Workers Press no. 934

workers press NIRC seizes €6,000 from AUEW

BLACK DAY

FOR TRADE

UNIONISM

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 1972• No. 934 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

FOR THE second time in the 12-month history of the National Indus- trial Relations Court, the state has seized funds belonging to trade union members. Yesterday the bankers for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Hill Samuel, delivered a cheque for £6,000 £5,000 fine plus £1,000 costs-to the NIRC in Chancery Lane.

For trade unionists, how- ever, it is not simply a ques- is Use unions tion of the money. It of the of question rights trade unions to organize and to defend the standard of living of their millions of against 'fascist' members. The introduction of the Industrial Relations Act and the NIRC is a direct attack on Lynch law-MP these rights won during 200 years of trade union struggle.

The court's attacks on dockers, railwaymen and They of all first mis- now the engineers ex-

FROM IAN YEATS IN DUBLIN

directed their members the falseness poses dim howattons of the to the those who said the Act Bill and to fight HALF AN HOUR before yesterday's crucial could be ignored. And they stanc

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Dail which observers debate in the many Every successive judge- paralysed as the legal tnert thought could bring down the Lynch ment the of their members money govern- enrect enormously strengthening ment, Labour MP Dr John O'Connell called takes place. its legal powers. for the mobilization of the Irish labour move- This was most strikingly In the vital weeks ment unless the government resigned.

in the against trading t the seen cases the the

AUEW

Transport and General Dr O'Connell, who is on the Labour Party's left Union; these Workers' the gentlemen described the Bill amending the Offences wing, House of Lords i heal ot MPs were debating which orate Act confirmed only yesterday afternoon as 'fascist'.

plus costs on the the Act and the NIRC He told me at the Dail: 'It is a vicious piece of

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but it also up- fasay, legislati ostenschy it is alused at thest any- held the fascist legislation court's to Tories first the Since the leadership must discipline came to power, the issues It is very very dangerous to give any government its militant members. have been in the open such wide powers. There is growing disquiet among the Communist Party working people and particularly tenants who have From dockers and

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engineers' judgements and its revisionist hangers- recenty - stared num Der marCHes can be confidently expected on have is the intention. be used against them. I think that covering and intention. fines anc

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mOTO and sequestrations are on the Jones arguing I believe Lynch will have to go to the country wAlready three transport pressure can make the after today because with both the Labour Party Tories change their mind and Fine Gael against it, a government victory Socialist could hang on one companies, Heatons. Crad- ine LaDoul

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dock's and Panalpina, are League and Workers Press or tie Dal Dardes ar present 1s- drawing up a massive com- have been absolutely Fianna Fail, deputies (including the Ceann this Comhairle who does in the event Opposed to vote except pensaron came aralist tar

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T&GWU and Lord Vestey's mythology. C2101 Gael 50: 17: Aontacht rine La DOUr Midland Cold Storage to these illusory policies. Eireann 1 and Independents 5.

Starting the in- Fail rebeissiere expected to ate abinst the goa opposition parties and a number of Fianna gone back to the Could tnere be a more so line economic anaDon damning indictment of the tical crisis of capitalism on a British and

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trade union leaders? inter- R 30, 1972 No. 934 * 4p

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national scale, we have stated that there can be no possible compromise with Heath. There is-and has been —oniy one way to deal with the situation: industrial and political strength of the working class must be mobilized to force the Tories out of office. Yesterday's seizure of AUEW funds must become the starting point of the since biggest campaign Chartism to re-establish the independence and basic rights of trade unions. this A major step in is the building direction of Councils of Action in each area to defend trade unions and to prepare to defeat the Tories. All talks with the Tories must be broken off at once. We call upon every trade unionist to the political strengthen campaign which can meet the requirements of the day-force the Tories out!

See comment p.3. lan Yeats has written a ten- part series on

IRELAND

—A Crisis of leadership which continues 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 today on 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.

IT TEACHF

STUDENTS yesterday picketed the Department of Education and Science in London to protest against the refusal of the govern- ment to provide decent grants for married women. The National Union of Students is demanding a flat increase of 15 per cent to meet the soaring cost of living. Married women students re- celve a maximum grant of £275 a year. The grant has stood at this level since 1965. Those on the picket line said the grant system discriminated against women students and offered no encouragement for them to continue higher educa- tion studies after marriage.

A survey professionaily con- ducted has shown that there will 10,900 married be women students next academic year.

A joint statement by the NUS the University of London and Institute of Education Students' Association declared: 'Grants are a right, not a privllege.'

See Tories hounding NUS р. 11.

workers press NIRC seizes €6,000 from AUEW

BLACK DAY

FOR TRADE

UNIONISM

BY ALEX MITCHELL

FOR THE second time in the 12-month history of the National Indus- trial Relations Court, the state has seized funds belonging to trade union members. Yesterday the bankers for the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, Hill Samuel, delivered a cheque for £6,000 £5,000 fine plus £1,000 costs—to the NIRC in Chancery Lane.

Use unions against 'fascist' Lynch law-MP

FROM IAN YEATS IN DUBLIN

HALF AN HOUR before yesterday's crucial Dail which observers debate in the many thought could bring down the Lynch govern- Labour MP Dr John O'Connell called ment, for the mobilization of the Irish labour move- ment unless the government resigned.

Dr O'Connell, who is on the Labour Party's left described the amending Offences wing, MPs which were debating State Act Ariost use yesterday afternoon as "fascist'.

He told me at the Dail: 'It is a vicious piece of fady, lensati ostensibly it is eused at tie tra.

legislation which used against It is very very dangerous to give any government such wide powers. There is growing disquiet among working people and particularly tenants who have recenty Staced number marches allu legislation could be used against them. I think that is the intention. I believe Lynch will have to go to the country after today with both the Labour Party and Fine Gael against it, a government victory could hang on one vULC ma fall 70 or toe wall pardes Fianna Fail, deputies (including the Ceann in the event Comhairle who does not vote except 50; Gael 17: Aontacht Eireann 1 and Independents 5.

All opposition and a number of Fianna parties rall rebels were expected to vote against the gov-

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30, 197

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALI

th history of the National Indus- seized funds belonging to trade ers for the Amalgamated Union delivered a cheque for £6,000 NIRC in Chancery Lane. For trade unionists, how- ever, it is not simply a ques- tion of the money. It is a question of the rights of trade unions to organize and to defend the standard of living of their millions of members. introduction of the The Industrial Relations Act and the NIRC is a direct attack on these rights won during 200 years of trade union struggle.

The court's attacks on dockers, railwaymen and They first of all mis- now the engineers ex- directed their members as poses the falseness of the implications of the to those who said the Act Bill and how to fight it.

could be ignored. And they stand now Every successive judge- paralysed as the legal theft ment has the effect of of their members' money strengthening enormously takes place. its legal powers. This was most strikingly In the vital weeks the cases in leading up to the seques.

seen against

AÚEW

the Transport and General tration of the Union; Workers' the funds, these gentlemen House of Lords appeal not were in game pie and wine confirmed fines discussions with Heath- only €55.000 plus costs on the the behind the Act man

T&GWU,

and the NIRC. but it also up- held the court's power to demand that the official Since the Tories first discipline leadership must came to power, the issues been the its militant members. have in open. From the dockers and But the Communist Party engineers' k judgements it and its revisionist hangers- on have been can be confidently expected covering up for 'lefts' like Scanlon and that more fines and the Tones and that sequestrations are on arguing pressure' make the way. can Tories change their mind Already three transport Heatons, Crad- The Socialist Labour companies, dock's and Panalpina, are League and Workers Press have drawing up a massive com- been. absolutely opposed to this reformist pensation claim against the We saiu 'No T&GWU and Lord Vestey's mythology. to these illusory policies.

Midland Cold Storage has Starting from the in- gone back to the court. Could there be a more soluble economic and poli- damning indictment of the tical crisis of capitalism trade union leaders? on a British ard inter- :R 30, 1972 • No. 934 • 4p

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national scale, we have stated that there can be no possible compromise with Heath. There is-and has been -only one way to deal strength of the working class must be mobilized to the Tories out of office. Yesterday's seizure of AUEW funds must become the starting point of the biggest campaign since Chartism to re-establish the independence and basic rights of trade unions. A major step in this is the building direction of Councils of Action in each area to defend trade unions and to prepare to defeat the Tories. All talks with the Tories must be broken off at once. We every unionist to strengthen the political campaign which can meet the requirements of the day-force the Tories out!

• See comment p.3. lan Yeats has written a ten- part series on

IRELAND

—A Crisis of leadership which continues 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 Irish Unity and the British working class starts today on 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.

IT TEACHE

STUDENTS yesterday picketed the Department of Education and Science in London to protest against the refusal of the govern- ment to provide decent grants for married women. The National Union of Students Is demanding a flat increase of 15 per cent to meet the soaring cost of living. Married women students re.

celve a maximum grant of £275 a year. The grant has stood at this level since 1965. Those on the picket iine said the grant system discriminated against women students and offered no encouragement for them to continue higher educa tion studies after marriage.

survey professionaily con- ducted has shown thai there will be 10,900 married women students next academic year.

A joint statement by the NUS the University of London and Institute of Education Students' Assoclation declared: 'Grants are a right, not a privllege.'

See Tories hounding MUS p. 11.

Fear for Vietnam PoWs Plan revealed at IMF Washington meeting US balancing act

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November 30, 1972 Press,

FOREIGN NEWS

President Nixon's special potential THE THREAT of a mas- as has said that the 200,000 envoy, opponents. sacre of up to uneasy,' future of the detainees us very civilian prisoners in determined 'should be man said South Vietnam is under- through negotiations be- are treating lined in letters by sent Viet- matter of urgency the South Amnesty International to namese parties'. The letter President Nixon and Mr MacBride said that MacBride North Vietnam's premier his organization's the Kissinger state view in Pham Van Dong. would 'such an agreement Ignores The letters, sent by Sean be entirely inadequate sibility of the oth MacBride, safeguard the lives, safety chairman of to the Amnesty's executive com- and welfare of the some South Vietnam. 200,000 civilian prisoners mit failure express concern held in Indo-China'. Covers to provide Vietnamese nation safeguards for the civilian has Amnesty uncon- prisoners in Indo-China in firmed that • • Leaves reports some the current secret negotia- of the prisoners have held in other tions. Indo-China already been killed in Dr Henry Kissinger, order to eliminate them Cambodia, etc.).

TWO LABOUR

MPs are cir- culating motions opposing Spain's DETAILS of plans for re- the Com- proposed entry into shaping the international mon Market. MPs have than 30 More monetary system Michael tabled by signed one favour American interests West, English, Nottingham ask- that it should be made plain against the rest of the ing Europe that Britain has to all capitalist world have been ruled military never been the 17th century. revealed in Washington. dictator since of has 'no intention Britain At the International being so ruled now, even as to Monetary Fund's group of 20 of an influence by one-tenth an authoritarian Spain in the

EEC'

Treasury under- meeting, tabled by A second motion, secretary for monetary affairs Bed- Mr Neil Kinnock, MP for Volcker, proposed Paul A. a wellty, Monmouthshire, says that disciplining scheme for circumstances can justify no for fascist which accumulate British support countries continues too much foreign currency in which to regime accepted principles violate the their reserves. of human freedom and maintains The scheme is basically an of boycott and harassment its elaboration of the position out- Gibraltar. Leeds Price 5p Doors open 12 noon

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

SWINDON

Wednesday, December 13 8 pm

AEU HOUSE, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON

SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

A film made by ACTT showing the five Right-to-Work marches Deal and Southampton trom 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.

Engineering Chairman: Willis.

AEU

steward at British Rail Workshop, Swindon (in a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory government resign!

• Build the revolutionary party!

• Makes no provision f tential political ts. "This has made the medical treatment, r uneasy,' a spokes- habilitation and repatri id yesterday. 'We tion of the prisoners ating this release. f urgency? The North Vietname letter from Mr army newspaper 'Quan D e points out that Nhan Dan' inger statement: that 300,000 people detained in South Vietna the respon- in more than 1,000 pub of the other parties and secret prisons. conflict outside These include concentr tion camps like the noto South only ious penal settlement ese nationals. Condor Poulou es out prisoners originally established other parts of the French, (e.g., Laos, tainees are kept in unde ground concrete lined by the US before the

IMF

annual meeting in September. Then, Treasury Schultz Secretary George called for a monetary system which would force countries to maintain their external pay- ments accounts in balance.

The United States-with a trade deficit of $5,280m for the first nine months of this year— wants other countries to shoulder the deficit by the burden of adjusting the parity of their own currency. Under the Schultz-Volcker plan countries with a balance of pay- ments surplus (e.g. Japan, West Germany) would have to revalue their currencies until their trade was brought into balance.

deficit At the time, same countries (primarily the United THE FRENCH Communist Party daily 'L'Humanité' yester- day greeted the visit of the Soviet Minister of Defence, Marshal Gretchko, to France as a step forward towards co-operation and European security. The French Stalinists quoted approvingly the speech made by Gretchko at a dinner offered by his French counter-part, Michel Debré, in which he claimed that 'concentrated efforts to normalise the situation in Europe are bear- ing fruit'. In other words, the Moscow bureaucracy is proceeding as energetically as possible with its co-operation with the imperialist states in Europe in the prepar- ation of counter-revolution.

There could be no more graphic confirmation of Trotsky's analysis of the Stalinist bureau- cracy as the main defence of bourgeois order in the prole- tariat. Gretchko banqueted with Debré the Franco-lover, head of the military defence of French capitalism, on the day that the French capitalist courts began to workers on anti-riot try nine charges. Their real crime is that they organized a demonstration and issued a leaflet as part of their trade-union of normal pursuit negotiations. cages.

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rovision for negotiators are Brussels currently in discussing North Vietnamese The trade agreement with the repatria- a new article said detainees in- Common Market which they on child- cluded old people, extend preferential hope and ren, pregnant women terms to cover a number of pro- Vietnamese mothers. Whether young processed ducts, particularly they were communist sym- r 'Quan Doi foods. members recently pathizers of or Yugoslavia's present trade the opposition, they had are agreement with the EEC expires Vietnam been interrogated by most in April next year. The existing 1,000 public inhumane methods, the deal is non-preferential- -that is, article said. involved tariff reductions any Methods of torture listed e concentra- have to be extended to all mem- included 'electric shock the notor- of the General bers Agreement and burning, slicing off on Tariffs and Trade. on finger Island, flesh, tearing off EEC is also negotiating_a The nails with pincers and by trade deal with Egypt, new de- driving nails through the the which will bring it within finger t in under- footsole, toes and the framework of proposed nails. 'tiger Mediterranean trading area linked to the Common Market. outside the con- ference doors. Gordon Tether, writing in C. the Lombard of the Financial Times detects detects what he calls ominous signs that the bug- bear of competitive devaluation is beginning to loom disconcer- tingly large on the international States) would be allowed scene. Not only is the South African devalue to make their products government following a deliberate more competitive on international The scheme is policy of undervaluing the Rand markets. certain to meet great hostility from the order in give its exports an Common Market and Japan. edge, but the compenuve particular same policy is being followed by has made Japan in floating the pound it clear that it will fight any Britain in attempt to force revalu- downwards. ation and warned that if the yen Italy considering a similar iS upwards all-out move. And if the lira is devalued, is forced an trade will be unleashed. Tether says, 'the effect will in- war be Japan's evitably to accentuate any currency tendency the fall in the mounting rapidly towards pound $20,000m. has had to leave other currencies overvalued The American plan is a direct in relatively position'. challenge other to participants on the group of 20, A 'highly-explosive' situation is being created by the growing which is supposedly negotiating trend towards exchangè-rate new international monetary manipulation and the inability system. While the talks drag on in the of the capitalist states to reach various international forums, any agreement on inter- situation is rapidly the national monetary system.

however, wait until after These steps towards establish- prefers to ing a corporatist state in France de- in which trade unions are With the example of increases prived of their freedom, are the workers Brest and won by for the survival of prerequisite 'Rouge' Nantes, draws the French capital in the international Cun- clusion that 'the proof is there trade war. They receive the sanc- possible that it make the French CP, line to tion of the employers and their state retreat'.

the the May- betrayal with June 1968 General Strike.

These 'retreats' are forced by the organization of workers The French CP then told the behind 'strike-committees' which working class that revolution was only require 'co-ordination' to get not possible because the generals more concessions. French forces would in quickly crush such a develop- The Pabloites idealize the ment. militancy of the working class and maintain a complete silence The CP breaks up the wages the Stalinist on the existence of dividing movement in France by French trade leadership in the it into a series of short national which is operating unions full strikes in different industries and behalf wage-control on of the forward as the putting main French bourgeoisie. claim, a minimum wage of 1,000 francs and a 40-hour week.

They even adopt the CP pro- gramme, in their praise of 'work- dis- The pretext is avoid militancy for the 1,000 to ing-class ruption of the electoral campaign francs and 40-hour week'.

the programme of the Union on At no point do the French of the Left: a General Strike, Pabloites demand that the Com- a prolonged strike in one sector and Socialist Party munist Party would damage the process of from their break alliance with 'democracy'. the radicals and abandon their It should be no surprise that electoral programme of accept- the French revisionist ance of the Common Market groups by choose such a moment to move putting forward a socialist policy closer to the Stalinists.

of nationalization of the monopo- lies under workers' control.

'Rouge', the Pabloite weekly, The treacherous nature of the this week carries editorial Pabloite revision of Trotskyism- which dwells on the militancy of that Stalinism has progressive the working class. their features- -can be seen in 'left' that the Pompidou for the It states latest cover-up Stalinists of French does not want to acceptance government wage freeze now, but impose corporatism measures.

Fighting the Tories' rent Act Clay Cross's 11 councillors may have to Implacableopposition CLAY CROSS Labour councillors have been toid that the district auditor has found a net deficit of £6,985 on the housing account. The 11 councillors who re- fuse to implement the Tories' Housing Finance Act have also been told by the auditor they may have missing

THE

COVENTRY district committee the Amalga- of mated Union of Engineering Workers has withdrawn cre- dentials from John Worth, the Chrysler shop steward and deputy convenor. One vote finally decided the issue at the end of a 3z-hour special meeting on Tuesday night. It was the casting vote of chairman Jim Griffin, right- wing president of the district committee who is also a mem- ber of the AUEW National Committee. It is believed that Worth him- hour, self spoke for over an refuting line by line the 22-page dossier produced by Chrysler.

The dossier purported to show in considerable detail verbatim incidents involving Worth in the factory reports over a period of years. Compiled by management, it showed all the signs of a lengthy spying opera- tion on Worth. Jim Griffin: Casting vote Worth brought written evi- dence to the meeting exposing the dossier. It had been signed by workers and a number of shop stewards at Chrysler's Stoke plant. Statements were also taken from Duncan Simpson, chairman of the Chrysler shop stewards' committee, and Ray Wilde, AUEW convenor. It is understood that district committee members who voted to withdraw Worth's credentials did so on the basis of statements made to the meeting by Simpson and Wilde. They were said to have at- tacked Worth for allegedly caus- ing disunity among workers in the factory. But it is reported they made confirming or no statement validity of the denying • the Chrysler dossier. After the company first sacked Worth, over 4,000 work- ers at the plant staged a five-day strike. Chrysler then reinstated him but withdrew his stewards' credentials. This forced the dis- trict committee to make the in- vestigation which took place on Tuesday. Under AUEW rules, Worth has the right to appeal against the district committee decision executive council in to the London. rent revenue. What this means, in effect, is the auditor, who carried out his special examination of the accounts on orders from the Tory government, is consider- ing the possibility of making the 1l councillors foot the bill.

that happens they will If each be faced with £635 to Harry Shult, shop steward at the Otis Elevator factory, Kirkby: 'We mustn't begin from the fine, but from the Industrial Relations Act itself. National committee policy is co-operation with the Act.

no My interpretation of that is that must not take any part or we heed of an Act which national committee has rejected. "There must be no abiding by the Act in a backdoor fashion.

It's the government we are fight- ing, of course.' Tom Staples, secretary of Kirkby No 2 branch of the AUEW: 'What this proves is the need for more action on the part of the TUC against the Tory govern- ment, which put in the Industrial Relations Act under which this is being done. stand four square 'We must with the policy of our national committee: no co-operation of any kind with the Act or its institutions. Ray Reynolds, convenor of the Lucas Industrial Equipment fac- tory, laid off because of the CAV sit-in on the same site: The policy of national com- mittee is clear. It says no co- operation and that means the executive has full authority to take whatever action it needs to carry this through. If this money is seized they could call a national strike. 'I don't think that because of the relatively small amount of involved, people have money woken up to the seriousness of the situation. But this is the consequence of not fighting the Bill, letting it become law in the first place. It must not be allowed to go any further.' Jack Spriggs, AUEW convenor of the Clohurst radiator factory, formerly Fisher-Bendix: action is the only 'Industrial this will be stopped from way happening time and time again.

Once you capitulate to the court and pay a fine like the Transport and General Workers' Union did, there's no end to it. 'From my point of view our executive's policy is quite correct.

I don't know how the executive could physically stop the money being paid. If it is seized it's a fine on the whole movement and has got to be raised in the industrial sense.' Len Brindle, convenor of Leyland Motors Limited, and a member of the AUEW national committee: 'I don't know all the legal ramifications, but if the funds sequestered, our national are committee has got to be recalled.

The policy of implacable oppo- sition to the Industrial Relations Act and its institutions must be held to even if it means a strike of the entire union. 'My personal opinion is that the whole business is a clear indication of how stupid in the extreme this Act can be. 'But this has knocked on the head the idea that this is not a political Act.' Jack_Lynch, AUEW convenor at the Joseph Lucas starter factory, Birmingham: "This action should lead to the government being thrown Tory out. It should have been done long ago, not only because of this fine but for all the other attacks pay. It would mean their auto- matic disqualification from the Clay Cross council, leaving workers without any elected representativés at all. because under the Local Government Acts, the maximum a councillor can be surcharged and still keep his position is £500. THE Liverpool district committee last night and was expected to di £5,000 fine. Workers Press spoke ing workers throughout Britain al Arnold Burrows, shop steward at the Rover Tyseley, company, Birmingham, AUEW district com- mittee member and a Communist Party member: 'There should be full support from the members for any action that the executive council in- struct. This fine is dictatorship.

There should be token stoppages.'

John Worth, ex-deputy convenor of Chrysler, Stoke, Coventry: 'There can be no retreat on The Executive union should call all our members out if they touch any of the union money? Ivor Thomas, member of Coventry District Committee AUEW, tool- room shop steward at Chrysler, secretary of Coventry 74 AUEW branch: It was inevitable that this would happen. The T&GWU paid the £55,000 fine on advice from the TUC. 'If they do sequester our funds then we must have a recalled committee what action to take. It may result stoppage. This should be done. We cannot mess people-the Tories' 1933-1934 £1.43 £1.43 1934-1935 ..... 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940 £1.05 These extremely vita years 1929 and 1940 Union-are now availa

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Workers Press, Thursda The auditor is returning to Clay Cross on December 7 and has informed the councillors they can make representations to him if they wish. 'Obviously we can't justify the missing money, council leader Arthur Wellon told me yesterday. 'On the other hand, as far mmittee of the AUEW was meeting ted to discuss the collection of the ss spoke to a number of engineer- ritain about their reactions.

Dan Mathews, AUEW convenor Industrial Mouldings, Warwick: 'My own personal opinion is if an attempt is made to that seize the money, there should be only weapon left open to us, the all-out strike action which is Mr Hall, AUEW convenor at British-Leyland Alvis factory, Coventry: 'There should be a call for action. But short of getting rid of the government there no- thing we can do. We will have to get a national strike. This question of a strike here and a strike there is useless. It's got no meat in it. You have got to get this government out and see is not that this kind of thing imposed on the unions.' R. Booth, deputy convenor AUEW, Daniel Doncasters, Shef- field: 'If the government touch one penny of our funds or property then shall insist that the we Executive Council should use all possible methods to bring about a total stoppage of work. We should campaign throughout the district to bring about a total stoppage at the same time the TUC must be lobbied to continue with the original policy of non- SITInGS 67

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Thursday Novemben 30, 1972 PAGE 3 as I'm concerned, we can't let it slip • by as quietly as he wants. It has to be taken up by the whole labour move- ment now,' he added. Councillors ara holding a number of meetings with miners' leaders this week in a bid to enlist support for their fight against the Tories.

And on Sunday afternoon, a big demonstration is planned councillors' in the support, with tenants expected from all over Yorkshire and Derbyshire.

co-operation with the Act.

"They should break with the council's general reversal of policy. There must be a con- frontation on this Act.' John Dodsworth, shop steward- elect, at Arthur Lee's steelworks, Sheffield: 'This vicious Tory Act against the AUEW is forced on the Tories by the pressure of the capitalist crisis. They believe that they can smash the trade unions.

.. They think the unions are based on finance. But it's not that. They are based the solidarity of on the working class. 'All trade unionists must press the leadership withdraw to labour in support of the AUEW as this is attack on trade an unions as a whole which can only be won by forcing out of office the Tory government and replacing it with a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist policies.

"To get this we must build Councils of Action to defend the working class. 'This is the same government which has pressurized the Eire government to impose a police state there that works hand in glove with the military state set up by the Tories in Northern Ireland. 'We are only a step away from them imposing the same con- ditions on the British working class because the same crisis of capitalism lies behind these acts.'

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday November 30, 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 TWO

THE OFFICIAL

IRA

Historically the IRA has neither been a Marxist nor even a working-class Although it has party. campaigned for an end to British imperialism, it has at no time stood for the overthrow of capitalism. Its relationship to Marxist has been

LCYCI

more than skin-deep and cal- culated to dress un traditional nationalism in wrapping the capable Ol

WOIK®

behind Republican ing class banners. The reasons for the so-called turn to Marxism are to be found in failure of the the 1956 to 1962 campaign to win the Six Counties for Ireland. In their pamphlet "The

IRA

Speaks', four causes are for the failure of the campaign: had solid army June political base among the people.

2. It had no clear cut ideology could define the which people what the struggle was all about. *3. The army had concentrated attacks the British Military Occupation of the Six Counties to the exclusion of direct assaults on: Political (a) Administration the in Six Counties. Economic The British (b) and Cultural penetration of both the Six and 26 Counties. '4. Free Statism had been left free of both military, political and economic assaults was merely attacked for and its failure the Counties and for its coercion of Republicans. 'By 1963 the strategy of the future had taken shape. It was decided for révolution in the whole country of British against torces imperialism and neenism. 'Our objective was to be the reconquest Ireland not OI simply to place an Irish govern- ment in political control of the geographical entity of Ireland, but to place the mass of the people in actual control of the wealth and resources the Irish nation and to give them a cultural identity.' phrase in all this ine key second which sought was the some ideology making the traditional nation- alist struggle relevant to une Irish people on both sides of the border. The new ideology in theory and practice began to emerge after October very sharply 1968. Officials' fundamental The problem that at no time was could they bring • Themsees their backs the on turn romance of a United Ireland all that was where required prosperity and to produce was the death of the freedom day November 30, 1972 e policies of Sinn Fein and the been since the first civil unrest YEATS reports in a series of iews with leading Republicans, sts on both sides of the border.

gombeen-men; in this case Jack Lynch and company. Even today, after four years of agonizing, bloody, but always fruitless struggle, lead- ing Officials are outraged at any suggestion that they should 'abandon the separatist tradi- tion'. The myth that a united socialist democratic Ireland could be economically viable even in the teeth of recession is deep rooted and has led broad sections of the leader- ship to adopt a posture of extreme reaction vis à vis the English working class. Officials condemn Some English workers for being critical of the Aldershot mass- acre, for loading arms on ships bound for Ulster and, as con- clusive proof of their hostility, for permitting-and even tak- ing part in-Orange rallies in cities like Liverpool. On the purely negative side Sinn Fein president Thomas MacGiolla said: 'If we are for waiting revolutionary struggle in Britain we are go- ing to be waiting a lot longer.'

The fact that workers across the Irish sea are facing struggles which could have momentous implications for workers in Ireland is not even acknow- ledged. On one of the few occasions where British workers are con- ceded as having a role in the Irish struggle, it is only as a diversion from which Repub- licans can gain an advantage.

Officials' Chief-of-Staff Cathal Goulding said in August 1971: *At the present time of crisis for the Tories in Britain, fac- ing the revolt of the Clydeside mass resistance workers and national scale to the on a Industrial Relations . Act, we a unique opportunity. to have mobilize working-class opinion repression in against parallel the Six Counties.' Unable to break from tradi- tional nationalism in order to establish the mass base the Republican movement needed new revolutionary- don to looking clothes to appeal to the working class. The possibilities for a genuine alternative Irish revolutionary movement were certainly there.

Unemployment in the Republic, as well as in the north, was mounting and prices were rising to levels which were putting even necessities be- yond working-class pockets.

Although the Republicans carried out campaigns in the south for fishing rights and against foreign farmers, most spontaneous working-class pro- tests took shape first in the north. The Republicans did two fateful things with these struggles. Instead of mobilizing the working class against the class enemy and the governments at Stormont, Leinster House and Westminster, the Republicans abandoned the class struggle in favour of the unity of all classes against imperialism and native gombeenism by which they meant domination by Britain and its agents. months from the dato horeo!.

13. This instrument shall be submitted forti 'a'esty' a Gorernment forthe approral of Parlia the Iriah signatories to a meeting sunioned l purpose of the mombora alected to sit in the !

vo:anone of Southern Ireland, und 11 approved ratified by the necessary legislation.

Michael Collins, military leader of the Republican forces, who signed the treaty which divided Ireland in 1921 and was later killed by Above: the 1921 treaty. Republicans who did not accept the settlement.

about freely. And instead of bringing the were thrown separate issues of jobs, houses, The Republicans' search for and schools, prices to- a new ideology brought them pay gether the perspective within almost immediately into con- of genuine Marxist analysis and with Communist Party tact the class-based revolutionary able leaders who were soon party, the Republicans entered of. their take advantage to and each issue separately theoretical confusion to in- blamed them all on Unionism filtrate their own revolutionary- the British—but not the sounding but essentially re- imperatives of capital. formist ideas. Cathal Goulding was a prime initiator the Republicans' new left face, but the vast bulk of policy documentation was left to a man new to the This did not prevent them, Republican movement, although however, from Iressing good Communist Party, old-fashioned nationalism not to the in education and who joined some stylish new left clothes as officer about 1962 - Dr Roy where words like imperialism, Johnson. exploitation, capitalism, pro- Officials, fiteers and peoples' ownership Ultimately the • forthritn by 416 Parliament and by oned for the n the !!ouse of roved shall be many of whom were leading civil righters, came round to the CP idea that the demand should be for democracy in the north which, once attainea, would make the realization of Irish socialism throughout the 32 Counties that much more easy. Once again the Republicans abandoned their largely acti- vities in the south and in the north threw their weight be- hind the civil rights movement, greeting each repression with shrill cries for even more people to come out onto the streets. in the south economic problems to the cause of the fighting in the north and few Protestants saw the eventual Catholic fight for civil rights as their fight.

Especially after the Pro- visional terror campaign got under way in the winter of 1970 in the north the Repub- licans sank back into the role of a Catholic pressure group —a position they shared with the CP and the Northern Ire- land Civil Rights Association

(NICRA).

Their activities in the south had always borne the stamp of protest and pressure policies and when they linked their the north to a campaign in demand for pressure on Lynch to end the Ulster crisis they became virtually indistinguish- able from the radical elements in Fianna Fail. A 'United Irishman' editorial written in September 1968 set out the strategy which has basically never changed: 'Once partition is weakened, once the hold of the Unionist Party is made even a tiny bit more insecure, then the tasks

of Republicans in all other spheres will be made that much easier. 'What is needed and needed now is a • national campaign throughout the whole of Ire- land in support of the demand for democracy in the north.

'Such a campaign needs to be organized throughout the length and breadth of the 26 Counties as well where would take the form of pres- surizing the Dublin govern- ment to champion the cause of Six-County Catholics vis à vis Britain in the United Nations, at the Court of Human Rights and at whatever international forum the 26-County govern- ment has a voice. 'Sceptics may ask what can be expected from the 26- County government. One may that if pressed answer sufficiently strongly and vig- orously by an informed, in- dignant, public they may do something' The same tactics were to be used via the civil rights cam- paign in the north. A 'United Irishman' editorial said opti- mistically in November 1968: 'If enough pressure is put upon the British government, they may be forced to inter- vene and the Government of Ireland Act which established the Unionists in power may be turned into a weapon against them.' The pressure was kept up, but at the end of the day what was in sight was not a united, socialist, Republican Ireland, but a federal Ireland ruled jointly by the Green and Blue Tories at Dublin and Westminster. In 1968 the concept of mass pressure focused on the streets swept sections of the Repub- lican leadership into a delirium.

MacGiolla said rapturously: 'It now • seems that direct action by the people is far more effective than a cap-in- hand approach. 'The notorious [Eire] Crimi- nal Justice Bill can be defeated in the same way as the NICRA in the Six Counties forced the Unionist government to with- draw or amend the Special Powers Act-all who are opposed must come out on the streets and demonstrate their opposition.' In the course of time it was to be shown very clearly that if the mass movement on the streets changed anything, it was only the forms not the essence of capitalist rule.

The Officials did not like these truths pointed out to them. At the 1971 Ard Feish MacGiolla stormed: 'No sooner had this great new weapon of the people been forged and proved on the streets of the north than some left - wing pseudo - revolution- aries began the task of the enemy and did everything in their power to weaken and destroy it and frustrate its objectives. They declared it to be a middle-class movement unfit for revolutionaries and socialists and they pronounced it sectarian.' It was indeed all of these things, but since the Officials were not engaged in building an independent working-class party into which NICRA leaders could have been drawn, the Officials were forced to all but liquidate into the NICRA and tail-end spontaniety and reformism. Once they had taken the decision to back the civil rights movement in its campaign to gain reforms by protest and important other pressure, decisions followed and it was these which alienated the men who, after December 1969, were to become known as the Provisional IRA. It was one thing to decide that all forms of workers' struggle should be entered into in a bid to win them • for Republicanism, but the hard- liners choked when they heard that the concept of. constitu- tional pressure was to include taking seats in the partition parliaments. A statement on December 28, 1969, has been sideration campaign Counties 'Sinn Fein elected their seats in will mean we will not duress. been ripe Those had come of building party working class approach neW lized after the He said: for freedom, we have front, across and ponucal the promises "The decision con- active the armed the Six 1962. will contest and will take of feel ourselves moves have time 1s now left-wing realism mean turning revolutionary favour hinally crystal- have been to soals the 111 that an on a broad the economic, fronts best hope of make up the funeral cortage for one of their lar longer a movement for dream- filled romantics who have been fed on Barry's "Guerrilla Days" and who have never taken the trouble to read McArdle's "Irish Republic" or Connolly's "Workers' Republic" "This has only movement room for revolutionaries, for radicals, men who will not be defeated and who will not be deceived.' The introduction of the words 'realist' and "radical' into the Republican vocabulary sums up fairly accurately the political tone of the move- ment. The Officials' line becomes blatantly CP when Goulding says: 'Our first objective was to involve ourselves in the everyday problems of our people, to organize them to demand better houses, better working conditions, better pay, better jobs, better education— to develop agitational activities along these lines. 'By doing this we felt we could involve the people, not so much in supporting the Republican movement for our political ends, but in support- ing agitation so that they themselves would be part of a revolutionary force demand- ing what the present system just could not produce.' According to the script at this point, the Republicans enter from the wings thumb- ing their chests. In reality they are being either escorted off or kept off the stage altogether of by the British army in the north and Fianna Fail in the ny Republic. of that leaders shot by Brit this summe By they had learned n Officials at least sa of the position. on the resistance i Sean Garland not the on the brink disaster and sel! His advice! avoid the prevent the sell-o other before been told internment: Now we shoul of cry power power through the mittees and civil organizations: and radicals shoul scientiously for ment and extensi popular democracy And this year: the to streets rights movement important new struggle civil disobedience through medium of strike has brough statelet to virtual The Catholic formed and assemblies streets, tip of one finger o of ownership of th exchange, hollow and doome They could never for such control Proa ot by British troops in 1971 In summer, although learned nothing, some t least saw the reality Commenting sistance in the north, said: We are of victory, brink nd sell out.' we can disaster, 'at work among the e must dig in deeply the or prozade n provide them with at each stage of the other words the ple of the north are is recipe. They had at the height of ve should raise the to the people, com- disobedience All Republicans als should work con- for the develop- extension of such emocracy.' "The return by the civil marks the move in The aemocracy. bedience campaign, particularly the if the rent and rates brought the north • virtual bankruptcy.' population alternative took the It with not even the finger on the levers hip of the means of distribution were forms d doomed to failure. uld never have hoped control because tne In 1971 In Belfast eopl on the ratholic of struggle which alienated Protesti cause they believ border saved to would depi rights secondly because the removal of ti The only control of the in winning contro could only streets were engaged in a form which immediately rotestants, first believed even if the ea to give catholic. Id deprive them and ecause they feared I of the border. means of gaining economic life control of the state ever be done in workers across the cials (and the Pro. further one al problem. Northern lad no objection to ing and, at various nce, but few, if any lat merely a united 'free' Ireland could economic and social hey faced. February 1971- the split and with st failure to develop al front favoured by remained at Hotel - Mac- still saying: e the programme or tarian] unity can be s a programme for juest of Ireland set series of economic, cultural demands. leader Liam Mac- Derry chief IcGurran tell us in ro parts of this series see the position.

PAQE 6 Workars Pross, Thursday Novamber 30, 1872 James Callaghan Edward Heath Roy Jenkins neid waiti Labour Prime Minister Tory Opposition leader Labour Home Secretary Labour Defence Minister Labour Chancellor A Modern Melodrama In Two Acts the electionas George Brown did later—and offered me a peerage.' From the beginning very crisis-ridden years King took exception the During the fact that Wilson had not in- the Wilson of there were repeated cluded more rumours felt the out- his ministry. He tnat plans were arool Lo distal National Government siders who were brought in or Frank Cousins, Lord Bowden some form of businessman's government. and C. P. Snow-were not up The gossip reached excitable to the complex tasks of govern- smoke ment. proportions King favoured the appoint- rooms of the House of Com- mons, but little publicity ever of such people as Jock ment Campbell, now Lord Campbell fell on the substance of these Who is one of of Eskan, the rumours. It can now be under. stood why the capitalist Press ubiquitous figures Campbell British business. did everything to suppress very them. The stories were correct much like that other Lord Good- grise, enough. But they were deeply He man. chairman embarrassing because at least 01 world- major Brothers, the newspaper wide sugar and rum firm which man at proprietor was a Key has holdings in Africa and the these secret discussions.

West Indies, as well as being Cecil Harmsworth was of the 'New States of the chairman then chairman else?). man' (where Corpox- national Publishing ation (IPC), the largest news- But it was from his positior the Bank court of of empire in the at the paper publishing King controlling England that acquired world. Apart from of keenest bitterness against dozens other periodicals, his the Labourites. owned two major King He to see that the London newspapers, daily and the 'Sun', reformist policies of the 'Daily Mirror' capable 'Sun- government were not of resisting the threatened day Mirror and collapse Scottish of sterling and the and two apers, Daily Record' and the Sunda coming trade war. Mail'. King could see that the task of either a Labour or a Tory Heroom himselt for bien himself high government was to take on the working class and King took their trade office directorships unions. When Wilson failed. with the Bank of England and King fell into deep frustration the National Coal Board; he and anger. Early in May 1968 that places on these figured created, there he gave vent to his disappoint- formed will haste to after which in powerful were springboard to a top place in agencies show it has no connection with would have to be a fresh start, ments in a front page signed has-beens. with new faces, some of them such ineffective Cabinet other. editorial in his mass-selling

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not politicians: Robens, Beech- "Mirror "Enough There seems to be a current of 1964 as the entitled: King began in Shawcross and Sainsbury, opinion leading to a National ing, of enough.' The first mention of a thunderous advocate It would Government of non-politicians government. In it he called for Wilson's the Wilson His possible National Govern- National Government under Labour's 'white replacement as Prime Minister.

a government with papers backed a Labour PM and some nont He did not some other name. astonishing attack ment is raised in a con- Le hint al revolution' WaS fancy the idea. Clearly he has caused the foreword and which between Cecil politicians participating. the hilt. one great versation of including development no thought any course any may his the disquiet in ruling-class circles. newspaper LO King and another news. Tories (though, in my opinion After a series of meetings well be in two moves (or more, tycoon says: every- for that matter) this may well come). Denis Wilson and the volving politicians and big paper croney, thing fo1 On 1967, King gave significant dis- May 5 we could think the 13-man The next business figures, Hamilton of "The Times' Labour Party cussion took place on February hint of the businessman's asked of.I even drove about London board of

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unani- and 'The Sunday Times. of King's resignation. 2, 1967, with Roy Jenkins: type government mously for 'strictly 1966: 'Roy Jenkins came to lunch private and confi- 13, *Denis office Rolls with a He left the next day. August in my the leader Hamilton and talked —in good form as usual. After dential flag on the bonnet saying "Vote From King's came own diary- Opposition, of the Edward albeit an edited version we phe future. He tell on lunch one or my Labour"? With own political forecasts: this govern He tells me that can now get a fairly accurate future. arrogance, King notorious I doubt bad, Wilson is no whether govern- 'On of the of both Macmillan and in diary: picture type men soo records ment of ministers all from the National PM, our political problems are which then Butler foresee settling into 10 Downing Street discussion was House of Commons or of peers Government and that not being things going on among sections of the Wilson asked Mr me to lunch will be invited to join it.

on like this. recently transferred from the they not go and told me I was his first ruling class about possible break Commons will do (to save our would should imagine that any thought formations =0 luncheon guest. come, or could be democratic institutions).

National Government that necessarily 'He thanked me for winning replace Wilson. Lord Shawcross Labour Chancellor Chairman BSA, Thames TV 'Won't serious efforts have to be made to bring in people from outside who do command public respect? I am thinking of people with perhaps scientific reputation awars, no Snows!), or further injections of people like Beech- ing. With my good always, Cecil King.' In September that same year King lunched with Macleod, the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer: 'We discussed successors to Wilson and he said he would accept Denis Healey as leader of a govern- ment of National Unity but doubted whether the Tufton Beamishes* of his party would.

On the other hand Roy Jenkins who would personally be more might not be the acceptable right man in a crisis.'

C. D. I

Governor, Bank of Chairman NCB Chairman Redland Ltd. Chairman Viyella Editor England 'The Concern politics and has will be have about Jenkins as to enter gested himself to Ted Heath thinks his best way to po a possible national government of the Conserv- constituting figure was also shared by as chairman Opposition Soames, ative Party! The response was the Na thinking the Tory to Christopher He using the MP, then UK Ambassador 1967 definitely chilly. is now Government, thinking of putting flm into Party as a platform. (Med- In September trance. or further Soames told King over lunch: the Liberal Party and taking wished him well, declining any idea of join Is he [Jenkins] the sort of that over. He thinks it stands would want to for nothing at the moment and group he wishes man you go gather round tiger-shooting with? I wouldn't fitted therefore could be Lord 196 with whatever policies Hyman On November mouse-hunting under a sofa 'Alf Robens [Lord lain with him!' favours. King was not the only foot- 'Hyman has chairman of the National shadow great energy, Board] told Mike [Cecil I Exchequer: loose businessman eyeing great ability and great enthusi- It remains to be seen if son] last week that he th possible the political Joseph asm. honzons. National Government i he Hyman had recently sold his these qualities can be diverted commercial able, with Callaghan as garment empire to ICI but had from into Denis didn't think lost his job in the political channel He any govern- process. Hyman's delusions of power other

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candidates were ru but King received an urgent Tufton have discussion knew Kart of his diary King aecores In another id helaw ought lunch Hyman and in with Call said would. his diary he records the following: Hyman's continuing plan would be more acceptal to than either I the Liberal Party. the Tories 'He is a big bouncing jew of 'take over 46, full 'He [Hyman] foresees or Jenkins.' of energy, ability and the National Government, November 29, 1967: self-confidence. He now wants which Prose, Thuraday Movembar 32, 1972 PAQE 7 . Hamilton Cecil King or in Chief Chairman IPC • Times' He is 'Cromer to lunch. ss, and obviously contemptuous of the power is elf deflationary measures taken so the far. I urged him to consider National himself as a very possible "out- Liberal side" minister to come in a I while National Government. ining or 'He is evidently not very keen, but quite easily envisages he may a situation when it would be his patriotic duty to stand up 967: and be counted. He will be see- Robens, ing Oliver Poole for advice and ¡al Coal 1 King's Alf Robens as the most promis- "out- side" ministers. He doesn't of all the possible thought t inevit- as PM. seem to be in touch with the Bank [of England], but sees of the quite a lot of Ted Heath.'

runners. describe An • today, expression to the sort of backwoodsmen of allaghan the Tory Party who have table to Healey names like Sir Tufton Beamish, MP for Lewes.

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PAGE & Workara Press, Thursday Mor A Unionist march. Now Craig and Paisl working class. Above: Civil rights marc By Cliff Slaughter The sentence on Mac- Stiofain In the early hours of Sun- day, November 19, police of the Republic of Eire arrested Sean Mac- Stiofain. The charge against him was member- ship of an illegal organi.

zation, namely the Pro- visional' IRA of which he is said to be chief-of-staff.

immediately MacStiofain protested that he was held unlawfully, since there was no evidence found on his person or in his car. In the past, prominent IRA men have been brought before courts on similar charges and their cases dismissed for lack MacStiofain. of evidence. knew, however, that he was against something tain well as in Ireland as would do well to study imme- diately what is behind his arrest, conviction and sen- His release must be tence. strongly demanded through- out the Irish and British labour movement. To the north, across the Crao and Paisley stemot to relurbish Unionism to retain contro over the Protestaní working class. Above: Civil rights march against undemocratic restrictions on Catholic

IRISH UNITY AND THE

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border in Ulster, which is 'direct under rule' from the Tory West- government minster, the members of Mac- Stiofain's organization daily armed conflict with the security forces. are those of middle-class nat- ionalism, not revolutionary but they socialism, create big "security' problem for Bri- tish capitalist rule, because in the absence of alternative leadership they are sustalnea by popular support. Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath has laid the law down with his fellow Tory, Dublin orrenuer Lynch. In preparation for joint Common entry Mar- Into te above ket all, and, strengthen their hands for the disciplining of the working class, Heath insisted that Lynch the police Use courts to undermine the IRA's the operating base south. MacStiofain the first was The Irish capitalist class and partition For over 50 years the capi- parties in Eire (Fianna talist office, Fail, and line

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Gael) have had a simple tech- nique for retaining their poli- the tical hold working

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nism to retain control over the Protestant trictions on Catholic workers' rights.

They have always class. claimed to be opponents of the imperialist-imposed parti- tion between Ulster and Eire. Lynch and other capitalist politicians will give plenty of speeches commiserating with the plight of the large Catho- lic minority in Ulster, but they have never had the slightest intention of doing anything about it. They speak once a year about the long-term aim of Irish unity, but they will never fight for it. On the contrary, the Irish capitalists and their political parties are completely at one with the Tories and capitalists of Britain. A real fight for Irish unity, against British imperialism, of course, would bring the working class on the this working class scene; would deal not merely with imperialism, but with its Irish agents, north and south. For this struggle, revolu- socialist leadership, tionary not nationalist leadership, is required. The Irish bourgeoisie has not a shred of independence from British imperialism. Through partition it shares with British imperialism con- trol over the Irish working class. At the time of World War I, the 1916 Easter Rising, and the subsequent Anglo- Irish and Civil Wars, this bourgeoisie showed • that it could not fight for Irish inde- pendence and unity. Now, 50 years after, the Irish capitalists com- are pletely committed to the stra- tegy of the British and Euro- pean imperialists. Already 70 per cent of Irish exports are to the United Kingdom. The Market, European Common alliance of big business against the working class, is their next step, just as it is Heath's next This is why Lynch, speaking at Oxford on Nov- ember 23, opposed withdrawal of British troops from Ulster.

The preparedness of big business for the next round of class struggle associated with Common Market entry-that is the key to the Lynch gov- ernment's agreement with the British Tories to enforce the law against the IRA. Changes in the Law of the Irish Republic political May, Since last offenders (i.e. suspected IRA members) have been brought before the Special Criminal Courts, outside the ordinary course of law. Only in one case was 'membership of an illegal organization' proved, and most convictions have been for possessing firearms.

Now Justice Minister Des- mond O'Malley is introducing with great haste certain am- endments to the Offences Against the State Acts (1939- 1940). 'The Times' had already warned (November 23, 1972): •. it is expected that the Bill will seek to put the onus on suspects to prove that they are not members of the IRA much more directly than under the present rules of evi- dence'. What does this mean, those prosecuted except that will be 'guilty until they are proved innocent'? These proposals have now been published as the Offences against the State Amend- ment) Bill, 1972. It envisages making illegal all statements, meetings, or processions which in the opinion of the authori- ties 'interfere with the course of justice'. Membership of an £5,000 fine or both, will be proved under the new Bill on a police officer's opinion that such is the case. The police are given wide-ranging new powers for questioning offen- ders, with two years' jail for anyone refusing to give per- sonal details or accounts of their movements. This law, used tomorrow as the instrument to force Mac- Stiofain and the Provisionals will be used the into line, very next day against all soc- ialist and working class forces.

Already the Irish ruling class is equipped with the Broadcasting Authority Act of 1960, invoked against TV and radio reporting of MacStio- fain's statement his before arrest. Under this Act, the government called upon the Irish broadcasting authority 'to refrain from broadcasting any matter that could be cal- culated to promote the aims or activities of any organiza- tion which engages in, pro- motes, encourages, advo- cates the attaining of any poli- objective by violent tical means' This law will be extended, if the Irish and British bour- geoisie have their way, against all political opposition, and particularly against the work- ing class. The next step in Ireland so far as Lynch and the main political parties there are con- cerned, is complete and open unity with British imperialism, equipped with their laws and with anti-union legislation—in and in Eire. Under Britain these circumstances, even the pretence of fighting for some future Irish unity must be dropped by the Irish bour- geoisie. Class struggle in the north south the Whereas in the working class has been con- tained politically by the claim of the bourgeois parties to represent the struggle for Irish independence, in the north the working class has, since partition, remained under the sway of Unionism (Northern Irish Toryism). But today Unionism is in an advanced state of dis- integration. The reason for this is the profound change being wrought in the Irish working class Catholic, and Protestant, by the crisis of international capitalism and its severe effects in Ulster.

Organizations like the Loyalist Workers' Association, the Ulster Defence Associa- tion, Vanguard and the Rev Paisley's party, are all refurbish re- attempts to actionary Unionism to retain control over the Protestant working class. Whatever their temporary clashes with the imperialist forces of law and order, these arise from differ- about how to retain ences capitalist control. But the break-up of Union- ism, making it impossible any longer to entrust imperialist control to Stormont, is indica- tive of the approach of revo- lutionary struggles in Ireland.

The political crisis of the last few years was caused directly by the upsurge of the Catholic workers Roman (about 37 per cent of the total population) in the north.

They rose up against the totally undemocratic restric- their rights tions on to housing, jobs, votes and all political freedoms. They were the principal victims—not of course the only ones, for the whole Irish working class were victims—of the defeat of the national liberation struggle of 1916-1921. They are the living evidence of the fact that only by going over to socialist revolution under working-class dictatorship can the demands of the national-democratic revolution be won. Not one of the nationalist tendencies offering 'leadership' to the Catholic workers in the north, not one of the Social Democratic groups nor the Stalinists, can offer a real alternative to the strategy of Heath, Whitelaw and Lynch.

This is why they all wel- comed direct rule after the removal of Stormont and did not press forward the attack against the imperialists for whom Stormont had operated.

This is why Fitt and his SDLP have now decided to enter talks with Whitelaw, just as the right-wing leaders of the Protestant Unionist organ- izations will. Ireland and the British working class The sending of 20,000 troops to Northern Ireland, arming of an unknown the number of thousands of right- wing Protestant the forces, shooting on sight, the interro- gation through torture, the massacre at Londonderry-all these must be understood by the British and Irish working- class the movements as reaction of British imperialism to the first wave of working class struggle in Britain and Ireland in response to the present international crisis.

If the British working class does not act against these military-police preparations of its own ruling class and against the sentences on MacStiofain and O'Kelly, it neglects its own future and brings nearer the day when these prepara- tions will be turned against it in Glasgow, in Liverpool, in London and everywhere else.

The withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and the ending of partition are vital demands in the preparation of the British working class for its coming struggles.

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Spain altogether—just the bull-fights? Like that other assembly of the cruelty to animals,

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they are doubt no fully in favour of the savage of the of repression rights trade unionists. It would seem that also somewhere, thinks someone, 'Star' that readers might be among the 'once only tourists' —perhaps Soviet on a cruIse to the Canary Islands? November 8 Tremletts The Communist Party's acquired 39 cent of the per 'Morning Star' carried a two- shares of a printing company, pronged attack on Spain on Sir Joseph Causton and Sons, Monday. from Minster Assets at 45p Under the heading of per share. On November 16 it 'Fight Franco brutality' for- sold these shares to Highcastle eign editor Sam Russell con- Securities for 50p per share. Douglas- demned Sir Alec profit of This meant a quick Home's Spain, and visit to £140,000 before gains tax-and accepted Spain's entry into the this, of untouched course, is

EEC:

by Heath's "freeze". 'Spain's democratic opposi- The only people not con- tion from the communists to sulted these dealings in were Catholics made the has it the 1,150 Causton employees. clear that it is against any Their of wages, course, are special consideration for Spain Tory subject to the wage until Spain enjoys a democra- control Bill. tic constitution.' Information: This celebration of the Labour Research Department democratic possibilities within the EEC is a blow against the workers who are being repres- sed by Franco, for it is such Working-class families may repression that best guarantees find it hard to make ends fascist Spain's entry into the meet, but there's still plenty

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of cash around for wealthy The other of the prong to indulge their gourmets Stalinist attack was the adver- hobbies. be- tisement appearing just Italian Prince Mario Ruspoli neath Russell's article on be- last week set up a record for half of that humanitarian money paid for a jeroboam body, 'The International Coun- magnums, to the (six unini- cil Against Bull-fighting'.

tiated) of wine. Bidding by By the side of the Los picture telephone hook-up from of a bull in its death throes, Prince paid Angeles, the the advert. proclaimed: 'Bulls $11,000 for the 1870 Chateau sadistically tortured Mouton-Rothschild, being auc- are to Horses maimed, disem- death. tioned in Paris. bowelled. The previous record was paid in New York for Then, we are told that these $9,200, 'nauseating shows of 1929 Chateau Mouton-Roth- terror "once only" are staged for the schild in May tourist who quickly A group of French chefs set turns disgusted, away but whose a record for a single bottle of when they paid $6.000 ticket money means that such wine shows are financially possible' for a 1900 Chateau Ausone. Clearly, boycotters of The the previous record for one the bottle $5,000 'cowardly killings of inno- was paid last cent animals' are not in favour York for spring in New an boycotting holidays 1846 Chateau Lafite. of in

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Professor Samuel L. Popkin of Harvard Uni- versity was ordered by a federal judge last week to begin serving a sentence for contempt of a federal grand jury. Professor Popkin, believed be the first American to scholar to be jailed for pro- tecting sources of information, was cited for contempt on for refusing March 21, 1971, certain questions to answer put to him by a federal grand jury investigating the dis- tribution of the once-secret Pentagon study on the origins of the Vietnam war. was ordered to the Не Dedham County Jail, south of Boston, after US District judge Arthur W. Garrity denied the last of a long series of motions seeking to overturn the con- tempt citation. Popkin's defence pleaded the right of scholars to conduct research without government interference. That right was specifically rejected by Assistant Attorney Richard Bachman and by Judge Garrity. In a statement read over television by his wife, Professor Popkin declared: 'If scholars are to be questioned without restriction about their sources, grand juries will become the instrument government's to limit the free flow of informa- tion about government to the public.' Meanwhile, in Los Angeles defence lawyers in the Penta- gon Papers case are demanding a new jury before the case on the grounds that resumes remarks by vice-President Spiro Agnew have prejudiced the jurors. Attorneys for defendants Daniel Elisberg and Anthony Russo have said they will seek dismissal of espionage, cons- piracy and theft charges be- cause of 'alleged government misconduct in connection with this trial'. Referring to the bugging of the Democratic National Head- quarters in Washington, Agnew The US Air Force has dis- missed charges against General John Lavelle and 23 other officers accused of carrying out illegal bombing strikes against North Vietnam. The charges were filed on November 3 by Sergeant Lonnie Franks, the 23-year-old enlisted man, whose letter last March to Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa first called attention to unauthorized bombings in North Vietnam last winter.

Franks took his action after the Air Force announced that sacking Lavelle as commander of the Seventh Air Force in south-east Asia was enough.

The general was also de- moted from four-star to two- star rank, but draws the retire- ment pay of a four-star general -$27,000. Workers Press, Thursday Ignew, whose statement on lelevision h ury. Above: Ellsberg his case reopens said on a nationally televised show on October 29: If you are going to purloin documents, is there why double standard about pur- loining re-election documents and purloining the Pentagon papers?' General Lavelle, who has admitted that he falsified records to cover the extra raids. He admitted during a lengthy congressional investigation that he not only ordered the un- authorized attacks, but falsified Air Force records to cover his activities. Sergeant Franks - now stationed at the Moody Air Force base in Florida said when he filed his charges, that he would take the case to a federal court if the Air Force did not take 'appropriate action'. , Thursday November 30, 1972 PAGE 9 levision has caused demands for a fresh • reopens on December 8. The trial of Ellsberg and Russo is expected to resume on December 8. The Supreme Court recently refused to hear defence a appeal on a wire-tapping issue that forced postponement of the case in August. Former Democratic Senator Daniel B. Brewster-one-time 'golden boy' of Maryland politics—has just become the first man in over 60 years to be convicted of a crime while serving as a US senator. It took a jury seven hours to decide that Brewster was guilty of accepting a $14,500 bribe from Washington lobby- ist Cyrus T. Anderson, The bribe was said to be a pay-off on behalf of a Chicago mail- order firm seeking to kill a postal-rate increase. Brewster claimed the money was a campaign contribution.

Sentence has not yet been passed, but the possible maxi- mum is $60,000 in fines and 45 years in jail for Anderson, and $30,000 and six years for Brewster.

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MR JOHN STOKES, right- wing Tory MP, yesterday demanded the disbandment of the National Union of Students. He was protesting against the angry demonstration at the North London Polytechnic against the new junior Edu- cation Minister, Mr Norman St John Stevas. Stokes, MP for Oldbury and Halesowen, said 'disgraceful had been there scenes' when St John Stevas spoke at a designation cere- mony at the college on Tuesday night. new minister was howled The down by students who chanted 'Tories Out' and threw paper darts. Stokes said the demon- stration • highlighted the unsatis- factory state of discipline CHARGES against students involved in the disturbances when the Queen visited Stirling University last month were being heard by a disciplinary committee on the campus yesterday. But the committee will not sit today or tomorrow following the deaths in a road accident of (19), Students' Carter Jack Association treasurer—-who was due to be called before the committee-and Finlay Binning (29), a former technician at the university. Binning will be cremated at Carter's today and Falkirk funeral is on Friday at Guild- ford, Surrey. The university flag will be flown at half mast on both days. As hearings involving five students began yesterday, eight students picketed in drenching rain outside the administrative building and carried placards calling for the charges to be dropped. is understood that the It students will be informed by the whether the accus- committee ations against them have been upheld, but they will not be told of any penalty until all the cases have been heard. One of the pickets said they will demonstrate each day the committee sits and will be call- ing support from for other universities. The second student involved in the crash at Wigan, 18-year- old Joan Adam of Northumber- land, is off the danger list in Wigan Hospital. She is suffering fractured from a arm fractured legs. NATIONAL Union of

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Teachers said yesterday it had support for a withdrawn deputy headmaster who lost his his school went post when comprehensive. The union told its members they could apply for the job formerly held by 44-year-old Joe Faye at the Sacred Heart School, at Redcar, Yorkshire. Eighteen of the 35 teachers at strike last the school went on month in support of Mr Faye, and the NUT agreed to "black' the request the vacant post at of another teachers' union, the Association of School- National masters. The NUT complains that Mr Faye has 'flatly refused' to apply for any other job at the school and that the • NAS demanded nothing but his reinstatement as deputy head. higher education establishments.

The NUS must take its share he said, 'the of blame, and sooner this self-important body is disbanded the better'.

Vice-chancellors were also to blame for not being sufficiently firm with unruly students.

After the demonstration the polytechnic's director, Mr Terence Miller, said: "This is part of life in 1972. It's a war of attrition.'

Miller, former of principal University College, Rhodesia, said 98 per cent of the students were working happily and the protest came from a minority. involved in higher Those 'a education, he said, were in battle for nothing less than civilization, 'mere but now loosed anarchy is upon our world. St John Stevas's appointment to the Tory ministry is a pro- vocation to students. Until re- By OUR OWN REPO THE HEATH regime has done pages of work in industrial d government since 1960, a repor Nearly I1 million man-days were lost in strikes in 1970 and over 13t million in 1971.

In the whole decade prior to 1970 losses ranged from 1.7 to 6.8 million man-days. The report produced by the Government Statistical Office details trends over the ten years to 1971 and aims to 'bring together some of the significant statistical more series relating to social poli- cies and conditions'. Main headings covered in tracing the pattern of social change are: crime, population, immigration, incomes, educa- housing, sickness and tion, strikes. On incomes, the report says that between 1961 and • 1971 weekly household in- average comes jumped by 94 per cent- from £19.84 to £38.48. This mainly reflected the in- crease in the numbers of earners household - particularly reflecting the growing importance THE SCANDAL and strife- torn Lonrho group is negotiat- ing a valuable management contract to run Ghana's state- owned gold mines. The company, headed by right- wing Tory MP Duncan Sandys, controls the country's most important gold mine, the Ashanti.

Under the deal being negoti- ated between | Lonrho and the military Ghana government, should get a further chunk of the Ashanti equity-it already has 20 per cent. In return Lonrho will come in as managers of the Ghana gold- mining industry for a huge fee.

The success of the Ghana opera- tion could end mean an to Lonrho's financial troubles.

losses After a series of Bi City the company • brought accountants, Peat Marwick Mit- chell, to investigate. Following the report a board- room reshuffle took place. Sandys COLES CRANES, part of the Sunderland-based steel group, is to pay off 400 workers tomorrow.

Four months ago they received the Queen's Award to Industry for the third time. The award was made for in an increase export sales of 70 per cent dur- ing 1971. Alan Waistell, Labour councillor, chairman of the Labour Party's general purposes committee, told Workers Press: 'I was given an assurance a cently he was chairman of the Conservative Students' Associa- tion and was a strong advocate of NUS registration under state law. This would end in- any dependence of action which the NUS now enjoys.

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as done more to push up stop- strial disputes than any other a report out today shows.

of wives' earnings. In the same period retail prices rose by 57 per cent. According to the report the most significant change in the make-up of the working popula- has been the steady in- tion crease in the number of married women at work. 'interesting' change Another in working patterns, it says, has been the growth of paid annual holidays. 1960 only about 3 In per cent of full-time manual workers were entitied to more than two weeks. By 1972, about 92 per cent were entitled to more than two weeks and 75 per cent to at least three weeks. Even in 1971 only 21 per cent of 17-year-olds still stayed on at school. Yet this figure had doubled in the ten years pre- viously. On housing the report says that at the end of 1971 there were 200,000 homes short. This and vacant housing' in the million dwellings in Britain.

became chairman and Roland 'Tiny' Rowlands became manag- ing director. Tory MP and 1922 Committee chairman Edward du Cann's banking house, Keyser Ull- mann, became financial advisers.

In the midst of these changes the company was hit by the arrest several South prominent African directors on fraud charges. The new management has been stepping up its activities in Arab countries. Important deals have been concluded in the Sudan and Libya. Some commentators are fore- casting that the new-style Lonrho its critics' will Silence next month by announcing a profit for the year of a record f18m.

few months ago when the take- over was announced that there would be no redundancies and this rationalization comes now along.' Coles taken was over earlier this year by Acrow, the and civil engineer- construction ing combine. Both factory and office staff will be affected by No consulta- the redundancies. tion with the unions took place and the redundancies take effect immediately. Workers Press, Thursday| Jacks: Wining and dining In this atmosphere of big Tory on the NUS it is attacks un- forgivable that NUS president Digby Jacks recently wined and with Education Secretary dined Mrs Margaret Thatcher at the expensive Mirabelle's restaurant in Mayfair. The NUS paid the bill. Jacks is a member of the Com- munist Party of Great Britain.

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Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers : Thursday November 30, 1972 PAGE 11 DEPUTY assistant commis- sioner Richard Chitty leaves Scotland Yard this week. He joins a long list of senior officers who have left the force this year. Before retiring Chitty was head of the CID, the operational con- troller of London's 2,000 detec- tives. There has been big trouble in his ranks in recent months.

Early this year the head of the Flying Squad, Commander Ken Drury, resigned and this was followed by the suspension of Detective Chief Inspector Victor Kelaher, head of the Drugs Squad. Kelaher is now facing sum- monses on charges of conspiracy.

Chitty was involved in an in- vestigation into the activities of Kelaher. Chitty's name sprang into the headlines last year when he and deputy commissioner Peter Brodie gave a secret interview to 'The Times' about morale in the Metropolitan police. They called for the reintro- duction of the death penalty and tougher prison sentencing. The article caused an enormous stir and it was later revealed that Chitty and Brodie were the authors. Publication of the article was seen as a last-ditch stand by the 'hard-liners' to stop the appoint- ment of the Home Office candi- date for commissioner, Robert Mark. Immediately Mark took over, Brodie prematurely resigned. He has now been joined in retire- ment by Chitty.

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Woodside Halls St George's Cross Speakers : MIKE BANDA (SLL Central committee) JOHN BARRIE (YS national committee) WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman , Tenants' Action Com- Paisley mittee. In personal capacity.)

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Mobilize unions against 'fascist' Lynch law PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Thuraday Now

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IN LONDON for talks with Communist Party and Labour acting general secretary of t Party, yesterday denied that th between the two Parties on the The French CP, together with their allies in the Com- mon Front of Left Parties, (the Socialist Party and the Left Radicals) favoured participa- tion in the EEC's institutions in order to 'democratize them.

The British CP is formally opposed to British entry. Mar- chais admitted that there were differences between the French and British CPs and claimed that these from the arose different situations in the two countries. Marchais claimed that a Front Common government could simply leave the not Common Market without adversely affecting the French economy. "That is why we have agreed with our socialist allies to act within the Common Market to democratize it and defend the interests of the workers, he said. 'We quite understand the struggle that is led here by the Communist Party, the trade unions and the Labour Party against the Common Market.'

The French Stalinists' leader appealed to the socialist parties of Europe to establish contacts to enable them jointly to review what action is needed against the domination of multi-national companies and for the relaxation of tension in Europe. On Tuesday night he had talks with a number of Labour MPs which he described as la interesting exchange of very views from my standpoint?

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s with leaders of the British Labour MPs, George Marchais, y of the French Communist that there were 'divergencies' on the Common Market. PRESIDENT of the CBI Mr Michael Clapham yesterday called for a fresh round of tripartite talks to find 'a last- ing solution' to inflation.

He told a regional council meeting at Nottingham that he hoped the TUC would agree to inflation again. said He try would remain Britain's No. 1 preoccupation in 1973. It was an evil which threat- Britain's future welfare ened and 'had to be stamped out'.

signals Clapham's statement the start of the Tory and big campaign business to launch Phase Two of the Heath state pay plan. But whereas the Tories have previously shed crocodile tears about the lower paid and • the problem of rising prices, Phase Two in aimed quite clearly at all wage-earners. Clapham, who is also a top ICI director, went out of way to rest blame for inflation directly on the working class.

"in Inflation was due over- whelming part' to wage increases over the past two and a half years, he said. And these in- creases had been won 'far in excess of new wealth produced.

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ernment in yesterday afternoon's vote. Dr O'Connell told me that if the government won through, 'there will have to be a general mobilization of the trade union movement for national demon- strations against the Bill'.

Yesterday afternoon the government Information Service claimed IRA Chief-of-Staff Sean MacStiofain was being given 'appropriate treatment' at the Curragh camp. But Dr O'Connell told me all the signs were that MacStiofain had had a heart attack and he SEAN MACSTIOFAIN yesterday asked to see Cathal Goulding, Chief-of-Staff of the Official IRA.

Since the split between the two sections of the Republican move- ment in 1969 both men have had little if any contact with each Now Provisionals chief other. MacStiofain has told a priest to fix up a meeting with Goulding.

Both men served in prison to gether following an arms raid in Essex in 1953. said he should be moved to a hospital intensive care unit im- mediately and given intravenous injections to save his life.

He said he had asked for the Provisional IRA not to attempt to free MacStiofain if he was moved. IRA planned a public The meeting for last night to demand MacStiofain's release to be fol-

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Collect everything you can for a massive last-minute offort. Raise our target and, If possible try and push it over the top. Rush • donations to us straight your away. Post them Immediately to: Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SWA 7UG. George French secretary Marchais at his London Press conference yesterday. wages must be held down and productivity stepped up. Clapham pleaded that company profitability was at 'a danger- ously low level'. Some industries , able to replace were not even invest let alone for assets, growth. Industry's profits had been in decline over the whole of the last decade, he added. Clapham's remarks about the depression industry hitting British nothing new. The lesson to be drawn is the working clear notion that the class must resolve the crisis of capitalism by working harder for less wages and thus see their standard of living drop away.

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first article of Ian Yeats' series on Ireland printed in yesterday's Workers Press, it was stated that the People's Democracy group organized their famous march from Belfast to Derry on October 5, 1968. The 'long march' in fact took place over the Xmas/New Year period of 1968/1969. People's Democracy formed howevel, a was, as direct result of the brutality displayed by the RUC on the civil rights march through Derry on October 5, 1968. lowed by a march to the Dail.

In a statement the Official Sinn Fein condemned the arrest of 66 of their members on Mon- day night for what they described as a peaceful picket of MPs' and judges' homes. said: We were A spokesman protesting about the proposed to the north of extradition Michael Willis and others and the extension of fascism under the Bill to amend the Offences Against the State Act. Gardiner Place (Sinn Fein) THE DECISION by Coventry Amalgamated Union Engineering Workers' district withdraw committee to credentials from Chrysler shop steward and deputy convenor Worth John a most dangérous retreat not only for the trade union movement in but throughout Coventry, Britain. It can only aid Chrysler in their efforts_to step up Measured- Day Work and will give com- fort to the Tory government in their offensive against the democratic rights of the trade union movement. Why was Worth sacked by Chrysler and then reinstated but with the company with- drawing recognition of him as a shop steward? Worth is in no doubt that the attack came as and part parcel of Chrysler's plans to the operation intensify their hated Measured-Day Work scheme in the Stoke plant. As he told workers Press: 'Our section usually gives a lead in the plant which the company determined to stamp seems out. I voted against accepting MDW in the first place. MDW puts a ceiling on wages and earnings and gives the manage.

ment the absolute right to determine and line speed amounts of labour on the line?

His case took a more sinister turn when Chrysler produced a 22-page dossier. It is under- than 32 stood that no less alleged incidents and stoppages detail recorded are alleged remarks made by Worth quoted verbatim. Should have been defended.

Worth should have If virtual spying activities have been carried out on him, pre- situations sumably similar apply with many other lead- ing stewards, including those rushed to attack who have Worth instead of demanding a halt to the company's activities.

Yet Worth, a militant and a against productivity fighter supporters picketed the Dail in protest against the new repres- sive legislation all day yesterday.

The Association of Irish Priests and the Association for Legal Justice both condemned the Bill for its 'disgraceful dis- regard of everyman's right to a fair trial'. Two hundred students from Bolton Street Polytechnic marched to the Dail for the second successive day yesterday to lodge a protest against the Bill. Socialist Labour League Friday December

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(near Holbor Gerry Healy (national secretary of t Other speakers to be and speed-up has now lost his stewards' shop credentials through the action of the AUEW district committee. What was the response of the AUEW leadership in the area to the attack on Worth? The chairman of the committee and committee AUEW national Griffin actually member Jim decided the issue by using his chairman's casting vote against Worth. Andy Boyle, district secretary, could only say the committee 'were most reluctant to with- draw his credentials'. The fact remains they have how- ever done so. It represents virtual collaboration with Chrysler's, determined as they are to get rid of stewards who, in the company's words, 'do not act as mediators. It also, in effect, assists the Tory government who are embarked on the strategy of trying to destroy the trade union move- and who will thus ment welcome the fact that Worth is no longer a shop steward.

There is a strong possibility that Worth will still receive the backing of the workers on his section who still want him as steward. If he is re-elected, the case would go before the district committee once more.

The campaign now has to begin throughout the Coventry area to see that the district com- mittee's decision to call in Worth's credentials is reversed the earliest possible at opportunity. Branches of the AUEW must bombard the district committee and mandate their district com- mittee delegates with : resolu- tions condemning their decision demanding Worth's and credentials be returned to him.

The abandonment of John Worth by Coventry officials means they are making a rod for their own backs now that the Tory government's assault

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union, own reaches its sharpest point with the sequestration of the £5,000 fine yesterday. THE SOLDIER who died in Londonderry yesterday was the 100th soldier to be killed this year. It brings the Ulster toll, since the trouble began in 1969, to This year's toll is now 433- 297 civilians, 100 soldiers, • 21 members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, 12 police and three' police reservists. Last year the toll was 173. In 1970 it reached 25 and in 1969 it was 13.

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