Workers Press no. 916

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TORIES TRAMPLE ON

WORKERS' RIGHTS

THE WORKING class now fa Tory government has decided right of all-the right to a d taken three days of Heath's b sinister aim of the laws again

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE TUC will not talk with the government over pay, but it has come out against any special conference of the movement to discuss the Tory measures on inflation. two decisions These were taken yesterday at a meeting of the TUC economic committee the six-man body which voted unanimously to break off talks as long as the freeze continues.

But there will be no special meeting of the TUC General Council on the measures or any re-call of union executives. Calls from some unions for a special TUC Congress to work out a campaign of action against the dictatorship over wages have also been ignored. This is a policy of complete inaction in face of the Tory attack. economic committee said The the problem of inflation would not be solved by the precipitate action' taken by the government.

The TUC remains convinced that a solution must eventually be found through realistic dis- cussions and joint argument'.

'But it must be understood that it is impossible for such discussions to be held in cir- cumstances where the results of collective-bargaining are to re- main frozen by such ill-judged and objectionable provisions, it added. Chancellor Barber repeated the Tory offer of talks in i the Commons yesterday. He said all in the government hoped that the tripartite discussions could be resumed. • TUC secretary Victor Feather would not state specifically that yesterday's decision meant there would be no further talks with the Tories. He declared: *We shall judge the circum- stances in relation to the stand- still in the light of any changed atmosphere or any new develop- ments that might take place

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

now faces an unprecedented situation. The lecided to deprive it legally of its most basic to a decent standard of living. It has only eath's bill to prove that this is the real and s against inflation. Workers have been caged in by the penalties and fines against wage in- creases but are suffering a flood of price increases. The vast majority of the population in Britain have already experienced a serious fall in their real wages. In the two weeks before the decree over pay was announced Monday all the on big food and commodity bosses of profiteering. went on an orgy No less than 5,000 prices were increased.

But this is All only a start, worse is to come.

basic foods like meat, fish, vegetables and fruit are exempted from the freeze. Experts safely pre- dict that all these items will register sharp rises. These make up 16 per cent of family food expenditure. The prices of processed foods will go up and up as well. This is because the cost of imported foods and raw materials will rocket as the pound loses its value and the foreign monopolies increase their profit margins. This is no small item. Over 45 per cent of food and nearly all industrial raw materials come into Britain from abroad-these are completely exempt from control. Of course the rich will not suffer. The million- aires and Stock Market speculators will shoulder the cost-of-living rises safe in the "frozen' knowledge their that dividend will be paid increases back in the big profit hand-out which is sure to follow the freeze.

In other words Heath's Britain is one where there is no justice Henry Goa for outside the Tory anyone magic circle of bankers, mono- and speculators. polists The wages plan deprives

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kers of the right to a standard of living while the "Industrial Court robs workers of Relations

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right-wing built rights up to protect their general secretary of the Amal- working conditions. unions and The offensive has started on this gamated Union of Engineering Yesterday Workers, front too. the court yesterday gave a slap big began once more to strong hint he would like to fines on unions. with National co-operate the The court and the inflation law Industrial Relations Court and the represent most serious on- the £5,000 pay fine Imposed slaught yet launched against the yesterday for contempt. working class. Literally all basic Asked Britain's second 200 years of rights won during largest union could afford to bitter struggle are up for auction.

the fine. Conway replied: pay This is the meaning of Torvism Oh yes. We are not a poor 1972. union. But the Tories want the middle The union's executive will class suffer well. The in. Tuesday meet next to decide of the Value Added troduction whether to not. Con- pay Tax is drive hun- We will give serious designed to way said: dreds of small businesses and consideration to the ludgement shops into bankruptcy. on Tuesday. We have no inten. tion of defying the law to that Price rises will also hit the extent.' hard pockets of the professions The fine is immediate an -the inhabitants of suburbia too challenge to the executive of Tory will have to swallow the the engineering section of the medicine. AUEW. They have held a hard-

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MBER 9, 1972• No. 916 • 4p

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Henry Goad: Took union to NIRC.

line in the past urging unions to defy the court. The executive has already declared it is bound by its own annual conference decision not to co-operate with the NIRC or any of its institutions. Last Monday the engineering section executive went into session on the financial posi- tion of the union, but no firm decisions were taken on the question of payment of fines, though I understand the con- census was against payment.

The official response from the union yesterday was comment at this stage'. • See NIRC story p.12.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

JACK JONES, the leader of Britain's biggest union, yester- day recommended a policy of social contract with the gov- ernment of the day—be it Tory or Labour. Speaking to the parliamentary Press gallery at a House of Com- luncheon, Jones outlined mons his policy of trade union integ- ration with the capitalist state.

Referring to the breakdown in the Downing Street talks, Jones said: We wanted an under- standing because sooner or later it must become common prac- tice in advanced industrial con- tries like this that social policy becomes a matter of negotiation between the unions, the em- ployers and the government of the day.' Jones said that the talks had not broken down; they had faded out because of the Tories' commitment to join the Com- mon Market.

FROM OUR OWN

REPORTERS

UNITED Kingdom Cold Storage, the Hay's Wharf subsidiary at Dagenham, Essex, has announced last-minute terms to keep its £1.5m cold stores open. The company said yesterday it wanted firm guarantees that lorry drivers would cross dock- ers' picket lines. On the eve of the company's decision close down the to stores, Eric Rechnitz, the lorry drivers' unofficial leader, told the 'Daily Telegraph': 'We agreed the dockers had gone on long enough. We have decided to cross picket lines." At the Midland Cold Storage in east London, dockers main- taining their six-month picket at the main gate were scornful of Rechnitz's threat. A picket said: 'In every war there has to be casualties. If workers are being sacked, it is because Vestey [store owner] is doing it, not us." BARBARA CASTLE, Minister of Labour in the Wilson govern- ment and author of In Place of Strife', lost her place in yester- day's elections to the Shadow Cabinet.

workers press

TORIES TRAMPLE ON

WORKERS' RIGHTS

THE WORKING class now fa Tory government has decided right of all-the right to a d taken three days of Heath's b sinister aim of the laws again

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE TUC will not talk with the government over pay, but it has come out against any special conference of the movement to discuss the Tory measures on inflation. These two decisions were taken yesterday at a meeting of the TUC economic committee the six-man body which voted unanimously to break off talks as long as the freeze continues.

But there will be no special meeting of the TUC General Council on the measures or any re-call of union executives. Calls from some unions for a special TUC Congress to work out a campaign of action against the dictatorship over wages have also been ignored. This is a policy of complete inaction in face of the Tory attack. economic committee said The the problem of inflation . would not be solved by the 'precipitate action' taken by the government.

The TUC remains convinced that a solution must eventually be found through 'realistic dis- and joint argument. cussions 'But it must be understood that it is impossible : for such discussions to be held in cir- cumstances where the results of collective-bargaining are to re- main frozen by such ill-judged and objectionable provisions, it added. Chancellor Barber repeated the Tory offer of talks in the Commons yesterday. He said all in the government hoped that the tripartite discussions could be resumed. • TUC secretary Victor Feather would not state specifically that yesterday's decision meant there would be no further talks with the Tories. He declared: •We shall judge the circum- stances in relation to the stand- still in the light of any changed atmosphere or any new develop- ments that might take place'

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9, '

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

OF THE SOC

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

; now faces an unprecedented situation. The lecided to deprive it legally of its most basic to a decent standard of living. It has only eath's bill to prove that this is the real and 's against inflation. Workers have been caged in by the penalties fines against wage in- and creases but are suffering a flood of price increases. The vast majority of the population in Britain have already experienced a serious fall in their real wages. In the two weeks before the decree over pay was announced on Monday all the big food and commodity bosses went on an orgy of profiteering. No less than 5,000 prices were increased.

But this is only a start, worse is to come. All basic foods like meat, fish, vegetables and fruit are exempted from the freeze. Experts safely pre- dict that all these items will register sharp rises.

These 16 make per cent of family food up expenditure. The prices of processed foods will go up and up as well. This is because the cost of imported foods and raw materials will rocket as the pound loses its value and the foreign monopolies increase their profit margins. This is no small item. Over 45 per cent of food and nearly all industrial raw materials come into Britain from abroad-these are completely exempt from control. Of course the rich will not suffer. The million- aires and Stock Market speculators will shoulder the cost-of-living rises safe in the "frozen' knowledge that their dividend increases will be paid back in the big profit hand-out which is sure to follow the freeze.

In other words Heath's Britain is one where there is no justice Honry Goa for outside the Tory anyone magic circle of bankers, mono- polists and speculators. The wages plan deprives of the right to a standard kers of living while the Industrial Relations Court robs workers of

JIM

CONWAY,

right-wing rights built to protect their up general secretary of the Amal- and working conditions. unions The offensive has started on this gamated Union of Engineering Yesterday Workers, front too. the court yesterday gave big began once more to slap strong hint he would like to fines on unions. co-operate with the National The court and the inflation law Industrial Relations Court and represent the most serious on- the £5.000 pay fine Imposed slaught yet launched against the yesterday for contempt. class. Literally all basic working Asked Britain's second during 200 years of rights won largest union could afford to bitter struggle are up for auction.

Conway pay the fine. •renlied: This is the meaning of Torvism Oh yes. We are not a poor 1972. union. But the Tories want the middle The union's executive will Tuesday class suffer well. The in- meet next to decide of the Value troduction Added whether to Con- pay or not. Tax drive hun- way said: 'We will give serious designed to 1S dreds of small businesses and consideration to the ludgement shops into bankruptcy. on Tuesday. We have no inten- tion of defying the law to that hit the Price rises will also extent.' of the professions hard pockets The fine is immediate an -the inhabitants of suburbia too challenge to the of executive Tory will have to swallow the the enaineering section of the medicine.

AUEW.

They have held a hard.

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MBER 9, 1972 • No. 916 • 4p

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Henry Goad: Took union to NIRC.

line in the past urging unions to dety the court. has already The executive declared it is bound by its own annual conference decision not to co-operate with the NIRC or any of its institutions. Last Monday the engineering section executive went into session on the financial posi- tion of the union, but no firm decisions were taken on the question of payment of fines, though I understand the con- census was against payment.

The official response from 'no the union yesterday was at this stage'. comment • See NIRC story p.12.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

JACK JONES, the leader of Britain's biggest union, yester- day recommended a policy of social contract with the gov- ernment of the day—be it Tory or Labour. Speaking to the parliamentary Press gallery at a House of Com- luncheon, Jones outlined mons his policy of trade union integ- ration with the capitalist state.

Referring to the breakdown in the Downing Street talks, Jones said: 'We wanted an under- standing because sooner or later it must become common prac- tice in advanced industrial coun- tries like this that social policy becomes a matter of negotiation between the unions, the em- ployers the day, and the government of Jones said that the talks had not broken they had down; faded out because of the Tories' to join the Com- commitment mon Market.

FROM OUR OWN

REPORTERS

UNITED Kingdom Cold Storage, the Hay's Wharf subsidiary at Dagenham, Essex, has announced last-minute terms to keep its £1.5m cold stores open. The company said yesterday it wanted firm guarantees that lorry drivers would cross dock- ers' picket lines. On the eve of the company's decision down the to close Eric Rechnitz, the lorry stores, drivers' unofficial leader, told the 'Daily Telegraph': 'We agreed the dockers had gone on long We have decided to enough. cross picket lines.' At the Midland Cold Storage in east London, dockers main- taining their six-month picket at the nain gate were scornful of Rechnitz's threat. A picket said: 'In every war there has to be casualties. If workers are being sacked, it is because Vestey [store owner] is doing it, not us.' BARBARA CASTLE, Minister of Labour in the Wilson govern- ment and author of 'In Place of Strife', lost her place in yester- day's elections to the Shadow Cabinet.

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DEFENCE lawyer for imprisoned ten members of the illegal Spanish Workers' Commissions, Ruiz Jimenez, claims that the public pro- seekor Mare secution sentence for years' lino Camacho and terms of 20 the ten to years for others. Camacho has of spent most the for his work in building the under- ground Commissions been held with the Orners lni ara banchel since their arrest last prison bail have All requests for june. been remused Tribunal of Public Since the Order is not going to deal with their offence fighting trade unions independent of The Sindicato fascist until they will have spent spills. year in jail before facing trial.

This typical example of fascist "justice' should endear the ranco clic Stalinist bureaucrats constantly being entertained in Madrid. Yugoslavia:

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Nixon's crushing majority in Managers the US presidential election was above all resign assured by the bureau- cratic rulers in Mos-

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Elektronska cow and Peking. Industria factory at Nis, Thanks to have forced the resignation of their col- laboration, the President members of the top marazemen! wages. was able to present him- wno trea to cut their Several thousand workers self as bringing 'peace largest the Yugoslavia's with honour in Vietnam tactory, while

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preparing further Saturday demanding the resigna- brutal war against the tion of director-general Indo-China revolution. Jasic and other lilallancis According to Reuter colleagues had cut the workers' wages in order correspondent lohn Hefter.

to make up a big deficit on "The fact that the agree- Workers major factors laclory s accoulllo. salu still been President Nixon's victory has not at the fact. sel manacemeni Lilcill his factory operated in name signed and peace were probably

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factory has also decided to force and to MoscOw patch •oviously oc who refused differences with the lieved that the President, other managers

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Union and brought the They Soviet sign voluntarilv. WIll first near peace have to stay at their posts until LICaLV milling Count y their responsibility for the firm's nuclear arms. alter seven veals Wal examined 'His already strong posi- and nearly 50,000 American deficit been by 1las should be given tion with the was dead, the collac

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Industria indicates the growing announcement nine- normalcy. process This belief was fostered anger of Yugoslav workers against point Vietnam quite fraudulently because, the bureaucracy which is striving with North to itself more more to free bring ceasenre 1100 remaining constraints Indo-China and the pro- agreement is signed, trom clamation that "peace is at will be no peace Viet- imposed by the self-management until capitalism system. What Redouble the tight we against Stalinism think and The real meaning of Mazuroy's speeci THE THEME of the marches Moscow on the 55th s well appreciated by the leaders o speeches in hangers- and the world imperialism anniversary of the October Revolu- on internationally. It is sufficient to tion was the need to collaborate even examine the list of greetings received closely with American more the Kremlin and broadcast on perialism under the slogan of 'peace- at Moscow Radio. ful coexistence' These included messages from the Shah One of the first floats in the Red Emperor Hirohito, Queen Square parade carried giant or lran, Elizabeth Turkish President the 'Prayda' headline • CallO? of Cevdet nana Ceylons President leone public to support the recent series Italy Mrs and premier of agreements between Moscow and From Sirimavo Bandaranaike. Washington. a telegram Washington there was And in his speech afterwards at the by the biggest counter- signed Kremlin Palace Congresses, all, butcher revolutionary of them Kiril Politburo Mazurov member President Richard Nixon. laid heavy stress on the opportuni- that these is clear everyone ties for 'making the international healthy' monarchs, dictators and big business opened up mortal the by Nixon's visit to Moscow.

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freeze which has kept down wages walle prices ana un• employment spiralled upwards. Nixon has also mounted vicious attacks on workers' rights ana organizations. He used the infamous Taft- break strikes, including the strike dockers' drawn-out last year. At the the same time the all over United States have been showered with money and up TO striking force the against the ot revolution United States. These measures have gone together with of full-scale opening. war against lne orner malli Nixon will Intensify Yet in his four years of capitalist countries. office the has been war war on workino class at With the re-election of home and abroad. Intensiter an extended o the whole of Indo-China. the president a new round war against economic driven out. Close to $100,000m has will This recognized by been spent Tine begin. the and both since Nixon took office and During the campaign, the North Vietnamese, who bombardment of indo. adviser Pierre Rin- Nixon's making frantic efforts China has reached a tempo al C fret revealed plans for 150- to build up forces the never belore seen anywnere tariffs south. per-cent on the planet. to the United What is more, Nixon He has promised further States to protect home to nothing in committed break the dustry and crush foreign and has free vietnal power of the transport competition. hand on The 121] prelude to which has waged war TelL Will crushing be signal for stepping oreanined the past four

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of the whole US power battles Nixon won the presi- these CCOnOLLC the and throwing Europe and by attacking working class. dency deeper Japan into even Lyndon Johnson record on On August 15. 19/1. ne the war. introduced a total wage social and political crisis. prisoners in South Vietnamese con- centration camps face extermination if the ceasefire deal is signed.

Moscow for the now preparing Conference European Security next year, bringing together the countries of eastern Europe with the capitalist of the EEC and the fascist powers dictatorships of Spain, and military Portugal, Turkey and Greece.

The purpose of this conference is to ratify the status quo in Europe at a of when the workers every time country are engaged in unprece- When they enemies of revolution. dented struggle with a capitalist send greeting to the Kremlin on the class which is in mortal crisis.

Revolu- anniversary of the Russian To cement his pact with Hitler in 1939 they congratulating the tion, are Stalin destroyed thou- physically Lenin's Bol- men who destroyed stands of communists, culminating and forcibly robbed shevik Party of Trotsky by a in the assassination the working class of political power.

GPU agent in 1940. Stalin's heirs Nixon's visit to Moscow marked a new will try to seal their pact with Nixon collaboration turn in between in the blood of workers and revolu- the Soviet bureaucracy and imperial- tionaries. The Vietnamese liberation The Soviet leaders' ties with imperial- ism. fighters are being forced to accept a fully supported by the lea- ism are involving the ders of the British Communist Party rotten compromise continuation of capitalism in South which is exerting every effort to iso- Vietnam. late the Socialist Labour League with have the aid of the revisionists.

The Vietnamese revolutionaries been isolated by Moscow and Peking The Moscow celebrations are re- newed warning that the fight against and left at the mercy of Kissinger, Nixon. Stalinism life-and-death Thieu and According is a ques- Saigon 200,000 tion for the British working class.

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Fighting the Tories' rent Act £9m cash freeze on rebel councils High Streetmeat hike

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TORY government to your council' Campbell added that it has withheld payment of reaching would him in assist £9m of housing subsidies to if it decision an early were 22 Scottish local authori- established his satisfaction to that councils have taken appro- ties for refusing to imple- priate steps secure imple- • TO ment the Housing Finance mentation of the Act'. will be Glasgow Worst hit Act. Corporation. They were due to receive f4m of the total as The money was due to have been paid this week. Instead an interim payment of their councils received subsidy, which is the a briel residual Tuesday from the paid to local authorities to letter on Secretary of State for Scotland, help offset loan charges on building. Mr Gordon Campbell, explain- council house Tory councillors in Glasgow ing he "proposed to take no decision for the present as to to table resolution are to- the timing of such a payment night calling for an immediate

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

ENTRY INTO the Common Market is going to mean huge increases in the price of meat. This has been the main theme of the annual conference of the government-sponsored Meat and Livestock Commission being held at Harrogate. Mr Michael Higgins, purchasing manager of a Paris meat firm, told the conference the price of beef will rise by between 25p and 30p in the f by the middle of next year.

By next spring, he said, British housewives will be the paying exorbitant prices of their counter- parts in France. Meat prices in Britain were today still lower than the on Continent, but UK prices would increase under the double pres- THE DEPARTMENT of Trade Continental buying and sure of import costs. and Industry's prices unit was At the conference yesterday deluged calls yesterday with Colin Mr Cullimore, general manager of large butchery as angry High Street shoppers Britain's said chain, yesterday phoned to complain about the 'cheap meat' policy was no longer practical in today's latest prices ramp. situation. general manager of Within a couple of hours of Collimore, Dewhursts Limited, said the meat the the switchboard, opening producing countries were operat- six civil manning the servants received ing on a sellers' market and the unit had well over demand calls. ..and all the lines world was rising at an 1,000 unprete id were jammed. rate. 1980 it would be 40 per The verdict on the unit is that was in 1970. cent higher than it it is a fraud. Prices would continue to rise We spoke to housewives who inside the Common Market, he had called to complain about said. increased prices in local shops. Mr Eric Royle, past president They were told: of National Federation of the Meat Traders, there would said The unit is not concerned be a period during the transition foodstuffs about staple like Common to the Market when vegetables, fruit and meat.

housewives' spending power The obtain would lag behind rising • unit cannot prices. refunds from food chains which "This will be a crucial time for the independent trader, he said. overcharge. which

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Motor Company increases in premiums con- firmed yesterday that it had put announced by have been insurance companies-despite the up prices of spare parts by an average of just under 5 per cent. freeze. Many leading motor 'The prices were increased last announced premium October Thursday, at the same time as the increases effective from 1 or November 1. cent rise in car prices, per A spokesman for the Depart- although we did not announce it then', said a spokesman. Some ment of Trade Industry and said motorists would have to pay spares had risen by 7 per cent. but others were unchanged.

higher insurance because the in- crease was announced before the MOTORISTS will have to pay standstill. TYNE shipyard outfitters and nine months which was re- cently awarded to the consor- general trades workers have tium's 8,000 boilermakers.

accepted increases of £4.50 But the general workers and £3.23 in a bid to beat the also in for £4.50get only Tory pay freeze. £3.23 in two stages. • outitters, who with manage- The 5,200 who meeting work for the Swan ment has been arranged for tomorrow to take the rest of consortium, will get the £4.50 in stages over the the claim through procedure.

four next review of the decision not to implement the Act. But Cllr Richard Dynes, leader of the Labour group, said there was absolutely no chance of the decision being reviewed. He said the govern- 'grossly ment's decision was unfair. The decision could eventually force the councils to borrow charge the cost and to the housing revenue account. This would mean increased housing deficits and could eventually force up rates. Last year Glasgow had to find about £7m to ofiset a housing deficit. an Out Prices lower than on Continent, but only u • Although the state control of wages comes in immediately, action against greedy grocery chains cannot be started until the Bill is law. The Tories have manoeuvred the legislation so that a swift £1.43 1933-1934 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940 £1.05 These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940— Union-are now availak 28 Charlotte St

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ross, Thursday November 9, 1972 PAGE 3 Ex-Drug Squad chief Victor Kelaher AFTER a series of investiga- tions dating back almost 18 months, the ex-head of Scot- land Yard's Drug Squad, Victor Kelaher, • and tour other detectives have been summonsed on charges alleg- ing conspiracy and perjury.

They are not due to appear in until next year - on court January 22. The were issued summonses at Guildhall, London, on Tues- day afternoon by the Director of Public Prosecutions. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of another ex- police officer, Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher, said to have left Britain in July. The summonses follow an Old Bailey 30-day trial in June and July • last year which resulted in the jailing of a cannabis drugs ring. At the same time as the issued the summonses were detectives were all suspended from duty. Apart from Kelaher, the accused are: Detective Sergeant George Nicholas Pritchard, of division, Wembley area; Detective Constable Nigel Patrick Lilley, Harrow Road police station; Detective Con- stable Adam Acworth and Woman Detective Constable McDonald McGibbon, Morag both of Scotland Yard's Central Detective Pool. All had connections with the drugs squad formerly headed by Chief Inspector Detective Kelaher (42).

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The Rise of Richard Nixon. By Jack Gale. Part One

THE CASE OF ALGER HISS

PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Thuraday November 9, 1972 In 1939 one Whittaker Chambers broke with the Party Communist and went to Assistant Secre- of State A. A. tary Berle Junior with a story of government employees with whom he had worked while in the Com- munist Party from 1934 1937. Another rabid anti-commu- Father F. nist was John who had been work- Cronin ing full-time digging out 'facts' on the Communist Party and Congressmen trying get interested. In 1947 he spoke to a new, young Congressman from Cali- ay November 9, 1972 er fornia-Richard Nixon. The young Nixon's oppon- ent had been Jerry Voorhis, a Democrat endorsed by the CIO's Political Action Com- mittee. A Nixon campaign slogan ran: 'A vote for Nixon is a vote against the commu- nist-dominated PAC with its gigantic slush fund.' Despite this, Nixon was somewhat slow off the mark when he was approached by Father Cronin. But when, in August 1948, Chambers (by, this time a senior editor of 'Time' maga- made his notorious zine) deposition to the House Un- American Activities Commit- tee, Nixon saw his oppor- tunity. spent a great deal of He time with Chambers. The future President of the United Fo States was on the threshold of his first political triumph— the Alger Hiss case. Chambers had named Hiss as someone he had khown in the Communist Party in the 1930s. At this stage, that was against his only allegation Hiss. Leaders of the Republican worried. Anti- Party were communism had not been tried out as a national weapon in American internal politics since the war. The extremely close war-time ollaboration between American imperial- ism and Russian Stalinism was fresh in the memory. And Hiss was no pushover.

He was president of the Car- of negie Endowment for Inter- The national Peace (and John ed Foster Dulles, the Republicans' spokesman on foreign affairs, had been chairman of the board which appointed him to this $20,000-a-year post). He had been principal adviser to the American delegation at the first United Nations General Assembly Session. He had been secretary- general of the conference in San Francisco which created the United Nations. He had accompanied the Roosevelt to Yalta and been party executive secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference.

. hot Altogether, it was a potato - which is probably why it was left to a relatively minor figure like Nixon, who to gamble his was prepared political future. Hiss's performance at his Left: Alger Hiss, witch-hunted by a young Richard Nixon and sub- ject of two trials in which he was convicted of being a Communist Party member. Inset: Photographs of Hiss's Whittaker accuser Chambers are used to try and get his confession. first hearing threw the com- mittee into consternation, as Nixon himself admits. Some- thing special would be needed to break him. Nixon sought and obtained the co-operation of John Foster Dulles, later Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Allen Dulles, later secretary of the CIA, and banker C.

Douglas Dillon. A staged confrontation be- Chambers and Hiss tween failed to produce the break- through that Nixon wanted.

Hiss challenged Chambers to repeat his allegations outside Congressional privilege. On August 1948, Chambers repeated his allega- tions against Hiss on a radio programme 'Meet the Press'.

The following month, Hiss sued. Up to now, Chambers had merely claimed that he had known Hiss and that Hiss had been a CP member. In the civil libel suit, however, he produced for the first time handwritten, typewritten and copies of classi- microfilmed government documents fied which, he said, Hiss passed to him to be relayed to the Soviet Union. Asked why he had not pro- duced this evidence earlier, Chambers said he had only decided to do so atter pro- longed 'Quaker meditation'.

nervy time for It was a Nixon. Early in December, Chambers produced microfilm from a hollowed pumpkin which he said Hiss had passed to him in 1937. A test indi- cated that the film was new.

A second test, however, pro- duced the desired result.

This was to become one of the longest-lasting libel cases in legal history. December 15, 1948, a On federal grand jury in New York indicted Hiss for perjury in denying that he ever turned over government documents to Chambers. The first trial failed to bring a conviction. Nixon's fury was beyond belief. Together with three other members of the House on Un-American Activities Committee, he accused Judge Samuel H. Kaufman of bias for Hiss and demanded that his fitness be investigated.

A second trial took place before in November 1949, Judge Henry W. Goddard and convicted. Herbert Hiss was Hoover wired Nixon: 'The conviction of Alger Hiss was due to your patience and persistence alone. At last the stream of treason that existed in our government has been exposed in a fashion that all may believe.' When General Eisenhower nominated Nixon for vice- President in 1952 he intro- duced him to the Republican National Convention as man who has shown states- qualities in manlike many ways, but has a special talent an ability to ferret out and any kind of subversive influ- ence wherever it may be found, and the strength and persistence to get rid of it'.

Nixon was on the way up. Throughout the 1952 Presi- dential campaign he repeatedly alleged that a Democratic vic- tory would mean 'more Alger more atomic spies, Hisses, more crises' His major attack on Adlai Stevenson was that he had been a character witness for Hiss: 'In my opinion, his actions, his statements, his record, dis- qualifies him from leading the United States and the free nations in the fight against and communism at home abroad.' Nixon was ready to raise all the political capital he could out of the fate of Alger Hiss.

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BOLIVIAN FASCISTS SMASH

WORKERS LIVING STANDARDS

of the Bolivian counter-revolution at their victory rally : left, Mario Gutierrez, Bolivian Socialist Falange, centre, Hugo Banzer, right, Paz Estensoro, MR leader. Above: fascist demonstrators march past the Presidential Palace, giving the

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENI

Bolivia is about to make a great leap on the road to economic and sociall progress. The government is doing everything pos- sible to make basic neces- sities cheap, including electricity, according to President Hugo Banzer Suarez. He was speaking from the balcony of the government palace in La Paz on August 21, one year after his success- ful coup dismissed Juan Torres and illegalized all working-class organizations. His optimism was echoed by speeches of the other two leaders of the coup at the victory rally. Paz Estensoro, - of the National Revolutionary Move- ment, talked about national construction and Mario Gutier- rez, of the Bolivian Socialist Falange, spoke of restoring dignity to the citizens. Two and a half months later, Banzer outdid even 'cut- prices-at-a-stroke' Heath in going back on his promises.

He devalued the Bolivian peso by 66.6 per cent. While he assured the Bolivian people that it was necessary 'in order to secure the economic future of the country and its children'

DISRUPTIVE

The tanks of his army were out on the streets of La Paz to suppress workers who had struck work in protest against a measure which cut their already bare and meagre stan- dard of living by two-thirds.

This working-class resur- gence against dictatorship in Bolivia has not been the only problem facing Banzer since August 21 when he was hailed as the leader by lines of black- shirts and white-shirts. At the beginning of October, tension mounted after the ex- pulsion to Brazil of the former chief of the army's second division, Colonel Ayoroa, and the former deputy head of the MINK, Guillermo Bedregal.

laconic government com- muniqué said that Bedregal 'invited to leave Bolivia' was because he was a 'disruptive element in the MR and the Bolivian family and because he had injured respect for the armed forces'. Bedregal, who had only just returned from 'voluntary exile' in Venezuela, is the author of "The Military in the book Bolivia', , a book which contains a fierce attack on the present army chief, Colonel Joaquin Zenteno. He also used to be president of the Bolivian Mining Cor- poration (COMIBOL) which enabled him to collect a con- siderable fortune and to sur- succession of govern- vive a ments. His departure removes at least one threat of another palace revolution. A Bolivian who was in La Paz at the time of the coup told Workers Press about the conditions facing the working class and what the devaluation would mean for the tin miners: The workers in the mines like Siglo XX earn about £20 a month and work a 48-hour week. Before the devaluation, the average life- tin miner was 35 span of a years because of lack of pro- tein and silicosis caused by the lack of protection and safety

ONDENT

Top: the three leaders of the Bolivian co right, Paz Estensoro, MR leader. Abov regulations in the mines. The devaluation will make that life span even shorter. The nationalization of the mines carried through by Paz Estensoro as a result of the revolution in 1952

MNR

brought the miners nothing.

COMIBOL dominates every aspect of the miners' lives.

They and their families live in company-owned, one-roomed • which are about three huts yards square and have no water or heating. It is very cold, dry and isolated in the mountain valleys where the mines are. Most of the miners are illiterate because COMIBOL is not interested in educating them — that would be dan- gerous! Before the coup, there were quite strong unions which were Now they are semi-illegal. completely illegal and their leaders are either in concen- tration camps or in exile. Every week in January and February, a list was distributed of ten to 20 workers and students who had been shot. When the military uprising olivian counter-revolution at their victory rally : der. Above : fascist demonstrators march took place, all the miners were not to able to come to La Paz. Only the Milluni miners came with their dynamite. In La Paz, there was great can- fusion. At a student meeting in the university, a decision was taken to go to the mass meeting at lunchtime in Mira- flores to take over the military barracks—headquarters of the army's General Staff.

GREAT

Everybody thought General Torres would give us arms and that was the great mistake.

There were no arms. The armoured divisions of the army were able to break up and kill the opposition very easily.

For three or four days, the forces of the Falange and the MNR patrolled the streets, burning houses and killing students and workers. There were machine-guns surrounding the university. The priests told student leaders that they had an agreement with • the army to let them out without any Workers Press, Thurs ory rally : left, Mario Gutierrez, Bolivian Socialist rch past the Presidential Palace, giving the fa: killings. Students knew they would be killed anyway, so the 'peace' plea was rejected. The troops many students and killed others were put in concen- tration camps. Since then repression has never stopped. At the last meeting of right-wing Ministers of the Interior in Latin America held in Paraguay, Bolivian Adett Zamora said it was necessary for the armed forces in all Latin America to get together to put down revolutionary movements. Earlier in the year, Zamora was responsible for expelling Soviet diplomats 120 from Bolivia. On a television pro- gramme he claimed they were in an anti-Bolivian involved plot. These diplomats had come to Bolivia under the govern- ment of Torres and Ovando.

With them technicians were from Russia, Yugöslavia, Pol- and and Czechoslovakia, who were modernizing the mining processes in Bolivia. most people don't What realize is that these tech- ess, Thursday November 9, 1972 PAGE 5 n Socialist Falange, centre, Hugo Banzer, ng the fascist salute. nicians still remain, although have the Soviet diplomats gone. Every week, a team of experts from mining eastern Europe is flying in or out of La Paz with new data. Another interesting aspect of Bolivian the counter- revolution is the role of the German Nazis who live mainly in Santa Cruz where the coup began. The colony is led by Klaus Altmann, who is the best of friends with Banzer and the ruling clique in Bolivia. He began work in Bolivia with a quinine extraction hrm and then founded a company called om the Bolivian Transmaritime Company. With government support, he started a campaign called 'Build a boat for Bolivia'. In schools and churches, collec- tions were taken and everyone forced to contribute to was the fund which was supposed to be established in the Central Bank of Bolivia. Nothing has been seen since, either of the boat money! or the

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday November 9, 1972

AND SO DO THEIR WORKERS

Alex Mitchell conducts an investigation into the strife.

torn £900m Dunlop-Pirelli tyre merger.

"Dunlop at Work in Britain, In 1969 the Dunlop Rub- 1972, produced in May ber Company produced a that strike days showed lost booklet for its 102,500 dropped from 249,000 in 1970 90,000 in 1971. The firm to employees entitled 'Dun- showed a profit only after pay Work in Britain'. lop at ng off 4,276 workers, and re It was a back-slapping, ducing the total labour force by 6,424, of around 13 public relations exercise.

per cent. But there was one para- These, if you like, have been Workers graph which Press some oi the national charac- and took very seriously we of the Dunlop outfit drew Dunlop workers'

ALLOT

over the past few But years. to it. tion the international scale The paragraph stated: "The much bigger questions are due to of competition growth being resolved. falling tariffs and technical in- Enter Signor Leopoldo Pir- novation puts a high premium elli. on the creation of an environ- The international tyre busl- ment in which changes must immensely profit- necs is an accepted as nor- come to be able one. For generations varl- necessary? mai and ous big names have dominated Within months of the publi- the markets in various coun- Dunlop cation of the booklet tries on basis which almost workers in Britain had a large seemed to be pre-arranged.

change of the 'era of dose Goodyear and Firestone which had been forecast. dominated the US market, 1969 In July stewards at France, Michelin in Bridge- Coven- Dunlop's toolroom in stone in Japan, Continental in try allowed PA Time Consult- Germany, Pirelli in Italy and to work in the factory ants Dunlop They in Britain. drawing up productivity pro- largely depended massive on posals. with their own car contracts In May the following year manufacturers, but competed declared management war with each other in the colonial workers at Fort Dunlop when and semi-colonial countries. they rejected a f6-a-week pay The collapse of the post-war In return the company claim. boom and the intensification asked the 1,500 engineers of world trade disrupted these accept £3, half the claim, plus and cosy mutually-enriching redundancy for 100 of their relationships. By the end of brothers. The six-week strike the 1960s the companies were ended only after the interven- beginning to mount fiercer

AUEW

of councilman tion in competition their col- Bob Wright and Mark Young league's backyards. of the electricians' union. Against background this The men returned with a £4 Signor Pirelli began a series rise-Wright had argued for a of secret meetings with his return at just over £3-plus UK Dunlop. rivals, Special increased redundancy pay for executive jets were chartered de- the 100 'volunteers' and to take the tyre magnates to tailed proposals for producti- mysterious assignations in vity. Basle, Frankfurt, Milan and In February the next year London. that the announced The joint "taking action in the it was made simultaneously in Lon- future to reduce i near don and Milan in March 1970 heads he is talking about jobs, was greeted enthusiastically the livelihoods of men and by the Tory Press. women. The Dunlop workers knew that the savings would not be made in the boardroom where ex-Chancellor of the Exche- Goer and deputy leader ginad "This is the first major Party, Reginald Anglo-Italian towards Maudling, was then in resi- industrial integration since dence. Britain's application to join April the axe fell. The In Common Market ' the said company announced that 1,200 'The Times'. or 15 per cent of its workers, ( Dunlop's chairman, Sir Reay office staff, were to be sacked.

Geddes, boosted the merger They included 750 and men with a series of euphoric Press the clerical and women in statements: 'This is an aggres- administrative departments at sive move, he told "The Sun- Fort Dunlop in Birmingham, day Times'. Speke in Liverpool and Inchin- He said it was la marriage nan in Glasgow. Another 450 of equals and described it as with the phasing were to go a union for expansion'. out of the plant at St. "Mary's At the annual meeting in Mills, Leicester. May 1970 he told share- With the white-collar staff holders: sorted out, the company then "The primary purpose of our attacked production workers. union is to increase the profit- Tobs were. eliminated, older ability of the parent compa- workers were not replaced nies. We believe that it can be after retirement and producti- done.' wherever vity was introduced publicity The reached it could be sold on the shop crescendo in December 1970 floor. when final for the plans By this year the impact of £900m merger were made pub- the company's new strategy lic at a lavish London recep- begun had to demonstrate tion. itself. The 'Financial Times' said: Will Challenge The new group Firestone for second place Goodyear behind the as world's biggest tyre and rub- ber group? Geddes told the 'City Press' that the deal was la union for growth and expansion'. 'Our sights cover not just the next few years but the de- cades beyond, said the vision- ary chairman. But he passed the curious comment that its depended 'both success on judgement and faith'-hardly issues likely to make much of an impression on the hard- faced Dunlop shareholders.

Perhaps this piece of Christ- ian parsimony can be ignored when we look at another com- ment he made to "The Times'.

That newspaper commented: •Sir Reay said that with ever-increasing changes in markets, technologies and the political and industrial envir- onment it was essential to take advantage waven il occurred: opportunity This politically-incisive re- mark was followed by one from Lord Thorneycroft, an- other former Chancellor of the Exchequer, who said it was 'unwise' to talk of the merger in terms of 'attacking' the Americans. 'We are more vul- Lott: Leopoldo Pirelli. Right: Sir Reay Ge Above: Pirolll and Flat factory workers sta!

nerable to attack than they are, he added soberly. And so it was to be. Three weeks ago the results of the first 18 months of the merger were announced. The Italian end of the operation ran up a loss of £9.8m in the irst six months of this year.

This gave a of grand total £30m losses since the merger.

A statement added that 'it is unlikely that the second-half experience will be any better' The 'Birmingham Post' com- Right: Sir Reay Geddes, Dunlop's chairman. factory workers stage a joint demonstration. mented sourly: 'At best only a slow improvement is expec- ted in 1973 which could mean that in. 1973 Italian losses will have increased to £50m.' These results had 'a horrid' effect on the share price. From a peak of 295p at the time of the merger, the price slumped to as low as 104p, wiping mil- lions of pounds off the com- pany's paper value. Pirelli's troubles can be dir- ectly traced to the trade war.

has Firestone entered the Italian market big in a way and so has the French group, Michelinis investments which has quad- rupled in Italy in the past four years.

Michelin through its business connections with Citröen has also got a leg into the Fiat group and is now supplying that big Italian car producer with tyres. Pirelli's response has been lead attack after attack to against its own workers. In the past few weeks, for ex- ample, 870 staff have been laid off and 1,900 workers in Milan put on a 32-hour week. Since the merger in March 1970 some 8,500 workers at Dunlop-Pirelli have been sacked. A number of factories have either been or are about to be closed and there has been extensive short-time working in both Britain and Italy. Writing in the 'Guardian' Roman Eisenstein said: 'An- other possibility being studied by the group is, I believe, the closure of parts of Industrie Pirelli's operations. This may, however, run up against both Italian policy- government Pirelli employs 38,000 people in Italy-and the unions.'

It is to the response of the unions that we now turn. Not long after the merger took piace, shop stewards in both Britain and Italy made their first informal contact. Their objective was to plan action against Dunlop-Pirelli's rationalization plans which were clearly aimed at mass sackings. The crisis of capitalism which had brought together giants two of international monopoly had, at the same time, forged a unity of inter- the Italian and est between British workers. In September 1970 a dele- gation of Pirelli shop stewards took the initiative. With three union officials they arrived in Birmingham saying they wanted to discuss matters of common interest. Soon they had made contacts with about 50 Dunlop shop stewards. Then the Dunlop stewards went to Italy, returning the visit and learning about the problems the Italian workers faced in their factories. An in- ternational steering committee was quickly established, with eight-man delegation from an the British plants. It was not long before the sackings and closures began to hit both groups of workers.

Said Joe McGough, leading engineers' steward: 'All that we have got from the merger so far is closures, loss of over- time, short-time working and a series of productivity deals which have led to a reduction of the labour force. "The only people who are better off are the shareholders and the directors, he said ear- lier this year. A joint strike by British and Italian workers was fixed for June 9 this year. A bilingual news sheet printed in Rome was given to all Dunlop-Pirelli workers. It was the first of the 'Euro-strikes'. The four-part demands called for a halt to sackings and short-time working and an end to importing products into a country 'where workers of the group making the same product are not engaged in full production'. Said the news sheet: "The committee will not tolerate of this so-called more rationalization carried out on of the men the backs and women who work for Dunlop- Workers Prese, Thumaday Pirelli.' Wherever the company planned redundancies must stand together and fight'.

The strike received no offi- cial backing from the union leaderships in either Britain or Italy, proving that the labour bureaucracies were also united in their opposition to mobilizing the working class. In Britain, Dunlop's second largest plant at Speke, Liver- pool, was totally hit, with almost 2,000 workers out. Another 1,000 workers struck at the nearby belting and foot- wear factories.

HANDS

Some 300 workers came out in Grimsby, Lincs. In the rest of the country the mainten- ance engineers came out on strıke ana production at fort Birmingham, DunloP, largest plant in Bri- i group's tain, was also hit. In Italy the first test of the trans-European strike met with more success, partly be- cause it was only a two-hour stoppage. Up to 30,000 Italian workers in 15 plants stopped and took part in demonstra- tions. ara Preda, Thuraday Novocabar 9, 1972 PAGE 7 Tory Press talk that the merger may blow up is non- These big European sense. monopolies are driven by the depth of the economic crisis to join hands and consolidate their power in a desperate attempt to stave off the rising militancy of their workers.

But just as these capitalists merge their economic strength, they their weaknesses merge too. The militancy of the men at Speke is fused with the militancy of the men at Milan.

There is only one answer to the threat posed by this mono- polistic conspiracy in the Com- mon Market. The fight for a Socialist United States of Europe, where the anarchy of capitalist production is re- placed by a planned economy developed for the needs of the working class in Europe and internationally. The first step in this his- toric task is the mobilization of the working class in Britain to force the Tory government to resign. A Labour government re- turned to office must be man- dated by the mass movement • to nationalize big business like Dunlop-Pirelli without com- pensation and under workers' control.

In January next year the Soviet Union and Franco's fascist state enter formal trade relations. The trade and cultural pact with Spain is signed and delivered in the blood of thousands of Spanish and international workers who fought against the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War. Today we begin a vital series of six articles which trace the growth of links between the Moscow Stalinists and the fascists. Our special writer on Spanish affairs, Juan Garcia, has translated key documents in this accord and combed libraries and the embassies to

THE SPANISH FASCISTS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Novel In January next year the Sovi signed and delivered in the bl Civil War. Today we begin a special writer on Spanish affa present this series of articles e counter revolutionary pact bet

PART 1

THE FALANGE

September 15, 1972, was an historic day in the development of the counter - revolution in Europe. In the 'neutral' territoy of the Spanish section of the OECD in Paris, two men sat down at the negotiating table and signed an agreement which began: "The government of the Spanish state and the govern- ment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, desiring to foment and increase com- mercial relations between the two countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit have agreed the following...

While Moscow Stalinist A.

Manzhulo and Spanish N. fascist José Luis Ceron signed together in Paris, the glad news of this new friendship for his 'Spain, united, Catholic and great' was related to General- issimo Francisco Franco at his Council of Ministers in San Sebastian. The culmination of many years of diplomatic coming and going, the pact is crime against all those who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of intellectuals, workers and peasants died in the battles of Guadalajara, Jarama, Ebro and the Univer- sity City in Madrid, hghting against troops backed by aid from Hitler and Mussolini.

The British Communist Party organized campaigns in defence of the Popular Front in factories and the univer- sities. Many Party members took the long road to Spain to fight fascism, to join the British Battalion of the Inter- national Brigades. Party secretary John Gollan 'Morning Star' Foreign and Editor Sam Russell, who re- mains silent on the trade pact, remember those who must died. Remember Ralph Fox from Swindon, shot in the battle on the road to the Escorial on December 29, 1936, or Christopher Cauld- well, who fell at Jarama, victim of Franco's Moorish legions? The struggle of workers and intellectuals in Europe against fascism in the 1930s was by the policies of the betrayed Comintern, which Stalinist a war in stated that it was defence of bourgeois democracy for and offensive not an socialism. Stalin coupled this policy with an attack on all its , who in critics as 'Trotskyists', Spain were 'agents of Franco'.

José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, spelled out in the Cortes (par- liament), in July 1935, the anti- communist of the counter-revolution: 'Bolshevism is essențially an attitude of materialism before the world ... He who arrives at Bolshevism makes his point of departure a purely economic interpretation of history: 'We who today... sacrifice comforts and advantages in order to achieve a readjust- day November 9, 1972 he Soviet Union and Franco's fascis n the blood of thousands of Spanish begin a vital series of six articles wh ish affairs, Juan Garcia, has transla rticles exposing Stalinism. The Brit pact between the Kremlin and Franc Top: a meeting of the 15th International during the Civil War. Above: the Interve on the battlefield in the Soviet Union| Hitler's Third Reich for Its leader, Mun rated with the Iron Cross. He was October 1967. ment in the world, without failing the spiritual aspect, are the negation of Bolshevism...

One of the co-founders of the Falange, the official party was Don Alfonso García Valdecasas (now 68) still sits in the Cortes and was recently appointed the new deacon in the Faculty of Law in Madrid University—the former deacon resigned after the recent purge of teachers and students.

Valdecasas' career is of con- siderable importance to those who want to defend the gains of the Bolshevik Revolution and study the friends the Soviet bureaucracy is making in Spain. In 1932, Valdecasas and his friends established the Spanish Front, a party inspired by the ideals of the Spanish 'philoso- pher', Ortega y Gasset. Ortega was a worshipper of Spengler s fascist state enter formal trade re panish and international workers wl icles which trace the growth of link translated key documents in this a 'he British Communist Party and d Franco. ternational Brigade, the British Battalion, he intervention of Franco's Blue Division et Union won the highest distinction of ader, Munoz Grandes, here being deco- He was Franco's vice-premier until and the military organization of the German ruling class. He yearned for a strong man for Spain. José Antonio approached Valdecasas, with fellow fascist Ruiz de Alda, in August 1933 to discuss the dissolution of the Front into the National Syndicalist Organization.

The new united movement was launched on October 29, a meeting in the 1933, at Comedia Theatre in Madrid: the Spanish Traditionalist Falange was greeted by plat- form speeches by Valdecasas and José Antonio. Antonio clamoured: 'We desire that if on some occasion this [the total unity of the Fatherland] must be achieved by violence, there must be no shrinking from violence no other dialectic is admissible save the dialectic of fists and pistols when justice or the trade relations. The trade and cult rkers who fought against the fascist f of links between the Moscow Stalin n this accord and combed libraries y and the 'Morning Star' remain: Fatherland is offended.' A month later, Valdecasas, tired by the rhetoric of José Antonio, married a marquesa and went off on a long honey- moon. After the death of José Antonio and the outbreak of the Civil War, he returned to the fold of the Falange which was being reorganized by Franco in his . Salamanca war headquarters. As a result of his contribu- tion to the fascist victory, on September 9, 1939, Valdecasas was appointed as the head of Institute of Political Studies which was conceived as the brain-box of the Falange where the leaders of the new state would be trained. The position went together with a place on the junta which ruled Spain in those years of concen- tration camps for all oppon- ents. This junta sent 180,000 1941 soldiers between and 1943 to fight alongside Hitler's troops in Russia. The famous Division participated in Blue the siege of Leningrad. While he occupied his position on the junta, Don Alfonso was in favour of bringing the young technocrats into the leadership of the Falange. Technocrats like Lopez Bravo and Luis Ceron who negotiate with Mos- cow... In the era of Lopez Bravo and Juan Carlos, Valdecasas' impeccable record as a pioneer of the Falange and his prag- matic commonsense not only recommend him for a period of rule in the university, but also for a very special task. On October 24, this task was revealed: he will lead a three-man committee to review the protocol to be established nd cultural pact with Spain is fascist forces during the Spanish w Stalinists and the fascists. Our libraries and the embassies to emain absolutely silent on this between the Spanish govern- ment and the government of the USSR on behalf of the Foreign Affairs Department of the Cortes. Also on the committee will be Jesus Fueyo Alvarez, a member of the political junta of the Falange to which he was by Franco, appointed and Julio Martinez de Bujanda, the 58-year-old head of National Union of Farmers.

Valdecasas will be looking into the 'inviolability' of the headquarters of the 12-man delegations which will be set up in Madrid and Moscow, as well as questions of comfort- able accommodation and direct communication home through telex and telephone. (Details from the protocol for trade- relations; as published in the Official Bulletin of the Cortes on October 24.) In the development of their relations with Spain, the Moscow Stalinists then are dealing directly with the very butchers of the working class in the Civil War. On this treachery, there is a complete silence in the 'Morning Star'. It carried a brief Reuter news agency report on the trade pact. This must have surprised readers of the Stalinist daily, for it broke the complete silence which the paper has kept on the long period of reciprocal visists 01 Spanish and Stalinist bureau- crats. That silence is in the tradition of its forerunner, the Daily Worker, which diatribed against the Trotsky- ist movement in the 1930s as the 'main agent of fascism'. It is in the tradition of the GPU squads in Spain who murdered any workers who had con- nections with Trotskyism.

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SPECULATION

The Lancashire seaside resort of Morecambe used at one time to be nicknamed 'Brad- ford on Sea' , because of the large number of middle-class Yorkshiremen who retired there. More recently it has called 'a cemetery with been lights', by northern comedian Crompton. He further Colin ridiculed the resort's facilities with cracks such as 'What do they do with the dead in Morecambe? ... answer,, They prop them up in bus shelters and stick bingo cards in their hands.' These sort of cracks natur- ally upset those concerned with the resort's image who anxious to attract more are holiday-makers - although some of the local young people seem inclined not only to laugh at Crompton's jokes, but to agree with the criticism im- plied by them. Mr George The mayor, Tiplady, and his Tory corpora- tion are also contributing to the fun. Among their recent turns was an apparent attempt to 'per- strike a blow against missiveness', by refusing the Campaign for Homosexual Equality facilities to hold its annual conference. Presumably it was felt that the resort's character, might be harmed by the prospect of anyone having 'A Gay Time in Morecambe'!

The CHE conference, how- ever, is to be held in More- cambe after all, a hall being privately hired. This raises the question whether the Homo- sexual Equality conference will have the opportunity of enjoy- ing the usual privileges given to conterences held in More- cambe— a welcoming speech by the Mayor? Miners who attended their union's annual conference in Morecambe this year will remember particular with affection the mayor's address, when he departed from the usual polite cordialities, norm- ally considered appropriate for such occasions, in order to delegates against alien- warn ating public sympathy by any strikes more over wage demands. He suggested that if they were going to demand any more, they had better insure themselves against price increases. The prospect of Mr Tiplady addressing the CHE confer- ence has opened up imagina- tive speculation as to what his sermon might contain in the way of advice to homosexuals.

TRAINING TOUCH

A group of Belgian para- troopers may be tried for tor- turing prisoners. They are alleged to have tried various techniques, including the use to administer of electrodes shocks to their victims. The prisoners just hap- pened to be fellow Belgians, captured as 'prisoners' during recent NATO exercises. Apparently, the paras got just a little too enthusiastic to try out their interrogation methods! Would the use of torture have been reported in the Press it the victims had been, say, Africans in the Congo?

And imagine the outburst of indignant denials if someone that good had then alleged NATO soldiers like the Bel- gian actually paras were trained to use torture! Which reminds me of a story I heard from a friend who served in the British Army Intelligence Corps. It seems that some British paratroops were dropped over during

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Germany a exercise, held not far from the East German border. They landed in a wood, and found themselves surrounded and captured by what appeared to be Soviet troops-they wore Red Army uniforms and spoke Russian. The British paras were-taken away for interrogation, during which one of them was made to lie down on the floor with his arms stretched out and had his hand smashed with a rifle butt. My friend was present at 'Russians' the time, since the were, in fact, British Intelli- men, also on Corps manoeuvres. It seems his con league with the rifle butt just got a bit carried away by his keenness in training! But of course, stories about in Northern British torture Ireland, are not to be believed.

Or, if they did happen, it was an isolated incident, probably because of the tension at the time; and anyway, the alleged victims were all Irishmen, and terrorists (or they wouldn't been detained, would have they?). Any suggestion that some specially British units are trained to use torture is just left-wing propaganda. As for the suggestion that they might be prepared to' use the same methods against 'fellow- Britons' this is clearly fan- tasy!

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July 1972: Printworkers come out in supr From outbursts of hysteria on immigration, or anything a shade off white, to strikers, the Beaverbrook Press will never let you down. It is not surprising, there- fore, to find Cummings' car- toons, which regularly appear in the Daily Express' and 'Sunday Express', , being repro- duced — with permission — in 'Spearhead', the journal of the National extreme right-wing Front. last 13 years, For the Charles Wintour has been editor of the Beaverbrook- owned London 'Evening Stan- book, dard' His new •Pressures on the Press', is published today. "The Times' Yet it was which last Monday chose to publish an enormous extract from Wintour's book on its centre pages. Its purpose was to defend that fine abstraction freedom', called Press SO 'con- fondly defended (like sumer freedom') by the Fleet Street proprietors. Of course the Tory news- know how paper owners mythical this 'freedom' is.

The serialized memoirs of former 'Daily Mirror' chief Cecil King in the 'Sunday Telegraph' make that clear.

In a graphic way King is revealing what actually goes the proprietors between on and the politicians in either the Tory Party or their col- laborators in the Labour Party leadership. His diary is filled with nothing more than dinners with this or that politician, rushing from Tory to Labour men and back again. Business- men are wined and dined in between King's trips to the Bank of England where he was a governor at the time. Within a few weeks of being told the 1966 General Election date by Harold Wilson (before the Cabinet knew) he was round at the Albany to tell Edward Heath the good news.

The last to know were the millions of Labour voters.

Back to Wintour, who has now seen fit to smash down all and sundry who claim some sort of editorial control of his newspaper. In doing that he Workers Press, Thuraday November 9, 1972 PAGE 9 ut in support of the dockers jailed under the Industrial Relations Act unemployment among journa- lists in Fleet Street, the NUJ, imposed quite correctly, restrictions recruitment on from outside the union when so many of its members were on the dole. Another attack on 'Press freedom', Wintour screams, revealing just a little more of philosophy. his anti-union "The editor should retain con- trol of appointments' free-for-all Presumably a with trade unionists suffering as a result would be just what Wintour would like. For any journalist working reactionary reveals every for Wintour, he proposes aspect of the class he repre- for simple formula learning the serls. about what paper stands He has no trouble in deal- for: read it! 'This might seem ing with the groups who cam- a rather primitive technique, paign for and spread the illu- but it possesses one great advantage: it works, he adds.

sion about the journa- As for any discussions be- lists on newspapers. tween staff and management, Wintour knows they present they are fine 'for an occasional no real threat. But they are a exposition of the financial convenient starting point for a of the "Evening Stan- attack on anyone who dard"', general , but they do not 'pro- challenges or dares to criticize or useful duce an interesting his paper's views. discussion about the paper'.

Early on in his article, he hit Wintour continues to deals with with contempt out in all directions, at one small group of 'Evening Stan- point trying to play the journa- dard' journalists who protested lists off against the rest of the about a headline used during workers on his paper, like the 1970 election-'I witness the printers. Enoch's magic'. Of course the extract con- It capped a story written by veniently forgets to mention George Gale editor of (now the time printworkers struck the Tory 'Spectator'), who had in 1970 against a Jak cartoon been following Powell around depicting powerworkers as during the campaign. murderers during their work- The 'were journalists to-rule. apparently convinced this on While Wintour's attacks slender evidence that the directed against journa- seem "Evening Standard" was about lists demanding some form of Powellite,' writes editorial control—which is, of to go Wintour. less than an Course, nothing 'I invited them all to my illusory impossibility on capi- office and indicated they were talist newspapers-they serve being silly... and later another purpose. received an apology from one The Tories need their news- of its sponsors. papers to direct the fire of The centre of his article is propaganda against the work- reserved—naturally enough- ing class and to whip the for an attack on the National middle into line against class Union of Tournalists. who, he the trade unions. claims, have imposed 'the most They were sorely missed by threatening development' on the ruling class in July when his paper. printworkers came out in sup- 'When I became editor of port of the jailed dockers.

Standard" the "Evening in The appearance of such an 1959 it was a simple matter article in "The Times' surely talented to recruit people means the newspaper bosses direct from the university or are getting ready to strike from wherever they could be back against printworkers, to found [sic], he writes fondly.

try and break their militancy, 1970 the situation But by in preparation for the big class had changed. With growing battles that lie ahead.

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CROYDON: Thursday November 9, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road. WILLESDEN: Thursday November 9, 8 р.т. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW10. 'Common Market conspiracy'. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday November 8 Deptford p.m. Engineers Club, New Cross Road Cross (opposite New station). 'Stalinism and the fight to force the Tories to resign' MANCHESTER: Thursday Novem ber 9, 7.30 p.m. Milton Hall, Deansgate. SWANSEA: Thursday November 7.30 Council of 9, p.m. The Social Services. Mount Pleasant Hill (next to fire station). 'Inflation is deliberate Tory policy'. CLAPHAM: Thursday November 9, 8 р.т. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4.

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They were found guilty by a jury last night of attempting to pick pockets of passengers on the Northern Line at Oval sta- tion on March 16. They were found guilty of trying to steal from a passenger on an escala- tor. The judge discharged the jury from giving a verdict on charges of conspiracy to rob and steal from unknown people on trains, in railway stations and at sub- urban market places, on which they had failed to agree.

The jury was also discharged verdict on Bou- from giving a a charge cher and Griffiths on of robbing an unknown person; on Christie on a charge of steal- ing a purse; and on Trew and Boucher on a charge of robbing an unknown person of £10.

Trew was acquitted on three charges of stealing purses and Christie on one charge of purse stealing. Griffiths and Christie were found not guilty of robbing an unknown person of a hand- bag. The four denied all charges.

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POST OFFICE union leader: criticism of their decision to ductivity deal involving the graphist members. The criticism will come at a meeting between tele- graphists' leaders at the House, Electra London, overseas cable headquart- ers and the union's tele- communications assistant secretary, Kim McKinlay. A particular source of anger to the telegraphists is the fact that the Union of Post Office Workers' executive went ahead and signed the deal, on October 26, without first consulting either the rank and file or their branch officials. Tom Jackson, UPW general secretary, has admitted in a circular to his members that the main factor in the signing the Tories' was possible im- position of a pay freeze.

This, he argues, would have prevented the telegraphists get- ting the flat-rate payments of up to £95 a year he has negotiated. The union executive has since conceded a ballot on the issue. Telegraphists reply that since the deal paves the way for a 36-per-cent cut in their grade they are opposed to the deal in principle. Jackson told Workers Press that there was no real differ- ence between signing and then balloting and balloting , first. 'If the membership don't like the deal, we will of course rescind it, he said. The Electra House branch. of the UPW will attempt today to commit the union's London district council to a campaign against the slashing of jobs in • Post Office through pro- the ductivity deals and mechaniza- tion. It wants the council to call a demonstration to highlight the dangers of redundancy.

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workers are to continue striking at the Shefield steel plant. Over 300 maintenance men out for five weeks decided this at a mass meeting yesterday. Alan Bentley, the convenor, told Workers Press afterwards: "The meeting voted five to one against a return to work' They wanted a "tangible offer' from manage- ment, but declined to put a figure on their claim. Lead tests for seven children mond Street, Southwark Coun- cl spokesman sald yesterday.

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levels 'above the normal limit indicating need for further said the spokes- dust in Lertl Union officials face sharp criticism Telegraphists rap productivity dealing POST OFFICE union leaders will today face sharp criticism of their decision to sign a three-year pro- tele- UPW'& Tom Jackson Inflation rampant in Italy AN

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The been opportunity grasped capitalist spokesmen to call on the trades unions to hold down their wage claims. Minister Giovanni areasury Malagodi has called for a 'volun of responsibility and policy tary se f-discipline'. On Tuesday, Guido Carli, Gov- ernor of the Bank of Italy, stated only way to overcome the dilem- that an incomes

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are expected be held in Falkirk manding the immediate reinstate- discuss the strike Louay lu InCu ol lne Mal Was •S• 1,100 mbntenae Scootish engineers missed instantly on Monday for employed by the Bus allegedly smelling of drink while Group. duty. demandin The men are After a meeting between trans.

port union officials and bus group weeky Increase company's offer of £2.23 a week representatives, the dismissal was for skilled men totally changed was ScuLcacd

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While these measures have already created a massive ground- swell of opposition against this government they have also re- vealed the absolute cowardice of the Labour and trade union leaders. The latest act of betrayal comes from the TUC. They say that the unions cannot join with the Labour Party and work out a programme to fight this govern- ment. The reason they give is that some unions in the TUC are not affiliated to the Labour Party.

What treacherous rubbish • 1S this? entire working class to be told by its leaders that workers can take no political action against this government because they are held prisoner by a handful of right-wing bureaucrats who lead a minority faction in the This is yet another disgusting evasion by the bankrupts who are supposed to lead the working class. The Labour Party, too, is in a state of collapse-its 'reasoned amendment' to Heath's plans was kicked into the dustbin where it belongs. The time for dithering and rank cowardice is over. The Tories have declared war and the working class must be mobilized to fight back. The aim should be to remove this government by mass action and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

The All Trades Unions Alliance resolution passed in October at the annual conference in Bir- mingham warned of the coming struggle. It stated: "The political situation is now knife edge. So far the on a working class has, by its deter- mination and strength in indust- rial struggles held the line against the Tory enemy. 'But the government is forced on by the crisis. 'This situation cannot last in- Either the working definitely. class goes forward to defeat the government and the capitalist system, or the Tories achieve a position where they can defeat à decisive section of workers and institute a dictatorship to destroy democratic trade The ATUA and the Socialist the only Labour League were organizations in the labour move- ment to make this analysis-and they have been entirely vindi- cated by the events of the last three days. But now it is time to fight for the other section of the Bir- mingham resolution which was carried unanimously. This called for the building of the. League into a revolutionary party and extending its influence throughout the entire trade union movement.

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Relations Court. Sir John Donaldson, president of the NIRC, said the union had shown a complete misunderstanding of the laws of the country enacted by parliament and the courts whose duty it is to enforce those laws.

He added: 'A refusal to obey the court order is A member of the NIRC staff left the court's Chancery Lane parliament and the Throude premises in a taxi at about courts. him that midday to serve the order on The union had told Jim

AUEW

general Conway, the policy decision ot the secretary. prevented them rom But even if this true, The AUEW thus became they he added, be fined for which they the

NIRC.

Earlier Coll contempt resolve that the law does not this year the Transport and apply to them Workers' was General of 'But in any case we know the of the publisata Geesol Heatons case. union's conference or National And it was the basis Committee which instructs the

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the Taff Vale principle executive council to act outside established by the House Heatons that Non-co-operation was SLOrOS case the AUEW was fined yesterday. But refusal to obey court order went further. It was 'law- The union has two weeks to the £5,000 and the costs breaking Gormley: Different view from pay The union, if it had wanted, the brought cast could have gone to the National against them by Mr Henry Goad.

for 'fresh instructions' Committee made clear It was the That will enforce payment court to do so'. -although union pro- Outlining AUEW's necessary the legal perty will not be seized al this responsibilities for the action Sudbury branch, Sir John added Evangelist, An Goac cannot executive council

AUEV

branch the of has produced no expression meetings at Sudbury,

BY DAVID I

He left the union in 1967 after Their attitude rise aiso working unofficial to even more serious considera- MINERS' union leaders yester- Sud- plant, the day presented I a bold front of 'Doubtless the council intends bury, were ne works as a quality control inspector. only to disregard those ignoring the Tory pay freeze- court orders which dis- but agreed a further delay in Although he rejoined last ycal to assist submitting their big new pay his promouon the loca will take this branch SoUT oner claim. approval and indeed encourage.

to their meetings CHly said ment for them to apply the same Ine freeze, Gormles

BLAST

or orders which sident Joe after instructed to appear at the court principie to laws morning meeting of his executive yesterday do not appeal to tem. us cour would be failing in its duty discussed. admission. follow-up Neither had the took no • action. they reused ov elter. state pay control

AUEW

legislation for could In the court's judgement said NIRC's Heath. Donaldson great appeal against John THe oronscu Dy decision. He did not go so far as te enotasis The NUT is now out LONDON teachers will and postponed the talks submitted a £5 to f: a until after the

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week claim. This in front in the fight be asked mass at would be a 21-per-cent against such state con- CBI-Heath negotiations. meeting tonight to sup- The otel NIse port a call for a half- backed by Thatcher, Every teacher knows Half-day strikes will the against that it is now day strike tonight's meeting govern- be useless in such DuL offer of £15 called will only

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battle. They additional London don NUT branches (the completely all such the There Teachers' claims. Inner London gies of militant teachers Howarce At present the 60,000 Edward Britton, NUT and lead to splits in the

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London teachers receive Extra Metropolitan general secretary, Teachers' Committee) absolutely right when sum £118 year yeara "Overall, the said: -wil demand nownere neal made at tonight's meet- meets the extra expense But a narl-day ing for all-out strike for London. strike will achieve ernment intends to use living in the full and the public ware claim held nothing. unions the full London during September, demand-origin- representatives just involved in putting trictions on wages and teachers ally £182. were led to believe that the Burn- incomes'

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Britton was This would mean Dul would be effective from a fight against the gov- favour of the TUC talks the

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November 1. ernment. with Heath and the em- ernment which can only purpose of be by calling Education addition ployers, the on to the workers Secretary stepped in. claim, the fight and force Thatcher National state control over Union of has the Tories to resign. halted any offer Teachers wages. She or a THE NEW three-man com-. mission to deal with sus- pected Ulster terrorists will begin operations tomorrow.

Huts that were once part of Long Kesh internment camp will serve as courtrooms.

The commission's brief will be to investigate the position of the 286 men still in detention and any other suspects who cannot be brought before the normal courts. The tribunal, announced ear- lier this week by Ulster Secre- tary William Whitelaw is likely to make a start on the cases of 43 men who were given notice in- Tuesday of impending on quiries. The word 'internee' will not be used at the tribunal's ses- not freed by the sions. Men commission will be known as "detainees' low from conference decisions.

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claim, however, that they had shaped the atmosphere not which the executive's discussion had taken place. At the last meeting of the executive on October iZ, it was • that detailed demands decided formulated yesterday would be for negotiation with the National Coal Board in December. Yesterday it was left to the to decide December meeting when formal negotiations will begin. In the meantime the national officials have been mandated to hold informal talks with the NCB 'the implications' of the on union's conference decisions on wages, hours and differentials.

In July, the NUM conference its sights on pay rises set £5.50 to f7, a shorter working changes in existing week and differentials. have thought the Miners may decisions of those implication was the submission of a claim on those lines. Gormley's view yesterday was somewhat different.

The conference, he pointed out, had decided that the increases 'should be' £5.50 to £7. The Board would no doubt want to argue that they shouldn't be.

Commenting on the nature of the informal talks that will now be sought by the union, Gormley said: 'We and the Board will no doubt wish to reach each other's minds. We want to have a new agreement ready to apply from the end of February. We hope to get a settlement and seeking a confrontation, are not Early talks would be sought also with the Coal Board on efficiency schemes, he said. 'We want to see if we can gain some- thing for our members from this.'