Workers Press no. 928

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TORY PAY LAW

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSARY

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developments and gains since the 7 p.m. first issue of Press. Workers • September 26. 1969 Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

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.)

Details of other provincial meetings see p. 12 Other provincial meetings p.12

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BY DAVID MA

BRITAIN'S biggest union face action against the Tories' pay ing. Liverpool docks stewards Transport and General Worke call a national strike of dock other members hit by the law.

Liverpool's 10,000 dockers have already been told by their employers that a pay and hours deal, due to come in at the end of this week, is to be at least held up. Tomorrow port employers in London's enclosed docks will tell their 15,000 men that there is no question of their annual pay review being implemented in time on January 1 (see p. 11).

London riverside dockers will get the same message next week, as will lightermen and tally- clerks at a meeting yet to be fixed. The call for official action came from a meeting of the Merseyside port shop stewards' yesterday morning, committee which decided to call a mass meeting of all dockers on Sun- day to discuss the outcome of today's meeting with Jones.

Some stewards wanted to re- impose from next Monday a black on the Seaforth container and bulk cargo terminal, ope- rated in May this year in support of their pay and hours demands.

majority feeling, however, was in support of the successful executive stewards' recom- mendation. The black went on at Seaforth after a shop stewards' meeting on May 3. All new containers • 4p

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on faces a call for official strike les pay control law this morn- tewards will urge Jack Jones, Workers' Union secretary, to of dockers and all the union's were turned away from the £50m terminal. A mass meeting of dockers the following Sunday endorsed demands which, it was under- stood, would have to be met before the black could be lifted.

The demands were: • An increase in the port's £26 basic rate. A 35-hour week. A week's extra holiday. • Better sick-pay. • Fall-back pay at average earn- ings for the whole port. • Stuffing and stripping of con- tainers to be dockers' work.

A few days later the stewards lifted the black in return for an agreement in principle that the 35-hour week would be in- troduced in the last quarter of 1972. But last week shop stewards and union officials were told that implementation of a firm agreement from November 25 be- was out of the question cause of the Counter-Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Bill.

And the employers also made clear that even at the end of the present law, they would be guided in negotiations by what- ever subsequent legislation the Tories introduced.

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Old people and trade unionists three-pronged pensions a demonstration in London yester- day. • See p.12.

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29,000 ASLEF train drivers are on 24-hour strike today. This follows the moving by management representatives super of the new 150 m.p.h. train' in the Derby workshops.

The train has been "blacked' by ASLEF, which wants in- creased pay for drivers of high- speed trains as well as a rise for all their members review British Rail has promised to drivers' pay, but has said that *not all-round increases are justified'. The decision to go ahead with the strike followed a six-hour meeting of the ASLEF executive yesterday. Derrick Fullick, ASLEF local departmental committee member at Waterloo station, London, told Workers Press yesterday: *What has to be remembered is that in May this year it was written into the wages agreement that there would be a review of footplate staff pay. Yet since then there's only been one meeting between the union and the Rail Board on November 7. *The disagreements with high- speed trains are mainly cab de- sign and the manning. The speed of the train itself is not in dis- pute. Trains have already been speeded up the normal rate of the inter-city trains is about 90 m.p.h.—yet we have got no- thing out of it.' At Waterloo the feeling was 100 per cent for the strike.

Mr Fullick said drivers wanted their status restored and a com- plete revision of the wages scale.

'We think the union shouldn't talk about anything less than £40 basic and the longer the delay, then the higher it will go."

• See cartoon p. 2.

workers press

TORY PAY LAW

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEI

Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

THREE

PRESS

YEARS

BUILD THE

OF

REVOLUTIONARY

WORKERS

PARTY

PRESS

SUNDAY

Showing the

DECEMBER 3

developments and gains since the 7 p.m. first issue of Workers Press. 1969 • • September 26. Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

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.)

Details of other provincial meetings see p. 12.

Other provincial meetings p.12 HE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1972 • No. 928 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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BY DAVID MAUDE

BRITAIN'S biggest union faces a call for official strike action against the Tories' pay control law this morn- ing. Liverpool docks stewards will urge Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union secretary, to call a national strike of dockers and all the union's other members hit by the law.

Liverpool's 10,000 dockers were turned away from the £50m have already been told by terminal. their employers that a pay meeting of dockers mass and hours deal, due to come Sunday endorsed the following demands which, was under- in at the end of this week, is it be stood, would have met to be at least held up. before the black could be lifted.

The demands were: Tomorrow port employers in London's enclosed docks will • An increase in the port's £26 tell their 15,000 men that there basic rate. of their annual is no question implemented • A 35-hour week. review being pay in time on January 1 (see p. 11).

• A week's extra holiday.

London riverside dockers will • Better sick-pay. get the same message next week, will lightermen tally- and • Fall-back pay at average earn- clerks to be ings for the whole port. at a meeting yet fixed. • Stuffing and stripping of con- The call for official action tainers to be dockers' work. of the a meeting came from A few days later the stewards Merseyside port shop stewards' lifted black return for committee yesterday morning, that agreement in principle which decided call an would be week of all dockers on Sun- the 35-hour in- meeting troduced in the last quarter of discuss the outcome of day to 1972. today's meeting with Jones.

stewards But last week shop Some stewards wanted to re- told and officials were from Monday union impose next of firm that implementation black on the Seaforth container from November 25 agreement and bulk terminal, ope- cargo be- was of the question rated in May this year in support Counter-Inflation of the of their pay and hours demands.

cause (Temporary Provisions) Bill. majority feeling, however, And the employers also made was in support of the successful clear that even at the end of stewards' recom- they would be the present law, mendation. The black went on at Seaforth guided in negotiations by what- stewards' meeting subsequent legislation the after a shop ever All Tories introduced. May 3. containers on new

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PE cold and Old people and trade unionists three-pronged pensions demonstration in London yester- day. • See p.12.

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29,000 ASLEF train drivers are on 24-hour strike today. This follows the moving by management representatives of the new 150 m.p.h. "super train' in the Derby workshops.

The train has been 'blacked' in- by ASLEF, which wants creased pay for drivers of high- speed trains as well as a rise for all their members. review" British Rail has promised to drivers' all-round ay, but has said that 'not increases are justified'. The decision to go ahead with the strike followed a six-hour meeting of the ASLEF executive yesterday. Derrick Fullick, ASLEF local departmental committee member at Waterloo station, London, told Workers Press yesterday: 'What has to be remembered is that in May this year it was written into the wages agreement that there would be a review of footplate staff pay. Yet since then there's only been one meeting between the union and the Rail Board on November 7. "The disagreements with high- speed trains are mainly cab de- sign and the manning. The speed of the train itself is not in dis- pute. Trains have already been speeded up-the normal rate of the inter-city trains is about 90 m.p.h.—yet we have got no- thing out of it.' At Waterloo the feeling was 100 per cent for the strike.

Mr Fullick said drivers wanted their status restored and a com- plete revision of the wages scale.

'We think the union shouldn't talk about anything less than £40 basic and the longer the delay, then the higher it will go.'

• See cartoon p. 2.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday Novamber 23, 1972 North blitzed as 'peace' is talked

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

US BOMBING of North Vietnam reached an all-

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time crescendo yesterday, according to the military command in Saigon. A spokesman said 15 flights of giant B52 bombers had struck targets below the 20th parallel 75 some miles south of Hanoi. This was the highest-ever

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number of missions flown the north since the arailiol began. The raids were Wal indus- Conceau died Ine trial cities of Thanh Hoa and Dong Hoi. The new attack took place Trouble on the line the in Paris OCLICi LCrOLdLiOs Kissinger and belween Dr Henry Tighter controls mean clash with unions Duc Tho entered their third round yesterday And they Nixon's state pay curb cncrr by sharp warning from the puppet South Vietnamese re- that all gime North v iculalllcoc must be

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wiloerawnl the south and from Cambodia. said the Saigon egime the was only acceptable to last another year

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ceasenre ceci. weeks the United States has been pouring military equipment Vietnam Ull- •arsuc ed Sarue smen en the puppet government's army. At the Paris talks, Kissinger trying persuade Duc

BY JOHN SPENCER

accent anoner cause the draft which will But big contracts due in 1973 Saigon's for with. meet demand

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North Vietnamese oinwal troops. administration is new NEARLY a dozen big Following the bitter Also up for negotia• Iwo vears ago. Chi- I such a clause Is writlen lnte tion next year are cago teamsters struck postal strike two years planning even tighter con- blow labour contracts come a deal it would be a major tracts between rail several ne eks up for renegotiation in 440.

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were Cune Tevononay trols over wages as a key their the representing used to break

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the Indo-China. But there are indi- 1973. 500.000 WOT eTS cations that North Vietnam has action, Nixon rushed policy over the coming 12 lays down guidelines for They special Bill pulling out of include through a intention of settlements United Workers' the south. months. Auto compul- the 00010 country. sory arbitration. contracts workers are All over the south, the libera- General Motors also due to renegotiate Administration officials have con- forces have been putting dunei tion expiring in 1973 Chrysler, agreed indicated that the existing 5.5- 67- Union, are

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the puppet neavyoressure affect clothing workers, years in the Gene- scrime for but strike battles. And per-cent wage guideline will be troops in local strike them has electricians and rubber China News yesterday the New cut down even further when Motors' plants. already been outlawed. workers. hundreds Agency reported that pnase three of the : 01- the of vouth trol policy comes in next April.

unousaras north are answering a that important ruling was its decision Tussed ah a come ol ene peies.

„ new re. warned new anti-strike armed drive for the discussed when cruiting This puts the administration on legislation will be outlaw rises won after prices a lengthy strike by east and west at a the control of a collision course with American 1orccs. tne wages boara ls denea.

UnOCI working class, particularly coast dockers. Prices Board- showing -aT€ • Kissinger took time off from Wage controls were introduced like apidly In other mass-production industries rising Nixon originally appointed five the talks to fly to August as part of the yesterday 19/1 words what is cars and engineering and in the economic package brought in leading union bureaucrats to the Brusces for breakfast with Indo transport industry. for many millions of workers.

SLanO cure the relation- Board, but four resigned over nesian dictator General Suharto.

when Nixon severed the ship between gold and the dollar.

the Next year a large number. •ecson

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cockers According to the 'Washington "ine A meneAS mutoiesa existing wage contracts are due as one of the four states guaran- Day. businessmen would A 90-day ban Post man for renegotiation and the unions o a wase se teeing any was followed more than all controls Hnwever. the union eniersave occ expected SuDilT be reached in Paris. Indonesia's year of phase two controls oper- tacitly collaborated with the on prices trec wate wacessare stantial claims (see panel). they brought under even more strin- controls, ated br svelcut apuilic want gent state regulation. North Vietnamese. The President has already Wages Board une Doare s nos «e o orea r on une Doaru Belgian government resigns Rome jams Greek regime takes

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worker Carel workers staged demon- stration centre of BELGIAN premier Gas- It was voted back into Christian Socialists failed THE GREEK government elections student colma. power a year ago, but has to agree. ycoicludy. cils ri-gunerensent faculbies, university faculties. ton Eyskens told parlia- deep crisis for enormous tramc jams, as a has announced legal The fall of Eyskens' gov- ment in Brussels yester- severai weeks over a

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ernment is one of a series action against student had been elected in all but gramme for defining rela- three faculties. parliamentary crises day that his coalition between French- leaders following demon- In faculties, there among and Flemish Tine mene esRie SUlIC speaking government is resigning strations at the beginning of the Common market. o contract neoda were ce dcccs communities. group students because of a deep split of the week. Italian the Áristotle Univer- The cabinet The from Coanuvl WorKer TO HeO "enot- beginning at the fell of said they over how to settle the worked out a compromise spokesman Salonika Government Sily deal at an the year. 0.000 bank cler abstained. emergency ses- Byron Stamatopoulos country's linguistic pro- 'From the manner "held d some 1.2 million bui and this

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r uescdy And the Brandt govern- named tne trouoles which elections were blems. submitted separately 'terrorists', 'modern types workers want to soeec Was meni Geniil tip nt contract negotia- and meetings of each party's of hooligans' 'reaction- Conciuuce Vuli host to thapoll. CO forced ,polls obligation 300,000 Eyskens' government aostal MPs yesterday. when it ary elements from procedure which the deluded Conlo! bentwcen insulted all Students were protesting and Christian Socialists and The Socialists accepted Holland is also on •One inred. cern the Socialist Party. proposals, but the verge of new elections. like other workers. about the fixing of the students, they the salel

Union pressure to end

CHRYSLER COVENTRY

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ENGINEERS in Coventry are holding a special investigation into the case of John Worth, a Chrysler worker who has had his shop steward's credentials removed by management. A 33-page document putting the man- agement case has been circulated to members of the Coventry district com- mittee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. This will be discussed at a special district committee meeting next Tuesday which Mr Chrysler's Stoke plant, Ray Wild, will attend to put their case.

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Men reject steward. The management has and are put its case we con- sidering it, he said. £2 Prestige Mr Boyle could not say wherer next Weeks sneedle would make any final decision on the matter. offer Mr Worth originally was sacked by Chrysler for allegedly attena meelings management. This led to a strike

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workers at the Worth engineers. Prestige Group Ltd factory, was eventualv reinstated. but the Burnley, have rejected a £2 pay firm refuse to recognize him a shop steward. offer and imposed an overtime ban in support of their claim for

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shifted from its original demand for an immediate pay increase.

'Although we don't accept the government's freeze, we can't do much about it if the union leaders say nothing can be done,' said D.

Patel, a strike committee mem- ber. :. They were prepared to accept payment. at the end of the 90 be days, but he could not say what happen if would the Tories carried through their plans to make pay laws permanent. especially pickets, however, bar - loaders, declared they would not return to work unless any increase was paid immediately. It's no use to us next year. We want it now,' said one of the strikers.

The Mansfield Hosiery Com- pany owns nine other plants out- side Loughborough, mainly in the Midlands. Last year the group returned net profits of fllm. During another dispute at the Lough- By OUR OWN REP HOSPITAL ancillary workers in the Manchester area will meet next week to decide whether to stage strike action in support of their £4-a-week pay claim.

The angry hospital workers are in favour of fighting against the £2 state pay levy imposed by the Tory government. Several courses of action will be considered at the meeting: a series of one-day strikes, with- • drawal of services in private wards and mass picketing at By OUR OWN REP CHARGES against 24 Stirling University students arising out of incidents during the Queen's visit there last month are to be with, the university's proceeded disciplinary committee decided yesterday. After 'more than two hours of discussion Miss Lorna Begg, the committee secretary, announced: "The committee has decided that the charges, with amend- ment in some cases, are relevant.

'The hearing will continue on a date to be agreed.' 3s, Thursday November 23, 1972 PAGE 3 week of strike. he four-week strike by 500 im.

Mansfield Hosiery Mills yester- borough plant in 1967, 37 mer were sacked after coming out on strike. Throughout this strike union leaders have refused official backing. And more • than 200 workers, all members of the union, are still inside the plant.

Support has come from lorry drivers who have refused to cross the picket line. One of the main strikers' complaints has been racial discrimination. The Race Relations Board recently claimed that the union and man- agement had discriminated against the men. Strikers say they have difficulty in getting up-graded because they are immigrant workers. 'We're disgusted this strike has not been made official, said Mr Patel. He said many men were so fed up they were talking of form- ing their own breakaway union.

Many pickets dismissed this dangerous. 'We suggestion as can't leave the union like that.

And I don't think many of the men want to, said one.

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Department of Health and Social Security offices in Manchester.

Mr Colin_Barnett, north-west divisional officer of the National Union of Public Employees said yesterday 60 hospital branches would I be affected by any stop- pages. He said much depended on the outcome of talks between the Secretary Social Services Keith Joseph and the union's national executive.

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The announcement came on the second day of the hearing in the court room in the univer- sity's administrative block. The previous day about 3,000 students rallied outside in support of the 24. The students face a variety of disciplinary charges, ranging from organizing a protest meeting and failing to keep it under proper control, to bringing the univer- sity into disrepute. Fifteen of them are members of the student representative body, the Council of Students' Association.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Novem Michael Banda Cogs or party? It is from a totally anti- Marxist outlook that In- ternational Socialist leader Mr T. Cliff derives his theory of cogs. Readers, however, must be careful here to distinguish this idealist rubbish from the analogy made by Lenin in his debate with Trotsky and Bukharin on the trade unions in 1920. recognized the vital Lenin and indispensable role of the trade unions in participating assisting in and with the administration of the national economy after the seizure of power. same time he de- At the fended the independence of the unions and their right to defend their members, even by strikes, against the bureaucratic dis- tortions of the workers' state.

For the same reason he chided Trotsky for trying to prolong in the post civil-war period the very effective methods of administration adopted to- wards the unions during the period of 'War Communism'- and compared the unions to 'an intricate transmission system'.* This function of the unions can be exercised only after the seizure of power when the unions become a unique part of the dictatorship of the working class. This uniqueness is explained succinctly by Lenin in his polemic with Trotsky and Bukharin. 'But what is their [the trade unions] part? I find that it is a most unusual one, as soon as I delve into this question, which is one of the most fundamental theoretically.

'On the one hand, the trade unions, which take in all in- dustrial workers, are an organ- ization of the ruling, dominant, governing class, which has now set up a dictatorship and is exercising coercion through the state. But it is not a state organization; nor is itne designed for coercion, but for education. It is an organization designed to draw in and to train; it is, in fact, a school: a school of administration, a school of economic manage- ment, a school of communism.

It is a very unusual type of school, because there are no teachers or pupils; this is an extremely unusual com- bination of what has necessarily come down to us from capital- ism, and what comes from the ranks of the advanced revolu- which tionary detachments, you might call the revolutionary vanguard of the proletariat. To talk about the role of the trade unions without taking these truths into account is to fall straight into a number of • (Lenin: 'Collected errors Works, Vol. 32, p. 20.) day November 23, 1972 da continues of the tactics and he International The absolute necessity for this complex system of cogs was pointed out by Lenin in his speech to the Communist Delegates to the Eighth Con- gress of Soviets: '... he [Trotsky] has lost sight of the fact that we have here a complex arrangement of which cannot be a cogwheels simple one; for the dictator- ship of the proletariat cannot be exercised by a mass pro- letarian organizatiop. It cannot work without number "transmission belts" running from the vanguard to the mass of the advanced class, and from the latter to the mass of the working people' (Ibid, p. 21.) Stalinist maligners of Trotsky always try to depict Trotsky's role in the 1920 controversy light, in the worst possible that he was 'anti-. alleging party, 'a factionalist' and that he never understood the role under ot the 1 trade unions socialism. Lenin on the contrary fully recognized the importance of Trotsky's group in Tsektran— the Central Committee of the Joint Trade Union of Rail and Workers- Water Transport which restored the shattered transport system in the im- mediate aftermath of the civil war, as well as in Glavpolitput —the Chief Political Adminis- tration of the Peoples' Com- for Communication missariat which rehabilitated the ruined Soviet railway system in 1919- 1920. • his speech to the Com- In munist delegates to the Eighth Soviets, Lenin of Congress reminded the Bolsheviks that these organs did not err 'in their use of coercion: that goes He criticized to their credit'. them for failing 'to switch to work at normal trade union right time and without the they failed to conflict adapt themselves to the trade unions and help them by meet- ing them on an equal footing' ('Collected Works', Vol. 32.)

An explicit refutation of this Stalinist slander is also con- tained in Trotsky's appreciation of trade unions written five years after the event-much of it certainly reads as if it came from Lenin's pen and shows how completely Trotsky assimilated the lessons of the trade union discussion. 'On the contrary, a great future still lies before the industrial unions of the British working class. It is just be- cause there is no further pros- for the trade unions pect within the framework of a in Great capitalist society Britain's present situation that the industrial workers' unions are forced to take the road of the socialist reorganization of industry. After being recon- structed accordingly, the trade unions themselves will become the main lever of the economic transformation of the country.

'But the indispensable pre- requisite of that is the seizure of power by the proletariat- not in the sense of the miser- Red Army soldiers during the Kronstad Shiyapnikov, leader of the Workers 'syndicalism makes the party superfluou: able and contemptible farce of the MacDonald Ministry, but in a real, material, revolution- ary class sense.' ('Trade Unions and Bolshevism', p. I11 'Where is Britain Going?' New Park Publications edition.) Party and trade unions Both Trotsky and Lenin, in this imparted sense, never either to the unions or to rank-and-file bodies, based on reformist and centrist ideology under capitalism, a role com- plementary to the party. There could be no question of trade union bodies serving as 'cog wheels' to the party since there is at all times an implicit conflict between the of consciousness type rep- resented by the party and that in the expressed reformist- dominated trade unions. Before the unions can be- come part of the transmission mechanism to Soviet power they have-as Trotsky wrote -to be 'reconstructed accord- ingly i.e. brought under Marxist leadership. That too is why both Lenin and Trotsky-notwithstanding their differences on the tasks of the unions. were implacably 'Workers opposed to the Opposition' and the Demo- cratic Centralists who wanted • Kronstadt uprising. Above: In reply 1o Workers Opposition' Lenin warned that superfluous. to replace the Bolshevik party and the dictatorship of the working class by placing the national economy under the control of All Russian an Congress of Producers organ- ized in industrial trade unions.

Significantly despite their heroic conduct and unsparing devotion to the cause of the revolution many of these oppositionists later went over to the revisionist position of and became state-capitalism completely disoriented. A few joined Trotsky. What Lenin said and wrote about this tendency — despite the very different origins of Cliff's group and their per- sonnel-is very applicable to the method of IS syndicalism: 'Communism says: the Com- munist Party, the vanguard of the proletariat, leads the non- Party workers' masses, educat- ing, preparing, teaching and training the masses ["school" of communism] - first the workers and then the peasants -to enable them eventually to concentrate in their hands the administration of the whole national economy. 'Syndicalism hands over to the mass of non-Party workers, who are compartmentalized in the industries, the management of their industries ('the chief administrations and central boards"), thereby making the Party superfluous, and failing to carry on a sustained cam- paign either in training the masses or in actually concen- trating in their hands the management of the whole national economy? ('The Party Crisis'-'Collected Works', Vol.

32, pp. 50-53.) Lenin correctly described this 'repudiating of method as the the Party's leading role in relation non-Party to the masses' and urged the Party 'combat the syndicalist to deviation, which will kill the Party, unless it is entirely cured of it'. When Cliff talks of 'practice' he means, not the consciously- guided practice of the party to transform the consciousness of the class, but the 'ex- perience, action and thinking' of the working class which is the opposite to Marxist con- sciousness. Cliff bases his group's policies not on Marx- trade union ISm, but on consciousness. Thus the purpose of Cliff's 'cog wheels' is not to move the working class into action against the Tory government, but to divert the class from the impending political battles into the blind alley of rank- and-file syndicalism—to raise theory to the level of [trade union] practice' *In extenuation of Trotsky's be pointed mistake it must out that he (Trotsky) as early as February 1920 urged the Bolshevik Central Commit- tee to make a radical break from the policy of War Com- munism and advocated mea- sures similar to those which Lenin found mandatory • to adopt at the 10th Party Con- in the wake of the gress Kronstadt uprising. These poli- cies are outlined in his book 'The New Course' (Chapter VI, pp.49-53: New Park Publica- tions, 1972). When Trotsky's plan was rejected he proposed that the economic crisis could be solved and the regime of War Communism maintained only by the transference of 'shock methods' to all econo- mic life. This formed the pre- • to incor- mise of his policy • the trade unions into porate the state apparatus.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Gustav Husak's Czecho- slovak regime has launched a new ideologi- cal campaign to overcome the remnants of rightist, anti-socialist thinking in people's consciousness, to fight for the new socialist man, to mould and educate him'. This, Husak told a recent of the Communist plenum Party's Central Committee, aimed against the was sup- porters of former leader Alexandr Dubcek and other oppositionist trends which came into the open in 1967- 1968 before the Warsaw Pact invasion. Husak called for an end to complacency and spoke of the 'passivity' Czech of many The new president of Investors Overseas Service (IOS) Ltd., the controversial mutual funds empire founded by American financier Bernard Cornfeld, is the former brother-in-law Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Senor Rafael Diaz-Balart, a Cuban living in Madrid, became the new chief of IOS interests in after controlling the group were sold recently to a group of Latin American investors which he headed.

A spokesman for IOS, John Schuyler, confirmed in citizens towards the Party and its leadership. Party meetings are now being held throughout the country to apply the plenum's recommendations to carry out 'more purposeful and systematic political work culture Sphere of ideology and in the The leadership imposed by the August 1968 invasion has to face the hostility of the well as of working class as other sections of the popu- Many lation. of Dubcek's supporters are now out of work or have to take whatever job they can get. Purges are continuing and no one who has entertained a dissident ever opinion, or who put his faith developments in 1968, in the can feel safe from victimiz- ation. 'We recognize the passivity the in the nation' a Party official is reported to have said, 'and we Madrid—where the company was holding a top-level meet- ingthat Senor Balart was the brother of Dr Castro's ex-wife, Mirat. The Castro marriage was dissolved in 1955. Diaz-Balart last received public attention in the United States in 1959 where he headed an anti-Castro group called the Cuban White Rose.

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currently its has administrative headquarters in Ferney, which lies just over the Franco-Swiss border north of Geneva. It also has offices in Geneva and in the town of Nyon, on the north shore of Lake Geneva. The spokesman said many of its operations would be moving to Madrid.

Cornfeld built IOS into a vast financial empire during the 1960s mainly through in- tensive door-to-door selling of its mutual funds policies by an army of salesmen to millions of small investors in several countries. By early 1970 funds managed are concerned about the new threat of ideological diversion the west? He from was referring particularly to the fact that about two million Czechs are now able to receive Austrian and West German TV programmes. While continuing to victim- ize oppositionists and waging intensive 'ideological an campaign', the regime is also moving towards some relax- ation as far as western public- concerned. And ations are despite on the pressures economy, it is hoping to reduce criticism by increasing the supply of consumer goods.

Over four years after the Pact invasion the Warsaw regime is by no means sure of itself. It recognizes that it faces a sullen and hostile popu- l is lation and that there are real dangers of a new explosion.

by the group totalled some £1,000m, but a few months later it was hit by falling share prices and a loss of confidence as fund holders sought to sell back their policies. Cornfeld resigned from the chairmanship in May 1970 and then lost a hard-fought battle to regain control of his empire at the end of that year. His successor, British diplo- mat Sir Eric Wyndham White, sought to make arrangements institu- with various financial tions to inject new capital into the ailing group and eventually concluded a deal with Robert Vesco, head of the electronics International Controls firm Corporation of New Jersey, who became its new chairman.

International Controls Corp- oration sold its controlling 38 per cent block of shares to Kilmorey Investments Ltd, which in turn sold them to the group of Latin American in- vestors headed by Diaz-Balart, for £2.37m. Workers Press, Thurs Mayor Richard Daley, ruler of Chicago, got a nasty shock when his protégé Edward Hanrahan was turned out of his Cook County State- Attorney's job in the recent elections. Hanrahan was widely hated- especially by black workers- for his role following the 1969 police raid in • which Black Panther Fred Hampton was killed (see Workers Press Nov- ember 17) Hanrahan lost by 138,000 votes to Republican challenger Bernard Carey-a former FBI special agent. Mayor Daley now faces the distasteful possibility that Carey could turn his newly- acquired powers of investig- ation onto the previously- immune Daley machine. Two years ago Carey alleged fraud when he was defeated for sheriff by a Daley can- didate. 10,000 votes material- ized for Daley's man at the last minute. A possible factor in reduc- ing such shenanigans this time was that 75 Democratic elec- tion officials had already been indicted by a Federal grand jury for vote fraud in the March primaries. Two targets for investiga- tion, already named by Carey, the Board of Election are *Expelled from the French party, [Roger] Garaudy has become a political corpse', says an article in Pravda' attacking the new book of the once leading philosopher of the French Communist Party. Garaudy is accused of advo- cating mysticism, anti-com- munism and anti-Sovietism in his new (and successful) book ¡Pravda' took 'L'Alternative'. exception to his attempts to find common ground between Marxism and Christianity. What it does not say is that this was Party policy which, 388, Thursday November 23, 1972 PAGE 5 Commissioners, blamed for past voting irregularities, and the County Assessor's Office, which has allegedly given pro- perty tax concessions in return for contributions to the Demo- cratic Party organization.

Normally, Daley could have support from the expected Democratic governor - elect. However, this position is now held by a 'reformer'-Daniel Walker. He ran against the Daley machine in the primary.

Of course, Walker's reform- ing zeal may or may not be influenced by a feeling that the 70-year-old Daley is on the slide and that now is the time to start eating into the old man's control of the state party. Daley is not necessarily finished yet, however. His boys won such plum jobs as Secre- tary of State and Cook County circuit court clerk. Between them these two positions dispense 5,500 pat- ronage jobs. And a Daley man got in as lieutenant-governor while the mayor's eldest son won the state senate seat that Daley himself once held. Moreover Daley can expect some gratitude from the Demo- cratic 'liberals' Because the man who turned the police on the 1968 Demo- cratic convention was a firm supporter of George McGovern.

Below : Mayor Richard Daley under the of the name 'dialogue', practised in , was many countries. Garaudy only drew to its extreme limits a. policy of discussion and compromise with Christians which was carried on in this country by John Lewis and James Klug- man. While he deserves many of 'Pravda's' criticisms, it is not really his philosophical heresies to which the bureau- cracy objects. Garaudy began to become objectionable when he broke Party discipline and criticized, from a right-wing position, some of the Stalinist practices and policies of the French Communist Party of which he was a leading member. He was thrown out of the Party in 1970 ' because there was a danger that he might become the focal point for opposition in the ranks. Garaudy may be a 'political , but he is only part of corpse, the corruption and decay which afflicts the whole Stalinist movement and which he loyally served for over 30 years. If he has returned to the faith of his youth, it can only be said that Stalinism drove him back as it h, has destroyed so many others.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday November The first bullet is fired. The youth of the Bogside, Derry's Catholic duck ghetto, and flinch as the army starts shoot- ing (above). The soldiers came in August 1969. The Royal Ulster Con- stabulary led the Protestant extremists into the Catholic areas of the city. At first the Bogsider, encouraged by groups like the International Socialists, viewed the army as neutral or even peacemakers. But the honeymoon was soon over when the army began to play its intended role of bloody Above right, a oppressor. soldier steps from cover and fires a round at a group of young demonstrators. The terror is indiscriminate (far right) as an old man is or 23, 1972 caught in the cross-fire. The soldiers charge and he scurries to shelter in a pub doorway.

But the Bogsiders keep on fighting. Soldiers (middle right) are caught in a bomb-blast on William Street, one of the main gateways to the Bogside.

As the dust clears a sniper opens fire on the troops. One wounded soldier is helped quickly away from the fighting.

Casualties on the other side (right), a young boy is helped RUC charge. after away an They pull off his gas-mask to ask him where he's hurt, but he is unconscious. The pictures are by Clive 'Daily Sketch' Limpkin, and later 'Sun' photographer. His vivid and realistic record of the struggle of the Irish people of Derry against the army and the RUC appears in The Battle of Bogside', published by Penguin at fl. The book is well worth buy- ing. Limpkin's pictures bring the heroic and fearless out resistance of the Bogside people (especially the youth) to the army and police. The text is brief and liberal in sentiment. But at least it does expose the 'solutions' to Ulster suggested by the army high command. It recalls Mad Mitch's plan.

He wanted to put machine- guns in the TV cameras, ask the IRA to take part in bogus interviews, then shoot them dead, The remarks of Sir Walter Walker, the ex-British NATO chief, are also reproduced: 'I have engaged in campaigns against blacks and slant-eyes.

Why should we have one rule for whites and for one coloured. We have to decide whether Northern Ireland is part of Britain or not-and if accordingly. We so, to act should cut off their petrol, gas, electricity and stop food going in, soften them up and go in.?

Walker and Generals like Frank Kitson, architect of the army terror in Ulster, are find- ing greater and greater favour in ruling-class circles. Limpkin may yet bring out a similar entitled the battle of work Merseyside or Clydeside.

OF LEON TROTSKY

A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1939-1940 continued PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday November 23, 1972

WRITINGS

The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the differ in period after 1935 several respects from the two already reviewed. They are printed on a large format page and of facsimile reproductions of articles which consist mainly journals in the appeared in the Trotskyist Press and other United States, together with a few items translated into English for the first time. The selections are grouped under headings according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- logical This makes it possible to follow through order. 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 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.

In June parlia- 1940 the bourgeois war pation could serve to expos entered a new stage with ments. reactionary and its 1: appear to the defeat and capitu- lation of France. Trotsky if foe's necessary on the territory and to fight him with that this worsened Saw weapons-this is his Soviet Union's the revolutionary radicalism.'

position and the In the event the Dies Com- was mittee withdrew its invitation, result of the masses being presumably fearing the conse- demoralized in Europe by Trotsky's which the Stalinist policy of appearance would have. How- 'Popular Fronts. It pre- he issued a statement to ever the Press that he would have pared the way for Stalin made on United States. It plain to make a new turn in his makes his attitude towards the Com- foreign politics. mittee. 'One expect the rapid Enemies ot al the con- countries into powder quered magazines, Trotsky_ wrote This volume also contains the 1940. "The summer of stenographic reports of lengthy danger is rather this, that the discussions which Trotsky had explosions will occur too soon

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with leaders June without sufficient preparation 1940, covering a wide range of defeats. and Jead to isolated Anne call Pally It general impossible, Here he what the suggests however, to speak of the turo- SWP's be should alulude pean and the world revolution towards war: without taking into 'We of the enemies partial defeats. bourgeoisie and its institutions, number of items in this War is a our we unwe unem. concern American bourgeois Thousand times more powerful institution problems. Living in Mexico with the and in close contact than all the other bourgeois leaders of the American We accept it as Workers' Party, Socialist fact like the bourgeois Trotsky was able to follow schools and try to utilize it...

American events closely and to The question of participation give advice and counsel to the in the 1940 presidential leaders of that party. election found One of his most contro- Call valen Trotsky in opposition to the versial acts at this time was SWP leadership: Why haven't the decision to appear before proposed of you congress House Un-American The of trade unions, a convention the Activities Committee candidate for the nominate a US Congress which was headed presidency?' he asked them. Martin Dies Congressman wanted the SWP Trotsky death took whose place find a way to win away from recently. Trotsky was the Dies to appear before Communist Party by Inis working-class support. He pro- Committee in Austin, Texas posed what he (see p.5). callea a snort manoeuvre' of support for the Opposed Stalinist candidates. It is either complete absten- When the issue was dis- tion from the campaign Political Com- of technical Cussed because Icasulls. mittee of the Socialist Workers' between or you must. Browder [CPUSA] or Norman his Party acceptance was vigorously opposed by James Thomas [Socialist Party]. We The Burnham and others. canot accept abstention. of Committee, bourgeois state deprived us of the however, approved Trotsky's the possibility of running our Dies before the candidate. pro- We can avocadile OWIl Committee because of 'the claim that everyone is a faker.

propagandistic of such but events That is one thing. value testimony to our movement'.

confirming our proclamation is the So Trotsky proposed Teller printed Notes to this volume, Trotsky that a policy of support for the stated his own reasons CP candidates should dis-

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while cussed in the party as a prelude accepting the invitation, pointing out that if the PC of to making. such a turn.

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decided Cannon had other- James P. resisted wise, , he would have abided by this turn- 'what I can't accept decision. is browder as a svmboi of the

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Trotsky's that class struggle'. After dealing was View with 'this bit of false polemics, while Committee was reactionary organ, participation Trotsky that the demanded Tron ty the Socialist Workers Party le against a petty-bourgeols opposi- Trotsky in 1940 in its proceedings, like partici-

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turn its face the Stalinist workers. I will evalu- ate Browder 50 per cent lower than I estimate him now in return for 50 per cent more interest from you in the Stalinist party,' he said.

Trotsky also took up questions relating to youth and trade union work. After some Trotsky, criticisms from Joseph Hansen I am asked: wondering if Comrade Trotsky considers that is our party displaying conservative tendency in the sense that we are adapting ourselves politic- ally to the trade union bureaucracy' Trotsky made it clear that this was precisely what he did and he gave, instances mean from the party's trade union journal to show passive its adaptation to trade union work and its lack of party political work in the unions. These discussions on tactical questions should be carefully studied; they have important lessons for today. They also cast a flood of light on the tendencies in the SWP which were responsible for its later degeneration, but which Trot- able to sky instantly was recognize, bring to the atten- tion of the leadership and keep in check. also answered a Trotsky number of questions on American problems mainly to do with the and the war dangers of fascism. There are a few references to the split in the SWP and especially to the cases of Tames Burnham and Dwight Macdonald, two leaders of the minority who opposed dialectical materialism and of abandoned the principle 3 marked a new stage of the war. Above: defence of the Soviet Union.

struggle against a petty-bourgeols oppos!-

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"South Sir Paul Bryan, the late and Dr Carel De Wett, unlamented junior minister at Africa's new ambassador to the Department of Employ- Britain, will have a turbulent ment, has been quick to re- stay in this country. enter business activities. His past utterances make most 'contro- dropped Having been from him one of the Heath's ministry, Bryan is now versial' apartheid supporters free ever to take a diplomatic post to take up as many directorships as he likes.

abroad. His first is with Granada Only a few months ago he Television, run by Labour peer dropped from Vorster's was Lord Bernstein. cabinet as a hardliner. Bryan's claims to this He is on record as saying sound. From appointment are that existing laws in South 1965 until 1970 he was the Atrica, which carry mandatory Tories' front-bench spokesman death penalties, are too mild Office the Post and Recently a criminal prosecution on television. was taken against him, but all With the re-allocation of the details of this action have TV shortly to be not yet been revealed. It is no licences decided, Bryan will no doubt surprise that the Fleet Street be able to give valuable advice Press fell over itself welcom- Bernstein. De Wett and his family to ing last week. The 'paras' have a truly inter- for brut- national reputation ality-even when it's only war games. During a recent NATO exercise in the Ardennes six Belgian 'paras' 'captured' some of their comrades-in-arms.

But just to give the exercise a touch of real-life flavour, the decided to interrogate 'paras' their mock PoWs. They were stripped in freez- trussed weather, to ing wooden stake and given electric shock torture. But the regular didn't take to the soldiers 'paras' idea of war i exercises. They complained the to this week the authorities and Dr Abdul Malik, the Quisling suspended paras were given Governor of the East prison sentences. received The court president said the Pakistan, has an were guilty of violence extraordinarily light 'paras' sentence from the special out of all proportion to the tribunal set They up by the Bangladesh author- normal military conduct. had acted from motives of ities. bullying and sadism. Malik accused of was The court's finding will not abetting Pakistan in waging war against Bangladesh, creat- come any surprise to as workers of Ulster who have ing hatred and disaffection been shot, bullied and tortured against the Bangladesh govern- by the Red Berets for the past ment and collaborating with Pakistan. three years. The court did learn one in- He was found guilty of all triguing fact. A defence witness three charges which carried the tried the court possible sentences of death or to convince that the use of realistic tech- life imprisonment. niques was widespread. Indeed, In the event, however, Malik has been of he said, on a recent exercise given a sentence exile for life, which means, in at Siegen, he had effect, less than ten years in been submitted to terrogation' by British troops.

jail. Malik was assistant professor All these army manoeuvres of ophthalmology at Campbell are designed for one thing: to Calcutta, Medical School, brutalize the troops and pre- pare them for the sort of war- a l labour before becoming be engaged in leader and heading the Indian fare they will sailors' union. sooner than the liberals think!

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He was accused of attempting to get money from two women, both on parole, as an induce- ment not to charge them with assault. It was said in court that Riley visited the women in their flat at Finsbury Park and said he could 'square it' for €500. This item did not find its way at all into the 'Express' • Yet the paper was over-loaded with pieces on the police. Mark was on the front page warning about letter bombs and "ter- rorists; on page 2 was a 'human interest' story and pic- ture of the policeman who recaptured 'Percy the Penguin', an escaped pet; page 8 featured a quarter-page article from a police chief warning of driving dangers in winter; on page 11 another lead story about the Murder Squad hunt for the killer of Mrs Muriel Patience.

On the following day, Wed- nesday November 15, the police were again in and all the other nationals. This time it was the awards granted to the policemen involved in the Frederick The Sewell case. 'Express' gave this item half a page with two large photo- graphs, plus an editorial.

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Syria told to act... or more villages will be bombarded

ENDS ARE BREE

BY JOHN SPENCER

ISRAELI attacks on Syrian border villages will be renewed unless the Syrian gov.

ernment takes action to curb the Palestine guerrilla movement, senior officers warned in Tel Aviv yesterday. Their warning followed some of the heaviest fight- ing in the Middle East since the June 1967 war. The fighting began with an Israeli bombardment of border villages and included a lengthy artillery duel between the two sides. It was Israel's third bombardment of Syrian terri- tory in recent weeks and as before the main targets were Palestinian refugee camps and Syrian army em- placements on the Golan heights.

The crude ultimatum threatening further attacks indicates that the Israeli government is becoming seriously concerned about the activities of the Palestinian guerrillas operat- ing out of Syria. Their activities have been stepped up in recent weeks.

the Ba'athist regime has relaxed previous guerrilia operations from Syrian soil. Israeli Jine attacks not only on Syria but also on the Lebanon. Israell troops on n Popular anger at the policy of restraining the guerrillas has been weeks repeated Has defenceless villagers and refugée

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secretary, camps along its northern borders.

Victor Feather, after sala yesterday's General Council War atmosphere meeting they had not slammed the door on further The Israeli Beaters excel anti-inflation talks with the generate war atmosphere within country to head off CBI and the Tory govern- the development THE UNITED Nations Security C con ment.

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Wille working cass day to begin discussions on secreta They are also seeking pretext But he warned that this finally annex territories proposals for settlement with Sou would be difficult unless steps they conquered in 1967. taken to control prices WeLC Namibia (South-West Africa).

and dividends. One unknown factor is the Egyptian govern- position of the Heather sale that in te som Waldheim has drawn up a which watched the the government standstill Lebanon attacks Syria nine-point deal in consulia- been operation Was without so far taking any action tion with South African pre- cute secre against Israeli forces occupying rigorously wages than to the Sinai desert. mier Balthazar Vorster. The prices and dividends. there The question deal postpones independence He said: 'It evident now is how long President Anwar Sada are a lot of indefinitely and endorses the price freeze and in the run-up the apartheid policy of 'separate February Christmas and in January struggle while making militant there speeches against Zionism.

development'. all viali be a whole run of price increases.'

his LaST WeeK aispatched He added that The 1UL be- There is powerful pressure for minister to Damascus with war lieves the present 90-day for the Syrian acceptance of the proposed deal planes air force. would be Stage renewed under from the main imperialist powers reDorLed Das so to de revealea by tne paring to form a 'war cabinet'. on the security council, which government. this 12-month see but restraint, can assure this will like unce respect of prices and things alle generate a great deal of heat.

'I foresee considerable difficul- PORT employers in London have but at a meeting on Friday union ties in the future' decided there can be no serious olicials representins men enclosed docks will be told there Feather claimed the ccept had discussions about pay with the no chance of an increase while accept choice oUT Tories' unions because of the freeze, but he added: pay-control law. Reside deet week So the 'I wish I could offer this advice London's 15,000 the concerned with are same message next week. people ackers due for a rise as lightermen at a later meeting still This on

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une redi part of their annual review, injustice comes in.' to be arranged. Brushing aside reports that the CBI had told its members not treeze. nerolale secretary said

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general The talks on pay and conditions must 90-day throughout the OFFICIALS from 18 They have been hold- There were from thre major ports of the en- ing joint discussions in

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"There wil be enough belly- -London, Liverpool larged Common Market Brussels this week on Clyde. aching about settlements not be- the ing paid, but if have agreed to hold a developing common poli- employers refuse was invited from full-scale the nine-nation they meeting early negotiate cles In will ampion, but ne was double trouble, he said. in the New Year. community. able to attend. Workers Press, Thursda

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Sharm el Eilat 16m. Sheikh Gulf of Aqaba ops on manoeuvres. curity Council was expected yester- n secretary-general Kurt Waldheim's vith South Africa on the future of have considerable interests in Namibia. The deal has also been endorsed by Yugoslavia. Vorster told a Press confer- yesterday there ence were 'worthwhile points' in the deal which he initialled. UN sources are claiming that the Waldheim document is only an agreed of the secretary- summary general's discussions with Vorster. To this Vorster replied: 'I don't want to split hairs over a word.

There are those who call it an agreement. My own interpreta- tion is, in a sense, it is an agree- ment. But as I have said, don't let us split hairs over a word.

Let us call it an understanding.'

Whatever name it is given, the Waldheim report is a blueprint for selling out the national de- mands of the Namibian people.

Earlier this year these demands were backed by a total strike of Ovambo contract labourers.

• A detailed background to the Namibia report will appear in Workers Press on Saturday.

ere delegates A'spokesman said the British ports port chiefs. had consid- Liverpool and ered compètition from A delegate land-borne traffic, the from South- harmonization port it he was un- statistics and working conditions in ports. 3, Thursday November 23, 1972 PAGE 11

BY ALEX MITCHELL

CECIL H. KING, the news- paper tycoon, dealt un- ceremoniously with the US Ambassador to the Court of St James, Mr Walter • Annenburg, in his con- troversial diary published two weeks ago. He wrote on june 2, 1969: 'On Wednesday I was a guest at the dinner in honour of Annen- burg, the new American Am- bassador. I went expecting nothing, but even SO was appalled. In the United States he is a man of no reputation. He is a man of no presence.

In fact he is a totally unsuit- able appointment who got off to a bad start.' In another part of his diary King describes Annenburg as 'un- educated to the point of illiteracy. Such was the cruel court gossip about Big Walter. He was shunned by the aristocrats of Fieet Street because his own string of newspapers included mainly television and racing guides. He was an outcast of many government officials perhaps through the unfortunate jail- ing of his legendary father, 'Mo' Annenburg, for tax evasion. Despite these slings of adversity Big Walter remained at his desk in Grosvenor Square serving the President he loves.

But in his spare time, where did this lonely He reveals all in a book pub- lished today. In it he tells of the secret pilgrimages he made to Westminster Abbey where he reflected on the difficulties, trials and burdens of these 'whose remains are forever associated with this historic building'. Confronted with the hundreds of skeletons in tombs and vaults throughout the building Walter 'recognized how insignificant were my own problems. he found Westminster He says Abbey to be 'a sanctuary of peace and comfort'. He writes: 'It became my overwhelming am- bition to honour what to me is a debt of gratitude; and to this unique commemorate institution with all its artistic, cultural and historic associ- ambition is ations. This achieved with the publication of this book.' From the pre-publicity material it would appear that the Westminster Abbey' book could make a moving Holly- wood film script. Multi-millionaire American am- bassador comes to Court of St James, is misunderstood and maligned by the Limeys, but finds true happiness at the Abbey. Of course, they'd have to change the title. And John Wayne must play Big Walter. It would be a hit. If they showed it at the . White there House wouldn't be a dry eye in the viewing room.

Four men sent to get AUEW's €5,000 PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday November 23, 1972 THE NATIONAL Industrial Relations Court yesterda sequestration writs to take £5,000 from Amalgamated Unio neering Workers' funds. The £5,000 fine was imposed by co dent Sir John Donaldson after the union failed to comply court's order. Late yesterday a union spokesman said: 'We don't k they propose to get the money out of us. I can't say any m the least of the fine-gatherers' problems will be the fact union's main bank accounts are all overdrawn.

Shortly after 11.30 a.m. Mr George Staple of Messrs Clifford Turner, London agents for the Colchester solicitors of Mr James Goad arrived at the NIRC. Mr Staple, accompanied by the four commissioners appointed to seize the £5,000, went to the office of the Master of the Court, Mr Colin Seaton.

They all entered the building by the back door. When they left at 12.15 p.m. Mr Staple said the court had issued the appropriate writs.

Arrangements had already been started to get hold of the money, but they declined to say how.

When the money is obtained it will be handed over to the NIRC which will pass it on to the Chief Clerk at Bow Street magistrates' court to whom the union was originally ordered to pay the fine. The four commissioners, partners of the City Price Mr Maurice Waterhouse, accountants are Mr Martin Harris, Mr Alfred Chapman Eckman, and Mr George Cherry. The court imposed the fine on the union on November 8 for disobedience of an order made should allow Goad last month that the union to attend meetings of its Sudbury, Suffolk, branch.

Thousands of engineers will be following with the deepest interest the manoeuvres to take money from the funds of their union. It can be expected file will demon- that in some areas the rank and strate their anger by taking industrial action costing the Tories and the emplovers tens of thousands of pounds. characteristic of today's This is the most glaring situation: on one hand the Tories These deepening contradictions

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wine and dine the leaders in capitalism provide the work- and on the other they are forced ing class with the opportunity to by their immutable own laws to its political and industrial use attack them in the courts. end might to put an to the first step towards The The Tories are thus caught in system. de- this goal is the of the the contradictions of their ousting Tory government. crepit system. Pensioner Mrs E. M. Andrews, THOUSANDS of old age pen- from south London, said: sioners from as far away as 'Why should have we to Glasgow and Cardiff converged and scrounge scrape on a oll- on the House of Commons yes- tance? How expect you can half down when terday to lobby MPs. prices to go Tories shares? these have got The pensioners, some of them Bring back a Labour gov- uS demon- eighties, in their were ernment. of the

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strating in support (76), from David Docherty €10 for campaign for single Glasgow, said: 'I have one meal and £16.50 for married people a day and a thin slice of cheese couples. Even tobacco for breakfast. my Ip in the last fort- At a meeting in Lincoln's Inn has gone up Fields,

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Victor night. Out of £6.75 I pay my secretary £3.50 for rent and electricity. You divide 21 meals into what's said that if higher pensions left and see how far you get were not forthcoming out profits and dividends there would have to be higher con- tributions from workers. Registered at the Post Ofice. Publim Later, he and T&GWU leader Tory Jack Jones went see to Press I London (TU), Chancellor Anthony Barber to «treet. discuss the pensioners' plight.

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Deal and Southampton Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, to London, ending with a huge rally at Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12, 1972. Speaker: G. Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League.

Chairman: Willis,

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• We demand the right to work!

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jesterday issued d Union of Engi- d by court presi- comply with the don't know how y any more' Not he fact that the Moss Evans (right) T&GWU national organizer Doug Farrari at Millbank Tow ing with Tory Industry Minister Christo occupation.

BY STEPHEN

THE TORY Minister for In- dustry, Christopher Chataway, has told CAV workers from Fazakerley on Merseyside to lift their sit-in strike because it is stopping new work com- ing into the area. from shop But the message stewards after this warning, de- livered at a meeting in London yesterday, was 'the struggle goes on'. The Minister met a delegation of shop stewards and union offi- cials over the occupation, which going has been on since the CAV-Lucas combine announced closing its Fazakerley it was plant in April next year.

But the discussions were Minister totally abortive. The told them there was no possi- bility of a firm coming into Fazakerley if the occupation was continued. any special He also refused beyond the help government financial incentives laid down in existing policy for development areas. national officer Moss Evans, for the T&GWU, said after the meeting that Lucas would not budge over the closure decision.

'We were asking the Minister to put all possible pressure on the firm to produce new work or use his own good offices to pro- vide continuity of work until a solution can be found, he said.

But the meeting had achieved nothing, he continued. The Minister had warned the union side about the damaging effects of the sit-in. "To us this is a question of strategy. This was a spontaneous act by the workers. And it is official action against Lucas.

It is a strike. It is better for the men to sit inside than wait I national officer and the north-west bank Tower, London, before their meet- er Christophen Chataway over the CAV

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outside the gates, he said.

Mr Chataway painted a grim picture after the meeting. Lucas were adamant over their closure policy and so far there had been no inquiries at all from other firms. The shop stewards, however, said they were determined to keep the fight going. 'The struggle goes on. You can't get anything without struggle. That is the message.'

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