Workers Press no. 945

workers press

LEADERS CALL

FOR ACTION

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRI

OVER 100 engineers lobbied the AUEW head- quarters in Peckham, south London, demanding the union stand firm against the £50,000 fine.

They were addressed by the union's assistant general secretary Ernie Roberts who asked them to keep the pressure up on the executive to give a lead in the struggle. Later the entire execu- tive came out to hear AUEW president Hugh Scanion thank the demonstrators for supporting the union (right). He called on engineers all over the country to take action to defend the policy of the union. A CALL to action was applications for accept or reject membership of the union'. issued yesterday by the It warns against people spread- leaders of the 1.2 million ing confusion in the ranks by Amalgamated persuading members to break the strong democratic policy of the union.

Union of Engineering at one,' "Executive council are Workers when they re- it states, to ensure the operation minded all members that of our union's policy decisions, particularly in the field of retain- it was policy to fight ing and encouraging free collec- tive bargaining in all establish- the anti-union laws-with ments where have members strike action if necessary.

involved. *We do what not Know The message came in a cir- further attempts will be made AUEW's cular to all the to financially cripple the union, council 2,800 branches drawn up by but the executive believes that our members will council at its the executive not stand idly by and allow un- meeting yesterday. It repre- worthy individuals such • as sents one more step towards Goad-apparently Mr sup- a showdown with the Tory ported by organizations and individuals who certainly have government. with no sympathy the trade The circular the union movement-to bring our reproduces ruination. union policy decided at the last organization national conference which urges with It ends appeal to an the leadership 'develop officials members and to take and mass campaign at district national level, including strike action if necessary, to defeat the

NEWS

of action the against Relations Act.' Industrial £55,000 fine the engineers on came in from Oxford, the Mid- It attacks the right wing lands, north London and Man- which argues that the £55,000 chester yesterday. penalty arising out of the Goad

MANCHESTER

The Confe- ( case should be paid to the In- deration of Shipbuilding and dustrial Relations Court. Unions plan to call Engineering This it out 200,000 engineering workers argument, says, important 'ignores the most Wednesday and the next principle of the trade

OXFORD

district committee of movement in general-and the

AUEW

is calling its

DUE

rule book in particular- members on Monday. The strike

OWIL

namely that inviolate right of will halt British-Leyland's subject Cowley, branches, to the ap- plex at Oxford. executive council. to

BIRMINGHAM

proval of In shop ste-

NEWSLETTER

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

*steps they consider appropriate to defend the policy of the union and to maintain and develop the

AUEW.

The statement is certain to e interpreted in all enginee action against destruction the unions face under the Tory laws. YESTERDAY saw the campaign grow stronger with the decision of the Manchester district Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, to call one-day strike next Wednesday.

Manchester has probably the largest concentration of engineers in the country. Last spring they were in the vanguard of the fight over the industry-wide pay claim. The resolution will be put to mass meetings of shop stewards in Salford and Stockport tonight and in Warrington on Thursday.

wards from British-Leyland's Longbridge works have asked the district committee to call a meeting of all shop stewards to decide on a campaign of action. Similar moves are under way in SHEFFIELD,

COVEN-

TRY and LIVERPOOL.

NORTH

All engineers in the LONDON district were yester- day called out for a one-day strike against the £55,000 next Monday (See p 12). Though a proposal for all-out indefinite action was defeated at a meeting of about 100 shop •

EMBER 13, 1972

No. 945 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

1GHT

RUEh BUT at CAV-Lucas shop stewards' meeting in Birmingham the right-wing got the upper hand and violated union policy.

Stewards from the -12 Lucas plants in the Birmingham area voted three to one against a call for a 24-hour strike. Apart from helping to isolate the Sudbury CAV workers the right wingers violate the principles of trade unionism.

Instead of fighting for the rights outlined in the AUEW circular, they prefer to run to the Tories and deliver their organiz- ation to the corporate state under which no worker or union will have the right to take indepen dent action. These men line up with the extreme right of the TUC, represented by Victor Feather, who on Monday made it clear he was ready to make his peace with the government it they made 'major changes' to the Industrial Relations Act. stewards from the district, re- presentatives from the 'Daily Express' and "Sunday Times' branches made clear there was considerable support for it on Fleet Street. CENTRAL London branch of the National Union of Journa- lists, representing 4,000 Fleet Street journalists yesterday con- demned the £55,000 fine and expressed full solidarity with any industrial action taken by the engineers to defend their trade union.

UP WITH

HEATH

BY THE

NECK

THE NEXT key move in the Lucas combine-which employs James Goad, is the Sudbury engineer who took the AUEW to the NIRC-will come today.

Stewards from the Lucas group in the south east will be meeting at Sudbury to discuss a proposal for strike action. Yesterday the AUEW unveiled Goad's record in the union. He has been expelled three times since 1963 for arrears, has writ- ten letters to newspapers hostile to trade unions and has worked while his fellow union members were on strike. It is the principles of men like Goad the Tories and the NIRC want to establish in the trade union movement. Yet so far there has been complete silence from other union leaders over the bat- tle the AUEW is facing. Jack Jones the so-called left- wing leader of the Transport and General Workers' Union has done nothing despite the fact that thousands of his members work alongside the engineers in industry. Jonescand his executive were responsible for the historic retreat before the court when they collapsed in the face of a £50,000 fine. ON FRIDAY the engineers will face the attempt by commission- ers to seize funds or property if the fine is not paid. By then, however, workers many more may have come out on strike to defend their basic rights.

Workers everywhere must mobilize behind the engineers now. If £55,000 is taken from this union it will be a blow to the whole working class.

workers press

LEADERS CALL

FOR ACTION

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

OVER 100 engineers lobbied the AUEW head- quarters in Peckham, south London, demanding the union stand firm against the £50,000 fine.

They were addressed by the union's assistant general secretary Ernie Roberts who asked them to keep the pressure up on the executive to give a lead in the struggle. Later the entire execu- tive came out to hear AUEW president Hugh Scanion thank the demonstrators for supporting the union (right). He called on engineers all over the country to take action to defend the policy of the union. A CALL to action accept or reject applications for was membership of the union'. issued yesterday by the It warns against people spread- leaders of the 1.2 million ranks ing confusion by persuading members to break the strong Amalgamated democratic policy of the union.

Union of Engineering 'Executive council are at one,' Workers when they re. it states, 'to ensure the operation of union's our policy decisions, minded all members that particularly in the field of retain- it was policy to fight ing and encouraging free collec- tive bargaining all establish- the anti-union laws-with in have members we strike action if necessary.

involved. •We do not know what The message came in a cir- further attempts will be made the AUEW's cular to all to financially cripple the union, 2,800 branches drawn up by but the council executive believes that our members will the executive council at its not stand idly by and allow un- meeting yesterday. It repre- individuals such as worthy sents one more step towards Mr Goad-apparently sup- a showdown with the Tory by organizations and ported individuals who certainly have government. with the no sympathy trade The circular reproduces the union movement-to bring our decided at the last organization to ruination.'

union policy national conference which urges It with appeal to ends an the leadership 'develop to officials and members to take district and mass campaign at national level, including strike action if necessary, to defeat the NEWS of action against the Industrial Relations Act.' £55,000 the fine engineers Oxford, the Mid- came in from It attacks the right wing London and Man- lands, north which argues that the £55,000 chester yesterday. penalty arising out of the Goad MANCHESTER Confe- The case should be paid to the In- deration of Shipbuilding and Court. dustrial Relations Engineering Unions plan to call This argument, it says, out 200,000 engineering workers ignores important the most next Wednesday and the principle the trade district of union

OXFORD

committee of book eneral ric

AUEW

calling its movement in our the is out Monday. The strike own rule particular members on that inviolate of will halt British-Leyland's com- namely right branches, subject the Cowley, Oxford. ap- plex In BIRMINGHAM shop ste- proval of executive council, to

NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 13

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

'steps they consider appropriate to defend the policy of the union and to maintain and develop the

AUEW?

The statement is certain to the unions destruction face under the Tory laws. YESTERDAY saw the campaign grow stronger with the decision of the Manchester district Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, to call one-day strike next Wednesday.

Manchester has probably the largest concentration of engineers in the country. Last spring they were in the vanguard of the fight over the industry-wide pay claim. The resolution will be put to mass meetings of shop stewards in Salford and Stockport tonight and in Warrington on Thursday.

wards from British-Leyland's asked Longbridge works have the district committee to call a of all meeting shop stewards to decide on a campaign of action. Similar moves are under way in SHEFFIELD, COVEN- TRY and LIVERPOOL. All engineers in the NORTH LONDON district were yester- day called out for a one-day strike against the £55,000 fine next Monday (See p 12). Though a proposal for all-out indefinite action was defeated at a meeting of about 100 shop • 4p

EMBER 13, 1972

No. 945

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BUT

at CAV-Lucas shop a stewards' meeting in Birmingham the right-wing got the upper hand and violated union policy.

Stewards from the -12 Lucas plants in the Birmingham area voted three to one against a call for a 24-hour strike. Apart from helping to isolate the Sudbury CAV workers the right violate wingers principles of trade unionism.

Instead. of fighting for the rights outlined in the AUEW circular, they prefer to run to the Tories and deliver their organiz- ation to the corporate state under which no worker or union will have the right to take indepen- dent action. These men line up , with the extreme right of the TUC, by Victor Feather, represented who on Monday made it clear he was ready to make his peace with government if they made the 'major changes' to the Industrial Relations Act. stewards from the district, re- presentatives from the Daily Express' and 'Sunday Times' branches made clear there was considerable support for it on Fleet Street.

CENTRAL

London branch of the National Union of Journa- lists, representing 4,000 Fleet Street journalists yesterday con- demned the £55,000 fine and expressed full, solidarity with any industrial action taken by the engineers to defend their trade union.

UP WITH

HEATH

BY THE

NECK

THE NEXT key move in the Lucas combine-which employs.

James Goad, the Sudbury engineer who took the AUEW to the NIRC-will come today.

Stewards from the Lucas group in the south east will be meeting at Sudbury to discuss a proposal for strike action. Yesterday the AUEW unveiled Goad's record in the union. He has been expelled three times since 1963 for arrears, has writ- ten letters to newspapers hostile to trade unions and has worked while his fellow union members were on strike. It is the principles of men like Goad the Tories and the NIRC want to establish in the trade union movement. Yet so far there has been complete silence from other union leaders over the bat- tle the AUEW is facing. Jack Jones the so-called left- wing leader of the Workers, Transport and General Union done nothing despite the fact that thousands of his members work alongside the engineers in industry. Jones and his executive were responsible for the historic retreat before the court when they collapsed in the face of a £50,000 fine. ON FRIDAY the engineers will face the attempt by commission- ers to seize tunds or property It the fine is not paid. By then, however, workers many more may have come out on strike to defend their basic rights.

Workers everywhere must mobilize behind the engineers now. If £55,000 is taken from this union it will be a blow to the whole working class.

Brandt faced with pay PAGE 2 Workers Presa, Wodnesday D sident Thieu Pre new war moves PRESIDENT Nguyen Van Thieu told the South Vietnam National Assem- bly yesterday the war in the south would continue.

He maintained his stand against any US-North Vietnamese peace accord. Thieu's speech was a further exposure of the fraudulent propaganda being peace churned out by the Americans and the Stalinists. While the United States spins out the Paris talks the Thieu regime is being armed and sup- long war with the plied for a National Liberation Front and North Vietnam. At the same time the bombing the north is being cynically of maintained and threats to the 200,000-300,000 political prisoners Thieu's hands used to bludgeon concessions from the North Vietnamese. In his speech Thieu proposed Christmas truce and an exchange of prisoners. The truce period could be used for talks with the 'communists, he said.

The South Vietnam president his demand for the reiterated withdrawal of all North Vietnam- ese troops from the south as a precondition of any agreement.

The Thieu regime has been given ample time to prepare for a possible ceasefire in the south.

Teams of Saigon counter- insurgency operatives are roam- ing the country warning that the death penalty will be rigorously applied to anyone who collabor- ates with the liberation forces.

Stalinists Internationally, the are peddling the illusion that 'pressure' on Nixon is required to 'force' him to sign an agree- ment. In reality the US government has deliberately generated a atmosphere in phoney peace order to prepare the next stage of the counter-revolutionary war in Indo-China. Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

GLASGOW

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17,2 p.m.

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

Students out

MONEY WORED

Big four put

MOROCCAN

students were forced of Rabat university after THE COST of investment was ycoleludy cannot. was up lending rates Moroccan troops surrounded by increased yesterday as the Dig and hours. four banks came into line and explanation was given to the raised their lending by 1.500 students. * Phe ent. move follows the deci- and curb thai mo of this and restrict money supply The expulsion, from the New Bank of England though the Bank sion by the England as well as campus, stop speculative is followed Grace sowerall rate. pres- Dullet notes similar raid Base rates are expected to against the f. But it con- increase business 1,000 Dalcil wner students were stabilize at 8 per cent, making with confidence, it out that flicts directly the points ordered out of their dormitories tory at the old campus, central Rabat.

COSE

new muse olie government Such malalons Lave dearer. to increase investment by misleading out to be in the The rate for 'blue-chip' in- during 1973. past. per cent Both campus areas were still dustrial CBI chiefs have warned that One other contradiction has firms borrowers surrounded troops yesterday and Shell, likely this rate Students Union ended a a-ill Moroccan National or growin wiil turn been canesia 8g out to be because ment's projected Budget de- go per ficit of £2,933m This while individual strike. cent Was launcaca allel tomers will be paying between by troops broke up a aemonstration 97 Ilt per cent on over- tionary policies will wipe this into the monetary supply and last Friday by has forced these students outside the drafts. counter-mea- teachers and

VUL

higher cost Real it in the do te the bank of England June sures BaucaLion punnin ing is in line with the attempt cent the three and the clearing banks. Rabat. per strike wave

DIE MACHI

UNIONS representing West Germany's rail- waymen and public service workers yesterday joined the country's 4 million metal workers in demanding wage increases of about I1 per The 1.4 million members of the public service union range from bus drivers to postmen and dust.

and railway union represents about the 430,000 workers The metal workers' union, IG Metall, announced Is Clâlm tor an li-per-cent wage increase last week and has since rejected as unrealistic an employers offer of a 5.8 per cent increase. The rederal intenor Vaster

WRO

necolaes with the public service workers, is expected to take a similar tough line to that of the metal employers. Less lilall

WECK

azu economic proressors warned the government that the settlement reached German metalworkers at a giant Stuttgart rally during fast year's strike with the public service workles would the pace whole list U1 Wage talks next vear Bureaucracy's medals won't hide The public servants' claim is t increases of between per cent Federal Accord- the Statistical Office, the cost of living in- Stalin's crime against minority creased by • 0.5 per cent between November. October and June riSe _une

COST

of living is currently running In 1944, Stalin's still barred from to cent. of TO MARK the 50th anniver- March Chechen-Ingush which have the Brandt homelands, orders, were their with an sary of the formation of the the of been Russined' by settlers trom

USSR,

the Kremlin has accuse• or condooraune wim lie militancy Nazis and deported en masse to growing the outside the area awarded the 'October Revolu- the depths of Soviet Asia. There The seas otto viet who proclaim y for the class, which voted the aecoration the 'success' nationality solidly Social-Democrats. were held in Lucy Chechen-Ingush nation of the until altions by the poncy, pass over an sence unest raced

WILD

Ild. Caucasus. Stalin's death. Thousands died. criminal actions of the Kremlin tion, his government will try The place burden the prob- order awarded bureaucracy West German collectively the 750,000 The Chechen-Ingush were only for example, declares capitalism Ilavud. Chechen-Ingush one national people I01 nel- OT number ThaT checher- mouse rave

DACKS

WOrKINY to Nazi invasion forces minorities deported by Stalin, left poverty and backwardness class. But the workers are inter- ing. War II. It crude great preting the the singes again st result World is a whom have been are Stalin's 'rehabilitated'. Others, with unbreakable of attendet waltewasu baruary successes friendship for the Soviet people.

crimes against this nation.

like the Crimean Tartars, are the employers. Day-to-day tactics weaken

:NEW:

Paris dustmen's strike

BY JUAN GARCIA

:FILM:

COMMUNIST

Party and Socialist Party _rally of the Union of every day to decide on mass members and left-Radi.

THREE

Left with the radical of the

LIC

Filippi. cals who sit on the Paris strike, given the banker,

YEARS

negotiations. Filippi president progress Council have demanded ouis-Dreyfus Bank This day-to-day the OF that the Prefect begins proach Carcelor negotiations with strik- aimed breaking the rrance-investment

WORKERS

militancy the European Mortgage ing dustmen. workers' Bank. work

PRESS

Although they con- During the Nazi occu- oi a con- demned property specu- cession. pation, was cen which rife Many dustmen eral secretary for Econo- lanon. the Paris, and called for Affairs Pétain's mic All lall de- more money to be temporary Collaborationis! expulsion from ment. collecting voted to truggling • interview fuse and cleaning Marchais • Shared up radio Europe Monday their obligatory on

BIRMINGHAM

banker's platform. against Paris, they made 110 55-hou1 for said WEeK Wake Marcars demand for the with- Their of £22. Pompidou's to SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

weakness and of drawal troops The

USSR

planned for Janu- Winte vacillation are expla. circles which the breaking the are week- the French leaders ary: 'We are in dis- old strike. strike is being conducted. cultivating broad was doeakers : Their 10 this visit, C. HEALY (SLL National Secre Similarly There has cam the wear turbed by we the

CGT

lea- have always been vicious call for removec detchin co-operation AITKIN - (YS national of registered feeble nite support exploitation mittee) the

USSR,

politi- the of from other sections of the workers. protest against use economically pear imperson achi (Rover class. CP cally,

SMITH

called Parass meet general scorelal mutuai

TOO•S

of 2,000 Georges Marchais when it's in our negotiations to interest, naturally?

CORIN REDGRAVE

(Equity. In sumed. strikers have been Platoriu a personal capacity.)

Rent rebel: Labour Party stabbed us in the back Fighting the Tories' rent Act Tal Dess eses THE LABOUR leaders have By Our Housing Correspondent made absolutely

NOW

ment to reimburse those coun- motion passed sion. clear they will back not cillors might calling on the Labour Labour councils nighting the charged for not putting rents councillors fined or Tory Housing Finance Act.

"'This treacherous decision latest betrayal of the completely national leadership comes end MEMBERS of the home policy adopted the of a complete refusal policy I alLy Frank Allaun, conterence october all unnes Dack Wedgwoo Benn, The day after Frank Allaun councils- -few they are Anthony motion commit- who refuse to implement the proposed Tom Bradlev, Cha mers. future Labour Tory legislation. Andrew Barbara Cun- Lillya Judith ades Arthur )erbyshir delegates reversed that deci- council leader Lestor. Fred Mulley. Walter Padley, Shirley Williams, Renee Short Ex-omcio

TCHOCES

art Harold Wilson Callashan. james Harold and Edward

LANARK

county council, the in the housing committee. On a Short. authority previous occasion, the commit- second largest housing Scotland defying the Tory had voted 2o to

1JO WILL

sennons not to implement. Housing Finance Act has capitu- Rents will now rise throughout A meeting of the key home lated to the government and will Lanarkshire by 75p a week fron committee implement rent increases.

Monday ICAL MarCI eden sion a 23 to 22 vote was taken a 23 to vote the other mit a future Labour govern-

TENANTS

& LOCAL

GOVERNMENT

SAYS

PRIORY

WORKERS

ACTION

CANSMASH

PRIOR

COMMITTEE

BY PHILIP WADE

CAMDEN Labour council in north London is now certain to face a Housing Commis- sioner or a special audit of their accounts.

The Tory government could also stop pay- housing subsidies due at the ment of £3m end of this month. would happens they Counci oficials sav it this have to resort to enormous short-tenn Donowin involving high Such money would by a rate increase amounting be Nave lu Valalilcu 25p to something Suce pound. comply with a a content continue made majority. least Labourites voted with the

WHEN

MINERS'

union By David Maude Our Indus who tried to move implementa- Finance leaders meet to decide their ot the Housing Lawrence Daly, National Act. pay policy today, some of Union of Mineworkers' • secretary, pointed out at a Press may still be reeling conference The default order issued at them month money involved the end last gave from the barrage of free pub- money are in any cancer «ays Fleet licity given by Street case far less than the £2,000m rent increases to the government's '£1,000m robbed the trom successive coveraners sace bail-out' to the industry.

nationalization in order to pro- Now that there is no chance British capitalism with cheap would But it both be that nappening, Ure CUdl. can have no alter- dangerous and treacherous if government to the Coal Industry Bill but the

LICW

also obvious that with 1S penalties contained in the Act.

were used in any way to stop menderso or tae curopean coa and Steel Community workers in the industry press.

just three A Housing Commissioner can ing the demands weeks the pay they away government be the appointed assullit could scarcely have aeciaea earlier unis yeat Ics. concurent controlnions. than it proposes to do. as has happened in Wales. Or The Bil is bv no means the with extraordinary audit bonanza for miners suggested in The Bill's plans for subsidies view to surcharge can be made of the Press. It blue- most is a on towards coking coal, in the case • o a co. stocking costs, print lor soccu-up rcaunadlicito Derbyshire, and Conisborough, and entry into Common amount of The coal currently Yorkshire, councils. Market-all on the cheap. meeting

DOWCI

ale some Point one is that the '£1,000m An audit closures more Labour councillors opposing bail-out, "Sun' described as European industries have enjoyed liable to a bill implementation it. is not £1.000m al all ›f about £175,000. ¡or severdi veds. The total amount This was freely After the meed Workers money which government damitted O'Connor told could become liable to give the Monday by Derek Ezra, chair- Paddy National Coal Board three man of the industry over This government Press. £525m. The dulging in a vicious attack Is halt that: the working class and we're accum aren deDi calmed not going to take part in it.'

deficit which the Tories are to being off has already lost pelled wrecking write been reverse and represents no fresh cost.

policy to a considerable extent' Workers Press, Wednesda yesterday condemned the home policy committee's decision: 'From what I can see they were arguing that conference did not commit them to any- thing. They said it was because being surcharged were we under the Local Government Act 1933 and not the Housing Finance Act 1972 which the motion referred to. 'But this is ridiculous and makes things a damn sight harder for us. It's a stab in the back for us.' —in a precarious position. Last week they voted to continue non- implementation by 53 to 48.

Glasgow leader, Cllr Richard Dynes said yesterday Lanark's decision change that majority. "This absolutely puts us out on a limb. We are now left sow, with the smaller burghs, he said.

Our Industrial Correspondent The Tories are always prepared to do business when they think there is a chance of undermining the conditions and living stan- dards of the working class.

And there is plenty of evidence that union leaders-under the whip of more unemployment in the industry - are prepared to give them just such a chance in the mines. In his parliamentary statement on the new Bill on Monday Trade afternoon, and Industry Secretary Peter Walker said that on the scale provided for could not be justified without 'effective and sustained efforts by all sides of industry to im- prove its competitive position, costs and re-establish contain viability. He seemed confident he would get it. And at a DTI Press con- ference later, Industry Minister Tom Boardman made clear that the only obstacle he sees are a "dissident voices' in few the unions. Lawrence Daly denied that this means there is a backstage deal between the union leaders, the NCB and the government over the size of the miners' wage claim. Wednesday December 13, 1972 PAGE 3

TECHNICIANS

the at Herbert-BSA Edgwick Works, Coventry, claim they have been locked out by the company over their claim for an f8-a-week pay increase.

Members of the technical and section supervisory of the Amalagamated Union of Engineering Workers, the 150 men involved, have been picket- ing the gates of the works since last Wednesday afternoon.

The firm's highest offer was £2.40 after the end of the Tory government's pay-control legis- lation. This was rejected by the men, who imposed work sanctions to force an improvement. Then, a TASS shop stewards' told Workers Press, spokesman the firm said that anyone carry- ing out sanctions was in breach of contract. The threat was that if normal working was not resumed, the workers concerned would be taken off the clock for pay pur- poses. When one worker was taken off there was a sit-down strike. Said the TASS spokesman: "The firm withdrew all of us from the clock at 1l a.m. last Wednesday. This why we regard it as a lock-out.'

• See TASS man's reinstatement fisht, p.ll. There have only been informal discussions so far, he said. But he stressed that it was unanimous view of the NUM executive that the industry's total costs would be taken into account during negotiations.

And Joe Crawford, the colliery overmen's leader is this who year's chairman of the TUC, said that because of the Counter- Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Act and the Tories' planned follow-up legislation on pay con- trol, any discussion of the wages issue at present was 'just guess- work'. Crawford's comment must be indicative of the mood among the right-wing union leaders in the industry on the eve of negotiations on the claim.

These have already been de- layed several times - they are expected to start formally now on January 10—and the right wing has consistently maintained that the £5-£7 increases asked for at the NUM conference in July are 'subject to negotiation'.

Thursday's meeting will be a test of whether the lefts' and Communist Party members on the union executive go along with this deplorable and reactionary policy.

RICHARD NEVILLE:

A DROP-OUT DROPP

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday Dec

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Richard Neville, the editor of 'OZ' and the underground freak that the bourgeois media loves, has issued a call for expatriate Australians to return home. Why this sudden burst of patriotism from the commune of Notting Hill Gate? Neville believes that the election of the Labour government in Aus- tralia spells a new era of social reform and 'permissiveness'.

'. In the closing paragraph of his the ultra-Tory column Beaverbrook newspaper, the London 'Evening Standard', he says: 'If Whitlam's victory really has opened the door to per- missiveness, then some may consider it their duty to go back and put their foot in it' Mr Neville is not new to putting his foot in it. Workers Press has previously drawn at- tention his eulogies for to James Reid, Communist Party leader of the UCS work-in.

He wrote in one of his Tory Press columns: I have occasionally been moved by political oratory such as by Jimmy Reid in Glasgow, but he was speaking not to me, but for me' previous column In a almost 18 months ago Neville said: 'Gone was the cheap left sectarianism and the dank rear-vision party bureaucracy.

No trace of forelock wrench- ing, inferiority or the mystical belief that some people were born to rule. After 16 weeks •.. they have claimed to have shown not only that they can run an industry as well as the government but better ...

'It was difficult not to be swept along by the collective joy of the men and women in the audience. Especially as the crowd roared approval of Reid's closing declaration that it should be the intention of every one of them to make this earth as nearer to para- dise as a human ingenuity will allow' Richard Neville: says that the election of a Labour government is 'tantamount to revolution.'

The 'paradise earth' on ended in Reid and his Stalinist colleague, James Airlie, sign- ing a divisive deal with the Tory government and Mara- thon Manufacturing. The deal contains what amounts to a no-strike pledge and destroys traditional craft demarcations.

In the process more than 2,000 workers lost their jobs.

Two thousand, Mr Neville!

'No trace of forelock wrench- ing'? Listen to Airlie on the birth of the Govan deal: "In our opinion they [the Tory government] have lived up to their responsibility for this in- dustry and also for the com- munity as a whole. 'Regardless of the differ- ences we have had in the past we have to say the govern- ment has taken the correct decision and we welcome it and congratulate them' The aghast man fron "The Guardian' later said in his article that 'it must be one of the warmest comments ever passed by a communist on a Conservative government.'

The praise was so fulsome that at last year's Communist Party Congress one of the hacks used Neville's 'Evening Standard' remarks to boost morale! esday December 13, 1972 Neville's latest pin-up, Gough Whitlam, и busy Mr Neville has been since then. He's been to the convention Democratic Party he enthused in Miami where about the radical drift in US politics. His latest pin-up is Gough Whitlam whose politics are about as radical as Roy Jen- kins' and just as pompously middle class. according to Mr Not Neville: 'In the context of the Australian political scene, this change of government repre- sents something more than democracy's triennial list- posting of new house prefects.

It is tantamount to revolu- tion. (Our emphasis.) what does he base this On analysis? Within astonishing days of taking office Whitlam embarked on these assaults on capital: • In line with decisions already taken by the Tory regimes in Britain, the US, and Japan, Whitlam is sending an ambassador to Peking. • He has made Lionel Mur- phy, a Queen's Counsel, the new Attorney-General. Neville reports that Murphy was 'last heard of distributing leaflets outside local cinemas arguing the case against censorship'.

• Whitlam has endorsed • the principle of abortion on de- mand. • Mrs Whitlam is credited with forming a Women's Lib group. Neville reports that a 'scholarly friend' told him that Mrs Whitlam was 'possibly the most interesting and active wife of any politician in the world'. Well, now, isn't that absn- lutely amazing. Isn't that fighting charter for socialism!

Neville says it 'sounds like a communiqué from the Black Panthers. (Our emphasis.)

Neville is talking utter poli- tical rubbish. He hasn't got Whitlam, who is drawing up real plans for a sh two thoughts of any substance to rub together. He has built a spurious re- putation for being 'progressive' and yet he has stumbled from one political misfortune to the next. The former public schoolboy who comes from one of Syd- ney's wealthy, upper-class families was telling us only a couple of years ago that the thing was "play power' This was a new political development which rested on individuals the thesis that if played together and with each other more regularly they could somehow become liber- ated. This inspired philosophy appears to have given way to old-style, fuddy duddy social democracy. Neville now asks his friends to stop play- ing with each other and pack themselves in boats to Down Under to join in the 'socialist revolution' His suggestion could be laughed out of court if it wasn't so serious. Neville's column is read and believed by people who are not fully acquainted with the real poli- tical developments in Aus- tralia as they reflect the international situation. And when he's talking about the Labour government, he's talk- ing about the future of the working class. We don't think these are questions which should be left to hippy careerists. They must be dealt with seriously and emphatically. In recent weeks there has been a world-wide movement to social democratic parties: West Germany, Hol- land, New Zealand, Australia and even a left swing Japan. This is a reflection of the rapidly-maturing economic crisis. This is a massive de- monstration of the resolve pense TIne the these come to the are parties which •are Whitlam one item of cribed as throwing trated opportunist working class. friends in Australia: blems: effects of the instability, pricco. There is housing and election the

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which it is. wilh the Australlan working Clas: opposition to the ex- class mean that govern- will countries work- They leaderships and policy He is frus- and the in the Behind this propaganda business are with the increasing slum deteriorating Whitlam wife class- the new working class. Within days of the election there were widespread strikes.

Oil tanker drivers threatened a national strike unless they received a 100 per cent wage rise and a 35-hour week and than 1,200 domestic more airline pilots voted for a country-wide stoppage for a 35-per-cent increase. Almost in the same breath the country's 32,000 building workers decided to down tools in support of two jailed union officials. They were imprisoned in Adelaide, South Australia, on contempt of court charges.

If Neville was in Australia he would no doubt be join- in the chorus of near- ing hysterical, reactionary de- mands by the Tory Press for 'industrial harmony'—a fav- ourite concept of Jimmy Reid's. In his 'Evening Standard' piece, Neville reters to the 'gifted leadership' of the trade unions. It is this same 'gifted leadership' under Bob Hawke, general secretary of the Aus- tralian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) which is de- manding that everyone go back to work at once. We have caught Mr Neville precisely where we want him -in the camp of the bour- geoisie, tied to the coat-tails of reformism. For all his shrill cries about being 'the alternative voice' and the spokesman for 'coun- ter culture'. ', Mr Neville is what he is: a part-time sub- scriber to the Tory Press and television. He's one of them.

So much for the Labour 'revolution' described by Mr Neville. In the week follow- ing the election, prices on the stock exchanges 'rose'.

This would indicate that the Australian ruling class does not fear imminent expropri- ation!

On October 18, 1971, US President Nixon flew to Fort Detrick, Maryland, and announced that the biological warfare facili- ties there would be con- verted into a cancer re- search unit. Just over a year later the US still conducting army 1s what it describes as 'defensive' biological warfare research at Fort Detrick. The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAM-

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occupies massive a modern concrete building there and its annual budget has jumped 50 per cent to $6.1 billion. Indeed, according to a recent in New Scientist', article research in the United States on all types of lethal chemical weapons has nearly doubled in the three years since Nixon first publicly disavowed their use. The President originally promised to 'destroy existing bacteriological stocks weapons' and the White House still talks about 'dismantling biological warfare facilities'.

But, says the 'New Scientist', it is now clear that the phrases being interpreted are as narrowly as possible' The huge germ-breeding plant at fine Bluit, Arkansas, for example, has been sealed- off-but not dismantled. And the United States forces still maintain stockpiles of lethal nerve gas doses at military bases around the world. A statement released recent- ly by Senator Mike Gravel that spending revealed on lethal chemicals has jumped in just from $4.3m to $8m over two years. While the US is continuing Important shortcomings in industry are poin- Ukrainian ted out in a recent editorial in the Kiev paper, 'Radyanska Ukrayina'. • Criticism is directed parti- cularly against the heavy in- dustry of the region, much of which is working well below capacity. Over 30 blast fur- naces and some open hearth furnaces and rolling mills have not yet reached the planned level of output. A number of coal mines are also working below capacity. Technical shortcomings its chemical and biological warfare research it • is also avoiding international agree- ments on chemical and biolog- ical warfare. Just how useless these agree- shown by the ments are is fact that when the US-after a delay of some 15 years— finally placed before the Senate the 1952 Geneva Protocol pro- hibiting first use of 'asphyxi- ating, poisonous other or gases', Nixon calmly announced that it did not apply to herbi- cides and riot control gases.

This was made even more ludicrous this year when the United Nations' Conference Committee on Disarmament approved a ban on the develop- ment, production and stock- piling of biological weapons.

Ninety nations, including the United States, signed the con- vention to this effect. The Americans then declared that it did not apply to 'defensive' research and the maintenance of production facilities.

This is extremely convenient because-as 'New Scientist' points out—to devise defence against a potential it is warfare agent germ necessary to know how to pro- duce, stabilize and disseminate it. So the Americans simply devise new agents... in order to know how to defend them- selves against them! Meanwhile the US army con- tinues to instruct military per- sonnel from other countries in techniques the of chemical warfare at its Fort McClellan Chemical Centre and School.

Army spokesmen say there is no contradiction between this and President Nixon's frequent public about utterances abandoning research and pro- duction in this field. Below: Stockpiles of nerve gas artillery shells at an army plant in Indiana.

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have been revealed in the course of the construction of new plant. Designers and me- chanical engineers are blamed for most of the shortcomings.

The paper calls for greater control by the ministries over the designing of new projects.

It does not see that the short- comings of which it complains are inseparable from the rule of bureaucracy, which is not subject to any control and is responsible for gigantic errors and mismanagement which afflict the whole Soviet economy.

BY TOM KEMP

Independence in Africa almost always signalled a drift towards a one- party state controlled by a tiny clique, themselves well into the pocket of imperialism. Zambia, led by Kenneth Kaunda, the darling of the British Fabians, is no exception.

Under the guise of 'demo- cratizing the state institutions' Kaunda recently pushed legis- lation through parliament which outlaws all opposition and institutes a regime suitable big British, South the to African and European mono- polies that rule the country.

The 17-strong opposition walked out of the parliamentary house in Lusaka after standing orders had been suspended to and third allow the second reading of the Bill to be taken in the same day. Commented one opposition- ist: "They did not want to listen to us there. This is the only way we can register our protest.' legislation, called the The Constitution Amendment Bill, follows Kaunda's ban on the main opposition party, the United Progressive Party and the arrest of 123 leaders.

Under the constitution 'mark two' Kaunda retains all his powers and will be allowed for an unlimited stand to number of terms. The National Assembly will be increased in membership, but nearly half of the addi- tional seats will be controlled directly by the President-he will appoint the deputies and The Prime the Speaker. Minister will also be appointed Workers Press, Wednesd by Kaunda to handle govern- ment administration, and General Secretary will be Party administrator. Kaunda got quite ecstatic the Zambia. He over new recently told a rally: 'Zambia within the next ten years-if and I maintain peace, you stability and love-is going to be a paradise on earth. Despite the new proposals, "participatory which he calls democracy', Kaunda will find his hopes hard to realize. The root of the country's crisis lies in the economy and parti- cularly its dependence on copper and the world price of copper, now at a record low.

A staggering 95 per cent of Zambian exports are in copper and the economy depends on commodity. The rest of the énterprise is jointly controlled by monopolies like big Unilever, Barclays and Stan- dard Bank, Fiat and Italian consortium ENI. The government's share in industry was part of the much- 'nationalization plan. vaunted In fact Kaunda paid for any part taken over and has made it clear that the enterprises will be run on strictly capitalist lines. The drive towards dictatorial powers has therefore continued apace with a growing militancy among the working class and students who have discovered that independence does not equal liberation. Kaunda banned the African National Congress Party in February 1970. When this bour- geois opposition re-emerged as the UPP, he acted again, made it illegal and eventually arrested its organizers, including the UPP leader, and Kaunda's old Wednesday December 13, 1972 PAGE 5 Above: Kaunda who has brought in anti-strike laws and legislation to eliminate opposition in parlia- ment. school friend, Simon Kap- wepwe. However much more a serious threat has come from the working class. Kaunda has introduced his own version of the Industrial Relations Act to make un- official strikes illegal (needless to say the leaders of the unions are clients of the president, and perhaps even more hostile than he to the rebellious rank and file). Says Kaunda: 'While all strikes are not prohibited in Zambia, union leaders must that good industrial ensure relations exist without resort- ing to strikes.' An example of the kind of thing Kaunda was talking about occurred in April when strikes flared on the copper belt over appalling safety conditions which led to the death of a miner. men were told they Then would be disciplined under the new regulations, that is, their ring-leaders would be sacked if they did not immediately call off the strike. Kaunda's Labour Minister, Wilson Chakulya, made an emergency speech on the issue: 'It is all very well having constitutional rights under which a group of workers is entitled to strike for a just but when they abuse cause, privilege, they don't de- that serve to have it.' With these kind of state- ments and the new proposals it would seem the Zambian ruling clique has very little to learn from the British Tories.

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BY JACK GALE PHOTOGRAPHS

Despite the ballyhoo about the provision of nursery schools, the Tory government's White Paper on education pro- vides for no overall in- crease in real expenditure over the next ten years. Indeed, given present infla- tionary trends, real expendi- ture is likely to be less particularly as the paper de- clares: 'Unit costs cannot be allowed to go on rising.'

What is planned is a re- distribution educational expenditure in such way that higher education will be slashed. This will be done in the following ways: higher (1) Expenditure on education will increase at a rate of 5 per cent compared with 6.5 per cent over the last decade. (2) The previously projected figure of 316,000 full-time y December 13, 1872

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students in universities by 1977 is reduced to 306,000.

(3) Earlier proposals to have 835,000 students in higher education in 1981 have been slashed to 750,000. (According to Laurie Sap- per, general secretary of the University Association of Teachers, the target set for will fall university places short of the demand by some 75,000 to 100,000. This is a direct reversal of the 1963 re- commendation of the Robbins Report that places should enlarge in proportior to the number of pupils emerging from the schools with stan- dard qualifications.) (4) The proportion of univer- students sity post-graduate will be cut from 19 per cent to 17 per cent. (5) Students will be pressu- rized to live at home-thus saving expenditure on student accommodation. (6) Despite the much-vaunted expansion of polytechnics, the number of students actually in teacher-training will be halved. (7) Universities are to re- ceive fewer resources in pro- portion to their students than they have in the recent past.

The government has im- posed a cut in the grant for • each student in the coming years. (It is significant that, in the allocation of finance outlined in the White Paper, there is increased for provision no teachers' pay.) In the light of these facts, the new Diploma in Higher Education (DipHE) is simply higher education on the cheap indeed, the National —as, Union of Students has already pointed out. Clearly what is planned is a reduction in the rate growth of university student numbers, accompanied by an even larger cut in the rate of growth of expenditure on universities. This is in line with the re- actionary educational views of people like Kingsley Amies, who would preserve univer- sities for a privileged élite.

Amies-along with Rhodes Boyson, Robert Conquest, R. R. Pedley, Richard Lynn, Cyril Burt and others-be- 'Black longs to the Paper Group'. This organization fights to end comprehensive schools, retain the 11-plus and examinations at all strict increase discipline in levels, schools by such methods as corporal punishment and res- trict entrance to higher edu- cation. The Black Paper Group ad- heres to the views of H. J.

claims that Eysenck, who certain population groups are genetically inferior to others. These people will welcome the cuts in higher education.

But there is a danger that some teachers may welcome White Paper because of the for increased its provisions expenditure on nursery schools, in the mistaken view that the bad bits can be mea- sured off against the 'good'.

education, of Nursery is extremely valuable. course, possibilty But there is no whatever that the Tories are concerned with the welfare of working-class children. A gov- ernment which is busy throw- thousands of workers ing on- hacking at their the dole, trade union rights and forcing up the cost of living is hardly itself with

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taking office Educa- Since Secretary Mrs Margaret tion Thatcher has taken school milk from young chil- away dren, forced school meals up a price which many low- paid workers cannot afford, ignored requests from ers' replace organizations to rotting school buildings and now undermined higher edu- cation. Why should she have "seen the light' edu- nursery cation? Neither she nor her Tory colleagues have done any such thing. The British bourgeoisie has always geared its educa- re- quirements as employers. The edu- very hirst public act-Fosters' of cation Act 1870- -was response growing competition Bri- tish industry from Europe and and the need tor School children lobby parliament to protest against the policies literate workers as production Thatcher'. Above let. Mrs Thatcher arrives. under Shrone became more complex. Workers Press, Wednesday December 13, 1972 PAGE 7 YouR CHIS

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-Eno ciently'-educated workers and children Above: Mothers abili- whose value-producing of protest Mrs Thatcher's axing ties will be high, but who are grants usea Tor cut off from higher education.

bulldings, toilets and washing facilities in schools. This class-the working Tories hope--will be kept in by unemployment The emphasis on technical line mass education in the early years and corporatist. measures against its unions. of this century was a turthe will response to the same develop- The universities he centres for research financed When ments. capitalism en- tered by and appropriated by slump conditions - in Educa- 1931 and the ensuing years- monovotes education was one of the first tionally, they will be the pre- serves of the children of the things to suffer, under the Geddes Act. selected ruling class and

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"brighter' The 1944 Act, which intro- representatives duced the and the the working and middle 'secondary - education - for - who will Classes specialized all' fraud, was a concession to wdys for lawyers. administrators, scien- working-class demands social change and better op- tisthe only way to secure a portunities for their children The of higher real education for the children expansion of the working education throughout western class by 1S fighting to get rid of the Tory Europe and America in the Labour 1960s was a panic reaction to the Russian success in putting ernment, pledged to socialist placed the first man into polices Wolle have sualt 1961. upon it demands from work- The 1972 White Paper is in ers organizations to nationa- lize, the By compensation, same Con- willout all the means of production. centrating resources at distribution and exchange and lower end of the age-scale and expenditure higher to use such resources to carry against the policies of the Tory Education Minister, as 'Milk- through a genuine reconstruc- known tion of education. arrives, under heavy police guard, at South Bank Polytechnic.

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday D Following the articles Reneg dealing with the situation in now examines the British se Unified Secretariat of the Fo International Marxist Group ( In a letter sent in July 1970 to the Socialist Workers' Party in America (see yesterday's Workers Press), the Marxist International Group in Britain accused its leaders with sending agents over to form a tendency in order to strengthen the SWP's minority support in the Unified Secretariat. Alan Harris is regarded as being a leader of this tendency whose bookshop is a cover for the minority and a means of sending in resources to assist it. Jordan and his friends sought to put a stop to this by Iluetiu tu mere or leis concern-Leader Books-with the IMG's Red Books. But Harris would have none of it, and neither would the SWP.

In fact, the collaboration became, if anything, even closer. In September, 1970, Jordan was writing to the SWP com- Americans' plaining that the Pathfinder Books had made a "big loan' to Alan Harris in the form of books (p. 13). The IMG clearly considered that the loan' was, in fact, in in- vestment in the minority tendency. The previous month Harris had written to the United Secretariat setting out his own case. The letter (pp. I1-12): London. August 22, 1970 To the Unified Secretariat of the Fourth International.

Dear Ernest, The National Committee of the IMG at its July 25/26 meeting passed the following motion: ... that this NS cen- sures Comrade A. Harris for his unilateral action re Leader Books and requests the US to investigate the matter immedi- ately ... 1 wish to make a formal protest to the US that such a resolution was passed against me and in my absence. I was not invited to attend the relevant part of the NC meeting in order to state why such a motion should not be passed. Nor was I informed that any such motion was to be considered by the NC. To pass a motion of censure, behind the back of the com- rade concerned, is a violation of the democratic norms of our movement. The more so when that comrade is known to hold a minority view on a number of questions. Further, the manner in which I was informed of the NC decision makes the matter even more shocking. 1 formally learned that the NC had passed a motion of censure against me on August the Inesday December 13, 1972 'Renegades from Trotskyism' tion in Ceylon, JACK GALE itish section of the revisionist the Fourth International, The Group (IMG). 12 when the Letter to Mem- bers were distributed to the London branch and when Leader Books was placed on the branch agenda at the re- quest of the branch executive committee. I do not accept the motion of censure against me because by I deny that setting up Leader Books I have in any way acted against the princi- ples and spirit of democratic centralism. It the majority of the NC think that 1 have violated democratic centralism, serious enough to warrant a motion of censure then they duty bound to proceed are with charges against me. I therefore request that the question of my censure by the NC of the IMG be put on the agenda of the next meeting of the Unified Secretariat. with revolutionary greetings, Alan Harris c.c. Pat Jordan Following this letter, the minority tendency in the IMG and its allies the SWP moved into action. In July, 1970, four members of the IMG's National Com- mittee submitted a letter to that body completely condemn- ing it and supporting the SWP.

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Political Bureau the dated July 31, 1970. Since the content of the letter to the Political Com- mittee of the SWP is as yet for the information of the NC members, the tendency has not discuss this letter met to although large parts of it directly concern the tendency and serious allegations are made against it. Four members of the ten- dency, three who are full mem- bers of the NC and the other an alternate member, protest most strongly against the con- tents of the letter sent to the Political Committee of can our opinion it is a

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scandalous letter-full of un- substantiated allegations, un- truths and irrelevancies-and can only be motivated by dead- end factionalism. Under the pretext of writing the SWP on the question of

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Want Ihanker, Resoution The IMG bookshop, 'Red Books, In Pel Leader Books-with the IMG's booksto the sale of Trotskyist literature in Britain, an outrageous attack has been made on the tendency in a manner which is quite alien to the democratic norms of the Trotskyist movement.

The method of substituting slanders for political polemics is not a new and the one Fourth International has a long tradition and an exemp- lary record of struggle against this method. The majority leadership of the IMG will only be able to come to grips with the political problems confronting the IMG by ensuring that a democratic and non-factional atmosphere prevails throughout the IMG so that the political ideas can be discussed in an objective manner. We ask, what is the purpose of such irrelevancies as to how S. Williams cast her vote at the last world congress; whether some members of the tendency have been members of another section at some time or another or have even played a role. in the formation of the tendency? Is the purpose of these irrelevancies to create a feeling that comrades joining the IMG with previous membership in another section are 'foreigners' whose loyalty to the IMG and is in question? We the FI doubt this can be the purpose because there are of course, many members of the IMG who have previously been members of other sections and who support the majority. The -LE ks; in Pentonville Road. Jordan instructed H s bookstore. Left: Joseph Hansen, leading mel purpose of these irrelevancies can only be an attempt to create an atmosphere wherein the loyalty of minority mem- bers is in question. Such methods do not guaran- a democratic and tee non- factional atmosphere in which to discuss the political questions facing us in the IMG.

For our part we welcome comrades join the IMG who with experiences and previous membership in other sections of our international movement, and certainly do not question the loyalty of such comrades to the IMG regardless of whether they support the majority or minority positions.

According to the letter, the tendency ' ... is widely con- sidered to be in solidarity with the SWP's criticisms of the majority position in the Inter- national.' We do not know the basis of such a statement. The political programme of the tendency is no secret. It is documented, for everyone to read, in the tendency statements and docu- in the pre- ments written conference discussion bulletins of the 1970 conference of the IMG. As yet, the tendency has not discussed the international questions, but if it should do so, and if it did support the minority positions, so what?

Would this be a disloyal act or violation democratic of centralism? Does loyalty de- mand support for majority positions? The letter states that ... CO tructed Harris to merge his concern- ading member of the SWP. this tendency will become even more isolated the more it appears to be trying to circum- vent the democratic norms of the IMG.' What does this mean? The tendency is either circumventing the democratic norms of the IMG or it isn't.

If it is, then the leadership has the responsibility to lay charges and substantiate them. Other- wise it must refrain from making such wild and unsub- stantiated allegations. The leadership must conduct itself in such a manner that it is clearly seen to be the defender and guarantor of minority rights. stated at the last NC As meeting, Leader Books has not been set up by the tendency.

It is not a political centre for the tendency and any sug- gestion that another section is materially aiding the tendency in order for it to have its own political centre is too • serious an allegation to be raised in the irresponsible manner that it has and is another form of the Paris gold' myth. The letter should therefore be withdrawn and a further letter sent to the Political Committee of the SWP to in- form it of the motion passed by the majority NC and referred to the Unified Secre- tariat for action. Huff Sands Scott Williams August 23, 1970

.. CONTINUED TOMORROW

Nikita Correia General de to Silvio monument all- Andrade, head of the Depart- once the powerful boss of the Soviet ment of Federal Police Brazil, recently circularized all Union, is nearing completion.

work of the newspaper offices with his Ten Ironically, it is the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny Commandments. These contain the military whose abstract paintings the irascible Khrushchev violently instructions on how regime's attacked when he visited an newspapers Should censor December themselves, thus saving the exhibition in art of 1962. dictatorship the expense use are they?' he setting up its own department.

'What Journalists been exploded. 'Are they for cover- have ing chamber pots? Why do we warned that if the Command- waste money supporting you?

not adhered to, ments are their papers will be closed and homo- sexuals. All this is not worth normal those responsible for the breach of censorship regulations a kopek. It's rubbish, it's anti- arrested. it's immoral. One Soviet, Ten Commandments been The would think it had with the tail of a are: painted donkey' 1. It is obligatory to respect the 1964 revolution. (i.e. the With words Khru- these military coup which brought shchev achieved world-wide dictatorship Later, the present to fame art critic. as all after his fall, he and the artist It is forbidden to publish became reconciled. The monu- news about the affairs of the was commissioned by ment Church and the consequences his family and is orthodox in of these activities. style. 3. It is forbidden to write Below: Nikita Khrushchev about student affairs. 4. It is forbidden to criticize Institutional the Acts. (1.e. decrees passed by the dictator- ship after 1964.) 5. News should only refer to 'accomplished facts'. 6. Dubious, false or vague news must not be published. 7. It is forbidden to publish about working-class news movements. 8. Persons with no political rights not write about must political matters. 9. It is forbidden to mention names of who have persons been deprived of political rights, even when referring to social or academic events such baptisms, banquets or as handing of diplomas. 10. The arrest of persons who have lost their political rights may be reported only if the fact confirmed by the is responsible authorities. Doesn't much to leave report, does it? Special offer £20 includes postage Complete the form below with name and address of person to whom you would like the paper sent.

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Pluto Press. £1.50. The great merit of Paul Frölich's biography of first Rosa Luxemburg, published in English in 1940, was to rescue her from the obscurity into which she had been plunged by the Stalinists.

Despite the ritual respects which it was customary to pay on ceremonial occasions, every- thing was done to conceal the real legacy of Rosa Luxemburg.

The resources of the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow never used to were produce editions of her writings. Hack propagandists and learned scribes vied with each other in the Stalinist Press to temper their mealy-mouthed with insistent refer- tributes ences to her 'mistakes' Luxemburg's life Rosa remains an inspiration and her theoretical contribution to Marxism is invaluable. That she made mistakes needs no emphasis; to build a political tendency on her weaknesses has been a characteristic trait centrism, Paul of which Frölich himself represented.

At least with Frölich himself this had definite limits trait and it does not invalidate his biography—which still remains the best introduction to Rosa's life and work. With the latter-day centrists, including the German writer of the postscript and the anti- capitalist communist state Tony Cliff, who writes the pre- face, it reaches malignant pro- portions. Beneath the profuse tributes the cloven hoof is clearly visi- ble. Cliff has already attempted to appropriate the heritage of Luxemburg in his own book.

He now tries to do so through Frölich's. While not expecting that a preface to a book of this kind would emphasize Luxemburg's weaknesses, she is not well served either by those who use her in order to belittle the con- tribution of other Marxists which is clearly Cliff's inten- tion. He asserts that she had a much clearer idea of the role of the labour bureaucracy than Lenin or Trotsky and claims writings on this that subject 'are a more valuable contribution to the struggle to liberate the workers from the ›ernicious ideology of bourgeois reformism than those of any other Marxist. Why!

Because Luxemburg insisted on 'the initiative of the workers' (spontaneity?). Closer to Lenin than many of her so-called followers believe, she did not have 'theory of spontaneity' which left out the role of the party.

In fact, Rosa always insisted on the role of the party; her misgivings concerned princi- pally what she understood by Lenin's conception of the party.

Unhappily Rosa Luxemburg unable to break the was Workers Press, Wednesday strangle-hold of the bureau- cracy of the German Social Democracy, although she was certainly more aware of it than Lenin. And it could not be broken, more than the any stranglehold of the Stalinist or reformist bureaucracies can be broken today, by the initiative of the workers alone. Once again, Cliff, on behalf of his International Socialist tendency, has made an entirely illegitimate attempt to heritage of appropriate the Rosa Luxemburg with which it has nothing in common. His desire to elevate Luxem- burg at Lenin's is expense intended to substitue the in- stinct of the masses for con- sciousness and Lenin's in- sistence on the struggle for theory as inseparable from the building of the revolutionary fact, Luxemburg's party. In own practice, as well as her theory, were much closer to Lenin's and Trotsky's than are to the despicable they Cliffs. She was not only a tireless fighter and campaigner for the cause of revolutionary social- ism, but she stands among the leading contributors to Marxist theory in the 20th century.

Fortunately today her works are far more accessible than they were when Frölich's book was first published. In addition, the mammoth biography by Peter Nettl, while politically opposed to the principles for which Rosa Luxemburg fought, contains a material not avail- wealth of able to Frölich, who wrote this book as an exile from Hitler Germany. Frölich provides what still excellent intro- remains an duction to Rosa's life and work. She stood on the firm basis of Marxist international- ism, utterly opposed to the self-satisfied bureaucrats who had come to dominate the parties of the Second Inter- national and who were to betray the working class in 1914. Born in that part of Poland which belonged to the Tsarist Empire, Rosa Luxemburg's first important work was a study of the development of capitalism in Poland. Feeling stifled by the provincialism of Polish politics in the conditions of the autocracy, she became a German citizen as a result of marriage of convenience. Most of her political life was spent in • the German Social Democratic Party. Throughout her life, how- retained her con- ever, she nection with both the Polish and Russian movements. On the former she left an enduring mark which the Stalinists tried to eradicate by the liquidation of the Polish Communist Party leaders in the 1930s. the Revolution of When 1905 broke out in Russia, she felt immediately that lodnesday December 13, 19 should join and soon found h Tsarist prison In Germany she 1 cudgels which none theorists of the were able to do. imperishable theory, notably 'Social pamphlet Revolution'. This is a swingeir theories of th all parlamentary Not Stalinists do their suporters to As a party jour Luxemburg of brilliant writings trasted with which the jou with Social Democracy even before always in touch w the living movemen As speaker demand throughou and she was a flesh of the reforn party and the trad une collerencec anı of the time AS a Marxist made a close 'Capital' and develo of analysis capitalism based schemas of the sec which been has of solrce Marxist movement. was wrong sne rais which the and now questions of capita and revolution anathema to reformists. Above all an inte somelimes ignoring the power ity, she never kevoluton ın kussı vive without its e an international sc Despite poor hea frailty, physical spared burg never prisoned she flung struggle for the Ger tion as soon released By to the Spartacus League s pared the way for ation oi a new in party actually took place end of 1918 Opposed to which trends Young German the Party, she was caug events of together Karl Liebknecht, down and stigation approval Social Democrats traitor to •oCI class. or 13, 1972 PAGE 9 the combatants found herself in a any she took up the Bernstein's Marxism in of the 'orthodox Kautsky type an contribution with her 'Social Reform or peaceful road to social- surprisingly the not encourage journalist produced a series writings which con- the routine stuff a the journals of the were filled, 1914. She was with life and she was in Germany hroughout the thorn in he reformists in the the trade unions at ences and congresses she Marxist scholar, Marx's study of developments based the upon f the second volume been perennial a controverse bureaucracy then wish to avoid: of capitalist collapse which are to revisionists and extent le power of national ver believed that the 1 in Russia could sur- out its extension on tional scale. poor health and her Rosa Luxem- r spared herself. Im- Kaiser's herself into the r the German revolu- as she was which the work formation of the way for the found. revolutionary Germany which ok place at the very the ultra-left were strong in German Communist January her was hunted murdered by officers on the in and WITh the mocrats now turned working tor to the

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The Independent Broadcasting Orders for Tyne- Authority has five applications for the built ships aro most lucrative licence for the London falling rapidly area. Fear The keenest bidder is a consortium called It includes Radio. Lord Greater london The Guard- Thomson's Times Newspapers, ian', the 'Daily Mirror' group, United News- for papers, string of northern OI newspapers, the Rank Organization and Lord Shawcross's Thames Television. (Apart from being chairman of Thames, Lord Shawcross jobs is also a director of "The Times'.)

Chairman of the consortium is sir Con O'Neill, at Swan Hunter's shipyards a former 5 Mr kiD. Hammon, editorin-chie of diplomat in Deputy chairman is 'The limes' group. During his Foreign Office career O'Neill was head of the news department and ne also worked UNION LEADERS on Hunter Wilder ar in and and work conditions al c for short time with "The Times' where he was appear not up to the same standard the Tyne fear that The deputy European news editor and editorial writer.

building programme next as here. work rundown in the to create The have He left the Foreign Office some bitterness unemploy- Tories ycai Swan Hunter shipyards ment.' the when Talled lo get Toe preservil said the confedera- ship- post in Paris. next could He year Tractiona tion supported the building industry. With The other London applications are from: Lord many men their jobs. Common Market pany's plea entry, Newspapers, publishers Rothermere's Associated 1U1 shipbuild- shipbuilding see British An emergency com- Mail and the Evening News' oT the industry. ing being completely under- Television, the holding company mittee of the Tyne dis- yorkshire Desters ada said, he Tel mined by competitors from Television and Tyne-Tees TV; London Broadcasting, of trict committee the and said, Continent Japan Sir Charles Trinder, chairman Ship- Confederation of neaute by They therefore tol- a case could be made

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are of the Australind Steam Shipping Company: building and Engineering for government incentives lowing a policy of deliber- Bentley of Barclay Securities, the man described Unions will meet this munot the down induce owners to place I asset-stripper'. as the country's to discuss industry- sections of week oracis Rupert The unanswered question is-Where is Clyde- They want Arnola misses tne polnt situation. millionaire? completely. The govern- creasing production Murdoch. Ausuallan news dabel talks with urgent Since storming into Britain less other, specially selected Than Ive years already making Swan Hunter ment manage- Murdoch has built ago Harland and e.g. Odus avalialit

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nelp and the News of the World' and this year grabbec the size of their fleets There future for Arnold, Is no George a slice of the non-voting stock of the Beaverbrook More £90m British shipbuilding while than worth confederation chairman, group, publishers of the 'Daily Express'. told the Press: of and loans were it is in the hands of private Weekend Television made year. He also moved into London avallable last owners 'We would like to meet the But the shipowners spent Instead of pleading with Murdoch clearly following pattee he the before most of the Tories, unions The companes money having batterhes of set com ecial media, it sents obvious A Stra la Christmas to exact ships should be formulating Dull details of the present work the radio British yards. the action. Dolev or mamonaloe that he would want a plece The owners placed their industry under workers' ode all but because ms newsoaders are do to help. contracts in other countries and without control com- the Establishment for their triviality and vulgarity, the former Murdoch is likely have chosen a 'front man' evident that all is It IS wiere are bensallun well with the Swan strong and where wages owners. for his radio ambitions. not An Independent Broadcasting Authority spokesman TOUr TWO MPs, Paudge Brennan and applications had been made for Writings stations in Birming- Desmond Holey nave veer Le cla expelled from the Irish Republic's ham and Glasgow. the repressive applications run the State wuences Arainst Birmingham come from (Amendment) Act 13 days ago. of Leon Radio Birmingham Birmingham; The MPs lost the parlia- unceremem a consoruum whip last year licitaly DalLy including the Birmingham Post the because of differences with and Mail Ltd and a group headed government, and have since been Trotsky council leader, Ald Sir Francis Grimn, a Tory.

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British. operation none was as ten times greater than that Middle The figure of £250,000 a mile needed in the East. ednesday December 13, 1972 PAGE 11 THE FIGHT to reinstate Les Wreford, leading member of • the

TASS,

technical and supervisory section • of the .

engineers' union, at Herbert Controls, Letchworth, is in grave danger. TASS members returned to divisional organizer Winterbottom. In the meantime, Les Wreford was to temporarily • re- employed. These discussions ended after six days, but there has been no decision to continue the fight for Wreford's reinstatement by union officials. Les Wreford Les Wreford commented yes- terday: 'Can the official union this victimization to be allow successful? What would the other TASS stewards think about their job security?' It is understood that if TASS members at Herbert Controls are in involved an official dispute it is probable that the engineer- ing section of the AUEW will be called out in support of TASS members.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Di WHILE the engineers are engaged Feal in a historic fight for the defence of their union, they have had the rug pulled from the underneath them by general secretary of the TUC.

Victor Feather has made a state- ment calling for 'major changes' in the Industrial Relations Act.

Not complete repeal of the Act Labour Party and which is TUC policy. Not even • his familiar 'put it on ice'! Now he 'major changes' which wants would, of course, leave the Act intact and on the statute books. The Tory Press was quick to see the implications of Feather's . The 'Financial statement. said Feather Times' had 'a fresh initiative' launched with the Tory government.

'The Guardian' headlined the story on its front page: 'Feather softens hard line on Act'.

The paper's labour correspondent noted: 'The government would Mr Feather's consider that remarks amount to a change of attitude by the TUC It's the same every time. When- ever the rank and file demon- strates its determination to Feather resist rushes off to the concessions and offer more seek further compromises. He did it after the miners' strike and he did it again after. the massive unrest following the jailing of the dockers. IN THE House of Commons on Monday night the Tories brought forward new orders.

under their Detention of Ter- rorists (Northern Ireland) Act.

The changes mean the estab- lishment of secret courts pre- sided over by 'commissioners'.

Evidence can be given against the accused without his being confronted with it. When the vote arrived the bench Labour Party front pokesman, port the Tories. Don't divide the House on this issue, he In the event, a 'mini-revolt' was staged by 32 Labourites. One of those who voted against the Tory measure was Michael Stewart, the Foreign Secre- tary in the Wilson govern- ment. Stewart is a ferocious winger. He is a pro-Marketeer (he voted with the Tories for entry in October 1971), he supports the Americans in Vietnam and he supported Wilson's abortive anti-union laws. - Is Mr Stan Orme, the "Tribune!

MP, more right-wing than ‚Stewart? Orme would say that he isn't. He is so 'left' that he is persistently endorsed and quoted in the Communist Party's 'Morning Star'. Yet in Monday night's vote Orme did not vote with Ste- wart and the 32 rebels against the fascist-style legislation.

Where was the mighty Orme?

nesday December 13, 1972 Victor F ged Feather has no mandate whatso- ever from the vast majority of trade unionists to seek changes in the Act. The rank and file hate the Act and time and again they have shown com- plete willingness to fight it.

Even as Feather was making his wretched utterances on Mon- CBI director-general W. day, Campbell Adamson was showing that compromises with the employing class are today not possible. He announced that the CBI was asking the government to toughen the laws on picketing.

He referred to "criminal activity Dicketimes as and asked for amendments to the law to stop these 'criminal acts'.

talking about 'major Far from changes' to make the law 'less anti-union', employing class is demanding a tighten- ing of the legal noose on all fronts. uld Trade unionists from all branches must repudiate Feather's state- ment. He and other members of the General Council-the men who had game pie and wine at No 10 Downing Street during the tripartite talks~ must be told to get off their knees. Instead of wheeling and dealing with the Tories they should be calling for a political and in- dustrial campaign against the Act and the government which brought it into being. stan He abstained! He didn't cast a vote either way. It is now said that he didn't vote be- cause of his 'Front Bench res- ponsibilities Northern on Ireland'. In other words, Orme seems to be grooming himself for a job in the next Labour govern- ment and he doesn't want to be a 'bad boy'. He is currying favour with the Shadow Cabi- net, which is dominated by right-wingers. Orme is sponsored by the Amal- gamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. His own union is facing massive fines from one Tory law. This legal attack on the AUEW in Britain is inseparable from the new detention powers in Northern Ireland. The working class in both coun tries must rid itself of the abstainers, those who won't fight against the Tory offen- sive. AS SHOP STEWARDS fro the AUEW north London di industrial action against the

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JONES,

west London delegate, said: "This confrontation has been coming for some years and the govern- will only take notice ment when we take some action our- selves. As far as I can see they after the shop stewards are here and not the union leader- This ship. question the most important issue facing : class and it is the working necessary we get support from other unions in the fight.'

THE DEPARTMENT of Employme work for the unemployed and pay separated by mid-1974 under new pl The plans, detailed in a pam- ohlet from the Department's Em- called 'Into Action', a. £25m provide budget for reorganization of the service in the coming year. This will be spent primarily on • open- ing 40 Job Centres in 1973-1974 and the progressive rehousing of 80 per cent of the Employment Service in Job Centres by 1976.

Plans for the conversion of all payments of unemployment bene- fit to postal Giro cheque by 1973 computerization national benefit payment system by the end of 1976 are also laid out. Biggest changes will come in the employment service. From early 1973 the professional and Executive Recruitment

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section of the Employment Ser- TORY Ministers are trying to find a way to make workers and their unions bear the full cost of workers' families keeping the during strikes, Social Services Secretary Sir Keith Joseph ad- mitted yesterday. vice will operate on a commer- cial basis. The service will charge a fee to employers for whom it re- cruits staff, in the same way as employment agencies do at pre- sent. Fees will range from £30 taking on a employer to an £1,000 a year candidate to 8 per cent of the starting salary for employees in the £4,000 a year bracket—a fee of £320 or more.

Then there will be the open- ing of the new 'Job Centres' simi- lar to the one now operating at Tottenham, north London. Here the aim is to provide a 'self-service' card display where Street, London. 186a Clapham High

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DS from north London went into a meeting called by ndon district Committee, they made it plain they were for inst the f55,000 fine on the union.

DOUG BALLINS, shop steward EARL LONSINGER, an AUEW Smiths the from Islington, said: at engineering, steward "The fine is Cricklewood said: 'I want all- outrageous, criminal and scandalous. There out strike action. That's the is a considerable feeling right only thing that can make any throughout the union that the difference. Anything less and Tories are trying to make in- Tories will the laugh at it. roads into established principles Next week they may fine us so far as the conduct of our ten times the amount and try own affairs are concerned.'

to put the union out of Another steward said: "This business. I think should fine will make workers see what We stay out until the government this Act all about-for gives way or resigns.' clobbering the trade unions.

DECEMBER

FUND NOW

mployment's dual roles in providing WE ARE STILL a long off way from our target of £1,750.

and paying out benefits are to be Let's step up the fight today and make er new plans announced yesterday.

complete our total be- sure we fore Christmas. 'job-seekers' can choose the jobs 'they want'. Engineers all over the country decided yesterday to take action The employments agencies nev against the fining of their union.

look' employment agencies. Trade unlonists everywhere are "Job Centre" logotype standard than more determined ever to in colours of orange and house defend unions against the their black will be a normal feature of Tories' legislation. office Furnishings, the fascia. furniture, vacancy display boards, The movement is growing. Our cards, letterheads, stationery, etc., paper must lead the fight to force will also follow standard designs this government to resign.

and approved quality', we ate Everything you raise for told. can Workers Press is vital. Join the struggle and back us up all the With the launching of Job Collect Centres'-backed way. extra amounts, by Press up Make a forms wherever you can. very advertising and other of special effort. Post all your dona.

publicity—will paid come the tions Immediately to: closure of smaller employment offices, particularly in low popu- Workers Press December lation areas. Appeal Fund Another new scheme planned 186a Clapham High Street, 'computer matching'. The idea is is that an London, SW4 7UG employee's particulars are fed into computer which then would match the individual up to an available job. North London and Lambeth Councils of Action call on tenants, housewives, trade unionists, youth and unemployed.

DEMONSTRATE NEXT SATURDAY

December 16 March through Brixton March through Wood Green shopping centre and Tottenham Assemble 2 p.m. Assemble 2 p.m. opposite Brixton Town Hall opposite Wood Green Town Hall Meeting: Clapham Baths Meeting: Clapham Manor Street Downhills Park School 4 p.m 3 p.m.