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• SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 1972• No. 906 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS TORY STATE PAY TALKS HANG FIRE

BANKERS

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2.30 a.m. Friday mornin -the TUC's Victor Feather, Chancellor Anthony Barber and the CBIs W. O.

. Campbell Adamson announce joint meeting on Monday. Workers should demand the TUC calls off the talks NOW!

INFLATION

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE BANK of England was forced to enter the foreign plunging value of the pound. Before the holding action began, the pound dropped to $2.32—the lowest in its history. The overnight drop of more than 2 cents followed the deadlock in the No 10 Downing Street talks between the

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industrial action in support of the power workers' pay claim.

The bank's intervention was purely a stop-gap to prevent -dISTOL the fourth sucessive day of hammering of sterling.

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By lunchtime the price had been revived to $2.3445, which was still 35 points down on the overnight position.

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The collapse of sterling since the Paris EEC summit will intensify

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the currency CISS Wildeas whole ortie cabilalst world since August 15, when US President Nixon ended the _ather 1971, convertibility of dollars into gold.

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One definite implication of the sterling devaluation-it has now than 10 more DCI COul since floating on July 23-is that

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yesterday anternoon at Down Montreet. Monday's full meeting 'The Three Legs' This is the most compelling This can only indicate that the The Headrow deal with why the trade into the Tory tapper and deeper know that a voluntary

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these support of a demand for contnuaton crisis capitalism. whn Heath and They lobbied pay 7.30 p.m. Treacherous alKS wage They should forced with leave the powermen Tories have sooner later une talks at Alexander Fleming House mobilize their members force and other sector workers pubiic south London, where union vacate office forth. working class. Speaker : negotiators meeting the cancerous yasonica WIth The retreat of their leaders on Cliff Slaughter management side question of action yesterday of a bankers conspiracy to the form • rul support tor me power (SLL Central Committee) makes that treachery doubly thereby men's claim! • See hospitals stop p. 12 Imnauon escaldl" dangerous (see p. cost of living on a vast • No talks with the Tories!

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY OCTOBER 28, 1972• No. 906 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS TORY STATE PAY TALKS HANG FIRE

BANKERS

PLAN MORE

2.30 a.m. Friday mornin -the TUC's Victor Feather, Chancellor Anthony Barber and the CBl's W. O.

Campbell Adamson announce a further joint meeting on Monday. Workers should demand the TUC calls off the talks NOW!

INFLATION

THE BANK of England was forced to enter plunging value of the pound. Before the holding action began, the pound dropped to $2.32—the lowest in its overnight drop of more than 2 cents followed the The No 10 Downing Street talks between the A

FAIR

deadlock in the government, the CBI and the TUC and the announcement of C

DEAL FOR SI

WE industrial action in support of the power workers' pay claim.

SUPPORT

The bank's intervention was purely a stop-gap to prevent L8 -dISTOL the fourth sucessive day of hammering of sterling.

HOSPITAL

$2.3445, which By lunchtime the price had been revived to was still 35 points down on the overnight position.

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The collapse of sterling since the Paris EEC summit will intensify

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crisis which the currency been shaking the or te cantast 2 TeMble p world since August 15, when US President Nixon ended the athe 19/1, convertibility of dollars into gold.

WORKERS

One definite implication of the sterling devaluation it has now dropped more than 10

SOCIALIST

since foating on luv 23—is that Smiths nian irrevocably wrecked the

LABOUR LEAGUE

cooked do coalcul up in washington last December to fix new currency parities.

BEHIND THE

All the weaker European cur-

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franc and the Danish crown-have since come

OF TROTSKY

under pressure to devalue.

time dollars are At the same hooding InTO yen which has been at its parity ceiling since the middle of July.

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sterling continued fal in Choe of cained the seeral atone ies competitive devaluations each other counties out of export markets. Heath anarchy, cuticul

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Cabinet cummoned meeting yesterday to review the

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crashing of the pound and 17-hour with the a reply to Joseph representatives the Lace unions and the

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Losey's film Hospital pay lobby refused reply on claim The at- special committees tached to the talks held meetings

WEDNESDAY NOV 1

vesterony tion for Monday's meeting 'The Three Legs' at Downing Street. This is banking and business circles most compelling This can indicate that the tne The Headrow why the trade into ise tory deeper and deeper know that a voluntary deal with

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Feather, into trap. scanion and jones can. must

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not truly monumental crawling before the Tory Cabinet.

these In support of a demand for 28 continualon British crisis rocking capitalism. With Heath and They lobbied 7.30 p.m. trencherous wage Increase. pay They should forced with leave the powermen Tories have •ooner or Hater their talks at Alexander Fieming House mobilize members force public to unleash total war the and other sector workers south London, where union working class. lories to vacate oince forth.

Speaker: negotiators meeting the

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Wilder The retreat of their leaders on This already taking the management side. Cliff Slaughter the question of action yesterday of bankers conspiracy to form (SLL Central Committee) doubly makes that treachery inflation thereby escalat- men's claim! • See hospitals stop p. 12.

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ing. dangerous (see p. tne cost or living on a vast • No talks with the Tories!

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Thieu falls in with Nixon vote-catcher PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday October 28, 1972 SEPTEMBER'S figures showed a big jump in the US trade deficit, $462.6m from to $513.2m. This reversed the downward trend which had appeared in August and had led Administration some officials to conclude that an improvement in the trade position of the US had begun. of the reserves are expected to présent infi In fact imports rose have grown by $1,000m dollars to a new record figure over the month. bankers many n September while ex- Fearing a yen revalua- that Japan will have bers dell Septeme tion, foreign of introduce an export s buyers deficit was the charge or float the j ships have stepped up twelfth in succession. if another revaluation ship- pre-payment Do sales on the to be avoided. the Exporters are From November exchange Tokyo step up shipments and sell dol- Japanese exporters 1 accelerated despite of lar proceeds to the need approval from tightening controls Japan's Bank of Japan. Ministry of and external

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BY JOHN SP

publication of the draft 1976 and the whole war to Vietnam peace treaty 'peace' be manoeuvre may with the United States vote-catching effort the eve on of the presidential election.

has thrown the Saigon Nixon's envoy Dr Henry Kis- - puppet government into Thurs- singer, however, said on day that thought the treaty he turmoil and revealed its could be signed shortly, though complete dependence on he did not want to rush it.

The Americans are presumably cal- the Americans. culating what they will gain and what they will lose by signing.

main- President Thieu is They said to be assuring are tained in office only by the Thieu that he stands to inherit barbaric bombing north and the larger slice of power under south of the 17th paralle the proposed settlement, which reached which has new would provide for military standstill South Vietnam in in heights of brutality the under rival administrations. four years of Nixon's presi- Thieu's forces will occupy the dency. main towns, but the countryside He now recognizes that if the will fall mainly to the National Hanoi Liberation North deal published by on Front and Thursday is agreed, his corrupt Vietnamese who have extended military regime will crumble in a control their area of con- very short Much of his time. disaffected and army is many sympathize or less openly more with the liberation forces.

As Hanoi has pointed out, the dependent on man is entirely Washington and 'everyone knows Saigon administration that the has been rigged up and fostered THE DISMISSAL of the former Eg by the United States'. Nixon may well have briefed Commander in Chief of the Armed Thieu to oppose •the draft deal Sadek, is an outcome of Prime Mi officers -his air force are talk- Moscow. ing in terms of continuing the The daily paper that leads the fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) {5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send 1o: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Dept., Workers Press, London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Or Full subscription (six days) for months. Name Address Amount enclosed E the export of ball bear- ings to Britain and from November. 2 for the export of cassettes to 12 European countries. Cassette exports to the 12 European coun tries doubled in the first eight months of this Ministry is year. The considering similar restrictions other 'sensitive items' such as cars, steel products, TV resent influx sets and desk-top calcu- continues, lators. believe The chronic and will have to growing US trade deficit 1 export sur- and the desperate effort loat the yen of the Japanese to evaluation is ward off another yen re- valuation by export con- trols are further symp- 1, will toms of the acuteness of the international eco- val from the Trade for nomic crisis.

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they siderably since began a nationwide offensive in April.

The ceasefire is not expected to put an end to the guerrilla war in Vietnam: the 'New York Times' said 'in- yesterday that tense political competition as "police" well strenuous as and actions guerrilla activities are expected to continue'.

In effect the ceasefire will mean that Thieu and the libera- tion forces will be left to fight it out on the ground while the Americans and South Vietnamese withdraw and US' bombing is halted. Under the published treaty, Vietnam is North under no obligation to withdraw its units from the south. While the struggle continues on the ground, attempts will be made to form a government of 'reconciliation' in Saigon. ormer Egyptian Minister of War and e Armed Forces, General Mohamed Prime Minister Aziz Sidky's visit to General Sadek was one of the Egyptian leaders responsible for the ending of the Soviet military presence in the country last July. He is replaced by General Ahmed Ismail, former head of the Intelligence Service, who accom- panied Sidky to Moscow and is believed to be acceptable to the Russians. The change may also be con- nected with the incident on October 12 when an army cap- tain led three armoured cars into the centre of Cairo and tried to harangue a crowd at the Hussein mosque. This led to reports of an attempted military coup. A general tightening up of security has taken place since then. UNITED AIRLINES, the biggest domestic airline in the US, has cancelled its option to buy six Concorde supersonic jetliners. A company spokesman said that the in with its plane did not fit route planning. He wished the Concorde venture every success.

This represents a further blow at the expensive and controver- FOLLOWING the opening o between China and Japan, the are warning the Japanese emplo ist 'subversion'. Moscow radio said on Wer newspapers were being too opt for trade with China, whose to of the world is only about $4,00 It pointed out China's foreign ex added that 'at present China and and up-to-date know-how not to radios. government-composed This of Thieu's nominees, representa- tives of the NLF and 'neutralists' intended to prepare for -is 'free' elections under inter- national supervision. A similar administration was established in 1962 in Laos, but promptly dissolved into warring factions.

Thieu told television viewers on Thursday that the laws of South Vietnam would continue to be rigorously applied even if plied that it would lead in there were a ceasefire and another round of struggle at the base. The war in Vietnam will not be over even if the deal is finally signed. A 'government of reconciliation' can in the long run solve nothing. background on And in the in the Gulf of their carriers Tonkin and the huge Thailand the American bombers bases, will still be poised to resume the bombardments. TWO CROATIAN intellectuals were jailed for four and two and a half years for 'criminal Yugoslav against the acts people and state' following a trial in Zagreb which ended on Thursday. Both men, Vlado Gotovac and Hryoje Sosic, were members of the Croatian cultural movement, Matica Hrvatska, and were accused of turning it into a nationalist political movement in opposition to the Tito regime.

This week the president and of the central secretary com- mittee of the League of Com- munists in Serbia were dismissed as a result ot lito's criticism of their policies. They have now been replaced A NEW military regime is now in power in the former French colony of Dahomey in West Africa following the fifth coup since it became independent 12 years ago. sial Anglo-French project. It may mean that other American firms will cancel or reduce their options which now amount, in any case, to only 32 aircraft.

The cost of running Concorde increasingly makes it an uneco- proposition for airlines nomic hit by rising prices and cut-throat competition. ning of diplomatic relations an, the Soviet Press and radio e employers to beware of Mao- on Wednesday that Japanese too optimistic about prospects hose total trade with the rest ut $4,000m. reign exchange reserves are small t China wants to obtain factories not toothbrushes and transistor The radio went on to warn the Japanese employers about Maoist 'subversion': 'The Mao- ist group has been carrying out extensive subversive activities in Japan for many years ...

If Chinese organizations are established in Japan the Maoist group will make best use of them to develop subversive activities not only against the democratic movement, but also all organizations radio said. Including, presumably, such imperialist organizations as the Keidanren employers' associa- tion and the semi-fascist organ- izations of the extreme right!

To judge from the tone of Moscow's broadcast it is to these organizations that the witch-hunt- ing advice is primarily addressed.

WORKERS struck work and demonstrated through the streets of all major industrial centres in France on Thursday in response to the call from the trade-union federations, the CGT and CFDT, for a 'day of action'. In Paris demonstrated 20,000 marchers from the Place de la Nation to the Place de la République call- ing for the unions' demands of minimum . monthly wage of a 1,000 francs (£83) and retirement at 60. The token strike of pro- test was aimed by the Stalinists at dissipating the militancy of the French working class and movement against the growing the Pompidou government. by Tihomir Vladkalic, a professor of economics, and Nikola Pet- ronic, a locksmith and a graduate of the School of Political Science.

control and combat growing nationalism in republics the six which make the federal republic of Yugoslavia. Armoured vehicles smashed their way into the grounds of the presidential palace in the capital, Cotonou, and broke up cabinet meeting. President a Pompidou was due to visit the country next month and the old divided about government was how to receive him. The coup caused no surprise in Paris. One view was that it was not a question of somebody taking power. Power was just waiting to be picked up'.

military junta headed by Major Mathieu It has been-by Kerekou which has called civil servants and workers to remain at their posts.

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attempts to end a six-week-old sit-in at the Gainsborough Cornard textile factory in Great Yar- mouth have failed. 'But we take assurances from Carrington Viyella with a pinch Two directors of the parent of salt. It was only last Carrington Viyella, company, Christmas they were telling us tried to persuade workers we had a good, strong future co-operate in emptying the here' which was closed down plant, last month, that the contract to saying When pur- occupation was impeding the chase had been signed, the sale of the premises to another would clear the company industrial user. factory as quickly possible. If they agreed to the clearance David. Arnold the sit-in of machinery and fabric before yesterday: leader, said had something they concrete, "The directors told they they would lose their power to us had received 59 inquiries show- negotiate with the management, ing interest in taking over the he said. difficult premises, but it was to carry When the factory closed on negotiations while there was a sit-in. down 340 people lost their jobs.

LORD STOKES' 'bumper year' at British-Leyland has start a dull thud. The car giant has lost yet another slice of th market and export sales are down. Figures for September sł combine's share of the British market is down to 31.3 per total of 38,000 cars were sold—8,000 less than in the same last year and half August's total.

The poor performance is Negotiations introduce to Measured-Day Work there are despite an Il-per-cent rise in reaching their climax. total British sales. Leyland But the change to a new pay- lost ground to the other Bri- system has brought tish manufacturers like Ford's own problems. It is estimated fallen and Chrysler and to foreign that productivity has by a third among the 60 per cent of competitors. workers who have changed over This is a blow to optimistic from piecework. This has brought forecasts made by Lord Stokes Show last week. at the Motor He told journalists: 'Next year will be a bumper year for new models from British-Leyland.' September performance The will the dangers of increase cash crisis at Leyland during the next 12 months and a shortfall in profits. This problem is behind Ley- parts of land's drive to hive off IN 24 HOURS the shares in cash. its ready its empire to raise ready cashi empire

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the Dunlop Rubber Company have dropped from 132p to Canada have already been sold millions 105p of workers at the company's wiping andi Basingstoke plant, transmission the company's pounds off have just ended an 11-week sit- market value. against plans to hive it off.

The sharp drop in share price The to grab a need greater that Dunlop's follows news will share of the market also European partner, Pirelli of Italy, pressure on the mean intensified has sustained again massive force for a big Levland labour losses. increase in output. Interim results just published urgent problem is to The most show that the Italian end of the get rid of piecework at the Long.

has Dunlop-Pirelli merger Birmingham. plant bridge recorded a loss of £9.8m for the first six months this year.

of the £18.6m LEADING shop stewards from This is on top factories loss in 1971. At this rate losses number of Swindon could reach f40m for the two yesterday joined women workers at the Square years to next December. on strike picket The 200 When the London Stock Mar- D switchgear factory. ket opened yesterday there was workers at the fac- production for hectic selling of Dunlop shares.

are on strike sub- tory spokesman said the two-day stantial pay increase across the board. town's fall Strikers the in Dunlop stock meant at Garrard loss in market value of f24.5m. record-laver factory work after The merger between the two are returning to accepting a £2 interim pay-and- rubber giants was completed 22 productivity deal. months It was announced ago.

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Some of the Gainsborough Cornard oc London headquarters in September.

as started with e of the home mber show the 1.3 per cent. A ne same month Stokes: 'Bumper year' o a tremendous increase in wage costs. Other British car manu- facturers fared marginally better.

Chrysler UK sold 13,500 cars and took I per cent of the market and Ford sold 40 per cent more cars in September than • in the same month last year. amid euphoric statements about 'European co-operation' and the 'great future' in EEC entry.

It is clear from this particular union that although the Euro- monopolies desperately pean want to gang up against the working class, their merger also brings about a merger of their individual weaknesses as well.

Thus Pirelli brings into the amalgamation with Dunlop the difficulties it has with its own militant workforce. In an effort to break up this capacity the fighting Pirelli workers, the management is closing down factories and moving plant to the depressed south of Italy where unemploy- ment is chronically high and standard of living the more depressed. 28 Charlotte St

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Workers Pross, Satur ornard occupiers who lobbled the Viyella paret per year' clalm at Motor Show Another noticeable feature was the steep decline in the com- mercial vehicle for output August at 5,473 compared with 7,072 in the same month last year. Volkswagen once more came top of the importers' league with 4,657 sales and Fiat overtook Renault for second place.

In one recent decision 870 workers suspended and were 1,900 placed on short-time work- ing. Meanwhile at the Bicocca a big jabs plant in Milan struggle is underway to defeat to sack management attempts 3,000 of the 8,000-strong work- force. Members of the United steering Kingdom committee in representing workers all have Dunlop-Pirelli factories sent a telegram to Bicocca ex- pressing solidarity. This is the other cutting edge of the

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development. As capital internationalizes itselt, so too does the working class.

To withstand the huge losses the corporation must attack the jobs and conditions of workers in the UK and Italy.

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agal ella parent company's MORE than 800 delegates from all parts of Ireland will attend this weekend's annual conference of the provisional Sinn Fein in Dublin. For the first time British journalists will be allowed into the public session on Sunday.

Workers Press staff reporter, IAN YEATS, will be covering this important conference on the spot. For analysis of the conference and the best coverage, make sure you obtain copies of Workers Press throughout next week. Telephone 01-622 7029 UNIVERSITY students in the Irish Republic yesterday staged a national day of protest against the education system. A spokesman for the Union of Students in Ireland, organ- izing the protest, said: 'We are challenging the present position and government apparent inability to deal with such problems as education in a clear and logical manner. We are extremely concerned at the lack of any overall educational policy.'

Dublin students marched On government buildings to register their complaints with the Edu- cation Minister Padraig Faulkner.

The students also demanded higher grants.

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

view this (state pay) plan 1 with admiration. For these new proposals in structure and conception are far superior to anything thought of, let alone put forward, in the days of George Brown or during the whole administration of Harold Wilson? Professor Nicholas Kaldor, Party member and Labour economics adviser to the Wilson government, 'The Sun- day Times' on October 8, 1972.

*I hope that this bold govern- which has already ment, brought about more beneficent fiscal reforms than any since Gladstone's, will see it as an opportunity for constructive policy-making' Professor John Vaizey, Labour Party member and education adviser to the Wilson govern- ment, in the 'Sunday • Tele- graph' on October 22, 1972.

Think of the academic luminaries who advise the Labour Party on eco- nomic policy and you think of Professor Nicho- las Kaldor, Lord Balogh and Professor John Vai- zey. This trio have written more words of bourgeois economic 'analyses' than one cares to remember. As economic gurus over the past ten to 15 years they have filled hundreds of column inches in newspapers 'The like and publications Times' New Statesman' and 'The Listener' There was a period when their faces were rarely off the their television screen and views on the state of the world were heard from one end of Hampstead to the other.

When the Wilson govern- ment was elected in 1964 they moved into official and semi- official positions in Whitehall to bring about 'the white-hot, technological revolution'.

Kaldor and Balogh advised on taxation and the economy, Vaizey was at Anthony Cros- land's elbow imparting various chunks of genius on 'education economics' Today Kaldor and Balogh sit party's finance and the on economic affairs sub-commit- tee chaired by shadow Chan- cellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey and Vaizey belongs to the science and education sub- committee along with former party chairman Anthony deputy Wedgwood Benn, leader Edward Short, shadow minister and pro-Marketeer Shirley Williams, and Andrew Cunningham, the General and Workers' Municipal Union official named in the Poulson bankruptcy case. three weeks, In the past two of these academics have emerged as vociferous sup- porters of the Heath state pay plan. First of all Kaldor took a page in the Tory 'Sunday ay October 28, 1972 Times' to propound the virtues of this Heath move towards corporatism. I view this plan with admiration, Kaldor said.

He went on: 'For these new proposals in structure and con- ception are far superior to anything ever thought of, let alone put forward, in the days of George Brown or during the administration of whole Harold Wilson.' Since this article appeared the Tory editorial writers on every capitalist newspaper have enthusiastically referred adviser's the Labour to remarks. He is being quoted up and down the country as the voice of reason to justify this vicious attack the on standard of living of millions of working-class families.

Kaldor has now been joined by Vaizey. In the extremely reactionary 'Sunday Telegraph' last weekend, Vaizey, Profes- sor of Economics at Brunel University, lavished praise on the government for its eco- nomic policies — policies, incidentally, which have created the highest post-war levels of permanent unemploy- ment. He wrote about Anthony Barber's "brilliant achieve- ments' with the economy which 'means a very substan- tial rise in the standard of living for most families'.

Piling one ludicrous asser- tion upon another he goes on to welcome 'Mr Barber's brilliant new tax scheme'-a reference to the pie-in-the-sky tax proposals which the Tories say will come into effect in five years' time! Vaizey calls for a stepping up of the Tory policy to smash existing basic industries like coal, iron and steel: 'If modern methods were more widely adopted there would only be a the present labour third of force in iron and steel' and by the year 1990 only speleo- logists (cave men) need be the only people to go underground.

In demanding these 'sen- policies he sees that sible' 'alas, the dear old Labour Party is the reactionary party trying to save nasty jobs in disagreeable places, instead of instructively reacting to change' Vaizey has got so many things wrong in this single outburst. The Labour Party is not in principle opposed to the mass attack on the pits on the steel industry: witness the massive closures carried out by Board ex-National Coal chairman Lord Robens under 'reorganiza- Labour and the tion' of the British Steel Corporation, which has meant the axing of more than 30,000 jobs. The 'reactionaries' Vaizey is talking about are workers who are desperately fighting for the right to work. Vaizey would take away this right to work and thus take away their right to live. His cave-man econo- is mics end on a note which politically appropriate. He says: By the way, the late and evil Hitler had a good Party- Jonn valzey. economic armament got wage demand. 'Mr Nixon the Vietnam Hitler longer existed basic He by Ley tration camps. had mic miracle' applauded by these Labour pay plans when their policies are redundant. system in proportions working class. just It 1S recognize, the Tory in of reflection is to the Nicholas Kaldor (top) Before Bre. way to done the So can Mr tells us how down unem- not tell us in Germany. the organizations. workers "leaders' and wages at least a by 'econo- warmly SO en- time made utterly inter- reached such these egg with the that what only a what Wilson,

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With the sales of Con- corde in a desperate state, a Tory MP has come for- ward with a scheme for 'Rent-a-Concorde'. Stephen Hastings, Conserv. ative MP for mid-Bedfordshire, company establisnea called European Supersonic Which hopes Aviation Limited, to sign its first contract by the middle of next year. Hastings, former vice- chairman of the Tory aviation committee, is the chairman of the company and the principal shareholder. He is being backed by City William Brandt and bankers, Sons, which was recently lock, stock and ovel barrel by National and Grind- lays. he chairman of National and Grindlays is Lord Alding- ton, former Tory Party deputy chairman and one of Heath's closest advisers and personal friends. Other finance is coming from Lloyds Bank and the American First National City Bank.

Hastings said that while the government would not be giving any financial assistance to the project, it had given the operation its 'full blessing and su the idea is that the firm will lease supersonic Concorde air-

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The powerful Road Haul- age Association has de- cided to set up a compul sory annual levy on all members to pay for costs of court actions. The

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national council has taken this decision follow- ing the expensive legal battles tought against dockers in the National Industrial Relations High Court, Court, the craft to airline operators who do not wish to purchase them in full. The length of each contract period can be anything up to 15 years. Hastings is a well-known business entrepreneur. His past connections include business directorships Anglo- with Marketing Limited, European . Emerson Associated Limited, Handley Page Limited, John Tysack (Training) Limited, BPW Organization Limited, Holdings Limited, Lomont Uxley Developments, Roger Tomlin Limited. politics Before entering Hastings was a career army officer and then served with the Foreign Office in Helsinki and Paris. His company will have share capital of £40,000. Sitting on the board with Hastings will be Sir Peter Compston, a vice admiral and former deputy supreme allied commander in the Atlantic. He served as naval attaché in the Paris Em- bassy in the early 1960s.

Another director is Mr Geoffrey Dodsworth, a director of William Brandt's. Consultants to the company are Professor Hugh Ford and Professor James Lighthill, who was director of the Royal Air- craft Establishment at Farn- borough during the design stages of the Concorde. Court of Appeal and the House of Lords. The new National Legal Cases Fund will come into operation on January 1 and the amount of levy will be based on fleet size. The introduction of the fund can only mean that the KHA Is planning further attacks on trade unionists. It must be remembered that when the House of Lords upheld the road hauliers' appeal, all costs awarded against were Transport and General Workers' Union. An appeal fund set up over the recent cases to reimburse members has raised almost £15,000. Amounts ranging from to £250 was raised from 2,310 members. The RHA has also decided to increase its subscription rates from January 1, the first increase for three years.

Workers Press, Saturday October 28, 1972 PAGE 5

SOVIET INSURANCE

FOR LON NOL

BY JOHN SPENCER

The American - backed dictatorship of Cambo- dian General Lon Nol now controls only about 15 cent of the per country's land area and 2 million of its 7 million inhabitants. It is propped up by an esti- mated 110.000 South Vietnam- ese and American soldiers and injections American aid. The capital Phnom Penh, is surrounded by liberated territory and recently been hit by daring guerrilla raids. Lon Nol remains in office only by courtesy of the US Air Force. The only reason the liberation forces not nave taken the Cambodian capital is their fear that the US would promptly reduce it to rubble.

Lon Nol may be on his last but he can also fall back legs, on the support of the Kremlin.

Moscow 55-man diplomatic mission the Cambodian capital and recog- nizes the puppet dictatorship as the legal government of the country. The Russian diplomats must find it uncomfortable to live in a city which is regularly bom- barded with 122-mm rockets North supplied originally to Vietnam by the Soviet govern- ment. But they were doubly em- barrassed when US a recent senate revealed the of Soviet aid to extent the revolutionary counter The Senate committee government operations, headed Senator William by Moorhead, discovered that Soviet insurance company was underwriting US military aid the shipments Lon Nol regime. Thousands of tons of US aid brought the up ale Mekong air and under naval escort the supply beleagured Cam bodian army. They are insured by the Cam- bodian National Insurance Corporation, then which 1C° insures itself with the Russians. Moorhead's revelations came as something of a shock for Lon Nol's functionaries, too. One oficial of the Cambodian company com- Insurance that that now plained Tne arrangement was public know- ledge the Soviet insurance might be forced to company bring it to an end. The war is good business for us, the official said-and the profits of the Cambodian National Insurance Company bear him out. 1he compant made a net profit of some 22.5 million riels in 1969, dropping 18:8 million in 1970 rising to a new peak of over million riels in 1971 fol- lowing the Us invasion. indicate Company sources that while the war may have disrupted economy, the surance is a growth industry.

Premiums have been sharply raised and, naturally, profits are up. In practice protection for insured property Is pro- vided by Nol armed forces, the South Vietnamese and the US. And one way or another food sly of homiet to reign Soviet foreign way into exchange reserves. sure war is hell .. but it's good for Top: the American-backed dictator Lon Nol and his right-hand man Sirik Matak. Above: Is good for business' business!

PAGE 6 Workers Pross, Saturday Oclober 28, 1972 Donald COOK

CANNED FOODS

BY IAN YEATS

On a day store at Nelson's Wharf leaves an sunny of near derelict early observer standing on the

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20th-century warehouses along deck of the 'Discovery' the south bank. looks across the Thames Vestey's Duchy Street cold the old Eldorado ice at a gleaming ribbon of cream factory-has been shut south bank development. for two years and a fifth por- he vista with the tion of the site has been con- verted into a temporary car tival Hall and rising opposite park. it on the other side of Water- This leaves the hotchpotch 100 Bridge, the National of properties sandwiched in the Theatre. and between broadwav Conner Adjacent distinctive, the Hatfields still to be sorted out.

almost television-shaped, win The development speculators dows of the London Weekend expect that investment any- Centre stare black where in the rectangle between eyes from a new multi-storey the two Thames bridges would highly profitable. ends in the net- The vista The est ende girders and concrete WOrK designed piles at the feet of Blackfriars which in the eyes of the GLC onage wnica dullders are trans- forming into a 30-storey office Danners means that only wes End-style developments will be block, a 750-bed notel, bals allowed there. and a shopping precinct. Plans now well advanced in middle of this Slap in the the two wing segments of the otherwise futuristic panorama rectangle show clearly what is an untidy, derelict looking huddle of warehouses this means. owned The Hatfields- by the Vestey Organization.

massive Rennie Street In the rectangle formed by development is being undertaken by the King's Waterloo and Blackfriars the Thames and Stam- Reach Consortium dominated bridges, Sainsbury's and the Inter- by ford Street only the central area occupied by these build- national Publishing Corpora- tion. ings remains to be redeveloped.

Vestey The Organization Many of the 87 workers at controlled only one tiny Nelson's Vestey's Wharf cold of this area at Hanbury's due be closed store, Wharf—once a cold store- -but November, claim their jobs are Vestey is not involved in the being sacrificed on the altar of property speculation. consortium In place of the jungle of cen- They argue that even if the tury-old warehouses and offices present store cannot be mod- the consortium are raising 200 ernized it would under West-End Elm a completely type flats-let at o Dul u appropriate rents—350,000 lew depot on the same site space-rent f6 a Why, they ask, doesn't Ves- or omce sq ft plus—a shopping precinct tey do this, unless he is think- ing of the with restaurants cafes and profits to be made as two pubs and a 750-room hotel a result of the south bank re- for the Spanish-based Melia development. of goods All this development the whole pattern group. In the central area either prestige or highly profit.

and in the last three storage Hatfields the river sides plannon from

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-the one thing the 41 miles of the side Doon for river Coin Street, Vestey is certainly will not allow is more ware river-front warehouses have Street on land leased by the dominating position. derelict Bermond

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from old premises. the Princes houses or Inaustral •ecome With Gabriel's Wharf, Nel- For businessmen like Vestey sey and Southwark. Stamford Wharf Meadow Estate of the Duchy Wharf, the arguments for Thousands jobs have new invest- of Cornwall. and the old Eldorado ice cream ment in the area far outweigh old-fashioned been lost Cultural buildings not as factory either leased or owned, are National those for keeping open obso- warehouses have given way to profitable and the Organization controis two- the lete and therefore costly cold depots charac- new container Theatre is likely to be the only thirds of the site. even though dozens of terized by large "parking' The land, both sides of on one in lne reclangie men will be made redundant.

giant single-storey stor- rapidly in the Waterloo Bridge- Upper Ground, falls into about ditas, As it happens the Vestey sheds and a handful of Coin Street area controlled by age six blocks-four controlled by hand has not had to be forced maximum

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men working with a Greater the Lonton Council and the sixth Vestey, one to close down the riverside of mechanical handling gear.

The London Weekend Tele- land vision Centre cold stores relatively by at least 12 different owners, money- large IS The redevelopment of the holdings required have proved spinner as far as rents to the including a bank. south bank has coincided with to be cheaper away from the concerned and The planning authority is the council are the revolutionary technological Inner London boroughs - at GLC and they other offices planned will only grant are changes in the docks industry Stratford, Dagen- including the possibility of one Hackney, the whole site-not individual based on containerization ham and a dozen other places for Reuters news agency on the piors. Beginning in the early 19th site currently occupied by the east along the Thames to Til- hoped- In other words the warehouses spread bury *Evening News'-between the for profits from redevelopment For capitalists the problem Theatre and London cannot be realized until all the National both sides of redeveloping a cold store Weekend. existing businesses in the area like the one at Nelson's Wharf Thames and 100 years later, The commercial development wound up and the parties faced with the choice of build- made graphic when by the King's Reach Consor- reach joint agreement on new tium is expected to pay for it- ing close to the West End or realize that to turn an old- investment. far fashioned, build. self and the GLC hopes that down Most of the site is either usesner seven-storcy preferred sites at Southwark ing into a modern single-storey offices will subsi- already disused or on the rents from of dize buildings like the National and Bermondsey. equivalent footage The closure threshold of it. Containerization has changed would require almost all the of Vestey's last waterside cold Theatre. land in the centre of the three Waterloo segments between and Blackfriars. Rents related to the are of the value development on a site and the discrepancy be- the rent from tween giant cold store and single-storey of investment being the kind King's Reach undertaken by Consortium does not need pointing out. There is a third factor in.

luencing the disappearance of Vestey cold stores from cen- - the National tral London Dock Labour Scheme. Twelve years ago Vestey was unsuccessful in a bid to opt out of the scheme and ever since he has seized every opportunity of axing his cen- tral London depots. Stamford, Duchy, Kennets, Han- bury's, Cannon Street, Red Bull, Gunner's Shop and soon Nelson's are but memories in the minds of hundreds of redundant regi- stered dockers. Where new stores have been opened, as in Hackney, 'ex- / Kept out in the prospects for new invest- ment. docks winsures unobtrusively"

THAMES

RIVER

STAMFORD WHARF

NELSON'S WHÄRE

GABRIEL'S WHARF

ICE CREAM FACTORY

THE GERMAN COMMUNIST

PARTY UNDER HITLER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Octobe

BY TOM KEMP. PART 2.

The obvious growing power and warlike ambi- tions of Hitler Germany in 1934 led to a revision of policy in Moscow. It had become obvious that the masses were not going to rise up—as the Kremlin hoped - and establish a Soviet Republic in Germany after having smashed Social Demo- cracy. In fact the whole working-class movement had been crushed. Although under- ground work went on, the Gestapo was as tireless as it was bloodthirsty and the con- centration camps were full.

the Stressing danger of 'fascism and war' Stalin em- barked on a rightward turn. In 1934 the Soviet Union entered the 'thieves' kitchen' at Geneva - the League of Nations. The next year a pact was made with France, in the per- son of Laval, and he endorsed French rearmament. This was the prelude to the Popular Front policies of the second half of the 1930s, the way for which was cleared at the 7th World Congress of the Com- munist International in 1935.

Then, with indecent haste, all the slogans and theories of 'third period' the so-called buried and everything were possible was done to prevent anyone exhuming them. From that day to this the communist parties have been unable to offer a coherent explanation of this period or the reason for the abrupt shift in policy.

Popular Frontism sought the maximum alliance with bour- geois and nationalist politicians in order to defend bourgeois democratic institutions. This change of policy was supposed to have been based upon the German experience.

In fact it represented Stalin's hope that the Nazi threat to the Soviet Union could be warded off by an alliance with the other imperialist countries.

When this proved impossible, he turned back to the policy of the early years of Hitler's rule and made the infamous 'non-aggression pact' of August 1939. Not least , among Stalin's crimes was the fact that while the Pact was in operation a number of German com- munists were handed back to the Nazis for punishment and almost certain death. But it should also be remembered that few of the communist exiles who took refuge in the Soviet Union survived to return to East Germany in 1945. In the purges of the 1930s Stalin's victims included many leading communists and their families; of those who sur- vived, many were imprisoned sent to labour camps or and remote Siberian areas during World War II. Stalin was particularly vin- dictive against the German Communist Party (KPD) mem- bers because a number them had criticized his policies even before the Nazis came to power. Others expected that in Moscow there would be some kind of reckoning with the past and they spoke their minds too freely. Evidence about the situa- tion inside the KPD leadership either in the pre-Hitler years or during the years of'exile in the Soviet Union is scarce and not completely reliable. It is, of course, known who did not survive Stalin's purges — and who did. And a certain amount lay October 28, 1972 Top: loyal Ulbricht beside Stalin. Above of other information is avail- able. From this it is clear first of all that many • KPD members were opposed to the dubbing of the Social Democrats as 'social fascists' and the whole 'third period' extravaganza.

No doubt Trotsky's writings on Germany did circulate among them, because it is that they had a con- known siderable impact in some circles both inside and outside the KPD. The campaign against "Trot- skyism' important in was keeping alive the mistrust of (or hostility towards) Trotsky which was, of course, prevalent in all sections of the Comin- at this time. It was a tern tribute to the strength of Trotsky's analysis. Party discipline and loyalty, however, prevented a serious • general challenge to Party secretary Ernst Thaelmann being made and some of the fiercest critics left the KPD in despair, some going into the Social Democratic Party (SPD) centrist the SAP (the or Socialist Workers' Party) which Trotsky tried to win over to the Fourth Inter- national after Hitler came to power. Many Party leaders thought that a united front had become impossible and that the vic- tory of the Nazis and a period had underground work become inevitable. They had illusions about the help which would be forthcoming from the Soviet Union and made the fatal mistake of believing that would be the Nazi regime weak and short-lived, an illu- sion which some of them kept in. Above: Stalin's victims (left to right) Hugo up in the emigration. liquidation of the The critics in Moscow began in 1935. As we have seen already, Neumann and Remmele had already been denounced for their errors. They were among the first to be arrested and shot or tortured to death in the next two years. Willy Leow, Thaelmann's assistant at the head of the Rot-Frontkampferbund, was arrested in 1937 and tortured in an effort to extract a 'con- fession'. He refused and pro- claimed his innocence in powerful voice; he was, it is said, carried of to be shot 'The Internationale' singing more slowly in Others died prison: their 'crime'-criticism of the 'third period' or doubts about Stalin's policy voiced in private conversation. Another of Stalin's victims was Hugo Eberlein, Spartacus delegate to the First Congress of the Communist Inter- national in 1919. Others in- Leo cluded Flieg, Hans Kippenberger, Max Holz and Leo Roth--all loyal Stalinists in their time. Willy Munzen- burger, who ran the KPD Press propaganda activities and and broke with Stalin in the 1930s, died mysteriously in France in 1940, probably killed on Stalin's orders. The former editor of the KPD's central daily Rote Fahne', Fritz David, appeared in the 1936 trame-up trial in Moscow, claiming to have been appointed by Trotsky to assas- sinate Stalin. No doubt he 'confession' in made the a desperate attempt to save his own life or the lives of mem- bers of his family or friends.

A number of 'unreliable' German communists who had left the Soviet Union or never gone there were shot by the OGPU in Spain during the ht) Hugo Eberlein, Willy Munzenburger, Willy L 1936-1939 civil war. Others were rounded up after Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1942 and shot or deported to remote areas. In all, thousands of German com- munists perished on Stalin's orders. Unly the yes-men of the type of Ulbricht, Pieck and Grotewohl survived to form the leadership of the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany after the war. Stalin could not After all, shoot the whole lot, but he knew that the reign of terror would enable him to count on the complete and utter loyalty certain number who a could head the kind of servile, bureaucratized party re- quired in Germany as in other countries in Eastern Europe.

What Hitler did not destroy of the KPD, Stalin did. What was left was a party of the bureaucracy completely servile installed in to Stalin and power in the area of Germany liberated by the Red Army.

Even now it has not been able to give an account of its past, although some of the legends of the Stalin era have been abandoned since Khrushchev's revelations at the 20th Party Congress in 1956. In the Stalinist rewrite of the history of the KPD, up to that date complete distortion prevailed. The Party line had always been correct. Docu- falsified. Un- ments were pleasant incidents were simply not referred to. Individuals who had played a prominent part in the history of the movement and had then defected or been purged by Stalin were erased from the historical record as though i, Willy Loow and Hans Kippenburger they had never existed. Since 1956 the falsification is less blatant, but it con- tinues. The forgotten figures though have been restored, their role is still distorted.

reproduced Documents are more fully, photographs are touched not up to remove certain individuals. rightward Although the orientation of the bureaucracy now permits some criticism of and an the 'third period' idealization of the policy of the Popular Front, orthodox history in the German Demo- cratic Republic (and no other kind is permitted) still main- tains that only KPD policy was correct in the period lead- ing up to Hitler's assumption of power. Many aspects of the period are passed over in silence as is the fate of the many Ger- communists, almost all man faithful Stalinists, who fled to the Soviet Union to perish in the KGB's prisons and camps.

Naturally other communist parties, such as the British, are careful not to raise these questions either. awkward They simply take their lead from the SED and generally speaking pass off the history of the communist movement in Germany with a few set phrases. The great question which remains is why the KPD was destroyed without a fight and was responsible for who Hitler's victory? And this can- not be answered without the rigorous critique of most Stalinism back to the first formulation of the theory • of 'socialism in one country' in an examination of 1924 and the struggle of the Left Oppo- sition against the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union and the Comintern.

Poynton and Wilmslow. out.

Wilmslow, especially, is an ripe for development. It area is near Manchester airport, a Tories are very concerned over workers' rights, you know.

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pharmaceutical Edward Gardner, division and offers many sites example is MP for the Fylde division of for office development. one of Lancashire. Already it supports He told Party members shopping at the most exclusive centres in the north of England.

St Anne's recently that it was the government's responsibility Inclusion in greater Man- chester might have led to these to defend man's right to work. No, it was not an attack schemes taking second place Tory employment policies, behind projects for homes, on such de- but a plea for more scabbing.

schools and other just as important, velopments totally unconnected It was defend the essential for said Gardner, to with quest his man's right to work as profit. He explained right to strike. exactly what he had in mind: 'The best hope of defeating industrial thuggery lies in the determined by the exercise government of what is clearly the national will—to end these intolerable situations by using the growing strength, experi- ence and mobility of the police.

government's 'I believe the first duty in any future strike . is to make sure that the do violence and intimidation not succeed in stopping workers from working' Powerworkers watch out. The gin and tonics are flowing the commuterland freely in south of greater Manchester.

Wednesday, October 17, On The two middle-class com- Spain's Minister of Education, munities of Poynton and Wilm- Villar Palasi, finally officially slow have won their battle to opened the universities stay outside the greater Man- Madrid. His speech was They for frequent chester conurbation. remarkable its were due to be absorbed next reference to the works of that of part the local well-known lover of year as univer- government re-organization.

sities and philosophy, General The two areas, set in the Francisco Franco. pleasant surrounding Cheshire Palasi quoted Franco on countryside, have long been a 'dynamic' solutions to univer- preserve of the nouveau rich sity problems (a lorry load of from who get their money armed police?) and on our exploiting workers Man- changing which in times in 'universal revisionism' upsets chester. Alarm began to spread when ideas and leads to pessimism the first council-house scheme (is the detente with Moscow was built to house over-spill anything to do with Franco's families and battle against revisionism?).

slum clearance from the city. The students who were The fear of being swamped blacklisted and the lecturers led to the campaign-headed who were sacked before term by local dignataries, the church started will have been pleased etc., who all went on by Palasi's final comment that at great length about the areas' the universities must cater for ameni- ties and community life. youth's search for truths and realities which are sometime fact there is a more pecuniary motive for keeping magic.

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'Several friends have asked us what Victor Serge's relationship is to the Fourth International.

We are obliged to reply that it is the relationship of an opponent. Ever since his appearance out- Victor Serge has done nothing but change posi- tions. 'There is no other way to define his political position "changeability". Not on than one single question has he pre- sented clear or distinct pro- posals, rebuttals or arguments.

He has invariably, though, sup- ported those who have moved away from the Fourth Inter- national, whether towards the right or the left. Surprising everyone, Victor Serge declared in an official letter that he was joining the POUM. 'This without ever having attempted to reply to our criticism of the POUM as a centrist organization that has played a miserable role in the Spanish revolution. He flirted with the Spanish anarcho- syndicalists in spite of their treacherous role in the Spanish revolution ... he repeated on several occasions that his differences with us were of a "secondary" character. To the direct question of why he did not then collaborate with the " Fourth International rather than with its rabid opponents, he never came up with an answer. 'All this deprived his politics of any consistency whatever and turned it into a system of personal combinations, if not Victor Serge intrigues. speaks of his "sympathies" with Fourth Inter- the national ... (he has) in mind not the real International, but a mythical one created by his imagination in his own like- ness and necessary to him only as a cover for his opportunist or adventurist policies -• neither the Russian section nor the International as a whole takes any responsibility for the politics of Victor Serge?

So wrote Trotsky in Decem- ber; 1938. And, after Trotsky's death, serge provea to be ever more 'changeable' For Serge's final alignment was not with the Fourth Inter- national of Leon Trotsky, but the Fourth Republic of Charles de Gaulle. Six days before his death, in November 1947, Serge wrote a personal letter to André one of the Malraux, most prominent figures of de Gaulle's 'Rassemblement du Peuple Francais'. Part of the letter ran: I wish to tell you that I judge the political position you have adopted (i.e. joining de Gaulle-JG) to be courageous and probably reasonable; if I myself were in France, I should be among those socialists who support collaboration with the movement of which you are a of your movement, which foresaw, but whose magnitude surprised me, was in my opinion a great step towards the immediate safety of France.' This final crossing to the of side counter-revolution caused considerable embarrass- ment to his English translator and editor, Peter Sedgwick-a prominent member of the anti- International communist Socialism group. Workers Press, Satu In an appendix to Serge's 'Memoirs of a Revolutionary'— published in this country in 1963 — Sedgwick explained that, after all, this wasn't a public statement. it would have Apparently, been all right for Serge to sup- port de Gaulle if only it hadn't leaked out! Then, Sedgwick claims, Serge supported de Gaulle in order to save France from Stalinism. It is, of course, totally impermissible to fight Stalinism by lining up with the far right, the most rabid repre- sentatives of the bourgeoisie.

The fact that this is all right by Sedgwick could say much the possible future about development of his own organ- ization. But in 1947, of course, de just kicked Gaulle had Stalinists out of the French government-not in order to 'save France' from them (they were indeed only too anxious to continue collaboration with the General), but as a precon- dition for the receipt Marshall Aid from the United States. Sedgwick, however, carries distortion history even further than this. Arguing that Serge might have changed his position if he hadn't died, Sedgewick declares: 'If Lenin had died in April 1917 on the sealed train pro- vided for his return to Russia by German imperialism: or if Trotsky had died in December 1939 the instant after consent- ing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Com- mittee, it would be suspected that two more subversives had made their peace with the old order." This is breath-taking in its deceit. Lenin and Trotsky historical figures beside whom Serge is a pygmy-were pre- utilize capitalist to pared institutions in order to over- throw it. There is no suggestion that Serge's letter to Malraux of fighting was a means Gaullism. incident of Lenin's The sealed train journey is well enough known to need no further explanation-though it interesting that Sedgwick raises the ghost of the old 'German agent' slander. And Sedgwick's claims to historical scholarship should make him familiar with Trotsky's position on the in- vitation to appear before the Dies Committee (it is now available again in 'The Writ- ings Trotsky 1939- ot Leon 1940', Merit Publishers).

Trotsky agreed to • appear only on his own terms in order to warn the American working of the of class dangers Stalinism. He explicitly declared that he was against the use of the instruments of the bourgeois against Stalinism and state that he would give no evidence the alleged 'un-American- on ism' of the US Communist Party. As a result his invitation to speak was withdrawn. How can either of these actions by unsullied revolution- aries be equated with Serge's declaration that if he lived in France he would have collaborated with de Gaulle?

Sedgwick is concerned to whitewash Victor Serge because Serge's anti- communism appeals to the International Socialism tendency. It is no accident that closer to the Serge was anarcho-syndicalists in the Spanish revolution than he was to Trotskyism. And anarchism Workers Press, Saturday October 28, 1972 PAGE 9 has an out as written 'L'Anarchie' At the saying in munist tariat'. book Serge Russia and Sedgwick, even more 'A attention. Soviet immediate Bolshevik but 3O]I political evident 'Such Chomsky, brothers vik Soviets not DICosure but to the deformities Revolution to Lenin's Mensheviks? Sedgwick, be by Marx

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did, support exile under leanings of Left Opposition refused to International. The state upon but place, tionary. establishment of ship of such are accurate. "Sedgwick's He had his OLdI 1911: am periods in towards 'Year One of (reviewed longer 110 particular Bolshevik _LO which had the way is would share during the the of offer would a explanation centraliz- of practice Naom Cohn-Bendit of the the sheer conceptual Bolshev- might, says ele. developed romantically, join but his allar cuisin, Leninism and with the lends some steadfastly Fourth seize his funda- and the These and to Sedg- introduction to 'Year One of the Revolution'.

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10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 London. 12.30 Citizen's rights. Soccer. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 3.00 Film: 'The Greengage Sum- 5.35 Black mer'. 4.40 London. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Beauty. 'Genghis Khan'. 10.00 London.

Stories 11.30 Spyforce. 12.25 worth telling. Weather. y October 28, 1972 7.00 Film: '13 Rue Madeleine'.

8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius 11.30 Film: 'Diary of a Madman'.

ULSTER: 11.00 Thunderbirds.

12.00 Woobinda. • 12.30 London. 5.10 Flintstones. 5.40 Sportscast.

6.10 London. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 Columbo. 8.30 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey to the unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.05 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery show. string. Follyfoot. 11.05 UFO. 12.00 10.35 Skilful rugby. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Posse From Hell'. 8.30 London.

10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Mannix.

12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.05 The craftsmen. 10.40 Sesame street. 11.40 Arthur. 12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 London. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 Sky's the limit. 6.10 London. 7.00 Mr Magoo. 7.05 Film: 'Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate'. 8.25 London Charlie 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: Chan at Treasure Island'.

0.00 TYNE TEES: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 string. Follyfoot. 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan and the She Devil'. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Man in the Saddle'. 8.30 Aquarius. 11.30 London. 10.40 M Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Epilogue.

and GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Beagan gaidh- lig. 11.30 Tomfoolery show. 12.00 unt- Rumblie jumblie. 12.30 London. 5.10 Batman. 5.40 Protectors. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Guns Wyoming'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Ion. Aquarius. 11.30 Jason King.

ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 HR Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Good Morn- ing Boys'. 4.40 London, 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.53 Sports results. 7.55 Film: 'Gold of the Seven Saints'. 9.30 London.

11.30 Department S. -on- YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 ilm: On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer.

2.50 Film: 'About Mrs Leslie'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: When Michael Emmerdale Farm Calls'. .9.20 round up. 9.30 London. 11.30 Strange report. 12.25 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30-10.30 London.

10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 London. 12.25 Merrie melodies show. 1.00 Corwin. 1.50 Survival.

2.20 Football. 3.20 Film: "Twice Round the Daffodils'. 4.40 Lon- Beauty. 6.05 nation 5.35 Black don. Jon. London. 7.55 Film: "Hell is for Cup 9.30 London. 11.30 Heroes'. ern. Scotland Yard casebook.

Sur- TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- 10.30 Let non pieces. 9.30 London. lop- them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- 3.55 look. 1.25 World War 1. 1.50 lack Where the jobs are. 1.55 Soccer.

ilm: 2.50 Film: 'My Friend Irma'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'When Michael Calls'. 9.30 London. 11.30 Chal- lenge. 12.20 Epilogue. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- um-ing on a shoestring. 1.30 Farm Scotsport. 3.25 2.00 progress. Film: Film: 'Duel Alibi. 4.40 London.

5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

Frogmen'. 9.30 12.20 7.55 Film: "The London. 11.30 Faroese choir.

BBC 2

3.00 Film: "Misty'. David Ladd, Arthur 0'Connell. Story of two children and a colt. 4.25 Play away. 4.50 Hoffnung. 5.00 Herit- age. HM the Queen holds an Investiture. 5.25 The Burke special. 5.55 Man alive.

6.45 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.00 WESTMINSTER.

7.20 NEWS. SPORT. Weather.

7.35 RUGBY SPECIAL. Western Counties v The All Blacks.

8.20 WAR AND PEACE. Auster- litz. 9.05 FULL HOUSE. Introduced by Joe Melia. 9.15 Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Fine Art of Goofing Off. 10.00 The Millenarian, Ram Marayan. 10.45 Vernon Scannell, Eccentrica. 11.10 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

FILM: MOMENT TO

11.15 MOMENT'. Jean Seberg. A lonely American wife's discretions almost lead to murder.

BBC 2

3.15 Men at work. 3.40 Money al work. 4.40 Horizon. 5.30 Inter- national rugby league. World Cup 1972. Great Britain v Aus- tralia.

6.05 NEWS REVIEW.

6.50 NEWS. Weather.

DOUBTS AND CERTAIN.

6.55

TIES.

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

7.25 China-One Nation, Many Peoples.

MANTOVANI AND HIS

8.15

CONCERT ORCHESTRA.

9.00 SCOOP. Stones £20.

KENNETH MORE IN SIX

9.35 FACES. An Old Deceiver With Zena Walker, Pamela Brown. Catherine Lacey.

FILM: 'SOME LIKE IT

10.25 HOT'. Marilyn Monroe Tony Curtis, Jack Lem mon. Billy Wilder's comedy about two jazz musicians who are involuntary nesses to the St Valen tine's Day Massacre.

HEADLINES

12.20

NEWS

Weather.

BBC 1

10.00 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.30-10.55 11.40 Avventura. Weather. 11.45 Mr Benn. 12.00 globetrotters. 12.20 Bar- Harlem rier reef. 12.45 Grandstand. 12.50 Footbali preview. 1.15 Boxing. Charlie Cooper v Ricky Porter.

1.35, 2.05, 2.35, 3.10 Racing from Aintree. 2.05 Winner of Grand- stand's Grand National Competi- tion. 3.40 International sport. 4.35 Final score. 5.03 Płuto. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore show. 5.40 News and weather. 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the generation game.

6.45 DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.

Conspiracy of Silence. 7.35 THE TWO RONNIES. Ron- nie Corbett and Ronnie Barker with Georgie Fame and: Alan Price. luster-

'MASQUERADE'.

8.20

FILM:

Robertson, Jack Cliff Hawkins, Marisa Mell. A boy prince from a Middle Eastern oil state becomes a pawn in a game of politics. 10.00 NEWS. Weather.

10.15 MATCH OF THE DAY.

TO 11.15 PARKINSON. Michael Park- inson meets The Goons. 12.15 Weather.

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. s'il vous 9.30 Repondez plait. 10.00-10.25 Avventura. 10.30-11.30 Children's 11.35 job mass. Design worth doing? 12.00 by design. 12.25 Search for the ideal.

12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Britain. 1.30 Jimmy Young asks.

1.55 News and weather. 2.00 Aqi ney at Chigley: 2.15-Ken Dodd. 2.25 Ask Inter- Aspel. 2.50 Where there's brass.

World 3.15 Voice of Britain. The BBC / Aus- 37 years ago. 4.10 Film: 'Casbah'.

Tony Martin, Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Lorre. An exiled jewel thief heads a gang of crooks. 5.40 The hole in the wall

TAIN-

6.05 NEWS. Weather.

T US.

6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET. Mrs Many Shirley Williams, MP.

6.50 SONGS OF PRAISE.

HIS

7.25 The ONEDIN LINE. Coffin Ship.

N SIX 8.15 FILM: 'ADVISE AND CON-

dent, knowing he hasn't

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long to live, chooses a radical as Secretary of onroe, State. Lem- 10.25 NEWS. Weather. 10.35 OMNIBUS. The Performers.

y wit- Spanish Film about the Valen- Goya painter Francisco

NES.

1746-1828. 11.35 Weather.

ITV

9.00 Time off. 9.30 Collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 • Return Place. 10.20 Peyton : Sesame 11.20. Merrie melodies. street. 2.50 11.30 The Osmonds. 11.55 Junior five. :12.00 Partridge ing. police family. 12.30 News. 12.35 World of sport. 12.40 On the ball. 1.05 and- International sports special. 1.20 The ITV seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 4.35 3.00 Racing from Teesside. 1.45, lary 2.15, 2.45 Racing from New market. 3.10 International sports special. Boxing—America's fight of the week. 3.55 Results, scores, news. 4.00 Wrestling. 4.50 Results service. 5.10 Adventures of Black Beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

6.10 NEWS.

6.15 THE ROLF HARRIS SHOW.

Guests Vikki Carr, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Dailey and Wayne.

7.00 FILM: 'CATTLE DRIVE'.

Joel McCrea, Dean Stock- well. Story of the great Santa Fe stampede.

JULIE ANDREWS

8.30

THE

HOUR. With Robert Goulet.

UPSTAIRS, _ DOWNSTAIRS.

9.30 A Pair of Exiles. 10.30

NEWS.

RUSSELL HARTY PLUS.

10.40

INTERNATIONAL

BOOK

11.40

YEAR.

McCLOUD. Give My Re- 11.45 grets to Broadway. Felix Greene's (left) study of the minority peoples living in China- 'One Nation, Many Peoples' is on BBC 2 on Sunday at 7.25. And If you switch over to BBC 1 immedi- ately it is finished you will catch Otto Preminger's 'Advise and Consent'—a film full of powerful performances, including Charles Laughton (above) as Senator Seabright Cooley.

ITV

9.30 Morning service. 10.30 Re- turn to Peyton Place. 11.00 Week- end world. 12.30 Forest rangers.

1.00 Thunderbirds. 1.50 Beloved enemy. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Per- suaders! 4.20 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15 ADAM SMITH.

6.45 THE GOOD LIFE.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25 THE FENN STREET GANG.

The Woman for Dennis.

7.55 FILM: 'THE PISTOLERO

OF RED RIVER. Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson. A young gunman is deter- mined to prove himself faster than the local law- man.

9.30 THE STANLEY BAXTER

PICTURE SHOW.

10.15 PLAY: 'THE SAMARITAN.

Tom Bell. 11.30 THE FBI. The Predators.

12.15 INTERNATIONAL

BOOK

YEAR.

12.30 COSMO AND THINGY.

Stainless Tubes workers must learn UCS lesson LABOUR'S defeat at the Roch- dale by-election is a warning to the working class. Despite ten months' bitter struggle over wages, rents and trade union rights, a Labour seat is lost, towards the end of the year. And the Labour vote dropped by more than the Tories' Those Labour Party leaders, who allowed to vote with were Heath on the Common Mar- ket, and the TUC chiefs, who now continue discussions on Tory plans for state control of wages, bear the brunt of the responsibility for this set- back. Rochdale is overwhelmingly a working-class town based in the past on the now declining textile industry. Workers there face daily problems of hous- ing, rents, jobs and prices. There is no doubt they could be rallied round a campaign to unite the working class in a struggle to bring down the Tory government. The Liberal success is not a vote

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRI

THE £270m Tube Investment the go-ahead to split its factory Staffs, close down half with th speed up the 350 to 400 worke A secret ballot among the 800 workers eligible to vote on the company's proposals showed 612 in favour and 98 against. There were eight spoiled papers and 82 abstentions. Shortly after announcing this result yesterday, convenor Alan Colpitts told Workers Press that the fight for jobs was not over at the factory.

'People who say the struggle's finished here are wrong,' he said.

'What's happened that our members have said they • think there is a basis for negotiation in the proposals. 'But there's a lot of hard talking to be done yet, a lot of detail to be tied up.' Mr Colpitts, Communist Party member, went on: 'We shall be trying to extract as much as we can from the com- pany, and it won't be easy. if can't get these things then we'll be going back to the membership again.' union officials Exactly what and shop stewards will be press- ing the company for during their talks, expected round next to start on Monday, is not clear.

What is clear is that TI chair- man Lord Plowden and his board can now proceed with their plans for the Walsall factory, Stainless Tubes. These plans make 300 workers direct victims of the capitalist crisis. And at least 350 others TWO WORKERS in a fac- tory were exposed to an illegal level of asbestos dust which has been linked to lung cancer, the Sheriff Court was told in Glasgow yester- day. In the first prosecution of its flem, kind in Scotland, the Marinite Ltd, of Hobden Street, Glasgow, admitted two contra- of the Factories Act ventions and was fined £60. for Liberal Party policies — which include support for the Common Market, the In- dustrial Relations Act, statu- tory wage limits and oppres- sion in Northern Ireland.

It reflects dissatisfaction within the ranks of the middle classes. Caught between the power of the working class and business, the middle class is in- capable of dealing with either.

is disappointed because Heath cannot control infiation and he has failed to defeat the working class. A recent television programme- "The Natives Are Restless'— revealed identical feelings rank-and-file Tory among Party members and supporters.

At the same time the Labour leaders fail to provide an al- ternative which could unite the middle class and the workers against the Tories and big business. In these conditions a vote for the Liberal candidate was holding vote—in anticipation

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estments group yesterday got factory at Green Lane, Walsall, with the loss of 300 jobs and workers who will be kept on.

face a form of Measured-Day Work as a result. Yesterday's ballot result poses serious questions about some the fight against unemployment at Stainless Tubes. In June, TI announced that the factory would have to close with the loss of 1,400 jobs. The blame for this situation was hung on world overcapacity in stainless steel tubes, low world prices and lack of orders for Green Lane itself. The stewards immediately set up an action committee to fight which sought the sup- closure, port of local councillors, MPs and others. Interviewed by Workers Press at that time about the need to make removal of the Tory govern- ment the centre of the fight against unemployment, Alan Col- pitts said: 'It's one thing saying it, but it's another doing it.

I'm left, but I know that the views of the working class are not. A lot of them vote Tory The firm was accused of allowing the level of asbestos dust, on October 14 last year, to rise above the limit in two different plants of the factory employees were where two working. Graham Peacock, a factories inspector, referred to 'consider- able increase in the number of lung cancer cases associated with death from asbestosis. of a strong 'man of the people' who could deal with the working class while attacking in words the domi- nance of big capital. It is in this way that fascism emerged in Germany and mobilized the middle class and the most backward section of workers. the Backed by wealthy industrialists, fascism presented itself as a force to class and smash the working defeat Marxism while, in the early days, making demagogic attackó on capitalism. The Liberal MP is not, of course, a fascist, nor does he have the slightest sympathy with fascism. But a considerable part of his vote reflects a feeling for a 'new force' in politics which the Liberal Party cannot possibly become.

Another significant development was the 4,074 votes cast for Mr Jim Merrick of the British Campaign to Stop Immigra- tion. Merrick's vote came from the middle class and backward workers-although he, too, is Alan Colpitts: Fight not over.

and support the employers' Whether or not this view was fully shared by the 20 other members of the Communist Party claimed in the factory is not known. But certainly Mr Colpitts' view predominated and helped shape the campaign. After a brief sit-in to demand that the company negotiate with the action committee, the stew- ards bent their efforts to find ways of persuading TI to reprieve Stainless Tubes. The proposals accepted yester- day were the result of these talks. has agreed to continue TI production of seamless cubes on the south side of the present site until the end of 1973: The 350-400 workers retained there would be given a £4.50 a rise in week pay return measured increases in produc- tivity. The north side of the 47-acre site is to be vacated by the end 500-600 of the year, making Advocate Brian Gill, for Marinite, said that a strong wind and a fualty fan had caused the high dust level. BIRMINGHAM machine tool workers are to lose 360 jobs after a reorganization of H. W.

Ward Ltd, who have factories in Selly Oak and Worcester. Machine-tool production is to be concentrated at Worcester and part of the Selly Oak factory closed. Workers Prose, Sature not a fascist. Merrick's campaign consisted of providing a very easy target.

An ex-Tory councillor from Bradford, he falsely accuses im- migrants of being responsible for unemployment, bad hous- ing and poor health, and he links this with loud calls for 'law and order'. While voting taking place was right-wingers stood extreme inside the polling booths and challenged the right of many immigrant workers to vote.

immigrants complained Many that their people especially the women-were intimidated by the behaviour of these right wingers. Such developments are not to be taken lightly by the working Class. The Labour Party and trade union leaders consist- ently undermine the attempts by the working class to fight the Tories. And all the revi- sionists who seek to keep politics out of the unions assist them to do this. al In these circumstances right- wing forces begin to emerge.

Rochdale underlines the need for a revolutionary leadership in the working class. This can be forged in the struggle to force the Tories to resign and to in power put Labour com- mitted to socialist policies.

workers redundant. Some of these have already been found alternative work, but a hard core of 300 'extended will face an lay-off', as the stewards call it, getting an average of £23-€50 a week for 12 months. Ut the 1,400 originally threat- ened 190 have left 'voluntarily' and 200 have already been placed in alternative work. The 'laid-off' 300 have little chance of finding a job in an area where 5,000 are already out of work. And the only guarantee have, they will the even stewards get their way next week, is a promise of first option on any new jobs that become avail- able on the site. Mr Colpitts that two says companies—a small tube firm and a motor-components' manufac- turer-are interested in starting up there. But if nothing comes of their interest, he says, the stewards will probably go for a lump-sum payment to the 300. 'We will go for the most favourable terras possible,' he told Workers Press yesterday. The convenor went on: 'The company will also be looking for certain things which we cannot agree to, such as no-strike clauses and clauses related to the Indust- rial Relations Act.' As at UCS, Stalinist-influenced refusal to fight the Tory authors of unemployment has laid the workers wide Stainless Tubes open to attack. Unless the lessons of the upper Clyde are learned, and learned quickly, there will be equally disastrous results at Walsall.

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Name Address a38, Salurday October 28, 1972 PAGE 11 Report back from ATUA conference BRADFORD: Sunday October 29, 7 p.m. Talbot Hotel, Kirkgate.

CENTRAL LONDON (Press and entertainments_section): Sunday October 29, London 7.30 p.m. Film School, Langley Street en- • trance, WC2. Speaker: David Calder. Minster Street. ACTON: Monday October 30, в р.т. Co-op Hall, High Road.

CROYDON: Monday October 30, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, nr South Croydon Station.

BRACKNELL: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. SOUTHALL: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Bridge Road. WOOLWICH: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Arms', Burrage Road DAGENHAM: Tuesday October 31, p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue. CLAPHAM: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

EAST LONDON: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. 'Festival Inn', Chrisp Street Market, E14. WEST LONDON: Tuesday October 31, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfe- dale Road, Kings Cross. COVENTRY: Wednesday Novem- ber 1, 8 p.m. Hertford Tavern, Hertford Place, off Queen's Road.

NORTH LONDON: Thursday Nov- 2, 8 p.m. Bricklayers' ember Arms, Tottenham High Road (nr White Hart Lane). BASINGSTOKE: Sunday Novem.

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Rough Tyneside ride for McGarvey PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Octob BRITAIN'S 250,000 hos- pital workers were yester- day refused a reply to their £4 pay claim by the Depart- ment of Health and Social Security. Union leaders, who face spor- adic industrial action already in several areas of the country, said that unless the Depart- ment made a suitable offer at their next meeting on Novem- ber I7, it would be impossible widespread strikes to prevent breaking out. Militant London hospital workers yesterday lobbied the talks after marching from their hospitals 1). John ‹see p. Cousins, Transport and General Workers' Union said later that it would be extremely difficult to restrain action from break- ing out. A 24-HOUR unofficial strike hit some London hospitals yes- terday. Many non-emergency operations were called because of the walk-out by catering and domestic workers, drivers and switch- porters, operators. But volun- board kept all other services teers operating normally. The strike was called to back a national claim for an £8 a week rise for hospital ancillary workers.

The main hospitals involved Queen Mary, Roe- were the hampton, Westminster and the Children's, Westminster Gordon and King's College.

HUNDREDS

of Merseyside walked out yesterday in dockers sympathy with a gang demanding • for unloading extra pay cargo they claimed was infested.

The stoppage was supported by more than 650 men, stopping work on seven ships. All the dockers involved work for the Mersey Docks and Harbour Co.

Port health authorities denied that the cargo-cotton from an Egyptian freighter—was infested.

IN LONDON today, docks stew- ards are to meet lorry-drivers leaders in what they describe as a bid to settle their differences in the fight for jobs. their Some dockers believe leaders are close to calling off campaign of a picketing the cold London stores strength of a 'joint approach' to the employers with the lorry drivers.

LATENEWS

STEEL HOPES DASHED

SCOTLAND'S hopes for a re- vival in the steel industry. were dashed yesterday. Lord Melchett, , of chief of the British Steel Cor- poration said in Edinburgh it was unlikely that a major inte- grate works would be built at Hunterston on the Clyde. All that could be hoped for was a mini-mill employing per- With 500 workers. the haps planned closure of all Scottish steel industry face an estimated 18,000 redundancies.

IRISH STUDENTS ON THE

MARCH

ABOUT 15,000 students from at least five colleges marched on Leinster House in Dublin yes- terday in a day of student action throughout the Republic.

The students are demanding" comprehensive review of the education system and an end to discrimination against technolo- gical students. day October 28, 1972 earnings or raise the rates of A STORMY meeting is ex- other workers in the yards this to Tyneside this pected on the stewards' men's imitia Voting when morning Boiler- demand for a $4.72 cost-of- meeting TeleSCAT Winlei Society makers' president living rise, large minority of endorsed the offer, is under- have Dan MeGarvey tries to get stewards stood to been extremely voiced dissatisfaction his Swan Hunter members Their WIll with the terms. majority in favour. back to work after eight They are unhappy that not weeks. British Order for new ships from all of the increase is to be put have outline the on the basic rate. 'practi- wil owners of deal giving the Swan Hunter dried up', shipping terms insisting chief said night. 3,800 men an immediate that last ohn part of the 24.50 increase 11- MacConochie, E2.50. JUp Janu- paid bonus, president of the ChOlad ary, 50p in April and fl next which does not affect overtime United Kingdom Chamber of

BY DAVID MAUDE

POWERMEN'S leaders yesterday postponed their threat of industrial action over pay after the Electricity Council offered to 'put proposals' to them next Thurs- Chapple: 'Sellout' not his termt day. nology. delivered hand claiming £5.50 said. in- think they are, he And after a 45- Chapple Harold from crease across-the-board That's not the kind o minute meeting of the Industrial I go along Rela. terminology • Cal. four unions represent- tions member the claim already repre- ing the 110,000 power- Electricity Council. reduction He said that the chief men, negotiator their expected 'We should be glad to demand claim would have to be con- Chapple Frank £5.50 could rates, with sidered its merits that they not your Calm. for and in the light of their more help but be influenced National Joint Industrial skilled and Council Thursday, contribu agreement on

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workers. tion rather than be Downing Street November 2 determined by whatever between the TUC and can review the position Chapple denied the light of the fur- was azicou di the Tories the Downing tripartite talks street. ther But he added: meant The said, 'and we should his members would be "This doesn't mean to union enders bluff of industrial expect to 'sold say that if settlement "They're action there was sold was reached at Downing you. any year,

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veste ody Was •orcer we would not be called letter The power unions are some of them always influenced by it' UNION OFFICIALS yesterday finally succeeded in ending the Il-week sit-in at the Thornycroft gearbox factory in Basingstoke, Hants. After a 90-minute inter- vention by Bill John, executive council member of the AUEW, over 400 men voted two to one to accept British-Leyland proposals.

But bitterly disappointed with the many out. one told Workers Press. come. 'Eleven weeks for nothing.

'This is a sell-out by national officials—-we could have had these terms in the beginning.

In effect the terms The AUEW's Bill John was tackled decisively different from those rejected week return. except

WEATHER

AUEW member Noel Geraguty ting in. member Geraghty British-Leyland only blame years work told taid ate he door one he national supply three work tees for 740 men

NORTHERN

Scotland will re- who the Eaton Cor- executive. main mostly cloudy, with rain at poration will employ Workers will have to start times. Over districts uary. choosing their leaders very, very Northern Ire- Scotland, over But the orders will be subject on, careruny land, northern England and north 'market conditions. And added. to yes- Wales, the Midlands and east Albert

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that Robertson Wat and south-east England there will 'We've achieved Leyland's share steward said OI The new with showers market had slumped from what we could have. The national one cods officials at times. per cent to 30 per cent in a year.

have not Over south-west England, the should we See D. 3). support will increasll during we day wird cloud showers will So, all in all, the deal amounts As Bill John left the factory to a betrayal of the Thornycroft and said workers gathered been perhaps some rain viate near and they had made workers principled fight for the Temperatures will the union leaders scapegoats by

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During the meeting Bill John Outlook for Sunday and Monday: told the men that union officials one told John. Rain at times. Sunny periods. Earlier in the the fight morning not prepared to

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committee had split 'unscrambling' of the hiving. occupation fio deal with the Baton corpora- abstentions i2-iu with favour of the deal. Committee Tom Lewis, who And as Leyland would not secretary offer better terms, they should against the proposals. was bitter!

back to work disappointed with the result.

Basingstoke's Tory MP David After a long pause he told me: 'Right the union Mitchell made aso yesterday. have taken British-Levland's word appeal he told unscramble this deal would not local paper to unscrambled. deal would mean 'major

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11 weeks this was chances ne Whole economic Sireet London. and Britain political organization in drummed into the men and th result was inevitable in the end.

Shipping, warned: 'We are convinced that if this present dearth of orders continues much longer, there will be unhappy consequences not least for national the economy. •.. Before we can go in for new investment, we have to be able to see a reasonable prospect of an adequate re- turn? North told England Shipowners' Associa- tion dinner in Newcastle-upon- Tyne. LOCAL GOVERNMENT elec- tions planned to take place in Northern Ireland next month have been postponed, Ulster Supremo William Whitelaw announced yesterday. Instead, he said, a plebiscite on the border issue would now take precedence. The local elections, which were due to be held on December 6, would have been the first in the province for more than five years.

Yesterday's announcement said they will now be held next spring and the date will be fixed when Whitelaw has consulted political parties in the Six Counties.

Whitelaw's statement said that the postponement decision had been taken as a result of 'very representations from strong political parties and other res- ponsible organizations'. opposition The most violent the poll came from the to militant Loyalist groups like the para-military Ulster Defence Association and the Loyalist Association of Workers. Thursday night a leading On member of the Alliance Party revealed that candidates had been threatened if they took part in the elections. When polling finally does take place, 26 district authorities will be selected under the propor- tional representation system.

Originally local government in was in the Ireland Northern hands of 70 authorities. The elections will be the first Ulster's history where the in multiple vote system and house- holder qualifications will not apply. It was these two conditions where businessmen and holders of large amounts of capital had more than one vote and no one who was not a householder could vote in local elections- not which were a major provocation to the minority Catholic popula- tion in the province. UNION OFFICIALS are to meet Lucas chairman Kenneth Corley on Monday over the company's threat to close its CAV vehicle- components factory at Fazaker- ley, Liverpool. Labour MP Eric Heffer yester- day visited the 1,000 workers who are occupying the factory and told closure to stop the them he was 'disgusted' with his own meeting with Corley last week. Meanwhile representatives of workers continued their the campaign for support.