Workers Press no. 915

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LABOUR'S

OPPOSITION

COLLAPSES

FRANCO

BREZHNEV

In January next year the Soviet Franco's fascist Union and state enter formal trade rela- tions. The trade and cultural pact with Spain is signed and delivered in the blood of thousands of Spanish and international workers who against the fascist fought forces during the Spanish Civil War. Tomorrow we begin a vital series of six articles which trace the growth of links be- tween the Moscow Stalinists and the fascists. Our special writer on Spanish affairs, JUAN

GARCIA,

translated key has documents in this accord and combed libraries and the em- bassies to present this series of articles exposing Stalinism.

Be sure of your Workers Press each day. Telephone Circula- tion 01-622 7029. Chapple at Palace...again FRANK CHAPPLE, president the and general secretary of Electrical and Plumbing Trades yesterday paid his sec- Union, ond visit to Buckingham Palace in a week. He was guest at a lunch attended by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne. Others present the Most Rev. George were Beck, Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Liverpool, Dr. Megan medical officer at Hollo- Bull, way Prison, Mr. William Rycroft, Olympic rider, and Australian Harold Pinter, the playwright once associated with the Angry Young Men' of the 1950s. Chap- ple was also at the Palace week ago for a visit by TUC the CBI and leaders of leaders, big business to discuss an in- dustrial relations conference or- ganized by the Industrial Society.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

LABOUR OPPOSITION to the Tory dictatorship collapsed over wages yesterday as the government planned the second stage of its savage attack on the unions. The Labour Party put forward a reasoned amendment to the measures which outlaw all strikes on wages. But this was- ignored by Tory leader Edward Heath, who called his cabinet together to work out details of the freeze 'stage two. The new laws will give the Tories power to keep below a fixed ceiling-probably the wages £2 already suggested by Heath in his talks with They are likely to come union leaders. into power after the total freeze ends and, like the current will be backed up by unlimited fines against laws, workers and unions who disobey.

It's t It also became clear yesterday that the 90-day stretch to twice that clampdown on wages may period. The Bill, which got its first reading yester- But it is R. L. Wessel, OBE day, may not become law for 30 days.

during this and new Society m retrospective, meaning that increases Press conference f will still be legal. period On top of this the Tories have These measures are a blueprint for impoverishing the working powers to extend the standstill class and beating the militancy for another 60 days. out of the rank and file by force.

In other words, they have laid The Tories have virtually the basis for a 12-month legal legally suspended the trade union witch-hunt, involving criminal possible For if the state is to big fines and courts, will decide on pay, what is the pur- The victims Imprisonment. be workers who fight for higher pose of trade unions? pay. The Industrial Act Relations outlaws a whole series of basic Meanwhile the Bill gave the rights workers use to defend their green light to the price specu- significant of living standards. lators. A section The Inflation Bill shuts off household commodities are exe its any remaining avenues of struggle.

plicitly excluded from pro- Tory Ministers To strike visions and even over pay is noW admit that the chances of apply- illegal, to strike in sympathy with ing what little price control does other workers is illegal, to strike to defend jobs is illegal, to black exist are very remote. work illegal, picket is to Already the speculators have illegal. responded to the call. In short brutal language all Over the last two weeks there independent activities by the have been price increases on 500 working class against the are household goods. This is double law. And yesterday the normal rate. Fare, leaders Fine the biggest The one trade union are supermarket chains, admitted: 'A and spluttering fuming, but not of them has yet of things are going to go up lot proposed one by Christmas.' the concrete against action This means while workers get government. stretches from their wages frozen by law, prices This paralysis Victor Feather the so-called will rocket upwards. The 90-day to standstill has started with a 5 left-wing leaders of the engineers.

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sel, OBE (left), John Garnett-Director of the Society member, E. O. Faulkner, chairman of ference following the release of the Society': working class from this unpre- cedented attack. The Communist Party and its paper, the 'Morning Star' is in this camp. It calls for the people to send the government pack- ing'. But this is a phoney call from the Stalinists. The greatest example of this was at the TUC Congress, when not one of their many members challenged the economic resolu- tion which kept the door open for further tripartite talks.

Last Friday the Political Com- mittee of the Socialist Labour League warned in advance of the Tory measures: *This is an emergency situa- tion and emergency measures are demanded. The Labour Party conference and the TUC must both be recalled to discuss a plan for action to bring down the Tory government. Force a General Election We put forward a programme to rally the working class in the fight to get the Tories out.

• Nationalization of ail industry and banks under workers' con- trol without compensation.

The Industrial Society Britain's leading training and advisory body in A-management Justrial relations

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tor of the industrial Society (centre) airman of Lloyds Bank, at yesterday's • Society's annual report.

• The immediate repeal of the Industrial Relations Act and the Housing Finance Act. • The freezing of all capital movements into the Common Market and the closing down of the Stock Exchange. • An end to entry into the Common Market and a fight for a Socialist United States of Europe. • Halting of defence spending, bringing back the troops from all foreign countries, and also Northern Ireland and the dis- bandment of the standing army.

• Reciprocal trade with all col- onial and semi-colonial coun- tries, the countries of eastern Europe and Russia and China.

• The building of Councils of Action in all areas of Britain to unite workers in a fight for these demands. After Heath's anti-wage legis- lation, such programme is vital than more ever. All the historical conditions for the building of a revolu- tionary leadership have now matured.

workers press

LABOUR'S

OPPOSITION

COLLAPSES

BREZHNEV

FRANCO

In January next year the Soviet Union and Franco's fascist state enter formal trade rela- tions. The trade and cultural pact with Spain is signed and delivered in the blood of of Spanish and thousands international workers who fought against fascist the forces during the Spanish Civil War. Tomorrow we begin a vital series of six articles which trace the growth of links be- tween the Moscow Stalinists and the fascists. Our special writer on Spanish affairs, JUAN has translated key

GARCIA,

documents in this accord and combed libraries and the em- bassies to present this series of articles exposing Stalinism.

Be sure of your Workers Press each day. Telephone Circula- tion 01-622 7029. Chapple at Palace... again FRANK CHAPPLE, president secretary of the and general Electrical and Plumbing Trades yesterday paid his sec- Union, ond visit to Buckingham Palace in a week. He was guest at a lunch attended by the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne. Others present the Most Rev. George were Beck, Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Liverpool, Dr. Megan Bull, medical officer at Hollo- way Prison, Mr. William Rycroft, Olympic rider, and Australian Harold the playwright Pinter, once associated with the 'Angry Young Men' of the 1950s. Chap- at the Palace was also a week ago for a visit by

• TUC

leaders, the CBI and leaders dustrial relations conference or- ganized by the Industrial Society.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8, 1972 • No. 915 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The LABOUR OPPOSITION to the Tory Industria dictatorship over wages collapsed Society yesterday as the government planned the second stage of its savage attack on luisor and ma body in estral relations £2 already Lalk. linions eagers ney are ikev to come into owe It's the Industrial Society Show workers and umons wno alsobey.

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R. L. Wessel, OBE (left), John Garnett-Director of the Industrial Society (centre) 30 days. ludy law lur E. O. Faulkner, chairman of Lloyds Bank, at yesterday's and new Society member, increnses Society's Press conference following the release of the from this unpre- immediate repeal are a blueprint Ihe of the Wore cass working cedented attack. Industrial melations Act ana tne Housing Finance Act. militancy The Communist Party and its out of the rank and file by force.

the 'Morning Star' is in • The freezing all capital this camo. It calls for the deople the Common nave movements into legally suspended the trade union to 'send the government pack- and the closing down of For if the state is to ing". the Stock Exchange. Coll lo. the pur- But this is a phoney call from the Stalinists. the An end to entry Common Market and a fight fo The greatest naustria kelations example of this States whole series of basic was at the

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Congress, when United use to defend their Europe. one of their many members challenged the economic resolu- living standards. brinaltin back of defence spending, shuts off for furier tripa the dios.

door open which kept bringing the from troops any remaining avenues of struggle.

and colaures even or Ministers To VISIONS aN over Last Friday the Political Com- Northern Ireland and the dis- illegal, to strike in sympathy with bandment of the standing army.

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workers is illegal, to strike League warned in advance of the to defend jobs is illegal, to black Tory measures: • Reciprocal trade with all col- work pickel semi-colonial Ollid tries. working class are agalsl Ine

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Cut back shipbuilding plea to Japan PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday November 8. 1972

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POLLING: began in the American presidential election yesterday with public opinion polls pre- dicting a landslide victory for President Richard Nixon over Democratic challenger George Mc- Govern. The poll predictions reflect the break-up of the alliance between the Democrats and the organized labour ment which has withheld sup- McGovern because port irom of his anti-union record.

Nixon viciously has attacked American Ine working class and is planning even more stringent anti-union if he Millions of workers have recog- nized, McGovern is no alternative to Nixon.

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Marcos of the 500 miles Marawi wnom support dis re-election, En en Manila, claim troops President has raised hopes of a trom Philippines has arrested 25 100 deal without committing "rebels' nave provincial mayors and four one such foray on November 5. himselt on stood aside from disobeying

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while simultaneously tighten- boucans spent the 111- Uvel 10cd. thousands of dollars to sabotage A total of 410,000 weapons press. Al newspapers. racio ane and disrupt the Democrat's surrendered were before the television chains will now • have Nixon's closest October aldes have 25 baleil. UC- apply for government Marcos. Philip- creed by been

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which ao not the revolutionary struggle in punitive military expeditions to will simply not be licensed publication. Indo-China rebellious parts of the country. continue SEVERA thousand financia run into serious finan. Into workers at Elektronskar lems and they expressed cial difficulties over the the biggest complete of confi- past months re- At Industria, the existing sult of electronics

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Yugoslavia, have been economic tion polical oI Ine alnar. Saturday leadership of the plant. In cases two on strike since man- are 'self-man- sought So-called agements have acalisl WarC Luls. which thousand SUd- ontelle II-WIn workers marched posedly gives workers cutting wages, pro- views. control over the factory of through the streets number decision has been officially Serbia, they

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protest against the introduced some years The Nis factory is es warning from WIth in which the ago in Yugoslavia. pecially important Radio that way 'the In practice, has cause of its key position WaN the factory. class Communists Kevr une une rosa Debts have been run politically atomized and The Tito bureaucracy agreed allowed the bureaucracy been up and wage has them the an en- nse sasneo n orde In lie validus allules coulare vall make the free increas- supply the support of denont. The workers ingly from central con- Common Market and than half say the aca- European 'self-manage- east coun- of Workers have had no mene plant ex- ists in form only. real power over factory Meanwhile the purge well take Workers policy. designed to reassert the the were not in- cut of having factories have

CALCIUS

TWELVE maritime countries stroy the economic basis for revision of the minimum interest shipbuilding in Britain and on ixed under a previous un- lale yesterday opened a three-day derstanding of export credits.

the continent. The meeting in Tokyo to demand present understanding yards tabanese produce more provides for a down payment that Japan cuts back the ex- cheaply. than their European more than 20 per cent, and have far competitors more ment in eight years or • less and pansion of its shipbuilding The EuroD 7.5 interest o1 ean employers claim this is the industry. No or more. figure for the new result subsidies interest rate has been mentioned Shipbuilding employers in in breach of international agree European Europe Manulacle have ments. seconne make irmore about the rapid alarmed At the Tokyo conference they for the Japanese to sell abroad growth of the industry in will be demanding the abolition by imposing 'hire-pur- stricter Japan which threatens to de- ot state subsidies and an upward arase tenus onore douves

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OVER 1.5 million workers struck in Italy yesterday at the start of a national cam- paign to back negotiations for new wage contracts. To avoid a showdown with the weak right-wing government of Giulio Andreotti • the union leaders are confining these actions to staggered strikes and partial stoppages. Yesterday 1.2 million metal workers struck for four hours, while 300,000 state employees and 40,000 pasta makers and millers struck for the whole day. Stag- gered strikes, varied according to regions and categories, were staged by 1.2 million building workers and 150,000 bank em- ployees. Today and Thursday some 700,000 of the country's school- teachers are due to walk out.

All are demanding more pay, shorter hours and greater security of employment. The wage contracts were last renewed in 1969 when the strikes broadened into a series of bloody confrontations which shook the government. This time, however, the Communist Party and social- democratic union chiefs are tak- ing no chances of a repetition.

Their policy of partial stop- hamstrings the united pages strength of the Italian workers The Tokyo conference is orga- nized by the shipbuilding work- ing party of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Yesterday a delegation repre- senting the Association of West European Shipbuilders arrived in Kyoto for similar talks. The AWES complained in an open letter earlier this year that Japan's share of the world ship- market would be 65 per ping cent by 1975 compared with 50 per cent at present.

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and enables the right wing to make political capital out 'labour unrest' without striking any lasting blows against the employers. Ugo La Malfa, leader of the Republican Party which supports the Andreotti coalition, said at the weekend that if action was not taken against strikes Italy into an could go irreversible decline which would increasingly isolate it from the west European system. There has even been specula- tion in the British Press that Italy may be told to discipline the workers or leave the Com- mon Market.

THE CHILEAN

government has now lifted the state of emergency following the return to normal working by the country's lorry owners. Their leader, Leon Vilarin, warned that the strike would be resumed if every detail of the agreement which formed the basis of the return-to-work is not carried out. 'During the period of the resolution of outstanding points, we are calling on our members to keep themselves united and on the alert,' he said.

Leaders of right-wing parties have continued to praise 'Marxist' President Salvador Allende's new cabinet, domina- ted by three generals. These representatives of business and land-owning inter- ests are in agreement with the Chilean Communist Party which 'nor- has welcomed Allende's malization' of affairs.

Fighting the Tories' rent Act IS join witch-hunt of ECCLES Labour council, near Manchester, has reversed a decision to reconsider its 'fair rents' policy and will definitely not implement the Tory Housing Finance Act.

The decision came on Monday night when a number of right- wing Labour councillors failed to turn up for the crucial meeting called by the Tory opposition.

implementation Although the motion was put, it was defeated ten, with one by 12 votes to Labourite joining with the Tories.

So Eccles now joins the five other Labour councils who are action by the Tory open to The council's one government. month's notice from the govern- ment expired the same night as the council meeting. Housing committee chairman David Lancaster told Workers Press yesterday: 'We are very pleased with the result. The next move is up to the government. There are no more moves on our part.' Preparations were already be- ing made to greet the Tory- appointed Housing Commissioner when and if he arrives, he said.

'We have started campaigning on the housing estates and with the tenants' associations there has been a terriffic response up to now. So even if the commissioner come there will be tre- does mendous resistance.' Asked about the possibility of councillors being surcharged for the rent revenue by the Tories, Cllr Lancaster added: 'Every member knew the con- sequences when he voted. But in a matter of principle like this, in which you feel so strongly, the question of surcharges can't be helped. We haven't got too much money anyway! Warwickshire, In Bedworth, however, as expected the Labour down for council has come implementation of the 'fair rents' betrayed the fight with the Tories in the meeting.

FIVE HUNDRED workers at the Rank Xerox factory at Mitcheldean, Hampshire, yes- a lavish terday boycotted champagne lunch thrown by the management. The banquet followed a presen- tation of the Queen's award to industry to the firm by the Duke of Beaufort. But the company's 2,000 manual workers went on strike on Monday in support of 45 involved in a warehousemen grading dispute. So the 500 workers invited to the lunch sent back their invita- tions as 'a gesture of solidarity'.

Officials of Rank Xerox were meeting the caterers yesterday to do with 700 decide what to helpings of smoked ham, cold beef and fixed salad. The food, with 50 bowis of fruit, may be given away to old people's homes and hospitals.

A spokesman Mitcheldean at said; 'The presentation was be- ing made here in recognition of employees' contribution to winning the award. 'The food was already being prepared when the lunch was called off and now we are try- ing to avoid waste. The cham- pagne has, of course, been res- cued.'

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and supporters of the anti-communist International Socialism group have collaborated in the expul- sion of the Workers Press from any further meetings of the Manchester tenants' action committee.

They joined once again with reformists and anarch-

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ists in a witch-hunt on sup- porters of the paper and the mended the paper to tenants.

What the IS to Socialist Labour League. has done is form a 'no-politics' alliance with anyone in an effort to hold the Ever since Workers Press took political the tenants back up campaign among trom a Manchester tenants for fight and prevent any real unity with the rest the working principled, political fight against class in a campaign to force the the Tories by the whole working forward, Tories out. the class as only way the wretched IS group has joined At a poorly-attended meeting inters and he spaper, its sup in attacking of the committee on Monday night, supporters of the Workers SLL once again tried In fact their anger increased Press and the political when it was seen that Workers to raise tasks facing the working class.

Press reports had been appreci- ated by Manchester tenants, that calling A resolution was put sales were increasing and the no- for the formation of a Council being exposed politics line was of Action of tenants, trade daily. unionists, unemployed workers tendencies In earlier alliances with the and all political to and Communist Party they tried to mobilize against the Tories of of Spath Labour for the a force the resignation realint Lane tenants' secretary Mrs Con- government. The IS group and its supporters nie Fahey because she recom-

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

'THE RESULT of the meeting only makes me more deter- mined than ever to fight all the harder on the same level, said Mrs. Connie Fahey, secretary of the Spath Lane tenants' association, after the meeting.

in Man- 'Many tenants chester have welcomed the Workers Press. At first peo- inter- ple have been only ested in their own items in the paper. But since then many have taken up the rest of the and become paper informed. politically "This is what the Interna- Socialists don't want,' tional told Workers Press. "They she the ten- prefer manipulate ants and count them as sheep.'

1933-1934 {1.43 She said the stand taken by 1934-1935 £1.43 of Workers supporters the had them Press won many 1935.1936 €1.25 friends. Many people had 1937-1938 stood up during the meeting £1.25 and said Workers Press had 1938-1939 £1.25 it what the right to say wanted to. 1939-1940 £1.05 If the real tenants are stay- ine away from the meetings, it is not because of the paper, These extremely vital she added. 'None of the others make any attempt to bring tenants there. years 1929 and 1940 I told them the only way to convince fellow workers is Union-are now availal politically. to educate them But they want them as they which is political oppor- are, tunism. "They want the tenants iso- lated in little groups and say we must not talk politics. But we shall continue the fight conspiracy

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of to commit a public mischief was withdrawn by the prosecution in Aldershot trial the bomb at Winchester yesterday against two Francis of the three defendants. Finbar Kissane (34). building worker of Finsbury Park, north Thomas London, and Noel Ten- (42), of "St. James's Lane, kinson Muswell Hill, : London, have pleaded not guilty to murdering

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combined with other tendencies to defeat it. Instead the Is proposed motion which simply condemned the fair rent' Act, without mentioning the Tories, and called for a token stoppage by workers in case of evictions. An amendment calling for the full mobilization of the working class to get the lories out was . opposed by the IS and defeated.

Then, towards the end of the meeting, all tendencies launched a vicious and scurrilous attack on the Workers Press, SLL and Mrs Fahey. A Mr D. Miller, of Moss Side tenants' describing association, himself as a 'left-wing member of the Labour Party', called for the expulsion of Workers Press supporters from the meeting.

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3, Wedneeday November 8, 1872 PAGE 3 truth would out about the un- principled nature of the so-called leadership of the committee, he said Workers Press was 'a sinister organization trying to take over the tenants' action committee.

The attack became hysterical: "The Workers Press has split the tenants and used this association a political platform.' Scan- as dalous attacks had been made on individual members. Immediately an IS member the declared she supported motion for expulsion. Her con- tribution exposed once more the anti - communist, non - political nature of this bunch of English radicals. 'In practice Workers Press has broken up tenants' meetings by boring or infuriating people. The important thing is the most tenants' action committee.

'The Socialist Labour League use these meetings as a platform for their own meetings and are not sensitive to tenants' feelings.

The committee must not be broken by them.' Slightly embarrassed, other IS members quickly concocted an amendment. But this also called for the expulsion of Workers Press supporters 'unless they are to contribute to the prepared tenants' struggle as it is con- ceived, planned and organized by tenants'. But the door had been opened and the IS, with their non- politics, in addition to supporting the original motion, had col- laborated in this. The amendment was defeated and the resolution carried. Talk of the 'tenants' feelings' cannot disguise absolute the hostility of the IS to any political struggle for leadership among tenants against the main enemy, the Tory government. When the Workers Press and the Socialist Labour League make their principles and policies absolutely clear in an open and frank way, the IS are forced to join the witch-hunt.

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BY JACK GALE

During all imperialist wars, each ruling class presents itself as honest, merciful and thoroughly principled and the enemy as a ruthless, cunning murderer intent on point- less mass destruction. This was certainly the case in World War II, particu- larly where air raids were concerned. bombing The of mass London, Liverpool, Hull and Coventry by the Nazis aroused hatred and anger justifiable among British workers. own. and the But their American ruling classes were doing the very same thing- and on a larger scale-against the workers of Germany and Japan. The largest single air-raid of the war was launched against Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945., An official history describes this raid as follows: "The area attacked was rectangle measuring approxi- mately four by three miles. It was densely-populated, with an average of 102,000 inhabitants aday November 8, 1872 to the square mile . . . The zone bordered the most im- portant industrial section of Tokyo and included a few individually designated tar- gets Police records show that 267,171 buildings were destroyed—about one-fourth of the total in Tokyo-and that 1,008,005 persons were rendered homeless. The official role of casualties listed 83,793 dead and 40,918 wounded. It was 25 days before all the dead were removed from the ruins ... no other air attack of the war, either in Japan or Europe, was so destructive of life and property (W. F. Craven and J. L. Cate: "The Army Air Forces in World War II', Vols 4-5. 1950.)

Tokyo raid The was followed by similar attacks on Nagoya, Kobe, Osaka, Yoko- hama and Kawasaki, the most important industrial cities. By August 14, 1945, 58 Japanese cities had been firebombed.

In Europe, too, mass destruction was the order of the day in the 'fight for free- dom'. So effective was the bombing. of cities in terms of the destruction and casualties caused that it became rational- ized as a policy by both sides.

The attitude of the British ruling class was simple: Lord Cherweil... produced a cabinet paper on the strate- gic bombing of Germany ..

in quantitative It described terms the effect on Germany of a British bombing offensive in the next 18 months (approxi- mately March 1942-September 1943). The paper laid down a strategic policy. "The be bombing must directed essentially against working-class houses, middle- class houses have too much space around them, and so are bound bombs; to waste factories and "military objec- tives" had long since been forgotten, except in official bulletins, since they were much too difficult to find and hit.?

(My emphasis-]. G.) (C. P.

Snow 'Science and Govern- ment, 1962', p. 47.) Altogether the British bombed over 100 German cities. In 43 more than 50 per cent of the built-up area was destroyed. The German ruling class, of had also launched course, terror-raids on the working- ve class centres of this country.

Some of the biggest raids were: London October 15-16, 1940: 70 tons of incendiaries and 386 tons of high explosive dropped.

Coventry November 14-15, 1940: 30 tons incendiaries and 500 tons of high explosives.

May 10-11, 1941: London 98 tons incendiaries and 400 tons of high explosives. In an unbroken series of raids on London between Sep- 6 and 19, 1941, 690 tember tons of incendiary bombs and 5,817 tons of high explosives were dropped. In German raids on the Britain 60,595 persons lost lives and 86,182 were their wounded. In the British and American raids on Germany, estimates of the number of deaths range from 300,000 to 800,000. De- spite this destruction, the raids military achieved little of value-their purpose was to demoralize the civil population.

The British Bombing Survey Unit itself admitted: 'Area attacks against German cities could not have been responsible for more than a very small part of the fall which had actually occurred in the spring of 1945 ... and in terms of bombing effort, they were also a very costly way of achieving results the which they did achieve.' (BBSU "The Strategic Air War', p. 97.)

No more conclusive proof can be given that the air raids on both sides were designed to kill and terrorize the work- ing class rather than to attain military ends than the atom- bombing of Hiroshima. The US Strategic Bombing 'Effects Survey report, Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki', declares: "The bulk of the city's out- put came from large plants located on the outskirts of the city; one half of the in- dustrial production came from only five firms. Of these larger companies, only one suffered • superficial damage. more than 'Since electric power was available, and materials and force were not des- working troyed, plants ordinarily res- ponsible for three-fourths of Hiroshima's industrial produc- tion could have resumed normal operation within 30 days of the attack had the war con- tinued.'

TURKISH POLITICAL

CHARADE IS OVER

The Identity pass of Deniz Gezmis, a young oppositionist to the Turkish military regime who was hanged earlier this year.

The resignation from the Turkish cabinet of the Republican People's Party could finally put an end the parliamentary to charade played out in Ankara since April 1971 and lead to the imposition of direct military rule. The army the overthrew Justice Party government of Suleiman Demirel last year and has since pulled the strings behind a succession of unstable coalitions in parliament.

The 18 months since the coup have been punctuated by parliamentary crises. Nihat Erim, Army's original the nominee as premier, lasted just over a year before resigning his post as figurehead. Ferit Melen, his successor, has proved equally incapable of holding together the 'above- party' government which the army has asked for. Like his predecessor, the only plank in his programme which has been efficiently carried out is the brutal repression of the left- wing parties. The military coup was sup- posed to usher in 'wide-ranging' reforms. But_ these have not materialized. The plan for land reform is gathering dust on Ministry of Agriculture shelves and is unlikely to be imple- in the most mented even watered-down form. The chronic weakness of the post-coup governments summed up by the 'Financial Times' as 'the price the army commanders are having to pay for preserving the outward forms of democracy'. These outward forms' are all that remains. The coup leaders preserved them in a not very subtle attempt to make their regime look more respectable. Their preservation of a parliamentary front is a transparent attempt to legitimize the coup and avoid any international reper- cussions. Sooner or later, however, they will have to dispense with parliament and rule by decree.

The latest parliamentary crisis brings this situation closer.

What has resulted from the coup is a concentrated assault on the workers' movement. Martial law has been in opera- tion in 11 key provinces since 1971 and special tribunals have working overtime hand- been ing out huge sentences for com- munism and subversion. The trade unions have been driven underground to allow "'yellow" employer - financed organizations to get a tighter grip on the working class. Since the military take-over there has been a big revival of 'business confidence' There are plans for a major expansion of industry in Turkey based on a cheap, docile labour force and the regime even sets itself the target of getting full Turkish entry into the Com- mon Market within the next 25 years. Turkey has long been heavily dependent on foreign capital and most of its industry is dominated by American-and, increasingly, West German- But the military investment. rulers have grandiose plans for developing a local capitalism— financed mainly by punitive taxes. on the workers and peasants. Turkey has trading relations with the Stalinist-ruled Balkan states, particularly its neigh- The Identity pass of Deniz Gezmis, a yo bour Bulgaria. "It also has economic ties with the military regimes and Saudi of Iran Arabia. The Turkish army is one of the bastions of NATO and has more than 600,000 men under arms. Massive American aid has been poured in to maintain as a centre of the country counter-revolution-Turkey is studded with American and NATO bases directed at the

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Erim Former head of state Nihat who received 'good luck' from the Soviet government. this, Despite Turkey has good relations with the neigh- bouring Stalinist-ruled states of the Balkans, notably Bulgaria with which it shares a common frontier. The collaboration is not only economic-it extends to such spheres as the repatria- tion of fugitive left-wing other's opponents of each regimes. When Erim was installed by the army, one of his first mes- sages as prime minister was 'good-luck' cable from the Soviet government, which is building factories in Turkey by mia, a young oppositionist to the Turkish millta agreement with the regime.

Not surprisingly the Turkish overnment has displaved con- siderable interest in the Soviet proposal for European Security Conference, particu- larly since the state visit paid by Soviet President Podgorny earlier this year. According to the govern- ment, 860 people have been sentenced by military tribunals since the imposition of martial law and there are over 1,100 on trial. No figure is available for the number awaiting trial, but there have been reports that so far some 7,000 people have been arrested. The Turkish intelligentsia has been particularly hard-hit by this wave of repression: students, teachers, trade union- ists and journalists are prime targets for the military. There are detailed reports of torture from inside the military jails.

Young left wingers have been hung for so-called ter- rorism, while others are still in prison awaiting execution.

Many have been condemned to long prison terms for trivial offences. The leaders of the pro- Turkish Moscow Workers' Party are serving prison terms of from 12 to 15 years, despite the good relations existing be- tween Moscow and Ankara. Some of the trials are for acts committed legally before the coup and retroactively out- lawed by the military regime.

The journalists Cetin Altan, Ilhami Soysal and Ilhan Selcuk have appeared before tribunals charged with writing articles published well before April 1971. When the court threw out the charges, the three men were simply rearrested and charged with writing other Workers Press, Wednes kish military regime who was hanged earlier thi articles. They are still in prison.

Other prominent Turks in jail include novelist Fakir Baykurt film-maker Yilmaz Guney and sociologist Ismail Besikci.

Besikci was recently given a very long prison sentence for his researches into the socio- logy of Anatolia. Another vic- of the military tim courts is Mumtaz Soysal, Turkey's leading constitutional lawyer, currently under preventive detention. He was sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for his book on the constitution of 1961, regarded as the basic student textbook on the sub- ject, but denounced by the as 'communist pro- military paganda'. Soysal's sentence was quashed on appeal, but the . appointed a five-man regime committee of rightists to ex- amine his book again. They • decided it was indeed subversive and Soysal found in prison. His himself back wife lost her job on the Tur- kish broadcasting corporation and has since been jailed for ten months for allegedly in- sulting the army. Not content with the present scope of repression, the govern- ment is now planning new and even more repressive press laws and is systematically purg- ing the universities to eliminate the last vestiges of 'subversion'.

The main brunt of the martial law action has fallen on the Turkish working class.

It is noticeable that the military rule is applied only in the centres of industry: the military are very much afraid of a re- petition of the mass strikes of 1970. In June that year the wor- kers of Istanbul and its satellite industrial centre Izmir downed tools and marched through the 3, Wednesday November 8, 1972 PAGE 5 earlier this year. streets shouting 'Down with capitalism. Down with im- perialism'. Since that time the situation of the Turkish working class has been worsened by a 66- per-cent devaluation of the lira which drove up prices in Istanbul by an estimated 23 per cent between December 1970 and December 1972. Mass unemployment among the Turkish workers is con- stantly replenished by migra- tion into the towns from the impoverished rural areas. In 1971 unemployment was esti- mated at 1.83 million and this figure takes no account of the chronic unemployment outside the cities. The level is at least 15 per cent of the industrial labour force and many hundreds of thousands of Turkish workers have had to leave their home- land to find work in Europe.

About 300,000 Turkish wor- kers. are in West Germany and there are another 200,000 in other parts of western Europe.

The growth of recession in western Europe is reducing the number of available jobs and there is growing anti-immigrant agitation in Germany, Holland and France. Willy Brandt, West Germany's social - democrat of im- chancellor, has spoken posing a ceiling on immigration and the cry has been eagerly taken up on the right in Germany. Both at home and abroad the Turkish working class is under attack by imperialism.

According to a recent survey in the 'Financial Times' the overall picture of the economy 'is both healthy and encourag- ing'.

WATCH OUT IT'S THE INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY SHOW!

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday Novembe

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

A regular feature of every Industrial Correspond- ent's life is the Industrial Society, or rather the lavish testivities thrown by this nebulous body for union leaders, big bosses, Cabinet ministers and even the Royal Family. At these sought-after bean- feasts the journalist will meet John Garnett, the care-warn CbE who heads the outtit. Mr Garnett is a very pleasant man exuding the easy charm of Trinity Rugby, College and the Royal Navy. He is solici- tous, paying equal attention to newsmen of all political per- suasions. In fact a perfect democrat. At Mr Garnett's lunches, which usually separate a day of discussion on industrial topics, men like Amalgamated Union of Engineering_Work- ers' president Hugh Scanlon and Confederation of British Industry chief W. O. Campbell Adamson speak. journalist The returns to his office full of good cheer (and good wine), but the more inquiring do feel a slight sense of unease. what is the Indus- Exactly trial Society up to? they ask.

Direct inquiries are often unsatisfactory. The host of pukka young ladies and smart young men employed by the Society are friendly and ap- proachable. But it's like deal- ing with a sponge. They bend and weave and agree. Eventu- ally you get the impression that your own 'incisive' views are being absorbed and added to some conglomerate of 'fine' morality Society workers seem to carry in their heads. But whatever its motive, the Industrial Society is going places . . . and fast. Its annual report, published today, reveals an astonishing portfolio of activities that stretch from the denizens of British industry to the corners of the ex-Empire-in Septem- ber four Society advisers went to Zambia and 'installed' brief- ing groups and advisory com- mittees throughout the entire Zambian copper industry, cov- ering 50,000 people. On Tuesday it had a star- studded forum on the Indus- trial Relations Act and a week ago it penetrated the sanctum of Buckingham Palace, where its patron, the Duke of Edin- burgh, summoned captains of industry and union leaders to a secret pow-wow on the crisis in British industry (secret save for the Workers Press who broke the story the day after -an act that, spurred the Society into an untypical burst of anger!). the past four years Over the Society's income from its company - training projects five-fold. In- have increased come over the 12 months to June reached to near £lm—a record. No less than 27,000 staff at all levels in 532 com- panies went through the train- ing schemes The net is cast wide and in- volves some of Britain's giants.

Beaverbrook Newspapers, Esso, Fisons, Hawker Sidde- ley, Shell and Vosper Thorny- croft were all involved in the Society's management- union relations schemes. The the briefing idea is new group'. The annual report ex- plains: 'This communication system by the Society means getting employees at every • level in small groups together with their boss on a regular basis to explain to them what is happening and why [we under- stand an explanation of profit Wednesday November 8, 1972 and where it comes from is not on the curricula]. More than 30 companies now oper- ate this system and a separate department is being formed to pioneer this work.' The Society also gets them young. This year 53 conferences were held in schools. They were attended by 8,270 sixth- formers involved 820 group leaders from industry and commerce. The object of these conferences; which largely consist of discussions in small groups, is to get people still in school to under- stand the challenge that faces them in industry and com- merce and in playing a part in improving industry and commerce in the future as managers, supervisors or through trade unions. But perhaps the most amaz- ing aspect of the Society's work is the depth to which it has penetrated into fields usually considered the preserve of the labour movement. It proudly announces that 1,300 shop stewards were 'trained' by the Society last year. Sometimes this involved courses along with managers where the two sides engage in mock battles the across negotiating table. What exactly is the object remains vague. The Society calls it 'constructive negotia- tion' technique. It seems to involve recognizing unneces- sary conflict (they do admit some conflict is necessary, isolating the problem and eli- minating it. Anyway it seems to be doing very well and claims to be the biggest single body dealing with stewards. One of the Society's greatest coups over the last 12 months was John Garnett's appoint- ment to Wilberforce inquiry into the miners' strike. It gave them a semi-official aura. Gar- an upper-class type is nett who went to Rugby. He was 15 years with ICI, a firm noted for its paternalistic approach to its workers. He lives in Putney, ( south-west London and clubs at the Athenaeum and the Leander (Henley).

Last year the Society 'trained' stewards for Coalite Chemical Products, Cour- tauld's, GKN, Scottish Stamp- ings and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company. And many unions send their mem- bers along for the same pur- pose. The unions also pay formal recognition. All the big ones are affiliated to the Industrial Society. The latest to join are the printing union NATSOPA, the National Association of Schoolmasters and Jack Peel's Union of Dyers and Bleachers.

Only the miners remain un- touched by the new spirit, though Lawrence Daly, their general secretary, was elected to the Society's council re- cently. There he joins Jack Jones of the transport union and Alf Allen (shopworkers), James Conway and Len Stubbs (en- gineers), Lord Cooper and Derek Gladwin (municipal workers), Jack Peel (dyers and Young bleachers) and Mark (electricians and plumbers).

These union worthies rub shoulders with some of the toughest monopolists in the country. The employers' repre- sentatives on the council in- clude: I. Nicol (Lucas-just A. closing their Fazakerley • fac- tory, H. Morley (British Steel —18,000 redundancies in Scot- land on the way), Sir 'Don' Ryder (Reed International- redundancies), more massive C. E. Guinness (Harp Lager), and R. G. Cave (Smiths Indus- tries). The Society's secret is to appear 'fair'. It always puts on for the unions-a a big show high point of every TUC Con- gress is its reception, opened this year with a few words from Jack Jones. Garnett himself gained great approval from some unions for his 'stand' on the Industrial Relations Act. The Society de- cided it was against the mea- but this did not stop it sure, launching a massive drive to sell its guide to the Act, pub.

lished four days after it be- came law. Publicity blurb encouraged employers and unions to buy the book, which included a 'check list of management ac- tion and a list of unfair indus- trial practices. Each page des- cribes a section of the Act and its practical implications'.

So while one half the Soc- iety was flaunting its opposi- tion to the anti-union laws, the other half was busily pre- paring to cash in as soon as the legislation became law.

A total of 80,000 copies of the guide were sold-it's the Society's all-time best seller.

"The doubling of our income from publication of filmstrips, lunatin Top left: John Garnett, director of the Industrial Society. Top right: "Left-winger' him is present Tory Home Secretary, Robert Carr. Above: Jack Jones, another union | the says report, 'was largely due to our ability to react quickly and appropriately the massive demand for infor- mation the industrial Relations Act and the Code of The Society's good fortune reilected in its new premises. Carlton House, London. Over £120,000 has been raised to ay for modernizations. It wil e called Peter Rung House after a protégé of the Society's founder, Robert Hyde. Society the opposition to Act is at least curious. The Code of Practice is based, he on the Society's teach- boasts, ng and the report adds 'Some 4.00 Lakes Sudenon and shop stewards received day's training in ways in which the legislation could of be practical help in improving in• dustrial relations.' The emphasis is on the word help- ot exactly in line wit even the UC' very feeble total the to opposition

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The Act and the Court, it seems, have become a fact • O] life and the Society is busily its practice. absorbing it into But what motivates these Left-winger' Scanton speaks at a Society luncheon. Be keen scouts of industry? ones, another union leader to take the sta that they want to make things better for people in industry.

Their spokesman told me: 'We are neither pro nor anti private enterprise. We simply It recognize that it is a fact.

is not our job to change things. Our aim is to get people treated better. If peo- ple get treated better, it's good for the firm and good for the employees.' these ideas Basically are very old hat. The Industrial Society is corporatist wants to erect a structure in industry to (a) resolve un- necessary conflict, (b) channel necessary conflict into con- structive avenues. In plainer language it aims to persuade workers not to be automatically hostile to bosses and get bosses to be nice to workers. The aim is to merge shop stewards management, and unions and smother them in some swamp of procedure —a process called 'construc- tive negotiation' or 'action centred leadership'. One wily old trade union official passed a blunter ver- dict of the Industrial Society's objectives: "Take a right-wing union leader and a so-called "pro- gressive" employer. Both men basically agree with the sys- tem. The Society comes along Workers Press, Wednesday I and wheels them out at a conference. In this way they try to paint a smile on the face of capitalism, fudge over its evils. That is their role. We go to listen, but we don't give them any money! His remark shoud be quali- fied. Some of the keenest sup- porters of the Society are not right-wingers but union lead- ers who boast a left-wing re- putation. Both Jack Jones and Hugh featured Scanlon as speakers at Society confer- ences over the last year.

One of the latest innovations Society's 'conciliation is the service? It's a modest affair, not comparable, they say with the grander CBI-TUC scheme.

It began in September and John Garnett has already been involved as trouble-shooter for one small firm. The philosophy of the In- dustrial Society is one thing, its growth and influence an- other. One reason is to be found in training legisla- the industrial tion passed in the early 1960s.

Firms must pay training levies to their industry's board. They can claim the money back by sending their managers and tame shop stewards to courses, Press, Wednesday November 8, 1972 PAGE 7 seminars and lunches organ- ized by the Society. In this way the legislation has been a boon to many groups in con- sultancy and industrial rela- tions. But this perk cannot en- tirely explain the Society's phenomenal growth, achieved at a time when all enterprises are trying to cut out extras.

Neither does it explain its extraordinary pull. It's not easy to call Victor Feather, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon to meet Campbell Adamson (CBI), Lord Mel- chett (British Steel) and Lord Stokes (British-Leyland) to- gether, especially in the midst of the crisis talks over infla- tion. Add to that that the meet- ing was at Buckingham Palace with the Duke in the chair, that it was secret and that the event they were discussing was not supposed to take place until 1974, then you have a first-class mystery. It begins with the question— Where does the Industrial Society get its influence from?' Clearly the powerful back- ers who are very interested in its corporatist ideas. Workers will undoubtedly see more of Mr. Garnett and his band of industrial cavaliers.

PAGE 8 Workers Pross, Wedneeday Nov Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ul' BBC 2 last night. Direc- tor Jack Gold, producer Tony Garnett. With Nicol Willlamson. The production of this play for a wide television audience is welcome. Its transmission coincided with the start of polling in the American elec- tions. Viewers caught be.

tween channels may have had difficulty distinguish- ing which was for real and which wasn't. Brecht wrote it in 1941 in Finland while fleeing the ad- vancing fascists. It was a black time indeed for wanted Ger- man émigrés like himself and he never saw the play staged.

Written under such pressing circumstances and less con- trived than many of his other works, as a result it is stamped with a powerful impression of objective reality. Brecht had long since poli- tically capitulated to Stalinism.

He watched in silence as his life-long friends - artistic as well as political — were mur- the dered by the GrU as. bureaucracy imposed Stalinist 'orthodoxy' on the arts as well as politics. Meanwhile Brecht, know- like many who succumbed ing that it was wrong, tried to resolve his fears, doubts and agonized torments into the rationalization that one daren't attack the leadership of the Soviet Union when the fascist threat from Germany and Italy was so omnipotent, and that Stalin and his gang his wouldn't last for ever. Yet each new acquiescence to fresh Stalinist infamy each served only weaken the Io international working class and strengthened the threat thev teared. Brecht clung to his artistic 'epic theatre' Theories which had been formulated in the most or Great section of most powerful section the international working class and in alliance with the second largest CP in the world. His of one theatre Was destroy the several trying to audience's superficial, emotion reaction to events and people and to make them think about what thev experienced as con.

tradictory processes. They had varying degrees of success, but Stalin would have none of it liquidated their contem- and the

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poraries in and carrie oron deto ord throughout world palen against 'formalism' in favour of theatre which ticized and accepted what is' -especially the new Soviet regime. Brecht never attacked these conceptions as such, but devoted himself to writing (after 1933) 'anti-fascist' works major-plays, (apart from the 'Mother Courage', etc. written 1937-1939 which between represented considerably more than this which were in the old tradition, ( acceptable yet of because their topicality. Even here his political capitu- with him lation caught up in the gross underestimations of the nature of fascism em- bodied in some of them. In this play Brecht adopted Scenes from 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ul'.

Top left: Mark Russell as youno Inna with weston Gavin as Ernesto He Roma (the would be Rohm). Top right: Nicol Williamson as Arturo Ul (Hitler) and his Above: Arturo Ul. his best satirical style. gangsters.

divorces the actual ruling clique of fascist Germany, Hitler, etc., from their mass- trappings — Nuremberg media monster reviews, the rallies, living demonology of the Nazi party itself - and transposes them to a Chicago background.

He shows them (without changing their characters in the least) to be miserable petty crooks. In his 1948 programme notes, he wrote: "The great political criminals must by all means be exposed and preferably to ridicule, for they are not so much great political criminals as the per- great political petrators of is altogether crimes, which different... What holds good in our small relationships ought to be good enough for our larger aspirations. The small-time bum who has been allowed by our rulers to a big-time become bum deserves no place of honour in the annals of bumming or of history. Generally speaking the old saying is still valid: Tragedy is more facetious about suffering of men than comedy' Brecht had been reduced by his own degeneration and ob- jective reality to bitterly satirizing the prevailing demoralized middle - class values, heroes out of these which attempted to make nonentities: 'The exploiters themselves, handful of people, have a come into power largely by choosing their fathers wisely.

As a group, they might evince a degree of shrewdness and brutality, but their lack of education, or even a bit of amiability in any one of them, does little or no damage to their business interests... They will always be served by hordes of intelligent vast people: for crisis and wars become trade-fairs exhibiting the intelligence of a whole country' Today that same scepticism is placed in a new context of an international working class which views the whole panoply of 'great' people and vital way. The beginning o1 effectively gramme semi-romantic nons AI Capone and com shows Arturo played by and his (Goering), Givoli and Roma (Rohm) proviae brotect Cauliflower their knowledge of deal involving muni that Major (Hindenberg) volved in. sudden to gangsters respectability ardently profess whi with their murders of anyone w or gets in hilarious and horrri As the productior transcend 'camp' resentatio reasingly portrays dirty manoeuvring c (and thus Hitler) for the pace slack are, becomes somewhat Here probably needed to watch th 'Brechtian' way — detachment. However and the scene in wh Ui hires speak, walk and st believably incisive. Equally well growing contradictic the language of the Brecht used -as Shakespeare ad lib- monstrousness of tl especially where over the Trust flower (Austria) which is by Dullfeet (Dollfus. The rather of the Reichsta! rings out the politi tions of Brecht whic duction struggles to with con- the play of the pIo- the guys about it as (Hitler) Williamson, Giri (Goebbels) They use corrupt Dogsborough beer 1I - the rise OI of positions which they beatings and both initial rather and in- confused. the viewer of critical picks up broken-down (this gangsters Faust and and the they take Cauli- of Cicero is controlled fire trial limita- Despite Dimitrov's courage in defying Goering in the Nazi episode that whole court, remained, on the Stalinist side, a carefully-staged propaganda piece (where two mass-media machines conflicted) which was designed to cover up the culpability of Stalinism in the rise of Hitler to power. Hence to be have we Brechtian with Brecht, exam- •ining what he says sceptically and carefully. The concluding epilogue combines both timely and prophetic warning limitation with Brecht's in indicating precisely how the rise Arturo Ui was 'resistible': If we could learn to look instead of gawking We'd see the horror in the heart of farce. If only we would act instead of talking We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that had us nearly mastered! Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The Bitch that bore him is in heat again!' The producer, director and actors of this programme have handled this complex and sometimes devious play with considerable skill. managed to They have extract the main theme of the threat these seemingly miser- able irrelevances can pose, if the powers-that-be decide to invest in them. Nevertheless they are con- temptible creatures that a determined force can. deal with. The ending-showing a concentration camp victim while voices read out the latest fluctuation on the inter- national money markets — underlines that which is worth- while in the original play.

Tom Kemp's review of Trot- sky's writings, due to appear on Page 8 today, will now be published next week. Workers Press, Wednesday November 8, 1972 PAGE 9 The long-awaited new scheme • at Downing Street last sin full for a massive reconstruction of it was pouring out full Edinburgh's road and food. Typical of the Liberal style ortation system is at last 1r weekend speech he light of day. was in Cornwall It will about £104m from party leader and provide, if built, a major Jeremy Thorpe. network highways. On the face of it he said Private will be banned cars nothing: from the city centre. • A that there statement As yet, however, there are would be no industrial peace avail- until the 'trench-warfare men- no plans-nor money able- -to rehouse the tenants tality of the 1930s' was of 2,700 houses which will be by industrial replaced co- demolished if the scheme goes partnership was cancelled out through. by another one that the union leaders couldn't have got their

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members' support for a deal anyway. The breakdown of the talks, he said, is yet another lost opportunity Britain'. for But - here comes the turn- around - it was not un- expected. The government could hardly have started from a weaker position, since it had only turned to the talks when everything else had been tried and failed. Having thus cooked up suitably jumbled alphabet Thorpe floated his real soup, message. "The chance of gaining sup- for port of any measure from those restraint twin scorpions of the trade union movement, Mr Jack Jones and Rumour has it that Dick Mr Hugh Scanlon, was always Taverne, who will be fighting he hissed. the Labour candidate remote, against Thorpe, of is course, as in the Lincoln by-election has of the aware as anyone else just sold his boat. conciliatory role of these two Taverne-thrown out by his union leaders in the talks. The party for voting constituency real aim of his venom is the Tories-apparently with the working class. But that is a got £3,000 for his old cata- scorpion he is afraid to grasp.

maran. One of these days Mr In a bid, perhaps, to emulate Thorpe will get stung... sailor Heath, Taverne has now gone and bought a faster Snow- catamaran for a mere goose £10,000.

MESSAGE

The Liberals certainly their strength on leadership's clear, dynamic policies. Quite the reverse. In competition to find men any capable of looking three ways on the same issue the Liberal top brass would be certain to win at least one prize. One thing they are clear about, however, is their hos- tility to the working-class movement. And within a short period of the talks breakdown

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OVER 4,000 Chrysler car After the walk-out, the men said they would Stoke workers at the not plant, Coventry, were still until meet again next Monday. out on strike yesterday demanding the Meanwhile at Chrysler's reinstate- ment of a deputy con- second Coventry plant at 100 Ryton, body- venor. over They out came shop men yesterday ended Monday when deputy their five-day strike over Worth John manning levels. convenor rest of the 4,500 sacked for allegedly The was repeatedly refusing a re- workforce who walked sympathy in went quest meet manage- out ment. back last night.

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who have agreed to pay the have been 'sitting-in' at a men £37 a week until the textile factory for plant is clear of equipment two and fabrics. months have won another 20 weeks of employment. The factory was said to The who occupied have been losing several men, the Gainsborough Cornard thousand pounds each week Yarmouth, plant in Great and when it closed more than 300 men and Norfolk, when it closed, women have been offered jobs were reported to have lost clearing the factory for their jobs. About 80 have been in- new owners. Carrington Viyella, in the 'sit-in' and who volved 60 currently own the factory, of them are getting are negotiating to sell and temporary work. Young Socialists

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for selling the fac- chaos.' turn The 'Star', of 50-year-old course. This is the unprincipled, piece- does not seek to explain work system. philosophy the of Longbridge role There seems little doubt lies behind the signing of stewards' leader Dick the Longbridge MDW deal. that parent company Etheridge-a CP the member British-Leyland able was The interests of the car- —in laying this trap. use the freeze threat to Etheridge's attitude workers themselves, Ether- to- stampede the negotiators, wards the ment bers. come bid who. volved in the fight against Door second to the danger agreement, have been MDW was brought out in 'confrontation' with meeting the company daily revealing statement Leyland over principles and in secret at the luxur- quoted by Paul Ferris which vitally affect work- ious Chateau Impney his recent hook The New ers' ability to defend their Militants': standard of living, their hotel, Droitwich, Ior The last five weeks. •I don't regard the wages Working Conenione ana system as a principle. The their trade union organiza- Certainly the 'Morning Star' Trots do, silly buggers. yesterday was work- ing hard at justifying the on "Car. Tole workers pip Heath at the crowed its headline for an article describing the terms.

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on strike in sympathy with 'exasperated' were with pro- more important concession dispute by Carica! Mentations made by the negotiators. staff. The Merthyr factory is One of the biggest stum- The clerical staff, Barclay Securi- owned bling-blocks bers of the Association of ties, the firm built by ment, it points was Professional, Executive Bent. assets-stripper John out, 'mutuality' (prior Computer Staffs ley.

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director-general Mr Campbell Adamson said the W. O. Campbell Adamson said in Belfast yesterday.

managing both affairs of Ulster and the British economy He told a dinner at the Conway Hotel: "This is 'Such intervention particularly only makes it more urgent that business does important task for industrialists not sit back, redoubles its in Northern Ireland because of efforts to find agreement special difficulties the very and consultation and to take i initia- discord that exists here and in tives to this end.' Great Britain following the break- Referring to the tripartite talks, down of the tripartite talks.'

he said: CBI stands ready first Adamson said there was urgent opportune moment The need destroy the idea that to join in the talks again and to Britain's was a sick and decaying make further effort reach economy. the agreement which eluded us this time. He added that the media was 'There no doubt that on hlame for nOT concentrating number of issues the CBI has on violence and destruction viewpoint similar the Ulster strikes and anel 1N - unions. dustrial relations in Britain. - make gifts 'We shall be happy to have 'Unless and in- our concern bilateral discussions with the volvement is made clear trade unions these issues if any way please one can foresee only a continuing they should desire them and concentration on those that flout return thic help destroy our quickly together to Down- ano more businesses.' ing Street. opportunities He said industrialists had 'The the for particularly crucial role to play future prosperity of the UK are Ulster, their showing bu he thrown away Te. solute determination to keep the failure to the first agree going that attempt of this kind. We economy was busi- in province. try again.' Macc 19121 ThA Yednesday November 8, 1972 PAGE 11 MOST MEMOIRS which come from bourgeois sources are heavily-edited, carefully-censored docu- ments. They set out to obscure history, not to illuminate it. But every now and then, some outspoken individual from the spills his ruling class guts. Such a man* is Cecil Harms- worth King, the man who ran the 'Daily Mirror' and associ- ated papers for a quarter of a century. the juicy items in Some of King's diary are eye-openers to the working class. Take this from the section excerpt serialized in the 'Sunday Tele- graph': Friday, February 11, 1966: Hugh Cudlipp had lunch with Wilson yesterday: Wilson very friendly and very confidential The meeting lasted two hours Wilson told all. The elec- and tion is to be on March 24 or 31. The Cabinet has not yet informed been and an an- nouncement will be made immediately on Wilson's return from Russial think on the 24th. February 27, 1966: It seems now to be agreed that the election is to be March 31.

During the week, on Tuesday, I saw Heath at his flat-very friendly; he offered to come to me! I told him the election was to be 24th or 3lst and urged him to lay off attacking the government either on its defence policy, in which it is moving, however timidly, the right direction he is on Rhodesia, on which weak ground. Why not stick to inflation, which is what will Ultımately bring Wilson down?

Before we deal with the full implications of King's messen- ger boy role between the party leaders, it should be noted that throughout this period Con- stituency Labour Parties and Labour voters had no idea if when Wilson would or even call a General Election. The whole labour and trade union movement was left com- pletely in the dark while the barons newspaper were told precisely what was going on.

It can be seen from these small excerpts the role of the Kings, Cudlipps, Sir Max Aitkens, the Rothermeres and the Thom- sons. These Press barons share in the intimate of most secrets government policy. (In another part of his diaries King reveals that he was told in advance of the balance of payments for 1966 and he rushed to inform Heath.) Their function is not to 'Publish and Be Damned', which was the fatuous title of Cudlipp's biographical book on the 'Daily Mirror' • These people work behind the with governments of scenes both parties to keep the work- ing class uninformed. From King's diaries it is clear.

that the best stories they get not published for are benefit of their readers, but passed in private leader of the Opposition of the day.

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THE NATIONAL Ports report on unregistered ports h useful step forward' by Jack General Workers' Union sec docker members are concernec Published yesterday, the re- port contains a wealth of sta- tistics about 140 undertakings which lie outside the National Dock Labour Scheme. It finds that they control some 20 per cent of traffic as com- pared with 15 percent in 1966.

Of the total container and roll- passing roll-off traffic оп, through Britain's ports, it says, handle the non-Scheme ports 37.5 per cent. Their share of

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stood BASQUE demonstrators outside the French tourist office in Piccadilly, London, yesterday protesting against the Pompidou government. campaigning against ETA is French government complicity in the Spanish fascists' repression.

There is close collaboration be- the two police forces tween following a series of exchange visits. OPTICIANS Clement Clarke yes- terday announced an increased interim dividend-5t per cent compared with 44 per cent in the Stock 1971—shortly after Exchange opened. The company 'a month or two to increase the dividend.

'We are hoping it would be allowed,' a director said.

A SYSTEM of fraud involving food supplies appeared to have been rife in the Royal Navy, it was suggested in Winchester yes- terday. Patrick Back QC was speaking on behalf of a naval officer who had pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to eight charges of conspiracy to 95 people have been defraud. charged. Office. Published High Clapham

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Inesday November 8, 1912 the first JOHN GARNETT, direc- trade unionist Industrial

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an important Society chairmanship the the Society's was embodied in Heath's ills. The Society Other members gested wording to be mic elected Code. believes that growth can Delivering this year's TOne are annual Garnett ort, besT aenever

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This with the Tory Lit Hallul. the Society suggested Lloyds Three the corporatist examples Cualtian use the chairman sophy behind the wages KAnT Industrial Relations Act.

London Clearing plan. the The code of practice Garnett announced Banks. the Industrial Rela- policy June which 'in government to adopt the that for a full tions Act Derek Gladwin official of the article on propaganda not The giant General and Muni- pages of see of the Society's teaching today's Workers Press. and some our sug- for the country's econo cipal Union. worked

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BY IAN YEATS

Ulster Vanguard Move- was considering ne caster The government's deter- 'the formation of a new political ment, the last Protestant mination to get party' settlement organization to comment up Only 45 minutes after his Press thinly-veiled threats to review conference, Craig announced that on the Tory government's he cancelled public the level of subsidies unless Green Paper for Northern the of gagements for the the Loyalists show some will- week for health reasons' Ireland, said yesterday it ingness to compromise - - has Confederation British Vanguard difficult was designed to weaken 1n dustry chief Mr W. o. Campbel and William Whitelaw position. of the Pro- huallisol the power continued hard-line stance gave news connerences testant majority. Belfast and Londonderry respec.

them the could lost yesterday which they tively moderate rrotestants and tne lasu of the week will have been occupied emphasized the cabalily Ulster economy for growth (see with exhaustive soul-searching 11). P.

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Whitelaw said that the men in a bid to define the limits of compromise. of violence had not and would never wreck economy. Since last week's publication Monday Hiauc the Green Pape meeting London. Protestant population was ade- further encourage moderate armed willing quately fuat, reports say Vanguard leader opinion in north by high-

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lighting the prospects willam bralg stressed that guns would be used 'only as a last bombers and the gunmen can be Ports Council's preliminary resort'. beaten and sectarian splits In fact after his 'I am prepared ports has been welcomed as a ncarcu bombshell, vesterers Conrusion statement was notable for its y Jack Jones, Transport and widespread among Protestants moderation. ex-Ulster Minister and Prime ion secretary. As far as his Craig said the policies in the O'Neill warned rerence British Green Paper appear to be more day that the army incerned it is no such thing.

concerned with weakening there would the pulled political of the Loyalist immediate and bloody civil war power roll-Co till-ota trant is 62 ped container and sapping their will maority in Nortnern Ireland to resist. Throughout the day yesterday isolated incidents by cent Far from repeating his earlier there were But the report recommends no extremists on both sides the Scheme to cover said they extension of impose An aremor was moe o ow up a giant crane at Belfast ship.

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economic 3001b charge yard mend any contribution the sures' if the loyalists' democratic shot in the leg Dock Labour Board rights not restored at a Protestant was were at the door of his home in the through which the scheme Shankill Road. Vanguard is not a registered Catholics the Lenadoor In fact the political defended themselves after estate recommendations at all. But there have to be in two houses they had occupied boss william Whitelaw about the and which previously belonged are some ciear ants about way the government should start to Protestant families were petrol making up its mind. country's future. riot broke out Bolt bed Many of its members are also involving about 120 youth.

In letter to Transport in the Unionist Party, from which Minister John Peyton, NPC chair- At the southern town of Lif break man Philip Chappell that have Donegal LiCy would will be Vanguard was registered. more time the decision has Nevertheless police station had Irm advice can be given. alter almost certainly been made to been seized in the village The such and Eire army was called in. talks establish facts, but fully their 1S

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extension of Showing the guarantees dockers' jobs developments and d gives them joint control over discipline. Porchester Hall The report notes that the CBI, Wirker. Chamber the Queensway, W2 British Association bers of Commerce and o0 others had submitted evidence opposing extension,

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THE TORY

pay legislation welcomed yesterday by was right-wing trade union lea- der Jack Peel of the bleach- ers' and dyers' union. He described it as a 'shaky but necessary holding operation,?

when he spoke in Bradford. 'We would be wise not to spend our time clobbering each other, Peel added. At the same time a spokes- man for Fine Fare, the super- market chain, warned of many price rises before Christmas. 'A lot of things are going up, in many cases tomatoes and apples.

Our supplies will be from many thousands of miles away, he said. Craftsmen at the BP Refinery at Llandarcy, South Wales, yes- terday decided to continue their fight for a pay increase.

The men, whose gross weekly pay is £36.50, are seeking parıty craftsmen in with BP refinery Kent, who are on £40.90. Since last week the 283 men have been running down the re- finery and yesterday decided to return this morning to operate an overtime ban and work-to- rule. At the mass meeting the men expressed their disgust at the outcome of recent talks with management where no offer was made and no reasons given for the refusal. It was also agreed at the meet- ing that the company could no longer the past 52 years. Handel Davies, secretary of the joint craitsmen shop stew- ards' committee told the men: 'The position of the manage- ment has been aided tremend- ously by the recent actions of the Tory government. 'In all my as a trade vicious Tory governments I have ever seen.' At Rolls-Royce, Coventry, about 300 foremen and key workers are due to stop today because of management's refusal to discuss a pay claim. At Massey-Ferguson 40 paint shop men at the Coventry plant continuing their pay are still strike which has led to 1,400 workers being laid off. Over 12,000 shipyard workers employed by Vickers at Barrow have been given up to f6 a week pay increases to date from last Monday, it was revealed yester- day. A DELEGATE conference yes- terday overwhelmingly voted in favour of a pay deal for Lon- don's 23,000 busmen giving an- other f1 on basic rates and £1.50 on shift allowances as from Nov- ember 4. Busmen with one year's satisfactory service will get an additional £50 lump sum pay- ment from Christmas 1973. The schedules and rest-day arrange- ments. Speakers:

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

CORIN REDGRAVÉ

(Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY

(ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT

(Deputy senior steward Morris Motors Assembly, Cowley, Oxford)

GARY GURMEET

(Edifor Keep Left) Chairman:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee) (Union and tenant speakers appear in a personal capacity) Admission 15p