoly of foreign measures against the alleged trade has been undermined in centres of nationalism, notably variety of individual the Croat 'cultural' society ways: (Mother now have wide Matica Hrvatska enterprises Croatia). powers to trade individually The demand of the student with foreign capitalists; at the nationalistic and same time they can negotiate strike directly with foreign firms for expressed Above: while Tito Ites in huxury, the reactionary: joint investment in Yugoslavia.

Foreign capitalists can hold up a 49 per cent share in any Yugoslav enterprise-they. can even, under certain conditions, participate in the 'self-manage- their investment. ment' are guaranteed Their profits Run to dient is being made ta convertible currency enable them to repatriate their takings. an almost perfect blue- It is bureaucratic corrup- print for tion and self-enrichment on an unprecedented the scale. At time the living standard same further workers the depressed- by inflation and leading cuts in social services, where even top to a situation that bureaucrats acknowledge average Yugoslav worker's the family can no longer afford a holiday! itself The Tito bureaucracy of the chief source danger of capitalist restoration -and Yugoslavia in 1 ugoslavia only exposes in the most acute the tendencies which form exist all the deformed in of Eastern workers' states Europe and the Soviet Union.

with the Tito's connicu nationalists by means principled. the reflex of bureaucrat who of his fears for the privileges caste. Tito's remaining yugoslavia personal poor and depressed by Inflation.

popularity reflects his record the as leader of the revolutionary struggle against the Nazis and man who stood up to Stalin. in carrying through But these actions, Tito never broke with Stalinism and its reac- tionary theory of socialism in a single country.

PURGE' ON

MONEY

MAKERS

His famous breach with in 1949 the Kremlin was followed by a brief leftward turn. But before long he was world assiduously courting imperialism-to the extent of supporting the UN interven- Korea in the early tion in 1950s. In return he accepted con- siderable economic aid from the United States, setting a pattern which is being repro- duced today in a far more exaggerated form. This has exposed Yugoslav workers to the full effects of international economic the crisis and created rampant infla- tion which into eating workers' living standards.

time, At the same an increasingly arrogant layer of bureaucrats and functionaries Entertainment for his overseas gues Tito in the summer residence. Abov •usts to the Shan or wan. i are enriching themselves and flaunting their wealth in the faces of the workers. Tito has Belatedly, announced a new purge-this of who have time those illegally acquired too much money, and that includes many top Communist Party func- tionaries. It is not clear whether Tito plans to apply the same rules to himself: his own way of life is the most ostentatious display of privilege to be found anywhere in Eastern Europe.

His personal effects include 20 large fast cars, a town mansion in Belgrade, another pine- villa fringed island Private Brioni, stables, motor boats and other luxuries. These trappings enable him to entertain lavishly his over- seas guests. In recent years they have included the Shah of Iran, Princess Margaret and the Burtons. 'The Revolution Be- In trayed, written in 1936, Leon Trotsky pointed out the two opposing growing tendencies up out of the depths of the Soviet regime: 'To the extent that in con- trast to a decaying capitalism, (the regime) develops the pro- ductive forces, it is preparing the economic basis for social- ism. 'To the extent that for the Workers Prose, Thuraday r his overseas guests. Left: Ellzabeth Taylor and Tito. B mer residence. Above: entertaining Brezhner in an enorm ah of fran, Mr and Mrs Tito (right) await their turn.

benefit of an upper stratum it carries to and more more expression bourgeois extreme norms of distribution, it is pre- paring a capitalist restoration.

This contrast between forms of property and norms of dis- tribution cannot grow indefi- nitely. 'Either the bourgeois norm must in one form or another spread to the means of pro- duction, or the norms of dis- tribution must be brought into correspondence with the social- ist property system.' In Yugoslavia present-day contradictions these have reached an intolerable point: the talk about newspapers "billiardaires' - but conven- iently refrain from telling their readers who these mysterious individuals are — or which of stratum society spawns them. The bureaucracy is under- mining the basis of the work- ers' state economically and politically. Tito's attempts to purge the Party are legalistic which are powerless moves alongside the economic weight of world imperialism. Tito is in no position to mobilize the Yugoslay workers in the fight against the restora- tionist tendency. Indeed, any threat of political revolution against bureaucratic privilege must be put down. Several of the trials already ara Prose, Thuraday October 12, 1972 PAGE 7 • Taylor and Tito. Below: taking tea with Mrs rezhner in an enormous Mercedes Benz. Top: staged this year in Yugoslavia have had exactly that purpose.

Three Belgrade students accused of having ties with foreign Trotskyists were jailed in July, two for two years and one for a year and a half One of the main items on the charge sheet was the accu- sation that they had attended the International Youth Assembly in Essen, West Ger- many last year. They were sub- jected before the 'trial' to a merciless campaign of slander in the official press. of three, One Pavel the Imsirovic, told the court in his final speech: 'Power in Yugo- slavia is not in the hands of the working people... • It is not a the of government working class. This 'subversive' state- further ment earned him charges. Belgrade law professor Mihailo Djuric was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at another trial. His 'crime' was writing an article an academic magazine saying that constitution reform the new threatened reshape the to country along simple geograph- ical lines. By hitting out at the left— and even at those who state obvious truths, as Djuric did- undermines his Tito further own standing and that of the bureaucracy and opens the door wider for the extreme right.

FATAL LAST DAYS

BEFORE NAZI RULE

Part twelve of a series by Tom Kemp on the history of the German Communist Party.

PAQE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Oct Part twelve of a series by Tom In the German Commun- ist Party's (KPD) cam- paign against the Social- Democratic 'social fascists, the trade unions were not spared. In 1929 and 1930 a drive was begun to split the unions and build independent 'red' unions. Later, work was carried out : to take the unions inside control from the right wing, but with little success. The call for a General Strike was made times between 1929 and six 1932 with practically no effect.

unemployment Heavy sharply reduced union mem- bership, made it easy for to be defeated and strikes tended to demoralize workers.

jobs were Those who had in them reluctant to put jeopardy. When big strikes did take place they were largely defensive movements against wage cuts. case the KPD's In any influence in the trade unions, which had never been more than that of a minority, tended to diminish in this perioa.

A major reason for this was that the Party tended to become a party of unemployed workers, perhaps as many as strongholds in certain industrial towns or districts it is probable that the great majority of the organized workers, including those in the big factories, continued to follow the Social Democratic Party (SPD) until Hitler came to power. It should be added, however, that while the excesses of the 'third period' cost some com- munist parties in Europe very dearly in terms of member- ship-the French CP was reduced from a mass almost to a sect the crisis in Germany was so severe that the KPD recruited more mem- bers than it lost. As pointed out, many of them were un- employed who turned to the in Party desperation and accepted its ultra-left line.

On the other hand, it is probable that the KPD could have recruited on a much wider scale and have attracted large numbers of industrial workers away from the SPD but for the constant harping on the 'social-fascist' theme and the rejection of the united front. Trade union work was especially handicapped and the basic weakness, the failure to build factory cells, continued to the end. In a desperate effort to win away support from the Nazis; some KPD leaders launched into nationalist appeals. Heinz Neumann attended Nazi meet- ings and appealed for joint action to save the nation! Some recruits were made from the Nazi ranks on such a basis.

Thaelmann took up the popular cry of the Nazis against the Versailles Treaty and against reparations. He also tried to woo the peasantry and the middle class and to outbid the Nazis with promises.

In the summer of 1931 the KPD supported a referendum in Prussia, the initiative for which had been taken by the Nazis and rightists, for the un- seating of the coalition govern- ment in which the SPD was represented. Even Thaelmann saw the folly of this, but he was outvoted and supported it in public. esday October 11, 1972 by Tom Kemp on the history of the Heinz Neumann was strongly in favour of supporting the plebiscite. This position was endorsed by Stalin and Molotov and the Comintern forced it on the KPD over Thaelmann's opposition. In this case, as with other policies, the KPD always submitted to Moscow. Labelling the plebiscite a 'red plebiscite' could not con ceal the fact that the com- munists were asked to vote the Nazis and with with reaction. In any case the Prussian government was en- dorsed by the voters with a substantial majority. The KPD was now caught up in events over which it had and less control, vainly less seeking a means of asserting its leadership over the masses.

On the one hand preparations were being made for an insur- rection and a certain number of Party members participated in acts of individual terror.

On the other hand, in April 1932 a statement was issued which envisaged collaboration even with the leadership of other organizations of workers against wage-cuts. In July the KPD proposed to the SPD and the trade unions that a General aty Strike should be organized against the deposition of the Prussian government by von Papen. memory of the 'red The plebscite' intended to unseat the same government was still fresh; the KPD leadership was mistrusted and its appeal was rejected. Its half-hearted and ambiguous proposals for a united front came too late.

incapable of Although mobilizing the working class, the KPD continued to enjoy considerable electoral support.

of the German Communist Party.

In the presidential elections of March 1932 Thaelmann won almost 5 million votes against 11.3 million for Hitler and 19 million for Hindenburg, though he picked up only 3.7 million on the second ballot. In the Reichstag elections of July 1932 the KPD mustered 5.37 million votes and in the November elections almost 6 million. The SPD had 7.25 million and the Nazis 11.75 million in November, losing over 30 seats. Thaelmann pro- claimed 'a new stage in the Bolshevization of the

KPD'

and described it as 'the only victorious party the elections'. . The Nazi wave, he impressionistically declared, was on the ebb. In fact, the Nazis, backed by were consolidat- ing their assault squads and, with the support of the police, taking charge of the streets.

Many workers were seriously beaten up or killed in street fights. The German working class had not yet been defeated and it was still prepared to fight back. In November the KPD might still have been able to change the situation. But time was running out rapidly. Only a fortnight before Hitler took power, Thaelmann spoke in a mood of self- congratulation about the com- plete unity of the Party, 'unity of a kind which has never existed before at any stage of its development'. The war of factions had, in fact, been re- placed by quarrels of person- alities and struggles to win the favour of Moscow-i.e. of Stalin. Thaelmann's complacency was suicidal. Undeterred by their electoral set-back the Nazis pressed on with their offensive. On January 23 they bit organized a big demonstration in front of the Karl Liebknecht House, KPD headquarters. A week later Hindenburg called on Hitler to form a govern- ion ment. The Nazis moved swiftly against the KPD and other working - class organizations and no move was made to fight back. As Trotsky had repeatedly warned, the working class organizations were smashed and the German proletariat left prostrate.

At the end of February the Reichstag fire enabled Goering • to proclaim that the com- munists had started it in order to give the signal for an insur- rection. The Party was sup- pressed, but despite the violence of the terror 4.75 million electors voted for in the relatively free March 5 elections. Thousands of communists were arrested, tortured by the Gestapo and thrown into con- centration camps. Thaelmann and a number of the leaders joined them. Others fled, some reaching Moscow where, until 1934, they continued to fight the old battles against Social Democracy, spoke as though there was still a mass Com- munist Party in Germany and speculated on the imminent demise of the Hitler regime.

Those German communist émigrés who were indiscreet enough to criticize the line of the 'third period' later found themselves in Stalin's jails and a few of them disappeared in the purges, never to be heard of again. Only the staunch Stalinists, time-servers and opportunists survived to 1945 re-emerge in the as leadership of the Socialist Unity Party,_bastard heir of the KPD in East Germany. The fruits of Stalinism were bitter indeed for the KPD and Between the elections of 1932 and 1933 the Nazis consolidated their position-strengthening the assault squads and with the sup- port of the police, taking charge of the streets. the whole German working class. Misled and betrayed by its leaders it had to bear the full weight of fascist terror.

The betrayal of the KPD was no less criminal than that of the SPD. Acting under Stalin's orders, it failed to live up to its historical responsibility to the German working class.

Trotsky fought a tremendous theoretical battle to try to reverse the disastrous course of the KPD in the 'third period. Despite the influence which his pamphlets had, it was not possible to gain the necessary basis for a successful struggle against the Thaelmann leadership. Although he had foreseen the possibility of defeat for the German working class, Trotsky not relax his efforts. In- deed, he had carefully weighed its probable consequences and course of action which would then be required. From the German defeat Trotsky drew the lesson that it was no longer possible to reform the Comintern or its parties, which had passed to ist the side of the counter-revolu- 'It is absolutely necessary' he wrote in July 1933, 'to free the proletarian vanguard from the dictatorship of the Stalinist bureaucracy' The need was to work for the creation of a new- Fourth-International and new communist parties to carry through the socialist revolution in the capitalist world and a political revolution against the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.

oral Joten Minchall, h Former attoroy-gen When the Republicans and Democrats fight it out for power, the use of corruption, bribery, blackmail and so on assumes open political sponsorship. The Mafia just change their suits and instead wear Nixon or McGovern button- holes. Millions and millions of dollars are pumped into cam- paigns to try and win elections.

Control of the White House unlocks the door to untold riches. It is not unknown for government contracts to go to the companies who backed the right man. Earlier this year the Com- mittee to Re-Elect the Pre- sident, headed by former attorney-general John Mitchell, tried to go one better than before and failed. The story has long been out how the Democratic Party's Washing- ton headquarters were bugged and spied upon and also how, unfortunately, a number of Nixon men were caught red- handed stealing documents.

At his press conference last week, President Nixon denied he had ever known anything about the so-called 'Watergate Affair'. But a couple of days earlier Alfred C. Baldwin Ill, one of the men hired by his com- mittee to take part in the espionage, turned state evid- ence and blew the whole story Without to the newspapers. his story, the case would have been long forgotten until after the November 7 elections.

He has told the 'Los Angeles Times' in great detail who was information involved, what Achell, hoad of the Re-Elect the President Con they were after and how the Republican machine assumed itself to be completely above the law. It was on May 1 that Bald- win—a former FBI agent— received a phone call at his Connecticut home. On other end of the line was Jim McCord, security co- ordinator for the Nixon re- committee. McCord election More in- also ex-FBI., was terestingly, however, he had been 20 years in the notorious Central Intelligence Agency.

Baldwin was impressed and took the first flight to Wash- ington and went to the cam- paign HQ, a few blocks down White House itself. from the He was taken aback by the array of White House aides drifting around. Baldwin was given the job of looking after the former attorney-general's wife, Martha Mitchell. Although he had no permit, he was also given a police gun.

When Baldwin queried this, McCord replied: You're working for the former attorney-general and there's no way a policeman or law-enforcement other any officer is going to question your right to carry that weapon' Soon Baldwin was taken off that job and, he claims, was then groomed for the real work: spying on the Demo- crats. At the campaign com- mittee McCord showed him an impressive array of sophisti- cated listening devices. And a few days later Baldwin was in a room opposite the Wash- C ington Watergate Hotel, the , is Democrats' HQ. For a number of weeks he monitored the telephone con- versations held by Democrat leaders, including, probably, George McGovern himself. The Ident Commitiee Involved in the bugging.

eavesdropping logs were placed in an envelope and taken to the Nixon committee offices.

'An elderly guard was on duty in the building and he took the envelope, recognizing the name on it and said he would see to it that the official received it,' said Baldwin.

It was all going so well that McCord had told Baldwin that the next step was Miami and Democratic Convention. the Their hotels were going to be bugged. Friday June 16 was to be the night of the big coup.

McCord and a number of other men were planning, said Baldwin, to raid the Water- gate Hotel, plant new bugging devices and rearrange the old.

A number of documents might also disappear in the process. Baldwin was watching from across the street when he saw a number of other men turn up while the Nixon men were doing their work. He tried to contact McCord by radio but it was too late. The other men turned out to be the police.

Nixon had been caught with his trousers down. Then men who thought they were above the law were eventually caught by their own paid hirelings. It probably signified that the Republicans had had a Democratic spy within their midst for some months. Seven men are now awaiting trial on the charges of plant- ing microphones and stealing documents. Four of them are known to have been involved in government-sponsored anti- Castro activities. Then there McCord. The the is ex-CIA man other two are the committee's financial adviser, G. Gordon Liddy (ex-FBI) and one E. Howard Hunt inr, ex-CIA and former White House "consultant'. Workers Press, Wednesday October 11, 1972 PAGE 9 promises On 162nd Remember all the the recent anni- about decimal currency? It was of Chilean indepen- versary President Salvador going to be exactly the same dence as the old money only better, Allende braved the downpours Lord Fiske and his Decimal of autumn to attend a com- Currency Board used to say.

memorative Te Deum 1n doesn't Royal Santiago cathedral. The Mint think so though: its currently After the spiritual nourish- advertising 7s 4zd pre-decimal ment provided by Cardinal Henriquez, sonic-welded Silva coins in a a solemn and ceremony backed by ecumeni- plastic case attractive The price? f3. cal choir, Allende proceeded to purple wallet. offer the traditional presidential Not only are these coins a to the armed forces souvenir, they may also mean greeting a good investment, the advert over radio and television.

'The armed forces will says. always be our people, in their hours of concern, work, pain joy,' and proclaimed don The number of working days Salvador. lost through illness caused by Thus, with traditional sword physical and mental stress is and he for cross, prepares than those lost noW greater civil war. strikes, go-slows and through ALLENDE's right-hand man forms industrial other in Latin America, Fidel Castro, action. Such illness is also re- has been getting uptight lately.

sponsible for more days lost He spends press-conference than through influenza and the after press conference denying cold together put common that he rumours was to and more than the whole range establish relations with Presi- of accidents. dent Nixon. National Association for Men- 'Our policy in regard to the tal Health report US is clear and there's just one It's private and policy. public and it's all one,' was one of the Comandante's incantations, Engineers at the heavily-bar- if he had taken up as quIz ricarled British-Leyland gear- show repartee. Basingstoke, box factory in pressmen in Havana The Hants-fighting like mad to delegation have seen save their jobs threatened by a Peruvian military followed by takeover-are justifiably angry a group of Gaullist parliament- with property and land specu- officially visiting Cuba.

arians lators. Sandwiched in between was All along they have con- Angela Davis hot-foot from the sidered their 50-acre site will Soviet Union. eventually be 'redeveloped, as They can't help asking the the saying goes. When Leyland Cuban leader where this is all sold the factory for £2}m, they leading, if not to the White also sold the land to a property House. company for another £2}m.

Below: Salvador Allende factory last week At the some men brought the subject up and compared their simple insistence on the right to work with the millions being made by those who don't. They were especially angry about the big land deal the day before not many miles from the factory.

British record A was established for the 2.362 acre Brown Candover estate near Alresford. The bidding even- tually closed at £3.2m. You had to have a little money to start with because the auctioneer opened the bid- ding at a mere £2m. Within ten minutes it had soared to £3m. The price works out £1.355 acre. In 1942 an paid Major Ball certain between f5 and £12 an acre.

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Computer-bank surveillance stepped up at the Yard TWO DATA banks will be attached to the Scotland Yard Crimi- nal Records Office as part of a growing apparatus of public surveillance. One will record the name of 'every person known or suspected to either deal in or indulge in drugs' , while the other will list the names of all overseas immigrants.

The establishment of the two computer banks has been • carried out secretly; there was formal public no announce- ment and no parliamentary MEMBERS of the right-wing N compiling dossiers on militants four years. The right-wing Tory group -whose recent London anti- immigration rally was stewarded by members of the National Front — are now moving to expand their university files. Details of the Monday Club's new campaign to spy on left- wing students were brought to light on Monday by the students' union at Aberdeen University.

Monday Club members there and 60 other similar institutions throughout Britain have been to supply the London asked headquarters with names and details of all speakers and par- ticipants in left-wing meetings.

Specifically called for was information on the IRA and on collections taken. The letter on to say the writer went wanted: 'Any information on the part played by foreign students in any disruptive activity or in dubious organizations, even if not solely connected with the university, and in particular I should like such information on Irish and South African students.' Also called for were leaflets and newspapers distributed hy left groups. The writer, Adrian Day, who admits to being called THE EFFECTIVENESS of intel- ligence work in Ulster would be increased by the introduction of identity cards, says a Conserva- tive Bow Group pamphlet, pub- lished yesterday. pamphlet also calls for a THE IRISH Labour Party meets in Dublin today to discuss a front with the possible united right-wing Fine Gael at the next General Election. Earlier this year, Labour Party leader Brendan Corish suggested the idea of a possible coalition government. with Fine Gael to replace Jack Lynch's Fianna Fail

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debate preceded their in- auguration. Both computers will be on 24-hour service to police forces throughout the country. Peter Bustat of the National In a Council for Civil Liberties attacked the growth of these police intelligence units.

He attacked the idea of putting names of legal immi- grants on a police computer.

'Now, it seems, you don't even have to be accused of an offence to be included in the police file,' he said. Where will this all end? We suspect with the inclusion on a police file of every t-wing Monday Club have been nilitants in the universities for a 'spy' and a 'fascist' during his three years at the London School of Economics, made no attempt this week to hide the real nature of his activities. Day, now admin- istrative secretary of the Club's group, told universities a reporter: 'We do like to be a holding centre for information so that when anybody wants a particular piece of information on, • say. a sit-in or a strike at a university we are immediately able to give him the information he requires.

'A lot of people come to us and ask for information, which we sometimes pass on and some- times whom it is, not, depending on Although Day never openly admitted as much, it is abso- lutely clear that the information the Monday Club obtains in this somehow reach the way Special Branch, who can make good the names and use details supplied. It was only a week or two ago that three Monday Club mem- bers - including a recent vice- chairman of the Conservative Students' Association—visited a held by the youth conference Italian fascist party, the MSI. All expenses for the trip to Italy were paid for by the fascists.

complete census of every house- hold. These measures, the Tory group says, would facilitate 'the deportation of aliens'. Stronger military measures are called for since Bow Groupers administration in the Dail.

This unprincipled relationship —which threatens to deprive large sections of Irish workers of an independent voice-was sanctioned last week by Fine Gael. Any possibility of a coalition only government next year

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citizen in the country.' Commenting on reports that the government had deliber- ately kept quiet about the introduction these data banks, Burns said: 'It is an indication of the increasing arrogance of govern- ment departments towards the public. "The apparent refusal of the to make itself government accountable to the public, to- gether with the frightening implications of the extension of data bank information, high- lights the urgent need for legislation to protect the citizen's privacy against in- trusion • by both government Digby Jacks

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was the National by-word at the head- quarters when asked for reactions on the Monday Club's spying activi- ties. Digby Jacks, NUS president and Communist Party mem- ber saw the report and decided to leave it to his information officer to deal with. A spokesman said the union rather "irritated than was worried' disclosure. by the "This is the usual kind of we get from malicious rubbish the Monday Club.' He said the Monday Club were wrong if they thought 'spying on students is going to solve society's problems.

Students in the universities will have to be doubly on guard now that their leaders do not seem too concerned about the Club's moves. say that success cannot be achieved by purely political means. being raised in an attempt to drive down the living standards of the working class. But although left-wing ele- out a joint election programme shortly. Workers Press, Wednesday October 11, 1972 PAGE 11 information- THE URUGUAYAN govern- and private gatherers. ment of Juan Maria Borda- This i enderstand st utte is berry is drawing up legisla- fails to understand what The introduction of going on. tion to force unions to hold tighter public surveillance br secret ballots before they be- he police against hippies anc immigrants is not as a result gin any form of industrial of a conspiracy by 'government departments'. It is the policy action. of the Tory government which controls and directs these Government spokesmen have departments. revealed that a draft bill will be Congress Pew days. before within a In the Industrial Relations Act the proposed changes in the Criminal Justice Act and After breaking up the organi- the Housing Finance Act the zation of the Tupamaros, Borda- Tories are smashing the basic berry is turning his attention to rights of the working class.

opposition If Burns is recommending from the trade unions. legislation to protect privacy, he is addressing himself to the assistance from the Stalinists in the Con- present legislators, the Tories. federation of Labour (CGT) who Does

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the seriously have disorientated the working believe the Tories will imple- class with of series one-day a measure? Of ment such strikes. course not. Yesterday the CGT called yet But these liberals spend their 24-hour another strike. This lives buried in protesting, action was in support of railway always keeping their activities workers who have been on strike from genuine political develop- for almost a month against the ment. loss of jobs caused by the closure To stop the Tory onslaught 'non-productive' of services by on basic rights. there is only the government. one clear way- -get them out of office and return a Labour The railway workers are also demanding government pledged to repeal wage increase to all Tory balance the 85 per cent increase repressive legislation and implement the Charter of cost of living over the in the Basic Rights. last year. Send for delegates' and observers' cre Conference Secretary dentials from: R. Goldstein, 103 Lewis Flats, Dalston Lane, London E8 SPECIAL TRAM FROM EUSTON, LONDON, £1.50. COACHES FROM OTHER AREAS Union. Branch Names, addresses and No of delegates/observers I enclose € as delegates fees Signature of secretary would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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Scottish rent rebels make PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Oct THE CENTRAL London branch of the National Union of Jour- nalists yesterday passed a resolu- totally rejects the tion which principle of wage freezing and wage restraint. 'It declares its specific oppo- sition to both the £2 wage increase limit proposed by Edward Heath and the £3.38 alternative proposed by the TUC Economic Committee. We there- immediate fore call for the breaking-off of the talks between the TUC, the CBI and the government . .. 'We further endorse the stand taken by Ray Buckton, leader of the locomen's union

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at last week's Labour Party con- ference, where he called for the talks to be broken off and said the job of the TUC was not to talk with the Tory government but to campaign for its removal.'

Part of the Sheerness port whi LONDON DOCKERS yester- day acted swiftly over plans to take on casual labour at the Medway port of Sheerness.

Sheerness has been granted provisional authority to re- cruit 50 casuals — 'supple- mentary' dockers under the National Dock Labour Scheme -following the transfer of part of London's meat traffic to the port. The move is also connected with fears of a shortage of labour due to the number of men taking voluntary severance under the Jones - Aldington scheme. If definite authority for the MERSEYSIDE dockers meet to- day to decide whether to lift the blacking on Heatons Transport.

The St Helens haulage firm has threatened National Industrial Relations Court action if the dockers' action continues.

It was Heatons who first took the Transport and General Work- ers' Union to the NIRC over the blacking in Liverpool. The union was eventually fined £55,000 and held responsible for the actions of its shop stewards. On Monday Heatons attempted a test run to Liverpool docks to see if the blacking was still in force. And despite prolonged negotiations with stewards on the dockers turned the question, lorry away. The company has several options open to them under the Industrial Relations Act and could, if they want, be in Lon- don at the NIRC as early as Thursday morning. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), High Street, London, 180b Clapham

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ALTHOUGH the 23 Scottish have reaffirmed their position, t the rises. In fact they plan to Heath or the Secretary of Stat 3 port which is to take the meat trade prevlous!

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recruitment is granted by the Dock Labour Board, dockers fear not only that it will be the thin end of the wedge for a further loss of jobs from London, but that the new men's casual could undermine their • status existing rights and conditions.

The first effects of this would be felt by the 320 registered dockers at Sheerness. London's solidarity would also soon be hit, however. Men on the supplementary register are paid the same as but they permanent dockers, have no security of employ- ment. They can be given seven days' notice of the sack at any time by the Board. Their individual employer can himself get rid of them on the same terms. However long they remain in their jobs they build up no right to redundancy payments. The threat by the New Zeal- and Meat Producers' Board to pull its 170,000-ton-a-year traffic has out of London altogether already been used as a direct spur to productivity on London docks. Last week the employers were announce an increase able to from 44 to 55 tons per gang shift in the rate of throughput the at the meat berths. But Richard Gardiner - Hill, eral managing director of stevedores Scruttons Maltby and a member the Jones-Aldington com- mittee, made clear that the em- ployers are still not satisfied. It essential the upward trend was continued, he said. The Producers' Board threat is carefully calculated to help the employers' strategy here.

They have not said they want to shift out of London com- pletely, which could either pro- with the voke showdown cottish Labour-controlled councils sition, they still feel they can persua lan to seek a meeting with Tory | of State for Scotland, Gordon Car previously dealt with in London.

dockers or force down the rate of throughput. No set tonnages will go to any port, the producers say. Meat will be sent where the best and service most economical is offered. In the background lurks the threat that London may lose the lot and with it about 2,000 jobs.

Meanwhile the powerful Vestey family, which holds a powerful position in the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board, is again on the attack on another front.

It has threatened that unless dockers lift their picket of its Midland Cold Storage subsidiary by Friday it will sack 30 handlers and staff. Jack Jones, T&GWU secretary, has said the picketing un- authorized by the union. The existing stafi at the depot are T&GWU members. workers

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on the site of the M5 motorway bridge, which will cross the River Avon . at Bristol, staged a walk- out yesterday because they want a first aid attendant on the Somerset side, at Pill. The men claim it would take first men at Avonmouth half-an-hour to get to Pill in the event of acci- dents. The bridge, which will the Birmingham-Bristol carry motorway into Somerset, is not expected to be completed until 1974 because of various hold- ups and industrial disputes. It was due to be finished last month. SCOTTISH pubs in the Tennent Calendonian group were shut yesterday following a two-day strike by managers and bar staff.

Picketing at Tennent's five Scot- tish distribution points and the refusal of delivery drivers to cross picket lines meant at the firm's 350 pubs that no beer was being sent out. The strike is in support of a £6 a week claim for bar staff. creases ouncils defying rent increases • persuade the Tories to 'freeze' Tory Prime Minister Edward lon Campbell to say just that.

At the same time the 23 are seeking support irom the national leadership of the Labour Party, the Scottish TUC and the TUC. Cilf Richard Dynes, leader of the Labour-controlled Glas- gow Corporation, said after a meeting on Monday that the councils were most concerned about the effect of the rent increases. This was even more the case, he added, when the Prime Minister had said there had to be a £2 limit on wage and salary increases and that price rises should be restricted to 5 per cent.

'Yet,' said Cllr Dynes, 'at one stroke, rents in Glasgow would under the Act go up by some- where in the region of 40 per cent. It doesn't government policy, "e up with But the leadership of the 23 councils who between them rep- resent 400,000 council over tenants, left the door open for eventual capitulation by disclos- ing they would not offer the Tories any • real resistance if things came to a head. Said ClIr Dynes: 'There is a very strong demand that this legislation should be frozen until the outcome of talks between the government and the TUC are finished! Then he revealed that none of the Labour leaders contem- plated an all-out fight against the Tories when he said: 'If the Secretary of State wants the Act implemented he can do it him- self.' As far as he could see it, the Tories would eventually send government officials who would force town hall staff to put up the rents. And . that would be the end of that. In that case, the opposition by the 23 councils is nothing more than a mere token gesture. The question is not to let the Tories "do their own dirty work', but to make sure the Tories are not in a position to do any work at all. The central question facing Scottish and all other tenants is the task of forcing the Tories to resign through the mobiliza- tion of the whole working class and electing a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist policies and the repeal of the Act.

Camden council in north London meets tonight to decide whether to continue its non- implementation policy following concessions from the government on the operation of the 'fair rents' Act. GLASGOW and Dundee buses were off the roads yesterday as maintenance engineers continued their pay strikes. Over 250 Glas- gow buses are now out of ser- vice, leaving a daily fleet of 700.

Strike leaders representing 700 men have rejected a corporation basic plus offer of a £27 bonus and the strike has entered its second week. In Dundee more than one-third of the total fleet has been hit. The men are claim- ing a £3-a-week increase, giving a basic £25 a week. TELEVISION and radio tech- nicians have been told by their union to boycott the BBC's pro- gramme complaints commission.

A thousand members of the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians working at the BBC are being urged not to appear if called as witnesses before the commission -set up a year ago. The ACTT• claims that there should be greater legal formalities attached to the commission and that its hearings should be in public.

BY DAVID MAUDE .

TUC general secretary Vic- tor Feather claimed yester- day that the £3.40 figure mentioned in the economic committee report endorsed by the General Council should not be taken as a norm for pay increases. But he was at a loss to explain why if the TUC is opposed in principle to the idea of a norm the report spends two of its 11 pages, and the whole of a three- Victor Feathor, TUC secretary page appendix arguing against the government arithmetic behind Heath's £2 figure. It's just to show that we can do arithmetic as well as them, he said. 'Perhaps it was a waste • of time extraneous.' • • perhaps it is Few of Britain's 10 million TUC members will be impressed by his evasion. The report forward puts several proposals. It says there should be a 6 per cent growth rate in the economy, rather than the government figure of 5 per cent, calls for statutory action prices and a cut to 7t per on cent in the planned 10 per cent rate of Value Added Tax. Rent increases due in April Fair rette Ant should been the 'fair rents' doned. One further suggestion is that the proposed threshold clauses in pay agreements should triggered when prices have risen 5 per cent, rather than 6 per cent as the government proposes. BRITAIN'S solicitors warned the government yesterday that sug- gestions to change the criminal laws would make it easier to con- vict an innocent person. It is more in the public interest that an innocent person should be acquitted than that a guilty one convicted, said the British Legal Association, repre- senting the solicitors, in submis- sions to Home Secretary Carr, on proposals by the Criminal Law Revision Committee.

WEATHER

SOUTH and south-eastern dis- tricts of England will be cloudy, with rain at times. Eastern Eng- land and Scotland will be cloudy, with some drizzle and coastal fog patches. All other areas will be cloudy at first, with some developing. It will bright spells be rather cold, generally.