Workers Press no. 947

workers press AUEW organizer blasts 'no-action' Birmingham

ENGINEERING UNION CHIEFS MUST

ACT AGAINST

RIGHT WING

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

A LEADING

member of the engineers' executive has con- demned the right wing in the union who are trying to stop the mass movement bullding up against the £55,000 fine im- posed by the National Indus- trial Relations Court. The attack came from AUEW national organizer Bob Wright. He is understood to be asking shop stewards in the

CAV-

Lucas combine in Birmingham to reverse their decision not to strike in support of workers at Sudbury the group's plant. Wright concentrated his fire the union's Birmingham on East district secretary Norman Cartwright who went on tele-

BOB WRIGHT

vision calling for emerg-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

INDUSTRY will be hit by a series of massive strikes starting on of the Monday in defence engineers' faces union, which seizure of its assets after midnight tonight. News came in yesterday that two Clydeside more big engineering areas, and Merseyside, had decided to join in the industrial action planned for next week throughout the industry.

In some areas, like Liverpool, the action is likely to spread outside the engineering to affect building sites and the docks.

support shows This snowballing that of engineers has defence the focal become the point of opposition to the Tory govern- ment for many workers. this impressive But despite resistance, serious weaknesses appeared in the ranks, have highlighted yesterday by the decision of the CAV workers at Sudbury, Suffolk, to return to work after their three-day strike.

The Sudbury decision, like the vote against strike action in the CAV-Lucas combine Birmingham, the work of the right is wing Union within the Amalgamated of Engineering Workers. have The right wingers launched a determined campaign to stop engineering workers from taking action to defend policy of total opposition to the anti-union Their long-term aim is to laws.

AUEW

recall of the get a National Committee and over- throw the union's principled stand on the Industrial Relations Act.

Within the Lucas combine they have encouraged the most back- of the ward sections member- ship, who do not see that their depend entirely living standards on a strong trade to lead union, the stampede back to work.

fight this the Rather than wing would preter to hand right over the union and its 1.2 million members to the Tory government and its courts. As such they Workers at the Sudbury, Suffolk, CAV Goad. than Tames little better union. They gave as their reason for r Sudbury whose the engineer and page 3. deep hostility to a fighting work- ing class is well known in Sud. battles The policy of local bury. the The

AUEW

executive proved disastrous in engi- mam. last must bear part of the res- neering industry pay claim bers dis- ponsibility for this situation. when militancy was spring series of isolated Their indecision over action sipated in The mistake against the fine has encouraged stoppages. same be repeated in this the right wingers to do their must not crucial confrontation the dirty work. over for the fine. It is time now sitting Union policy must also carry leadership to stop on offi. and expecting with it the force dicipline. the fence of The right wing is weakening the cials in the areas to lead the They day it is allowed campaign. come union everv mict official out and tell all their members to conspire against the go on strike. line. to INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 1972 • No. 947 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

ency AUEW national committee reconsider their opposition Industrial Relations Act the a flagrant violation of his was union policy. understood to have threatened some form of action against Cartwrignt or any oinel district who breaks policy. THE STRIKE movement against fine continued to gather The biggest force yesterday. from Scotland

DOOSE

came where engineers on Clydeside one-day strike on stage a Wednesday. action will ine stop factories throughout Glas- shipyards on the and the upper Clyde. Sudbury decision at dawn Workers at the Sudbury, Suffolk, CAV plant vote to return to work after striking They gave as their reason for returning the lack of support from areas like told to These men must be out of obey instrucuons the can well of James do without its coterie and branch. goads in every ared It was not with men like this the trade that laid the during

WCTO

bitter struggles arainst the com bination Laws over 150 years aru. The other step the executive should take is to demand immediate of the tional Confederation of Ship- 4p R 15, 1972 No. 947

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Over 2,000 workers at Weir engineering at Cathcart, Glas- gow, voted yesterday to strike on Wednesday. Workers at Paisley are likely to join in the protest after shop stewards voted yesterday to take action. The strike will affect the Chrysler and Rolls- Royce plants. The AUEW district committee had voted to call workers out on Wednesday, but after a trades council decision to sup- port the action the strike may also involve the docks and building sites. Birmingham East AUEW is calling a mass meeting of stewards on Monday to decide on action, but the Birmingham ‹ after striking against the fines on their I from areas like Birmingham—see above and Engineering building Unions. The unions in this body have given a lead in many areas in calling on their members to fight alongside the engineers. But the national leaders have kept a cowardly silence. With the exception of the sheet metal workers, they have offered the AUEW no form of assistance or support. It is time Scanlon to demand for Hugh Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union declares West district committee has decided to ignore union policy and take no action to defend the union. Instead it is calling for a national committee meet- ing to reverse the policy on the Act. Enfield AUEW district com- mittee is also calling for strikes on Wednesday. This in- volves workers in Enfield, Edmonton, Walthamstow and Tottenham. All the big industrial areas of Britain are committed to action now and next week will see the biggest strike move- ment since the five dockers were jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court.

where he stands—it was, in part, the action of the engineering workers that helped secure the release of five of his members from jail in August. Finally the struggle against the fine has got to be seen for what it isa political battle against this government and its laws. This perspective was ignored during the campaign before the Industrial Relations Bill became law and the working class is paying the price. FLEET STREET engineering workers yesterday afternoon voted overwhelmingly to hold an indefinite national stoppage over the £55,000 fine on their union. The meeting of 290 en- gineers passed the resolution calling on their national execu- tive to declare an indefinite stoppage by 216 votes to 29.

An earlier resolution calling for a one-day stoppage Monday had 106 votes against and 180 for. The secretary of the Fleet Street

AUEW

branch said afterwards: "The feeling of the meeting is they would prefer an indefinite national stoppage until the Industrial Relations Act is removed from the statute books.' The failure to develop a poli- tical consciousness among the members now gives the right wing a base and puts a real obstacle in the way of defend- ing the union. It is also vital that workers in all unions come out and back the engineers. The warnings are there for everyone to see.

Prices rocketing. wages are are frozen, entry into Europe is only weeks away. The stage is set for a massive showdown be- tween the working class and the Tories. In this fight the rank and file will need the strength of the AUEW on its side. The engineers must win this fight.

workers press AUEW organizer blasts 'no-action' Birmingham "

ENGINEERING UNION CHIEFS MUST

ACT AGAINST

RIGHT WING

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

A LEADING

member of the engineers' executive *has con- demned the right wing in the trying union who-are stop the mass movement building up against the £55,000 fine Im- posed by the National Indus- trial Relations Court. The attack came from

AUEW

national organizer Bob Wright.

He is understood to be asking shop stewards In the

CAV-

Birmingham Lucas combine in to reverse their decision not to strike in support of workers at Sudbury the group's plant. Wright concentrated his fire the union's Birmingham on East district secretary Norman Cartwriaht who went on tele-

BOB WRIGHT

vision calling for an emerg-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

INDUSTRY will be hit by a series of massive strikes starting on of Monday in defence the engineers' union, which faces seizure of its assets after midnight tonight. News came in yesterday that two Clydeside more big engineering areas, and Merseyside, had decided to join in the industrial action planned for next week throughout the industry.

In some areas, like Liverpool, the action is likely to spread outside the engineering to affect building sites and the docks.

This snowballing support shows that defence of the engineers has focal become the point of opposition to the Tory govern- ment for many workers. this impressive But despite resistance, serious weaknesses appeared the ranks, have highlighted yesterday by the decision of the CAV workers at Sudbury, Suffolk, to return to work after their three-day strike.

The Sudbury decision, like the against strike action in the vote CAV-Lucas combine Birmingham, the work of the right is Union within Amalgamated tho of Engineering Workers. have The right wingers launched a determined campaign to stop engineering workers from taking action to defend policy of total opposition to the anti-union Their long-term aim is to laws.

AUEW

recall of the get a National Committee and throw the union's principled stand on the Industrial Relations Act.

Within the Lucas combine the lave encouraged the most back member- ward sections of the do not see that their ship, who living standards depend entirely on a strong trade to lead union, the stampede back to work.

this the Rather than fight. wing would preter to hand right over the union and its 1.2 million members to the Tory government and its courts. As such they are Workers at the Sudbury, Suffolk, CAV Goad. little than better Tames union. They gave as their reason for the Sudbury engineer whose and page 3. deep hostility to a fighting work- ing class is well known in Sud- The local battles policy of bury The

AUEW

executive mem- proved disastrous in the engi- bers must bear part of the pay claim last res- neering industry militancy dis. ponsibility for this situation. spring when was of isolated sipated in action Their indecision. over series The has encouraged mistake the fine stoppages. same against do their not be repeated in this the right wingers to must crucial confrontation the dirty work. AHAr fine. for the It is time now Union leadershin to sitting policy must also carry stop on offi. force dicipline. the fence and expecting with the of i+ The right wing is weakening the cials in the areas to lead the They day allowed must come union everv is campaign. it conspire against the official out and tell all their members to line. to go on strike. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 15, 1972 • No. 947 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

ency AUEW national committee reconsider their opposition the Industrial Relations Act his was a lagrant violation of union policy. Wright is understood to have threatened some form of action against Cartwright or any other district official who breaks policy. THE SIRIke movement against the fine continued to The force Yesterdarom Scotland Come where engineers on Clydeside will stage a one-day strike on Wednesday. action will stop factorles throughout Glas- and the shipyards on the upper Clyde. Sudbury decision at dawn plant vote to return to work after striking They gave as their reason for returning the lack of support from areas like told These men must be to of obey instructons oUL the union. can well do without its coterie of James branch. and Nors every arca It was not with men ilke tol: the foundations trade that the laid during uniullisill bitter struggles against the Com bination Laws over 150 years anu. The other step the executive should take is to aemand an immediate meeting the na- tional Confederation of Ship- R 15, 1972 • No. 947 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Over 2,000 workers at Welr engineering at Cathcart, Glas- gow, voted yesterday to strike on Wednesday. Workers at Paisley are likely to join in the protest after shop stewards voted yesterday to take action. The strike will affect the Chrysler and Rolls- Royce plants. The AUEW district committee had voted to call workers out but after on Wednesday, trades council decision to sup- port the action the strike may • involve the docks and also building sites. Birmingham East AUEW is calling a mass meeting of stewards on Monday to decide on action, but the Birmingham • after striking against the fines on their I from areas like Birmingham—see above building and Engineering Unions. The unions in this body have given a lead in many areas in calling on their members to fight alongside the engineers. But the national leaders have kept a cowardly silence. With the exception of the sheet metal workers, they have offered the AUEW no form of assistance or support. It is time Scanlon to demand for Hugh Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union declares 7 - 1) 634 West district committee has decided to ignore union policy and take no action to defend the union. Instead it is calling for a national committee meet- ing to reverse the policy on the Act. Enfield AUEW district com- mittee is also calling for strikes on Wednesday. This in- volves workers Enfield, in Edmonton, Walthamstow and Tottenham. All the big industrial areas of Britain are committed to action now and next week will see the biggest strike move- ment since the five dockers were jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court.

where he stands-it was, in part, the action of the engineering workers that helped secure the of five of his members release from jail in August. Finally the struggle against the fine has got to be seen for it is-a political battle what against this government and its laws. This perspective was ignored during the campaign before the Industrial Relations Bill became law and the working class is paying the price. engineering

FLEET STREET

workers yesterday afternoon voted overwhelmingly to hold an indefinite national stoppage over the £55,000 fine on their union. 'The meeting of 290 en- gineers passed the resolution calling on their national execu- tive to declare an indefinite stoppage by 216 votes to 29.

An earlier resolution calling for a one-day stoppage on Monday had 106 votes against and 180 for. The secretary of the Fleet Street AUEW branch said afterwards: "The feeling of the meeting is they would prefer an indefinite national stoppage until the Industrial Relations Act is removed from the statute books.' The failure to develop a poli- tical consciousness among the members now gives the right wing a base and puts a real obstacle in the way of defend- ing the union. It is also vital that workers in all unions come out and back the engineers. The warnings are there for everyone to see.

Prices are rocketing. wages are frozen, entry into Europe is only • weeks away. The stage set for a massive showdown be- tween the working class and the Tories. In this fight the rank and strength of file will need the the AUEW on its side. The engineers must win this fight.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday December. 15, 1972 Employers spoiling for showdown

MONEY

WORED

German engineers US goes ballot on strike deeper into

SPECIAL REPORT BY JOHN SPENCER

I. G. METALL, the 2.2 million-strong West German metalworkers' the red union, is to ballot its members in North-Rhine Westphalia in preparation for a strike after Christmas. The decision follows the THE US balance of payments collapse of 13 hours of steel industry pay talks in Frankfurt.

slipped deeper into the red in the third the quarter The union is demanding increases of about year with a $2,215m deficit Il per cent, with slight regional variations in 'Frenzied' compared with $1,864m in the the claim. But the employers have put forward second quarter. a provocative 5.6 per cent offer in reply.

US war Baus meanas •esote mne The steel claim is closely linked with the improvement over 1971 registered the first six the total months, union's wage demand in the engineering in- yeal dustry and means no the steel employers' stance is a sign that the engineering bosses will also take marked signing a tough line. The employers are spoiling for a showdown with substantial increases ulli.

WILCH

WOR

a bitter 3t-week stoppage.

•y a lon-leim cadilal ouliow.

tands ot the responsibility for negotiations out of the associations and Leudal enolovers organization cena wed preparation the fight with I. G. Metall.

bushesses overor There is certain to be overwhelming support for strike action when the ballot is held on „becem d walking on air after 1uc workers dre sof victory of the Social-Democrats accion Metall official Fritz Hauser told Workers Press Monday. their expect- LuC Icoulda nerensed nasrdon sance

SAURUSI

and there is a militant feeling in the big aLOIS i factories.' claim fo faid ae unit both or tal wailersd claim account workers' wishes and the pressure of public opinion.

Nixon •Public opinion polls show that 80 domsten Mant inari on, so we ere taken cent of the people do not this into account in making our davisel he said. claim,' IG Metall members in a 1971 strike rally He explained that I. G. Metall Mr Hauser made it clear that

JUC

and the employers still smarting does not intend calling a national 'Socialist' to the union leaders are strike to back the claim. 'Last their defeat at the polls, concerted trom year's strike growing see it asy showed that a DOLL the West German worker are the factories part form Belgian pressing forward strongly.

Vietnam's of alroesd restrain workers. SU•DOrL metalworkers' wage government

SOME 8,000

West German political activity in Wilco struggle will be the first test for miners and white-collar the factories because it keeps out ecol

DIOCK

Maoist the new Brandt workers in

THE LEADER

Belgian

COAH

bindustry

OLICI

lell-WIlg ot tha are to lose their jobs next year, groups. which 1s trying to steer German Socialist Party, Edmond in lhe most successtul capitalism through a situation of woll federa coa industrv King occI vILte Workers defied the law during Gerhard Woratz Baudouin to try form an- mountng economic crisis. to slorer There has been com- election He told a houden vesteraav. their machines with posters sup- As the workers push forward, political deadlock since the the Press conference men

DICLC

TOnS social-democrats. Brandt and fall of must emerge more Tose gavskers government would become redundant with CalCul ror the hrst time the metal union openly as the front-man three weeks ago over the long- the closure of three pits in the 1101C came out publicly in support for the standing linguistic dispute.

employers. Ruhr area and one pit in the re-election Saar region bordering france. Pasport confiscated First test

WAO

industrialized LU Dasc UnC region

A LEADING

101C cocasc Shult representative of the n •ovier en .bassy came to his hotel room and Tenano° Unions Besi LooK dway ns Dass oort Chalidze is one of a number of Soviet Human merri ed to hose veet Committee opposition intellectuals who have been allowed to leave the recently been Soviet Union to lecture A DOCe He is Valery Chalidze; a scien- include the release of militars The obvious intention is to block Ilaliullal ane enlorces sunke dauots they Meni's soire return give good dhysics who has been lecturing 1 ot future Tual allce. scornfully rejected the proposals.

Washington. al more unan o per cent a yea.

naciolr Economic slowdown in Soviet Union

:NEW:

Socialist Labour League

CELEBRATE

:FILM:

THE ECONOMIC slow- year was only 5.4 per cent.

clothing and textiles Faced agricul- witn an down in the Soviet This is a reflection not and …toorwear production crisis and lagging of bad cent below target dustrial Union, AVer together WIll which leads to all kinds of and key which sets, radios this disastrous year's

3RD ANNIVERSARY

THREE

Soviet Peadership has wastes mid disorodordons recor•-onver_ •os o harvest, is causing the but also of the attitude of the promised shift to con- leadership turned

OF WORKERS

YEARS

bureaucracy serious con- Soviet the capitalist countries workers. sumer goods production

PRESS

cern. goods in- Japanese The consumer showed onlv small gains OF huneical allt Premier Alexei Kosygin dustries have failed to ful- bureaucracy con- monopolists are intree fil Leonid Brezhnev's main in the Soviet Union

• WORKERS

bime seould be tinues give latest issue of the theore.

that they be priority to heavy industry , a massive scale ana are misC •Kommunist journal,

PRESS

available larger quan- Stalin's

BUILD THE

Just as ontered OTOSDeCE tities this year and is achieving its new markets and big Inal Ine rale or growen or

REVOLUTIONARY

the national income this profits. There was little growth laisels will be the lowest year

PARTY

since 1963. Castro's collective capitulation He claims that while the past two over years nauorai income rew • hijack talks which with the United

GLASGOW

10 per cent, this year the

BIRMINGHAM

• Eie Claol States.' figure is expected to be started three weeks ago SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 2 p.m.

United States The offer down to 4 per cent. the negotiate SUNDAY DECEMBER 17,7 p.m.

labour pro- Woodside hals the Em- with Nixon if the blockade SWis! St George's Cross roures onl LItourI ductivity given in the bassy in Havana. labeth Civic Ha were litea lollows a series of the Mos- Speakers: if Cuban satment ara Speakers : latest issue nothing He added that Cuba BANDA (SLL Central G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- "Ekonomi- Toldoa. DidIeS, r

LOL EU

else would be discussed a committee) cheskaya Gazeta' help to lary) Cole becone bx se long Holockade: the 'economic WILLIE AITKIN (YS national explain what in Latin America. going against Cuba re- BARRIE s nationa boasted committee statements WrOnk. mained in force. i personal capacity. Instead of the planned standing al his soe di aval. -valt. 6.1 cent increase over "Our e digis be toebi, sais forbids and many other capitalist 1970°r Paisley Action Let this countries had ignored the tenants CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity. In the for the ngure mittee. In personal capacity.)

a personal capacity.) does months this arSt 11 …inocuer MCal TeCUI- Dockade

Workers Press, Friday Decemben 15, 1972 PAGE 3 Prices skyrocket Union of Railwaymen voted by

BY ALEX MITCHELL

return to talks nine to two to at No 10 Downing Street. WHOLESALE prices rose Ostensibly they are going to last month in spite of the complain about soaring prices. government's 'freeze' legis- tual LuC lation. Official figures show about 'Phase Two' of the wages that the November increase Wholesale prices are still rising while plan was the same as the pre- already lhe government has the new vious three months leading a vanced plans which will bring state pay law freezes workers' wages up to breakdown of the permanent, statutory controls tripartite talks. over le By continuing talks with the In other words while Tories TÚC leaders 30 davs of the 'freeze -which meat are not controlled by the standard of living of the work- wages are being held down leading means that prices have gone legislation. All these staple hold singes Tory their members into prices are being by a staggering 3 mom percent goods have increased in dangerous trap. up price arithmetic: down. skyrocket. The Department in over the past few months.

There should be no further HOL JOUr of Trade and industry bul- there was When FEC entre ache will Although millions of work- talks with this reactionary At the same time letin shows that wholesale 1-per-cent the in two weeks' there will ,ing-class families painfully government. Instead of supping of basic price materials and be a further round of increases the leaders prices of all manufactured Heat conscIous

WILL

by Value-Added are to, the leaders should mobilizing support products Lo be rolowed increasing ale ing industry last month. Tax on April 1. appear not to throughout the and labour the rate of 9 per cent a year.

increases As have previously stated, Wednesday be On • the economic lauc 7-per-cent rise was re- taken against that the throw him and his government of the Heath state

LIC

contree Chatted gistered last month-the first vegetables and pay plan to smash the Sidney Greene of the National Sudbury CAV men return to work By David Maude Our Industrial Correspondent LACK of immediate, 1,300 Sudbury workers. decisive action from Hecklers challenged with him other areas of the coun- une Lucas factories in Birming- try was blamed by CAV ham not to strike. There Sudbury, also shouts workers at WelC ing district committees for Suffolk, for the ending only calling one-day ac- tions. of their three-day strike The Birmingham deci- yesterday. sion was to be regretted, Halverson Ron said, du- The "it against mitting ity that there Oil boom'

SIKA

the £50,000 fine imposed secret we would have pre.

should have been until Goad was defi- more on the engineers' union taken'. nitely sacked. by the National Indus-

DUT

Workers the Sudbury workers had particu- are trial Relations Court doubles value nothing to be ashamed of larly bitter that he

GOAD...

Never allowed off an was Caree at mains on full pay through- back he early morning mass said. out the stoppage meeting outside the fac- had banare return. sack After the fac- tory. tory Bill of property

CAV

management J1n° A brief shoD stewards' strike would most prob- fused either sack nim meeting beforehand de- ably had have continued or give assurance that an cided to recommend a re- more backing been forth. HOUSE VALUES in Aberdeen would be taken have doubled in the coming. the past three years because of the North Sea oil the Sudbury workers were back. betore returning their jobs, therefore, the 'I don't think this meet- boom, the carrying 'disproportion- Royal Institution of Chartered Survey- reaffirmed would have workers over- ing taken ate burden' ors claimed yesterday. the whelmingv that thev will colleagues against the fine. pace under no circumstances outside come forward with This is not due to the activities of house-hunting Sudete rece mportant work with him. a form of support.' oil executives, who tend to rent rather than to buy, included but to the demand for land resulting from the intro- Ron Halverson, assist- Several shop stewards that Tames Goad, criticized the AUBW duction of the new industry. Building land in the whose legal action led the Amalgamated Union ional executive for failing east of Scotland is expected the fine, should north exceed soon to De of Engineering Workers, to give a lead with a defi £10,000 an acre. the allowed back

TITO

told the meeting that *an strike action. nute call 1ol factory. five-room home with which impressive of conse- Ant the voting about Those Cost £8,500 Several workers voted quential support' had against stewards' re-

DUCKLING.

Needed fetching f12,000. A new Mav _Is now more backing £14,000 larger house which cost new against demanding that the strike of commendation the major- one sulted from y cal is now realizing £20,000 or more, sala une insutution. Halt gas conversions Shelter Missile costs

• THE

house average council rent in England and Wales has by 45 per cent over the for full investigation' last four years, . the highest rise‹ chief shoot up per nort cent) and the lowest in the west Midlands (35 per cent). The now £2.75

THE

COST

of developing the protection A CITY broker and former pre- average rent is leaks and

A CONSUMER

complaints about £2.48 Seawolf guided missile for the a week compared sident will fumes a year or more after con- group has urged that conver- has doubled the last Students, Geoff Martin (32) year says navy over versions are completed. Institute sions to natural gas should to be the new director of Shelter Municipal Treasurers and Ac- three years the all u countants in its annual return completed, according to be halted while a full inquiry Because the still not situadon is seri- manionai CanDalen 101 He the House Commons watch- ous and we know that many homeless. succeeds John published slatiolics. takes place. dog committee on expenditure.

have the Willis, who leaves at the end of yesterday. come to In telegram sent, yesterday tether,

NCP

feels Rents the year enol conunuc valy enor- Between November 1970 and Council. The Chairman Housing that the time has come for Liverpool MI mously. house

TOSE

Atree.becroom Henry Jones, the the end of 1971 expenditure on thorough investigation top Martin and his wife Gay, a bar- cost between £1.21 and National Consumers Protection Seawolf rocketed by an incre- live in Richmond. €8.30 a week. level. Tsuck, dible £9m and there was counc sale aspects or me con- version were giving cause for the time markeu Sulooare scale, the committee report.

BOOKS - AN IDEAL XMAS PRESENT

telegram said: Owing to Concern was also expressed the continuous stream of com- over the mounting pressure from plaints post- repairs A wide selection of paperbacks-special giftpacks- increased

COSES

teneral. COnVeISIOn Icaks anu tulles WC this ce tate S970s urge complete investigation into children's books all available from detence budgets the late gas boards and temporary halt to

PAPERBACKS ECENTRE

be increased by cuts all" Conversus ounts. names are nes worst as far as complaints we receive but have are concerned, do workers are Como duts _Duarus. spokesman for the balloted on industrial 28 Charlotte St

OPEN:

tion council said: 'Somehow acton Dack Their calm 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon-Thurs which has been 'frozen' by the OLICk. 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Friday The 120,000-strong monopoly, government. which is virtualv London W1 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday needs to be broken into smaller, Health Service collicuelation Book Tokens welcome manageable, meeting Employees seek a 1 callis with the three other unions reached such nues nave

BOOKS @ PERIODICALS & NEWSPAPERS

volved consider 'the pitch that they never seem catch with themselves and that situation senious exist' if the f4 is not paid soon.

conversions are causin, Consid

WEALTH AND POVERTY

Tom Kemp looks at some government statistics PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Decembe The population of the increased from 53 UK million in 1961 to 56 mil- lion in 1971. The propor- tion of older people has tended to increase. In 1971 over 7.5 million people received retire- ment pensions. Since the early 1960s more people have left Britain than have entered it as immigrants.

The increase in population has been a result of the ex- cess of births over deaths. The most recent trend, however, is for the birth rate to fall.

The statisticians found that 'illegitimate births' rose from 5.7 per cent of all live births in 1961 to 8.2 per cent in 1968. 'The highest rate of illegitimate births and pre- marital conceptions occur to women in the age group 15-19; in 1971 one-quarter of the total births to mothers in these ages were illegitimate and three-fifths of the births within marriage had been pre- maritally conceived.' The statisticians are very concerned about the crime rate. The 1971 total for in- • 15, 1972 ED

ANTED

dictable offences of violence against the person known to the police is two-and-a-halt times the corresponding figure for 1961. No explanation is offered in crimes for the increase against the person or for the growth of theft and other forms of crime-all symptoms, in fact, of a 'sick' society.

strength and growing The combativity of the working class is shown in the growth in trade union membership and more particularly in the number of days lost through strikes. The figures show a steady increase as follows: Working days lost in millions: 1.7 1951 1961 3.0 2.4 1966 6.9 1969 1970 10.9 1971 — 13.6 Disputes over wages formed a more or less constant pro- portion of the whole. Sickness accounted for 138 million working days lost in 1960-1961 and 180 million in 1970-1971. It is estimated that bronchitis alone accoun- ted for the loss of 30 million working days among males in 1970-1971 covered by doctors' certificates. Altogether this publication provides a useful compendium information statistical which confirms the Marxist diagnosis of the crisis of capi- talism. Despite the modest improvements in living stand- which have been ob- ards tained through struggle by the working class, capitalism has not changed. A large part of the gain made in money wages has been absorbed by inflation and especially by the spiralling costs of housing. More women have to go out to work- when they can find a job-to finance the family budget. This gives the employers the opportunity to tap a cheap source of labour power, since women have not yet won equal pay and many work on a part-time basis for low wages. There has been little reduc- tion in the hours actually worked and this has been can- celled out, and more, by the rate of exploitation increased about which this volume can say nothing. The increased and intensity of pressure

TOL

modern work, as well as the strain of getting to the job and back again, imposes addi- tional expenses on the worker.

The housing crisis remains acute and is getting worse in congested areas. the more There has been little improve- ment in health and little is against scourges being done such as influenza, bronchitis and heart disease. The huge inequalities in and income which wealth capitalism reproduces reveal themselves even in these stat- istics. Even redistribution through taxation and Social Security payments takes place mainly within the working class itself. Supporters of capitalism are disturbed most of all by the big increase in the crime rate which has accompanied the rise of the supposedly hind this and other symptoms of capitalist decay which this report reveals. British capitalism once again operates with a sizeable reserve army of labour which is tending to increase. The number of average unem- ployed in 1971 was 806,000 Above: march against the jailing of five dockers. The strength of the working class, is shown in the growth of trade union mem- bership and in the number of days lost through strikes.

of whom over a quarter, be it noted, were in the prime of • life in the 20 to 30 age group.

Supporters of capitalism have tried to draw what com- fort they can from some of the figures recorded in this notably what is volume, claimed as a rise in real in- such improve- But comes. ments as have taken place have had to be wrested by the workers through their bar- gaining strength and in struggle. That it has become in- creasingly difficult to do this is shown by the rapid increase the number of days lost through strikes in the past three years. In fact, the statistical record charts the growing crisis of capitalism, its inability to solve the social problems of the working class, its perpetu- ation of the contrast between riches for a minority and toil and hardship for the great majority.

ON FRANCO'S SIDE

The 80th birthday of General Francisco Franco was an excellent oppor tunity for the customary speeches of praise of the dictator's rule on Spanish radio and television and at numerous public meet- ings up and down the country. signing of The recent trade pact with the Soviet Union and the acknowledge- ment by Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home that the Tory government would wel- come Spain in the Common Market were pointed to by the Madrid Press as two high points in the General's drive to establish Spain in the 'new' Europe. The message of gratitude to the Caudillo from the Spanish government delivered at meeting of the Council Ministers on December 7 by vice-president of the govern- Admiral Carrero ment, Blanco, showed that the "prin- ciples' which guide the Spa- nish state have not changed since the end of the 1936- 1939 civil war. Echoing the fanatical broadcasts of Queipo de Llano in the 1930s, Blanco told of the struggle against the Popu- lar Front government 'which wanted to convert Spain into an atheist country, a vassall of communist imperialism...

Our war was not then a civil war: it was a war of liberation and a crusade'. The proof of this? 'Isn't communism the declared enemy of God? ... Churches burned down and, just were for believing in God, bishops and 7,933 priests were murdered.' To back up these remark- ably figures accurate was juicy quotation from the en- cyclical of Pope Pius 13th on behalf of 'Christ the Redeem- er, issued in March 1937. "The fury has communist killed bishops and especially worked those priests who with the poor and the work- ing class.' God has been well-served since Franco's armies, backed by Hitler, Mussolini and the Vatican, destroyed the poli- tical and trade union organi- of the working-class zations tune of the 300,000 -to million pesetas, no less, spent on monasteries, seminaries which litter the and convents towns of Spain. Apparently, it was the hand of God which kept Spain out War Il and thus of World saved from her communism since 'the victors in 1945 were the

USSR

and what were called «demo- the western cracies", that is, communism and liberalism, the best poli- tical for weakening system peoples... The veteran Falangist ter- minated his oration by pledg- faith ing 'blind in the deci- sions of your authority in the against free-masonry struggle and Marxism'. In his tirade, the Spanish vice-President was re-affirm- that the Spanish govern- ing ment would continue its policy of outlawing the work- ing class and that these are the terms which make Spain's entry into the EEC a necessity.

No doubt, thunderous ap- Madrid church sacked in the plause will have reverberated Church has always supported the lanc round the board-rooms of all built up huge and has fortunes those firms which hope to Above: General Franco starved. make Spain their for base head of the Augustine order in taking the European over fathers. Along provincial Augustine market, from Ford Detroit to monkish the orders offer business, British-Leyland. sons of the middle-class.

Woefears Press, Friday December 15, 1972 PAGE 5 China is considering aid to one of the most anti- communist regimes in Africa—Malagasy, form. Madagascar, erly the third largest island in the world. The Foreign Minister of the Republic, officer ex-naval Captain Didier Ratsiraka, has recently been politely received in Peking and the Chinese are seeking details of Malagasy in- vestment projects before con- sidering financial support.

The new strongman ruler of the island is Gabriel Ramanant- General who overthrew soa, a President Tsiranana and got union leaders to call of General Strike by giving the false impression he was slightly to the left of his predecessor.

Ramanantsoa came to power after months of serious rioting and unrest which began in the island on May 13. The old President, called Mr 100 per cent because of his remarkable performances in elections where he tended to win all the votes, had been a bitter anti- communist. He even startled the white South supremacists in Africa when he told them: 'Even if it comes from France, commun- ism will never be established here as long as I can prevent it. And listen to this. Listen carefully. 'Even if South Africans took it into their heads to some fine become communist day, I would slam the door on them.' Since independence in 1958 many people, particularly the poor farmers in the south, have suffered a decline in standards and the island has a massive unemployment problem with 450,000 youth on the dole.

Each day now the situation gets worse as Malagasy finds it increasingly more difficult to stand up to strains imposed by the French franc zone. Con- fidence European among businessmen is evaporating.

spreading Unrest is also the intellectuals. By among 1967, almost 60,000 graduates expected are unem- ploved-already more than 10,000 qualify for posts in the administration and the pro- fessions, but there only are places for 2,000 to 3,000.

China's slight reluctance to plunge into the Malagasy scene.

however. is not dictated by the abhorrence of the present The main obstacle is regime. the 18,000 Chinese who control most of the local business and the economy. They send considerable sums to the homeland each year and would be disturbed if China encouraged radicalization any of the official policy. Spanish Civil War: " The Catholic Aid might signal such a landed aristocracy and capitalists move and an end to the cash and peasants have whilst workers flow. So, for the present, the Teodoro Tack, ico confers with father super opportunist the Spain. With Tack is a delegation Chinese bureaucracy Chou En- Along with the civil service and big 'policy jai is of offer the best career prospects to the pursuing smiles', but no cash yet.

16, 1872 -seven Panda cars and was ter en brief discussion On Monday Ken Charlton, a hand- After a a minibus full had arrived an South Shields Tory council- Lloyd, with her boss, Josie hour earlier, at 7.30 a.m.

An drove his Rover up to lor, secretary of the strike com- inspector and the managing fac- the Barbours' rainwear mittee, was able to announce: director went into a kerbside tory. Through the tinted glass 'We have won. We have got The police de- conference. of the windscreen he saw the cided it was time to act and what we set out to achieve, usual picket of girls-his em- the recognition of our trade of the sweep the girls out . proyces. Today we have seen It union. had Barbours' entrance. was But this time they the working class in action.'

then the men from the Elsie been joined by some miners, This was the triumphant and Gibbons engineering fac- engineers and delegates from way the Barbours strike-one made their tory next door the South Shields and Jarrow remarkable dis- of the most move. Eighty of them rushed Trades Council. With a little putes in South Shields since across the green to protect less than his usual self-con- war-ended. was the girls from the charge.

direc- fidence the managing fought by 80 largely politi- second The police had tor made his through way inexperienced women thoughts, called off the tough cally the crowd. He was stopped.

workers who, by their deter- stuff and Charlton knew he But the police were at march. Trade Barbours on unionists in South Shields line up behind the striking (above) gins the their througn march town. • this Nights. The pickets stop a traveler helped trade deterinte Tallucki tory (above left). Were not always peaceful. against the girls called in the las several minute intervention of sheet-metal stopped more violence wornels Charlton monday. LulL Barbours managing slinks past the picket mination and example, won support of workers the throughout the north east.

Barbours is a small cloth- made $65,oDo pront last year-halt which factory of this went to pay for Charl- ton and the two other direc- tors of the wage The average 119 staff was weil under £20 The girls decided to a week. turn their back on low pay and they chose a 'tough' trade their union to hight Transport and General the Workers. Then the battle started. Management not only refused Workers prost, Friday Docal

SOUT

them their increase, but made it clear that there was a plain choice between the union and employment with the firm.

The workers refused to give up their fight and the strike began on October 22. It was a long and bitter dispute, but every day the determination to win grew on the picket line. The police also encouraged the women to stand up and fight for their On November 10 rights. single giris who had no source of income went to the local Sorial Security office to put in emergency claims for benefit.

were refused an 'audi- They ence' and the police moved in and manhandled them off the premises. The incident led to an apology from the Social Secu- rity officials. They gave South Shields Trades Union Council officials the assurance that on future occasion would no police be used to prevent or inhibit members of the public from making legitimate claims for benefit'. The law, however, was un- i Prade, Friday December 15, 1872 PAGE 7

SHELDS

repentant. The Durham police headquarters told the trades council in a letter that their had • 'acted properly officers under instructions'. The struggle of the Bar- aroused the bour women anger of South Shields and working class came to their aid. After a march last weekend Monday's big picket was launched. United action and devotion to the principles of the work- ing-class movement won the The girls returned struggle. with full trade union rights, a f2 increase, which has already been agreed, and a promise of negotiations over a rise to be paid after the freeze. South Shields Trades Union Council secretary Jack Grassby spoke for everyone when he said the day Charl- ton was beaten: 'We want to pay tribute to the Barbours' girls. They have fought the battle of their lives. They have won a victory for the whole working class union movement and trade

PAGE 8 Workers Prass, Friday December 15, 1972 Following the articles Renegades from Trotskyism' dealing with the situation in Ceylon, JACK GALE now examines the British section of the revisionist Unified Secretariat of the Fourth International, The International Marxist Group (IMG).

Over the last few years Vietnam as the main focus (see Ernest Germain's report to the the Socialist Workers'

TEC).

December 1969 (My Party of the United States emphasis J. G.) has deliberately built up So, don't demand you 'Victory to the

NLF'

if the a minority tendency with- 'own' of your country troops in the British Inter- are fighting them! It is almost national Marxist Group. impossible to single open page of Lenin without finding a Like the SWP itself, this refutation this cowardly 'tendency' is a petty-bourgeois Leninism social patriotism. group moving to the right. It developed opposition to turns its back on the working We give only one exactly this. class and adapts middle- to -from Lenin's 'Social- reference like Women's class layers ism and War': Liberation. 'A revolutionary class in a The of this right turn reactionary cannot help war tendency emerges clearly from wishing defeat of the its Report of the Unified the government, it cannot fail to Fact - Finding Secretariat's see the connection between the Commission into the IMG. In government's military reverses particular it took the following and the increased opportunity forms. for overthrowing it. In (1) Nottingham women We defy a single member of members of the tendency con- IMG—or any other section centrated almost entirely on a Unified Secretariat-to the Nottingham Socialist Women's reconcile Lenin's position with Committee, producing a that of Germain (Mandel) and paper-'Socialist Women'- Jordan. which they insisted was inde- (3) In Glasgow tendency mem- pendent of IMG and not sub- bers ignored a request of the ject to its control. Mole' 'Red editorial board to

IMG

They resisted an send in material on UCS until decision build 'Socialist the Stalinist work-in had been Women's Groups' and objected in for operation almost to marching with other IMG month. Indeed, the editorial women at a national rally on board complained to the entire They claimed women's rights. membership: this would be separating them- politically im- As it iS selves off from the mainstream possible for the paper to come women's movement' of the out without carrying material (p.38). on UCS two comrades in Lon- In Glasgow, tendency sup- don have had hurriedly to resisted carrying porters also write articles which are neither out the IMG's line and insisted particularly good nor original' 'Women in working in a on (p.92). Action' group (p.88). This sort of communication (2) The tendency opposed the from the editorial board must use of such slogans as 'Victory really encourage IMG members Liberation to the National dash out and sell their to 'Power Front', to the Pro- paper! visional Revolutionary Govern- The tendency supporters in ment', *Solidarity with the Glasgow claimed that they had Indo-Chinese Revolution'— not sent in material because which were the agreed slogans it took time to do a good job!

of IMG-on the grounds that The real reason was that they this was 'a question of tactics' disagreed with the IMG line on (p.80). That is to they say, the work-in. might offend some middle-class One can hardly blame them would people who otherwise for disagreeing. Because the march with them. It is well line was that the Stalinist of that the known, course, work-in "The First Step was

SWP

and the minority inside Workers' Unified Secretariat the also This aston- oppose these slogans. ishing pronouncement from an But Pat Jordan's reply to be organization claiming to these objections reveals what a Trotskyist have appears to totally unprincipled organiz- excited from no comment ation the Unified Secretariat is.

Mandel, Hansen and company.

It is worth quoting: (4) At the 197l conference of "Victory to the 'The slogan the International Marxist NLF" has been used on all our Group, tendency supporters demonstrations March since abstained on a message of sup- 1968, and before that.

PRT/ERP

port to the in •• It is absolutely implicit Argentina on the grounds that in the statement of aims of the it endorsed the kidnapping Vietnam. Solidarity Campaign Stanley Silvester, the British

(VSC),

which has been our consul in Argentina. instrument of interven- main As has been pointed out in tion in this held for tive years.

It is embodied in previous articles, the split in Our

IMG

equally deep political practice of selling mirrors an distributing split within the Unified Secre- flags and badges tariat. The tendency supports- with the NLF flag on. fact is dependent It is the of the in and policy (Unified Secretariat of) Fourth by-the Socialist maintained itself Workers' Party, which International to advocate using position this slogan in those countries supports a minority within the revisionist Inter- which have not got troops in Pat Jordan with NLF flag I on May Day, holds the completely unprincipler posit which have no troops in Vietnam that t appropriate. On UCS (above) the IM Towards a Scottish Workers' Republic national (although, for legal reasons, it cannot be an actual member of it). Since the 1963 reunification -by which the SWP declared its political solidarity with the Pabloite International--was carried through without any principled discussion, it is equally impossible to hold a discussion within principled the Unified Secretariat today.

To do so would blow it apart.

Thus, political differences Unified Secretariat within NO ) 01 NO 1998. The Unified Secretariat May Day, position that it is only in countries am that the slogan 'Victory to the NLF' ) the IMG said it was the 'First Step Republic'. sections are dealt with, not in a principled way, but with the author- bureaucratic most itarianism. When this brings the organization to the point of breakdown, an international Commission is 'Fact-Finding' appointed. The purpose of this commission is not to deal with political issues involved, the but to paper over the cracks hold the strife-ridden and section together. • certainly the situ- This is ation within the International Marxist Group. mentioned in previ —MU members D with picture Hansen as the targe throwing bers to member ass through the they were refused to a party (p.122 two of many. The Glasgo 'model' IMG by 1970-1971 supp IMG leadership in described the situa of 'utter stagnation clared that missed out on the and on a protr strike'. Branch activity 'some rather low-k women and activities such as a and very dustrial work has spired and unprod The dos onere branch, they said, indescribably and political become inextricabl 'One half of th scarcely on the other With people sought behalf of the leadership they a barrag jected to laughter, jeering, constant interrupti and a half hours' They concluded, under-emphasis: ation, of course, h on branch meetings

CONTINUED TON

roup. The incidents previous articles embers playing darts Joseph the target, NC mem- beer-bottles he glass door of an ber's house because refused admittance y (p.122)—are only Glasgow 971 supporters of the ership in that branch stagnation'. t on the postal strike protracted local activity consisted o ner low-key work or nd Ireland, routine such as attendance at 'Mole' sales nosphere within the emnities terms speak to they were • sub- a barrage of abuse, calling, jeering, name interruptions for two oncluded, with some "This situ- course, has its effect meetings' (pp.89-90).

JED TOMORROW

'NORMALIZATION'

University employment experts One man who is fully con- in Manchester are complaining inced of the Utopia of Euro that a table issued last month pean unity in the form of the by the University Grants Com- Common Market is none other French mittee showing that the city than Michel Debré, has the fourth highest graduate Minister of State responsible jobless total in Britain is 'un- for National Defence. fair. The UGC figures show that 144 graduates from Manchester University were still looking jobs December 31, on 1971-five months after getting their degrees. Only London, with 712 unemployed gradu- 168 ates, Leeds with and Cambridge 163, with were pointed out a local worse, Manchester evening paper. Writing the December (Quite rightly.) issue of the National Defence There was also a statement Review, Debré states: 'Because of Man- from the secretary European there can be no University's chester careers defence, political Europe can and appointments Mr service, not take on any Bernard Holloway, who "nor- and claimed that 'when you put malization" have a fundamental the number without jobs as a including the intan- limit percentage of the total, figures of gibility frontiers resulting are very much the same as the World War II.' from national average, at about Debré is well known for his per cent.' with the political agreement The table, he said, takes no principles upheld by the Franco number of the of account regime in Spain and recently students passing through each Soviet played host his to university. Marshal opposite number, But after a closer look at the Gretchko. number without jobs as a per- the future thoughts His. on centage of the total graduates include the follow- of Europe from Manchester University, ing profession of conservatism: we found that in fact it aver- It may the seem contrary to ages not at 8 per cent but at nature of things and men that 8.8 per cent (i.e. a total of immobility should be a con- 1,637 students graduated from dition of the future. But in the Manchester University in the present state of Europe, one 1970-1971). academic year, should cannot imagine that it But there a few be otherwise.' are more points that Mr Holloway seems On the European Security have forgotten Conference: 'We think that to or over- First that in addition this conference will ratify the looked. 144 definitely without jobs, present state of Europe, above to all in relation to frontiers.'

further 71 graduates were The latest Press hand-out classed as 'unknown'. In the of cases, according to from the blue-eyed technocrats majorıty UGC, it is safe to assume and rationalization men at the the that the great bulk of these is European Commission in also without jobs. Assuming Brussels talks about removing that 50 per cent of the 'un- 'psychological and chauvin- knowns' are out of work, that istic factors' from the European makes a total of just under 1l capitalist Perhaps they scene. had Debré's psyche in mind! per cent! Special offer £20 includes postage Complete the form below with name and address of person to whom you would like the paper sent.

NAME

ADDRESS

Date to start sending Amount enclosed (£20) £. Complete form and post immediately to:

WORKERS PRESS CIRCULATION DEPT.,

186a CLAPHAM HIGH STREET,

LONDON, SW4 7UG

This country contains many misnamed institu- tions-the Royal Courts of 'Justice', the 'public' schools • and the • 'British' Museum. Most of the objects in its col- lections and the books in libraries are by its foreigners who never saw either side of the Chan- nel. What makes them 'British' is that they were purchased (or pinched) with a small fraction of the surplus ex- tracted by the British ruling from British working class people. And since British imperial- ism at one time held much of the material wealth of the world in its hands, the museum contains many fine and beau- tiful things. Some of them are brought together in the exhibition 'The Art of Drawing': several hundred examples of 'drafts- manship' from 11,000 BC to AD 1900. The major portion are by Europeans from the Renaissance onwards, and they are well worth looking at.

In order to draw, it is necessary to see; and in order to see it is necessary to think.

Much , more than in painting, the brain must take control over both the hand and the eye. Why is this? The real world exists to the eye of the painter as space, light and colour; and beyond and within this as an infinity of possibilities-the cold on his flesh, the smell of dung in the farmyard, the skin of an- other, the sadness when the disappearing figure has ceased to be. His work is to bring what isn't on the canvas into being with what is. He is fortunate, for he has colour. His sky can change from black through blue and green and yellow to a line of white, giving solidity to the hill which puts an end to it.

But, being fortunate, he may be tempted to be extravagant.

The draughtsman faces a much bigger effort of abstrac- tion. He can give the appear- ance of depth, but his greys and browns will never take colour. He must be truthful, but he cannot be literal-he must depart from the appear- ance of his subject and dis- cover its essence, then fix the abstractions that live within it as a scrape of charcoal, or an area of paper whose mean- ing is expressed solely in the fact that it has not been drawn upon. In the Rembrandt drawing of a sleeping girl there are no hands. In sleep, her fingers lose their opposition and dis- tinct tensions - and without fingers there are no hands. It is not her body we see sleep- ing, but her robe, drugged by tiredness it the warmth and has swallowed. Her life is con- in her head. The centrated background is lightened behind her hair—combed down, dark and clear-cut. This is not just a device of composition; we feel that the light comes from within her head, that she is dreaming, that this is the meaning of the darkness which has gathered in her eyes. Her body is not in her dream, but what is in it we cannot know. All we can see of it is the light from behind her hair. Rembrandt has told us of a secret dream, but he is truthful and has told us no more, lest the secret should cease to be a secret. Watteau's young woman is Workers Press, Frid A woman at her toilet. Watteau. Above: ( Her thought is wide awake. practical. Her mind is focused on her body. This-not the chair, the basket or the dress— is the subject of the drawing.

But the heaviest lines are not in her figure; at the closest right —on her left arm, her foot — they surround it. She stands out as the most delicate, most finely-worked, object on the paper. So delicate, she is almost unreal. Seen literally, her right shoulder is only half the width of the left. Her right leg is draped in cloth—it seems that there is no knee and her foot carries no weight. Yet we know from the serenity of her face that each limb comes to- gether in a living and balanced whole. The chair, the dress and the basket are also of her. She is a fashionable young woman, making herself up for others.

In the original she is in red chalk, while the chair is grey- black. This difference allows the chair to embrace her, for- mally, but with admiration within its embrace she But intent on herself. Is remains the chair hers, or is she the chair's? Press, Friday December 15, 1972 PAGE 9 . Above : Girl sleeping. Rembrandt When she puts on the dress, will it shape itself to her, or will she have made herself part of the world of objects? For all her concentration on herself, Watteau is able to show us a secret about her that she would never suspect -that it is not she but society that is creating her. And this in fewer lines than it would take to describe it in writing.

The most difficult decisions in drawing are not what to put in but what to leave out. Look- ing at drawings we are forced to study the struggle in which thought reflects the world-its endless search for a clear and intelligible stream in the marsh of evident 'facts', never grasp- ing more than a vital fraction of the wealth around it. Any- one who has ever attempted to draw will know that success only comes through the effort abstraction. To see the world clearly one must struggle to climb the mountain; in this exhibition one can see some of the most courageous of the mountaineers. Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606-1669) Girl sleeping; Watteau (French, 1684-1721) A woman at her toilet.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday December 15, 1972

BBC 1

10.30-10.55 Steam horse. 12.00 Seventy plus. 12.25 Ryan 12.55 News. Pebble ronnie. 1.00 1.45 Mill at one. 1.30 лов. Last 2.15 Cradle of England. Apollo.

BARNSLEY

2.45 Wreck East India- an Tomoyrow's 3.35 world. man. 4.10 Play school. 4.00 Clangers. Sunday December 17 Tipps. 4.40 Jacka- 4.35 Crystal Revolutlonary theory and the 5.05 Deputy nory playhouse. Marxist Party 5.15 Record breakers. dawg. 5.45 News. Weather.

RED LION HOTEL

6.00

NATIONWIDE.

(Worsborough) 8 p.m.

6.45 BARNEY BEAR.

PANTHER SHOW.

6.55

PINK

Lectures given

THE VIRGINIAN.

7.15 by Cliff Slaughter A Brush

DAD'S

ARMY.

8.30 (SLL Central Committee) With the Law.

9.00 NEWS.

Weather. 8.25 CANNON. Devil's Play- grouna.

SHEFFIELD

10.15 MUSIC

OF GILBERT

O'SULLIVAN.

'THE

Monday January 8

MILLIONAIRE

Marxiam and the

NEVER

FELT RICH -

J. revolutionary party Paul Getty, 80 years old

FORRESTERS HALL

1.45 LATE NIGHT NEW

Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m.

150 FILM: "HOI

TO MARRY

A MILLIONAIRE'. Marilyn Manroe, Betty Grable and Bacall trap mil- lionaires. 1.15 Weather. Monday January 22 "Stalinism' 11.00-11.25 Play school. Monday February 5

7.05 SEARCH FOR THE IDEAL.

"Trotskylsm' Reflections on Neo-

THE WEAVERS' INSTI-

Classicism.

TUTE,

Burnley Road, 7.30 NEWSROOM. Weather. 7.30 p.m. 8.00 MONEY AT WORK. Europe —Who Gets What?

9.00 ONE MAN'S CHINA. A

Great House. Treasure Final film in Felix Greene's series. adnesday January

9.25 FILM: 'LES ENFANTS DU

alinism and Trotskyl

PARADIS'

Second part Wednesday January 24 of Marcel Carne's master- Marxist theory and the revolu- piece. With Arletty, Jean- tonary party Louis Barrault.

WHITE HART HOTEL

10.05 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

Alfred Gelder Street 10.55 FILM NIGHT. Stacy Keach talks to Sheridan Morley (near Drypool Bridge) and Philip Jenkinson 8 p.m. about his career. The daily paper that loads the fight against the Tories. £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) {10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and senid 1o: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Dept., Workers Press, London, sWá 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

THURSDAY

Days required

MONDAY

TUESDAY

FRIDAY

(Please tick)

WEDNESDAY

SATURDAY

Or Full subscription (six days) for .

months. Name Address Amount enclosed £ I would like information about FIll in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

SECRETARY,

186a CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON SW4 7UG.

Name... Address..

ITV

2.00 9.40 Some great painters. 10.10 a Film: 'Gasbags'. The Crazy Last Gang. 11.35 Galloping gourmet.

12.00 Cartoon. 12.05 Rainbow.

dia- 12.25 Wendy Craig tells . . • 12:40 First report. 1.00 Time was.

cka- 1.30 Crown court. 2.00 Generai hospital. 2.30 Good afternoon.

3.00 Junkin. 3.25 Marcus Weiby MD. 4.20 Adventures of Gulliver.

4.50 Magpie. 5.20 Smith family.

5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

CROSSROADS.

6.35 7.00

THE PROTECTORS.

For the Rest of Your Natural.

7.30

HAWAII FIVE-O.

8.30

THE COMEDIANS.

UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS.

9.00 An Object of Value. 10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

10.30

POLICE FIVE.

10.40

FILM:

"THE

BRAIN

MACHINE'. Patrick Barr, Maxwell Reed, Elizabeth Allan. Murder and drug smuggling. 12.05

SIX CENTURIES OF

SONG.

12.10 SPYFORCE. The Courier.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 1.15 News. 1.30 Lon- don. 2.30 Let's face it. 3.00 'The Ballad of Andy Film: Crocker. 4.20 Puffin. 4.30 Flint- stones. 4.15 London. 5.20 Jun- 6.00 News. FBI. 8.30 London. 9.00 New Scotland Yard. 10.00 London. 10.35 Film: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb'. 12.00 News, weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 9.40 Last stand. 10.05 Stench in the ear. 10.40 Whicker within a woman's world. 11.10 Short story. 11.35 Better driving. 12.05 12.57 News. 1.00 Lon- London. don. 4.20 Gus Honeybun. 6.00 Diary. 6.25 Sports desk. 10.32 News. 12.00 Epilogue. SOUTHERN: 10.00 Torchy. 10.15 Tricks of the good cook's trade.

10.35 Film: 'Go To Blazes'. 12.00 News. 12.05 London. 2.30 Women 3.00 Galloping only. gourmet. 3.25 Saint. 4.20 Weekend. 4.25 Funky phantom. 4.50 London.

5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 Crossroads.

5.50 London. 6.00 Day by day.

Scene SE. 6.35 Out of town. of the century. 7.05 Sale 7.35 Film: 'If Tomorrow Comes'.

. 9.00 10.30 Weekend. " 10.35 London. Film: 'Desire Under the Elms'.

12.30 News. 12.40 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH:

10.35 Enchanted house. 10.50 Woobinda: 11.15 Time to remember. 11.40 Sur- vival. 12.05 London. 1.00 Let them live. 1.30 London. . 2.30 Women only. 3.00 London. 4.25 4.50 London. Rovers. 5.20 Chuckleheads. 5.25 Crossroads.

5.50 London. 6.01 Report West.

6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Bonanza.

7.30 Film: 'Hunted'. 9.00 New Scotland Yard. • London. 10.00 10.30 Turnbull's finest half-hour.

11.00 Now it's 11.30 your say. We shall see. 12.30 Weather.

HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 4.25-4.50 Stesion cantamil. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd. 10.30 Outlook. 11.00 Sports arena. 11.30 UFO. 12.30 Weather.

HTV West as above except: 6.18- 6.35 Sport West.

ANGLIA: 12.04

News. 12.05 London. 3.30 Dick Van Dyke. 3.55 Romper room. 4.20 4.25 News. melodies. 4.50 London. Merrie 5.20 Elephant boy. 5.50 London 6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 London.

7.00 Sale of the century. 7.30 O'Hara. 8.30 Turnbull's finest 9.00 London. 10.30 half hour. Probe. 11.00 Film: 'Bedevilled'.

MIDLANDS: 9.45 Film:

ATV

'There's Always a Thursday'. 10.50 Caretakers. 11.35 Better driving. 12.00 Today. 12.05 Lon- 3.30 Dangerman. 4.20 don. Forest rangers. 4.50 London. 5.20 Flintstones. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Protectors.

8.00 Adventurer. 8.30 Turnbull's 9.00 New Scot- finest half hour. land Yard. 10.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'The Dark At The Top of the Stairs'. Weather. the films have it tonight. On

BBC

1 1950g Certainty the style Monroe Marry a Millionaire at 11.50. Earlier, Marilyn tells 'How to at 9.25 on BBC 2, the World Cinema series presents Marcel Carné's 'Les Enfants du Paradis' with Jean-Louis Barrault and Arletty.

7.00 London. ULSTER: 12.00 News. 12.05 Lon- Sky's the limit. 2.00 7.30 London. 8.30 Turnbull's don. Women today. 2.30 2.40 Romper half 9.00 London. Cartoon. room. finest hour. 3.00 London. 3.25 Randall and 10.30 Film: "The Third Secret. Hopkirk. 4.23 News. 4.25 Funky 12.25 News. 12.40 Epilogue. 5.20 phantom. 4.50 London. SCOTTISH: 10.05 First principles.

5.50 London. General hospital. Phoenix 10.50 Lions 71. 11.40 7.00 6.00 Reports. 6.35 London. five. 12.05 London. 2.30 Dateline.

Sky's the

7.30 UFO.

limit. 8.30 3.00 3.30 It a London. takes New Scotland London. 9.00 Nanny thief. 4.25 and the

•OTO

Yard. 10.00 London. 10.30 fessor. 4.50 London. 5.20 Cross- 'Love Food of love. 11.00 Film: 6.00 Today. roads. 5.50 London. Hate Love'. 7.00 Sky's 6.30 Protectors. the 7.30 Turn-

GRANADA:

11.00 Theatre of limit. London. 8.30 Paint 12.05 9.00 stars. 12.00 book. bull's finest half hour. Lon- 3.50 10.30 Friday night. 11.00 London. 3.25 Smith family. don. Film: Cartoon. 4.00 Crossroads. 4.30 Late call, 11.05 'Behemoth TV funnies 4.50 London. 5.15 the Sea Monster'. finest half Turnbull's 5.50 hour.

GRAMPIAN:

11.05 Cowboy in London. 6.00 News. 6.25 Wagon 12.02 12.05 Africa. News. Lon- Protectors. train. 7.50 8.20 2.00 Dick Van Dyke. don. 2.30 Comedians. 8.50 Cartoon. 9.00 Shirley's London. 3.25 world. London. 10.30 Kick off. 10.55 3.55 Katie Stewart cooks. 4.20 'Corridors of Blood'. Film: Funky phantom. 4.50 London. TYNE TEES: 9.30 Let live. 5.20 General hospital. 5.50 Lon- them Stench 6.00 9.55 Felix the cat. 10.05 don. News. 6.05 Thomp- 10.50 6.35 the ear. Bush boy. son at teatime. London. 12.05 News. 2.31 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Cade's London. 2.30 Yoga. 3.00 London. 3.25 Danger- county. 8.30 London 10.30 11.00 Job man. 4.25 Merrie melodies. 4.50 Hogan's heroes. look. 5.20 Me Film. 'How Awful About London. and the chimp. 11.10 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 Allan'. 12.30 Meditation. Fight Rising Prices MEDWAY: Tuesday December 19, Force the Tories to Resign 8 p.m. 'The Greyhound', Roches- Avenue, Rochester. WINSFORD: Friday December 15, 8 p.m. 'Red Lion' CAMBRIDGE: Tuesday December 19. 'The Mitre'. Bridge 8 p.m. CENTRAL LONDON (Press and Street. Fight rising prices'. Entertainments): Sunday, De- RSC Rehear-

CLAPHAM:

Tuesday December Floral Rooms, Street, Manor Baths, 19, 8 p.m. Clapham WC2. 'Press Freedom in Britain Clapham Manor Street, SW4. Ireland and and Lynch 'Force the Tories to resign'. Speaker: Alex Mitchell, Toryism.' KINGSTON: Tuesday December Workers Press. 19, 'The Swan', Mill p.m.

BRADFORD:

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

SOUTH

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

LONDON

TEACHERS:

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

cils of Action'.

SKELMERSDALE:

CROSS: Thursday Decem-

CLAY

cember 18. 7.30 p.m. 21, Social Centre. ber. d. "Fight Bank Community Centre. Tory Derby Road. rent rises!'

ROCHDALE:

Tuesday Den Hale. December 'Make this government 19,8 p.m. Rochdale resign.'

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

STUDENTS at Essex University yesterday organized a against the ten-year jail sentences on so-called Angry Bri earlier 15-year sentence on Jake Prescott. During the afte meeting attended by over 300 students which was add acquitted defendants in the Ill-day trial—Angela Wei McLean. Chris Bolt, former Essex student A. K. CHESTERTON, founder joined the army at 16 and was awarded the Military director of the Cross for League Loyalists his part in the attack the Hindenburg Line. and former chairman of the National Front, Although a prominent member was awarded of the British Union of Fascists libel damages in the High in the 1930s, he had resigned in Court yesterday. 1938, largely because of his dis The amount was not disclosed agreement with the movement's in court. Chesterton, who lives increasing pro-German sym- Elmhurst in Court, St Peter's pathies. Road, Croydon, did not appear In World War II Chesterton He South Africa in court. is in again saw active service in the for health reasons. and the British advance into Italian Somaliland His counsel, Mr Alan Suckling, and Abyssinia. told Mr Justice Bean that a letter Counsel said Hull and Grimsby written by the secretary of the Hull International Socialists Newspapers Ltd and James published in the Hull 'Daily Mail' Humble, editor of the Hull 'Daily on December 4, 1971. Mail', had immediately pub- lished a letter correctly setting 'This stated that Mr Chester- the Chesterton out part had had been of Oswald ton one played in both wars. Mosley's propagandists in the In addition the to agreed 1930s, the other being William damages they had also agreed to Joyce, who was hanged after the pay Chesterton's costs. war for collaborating with Hitler, and Mr Chesterton himself had Mr Robert Alexander, for the interned for pro-Nazi been his defendants, said they unreserved- This sympathies Tester one grave attack ly withdrew the wholly unjustified Mr loyalty Chesterton. imputations against was wholly with- and patriotism The judge agreed to the record out foundation. of Chesterton's action being In World War I Chesterton withdrawn,

AFTERMATH

ized a one-day protest strike gry Brigade members and the the afternoon they organized a as addressed by three of the ela Weir, Chris Bott and Kate The decision to stage the strike was taken last Monday at a general meeting of 400 Essex students. i resolution was passed stating: 'This meeting is disgusted at the perverse, distorted and un- truthful coverage in the Press of the so-called Angry Brigade trial, at which four people were added to Jake Prescott [im- prisoned for 15 years] and were imprisoned for ten years as the result elaborate police an frame-up and state conspiracy.

"The trial an overtly was political trial, aimed at whipping up hysteria against the revolu- tionary left in Britain, and all those who support the struggle for socialism. This meeting outraged at the ensuing witch- hunt against the university, led by a combination of local people and the local and national Press.'

It went on to express solidarity with those convicted in the trial but pointed out that the meeting 'does not support the tactics of bombing and shooting as were alleged to have been used the Angry Brigade and recognizes that any such action at any time must be supported by the work- ing class'. One strike organizer, Ken Browne, told Workers Press that the morning's activities had been well attended by over 200 students. The strike was 70 to 80 per cent effective, he said.

The students have also set up an Essex University Defence Committee to organize support for a demonstration tomorrow in support of the jailed five.

SINN FEIN men have been arrested in Donegal on charges under the recently amended Offences Against the State Act. Joseph O'Neill (36), a publican, Paddy Dawson (40) were and arrested by Special Branch men on Wednesday night. They were taken to Dublin and held under Section 30 of the Act. 1933-1934 £1.43 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940.. {1.05 •These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940—ł Union-are now availab Workers Proes, Friday December 15, 1972 PAGE 11 Angela Wal (talt) and Kate McLean who spoke at yesterday's protest meetings.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

JAPANESE trade unionists at an international conference in London were warned to take action against their government's trading practices or face a swing to protectionism in the British labour movement. The chauvinistic warning licies to restrict exports, they came from Mr Roy Sanderson could British expect unions to back the erection of tariff bar- of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plum- riers against their products. bing Trades Union. He was The Japanese delegation sat speaking at a conference on impassive through Sanderson's multinational electronic and speech which echoed his union's electrical companies organized protectionist stance at the the International September Trades Union Con- by Metal- gress in Brighton. workers' Federation. As the struggle Sanderson is a former leader for markets between the main of the Party's frac- Communist intensifies, the reformist powers tion in the electrical union who union leaders in all the left the Party to become a right- tries come to the support of the hand man of the present leader- 'national interest' their own' of ship. exploiters. Sanderson said that the Bri- In the process they set worker tish market was being flooded against and undermine goods low-wage with from the international solidarity of countries in Asia causing the working class. In this the way employment in electrical they help prepare the ground goods industry. transition for the from trade In Hong Kong workers war to shooting were war. earning 6p an hour producing The main enemy of the British electrical equipment for export. workers is the British capitalist 'British workers cannot be class Tory and its government. pected to these compete with It is not the Japanese wage rates, he said. employers and certainly not the Japanese Sanderson's He warned that unless the trade unions. dia- the metalworkers' Tapanese unions took action to tribe at _CO- their ference thoroughly ensure that government reac- operated 'orderly marketing' po- tionary diversion. (1939-40) Writings of Leon Trotsku

WAITINGS

TROTS

• vital writings by Leon Trotsky between the 940—his third and final exile from the Soviet available in Britain from the Paperbacks Centre (see advert below).

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday Decem Press

DECEMBER

FIGURE UP

TO £665.92 TWELVE days to go to Christmas.

We need to try and complete our £1,750 target by then. We are sure that, with a huge effort, you, dear readers, will do everything pos- sible to raise it. Every other daily paper delib- erately plays down the support throughout the trade union move- ment for the engineers. Only Workers Press shows the great movement that exists for a fight against the Industrial Relations Act. Our paper, alone, speaks out every day on behalf of the work- ing class. Let's therefore make special effort for our very December Fund. Do everything you can to keep Workers Press out in front. Raise extra amounts. Take a collection at work. Make a huge drive to complete our total before the holidays begin. Post all donations Immediately to : Workers Press December Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. 11000119112020111111 Willin DISTILLERS, the whisky empire and the marketers of thalido- mide, are expected make a to £56m profit this year. This profit forecast was made yesterday when the company announced pre-tax profits of £27.3m for the six months to the of September. The company end has just announced a £12m trust fund for victims of thalidomide.

MP Jack Ashley described the offer as 'very crafty' and needed 'great study'. He thought a £20m fund was nearer the mark.

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Press, 186ae Clapham Published by Workers 186a High Street, London,

SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU).

Street. London, 180b Clapham High

SW4 7UG.

Writings of

WRITINGS

Leon Tratsky

LEON TROTSHY

1937-33 13-1)

WRITINGS OF

LEON

LEON

TROTSKY

1933-341 (1934 - 35) Six volumes of Trotsky's writings during years 1929-1940 £8.00 includes postage Please tick those you requi Name Address Complete form and post to: New Park Publications, 186 ay December 15, 1972 ASIAN WORKERS from the Mansfield Hosiery that white

FROM PHILIP WADE

trainee knitters had been

IN NOTTINGHAM

taken when they on The strikers originally decided returned after a six-week to go back on November 27 on strike. the basis of an agreement with management that Asian workers claimed would be trained as full-fashioned And the strikers yesterday that leading officials knitters. ever been No Asians National Union have of the jobs the trained for these in Hosiery and Knitwear Workers employed only plant-being as knew that outside labour had low-paid bar loaders. been given jobs. 'When we went back manage- Dhiru Patel claimed this was tried bring new

DIO

routines, cedures and said Mr so when he gave evidence yester- Patel through an interpreter.

day at the first day. a com- ot 'Workers were put on different at Nottingham mittee of inquiry and told the 500 Asian machines some were into strike they could only work say three workers the at days a week.' factory. unspecified

LORD

VESTEY'S

Thames them, a hitherto form of work-sharing will be in- Stevedoring Company in the troduced. Royal docks faces closure fol- The effects of this are not lowing the decision to switch Jones- clear, but when the South the American meat Aldington terms were announ- trade to Southampton. about 1,100 men There are employed on the South Ameri- London's dockland can trade. has already suffered a serious decline through the re- recent moval of the New Zealand meat trade to Sheerness. Vestey In both trades the MINERS' union leaders organization plays a command- yester- group has refused day gave their negotiators what ing role. The completely free to comment on the latest move amounts to Southampton, but it is hand in pay talks starting Jan- to no uary 10. that the directors have secret complaining been about the No firm demands either on handling charges in London.

emerged from pay or hours morning meeting of the National Recently the employers were Mineworkers' Union of execu- demanding a 50-per-cent increase tive. productivity from London dockers. Joe Gormley, NUM president, the figures stressed that close down The decision to and f7 mentioned at the union's London's traditional trade meat conference in July were simply is a huge blow at the dockers. targets. If Lord Vestey closes his So the five-hour cut in was Thames Stevedoring- -which now had the working week which seems likely- -the 1.100 dockers No been called for. one had re-allocated will have to be to which these specified a date by work in the other port. things should be achieved.

Gormley If there is no other work for denied that the ex-

ROK

History of Russian Revolution Trotsky—a documentary by -special gift pack Francis Wyndham of three volumes and David King £1.70 includes postage £1.65 includes postage u require. Amount enclosed f post to: ons, 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Management then told the Asians that they had employed 41 trainee knitters from outside and that the union had been in- formed. 'We brought in the union officials,' said Mr Patel, 'although one denied knowing about the knitters management contended that they told them. 'All the bar loaders said they wouldn't work in such conditions and went back on strike,' added Mr Patel. He claimed: "The union was aware of the new knitters'. Peter Prendergast, president of the union, and Harold Gibson, the general secretary, were both at the committee of inquiry.

The chairman of the govern- ment inquiry is Kenneth Robin- son, former Labour Minister and personnel chief of the now British Steel Corporation.

ced, Jones said it could mean dockers losing pay. The first ships carrying the South • American traffic will start discharging at Southampton next March. ecutive's attitude had been in- by the government's fluenced pay-control law. 'We are nego- tiating as if it didn't exist, he claimed. FORD UNION negotiators yes- terday submitted a substantial pay claim on behalf of 50,000 workers at 21 plants. Besides a big increase in wages, the unions want a cut in hours, more holidays and higher pensions. The present agreement runs out at the end of February, and any new deal is certain to be affected by pay legislation fol- lowing the present standstill. But there were no threats of in- dustrial action yesterday.

01-720 2000 КІНАЛН 01-622 7029 North London and Lambeth Councils housewives, trade unionists, y Decembe March through Brixton shopping centre Assemble 2 p.m. opposite Brixton Town Hall Meeting: Clapham Baths Clapham Manor Street 4 p.m

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

SHOP STEWARDS throughout Merseyside are to call for a black on CAV-Lucas products over the occupation of the group's Fazakerley factory in Liverpool. The black was agreed at a Liverpool Trades meeting of Council Wednesday which on also voted to back the one-day strike called this Wednesday by the Liverpool district committee of the AUEW over the £55,000 fine. But Liverpool dockers' leaders are still dragging their feet over the key question of blacking Lucas goods throughout the port of Merseyside. Dock delegates led by shop Jimmy Symes and stewards Jimmy Nolan said their members willing to black Lucas were but wanted guarantees goods, from other factory workers.

They want an assurance that if action was taken against them under the Industrial Relațions Act they would be supported by other sections of industry.

This argument has all the marks of deliberate evasion of the issue. A mass meeting of called by the shop stewards, Trades Council after the release of the five dockers jailed by the National Industrial Relations Court, is already on record pledg- ing industrial action throughout Merseyside if any trade unionist is penalized under the Act.

The question of blacking on docks, the therefore, still re- mains unresoived despite requests for this action weeks ago.

Another indication of the retreat by the docks leaders came on the vote for the one-day stoppage. The bulk of them abstained in the vote for the strike. They argued that the proposal would have to be put to their member- ship first—a consideration that did not stop the majority of the 80 shop stewards present from all over Merseyside factories voting for the resolution.

-THIS SUNDAY-

CENTRAL LONDON

All Trades Unions Alliance meeting (Press and Entertainments branch) RSC Rehearsal Rooms, Floral Street, WC2, 7 p.m. 'Press Freedom in Britain and Ireland Lynch law and Toryism' Speaker: Alex Mitchell . (Workers Press) • Counclls of Action call on tenants, nonists, youth and unemployed.

cember 16 March through Wood Green and Tottenham Assemble 2 p.m. opposite Wood Green Town Hall Meeting: Downhills Park School 3 p.m.