Workers Press no. 894

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THE TORY PARTY conferen parations of the government a able to inflict a defeat on the w last year, they have now embar Working with the full col- laboration of the TUC, backed by the Labour and Stalinist leaders, they aim to impose state control over wages. The weapons for en- forcing this policy are mass unemployment and the In- dustrial Relations Act. The TUC's decision to partici- pate in the National Industrial Relations Court takes them half- way along the road to the im- plementation of this state con- trol of unions and wages.

For the Tories, everything de- pends on their entry into the European Common Market in three months time. with the Faced rapidly- deteriorating international economic crisis and trade war, they want to band together with the European monopoly capital- ists for the all-out attack on the working class and growth of un- employment which will come within two or three months of entry. This is the meaning of the EEC ministers' discussions about compulsory incomes policy for the whole of Europe. The crime of the trade union and Labour leaders is that they are collaborating with the Tories granting them the most precious advantage of all at this stage, the advantage of time.

The Tories are desperate that no upheaval in Britain shall dis- rupt their entry into the EEC.

The TUC talks with Heath, the Labour leaders blessing for these and the decision to delay the miners' pay claim are all de- liberate decisions to come to the rescue of the Tories. A great movement of capital into western Europe, accom- panied by a flood of closures and redundancies, well as un- as precedented price increases, will follow entry into the Common Market. The TUC and Labour leaders intend that the working class shall be left leaderless in the great battles which will be pro- voked by these developments.

This is also the treachery of the Stalinists, who have now come out in favour of the TUC's policy. Behind all the talks with the TUC, the Tory government is building repressive up machine to crush the working class. To deal with the picketing which brought home the strength of the working in -class the miners, dockers' and builders' strikes, the intend Tories to build up a special police force of the French CRS type (See p.

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BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

THE TORY PARTY conference marked a new stage in the political pre- parations of the government against the working class. Having been un- able to inflict a defeat on the working class in the strike struggles of the CAV sit-in

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winning big support second week the CAV Lucas workers at Fazakerley, As their occupation enters Liverpool, have won considerable support for their occupation against a closure threat. Hawker workers near DoCKDor have agreed to black all Lucas products until the shadow of redundancy is lifted from the also ready to products the 1,100 Fazakerley men and women. Dockers at Liverpool are Fazakerley, give the Lucas Industrial have stewards Equipment. go anead ine zou manual workers au for the occupation at the CAV factory this week collected a total of £255 on the same site. Draughtsmen collected a further £45, foremen £22 ing of this alternative leadership hope to tie the hands of the ' Angry' in the unions. working-class movement com- Such a leadership nust figh pletely. The Blackpool Labour Farty or use we o a economi conference gave the stremples, mont But must saine all organment, above Tory must denial plans education "eTT TaIK aDOUT orkanze 'fair rents' Act has dissolved in theory workers' MarXISt an almost complete surrender leaders who will expose struggle the of the A MAN alleged to be a member limitations LaDOUT COUnCIS and Angry Brigade' which over Britain (see p. 3). purely economic structie and politically, the This means a leadership which Sale tO nave plotted bomb the establishes of the explosions, denied at the Old primacy Bailey struggle for political yesterday that was Unly such a leadership will be working class are in tull retrea Befe statists Tory preparations. of a bombing evel Dall COnS- The and able to defeat the reformists and piracy. revisionists, John Barker Stalinists and take lead in the (24), formerly of onlv concerned avert working class fight to call off all talks Trom une struce Amnurst Koad, stoke Newington, against government, help Tory government and London, who is defending him- with the force it to resign self, said that his defence them to beat the retreat.

would before the All be that all the articles mentioned nere is ony one wav to insure the political independence of the Trades Unions Alliance confer- charges, including Possession class fight the great must be to dis- machine working ence guns, gelignite and to political task effec- had battles which lie ahead been CUSS InE From conference the the Ting The transformation or police in the A mhurst Koad All Trades Unions Alliance Socialist League into a flat which he shared with three October 22 must come the build.

revolutionary party. the other defendants.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

A LEADING British-Leyland convenor yesterday appealed to all workers in the heavy truck division to back the Thornycroft workers occupy- ing their plant at Basingstoke, Hants. Commenting on the threat for an all-out strike in the truck division on Wednesday, Len Brindle, convenor at the Leyland, Lancs, plant said the issue in- volved all the combine's workers.

It is not just a question of the closure at Thornycroft, it is a question involving the whole future of British-Leyland. Shop stewards, convenors and trade unionists throughout the whole combine must be wary and vigi- lant and make sure what hap- pens to other multi-national cor- porations-redundancies, ration- alization and closuredoes not happen to British-Leyland.

The only effective opposition to closure and redundancies is to co-ordinate all activities if one plant is affected-in other words if one plant is kicked all the others limp.' Basingstoke shop stewards will be meeting this weekend to de- cide their attitude to new pro- posals from Leyland, which plans to sell the factory site to a property company and the fac- tory to the Eaton Corporation of Ohio. The new proposals are be- lieved only to defer the date of the sale. The occupying workers want it scrapped Picket attack A VICIOUS Tory crackdown on militants was heralded at the Tory Party conference yesterday when Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan hit out at what he called a tiny minority of "troublemakers. In an attack on "secondary picketing' , such as the miners engaged in when they picketed power stations, he said: *There may well come a time when it will be necessary to revise the whole complex of the law on this and other matters.'

Macmillan issued clear a demand that the union leaders curb militancy. But he warned: It is up to the government to see that violence disorder are checked,' he said. That is our responsibility.'

Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary for Security, Health and Social earlier told the conference the Cabinet was giving *the most serious consideration' to changing the law regarding payment of strike benefits.

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last year, they have now embarked on a new policy.

Working with the full col-

TUC,

laboration of the the Labour and backed by Stalinist leaders, they aim to state control over wages. The weapons for en- forcing this policy are mass unemployment and the In- dustrial Relations Act. The TUC's decision to partici- National Industrial in the Dale Kerations court rakes them ват- way along the road to the im- of this plementation state con- UHOnS Wases ror the lorles, everything de- pends on their entry into the Common Market buropean UNTee musse with rapidly- Haced The deteriorating international and trade economic crisis Wal, Te e co ooe orerek ve the European monopoly capital- ists for the all-out attack on working class and employment will come Walen three months of Cull y This is the meaning of the H munisters discussions anout compulsory policy the whole of Europe The of the trade union ana Labour leaders Tnev ane colaborat ing mih the Torist granting most advantage of all at this DueCIOUS stage, the advantage of time.

desperate that The Tories are no upheaval in Britain shall dis- rupt their entry into the EEC.

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talks with Heath, the Labour leaders' blessing 101 these ana ine decision to the miners' pay claim are all de- to come to the liberate decisions Tories. Tescie ome A great movement of capital into western accom- Hiltone. panied by a flood of closures and well Icuulualcics. ull" wil preceaentea price increases, follow entry into the Common Market. The TUC and Labour leaders Inteno TiNe working cass shall be left leaderless the battles which will be great pro- voked by these developments.

This is also the treachery of the Stalinists, who have now come out in favour of the TUC's policy. Behind all the talks with the the Tory government bulding up its repressive machine to crush the working cass. To deal with the picketing which brought home the strength

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police 'With this and the National In- dustrial Çourt they Kelations | INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY OCTOBER 14, 1972 • No. 894 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE. SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

THE TORY PARTY conference marked a new stage in the political pre- parations of the government against the working class. Having been un- able to inflict a defeat on the working class in the strike struggles of the CAV sit-in

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winning big support core derabd to black ali ucas aeroion agine s clo ure tiret: Hawker As their occupation socond week Fazakerley, Liverpool, have won ~ celey woes ear o ock•oru aero-space shadow of redundancy is lifted from the Liverpool also ready to Lucas products the 1,100 Fazakerley men and women. Lucas Industrial Fazakerley, have stewards , give the Equipment. go cece necou Manuel workers al for the occupation at the CAV factory this week collected a total of £255 on the same site. Draughtsmen collected a further {45, foremen £22 ing of this alternative leadership hope to tie the hands of the 'Angry' in the unions. working-class movement com- leadership Such a must fight pletely. The for the winning of al economi Blackpool Labour Party conference gave the gr en ệhe struggles, for wages and against but must above these Tory plans. ane organnet, denial the education •aOlTi nORTOO olsalice 'fair rents' Act has dissolved in theory Varyist workers an almost complete surrender by leaders will expose of the who At MAd aller torbade eminn MPs all struggle the limitations

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over Britain (see p. 3). which purei economic suruceie Industrially and politically, the This means a leadership ot the Sale lo have pottea bomb establishes the explosions, denied at the Old primacy ss are in full retreat Laurliulal Bailey struggle for political yesterday that betore cass are ing power. was Tefe St atmists and revirinins of a bombing n v suca a ezersao wı gi cver COls- The able to defeat the reformists and piracy. revisionists, Stalinists and take lead in John Barker (24), formerly of onlv concerneo enverl working class fight to call oft all talks trom une sururdie Amnurst noaa, stoke Newington.

against the government, help with the Tory government and London, who is defending him- force it to resign. self, said that his defence them to beat the retreat.

would before the All be that all the articles mentioned nere is onlv ore wav ro tasure CAnle nde con des- the political independence of the Trades Unions possession charges, including class fight the great ence must to dis- macine guns, gelignite and working political task of effec- had battes which lie ahead ammunition, been cussuc Dianllcu From conference ting the ottne The transiormation ol police in te A MAuTST KOaC Oel Ter 22 must come the buld- Trades Unions Allince Socialist Labour League into a flat which he shared with three revolutionary party. of the other: defendants.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

A LEADING British-Leyland convenor yesterday appealed to all workers in the heavy truck division to back the Thornycroft workers occupy- ing their plant at Basingstoke, Hants. Commenting on the threat for an all-out strike in the truck division Wednesday, on Len Brindle, convenor at the Leyland, Lancs, plant said the issue in- volved all the combine's workers.

'It is not just a question of the closure at Thornycroft, it is a question involving the whole future of British-Leyland. Shop stewards, convenors and trade unionists throughout the whole combine must be wary and vigi- lant and make sure what hap- pens to other multi-national cor- porations--redundancies, ration- alization and closure-does not happen to British-Leyland.

'The only effective opposition to closure and redundancies is to co-ordinate all activities if one plant is affected—in other words if one plant is kicked all the others limp.' Basingstoke shop stewards will be meeting this weekend to de- cide their attitude to new pro- posals from Leyland, which plans to sell the factory site to a property company and the fac- tory to the Eaton Corporation of Ohio. The new proposals are be- lieved only to defer the date of the sale. The occupying workers want it scrapped. Picket attack A VICIOUS Tory crackdown on militants was heralded at the Tory Party conference yesterday when Employment Secretary Maurice Macmillan hit out at what he called a tiny minority of 'troublemakers'. In an on 'secondary attack picketing', such as the miners engaged in when they picketed power stations, he said: 'There may well come a time when it will be necessary to revise the whole complex of the law on this and other matters.'

Macmillan issued clear a demand that the union leaders curb militancy. But he warned: 'It is up to the government to see that violence and disorder are checked,' he said. 'That is our responsibility' Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary for Health and Social Security, earlier told the conference the Cabinet was giving 'the most serious consideration' to changing the law regarding payment of strike benefits.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Octobe TERROR the British press Ignored: This when the Zionists occupled southern Leb THE SOCIAL - democratic government of Willy Brandt in West Germany has already expelled over 200 Palestinians its police forces are and organizing systematic raids on the homes of those that remain. This action is being taken as part of a massive anti-Arab witch-hunt whipped up by the West German government fol- lowing the Munich airport shootout. Two Palestinian organizations, the General Union of Palestinian Students and the General Union of Palestinian Workers, have been outlawed by government decree. The West German action is completely in accord with the wishes of the Zionist Israeli gov- by Brandt's ernment, headed fellow social-democrat Mrs Golda Meir. It creates a major precedent for the wholesale hounding of foreign militants within the Common Market and no doubt has the full backing of Harold Wilson, who called for similar action in Britain. Mr Said Hammami, represen- tative of the Palestinian Libera- tion Organization in London, told Workers Press that the attack on the Arab workers and students in Germany was an attack on all militants. Already not only had Palestinians been expelled, but also Libyans, Syrians and some Egyptians, he said. In the coming two months if the expulsions continue, all our students will be outside Ger- This is disaster for the many. Palestinians. The PLO has no money to pay for their studies elsewhere. And even if it had, where can they go now that they are expelled from Germany?'

The West Germans' action was exactly the same as what Israel was doing to the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

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- recently emphasized their have intention of taking action against 'terrorists' not only in the Middle East, but in other parts of the world. At the time of the Munich shootout, Israeli General Herzog said Intelligence the country's organize for Service should clandestine war in which 'the would become hunters the hunted'. students who were inter- Arab by the German police rogated prior to being expelled from the country reported that some of their interrogators spoke fluent Arabic. 'They could only have learned to speak it that well if they had spent years in the Middle East.

believe they are We Israeli intelligence men working with authorities, Mr the German Hammami said. The expelled Arabs are being rushed across the German border without trial simply for belonging to one of the banned organiza- or possessing pro-Pales- tions tinian literature. 'Day after day Palestinians in Germany find that some of their friends are missing. They have been expelled by the police,' Mr Hammami said. said the West German He claimed to have government raided 24 'offices' of the GUPS.

'But these are just the places where students live. The GUPS has only about 250 members in Germany. cannot possibly It ; Mr Hammami afford 24 offices, said. The PLO representative in Germany was arrested at six in the morning and expelled at information about low and send to NATIONAL

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inside was flattened by an Israell tank noon. He was put on an aircraft to Algeria. forced to go Since his counterpart left Ger- many, Mr Hammami has been unable to discover in detail the fate of the hundreds of Pales- tinian workers in West Germany, though he is certain many have already been ordered to leave.

Mr Hammami said the Ger- mans' policy, allegedly directed against 'terrorism', , was certain to produce more recruits for the ranks of the real terrorist organizations. 'What can you expect a stu- dent to do--a medical student for example expelled on the eve of his final examinations?

'He will find it almost impos- sible to get a place at another finish his studies. university to The Germans have branded him as a "terrorist". In this case the world can expect anything. It will these students into all turn terrorists.' Mr Hammami pointed out that the western press, which had raised such a hue and cry over Munich, was totally silent about witch-hunt anti-Palestinian in Germany. And he slammed Wilson's demand that he should be forced to leave this country: 'I don't know why Wilson wants me out when there are 17 Zionist organizations in Britain which he is quite prepared to tolerate. Even the Herut, the ultra-right Israeli has a party, branch in Britain, he said.

Palestinian students in Britain are holding a picket outside the West German Embassy in Ken- sington today starting at 11.00 a.m. MORE than 200 miners at the Wankie Colliery, Rhodesia, refused to go underground the yesterday because of danger of an explosion. The strike, mainly of African workers, began when they heard evidence given to the commission of inquiry into 300 deaths at the colliery four months ago.

The report quoted Dr Leslie Willett, deputy director of mining for the British National Coal Board, who is in Salisbury for the inquiry. He said an explosion at No. 3 colliery-next to the disaster pit—-was imminent.

A colliery spokesman said the strike had seriously affected pro- IN AN article that hardly con- tains a single fact, the Glasgow correspondent of the 'Morning Star', Arthur Milligan, claimed yesterday that the Socialist Labour League lined up with the Tories in attacking the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' (UCS) work- in policy. "Throughout the work-in,' Mil- 'these despicable ligan raved, the shop Trots were accusing stewards, of "betrayal"" Let us examine the statements of Milligan and the 'Star' point by point. 'Morning Star' (Friday October 13, 1972): 'The announcement of final victory came around 11.40 a.m. last Monday ... the historic work-in was over - the

UCS

workers had won. They had fought for some 450 days and achieved their original objective of saving all four yards and all jobs—one of the greatest working- class victories ever known.'

FACT ONE: Since UCS went into liquidation last July, 2,500 men have left the yards. A few have given up their trades, found other jobs and taken a cut in their standard of living. Others have had to separate from their families and leave the area. Most joined Glasgow's have ever- lengthening dole queues. The workers' 'original objective' was to fight for the right to work against the Tory government's efforts to destroy it. But their leading shop stewards, under the influence of the Com- munist Party, strove to confine file to a reformist the rank and campaign which appealed to the Tory government to 'save jobs'.

was: the four Their formula yards together and all the labour force. Today the yards have been broken up and 30 per cent of the labour force has gone down the road. 'Morning Star': 'The militancy and ingenuity of these men in giving the movement the patent of the "work-in" as a weapon, not merely of defence but also attack in the battle against the crudities of capitalist economics has changed the whole course of labour struggles.' FACT TWO: From the outset, the work-in was admitted by its Stalinist advocates to be strictly They deliberately re- defensive. jected the attacking strategy of occupation behind the de- an mand that the Tories resign and that Labour • government a nationalize the yards under workers' control. As James Reid told west of Scotland shop stewards in July 21, 1971: Mans of us think nationalization the answer. Some might say bring down the government. Well if shipbuilding the Clyde is not saved this on have to happen. might 'But we are not in business at this stage to bring down the government or indulge in political demagogy from the right or the We are here to preserve left. shipbuilding on the Clyde?

In so far as the UCS work-in has influenced the course of struggles against unemployment, therefore, its influence has been to leave workers entirely at the mercy of the world economic crisis of capitalism, and the duction, but he expected a full return to work by yesterday afternoon. The Anglo-American Company claimed 'inaccurate reporting' of Willett's evidence led to miners refusing to descend.

Dr Willett later went on the safety radio to say that measures introduced since the disaster ensured that there was no danger of an explosion in No.

3 colliery. Anglo-American's • London that since lan spokesman said Smith's unilateral declaration of independence the London office had had no contacts with the Rhodesian subsidiary. on- capitalist General Staff in the ow Tory government. Since Reid spoke, the Tories been allowed to consign have another 12,000 Scottish workers to the ranks of the hard-core unemployed. Hundreds more re- dundancies are announced each week. Had UCS been made a base for the fight to force the Tories to resign last July hun- dreds of thousands of workers could have been mobilized to stop this. 'Morning Star': 'The UCS leaders were always one step ahead in tactics. Heath, Davies and com- pany played every card they had •.. but the UCS men held the final ace—-solidarity.' FACT THREE: The policies of Reid, his fellow-Stalinist James Airlie and the other

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leaders in fact split stewards' the yards. When boilermakers at Govan refused to sign a separate deal with the Tory-created rump company Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, Reid accused them of joining the 'rat race'. Two weeks later he was back asking them for a 50p levy to support a work-in against a new threat of redun- lost dancies at his own Clydebank ver- yard. Yet it was the policies of Reid ive' and Airlie themselves which pro- duced the split. Milligan remains silent about the deal Reid signed with the Texas oil-rig builders Marathon Manufacturing which virtually outlaws strikes. And he does not mention that, at Govan, Airlie promised to , 'unconstitutional disputes'.

stop 'Morning Star': 'The ability of the

UCS

workers to keep coming seemingly on back when the ropes won the increasing admira- tion of almost everyone except the Tories and the political pygmies of the ultra-left fringe.'

FACT FOUR: It is not the first time the 'Star' has claimed vic- tory at UCS. On July 1, 1972, editorial announced: 'The an government announcement of financial support for Govan Ship- builders Ltd puts the seal of victory on the campaign for the right to work waged by the UCS workers.' The Tory cash brought praise from Airlie for their 'statesman- like' decision. Said Reid: In our opinion they have lived up to their responsibility for this in- dustry in the upper reaches of the Clyde ... we congratulate them.' On the strength of praise like this the Tories have every reason their to admire Reid, Airlie and supporters. 'The Times' (Tuesday, October 10, 1972) welcomed the settle- ment at Clydebank as deserving 'an honourable place in the unique history of labour on the Clyde'. It was an 'act of self-rehabilita- tion by the workers', ' this leading Tory paper claimed. They have other grounds for this admiration. Over the last 15 months the Stalinists have helped defuse a jobs crisis on the Clyde which could have contributed mightily to a cam- paign to bring the government down. At Govan they have agreed repressive conditions for 4,000 men in a market on the verge of collapse, while at Clydebank the outlook is even more speculative. The balance-sheet of the upper Clyde is this: 2,500 jobs have gone. Many more are in jeopardy. Meanwhile those who remain at work have been subjected to no-strike pledges which in principle are in line with the Industrial Re- lations Act. The Stalinists who signed these agreements have allowed the Tory government to use the spectre of unemployment to en- force these conditions. 'final victory' as Far from a claims, the 'Star' Tory the government has in fact emerged strengthened direct result as a of the reformist policies pursued by Airlie-and covered up for by Milligan.

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A NEW POLITICAL low in Stalinist evasior distortion of history was achieved by yester 'Morning Star' in its review of Joseph Losey' "The Assassination of Trotsky'.

The British Stalinists still stand by the Moscow and purges of the 1930s which destroyed the Bolshevi Guard and 'proved' that Trotsky was an agent of imper They disso- cannot ciate themselves from of the character 'a as Raymond Mercader, the Belgian, neurotic subject highly-trained GPU agent fits to of intransigence'. who carried out Does Stalin's the she want assassination on Stalin's hired assassin to be treated as a hero? orders and now lives The Stalinists even try comfortably under the Trotsky to pretend that protection of the Stalinist really wanted to die and bureaucracies in Eastern therefore was careless Europe. about precautions. As far as Trotsky and The reviewer, Vir- one the rapidly-developing in- Dignam, ginia writes of ternational Trotskyist move- "the heavily-fortified villa, ment are concerned, the complete with watchtower' Stalinists today are on the in which Trotsky lived in spot. They cannot repudiate Mexico in 1940 following the assassination without his exile in various other recanting their whole past countries after his expul- and admitting that Trotsky sion from the Soviet Union 'right. They was cannot in 1929. She does not point approve it without admit- out that these precautions ting that Trotsky was, after necessary because it were all, and dangerous that was evident that Trotsky's Stalin was right. life was in danger-as the No longer able to ex- organized raid by the at Trot- press satisfaction Mexican Communist David sky's removal, their film Siqueiros showed. reviewer treats a question Virginia Dignam objects of major historical import- to Alain Delon's portrayal and ance in a superficial

INTERVIEW BY PHILIP WADE

ALTHOUGH CAMDEN'S Labour council this week made no change in its 'fair rents' non-imple Say mentation policy, it was made clear it was not a once-and-for-all decision. There was much talk by Labour councillors of the magnificent 'concessions' made by the Tories on the 'fair rents' Act, and of ren deputations to see the government.

One how- councillor, ever, who remains firm in his determination to fight implementation whatever the concessions- for -or, that matter, the conse- quences of surcharge-is Paddy O'Connor. Trans- and General port Workers' Union shop steward who also sits on Greater London the Council. He told me: It seems to me that the and whole movement, in particular the Labour Party, has fallen flat on its Because few face. SO councils are not implement- opportunity has ing, an been missed to take on the government in a campaign involving the trade unions Paddy O'Connór: Labour Party on I and the political parties.

of the The performance Industrial Relations Court leadership the Labour at has proved that. Party conference was Our revered leaders don't Frank pathetic with learn that a little militancy Allaun's 'we can't give you of is worth in gotiations great deal any guarantees'. It was an invitation for the Tories to There's doubt that if no put the boot in. a lead had been given the They haven't the given fight would have been lead because the Labour different. Take, for ex- Party has acquired what is ample, the conference known respectability. as called by the Labour Partv To begin from the assump- in London. tion that you can't break the law is stupid. If any of militant sort If the law had not been lead had been there given broken wculdn't have the whole of London could we had the trade unions, the have taken up the fight for Labour Party or your news- non-implementation and paper. The law is not some- forward shown the way for the rest of the country: thing abstract; the National

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evasion and " yesterday's Losey's film Moscow Trials Bolshevik Old of imperialism. SLL members handin when the film opene flippant way. The death rew she writes, offers scene, 'an opportunity for lashing lashing of tomato upon ketchup' The fact is that 'Jacson' (Mercader), a Spaniard by deb orıgın, had been selected and trained for the role with the utmost care. Whether Delon was credible on the screen, it is plain that the real-life Jacson' did his job with consider- able skill. After his arrest he was able to maintain the pre- the tence that he was a dis- illusioned of supporter Trotsky-the role for which he was cast. It was many before his real years identity was established.

The GPU covered its tracks well. But any doubts about the assassination have long since been removed. Even in jail 'Jacson' was well-provided with • funds by his employers. When he was released he was Says Camden fighter against i rent rise Party on Its back. I don't see what some Camden councillors are getting at when they say the Tories have got to 'gut the Act before they con- sider implementation. What is the point of this Act? It is to screw more rent out of the working class. If the Tories stop that they stop being a Tory Party. There is no doubt that the Tories are in • fact attacking the whole of local government, taking powers away from • local councils. Any control over the health service is going and so is any authority over water and sewerage. Now it. is Workers Press, Saturday October 14, 1972 PAGE 3

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out leaflets containing the Workers Press review of 'The Assassination of Trotsky' rs handing Im opened in London on Thursday night.

rewarded with the Order Jacson, was a product of launch the Trotsky_ to welcomed the anti-Trotsky Fourth International, which Prague and granted a pen- which had been going on was becoming a pole his for attraction for of sion services. years. many thus The Moscow those gratetul bureaucracv trom mane lo cutting aWay acquitted itself of a heavy Trials had tried to present Stalinism. debt to the Trotsky of The 'Morning Star' man who had as an has the Soviet Union in league this from removea ineir worst enemy.

Conceal By portraying Trotsky as with the Nazis. When the its readers. It thus demon- solidarity 'an absent-minded, assassination took strates its with spending his Stalin 8 Nazi ally, It reveals its protessor dotage dictating anti-Soviet Germany commitment Stalinism supplying idolizing indispensable and its complicity all with probazanda Wal grandchild and feeding his materials! pet rabbits, the film really The The film itself, of course specialist in the anti-Trotsky way for this. opens the removes lne motives

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Octobe From Stalinism... to the CIA It was on March 12, 1947, Harry that US President S. Truman, in a message to both Houses of Con- gress calling for support for the right-wing regime in Greece, attacked 'a militant minority, the communists. He urged that it must be US policy to be 'willing to help free people to maintain their institutions and their free integrity national against aggressive that movements to impose upon them seek totalitarian regimes'. The United States was taking on its position as the the policeman. world's same year, the Marshall Aid plan was launched, to restore economies of capitalist the Europe. The National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers laid down as policy that 'during the period of economic aid the participating countries should not undertake any further projects nor nationalization initiate projects which have the effect of destroying or impairing private competitive enterprises... aid should be extended to private competi- tive enterprises in the foreign countries... It was in the same year, again, 1947, that Truman instituted the Central Intelli- gence Agency (CIA). United States the As emerged as the supreme im- perialist power towards the end of and immediately after World War Il there were tremendous advances made by the world's working class and the colonial peoples. The Red Army, forcing back the Nazis, swept across Europe. In Italy there were large-scale factory along with the occupations successes of the partisans, and in both Italy and France the of emergence strong com- There were munist parties. successful revolutions in Yugo- slavia and China, the Civil War in Greece, and the emerging liberation struggle in Vietnam. India and Indonesia won independence. There was a big movement of the working class in colonies, Britain's African. while in Britain itself and other western European coun- tries the working class elected Labour governments. It was certainly not the fault of the working class, or of any lack of militancy or desire for change, that more this period was not made of to advance to socialism. It was against this back- ground that US imperialism launched its world-wide drive, through economic, military and political means, to restore the strength of the imperialist system, and of itself at the head. But while forces such as the National Association of Manu-• might determine facturers policy aims, they alone would not be capable of shaping or carrying out the right tactics.

In 1948, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) held its convention, in Port- principal land, Oregon. The guest speaker at this confer- ence of trade unionists was Justice William Douglas of the ay October 14, 1972 the CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part S Above: Truman with Stalin at the Potsd US Supreme Court. He opened up a liberal capi- talist perspective the world, with America leading, then spoke of the widespread suspicions that America was imperialist power which an 'may be extending its power into turope through cartels, banks and other powerful instruments of industry and finance'. He went on: 'Out of this arises the im- portance of the fact that American labour carried good credentials to western Europe.

Doors tightly closed to all others may open at its knock.

Words from American labour promise to find good accept- ance. The conventional diplo- mat will fail miserably in these revolutionary days unless he understands the rise of the labour governments of the world and can evaluate the factors that have created and maintained them...It is in precise this respect that American labour can render a unique service? Thus the potential use of the trade union bureaucracy as an instrument of imperialist foreign policy and •diplomacy was being recognized and the signal given for the co-option of trade union bureaucrats into the secret diplomacy and intrigues of US imperialism and the CIA. This was not a simple and True, straightforward task. there was a tradition of class- collaboration and support for union capitalism among leaders, particularly in the older, conservative more American Federation of Labour (AFL) unions. But, on the other hand, in the CIO particularly, which had grown up in the bitter and often violent struggles of the 1930s, • Part Seven the Potsdam conference in July, 1945. Two ye there was also a tradition of hostility towards imperialism and colonialism, making im- necessary for American perialism to dress itself up as something different, to talk about the 'free world' and to pretend that it was really con- cerned with exporting the values of American freedom and democracy and helping other peoples liberate them- selves from the tyranny of other powers. Part of the importance of academics recruiting 'liberal' and trade union leaders to serve the CIA was to provide and sustain this sort of ideo- logical cover for imperialist aggression. for American The basis labour leaders' alignment with American government policy was laid during the Roosevelt administration in friendly relations fostered between the government and the unions and in the use of liberal intellectuals. But credit for this success- ful use of class-collaboration belongs not only to Roosevelt and his liberal and reformist supporters, but also to the policies pursued by the Com- munist Party of the USA. Its and sympathizers members were to fall victim in the Cold War era to the very spirit of 'national unity' which they had helped to foster. Following the requirements of Kremlin foreign policy, the Stalinists not only supported Roosevelt. But during World War I, with America and the Soviet , Union allies, they had campaigned in the unions for full support for the war effort.

Leading CP members appeared on the same plat- forms as representatives of the capitalist class. At the same time trade unionists who tried to maintain union indepen- dence and fought for workers' . Two years later he mas to Institute the cent interests were denounced as "fascists', as were opponents of imperialism US in Latin America. As for Trotskyists, the CP fully supported their legal and political repression by the government - thus American rod for helping to create a their own witch-hunting later.

Towards the end of the war, Stalinists' adaptation to the social patriotism and 'Ameri- can exceptionalism' went so far that the leadership was pre- pared to liquidate the Party altogether in favour of a 'Com- Associa- munist Educational tion'. . Browder, the leader, was subsequently thrown out and denounced, but in reality, all he had done was to take the Party's policy to its logical and ideological conclusion. The CP had gained a strong position in the CIO, unions, with members and sym- pathizers in organizing, posts and in the leadership of some unions. Then in 1946, the witch- hunt began. In response to attacks from

CIO

the capitalist press, leader Murray appointed a committee look Six-man to into allegations of CP influ- ence. The committee, which included Mike Quill of the and transport workers auto Reuther, leader Walter reported back with a unani- mous resolution that the CIO 'resent and reject efforts of the Communist Party or any other political party and their adherents to interfere in the affairs of the CIO'. This was endorsed by the CIO convention. Two delegates from the National Maritime Union opposed the motion, but withdrew their opposition after consulting with the CP faction.

Daily Worker' The explained 'There can be no doubt of the correctness of the the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

actions of the communists and all "lefts" in the convention or of their agreement to vote for the statement...' The paper explained that this was 'how a united front works'.

So, in the interests of this 'united front the spurious Stalinists were even prepared, in return for a few conciliatory remarks and evasions from Murray, to accept a witch- hunt against themselves! Why?

Presumably, the answer can be found in William Z. Foster's official Party history. The veteran Stalinist leader makes no mention of the reso- lution against CP influence, nor of another one passed by convention which the same curtailed the right of state or local CIO councils to pass resolutions on other than state or local issues, or to contribute money to organizations other than those approved by the

CIO.

Instead, he refers to the 'influence' of 'progressive-led unions' in keeping the CIO on "progressive' and course mentions only one resolution— that in favour of continued Big Three unity. Stalin's diplomacy, and par- ticularly the arrangements he had made with the Allied powers at Yalta, must pre- dominate! The net result of this subordination to Stalinist supposedly in the diplomacy, interests of the Soviet Union, was that it helped the union bureaucracy take the CIO on to an anti-Soviet, anti-com- munist offensive, and helped open the door to McCarthy- ism. So when it came to the crunch, far from being able to defend the Soviet Union, the Communist Party could not defend itself.

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ALLENDE STIRS UP

As the long East Euro- pean winter closes in, the people of Warsaw are already shivering at the thought of how the state heating system — notori- ously prone to major breakdowns — will func- tion. Every year the Polish capi- tal's central heating network suffers failures, but this year officials making even are gloomier predictions, raising the spectre of cold homes and work-places. Nearly all buildings are sup- central heating plied with from the miles of pipes which make up the vast network. The basic problem is that large sec- tions of pipes need replacing urgently, while the two power stations cannot meet the grow- ing demands of the city. To make matters worse, the municipal heating company has difficulty in pumping hot water to the higher storeys of the big blocks of flats in which most of Warsaw's 1.3 million people live. The outlook, groaned one leading Warsaw daily, recalled fate of Sisyphus, the the mythical Greek figure con- demned forever to roll a stone to the top of a steep hill, only again to see it roll down forcing him to start the labori- ous task once more. 'Now all the errors com- mitted in the construction of and heating power stations pipes are being revealed. It shows how disastrous are the consequences of using cut- price technology, materials and equipment,' declared the daily 'Slowo Powszechne'. As a result flats, hospitals and kindergartens will almost certainly be underheated again.

Although the winter heating season has only just started, received newspapers have a flood of complaining letters from exasperated tenants.

The two-year-old regime of Party leader Communist Edward Gierek, who took over after workers' riots over food price increases, has already started building new heating plants but these will take at least another year to com- plete. Meanwhile the company lays the blame at the door of the which are short of plants, stokers and equipment. Plant managers angrily retort that the company is the real villain since its pipes do not work properly. The wide-bore pipes, mainly of concrete and asbestos, were laid down within the last five years and were hailed as the time ideal solution at the since they were considered cheap and efficient — a claim now universally scoffed at.

anti-breakdown Even the broke down recently, service complained the Communist Party daily 'Trybuna Ludu' beyond adding that it was 'properly understanding how checked equipment works for a mere two weeks' in Warsaw.

Failures are a serious head- most householders ache for who rely almost completely on hot water for heating in the winter. Frequently they have to heat their bathwater in pots and pans. In an attempt to rectify the problem, workers have pledged to carry out £204,000 worth of repairs without pay. But this would still represent only about 5 per cent of the work which still has to be done.

Reuter Chiloan Prosident Satvador Allando (la

BY JOHN SPENCER

Chilean President Sal- vador Allende is making the most of his dispute with the US-owned Ken- necott Copper Company to enforce rigorous new economy measures on the country. A French tribunal has ordered the seizure of Chilean copper imports into France following a law-suit by the corporation which was nation- alized early in the life of Allende's Popular Unity coali- tion. The US-owned copper com- panies are still in dispute with the Chilean government over compensation for the national- ization measures. Chile wants to cream off the excess profits which Kennecott and other firms have been making for years. The dispute is still grinding its way through the Chilean legal system, but Kennecott's action in France has aroused considerable nationalist feeling against the US. Behind this smokescreen Allende hopes to impose further cuts to ease (loit) with a group of copper miners, the country's economic crisis.

in Valvidia last Speaking week the President said very hard times were ahead for Chile: 'First there was the fall in the price of copper, then the US banks cut our lines of credit, after that the international banks made trouble and now we face embargoes ..! Hard times have already arrived . for many sections of workers— in the past nine months the cost of living has gone up by nearly 100 per Allende claimed the cent. government had made the mis- take of not telling people about its problems: 'We were at fault because we did not say clearly to the people from the beginning that we could not satisfy all their needs on account of the defects in our infrastructure. 'In the past there was no shortage of food for the good that thousands reason of Chileans had no means of buy- ing food to eat! He accepted that wages must go up to compensate for inflation, but he added a significant warning: 'It will be necessary to in- different troduce economic policies, a harsh policy of war.

Those who have always had enough will have to give more time. What is needed each above all is a mobilization of the masses.' This statement reveals the ... Workers Press, Satu • miners, on a tour for gaining election suppor complete bankruptcy of the Popular Unity government—a coalition of social-democrats, Stalinists and liberals. The Allende government came to office in 1970 on the basis of promises to lead the country along the 'peaceful road' to socialism. Instead a timid series of nationalization measures have only encouraged the Chilean employers to organize for its downfall, while the working class have got tired of living on promises for the future.

- The Popular Unity govern- viciously ment has turned against peasants occupying the landlords' land and against "illegal' factory take-overs by workers. The coalition has succeeded in confusing and disorientating sections of wor- kers, while relying for support and the police the army on against the threat of genuine revolution. Allende apparently feels that the Kennecott affair can give him a new lease of life. Only a few weeks ago he was talk- ing darkly about the danger of civil war, while appeasing the middle class by saying he the would never arm the workers.

ress, Saturday Oclober 14, 1972 PAGE 5 on support. Now his stand is endorsed on nationalistic grounds even by the right-wing Santiago press, including "El Mercurio', the regime's most consistent critic from the right. The are full of papers cartoons denouncing American "piracy' and praising Allende's position.

But it would be a dangerous deception to consider that the Kennecott affair has really staved off the threat of a right- wing coup. Allende's regime is a government of crisis, caught between world imperialism and its own working class. The Chilean employers want a tough right-wing regime to discipline the workers - and the Allende government is now trying to prove that it can do the job just as well. This is the real significance the talk about austerity of measures-the brunt will be in the factories and borne among the poor peasants. The real treachery of the Popular Unity government is that these measures will only strengthen the right and make more cer- tain the eventual demise of the Allende regime. The reactionary armed bands mobilized by the extreme right in the wings for are waiting their opportunity - and they plan to take a terrible revenge on the Chilean workers for the 'peaceful road' experiment embarked on by Allende and his Stalinist backers. ..t.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday October 14, 1972

BY IAN YEATS PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN MAYER

of Heath's attack In the spring of 1958 very centre the working class. on most Britons were poised 'This Linton goes on : on the brink of a long, forerunner the pamphlet was of the Inns of Court Conser- lazy boom-time summer Association's evidence vative not yet summed up in Commission Donovan to the Minister Harold Prime which was rejected, but which, as Harold Wilson said recently, Macmillan's famous elec- was the main inspiration tion phrase, 'You've Industrial Relations the Tory never had it so good'. Act. 'So Sir John is not merely But there were those who, the interpreter of this law but even then, believed the good he was to an important degree times would not last for ever procreator. its -among them a sharp witted out a 13- The booklet set young Tory lawyer winning his point plan which made political spurs at one of London's Inns strikes a criminal offence and of Court-John Donaldson. recommended heavy penalties While the public at large part in those taking against reacted to the Great Britain breached a stoppages which or Little England debate then industrial con- code of new the sweeping country with duct. indifference, amusement or a phrase of their Echoing Donaldson resignation, was Sir Winston Chur- president, appalled. the lawyers' chill, main con- a brief After post-war that the unions had cern was 'inde- political career as an come to be a great and power- pendent' on Croydon Borough ful estate-entirely outside the Council, according to 'Labour law. Weekly's' Martin Linton: They went so far as to say 'John Donaldson off came accommodating that far from the council in 1952 and went within the frame- themselves in for a legal career. He soon British Constitu- work of the became a leading light in the tion the unions were hell-bent Court Conservative Inns it. to and Unionist Association.'

He Examples were given. His change to the law was would, the judge said said he no academic or self-advancing he could, we said he could not whim. not-Market and he did or- Britain's ramshackle Victor- ganizer T&GWU, Smithfield.'

ian industry was falling behind "The mere Said the lawyers: in the post-war race for markets fact that such an arrogant and in the trade unions faithful expression of disrespect for the who wingers war-time right law can be made indicates that Churchill's collaborated with all is not well.' coalition like Deakin, Lawther, This concern for the law was Carron and Williamson were not, needless to say, motivated replaced by 'fire- being such high by any of moral brands' as Frank Cousins.

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principle. At the same time working- inspiration The real was the class militancy, pent up by all the for see in plain … to of the war and the promises booklet's introduction, which 1945 Labour government, began: unofficial found expression in 'The Inns of Court Conser- Donaldson strikes spurring on Society vative and Unionist to a detailed study of the legal written this pamphlet has in between relations employers the belief that a re-examination and their men. trade of the structure of According to Paul Ferris in is long overdue and unions his soon-to-be-published book that the old trade union laws "The New Militants': should be revised in view of a In the 1950s a of group uneasiness which is certain Conservative law- anonymous felt today' argued in a booklet yers had called 'A Giant's Strength' for curbing trade union powers. One of the group was Sir John Donaldson, later the first pre- Who it was that felt this sident of the National Indust- unease we can only guess. On rial Relations Court. the surface anxieties appeared Since pamphlet fixed on the cold war and 'the the was of Donald- Bomb', while public platforms anonymous, proof in it is hard television screens son's part to and were But, Martin filled with the eldorado of full establish. says 'Officials [of the Asso- Linton: employment and the welfare ciation] remember [Donaldson].

state. But, said the authors: 'In as an active member at least months Britain has to 1966. recent up been passing through a period By the comparatively com- fortable standards of the time financial and of serious eco- 'A Giant's Strength' contained difficulty and much nomic thought has been given to the views which were virulently causes by those right wing. who wish to These views have now moved see this country flourish.

from the barely credible fringe would be unrealistic to of Butskellite Britain to the the point of dishonesty not to acknowledge at the outset that the problem is one of power.

'One thing is certain. In the second half of the 20th century England faces very different economic problems from those hitherto that have prevailed and under which the trade unions have developed. we those 'No longer have foreign assets which for many years provided a large part of the national income. 'No longer are we, able to cushion the effect of bad times by drawing on the accumulated wealth of the past. 'We have spent all in the defence of liberty and the welfare state. Now we are face to face with the brutal facts of economic life. 'We must face great and ever growing competition in the markets have hitherto we commanded. If we are to meet these challenges we cannot afford internal disputes or restrictions in industry for such things greatly hamper our to our power overcome difficulties. It must be clear to anyone who has seriously considered the economic conditions of post-war Britain that both the big strike and the unreason- able restrictive practice are capable, of gravely hindering the nations advance in trade and enterprise. What was the answer to be?

It was a new law to curb the of the union bureau- power and outlaw the 'dis- cracies senters' As Marx and Engels say in 'Communist Manifesto': the 'Jurisprudence is but the will of one class made into law for all.' The Tory lawyers' arguments phrased in such a way as to prove conclusively that the power of the unions threatened 'the rule of law' which, as every fair-minded person knew, was the slender 'shield' divid- ing the maintenance of indivi- dual freedom from the nihilis- tic forces of anarchy. Use of the law to shackle the hot-heads in the unions seemed a shrewd move and the authors concluded sagely: 'A deep respect for law was a characteristic of the British people.' They went on: "The public declaration by a leading jurist op: printworkers stopped wor nd marched on July 22. 1972. li support of the five dockers jailed Industrial Relations under the Act for picketing. Here they pass

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Above : Sir John Donaldson, president of the Court.

that the General Strike of 1926 was illegal had a considerable eftect in causing its leaders to end it.' This quality of obedience to bourgeois law had been par- ticularly marked in the trade Workers Pr union bureaucracies. this industrial job v Panalpina case when he said: They wrote: "The right to lo see Inat unions know how to represent "The authors said: "it is not 'Every union has its dis- strike must be sharply differ- realised in their case and get a fair hear- perhaps senters and they have a entiated from the individual's generally non-trade ing.' contribution make, but right to withdraw his labour.

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Donaldson fortunate England was at that himself has members defiance The fundamental who act in latter (1926) officers time that the played the game. During the of the union policy of obeying civil liberty, for it is that which case in May this year distinguished of the unions who controlled Heaton the free man

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Illabillty the strike were not, when the he said: which the unions could well from the serf. point of no return was reached, 'The application 'The right to strike is not

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prepared to smash the consti- reveal a continued and more •Parliament intends indeed, it fre- strong of this nature, responsible by revolutionary means. extensive disobedience of the and trade union quently involves infringe- an In 1958 they were convinced court's orders.' and employers' associations to ment of individual liberty that England Did Donaldson lash the . the law's original (19th stil tortun- be able to bargain freely and ate—a gamble still to be com- trade union leaders? Not a bit settle disputes peacefully to that declaration Century their own. great benefit and strikes illegal is of the pletely 10sL. oI ll. tie sala: were In his judgements, alongside "The court has given serious that of the community.' kund as its subsequent Salute i his strictures consideration to whether The sort of bargaining the declaration that they on une serious- were defying the rule of ness should not exercise its power 1958 booklet OI authors ot the permissible. law, Donaldson has never to require the attendance had in mind approximates *Neither involve any funda- of the principal officers of the abandoned the long-term per- what is now happening in the mental right or liberty Ike the spective of inducing the union talks between the unions. tripartite individuals right to withdraw

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the CBI and Heath. It is, however, aware that his labour. the machinery of the Industrial the relationship between the Fourteen years ago the Tory 'In each case it is a question Relations Act and in doing so and trade union lawyers held that ideally' there of the law responding to the ColL une administer it. should never be any strike over help. movement has been under in- political climate or economic Aided by the Tory press this because tensive study during the last wages 'theoretically expediency.' objective has been deliberately few days. employers and unions should concealed behind smoke: 'In the circumstances we are be able to weigh up what they screen of high-minded concern content at this stage to leave by will gain BOSe to see fair play. the question of representation and arrive at an optimum 'Daily Telegraph's As the of the Although they chose to dis- and ligure. Rosemary Collins said on April by its officers to their own Indeed they would have liked guise it as a solution to the 1972: sense of responsibility? to have strikes alto- problem of unequal bargaining *He's a military-looking man.

The ultimate power between employers and meaning, in gether, proving to their own Tough-looking. Tory of deci- author's But he's very minds, the word satisfaction that there was no their men, the fair. You might almost say he 'responsibility' 'the was set out by such thing as right to sion not to ban economic has leaned over backwards on Donaldson in the Cunningham strike'. strikes clearly reflected their r8 Press, Saturday Octobor 14, 1972 PAGE 7 justifiable fear that this was something even right wingers in the union bureaucracies would not wear. They confined themselves to recommending 'civil or criminal proceedings' . 'substantial and fines' for any who took it upon themselves to transgress new industrial code the pamph- let set out—a code remarkably similar to the current provi- sions of the anti-union law.

On political strikes they felt on safer ground and allowed themselves full rein. 'Civil liberty depends on the use of representative institu- tions; the constitution provides machinery whereby the execu- tive is finally responsible to the electorate. A political strike introduces an element of political irresponsibility which is opposed to and even destructive of such an element.

'We give full weight to the that General argument a Strike is a revolutionary act and you cannot control a revo- lution by enacting a statute.

'We therefore consider that the political strike should be clearly pronounced illegal. By illegal in this context we mean a criminal offence.'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday October 14, 1972 'Parliamentary reform' and the working class, by Jane Brown

HOW THE

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PART THREE

Not even the Combina- tion Acts could com- pletely stamp out work- ing-class organizations, nor the activities of a few middle-class radicals call- ing for parliamentary re- form, during the 20 years of the French wars. We have evidence from that magistrates' secret unions were trace formed on a local basis and that strikes occurred. rapid spread of ine machinery, causing much un- employment, resulted in violent outbreaks of machine- breaking by the 'Luddites', a semi-organized force overating in the Midlands and north of England. Ned Ludd, who had stocking - maker's been apprentice, sent out to calls Nottinghamshire, action Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire to such effect that troops had to be called in.

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In Lancashire, eight regi- ments of intantrv and three of Horse Guards rounded up over prisoners, who were 1UU hanged transported. In or 1813, January, more were tried and 17 men were hanged at York. Some Luddites called for the overthrow of the government.

field the political But Was dominated by radical journal- the

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WOOm government harassed and imprisoned, but dared not execute. Outstand- ing among them were Major Cartwright, who bad been for universal campaigning suffrage ever since John Wilkes' days, and William Cobbett. Cobbett's social ideal-the rural England of the 18th cen- profoundly

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COnSCI" vative. But his sharp aware of social ness Lne chances Industrial evolution forced him caused the TO that conclusion complete overhaul the electoral syst mis as spassa, The Poli- In his newspaper, tical Register he violently abused The Thing' (the exist- of political patron- insystem age and bribery). One Issue criticizing the brutal discipline the landed him in in army, Jail lor two years. When he emerged, he de- fiantly reduced the price his paper from • Is Ofd to 2d, "Two-penny re-christening it Trash'. form In new Its became a campaigning weapon parliamentarý the working class, sell- among ing 50,000 copies a week.

• Cob. bett himself travelled all over England to address political meetings. It is not hard to see why the reformers found ready audiences. Numerically, the working class was growing at phenomenal speed. They suffered all the lay October 14, 1972 the working class, by Jane Brown working and living conditions of men who have no strong organizations to defend them against capitalist greed.

The overall population of England rose from 6.5 million in 1760, to 8.25 million in 1801, to 10 million by 1815 14 million by 1820. and The growth of industrial towns was staggering. Between 1801, and 1831, Liverpool's population went from 82,000 to 202,000; Leeds from 53,000 123,000; Sheffield and to Birmingham doubled; while (1815-1820). Writing in 1844, Engels assembled the most telling economic statistics. Raw cot- ton imports rose from t5m worth in 1770, to 254m 1n 1800, and f360m by 1836. Wool imports went from £7m in 1801 to £42m in 1835. By 1835, 553,000 tons were being produced each year, compared with 17,000 tons in 1740. The expansion of coal pro- duction he describes as calculable'. While labour was increasingly abundant, it was cheap and easily replaceable for the manufacturers who participated in this jamboree of expansion and wealth. No wonder they did not pause to ponder on 'social problems', until the development of unity, militancy and class conscious- among their employees ness forced them to do so! To add to the hardships of the working class the price of grain (the staple foodstuff) fluctuated wildly in the war years, rising from 43s a quar- ter in 1792 to a peak of 126s in 1812. At the end of the war it fell back to 65s 7d. But the relief was short-lived. In less than a year the country was plunged into an economic crisis which the government did more to alleviate. aggravate than 300,000 demobilized soldiers flooded the labour market. Trade sagged badly, due partly to the mounting inflation set on toot by Pitt's decision in standard'. There was no stability in prices-and no trade unions strong enough to enforce stability of real wages.

Only one commodity's price was regulated by government intervention. In order to pro- tect the farmers profits, the Corn Law of 1815 fixed a minimum price of 80s a quar- for the English grain ter which made up every worker's daily bread. Only when English prices rose above 80s could cheaper foreign grain be imported.

Another government measure struck directly at which workers was the abolition of income tax in 1816. To replace lost indirect taxes revenue, were increased on many items used by rich and poor alike.

The years 1815-1820 saW the largest reform demonstra- tions ever held. Grievances economic were in origin, yet the political par- reform movement lamentary dominated the platform at every meeting. Middle-class Top: Pitt addressing the House of Com a campaigner for reform who produced t radicals were eager to rally mass support for their cam- paign. But events were to prove that their real aim was often merely to admit their kind to the privilege of own parliamentary representation, and not at all to enfranchise and unemployed hungry workers. Among the latter, faith in parliamentary repre- sentation as a means to an end-cheap food and better living conditions-was strong.

In 1817, several hundred men set out to march to Lon- don and present a parliament- ary reform petition to the Prince Regent in person-only to be dispersed by soldiers.

Huge, mainly peaceful, meet- ings of workers assembled to hear radicals such as 'Orator' Hunt at Spa Fields in London and at St Peter's Fields near Manchester. They listened to long speeches, signed petitions and . voted on resolutions. It e of Commons. Above: William Cobbett, roduced the paper 'Twopenny Trash'.

was a big political advance from the anarchistic machine- breaking of earlier years.

Yet violence was not absent.

The Tory government, having experienced the resilience of the armies of the French revo- lution, were terrified of revo- lutionary outbreaks in Britain.

They had no large standing The army to depend on. recently-demobilized soldiers were amongst the most discon- tented elements in society.

So the government. resorted underground methods of to spying and set Bow Street Runners on the trail of 'agita- tors'. Through a system of agents provocateurs, the most famous of whom was Oliver the Spy, they instigated violence in the hope that savage punishment (eg. after the 1817 Derbyshire 'Pent- ridge' Rising) would 'set an example' to the rest of the population. The most notori- ous example of such govern- ment action was the Peterloo massacre of 1819. A participant in this reform meeting at St Peter's Fields has left us an account of what happened. 'We had frequently been taunted by the press with our ragged dirty appearances at assemblages; with the these confusion of our proceedings, and the mob-like crowds in which our numbers were mustered; and we determined that, for once at least, these reflections should not be de- served—that we would disarm the bitterness of our opponents by a display of cleanness, sobriety and decorum, such as . exhibi- we never beforehand ted. In short, we would de- serve their respect by showing that we respected ourselves ... peace on our parts was secured by a prohibition of all weapons of offence or defence, and by the strictest disci- Over and children marched to the reform meeting, obedient to these orders on August 16, 1819. Speeches began, but noise and strange soon arose' Cavalry murmur soldiers were seen approach- ing. 'On the cavalry drawing up they were received with shout of goodwill, as I under- stood it. They shouted again, waving their sabres over their heads; and then, slackening rein, they dashed forward and began cutting the people ...

The net result-11 dead and over 400 injured, plus a con- gratulatory telegram from • the Prince Regent to the soldiers.

The fury aroused by this event and the subsequent dis- covery of the 'Cato Street Conspiracy' to murder the Cabinet, gave the government the pretext they needed to pass the Six Acts. These laws prohibited any military drilling, the posses- sion or carrying of firearms, and, most importantly, re.. stricted public meetings to local inhabitants only-a de- liberate blow against the de- veloping national movement for reform. The repression was completed by new laws against 'seditious' pamphlets, and a high 4d tax on all newspapers, designed to put them beyond the financial reach of the working class.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

GIL ROBLESAND

Above: Gil Robles (left) during & break Accompanying him is General Franco (th By Juan Garcia la par

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'No fue posible Robles. Published by Ariel. 1968.

For the leading right-wing politicians, the advent of the Spanish Republic in 1931 coula only encour- age the 'virus of rational- ism' in the universities and 'working-class sub- version'. Their task was preparation of counter- revolution. Their man for the moment, Gil Robles. Robles in his autobiography, 'Peace was not possible', • arti- culates the ruling-class hatred for the proletariat: 'For their part, the working masses, more and more isolated from ele- ments which could be called conservative, and imbued with the principle of the class struggle, would be converted powerful instruments of. into social subversion... 'Among these masses, there was an absolute absence of spiritual principles. The pro- letariat lived submerged in the most frightful moral poverty, derived mainly from their physical wretchedness.' The Catholic lawyer Robles spent the first two years of the Republic establishing the CEDA as a national party and building up its youth move- ment, the Youth for Popular included Action (JAP). This visits to Italy and Germany to study the organization of the Nazi Party and Mussolini's black-shirts. The presence of CEDA in Lerroux cabinet ministers selected in October which provoked the insurrection in M • a break in the military manoeuvres in Rlosa ranco (third from left). the Asturias in 1934 was deter- mined by the bourgeoisie's requirements. Robles could use the legal framework of the state to prepare for civil war while the JAP provided a shock of fascist youth to force depleted army. supplement a The JAP military units fused whenever with the army workers had to be fought or strikes could be broken. Robles' memoirs reveal the seriousness of the conscious planning which went into counter-revolution. This the seriousness was lacking com- pletely in the leadership of the Asturian working class and the Spanish working class dominated by the generally left rhetoric of syndicalists and politicians in the. Grossi mould.

(See yesterday's p. 9 review of jail Grossi's book written in after the failure of the 1934 uprising.) At all costs a premature confrontation had to be avoided — no more abortive milițary coups like the one led by General Sanjurjo in 1932.

The generals were over impetuous in their enthusiasm to remove the Republic in 1934. With Asturias under military occupation, the army wanted to press on with their conquests. President Alcala Zamora's decision to amnesty the Catalan nationalist Perez Farras stirred up the military even more.

Before the October 18 decision was announced, gen- erals Fanjul and Goded in- formed Robles that they wanted to see him urgently.

Candido Their messenger, Casanueva, was told to cool them down. After sounding out the mend in the barracks, they agreed and asked the CEDA, which was opposed to the amnesty, to make a com- promise and stay in the govern- ment: 'Although it is necessary to give an amnesty to Perez Farras, don't resign, because the army is in no position to stop power from falling in the hands of the lefts, who would tear us apart very quickly.'

There could have been no better man to preside at the Ministry of War, which in Rlosa in the Asturias in July 1835.

Robles did in 1935. His mair: task was to reorganize and re-equip the Spanish armed forces. General Franco handed over a complete study of the needs of the army which re- quired expenditure of over a thousand million pesetas. This the Council ratified by was of Ministers on July 30. Although Robles insists in his memoirs that he was not favour of a military coup, in this can only be understood as rewriting of history for the benefit of the Spanish liberals and Communist Party leaders who now figure among the cohorts of 'democratic' Robles.

He militarized the munitions workforce to ensure that the left takeover would not be repeated and personally super- vised army manoeuvres in the Asturias. These were manoeuvres of • which a new unit he set up was especially equipped to deal with the physical problems of fighting in the mining valleys against a 'fresh movement of sedition'. In the good company of Generals Fanjul, Franco and Goded, he watched the troops cross the mining valleys and take up positions in the hills.

It was from October 1934 that the Spanish Military Union (UME), the right-wing con- spiracy within the army, spread its tentacles from captains and colonels to generals Mola and Goded. Although Robles had to make way for the strong man Francisco Franco, his parti- cipation in the Republican government provided two years of valuable preparation of the bourgeois counter-revolution.

The lesson of the insurrec- tion in the Asturias and Robles' career is that the spontaneous militancy of the working class, far from auto- matically dislocating the bour- geois state, in fact leads this its knives to sharpen state against the working class and in defence of capital. When the Workers' Alliance in the Asturias decided not to spread the insurrection nation- presented the ally, they generals with two years to prepare for the national up- rising. Workers Press, Satu The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Robert Mark, has been visiting various news- paper editors in Fleet Street explaining his policies. He has asked editors to pass on infor- mation to him personally if against corruption police officers is discovered. While the editors seem to be accepting this diplomatic line from Mark, many of the reporters aren't. 'The Times' They recall investigation which led to the conviction of two senior ofi- cers on corruption charges.

An internal examination of the case was undertaken. One of its findings was that had the complaint against the officers been investigated internally by the police, there was no reason that it would have to believe been impartial. In other words the system of internal inquiries is less than satisfactory and the whole "Times' case may have been hushed up. On Monday 'The Times' pro- of its grovelling duced one supplements. This one was on Nigeria. The newspaper's chief Peter Hopkirk, reporter, announced that the first Gen- eral Election for seven years imminent. This rumour was has been passed around for at least the past seven years.

The other articles went on praise the monumental to in building Nigeria strides under the benevolent despot- ism of General Gowon and the military rulers. The paper did not carry, however, an event which took place the day before the sup- plement was published. ress, Saturday October 14, 1972 PAGE 9 who robbed Ten men a passenger bus were publicly • firing executed by an army squad This brought to 200 the number of robbers executed punishment for since capital thieving was introduced a year ago. Recently an 'Observer" reporter was arrested in Kampala and had his notebook of contacts confiscated. It contained of prominent dozen names people who the reporter had been instructed to see by the paper's African 'expert, Colin Legum. One of the men on the list was Mr Anil Clerk, secretary to the parliament which Gen- eral Amin has abolished for five years. Mr Clerk subsequently dis- appeared and is believed to have been murdered by the army authorities. His death marks another chapter in the famous gold- smuggling case which involved Amin in 1966. In that year Amin was suspended from the army after allegations were made in the House of Assembly that he had been involved in smuggling gold from the Congo. The court of inquiry set up by Dr Milton Obote spent three weeks investigating the allega- tions. three learned The but judges filed the report, Obote never published its find- ings. During the inquiry the then Colonel Amin was repre- sented by a local Kampala lawyer—Mr Anil Clerk.

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12.15 MUSIC MATTERS.

12.20 SIX DATES WITH BAR-

KER. 1971: Come In and Lie Down.

At the Tory Party conference this 1 Secretary Robert Carr hinted thal sidering police flying squads to co pickets. ALEX MITCHELL investig WHEN THE riots broke out in France in May. June 1968 workers all over the world saw the emergence of General de Gaulle's special weapon for dealing with strikers and students. These masked and heavily armed men belonged to the CRs the Compagnies Repub- Incaines de securites. It is a 15,000-strong group which is attached Police to the Nationale. The CRS was set up just after the war by the Socialist Minister of the Interior, Jules Moch, as para-military flying squad whose duty the express was suppression of 'national unrest'.

In the labour movement the CRS became a feared and hated body of men. But it was not until the May-June events that their vicious activities achieved inter- national notoriety. Tom Kemp, Central Committee member of the Socialist Labour League, was in Paris during the rioting and he made these com- in "The Newsletter', ments forerunner of Workers Press: These forces do not act individually but are organized and operated in military form- ation and are highly armed and trained for street-fighting.

They depend directly upon the Minister of the Interior. Like professional generally soldiers they are recruited from the families of peasants in the poorer agricultural districts and from the least class- conscious sections of the working class. They are men without much education and no skills who would otherwise be condemned to the lower paid jobs, casual work or unemployment. Enlist- ment in the forces gives them security and a regular wage, a teeling of importance, a pension on retirement and the certainty of secure work in state employ- ment or private employment.

Once released by the masters on a particular enemy, like a well-trained and faithful dog they pursue their prey with single- minded and ruthless purpose. For them the behaviour of strik- ing workers or protesting students is incomprehensible. It can only be explained as the work of agitators and foreigners.

at grips with Once them, therefore, any feelings of human- ity are completely suspended: they only know one law-to beat, beat and beat again regardless of the age, sex or con- dition of their victims. The man who runs the CRS is Minister Raymond who held a police Marcellin, appointment in the Vichy govern- ment. Asked about the ferocious beating and gassing of demon- Marcellin strators, later: 'The trouble arose because we did not strike hard enough in May 1968. Nor quickly enough.

May 1968 The movement of could have been liquidated in two days.' In a more philosophic mood, 'History Marcellin has said: teaches that there is us no alternative to defeating revolu- tionaries or disappearing our- selves.' ice this week Home ited that he is con- ids to combat flying investigates.

THE TORY

government be- came dramatically appraised of the power of the working class in February this year during the miners' strike. The flash- point was Saltley Coke Depot, Birmingham. For several days miners from as far away as Wales and York- shire had been joining forces to try to prevent the movement of coke at the depot. The Midlands police had res- ponded with a vengeance; there had been many arrests and numbers of miners had been discreetly kicked and punched taken behind the police once lines. In response to the nightly scenes on television of unbridled WHEN THE Chief Inspector of Constabulary files his annual introduces it by he report describing what has been done during the previous year to up- never been defined. But one of the unwritten rules is that the British bobby does not become involved in activity which could be described as 'military. His activities in pre- serving capitalist law and order are conducted on what could be described as a 'civilian basis.

The reasons for this careful disguise are important historically.

The modern police force was started in the 1840s after the rn- deep class bitterness fostered by the intervention ofthe army and the mounted cavalry to smash the REG GALE, the president of the Police Federation, is des- cribed by all who meet him as "a hard case'. Gale is no liberal.

Far from it. He fervently advo- cates stiffer jail sentences, harsher conditions in prisons, the re-introduction of the death penalty for certain capital offences and tighter police brutality, the local branch of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers called a one-day strike. The tens of thousands of engineers were invited to the picket line to support the struggle of the miners. After a hushed but militant confrontation at the gates, the of police superintendent marched his men away from the scene.

Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire NUM executive member, told the elated gathering of workers: 'With the solidarity of the trade union movement we have achieved our aim. This will go in British down trade union history? The Saltley incident had a of Chartists and other militant Peterioa may have military success, but its political repercussions were extremely dangerous for the ruling class.

Workers have never had any illusions about the nature of the police force; in strikes, at foot- ball grounds and on demon- strations the police clearly reveal their role. Nevertheless, the ex-Metro- politan Police Commissioner, Sir John Waldron, was able to state in 1970: 'We do here what practically no other police force in the world does. We are non-provoc- protective ative. We wear no clothing. We have no riot squads' But Waldron's words pre- dated Saltley coke depot-and of laws on drugs. But Gale is opposed to the concept of an élite flying squad to smash picket lines. 'We don't want this, he told Workers Press.

'We don't want the development of CRS-type forces. You can do if you want to, of course, but you end up with a situation like Northern Ireland.' Gale, and many officers like Workers Press, Saturd Above: The brutal and univers.

ally hated CRS force In action against students Nanterre University, near Paris, during the May-June 1968 days. Below : Harrogate Detective Chief Inspec- for Derek Sutcliffe, one of the Increasing number of police in- volved in revolver training. The target? A human torso! powerful effect on the Tory government. It immediately set in motion series of secret a studies to discover of means handling similar situations in the future. As civil servant told one Workers Press: 'It was simple. It had been demonstrated beyond doubt that normal police methods could not work in these situ- ations. 'If we just accepted the situ- ation people would rightly say, "Look, they let the unions get away with anything". • We couldn't say that that would be political suicide. We therefore had to come up with some plans for much tougher techniques. What we needed was a special heavy mob' ant the arrival of the Tory govern- en. ment. Driven by the crisis of its system, the British parasitic , prepare for. po ruling class must large-scale repression. As a matter of tactics, it is unwise for them to call on the British army.

Soldiers may do the job in Kenya, Malaya, and Cyprus-and Ulster. But it is a different even question in Britain where bitter- against ness the and army militarism runs very deep.

In this desperate situation the Tories are looking to re-organize the police. Or should we say, new kind of police. An élite force of police-even if it means throwing away the tradition of the 'English bobby which has splendidly served the ruling class for more than a century. him, do not like the drift towards para-military bodies such as those in France, West Gtrmany, Italy and the United States. Another police officer explained his objection: 'If we get a heavy mob to travel around the country sorting out pickets it will have a disastrous effect on our with the local com- relations munity. Imagine trying to work as, Saturday October 1, 1972 PAGE 11 in a town after the heavy mob had been through it. Even if it was an outside squad, we'd all be accused of being involved.

'As far as I'm concerned any attempt to start an anti-picket force is very dangerous. It would end up like Ulster where, because of the B-Specials, everyone lost confidence in the police?

Well-meaning though these sentiments may be, they take no account of the political realities in Britain today. And against these 'liberal' com- ments of some officers must be posed the hard-line approach of other senior police officers.

IN JUNE this year Mr J. H.

Waghorn, the former chief superintendent of the War- wickshire and Coventry Con- stabulary, wrote in the 'Scots- man' that there should be a nationalized police force to handle major disorders. He said: 'Though confidence in strength of Britain's social the fabric remains unshaken, recent events in Northern Ireland and other United Kingdom trouble- spots warn that in the homeland natural immunity there is no from disruptive influences. In- deed, the dangers of internal civil anarchy subversion and begin to justify consideration of closer police-military ties involv- ing joint studies and training in, and organization of national security. Waghorn even had an answer for men like Reg Gale: •Fears that a nationalized police would from grow away people are unjustified, for service responsibilities would continue to include not only the prevention and detection of crime and the management of traffic, but also certain peace-keeping and social activities essential to good order, especially where other organiz- ations could not provide them equally well.' There is no doubt that while the Press debate about the 'changing role of the police' goes on, the plans are well advanced for a specially-trained body of police to meet the new political situation. At Hendon Police College in north London the training course includes much now more emphasis what is politely on called 'crowd control. Cadets are used as mock demonstrators in simulated battles and new weapons including gas and water form part of normal cannon training. Just one aspect of this more intensified training is worth detailing. In the sand pits at Hensall, just out of sight of the Knotting- ley-Goole Road, Yorkshire, is a police firing range. The officer in charge is Chief Inspector Colin Greenwood who is claimed to be one of the country's leading fire- arms experts. The he time may come, believes, when all Britain's police will have to be permanently armed-'when the system of law and order is on the verge of breaking down.' 'If that time does come there should be no moralizing, no moaning? Greenwood trains thousands of policemen each year in the art of using firearms. They use targets in the shape of a man's torso. 'There is no point in them being any other shape. It's all a policemen will ever shoot at.'

With massive wages struggles being threatened in the next six months, the Heath government is clearly preparing to launch new task force of policemen.

How long would it take to set up such an organization? 'With a stroke of the pen at the Home Office,' one policeman 'We're ready to go said. into operation soon as the politicians give the go-ahead.

Sack at cold store PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday October 14, 1972

BY IAN YEATS

TWENTY-SEVEN

men were given a week's notice at Midland Cold Storage, Hackney, yester- day—half the total workforce of office staff and men. owners, the Vestey The move by family, is a clear attempt to induce docks shop stewards to call off their five-month picket of the store or face losing the jobs for good. Edmund In prepared statement, Vestey, ot said etsedde une na. depot was losing £4,000 a week and that Transport and General Workers' general had that him Secelary ack ucs the picket was 'unauthorized' 'members of the must not take Dalt. Vestey said: 'I very much hope that all those concerned; customers, TOZd hauliers and drivers; will to fear of this unauthorized picket so Le turcals that our business may start Temin in which we shall be able which the notices have been

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Cold store workers paying their union subacriptions yesterday.

so reluctanly givel. Dockers' pickets said being ned it after the announcement expected meated s committee store. expensive never their Borthwick's was that it was meet to discuss the Deptford, the men move new Widl 1, cold store workers Vestey claimed: and Nel- are v sat should their jobs. 'Our son's wharf, Southwark, have told lose employees at that would in Novem- because Midland all, close wanted reistered Inev ale. aLCI ipping they livelihood dockers on losing their taken iSo ih e Vet, ey-o med addition to the existing purely as tonlase Nelson wharf, men labour force, since jobs irre- Terms the acuoll who have been working the National Dock sponsible nao been

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TrOM minority 40 docks when the store dock workers and a few to rue Tor Iwo morlı opened. fellow-travellers. have now been told was (vernine their wages will be man must The owners had held of "This spite out the prospect of in- the fact that all dock The LiCH • packets the present workers now have full- stered began n dockers. bay their go-slow after have droppec from single shift to two. since Lillc cm plu yileil £15. the over They claim reading said the ending the 1n L0e dockers could not unattached bank ganiza- that temporary T0al SOlUD employed there be- month" cold store, near Lon- tion made no register last don's Blackfriars announcement ormal workers pickets said Lausc

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would of though tem- Bridge. the were neeaea was a pioy that the sulul aboul lale to avoid taking , on regi- porary unattached regi- down by November. cins stered dock labour. ster (TUR) Management ure which initially had ended, bed hey as The Koval CrOUO men were belng made Teranate• ov sale docks shop stewards' redundant faster than shipments of the o sorele . Briefly... Firm seeks order PRINTERS at Southwark Offset, were yesterday SOlLA (LONGon. threatened with sạck A LIVERPOOL. transport dispute the Motor over Docks union firm yesterday sought an marazine Manadement issued notices to composing and order against the Trans- workers and talks at NIRC on the dispute between manage- and General orkers Union for the unent ana union representatives were in progress yesterday after- noon. of blacking tinue negotiations in spite of the lifting im- reelid „nere we dave an posed on their lorries by answer in this case', he said.

Merseyside dockers. Anust odes sike, te national strike, Howitt The firm, Bros, um a• on lour men лог ласк subsidiary of Howitt Trans- of work.

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told the National In- At the same time two other port, shop dustrial Relations Court that men, Jones, janics

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the blacking started after and Brian Dean. wer stewara dismissed without notice, the dismissed by the unver was were in- firm claiming they company.

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official had and said "There would bee trouble" Sir John laction, onaleson announced the court would de- any of the drivers were laid liver judgement on the applica

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wiy te ive bost great next muesoav morning 'After he was dismissed Jones 10.30 a.m. opportunity to give a depot olcketed cared annel October Fund which stands Alfred Blyghton, T&GWU legal approached dock stewards say- at £306.58. Make sure you raise officer, appeared the union ing he had been sacked because all you can. Keep our paper out and apposed the He told Orucl. he strike over calle oul on Lalt expandina sales in court that the driver had I one oy Tne Midland Cold Storage case,' said every direction. been sacked in breach of pro- Alton. Miss cedure. She claimed that dock stew- The prop maln cenine Tine 'We are quite prepared to con- TUC's .decision to accept state ards were then told by a union control of wages the has been "Terrific response' to rent strike policy ca oneceers. leaders, who betray the thousands of workers who huge rent THE LEADERS of tenants'

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

mereases alle escaldll olceo. must be exposed. action committees were yes- Workers ( Press alone speaks terday picketing the rent rent increase and we must stand out. An alternative leadership up for our rights.' offices in St Peter's Square, to these reformists must be built Kathleen Lanburjoh, a member Manchester. Kathleen Mrs Tente Gonulst the Moss Side district Stalinists who support them in Burns, member of the Clay- Tenants' Association told me: the trade union movement.

ton Action told Committee, Our Fund, therefore, is vital. me: The Tories are moving Heln us raise everywing you calt further to the right. I saw this weekend. Our target 'We have formed this just it on teevısion last nigntnere {1,750. Let's pull all stops out and have shades of fascism in what cumalice are Post every donation strike policy. doing. They call t• maise response tor our hey're for immediately to: The biggest part of the tenants SOnCeN government. are certainly with us. fact means dictatorship. Workers Press 'In our family October Appeal Fund, we get t30 a Powell's policy on economics 186a Clapham Hịgh St, and one job. One wee.. Voltn in suranee means ten men for other deductions we have £24 London, SW4 7UG. úne on evc y c cdde. clear. support Powell, if not on immi- gration then on economics.

'We just cannot afford this hittilerllle VIETNAMESE liberation forces overran the former US Green Beret camp of Ben Het in the overnight Central Highlands yesterday after levelling it with a massive shelling attack. The base was manned by 400-500 Montagnard mercenaries paid by the Saigon government. Saigon military sources said the base was attacked by a regiment-sized force from the "steel' North Vietnamese 320th division. The base was guarding infiltration routes leading from the Central Highlands towards the city of Kontum. It was the only base guarding the border during the which did not fall May liberation offensive.

official to impose the black on the firm. This took effect at the end of the docks strike. Meanwhile two Liverpool com- mercial section T&GWU officials, Mathew Tickle and John Thomas, had come to the conclusion that Tones and Dean were 'trouble- makers' and had no case. An offer by the firm to make men's wages to three the up months' pay. had been rejected.

The final straw was when the joint committee of road haulage workers and dockers, asked by the commercial section for sup- port, agreed to continue and press for blacking,' added Miss Alton. Although the blacking was lifted for one day on September 29, it was reimposed on October Miss Alton alleged that Jones was sacked because he could not drive a • heavy goods vehicle as he had claimed. And Dean, who had worked satisfactorily until the day be- fore the lay-off, had been dis- missed following a heated argu- ment. Management had accused him of drinking when he should have been working. The Tories mean to make money out of the corporation tenants. If we don't do something soon we will have shanty towns here as they have to move out.

We have to get rid of the big lions. That is, get rid of the Tories. We must nationalize the we'll land. Then tackle the Labour leaders. They only talk of socialism out of office. Million- aires in the Labour Party! That's laughable. The people in council houses are trade unionists. We must be action on every with them for front; that means strikes to force the Tories and right- wing trade unionists out.

• See Camden interview p. 3.

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 capacity). ACTON: Monday October 16, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Street, W3.

ATUA conference' CROYDON: Monday October 16, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road (near South Croydon Stn).

'ATUA conference". EAST LONDON: Tuesday October 17, 8 p.m. Festival Inn, Grundy St, Chrisp St Market, E14. 'ATUA conference'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday October 17, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue, Barking. 'Force Tories to resign.' KENT: Thursday October 19, 8 p.m. 'The Legion', Burgess Road. Aylesham. 'Reinstate Wil- liam Griffiths fitters. Prepare the ATUA conference.' Speakers: A Griffiths' striker and leading Kent miner (both in a personal capacity) . Socialist Labour League

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