Workers Press no. 933

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AUEW FINE

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

Sir John Donaldson Goad

BY PHILIP WADE

THE NATIONAL Industrial Relations Court yesterday established unprece- dented machinery for seizing money from trade unions. The first to feel the full weight of the new powers is the Amalgamated Union Workers. The court of Engineering the union's banker to pay ordered £5,000 from the AUEW's account and president Sir John Donaldson ordered another £1,000 as costs to the com- missioners responsible for collecting the money be paid by the union.

Sir John also made it clear that in cases of contempt all the union's funds were vulnerable.

This is a blow to those union leaders who believed they could protect their members' money by special financial arrangements.

The fine will also come as a shock to some executive

AUEW

members. Until lunchtime that the yesterday many were arguing court could not order payment if the banks con- cerned refused. Midland as security were valued The NIRC president also said far in excess of the overdraft.

he would deliver detailed There credit were two cash judgement at a later date giving Hill No accounts with Samuel. the court's reasons for their figures precise were revealed decision on the and also costs, court after Mr a request from dealing with a wide of range Thomas Bingham, QC, the for points brought up during other banks. A for the request yesterday's hearing. to be examined accounts in Yesterday's proceedings court camera was turned down. which described 'un- were as Sir John Donaldson ruled out precedented' established making an order for the sale of machinery for getting money off some of the union's stocks and refuse to pay who fines shares. He said it would create to the NIRC voluntarily. unnecessary difficulties with The fine was imposed after capital gains tax, for example.

the AUEW branch at Sudbury, The final order did not single Suffolk, would not allow union out any specific account from evangelist Henry member and which the money has to be paid Goad to attend their meetings.

Mr Richard Southwell, QC fo The union's two banks, Mid- the commissioners, said all the and Hill Samuel, refused land union was sub- property of the voluntarily to disclose the union's iect to sequestration. accounts or pay the fine when *It includes all the funds, asked by the commissioners.

whether they are capable or not Tending ter accountants, of being used under the rules Price were for industrial action, he said. appointed to collect the money Sir John confirmed this view last week when the 16-day dead- later. line for payment of the fine Mr Southwell said the bankers expired. were under a misapprehension The banks told the court yes- when they argued that the duty *duty terday they owed of confidence to a customer was confidence' to the union, an old They overriding. were subject to and much-valued customer.

requirements of law. Without the instruction of the Reas Binghameds for the banks Mr

AUEW

they could not pay the Thomas that money, but would obey any order the writ of did sequestration of the NIRC immediately. oblige payment except as The court was told that the authorized by the customer engineering section of the union's 'We will comply with any Midland court order,' he added. cash account with the was in a 'very substantial debit • Mr Goad's next branch meet- position'. ing is this Friday. If he is refused entrance again he will be free to At the same time the union's bring another action in the court.

stocks and shares held by the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 29, 1972 No 933• 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TO BE

SEIZED

TODAY

FROM IAN YEATS

N DUBLIN

OPPOSITION from the Irish trade union and labour move- ment to the Lynch govern- ment's so-called anti-IRA bill and the sacking of the con- trolling body of Radio Telefis Eireann continued to mount yesterday. The Leinster House government moved quickly overnight to stifle opponents of new loon list oppressive egislaton Teeing Kevin This is a bid to the clamp-down on the IRA from teir rignuward turn as a wole.

as journalists and technicians returned work yesterday after three-day strike all news. In support

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in Dublin and Cork wer paralysed by a 24-hour journalists

SITIKC.

Dick Walsh, of the chalman Union Dublin National Journalists® *The branch, would have Greece COlOneIS Cone WiT

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if they had legislated themselves

VEMBER 29, 1972•

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E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Kevin O'Kelly: Released on ball into power instead of seizing it.

*There is no question that the government is moving towards dictatorship and the amendments to the Offences Against State Act will carry it a good deal further.' lan Yeats has written a ten- part series on

IRELAND

—A Crisis of leadership which starts today on page 4.

It follows his recent researches and interviews in the north and the south of the strife-torn country. Cliff Slaughter's two-part article on Irish Unity and the British working class starts on Thursday page 8 Starting next Monday A new series of articles by Jack Gale dealing especially with the situation in Ceylon entitled Renegades from Trotskyism Order your copies now! Telephone: 01-622 7029. STEEL WORKERS in Teesside continued their strike yesterday, despite opposition from their union who have described the dispute as a 'red plot'. The strike at the involves 1,000 workers British Steel Corporation's mills at Lackenby and they are demanding parity with South Wales steelmen who earn £8 above the Teesside rate. The 'red plot' accusation, made at a mass meeting by the divi- sional organizer for the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation Jim Drinkwater, was drowned by jeers and heckling. Mr Walsh claimed Fianna Fail had resented RTE criticism of the government and that they had used the MacStiofain inci- dent as the precedent for major attack. He added that the government was almost certainly preparing to deal with an out- break of extra-parliamentary activity throughout the Republic in the next few months. *Extra-parliamentary activity is of bound to grow because dramatically growing unemploy- ment, with nothing being done to stop it and the very serious problem of rising prices.

Many trade unionists and Labour Party members are worried that the new legislation will be used against them to ban strikes and legislation which under the new law could be construed as injurious to the state. But although both wings of the labour movement condemn the new legislation, there is little agreement on whether, together with the conviction of Sean MacStiofain and the attack on RTE, they mark a watershed in

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workers press

AUEW FINE

TO BE

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

Sk John Donaldeon

BY PHILIP WADE

THE NATIONAL Industrial Relations Court yesterday established unprece- dented machinery for seizing money from trade unions. The first to feel the full weight of the new powers is the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. The court ordered the union's banker to pay £5,000 from the AUEW's account and president Sir John Donaldson ordered another £1,000 as costs to the com- missioners responsible for collecting the money be paid by the union.

Sir Tohn also made it clear that in cases of contempt all the union's funds were vulnerable.

This is a blow to those union leaders who believed they could their members' protect money by special financial arrangements.

The fine will also come as a shock to some executive

AUEW

members. Until lunchtime yesterday many were arguing that the court could not order payment if the banks con- cerned refused. Midland as security were valued The NIRC president also said far in excess of the overdraft.

deliver he would detailed There were tw) credit cash judgement at a later date giving Hill Samuel. No accounts with the court's their reasons for figures were revealed precise in decision on the costs, and also court after a request Mri from dealing with a wide of range Thomas Bingham, OC, for the other points brought up during banks. for the request yesterday's hearing. to be examined accounts in Yesterday's court proceedings camera was turned down. which described 'un- were Sir John Donaldson ruled out precedented' established making an order for the sale of machinery for getting money off some if the union's stocks and pay fines unions who refuse to He said shares. it would create to the NIRC voluntarily. difficulties unnecessary with The fine imposed was after capital gains tax, for example.

the AUEW branch at Sudbury, The final order did not single Suffolk, would not allow union specific from out any account member and evangelist Henry which the money has to be paid Goad to attend their meetings.

Mr Richard Southwell. OC for The union's two banks, Mid- the commissioners. said all the Hill Samuel. refused land and property of the union was sub- voluntarily to disclose the union's ject to sequestration. accounts pay the fine when "It includes all the funds. asked by the commissioners.

whether they are capable or not Leading City accountants. of being used under the rules Waterhouse. Price were action,' for industrial he said. appointed the to collect money Sir John confirmed this view last week when the 16-day dead- later. line for payment of the fine Mr Southwell said the bankers expired. were under a misapprehension The banks told the court yes- when they argued that the duty terday they owed 'duty of of confidence to a customer was confidence' to the union.

'an old They overriding. were subiect to and much-valued customer'.

requirements of law. Without the instruction of the for the banks Mr Replving

AUEW

they could not pay the Thomas Bingham claimed that money, but would obey any order the writ of sequestration did of the NIRC immediately. oblige payment except as authorized by the customer.

The court was told that the 'We engineering section of the union's will comply with any court order' he added. cash account with the Midland was in a 'very substantial debit • Mr Goad's next branch meet- position'. ing is this Fridav. If he is refused entrance azain he will be free to At the same time the union's stocks and shares held by the brins another action in the court.

THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER :

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

FROM IAN YEATS

IN DUBLIN

OPPOSITION from the Irish trade union and labour move- ment to the Lynch govern- ment's so-called anti-IRA bill and the sacking of the con- trolling body of Radio Telefis Eireann continued to mount yesterday. The Leinster House government moved quickly overnight to stifle opponents of its new oppressive_legislation by freeing • bail RTE journalist Kevin on O'Kelly. This is a bid to separate the clamp-down on the IRA from their rightward turn as a whole.

But as RTE journalists and technicians returned to work yesterday after a three-day strike in support of O'Kelly, all news- papers in Dublin and Cork were paralysed by a 24-hour journalists' strike. Dick Walsh, chairman of the National Union Dublin Journalists' branch, said: "The colonels in Greece would have done what Jack Lynch is doing if they had legislated themselves VEMBER 29, 1972 • No 933 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Kevin O'Kelly: Released on ball into power instead of seizing it.

"There is no question that the government is moving towards dictatorship and the amendments Against the the Offences to State Act will carry it a good deal further. lan Yeats has written a ten- part series on

IRELAND

—A Crisis of leadership which starts today on page 4.

It follows his recent researches and interviews in the north and the south of the strife-torn country. Cliff Slaughter's two-part article on Irish Unity and the British working class starts on Thursday page 8 Starting next Monday A new series of articles by Jack Gale dealing especially with the situation in Ceylon entitled Renegades from Trotskylsm Order your copies now! Telephone: 01-622 7029. STEEL WORKERS in Teesside continued their strike yesterday, despite opposition from their union who have described the dispute as a 'red plot'. The strike involves 1,000 workers at the British Steel Corporation's mills at Lackenby they are demanding parity with South Wales steelmen who earn £8 above the Teesside rate. The 'red plot' accusation, made at a mass meeting by the divi- sional organizer for the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation Jim Drinkwater, was drowned by jeers and heckling. Mr Walsh claimed Fianna Fail had resented RTE criticism of the government and that they had used the MacStiofain inci- dent as the precedent for a major attack. He added that the government was almost certainly preparing to deal with an out- break extra-parliamentary activity throughout the Republic in the next few months. 'Extra-parliamentary activity is bound because to grow dramatically growing unemploy- ment, with nothing being done to stop it and the very serious problem of rising prices.

Many trade unionists and Labour Party members are worried that the new legislation will be used against them to ban strikes and legislation which under the new law could be construed as injurious to the state. But although both wings of the labour movement condemn the new legislation, there is little agreement on whether, together with conviction Sean MacStiofain and the attack Con RTE, they mark a watershed in

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday November 29, 1972 it water: Extreme danger from the right Poll no guide to Italian crisis THE OUTCOME of the local elections in Italy-the first test of opinion at the polls since Giulio Andreotti's government was elected in May—is being hailed as a set-back for the right.

The nine The Socialist Party, which was part of the so-called centre-left coalition ousted by Andreotti in the formation of his right-wing cabinet, increased their share of the poll by over 3 per cent. At the same time, the liberals who form the right wing of the government, lost votes.

The biggest losses, Strike-break were sustained by the Communist Party and its allies, whose however, vote was down by 3.5 per cent.

On the extreme right, the fascist Italian Social Movement, which made France. diners substantial gains in May, lost ground, shedding 2 per cent of its votes.

results are being interpreted as an indication of support for the reconstitution of the trial the old-style coalition between the Socialist Party and Andreotti's OI Christian Democrats. Lyons - at This could lead develonment placency aallut totally misplaced com- the political situ- Oppositionist's parents want aLon

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Callul country is green my assessed simply counting heads. The camp death explained extremely economic CrISIS, section of then one seek radical solutions THE PARENTS of Yuri His parents' letter was the letter, working class Galanskov, the Soviet addressed to the Depart- parents stated that their allacks stagnates, died ment of Supervision of suffered from while the _ economy oppositionist who inflation causing huge rises Places Confinement ulcer HOLD Un militant giving rise fact that his lawyer had Miniştry forced-labour camp, have the In- demanded

(MVD)

made public in his wares. had frequently But the great fighting power of and official and dated November final appeal at the trial.

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working is being dissi- the from The letter said stration to transfer their explanation The wy esteri correspondens the pated sectional partial and government. Moscow given to the administration the son prison Monday. copies on hospital Unless ther get it. the camp hospital proposed Leningrad Stalinists, who dominate Galanskov in a letter, was sir opted on. But where the operation Y UrI the biggest trade union confeder- will insist in operated could be performed arrested the an• inducace Suronely was killed in 1967. A year later refused' because under appropriate estab- policies the reformist con- he More camp lilf named those who federations, denounce number of the 'anti-Soviet activity'. Zaborovsky 'warned our But K. Shakh the dovian The stemmed that of of the had prison camp. charges son because cateurs. answered officially that Galanskov (33), died or underground Daysical weakness They seek them-

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November literary journal saw She necessi defenders the selves tonitis, nearly three called 'Phoenix' recessar post-operative for a transfer since his Republic which defended the would condition satisfact- ¡lallall allu weeks after im- liet, h was all aim at eventually taking part In camp for a waters vive meredon necter 0 form perforated ulcer. and Sinyavsky. The parents said they special diet'. the with Christian Demo- crats and the Socialists.

Magee is Smith

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

kicked out tightens

XMAS BAZAAR

of trial race laws THE RUCHELL MAGE trial in

THE

RHODESIAN

Francisco govern- nas started stormily. Magee hit his own ment is rapidly tightening its defence attorney and called the apartheid-style laws 1alc judge a 'stupid, dumb judge'.

the of the presenl sessiol charged murder he Is

WITH

parliament draws to sansoury and kidnap following the a close. In addition to Identity attempted break-out

LOUIL

Pass Legislation now well on County almost two years Marin its way to becoming law, the ago. government has tabled new In he esunge baront on laws to enable it to keep un- Jackson, Jackson, brother employed Africans out of George attempted urban areas. free a number of black prisoners kidnap judge the It is also planning a Bill to basis for which the provide the followed, establish- snooling judge, Jackson and three other parlia- separate •rovincial killed. Magee prisoners were was ments or assemblies for Africans badly wounded, but survived.

on the South African model.

Davis the He and Miss In addition decided to make it were jointly charged with has finally HaKe involved in the murder

SATURDAY DECEMBER 9

illegal for Asian or coloureds plot. Miss trial race) live (mixed own

DAVIS S

To was held separately earlier this Corn Exchange property in white suburbs.

year and she was acquitted.

These moves come at a time Leeds Magee's trial has been sub- when the US government is con- sidering recognition for the Tan necter to celerate and mmorain.

Doors open 12 noon Price 5p delays. He ate severely which has has governmen criticized his own defence group been under United Nations sanc- and is insisting that he conducts tions since UDI in 1965.

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his own detence Clark MacGregor, one Shortly after the trial opened

PUBLIC MEETING

President Nixon's auVISCIs Magee lunged at his court- hinted in a television broadcast appointed Robert yesterday that Smith's

SWINDON

altoney. Carrow, knocking him down. He ment may soon be recognized in swept his briefcase papers Washington. Wednesday, December 13 8 pm the floor shouted: said MacGregor Americans "Arrest this son ora biten.

did not like 'the

AEU HOUSE, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON

Superior Court Judge Morton that are Colvin ordered police take

NOW

existence reason of diplomatic niceties

SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

Magee to cell at a holding espectin Rhodesians travelling rear of the courtroom. As Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Southampton was bundled out Magee shouted Empire Pool, Wembley, The situation abuse the He heard to London, ending with a huge rally at judge. present day's on March 12, sanctions 'unnatural', the rest of the evidence was said, and could be changed over a public address system in 'sooner than most people realize'.

his cell. The case goes on.

Chairman: steward Engineering Workshop, Swindon (In a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to workl SOVIET premier Leonid Brezh- Kadar. scheduled visit This of nev cancelled change was part • Make the Tory government resign!

of his compete Teo canadon Budapest yesterday in order to official visit to allow maximum • Bulld the revolutionary party!

pursue political discussions with time for discussion on the steps Hungary's leading Stalinist Janos towards European Security.

re Bartlot workers outside the Lyons court they face 'anti-rlot' law charges.

SHAL Andrei Gretchko, Soviet ter of Defence, had dinner last with French Premier, Pierre mer as part of his official visit to arrived on Monday-the opening day • trial of nine Berliet workers in — at the invitation of Minister of National Defence Michel, Debré. Debré is the man who signed a military agreement between France and Franco's Spain in June 1970, expressing the view that 'there is no difference in political countries, principle between our Gretchko will tour French armaments factories and military installations and hold discussions with the top military in Pompi- armed forces, dou's including vice-admiral Brasseur-Kermade, who commander-in-chiet of the Mediterranean fleet. This is the first full oflicial visit to France by a Soviet Minister of Defence and gives the lie to right-wing claims that the French CP is preparing Moscow-backed 'Bolshevik revolu- tion' in the present electoral campaign. The French CP called in Gretchko's host at last night's dinner party-Messmer-to end the 40-day potash miners strike in Alsace. After their talks with Messmer in Strasbourg on Saturday, the Stalinist CGT and Social-Demo- cratic CFDT trade-union leaders • Monday to per- were able on suade the miners to accept a miserly offer of 10 per cent over two years. The increase is chopped up into small slices: 3.20 per cent from October 1 and 1 per cent from November 1; 2 per cent on January 1, 1 per cent on July 1 and per cent on November 1, 1973. Yet inflation is speeding ahead.

Official government figures show an increase of prices of 0.9 per cent in October as compared to 0.6 per cent in September and 0.5 per cent in August. The French CP is making every effort to maintain Pompi- dou in order to smooth the path for the plans for counter- revolution which being are developed by Moscow m and European capitalism. They limited the movement the first day of the trial of the Berliet trade unionists to a one- day protest strike in the Rhone valley. But the response to the call is a clear indication of the powerful movement building up in the French working class.

Over 120,000 workers struck work and 20,000 demonstrated through Lyons to the Palace of nine Justice welcome to court. It was the biggest demonstration seen in the city since June 1968. Today Gretchko will be in the Rhone valley—but not to con- the Berliet vey solidarity to workers. will visit two One where the latest tactories, Mirage being jets are manu- factured and a training-centre for armoured car technicians.

Gretchko has no reason to complain of the unceasing loyalty of French CP led by Georges Marchais. Marchais will be able, In turn, to share his experience in strike- breaking with John Gollan during his present fraternal visit to Britain, no doubt as an encour- agement to get Gollan to join Stalinist openly the European campaign to 'democratize' the Common Market. See Séguy speech p.ll ...

Strategy discussed for delivering to cold stores

BY DAVID MAUDE AND

PHILIP WADE

LONDON lorry drivers' leaders claim that the meat importers are work- ing hand-in-hand with the Tory government to launch an attack on the dockers. The drivers, who have told the meat importers that they will not cross dockers' picket lines, say strategy on the issue was discussed at a meet- ing last week with Joseph Godber, Minister of Agri- culture. • Eric Rechnitz, chairman of the London drivers' shop stewards' committee, claims Godber then met the Depart- ment of Employment, who gave the go-ahead for a bid to break the picket. On Monday atternoon, lorry drivers were informed for the first time that hauliers would give any driver the loads to go through the lines with. to this point they had Up hedged, fearing a nationwide black any firm by dockers of that crossed the picket.

FROM OUR OWN COR

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members TASS, the technical and supervisory section of the Amalgamated Union of Engi- neering Workers, are mount- ing a picket outside a Letch- worth engineering firm demanding the reinstatement of one of their members. Les Wreford, a supervisor in services the department Herbert Controls and Instru- ments, was sacked a week ago.

He was dismissed on the spot.

Immediately the sacking came known about 280 workers walked out the gate in protest.

Today a mass meeting will be held to decide on future action. The management and the local Press have given the im- pression that Mr Wreford is a member of the management.

The local 'Evening Post' head- lined his dismissal: 250 walk out after firm sacks manager'. firm's managing director, The Mr Derek Helps, told reporters: 'When we found we had too many chiefs and not enough Indians, 1 naturally thought he would not mind losing his job.'

This is a snide attack on Mr Wreford who has been com- plaining that he has not enough workers in his department to the work-load carry out efficiently. When he asked management for more men fem Wreford said that the suffered from "too many chiefs and not enough Indians'. Recently Mr Wretord was involved in the formation of a shop-floor committee to take over and run the factory in the event of mass redundancies or a collapse. Mr Dave Gallard, dispute appeals treasurer of the Letch- worth and District Trades Coun- cil, says that the stated reason FROM the start of the on in the drivers' counter-picket- Party. ing campaign Workers What wi Press fought for the was a polic position that 'unity of bined dockers and transport

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drivers against their forced common enemy — the policy of n employers — is a basic cies principle' (SLL Political section, mai Committee statement, all workers July 21). and nation Responsibility for the the docks a scramble between these industries n two sections of workers pensation for a shrinking pool of workers' co jobs, we said, rested with the worthless reformist policies of recall of biennial de the union leaders and their Stalinist hangers- ference - Drivers' leaders turned the offer down flat. 'We're not will- ing to take part in a govern- ment-employer conspiracy against the dockers, Eric Rechnitz told Workers Press. "The employers also had the impertinence to tell us they wouldn't take our union to the

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Supervizor Las Wreford for Mr Wreford's dismissal- redundancy-'does hold not water'. "This is a deliberate attempt to get rid of Les Wreford that management then can further sackings proceed to among TASS and AUEW shop- floor workers. I base this on the fact that Les Wreford in his capacity as a trade unionist at shop floor, branch and trades council level, has always fought for the best interests of the working people in this district. In 1969 when the drawing office workshop at Herbert's faced 30 per cent redundancies, he successfuly led those workers in the defence of their jobs and all the redundancy notices were subsequently withdrawn. 'Earlier this spring, when the Herbert announced group a • within £4m deficit and work the group was made scarce, Mr Wreford was instrumental setting up an emergency occu- pation committee. I see the action against him start of a campaign against those who have fought the past for better in wages, conditions and job security.

"This is a fight we must win, for if we lose, the consequences could be far-reaching not only for Herbert's workers, but for all trade unionists in the area.

Workers Press, Wall meet until 1973 - to leaders sat silent. • in the Communist mobilize action to force

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Tory the government required Jack continued was ones to resign. his a policy for com- backstage dis- The with Lord struggle. When, that same day, cussions National Aldington, chairman the Industrial of should be to fight Relations Court ordered for a the Port of London the jailing of five Lon- of no redundan- Authority and a close for of Heath either don dockers con- friend on among of proposals for continuing maintenance tempt of its orders to full pay picketing Midland slash the docks workers on stop to labour nationalization of Cold Storage, drivers force... but e docks and transport walked out in support quietly. fellow without of their trade If Jones fails call to and under unionists. meeting hammer control. But instead of seizing out a policy for struggle required the this opportunity to this week, it will prove fact in of fac- he is favour the union's bring the warring in member- of the split in his delegate con- tions of their due to ship together, the union union's ranks. not National Industrial Relations gional ofhicials of the Transport Workers Union Court if we drove through the and General on dockers' with picket. arranging a joint meeting dockers. said Drivers also they were not prepared to be used 'by the He hoped would meeting Vestey their take place before the end of the group in anti- docker machinations'. week. 'We Every trade unionist will wel- Added Rechnitz: have come the drivers' stand. had talks this week with re- National Health Service,

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doctors' leaders sign abandoned death certificates and prescribe have temporarily opposition to the Gen- dangerous drugs. their Katherine eral Medical Council. Bradley, chairman of the Junior Hospital Doctors' Yesterday they paid their Association, said: "The payment

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3, Wadnesdey Haver ber 20, 1972 PAGE 3 Menlatar Josoph Gadber WOMEN and girls on strike now for almost five weeks at the Barbours' rainwear fac- tory, South Shields, have voted unanimously at a mass meeting to stay out until their union is recognized. A Department of Employment oflicial previously ap- proached Barbours for an arbi- tration panel to decide whether or not the women should have recognition for a union of their choice. But manager Mr. K. Charlton has refused categorically to have any dealings, . with the union-the Transport and General Workers' Union. The women claim that the company would prefer them to join the smaller Garment Work- ers' Union because, they say, Barbours want a small union that they can manipulate.

Reports that company direc- tors and their wives are working at night to put up parcels of goods in the factory have not yet been denied. Vehicles are reported to be entering the pre- mıses at all times of the night.

when the pickets are not on duty. South Shields trades council has been sent a letter from the local Department of Health and Social Security justifying the police eviction of single giris claiming benefit on November 10. Two weeks ago the DHSS chief apologized for the action.

• A mass rally of trade union- ists in defence of the Barbours' strikers has been called for Saturday, December 9, in South Shields.

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PAGE 1 Workers Press, Wednesday November 29, 1972 How successful have the policies of Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army been since the first civil unrest in Ulster in 1968? IAN YEATS reports in a series of articles based on interviews with leading Republicans, revisionists and reformists on both sides of the border.

IRELAND

THE CRISIS

OF LEADERSHIP

PART ONE

THREE TROUBLED

YEARS

Without a revolutionary said Lenin, theory, you cannot have a revolution- ary movement. Nowhere is this truth more poign.

graphically antly and illustrated than in that well-known cemetery of middle - class every reformist, revisionist and nationalist 'theory' present-day Ulster. of Despite years inree sacrifice, heroic courage, pathos and stubborn resistance by the Catholic working class, British imperialism has suc- holding this

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last outpost of Empire. It has done so not because of its intrinsic strength, but because of the cynical betrayals of the right- and left-wing British Labour leaders and be- cause of the crisis of leader- ship in the Irish working class the incurable pounded by weaknesses and fatal contra- in the and dictions doctrine methods of Republican Lennons. Provisional IRA policy The of relying of bomb and bullet and use of concentrating everything against Stormont to the virtual exclusion of the counter- of the Dail role evolutionary has proved to be producuve, In the end this policy, despite the undoubted heroism of the Provo leaders, only suc- has ceeded in exacerbating the the Catholic sectarianism OI and Protestant workers and has enabled British imperial- ism, in alliance with the Lynch the Provos politically. Sean arrest Mac- June

RTE

features Stiofain and O'Kelly, editor Kevin the sacking of the staff of Irish television and the wholesale of of the principles already truncated judicial the wake code tollowing in of the Darlington talks and the Green cadet s socialists and Re- warning to publicans that struggle Lne British imperialism is against inseparably intertwined wils struggle for the overthrow the of the capitalist regime in the creation south and the OI united, democratic, secular and This socialist Ireland. above all, a joint struggle of Irish British and against their common enemy.

the Sliced atter Ard-feish at Dublin's Inter- continental Hotel in December 1969, wings of the IRA both seized on 'the trouble' as the vehicle through which the last fight for 32-county great Ireland could be waged. By January 1970, after more than two years Northern Ireland towns, brutally and sometimes suppressed the bloodily by esday November 29, 1972 e policies of Sinn Fein and the been since the first civil unrest YEATS reports in a series of ews with leading Republicans, sts on both sides of the border.

security forces of Stormont and Westminster, the role of the Provo guns looked secure.

By 1970 the housing and un- employed action committees which had sparked off the tide of protest marches in 1968 had come together under the umbrella of the Northern Ire- land Civil Rights Association (NICRA) but, unlike the Officials, the Provos made no attempt to infiltrate the mass movement. they limited them- Instead selves to their traditional élitist role as a military force alongside but separate from the people, using their guns first for protection and second win the united Ireland to which eluded them in 1921.

Circumstances appeared to favour them. Apart from the brief lull in 1969 when many Catholics welcomed the British army as peacemakers, the violence which had built from the security forces up and loyalist extremists began to drive even moderates into the arms of the IRA. From October 5, 1968, when People's Democracy organized the famous march from Bel- fast to Derry, the civil rights movement, backed by the Communist Party, brought more and more people onto the streets, inviting a storm of repression. A section of the northern Protestants had been growing uneasy since about 1966 when Prime Minister Terence O'Neill began to move towards reforms to end discrimination. As the economic crisis worsened, they began to feel themselves betrayed by the Unionist and government threatened by the beligerence of the civil righters. Led by Rev Ian Paisley and others, Protestant extremists stepped up their attacks on Catholics.

Within months of the troops arriving, Catholics found their against them batons turned instead of against the Union- ists and the population of the ghetto areas fell back in fear behind the and desperation guns of the IRA. This relationship continued until "Operation Motorman' this year. What snapped it was the prospect of peace held out by Westminster's political initiatives and the realization that the Provos' mass terror campaign could only deepen divisions, • sectarian perhaps irrevocably. Almost up to the eve of 'Motorman', Provo leaders believed that their base in the Catholic population could be used as a counter over which they could bargain with the British about the future of Ireland. Another leading Provo, makes this clear: He Telegraph' in summer 1971: I cannot imagine the IRA driving the British army into the sea, but 1 think it would be possible to force the British government to the conference table' When Belfast Provo leader Seamus Twomey and his friends flew to London by RAF this year's June jet during truce, they went as equals, as de facto rulers, only to dis- that Whitehall still cover thought of them not only as serfs, but had no intention of freeing them. The Officials broadly shared the Provos' overall objective of a united Ireland, but they went about it in an entirely different way, although ultimately with no less dismal results. The Officials position was set out by Chief-of-Staff Cathal Goulding in September 1969: 'For a number of years past the Republican movement has been committed to support of the moderate civil rights move- ment in the genuine hope that reforms obtained by constitu- tional agitation could provide a framework within which a peaceful settlement might_be arrived at to the oustanding problems of our people' The change in tactics was closely related to the collapse of the 1956 military campaign which was followed by a period of intense soul-search- ing among sections of the Republican movement. A statement by Sean Gar- land in May 1971 summed up the new approach. "The grave error that was committed [in the past] was in separating the national ques- tion from the social questions of the people. From the end of the Civil War until our day Repub- licans virtually neglected to organize the people who are Left: Officials' Chief, Cathal Goulding.

Above: Provisionals' Chief-of-Staff, Sean ultimately going to make the revolution in their country- the workers.' And • a year later at his oration in Bodenstown, Gar- land said: 'If those who have preceded us have failed it was because, however courageous, however great, however self- sacrificing they were, the mass of the people of Ireland were not behind them.' In the south in 1968-1969 the Officials launched them- into campaigns selves diverse as those for. fishing rights and zebra crossings in between burning down Ger- man farms as a protest against foreign capital. In the north the civil rights movement provided an ideal vehicle both for involvement in people's demands and for pushing those demands for- ward to include the vital call for a united Ireland. A . 'United Irishman' edi- torial said: "The road to vic- Right: Rory O brady Sean MacStiofain, now in prison.

tory, the road to revolutionary republicanism, the unity of the largest pos- sible mass of the Irish people to win our demands for demo- cracy and for national sovereignty' And later: "The strategy of the civil rights movemen pressure on the The simple. streets and from mass protest until the be kept up British government forced the civil rights pro- to yield gramme.' the end of 1972 after four long and bitter years of struggle and with nothing achieved the 'United Irishman' was still demanding 'Back to the streets' and 'Let the people unite once more in the movement for civil rights.

Even after the limits of reformism have been reached it is impossible for reformists transcend them without their reformism abandoning and becoming revolutionaries.

This the Officials, strongly influenced by the Communist Party, are not prepared to do.

their call along with And NICRA for a bill of rights is being made to an empty theatre. The demand for a bill of rights far from being progres- sive has now become a shield behind which all the reform- ists are hiding as a substitute for taking a genuinely revolu- tionary road. The idealist tradition of separatism was another vital preventing the obstacle Officials taking this road and also from acknowledging that their demands were certain to be torpedoed by a factor which they steadfastly chose to ignore -recession. Throughout the period since 1968 the more strident their demands for civil rights the the repression, first worse from Stormont and then, after direct rule, from Westminster.

Slump ensured that neither Unionists nor Tories could solve the problem of un- employment, inadequate housing, rocketing rents, fares and prices and low pay. Although few believed it, both wings of the IRA vociferously pumped out the united Ireland line that a free of gombeen-men (money lenders) would take Catholics and Protestants alike into the Elysian Fields of equality and prosperity. Today a battle-weary Catho- lic working class, deceived and by disoriented the argument that pressure could be made to work, are in the process of having a mess of paper rights foisted on them which slump willensure remain nominal. If the IRA somewhat cynic- ally saw the use to which the civil rights movement could be put there was one group which genuinely believed in it People's Democracy - the (PD) group. a fundamentally PD was radical, liberal group based on Queen's University, Belfast.

Boasting that theory must never be allowed to replace action, its members joined with gusto in the early civil rights marches, becoming vir- into the tually liquidated NICRA by 1969. The movement produced Míss Bernadette 1 Devlin, the Cookstown girl selected by the nationalists and the 'left' as a compromise candidate in 1969 because she was likely to attract the most votes and therefore keep the Unionists out. Miss Devlin claims she has drawn the political lessons from four fruitless years of The fact that the struggle. people of Ulster apparently have not, she says, is due to the Communist Party and the Official IRA deliberately hold- ing down the level of political consciousness. The Communist Party has certainly played an important role in the Northern Ireland struggle with its members often occupying positions in both the Officials and the

NICRA.

The CP, the NICRA and the Officials all found agreement around the concept of a united struggle, first against Stormont and next against Westminster, to win democracy in the Six Counties as a prelude to build- ing socialism throughout Ireland. Their obtaining effort in civil rights may yet be success- ful, but on the question of what happens when, as they will, the new rights turn out to be hollow, the CP protégés are silent. Mrs Edwina Stewart, NICRA secretary and a lead- ing CP member, commented that it was 'unfortunate' that the voice of the left was so small in Ireland and that therefore workers could not be brought to understand that protest alone was not enough.

Thomas Macgiolla, President of the Officials, fell back on Left: Belfast Provo loader, Seamus Twor campaigner, Bridget Bond. Above: 1968, the illusion of a united and free Ireland as the cure all for everything. And in Londonderry, where in many senses the civil rights movement was born, veteran campaigner Mrs Bridget Bond sighed resignedly and told me there was nothing to do but "press on'. None of these leaderships is one which a majority of Catholics will follow again.

And while the British army maintains high security, but with a 'friendly' low profile approach, the Provos will stay isolated. Although they are starved of cash, guns and explosives, and in a sense betrayed by the sharp turn to politics by the leadership, rank-and-file Provos dotted • about the Six Counties continue the mili- .

müs Twomey. Right: C/ll Rights veteran ove: 1968, repression in Derry.

tary battle as best they can, they can — as the when sporadic shootings and bomb- ings suggest. In Belfast security is so tight that, as one gunman told me, it's even risky leaving the house. A frantic but limited cam- paign is being waged in border districts where groups of volunteers hide out in cottages 12 at a time in tiny rooms waiting for orders which in- creasingly never arrive. The "political' leadership in the Provos has realized the danger of losing popular sup- port and of a new federal structure embracing the north and they have hastily switched the emphasis from the bomb and bullet to the political pro- ili-, gramme in an attempt to har- Workers Press, Wednesda! ness Protestants to Republic- anism and win back Catholic support. Even on the emotional issue of internment, popular support has fallen dramatically away issue, from the single reformist, Anti - Internment League, masterminded by men like Eamon McCann, Michael and supported by Farrell Bernadette Devlin. Not only has the public sup- port been withdrawn from the Provos, to the extent that 30 'officers' have been picked up in three weeks in Belfast with only token protests, but the majority of people are pre- pared to try "peace' rather than marches to secure their demands, including the release of internees. In the absence of any alter- native leadership most Catho- lic families are prepared to give William Whitelaw, the Tories' Ulster 'supremo' • and his Green Paper a chance. For the time being they see no other choice. Many moderate Protestants feel the same way and both sides are settling into an un- easy peace guarded by their own defensive organizations— the Ulster Defence Associa- tion (UDA) and now, on the Catholic side, the Catholic ex- Servicemen's Association

(CSA).

organizations could These end up tearing each other apart, or they. might be used temporarily by Westminster as vehicles for keeping the peace in the respective reli- gious' camps. Moderate Protestants and Nodneeday November 29, 1972 PAGE 5 Catholics alike — particularly trade unionists—see the need to work together if civil war is to be finally averted and a number of organizations and individuals on both sides have produced plans for a new Ulster. Throughout 'the troubles' the position adopted by the trade union leaders has been the negative one of keeping out of them. Now the union especially CP members in a are pushing for peace consciously centrist way designed to head of further action. But there are already signs issues that bread-and-butter will force workers to break through this tendency. Shop-floor eruptions have taken place among Protestant workers who have discovered that loyalism means loyalty to the boss — definitely not in their interests. On the Catholic side, faced with the complete lack of pro- gress of the past four years, particularly Republicans, Derry centred around the 'Starry, Plough', are talking about the need to get down to class politics and the real causes of the 'troubles'.

This section of the Officials is perhaps the most advanced tendency in Ulster politics at this time. But there is, understandably, much con- fusion about the form of a new revolutionary party and its objectives and considerable pessimism about healing the split with Protestant workers.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday November By JOHN SPENCER The Indonesian military dictator, General Suharto, is currently visiting Euro- pean capitals in an effort to win more support for extremely repressive his anti-communist regime. He was received with full state honours in France last week and has now moved on to make similar calls in Bel- gium, Switzerland, Italy and Austria. One of the main purposes of this tour is to boost the image of Indonesia as a coun • where foreign try investors can reap vast profits with the assurance that their money will be safe. In Paris, Suharto boasted to the Chamber of Commerce: 'It would be profitable for you businessmen, who are al- ways looking out for new outlets wherever you can find them to take interests in the potential of Indonesia.' capitalists, Many foreign United particularly in the ladnezday November 20, 1972 States and Japan, already do take an interest' in Indonesia.

They have large investments in •almost sector of the every country's economy. per cent of Indo- Eighty nesian oil production, for ex- ample, is taken by the huge US petroleum monopoly Cal- tex. The remainder is split between other foreign firms— Japanese -and mainly the state owned Pertamina cor- poration. Petroleum is by far the big- gest export earner for Indo- nesia and in the past seven years there has been a mad scramble overseas com- panies seeking to invest in it.

Others have interests in indus- try, mining, coffee plantations and forestry. The government's policy al- lows them to operate almost entirely without controls of any kind. It is formulated by a group of five economists, headed by professor Sadli, and known as the 'Berkeley Mafia'.

These men are fanatics for free enterprise and play open ady do house to big business from all over the globe. There are vast profits to be made in Indonesia, thanks to 'Berkeley Mafia' and the the military machine that stands behind them. To achieve this state of affairs over a million communists were slaughtered to 200,000 1965 and up in political prisoners are rotting without trial in the army's and concentration prisons camps. Over 20 million are unem- ployed out of a population of 48 million and the inrush of created foreign capital has only some 20,000 jobs Illi- teracy among people over ten is 41 per cent and this is likely to be increased with the smashing of free education over the past seven years.

Suharto's coup, Prior to school attendance was almost 100 per cent, but under the military regime schooling has once again become the sole preserve of the more wealthy, costing up to several hundred rupees a month. Almost half the child popu- lation is currently de- thus prived of any formal schooling ›ecause their parents cannot afford to pay the price. At the same time the mili- Indo- tary leaders and the bourgeoisie enjoy a nesian life of enormous privilege, greased by the rampant cor- ruption which pervades every sphere of official life. Political parties exist only by courtesy of the army-the left wing parties are smashed des- and the trade unions troyed. Since 1965 the reign of terror against any mani- festation of discontent has never abated. Suharto continues to raise the spectre of the 'red peril' at every available opportunity.

Not a day goes by without an anti-communist tirade either from the general or from one of his henchmen. Arrests are a daily occur- rence, though the islands of Indonesia, thanks to the seven- year military repression, are completely calm. Open mani- festations of political hostility to the regime are virtually un- known. The army is everywhere, even in the most remote is- lands and villages. It acts like an army of occupation. And within the army itself there are frequent purges designed to keep the rest of the officer cadre on its toes. to power in Suharto came 1965 after crushing what he d'etat claimed was a coup masterminded by the powerful Party Indo- Communist of nesia (PKI). Though there is evidence that some PKI off- cers were involved in a plot, the Party made no concerted attempt to seize the power.

under N. The

PKI

D. one of the main Aidit was of President Sukarno, props leader of the nationalist inde- pendence movement, who had dominated the post-war poli- tical scene in Indonesia.

It was completely tied to the preservation of capitalist rule in Indonesia through its alliance with the nationalists.

Under the nose of the Sukarno government, the army leaders with American assistance were preparing to overthrow the regime and drown the Indo- nesian workers and peasants in blood. The alleged PKI coup pro- vided them with the pretext they needed. The army lead- ers immediately set in motion a terrible massacre. Egged on by the Moslem priests, squads of soldiers and lumpen bands scoured the country for PKI supporters, trade members, evernists and anyone motion even it. rivers ran with blood. Nobody knows how many wore murdered in the pure ar nurdered between 500,000 and a mil- The largest Communist lion. Party Asia, outside as physicala, outed China, *Survivors of the moms acre able, but there are tough.

able ast there a bought thoro them. tioAll sidered like c attempt: —suspected com- ¡nicte. Cnarenna h spicion of being on the e treme left. pri- Virt has been of tight. the cong, Arto, procurator mentioned a figure of 69,000 26,000 C and 27,000 others).

Another 47,000, he said, were held under conditions of 'conditional liberty. Arto's figures give a total of 116,000.

One year later Suharto men- tioned a figure of 58,000 pri- soners. About the same time, Dr Finngeir Hiorth, on behalf of Amnesty International, Con- cluded that there were at least 150,000 prisoners in Indonesia, with 30,000 on the main is- land, Java. The liberal Hong Kong weekly, "The Asian', this year published estimated another figure of just under 72,000 which apparently prisoners, does not include those in 'conditional liberty'. Indone- sian political exiles put the figure at 200,000. "The Asian' sent novelist Dom Moraes to one of the most notorious island concen- tration camps, at Buru, over 1,500 miles from Java. Moraes' description of the camp is eloquent testimony to the terrible repression waged by the Suharto regime against the Indonesian working class: 'Buru is larger than Bali an immense sprawl of forested hills lying in the Banda Sea, he wrote. 'Lazy voracious sharks cruise off its shores, but few President Suharto. Left: 1965; a committee member is 68 corted military tribunal to a curing the purges that followed Sukarno, Right: the coup. nationalist leader, ousted 1965.

boats visit it. The dense for- ests contain wild boar, and the rivers are musky with crocodiles... Large parts of the island valleys are swamps malarial where mosquitoes proliferate in terrifying num- bers. there While they were other journal- Moraes and met Pramudya Ananta ists Toer, one of Indonesia's best- known writers, who has been imprisoned since 1965. I cannot He told them: write. I am too tired. Profes- sor Suprapto [a leading law- yer] and I are in the same camp, so are several writers I know, but we do not work in the same field and when we meet we are too tired to talk.

'So I do not write and I •. In Buru I do not talk. have no future. Conditions for me here are too difficult. I want to return to Java.? Over 100,000 others are held without trial on . similar camps and in Suharto's jails.

They are the guarantee of the safety of foreign investment in Indonesia, along with up to & million unmarked graves.

GAULLISTS IN THE DRUG TRADE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Nov

BY TOM KEMP

When the Brazilian police picked up Christian David on October 21 on drug charges and later deported him to the US another episode was added sordid to the history of the relations between the Fifth French Republic and the under- world. On his David arrest possessed a small armoury— a 9mm Browning pistol, a Beretta fitted with a silencer, a Smith and Wesson short- barrelled rifle and a quantity of ammunition. It was almost seven years ago that a French police inspector carrying out an in- vestigation in connection with the kidnapping of the Moroccan opposition leader_Ben Barka, entered a bar in Paris looking for suspects. Instead he came across David-also known as 'le beau Serge'-who was wanted on a number of charges. David pulled out of his pocket a tricolour card bear- ing the initials SAC-'Service d'Action Civique'-a militant and select wing of the Gaullist movement. The police then allowed him to fetch his raincoat. Pulling a pistol from a pocket he shot dead one of the policemen and wounded two others. It is difficult to know for sure what happened to le beau Serge' after that. What is certain is that a chain of contacts enabled him to get out of France and saday November 29, 1972 establish himself in South America in the drug traffic as part of the 'French connection' But it was also a Gaullist connection. Many cases have come to light in recent years which conclusively that the show Gaullist movement, SAC has close connections with the underworld and particularly with the drug traffic. The existence of such a political underworld is not exactly a novelty in France where gangsters and politicians have often worked hand-in- glove. This was so before the war in towns like Marseilles and during the war the Gestapo made use of criminals to hunt down political enemies. 'Service The d'Action Civique' was formed during the final stages of the Algerian war to fight the Secret Army Organization (OAS), which was opposed to independence.

It recruited a miscellaneous crew of strong-arm agents, a variety of criminal types. formed the fighting They elements in what was ostensibly a wing of the ruling party, supported by officialdom. The red, white and blue card was a useful asset for any practising On arrest he would criminal. it and hope that it flourish would give him immunity-it sometimes did. SAC men who stewarded meetings addressed by Pompi- dou and other Gaullist leaders were sometimes recognized by policemen not in the know as wanted criminals. When Pompidou visited Grenoble in 1967 he was driven around by a notorious brothel-keeper who later by a shot a year was what is in rival gangster 'a settling of known as accounts'. Sensitive Gaullist politicians ordered a purge of the SAC about this time to turn out the more obvious gangsters. But it was far from complete.

In December last year came the break-up of a blackmail ring organized by Charles Lascorz, known as 'Monsieur Charley'. Lascorz ran what appeared to be a prosperous industrial consulting firm. In fact it was a front behind which he exacted from businessmen, money some of whom had themselves engaged in shady deals. When time was ripe he sent number of 'debt- round a collectors' who beat the victim until he paid up. Lascorz always carried his SAC card when on business, so did his associates. One of his friends was ex-Gaullist an deputy, Pierre Lemarchand, who played an unexplained role in the notorious Ben Barka affair. The real 'French connection' was revealed in April 1971 when US agents found about 100,0001 0f heroin hidden in a minibus being unloaded at New York docks. It belonged to one Roger Delouette who claimed that he had belonged to a branch of the French secret service the 'Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage' Delouette told American police that he had been asked to collect the van and its con- tents by his former chief in Paris, Paul Fournier. He also Ben Barka, kidnapped in 1968. Above: The 'Service d'Action Clvl- que' (SAC), strong arm corps of the Gaullist party, inaction against demonstrators in France.

claimed that he had been asked to pick up $17,000 in counter- feit US money. The French authorities have tried to hush up the affair as much and deny as possible that Fournier was implicated.

Another former

SDECE

Andre Labay, agent, was arrested in October 1971 as he was about to leave for the US containing with a car quantity of pure heroin. He once been involved in a had ut business deal with the former Gaullist deputy André Rives- Henrys, accused of compliçity in a big property fraud. In the domain of French gangsterism, which flourishes on drugs, prostitution and the protection racket, SAC men continue to play a prominent One of the biggest part. Marseilles gangs, that of Antoine Guerini, was anti- Gaullist and worked at times with the Socialist Party, which is strong in the town. After 380 the death of Guerini and the imprisonment of his son, the decided to SAC gangsters force the Guerini clan to pay a 'tax' Last October, 'tax-gatherer' Constantin Tramini shot was dead in Berre, near Marseilles.

There have been other 'settling of accounts' since then. Lyons has its own full-scale scandal following the reve- lation during the summer that a number of policemen were running the town's brothels under the wing of a local Gaullist deputy. The SAC men in that town are known to have sheltered Christian David when he was in flight in 1966.

SAC men, or other gangsters enjoying protection in high places, organized the kid- napping of Ben Barka in 1966 with the support of sections of the French police and secret service. A rich and powerful under- flourishes in France world with the support of its political friends. The SAC provides one of the important links. The criminals provide services for the politicians-and are obvi- ously prepared to provide • a others. Their fists and their guns are at the disposal of the men in power in dealing with working-class militants. Among those who know a lot about the activities of the SAC and the links between the underworld and the political world of Gaullism, is Christian David, now in the hands of the American police.

Many of his friends and pro tectors in France are afraid that he will not be restrained from telling the truth.

NOTEBOOK

SECRECY

A great deal of money is being business circles made what is known as 'Insider of Trading': This consists cheap buying of shares in after tip- companies a quiet off that it is likely to be • the subject of a take-over bid.

recent editorial in 'City Press, weekly newspaper the of the City London, ot declared: 'Alas, there is sub- stantial evidence that Insider Trading and widespread, 1S there is more speculative buy- ing of probable take-over situa- tions than of genuine cheap investment opportunities. Even in "City Press", in fairness to our readers, we have to use our columns to spotlight when shares are likely to jump on hopes. and LaKCOVer often readers make our great deal of money disclosures of inside our buying.' There is, of course, a Take- Over Panel which is supposed to make sure that al dealings are above board. But- -as 'City Take- Press' points out-the Over Panel manned by 1S stockbrokers and merchant bankers who themselves are employed professional as advisers by the take-over mer- chants who are responsible for Insider Trading. It is not surprising there- fore, that the Take-Over Panel has no powers to call for evi- dence when those in the know their knowledge of take- use over intentions to buy shares cheaply. And no one has yet been severely punished by the Take-Over Panel for leaking inside news to potential share- buyers. One ardent defender of the Take-Over Panel is Lord Shawcross, the former Labour Attorney-General, who, again according to 'City Press', 'tries to maintain the sham that the Take-Over Panel wields the whip over anybody who wants try his hand to at insider dealing. Yet every day the financial papers carry reports of shares that have moved on take-over hones. But the for the is clear, final secrecy as a from quote City Press' will show: If the whole truth was known about insider dealing by individuals in shares, the reputation of many of the most respected establishments in the City would be shattered.'

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Later Langley modelled the in the parliamentary gown dining rooms, but said he did not feel he had matched the efforts of Donald Dunstan.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. A special correspondent looks at the with an annual turnover of £1,5001 ICI's pre-tax profits for the first nine months of this year were £97m—a drop of £10m from the comparable period in 1971, which was con- sidered 'a bad year' by chairman Jack Callard. The latest figures are inflated by a profit of £4m made en- tirely as a result of the change in sterling value of foreign floating funds due to the (downward) rate of the pouna.

City pundits and the financial Press will no doubt welcome these results as an improvement on the disastrous profits slump following Nixon's August 1971 measures to end the chronic US balance of pay- ments deficit. But they by no means tell the whole story.

by While sales have risen £lllm £1,247m, ICI's to trading profit as a percentage of, sales slipped from 17.8 per cent to 16.6 per cent, despite increases in the price of fibres during June and the profit on currency exchange. Old plant is being written off at a greater rate, taking an extra £15m of trading profit and reducing pre-tax profits from 9.4 per cent to 7.8 per cent of sales. It is this basic drop in the rate of profit that clearly the expresses most crisis of the British chemical industry. For the whole of 1971 ICI's return on capital was 8.6 per cent (8.5 per cent of total sales) compared with 12.4 per cent in 1969. at £669m, Overseas sales, are higher than the £578m of UK sales, as they have been since 1967. But although both have increased by markets same ratio, pro- roughly the duction in ICI's overseas sub- sidiaries 13.2 per cent was higher than in the first nine months of 1971 while UK pro- duction went up by only 7.8 per cent. older Clearly the plants being written off in the UK are generating capital which is being used to increase capacity in the newer, more profitable plants abroad. In addition, a £20m produce to polyester film-the basis of photographic film and recording tape-began pro- 1972 duction during Hopewell, Virginia, USA. The position for ICI workers immediately prior to entry into Market looks the Common grim and it is no secret that the board of directors consider the EEC as their only hope for survival in the trade war.

The success of the Common Market countries, according to Mr T. B. Owen of ICI central • . had been personnel: '. achieved by the creation of an economic organiz- essentially ation—a single labour market which enabled any worker to move from one country to another without a labour permit'. Or, as chairman Callard put it even more forcefully: •.. the inescapable conclusion that we have to draw from the trading last two results of the years ... is that only by with running the business fewer people, even in times of greater demand, can we com- pete against the rest of the world's chemical industry.'

Workers Press, Wednesda) ks at the latest profit figures of ICI,Britain of £1,500m a year. Jack Callard, ICI chairman Only by the most ruthless rationalization and reorganiz- ation on a European scale can ICI match America's du Pont (profits up 27 per cent) or West Germany's Bayer (up 16 per cent) and BASF (up 28 per cent). During the boom period of the 1960s the increase in ICI's profits was led by the manu- facture of artificial fibres to which they are so heavily com- mitted. A £40m plant at Ardeen, Scotland, opened in 1969, can produce all the salt required by two nylon nylon polymer plants on Tees- side and at Rozenburg, Holland, which supply nylon spinning works at Pontypool, Gloucester and Doncaster, Oestringen. These factories are capable of manufacturing double the amount of nylon filament that ICI Fibres can sell. These are the stark facts of over-capacity.

Now, after much hesitation, the go-ahead has been given for the full-scale production of new 'melded' fabrics such as Cambrelle. This new capital- intensive, labour-free process produces fabric so cheaply that firms using older methods of

ICI

including most Fibres' customers for Terylene and Bri-nylon—will be pushed out of business overnight.

Because it is so capital- intensive, ICI must make it Nadnesday November 29, 1972 PAGE 9 CI,Britain's fourth biggest company either in vast quantities or not at all-hence the hesitation.

The decision to push into the heat of the trade war is a fundamental departure from ICI's stated policy of non- domination of textiles antici- pated by the acquisition of Viyella, Carrington Dewhurst It is and Qualitex. the beginning of the end of the traditional UK textile industry.

Courtaulds, the old target of ICI's amalgamationist ambitions, has a large stake in the production of nylon, acrylic fibre, weaving and gar- ment manufacture. With the development of Cambrelle, ICI will be in a position to bank- rupt Courtaulds and acquire its assets at a knock-down price- giving them a UK textile base secure enough to stand up to EEC competition. As workers at Skelmersdale and scientists at Pontypool will are the testify, the workers intended victims of this battle of the textile giants. For the working class there is one, clear political answer to this boardroom anarchy. ICI and firms like it must be nationalized and placed under workers' control.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday November 29, 1972

SLL LECTURES

LIVERPOOL

Wednesday November 29 Stalinism 1932-1938 Wednesday December 6 and the founding of the Fourth International

BBC 1

COMMON HALL

HACKINS HEY

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LONDON

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Workers Press, Wednesday November 29, 1972 PAGE 11 *90X10W ü1 3: Gift-wrapped Christmas price rise

MANUFACTURERS

charge of consumer affalrs Sir statement. of the companies men- a re 'Even Geoffrev Howe that if the announcement tioned by NCP concaic. pensise su packas ins e Christmas goods to dodge the tions to wrapping would not had been made two or three . is an ex- freeze, alleged commodity escaped I doubt would business. are yester- ago sensivi of the suppliers. in time. Manufac- he hand: consumer activists. Udy

LCCLC

Lave Uccl Consumer Protec- t the NCP, turers work advance. National but Mrs kegına well in are nol making any pront. All tion have found dozen cases tional Some of their stuff has been our plans are made in advance.

organizer Minister Even wanted we could where prices have challenged the the shops since the we hocil voici She and early Novem- pay for gift wrap- • Geofirer Crencen o O coser not reduce our pricese pings. of cherimas heds bee ral it ber she said. An Christmas Yardley, assurance has been goods feel spokesman for Consumer Minister minister Shr Geoffrey Howe cosmetics and pertume makers

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Dit ale co Hake

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The dividend 'freeze' fraud

THE

SO-CALLED 'di- of trade unionists PrOuOS More loop-holes than in a law they face GeTU „ tne vidend freeze' in Heath's prosecution in the state pay legislation is a convicted they

COULLS.

and race To altee complete fraud. It is a the possibility of jail. string vest-city view sop to the trade unions; Even dangerous is in reality it is com- une _noTOn this legis lation is only a short-term pletely meaningless. measure. only Phase One of It 1s This is cynical

BY ALEX MITCHELL

dividends shareholders. prices manufactured olan. ATerOs conclusion of City goods. they have advanced plans Dus- unev WOld Taller HSe who have the money for getting their for introducing Phase now

LICOSLCH

Already the government 1 WO incentive to buy the com- that the initial 'freeze' on into shape had time to study both iso apolitions tor ex ehp- more than even Lunvally processing WIll pany's shares. sigitend is having not the the legislation tighter stranglehold on the and the meer ure umoen ver effect ahead. All in all, the freeze' SleilLCol wages working sseed by ane Treins tion from the legislation. business. On the contrary. dividends issued Treasury Therefore the trade wil Nor does legislation Class. many of them are enjoying leaders' interest the union statement in hib1f and the CBI. CUreI prontcenne

STON

Stock Exchange and property speculation. vær ve vee They The legislation also believe that there 'victory' rather depress the market. it will Mislead hollow. summary, therefore 1n more loopholes than speculation are intensily grants specinc exempuons Heath's measures ailow hae • asicl can stated string thereby the profits of share iho se the field of that vest the speculators. goods whose section on dividends to Those trade union TeT palles Hefty rise following items to go up: what they leaders who are saying that companies This are nee to go up include completely fruit, vegetables, meat and like. line with Tory Party policy at the end ji the y0 davs • Dividends fish. automatically After a survey of opinion which will wages Under the legislation throw open in the City these are views be 'unfrozen' are deliber- dividends be Stock for exchange are not • Food prices misleading ately being expressed: greater participation. Bulletins

LILCI

bald increase• olg members. days from Royal • Manufactured goods ThA | Next year's changes • The Assent. But legislation The Tories have much maTOrIT the the LUL DULaLIOn 1 ax ale panies are welcoming the more vicious corporatist- does • Land and housing designed The has

NOL

Udl conoanies denverate y so ennet 90-day 'freeze' style legislation divi- from proposing increased increase the amount б. started weekly Laen dends. Isbut he ately final dividends. public sleeve. Those who capitu- speculation the bulletins retailers On the other hand, the Invitlng ported by

CBI.

The late to the present legisla- This means that a there these besse thempditiss. increase prices of workins class is being com- suare markere anel tion the reason Is simple will be tax advantages for 'blamed inflation! al c pany can announce that doo star brd or taikg ot those In times the share Workers' wages are to be the end of the freeze it will ccononic The legislation has the standard of living big companies be paying a hefty increase scramble. controlled by the state. recess on oeca machinery TOr working class early in dislike having to pay out -which is a clear, therefore, allowins increases aaslucldul trade unions the New Year Don't upset elections Socialist Labour League plea from Seguy

CELEBRATE

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GEORGES

Séguy, Stalinist *alses the demand for a General the cost of living.

OF WORKERS

Strike is in the pay of Pompidou of the CGT trade Their actions are backed by a secretary and big business. go-slow

PRESS

union federation, dockers are spoke out WIre Séguy demanding improvements on the ane ue cr are to nrecc at the annual Press dinner ahead with the policies of peace- agreement which was only signed

BUILD THE

given by his union on Monday

THREE

November 14. vulleI" May-June revolution which their Ship-owners have already been

REVOLUTIONARY

azalliot anotrer 1ed

YEARS

1968. threatened by a general strike in DeLrava or yoo. They the when ports

PARTY

was alicilvl uncompromising challenge to the the made to use scab-labour to work OF titude of the employers and the cranes in Rouen. liot laws vasse• dler me genera

SUNDAY

government make us think that saint trade nans or ed Philippe Poirier d'Orsay, leader

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would not be un- against of the Central sone DeoD e Committee happy to see the development of first time (see p.2).

DECEMBER 3

French shib-owners. has accused 1968, he saimilar to that in June

PRESS

However. the CGT is far from workers wanting 'to murder - 7 p.m. having absolute control over our he sald. *Those people have got the The government and employers • developments wrong idea. The forces whose Everyman Theatre the militant potash miners' strike since are takle harel Jilre. behaviour was exploited at concessions in the ports would unal Alsace, the class Monday. immediate encouragement to ume aralnst working give

LIVERPOOL

have today much weaker Séguy now threatened by and

WULKCIS

Kas cccucil. developments in the docks where and railway workers vostmner 'We conscious of our re- Speakers: stevedores, and tech- who are involved in negotiations alc dockers and nicians have been operating an the esent. spons outes citizens

MIKE BANDA

democrats, we do "not want delib.

ban and an embargo on overtime

CGT,

in line with the (SLL Central Committee erately upset normal days nixL WorKIne Iol n somre neeas oi moscow, nas broken up development of the

DAVE KIRBY

ports. the movement in national une eechons. nor hrance's main created which The sector, called different (CAV, Fazakerley, shop steward.)

cumace who signed sectors on could favour any manoeuvre. an agreement in April for while 6.5

CONNIE FAHEY

one-udy Hallondl SLIKeS. According to Séguy, the 1972 sell-outs like the one then, are preparing

DCI

cent ncreast (Wilmslow tenants' leader) 1968 general strike of 10 milion nowe ase in dine with che rise it demanding cent perpetrated in Alsace with the workers and anyone who now help of premier Pierre Messmer.

(Young Socialists' national committee) (Union and tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Wheelchair protest at No 10 Details of other provincial meetings see p. 12.

Firm moves

NEWCASTLE

GLASGOW

TWO PROTESTORS in wheel- group is demanding a right to a Tory premier chairs yesterday met Desil lor •en enuv oisabied to Wales SUNDAY DECEMBER 10, 7 p.m.

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17,2 p.m.

Edward Heath and the people and more aid for the dis- Decrelary County Hotel Woodside Halls Services, Keith abled housewife and parents with

•OCA

St George's Cross Speakers : Joseph, Downing Street for disabled children. BANDA (SLL Central talks disablement pensions. on 1780 is Do move its prished in With her was Peter Large (41), committee)

MIKE

BANDA (SLL Central Miss Mary Ureaves ol. •.TeC- who wil take over her post is to move its production

DAVID

JÓNES (YS national committee) tor of the Disablement Income director when she retires in and administration South to committee)

JOHN

BARRIE

(YS national Group, led the deputation. The January. Wales. Smith Kendon Ltd. BOB MAINS (Unemployed) cominoe. Southwark Miss Greaves explained outside Borough High Street

VINCENT FOY

(secretary Jar-

WILLIE DOCHERTY

(chairman No.

CRAFTSMEN

giant BP 1 betore he is bs, he esas dis- confectionary, row Trades Council. In personal Paisley Tenants' Action Com- at the manuecmuers

COE

refinery site Landarcy, abled before he 65, diabetic foods and pharmaceuti- to . In personal capacity.) Ca dbily. wulldd. will 65 cals, govern- south Wales. are in their fourth get over a Wall unune dispute over claim pension. on week ment-buml laclory weus-

BIRMINGHAM

G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- would be for a £4.50 wage The 280 'A man's trial estate at Bridgend. The WILLIE AITKIN (YS national better off if he died.' company exports 50 refusing to work over- over per men are SUNDAY DECEMBER 17,7 p.m.

She think there and cent of its output and the move aolng staery

WONK

a0.cr Assembly Hall committee) enable it to only. They have rejected should be a pension at least six expected to ex- Digbeth Civic Hall

PETER

SMITH

(Rover talks months after permanent disable- pand production and employ up request from to 180 people Speakers : Halla Cillchll. Icall.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Nov

THREE DAYS

FUND

UNITED STATES warplanes yesterday, killing 19 civilians Gunners and infantry of the National North Vietnamese Liberation Front launched a fierce attack on enemy divi- sions which were moving to- wards the demilitarized zone.

Meanwhile, South Vietnamese envoy Nguyen Phu Duc prepared his with President talks Nixon today. They are' the latest manoeuvre in the grim charade of 'peace' negotiations, to which the Stalin- ists have lent so much credibility.

ENGINEERS' union secretary Jim Conway, just re-elected by a 73,000-vote majority, com- the plained yesterday that union had been 'fighting the Industrial Relations Act and not concentrating on building up membership' Once the union had got over problems with the Act, mem- bership would go up again, he said. a pro-Common Mr Conway, Marketeer and Labour Party right-winger, defeated assistant general secretary Ernie Roberts in the election. Roberts received 96,206 votes as against Conway's 169,806. Branches in several areas of the country have complained about the conduct of the ballot —for instance against the fact that Conway's name appeared several times as sitting general secretary. Mr Roberts said after the an- nouncement of the ballot result that he was giving 'careful con- sideration' to a letter from the replying to a union executive list of complaints he had sub- mitted. RAILWAY-union leaders are to submit a joint claim to the Rail- Board for substantial pay ways increases for nearly 300,000 workers on British Railways.

'ANGRY

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the Lynch government's attitude to the working class. The deputy head of the Irish Labour Party, Dr Conor Cruise said the party O'Brien, was vehemently opposed to the legis lation, "nd he warned that in the future: could be used against what he termed 'ginger groups' in the trade unions. He added that the party also condemned the arbitrary sack- ing of the nine-man controlling body of RTE, but he said the government would find controls short of outright censorship difficult to impose. Together with all Dublin's principle trade union leaders, Dr O'Brien said they supported the arrest and conviction of the

IRA

Chief-of-Staff and the government's efforts to stamp out terrorism in the Republic.

W. T. Moody, Professor leading member of the sacked

RTE

authority, described their ALL ROADS into the army camp at Curragh, Co Kildare, MacStiofain where hospital, were sealed off yester- day in a big security clamp- down. army spokesman said An permanent barriers were being at least 20 roads erected on into the training camp. MacStiofain, who has been on hunger and thirst strike for ten days, is being treated at the general military hospital 30 miles from Dublin by Lt Col Cyril Joyce, commanding officer of the hospital. In the first official statement since MacStiofain was airlifted from the Mater hospital, Dub- lin, the Department of Defence condition described his as 'mentally alert and lucid' and THIRTEEN members of Sinn Fein, the IRA's political wing, appeared at Mansion House court in London yesterday on charges after incidents at the London offices of 'The Irish Times'. The 13—including two women -were remanded on bail until January 10 accused of assaulting security officer John Henry occasioning actual Williams bodily "The Times' harm at building in Printing House Square. THE IRA yesterday launched a attacks series across border into Northern Ireland. In one rocket attack a policeman when his border post was killed was shelled. The first rocket attack was police made the Belleek on station, County Fermanagh, from the border in County across Donegal. same time bullets At the raked the building. British troops rushed to the police post and soldiers of the republic's army also arrived on the scene.

Belleek is three miles from the County Donegal town of Ballyshannon where the police station was besieged for several hours recently after IRA men had been arrested on arms charges.

Socialist Labour League Friday December 1

CONWAY HALL, RED

(near Holborr Gerry Healy (national secretary of th Other speakers to be dismissal as 'reprehensible', and as 'a serious threat to liberty'.

But he too stressed that the real problems lie in bringing about a ceasefire in the north and eliminating the 'terrorists'.

Commenting ; on MacStiofain's conviction and hunger strike, the general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, Rory Roberts, said Irish trade unions had no role to play in politics, although they taken bring about 'com- initiatives to munity peace in the north.

He said they would not con- sider calling for MacStiofain's release, but added that they would be looking hard at the government's action over RTE which and the new legislation, he said would be 'resisted' if it interfered with the exercise of the traditional rights of the trade unions. A the stormy debate on legislation was expected in the Dail yesterday afternoon.

said that his physical condition was unchanged. Myles Shevlin, MacStiofain's solicitor, agreed after a 20- minute meeting at the hospital 'astonishingly that he was in good mental condition and exceptionally lucid'. Shevlin said there had been armed guards present through- out their legal consultations, within sight but not within earshot. There were no plans for an appeal at the moment against his six-month and sentence MacStiofain would be continu- ing his hunger and thirst strike.

A short time later two shells were fired at the RUC head- County quarters at Strabane, Tyrone. The shells ripped chunks of masonry from the walls. There were no injuries. The rockets were aimed from across the border. Two borderside customs posts near Londonderry also came under attack. No casualties were reported . in either incident—on the road to Buncrana, across the frontier, and between Londonderry and Muff in County Donegal. A number of shots were fired at each post. On the Buncrana Road, raiders set fire to a lorry. More con- centrated shooting went on during the second raid. SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC and Labour Party leaders yesterday Ulster Secretary William met Whitelaw for talks on the Tories' plans for the province's future.

The meeting, which was attended by party leaders Gerry Fitt and Paddy Devlin, is believed to have discussed the issue of security. Nationalist and Republican Labour politicians have refused to take part in the talks.

Earlier, Whitelaw met Pro- testant Archbishop the Very Rev Dr George Sims. ur League Public Meeting ember 1, 7.30 p.m.

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