Workers Press no. 901

workers press

2,000 VOTE AT ALLIANCE CONFERENCE

THE WAY FORWARD

FOR ALL TRADE

DAILY O

OVER 2,000 workers from all major unanimously at Birmingham yesterd revolutionary party in Britain.

At the biggest-ever national conference Unions Alliance a resolution was passed c and the Socialist Labour League to start throughout the labour movement for this hi tenants' leaders, Workers, youth and people from the professions heard Gerry Healy, national secretary of the SLL, declare that without this revolutionary leadership workers face the destruction of their trade unions and all their basic rights in the coming period. Scores of delegates from all important sections of struggle in the country backed this call and pledged to launch the cam- paign immediately. Gerry Healy warned that the Tories' move into the Common Market in January meant the working class would face an attack from a most reactionary, pro-fascist conspiracy of monopolists.

He said the regional policy concocted at the Paris summit last week meant the capitalist class of Europe were ganging up against the most organized sections of the working class in Britain and Europe.

Their aim, he said, was to shift capital from areas where workers were strongest to regions where wages were low and trade unions almost non-existent.

The moves between the government and the trade union leaders for state control of wages were designed to give the Tories time to prepare this offensive from within capitalist Europe. To spontaneous applause he said: *We say no to the Common Market, no to fascism, force the Tories to resign, build a revolutionary party to take the working class to power in Britain.'

The fifth and most significant ATUA met in Birmingham which conference, Town Hall, passed this resolution which will be the political basis for the struggle for the revolutionary party.

In the weeks and months immediately ahead, the working class faces great its future which whole struggles depends. Every member of the labour and trade union movement is therefore called upon to make the most serious decisions in their history. Since the beginning of 1972, miners, workers, dockers railwaymen, building have shown their and now tenants, strength in determined struggles to resist Tory government's attacks on living the standards and conditions of work.

Closures and unemployment have been with the occupation of plants, met particularly now with the sit-ins at British-Leyland's factory at Basingstoke and CAV, Liverpool. Such factory occu- pations show that the working class realizes that neither protest nor pressure can secure its basic rights. In a signifi- cant way, the working class is posing the real questions of control and ownership.

When the five dockers were sent to Pentonville Prison, the working class acted firmly and decisively in defence of its democratic rights. This determined resistance of the work- ing class has forced the Tory government an ever-deepening economic and into political crisis. The working class could undoubtedly win this struggle against the Tory govern- ment if it had a different leadership, with policies to defeat the Tory government and the employers. But the TUC and the Labour leaders will not lead their millions of members in an all-out fight to make the government resign; instead they do

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

1 major industries voted yesterday to build the nference of the All Trades passed charging the ATUA to start an immediate fight or this historic task. Alan Thornett, T&GWU deputy senior steward a opening the ATUA conference in Birmingham ye: the exact opposite. Almost to a man they have openly taken the side of the govern- ment itself, as shown by the unanimous TUC decision to continue talks with the government. The lesson of these experiences is un- mistakable. the Faced with choice of carrying out the interests of their own the main enemy, members in fighting these leaders take fright and capitulate in the most cowardly way to the Tory They prefer to serve Heath master. rather than serve their own members.

But despite this betrayal by the trade the Tory union and Labour leaders, government and the capitalist class they represent have been unable to inflict a major defeat on the working class. There has not been a single struggle in which the rank and file have capitulated or been driven back by the employers. It has always been the leaders who called off the struggle. There are two basic reasons for this failure to defeat the working class.

First, the Tories are rulers of the oldest capitalist country, which built up its earlier strength on the Empire of which it was said: The sun never sets and the wages never rose.'

• MONDAY OCTOBER 23, 1972 •

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steward at British Leyland's Cowley, Oxford, assembly pl ngham yesterday. • Report of speech, p. 12 Before the First World War (1914. 1918) and through the inter-war years.

the British emplovers turned their backs on investment in industry at home, pre- ferring to extract profits from the pro- tected markets and brutal exploitation of the colonial peoples. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s they chose to subject the British working class to mass poverty and unemployment while they fought one colonial war after another to continue the oppression and exploitation of the defenceless peoples of the Empire.

After the 1939-1945 war, however, the colonial masses refused to tolerate perial rule any longer. The British and all the other imperialists were forced to grant formal independence, recognizing the rule of their agents within the colonial countries in order to save what they could from the wreckage. The second source of Tory weakness and crisis is the situation of international capitalism. From 1944 to 1971 the con- vertibility of the dollar into gold was the basis of the greatest inflationary boom in the history of capitalism.

Within the inflation was contained the source of the present crisis. By the early 1960s the majority of gold stocks had

UR LEAGUE

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

BEHIND THE

ASSASSINATION

OF TROTSKY

a reply to Joseph

TUESDAY OCTOBER 24

Conway Hall Red Lion Square, WC2 (nearest tube Holborn) 8.00 p.m. Speaker: G. Healy (SLL National Secretary) sembly plant, admission 10p moved out of the US and no longer sup- ported the dollar. Yet the volume of world trade went on expanding with paper money replacing gold.

The result was a grave problem for capitalism. The US balance of payments deteriorated rapidly. This was.because the vast quantities paper dollars in inter- national representing circulation, gigantic volume of credit, came back on to the US balance sheet as a deficit of billions of dollars. Nixon's decision on August 15, 1971 to end the convertibility of paper dollars into gold was forced by these developments. The Tory government is therefore plunged in to the greatest economic and capitalism's crisis in history, British imperialist parasitism came to a head together with the maturing of the international inflationary crisis. To get out of this crisis, to survive the trade war and depression which it means, the Tories are forced to attack the work- ing class. They must siash the standards living which have been won in the past years of struggle; they must destroy

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workers press

2,000 VOTE AT ALLIANCE CONFERENCE

THE WAY FORWARD

FOR ALL TRADE

DAILY O

OVER 2,000 workers from all major unanimously at Birmingham yesterd revolutionary party in Britain.

At the biggest-ever national conference Unions Alliance a resolution was passed c and the Socialist Labour League to start.

throughout the labour movement for this hi tenants' leaders, Workers, youth and people from the professions heard Gerry Healy, national secretary of the SLL, declare that without this revolutionary leadership workers face the destruction of their trade unions and all their basic rights in the coming period. Scores of delegates from all important sections of struggle in the country backed this call and pledged to launch the cam- paign immediately. Gerry Healy warned that the _Tories' move into the Common Market in January meant the working class would face an attack from a most reactionary, pro-fascist conspiracy of monopolists.

He said the regional policy concocted at the Paris summit last week meant the capitalist class of Europe were ganging up against the most organized sections of the working class in Britain and Europe.

Their aim, he said, was to shift capital from areas where workers were strongest to regions where wages were low and trade unions almost non-existent.

The moves between the government and the trade union leaders for state control of wages were designed to give the Tories time to prepare this offensive from within capitalist Europe. To spontaneous applause he said: 'We Market, no to say no to the Common fascism, force the Tories to resign, build a revolutionary party to take the working class to power in Britain.'

The fifth and most significant ATUA which met in Birmingham conference, Town Hall, passed this resolution which will be the political basis for the struggle for the revolutionary party.

In the weeks and months immediately ahead, the workin its class faces great future which whole struggles depends. Every member of the labour and trade union movement is therefore called upon to make the most serious decisions in their history. Since the beginning of 1972, miners, dockers railwaymen, building workers, have shown their and now tenants, strength in determined struggles to resist Tory government's attacks on • living the standards and conditions of work.

Closures and unemployment have been with the occupation of plants, met particularly now with the sit-ins British-Leyland's factory at Basingstoke and CAV, Liverpool. Such factory occu- pations show that the working class realizes that neither protest nor pressure can secure its basic rights. In a signifi- cant way, the working class is posing the real questions of control and ownership.

When the five dockers were sent to Pentonville Prison, the working class acted firmly and decisively in defence of its democratic rights. This determined resistance of the work- ing class has forced the Tory government ever-deepening economic and into an political crisis. The working class could undoubtedly win this struggle against the Tory govern- ment if it had a different leadership, with policies to defeat the Tory government and the employers. But the TUC and the Labour leaders will not lead their millions of members in an all-out fight to make the government resign; instead they do

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MOND

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

1 major industries voted yesterday to build the nference of the All Trades passed charging the ATUA to start an immadiate fight or this historic task. Alan Thornett, T&GWU deputy senior steward al opening the ATUA conference in Birmingham yes the exact opposite. Almost to a man they have openly taken the side of the govern- ment itself, as shown by the unanimous TUC decision to continue talks with the government. The lesson of these experiences is un- mistakable. Faced with the choice of carrying out the interests of their own members in fighting the main enemy, these leaders take fright and capitulate in the most cowardly way to the Tory Heath master. They prefer to serve rather than serve their own members.

But despite this betrayal by the trade union and Labour leaders, the Tory government and the capitalist class they represent have been unable to inflict a major defeat on the working class. There has not been a single struggle in which the rank and file have capitulated or been driven back by the employers. It has always been the leaders who called off the struggle. There are two basic reasons for this failure to defeat the working class.

First, the Tories are rulers of the oldest capitalist country, which built up its earlier strength on the Empire of which it was said: "The sun never sets and the wages never rose.'

• MONDAY OCTOBER 23, 1972

No. 901 • 4p

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEA

sleward at British Leyland's Cowley, Oxford, assembly pl ngham yesterday. Report of speech, p. 12 Before the First World War (1914- 1918) and through the inter-war years, the British employers turned their backs on investment in industry at home, pre- ferring to extract profits from the pro- tected markets and brutal exploitation of colonial peoples. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s they chose to subject the British working class to mass poverty and while they unemployment fought one colonial war after another to continue the oppression and exploitation of the defenceless peoples of the Empire.

After the 1939-1945 war, however, the colonial masses refused to tolerate im- perial rule any longer. The British and all the other imperialists were forced to formal independence, grant recognizing the rule of their agents within the colonial countries in order to save what they could from the wreckage. The second source of Tory weakness and crisis is the situation of international capitalism. From 1944 to 1971 the con- vertibility of the dollar into gold was the basis of the greatest inflationary boom in the history of capitalism.

Within the inflation was contained the source of the present crisis. By the early 1960s the majority of gold stocks had

UR LEAGUE

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

BEHIND THE

ASSASSINATION

OF TROTSKY

a reply to Joseph Losey's film

TUESDAY OCTOBER 24

Conway Hall Red Lion Square, WC2 (nearest tube Holborn) 8.00 p.m. Speaker: G. Healy (SLL National Secretary) sembly plant, admission 10p moved out of the US and no longer sup- ported the dollar. Yet the volume of world trade went on expanding with paper money replacing gold.

The result was a grave problem for capitalism. The US balance of payments deteriorated rapidly. This was. because the vast quantities of paper dollars in inter- national circulation, representing gigantic volume of credit, came back on to the US balance sheet as a deficit of billions of dollars. Nixon's decision on August 15, 1971 to end the convertibility of paper dollars into gold was forced by these developments. The Tory government is therefore plunged in to the greatest economic and political crisis in history, capitalism's because the accumulation of problems in British imperialist parasitism came to a head together with the maturing of the international inflationary crisis. To get out of this crisis, to survive the trade war and depression which it means, the Tories are forced to attack the work- ing class. They must siash the standards of living which have been won in the past years of struggle; they must destroy

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PAGE 2 Workers Preas, Monday October 23, 1972 • 03M5 111111111119 the fighting power and independence of the trade unions. Moves to Corporatism This is the real meaning of their pro- posed laws to restrict wage increases, and of their Industrial Relations Act.

This is why they threaten the rights of trade unionists to picket and to organize: These measures facilitate the plans of the big monopolies to put an end to Parliamentary government and instal corporatist dictatorship. While such a programme cannot be carried out with- defeat the and destruction of the out trade unions and parties of the working class, nevertheless every capitulation to the state control of wages and trade union rights is a step in the direction of the corporate state which is the essence of Fascism. It is no accident that some sections of the Tory party and Press, encouraged by the retreat of the union leaders, can openly talk about the setting up of a corporate state in Britain.

The retreat of the TUC and the Labour leaders in front of these Tory attacks emphasizes once again that reformism is utterly bankrupt. These leaders are the heirs of the Social Democratic parties which betrayed the interests of the working class when the First World War broke out on August 14, 1914. Their collaboration with their own capitalist class at the outbreak of the period of wars and proletarian revolu- insisted, tion, as Lenin marked the historical end of reformism. Henceforth its role must be a reactionary one.

Collaboration with the capitalist class today as a way of gaining concessions has now become only a means of helping the Tory enemy to destroy living standards and all democratic rights. The task is not to reform the capitalist system but to overthrow it. It is essential that the resistance of the working class be continued and in- tensified on every single front: wages, 'on rents, on jobs, in defence of democratic rights. What is decisive is to grasp that every one of these struggles takes place in a situation where a solution depends on the working class coming to power.

Only a revolutionary party based on the same principles which guided the successful Russian revolution of October 1917 can provide the working class with leadership to resolve the present crisis.

Beginning in 1902 with the basic work of Lenin on revolutionary political activity in the trade unions and the workers' move- ment, there was built a Bolshevik. Party able to lead the Russian workers to ex- propriate the capitalist class and the land- lords and establish a workers' state. Only such a party can answer the crisis such as the posed before the British one working class. Revolutionary Principles The Soviet Union after 1917 was isolated because in the absence of such revolutionary in advanced parties the the reformist leaders capitalist countries, betrayed the revolution. In the backward conditions of Russia, a privileged bureau- cracy led by Stalin proceeded to turn the Communist International into an instru- ment of its own opportunist politics of collaboration with imperialism. Bolshevik leadership was physically wiped out by Stalin. Today the heirs of Stalin-Brezhnev and the Kremlin bureaucracy—continue this treachery. They make agreements with the imperialists, even with the hated fascist and neo-fascist regimes of Spain and Greece, at the expense of the people of Vietnam and the colonial countries as well as the advanced countries.

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agreement with the Britain above the interests and the British Com- their line to the ng struggle against •robertv Tedrons estaD. viet workers' state by the can provide the That is the League's _anolt based programme on e rourth International 11 such a party. WIIs THOudN une the trade unions and the ctatorship, the working or er for the implementation lere Is no madle road. task now facing the work- building lass must represent them by ake in the fight against the ns for Power Il the working class that forced pressure cố ce are lars mortal crisis which drives class oc•aldle the Crisis-riaaen Socialist Labour League les Unions Albane dier he International Socialist 'essure' to force the Tories But there is no enstovmen shm dous the defence of trade frame- capitalist way forward is to prepare reparation power, e working class, diverting DICo- leaders help revolutionarv fighting working a question of politics in n made clear: ugh that the class struggle consistent and developed sphere of possible too. it matters a ana ll deeper to very class recognizes developed. "nationwide" merely embrace most organization ation of the working clas irst step is to bring dowı Everyone who helping al step 1s in lact power. This why policy is to call on unite against the create the industrial •„no to make the Tory Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist ference, more than 2,000-strong, in Birmingham T Mobilize Against Tories In calling this All Trades Unions Alliance Conference we said: "There is no difference between this out- look and that of German Labour the leaders who allowed Hitler to come to power. 'The retreat of these leaders from the political tasks posed by the economic crisis and the attacks of the government wages, social services, housing and on immigrants means that the working class is left leaderless and confused while the Tories consciously manipulate the union traitors and choose the most favourable time and conditions for the next attack.

"This retreat is assisted by all those who fight consciously to prevent the working class mobilizing against the Tory govern- the Labour ment-namely, and trade "left" union the Communist Party and the revisionist groups. "These groups follow behind the spon- militancy of the working taneous class and, while they make occasional criticisms of union leaders, they do so only in order to prevent workers drawing political con- clusions and fighting for revolutionary leadership. 'Militancy-as Pentonville, seen at Saltley coke depot, and Keadby docks, Lincolnshire-is essential condition an for every struggle. But militancy by itself cannot advance the level of political under- standing of the workers and prepare them for a generalized national struggle against the whole ruling class. "This was the lesson of the abortive General Strike of May/June 1968 in France.

'The All Trades Unions Alliance, which represents militant workers in all major industries, rejects the reformist ideas of these groups and fights for a revolutionary political leadership in the unions.

'Central to this is the fight against all theories of spontaneity. In this way, the Alliance continues the struggle pionęered by Lenin to break the Russian unions from the influence of capitalist politics by building a revolutionary party; a struggle which was indispensable to the victory of the October Revolution. Lenin: struggle to build party indispensable 'By our struggle we have succeeded in establishing the central ideas of Lenin in relation to the unions: 'That "all worship of spontaneity of the working class movement, all belittling of the 'conscious element', of the role of the revolutionary party means ... a strength- ening of bourgeois ideology among the workers"? (What is to be Done?)...

Educate a New Leadership The ATUA statement went on: "The highest form of working class struggle is Socialist Labour League, addresses the ATUA con.

ingham Town Hall. the political struggle of the working class and the highest form of political struggle is the struggle for political power by the workers. The aim of the All Trades Unions Alliance is to build a new leader- ship in the unions which will fight to win economic demands and, above all, educate workers the theory and practice of Marxism and expose, in practice the limit- ations of economic struggles and establish the primacy of the political struggle for socialism. "The practical experience of the last eight months has shown militant trade unionists that those forms of struggle which rely exclusively on picket-line mili- tancy are inadequate. "The economic crisis, the entry into the Common Market and the urgent political tasks posed before the unions, demand, imperatively, not only a new form of practical struggle, but also a correspond- ingly higher form working-class Or- ganization. This is the revolutionary party of the working class. 'There is no other way to establish the political independence of the trade unions bureaucracy from the reactionary union and the ideology of the ruling class.'

Now we must act on these principles, in line with the requirements of the situation and the lessons of the past year of work- ing-class struggle. Build the Party The political situation is now on a knife edge. So far the working class has, by its determination and strength in industrial struggles, held the line against the Tory enemy. But the government is forced on by the crisis. This situation cannot last indefinitely. Either the working class forward to defeat the government goes and the capitalist system or the Tories achieve a position where they can defeat a decisive section of workers and institute a dictatorship to destroy trade unions and democratic rights. The situation in Ulster must serve as the most serious warning.

Refusing to struggle to unite the Catholic and Protes- tant workers in alliance with the British working class against the main Tory and Unionist enemy, the Northern Irish trade union and Labour leaders, helped at every turn by the Stalinists and revisionists like the IS and the International Marxist Group (IMG), have subjected the working class to sectarian divisions and bloody clashes provoked and led by the most reactionary right-wing forces. In the face of these great dangers and great possibilities, all those present at this conference have a serious respons ibility. The ATUA is convinced that the only way to face up to this responsibility. is through the struggle to build the revolu- tionary party. Immediately this means going ahead with the preparation to trans- form the Socialist Labour League and its the All Trades Unions industrial wing, Alliance, into the revolutionary party. The recruitment and training as Marxists of all those workers who share such respons- ibility is the essence of this task.

In its policy, the revolutionary party must take up the struggle on every basic minimum demand of the working class— for wages, against price increases, for democratic rights, against unemployment.

against the Industrial Relations Act and Act-combining the Housing Finance these demands with the programme of transition to working class state power.

elementary Every one of these demands raises the question: is it the will of the ruling class to defend its dying system which shall prevail? Or is the working class to impose its will on the economy, through the conquest of power?

Discussion throughout the work- ing-class movement on these princi- ples and programme must now begin as the foundation for the revolu- tionary party. The conference charges the ATUA and the SLL to prepare as soon as possible a policy statement for discussion throughout the labour movement.

THE OVAMBO REVOLT

AGAINST APARTHEID

On December 13, 1971, a strike began in Namibia (South West Africa) and rapidly grew to involve 20,000 workers. The rul- ing apartheid government of South Africa declared a state of emergency and sealed off Ovamboland the area to which most of the strikers were re- turned). Although this sealing-off limits news, latest reports in- dicate that the strike is still continuing, harass- despite ment, arrests, detentions and shootings. Without such benefits as strike pay—or, indeed, any financial assistance at all - and in defiance of the law, which does not permit African to strike, workers workers from mines, railways, hotels, tarms, the fishing industry and other sections of the economy have fought on against the contract-labour laws and against South African occupa- tion of their country. The contract-labour system has been the foundation of the Namibian economy since South Africa took over the Mandate after World War I. It removes a man from his family for periods of between 12 and 18 months, pays him a starvation wage and does not permit him to change his employer for any reason whatever. Not only is he not allowed to strike, he is not allowed to have any part in negotiating his conditions or rates of pay.

Right: miners in the contract- labour system, not allowed to strike or have any say in their conditions. Above : Vorster.

The strike severely hit the Namibian economy and large • At numbers were sent to Ovambo- land, which was placed under emergency rule on February 4 the and sealed off. The following month, the South African Minister of Police revealed that already 213 people had been arrested and detained for a combined total of 7,340 days. But re- ports from inside the country suggest that the number of people arrested is far in excess this figure, more in the of region of 900. West African The South People's Organization of Nami- bia (SWAPO) is waging a mili- tary struggle against the South • African forces and is also cam- paigning against the involve- ment of British companies in the territory. British firms with connec- tions in Namibia include Rio Tinto Zinc, Portland Cement, Eastwood and Holt Ltd, Hud- son's Bay Company Ltd and Anning Chadwick and Kiver Ltd. On October 20, 1971, the United Nations Security Coun- cil adopted a resolution on Namibia - with Britain and France abstaining. This reaffirmed that Namibia is the direct responsibility of the United Nations and that In the . this responsibility includes the obligation to and support of the promote the rights people of Namibia. It declared South Africa's presence in the country to be illegal and in breach of inter- national obligations. It further called on member states to refrain from any dealings with South the government of Africa implying recognition or support of her presence in Namibia. Just how meaningless this verbiage from the 'thieves' kit- chen' was, however, was soon revealed. A later Security meeting despatched Council Secretary-General Dr Kurt

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Workers Press, Mor Waldheim to 'initiate as soon as possible contacts with all parties concerned'. Waldheim flew to South Africa where his itinerary was arranged by—the South Afri- can government, who else?

Soon afterwards Waldheim and South African Prime Minister Balthazar Vorster were announcing that they had 'a common aim in self-determi- nation'! Meanwhile close co-opera- tion continues between South African and Portuguese troops on the northern borders of Namibia. It is also on this but within Angola, border,

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Workers Press, Monday October 23, 1972 PAGE 3 that the Cunene River dam is to be built-evidence of fur- ther co-operation between the South African and Portuguese governments. The building of this dam vital strategic signifi. carties cance for the minority govern ment in Namibia and Angloa. Involves • OI a buffer • strip between Namibia and Angola and thus impedes communication between the * Tiberation movements Meets be the the course, benefits scheme will African to the south accrue governments and Portuguese and foreign investors.

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Hospital manual workers on a basic wage of £13.95 a week recently backed their national claim with strike action. In this two part article BERNARD FRANKS examines the plight of the hospital worker used as cheap labour in the ill-equipped and overcrowded

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday October : Hospital manual workers on a b BERNARD FRANKS examines Britain's hospitals. Nowhere is the con- temptible nature of the Tories' proposed wage ceiling' more clearly shown than in the pay of hospital manual workers. With today's rocketing cost of living, especially food and can £2 do for rents, what those 250,000 men and women who receive nothing like a living wage? How can such a sum seriously change the position, for example, of a married man with two children whose basic rate can leave him with £13.95 to take home? And if the Tories' proposals are contemptible, what should we say of the TOC leaders who are prepared to do a deal with Heath and the employers, helping them to enforce state control of wages and to ban strikes for higher pay? Remember, these proposals come only after the MPs have themselves enormous given rises which work out at £24 a week! Heath got £6,000 extra, equivalent to £115 a week!

was the Tory f2 or Where the TUC £3.40 then? Clearly, union leaders must be told in no uncertain terms, that if they wish to continue presenting themselves as workers' leaders, then they must pack up this treachery and back the hospital workers' demands. An £8-a-week increase for men and women, a four-week paid holiday for all and a 35- hour week. This is more reali- stic than the official £4 claim.

That £4 would do little for families drawing Family In- come Supplement as it would simply mean a cut in the bene- fits being paid. On this basis the TUC £3.40 could work out at an increase of £1.70 in real cash terms. On top of this the higher income could mean a consequent loss of other state school meals, benefits-free free prescriptions and so on— so the family would be no better off than before. Hospital workers in the West Country have already given a determined lead in strikes which affected 17 hospitals and closed one at Bristol. Previously in Glou- cester 400 workers walked out. London, Manchester and • hospitals have Southampton offered support. Some officials of the four unions involved have so far mainly concerned themselves with stopping the strikes. John Cousins of the Trans- port & General Workers' Union urged a return to work on the basis that there was no value in the strike 'until we see the employers' offer' The fact is, that with direct intervention in wages by the worker government, every knows very well what sort of offer will be made. The union leaders must be made to call an official national stoppage now on the workers' demands, to last until they are won. The entire labour movement must be united to defeat the Tory offensive. as the Health But as far Service is concerned there is more at stake here than pay and holidays. The shocking plight of the October 23, 1972 s on a basic wage of £13.95 a week r xamines the plight of the hospital w Top: Hospital manual workers in Londo leader who sent the workers back to ' workers hospital manual re- flects not only the Tories' of antagonism to the needs public service employees in general, but shows their de- termination also to wreck the present Health Service by keeping it under-staffed and over-worked. Wards, departments and en- tire hospitals are being closed down as being 'short of staff" This is a or 'uneconomic' • ' preparation for the construc- based tion of a new system solely on the patients' ability to pay. As businessmen and representatives of business- men, the Tories see provision for health as a commodity like everything else; as first and foremost a subject for profit- making. They aim at a wide exten- sion of the present three-tier system: the best of everything -equipment, treatment, medi- cal care - for the rich and those on private schemes, along with a position at the top of any list for beds and so on; a second-rate, cheaper ser- week recently backed their national pital worker used as cheap labour in • In London. Left: Tory Prime Minister Heath, W back to work while the employers passed juc vice, run on cheap labour, for who only contribute those through state schemes; and a Law system for those Poor too destitute to pay anything.

The latter must take pot-luck as to whether they get the most perfunctory treatment or any treatment at all. Hospital manual workers, ancillary workers as they are called, carry out a variety of essential tasks to keep the hospitals functioning. They in- clude porters, gardeners, main- workers, cleaners, tenance catering staff, laundry staff, drivers, seamstresses, surgical- shoe makers, wardmaids and ward orderlies. There are about 180,000 women, roughly two-thirds of the total employees, involved . tasks are in this work. Often undertaken with only the greatest difficulty, trying to keep to modern standards in buildings 100 years old and more; in overcrowded, under- manned, prison-like barracks and ex-workhouses, run on national claim with strike action. Ir abour in the ill-equipped and overc • Heath, who has been given a {115 a week rise passed judgement on their {4-a-week claim.

insufficient budgets. What for example, chance is there, of keeping food in good con- dition for the patient wher the distance from kitchen to ward may be half-a-mile? Even in modern hospitals, employment of insufficient an- cillary workers and nursing staff • consistent over- means working including compulsory overtime for employees. Very often the most ele- mentary job is not just a question of labouring. Hospi- tal porters, for example, come into regular contact with the public and by their attitude and relationship with long- term patients especially, have a considerable uplifting effect on the morale of individual patients and of entire wards.

Work in mental hospitals can be particularly demanding.

Also, hospitals have to be kept going night and day, which means shiftwork, in- cluding split shifts, for many workers. The manual work in the tion. In this two part article I overcrowded conditions of week rise. Right: John Cousins, T&GWU early hospitals and workhouse sickwards was done by pauper inmates. In the 19th century these institutions came firmly under the Poor Law and cheap workhouse and other labour was used. The health system was separated from the Poor Law Acts in 1929, but as far as workers' wages, conditions and status are concerned, most hospital authorities have re- tained the workhouse men- tality. Pay has not only been bad, but has continually fallen fur- ther and further behind as far as comparison with other workers' wages or the cost of living is concerned. And not just pay. A 1969 book on training for ancillary staffs was "The Forgotten Sector' titled reflecting the total lack of consideration for the em- ployees or the importance of the work that is carried out by them.

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Miguel Rodriguez, who spent three and a half years in the Air Force, was in the Philippines when President Marcos declared martial law in order to beat back the working class. Rodriguez returned to the United States on September 26 and spoke to the Young Socialist several days later about recent devel- opments. • On the first night of martial law, there was a partial curfew that started at six in the evening. But the real cur- few began at midnight; and then the army and the police could shoot anyone still in the streets. The first night, a couple of GIs were trying to get home and they were shot at. The Filipino soldiers hit at least seven GIs. The whole army was out in the streets, raiding every place.

They confiscated some guns from GIs, who had to go to jail downtown. Most GIs don't like service in the Philippines because of the way the government treats its own people. The rich people downgrade the poor people and don't try to help them at all. I once witnessed a fight in a house, and the landlord went to get the police. It was noth- ing — just a father and son arguing. But when the cop came, he grabbed the son by the hair, threw him on the floor and aimed an M-16 at his head. The cop said: 'You make a move and I'll shoot you.'

I used to give part of my pay to Filipino people because they have nothing. I saw houses made out of card-, pe board, pieces of sticks, with no running water and just plain ground for a floor. I saW people eating nothing but dry rice with no water, nothing.

The only time the people get water is when it rains. The army burst into my house because they knew I gave money to the people, and they thought I might be with the revolutionary forces.

The conditions for the Fil- ipino workers are bad, The president wanted martial law so he could stay on the scene.

He tries to blame all the con- ditions on the Communist Party and the Moslems. His opponent in the last election has been put in jail. President Marcos doesn't try to help anybody. There was a flood last August. The United States sent $2m over there.

Some base commander received the money and he split it with Marcos. That president must be one of the world's richest men. The workers also die of high fever. They don't get any medication, because Marcos controls the drugs and sells them to businessmen. For the youth there I don't see any future, can't pay most of the class. My year My United things out. The terrorists the

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people in the scared SO martial law. When because so people are went to ing the went sees ting cel I was getting told me much they Americans. he bomb Delore work 1n will make I have think hard. All United States. because they can't even go to school. They what it costs, and schools are high- Filipino wife had the second her family yet because workers are There are kill try people and put up many y

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dead when I got survi- Everyone fighting for working 1n were before up They how and how they Vietnamese little coming morning. years in the King Feisal of Saudi Arabia and the Shah of Iran are among the backers of the North Yemen regime which has been engaged in bloody border fighting with the People's Democratic Re- public of Yemen to the south. They want to crush the South Yemen government which is aiding left-wing guer- rilla groups active against the oil sheikhdoms bordering the Persian gulf further north.

South Yemen, which includes the port of Aden dominating the entrance to the Red Sea, is a source of considerable embarrassment to the im- perialist client states in the area. The Saudi monarchy in par- ticular has aligned itself with the feudal rulers whose power was broken when the present Chinese-leaning government came to power. The North Yemen govern- ment is closely aligned with Saudi Arabia and its actions against the south are undoub- tedly sponsored by Feisal's imperialist sponsors, notably the British and American governments. North Yemen was the scene of a prolonged civil war which ended in May 1970 with an agreement between the Royalist and Republican sides. The peace deal was a compromise It is not often that you hear of a judge being investigated on criminal charges. However, it has happened recently in West Germany, where official investigations were launched against Wilhelm Spies, a judge in Braunschweig, The judge has been accused of murder. The charges relate to the time when Judge Spies was a senior military judge in the Wehrmacht, stationed in northern Norway. Besides throwing an interest- ing light on the judiciary of the Federal Republic, the Spies case brings to attention what is probably one of the lesser- known aspects of World War II. That a number of prominent and highly-'respectable' figures in West Germany today had an equally prominent part in the criminal activities of the Third Reich is well-known. But in the case of judge Spies, the criminal charges relate to incidents after the war was over. It is probably not well known that after Germany had surrendered, whole German armies in some areas, particu- larly in north west Germany, Denmark and Norway were intact-complete left with officers, discipline and military courts. In northern Norway, further- more, some Wehrmacht com- manders decided to carry on fighting after the official arm- Workers Press, Mo King Feisal: Wanting to crush the South favouring the Saudi interest.

The Republicans agreed to take some of the Royalists into the government though the Royal Family remained in exile in Saudi Arabia. According to North Yemen's president Abd al-Rahman al-Iryani the coun- • has relations with try now Saudia • Arabia based on co- operation in economy, culture and information. Aden and the surrounding protectorate was finally liber- ated from British rule only in 1967 after a bitter struggle against units led by Colonel Colin Mitchell, now a Tory MP. British mercenaries in the neighbouring Sultanate of Muscat and Oman are fighting to put down a guerrilla struggle which is supported by istice on May 8, 1945, had six been signed. A number of soldiers in these units decided to ignore their orders, and to desert over the Swedish border. Four of these men were caught and brought before Military Judge Spies. They were sentenced to and shot by a firing death squad on May 10, two days after the war had ended. The judge has been accused of murder. Asked about the sentence he passed by a West German journalist recently, Spies replied that the death 'perfectly sentence had been legal and correct. He also said he intended to remain in office until he reached retiring age. This is not the only case of its sort. Even where Wehr- macht and other German forces surrendered, had the Allies frequently decided that it convenient would be to handle them by letting the officers stay in control.

The result was that several weeks after the war had ended, Nazi military courts were still passing sentence on German soldiers. In several cases men were still being shot for desertion.

is not One case which SO severe, but nevertheless worthy of attention, involved Dr Hans Filbinger, who is today a 'respectable' politician in the conservative Christian Demo- cratic Party, and has been for some time prime minister of Baden-Württemberg. In 1945 Dr Filbinger was a staff judge in the navy and served on the staff of German Naval Defences, Oslo Fjord, Norway. On May 29—three weeks after the surrender-Filbinger presided over a court martial which sentenced a sailor to Press, Monday October 23, 1972 PAGE 5 the South Yemen government the South Yemen government.

The Sultan's forces are officered by British troops on secondment from the British army. There is also a contin- gent of RAF bombers in use against the rebels. In the past South Yemen has several times accused these forces of violating its territory and bombing border villages.

The British government and the oil companies naturally want to maintain the reaction- ary feudal rulers of the gulf states in office. The rulers of the Arab states are making efforts to end the conflict between the two Yemens, which appear at present to have succeeded at least temporarily. But the ten- sions created by the imperial- ists in Arabia will remain.

lad six months imprisonment for such offences as removing the swastika badge from his uni- form. The official judgement signed by Dr Filbinger has survived and here are a couple of extracts: 'Kurt Petzold is sentenced to six months imprisonment for causing discontent, disobey- ing an order and insubordin- ation. The reasons are . . .

when the accused was given an order by his battery com- mander on May 10 to change his quarters ... he stated: "Those times are past. Now I'm a free man, you Nazi dogs.

You are responsible for this war. I'll tell the English what a bunch of Nazis you are."

'Witnesses testified that from May 1 he had shown him- self to be undisciplined, although he had previously been a Hitler youth leader.

When on parade he had had a negative effect upon his com- rades, because of his negative attitude. He had. demon- stratively removed the national emblem from his cap and swastika badge from his uniform.' Clearly a case for six months sentence! And the date on the official copy of the judgement is June 19, 1945-fully five weeks after the end of the war— a war for supposedly democracy'! But of course 'law and order' was the thing that had to be preserved. In fact it is the same sort of people who passed these sentences that are cam- paigning so vigorously in the Federal Republic today-for 'law and order' once again.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday October 23, 1972 A Workers Press investigation by David Maude and Alex Mitch At midday last Tuesday a London Motor Show. The talking point at almost veritable fleet of taxis every table was the dastardly began arriving at the of Ian Breach work who Royal Lancaster Hotel recently resigned as the motor- 'The ing correspondent of on the Bayswater Road Guardian'. He has since writ- just opposite Hyde Park. ten an article exposing his own Out tumbled scores of journ- journalistic fraternity for being 'morally feeble' alists attend a reception *There is a pervading fear,' lunch and thrown by the 'that British-Leyland Cor- Breach valuable Motor advertising will drain away in poration. As they entered handed each the face of persistent criticism smiling hostess that guest magnificent soda names names and con- siphon. Just a token of payola.

demns specific Criticisms still The guests, some 300 of nost motoring were a mixture of City confines itself to trivia; it soft- them, journalists and motoring corre- pedals products or BeWI They spondents. were arranged policies that indict the indus- at 33 tables in the King Suite try.' for an extravagant breakfast to At the conclusion of the celebrate the of the three-course lunch with the opening and Alex Mitchell expensive wine still being passed around, Lord Stokes, chairman of British-Leyland, rose to address his guests. Like an ebullient schoolboy he launched into a speech which was aimed at bolstering his corporate image. It is a sad commentar on the psychological state of the world that optimism and patri- otism should not merely be unfashionable, but also comic and reprehensible activities. Both these attributes are really acts of faith. One thing I share with all my colleagues is a complete : faith in the future of British-Leyland and an unshakable confidence in the course that we believe we are successfully pursuing.' He then told his audience about future plans for the Ley.

and range of cars. Next yea will be a bumper year for new models from British-Leyland,' his lordship promised. 'Our immediate task is to increase our current produc- tion and to introduce these new models that are coming along with the minimum dis- turbance. Our capital invest- ment programme for the future is high.

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'We have considerable investment plans for expansion in the Midlands and else- Overseas, where in the UK. is building production at up Innocenti in Italy, at Authi in Spain and at our large Belgian assembly plant.' When he had finished the guests clapped enthusiastically.

was then the turn member of the Press to speak.

He could not resist a crack at the 'Judas', Ian Breach. He falling all had them over the 'Once carpet when he said: more unto your friends, dear Breach.' Breach had been invited to the luncheon, but did not attend. Next day the Press dutifully wrote ecstatically about Stokes's vision, genius and robustness. 'Sun' said: "A golden The future lies ahead for British- Leyland, chairman Lord Stokes promised yesterday.'

'Daily Mail' motoring corre- spondent Michael Kemp 'Thousands more jobs wrote: are being created by British- Leyland in big expansion plans for a new series of family cars.' In the 'Daily Mirror city editor Robert Head recom- mended stock market punters to purchase Leyland shares at their current price of 334p.

Waymark, motoring pansion ' correspondent of 'The Times' said in a front page article: "The limelight the Earls at Court Motor Show was effec- its tively stolen preview on chai materday British-Letoans, chairman British-Leyland, who announced "a bumper year British-Leyland for ne w models" in 1973' addition to this In went Press Stokes splurge, national television to beat the Leyland drum. All in all the press response was highly suc- cessful - the free lunch had paid handsome dividends. But behind all the ballyhoo of the Motor Show, Lord Stokes's empire is in deep, serious and continuing crisis.

British entry into the Com mon Market is iust two-and-a- half months away. With it will come exposure to a new and frightening blast of European Yet Leyland competition. is faced with a considerable cash the prospect of yet crisis, another shortfall in expected profits and the still unresolved problem of enforcing speed-up in its factories. words, if Stokes's In other "act of faith' has any meaning it must lie in a firm resolve that Market entry will coin- cide with a new onslaught on the unions in his factories.

This year has seen British- Leyland finalizing its 'ration- alization' programme and a des- perate scramble for greater liquidity. Subsidiaries in New Zea- land and Canada have been hived off as well as two in the UK-Maudslay Motors and the Thornycroft transmission plant at Basingstoke, Hants. hiving- The target in this off operation - £25m — has almost been realized. The money-raising opera- tions have not been very suc- cessful. In February the com- pany tried to raise £50m by an issue of new ordinary shares.

The underwriters, Schroder Wagg and S. G. Warburgs, offered them to the public at 45p a share. When the issue closed only 40 per cent had been taken up-which left the under- writers with the task of pick- ing up almost £30m worth of stock. At closing prices last week the shares hovering were around 30p, which means that some buyers of the February float have already lost about a third of their money on pres- ent market values. Two months ago Leyland went off to France to launch a Eurofrane issue. It was fully taken up thus adding another £8m to corporate finances. As an indication of the lean times Workers Press, Monday

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Left: British Leyland workers from Cowley in September 1970, rejected Measured-Day Above, lavland workers Oxford against the inductriar Relatione Bill .!.

George Harriman with Lord Stokes-behind the smiles lie plans for an assault on the u in the group, Leyland immedi- production on MDW. It is at least half of thought that ately switched the francs into Australian dollars, thus making these are needed to make up a further few thousand pounds the production shortfall since at the time of the effective the piecework system ended.

devaluation of the pound.

So quite apart from the All these operations huge initial capital cost of the were designed to raise money installation something like the £70m since 1968—Leyland to pay staggering loans is from both private and state paying out an extra £2.5m or institutions which still hang so in wages a year at this one around the neck of the com- factory alone for the still un- Leyland forecast has fulfilled of the pany. promise new profits of about £32m for the system. year, but this figure has now been amended to about £20m.

industrial relations front the picture is just as un- happy. Appearing on BBC-1's 'Mid- programme last Tuesday week' Leyland's moves towards night Stokes vehemently denied MDW at the Longbridge, Birm- that his much-vaunted change- Austin-Morris over to the flat-rate. Measured- ingam, complex have already cost it rash Day Work system had pay of piecework Even if claims. brought a drastic fall in pro- they get the system in, it is ductivity throughout the Vitet he is houred opt likely to prove even more that Cowley, has fallen expensive than at productivity by an given the larger size of the average of about a third among plant. the 60 per cent of the group's Many sections of manage- workers who have been ment are publicly and from piecework. hope- changed over This has brought a tremendous lessly cynical about the com- pany's future in the Common increase in wage costs. the Cowley, Oxford, Market. This is which Austin-Morris division factory point some 2,000 extra workers have Stokes was particularly anxious had to be taken on since the to denv on television last Marina lines came into Tuesday. Which presumably new cers Press, Monday October 23, 1972 PAGE 7 ected Measured-Day Work at this mass meet- rial Relations Bill January, 1971. Below : Sir • an assault on the unions.

besides indicates that an assault on the unions, a big new • management shake-up is also being planned. Under these conditions it is difficult to see how the com- pany can support the 'bumper year for new British-Leyland models' which Stokes promised his lunch guests last Tuesday.

There were two new models from the . Austin-Morris divi- sion at the Motor Show: an estate car version of the Mor- ris Marina and a more power- ful rejig of the Austin Maxi 1750. Jaguar had its new XJ12 four-door saloon nodel - a with a powerful 12-cylinder engine—on show. But Triumph simply produced various refine- ments to its Toledo. Beside these, Leyland is said to be working on a new volume-production, economy car in the mould of the Mini; a bigger, medium-volume car based on the Maxi and a new model from the specialist car division. But the prerequisite of all these developments must be a fresh bid to undermine the strength of union organization throughout the combine. It was this threat which lay behind the confident smiles of Stokes and his top brass at Earl's Court last week.

•, Monday Octobe PAGE 8 Workers 19 ‹Parliamentary reform' and the worl By 1900 America had overtaken Britain in coal production; in iron and steel production she over- took Britain in 1886, and had doubled British out- put by 1900. By this date Germany's heavy industry was also ahead of Britain's. A Royal Commis- sion could only point out: 'We are beginning to feel the effects of foreign competition in fields where our trade formerly en- joyed a practical monopoly.'

(1886). The expansion of the British Empire at the end of the century was a concession to As Lenin later ex- is the of capitalism'; 'highest stage the stage which marks it out for decay and destruction.

Economic competition forced Britain into the political annexation of countries where she had been trading already for many years. Imperialism was necessary for Britain's sur- vival as a capitalist power. The romantic ideology of 'the white man's burden' a side- was show aimed at uniting the British people behind the ruling class. But inevitably the economic results of the 'Great Depres- sion' for British workers pro- duced a different reaction. In 1886 - 1887 unemployment reached its highest level since the 1840s; demonstrators in Trafalgar Square clashed violently with the police. The privileges of skilled workers were no longer secure, due both to bad trade and new me- chanical techniques. Militant strikes in 1888 (the Match Girls) and 1889 (dockers and gasworkers) pro- duced what was known as 'new unionism'. The 'new unions' recruited unskilled workers on low wages and were designed as fighting organizations, not benefit societies. Their leaders did not share the complacency and conservatism of the existing TUC bureaucracy. Indeed, many were influenced by small numbers of socialists, such as Tom Mann and Eleanor Marx- Aveling. The organizations of social- ism were not strong. Never- several did exist, theless, owing largely to the work of Marx and Engels in Britain. The Social Democratic Federa- tion (1881) claimed Marxist origins; but its sectarianism cut it off from the mainstream of the working-class move- ment. The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 by an influ- ential group of middle-class intellectuals who explicity dis- from seciated themselves Marxism. A taste of their 'gradualist' politics, which had not essentially changed by the time Trotsky described them, may be had from G. B. Shaw's on Fabian Policy, 'Report written in 1896: 'The object of the Fabian Society is to persuade the ay October 23, 1972 the working class, by Jane Brown British people to make their political constitution thoroughly democratic and so to socialize their industries as to make the livelihood of the people entirely independent of private capitalism ... It does not propose that the practical steps towards social democracy should be carried out by itself or any other specially organ- ized society or party. 'The Fabian Society is per- fectly constitutional in its attitude and its methods are those usual in political life in Society England. The Fabian accepts the conditions imposed upon it by human nature and by the national character and political circumstances of the English people. It sympathizes with the ordinary citizen's de- peaceful sire for gradual, change ... In a democratic community compromise is necessary condition of politi- cal progress? But in the conditions of political turmoil produced by the economic events of 1886- 1890, the theoretical short- comings of such élitist groups not prevent the move- could ment of thousands of workers towards a confused, eclectic sort of socialism. Once more, the economic crisis produced a search for political solutions which the bourgeois Liberal Party was quite incapable of supplying.

The TUC became an arena for political conflicts between the conservative leaders of the old unions and the representatives of 'new unionism'. The capitalists had given many workers the right to vote. But parliament was doing little to remedy conditions for the working class even boom years and nothing at all to shield them from the effects economic depression. of the Something more than simply the right to vote was required if workers were to be ade- quately represented in parlia- ment. an Independent In 1893 Labour Party was • launched with the aim of winning mass members support to get its elected to parliament. Its pro- - based on Keir gramme - Hardie's religious brand of socialism, plus a willingness to make such compromises as were necessary to win trade union support — was rather vague. But ILP members brought vital political questions into TUC. In the 1893 and the 1894 Congresses they suc- ceeded in carrying resolutions for legalization of the eight- day, for 'collective hour ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange', and also for the setting up of a labour repre- sentation fund by the TUC's Parliamentary Committee. This stronghold latter body was a of TUC conseryatism, how- ever. It blocked the repre- sentation fund' scheme and in 1895 introduced changes in the system of representation and voting expressly designed to weaken the socialist influ- Top: Match girls on strike in 1888. Thei strikes of unskilled workers in the late 1!

—his was a religious brand of socialism.

ence in the Congress. Renewed attacks by the em- ployers on the trade unions in the late 1890s forced the Parliamentary Committee eat their words and to support the Labour Representation Committee which assembled in 1900 to found a working- class parliamentary party.

Both Liberal and Tory em- ployers were getting organ- ized in an attempt to recoup falling profits at the workers' The methods they expense. employed demonstrated to workers how firmly the state machine was in the employers' grasp. Apart from organizing National Free Labour Associa- tion (of professional scabs) and a national lock-out in the engineering industry in 1898, they began a systematic cam- paign to undermine the legal position of the trade unions.

They soon found judges to back them up in the courts.

Picketing was severely cur- tailed by the 'Lyons y Wilkins' judgement of 1899. In 1900 the first meeting of the Labour Representation 1888. Theirs was one of the many militant the late 19th century. Above : Keir Hardle socialism. Committee was held after the TUC had voted by 546,000 to 434,000 to support a confer- ence to discuss working-class representation (not the found- ing of a new party!). The 1900 LRC conference was a big step towards a new party, however. Less than a of British trade union- third ists were represented at the conference, which made for the relatively possible small socialist organizations to take much of the political ini- tiative. They had five of the 12 on the executive, the seats secretary of which was ILP Ramsay MacDonald. member But the internal divisions and theoretical weakness of the socialist organizations pre- vented them from putting their • ad- strong position to much vantage. No LRC political programme formulated. Nor was was firm pledge demanded of LRC candidates : that parliamentary they should dissociate them- selves from the Liberal and Conservative parties. In 1901, the Social Demo- cratic Federation withdrew in disgust from the new organi- This sectarian move zation. did nothing to heighten the political consciousness of the thousands of trade unionists who were beiug thrown into conflict with the employers and the courts and whose apparent political passivity was a consequence of the success of their movement in extract- ing reforms by 'economic pres- sure' in the more prosperous past. The 1901 Taff Vale judge- ment, which removed all pro- union tection from trade funds, was a most serious legal attack on the trade unions. If they were to continue to de- fend their members' living standards, let alone improve them, new laws must be passed through parliament re- versing the judgement. Taff Vale brought a flood of trade union affiliations to the LRC, raising the total member- ship from 469,000 to 867,000 by 1903. In that year the com- mittee's political position was greatly strengthened by the establishment of a central fund to pay Labour MPs and a de- claration that Labour candi- dates should 'strictly abstain from identifying themselves with, or promoting the inter- ests of, any section of the Liberal or Conservative par- ties'. The independent working- class party • which Engels had called for in 1874, and Ernest Jones in 1853, seemed at last • into being. It to have come remained to be seen whether the various socialist organiza- tions would fulfil their re- sponsibility of clarifying in the working class movement the which divided basic issues Labour from Liberal, and capi- talist from socialist politics; and whether they would fight to build socialist party a aimed at taking state power from the capitalists who were trying to destroy the hard- won gains of the trade union movement.

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DAD'S JOKE

The other day Kenneth Corley, Not, we hasten to add, the Young boss of Lucas, claimed the the Com- paper combine's Fazakerley plant on munist Leaguewhich rarely Merseyside was losing £9m a appears-but the of paper year. Therefore, he said, it had Christian Publicity Ltd. entitled Can close. article An How A couple of God Run Industry?' strange. assures Corley and his us-not surprisingly-that he years ago boardroom cronies were sing- can. 'Karl Marx, we ing quite a different tune.

are told, Then CAV plastered Mersey- "access 'made great play with side with a gay poster adver- to the means of production" tising the wonderful life wait- of socialism. as the aim In God's plan every family was ing for workers at Fazakerley.

The poster displays a beam- to have its own land and was ing worker-with the immortal to return to it at jubilee, SO words-'Dad's there would be no unemploy- just got that new year job. He's laughing.

ment. We have to translate At CAV he works 374 hours this into modern terms of a week.' factory and office.' Every family to have its own factory and office, pre- • Dad's just got sumably. that new year job. But the answer to inflation delightfully is even more simple: Inflation in the bible is not tolerated. It was prevented by allowing the priesthood to control the supply of money and maintain its value. (Lev.

19:36 and chapter 27.)' (Em- phasis in original.)

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The caption goes on to The Abbé Desbourges of the the delightful shift describe small French village of Le system designed by Lucas to Bertenoux in the Department make sure the plant stays In of the Indre is no ordinary production night and day: priest. 'The alternating shifts give It is not only that he drives him plenty of time to tinker a plush Peugot 504 while many with the car, take Mum out to priests manage with a moped the January finish the sales, Or that he has secretary, about the house and odd jobs also provided with a car.

Or have a pint with the lads at that he keeps a good even local the the and study table; many ecclesiastics do.

horses.' (Note the way the Perhaps not so many enjoy advertising world treats the piloting a light plane from the working man as some kind of local airfield. caged baboon with all kinds of The Abbé has another claim quaint habits and customs.) to fame - he exorcises spirits 'Besides good wages and a and ghosts. It appears that he scheme there pension are is in demand; indeed great numerous fringe benefits which business is booming. Ghosts include' etc, etc. have, apparently, never been Two weeks ago the happy so plentiful.

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workers occupied their The Abbé is a virtuoso in his plant after the jolly-old man- He can evil trade. exorcise agement toid them they would spirits which curdle the milk all be redundant by April. Dad kill the chickens. He can or is still laughing inside the gates.

release people from obsessions He takes promises about a and cure those who are pos- bright future seriously-unfor- sessed. tunately for Lucas. The Abbé has very little He operates

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stock-in-trade. with a bottle of holy water and a few prayers. Despite a Vati- A solution to the problems of abolishing decree unemployment and inflation is can exor- contained in the October issue he is still in business. cists, of 'Challenge'. And it pays...

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The almost certain re- election of President Nixon will give the American bourgeoisie the go-ahead for a full-scale attack on trade union rights in the United States. To a certain extent the cat was let out of the bag recently Labour with a speech by Secretary James D. Hodgeson to leading shippers and port employers. He told them that the out- lawing of strikes on the docks, example, will be a top for priority of the Nixon admini- stration after the elections on November 7. One agency for the attack will be the so-called National for Industrial Commission Peace—-the setting up of which Nixon announced in his Labour Day speech earlier this year.

Shippers meeting at the exclusive Propeller Club in Houston, Texas, were told by Hodgeson: 'One of the prob- lems I am sure we will be tackling is that of the massive and frequent strikes that have so long plagued the trans- portation industry, including longshore strikes.' tones sinisterly in Then similar to those spouted by the Tories here, he added: It has become increasingly apparent that the public will no longer tolerate them.'

Edward J. Heine, president with Nixon's agreement strategy: 'We must rethink labour- the fundamental management relationship in the maritime industry! In no small way the Nixon regime is already beginning test its all-out offensive to against the unions in practice.

Workers Press, Mon With the reactionary and racialist Governor Reagan of California, they have in- stituted a systematic reign of terror against the United Farm Workers' Union. In the last few weeks over 300 UFW pickets have been arrested in the bitter five-week strike at the White River grape vineyards on the West Coast.

It was there that in 1966 the first farm labour contract in American history was signed after the heroic struggle of the workers. Now the new owners, the Butte Oil and Gas Company, with the full support forces of the growers, together with the courts and the police in a vicious drive to break the union. Negotiations with the com- broke down in late pany August when the directors demanded revisions in the dis- putes procedure, the introduc- tion of harvesting machines which replace 40 workers a machine and the elimination of a union-organized farm from the contract. As soon as the strike began, the company obtained an in- junction the courts from requiring the pickets to stand 50 feet apart and allow police to take scabs into the fields.

Farmworkers from through- out the 'grapes of wrath' state poured down on the area to establish mass picketing on a scale never before seen among the industry's workers. It was at this stage that the police moved, arresting hun- dreds who stood in their way.

The heroic fight of the farm- workers is now in great danger because of the leadership's refusal to break with the Democrats and fight for the of the trade full mobilization union movement in support.

Only in a limited way has there been any real support.

The picket line has been backed by two local trade ress, Monday Oclober 23, 1972 PAGE 9 Above: Cesar Chavez, appeals to liberals and the church and preaches pacifism. union leaders representing the area trades council and dock clerks. both these men But are committed to presidential candidate George McGovern and have so far refused to do than protest for any more fear of breaking up their fragile alliance with the Democrats.

farmworkers' leader The Chavez, himself, Cesar has appealed to liberals and the and preaches non- church violence and pacifism in answer the repressions of the employers and the state machine. It is here that the wretched American Communist Party come in to praise the has union section of the trade bureaucracy rallying behind McGovern. These counter- revolutionary Stalinists have cheered every time Chavez has tried to liquidate the fight of the UFW into the campaign for the McGovern candidacy.

At the time the same revisionist Socialist Workers Party, in its Californian cam- paign for the presidency, has refused to bring politics into the struggle, opposing all the time the construction of a Labour Party in the United States. Only the Workers League has refused to bow to the farm- spontaneity of the workers. In a recent San Francisco demonstration by successfully the UFW, they intervened with banners call- ing for the building of a Labour Party to take the struggle forward to smash the power of the growers. And over this last weekend, the Workers League held a successful conference of trade unionists and youth in Chicago to step up the campaign to make the trade unions call a congress to establish a Labour Party.

Above: partners in fame and fortune Steven M. Powers with Harold Goldstein (right) who established the outfit,

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

The American genius for turning a dollar seems to know no bounds. One of the latest free-wheeling entrepreneurs on the scene is Harold Gold- stein, head of a magnifi.

cently titled outfit, First Leisure Corporation of Beverly Hills. Goldstein (27) is in the com- modities business. That is to say he purchases options on the future value of various commodities on behalf of his• clients. His angle in this age-old business-it began many years ago in the coffee and tea trade —is novel. He found a loophole in the regulations which forbid op- on commodities pro- tions duced inside the United States.

He discovered that options could be bought and sold in ten commodities like silver and copper which Goldstein prefers to describe as inter- national'. He moved into Los Angeles early last year and began to stunning array of recruit a connections to launch his pro- ject. One of his catches was James Roosevelt, FDR's son, whose name has been associa- ted with a vast number of ad- ventures in finance-most of them disastrous. His brokers were Wayne Mosley of California and Charles Snodgrass of Snod- grass and Company. One of the lively press re- leases about the company's founder said: 'Harold Gold- stein had $800 in the bank a year ago. Today he has $5m in the bank and is president of an international corporation, the largest of its kind in the world.' On the way to fame and fortune Goldstein collected a partner, Steven M. Powers lay October 23, 1972 fortune Steven M. Powers with Harold Goldstei a graduate from the (30), business school at the Univer- of Los Angeles. sity College Powers decided to get Into the shell game-that is to say, he gained control of small public companies and used them to buy and to transform other private companies into public status. In a series of complicated manoeuvres Powers acquired a private company, Western International, which distri- butes such unforgettable films as 'The Werewolf versus the and Big Vampire Woman' Foot', and bundled it together with the Keck Oil Company of Los Angeles. The result was First Leisure, with himself as chairman and Goldstein as president. The two brains behind First Leisure have paid tribute to the business philosophy of Bernie Cornfeld, founder of Overseas Services. Investors The Geneva-based empire of IOS was the largest money- gathering device ever created by At its peak capitalism. Cornfeld and his cronies con- trolled more than $2,400m.

When a crisis of confidence hit the IOS empire, thousands of investors withdrew their money and the fund collapsed into a state of confusion from which it has not recovered.

'Bernie was the guru,' says a former with First executive Leisure. 'He taught us how to image create corporate a through public relations.'

It is worth noting here that Cornfeld's aproach to money- astonishingly making was simplistic. His credo was this: 'Find a hole in the fence. Pick up all the marbles you can and run through the hole.' First Leisure operated the 'hole-in-the-fence' principle until early this month the Los Angeles office of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal body which oversees the business community, sus- pended trading in the com- pany's stock. 1 Goldstein (right) who established the outfit, F Since then a series of other highly-damaging details of the operation has surfaced. Inevit- ably, Goldstein has a com- plete answer to the charges.

• Last May_ the West Coast Commodity Exchange expelled 'major Goldstein for such offences' depositing as a client's $4,500 in his own trading account. Says Goldstein: 'I resigned because the West Coast Com- modity Exchange is run by a bunch of crooks. • Goldstein is being sued in diverting clients' Chicago for 'to his own use and money benefit' and also in Los Angeles for failing to pay another client $21,302 that he had allegedly earned investing in his own shares. Both suits accuse Goldstein of fraud.

Goldstein says: 'I'll defend against those suits all the way to the bank.' • Goldstein and his option outfit currently being are investigated on various suspicions of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Com- mission, the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, the US Postal Service and the federal govern- ment's Commodity. Exchange Authority. Comments Goldstein: "There is no truth to that. I called the

FBI

when customer a threatened my life' • First Leisure is under in- tense fraud investigation by the SEC's Los Angeles office.

'We're thinking of suing the SEC, retorts Goldstein. • Forty investors have filed claiming that roughly suits two-thirds of their money was never invested. In a moment of innocence Powers said of his partner: 'Harold is like Bernie Corn- feld.' Goldstein himself has been quoted as saying: 'When I get done, I'll make Billy Sol Estes like a piker.' look Sol Estes was jailed for ten years after a massive fraud involving wheat granaries. First Leisure Corporation of Beverly Hills.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

NIXON aide Dr Henry Kissinger returned to Saigon yesterday after visiting Cambodia for talks with dictator Lon Nol. He is believed to be pressing America's pup- pet regimes in Indo- China to accept pre- liminary proposals for a ceasefire in the Vietnam war. On Saturday Kissinger spent ten hours with South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu, who has made it clear he is opposed to any deal with North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front.

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam has made Thieu's removal from office one of the prime conditions of any peace settlement. WORK was completed at Naga- saki, Japan, yesterday on the world's largest shipyard, capable of building 1-million ton deadweight tanker. The Koyaki dockyard, built by Mitsubishi, is 3,242 feet long and 328 feet wide, larger than the Harland and Wolff yard in Belfast which measures 1,804 feet by 308 feet.

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But according to reports attributed diplomats to Peking, the PRG is now prepared to accept Thieu as leader of one of the three factions government of national concord while insisting that he must step down as president. Thieu has recently stepped up the tone of his anti-communist rhetoric with promises of a fight to the finish-denouncing the idea of a tripartite government as treason. But his independent powers of • limited. If manoeuvre are very Kissinger is pressing him to accept some such scheme it is doubtful if Thieu can resist for very long. North Vietnamese and NLF have spokesmen in Paris apparently warned the Americans unpleasant military to expect surprises if preliminary agree- ment on the terms of a ceasefire deal is not reached soon.

According to military sources in Saigon, the threat to the South i Vietnamese capital from the liberation forces is still serious and the US military are 'new talking in terms of a spectacular' designed to put pressure on Thieu. 'Time' magazine claimed at the weekend to have obtained from South Vietnamese sources an outline settlement of a war agreed in principle by the US and North Vietnam in Paris.

* It said the agreement provided for an internationally supervised ceasefire vietnamese government formation of a new South and elections for a constituent Paul Brennock, Patricia McAuley in Behan (BBC 1 tonight).

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The magazine said it might take many months to accomplish in its entirety. It added that the Nixon administration wants 'to be able to announce an agree- ment "in principle" the on package election day, before November 7, though the first of a ceasefire might not steps even be possible that soon?

'Time' said the military portion of the proposed deal provides 'in place' for a ceasefire and halting of all military activity including the US bombing ; of 'Then negotiations the North. would begin on the final with- drawal of all US forces coupled with the return of American prisoners of war in communist hands.' After the ceasefire went into direct 'Time' ettect, would negotiations between the Saigon government "The two sides and the PRG. would work out the composition of a "caretaker" government that would succeed the Thieu regime and prepare the country for general elections to choose a constituent assembly.' The plan also involves exten- sion of the existing international control commission and the formation of a committee com- prising all four sides in the war -the US, North Vietnam, the government and Thieu the National Liberation Front-to arbitrate who controlled what territory at the time of the ceasefire and negotiate the US withdrawal and the return of PoWs. Workers Press, M Auley in 'Carson Country' by Dominic 10.10 THE PHILPOTT FILE. Liv- ing for Jesus. Part 3. Two Bands of Rebels. 11.15 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

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neo- Nazi National Democratic Party has approved election calling programme for an end to what it terms the 'invasion' by foreign workers. Party chairman Martin Muss- gnug, who took over last year from Adolf von Thadden, said the presence of 3.5 million foreign workers spurred inflation by increasing production capa- city. The fascists of the NPD clearly hope to use anti-immigrant agita- tion in the same way as Hitler anti-Semitism. They used are aided by the thoroughly chau- vinist and reactionary position of the ruling Social Democratic Party headed by Willy Brandt.

Not only has Brandt called for curbs on immigration of workers from southern Europe and North Africa, he has also launched a vicious police cam- paign against Palestinian workers and students, deporting more than 200 in the wake of the Munich airport shoot-out.

The attack on the Palestinians is a direct attack on the political rights of all immigrant workers in Germany, who have been re- duced at a stroke, of Brandt's pen to the status of barely- tolerated factory fodder who can be deported at the government's whim. This is naturally grist to the fascists' mill. 3 Press, Monday October 23, 1972 PAGE 11

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conduct ry government out.' respond with a call to carry out black work on the as got to be to get mail. They are watching closely to see if stewards main that the This is regarded by militants as close to black- But we onstituency. ellor] Anthony Bar- provided by Fazakerley. they co-operate in the production of parts normally as is it if affected need be one's job there told that no Tory be a Workers at CAV Acton, west London, have been are before. This was ve not been politic- ago, sent f154 to the fighting fund.

their own occupation against closure some months Workers from Fisher-Bendix, Kirkby, who staged committee and the Lucas apprentice school (£20).

Halewood (£58) shift transmission workers at Ford Equipment factory on the same site (£265), night- Financial backing has come in from engineers at the Lucas Industrial appeal for financial assistance.

report a tremendous response to their Meanwhile shop stewards the working class in general.

Merseyside first, then throughout the Lucas combine and finally to group Lucas of the struggle in the will extension The The officials said they supported the action of the Fazakerley men.

Workers in the north west on Saturday.

Amalgamated Engineering Union of the of officials full-time and The move was decided at a meeting of CAV Fazakerley stewards ley, Liverpool. in support of CAV workers occupying their factory at Fazaker- in the north west is to be called to plan extending the action A MEETING of shop stewards from the CAV-Lucas combine meeting. ing conditions. the ists, a spokesman declared atter merce, who deserve better work- the expense of other trade union- of trade and com- 'cinderellas' are they claims charter solve his redundancy problem at the The lorry seven-point drivers should unionist trade 'No week and f1 per hour basic pay.

Hackney was 'unjustified'.

demanded a 35-hour yesterday land Cold Storage depot in shop Birmingham in stewards dockers' picketing of the ing of about 140 road Mid- haulage meeting A NATIONAL committee meet- the that felt, The in Birmingham yesterday London SW4 7UG. ence 186a Clapham High Street Unions Alliance confer- Trades October Appeal Fund The huge success of the All Workers Press a moment to lose. diately to : £1,161.21 to raise. There Is not have the of can. Post all donations imme- still we month Raise everything you possibly only nine days left to the end With our can be done. Fund. October for WE MUST change the situation front. There is still time.

our month to aper ol keep a huge effort for our Fund this shown the way. Now let's make has alone Press Workers Tory government. defeat the to leadership revolutionary to bulld the mined than ever deter- more are everywhere unionists trade that shows purpose. our arrogant Torles shall not undermine the are that determined canteen colleagues a bunch of workers who as amongst her before Cowley unity yesterday's conference such seen never had she Jarman, told Connie shop steward Mrs Delegation leader, tomorrow. been offered $2.75 and will be meeting the management agaln have weeks for a £6-per-week rise. They who nave been on strike for three canteen workers at the five British Leyland factories at Cowley, Oxford, delegation at yesterday's ATUA conference represented the 250 One Street, Tory govern new paying not are the to support pledged the cent 80 2,717 tenants officially has stewards,

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33,000 representıng ber's constituenc councilor. are that out [Chancellor] Labour by supplied committee. district union of the Manchester combine official figures, latest the stronghold reject the pay deal. thought committee district union to come in with a rush. is needed to ratify or the recall ally aware before engineers' resolution to starting Act rents' fair the oint talks, while 'We've not cave Kendal the against struggle Iranord rark is putting a lory Buckton wants to oppose further secretary, said: stewards'

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demanded the recall of the committee for the Manchester tenants Bolan, Ferguson Massey backing

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already have Kendall liam Wil- chief Services' faces rents revolt Barber Public Civil and

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Bucken, of the locomen's union the Manchester from Wednesday and meets on

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wages for the men working in brought who Fahey, Constance the of Council General The working conditions Mrs and decent applauded Conference claimed to are enthusiastic. eas are the nationalize government should be a warning to all trade Development Economic Office Labour demanding be This limit. the than that and top employers, National the offered been have we because

T&GWU

The wages ablitv to Coon. etused us a concilation oficer because approval with plan up line to not is Now the Tory government has the with on CBI are looking the The way to safeguard the men the members. up and ganged ends overS aLee capitaiist the of agement bosses places trawlermen's ing had condemned, executive the unions with man- associating the McGarvey fish- Icelandic British and the Dan dent demonstrates his intention Undoubtedlv the confict between ernment's own. but also because shop. here 300 men are on strike for expensive than the gov- it is less steward from the Tyne shipyards against its demand for a closed because not only scheme jones fought bitterv for nine weeks Heatoy

HAVOUT

said to ago years two-and-a-half just taken awav.' government payment. will not let the gains of the past fishing who fleet the added to pay packets in the form great strength.

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natriotic vould be agreed lor the year and T&GWU thus takes up The such a leadersnip. Ine it a flat-rate wage increase working class would respond to men in the cod war'. ates all follow-through payments.

ing position of British trawler- known as the Jones plan elimin- has What Class owned societv itself.

committee had decided on this £4. into fishing union's the national £2 the turn been able to the tipped lated ation to squeeze' more reforms, were Davinells fishing senior David Shenton, with substantial re- basic rates It would not be an organiz- high relatively on Workers' Union. Workers been taken into account. by the Transport and General DarV had blacked been Britain time principle to nght for princine- •avmento and have of £2.60 after over- average ALL Icelandic goods entering worth been have package would £2 Heath lhe vartv had to he infeyikle

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government to According put forward by him. the be will Patriotic nonary party wnich the plan was officials insist that revol. question of building the Whitehall leader ones.

BACK

but a industry, ( each jobs in in Workers' General and morrow's Workers Press. individuals better about talking Despite denials from Transport appear -will a question Livernoo - 1l S with inflation. occupations, (Speke) Machines Tories. against the dealing Manesty the struggles face ing to priority top give and (Fazakerley) to class which pledged itself to

CAV

including those from eduersap to mobilize the work- Paris The A full report of the speeches necessity to build an alternative summit at Market Common Technicians. the clear made and Allied vision statement the from triumphant Cinematograph, conference Tele- The delault. with Edward Heath's so-called don; and Yvonne Richards, Many struggles had been lost The new proposals coincide Lon- Gestetners, drie (T&GWU), Tories. the lation to by McKen- Ivy Bowater's; its capitu- was characterized initially. leadership

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Workers' UnION offered they package Eric Baker, General and worker; moves created. hospital Fowler, the struggles these for class ing Aberdeen £2 the than cheaper erence was to prepare the work.

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which could prove even the con- Eden, a Leicester member of the OT 1 ases. rent John speakers included, Other through wages Tax tate control of to come worse moved'. with oday discuss a plan tor seen a period of unprecedented uls government Te- untess TORY MINISTERS will Economic Communitv struggle The move to join the European government. source or an uneir troubles 1s the state itself.

BY IAN YEATS

the that to realize are corporate the and control tenants more and But go ahead to statutory wage Industrial Relations Act and with it. That is the message from to get away not going are they their determination to use the And few". too much paid to so reaffirmed had Tories the have so "Never last year's conference since this in Churchill's Winston Thornett, said that mittee, have adopted a slogan of plant's shop stewards' com- strike. Salford tenants now on rent and Cowley delegate A from Alliance in Birmingham yesterday.

plant, Cowley, Oxford, opened the fifth annual conference of the All Trades Unions gains the working class had made through the unions and the Labour Party, will

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