Workers Press no. 946

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WAITING FOR?

BY DAVID MAUDE

ALL THE preparations are going ahead to seize €50,000, plus £5,000 costs, from Britain's second largest union. These steps towards finan- cially crippling the union will be taken despite the growing militancy of its members, and despite the enormous cost to employers which will result from industrial action against the fine. The big question in every trade unionist's mind this morn- ing, therefore, must be: where do Jack Jones, transport union chief, and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions (CSEU) stand on this legal atack? How long has the trade union movement to wait? When will Jones act on his amorind at last year's Transport General Workers' Union bien- nial delegate conference, that the real danger of the Indus- that trial Relations Act was would imprison our- unions selves'. Jones told that conference: We believe it is the duty of unions, acting through the TUC, to resist these kind of reac- tionary and dictatorship methods.' Today not just the AUEW, but the trade union move- ment as a whole, is in a posi- tion of considerable danger.

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

How the cour THE PROCESS of seizing engineers' £55,000 from the union will be carried out with ruthless, ruling-class arrogance.

All that will be needed to start the process is a brief mes- sage from the National Indus- trial Relations Court saying that the union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, has failed to pay the fine the court imposed on it for con- tempt. The message is expected to go out from the NIRC head- quarters in Chancery Lane, after today's London, soon deadline expires. Once it reaches the offices of Price, Waterhouse and Co a mile in Fredericks Place away events move like clockwork.

Price, Waterhouse - whose Doubts and hesitations have been imported into the struggle by those who, it seems, do want them- the unions to imprison co-operate with the selves and court. It is urgent that the AUEW is not allowed to stand alone in this situation. Solidarity with those under attack from the anti-union Act, through strike action if neces- sary, is official CSEU policy.

Its conference must, there- NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 1972 • No. 946 • 4p

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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TO Some of the London marchers set off from St Thomas's hospital

BY PHILIP WADE AND SARAH HANNIGAN

OVER 200,000 hospital ancillary workers yesterday went strikes against the Tory government's state pay laws. It wa wide action against the Tory laws by any union since they Maurice Eckman, liquidate the union's overdraft partners Martin Bank Rye Harris, Alfred Chapman the Midland in George Cherry the Peckham, while securi- and are Lane, Midland appointed to ties held by the commissioners collect the fine—are a leading against the overdraft are at firm of City accountants.

union headquarters at 110 Peckham Road. Both and the they court therefore, It would appear, yesterday quietly were con- that only two courses of action fident that they would have no are open to the commissioners: the difficulty in extracting Either they can try to write • One money. commissioner themselves cheque for hinted that the details would £50,000, plus costs, on the worked until not be out of AUEW's strength the tomorrow. arrangements for credit at the Following the seizure of the Midland. £6,000 in fines and costs two they try to Or can seize

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the has weeks ago, the money from the union itself sacked merchant bankers Hill, the form of securities. In Samuel. Hill, Samuel paid the Were union members to take £6,000 out of cash balances it into their heads to picket the they held for the union. bank or the headquarters, em- barrassing scenes for the com- The of these remainder balances missioners could result. have . to now gone Whether the union leaders fore, be recalled to implement like it thịs fight is that its leading or not, this policy now political. Without a united member is under threat. Tory struggle force the All 3 million CSEU members office it government out of affected deeply the are cannot be won. fate of the engineers. This is the issue facing every Already the white-collar unionist as the fine dead- trade ASTMS another CSEU member out today. line runs has been faced with a 'no pay • ASTMS has 1l members on under the Counter- rise' notice Provisions) Wickman Wimet. Inflation (Temporary strike at Act*: the Wolverhampton. A notice tells the legal attack all the firm it cannot increase the is proceeding on workers' remuneration. fronts.

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y went on 24-hour and half-day s. It was the first official nation- e they came into operation.

And the feeling expressed by marchers throughout the country was for all-out strike action as soon as possible against the Tory government.

of the lowest-paid Some workers in Britain, the hospital workers put in a f4 a week pay claim late in July. But although local govern- ment workers settled for £2.40 hours before the Tory pay laws were introduced, the hospital workers' claim was frozen.

The four unions involved, the National Union of Public Em- ployees, the Transport and General Workers' Union, - the General and Municipal and the Confederation of Health Service yesterday's Employees-called action following talks with Tory Social Services Secretary Sir Keith Joseph. Present lowest basic rates for ancillary workers are between £16.32 for women and £17.48 for These give rates some men. workers a take-home pay in the region of £14 or f15 a week.

Over 6,000 staff from all over SOUTH WALES marched through Cardiff yesterday afternoon to present a petition to Welsh Secretary Peter Thomas. 2,000 In BRISTOL about workers struck work in the and later marched morning through the city centre with staff from Weston-super-mare and South Bath to the Western Regional Hospital Board head- quarters. GLOUCESTER staff held a demonstration and march to the local DHSS office. In OXFORD about 200 chant- ing workers marched from the Plain to St Giles. They were supported by car workers and members of the local Transport General Workers' Union and branch. In BIRMINGHAM a mile-long hospital workers, column many of them in uniform,

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WAITING FOR?

RECALL CONFED

CONFERENCE

WHAT

JACK

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ALL THE preparations are going ahead to seize €50,000, plus £5,000 costs, from Britain's second largest union. These finan- steps towards will cially crippling the despite the be taken growing militancy of its members, and despite cost to the culous employers which will result action against fine. the big question June every trade unionist's mind this morn- therefore, be: where ing, must Lans DOLl chief, and the Confederation Shipbuilding Engineering

(CSEU)

stand this Unions legal atack? How long has the trade union wait? When will movement to Tones 11S

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Transport and Senerat year's Workers Union bien- delegate conference, that the real danger the trial Relation: Act was that would 'imprison vuL- se ves. Jones told that conference: 'We is the duty believe it

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acting through the unions. to resist these kind reac- tionary and dictatorship methods. Today not just the AUEW, but the trade union move- ment as a whole, is in a posi- considerable danger

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

How the cour THE PROCESS of seizing engineers' £55,000 from the union will be carried out with ruthless, ruling-class arrogance.

All that will be needed to start the process is a brief mes- sage from the National Indus- trial Relations Court saying that the union, the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, has failed to pay the fine the court imposed on it for con- tempt. The message is expected to go out from the NIRC head- quarters in Chancery Lane, London, soon after today's deadline Once it expires. reaches the offices of Price, Waterhouse and Co a mile in Fredericks Place away events move like clockwork.

Price, Waterhouse - whose Doubts and hesitations have been imported into the struggle by those who, it seems, do want the unions to imprison them- co-operate with the selves and court. It is urgent that the AUEW is not allowed to stand alone in this situation. Solidarity with those under attack from the anti-union Act, through strike action if neces- sary, is official CSEU policy.

Its conference must, there- NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 14, 1972 • No. 946 • 4p

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

EAS1

ANCILLANS

A WORKERS:

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the London marchers set off from St Thomas's hospital some of

BY PHILIP WADE AND SARAH HANNIGAN

OVER 200,000 hospital ancillary workers yesterday went strikes against the Tory government's state pay laws. It wa wide action against the Tory laws by any union since they Maurice Eckman, liquidate the union's overdraft partners Harris, Midland Martin Alfred Chapman the Bank in Rye Cherry and George are the Lane, Peckham, while securi- appointed Midland commissioners to ties held by the collect the fine-are a leading against the overdraft at are headquarters at 110 firm of City accountants.

union Peckham Road. Both they and the court It would therefore, appear, were yesterday quietly con- that only two courses of action fident that they would have no are open to the commissioners: difficulty in extracting the • Either they can try to write One commissioner cheque themselves for hinted that the details would £50,000, on the worked ous costs. be out until AUEW's strength of the tomorrow. arrangements for credit at the Following the seizure of the Midland. £6,000 in fines and costs two • Or they can try to seize

AUEW

the money from the union itself the has weeks ago, sacked merchant bankers Hill, in the form of securities.

Hill, Samuel. Samuel paid the 'Were union members to take £6.000 balances out it into their heads to picket the they held for the union. bank or the headquarters, em- The remainder of these barrassing scenes for the com- missioners could result. balances have now gone to Whether the union leaders fore, be recalled to implement like it this fight is this policy now that its leading or not, political. Without a united member is under threat. the Tory struggle to force All 3 million CSEU members government out of office it deeply affected the are cannot be won. fate of the engineers. This is the issue facing every Already the white-collar trade unionist as the fine dead- ASTMS another CSEU member line runs out today. 'no pay has been faced with a * ASTMS has 11 members rise' notice under the Counter- on Wimet, Provisions) strike Wickman Inflation (Temporary at Wolverhampton. A notice tells attack the Act*; the legal on all is proceeding the firm it cannot increase the unions on remuneration. fronts. workers'

SPREAD

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WE WANT A

ECENT WAGE

FOR

ASPITAL WORKERS

y went on 24-hour and half-day s. It was the first official nation- e they came into operation.

And the feeling expressed by throughout the marchers country was for all-out strike action as soon as possible against the Tory government.

Some of the lowest-paid workers in Britain, the hospital workers put in a f4 a week pay claim late in July. But although local govern- ment workers settled for £2.40 hours before the Tory pay laws hospital were introduced, the workers' claim was frozen.

The four unions involved, the National Union of Public Em- ployees, the Transport and General Workers' Union, the General and Municipal and the Confederation of Health Service yesterday's Employees-called action following talks with Tory Social Services Secretary Sir Keith Joseph. Present lowest basic rates for ancillary workers are between £16.32 for women and £17.48 for These rates give men. some workers a take-home pay in the region of £14 or £15 a week.

Over 6,000 staff from all over SOUTH WALES marched through afternoon Cardiff yesterday to present a petition Welsh to Secretary Peter Thomas. BRISTOL about 2,000 In workers struck work in the marched morning and later through the city centre with staff from Weston-super-mare and Bath to the South Western Regional Hospital Board head- quarters.

GLOUCESTER

• staff held a demonstration and march to the local DHSS office. In OXFORD about 200 chant- ing workers marched from the Plain to St Giles. They were supported by car workers and members of the local Transport General Workers' Union and branch. In BIRMINGHAM a mile-long workers, column of hospital in • of them uniform, many

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday Docember 14, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE NOVEMBER econo- mic review published by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research- takes issue with the Tory government's in- flated forecast of a 5-per- cent growth rate and fore- balance a large of seEs payments deficit next year.

The Treasury has claimed that the economy is 'grow ing' at the rate of 5 per cent Based largery on the contrate estimate

BY JUAN GARCIA

ation of price inflation which artificially boosts the figure for the domestic gross product. This was sharply pointed out Confederation British Industry Michae picsident Clapham in a speech to Tory On November 3, the Coun- backbenchers last week. imposed cil of vinisters The that all Institute reports general freeze on price even on the present inflationars food products and set main production lagging commis- up special regional behind the estimates Tories' sions, centred around the pro- says that at present rates, vincial Civil Governors. the economy is growing al only and the figure is Spanish housewives ewy the results to to 34 per cent impressed very by next summer. achieved Its solution is to call for Alicante, Valencia,. further stimulus'-that is, th there have been many angry There has fresh chicken fish sale,

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(Ceylon) levels fixed the brice coalition becaust O1 run Executive into problems in parliament in Commission introduce the Stallholders have just closed Press Council Bill giving their stalls because they pay the government extraordinary the wholesaler 53 pesetas a kilo and the media. The powers over price fixed for the 52 one of a number of bill Is The salute pieces of legislation aimed at happening with fish prices. making permanent the state of Housewives are particularly by ene ency bitter inbuilt the black United Front coalition in April market' in the government's 1971. price-fixing schemes. It has been challenged in the Prices are set at a provincia constitutional court. level, which means that they But Minister for Constitutional vary widely throughout Affairs, Dr Colvin R. de Silva,. ine leader of the renegade revisionist country and some dr cas DC- ing organization Lalkd and chicken which are being valala rarty, told parlament.

sold in provinces that offer "There is no constitutional the in regard Ine best prices. question Press Another point of conflict Council. the arbitrary decision not to fus The Bill establishes a govern- once

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Honoura and the government of the greets the inflationary injection of more money into the economy. Yet the government has just raised the minimum Bank of England lending rate by * per cent and the clearing banks have raised their lending rates to keep pace. The low level of stocks of materials in industry could give fillip to the temporary economy, but it will also mean a big increase in imports over the coming year. The Institute forecasts a £300m balance-of- payments deficit for 1973.

It also says that if the 'stimulate' does government the to reach its economy planned 'growth' target, the trade deficit will be nearer £500m. The devaluation of the pound July since creased import prices at a time when imports are increasing. Nevertheless the Institute demonstration ended with a mass-meeting in front of the town hall. The strikers, who are mainly immigrant workers, are demanding an end to the 55-hour week they are working and better con- ditions. The Communist Party, whose 20th Congress began yesterday, and their CGT leadership has at no stage opposed the use of strike breaking troops. of Switzerland , but no- Embassy in- representative of the the United posedly the of terests _States in Cuba and asks of the two, thright and that ... it transmits to the Department of State le was mov- of that country the fol- n agreement lowing . govern- The US State Depart- international ment is further told that of such a it is not in the interests of Cuba to be used as to a conclusion for persons who refuge talks in the are responsible for com- mon criminal deeds that • in Havana. take place anywhere the the territory of the United ding of the States. DC9 at Nor has the Cuban government interest in government , the Swiss promoting ... illegal exits and entries into the ter- the end of ritory of that country..?

I most vehe- The so-called champion S co-opera- of the masses pleads for a reciprocal and absolute commitment in this res- try of Fo- ns cordially Honourable recommends that the pound continues floating until the expected upturn in exports gets under way. This will, of course, mean a further increase in im- port costs and put an added burden on the balance of pay- ments. The Institute stresses the extreme difficulty of forecast- ing economic trends in the present situation. The basic problem, however, is that the classic methods of government regulation of the economy are no longer effective in a period international when the monetary system has broken down and a world trade war is being waged. This is the background to the National Institute review, which sets out before the Tory government the equally painful alternatives of further inflation or immediate recession.

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clashed with police thousands of demonstrators in a bloody three-hour battle in Rome on Tuesday night-the outcome of a political protest which brought demonstrations in cities throughout Italy.

In Naples, three people were injured by a bomb-blast and in Milan three policemen were hurt in clashes with student marchers.

The demonstrations marked the third anniversary of the bomb outrage at the Milan Agricultural Bank in which 16 people were killed. The demonstrators de- were manding the release of Pietro Valpreda (40), jailed for three years without trial on charges of causing a massacre. Valpreda, an anarchist, arrested the was at height of the witch-hunt that followed the Milan blast.

Giuseppe Pinnelli, a fellow- at the anarchist was arrested same time and later 'fell' from a high window at the Milan police headquarters. The police have no evidence against Valpreda and the trial is being deliberately delayed in the hope that the defendant—a sick man-will not survive the prison conditions. There is considerable evidence to show that the Milan bombing was the work of fascist provo- cateurs who planned to use the resulting to overthrow uproar the Republic and crush the left,

Detectives spied on The training' trick: anti-union law Merthyr to hold. protest strike MERTHYR TYDFIL'S joint action mittee against the 'fair rents' Act has called for a one-day stoppage in local factories. The suggested date is January 1 and the move comes as the Housing Commissioner appointed by the Tories moves into action (eer for Mercy Try it and do a Let or a as and are o with commissioners Geraint Walters in Merthyr. Fighting the Tories' rent Act DETECTIVES have been Smith, who made the allegations rent rebels police beer •resent present at council meet- before and taken notes, said he had raised matter with the ings in Scotland where police Chairman aril tne Chlet _constab e the question of the 'fair But he had been 'politely told rents' Act has been dis- Scottish resistance begins that the chief constable had the right his

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cussed. wherever he wants'. to weaken Despite Councillors allege that CID however. Fife Tories and had secretly attended men were followed same evening one of their meetings of Fife police had noted who voted ment the Act. Falkirk counci

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county council and had taken trouble previous policy wilal lney nad The began when reversed said in the debate. implement councillors arriving tenants and to lobby the meeting found police On Tuesday, councillors and With the collapse at Lanark on buildings and outside the On that occasion the council police were involved in a shout- on tne Monday, there are now 16 Labour build- the slallway Lne council had voted not to implement the ing match at scotland Councis chamber. Tory Housing ings, Cupar, decided defying the government s winerre stre lascon Finance Act. Presumably the special meeting imple- During the meeting Cllr Robert government.

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In 31 other towns and cities throughout the -including country- Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Oxford, Bristol and Southampton-the staff demonstrated in support of their demand for a £4-a-week pay rise, stopped by the Tory government. • See full report page 12.

pushed onto the shop floor By David Maude Our Industrial Correspondent And it wants the TUC to RAPID expansion in the gests. organize day-release wards from on in industrial rela- 'training At base, the sufficiently flexible to take the subject for tions' of managers and shop just trickery: first of the particular indus they Invent account parucular companies, unions, or "industrial rela- trial relations situation at each industries. stewards is called for in a the graft workplace. tions, second they one shop-floor told ic But as government-sponsored report officer in yesterday A senior full-time put when discover that little of artificial hybrid. every union should have respon- the CiR's plans: However hard published yesterday. for industrial relations they try, they can't abolish the sibility an los way it is nodea lo Con- the report class struggle.' training, The report*-from the fuse workers and draw them aso sup- into a Tory-inspired trap. Commission on Industrial Re- Both sides ; of industry are get- lations—is designed to bring

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*Industrial relations training, joint world bainter CIR report No. 33, HMSO 75p. draw broad training plans, • Thursday December 14, 1972 PAGE 3 AN INQUIRY into the six- week strike of Asian workers at Mansfield Hosiery Mills, Loughborough, opens in Not- tingham today. Chairman of the inquiry will be Mr Kenneth Robinson, a former Health Minister in the Wilson government. Robinson resigned (or was he pushed?)

from the government and he joined British Steel Corporation as a senior member of manage- ment. He was appointed to the chairmanship of the inquiry by the Tory Employment Sec- retary, Mr Maurice Macmilian.

There is already deep sus- picion among workers about the conduct of the hearing.

They have been told that many of the sessions will be held in private. They are demanding that the inquiry be completely public.

SCOTLAND YARD has started an inquiry into allegations by a prisoner at Winchester prison that policemen have been in- volved in a widespread fraud.

The investigation is being car- ried out by the Yard's A10 branch, which deals with accusa- The number of police officers of the rank of sergeant or above who have left the Metro- politan Police so far this year than double the was more number who left in the same period last year. Mark Carlisle Home Office, under-Secretary, said in a Commons written reply that 68 had left the force up to November 26 this year 29 last year compared with and 44 in 1970. tions that policemen have been involved in serious crimes.

Al0 detectives organized an identity parade at Hammersmith police station on Tuesday.

The parade, in which a Metro- detective and a politan Police former detective took part, was observed by a man brought from Winchester Prison. It is understood that the allegations that a large are amount of furniture was fraudu- lently ordered from a well-known furniture store by members of a gang. ecial giftpacks— le from

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Tom Kemp looks at some government statistics PAGE 4 Workers Press. Thursday Dece More crime, more viol- ence and more unemploy. ment are recorded in a ten-year review of social change in Britain pub- lished by the Government Statistical Service. This is the first attempt of its kind by government statis- ticians to provide a detailed statistical account of social conditions in Britain. It appears in the latest issue of 'Social Trends', published by HMSO at £2.90. The total working population in Britain has hardly risen since 1961, but the proportion of employed women has increased from 40.6 per cent to 41.8 per cent in 1971. The 'most significant change affecting the make-up of the working popu lation', the statisticians 'has been the continued and marked increase in the activity rate for married women ....

The proportion of married women going out to work is 41 per cent and they over numbered, in 1971, 5.63 million people. Of course, the pro- portion of married women at work was highest in the pre- un day December 14, 1972 dominantly working-class areas.

An important part of the much-vaunted improvement in living standards over the past decade has been the result of the contribution which married women have made to the family income. No doubt the jump in the number of divorces and is also connected abortions increase in the with the number of women, especially married women, in the labour force. Over the same period there has also been a sharp increase in unemployment. Back in the days of so-called 'full employ- ment' 20 years ago, only about 250,000 men and women were numbered among un- employed. In 1971 the average number without jobs was over 806,000, a rise of from 1.2 to 3.6 per cent. therefore, been There has, a three-fold increase in the officially-registered unemployed and a still bigger increase in number of unemployed the men. But it is known that the official figures understate the numbers actually looking for This is especially the work. case with married women. The detailed breakdown of unemployment by regions shows that the areas which have suffered most are those connected with the basic in- dustries such as the north of England and Scotland. In January 1972, registered male unemployment was 9.3 per cent in the north, 7 per cent in the north-west, 6.8 per cent in the west Midlands and 6.7 per cent in Yorkshire and Humberside while it was 9.5 per cent in Scotland. On the basis of age, un- employment was highest in the 20-30 age group. Men of these ages made up 26 per cent of the total for Great Britain as a whole. It should be added that most men in the armed from this forces come age group and that some will still be studying or completing training. One characteristic of the period was the growth of long-term unemployment. In the north 22.8 per cent of the male unemployed had been looking for work for over a while the average for year Great Britain was 5.9 per cent.

Over the period since 1961 the working class has made certain gains by trade union struggle. The basic working week was brought down to a little over 40 hours on the actual hours average, but worked has been about 45, so the gain has been not spectacular. There has been some in- crease in holidays, with about has accounted for a growth in the holiday traffic. On the distribution of wealth, the survey is not very infor- mative. The wealth covered is that which appears in estate duty statistics, said to cover about 90 per cent of the wealth holdings. By these figures the richest 1 per cent held 30 per cent of the wealth in 1970 against 38 per cent in 1961.

The richest 5 per cent held per cent against 64 per cent and the richest 10 per cent 72 per cent against 78 per cent. Such figures fail to show the actual extent of the con- centration of ownership as far as land and industrial assets are concerned. In housing the figures show a short-fall of some 200,000 in the number of dwellings.

Not only is this certainly an underestimation, but the statis- ticians point out that there is Above: Pensioners, many whom sutfer from malnutrition and cold, are often forced to live in housing unfit for habitation.

a general shortage of housing in the London area and serious out shortages in other regions.

Despite some improvement in housing standards, in 1971, 12 per cent of dwellings still lacked an inside WC and 7 per cent were regarded as unfit for habitation. While it is claimed that about 70,000 houses a year have been demolished as unfit in recent years, there are still 1.2 million unfit dwellings in England and Wales and an- other 200,000 in Scotland.

improvement Actual in housing has had to be paid for in higher rents, and, because more houses are. now being bought, in higher mortgage repayments. Both have been going up faster than the average level of prices. House prices increased by 80 per cent in 1963-1971, which was faster than the rate of increase in family earnings.

Over the same period the price of land increased by 150 per cent.

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British property deve- lopers have cornered the booming Brussels office building market and fears are growing there that their methods will lead to higher rents. Some 40 new office blocks will jut their way out of the fast-changing skyline of the Market capital by Common the end of 1976. At least half of them-two-thirds by some estimates-are being built for British companies. The stepped-up British in- vestment in this highly-specu- lative field is part of the heavy export of capital encouraged government's the Tory budget earlier this year.

Few weeks go by without news of yet another British property deal in Brussels. But Belgian commentators really sat up when the Abbey Pro- perty Bond Fund, an offshoot of the Abbey Life Assurance Group, announced with great fanfare that it had bought the Tour Madou, a 33-storey sky- scraper in the city's business centre. Some newspapers took the British buyers to task for what they considered to be too high a price for the block, built with Belgian government now largely assistance and occupied by government offices. word was that British The buyers would soon be seeking higher rents to cover their Tour Madou investment, with the result that the Belgian would have to pay taxpayer for the increase. According to some property British firms now experts, control about 80 per cent of all modern office space in Brussels—and they are not even members of the Common Market yet. As the entry date draws near, the pace has been hot- ting up in the property field.

But the British have been in- terested in Brussels for some time and are already solidly entrenched. The case of Jones Lang Wooton provides a good ex- ample of British penetration.

old-established firm of An London estate agents and chartered surveyors, they set up an office in Brussels with three people seven years ago.

Now they have a staff of 33, including six chartered their Brussels surveyors, on payroll and have become one of the most influential forces in Belgian property con- sultancy. Their main rival in Belgium is another British company, Richard Ellis, and Son. To- Ident Sokou Tor gether they have cornered a large proportion of the best development sites in office central Brussels. Jones Lang have 14 ofice blocks under construction now, representing an invest- ment of tens of millions of pounds. They have four more at the planning stage, while Richard Ellis are reported to have at least half a dozen more. Property experts say that at least 20 British and Irish companies are deeply involved in the office building boom.

Brussels has many attrac- tions for property speculators.

First there is next January's enlargement of the Common Market, which is resulting in a scramble for office space, frequently by foreign • com- panies. Then there is the question of costs. Land prices are still relatively cheap in Brussels by London and Paris standards, although few people in the property business are anxious to give comparative figures.

But a look at the rents being charged gives a clear indication of the situation. The going rate in Brussels works out at around £2.75 a square foot. With the London rate aver- aging around £8 a square foot -and Paris rents often going even higher-the speculators see plenty of scope for inflat- ing property values. Add to this the ready avail- ability of the prime sites in the city centre and the com- parative ease in obtaining building permission, and it is hardly surprising that British firms have turned in a big towards the Belgian way capital. Another key attraction for the British property investor is the return on capital in Brussels. And this is another sore point with the Belgians.

The British companies are delighted to settle for a return of around 7 per cent on their investment in Belgium, con- they sidering that the best can expect at home is a bare 4 per cent. The Belgians have been used to between 8 and 9 per cent and are none too keen to come down to the British level. The standard complaint from Belgian property specu- lators is that the British are so keen to build that they will buy anything that is going at prices way above the odds.

The British speculators, on the other hand, say their land valuation scheme-based on the maximum inflation of values—is more up to date and therefore gives a truer price for a site. Guinea's attempt to stabilize its new currency continues in Draconian style. The coun- try's new money-smuggling laws have claimed their first victim, a man has been centenced to death for smuge counterfeit Malayan gling banknotes into the country.

Touré, President Sekou who recently introduced the new unit, aptly named the sily, has announced the vic- will be tim executed in public. He says he will fight 'holy war' against the grave- diggers of the economy. He has also forbidden hold- ing of markets within 25 miles of the border to dis.

courage illicit transactions.

Suslov (centre) heads the Soviet deleg The discussion on the 20th Con- present gress of the French Com- munist Party, which is proceeding in the pages of 'L'Humanité', the party daily, is a tribute to the careful attention paid by the Marchais leadership to the cultivation of petty-bourgeois cynicism and hostility to the work- ing class. Contributions are predomin- concerned with the antly importance of the role of the small trader and peasantry, related social layers and their problems in a world dominated by the monopolies. Roger Gaudon writes that 'democratic France', that is, after the electoral victory of the Communist Party and Socialist Party, will respect 'private property, which is the fruit of labour and saving, as well as the right for it to be handed down • from father to son' The very phrasing of that defence of private property might have been culled from the many staid apologies of Writings of

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living threatened in its те- its culture and its sources, language' After the observation, worthy of the late and much lamented France's de that Gaulle, national is independence threatened by a Common Market including the United Kingdom, well-known Trojan horse of the United States, Krop reaches the climax of his attack on the EEC ... National democracy can be only by 'a thorough- saved going revision of the Treaty of Rome and subsequent agree- ments' (emphasis in original). Francis Jacob, in the Pitard cell, was quick to point out week how the system of last justice, 'one of the traditional forms of bourgeois democracy', was being starved of funds.

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Complete contempt for the problems of the working class in the inner-party discussion that 'L'Humanité' chooses to is sanctioned by reveal contribution from longer Jacques Dion, in the cell in the Centre for Human Sciences.

Dion discusses the problems raised by selling the Party Press to the learned intellects who are studying Human Sciences. 'One word, now, on the con- tent of the Sunday magazine of "L'Humanité". • Many com- rades think and say that it cannot be sold in an intellectual milieu, given the "poverty" of its content. I think that is the wrong way to pose the prob- lem: we must remember that 80 per cent of French people do not go beyond elementary studies .. virtues of bourgeois The democracy and the French nation are, of course, the verbal cover for the attacks the Pompidou-Messmer govern- ment is making on the French union trade movement. The French Stalinists are already making it plain that, if elected, they will continue the defence of 'order' against the 'unruly' and 'uneducated' masses. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 includes postage et, London SW4 7UG

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday December 14, 1972

BY TOM KEMP

In one passage Khrushchev One date in the calendar said: went by with little notice «The cult of the individual this year, both in the acquired such • monstrous chiefly because Stalin himself, Soviet Union and in the using all conceivable methods, communist parties. supported the glorification of This is sup- That date is December 9, his own person. One the birthday of one Joseph ported by numerous facts.

Vissarionovich of the most characteristic Djugashvili, self-glori- examples of Stalin's better known to history as Until death fication and his lack of even Stalin. his in 1953, it had been for a quarter elementary modesty is the "Short of a century the occasion for edition of his Biography" effusive praise of a type seldom which was pub- lished in 1948. accorded history to in any 'This book is the expression other individual. of the most dissolute flattery, Not, of course, that adulation example of making a man an of Stalin was reserved for the of transform- into a godhead, of his birth. anniversary ing him into an infallible sage, Indeed, it was obligatory Con "the sublime greatest leader, the occasion. Both every of all times and strategist Soviet Union and in the leader- nations". Finally other ship of the communist parties, words could be found with vied with writers. and orators which to lift Stalin up to the each other in their effort to heavens. attribute miracle - working need 'We not give …here powers to the genial leader of of the loathsome examples the whole of humanity. adulation filling this book. All Leading the figures in we need to add is that they all British, as in every other Com- approved by Stalin per- munist Party, extolled Stalin's were sonally and some of them unexampled qualities as added in his own handwriting Marxist dialectician, an econo- to the draft text of the book.

mist, an historian and even as Khrushchev able to was a scientist. his explanation no carry Thus R. Palme Dutt, in further because he had merely his 'Labour Monthly' editorial of replaced Stalin as the boss 1949, the for December, on the same parasitic caste which occasion of Stalin's 70th birth- still continued to rule and en- day, excelled himself: of ite Soviet arting expense tribute of This month the Soviet working class. honour, affection and gratitude, The distortions history 70th the occasion Of his on which had done service in birthday, will be paid to Stalin, Stalin's time were simply con- the leader of mankind in the -without Stalin. tinued- from capitalism change to The communist parties, in- socialism, by hundreds of cluding that which operates millions of men and women in world. from King Street, have country of the every Stalin, abandoned but they In all the records of human all the more fanatically cling society there is no precedent to Stalinism. Stalinism was not for such a universal tribute to only mass crime: the destruc- of the cause high service in tion of the Bolshevik Party and and recognized humanity, of all traces of opposition, the acclaimed already, it may be and deportation death of exaggeration, by said without millions of people. the majority of the human race of course, On this score, within the lifetime of its sub- Stalin has a place in history as This is something new in ject. of the bloodiest one mass human and con- experience murderers of all time. When of the sciousness; it is a sign Palme Dutt wrote the words new world which we are enter- quoted above, and when the ing' British Stalinists churned out At the same time that Palme adu- their quota of nauseous Dutt was paying this obeisance Stalin's to the Stalin cult the Congress were ation, crimes well known to them. Party of of Communist the They knew. that under the Great Britain passed a special Trotskyism, in which Khruss- the fight against address of greetings to the old dictator which expressed our chev took a leading part in the our warm- heartfelt greetings, Ukraine, the est love and deep respect.

not only were of the Left British supporters It you,' the Opposition exterminated, but 'who Stalinists went on initiated the Stalin Five- most of the leadership of the Bolshevik Party in Lenin's day Year Plans, guided the Soviet and hundreds of thousands of peasants on the road to Soviet and smashed the loyal party members. agriculture, To this day the Stalinists of of the imperialism, agents King Street have never made a Trotskyites and wreckers.

reckoning with this past. They 'It is the Soviet Union', the have not retracted their sup- continued, 'grown address for the Prials and the purge Mot the 1930s Moscow your guidance, strong under the has made possible that Red They still reat victories of the workin Army. are branded with Stalin's crimes.

People's the people in They hope that people have Democracies of eastern Europe, the glorious triumph of short memories and that they and i absolve themselves by the Chinese Revolution. can simply referring the This towering not the skies in this they dollo to, once lauded to will go uncommemorated the skies. ity' King Street the as always, the path the or Soviet Brezhnev Monthly'. The leadership. Labour of Nikita Khrushchev and Kosygin, as representatives ations' of the Soviet bureaucracy, try 20th Congress of the at the Communist Party of the Soviet to conceal their own origins by erasing Stalin's name from the 1956 put paid Union to in 'the historical record. what became known as The fact that the bureau- cult of the personality. cracy today dare not embark the wholesale repression upon which was characteristic of the Stalin era does not mean that it has changed its nature or abandoned Stalinism. of Stalinism The essence consists in its fundamental revision and abandonment of Marxism through the adoption of the theory and policy of 'socialism in one country'. It marked, when it was put for- ward in 1924, the beginnings of a degeneration which was to grow rapidly in the next few years. As the representative of the bureaucracy, Stalin placed the its own privileges defence of and power before the exten- sion of the revolution to other countries. The working class and the communist parties were seen as no more than useful adjuncts in realizing this aim. After imposing on the Ger- Communist Party after man 1929 a policy which could only lead to defeat and disaster, Stalin passed to the side of the defence bourgeois the social order. He was ready to enter into alliance with and those bourgeois support governments concerned with maintaining the status quo.

Only the unwillingness of the governments of Britain and France to enter such an alliance before 1939 led Stalin back to the rapprochement with Hitler which he had sought when the Nazi dictator had first come to power on the bones of the vanguard of the German working class in 1933.

It is this heritage which the Stalinists continue today. The pact between Brezhnev and Nixon, the conspiracy against the Vietnam revolution, the policy of a European Security obligatory It was at one time for Communist Party leaders to give adulation to Stalin on every possible occasion. Above: A Chinese rally in the tradition of 'Stalin Cult. Below left to the First Five Year right: Poster for Plan depicts Stalin at the head Soviet workers. of Stalin and Ribbentrop after the signing of pact with Nazi Germany. Molotov, Khrushchev and Stalin at a May Day parade. Pact, the support for coalitions with bourgeois parties, as in France--these are all fully in the Stalin tradition. Stalin may no longer be praised or even mentioned in the Press of the Soviet Union or the Communist Party. Khrushchev, too, may have passed into oblivion. But Stalinism lives on as a malig- in the workers' nant cancer which movement be must destroyed.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Dece Following the articles 'Reneg dealing with the situation in now examines the British se Unitied Secretariat of the Fo International Marxist Group ( American Socialist Wor- kers' Party's Political Committee was writing off the International Marxist Group in Britain, as a body within which genuine discussion could not be conducted. What further evidence of total political war within the ranks of the Unified Secretariat and its co-thinkers is required than this assessment of the IMG by the SWP?

SWP POLITICAL

COMMITTEE MOTION

Adopted February 5, 1971 The Political Committee of the Socialist Workers Party voices the following opinion in relation to the facts made available in the correspondence between Comrade Pat Jordan, the National Secretary of the IMG; Comrade Jack Barnes, the Organization Secretary of the SWP; a copy of the November 28, 1970, statement by Comrade Alan Harris to the Political Committee and National Committee of the IMG; and the memorandum by Comrade Joseph Hansen: 1. The majority of the National Committee of the IMG abused its authority in censuring Comrade Alan Harris.

(a) It failed to notify Comrade Harris in advance that he was to be placed on trial.

(b) It failed to grant him a hearing when his case came up for consideration.

(c) It notified the IMG of its action disciplinary against Comrade Harris in a way calculated to pre- judice the membership against him. 2. The majority of the National Committee of the

IMG

further abused its authority by singling out Com- rade Harris for disciplinary action in a field in which it does not at present subject the membership as a whole to disciplinary action; that is, the way in which they make their livelihood. The majority of the 3: National Committee of the IMG further abused the objec- norms of democratic tive centralism by taking these organizational reprisals against a leader of a minority that has expressed political criticisms of the majority and argued for a different line from the one followed by the majority.

4. After the promising be- ginning earlier in the year, which appeared to represent a decided break with the anti- democratic methods that have plagued the : British Trotskyist movement in the past, the majority of the National Com- mittee of the IMG, by resort- ing to organizational reprisals against a leading member of the minority, has raised a serious question as to the possibility of conducting a genuinely free dis- cussion in the IMG. aday December 14, 1972 'Renegades from Trotskyism' tion in Ceylon, JACK GALE itish section of the revisionist the Fourth International, The Group (IMG). Between the July, 1970, letter from the IMG to the SWP and the latter's 'Political Motion' of February, 1971, a prolonged and tangled corres- pondence took place, for which word acrimonious' the is hardly adequate. Joseph Hansen is particularly adept at this sort of thing.

Boasting that 'in the anti- war rallies in the US the most extreme slogan used by cadres associated with an SWP head- quarters bookstore has been 'Get Your Trotskyist_Litera- ture Here, he evades Jordan's complaint about hidden sub- sidies by blandly asserting that 'Pathfinder Books has no con- nection with the SWP as far its business affairs are as concerned'.

HANSEN

TRIES TO BULLY

Hansen, in fact, tries to bully the IMG leaders into silence. On the allegation of Jordan and company that the SWP had 'tried to get round the "democratic procedures" the IMG, Hansen [sic] of replies: In view of the implications, Comrade Jack Barnes in a September 14, letter dated 1970, asked Comrade Jordan for clarification: 1. You maintain that the private wholesale export-import book agency set up by Alan Harris, constitutes a political centre' , that this centre was opened up by a minority ten- dency in your group, and that this was in 'gross violation' of of democratic the norms centralism. You imply, more- over, that the Socialist Workers played a key role in Party inspiring the formation of this minority tendency in the IMG 'politically and with resources' and that the establishment of Leader Books by Alan Harris is in reality an attempt by the SWP 'to get round the demo- procedures and pro- cratic cesses of the IMG. In face of such allegations, am I correct in drawing the that in your opin- conclusion ion the Socialist Workers Party has departed from the tradi- tions of Trotskyism; that it has, so to speak, 'degenerated' and can no longer be regarded as a fraternal organization so far as the majority leadership of the IMG is concerned?

JORDAN

EVADES IT

Jordan, of course, does not this honestly. He answer evades it. In a letter dated 10, 1970, he December declares: 1. If we considered that it was necessary to raise the 'degeneration' question of the of the Socialist Workers do so in Party we would another manner: through the appropriate inter- national committees.

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Hansen treats this with bullying contempt. This reply can only be characterized as an equivo- cation. Asked if he believes that the SWP has departed from the traditions of Trotsky-. iss ism, Comrade Jordan says nothing. Asked if he believes that the SWP can no longer be regarded as a fraternal organization, Comrade Jordan again says nothing. He is even the term "de- equivocal generation. His reply can be interpreted as meaning that the IMG majority leaders do not consider it necessary to

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the real political issues and differences, : of Vietnam. Above: Vietnam solldarity he IMG in 1968 where the main slogan p: An SWP sponsored demonstration in raw the troops'. raise this question at the pre- sent time; if they did consider it necessary at the present time, then they would do so in another manner. ...

The significance of this whole tangled skein of accu- sations, counter - accusations, evasions and abuse is that nowhere are the real political . issues mentioned. Apart from a gentle dig from Jordan-a mythical minority in the SWP 'might' raise the slogan 'Victory to the NLF'-there is not a single word on the pro- gramme, policies and theo- of either of retical positions the parties to the dispute.

However, one fact of im- portance does emerge from all this.

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Hansen admits categorically that the International Marxist Group was an artificial organ- ization constructed from out- side by the Unified Secretariat and the Socialist Workers Party following their 1963 reunifica- tion. He also makes it clear that people brought were together from completely different positions for the sole purpose of fighting the Socialist Labour League. At the Reunification Con- gress in 1963, the develop- ment of the British Trotskyist was considered. to movement be of special importance. At the same time, the difficulties and obstacles were recognized as considerable in face of the sectarian course of the Socialist Labour League, the refusal of its leaders to participate in the reunification of world the Trotskyist movement, and the divisions among those who favoured reunification — the Fourth Internationalists being divided into two warring groups, one centered in Not- tingham, the other in London.

Outside aid badly • was needed. The Unified Secretariat therefore did what it could to provide this aid. An appeal made to the English- was speaking comrades in North America. The Canadian Trot- skyists responded as true inter- nationalists and sent various top-level cadres at some cost to their own work in an immediate sense. In collabora- with the tion Unified Sec- retariat, they worked in model fashion, not without personal sacrifice.

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The French police force, like reputation and there were never all capitalist police outfits, is any prostitutes there. not the most of 1970, angel-pure she bought "furnished flat" institutions. The escapades of with Mme the Lyons police are the latest Leurat. A lot of people used scandal . in the form of to go there and was soon the brothel-protection racket informed—my position in the run by Chief of Police, Mon- administration allowed me to sieur Tonnot. have of good in- sources formation prostitutes - that went there 'At my injunction, she sold the flat but then she entered into relations with certain Mme Marin but I was then district chief at Roubaix and only had indirect knowledge of what was now going on. Tonnot is M. a respectably bourgeois, and his married brother, a bank manager, has made that he has the sure 'lawyer'. best Lyons Tonnot is not in prison in the local jail, but in the prison Talaudiere of Saint la In Hano- Etienne. The judge, M. 'If I had teau, commented: put him in the Lyons prison, he would have met too many people whom he had arrested and the atmosphere would per- haps have not been very pleasant for him.' M. Tonnot chief ex-police and defender of morality in Lyons. provided Tube travellers have a bumper £2.4m profit forecast took part In the Evian the negotiations for London Transport by with the FLN and in July 1962, he was end of the year. The figure was responsible for the destruction revealed in London Transport's of the archives of the Algerian budget for 1973 which will be police. He for the meeting was up pro- presented al motion to divisional head of the Greater London Council in November 1972. A police today. clear favourite Earlier this year the GLC with the local allowed fare increases of £4.7m and national administration. On November 18, M. Ton- avoid London year to Transport deficit - they not attempted to defend him- had self the of suggested increases of £10m.

against charge running at least 15 brothels in Fare increases the past over Lyons year have in some cases been 100 per 'No, it is not true. I agree, high as cent as on I had a mistress, Miss Maitre. shorter tube journeys. The Our friendship began in 1964, report shows that more people she 22, and a barmaid. than anticipated are travelling was became Then, she sales- on the Underground, account- ing for an extra £2.5m. Tour- woman and then bought in 1967 a small café, rue Blanc. ists also contributed flm more This café always had a good than expected. 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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Like Khrushchev before them, Kosygin, Brezhnev and Podgorny have proved unable to carry out these promises.

Consumer-goods production is lagging badly, the expected in- crease in productivity of labour has not materialized and the problems of agriculture have grown worse. This year's grain harvest was so far below its target that the USSR has been forced import $1,000m worth of to grain-mainly from the United States. A publicity campaign is be- ing carried on throughout the Soviet Union urging house- wives, Red Army cooks and.

catering enterprises to conserve bread. In public, the bureaucracy lays the blame on bad weather.

But sharp exchanges between regional officials and the Mos- cow centre indicate that more fundamental questions are involved. Mismanagement and the poor quality of local cadres have undoubtedly played a part in the harvest catastrophe.

In the autumn the Soviet Press was full of stories of transport which was in the wrong place at the wrong time and of lack of drive to get the harvest in. More basic is the chronic shortage of capital equipment -trucks, tractors, railheads, harvesters, grain driers, stor- age facilities-which underlies the low productivity of labour on the land. soviet agriculture is so back- ward that even in a good year each farmworker produces only about one-ninth the amount produced by his US counterpart. This does not testify to the superiority of private enter- prise, but rather to the Kremlin's Utopian and re- actionary idea of "building socialism in one country.

Within the framework of this nationalistic slogan, Stalin enforced the collectivization of the land over the dead bodies of hundreds of thousands of peasants. Later he loosed the crank geneticist Lysenko onto Soviet science in the hope that 'winter wheat'. Khrushchev, organized to plough the Soviet Asia. measures tisoned and benefits to for turned increased goods Kremlin from them Followin eal signe visit to fields, gas and even the

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have assistance con- home, to import the US and open to large-scale foreign the $3,000m trade Nixon's US noving in to organize of credits for joint n of oil and natural construction Pepsi production Exchange, after a Moscow, re Wall Street to ae- vestment rospeci taggering $100,000 Union. the political price Times', com- speech, of this cost for alignmen in Indo-China importance Ifor of gaining help from States through and tech- played role in curbing the onse to the Ameri ng of Hanoi and the Haiphong harbour words, Moscow it US barbarities in the hope of reach- deal with As the Stalinists rying to make com- etween this policy New Economic 1921, this must be the Bolsheviks were concessions— scale-to foreign tic capital. They did describe this for the forward but clearly re the entire world vere making a forced rast, the Stalinists present their rap- t with US imperial- ain for the workers' and a step towards "security'. More still, Lenin and the time subor- requirements of revolutionary the 'national 3, Thursday December: 14, 1 a contession of failure Unlike the Stal entered into no ser deals with imperia. The workers other countries Far from pursuing policy, Kosygin an bureaucrats the exact opposite. Their revolutionary springs from interests of which has mortal danger tion Indo-Chir of struggles Europe and Ame places the very for the Soviet economy The introductio quantities of must give the inve the people w over vited them will be constraine debts, even if this ing the working cl more at lower real At the natural resources o Union are opened urst time on a vi imperialism. foundations and of the re the revolution. This is Stalinist rule in Union is heading and social

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The imperialism wards those who claim th caste necessar efficient functioni Soviet economy. This includes also the Internation group in britain scribes the burea new ruling class capitalist' The Stalinists after Stalin's procla 'socialism' had bee in the USSR, the and endanger of the

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economy. How are the inte Soviet working clas the opening up of t vast intuxes capital, the interes will have their labour? As to their capilalists , new form has emerged in the new state turn. Both these ten united in strength and revolutionary Soviet working reality is bureaucracy's morta workers Soviet into alliance with ber 14, 1972 PAGE 9 the Stalinists, they to no secret political imperialism to stab movement of in the back. pursuing a Leninist sygin and his fellow callying oul countert om the narrow, caste bureaucracy usurped political m the working class. it represent a for the revolu- Indo-China and the the of workers no America. very foundations troduction vast foreign capital people who have in- The Kremlin strained to pay its n if this means mak- orking class produce ower real wages. same the sources of the opened up for the scale to on a vast this way the the nationalized and the other gains clear sign that Soviet the heading for great upheavals. ¡reaucrats' turn to- refutes all claim that the ruling necessary for the of the functioning cludes not only the with their theory of but in one country', ternational Socialism Britain which de- e bureaucracy class in a 'state have it is that 35et to years n's proclamation that had been achieved SR, the bureaucracy towards imperialism the very founda- nationalized e the interests of the king class served by g up of their country of foreign e interest on which by their 'theory' that of society class ed in the USSR with capitalist ruling provide no explana e latest bureaucratic power y and ignoring the force of the But in rking class. precisely the y's mortal fear of the that drives it ce with imperialism.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday December 14, 1972

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SKELMERSDALE:

Monday De- Force the Tories to Resign cember 18, 7.30 Quarry p.m. Bank Community Centre. Willesden: Thursday December MEDWAY: Tuesday December 19, 14, 8 Trades and Labour p.m. 8 р.m. 'The Greyhound, Roches. Hall, High Road, Willesden ter Avenue, Rochester. NW10. 'No fines the unions! on No state control of wages!'

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December Tuesday 19, 8 p.m. Rochdale Town Hall.

CROYDON: Thursday December

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Tuesday December (Please 14 date change) note Clapham Manor Baths, 19, 8 p.m. Coombe Road. Free Ruskin House, Clapham Manor Street, SW4. Road. Sean MacStiofain'. "Force the Tories to resign'.

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Sunday December unionists'. 'Talbot Hotel', Kirk- 17, 7.30 p.m. 'No fines on the unions'. gate.

SOUTH

EAST LONDON: Thurs- AUEW speakers. Dept- day December 21, 8 p.m.

LONDON

ford Engineers' New Cross TEACHERS: Monday Club, Caxton Hall Road (near station). 'Build Coun December 18,8 p.m. cils of Action'. (near St James's Park tube).

SLL PUBLIC MEETING

BRACKNELL (Berks) Thursday December 14 7.45 p.m.

MOREDALE AVENUE,

VALE

SCHOOL,

MEADOW

PRIESTWOOD ESTATE

RIGHTS AND THE TORY

WAGES, DEMOCRATIC

GOVERNMENT

Speaker: G. Healy, National Secretary of the Soclalist Labour League

Workers CAN bring down the system—Sir Fred warns BRITISH - LEYLAND plans to move its spare parts admi- nistration department from Cardiff to Coventry. Ihe rationalization move, in line with Common Market entry, could cost up to 170 jobs.

The staff at the Rover works at Pengram, of whom about 100 are women, say they will fight the plan.

Those affected make up 75 cent of the white-collar per work force at the plant, which employs 1,300 in all. BLMC's plant is to create a division specialized parts car integrating based in Coventry, _ parts departments existing of Rover, Jaguar and Triumph, This is being done in the in- of competitiveness and terests efficiency and with Common entry in mind, says Market

BLMC.

Cardiff management says that of the 170 jobs there many would be replaced 'at some stage in the future' when new invest- ment took place. Graham Saunders, area secre- tary of the Association of Pro- fessional, Executive, Clerical and Staff (APEX), said Computer that the BLMC plan to spend more money did not necessarily mean more jobs. If BLMC's argument for trans- ferring the spare parts adminis- trative department to Coventry was taken to its logical conclu- sion, he said, the future for the whole of the Pengram plant This is a would be threatened. serious blow to the plant as a whole,' he added.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL COR

BRITISH workers had painful experiences of the way multi- national companies operated, said Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers yester- day. He attacked the General Electric combine for massive sackings when he spoke at the London conference of the International Metal Workers' Federation, of which he is vice-president. General Electric was the big- gest electrical company in Britain of largest employer labour. The combine was formed from the merger of three com- panies, he said. Since the there had merger "so-called rationalization been a process' that which meant thousands of jobs had been lost.

The company once had a total UK labour force of 181,000. Yet over the last three years 64,000 workers had lost their jobs in this one company alone. 'That means an average of 20 redundancies per day,' calculated Scanlon. Yet profits had gone up £49m to £177m, he added. He also explained that while paid by the the average wage company in Britain was £27 a week, African GEC workers in South Africa were paid £4.8l to £9.49 for a 48-hour week.

Workers Pross, Thursday December 14, 1972 PAGE 11

SIR

FREDERICK CATHER-

Catherwood, Quaker, ness was under attack from the middle class taken a directorship the He (wun s tne con. environment

WOOD,

the former head of Onl assue. Salel struction students authority businessmen beneath contempt.

big needed business a hrm 'Neddy', has said that attacks by moral base. Business was a social organism and .a code of behaviour was desperately Hedinburgh contessy car ite workers and students on the in- rectorship needed this 4, found that the general view at Edinburgh earlier dustrial system might be enough Big business could not deal with the that business and businessmen to bring it down. millions of pounds it handled daily or the beneath said. contempt, rather Was inousanas or people it used without a code 'Don't let us kid ourselves that the Tuke toe ole lov vIew C trese.. of ethics. fact workers cannot bring the system down, knight director company went he said. 'We know now that they can.

general of the Na- _ne tormer onrector azallist 1lt

ПРОНО Р ЖОА CRA NO_

tional Development Council has a 'solution' He speaking London to director that went against me most.'

In Wab which is dious nonsense. Industrial Lao asm nac no luncheon organized by the a system based on violence u was nor owy workers dno students wic etoles'. It 1S Participation Association.

were hostile to industry, he went on. Busi and exploitation. Shoddy shows should end radio franchise

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

SHODDY shows on Glasgow's new commercial radio should Heffer to see Chataway lead to withdrawal of the station contractor's franchise, the over occupation at CAV Scottish Council of the Labour Party proposed yesterday.

LABOUR MPs from Liverpool plans to close the factory in Glasgow is one of the five chise if the quality of a station's Tory April. constituencies meet cities Britain's output fell below which will get oroaocasuno Today's delegation to the acceptable Minister Christopher Chata- first standards, according commercial radio stations House of will Commons be to a submission from the Council.

wav todav to try and hait the In 19/4. said er ni

STIG

hener who proposed

CAV

closure of the Council secretary Peter Allison yesterday the The Independent Broadcasting plant at Fazakerley. Authority should be radio should pump some into much more salu. ulascow hoca money turns oure lars, shoch is the been occupied willing than plant to save the iobs o ue Daid orcaccessor. after three which years, since October 9 against workers. withdraw a local fran- nA lili 1iA, lo duration hirs should COruncE unen ne SA' make sharp example by Massey clerks walk out allocating station rights icw voelaluls Dusses ne a pelle their duty to the contraci community.' THREE HUNDRED staff workers girls to process punchcards.

They refused and were sent Mr Allison Council nave walkea out at tne coventry Sole tra sop pato ro Massey Ferguson, home had urged on the

IBA

to award mass meeting of clerical staff five suspended Glasgow Lne contacı l Tne luesdav decided that it the company most concerned Cerks. The disciplined workers were were not by provide programmes whose Cerks reinstated instructed work normally they would all walk out. quality would lalot caucalundl done by striking punchcard the joint within I colciua anel cucual stancaros are the community. operators Wino Canned suewaros mer dir a move lo cal regrading the basis out the whole factory was turned ot in• The submission also called for creased skills and cs is upicial. down. The stewards will wait the provision of air time in fields which until a staff workers' 1 ne SUrIKe 1cuicocul" suln as consunci orolecuon ana began on Monday winen une ods «ve mas been ln

LOC N

the interests of imigrant groups.

whose work associated with Staff are picketing the gates withdrew their labour. and some lorries are being turned Mr Allison said that Labour computers 'cheap claimed Illal

SULCC

1as L awdy. shows' and backed the Musicians' Machine-shop 18 gilr is previously en sios or tne workers are girls previously employed and refusing to accept programmes UnOSI Canoac o com•ar that new machines installed call and material normally associated excessive 'needle time' under which disc jockeys could sustain greatel derree SKilL. will Lne surikers Ld -UIS ale After they the plant expected start within endless ett Tn ei allliosi Dt l allillc instructed five office next 24 hours. recorded or pop music. company Writings

WRITINGS OF

LEON TROTSKY

of Leon (1938-40) Trotsky 1933-1934 .. £1.43 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 Hugh Scanion 1938-1939 £1.25 lhe time had come to speak 1939-1940 £1.05 out muly against the operations multi-national companies. Trade unions. added Scanlon. had use their, international soli- These extremely vital writings by Leon Trotsky between the darity against them. years 1929 and 1940—his third and final exile from the Soviet CHAIRMAN of the IMP multi. national committee, Paul Jen- trade Union-are now available in Britain from the Paperbacks Centre an American unionist, sal• loar •une Ine turce dys of the conference delegates would imposed National Scalon's by the Unil. ne ustna ne auoes COUrT allu decide what they could do about them.

Sudbury CAV men meet today on next move Workers demand AUEW PAGE 12 Workers Press; Thuraday Deci SO ROBERT CARR has set up a Home Office committee to investigate 'violence in society'.

We would like to suggest some areas of research. • They could go to Leeds where the local police have an un- precedented history of mis- behaviour. Last year two senior officers received jail assaulting a sentences for Nigerian vagrant. His body was found in a river. • They could interview miners, dockers, building workers and men from Briant Colour in south London who were man- handled by the police during this year. • They could talk to the four members of the Stoke Newing- ton Eight who were acquitted last week. They have excellent information on the treatment of suspects and interrogation techniques used by the Special Branch. • They could visit the head- National quarters Council of Civil Liberties in north London and ask for copies of the report prepared months ago on a couple of police treatment of immigrant youth in Lewisham. We don't expect that these sug- gestions will be accepted by the team headed by Mr Neil deputy under- Cairncross, a secretary at the Home Office.

Whenever these questions have been drawn to Carr's attention —or his predecessor, Reginald ignored. Maudling-they were in all the incidents Indeed, without exception, the Home Office is for toughening the laws and thereby increasing the violence of the state. So what is the purpose of this have committee which will 'wide powers'? We believe it is like the committee which in- vestigated torture in Northern Ireland. The inquiry resulted in the establishment of the fact torture tech- that hideous niques were being used against untried and uncharged men.

Then it went on to refine the laws regarding the use of tor- the Tories ture. In essence, used the committee as a means of streamlining the use of tor- ture by British troops. It did nothing to outlaw it. So it will be with Carr's com- mittee on 'violence'. The Tories recognize that they face mas- sive resistance from the work- as they seek to ing class its unions and its destroy standard of living. This will mean the use of all the the Home Office resources of -the police, Special the Branch and the special con- stabulary-to combat the in- evitable unrest. In this connection Cairncross is an excellent choice by Carr, a former director of Securicor, the largest private police force in Britain. Before joining the Home Office, Cairncross was the Northern : Ireland with Department. And we know how the ruling class dealt with the unrest there! Refistered as a newspaper at the Post Press. Ofice. Published hy Workers _Street, London. 186a Clapham High

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

WORKERS at the CAV engineering plant in will Sudbury to decide meet this morning whether to continue their strike against the £55,000 fine imposed on their union by the National Industrial Relations Court.

The decision to hold a meeting-originally planned for tomorrow- came after three-and- a-half hours of discussion in which shop stew- stewards from the ards Sudbury met trom three other factories in the Lucas combine in the south Cast. A leading steward said after put to the no specific recommendation would be would reappraisal of

YOU

but there be the sevents

LOUGHOUT

industry since Sudbury came out on strike Monday. I understand that the Sudbury workers got no in specinc pleage Trom Lucas STewaros The south east that they would be backed by inde- finite strike action. Engineers at Sudbury walt to hear their steward decision yesterday. Representatives of Some workers wait- 12.000 workers from ing for the result of We had Goad, the Colchester adequate. the Lucas at the expressed complex meeting the one strikes be- evangelist, works. He day Acton, London, west took the union to the angel Ladl fore the Bill law was group's Rochester leadership of the Amal- NIRC over they stop the ana factory and Simms Union of The union should the local Sudbury Motors Finchley, of Engineering Workers branch to admit him London, north openly

WELC

meetings connery. present at the meeting. for national strike The Sudbury plant commit action. Bill con- the first give the south eastern group Wat One told me: 'I don't of Lucas to works said there would think a one-day strike It is there that James yesterday's action be no specific was. defeated meeting mendation put before the right wing. by 'WHAT'S needed is whole

AUEW

trade cue men. clear-cut call', union movement. Instead verbal soli- 'We call assistant secretary alternative darity was offered want to the meeting to put to Sudbury said vester. workers. MODerLS latest day. isn't just policy of non-co-opera- This did not help velopments. We will fight Goad tion, finances and strengthen our resis- make recommen- the £55,000 What's in- the men who have been on canons — is up to lac TeNT walch will hit the men decide.' Relations Act and the strike since Monday. to movement'

FROM PAGE ONE

marched through the city in massive show of protest chanting

LIVERPOOL

more 2,000 workers marched through the chanting •Wages city centre lores out

NUPE

officer, told Workers Press that virtually all hospitals Merseyside had DIOLeST 1,500 Over staff from towns and villages all over he north coast marched through IN LONDON thousands con- the dishes

NEWCASTLE.

the roads wash and togethere 10,000 esti- keep the blood banks in order altogether mated that verged on the DHSS's Elephant workers took the one-day and 'We've great deal storke in South Shields, Castle headquarters shout- hands looking after people. If we Teesside, ing 'Heath Out!' and carrying ouncerane Newcaste "Hosoita. In

ABERDEEN

one of the be utter chaos. We should have Pay Makes and earge an all-out strike.' demonstrators carried 'Heath Freezes Pay At saying: 'Who took the Mrs Margaret Seath (65)

BUSCI

Stroke!' out They were domestic ward from Queen Mary Heath. "This is just the start. What cheered shoppers as they Hospital. said Sult the Heath's doing to us amounts to marched to offices of the took home a pitiful £14 a week wage cut, said Leslie board. on my owr and my rent mana chea who works at the Tooting blood and is f5 a week, she told me

COLNSHIRE

15,000 workers bank. "This bloody Look over the nests demonstration I'm one of the better paid and stayed away. ruining £19 a week. Out of at the only us. ,200-strong marched Laroun SHEFFIELD. Over that onces

IT S

anne I've got to nna to.lu rent hospital workers got on their GOW staff marched through the Which has us core o feet and time this government 'We obviously don't want to city 1n and the strike Tories think we Worker of Health after worker showed The Confederation would never do it. But now we've Service Employees said later that been pushed too far by the me wage slips giving their take.

government. home pay. 24-hour stoppages in

WEIC

Mrs porter Look at this,' said Potter, L-nour stoopaces Tooting, Colchita Rowland, '£14.35 for 40 in 45 towns. In London over 20 me he took home hospitals 24-hour £17 a week "I have to clean out And I have to do the were under hours. the bins, do the laundry, sweep work of four at my hospital.

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over the must country Workers Press their support and back them rights all the Our basic December Appeal Fund £613.80 186a Clapham High St working class will force this government to resign. London SW4 7UG. NORTH VIETNAM yesterday accused the United States of trying to create 'the illusion of an imminent peace, in Viet- nam. An editorial in the official 'Nhan Dan' Hanoi newspaper charged that in fact Washington trying to prolong the was war and to bargain from a position of greater strength. 'While the Paris negotiations are prolonged, the American side does not cease to propagate rumours aimed at creating the imminent peace, illusion of an it said. According to a French-language transmission of the North Viet- nam News Agency monitored in Hong Kong the official news- paper accused South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu of conducting a 'bloody campaign fascist terror' against the of South Vietnamese. The United States was backing to 'eliminate his attempts political, religious and social forces who favour peace and annihilate national concord, to the revolutionary armed forces abolish the Provisional and to Revolutionary Government,' it alleged. Sources close to the Paris 'peace' talks say the two sides have worked out another draft agreement on a cease fire, along the lines of the previous docu- which Americans the ment refused to honour in October.

But there was no indication what had been decided on the two issues which have been the main sources of dispute since October: the continued presence of North Vietnamese troops in 200,000 the south and the political prisoners held by the Saigon puppet regime. While the talks have dragged on in Paris, the Americans have Saigon been building up the government's army and air force Hanoi's denunciation indicates that the Paris talks are a façade behind which Nixon and the US nilitary chiefs are preparing thi ext stage of the war 01-720 2000 01-622 7029