Workers Press no. 923

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FEATHER FOR MORE TALKS WITH HEATH

THE TUC ACCEPTS

STATE PAY LAW

VICTOR FEATHI

the Confederation This is despite the TUC Economic Committee's state- ment last week that 'it is im- possible for discussions to be held in circumstances where the results of collective bar- gaining are to remain frozen by such ill-judged and objec- tionable provisions. More important, it is despite the government's attack on the farmworkers in the law's name and the CBI's advice to firms employing between 5 and 6 million workers that they should not even talk to them about pay. Today the Tories are expected to follow up their attack on the blocking the farmworkers pay claim of 250,000 low-paid hospital workers (see p.12).

Neither move seems to have disturbed the arrangements for yesterday's talks in the slightest.

The forum for the talks was the five-man working party set up earlier this year by the National Economic Development Council.

This was the body which set up the initial talks and working parties for the full-scale nego- Chequers and tiations at Downing Street. Its members are Feather, CBI director-general W. O. Campbell Adamson, Sir Frank Figgures of the National Economic Development Office and the government's top two civil servants, Sir Douglas Allen and Sir William Armstrong.

A meeting of the whole NEDC, chaired by Heath, is due on December 6. No minutes are taken at meet- ings of the five-man working party. Described by one union leader yesterday as "just some together of the lads getting for a gin and a chat, this is an extremely useful forum for class-collaboration. Clearly Allen and will Armstrong report straight back to their political masters. But as far as Feather is concerned there is no report-back to the trade union movement. Feather's participation in these talks is completely shameless.

News of it leaked out on the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY DAVID MAUDE

same day as an announcement that wholesale prices are now rising at an annual rate of almost 9 per cent. This makes nonsense of the Tory claim to be able to hold down retail prices in the shops. The TUC secretary said a week last Wednesday that he and his colleagues would only consider the idea of new talks with the government in the light of any changed atmosphere or any new development that might take place'. Yet the only development which has taken place in the eight days since those words were uttered is a tightening-up of the Tory dictatorship over pay. Even as the working-party talks were being set up, the CBI were calling for changes in the Counter-Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Bill to make clear incremental increases for that millions of white-collar workers are out, out, out. The decision to take part in the new talks means the TUC leaders have decisively gone over to co-operation with the Tories' pay-control law. Feather is supposed to be leader of Britain's 10 million trade unionists. The people who pay his wages not Heath and the Tory are Cabinet, but those like the farm and hospital workers who are being kicked in the teeth by Heath. He is equally responsible for those like the draughtsmen, and the scientists and technicians, who have said they will proceed with official strikes in spite of the pay law. But at a time when he and the TUC General Council should be drawing up concrete plans to force the Tory pay-dictators out of office, Feather is engaged in friendly chats with their chief organization men. Trade unionists will draw the obvious conclusion: that like their Labour Party counterparts in parliament, the union chiefs have decided to co-operate lock, stock and barrel with the Tories strategy for a permanent legal structure which will govern all wages. Doncaster MP Harold Walker,

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the man who helped Barbara implement Castle wages policy, made this clear in the House of Commons during the unsuccessful Labourite bid to get exemption for the farmworkers.

The 'conspicuous weakness' of the Bill was that it not workers it would be assure applied fairly all round. Neither was it clear it would be operated with 'compassion'. 'Those cardinal absent from the elements are Bill', he said. In other words, Labour MPs would vote wholeheartedly for the law if the Tories would make a few more noises about the low- paid. Such interventions are utterly cynical and totally dangerous. They are designed to lose the working class time in against its fight the greatest threat to its basic ever mounted by the rights employing class in Britain.

But what the Feathers and Walkers are proving every day is the urgency of the fight for the alternative, revolutionary leader- ship, for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary party as decided by the All Trades Unions Alliance national conference.

Socialist Labour League Greater London Rally

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Dockers picketing the Midland Cold slammed moves by lorry drivers demned suggestions their picketi Rechnitz, lorry drivers' leader.

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dland Cold Storage depot in Hackney yesterday / drivers to cross their line. They also con- ir picketing was illegal as claimed by Eric See story p. 12. Speakers:

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

CORIN REDGRAVE

(Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY

(ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT

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

GARY GURMEET

(Editor Keep Left) Chairman:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee) (Union speakers and tenant appear in a personal capacity) Admission 15p ings-see p. 12

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FEATHER FOR MORE TALKS WITH HEATH

THE TUC ACCEPTS

STATE PAY LAW

VICTOR FEATHI

This is despite the TUC Economic Committee's state- ment last week that 'it is im- possibla for discussions to be held in circumstances where the results of collective bar- gaining are to remain frozen by such ill-judged and objec- tionable provisions'. More important, it is despite the government's attack on the farmworkers in the law's name and the CBI's advice to firms employing between 5 and 6 that they million workers should not even talk to them about pay. Today the Tories are expected to follow up their attack on the farmworkers by blocking the pay claim of 250,000 low-paid hospital workers (see p.12).

Neither move seems to have disturbed the arrangements for yesterday's talks in the slightest.

The forum for the talks was the five-man working party set up earlier this year by the National Economic Development Council.

This was the body which set up the initial talks and working parties for the full-scale nego- and tiations at Chequers Downing Street. Its members are Feather, CBI director-general W. O. Campbell Adamson, Sir Figgures of the National Frank Economic Development Office and the government's top two civil servants, Sir Douglas Allen and Sir William Armstrong.

A meeting of the whole NEDC, chaired by Heath, is due on December 6. No minutes are taken at meet- working ings of the five-man party. Described by one union leader yesterday as just some . together of the lads getting for a gin and a chat', this is an extremely useful forum for class-collaboration. Clearly and Armstrong will Allen report straight back to their political masters. But as far as Feather is concerned there is no report-back to the trade union movement. Feather's participation in these talks is completely shameless.

News of it leaked out on the

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY DAVID MAUDE

same day as an • announcement that wholesale prices are now rising at an annual rate of almost 9 per cent. This makes nonsense of the Tory claim to retail be able to hold down prices in the shops. The TUC secretary said week last Wednesday that he and his colleagues would only consider the idea of new talks with the government 'in the light of any changed atmosphere or any new development that might take place'. Yet the only development which has taken place in the eight days since those words were uttered is a tightening-up of the Tory dictatorship • over pay. Even as the working-party talks were being set up, the CBI were calling for changes in the Counter-Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Bill to make clear that incremental increases for millions of white-collar workers are out, out, out. The decision to take part in the new talks means the TUC leaders have decisively gone over to co-operation with the Tories' pay-control law. Feather is supposed to be leader of Britain's 10 million trade unionists. The people who pay his wages the Tory are not Heath and Cabinet, but those like the farm and hospital workers who are kicked in the teeth by being Heath. He is equally responsible for those like the draughtsmen, and the scientists and technicians, who have said they will proceed with official strikes in spite of the pay law. But at a time when he and the TUC General Council should be drawing up concrete plans to force the Tory pay-dictators out of office, Feather is engaged in friendly chats with their chief organization men. Trade unionists will draw the obvious conclusion: that like their Labour Party counterparts in parliament, the union chiefs have decided to co-operate lock, stock and barrel with the Tories' strategy for a permanent legal structure which will govern all wages. Doncaster MP Harold Walker,

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17, 1972

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the man who helped Barbara Castle implement wages policy, made this clear in the House of Commons during the unsuccessful Labourite bid to get exemption for the farmworkers.

The 'conspicuous weakness' of the Bill was that it did not workers it would be assure applied fairly all round. Neither was it clear it would be operated with 'compassion'. "Those cardinal elements are absent from the Bill', he said. In other words, Labour MPs would vote wholeheartedly for the law if the Tories would make a few more noises about the low- paid. interventions Such are utterly cynical and totally dangerous. They are designed to lose the working class time its against in fight the greatest threat to its basic by the rights mounted ever employing class in Britain.

But what the Feathers and Walkers are proving every day is the urgency of the fight for the alternative, revolutionary leader- ship, for the transformation the Socialist Labour League into revolutionary decided by the All Trades Unions Alliance national conference.

Socialist Labour League Greater London Rally

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

PARTY

SUNDAY

NOVEMBER 19

7 p.m. Porchester Hall Queensway, W2 Details of prov

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Of can Dockers picketing the Midland Cold Storage depot in Hackney yesterday lorry drivers demned suggestions their picketing Rechnitz, lorry drivers' leader. • See story p. 12

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developments first issue of vorkers Contemher ?b. Details of provincial meetings—see p. 12 their ne They was illegal as claimed by Eric Speakers:

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

CORIN REDGRAVE

(Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY

(ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT

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

GARY GURMEET

(Editor Keep Left) Chairman:

MIKE BANDA

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

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday November 17, 1972 What The politics followed by the imposition of rigor- ous state control of wages, stripping the working class of the basic right to fight for a standard of living.

we Similar measures are being actively the top circles of the planned Pompidou in France In of inflation Germany, the employers are throwing think all their weight behind the Christian Democrats led by Barzel and Strauss to gain office on a nakedly anti- working class in the THE FIGHT against inflation is now refusal to the main preoccupation of defeated torce capitalist conference Intelallai and gathering. Like malignant state afflicting disease every during the vears of boom.

country of the capitalist world.

The Organization for Economic Co- operation Development has in economic slack' as one means c expressed 'extreme disquiet' about the question, while Wednesday • should ve Common Market the parliament Finance class. berated the

EEC

and Ministers for failing foreign „Ine Conne E produce plans to fight inflation at ten recent sundan. cure for obesity. There is no cure Inflation is an inseparable part of the monetary arrangements on which world capitalism based. It endemic in the capitalist svstemu The world sysicil World War based on the was dollar was itself convertible britals Chass The into gold. Envoys head for Paris Castro Tokyo stock wants US relies on market hi-jack dealings Moscow pressure talks suspended CUBA'S Fidel Castro is will- ing to negotiate with the US over anti-hijack measures, despite the continued block- THE US government hopes to bring the Vietnam war to a speedy

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ade of the island. end by unremitting air attacks and the increased pressure which it government statement says that lalks collatake place believes Moscow and Peking are putting on North Vietnam.

the Swiss embassy, Pointing out become obvious hijackers Le Duc Tho, North Diale 101 Dring planes Il goes •tri Vietnam's chief negoti- far the North Viet- Although the US government have been standing ator at the Paris peace namese maintains against Cuba policy firm the talks, is now in Moscow of blockade and aggression, it agreement Wilki recenty desembed after visiting Peking, and our refuses accept. The consideraton 1OI Americant and the com- expected to meet how much people question that has munity large President Nixon's special oressure Balcons attitude have Kissin- Peking been able

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made an allack strike nam President Nguyen Van Peking and Moscow are demanding for bitter_con- who preparing influence the withdrawal of northern 101 a icyaluallul troops from the south. China and whole _The sIon. lor anaor amanda crisis

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blicine workers stopped work yesterday in of Regional East-West pay claim. Miners upset union plans

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wil be hed during the stores rest of the month. talks on troop In southern Italy 200,000 en- state-assisted indus- reductions for peace with Pompidou tries ned TOniour Strike lack progress

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reductions in Europe labour and new contract will be discussed at a confer- une sale s reusa to scuss new investment with the trade unions.

ence in Switzerland beginning Civil the south on January 31 next year.

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seeking miners from the The number of miners working class into submission.

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Union and its allies along with grading structures potash mines in Alsace de- pils use Union Senders nave acmeo year contract.

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decreased various

NATO

said powers, 800-strong that if the management's offer monstrated in 12,300 in 1963 to 8,600 in Walter Scheel, had been made a month and not Paris yesterday in support of and productivity has gone up by roedi vauser wrance nad noi ago, sweet Uney SOVIET UNION hopes their wage claim. 70 per cent. been invited because it was no to have accepted it. longer a NATO member. of nuclear intensification of exploi- Now, Decone more die card to self strike hardens, Bilateral the power plant in operation as the in the Lalk. between has not led to any of the will

USA

Russian official said. Union a top improvements a deal to their members. strategic arms limitation lieu resume sycotcluay. rcuusyallls. chey rected the are made ne next week.

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publications conference tions have organized collections all have been banned and withdrawn Washing- for the miners, and the Stalinists o1 nucical SCICHusES ine last Lu is forging

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Ine soviet union week 310] of Have Ilaut Play SUDDOrI ahead in the development of containing views contrary to the increase in production bonus and each from clergy who rang ycal THe so-called fast breeder reactor.

party line. The their church bells for the miners fast latest issue the Bel- 01 However, they breeder reactor, produces grade University which students 235 used tom than the the has been banned for reprinting covermanent strike mass workers' movement to article which presented fuel social- USCu Was avoid a confrontation with Pom- jected to from political conditions in the countri start over pall current nuclear stations in 1985.

'in a distorted manner'. OCOl

Stephen Johns reports from Merseyside...

Liverpool stewards retreat MILITANT shop stewards in t waiting anxiously to see if th launch a bid to lift the ban on ( haulage firm 'blacked for life' o Craddock' s remain the only haul facing sanctions from dockers and Workers' Union is eager to get tr remain there is always the chan National Industrial Relations Court Last week the black on another transport firm, Howitt Brothers, was lifted after a cash payment to two Howitt's drivers who, the dockers said, been victimized. But Craddock's presents a bigger problem. Craddock Brothers was the firm involved in the recent case at Liverpool Crown Court where two dock shop stewards and

T&GWU

official Harold Verrinder were acquitted of demanding money with menaces.

Craddock's road manager, John Rycroft, claimed Verrinder had asked for £200 to be paid into the dockers' fund as the price of lifting the black on the firm.

Mr Verrinder said Rycroft made the suggestion and on the jury believed Mr evidence the Verrinder and the stewards.

The incident led to great bitterness on the docks. Rycroft's performance in the witness box was a particular source of anger and as retribution the firm was blacked 'for ever'— a decision endorsed by the national ports shop stewards' committee.

There are those shop stewards, with however, a more con- ciliatory attitude. After the case was closed last Thursday, Jimmy Symes, chairman of the Liverpool docks stewards' committee com- mented: If Craddock's want to talk to to us then we are prepared to talk about it' And the way the Howitt's issue was disposed is another pointer that prospects for Craddock's may be improving.

The lifting of the Howitt's black split the stewards down the middle. They key decision was carried at meeting of a about 70 stewards, by only two votes. The original aim of the action, Howitt's stewards re- to get instated, has failed. Instead union officials claim that the men, James Jones and Brian Dean, have accepted £300 each 'blood money" as one dock steward described it. Two sacked Trouble at Howitt's began back in August when the two men were sacked. They treated it as a case of victimization— the issue that had particularly annoyed the firm was the strike action the men took when the NIRC jailed five London dockers.

An appeal to the Howitt's drivers to support them failed.

Then the two drivers approached dockers working at ACE Con- tainers, a depot run by Ocean Port Services employing registered dock workers. The black went on and was extended throughout the port.

The slow burn towards crisis then began. Howitt's to went the NIRC, which decided that any decision should be postponed pending talks between the firm's lawyers and the T&GWU's legal advisor A. C. Blyghton-fast be- coming the unions number one mouthpiece at the NIRC. On October 14 the case was again adjourned for more talks.

These were not successful and four days later the NIRC found the union was responsible for the action (indeed Mr Verrinder had supported it) and told the officials to get the black called off. More desperate talks began.

But again they were unsuccessful.

On October 24 they broke down.

The T&GWU, urged on by the stewards, was still attempting to get the two drivers reinstated.

ards in the port of Liverpool are ee if their union officials will ban on Craddock Brothers-the or life' on Merseyside docks.

only haulage firm of any significance ers and the Transport and General to get them called off. While they he chance of more action in the ns Court and possible fines.

43 35 35 0 On October 30 the court gave the union a time limit to get the black off-the case was beginning look like the battle with A to Heatons Transport when the union paid out a cool £55,000 in fines. Finally the T&GWU was forced to make its first open appeal to get its members to stop what in the days before • the Industrial Relations Act was normal trade union activity in defence of members. 'Lift black' On Monday October 31 the T&GWU's finance and general purposes committee in- structed the dockers to lift the black. General secretary Jack Jones made a personal interven- tion and called for acceptance of 'reasonable terms of settlement'.

It was at this stage thạt the officials began to cook up the formula that saved the union from another clash with the law.

This involved compensation payment to the drivers. But at first they were un- successful. With four days to go before the court deadline, talks between Howitt's and the officials broke down. Managing director Olive Howitt said that re-employ- ing the men was out of the question. The stage was now set for last Wednesday's stewards', meeting held three days before the dead- line. What happened on that day has all the marks of a carefully- planned move to get the decision to lift the black through the stewards' meeting. The Howitt's issue was placed on the agenda by Jack Collins, a steward and Labour councillor for Bootle. But many • stewards were either unaware it would be raised that there or unaware would be a move to lift the black.

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By 1 p.m. about 20 stewards had drifted away from the meet- ing to attend to other matters.

A key group of 'six who would not have supported lifting the black (therefore destroying the two-vote majority) went away to attend to a dispute. Howitt's came up when Jack Collins asked Lew Lloyd, the full- time docks official sitting in at the meeting, about the rumours over the possible payment compensation to the drivers.

According to shop stewards, Lloyd then confirmed that £300 had been offered and the men were ready to take it. He then went on to lay out the case for lifting the action. His main argument was that the dockers were once more the fall guys-the Howitt's drivers were working normally and would not support Jones and Dean.

It was the typical divide-and- rule agreement that the T&GWU in theory supposed to be against. But Lloyd could not have warned about the possibility of more NIRC fines-this would have not impressed the dockers, who despise the court. The attitude of the Com- munist Party stewards-led by the Stalinist Pat Docherty-was, as one docker told me, 'rather diplomatic': They called for of the decision postponement until the joint committee be- tween • dockers and transport stewards could meet to investi- gate Lloyd's claims. Premeditated But despite strong opposition the issue was pushed to a vote which was carried, with the Com- munist Party faction in opposi- tion. One can only speculate as to how premeditated Wednesday's Certainly when events were. dockers who had left the meeting

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heard of the vote they were surprised and, for the most part, angry. 'When we left we had no idea it would come up,' one told me.

'Our meetings are informal and anyone can put an item down on the agenda. But you would have thought someone would have told us that the Howitt's move was coming up' The 'lift-the-black lobby' had also been strengthened by the morning's discussions. These • in- volved a series of requests from other workers : for support and blacking action by dockers.

On one issue-a request from the CAV occupation committee at: Fazakerley, Liverpool, . to • black CAV-Lucas goods-CPer Pat Docherty had used Lloyd's argument. He opposed the black because, he said, the CAV men should put their own house in order first and get support from workers within the Lucas com- bine. Strategy The lifting of the Howitt's black, following on the decision to end action against Heatons means the strategy of Jack and the top T&GWU Jones leadership is nearing total success. : The pockets of resistance to the employers are now small and isolated. Craddock's still face sanctions and the London dockers are still picketing the Midland Cold Storage, the part Vestey empire. But there is the threat of another court action here and can expect that the one pres- sure from the union to lift the action will grow greater every day. The employers, in other words, have ended up with all the aces.

Action to prevent the drift of jobs away from dockland has

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Wed, Thurs Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Press, Friday November 17, 1972 PAGE 3 petered out and the so-called concessions made to 'abolish' the unattached registers have turned out to be their opposite.

In practice employers have had to pay for little 're-alloca- tion' of dockers because of the thousands who have taken sever- ance pay and left the industry.

The Jones-Aldington settlement in fact has aided the employers' plans to get rid of the immediate 10,000 surplus they say they have on the docks. Meanwhile, despite the tre- mendous struggle put up against 'in most the court by dockers, centres the union is falling into line and acting on the dictates of the NIRC. And the court is duly grate- ful. Dockers should reflect on the words of Sir John Donaldson: "This case [Howitt's] illustrates that it is in the interests of all justice parties, and indeed, of generally, that in the case of this kind all parties should at- tend and put all the facts before the court. 'The T&GWU has at all stages of what kept us fully informed has been going on, and we are very much obliged to them for having done so."

MARXISM AND

RANK-AND-

FILE-ISM

An analysis of the tactics and strategy of the International Socialists As the Tories seek to impose a corporate state and smash down the living conditions of the working class, the Labour and trade union leaders-assisted by the Communist Party-refuse to lead any struggle. The central task, therefore, remains the building of a revolutionary leadership in the working class. This raises the key question of the fight for Marx- ism in the trade unions. Political tendencies such as the International Socialism group oppose the development of Marxist consciousness in the unions and instead substitute a worship of spon- taneous rank-and-file militancy. In practice they line up behind the Communist Party to keep revolutionary politics out of the unions.

STARTING TOMORROW

A vital series of Workers Press articles, Mike Banda, a member of the Socialist Labour League Central Committee, examines the tactics and strategy of the International Socialism group. Be sure of your copy by telephoning

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BY PHILIP WADE

Last week the British army occupying Northern Ireland 'expressed its re- grets' when it shot a woman walking down a street in Belfast. The official report says the army was firing at a 'gunman' and 'unfortunately' a few shots innocent woman by- hit an stander. To the people of Ulster, however, it was by no means time this has hap- the first pened. It was just one more case of the army terror which has been imposed on them since 1969. The oppression continues daily. People are whipped off the streets or from their homes for 'questioning'. Some are re- leased while others do not return so quickly. of James Take the case Corbett from Ballymurphy, Belfast. On December 26 last year interned. He spent he was three-and-a-half months Long Kesh. At the Palace Barracks, Holywood, he made a 'volun- tary' statement after being tortured by the army. In June this year he was finally re- leased. That was not the end of the affair, as his Mrs mother, Margaret Corbett, told the Association for Legal Justice.

'Since Operation Motorman November 17, 1872 began on July 31 my son has No been arrested seven times.

"This morning [September 5] he was lifted at 5.30 a.m. He is now at Castlereagh police barracks "helping police with their enquiries" 'On each of these occasions James has been beaten and there are several eye-witnesses have seen him being who kicked out of Saracens. On Saturday August 12 a gun was clicked at his head in my presence and the presence of the children.' Two more families have re- ported how without any pro- vocation the army fired rubber bullets at very young children.

Michael Tohill, from the Ardoyne district of Belfast, told about his six-year-old daughter, Katrina. was at the bottom of Clonard Street when my daughter came and told me Katrina had been hit by a rubber bullet. I rushed up to the house, but Katrina was ent already away at the hospital.

'The six-wheeler had been around the area about six times, when suddenly there a report from the six- was wheeler and Katrina was hit.

It had been fired from the back 'After about one hour we were able to take Katrina home. She was in the house half an hour when she started to vomit up blood. I left the house to go to W North Howard Street to see the man in charge of the Green Jackets. I saw this officer and informed him what had hap- pened to my daughter. 'He told me already happened. knew what had "The innocent sometimes suf- fer," he said. "The injuries as far as I know are bruised ribs and vomiting up blood."' Another young child hit by a rubber bullet was six-year- old Geraldine Tohill. An eye- witness told of the , army's blatant and unprovoked attack: 'I was at the junction of Kane Street and Bombay Street when a Saracen had just turned the corner. The soldiers in the back of the Saracen fired one rubber bullet at children play- ing on the edge of the foot- path. 'One child was hit in the ribs. It was six-year-old Geral- dine Tohill. At this time there were no incidents in the area, and this attack was uncalled fol Mrs Tohill took Geraldine to the hospital and the doctor told her that if the rubber had hit the child bullet straight-on instead of at a side angle, the child would never have spoken again. . "The child had severe bruis- ing and lacerations and was hysterical. She refused to stay in hospital and had to be ted brought home.' Other people, like Mrs J.

to Walker, of Gibson Street, in Belfast, have been terrorized without reason by the army.

Shots have been taken at them standing in their homes and relatives beaten and taken away. 'On Friday afternoon, Sep- tember 22, I was standing at my own door watching the children play in my hallway.'

Mrs Walker said. 'A shot was fired in the Grosvenor Road. As soon as I heard it I rushed to get all the children into my house.

I felt something hitting me of in the face. Fragments of the wall had hit me. The army had . fired at my house and were running up the street. I shouted at the soldiers that they could have shot me or my children. Their answer was they should have aimed lower. Two soldiers rushed in- side and came out again. When more soldiers came I told them two had already been in. 'At this they started to push me about. My sister was pushed and kicked because she told the soldiers to leave me alone.

One of the soldiers tried to push her head through a window. 'Next morning at 8.45 they came and arrested my sister.

'When I complained to the army barracks I asked about my sister who had been taken away in a Saladin. I was told she was wanted for an incident.' Anticipation of high Britain joins the prices once Common Market has. invoked a whole spate of mergers and takeovers. firms are expecting high prices to stay and think justification— housewives will have to switch to lower-priced foods. Part of this movement would involve a substantial im- provement in the outlook for cheaper meat-based foods like sausages and pies. That is why all and sundry are bidding for pie manufac- Scott-Bowyers-itself the result of a merger last February. Fitch-Lovell the food manu- facturers opened the bidding for Scott-Lovell with a £36m offer. A merger would create a f110m group. But dairy firm Unigate has also made an offer to merge £130m group. Scott- into a Bowyers' shareholders are re- ported to be in favour of such a deal, excluding the Fitch- Lovell men. The story does not end there, however. Both British American Tobacco and Im- perial Tobacco are considering bids for both Fitch-Lovell and Scott-Bowyers. There were a staggering 55,000 redundancies on Clydeside in the ten years from 1958 to 1968. These figures, which leave out the thousands of jobs lost since the Tories took office two years ago, have come from re- searchers at Glasgow Univer- sity. Total manufacturing em- ployment in the area-which includes the industrial heart of Scotland-dropped by 7 per cent, or 22,000. This is because although 55,000 jobs were lost, only 33,000 new jobs were pro- vided. Most of the jobs lost involved men, but less than two-thirds of the new jobs were for male workers. The researchers found that local manufacturers played little part in bringing any new jobs to the area and found most of Clydeside's economy controlled by external firms.

Hundreds of immigrant work- ers who paid for expensive training computer courses found the diplomas awarded at the end completely worthless. The Islington Committee for Community Relations in north London has compiled a dossier of such occurrences, fully documenting the cases.

They include a 17-year-old West Indian girl who paid out £105 for _a punch-operating course. No employer recognize her qualification.

Another case West Indian worker who gave up his job as a storekeeper to go on a three months' full- time course in computer oper- ating costing £175. Another man, married with three children, claims he spent his £300 lifesavings on three-month full-time course in programming. At the end he could not get a job. The report says: "These are but a few of the cases. It ap- pears that there are many more, Labour MP for East Isling- ton John Grant wants the alle- gations investigated.

THE FIFTH COLUMN IN THE

ITALIAN WORKING CLASS

A cry of alarm was heard from Eugenio Cefis, pre- sident of the Italian che- micals group, Montedi- son, in a letter to his em- ployees last week. 'We are in the midst of a land-slide which threatens to drag us all down with it if we do not create the basis for everything to be gradually strengthened.' He added, as an additional warning, that the company was 'in a situation of extreme economic weakness' Not only does this mean the collapse of Montedison, but also the collapse of the dreams of Signor Cefis. • In the summer of 1971, he left the management of the state-holding, ENI, to become chairman of Montedison. This marked the crowning of Cefis's activity, since he had got ENI to buy up sufficient shares to control the company. The reorganization of the chemical and textile industries in Europe has destroyed all his carefully-nurtured plans. He now finds himself in con- flict with Girotti, ENI's new who is chief, spearheading rationalization in Italy and wants a say in the organization and the financing of the chemical conglomerate. Cefis wants a free hand with the profitable sectors, but he also needs more money. The private shareholders are not thought to be very enthusiastic about helping_ him out, so as a last resort ENI will perhaps come to the rescue. Whatever they decide cannot halt the world-wide recession.

nated. the decisions taken si far and the gloomy predictions outlined above mean even more severe attacks on the Italian working class. After their summer holidays Montedison workers soon realized they were not faced with the perspective of a 'hot' autumn of militant strikes over the renewal of wage contracts, simple repetition of the strikes in 1969. Eugenio Cofis On August 18, Montedison announced five factories would close throwing 1,000 workers in the synthetic hbres ana chemicals division out of work.

The factories were 'unproduc- tive' and had to go to ensure survival in the Common Market. The shake-out was the first phase in the planned destruction of 8,000 jobs.

Negotiations for the new wage contract began in the midst of a wave of factory occupations, strikes and de- monstrations for the right to work. The renewal of contracts in the engineering industry, which were also on the agenda, made a struggle to the end against premier Andreotti and Italian Workers who occupied the Montedison capitalism seem inevitable to the 'lefts' who worship the spontaneous movement of the working class. The Italian Communist Party and trade union leaders, how- ever, had very different ideas.

They were and still are more concerned about the survival of the rule of capital than the fight for jobs. Strikes and General Strikes are consequently limited to a protest of a few hours to avoid threatening these exciting ex- periments in 'advanced demo- cracy' and 'peaceful co- existence'. Necessary adaptations are made to moods of militancy, but only to be better positioned to betray this militancy.

This is one of the lessons of the negotiations of the new con- tract for chemical workers which began in private talks uc- between unions and employers on September 21. In Milan, on the same day, police • attacked workers occupying the Farmitalia plant • in Milan with truncheons and tear-gas bombs. Such confrontations and rising militancy in the factories forced a break in the negotia- tions and a one-day strike was called on September 28. On the eve of this strike, the three Italian trade union federations-—the CGIL, CISL, and UIL-issued a joint com- muniqué, another militant ges- ontedison factory in Vaile Susa discussing the !

ture, calling for a 'national day of struggle' October 10 on for workers in the chemical industries and ancillary in- dustries. The language of Fantoni, co- secretary of the CISL, was far from militant. He appealed to the government and the employers' confederation, Con- findustria, to pursue a renew the 'philosophy of wage contracts' and 'positive con- frontations' His CISL henchman, Sartori, spoke out against the one-day national strike which was mainly championed by the Stalinist wing-the CGIL-of the trade union bureaucracy.

Sartori said he was in favour signed of being contracts which, in general, firms can afford'. Predictably, one-day the strike call from the Stalinists was a cover for an agreement to be reached which was fully acceptable to the CISL whose is largely in the leadership pocket of the landowners and big business of the south, the right-wing Christian Democrats.

A left front for behind-the- scenes manoeuvres was vital to avoid joint struggles between chemical and engineering wor- kers whose contracts came up for renegotiation over the first weekend in October. Workers Press, Frid sing the struggle against rationalization.

On October 9, a deal was signed and the one-day national strike was off. The deal, which fixes wages for three granted years, an increase of 16,000 lire a month, less than the increase granted in 1969, and 4,000 lire less than that demanded by the trade union bureaucracy. It guarantees a 12- to 16-per-cent increase in compensation for certain shift workers from...

May 1974. 1he Stalinists and the right wing combined forces to pre- vent any struggle against the monopolies. No demands were raised for the removal of the Andreotti government or for the Italian Communist Party to form a government which nationalize the basic would industries workers' under control. The fight for wages was at all times separated from the fight to defend jobs as part of a socialist programme for the Italian working class.

The ominous predictions of Montedison's Signor Cefis and the daily attacks by fascists on the Italian labour movement are a warning to all those who adapt to the Italian Communist Party and the spontaneous militancy of the working class.

The only defence of the work- ing class is the struggle for an independent Marxist party in Italy based on the policies of Trotskyism. ress, Friday November 17, 1972 PAGE 5 For many years Roger Garaudy was the French Communist Party's prin- ing a dialogue with the Catholic Church. At the same time he was a zealous advocate for Stalin. In the period before the • congress held in last party February 1970 Garaudy came into collision with the party leadership and was later ex- pelled. More recently he has sought.

reconciliation with the a Christianity of his youth and admits that during his years in the Communist Party reli- gion never lost its attraction for nim. He stated these views in a book called 'The Alternative', published five months ago, which has had a considerable success. In it he tries to amal- gamate Marxism with the idealist philosophy of Kant and modern Christian theo- logy. Garaudy, who was never a Marxist but only one of the consecrated ideologists of French Stalinism, has now even abandoned the position of materialism. His philosophy can now be summed up in a phrase he used in a recent interview. 'To live our history in the perspective of the Resurrec- tion is,' he says, 'to be con- scious that we are fully res- ponsible for our history' He that on to say goes scientific proof. of the resur- rection of Christ is not neces- sary; it was a symbolic act to be grasped through faith.

Thus Garaudy goes on his knees and recites the catech- ism that he learned in his adolescence, descending into a farrago of mysticism in which resurrection with he equates revolution. After accepting the role for of apologist for many years Stalinism, the repentant Gar- audy, though not yet actually calling himself a Christian, is on the way back to accepting the authority of the Church.

With his last book Garaudy makes his final bow to Marx- ism and completes an evolu- tion which will give the Stalin- ists the opportunity to say, we told you so. In fact, of course, Garaudy is a product of Sta- linism and the theoretical de- generation to which it leads.

In his earlier books Gar- audy already displayed an ignorance of Marxist theory and the history of the work- movement which makes his recent evolution no sur- prise. Incapable of leading any kind of opposition against the Stalinist leadership of the French Communist Party, Gar- audy's latest turn totally dis- credits him as far as the work- ing class is concerned.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday November

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Cecil Harmsworth King, the Fleet Street news- paper tycoon who ran the Mirror group for a quar- ter of a century, has blown the gaff. He has published a personal diary he kept trom 1965 to 1970 during the years of the Wilson government. He says that the published 'excerpts' material is only from his daily account of his meetings with Cabinet minis- bankers and business- ters, men. He told a literary luncheon the other day that the book 'is only a third or a quarter of the diary. I have cut out • could any passages which form a breach of confidence' If the 300-odd pages pub- on Monday represent lished the edited and more discreet sections of his diaries, the rest be absolutely must sensa- tional! In a fit of cranky pique, King has released his diaries while he and all the other par- ticipants are still very much around and in business. He utterly exposes the links between the Tory Press and the top politicians and in the their frailty. reveals process His prose is enlivened by a poisonous streak which vili- fies the majority of the digna- tories he sups with. It is writ- ten in the most lethal vein— the jugular vein. has Understandably, King censured by the ruling been class. In the capitalist Press i find review after re- you cạn view which lambasts the man they previously crawled be- fore. Woodrow Wyatt, the Labour MP who drew a salary from the 'Daily Mirror' for years in return for writing a reaction- last weekend: 'Cecil King is a monumen- tal bore. I used to have lunch with him only because he was the chairman of IPC (the In- ternational Printing Corpora- tion) and I wrote a column for the "Daily Mirror". I have never heard from Cecil King an original idea, an amusing remark or anything which in- dicated why he should have emerged at the head of a large business and newspaper em- pire without owning more than a handful of shares.'

Richard Marsh, the Labour- ite turned railway hatchet man for the Tories, was so entries incensed over the about him in King's diaries that ha wrote a letter to "The Times'. 'One can only say- UGH to King's caddish beha- viour' , wrote the offended Mr Marsh. (Marsh's public indignation is odd. When King spoke to the Press earlier this week he said he would shortly be hav- ing lunch with none other than Victor Feather of the TUC and .. . Richard Marsh.) In the 'UK Press Gazette' Colin Valdar, one of King's editors, ended his outraged article with this pomposity: It is a desperate situation for journalists when a man • has been one of their who most distinguished associates and champions shows so little respect for the privileged sources which his position in newspapers opened to him.

From a mannered man, it is an ill-mannered example? And on a BBC television November 17, 1972 week, the last programme Liberal Ludovic Kennedy, foamed and fumed as he in- about his terrogated King 'breach of faith' in bringing out conversations and anec- dotes about the men in high places. disgruntled King has The shrugged off the threats to cut him I out of high society. He guests at his told the book launching: I don't think I have betrayed any confidence.

It was just ordinary conversa- tion. The diary was not com- piled with a view to publica- tion. Had I remained in Fleet Street, obviously I would not published any book have He said that the theme of the diary was that 'our politi- cal emperors have no clothes'.

When reminded that Wood- row Wyatt had described him as 'a monumental bore', ', King said drily: I have had harsher epithets applied in the past.

But Mr Wyatt is a consider- able authority.' As King himself says, he wrote the diary 'from the the political front row of stalls'. From this vantage point he was involved in the most intimate discussions • the on political and economic life of the country. He got his job as head of the largest newspaper publish- ing group in the world by virtue of his marriage to the of the sister newspaper barons, Lord Northcliffe and Lord Rothermere. His editor- ial control extended over the largest newspaper chain ever concentrated in the hands of one man—the 'Daily Mirror', and the 'People'. His main the gave all-out backing to the Labour Party in the 1964 General Election, because, as King said, he felt 'that it was time for a change' 'We did everything for Wil- son and the Labour Party we could think of. I even drove about London in my office Rolls with a red flag on the bonnet saying "Vote Labour"!

King's backing for the Labour Party was based on the assumption that the Wil- son government would attend to two major questions-enter the Common Market and deal with the trade unions. When neither of these objectives could be achieved by Wilson (King believes he didn't try seriously enough) he became disillusioned and slumped into what was described at the time as 'melancholia' His diary reveals important discussions which commenced behind the scenes about the possible formation of a nat- ional government in which he and other captains of industry would play a vital role in run- ning the country. In preparing for high office King accepted Wilson's offer of directorships with the Bank of England and the National Coal Board. Here he was aligned with the respective chairmen, Lord Cromer and Lord Robens, who were also private advocates of a national businessmen's government. Another malcontent that he held talks with was ex-Labour- ite Sir Oswald Mosley. who became leader of the British Union of Fascists. On May 10, 1968, he wrote astonishing an tront-page, signed editorial 'Enough is enough' in which he called for Wilson's replace- ment as Prime Minister. A days later his 13 co- few directors called for his resig- nation and he was ousted from the board. significance of King's The diaries is not simply in his petty likes and dislikes. It is in his extremely precise and intimate vision of political developments. And when King speaks he is not a complete loner; what he was saying during the years 1965-1970 is only a reflection of what a larger number of them were saying. And if they were planning during corporatism these years, how much more sinister must be the talk in the par- lours and powder rooms of the rich today. He has clumsily blurted out the truth about the crisis in ruling-class circles—warts and all. For revolutionaries it is a book well worth reading be- cause it provides such a can- did appraisal of the nature of at least a section of the class enemy. Further extracts from King's diary will be examined in Workers Press during next week. 'The Cecil King Diary 1965- 1970' is published by Jonathan Cape at £3. Lord Cromer. Governor of the Bank of England, now US ambassador: 'Rowley • Cromer came to dinner at Hampton Court last night. He anticipates financial trouble by September. In the long run trouble he expects with the trades unions to end in violence.' (May 1967.)

Pope Paul: 'From London Pope Paul seems to be a ditherer. On the spot this impression is fully confirmed. What is not realized in England is that the Pope is potent figure the most Italian politics-the Christian effect the Democrats are in Pope's own party? (January 1967.) Sir Harry Nicholas. Ex-general secretary, Labour Party (writing about battle for new general secretary): "The interesting thing is that is in an the Labour Party awful mess and obviously needs can find. the best man they Instead the choice is between Tony Greenwood who is use- less-but a toady of Wilson's —and Harry Nicholas who is only useless.' (July 1968.)

Douglas Houghton. Ex-Minister, chairman of Parliamentary Labour Party: I spoke well of Houghton and said I was sorry he had gone. Wilson said he couldn't in the keep 68 of a man Cabinet... This is, of course, pure nonsense. Why exchange a useful little man of 68 for a like Patrick) total dud, 59?' Gordon Walker, of (January 1967) Richard Helms. Director of the CIA: 'He said he employed enough PhDs to man a university, men with first-class intellects who thought they were serving their country this way better than by getting higher salaries else- where. He thought our Secret Service quite good, having re- their resources.' gard to (September 1966) Denis Hamilton. Editor in Chief, Times Newspapers: 'Denis Hamilton came and politics-comparing talked notes on the future. He tells me that both Macmillan and Rab Butler foresee a National Government and assume that they will be invited to join it?

(August 1966.) Sir Max Aitken. Chairman of Beaverbrook Newspapers: 'Max Aitken talked complete nonsense. It is hard to see what can be done with such a man.' (October 1965.) Anthony Crosland. Labour Housing Minister: "Tony Crosland is a curious character: good-looking, charm- ing, very intelligent, but im- and quite Silly mature times. Crosland's main interest in a Lib-Lab pact. He was said the government cannot go on as it is and an agreement with the Liberals is the only hope.' (September 1965.) Richard Marsh. Chairman of British Rail: 'Marsh, though uneducated, to me shows intelligence and judgement. So much so that when he applied for a job out- arranged side politics 1 for him to have £500 per annum from the Mirror to keep him in. Wilson knows this and be in says he will soon . the Cabinet.? (August 1965.) Reginald Maudling. Deputy prime minister: 'Dear Reggie, though very intelligent, does like a good lunch and parties that go on the night. late into (July 1965)

Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Tory Foreign Secretary: I agreed with those who greeted his appointment to the with derision, Foreign Office and his nomination 10 to Downing Street with stupe- faction.' (July 1965.) Lord Shawcross. Ex-Labour minister, chairman of City Takeover Panel and BSA: 'A brilliant man and a most charming one, but hard to say why his career hasn't really been worthy of him... is now said to be lazy? (July 1965.)

Lord Longford. Labour Cabinet Minister: 'Frank Longford quite use- less—mental age of 12? (July 1965.) Michael Stewart. Foreign Secretary: I think honest, intelligent, and (on his feet) articulate, but a man so dim as almost to be invisible' (July 1965.)

Charles de Gaulle. French President: 'De Gaulle had given Wilson glittering reception at the a Grand Trianon, and then, having illustrated to his own satisfaction the importance of de Gaulle and the nullity of Wilson, took him under a spreading chestnut tree and fairly clobbered him.' (July 1967) Sir Arnold Weinstock. Chairman GEC: 'Lunch with Arnold Wein- stock. He thought our problem in industry was not strikes but the fact that though the men didn't strike they didn't work.

He believed in equal pay for equal work, but the men's wages should be brought down to that of the women.' (May 1969) Victor Feather. TUC general secretary: 'Lunch yesterday for Vic Feather. I have known him well for years, as the "Mirror" paid him £500-a-year retainer, a and he was a useful source of trade union opinion. He seemed to think a national wages board impossible idea. was not an (April 1969) Ray Gunter. Wilson's Labour Minister: 'Ray Gunter to lunch: a nice little man. Gunter was amusing about trying to teach [Richard] of life: Crossman the facts that the British working man does not want to see equal wages for women; does not like family allowances; has little sympathy for the lower- paid worker.' (October 1968.)

Lord Stokes. Chairman of British Leyland: 'He has a pleasant person- ality and is, I believe, a good suggestion that he is a industrialist" or whatever nonsense.' (February 1969.)

Peter Shore. Minister for Economic Affairs: 'Crosland will not impress the business world-even less a clever undergraduate. I should say his ceiling would be as a university lecturer in econo- mics. However, he is a friend of Wilson and that, presum- ably, is enough.' (August 1967.)

Enoch Powell. Tory MP: What impressed me, and what I did not know of before, his love of the army and was particularly of the discipline of the army, especially when he was a private. He may be the herald of fascist a new regime-but we have certainly not heard the last of Enoch Powell. (December 1968.) Denis Healey. Labour Defence Minister: 'He [Heath] also mentioned in passing that Denis Healey is intolerably arrogant. He had been this when they were both (and Roy Jenkins) at Balliol. (July 1968.) Lyndon Johnson. US President: 'He is obviously obsessed by Vietnam and finds it difficult to talk or think of anything else. He seemed to judge people by their willingness to stand by him, so he spoke very warmly of Harold Holt (who is a pleasant nonentity), of Bob Menzies (much abler than Holt, but a lazy snob).'

(September 1966.) Lord Goodman. Chairman of the Newspaper Publishers' Association: 'We gave a dinner party at Claridge's last night. I urged on Goodman, as I did a few days ago Murdoch, the on vital importance of closing down one of the newspapers— at least the "Sketch"' (June 1970) Workers Press, Frid Lord Kearton. Chairman of Courtaulds: I had some talk with Frank who seemed to me, Kearton as usual, a very woolly-minded man. He says the squeeze is taking great effect, and that Courtaulds have difficulty in getting their bills paid even by biggest their customers. (December 1969.) Sir Oswald Mosley. Ex-British fascist leader: had lunch with Oswald Mosley. He thinks the drift towards the revolution that he tried to take charge of during the 1930s has resumed. I think he himself in charge sees last. This seems to me quite fantastic, but there is so little leadership of any kind these the Enoch days that even Oswald Powells and the Mosleys are not entirely in- credible.' (March 1969) Robin Day. BBC commentator: 'At the BBC yesterday, a discussion with Robin Day. He had something of the seen Tories lately and these are his opinions: (1) Ted cannot get over his inferiority complex; (2) Maudling is bone-lazy and quite useless after * lunch.' (October 1969) ord Pilkington. Chairman of Pilkington Bros: 'Harry Pilkington has taken the strikes that have closed 14 of his 17 factories very hard.

He had no idea that his chaps would behave like other people's chaps. He is one of the nicest men I have ever simple and naive.? but met, (April 1970.) Willy Brandt. West German Chancellor: 'In the course of convers- ation Ted [Heath] said foreigners thought us mad to put up with such a Prime Minister as Wilson: Willy Brandt had virtually said so to Ted when he was in Bonn a few days ago' (May 1970.)

Press, Friday November 17, 1972 PAGE 7 lain Macleod (deceased). Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer: 'Macleod agrees with me our parliamentary in- that stitutions are threatened and that we are heading for a right- wing dictatorship. He thinks a coalition quite a possibility but only after a crash. ' (April 1968.) Roy Jenkins. Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer: 'Hugh [Cudlipp] dined with Roy on the day of his appoint- ment as chancellor and pointed out that he was now the most important man in the govern- ment. He told Hugh that this gave him a shock at the time.

He went home and thought realized Hugh about it, and was right.' (February 1968) Hugh Scanion. President

AUEW:

'He [Heath] recently dined with trades chiefs: union Woodcock incoherent was negative; Cannon and and Scanlon were both ready to accept the enforceability of labour contracts, but only if they were effectively operated the cases of all unions.'

(February 1969.) Henry Kissinger. Nixon's foreign relations envoy: 'He (Dutch editor) had been in the US and had some talk with Kissinger who was then supporting Rockefeller as the Republican candidate. This Kissin- Dutchman asked why. ger said because it would be a disaster if Nixon became presi- dent.' (February 1969) Harold Wilson. Labour Prime Minister: 'Wilson seems to me to have no administrative ability and his political ability is limited mostly to the parliamentary scene, and then to very short- term tactics. No problems get solved.' (March 1966.)

OF LEON TROTSKY

A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1937-1938 continued PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday November 17, 1972 The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the period after 1935 differ in several respects from the two already reviewed. The selections are grouped under headings according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- it possible to follow through logical order. This makes Trotsky's thought on a particular topic, such as the Moscow Trials. On the other hand, the notes do little more than indi- cate the source of the articles, thus leaving the reader to find out for himself about the many persons, organizations and events which are referred to. In addition, there is no index. Apart from the faults of editorship, these volumes are still to be highly recommended because they bring together writings which are otherwise virtually inaccessible or, in certain cases, have never been available in English before.

prepared a Joining the Left Opposition Stalin still in early he its stages, was more fantastic and gran- deported Siberia in 1928 to diose trial than the pre- and capitulated to Stalin in vious fram e-ups. It 1934. After his arrest he was questioned for hours on end, in in opened Moscow at one time for 90 hours with February with 1938 only short interruptions.

Bukharin, Rykov, Rakov- Other accused were subject to similar interrogation under sky and Krestinsky as the glare of special spotlights.

the chief defendants. Those who refused to confess noted, the As Trotsky were summarily shot; those accused included no less than whose wills were broken seven former Central Commit- agreed to false depositions in- tee members, including three criminating themselves and former members of the Poli- others. Bureau, the highest Facts of this kind reached tical the Soviet govern- power in Trotsky from several sources. One of them was the former ment: 'Of the people who OGPU agent Ignace Reiss who nine were members of the Political broke with the bureaucracy during Lenin's life- after giving it many years of Bureau there remained only his service and proclaimed time. one unaccused, Stalin. All the support for the Fourth Inter- have been declared national. others of foreign states and, tracked down Reiss was agents addition, the accusations and murdered near Lausanne in revert back to 1918. in Switzerland by a GPU gang "Trial of the which included a number of The new Twenty-One' brought together White Russian émigrés. Right Trotsky examines in detail representatives the Opposition, such as Bukharin the case of Reiss and criticizes and Rykov, a number who had of Dutch the action the members socialist, Sneevliet, then been for time the Left Opposition and others supporter of the Fourth Inter- who had always loyal national, with whom Reiss had been supporters of Stalin made contact. The policy of or non- concealment pursued by Sneev- political specialists. It was liet had, Trotsky maintained, amalgam. typical Stalinist put Reiss's life in danger. Only Four Kremlin doctors among the widest publicity, and if the accused were said to have poisoned the People's Com- necessary his by the arrest of Heavy French or Swiss police, could missar Industry, have saved his life. Kuibyshev, the head of the

OGPU,

Menzhibski, and the Trotsky's position at all author Maxim Gorky. that there should times was Trotsky mercilessly dissec- be the maximum of exposure the crimes of the GPU and its ted the charges against the accused denounced the agents backed by the Comin- and methods of the new Inquisition tern. used by the OGPU on behalf 'Remissness in the struggle of the bureaucracy. He against this enemy is saw tant- amount to betrayal ... It is the trial as a reply to the Dewey Commission, which urgent to create special com- found had him completely missions which would follow innocent, to 'bolster with more the manoeuvres, intrigues and impressive arguments the crimes of the Stalinists, warn world the labour Shaken organizations of danger in store and elaborate best methods the While the trial was conduc- of parrying ted in public, the purge went and resisting the Moscow gang- sters,' he wrote. on : and hundreds of In March 1938 Trotsky 'Dozens relatives, friends, collaborators wrote to the Juridical Section of of Secretariat of and colleagues the defen- the the League of Nations offering to dants were arrested. With these GPU. aimed the to appear before the tribunal arrests of the enclose every one against terrorists which Lit- vinov, on behalf of the Soviet accused within a ring of false depositions made by Union, had proposed that this people body should set up. closest to him. Particularly disgraceful was He cited a series of terrorist the treatment of the 64-year- acts perpetrated Stalin's by Rakovsky agents. included old Christian who They the had been under arrest for over murder of Ignace Reiss and a a year when the trial began.

GPU attempt to kill his son Leon Sedov at Mulhausen Rakovsky, who had been in January 1937 which the Swiss the Marxist prominent In movement in the Balkans be- police inquiry into this event fore 1914, became had revealed. chairman of the Ukrainian Soviet after Among other crimes which Revolution the and later he cited were those commit- served as ambassador GPU in Spain an in ted by the Paris and London. against his former secretary Christian Rakovsky, a detondant in the Erwin Wolf, the POUM leader Andres Nin and the Austrian socialist Kurt Landau. As Trotsky put it: "With the help of documents, testi- mony of witnesses and irrefut- able political considerations I take it upon myself to prove what public opinion has been in no doubt of for some time; that is that the head of this criminal band is Joseph Stalin, general secretary of the All- Union Communist Party of the

USSR.

Trotsky's writings during this year are indispensable for understanding the background to the Moscow Trials and Stalin's motives for staging them. trials, he says, 'In these 'everything is turned on its head. The enemies of the October Revolution array themselves as its executors; their careerists beat chests champions of ideals; like specialists in frame-up stalk in the guise of examining magis- and strates, prosecutors judges.' In a wonderland of grotesque lies none was more fantastic than the charge that Henry Yagoda, head of the GPU and the Zinoviev- organizer of Kamenev trial, together with ex-Menshevik Vishinsky, the had all along been a conspira- tor in the imaginary • Trot- skyist-Bukharinist centre'.

Yagoda 'confessed' that he had participated in the assas- sination of Kirov 'on instruc- ant in the 1938 trame-up trial, pictured with Tr tions from Trotsky'. Even the bureaucracy itself no longer today repeats this lie, but has had to admit that this assas- sination, which set the stage for series of Moscow the Trials, had been organized by none other than Stalin. While the full story of the Kirov assassination in 1934 has still to be told, Trotsky long ago suspected that it was 'nothing more than a by- product of a police amalgam concocted by Stalin and Yagoda in order to accuse the oppositical leaders of ter- rorism' It was part of Stalin's cam- paign to liquidate the Bol- shevik party by murdering the having Old Guard, first humiliated them and found 'guilty' of the worst them possible crimes. In the previous trials and purges Yagoda could not have acted without the authority of Stalin. To cover his tracks and conceal his responsibility for the death of Kirov, the time came when Stalin had to disown the once-dreaded boss of the GPU. The exterminator rightly of Trotskyists was accused of wild living and embezzlement, put on trial and shot as an agent of Trotsky.

'Cain-Djugashvili Goes the Whole Way' was the title of an article which Trotsky wrote in a bitter in April, 1938, attack on Stalin's crimes: 'Fascism wins victory after victory, and its chief ally on all the world's roads is Stalin- ism. Terrible military dangers knock at all the gates of the ad with Trotsky in the early 1920g.

Union. But Stalin is Soviet destroying the army and is trampling on the country?

Trotsky remained completely confident that the working class would destroy Stalinism, however bleak the prospect then have looked. He must concluded: "The human tongue will not find words at the hour of the last judgement which could do service to the most sinister of Cain's stories. The monu- ments he built to himself will put in be destroyed or museums of totalitarian gang- sterism. But the victorious working class will look through all the trials, public and secret, erect on the squares of and the liberated Soviet Union momuments to the unfortunate victims of the Stalin system of baseness and dishonour' The bureaucracy itself no longer dares to speak, except in hushed tones and covert ways, of the tyrant which it made and who at the same time tyrannized over it. The statues have gone in an effort to avert the anger of the masses. Only when the working class is victorious in the Soviet Union will all the archives of . era be flung open the Stalin and the full truth about the crimes which the bureaucracy perpetrated become known.

From his contacts and his analysis of the known record, Trotsky was able to piece together a good deal of the truth long before the Khrush- chev revelations lifted part of the veil in 1956.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Mugging, as you all know, is always in the news. Aspiring young crime reporters scour the court lists for any criminal incident that could possibly carry this dramatic new label designed to send the middle class into a frenzy of appre- hension. Even better if the perpetrators of the act are black. Well finally someone has come up with a punishment to fit this 'new' crime. Dr Clifford Allen has sug- 'Russian style labour gested camps' for those found guilty.

They had a magic effect (often believed to be death on the gangs of young who men wandered around in the Soviet Union after the last war, he says. 'If only we had such camps, they might be very useful for those considered unlikely to Borstal, benefit from adds Allen. How splendid. And perhaps later, when the camps underway, we could introduce "showers' like they did some in Nazi Germany? The fascists found them a very effective way of dealing with their own problems. No one could argue that the vast majority of Labour cour cillors have put up any sort of fight against the Tories' Housing Finance Act. Quite the reverse is true, as millions of council tenants faced with double rents by the Tories will tell you. Talk about opposing the Tory Bill was one thing, action against the Act was another.

When the time comes, over 90 per cent of Labour-controlled councils found 'reasons' for implementing. But even more incredible tales of courage can still be told about some Labour coun- cillors sitting in places where is still non- the policy implementation. story got Somehow the around that abstainers on im- plementation could be in as much danger of being sur- charged for missing rent revenue as those who definitely voted against. Whether the possibility is not doesn't really true or matter. The very rumour was enough to scare the pants some dedicated class- off collaborators. For recently a number of abstainers have failed to show up at meetings where the council was likely to vote for non-implementation. Many went down with sud- den illnesses while others were called away from town. It is wonder there little was derisory laughter from many public galleries when the apologies for absence were read out by the town clerk.

You could be forgiven for thinking you'd picked up 'Country Life' or some such receiving magazine the On latest issue of the General and Municipal Workers' Union journal. David Basnett had just been elected the union's new gen- eral secretary to replace Lord Cooper. Had the editorial staff planned for such an event?

seemingly not because Well, on the front cover was a pic- ture of this beautiful horse staring straight at the camera!

So you overlook that blun- der. But what was the horse doing on the front cover in any case? Was it in stables at the G&MWU's palatial Ruxley Towers HQ in Surrey? Perhaps the union had gone in for horse-racing. Or was the animal was waiting to carry of some official be- sieged by the rank-and-file de- manding some fight from the leadership? No, we were wrong, although not completely. The horse, ap- propriately named 'Masquer- ade, belongs to the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. The story doesn't end there, however. On the inside cover you had a picture of one of the union's members groom- ing a horse at an RAVC camp.

one of 194,000 She was government industrial workers who have just seen their fight for substantial increase a 'settled' at around the Tories' ceiling. The union side agreed to a binding arbitration award, de- termined as they were to avoid any struggle with the Tory government who directly pay the industrial workers.

Inevitably the final £2.40 award was received with open arms by the union leaders. On second thoughts, perhaps they should buy a horse down at the G&MWU. It could come in handy.

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No longer would every per- son have the absolute right to petition the Supreme Court and no longer would the judges be certain they were being exposed to all the justifiable complaints raised in America's lower courts.

With the re-election of President Nixon there can be little doubt such moves would at least find approval in the direction of the White House.

Press, Friday November 17, 1972 PAGE 9 s' to the Press. ernment said the tap was for purposes of 'foreign intelli- gence" and was authorized by the Attorney-General without the supervision of a judge.

Ellsberg , and Russo main- tained that the defence should be allowed to see the log to find out if the government had gained evidence through an illegal tap. They also contended that there should be a hearing in the federal district court on the phone-tap issue. Judge Byrne, who examined the log, decided that the sur- veillance was irrelevant to the case. He, along with the then US Circuit Court in San Fran- cisco, decided the defence had no right to see the log. Lie detectors are now being used officially in California where moves are also being made to restore the death penalty.

This latest move to 1984 has been sanctioned by Superior Court Judge Allen Miller in the case of a man charged with the possession of marijuana.

The appeal court had decided that findings of a polygraph lie test were not sufficiently certain by scientific standards to be admitted in evidence.

Most US courts, local and federal, will not accept lie as proof that a detector tests person is or is not telling the truth. Judge Allen Miller, how- ever, was of a different opinion.

The courts, he said, were in great need of some way to determine when defendants and witnesses are telling the truth.

On that basis the lie detector should and could be used, the honorable judge ruled.

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Tor. From Left Opposition to Fourth International.

Fighting the Tories' rent Act Rebels' last stand collapses in the Why filmworkers are threatening Workers Pross, Friday

THE CAPITULATION

At the inundated the programme meetmo mnere was calls stampede to become respectable had be over Housing to the Tory law-abiding bý group night. Finance Act by the leader Cilr Ken Edwards. Davie lancaster the housing committee, con- Eccles Labour group, forward for implementing. sistent non-implementer, claiming that near Manchester, worst bitterly disappointed was was VLIe ana analy he spoke to Il wome oe Deuter co oenenl au une result woen only made possible by the avoiding the surcharge and con. Workers Press sequent disqualification from the "They said detection of those who in view the fact going to be had previously stood for Couillil. wewele sul- A number of councilors woc charged housing com- ana C nO had not attended regularly had missioner would non-implementation. out the kill and would be surely stay

BY PHILIP WADE

better to When the Labour group met this pathetic the seILeu dl sullicll councu. on Wednesday night excuse to me

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non imbe "Kut that'c no menters suddenly switched posi. and they have backed down sider the delault order made with them to councillors tions and voted moment when pletely from against them by Tory what we've sald anc support the make u• une nine VOLeS Deer alven more unan

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a lone covernnchl. Hon-oe so they ever Tuesd te the tenants. en if we nid amplem ent from doing ceciceo to mentation policy was reversed abandon any On Manchester radio implement from bv nine votes to seven. It was 6,000 of had Eccles where been made qulte Laudilo,

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alualy ll the last stand in une norti- wil now be asked to pav the t] people could thone m mael sue clear une coveroment increase from January. port to the council. A flood of that we could still be surcharged west dy a reder council. By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE FILMWORKERS' decision at a meeting to occupy Shepperton mass studios is a flat rejection of all the manoeuvrings of millionaire John Bentley and the National Film Finance Corporation. Since Bentley first bought British Lion in May—the assets included the advertising con- cern Pearl and Dean, valuable property in the centre of London and above all the Middlesex studios with nard Ripley Barclay lion shares, he ate it as a going concern.'

from hones won for al industries suf.

68-acre crisis by lot in the Bentley made clear -another. raise in and fering in this

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Securites tinmi cash that if he didn't get his Bentley's enterprises - foi hold 5 million shares fight of the trade heart of the stockbroker union he close a total of £9.66m, a pape the new way would the company of Lion belt—he has been look- Moyencll Whole The bring down the Tory gov-

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Immealately. Hansaclon Shares Internauonai. ing for a way to dispose bankers on the

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which gives Barclay Secu- This ernment and return profiteering and of these rich assets. board have his additional agreed to speculation goes Labour 3,537,500 ordinary shares.

Willie The old board of British the studios are destroyed to socialist poli- pledged orobusdis wilnoul

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much persuasion. Barclay al- and 180 workers riethere is no other Securities Lion are Out was lo oostalie. These ready hold 2,380,818 shares development thrown onto the dole. way •l benuey s initial oner or alc. Any guarantee that film £5m the Boulting. of 40 acres All the issues of the bank.

lubrusa bion yunus lael lot as a housing estate for holdings Lion production will continue of capitalism, the made personal killing LOldl

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the rich; demolition of the International is 5.9 million in the reconstructed Shep- at the €455,000 rampant speculation andee ir Lord talk. Goodman and sulent Slake. une artesi shares woda.

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peTtor sales Bute expense ol lies averrooor Rayne £240,000. studio its kind share, is valued at £9.44m.

proposals will reduce the of skilled men and women, Europe, and of five Add £4m in £1 prefer- capability .of the studios are contained in the Shep- : smaller The National Film Fin- ence shares and the completely. will stages; development of the It LOldl 10 Corporation allco value of Barclay's holdings longer inter- Hve-aere Tine Ine question belore the sented greater problems. studio as an office block; is £13.44m Deduct the national studio and even- working class is jobs not was in possession ind tually profit, redundancies. cost of buying shares ini- must close. socialism and controlling preference this that the Current v is of British Denisey baSICOn ena lo capitalsm once anc and Site

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deduct the value of Mills offering shares of a new workers of Shepperton are for all waS bound by pledge company known and Allen and Leonard saying and are deter- now given Edward by Heath, Lion which Ripley, and Bentley mined to • A mass meeting of the the then Secretary for In- Lulliuduolal. But the Federation old British made a net profit of fight for the of Film Unions comprises the dustry in 1964. Lion andmpany 's a Mill- £6.48m. right to work can only be is planned during the next tising Mills provi- company All this is paper profit political National- to pledge full TOrrionI will sions, Allen Leonard and can only be converted support for the Shepperton anol anol Ization The sTudios workers' should Ripley. into cash by selling the under The nlalcly checuve. workers. main union ensure no purchaser This merger This that was carried the market. without compensation shares on involved, the ACIl. is also British Lion can Strip cur- taking steps to ensure co-

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workers strike for I1 days at Mitcheldean, HEALTH WORKERS feel that Gloucestershire, met yesterday to the government's proposals to consider next nove antel reorganize the National Health ROBERT CARR, the new management threats to lay them Home Secretary, has Service will effectively block off if they stay out longer. rejected a request by the London borough of Lewisham They its warehouse (cabanson enolate the growth of private practice.

upgraded to set up an independent inquiry into relations be.

and receive f3 a week more.

A meeting organized by Camden The council called for an claimed assaulted by Associa- The socialist Medical inquiry 'to the con- police but was afraid to complain LORD BOYLE, vice-chancellor of restore tion this week was told because police threatened to 'do fidence of black and white Leeds University, said yesterday the government's projected him up' that present student residents to diminish Bill-likely to mainten- racial The Home Office has told the becone aw Easter would place local ance grants were neither tair to tensions and to restore counchl: of the Service the students nor neptul to good police morale. special inquiry set up by university management. Lord hands of busines the Home Secretary on the prob- Lewisham police have Boyle, Education former been managers. tory

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vac cuar area woulc accused immi- Minister. victmnizing was presentins StuS Bernard Dix of the National annual statement to a meeting of grants, particularly teenagers. major defects police Union Employees the university court. There have been a number oi Punc of organization which said the government's plan was wele causin? claims alleging police brutality.

The bed and board element in glave ana widespread public con- of appointed lo nave a series cern and which had not been the students m a recen revort me councis grant which committees which would have relations clearly identified by ordinary no health workers on them.

gone up by only 3.5 per Cent Asquith Gibbes, said that under- of methods the last year was 'a pale reflection mivcolsdlul. lying psycholoeical tears created "The Secretarv has no A basic prerequisite for ex- of the eise iber 1991, andd ive ns cost of living N cone Service compounding evidence which leads him to be- the Health ov uie ponce were since September immigrants' problems, He quoted lieve such defects exist in Dix, to view that the amount was was

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the case Nigerian Lewisham.' option altogether. too low even at that time'.

W110 privale 38, Friday November 17, 1972 PAGE 11 for the rent which should have been collected from October 1 to January 1. I took the view that we might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb. They were under the impression the Minister wouldn't surcharge them if they imple- mented. But they could be wrong and still be disqualified from the council, said Cllr Lancaster.

He said he felt 'astonished' and shattered at such a 'body blow' the fight many councillors to had put up against the Tories.

'Now the seven intend to take the fight into the tenants' asso- ciations not to pay the increase . when it is put on in January" The full council met last night, but there seemed no hope that it would do anything but decide finally to implement the Tory law. Some of the best sound stages in Europe at Shepperton in Mid- dlesex-Scene of of the some biggest UK and US film pro- ductions during the 1960s—now doomed under the Bentley asset- stripping plan for the studios.

BIRKENHEAD: Sunday Novem- ber 19, 7.30 p.m. Pier Hotel, Woodside. CORBY: Sunday November 19, 7.30 p.m. Nag's Head, Old Vil- lage. BASINGSTOKE: Sunday, Novem- ber 19, 7 p.m. The Hop Leaf, Church Street. BRACKNELL: Monday November 20, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. WEALDSTONE: Tuesday, Novem- ber 21, 8 p.m. Labour Hall.

Station Road. Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign CROYDON: Monday November 20, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, South Croydon. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday Nov- ember 21, 8 p.m. Balham Baths, Elmfield Road. BARKING: Tuesday November 21, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, corner of Fan- shawe Avenue/Longbridge Road.

DEPTFORD: hursday November 23, 8 p.m. Engineers' Club, New Cross Road. ACTON: Monday November 27, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Road.

WEST LONDON: Tuesday Nov- ember 28, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale Road, King's Cross.

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THE MIDLAND Cold Storage Company said yesterday it was 'encouraging' to hear that lorry drivers had decided to break the dockers' picket line outside their Hackney, east London depot. for Midland, A spokesman owned by the Vestey organiza- would said: 'Nothing tion, please us more to see the store working again.' The firm has been hoping all week that the line would be breached. The spokesman added that they were lodging papers at the National Industrial Relations Court on Monday. If the picket- ing continued, he added, they would then be in a position to against the Transport proceed Union General Workers' and and the National Association of SIT-IN strikers at the Lucas-CA Liverpool want Lucas workers fro tighten up blacking in support of th They will make their call for support at a mass meeting in the Sunday occupied factory on morning. Lucas factory in the Every area has been invited to send contingents to the meeting. The yesterday out strikers were leafleting at factory gates.

Dave Martin, engineers' union convenor at CAV, told Workers Press yesterday that the occupa- tion committee wanted to plug in their loopholes the last campaign for support. A post-mortem is also likely on last iveek's planned combine- LIVERPOOL dockers are drag- ging their feet over the CAV workers' request to black Lucas- CAV goods. One of the leading opponents of the black was docks shop steward Pat Docherty, a Com- munist Party member. At a meeting of the dock shop Docherty stewards' committee, argued that they could not be expected to take action when the CELEBRATE 3rd ANNIV

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Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall y November 17, 1972 ONLY 14 days left to the end of that alternative conclusion an November's Fund still revolutionary leadership must be month. £1,159.10 built. needs reach our Workers Press, alone, has ex- There is not a moment to target. of posed the corporatist role lose. Stalinists. push this reformist and We know you can right up. At a time when more trade unionists figure Thousands must now be won to the policies the trade union leaders almost Tory's legisiation of our paper. weicome the out immediately. Help So turn against pay rises, workers every- us reach out to new readers and where are quickly coming to the

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Dockers — the Stevedores and by dockers. drivers' But yesterday lorry 'Blue' union. with the leaders meeting Dockers have been picketing from big haulage operators Midland for six months claiming an agreement the work done inside should be Smithfield to get to send lorries in. carried by registered dock out the head of The company has fought Eric Rechnitz, labour. London drivers' said committee, doikers taking an action the led to their had alternative but to against them which they no of take action. for contempt imprisonment 'The time has come when we the NIRC. of fight back. The action The lorry drivers' decision must to the Royal group militant leaders break the picket line was taken is totally foreign to official union last Wednesday night at a mass illegal,' completely he of about 200 drivers. policy, meeting added. have said before they They dockers picketing at the wanted to cross the line, but the But condemned Midland yesterday resisted the move, employers moves ro cross their line.

would be their lorries fearing many times have you 'How blacked throughout the country TORY LEADER Edward Heath's Protestant calculated snub to the Defence Association is in Ulster of winning line with his policy from the political middle ground factory in ucas-CAV vehicle-pump the extremists. rkers from all over Merseyside to two-day visit to He is ort of their six-week-old action.

politicians from Ulster meeting Alliance and Labour the Unionist, leaders, trade union Parties, supported by including the Roman churchmen, key factories. All Ireland, Primate of Catholic Trades Council was Cardinal Conway, and workers. urged last night to mount a mass Heath's refusal para-military leaders in support of the occupation.

organizations Protestant demonstration, confi- indication strong dence that the situation in Ulster of workers in of most is at last under control.

the Merseyside area, though unobtru- take place on December 6 The massive, military clampdown, huge workers today com- sive, subsidies exchequer increases in and the peace prospects held out of closure with the loss of 1,000 William Whitelaw's Green by Paper firmly linked to a 'co- to 'put the occupying workers Fazakerley were not men their own house in order'.

from full support receiving that the dock their understand workers within own com- chairman stewards' bine. Symes offered to allow the CAV have explained The occupiers to appeal to a mass meet- men that they face difficulties in many But this ing for support. may plants where the right wing have take place since the not now the upper hand. meeting to be called over the continuation of the black But this did not impress the Howitt's which has of the dock shop transport, majority now been lifted (see p.3).

stewards and Docherty called on ANNIVERSARY OF WORKERS PRESS (See p. 1) Speakers: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) BER 3, 7 p.m. JOHN HOWE (Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) CONNIE FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) ALAN PEERS (Young Socialists' national committee) (Union and tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Speakers: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central committee) DAVID JONES (YS national committee) BOB MAINS (Unemployed) VINCENT FOY (secretary Jarrow Trades Council.

In personal capacity.) Speakers: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) 3ER 17, 2 p.m. JOHN BARRIE (YS national committee) WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman Paisley Tenants' Action Committee. In personal capacity.)

Speakers : G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) 3ER 17, 7 p.m. WILLIE AITKIN (YS national committee) PETER SMITH (Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.) win even greater support for our Fund. Let us try and make this month our best achievement so Post Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. heard them say that?' asked one of them. If anyone of these firms goes in here they know they will be blacked by us.' They also poured scorn on suggestions that their picketing was illegal and unofficial.

stewards shop 'The were the men and elected by are recognized by the union. And everything is decided by a it that makes vote majority official as far as I am concerned,' said another picket. Pickets said they did not care how many lorries crossed the Their number would be line. taken and the firm would be blacked. Said another picket: 'We are not after the drivers' jobs and they know it. All this business the is being drummed up in newspapers to provoke us.'

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operate-or-else' threat have more and more isolated the extremists.

Heath is determined to force the pace against groups like the UDA and the IRA until moder- ate opinion is substantial enough to form the basis for a long term solution in Ulster. • Heath warned yesterday that Britain would withdraw the £200m a year subsidy to Northern Ireland if there was a unilateral independence declaration on there. He said such a move would lead to a bloodbath and that so as a majority of people wished to remain a part of the United Kingdom, the British government would support the union of Britain and Ulster.

Heath was speaking to a lunch of dignatories in Holywood, Co Down. CRASHED Vehicle and General Insurance Company may end up with a total deficiency of £9.5m.

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india East India DUC TALKS between the Health Ser- vice Unions and the Department of Health and Social Security take place today on the hospital ancillary workers' pay claim.

Until now Britain's 250,000 hospital workers have been con- sistently refused a reply to their £4-a-week claim. One leading London ancillary representative told workers yesterday Workers Press he thought there would be immedi- ate moves from the talks for industrial action in support of the claim. He is Jimmy Jewell, shop steward for the 500-strong an- cillary workers' membership of Municipal General and Workers Union at Whittington Hospital, Highgate, north Lon- don. Said Mr Jewell: 'The mood at present is very militant. Already there are some hospitals in the provinces who have said they will come out on strike tomorrow during the talks. will be 'But I think there moves from the talks for indus- trial action in support of the claim. And • if tomorrow's talks do not give us the f4 we have been asking for, then I think majority of the there will be a national health service shop meeting stewards at on our December 3 who will vote for a strike? And he added: 'I think they'll freeze the increase. But if they offer us the z2.40 the local gov- ernment workers accepted then we won't take it.' high FEELING is running at Stoke, Coventry, Chrysler's UK, at the latest moves by the man- John Worth, agement against the deputy convenor. Due to the strike of 4,000 workers last week over Worth's reinstated dismissal the firm him, but then told the union that he would not be recognized as a shop steward. Workers that provided say John Worth's section members on the engine-test say he is their shop steward, all the factory will immediately back any action taken by that section. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London,

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