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workers press 'Stinking, anti-democratic law moved by Lynch to please Edward Heath' INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1972 @ No. 935 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE I believe this was done to

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Jack No vote was expected in on his behalf by his solici- premier please Mr Heath.'

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Provisionals Lynch yesterday yesterday's de- was extended ate, but Lynch faces an leader MacStiofain MPs the Labour MP David Thorn- accused by said yesterday: weekend. Yester- Dail of introducing his ley said that if the Bill is centred in by the *The fight 02V was were repressive anti-IRA Bill his position was becoming the north and must be kept British Greek colonels it would be in order to please shakier by the minute. opposed by every delecate any here WaTE Tory leader Edward Independent MP Paudge Eire sent to blood split on my behalf Heath. the 26 counties. That is Brennan. who was expelled Europe the Irish parlia- During from Lynch's ruling rianna One independent way tam takms aquras debate the ment's key on Fail The statement said: NovelOCI Decree to yore which. if carried. would measure, he of God I but the government, the name would destroy many fun- oppose the Bill. other four, including Bren- want the people out on the damental rights of the Irish Brennan's support for the oppose there will be a thats Prenting Lynch SurCeLS was

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71-71 tie. Bill had been considered WanT neir pro- told and vital. tests to be peaceful, by By tradition in the Dail the strikes at the very roots which I mean no of democracy. But attacked Speaker must use his cast- vehemently. Bill MPs called on ing vote against any ALA DOUr abuse.' *strike at the Lynch resign and the

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THE EXECUTIVE council of the 300,000-strong Irish Congress of Trade Unions will today consider a call from a member union for a General Strike against the Lynch government's anti-IRA Bill.

The Irish Transport and The Amalgamated Trans- General Workers' Union, ort and General Workers

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Federation Irish of Trade called on the Jniot Unions, the Amalgamated Society ICTU to instruct all workers of Woodworkers and the Union strike until the Bill is to clampdown of Students Ireland courts or police barracks against threatened by the have arrest and issued severely withdrawn. and the the injunctions.' on the IRA new Bill and par conviction of Sean MacStiofain.

criticizing the Merrick added: *The As unionists and ernment brought in the Forceable ticularly the trade other workers have had controlling body of Radio Resolution Entry Act ostensibly Telefis Eireann (RTE) Bill, first USe chance to read the against the IRA. But, in practice, published Monday, their Bus been used against tenants, crews railwaymen, It Has opposition to has snow- He said: "We have sent a reso- dockers, students and against high rents and homeless demonstru WOrKerS. balled. lution to the

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calling for a journalists have staged and this Highs against es and dement in and demonstra- Genera strike organized A wave of protests discussed at the executive coun spontaneously said cil meeting on Friday.' TrOM The ShoD Mr Merrick that tne past to nours. floor has swept the Republic and pressure from did not Under A nonen

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the This autumn there has been a the policies and the rank and followed tr trade of the Provisional unions have the lead succession and pro- have been

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methods ot hitter demands from branches for of the AT&GWU in condemning tracted strikes over and pay. believed trade General Strike. that indus- ists should defend the demo- Lynch sharp workers know governments

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liberties turn to repression. trial action is likely this cratic rights and winter 'Draconian' Cheng given 15 days to leave Britain

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Merricken secretary yesterday Matt

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described the Bill as Draconian under

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Green Tory government's already wide repressive

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the was release on pal. ne SuT® said: This law will be He nent directed trade unions, tenants and all minority group Taces Bill could of the Large

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US used against striking Cheng Tzu-tsai He WaS US his demonstrating workers. to the relatives home was convicted in and friends fear that the feature of of being involved when he was taken *A notable the wert administration kill conscious from a the moment attempt

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labour scene at 15 Prime Mini- at Heathrow. wil the ease with which ine COUrTS the Formosans. Ching-kuo, granting injunctions to

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In Formosa he faces outside York Street magistrate's court restrain picketing. Cotel in April 1970.

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Giving his almost certain death. Cheng fought an extra- "This Bill could be used against workers, demonstrating outside in shaky position Ireland's chronic inflation as rages unchecked. In the past 12 months food prices in the Republic rose by 13.7 per cent with increases in the cost of individual items even higher. Beef rose by 17.2 per cent and potatoes by 86.3 percent.

And slump has pushed un- employment up to 80,000 in a population of only 2 million.

Profits On the other side of the fence big business in Ireland shares their British and Conti- with nental counterparts the belief that profitability can only be on the basis of free restored trade within the larger market EEC and by ruthless of the rationalization of production.

Lynch, like Heath, has no in- tention of checking rising prices and has unemployment expressed a firm resolve to keep wages down. Workers will resist these and the proposed plans amendments to the Offences Against the State Act are specifically designed to stop them. The AT&GWU leader has called for a General Strike against the Bill. But nothing short of a total the Lynch stoppage to force out of office will government halt this legislation.

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workers press 'Stinking, anti-democratic law moved by Lynch to please Edward Heath'

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premier Lynch yesterday accused by MPs in the Dail of introducing his • repressive anti-IRA Bill in order to please British leader Edward Heath. During the Irish parlia- ment's key debate on the measure, which, if carried, would destroy many fun- damental rights of the Irish working class, Lynch was told that it 'stinks' and strikes 'at the very roots of democracy'. Labour MPs called on and Lynch to resign immediate demanded an General Election. THE EXECUTIVE council of Trade Unions will today consi General Strike against the Lync The Amalgamated Trans- port and General Workers' has called • the Union on ICTU to instruct all workers to strike until the Bill is withdrawn. trade unionists and other workers have had a chance to read the Bill, first published on Monday, their opposition to it has snow- balled. A wave of protests organized spontaneously from the shop floor has swept the Republic and the AT&GWU the offices of inundated with have been demands from branches for a General Strike. 'Draconian' AT&GWU general secretary Merrick, yesterday Matt described the Bill as 'Draconian' and a further serious addition to Tory government's Green already wide repressive powers.

He said: "This law will be trade unions, against directed tenants and all minority groups.

Large sections of the Bill could against striking or be used demonstrating workers. 'A notable feature of the labour scene at the moment is the ease with which the courts , injunctions granting to are restrain picketing. "This Bill could be used against workers, demonstrating outside INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1972 • No. 935 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

I believe this was done to on his behalf by his solici. No vote was expe extended de-

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Provisionals' yesterday's LUTe bate, but Lynch faces an leader Sean MacStiofain Labour MP David Thorn- Yester- said yesterday: weekend. ley said that if the Bill introduced by the "The fight is centred in were his position the binoming the north and must be kept Greek colonels it would be shakier by minute. opposed by every delegate any Eire sent to the Council o Independent MP Paudge blood split on behalf Europe in the 26 counties That is Brennan.

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from Lynch's ruling Fianna www am taking iquids One independent ex- party November, The statement said: wit pectea to that he would of God I announced government, but the ne name oppose the Bill. other four, including Bren- want the people out on the Brennan's support for the Serhats Prentine nan, oppose lucle will Do 71-71 tie. their Bill had been considered pro- be peaceful, by By tradition in the Dail the tests

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which I rioting, mean no But he attacked Speaker must use his cast- vehemently. ing against Bill stone-throwing and no vote any abuse? would 'strike at the secking to alter the Sells MacStiofain's hunger roots of democracy', he said. It stinks because strike continues. LYNCH...in shak uncil of the 300,000-strong Irish Congress of y consider a call from a member union for a he Lynch government's anti-IRA Bill.

The Irish Transport and Workers Union, the General

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Irish Federation of Trade Unions, the Amalgamated Society Woodworkers and the Union of clampdown of Students in Ireland have police barracks against threatened the ColTs on arrest and statements severely on the IRA and the the injunctions.' new Bill and par the convicuon ol sean Macolorall added: Merrick The gov- nicharane arollary sacking ernment brought in the forceable controlling body of Radio Resolution Entry Act ostensibly Telefis Eireann (RTE). the IRA. But, in practice, against used against Bus crews, railwaymen, car been IL las Laualito. He said: 'We have sent a reso- and squatting students

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for

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calling high rents and homeless journalists have stated and demonstra- General strike and unis lightning strikes discussed at the executive coun- the government in Friday. Mr Merrick said that meeting ine past to nours. did pressure from not Unde there has been a the policies and the rank and This autumn oTher Trace methods of the Provisional unions have followed the lead succession bitter and pro of the AT&GWU in condemning tracted strikes over and pay he helieved trade union. that more indus ists should defend the demo- sharp Tine governments

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rights liberties turn to repression. trial action is likely this cratic Cheng, Sir

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Metropolitan Cheng and dition order later Magistrate Sir brother-in-law law which says Frank Miltor said that fugitive offender accused would be convicted, but Cheng for 15 days. deported the extradition was released on hail H Cheng the right architect fied to Sweden where rendered if his crime is United States the US of a political character.

to apply for a writ the governme habea. corpus during stiff successtully aces Richard du Cann said. he sentence. extradition. time Cheng being flown Izu-tsai government, said there Sweden to the US his relatives was convicted in the home trom evidence that was and friends fear that of being involved in taken administration attempt kill the conscious from a plane Nixon directed to pursui TRe Formosan Prime Mini- at Heathrow will over poisical aim Ching-kuo, In his trial at Bow Chiang within the Formosa faces he outside April New York Street maristrate's court Giving his verdict hotel in 1970. Cheng fought an extra- almost certain death. in shaky position Ireland's chronic inflation as rages unchecked. In the past 12 months food prices in the Republic rose by 13.7 per cent with increases in the cost of individual items even higher. Beef rose by 17.2 per cent and potatoes by 86.3 per cent.

And slump has pushed un- employment up to 80,000 in a population of only 2 million.

Profits On the other side of the fence big business in Ireland shares with their British and Conti- nental counterparts the belief that profitability can only be on the basis of free restored trade within the larger market EEC and by ruthless of the rationalization of production.

Lynch, like Heath, has no in- tention of checking rising prices and unemployment or expressed a firm resolve to keep wages down. Workers will resist these plans the proposed and amendments to the Offences Against the State Act are specifically designed to stop them. The AT&GWU leader has called for a General Strike against the Bill. But nothing short of a total stoppage to force the Lynch government out of office will halt this legislation.

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Barrier of suspicion PAQE 2 Workora Preca Friday December In the middle of the recent talks between the TUC, the CBI and the government, CBI president Michael Clapham, together with Sir John Part- ridge (former CBI president and chairman Imperial of Tobacco) and CBI director Campbell Adamson, went to Washington. They discussed the experience of the Nixon freeze of 1971 and the economic restrictions which followed it. This was revealed by Clapham this week when he spelled out the employers' message: rises and free 'Slash The top employers' spokesman • declared: 'It is now generally agreed (by economists) that the very high rate of price inflation past 2} over the years is in overwhelming part attributable to pay increases far in excess of the new wealth our economy has been actually producing... 'Yet the trade union movement in this country continues to claim that price rises are the prime mover in the vicious circle of inflation-that high wage settlements follow on the heels of high price increases.' In fact, all wealth is produced labour the power workers, who receive back in wages far less than the value of the commodities they pro- duce. These workers now face enor- mous increases in the cost of living through Tory measures, such as the rent Act and Common Market entry. As Workers Press has pointed out, the government's prices and dividends 'freeze' is a complete fraud. Dividends and prices — especially of food, manufactured goods, land and housing, will all soar during the so-called 90-day "pause'.

Already this week two com- panies in the manufacturing industry have been told by the government that they can go ahead with price rises despite the 'freeze'. The Department of Trade and Industry will not name the firms concerned but one is known to be a manufacturer in Northern Ireland and the other is involved in the con- engines into version of car marine power units. More than 200 companies have now formally applied for DTI permission to raise prices.

Meanwhile, increases .in meat prices are certain in the next few weeks as rises in the price of livestock are passed on. This week beef cattle prices went up by 68p per cwt and live sheep prices increased by 6p per lb. Capitalists are in business to make profit. The only way they can control inflation, and thereby safeguard their profits, is to smash the working class and force people to work for low wages. In many areas profitability is at a dangerously low level from the employers' point of view.

allowing stock After for appreciation and depreciation at replacement cost, profits as a proportion of the net output companies fell from 23.3 per cent in 1960 to 12.1 per cent in 1970. / increasing drive This means an towards plant closures and transfer of production to more profitable parts of Europe. It demands for discipline more means more the working class. It also shows that the working class is stronger than the bour- geoisie. Given a revolutionary leadership, the working class can take power in Britain.

December 1, 1972.

AMERICAN

proposals for changes in the crisis- ridden world monetary system have run into a barrier of European sus- picion and distrust, according to reports from Washington. Paul A. Volcker, an economic aide of President Nixon, submitted the detailed so-called proposals to the of 20 set up committee earlier this year as a forum to discuss monetary reform. He called for disciplinary

FOREIGN NEWS

THE UNITED STATES is p paring to continue the war a its Vietnamization policy rath than preparing to establish true peace in Vietnam alleg Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, de gate of the NLF at the Pa peace talks yesterday. She said that President Thieu of South Vietnam had been using the delay to carry out a campaign of repression his against political opponents. Thou- sands of people were being arrested, tortured and im- prisoned while massive deliveries of US war THOUSANDS of workers in munitions factories in Toulouse and Tarbes in central France struck work yesterday defence of wage demands. This was the last of three days of strikes in which different sections of munitions workers were called out on successive days by their (Stalinist) CGT and (Socialist)

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trade union leaderships. As munition workers demon- strated, representatives of Paris engineering workers presented the employers with a 10,000- signature petition saying 'they wanted to see the employers con- sider their demands'. FRENCH bank rate has been raised from 6} to 7ł per cent in an effort to stem the gallop- ing inflation. The last in- crease, from 57 per cent, was on November 2. Such tactics, which are the of the French daily practice Communist Party, are the most French dangerous disarming workers before Pompidou's drive to corporatism. So much is clear from the case of the nine Berliet workers in Lyons charged under anti-riot laws. The CP is now claiming as a big victory • for the strikes and demonstration on Monday Mini- ster Edgar Faure's decision to see CGT and CFDT leaders on Monday afternoon and discuss the Berliet affair. Like TUC leaders, they prefer to talk to capitalist ministers rather than to mobilize their members in • defence of trade union rights. By JOHN SPEI sanctions (e.g., forced changes in parity of their currency) against countries which accumulate too much foreign currency and gold in their foreign exchange reserves.

Distrust Reuter's correspondent Michael Prentice said that some European shown 'suspicion countries had and distrust of such a mechan- ism' three-day during the Washington meeting. Jeremy Morse of the Bank of England, chairman of the com- mittee of 20, acknowledged at a Press conference that there were ES is pre- e war and icy rather stablish a m alleged Binh, dele- the Paris Madame Binh: Allegations ag material were reinforcing his regime. Hanoi's deputy negotiator, Nguyen Minh Vy, assailed the US for delaying agree- ment on the draft peace terms and the B52 bomber raids. Washington claims that the out with terms, worked Hanoi by Nixon's • special President Salvador

CHILEAN

Allende arrived in Mexico City yesterday evening for talks with President Luis Mexican Echeverria, the man respon- sible for strict police control of Mexiçan trade unions. Allende will stay in Mexico for his four days before continuing travels to the United Nations in New York, the Soviet Union and Cuba. Echeverria hopes to use Allende to show the left-wing opposition in Mexico how he has close ties with 'socialist' regimes like Chile.

Last month, Mexico gave Chile $28m loans and signed an agree- ment to expand trade during a coalition

THE

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Dutch government has suffered a defeat in the General Election in which the Labour Party won over 27 per cent of the votes.

Bargaining will now begin to form a new government. Labour Uyl said Party leader Joop Den that he was willing to head a minority government with Progressive Liberals and Radicals.

The so-called progressive bloc fought the election on a pro- gramme of cuts in military ex- penditure, wages and a new prices policy and increases in minimum wages and pensions. The VVD Liberals who won six more seats to bring their total to 22 in a 150 seat parlia- have considerable ment will weight in determing the shape of the next government. They are not linked either to the former government coalition or to the progressive bloc.

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differing viewpoints and differ- ences of approach. But he claimed there was not 'widespread in any sense opposition or a clash' over the US proposals. Opponents of the simply said they proposals needed further study-no doubt hoping to kill them with pro- cedural delays. About the only thing the committee did agree on, accord- that the ing to Prentice, was 'not work- present system was ing satisfactorily and would have to be improved'. In fact the present system-if it can be called a system-is in total disarray and flouted by Inst US Henry Kissinger, envoy, Dr could not be signed because of the objections of President Thieu. that Thieu is insisting Hanoi's forces should with- draw from South Vietnam. He called meeting of his National Security Council yes- terday to hear a report from his representative who has been having talks with Nixon.

Allende visit by Chilean Foreign Minister Clodomiro Almeyda. These dollars will be grate- fully received by the CIA- IT IS NOW taken for granted that the first stage in all in- torture in terrogations is Argentina. This is revealed in a report just issued in Geneva by the World Council of Churches.

Arrests are often carried out so that Friday evenings, on prisoners are subjected to three before being days of torture handed over to the police.

the In several recent cases. prisoner died before the police saw him. estimates that The report prison authorities in Argentina now hold about 1,100 political prisoners. General Lanusse, Argentinian depends president, who on these brutal methods to main- tain his rule, was the first Latin American head of state to enter- the major capitalist of many powers. Divided The committee of 20 is only the latest of a series of inter- national bodies set up to examine the prospects for 'reforming' the monetary system. But it is even more divided than its prede- cessors. reality the monetary In questions facing world capitalism be resolved by inter- cannot are national agreement. They being fought out in an increas- ingly ruthless trade war in which each capitalist power fights to assert its own economic strength against its rivals. SHORTLY after a renewed out- burst of fighting between guer- rillas and government troops in Philippines, the southern Presi- dent Marcos' new constitution was ratified by the convention of lawyers and civil servants he had set up himself. will now remain in- Marcos definitely in power and cannot be challenged as President. It is certain that martial law will con- tinue in one form or another.

He told a Historical Associa- tion on Tuesday that he decided law after to establish martial consulting with God: I wanted a period in which I could commune with myself and God, and I asked if it was cor- to proclaim martial law. I rect asked him for signs and he gave me several. trained generals who rule Chile during Allende's absence.

At a ceremony in the govern- ment Palace in Santiago a few hours before his departure, Allende swore in General Carlos Prats as the constitutional vice- president of the Republic.

According to state law, Prats can exercise all the prerogatives of head of state in the absence of his 'socialist' chief. This includes the right to change ministers and remove top government functionaries.

The Chilean Communist Party could shortly taste the bitter fruit of its policy of champion- ing the so-called peace-loving traditions of the Chilean army.

tain Salvador Allende after his installation as President of Chile.

He is also a firm supporter of the Marcos regime Philippines. Council of Churches The should quickly investigate the 'work of God' in his concentra- tion camps.

AUSTRALIAN

Labour Party leader Gough Whitlam said yes- terday the next Labour govern- ment would use academics and business executives as advisers.

The American concept of bring- ing in these people to advise the would be adopted, government he said. President Nixon's Henry Kissinger was 'a notable example of this system at work overseas.

The elections will be held to- morrow and Labour is favoured to win.

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WEST RIDING County Cou released details of work done 1 bankrupt Yorkshire architec Poulson, whose empire is no an investigation by Scotland fraud squad. Poulson, whose firms had ex-Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maulding as a direc- tor, did work totalling £6gm for the council between 1954 and 1969. Based on the normal fees of about 6 per cent, Poulson would have benefited from the council to the tune of about £400,000. At one time the Clerk of the County Council, Sir Bernard Kenyon, was a director of one of his companies; he later be- came chairman of it. The majority of the 54 pro. jects education were for the committee, who say they were satisfied with most of the work.

The figures were revealed by Clerk of the Councilfor in- Peter Butcher, after requests formation on work done by the firm. Extensions Schemes included extensions to existing buildings and the largest cost about project £560,000. Mr Butcher said: "As the largest professional firm in the with the capacity and area, ability to provide a full multi- design professional service, J. G. L. Poulson engaged over the period 1954-1969 to under- take a proportion of the work in respect of which they main- tained the required level of service and Over period the same building programme • undertaken by the West Riding exceeded 1,250 £80m and involved over separate projects. VALUE Added Tax on children's "discriminatory told in a letter yesterday.

Stanley Rawson, chairman of the Clothing Manufacturers' Federation, says it will impose a heavy burden on young parents.

His protest, to Financial Sec- retary Terence Higgins, points out that a housewife is unlikely to buy television sets and wash- ing machines with the regularity with which she has to buy clothes for children. The prices of these other goods would be reduced under

• VAT.

The Federation had asked, in an earlier for children's letter, clothes to be zero-rated.

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NATIONAL In-

THE

dustrial Relations Court is misunderstood by the public at large and the Press is blame, to barrister this says in week's New Law Journal'. • Mr Scott, Gordon ''bárrister" oracking and law re- John Donaldson porter, said: 'The greater the publicity of cally ignorant the court received, the should have been simple functions, more its objec- facts.' tives and procedures were During the distorted misunder- and had become court stood by the public at plaything the Its large. popular image media' and was treated as became distorted beyond 'hot property' as far bearing recognition, not the Press, radio and tele- resemblance the slightest vision

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was concerned. to what those close to the Scott's remarks conform scene knew it really to be ty Council has with an attempt to improve Scott has no doubt where of the NIRC. the image' ‹ done for it by lies. the hame 'The Press,' he says, 'with days A few ago architect John all its resources, president Sir John at times was guest • is now facing failed utterly to get essen- son of tial facts over to the public at a dinner held by court Yard's cotland • • [who remained tragi- journalists.

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A PROMINENT member of likely that any of his supporters will see fit to mention the fact Party in the Communist question how he can claim Oxford has cited the Indus- fighting the to be Act on the trial Relations Act in his one hand while using it on the appeal to an industrial tri- other. The Oxford Communist Party bunal against unfair dismissal.

has so far also maintained Andrew Panes, who is discreet silence on the sec- retary of the Council of Action of one of its better-known set up by Oxford trade unionists members in the area. both the fight Act and its Tory authors, was employed by the Southern Electricity Board at its Headington showroom. He was sacked on his first day as supervisor. Panes brought his case under the Act in Reading on Monday. the at industrial tribunal which is itself an institution of the Act.

Today the

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his former employers, will give their evidence. member of Oxford Trades A Council, Panes was quoted the 'Oxford Mail' last weekend 1933-1934 .. £1.43 as claiming that the Council of which he is Action of secretary . £1.43 1934-1935 had off the rails'. 'gone He and other CP members and 1935-1936 .. £1.25 supporters have been instrumental 1937-1938 .. £1.25 in force the campaign to Council of Action to restrict 1938-1939 .. £1.25 itself solely ta campaigning Act, 1939-1940 against the rather than .. £1.05 Tories generally. against the special of the meeting Council of Action has been for discuss called tonight to These extremely vital letters from the Trades Council and the district committee of the years 1929 and 1940l engineering unions' confederation demanding that assurances will not campaign on any other Union-are now availab issue. Both bodies have threatened if withdraw support the to assurances are not given.

Panes will presumably travel straight from the tribunal to the meeting, thought hut it is 01-622 7029 01-720 2000

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Workers Press, Fri In his speech the jovial Sir John wisecracked his what way into the hearts and minds of those present-or thought he did. But no amount of Press 'the relations can paper over the nature of the court. mass It is a corporatist-style as instrument of the Tory government hell-bent on destroying. the hard-won rights of the trade unions.

The NIRC is not 'mis- understood'. It is precisely because it is understood too well for the likings of the the public Tories that relations campaign has begun. THE 500 pieceworkers at GEC Stoke, Coventry who have been on strike for three weeks over a remain dispute prices on on strike and meet again on Tuesday.

The workers claim that the firm is using the government's legal standstill and wage control to lower earnings in the shop.

They say that the firm is refusing to time new : jobs or jobs with changed methods on a level of the average earnings in the machine shop. One worker said: 'It will mean as time goes on our average wages will be lower and lower.

Jack Cherrington, the T&GWU factory convenor, told Workers Press: "The situation remains at complete continues, deadlock. The strike SITiNGS CF

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Press, Friday December 1, 1972 PAGE 3 STRIKING TASS workers have returned to work at their Letch- worth engineering factory pend- ing negotiations to reinstate one of their colleagues. Les Wreford, a leading branch member of the technical and supervisory section of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers, was given instant dis- missal nine days ago at Herberts Controls and Instruments.

The management said he was being made redundant, but the local unions maintain it is a case of victimization because of Mr Wreford's fight for militant trade unionism. All 280 workers came out on immediate strike. They returned later, but 28 TASS men stayed on strike until Wednesday. They have now gone back and union officials have begun discussions with management. Mr Wreford has been told he can stay at home or attend his place of work. Many of the workers believe that the return to work pending pegotiations leaves Mr Wreford in a dangerously-exposed position.

GUERNSEY'S 67 dockers re- turned to work yesterday to work out deal on pay and a new conditions with their employers.

The resumption of work and negotiations was recommended by a board of inquiry yesterday the 17th day of the strike, the longest in the island's history.

Its end has come just in time to avoid mass dismissals in the building industry because of lack of imported sand and cement.

British RailR will restart service from passenger terry Weymouth o Guernsey Saturday after a break of three weeks. PRODUCTION and test facilities of British - Leyland's marine engine range are to be switched Bean's Engineering, Tipton, to Staffs, part of the company's special products division.

The engines were formerly produced at the Basingstoke factory of Transport Equipment (Thorny- croft) Ltd, which has been sold Ohiohe Eaton Corporation of

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PART THREE

SINN FEIN

PRESIDENT, THOMAS

MACGIOLLA SPEAKS

(What we are pressing for now is to do almost anything to stop sectarian warfare. Our objective from the mid- 1960s was to smash down the Orange Unionist power struc- ture in the north. This did not mean abolish Stormont, but break down the structure under which the ascendency class had permanent domin- ation over the working class.

Until that was done it was impossible for us to start making contact with Protestant workers, because they could their identity of not see interests. We also want to gain free- dom of political movement for Sinn Fein in the north. With the Orange domination of Stormont broken and freedom of movement for Sinn Fein, we could act on issues in the north as we had done in the south. got ahead in the We had south on issues like fisheries and the mines and we had a certain amount of support. In the north we could not act at the same level and that was why we threw everything into the civil rights struggle.

The end purpose of this was to unite workers on common objectives against the system— capitalism. We set our faces against the traditional Sinn Fein per- spective of a campaign because we wanted to maintain the struggle on a mass level north and south so that it could be seen as anti-capitalist and anti- imperialist. In August 1969 there was a.

state-organized pogrom against the civil rights movement and from 1971 sectarian clashes became more and more inevit- able. Although there was no cam- paign, the action of defence was drawing our people willy- nilly into the fighting and we had to tell them to stop.

That the Official IRA was involved • in shooting could associated us with the have Provisional campaign of bomb- ing which was very much sectarian thing. The major thing was to de-escalate the sectarian campaign. We feared direct rule would be used to create a Protestant enclave in the north of three or four counties and to achieve it we felt the British would be ruthless enough to promote sectarian conflict on such a scale as to drive out the Catholics. Early on the British had said they favoured a federal u solution and O'Neill and Lynch said they agreed in principle. When O'Neill went, they had no one to carry out . th their plans so they had to impose direct rule which we b opposed. If Britain could not push through her plan, we felt the alternative might be even o / December 1, 1972 le policies of Sinn Fein and the been since the first civil unrest I YEATS reports in a series of riews with leading Republicans, ists on both sides of the border.

Any new partition. worse-a type of interim solution would still leave us with a better chance-if necessary just to do nothing to bring about an of the sectarian escalation conflict. Since 1971 we have issued a number of calls to the trade union movement to end sectar- ianism at street as well as factory level but the movement is paralysed because they feel any move they make will split it down the middle. The Northern Ireland trade unions could do nothing, but this is something the British TUC could have taken action on. We would not be against a which democratic structure gave the civil rights their demands and gave more power to workers' organizations.

But we do not favour the proposal in the Green Paper.

Apparently it envisages greater London council over the four commissions which have been set up. But there would be neither democracy nor power. In the past where they have abolished undemocratic institutions they have replaced them with less democratic institutions. This has been the effect of imperialism in the north and have the south they destroyed all native industries and set up foreign companies on which we are now totally dependent. These firms tell you whether you can have a union or when can have a dispute you workers are totally at their mercy. religion, Irrespective of workers are realizing this. being People see themselves robbed and it is on this basis that they will unite. We are one of the richest countries in the world with the poorest people. The fight has ownership of been over the and this has been wealth proved in the south where we have a national Irish govern- has been There a ment. political change, but there has been no change in ownership.

By itself a united Ireland would change nothing. But if we could prevent the outflow capital and

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of use resources for our own develop- . be in a far ment we would stronger position. We could certainly achieve the elimination of poverty and we could eliminate unemploy- ment far more than at present.

We are not talking about a totalitarian We are society. talking about a socialist society.

had felt from We beginning that it was vital to the struggle against unite imperialism. capitalism and We did not feel it could be done in two stages. If you win • the Republican struggle, people think you've got a victory, but you have not. In 1921 it was a disaster. Basically socialism means the the nationalization of the means ven of manufacture, distribution OrangemenProtestant and MacGlolla, Official Sinn Fein F was to smash down the Orange and exchange. In Irish terr the struggle against capital the struggle against imperi ism. Socialism does not mean tl elimination of small sho keepers and farmers. A m can own a business whi employs 20 people or so, b if he goes public that is ho we define capitalism. The land should be stat staunchly Unionist. Above: Thoma President, who says, 'our objective ..

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owned and run on co-operativ ms is lines. These things are bes ial- achieved through mass struggl and this is why we are oppose the to military élitism. All w op- want is for people to suppor nan ich us. but The context in which w oW have put it is that it is : struggle-we people's ar whicl creating organizations ite- will go forward limited demands. In the promotion that struggle we are prepared to use available every and parlamentary parliamentary. We want to involve continual confront- people in aton, but guide them on tne road which will bring minor political victories and develop their consciousness to point where they are prepared to defend their gains. The development of social- ism in britain would be a tre.

mendous help for the struggle here. Even The also ol government is somewhat better than the Tory government. We have all the time tried to orientate our policies to the British working class among whom there are a wide section of Irish. We never wanted to confine our solidarity links just to Irish workers. The links into the British working class very alre They have portant. tre- mendous part lo play In unt northern situation. Any move.

ment break- wnich assists in ing down imperialism is assist- ing us. If a revolutionary struggle in Britain is possible, it will be helpful, but if we are waiting for a revolutionary struggle in Britain are going we waiting a lot longer. We have don possibilities tremendous here which I Britain. see in

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Liam Mac- are Millen, chairman of the Belfast Republican Clubs.

With all the ballyhoo which surrounds the visits of heads of state, President Pompidou was given the honours recently in the African states of Togo and the Upper Volta. 'independent' These small other former countries, like French colonies, are still con- economically • by im- trolled perialism. They receive 'aid' from France without which their finances would collapse.

Most of this 'aid' goes to French firms which undertake to carry out public works and indirectly benefits the com- panies which control the foreign trade of these coun- tries. Their currency, the CFA (African Financial Community) franc, is still linked to the French franc. The rulers of these coun- tries come from a narrow, national bourgeoisie of civil servants and officers army trained by the French. Their economies depend on two or three products, particularly and groundnuts, the cocoa price of which has been falling.

All these African former colonies are deeply affected by the world crisis of capitalism.

Still exploited by imperialism, the masses live in poverty and the national bourgeois itself is frustrated because the promises of 'development' have not been fulfilled. In some countries this per- manent crisis caused by im- perialism has brought the army to the fore as the only force able to give some stability to political life. One-party regimes are the rule and in the less stables countries" like Dahomey there are frequent army coups as one set of officers replaces another.

In fact the recent military in Dahomey made it coup necessary tor Pompidou to call off the visit he should have made there. His five-day African jaunt, his third since becoming President, was intended to smooth over growing discon- tent in Togo and the Upper Volta. As it happened, the tried rulers of these countries to win some additional con- cessions from France. General Eyadems of Togo called for a revaluation of the CFA franc, now worth two He gave as his centimes. the increase in the reason country's foreign exchange reserve in the past few years.

He also asked that the CFA franc should be fully con- vertible in the European Common Market. In his reply Pompidou made it plain that countries like Togo are not really indepen- dent at all. France was ready to make many concessions, he said, 'with one reservation, that is that independence, that is the sovereignty which others can claim find their limits in the guarantee given by the French state. He went on to say that it is evident that the CFA franc would collapse tomorrow if it were not for the guarantee it received from the French state' • In addition, the French say that a revaluation of the CFA franc could take place without the agreement of all the coun tries using it which in present circumstances would be diffi- cult to bring about. Those that really want to be 'independent' are threatened with the cutting off of French financial aid.

In order to the sweeten local bourgeoisie Pompidou announced during his tour that part of the debt owing to France by the African states would cancelled. The amount involved is only about $200m, not much more than eighth of their total one foreign debt. This unwanted generosity conceals the fact that, like other underdeveloped coun- tries, those of French-speaking Africa are increasing their debts at such a rate that it is only a question of time before they become completely bank- rupt. Pompidou, as representative of French imperialism, seeks the national to

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bour- geoisie at the same time as he insists that its 'independence' is strictly limited. It is important to prevent these colonies of French capital from succumbing to British or American influence and above all to prevent popu- lar revolutions against the present ruling clique. Below: President Pompidou greets tribal chiefs in Togo during his tour of Africa.

During collaboration between • Stalin and the Japanese, pictures of Stalin, Lenin, Mao Tse-tung has been sternly taken to task by a Russian historian for sup- porting an alliance with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuo- mintang during the Sino- Japanese war. According to the historian, Mao declared that it was a national duty to detend Chiang and that he should be supported as leader in the anti-Japanese war. He surren- dered the independence of the Chinese Communist Party to the nationalist Kuomintang.

What he does not point out is that just such a policy had

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Any planner in Poland giving orders for the building of a pickling fac- tory will have to be care- ful in future. Back in 1968 orders were given for a factory to be built in the village of Kaczory in the Chodziez district, an area noted for the excellence of its cabbages. went on for some Work time and the budget was ex- ceeded by nearly 50 per cent when the works manager who was appointed to take charge of the cabbage-pickling plant found that a poultry incubator Workers Press, Fri Stalin and the Central Government of Chiang In, Lenin, Sun Yal-son and Chiang Kal-shek a been imposed on the Chinese Communists in 1926-1927 by Stalin. It was Stalin who wel- comed Chiang to Moscow and made the Kuomintang an asso- member of the Comin- ciate 18 tern. Mao's policy in the 1930s was not his alone. It was accepted and approved in Moscow and his tactics were held out as a model to other parties. Of course, the Maoists now try to hush up this episode and have cut out the parts of Mao's speech to the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee in 1938 which deals with it. They try to blame this 'right opportunism' onto Liu Shao-chi and others had been built instead. The local peasantry, with tongue in cheek, disclaim all mistake. knowledge of They say that officials fre- village, quently visited the quaffed beer, filled in forms and went away. If anything was wrong, surely they should have found out about it. The building was almost completed before anyone was brave enough to point out that it looked more like an incubator than a pickling works. The building technician responsible has since been arrested and the officials have been sacked. Reporting the affair Polish TV said that it calls for Gogol's pen to describe it properly. But Gogol was writ- ing in Tsarist Russia: how is it that such things happen in a 'People's Democracy"? Press, Friday December 1, 1972 PAGE 5 of Chiang in 1946, after the defeat of al-shek adorn a hotel in Shanghai.

whereas it originated with Mao himself. Mao's hypocrisy and deli- berate falsification of the past is only matched by that of the Moscow bureaucracy. Its tame historians have nothing to say about the responsibility of Stalin and his predecessors for the alliance with the Kuo- mintang which led to the de- feats of the revolution in 1927.

Nor do they point out that the same policy of alliance with the Kuomintang was pur- sued throughout World War II and that Stalin advised Mao to continue with it after 1 in 1945. the defeat of Japan If Mao had listened to the voice of Moscow, the Chinese Revolution would not have succeeded in 1949. Albania is to supply the colo- nels' Greece with copper wire and other products, dyes, tim- ber; shellfish, mineral oil and asphalt under a new trade agreement. Greece is to supply iron, medicines, chemicals, tyres and textile fibres. This, the first trade and payments agreement between the two countries since the war, means about $4m in annual trade on each side.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday December 1, 1972 Harold Wison Labour Prime Minister A Modern Melodrama In Two Acts and five months later, on June 18, government's plan to bring the unions under state control.

considerable In November 1967 the Labour After backing was forced to de for Wilson's plan it quickly governmen value sterling. James Callaghan became apparent to the ruling replaced by Roy Jenkins class that he had acted too was at the Treasury in a major slowly and without sufficient resolve. And when he capitu. Lanner resuume. But the devaluation did not lated to the settle the economic questions sealed his fate with his masters capitalism, facing, British it in the bourgeoisie. head of the only intensified them. Cecil King, And devaluation was only Mirror group of newspapers one prong of the Labour attack and the largest publishing on its supporters in the labour empire in the world, was among and trade those Wilson's movement. who viewed other 'In Place failures with growing frustra- Strife, legislative proposal a tion. He and his buddies begar 'deal with the unions. to cast around more feverishly On January 1969, the the published man's government to take over.

government White Paper which was i Act ll of our melodramo form the basis of its anti-union we trace entries in King's per- legislation. The working class sonal diary from 1968 to 1970 reacted with justifiable anger when the Tories were elected nity are talking about the date of the next financial crisis, ministers sail oblivious. January 2, On Tuesday, There was a lunch yesterday, Healey had at which 1968, Denis Monday, Norman Collins [deputy chairman lunch with one of King's Television - ATV] Associated executives. He was very had as guests Eric Fletcher outspoken'. He said 'there [deputy Shawcross, speaker), Renwick, Ellis Birk [director political crisis, was no IPC and Beechins just a Wilson crisis'. Ther were agreed that the But if Healey unaware country is in a mess and that Wilson wouldn't do. Eventually of the depths the crisis facing the Labourites, no such they decided to see they illusions were being entertained could get Roy Jenkins to dine.

do england. As in the Bras.

It was agreed that the Tory a mess that Evidentia a crash was co me.

England] had England. Party is in such January 4, 1968: 'At the bank. purely Tory administration equally evidently nothing We are all awaiting the 17th answer. But what about and is no Wilson when Roy will reveal to the Emergency Government? could be done about an Macleod agrees House be taken thought this a good until it came. measures to to restore our balance of pay- for a National Government.' with me that our parliamentary institutions are threatened and February 9: 'Ellis Birk looked one hand it is ments. On the difficult how in to tell me about the that we are heading for a right.

to the more effected wing dictatorship. He thinks a economies can be Norman Collins lunch. addition those already coalition quite a possibility, quickly enough; and, on the to other, can the h cess cabines cuts mentioned, there were present Watkinson [former "There no hard through the news. [Sir Leslie] O'Brien said and Parliamentary Labour Minister Defence and Field Marshal Harding, lat the Committ hof Treasury: Party? Lord holding [Sir] Maurice Parson, deputy Cromer was asked, but didn't just on- • would afraid almost to breathe unless said if we come; it was thought he govenor, at lunch. have another successful attack have come if he could. The we bring something down on us"? outcome is a lunch or dinner on pound, we shal have Tone with which to which Jenkins has agreed to May 1: "The Committee We are to no resources Treasury as usual. defend any particular exchange attend in the rate for the pound; that our 'Sigmund Warburg is to be announce increase our reservese 521m in April. The trade will haye con- invited to join them. Everyone TO ducted in dollars or some other with affection and real figure is a loss of £80m. spoke res- but I think hac foreign currency, and that pect of Jenkins, 'Last week this is all Late in the day! Malcolm Muggeridge to lunch under those circumstances, Muggeridge million unemployed is per- February 22: 'While was more "The Guardian" had a feels fectly possible. pessimistic than usual: away He thinks the present crisis big piece on the front we are facing the breakdown page as that of 1940- law and order which he sids ra Winston suggesting with Churchill coalition. thinks necessarily follows organize breakdown of the moral order published a denial Politi- waiting to take over. of under- cians seem incapable January 25: It still This means a long period of seems to kind of standing that when I talk of and anarchy, which me that some National Government is in- a coalition I am talking of the might have disastrous results the -present.' highly complex Wilson went out of future, not to describe April 22: 'Tain Macleod to his way this evening to societies. idea as "fatuous". June 25: 'Alf Robens came to the lunch. He wanted to know February 7: 'The really astoni- I saw as I had tea on Sunday-I thought very how things, been right all along! I told him We had some talk shing aspect of our affairs that, while the banking frater- substantially what the Bank setting up a group which Edward Heath Roy Jenkins Tory Opposition leader Labour Home Secretary might hammer out a pro- gramme which could be a help in a time of crisis. No names were mentioned. His suggestion for the first item on any policy statement by this Council for National Regeneration la pos sible title] is that we believe in a mixed economy! This might have meant something 40 years ago, but hardly now.

October 21: 'Lunch with Alf Robens and Hartley Shawcross.

Both Hartley and Robens thought the best move for the future would be a coalition: five Labour, five or six Con- servatives, and five outsiders.

Alf suggested an outside PM.

Hartley made the point that in a serious financial crisis there would not be time for a General Election. We are to meet again.' Octoher 24: 'Willy Whitelaw to lunch on Tuesday. I said I thought a coalition would be the best answer for the Tories if it was feasible when the time came. He said this had examined been and contacts had been established. He said Ted was quite determined to his bring outsiders into Cabinet and was using some of them in preparing plans. 'Ruth [Mrs King] was at a meeting of the Conservative Arts Committee yesterday. The MPs present assumed a Con- Denis Healey Oswald Mosley Labour Defence Minister Exteader British Uni of Fascists government in the servative and spoke of future near Heath's decision to have a small Cabinet of ten overlords.'

November Grimond 6: •Jo yesterday was friendly as ever, charming as ever, as realistic in his thinking as ever We talked about Enoch Powell, whom he is disposed to write off: November 14: 'Lunch today with Mosley in his sitting-room at the Ritz. I am not clear what he is aiming at now. He is 71 but pointed out at lunch that Adenauer came to power at 74 and continued to be important till he was 91.

He had been seeing something Though he of Enoch Powell. lives in France I think he is hoping still play some to political part here. He thinks economic an breakdown here is inevitable and that then we must all be ready-but ready to do what?'

December "Enoch 4: Powell long had 'interview a on "Panorama" on Monday night.

Has much more idea of what it is all about than his col- leagues. What impressed me, and what I did not know of before, was his love of the army and particularly the of discipline the army, especially when he was a private. William Whitelaw xteader British Union Utsier Secretary 'He may be the herald of a new fascist regimebut we have certainly not heard the last of Enoch Powell.' December 13: "The papers are all very optimistic this morn- ing because of the trade figures, which are better. The "Finan- cial Times" takes off into the realms of pure fantasy bad figures are shrugged off and good ones -or at any rate ones — wildly better over- emphasized. In any if you forget case, our financial troubles, the high rising crime wave, and in- number of strikes, creasing student unrest, growing inter- national tension and the rest combine to create a situation which is not just going to come right? February I1, 1969: Denis had said to rishing Healey form. I had said to him, suppose three years ago, that Wilson was a failure and that it was up to him or Roy Jenkins to be the new PM. He was very unreceptive at that time but he has been warming to the idea since. Today he almost that he would have admitted He said he to make a bid. thought a financial crash this year was likely and that some government thought had been given the to emergency that would be measures Fang h po regeren o ut e delti eid con- course, agree. lan propose what Queen fo submit protested haben overr jobe entirely friendly" Villiam Whitelaw. He though might Smy ringr cls hurday T have March lain Macleod Ex-Tory Chancellor had lunch with Oswald Mosley.

He thinks the drift towards the revolution that he tried to take charge of during the 1930s has resumed. He main- tains that everything points to the decay of our society.

one any longer really believes in it, least of all the young. I think he sees himself in charge at last. "This to me quite seems fantastic, but there is so little leadership of any kind these that even the Enoch days Oswald Powells and the Mosleys not entirely are incredible.' April 29: "The Mosleys have little house charming at a Orsay. His wife does not think he sees any political future for himself ... He makes it quite clear that he foresees economic setback major a ahead of us-even more far- reaching than the depression of the early 1930s. If there were such a crisis it would necessarily end in some sort of authoritarian regime of the right. June 25: 'The big item of news has been the complete climb- down of Wilson to the TUC over the proposed trade union The importance of legislation. this event is not so much the humiliation of Wilson and his government, but the fact that Workers Press, Friday D Load Ron NCB Malcolm Muggeridge • Evangeltst/ broadcaster the government took on the TUC and was thrashed. Sooner or later the government of the day will have to take on the union movement-and win.' July 3: 'William Whitelaw to lunch today. He said he won- dered if the emergency powers had been looked at recently.

it very He thought likely that they had not and would need refurbishing' 12: 'Val Duncan of August Rio Tinto Zinc to lunch. On domestic policies Duncan has seen something of Heath, whom he likes. He has advised him taking office he will that on not have much time and that appropriate legislation—e.g. on the trade unions-should drafted now. There are retired parliamentary draftsmen who could do this work. He assumes that a General Strike or its equivalent — will be encoun- tered and thinks that the government should very care- fully pick the timing and the isse and issue the whole stage September 17: 'Mosley to dinner at home last night. Very friendly and talkative, mostly about Europe. He is a fanatical European, thinks the whole of our future turns on this one subject. In general he thinks really serious trouble is blowing up in France and Kars Press, Friday December 1, 1972 PAGE 7 Cecil King Chairman IPC Italy and that an eventual world economic crisis is inevitable.' November 6: 'Geoffrey Rippon to lunch yesterday. He too, tended to belittle Enoch Powell. • They all look at his potentiality now, which is not the point. His importance will come, if it comes at all, after a crisis of some kind in which the existing leaders of the Conservatives have proved ineffective.' June 11, 1970 (five days before the General Election): 'Another lunch set up by Norman Collins [of ATV] took place at Brown's Hotel, [Lord] Bob Renwick in the chair. Others present: Geoffrey] [Lord Crowther, Paul Chambers Shawcross, [CH], George Cole [Shipping Industrial Holdings], Mcfad- zean [Shell], and Joe Lockwood of EMI. 'Collins had drawn up a verbose rather with paper Shawcross's help. Two in- cidental remarks that were interesting: Wilson had for- bidden the Lord Chancellor or the Attorney-General to attend a dinner given by Shawcross.

"Crowther, chairman of the Royal Commission the on British Constitution, said that he could see now no future for democracy nor could he see what would take its place.!'

PAGE 8 Workerz Press, Friiay Docambo Lord Carson. Like the Protestant movem By Cliff Slaughter The Brian Faulkners and William Craigs of today are the successors of Lord Carson, who first drilled the Ulster Volunteer Force to force the parti.

tion of Ireland. Right-wing forces in Britain, directly connected with the Association, Ulster Defence the Loyalist Workers' Associ- ation and Vanguard are pre- paring to be the successors of the Black and Tans, who but- chered into submission the workers and small farmers who fought for independence when the national bourgeoisie betrayed. The British Tories will not fail to make use of the reac- armed force being tionary built up in Ireland against Bri- tish workers as well as Irish, in addition to the troops being trained there for 'urban war- fare' (i.e. the suppression of the working class). Lord Carson, aided and abetted by leading British Tories like Bonar Law and F. E. Smith (later Lord Birk- enhead), had built between 1912 and 1914 a volunteer army against the Home Rule Bill going through Westmin- December 1, 1872 nt movements of loday his was entirety reactiona ster and had actually orga- nized a mutiny of British army officers with the help of the after cer- Tory central office, War Office officials had tain helped to arm his force. The Tory Ministers of today talk about the 'rule of who law' in relation to trade unions and strikers, as well as Ulster, are the successors of Carson, Smith and Bonar Law. Where law does not suit their the class aims they will act out- side the law. the Easter Rising When failed in 1916, because of the isolation of Connolly's work- ing-class the British force, War Cabinet decided on im- mediate execution of those who led it. They were sum- marily shot. Connolly, a foot amputated and unable stand, was shot in a chair.

Who was in the Cabinet that perpetrated this atrocity?

Lord Carson and Bonar Law!

Only two years earlier they conspiring against the were state! Carson took many Protest-.

ant workers along with him in his opposition to Home Rule and they would have clashed with British forces if necessary. World War I put off this clash. Like the entirely through unity dill

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Crown him for The rising. prosecuting F. Smith, the working changed. changed. to bourgeois only but open imperialism. The most lopments 'Home Rule' working the militant Protestant move- ›day, Carson's was Except there is no a or tne rrotest- nths after the exe- 1916, against ment and executed s part in the up. Attorney-General Casement against ther than the Tory known as 'Car- today, prepar greatest attacks on Class, has not Tationalism. which class tied politics is not nt as in 1916-1921 reactionary In collaboration with w and order'? important factor I all political deve of the the time struggle to up I was the rise of in class great and defence ionism in Britain. stitutional crisis anc surrection, i.e. a rev situation. was why This determined support reaction under leading Tories, coun They tionaries. tween mass Unionis in Ulster and theil he War Office anc class Tory salons in We should note v fore that Craig's m and reactionary made that Enoch Powell than once graced platforms, and rights of Irish imm Britain. We should note fascists in Britain ar their ing papers through channels for them by leading elements. We ignore at our fact that retired hi British officers are ir arming and training vate armies in the I we seriously doubt men Why is it that the of thousands spent rathering by TV have not made 1 investigation these connections? Does any British worker the desperate Britist class of today, fitter anti-union laws into the EEC, is le of armed cons Northern Ireland in 1912-1914? Is it not the Ulster Defence members are allowe their own arms, murder of Catholic week every number than the deaths? Is it not markable' that, for

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arms raided successfully 'overpow men, guard of 13, and thing has happened once. What does That in to? partial imposition o order', the Tory all counter-rer armed preparations against workers of F Ireland What next? Labourite Donald, hearing of Rising in 1916, told that it was ence imperialists it is the typical Britis ist, 'unable to distir tween the victim an cutioner' as and thereby always supporter of British ism. The struggle to British working clas formism and buld revolutionary only be carried out who fight for ists ional independence a struggle build to of leadership Kind itself. MacDonald's treac son's 100-per-cent si Heath's Irish policy Stalinists the 'Bill of Rights'-all the very opposite o needs of the British working class, connect up directly revolutionary traditi imperialism in Irelan Padraig Peares, sh 1916, one of the rev nationalists who c nset of World War General Strike in iciding with a con- crisis and Irish in- i.e. a revolutionary the why most supporters, politi- itary, of the Ülster Carson

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ies, counter-revolu- scurried Unionist meetings nd their friends in fice and the high- salons in London. Id note well, there- raig's most violent speecl was conservatıvı Powell has JO Ole Unionist graced altacks tne rish immigrants in ild note that the Britain are circulat- Ulster In opened up 'Loyalist' y leading re at our peril the etired high-ranking ers are in charge 01 these pri- the North. Can y doubt that these with connection cles here? t that the hundreds 'news on Press and t made possible an and exposure of class-conscious that peneve te British capitalist lay, fitted out and rushing is less capable conspiracy via reland than it was 'remarkable' that Defence Regiment's re allowed to carry while the Catholic workers is week higher in the BROLeS LoIml even more re- be centre could five and that there no great outery of This sort appened more than all this add up the guise of im- osition of 'law and government is the conditions n te r-revolutionary arations in Ulster kers of Britain and Ramsay Mac- of the Raster 916. told his audi 'militaristic' as the same wav Such it attacked cal British reform to distinguish be- ‚crim ana lne exe. Trotsky it, put • always the craven f British imperial- ggle to break the class from re- d build alternative leadership Marx- ried out by ght for Irish nat- endence against the who same dership in Ireland Id's treachery, Wil- er-cent support for h policy today, and talk of a Tory —all these are of the and Irish must Whier the directly WITh tradition against in Ireland. eares, shot in May f the revolutionary came close to Connolly withor bracing socialism, 1915 the the history which struggle and continually rise up ish imperialism, ar He doe: again. manner the socialists, future generation, past as it comes tr •... the seeds men of '65 and ians] are coming to culous ripening toc 'Rulers and the Realm they if wary agalnst SuCt springs from the graves of patri women spring nati "The Defenders Realm secret and in the think they have p They land. purchased half of midated the other think fools! the fools! "They have left ian dead, and holds these shall untree, peace!' the Today, • Realm' 'secretly open'. ripening' their siae against their enemi and British tish imperialism. Only the workin a revolutionary Ma with the strategy Permanent really inherit the Pearse which consciousness. What does it m atist mask talis ar means that, of the rotten Irish and all its on, the working cl forced into only revolutionary and its own dence Coll imperialism. It means, the British movement, active must and more open us ern Ireland by righ even fascist forces, emment cover to counter-revolution and in Ireland. It means working class, must start fr south, struggle that the workers government resign important fight against imperi It means a ceas the gle in like

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MacStiofain, in Ire and involvement training counter-revolutiona working class force nust be exposed ai by the strength ol ing class. The and of its the light This fight building which can Tory government. There was Marx dependence had bee British workers Today the advanced, more more combined cha more ine british wo the Irish assists make impossible t of British weaker will be the ernment at home; a parations of the ex will be gives wing setback. ly without ever em expressed he feelings through history of oppres struggle in Irelan y rise up against Bri. ialism, and will arise does not appeal, in of sentimental beautiful some leration, but to the comes to life: e seeds sown by tl Fen- 5 and '67 [th oming to their mira- ening today. • had need would guard Life processes. death, and from of patriot men and Defenders worked well in I in the open. They , have pacified Ire- think they have have foreseen but--the fools! the ave left us our Fen and while Irelan Ireland, at the Defenders of n' once again are secretly and in the the "miraculous Irish along- sur uggle British brothers ir enemies, the Irish defenders of Bri- e working class and onary Marxist party strategy of Trotsky's Revolution could in struggles immersed his oes it mean today? that, as the nation- falls from the tac ten Irish bourgeoisie s reformist hangers- orking class is being struggles where leadership lutionary vn political indepen- challenge British is, further, that in working-class active campaigning n against the more of North. open use d by right-wing and st forces, under gov- over, to prepare the Britain in that the Irish north and st start from the fact of British the Tory make it resign is the most element their st imperialism. s a ceaseless strug- British Labour against all repres- sentence rolvement of right- es and of fascists in and arming of posed and answered of the : work- direct responsi- must be brought to and fought. hasten the the bring down the a time . when that until Irish in- e had been won, the could not go socialism. struggles British working class workers to imperialism, Il be the Tory gov. : home; and the pre of the extreme right be given a severe

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People living in Eccles, Sal- ford, Swinton and Urmston are disturbed about a sulphuric- acid plant which is being built in Trafford Park, Manchester. The new factory is being built by Leather's Chemical Co Ltd, of Bradford. A letter to the Department of the Environment from the Eccles Town Council has sug- gested additional conditions to the permission, planning con- cerning the amount of sulphuric acid to be produced daily and dioxide and the amount trioxide to be discharged from the chimney. The council also wants for immediate arrangements notification by telephone to Urmston Salford Eccles, and Councils and Hope and Lady- McGovern break- well Hospitals of any A late result in the presidential malfunction the down or in lead elections has shown possibili- plant which could to an discharge of ties yet for the humiliated additional any compound of sulphur. McGovern camp. The from Both Eccles and Salford result came an island called Little Diomede Councils had objected to the factory on the grounds of pos- Bering Strait, just two in the miles off the Soviet-owned Big sible hazard public health. to Diomede Island. Reginald Martin, chief public When the health inspector of Eccles, has count was com- his department be- pleted it was a landslide vic- said that tory for McGovern. He got 21 lieved the factory chimney should because of votes and Nixon only five.

be higher high-rise flats in the area.

Actually the result was Ward, town's little early in any case.

Some- Aubrey the times it doesn't come through smoke-control officer, says that until January, two months after the ideal speed for smoke to ¡leave a chimney in that area the elections. By lis 50 feet per second, but the that time the water around the island freezes hard speed planned for the acid enough for an airplane to land 30 works chimney only de- feet per second. This, he said, and pick the ballots up livered earlier by parachute. 'a bit dodgy'. was rents for council homes under In October the Retail Price Housing Finance Index rose to 168.7 compared the Act. with 166.4 in September (Jan- There were also higher charges for many other goods and ser- uary 1962=100). The new vices. Price increases are now figure is 7.9 per cent above that of October 1971. Part of accelerating once again, as can the rise was due to higher be seen from the table below.

Per cent increase Retail Price over corresponding month a Index year ago 1971 October 156.4 9.4 157.3 November 9.2 December 158.1 9.0 1972 January 159.0 8.2 159.8 8.1 February March 160.3 7.6 161.8 6.3 April May 162.6 6.1 163.7 June 6.1 164.7 5.8 July 165.5 August 6.6 September 166.4 7.0 168.7 7.9 October Labour Research Department

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compiled by Frank Allaun, MP. The Tory government says it is near to 'solving' the housing problem. There are as many dwel- lings as families, about 18 million each, they claim.

It is true that physically there are just about enough places to live. But that's only the surface of the story.

There are nearly 11 million and children men, women living in houses which do not have a bath, hot water system or inside lavatory. More than 5 million of them living in dwellings held to be unfit for human habitation. Millions more live in over- crowded conditions and, of course, over 5 million council tenants are now saddled with £l rent increases as the Tories step up their plans to destroy the basis of municipal housing.

Frank Allaun, Labour MP for Salford East for the last 17 years, has compiled 50 interviews by workers living in squalid conditions up and down Britain. 'No Place Like Home' gives a vivid and often startling account of what it means to live in slums, with walls fall- ing down, damp and rubble, through the mouths of the tenants themselves. Take Gladys Edmonton, who lives in a four-storey tene- ment over 100 years old. The houses in the street are all owned by two landlords who are estimated to be making £7,500 a year, clear, out of the properties. The dwellings contain almost every housing detect: damp, vermin, overcrowding, lack of lavatories and bathrooms, rotting walls and ceilings, faulty drains. I've got five children, a ten- month-old baby, five-year-old twins, a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl,' says Mrs Edmonton. A part-time cleaner, she sits in living-cum-bedroom, the which is hopelessly jammed with good furniture. "The baby's got a cot in the corner and we've got a double bed in the centre. The twins beds. have got bunk As regards the older ones, the girl sleeps at the top of a put- you-up settee, while the boy sleeps at the bottom. 'We've no bath. We've only got cold water. Then there's getting the hot water. I must use 3 or 4s worth of gas on pots and kettles, just to bath them alone. I have to carry the water down the stairs to empty it and up again with clean water. 'We've been down to the council a few times about the overcrowding and they say they can't put us any further forward on the list than they have done." Reid Bessie • lives in the Gorbals. 'I'm 20 years in this Workers Press, Fri Frank Allaun, Labour MP for Salfond East house. I've five children in here. My husband is dead.

We've two bedrooms and a kitchen. The rats are terrible.

I could show you woollen jumpers that have been ate away with them. The kids are afraid to go to sleep at night because of them and you have to keep the light on. 'My name was down on the council waiting list first 19 years ago. Now I'm going into a four-room apartment.' Meanwhile, outside are the communal toilets, each serving three families. There is gas lighting on the landing. Thousands of farmworkers like Joe live in tied cottages which go with their jobs.

'If you lose your job you lose your home too. We had a dispute when we were in one house. I wouldn't do something so they gave me a fortnight's notice and took back the house. 'We had two sons by then, a baby and one nearly three.

was in November. In That that village the farmer had put the pressure on to prevent anyone giving me a job. 'From time to time he'd come down the hill and say: "Bramley you'll have to get out of this house, you know" was out of work from November to February. 'The union is against tied cottages for two reasons: It holds down wages, and it causes fear and anxiety? As useful as this collection of interviews is in illustrat- ing the depth of the housing crisis, the conclusions at the end of the book also expose Press, Friday December 1, 1972 PAGE 9 ford Last, for the last 17 years Allaun's complete political ad. bankruptcy. The 'left' MP, who spoke for the national executive at the Labour Party conference this year against those refus- ing to implement the Tories' 'fair rents' Act calls for: 500,000 new houses each year, a target which is 'chiefly a will'; improvement matter for old houses, the nationaliz- ation of land and help for the private landlord's tenant.

On the question of financing these projects, Allaun can only offer the usual hash of Fabian solutions. 'An expansionist economic policy; an annual wealth tax and a cut in military expendi- ture,' are his 'answers'.

But as long as there is capitalism there will be a housing crisis. The system can- deliver the goods on not housing or anything else for that matter because it is based on prohit. No amount of tinkering with the system will change that.

To resolve the housing crisis means firstly attacking the basis of the private ownership of the means of production, something which Allaun is not prepared to fight for.

But the next Labour govern- ment must be made to national- under workers' ize control and without compensation not only the land, but the banks, building societies and the en- tire building industry together with private landlord property.

Unless that is done there can never be the resources for a crash housing programme.

PAGE 10 Pindaacs Press, Friday December 1, 1972

SLL LECTURES

LONDON

Sunday December 3 • theory of knowledge Sunday December 10 Opponenta of Marxism

BEAVER HALL

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BARNSLEY

Sunday December 3 Capltalism and the crisis Sunday December 10 The struggle for power Sunday December 17 Revolutionary theory and the Marxist Party

RED LION HOTEL

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ANCILLARY

workers at processed because fresh and Ashton-under-Lyne's 650-bed foods. Tesco chairman, ment Hyman Mr Kreitman, told general hospital are to stage a one-day strike on December 13, in support of their 'frozen' £4-a-week pay claim. December 13 was the day on which the hospital workers' new pay agreement was due to start.

Masy f these works for on basic for a wage hours. Ancillary workers at Chester City Hospital have also an- intention nounced their of staging a one-day strike and a meeting of Manchester mass hospital workers is to be held tonight. In Rochdale calls have forward for one-day strikes and also the close-down of private patients' wards. Talks were held yesterday be- tween the employers, the unions and Health Minister Sir Keith Joseph. The ancillary workers include theatre attendants, operating cooks, porters, gardeners, cleaners and catering staff.

They organized the National are in Union of Public Employees.

WORK-STUDY

engineers at

CAV

London, Acton, west are working to rule In protest UNION LEADERS meet today against a management decision to on a plea from the 500 Aslan their negotiations reter pay to workers at Mansfleld Hoslery the Department of Employment.

Mills, Loughborough-some of Members of

TASS,

the them seen above - to give technical and supervisory section official backing to their strike of the engineers' union, the men and over pay alleged racial have refused to implement the discrimination. Tory company's version of the to piecework Yesterday Harold Gibson, pay law relating of prices. general secretary the Doors open 12 noon Price 5p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

SWINDON

Wednesday, December 13 8pm

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

Chairman: F. Willis, AEU steward at British Rail Engineering Workshop, Swindon (in a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory government resign!

• Build the revolutionary party!

nas described the results will resume the poli 'excellent'. Profit of paying dividends in line wi went by up 5.21 per cent to 5.72 per increased the ent during the open- earned as soon ng months of this year, are permitted to do s After the results we Shareholders are to announced Tesco shar normal 14-per- gained 4p to 86p. POLLY PECK, t ent dividend. It cannot se increased for 90 days fashion tights to ecause of the govern- perty conglomerate, h 'freeze'. But announced old shareholders: 'We figures which

DIES

AFFUSED

National Union of Hoslery and Knitwear workers, met strikers' leader J. Nalk to discuss the plea. After a mass meeting on Wednesday night, Gibson declared himself 'disappointed' that the strikers had voted to stay out. The strikers returned to work on Monday after a four- BEDWORTH Labour council in Warwickshire has capitulated to the Tory government and will the 'fair rents' Act implement from next January. was made pos- The decision sible on Tuesday night by the casting vote of the Labour chair- council, George the man Taylor. Councillors had tied 10-10 on implementation, with seven Labourites, two Liberals and one Tory voting to obey the law.

All the Labourites who voted in favour of putting the rents up 54p have already had the whip withdrawn for collaborating with the Tories. Spend less

LOCAL AUTHORITIES

were told 'spend less' in the White Paper on Local Government out yesterday. The Paper declares: A reduction by £10m of the level of expenditure which might otherwise have been expected would be consistent with a reso- lute effort by local authorities to minimize rate increases.'

This means that the Tories are demanding lower standards in such basic services as educa- tion, council housing, public transport, libraries and cleansing.

DRIVING SEAT

SIR GERALD Nabarro, Conser- vative MP for south Worcester- shire, has been elected chairman of the 330-strong House of Commons Motoring Club for the fifth successive year. Nabarro recently won an appeal against conviction for a driving offence when he was able to prove that his secretary had been driving when his car went the wrong way round a round- about and performed other un- usual manoeuvres. Workers Press, Frida previous profits. The the policy increased bulk of the record profits come from pro- • line with sed profits perty trading. Pre-tax profits for the soon as we d to do so. first six months to Sep- £167,531 results were tember were Tesco shares compared with £60,31l last year. Of this profit, £102,598 came from pro ECK, the perty speculation. Share- its to pro- holders will receive merate, has a half - yearly 10 - per - cent interim treble dividend. AS week dispute with the com- pany, but stopped again within hours demanding that 41 trainee knitters employed by the company during the strike were moved to other jobs.

They claimed they had evi- dence higher-paid knitting jobs were to be kept exclusively for white workers. Socialist Labour League

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7 p.m. Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

DAVE KIRBY

(CAV, Fazakerley, shop steward.)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committ (Union and tenant speakers in a pe Details of other provincial meetings

NEWCASTLE

SUNDAY DECEMBER 10, 7 p.m.

County Hotel Speakers:

MIKE

BANDA

(SLL

Central committee)

DAVID JONES

(YS national committee) BOB MAINS (Unemployed) VINCENT FOY (secretary Jar- row Trades Council. In personal capacity.)

BIRMINGHAM

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers: 033, Friday December 1, 1972 PAGE 11

CYRIL

MORRIS,

former assistant secretary of the British-Leyland Combine Shop Stewards' Committee, has gone over to join the management.

He has been made industrial relations officer by British-Leyland at their Triumph factory in Coventry. On the shop stewards' com- mittee Morris worked closely with the Eddie Union convenor Triumph, and Dick Etheridge, Communist Party convenor for engineering workers the at Austin Morris factory at Long- bridge, Birmingham. Now that he has joined the management, Morris will be free to inform Lord Stokes and his henchman about the internal workings of the shop stewards' committee. His knowledge and experience of the committee will be placed at the disposal of management.

The committee represents more than 150,000 workers at 60 factories in the combine.

Morris's first duty for man- agement will be to assist the introduction Measured-Day of Work Triumph. Since at Etheridge and company signed a Vicious MDW agreement at Longbridge a couple of weeks ago, Triumph remains one of the only plants which is still based on the piecework pay system.

And one of the people Morris will be dealing directly with is his old friend McGarry. LONG ISLAND Railroad, New York, the nation's biggest com- muter rail network, was hit by a strike yesterday. The 5,000 strik- ing workers are demanding a 30-per-cent pay increase. Their expired last contract January. Radio and television stations yes- terday urged motorists to form 'car pools' to help bring to work the 269,000 commuters hit by the strike.

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MIKE

(SLL Central committee) JOHN BARRIE (YS national committee) WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman Tenants' Action Com- Paisley mittee. In personal capacity.)

G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- tary)

WILLIE AITKIN

(YS national committee)

PETER SMITH

(Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.)

FINAL TOTAL £2,105.97—IT'S A RECORD!

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FROM OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

A JOINT meeting of London journalists, called by Central London and Magazine Books branches of the National Union of Journalists yesterday called on the union to pub- licly support Kevin O'Kelly, who was jailed for three months by a special court in Dublin last Saturday. O'Kelly, features editor of Radio Telefis Eireann, and a union member, had refused to reveal the source of an interview at the trial of Sean produced MacStiofain. Irish journalists have taken industrial action against the and are sentence planning further steps. O'Kelly is now free on bail pending an appeal. Dick Walsh, of the Dublin meeting NUJ, revealed at in fact had been that what broadcast was not the voice of Sean Macstiofain, but a report of an interview with him.

The meeting condemned the Lynch government for introduc- ing the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Bill based on principle that the a man was guilty until proved innocent.

Walsh showed that the Bill was only the culmination of a series of anti-democratic laws brought in over the past decade.

Under its provisions it would be an offence for any journalist or elsewhere in Ireland, Britain to report any statement by any organization member banned by the government.

Anybody named in the Press as a member of a banned or- ganization would have to dis-.

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The meeting also called on the two NUI branches to organize a demonstration in support of O'Kelly and NUJ members in Ireland. Registered as a newspaper at the Pos Workers Press. Offce. Published by Street, London. 186a Clapham High

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y December 1, 1912 IT IS MORE than magnificent! It looked like we would just scrape month. But your home this determination not only raise our £1,750 target but amazed us all by collecting £355.97 over the top a tremendous achievement.

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THE KEY National Union of made its first appearance befo rial Relations Court at a hear Tyne. In the shape of lodge secretary James Inskip, the union appeared before the explain why to court penalties for 'excessive over- time earnings' had been im- posed on one of his members.

Inskip's evoked appearance little interest at the NUM's Durham office, where a spokes- man would say only that lodge matters are usually handled by Trevor the union's relations officer at London headquarters, admitted that this was a first for the union. No breach of national policy is he said. 'Our involved, position is the same as that of the TUC: that unions are free to before the defend themselves court when attacked.' Union Lawrence secretary Daley was not available for com- ment. Yesterday's hearing arises out of a complaint by James Sim, a member of the Harton Westoe lodge of the NUM, of unfair industrial practice.

Members of the branch 'sent him to Coventry, he claims, he refused to pay a f3 when The penalty had been penalty. imposed, lodge secretary Inskip told the court, because Sim had worked too much overtime in September and October of last year. Inskip said that in 1965 there was bitterness and discontent among miners about excessive overtime being worked by some 'blue-eyed boys'. As a result lodge members resolved that miners would be to pay into the aged asked miners' benevolent fund any 'over the top' overtime work. In three weeks in September and October last year Sim was 'over the top' by £22. I therefore asked him to pay £6 and Sim said "I cannot afford to pay f6. I have four children and I am buying furniture".

I am not a hard man and I said that he should put £3 the fund and he replied "you , a four get f . . .-all from me", letter word. When I called at the lodge about this, feelings were ery high against him. Some of expel him from the union.'

Earlier Sim told the court that since the last hearing he had agreed that he should pay £3, but that it should be given to a charity he named. In exchange the lodge should rescind sending resolution Coventry. against this Tory government.

They might be able to fine AUEW and bring in laws to hold down wages, but everywhere workers are fighting back against these measures more than ever before.

Workers Press will continue to give a political lead to thousands of trade unionists all over the country. We must not rest until this Tory government is forced to resign.

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nion of Mineworkers yesterday ce before the National Indust- a hearing in Newcastle-upon- But these terms had not been accepted by the lodge. As a result of refusing to pay £3 he had been put on work which meant lower earnings and only the odd man among his mates spoke to him. His twin brother, George Sim, said that at the beginning of the trouble Inskip prevented other men going down in the cage because some of them had said that they would kick his brother.

• The NUM, whose executive is in ten days' time supposed to draw up & substantial pay-and- hours claim after a two-month delay, did not discuss the issue of the Industrial Relations Act at its conference in July. An executive report reaffirming the union's opposition was accepted without cossment.

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government in is matched by the struggles of In common with Mr Merrick Ulster and workers in in trade feel the many unionists Britain against the Tories.

immediate alternatives to Fianna The Heath is Fail either impossible government are already laying the basis for dic- bleak. tatorship Britain and in of the powerful 1i18im They consist precedented attacks the on but right wing Fine Gael on one working class. hand and on the left an assort- ment of smaller groups of which Now, in addition to the anti- the Labour Party the largest union law, the state pay legisla- although still with only 17 seats tion and plans for streamlining out of the 142 in the Dail.

government, the extensions of Ireland's special powers laws to The fate of Ireland is inextric- UK is of the under the rest ably bound up with Britain. active consideration. Heath has not only pressurized Lynch to stamp out the IRA, The British trade union and but both governments agree, as labour movement must act at the free trade treaty shows, that once to support workers in Ire- their interests lie in following land by following the lead of the road into the

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same the AT&GWU and demanding a under identical conditions.

General Strike to force the Tory government to resign. The fight for alternative Socialist Labour League Public Meeting Friday December 1, 7.30 p.m.

(near Holborn Tube) Speakers: Gerry Healy (national secretary of the Socialist Labour League) Sarah Hannigan (London YS regional secretary) Chairman : Mike Banda (SLL Central Commitlee)