Workers Press no. 949

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FULL SUPPORT TO THE ENGINEERS

ONE IS AN

TODAY'S GREAT

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OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

unfolding political situation. More and more the by The Party are strikes is continuation of the a demanding tougher action by against government campaign which forced the Tory arbitrate It may seem strange to Lne unions. over have workers, workerise do the shine resent is reach ary government to release the Penton- representatives been the tripartite talks. ville Five in July. chouza. Tens of thousands of engineers are the past week the 'Daily Telegraph' At the same time Martin Jukes, president page has feature carried two articles downing tools: no national dailies will of the powerful Engineering Employers' Fed- superbly reflect the desperation of the ruling eration, industrial correspondents appear, engineers all over London will class. London that his organization will urge the be out, 20,000 workers in the Oxford government to impose permanent restrictions area are joining the stoppage and will Michael Harrington ('DT' 12.12.72): 'Can the on collective bargaining.

demonstrate in a march through the government stand up to a General Strike?

How ready is it to face such a crisis? citthey are all political strikes which bring So the Tories and the employers are draft- 'Defeating a General Strike consists. essen.

ing plans to hold down wages- while at the Britain has tially, in keeping the community going same time the highest the trade union movement into open conflict rate how or other without the work with the Tory government. Behind this wide- in Europe, about 12 per cent a done by the DrICe rISeS on strike, spread defiance of the Tory laws is being able to more than indefinitely. In 1926 there was a vast reser- anger with James Goad and the £50,000 fines Such a situation spells an end of the era voir of volunteer middle-class labour, on the union. As each day passes new issues pal" or trade union retormism and class collabora.

ticularly students, being which the government caterpaured unto une situation.

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inere can and must be no deals or Would this help be forthcoming araw • Last Friday Edward Heath wrote to compromises reached this government in 1972? On the face of it, it seems a bit which is purposefully slashing the standard of Cooper Corkers Unith staine that employers and General Municipal unlikely. living of millions of working-class families.

*Which means that the government would unions cannot take The economic crisis of the capitalist system pay discussions to the have to rely the instruments of public point of an offer. In line with Phase Two of now has a direct bearing on the rapidly- force: the police and the army Enthusiastic welcome for prices protest Colin R. Coote (DT' 16.12.72): that terrought that it was elected "The government is one round Itsell ir quite another. slide into government cor- porals (or colonels) is deep.'

This is the language of men are already anticipating who right-wing dictatorships seatedes they are debating in the columns

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the Tory Press a total

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NORTH LONDON

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leaders who are today miserably

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out Downing OF OF Street during the tripartite talks,

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the Tories were dratting plan which, if it be- comes

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The Tories are armed to the teeth to take away every basic right which the working class has fought and won turies of struggle. If the situation is allowed to continue, the work ing class can suffer the gravest this crisis-ridden

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government. -With such violence threatening the working class it is impermis-

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LIVELY demonstrations by Increases!' and "No rent rises!'

sible to of Engineering Workers flinch from main the North speakers Many passers-by cheered and Other were A hand -the bringing down of this SOUn Saturday clapped, showing their Goldstein, Council's of Action on support secretary hated were enthusiastically received by fight against the stewards' com- ion of a Labour government Gestemers

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hundreds of shoppers. mittee and Joan Courtney for the governmen. Those who oppose or refuse to march finished with Socialists. The meeting fight for this demand directly Ween thigh or he the busy Wood addressed by Norman hold further demon- assist the ruling class. For us the

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Green High stopped to Dinning, until recently the presi strations. acmane is nor simo v an electoral local district com- Watch Ine MarCHers Tev •en one shouted "Tories Out!', 'No price mittee of the Amalgamated Union • South London pictures p. 12.

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WORKERS

PRESS

A statement by the Editorial Board Today's issue of Workers Press is printed with the consent of the two unions whose members produce this paper-NGA and

SOGAT.

Since no members of the Amalgamated Union of Engin- eering Workers work in our print shop, we are not involved in the present dispute. At the same time the editorial board and the staff extend full sup- port to the decision by en- gineers in London to hold today's one-day strike in defence of their union. On an issue of fundamental principle we believe that dis- pensation to print should have been given to the only other daily newspaper of the workers' movement, the 'Morning Star' which does employ engineers.

Close down the Tory Press by all means; the Fleet Street Press has deliberately mis- reported and under-reported the Tory court's attack on the

AUEW.

But this is precisely the time when the newspapers of the workers' movement must be given all facilities to publish and counter the ruling class's propaganda machine. • Defend the engineers! • Force the Tories out! • Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies, particularly the repeal of all anti-trade union and anti- working class legislation!

MERSEYSIDE'S 10,000 dockers Wednesday to strike on are against the fine on the engineers union. This was decided at a meeting in Liverpool mass Stadium yesterday, which, though thinly attended, expressed over- whelming support for the stop- page. Out today will be engineers from most factories north and south of the Thames. Besides stopping the presses on Fleet Street the strike is also expected to hit some bus and tube ser- vices. today's biggest stop- Among pages will be the one in Oxford. Most factories in the area are expected to stop. Some 25,000 workers are likely to be involved.

Reading district committee of the Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers has called out its members today woe e Watford district, British- Leyland workers at Alford and Alder, Hemel Hempstead, will also be out. Meeting today to decide on action be Rolls-Royce will workers at Bristol, who may come out tomorrow or Wednes- day, and shop stewards in the Birmingham East district of the

AUEW.

Those striking tomorrow will include the 10,000 engineers in where engineers Slough, the strike is expected to stop Ford's, at Langley, and most other big factories in the district.

Climax of the one-day stop- pages will come on Wednesday. when hundreds of thousands strike in Manchester, on Mersey- side in Scotland and many other areas against the fine.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday Decen PALESTINIAN prisoners held in Israel are being tortured by the Zionists, says a report out today. Details are given of allegations of torture, collective punishment, destruction of Arab homes, Jewish political prisoners and discrimi- nation against Israeli Arabs. THE PARIS 'peace' talks on Indo-China have been recessed on orders from President Nixon amid a barrage of self-righteous statements from Ameri- can officials. Amazingly the United States is now trying to pose as the aggrieved party, accus- ing North Vietnam of turning the Paris talks into a 'charade'. This is a pack of lies, for the United States has never had the A

LETTER

urging Tory peace in Vietnam was handed in at 10 Downing Street on Saturday by a dele- gation representing the British Communist Party. Signed by Party secretary John Gollan, the letter said: I am writing to you on behalf of the executive committee of the Communist Party to ask you to contact President Nixon and insist that he signs the draft document on Vietnam without further delay. •We ask you to intervene actively in this matter. It is high time that the whole weight and international pres tige of Great Britain were used to secure peace for the people of Vietnam.' least intention of seriously nego- tiating an end to the war.

Their participation in the talks is only one side of Nixon's stra- tegy for extending the war in Indo-China, intensifying the bom- bardment of North Vietnam and strengthening the puppet regime of President Thieu in Saigon.

The US had hoped that diplo- matic pressure mounted on the North Vietnamese from Moscow and Peking following President Nixon's visits to these capitals would force Hanoi to come to terms. What Kissinger wanted was a capitulation by the Vietnamese liberation fighters-his most con- sistent demand was for the with- drawal of North Vietnamese troops from the south. The course of the negotiations over the past two months clearly reveals Nixon's cynical calcula- tion and exposes his attempts to pose as a 'peace-monger'. It also demonstrates the treachery of the Stalinists in Moscow and their supporters in this country.

The current round of talks was begun after massive American air power had finally stalled the libe.

ration offensive which opened in April this year. The following month the US blockaded Haip- hong and other ports and began bombing Hanoi. There was no protest from Moscow, which went ahead with its plans for Nixon's visit. He was fêted by the bureaucracy, creating great bitterness in Hanoi -where the Press denounced the USSR leaders' 'national selfish- ness'. day December 18, 1972 The report, "Political demned to prison, the treatment for pris- Human Prisoners and 10,000 held in adminis- oners includes being in Israel"', pub- trative detention without stripped naked and left lished by the Union for long periods, beaten, alestinian Students, homes destroyed by the suspended by hands for long periods, soaked authorita- several arbitrarily deported cold and let n water tive sources. 11,000 displaced during the night, being Since the from their Six- by cigarette

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homes. 4,000 Pales. stubs and electric tinians have been con- The report says that shocks.

BY JUAN GAI

REPRESENTATIVES of the of Spain and the main trade u -the CGIL, the CISL and talks on the fight against repr the agenda was the Public I sentences of 162 years for t Commissions. The Spanish workers were arrested on June 24 and have been in the Madrid prison of Carabanchel ever since await- ing trial. The Public Prosecutor has the Commissions accused of

BY JOHN SPENCER

nounce the prospects of a poli- 'extending a national tical settlement and tighten zation for subversive Seven weeks ago the American activil dietatorship in the south side at the talks had agreed to The order to produce a general Stalinists were aso strike to bring about the sign a nine-point draft agreement illusions in the C01129119 was accepted by both calling for a overthrow of the sides. Dr Henry Kissinger Spanish regime. ampaign to nounced *peace is at He outlined the Mane case 26. Since Nixon never had any in- histories Since this was less than a fort- tention of signing anything except like Camacho Mance no night before the who have spent most of the past lection, it undoubtedly helped tc the North Vietnamese this cam- ten Franco's jails years in for ensure Nixon's re-election But it paign simply gave more credenc tem suruggie to bulla working- proved to be a vote-catching he the threadbare 'peace' fraud class organizations independent US refused to sign the the Preenerated by Kissinger and of the corporatist state-controlled nine-point draft, claiming at first that 'minor" items needed to agree- This struggle has been stabbed BOW CaImS that the North per cent complete- in the back at Vietnamese must agree to with- Spanish ne rest Is up to Hanol, he sav: Doloes draw the bulk of their forces Yet considering the man's record munist Party which believes that south. over the impossible to believe a thord he past months fascist Spain can be democratized At the na the in and from war ma- peacerully. terials trom sayore reliable is the statement Its secretary Santiago Carrillo US client as Iran, Caraban-

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статес Pakistan and elsewhere, North Vietnamese his theorv that it was to South Vietnam necessary to 'come out in the LU" gether with hundreds of plam draw their troops from the south, and bring democracy clothes US advisers. which is part of Vietnam and through our practical example President Thieu was actively where they have every right to The latest development of this 'theory" is that Spain's entry into De. THE TURKISH govern- would see 31 other pri- Other were Law ment has denied soners. given electrical shock Command themselves treatment Amnesty beaten the Mrs Demir

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in prison cels. the foor Am- mission access to prison- the

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of the "tortureroom' was mission told Who had previously able to see her because she the only were interested in made statements con- was one prisoners terro.

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the use of not suffered

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given the "falanga treat- torture in Tur- brutal from torture. ment. key's prisons. present confirmed state alone of MuIr Hunter artemp The delega she had personally ten- ted to locate three othe tion, led Muir ded the wounds of her women prisoners, the mission refutes Hunter was only husband, 1 by Mr Tekerek, Director able to interview a 26- of Prisons, to be under number ol women who year-old medical stu- had been subjected military jurisdiction Foreign Minister Kish Mrs Ilkay the 'falanga'-beating on dent, Demir This contradicted state although Minister by Bayulken that there

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of the masses. experiences It cudgels against the deceivers and immediately coincide with fakers in and trade

TICE

Labouthtes ruthless fight to force the seuses believes that thelson nas issue. Nobody movement;

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adopt socialist and drawing out the right-wing will try to traitors. changea nis spots, ne

BOLSICS,

pursue class collaboration The labour and trade union olicies which he followed durin the crucible of the it Is in 964-1970 movement must demand that rapidly-deteriorating economic Labour introduces socialist crisis and the growing militane alternative to working class that the right-wing leadership Socialist integration of capitalism Labour League has launched its for campaigr Such a programme would meet the economic crisis. They transformation of the League inte want office with the bitterest opposition from a revolutionary party. Wilson and his But Cheir real

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opposition to Heath on a whole the process of fighting the re- Trade unionists and all those number of issues from the Com- formists, the masses would gain employed DOTeSSIOnS Market, another should read the document passed

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COMENCE

Relations Act, to the Housing ability of the social democrats the national con- ananimously a Finance Act. to deal with unemployment, soar- erence of the All Trades Unior But those who don't fight for ing prices, inflation, poverty and Alliance in Birmingham on Octo- slum housing. They should then sign the bringing down of the Tories re-election of Labour The opportunity would the ignore the all-important open for workers to fight to build experi- ence of the masses. party. The building only means of putting an end to end to 01 a • Copies of the ATUA statement ake the power is determined by the barbarism of capitalism the can be obtained by writing to: working This is the task of the hour. It Workers Press, class is a task which must be com- menced now. 186a Clapham High Street, itselt ber a massive stride in the force the Tories out would This leadership must take up London SW4 7UG

JUAN GARCIA

S of the Workers' Commissions trade union federations in Italy L and Ull have just finished nst repression in Spain. High on Public Prosecutors' demand for is for ten leaders of the illegal the Common Market will bring democracy with it. Yet the Common Market is precisely a conspiracy of the monopolies against the democra- tic rights of workers to organize in trade unions and their own parties throughout Europe.

That is why the Pompidou government and the French em- ployers now bring anti-riot charges against workers who organize meetings and demon- strations to back wage claims.

That is why the Tory government and its National Industrial Rela- tions Court is attacking British trade unionists. Any fomenting of illusions in the Common Market aids the monopolists' plans and can in no way help defend the ten workers locked in Carabanchel. The claim by the CP leader- ship of the Commissions that the Italian trade union federations— also dominated by Marketeering Stalinists-'have got definite agreement from the European Economic Commission that they will intervene in the case means that Camacho and the rest are to be abandoned. This monopolists* Commission spends its time producing blue- prints for the rationalization of industry throughout Europe, and fully recognizes the opportunities for 'rational' investment in Spain.

Francois Xavier Ortoli As said when visiting Spain in Feb- ruary as Pompidou's Minister of Industrial Development: *We must work more and better with Spanish industry and govern- ment.' Ortoli becomes a leading member of the Commission from January 1. There can be no defence of the Spanish working class-or any section in Europewhich does not start with a rejection of any compromise whatsoever with the institutions in Brussels.

WAGES of white-collar wor- kers in Yugoslavia are to be frozen by law at their cur- rent levels as part of the Tito government's attempts to stabilize the economy. The measure, which affects hundreds of thousands of office workers and professional em- ployees, has been rushed through the Federal Assembly. It follows the decision to slash wages of workers in major sec.

of industry as tions a way of liquidating accumulated debts. Wages of nearly a million fac- tory workers are being cut by up to 25 per cent. The freeze on white-collar wages will last until June 30, 1973. It is clearly designed -to placate factory workers angered by the cuts in their own pay.

Premier Bidejic, announcing the freeze earlier last week, said the producers could not be al- lowed to bear the whole burden of stabilization. The wage freeze applied to the 'non-productive' sphere of society which got its income more easily than direct production because it sup- was ported by taxes and the sale of services: Bidejic said the measures would apply to the wholesale and retail trades, foreign trade, com- mercial services, tourist agencies, housing enterprises, business associations, journalism, publish- ing, planning, surveying and in- vestigation.

YOU HAVE A DUTY TO

WORK, SAY EMPLOYERS

LONDON'S

EMPTY

OFFICES

Well over 10 million feet of office space in London is vacant, according to David Eversley, the retiring chief planner of the Greater London Council. His total includes old offices and new offices which have been previously let and blocks not yet completed but due for completion. He said the actual figure was in reality much higher. Much held in re- office space was serve. Few were in a hurry to complete unfinished buildings and there was little interest in taking up planning permissions.

*The space that is available ately empty by view- -deliber- ately empty asking CeLS which nobody can afford on very short leases, according to Mr Eversley. If all the planning permis sions granted by the GLC were taken up, the figure of vacant ofice space might be nearer 15 million to 20 million square.

feet by now, he added. There was a tacit agreement between developers property sor to reace rents.

BID FOR

CAR

TRADE

The Port of Liverpool Auth- ority are making a serious bid to take the lucrative Fiat car import trade away from Pres- ton. Last week it was reported that the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company is in the middle of negotiations with the French organization Car line to win the Fiat import trade for Liverpool on a per- manent basis. The has caused move great deal of dockers, who among Preston have seen their jobs decimated in the past few years. The loss of the Fiat trade could cause even more unemployment in a town which can little afford About a month ago Car- line's car carrier 'Monza' was diverted to Liverpool's new Seaforth dock of a because lack of deep water at Preston Since then two at ine time. Carline other ships have berthed at Liverpool. Managing director of the Carline agents in Liverpool, Mr C. W. Harrison, said the him was concerned at delavs of two or three days at Pres- ton. However, he doubted whe- ther Carline would use Liver- 'Costing as pool permanently. well as berthing comes into this. Liverpool is more likely to be used as an escape valve when ships can't get into Pres- A spokesman for the Mer- sey Docks and Harbour Com- pany has insisted that Liver- pool is going all out for the trade.

BY PHILIP WADE

Such is the speed of the development of the eco- nomic and political crisis that what were once thought views of the ex- treme right now become the views of leaders of British industry. Two weeks ago it was the Aims of Industry attacking the right to strike as 'morally in- defensible'. Now Michael Clapham, deputy chairman of ICI and president of the Con- federation of British Industry, has joined battle with an almost identical speech. Aims of Industry, the right- wing to the Tories and fight like against nationalization, mad recently produced a pamphlet on the *Right to Work and the Right to Strike Increasingly worried about the prospects of an open con- frontation with the organized working class, they wheeled out a learned professor of moral philosophy, Harry Bur- rows Acton from Edinburgh University. His job was to show, with the use of the best bourgeois concepts of morality, which derive from the sky and are presumably God-given, how workers ruining the were country with strikes. Morally, according to Pro- fessor Acton, there 'is a duty to work, and no commitment to some better society of the future can absolve us from it'.

Of course, the other side of the 'duty to work' is the duty not to strike. Professor Acton does not let us down on that score. First, he comes to the astounding conclusion that 'a strike is a collective cessation of work by members of a trade union or some more loosely- organized group'. Quite correctly the moral philosopher says that if the employer can get other men to work during the dispute, the strike must fail. *If they are to be success- ful, the strikers must be able to prevent anyone else from doing the work they are ceas- ing to do.' That is nothing new. But what Acton says next coincides with the views of Michael Clapham. *In this way [by making the strike effective] they limit his [the employer] choice of workers to those who strike or are threatening to strike, and this means they establish monopoly." (My emphasis.) He then concludes that on that basis, large-scale strikes *to make the government make the employer give to strikers' demands' must con- stitute an unacceptable drain upon the economic. and moral resources of the nation. It is ridiculous to claim there is any fundamental right to en- gage in such activities Last week Michael Clapham told the CBI Welsh Council that 'unfortunately, people as yet are only beginning to glimpse the abuses that may result from excessive mono- poly power in the labour market - especially if it is wielded as irresponsibly as over the past few years'. (My emphasis.) *The public in general have long been aware of the poten- tial abuses of monopoly power over the supply of goods and services. Quite rightly, govern- ment efforts to curtail it have always been received with strong public support.' All this from a man who is deputy chairman of the largest fourth in concern Britain, ICI! This group has a near monopoly position in many helds, including chemi- cals, paints and explosives.

ICI's turnover is a stagger- ing £1,500m a year. Prohts reaped from the combine's 190,000 workers amounted to £190m last year. Most significantly of all, however, is the formation at ICI of one of the first staff associations in industry which has registered under the Indus- trial Relations Act. Undoub- tedly Clapham will approve of that. Clapham, who the other week attacked the Tory gov- ernment's feeble economic policies and demanded a drastic shift of resources from investment, consumption to called for a return to market forces, echoing in that sense the economic policies of Enoch Powell. It is a weakness of our present society that market forces, the price mechanism and the profit motive, are so No other little understood. system of economic organiza- tion performs so well the fantastically difficult task of co-ordinating the efforts of the millions of individuals and firms that constitute a com- economy, plex he said at Cardiff. The monopoly of the labour so-called, by market, the unions and the competition of the 'product market' were an for inflation' "ideal recipe Clapham added. The disciplin- ary forces of the market had to be restored, Clapham's speech and the outburst from the Aims of Industry show that big busi- ness is coming to see that nothing short of an all-out offensive against the working destroy the trade class to unions will save their dying system. The monopolists, represented by men like Clapham, say they cannot work while the trade unions remain intact, defend- ing the interests of the work- ing class and still able despite the passage of all the Tory laws-to use the strike weapon when necessary. Capitalists throughout Bri- tain now know that it is one thing to pass the laws and another thing to enforce them.

That is the task for which they are now preparing.

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The Heath has government more than the attacks of the working class to contend with.

sniping is now rampant I ne in the ruling class itself.

Take this month's issue of "The Director', the journal of the Institute of Directors The editorial is a sharp attack the

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economic record. And comes from a powerful quar- ter of the Tory Party. Summarizing the economic editorial position the says: Inflation in the UK has been slipping out of control. The pound mobeen under attack.

month's time Britain enters the

EEC

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*The Director' offers 'two cheers' for the temporary state pay plan, but goes on: •Many businessmen, nonethe- less, believe not that the gov- ernment has acted wrongly, but that it left action too late.

The Prime Minister should have made his dramatic U- turn a long way back along the road. Inflation has been moving at such speed that even last month's far-reaching may do little to re- measures strain it. In its closing paragraph the journal sums up the sort of feeling which was expressed in the by-election at Sutton Cheam: and 'Business will show itself during the coming months a very critical partner of government.'

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HELP

FOR OLD

FRIENDS

BY PHILIP WADE

One thing promised by Lord Erroll's report on licensing hours and open- ing times is a profits bon- anza for the breweries. The proposed increase drinking hours can only help the Those who breweries stand to benefit are the groups with high concentrations in had Investment ana'ysts been saying that the brewery section of industry had come to the end of a period of sus- tained expansion. Now Lord Erroll'e men enforced a save drastic rethink of future pros- pects. Take-overs Longer opening hours and easier availability of licences are likely to be accepted by the Tory government-which receives large donations from - and could big brewers The become law within two years.

What will also open up will be a period of intense ration- alization among the brewery with weaker competi- giants, tors eliminated or taken over, and the monopolies increasing their stranglehold the market. The present system of licen- apparently SO CeS 15 aCпa1с that companies are reluctant to close down unprofitable outlets for fear of not getting new licences where the pick- ings look better. With this obstacle removed, rationalization processes should be speeded-up. The beer industry is domi- nated by a handful of firms, chief among them being Allied Breweries and Bass Charring- ton. Allied Breweries' last year came to well over £430m, making it the 24th largest firm Britain. The 50,000 company's workers turned out profits of about £50m.

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Say Decemb er 18, 1972 About a year ago, Allied made a take-over bid for Trust Houses Forte, the hotel and catering group. It failed, but another bid is still pos- Britain's Bass Charrington, 29th largest concern, is going so well that last week it an- nounced a £25m motel deal with Esso, the Ilth biggest combine. Bass is to buy the nine Esso motor hotels in the United Kingdom and eight in four other western European countries. It will also lease from Esso nine motor hotels in West Germany and one in Austria. The brewery group's hotel offshoot, Crest Hotels, is to manage the new hotels inter- est. Crest already manages 74 hotels in the UK, of which 16 are motor hotels. Next in strength is the Guinness whose company, prodigy, Jonathan, is chair- man of the Monday Club and prospective Tory candidate for the Lincoln by-election.

Last year's returns showed a f21.8m profit from just over 8,000 workers. Quite a healthy state. Whitbread comes next, with almost a £23m profit last year and employing almost 26,000 workers. No longer independent, but part of Grand Metropolitan Hotels, Watney Mann is the fifth biggest brewer. Before it went under, the company managed to snap up Truman beers as well. The last figures turned in by Watney's showed a E23m profit and 24,000 workers. The last among the giants expecting a bonus from Lord Erroll is Scottish and New- castle Breweries. Latest profits show figures of almost £20m a year. So drink up!

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LETTER

Dear Editor, In an important article entitled *Mr Heath and the Mandarins' the "Daily Telegraph" (8.12.72) reveals a state of affairs which Workers Press has been the warning about for some time.

It is of the utmost importance that the working class under- stand the dangers and lessons implicit this revealed situation. The article commences by questioning the reasons for the reversal' of the traditional Tory policies of free enterprise *commercial freedom and for nationalized industries the which were the present govern- ment's declared policies when they were elected to office.

The article extracts the answers by tracing the course of the developing government policy of a controlled economy and in particular the creation of government's the package presented which was to the unions at the tripartite talks.

It states that the argument for a policy of controlling the economy by legislative inter- was evolved by the vention permanent Civil Service and that in broad outline this policy was created by three men: Sit William Armstrong, head of the Civil Service, Sir Frank Figgures, Director- General of Neddy', and Sir Douglas Allen, head of the Treasury. Moreover: 'As long ago as August 4 last Neddy set up a group of four consisting of Sir Frank, Sir Douglas, Mr Camp- bell Adamson of the CBI and Mr Victor Feather of the TUC to look at low paid workers, differentials and unemployment.

These behind-the-scenes talks continued until this summer, when they were expanded to become the tripartite discus- sions on inflation. Sir William and Sir Frank drafted the government's £2 flat rate in- crease offer for these wider talks. At the second session a group of five was asked to prepare more detailed pro- posals. It was, of course, Neddy's old group of four with the unsurprising addition of Sir William as chairman.'

(My emphasis.) The first important fact for all trade unionists to grasp is that Victor Feather led the trade union delegation to the tripartite talks to diseuss a of government proposals set which he had helped to draft.

The second issue which is raised in the article is, how- ever, more important. It goes on to name Ministers and an ex-Minister who sup- ported the idea of a controlled economy while it was not government policy. They are Peter Walker, Robert Carr, William Whitelaw and Reginald Maudling. It is to be noted that the two first named have recently received promotion to key positions in the government (Home Office and Department of Trade and Industry) and that Whitelaw is the Minister directly responsible for the operation of anti-working class policies in Ulster. Maudling may have had to key leave a position of fluence, but he is much valued as a theoretician and less than a month ago stated on "The Money Programme' that the difficulty the economy lay in "The monopoly position of labour" , suggesting that further would be necessary legislation to curb the power that such a monopoly confers. According to the Daily Telegraph', these men are 'committed to a con- census policy of state inter- vention in the economy' It may be that publicly this group states a desire to have *a concensus policy, but the manner in which the prices and incomes policy has emerged shows a decisive step away from concensus politics and democracy. At parliamentary least one situation arose in the earlier days of the govern- ment when John Davies had his speeches censored by civil servants 'on the grounds that their contents were in conflict with the forthcoming Bill'-a 'forthcoming Bill' which Davies was ignorant of at the time.

The article states further: Maudling: a much valued theore- tician. Above: Tripartite talks Feather, Barber, Campbell Adam- son. Not only have important policy questions been resolved the general trend of against Cabinet opinion; increasingly they are decided elsewhere before Cabinet debate and presented as a fait accompli for endorsement. This was so with the f2 package." The conclusion is inescap- able. This country is now being cabal of ruled by a small and senior Civil Ministers Servants working with the in such a Prime Minister manner as to remove policy- making from the area of any debate. The theoretical road to re- form is dead since the opera- tion of power has removed itself from even the theoretical check of parliamentary demo- cracy. The only way forward for the working class now is to: • Rid the working-class move- ment of its treacherous re- formist leaders and fight for a revolutionary leadership of the working class. • By the united action of the working class force the Tory government out of office and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

• The revelations contained in the Daily Telegraph' article pose the necessity of under- taking these tasks with the utmost urgency and resolve.

Yours fraternally, A reader.

CEYLON GOVERNMENT POLICY

Ernest Shinwell, son of former Labour Minister Lord Shinwell, has been sentenced to four years jail on fraud charges by a Luxembourg court. Shinwell (54) was also fined 20,000 Luxembourg francs and was sentenced with another director Briton, company Frank Holmes (47), and two other men. The prosecution claimed that in June 1971 the four men borrowed $150,000 from the Investors Overseas Services" bank in Luxembourg on the strength of $375,000 worth of stolen or forged securities.

Shinwell was arrested in July last year and has been in detention since. Helmes, who was given three years' jail and 5,000 francs, fined was sentenced in his absence.

Also sentenced in his absence was Italo Tresch, a doctor in law from Basle, Switzerland, who was given four years. The fourth man, a Luxembourg bank employee, Jacques Wollner (33), was sent to prison for three years.

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Japanese workers have threa- Tanaka government tened the with an international boycott of the country's goods. Shogo Ohki, the Onkie the smello- million- general General Council of strong Japanese Trade Unions, said the government was denying several million civil servants the right to strike. "Such suppression of the workers' basic rights, coupled of Japa- with the low wages nese workers, are the main factors for the low cost of Japanese goods, accelerating and accumulating exportS trade surplus,' he said. He said his General Coun- cil was preparing a boycott appeal to be sent out if nego- tiations with the government failed. Direct appeals might also be made to the International Organization Labour when it meets next February. Right: Japan's premier Tanaka faced with a boycott of the coun try's goods. Workers Press, Mon British plantation owners were delighted with the recent budget of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Finance Minister Dr N. M. Perera who heads the Lanka Sa- ma Samaja parliamentary fraction in the United Front coalition govern- ment. Perera's party was once the recognized Ceylon section of the revisionist Unified Secre- of the Fourth Inter- tariat national, but it has travelled much further to the right since then. It is now openly on the side capitalist law and order, having backed to the hilt the bloody suppression of the April 1971 uprising by the Che Guevarist youth of the

IVP.

Perera has been touring the world on behalf of prime min- ister Mrs Sirimavo Bandara- naike assuring foreign inves- tors they have nothing to fear from working the Ceylon class. In his budget he imposed major cuts in rice subsidies and loaded the burden of the country's massive $223m defi- cit onto the backs of the workers. At the same time he gave big concessions to the para- sitic owners of the tea and rubber plantations. The right-wing extreme London Investors' Guardian' enthused that the budget had brought Relief for Sri Lanka Tea and Rubber". It said: "The and rubber industries of tea Sri Lanka have been assured of some measure of relief so that they retain their may competitive position in world markets.' It quoted Perera as saying that he felt it was 'both vital and necessary' to cut the tax on tea exports. He disclosed that long-term measures designed to encour- age investment in these crops were being worked out. The budget also gave rubber pro- ducers a guaranteed minimum for their product 'in price order to prevent rubber pro- Left: N. M. Perera- touring the world and assuring investors.

ress, Monday December 18, 1972 PAGE 5 ducers from neglecting Or abandoning their holdings'.

The two industries are among more than 60 specific areas opened up to foreign in- vestors earlier this year with generous incentive schemes.

When the United Front coalition came to power two years ago it brought in a range of measures to deter foreign capitalists, including punitive tax levels and a ban on export of profits from Ceylon. * Perera has thrown all this overboard, together with his last threadbare pretentions, as a 'socialist'. Investors in agri- culture and fishing now get an eight-year tax holiday', the right to remit profits abroad and permission to bring in foreign workers who are ex- empt from tax and allowed to send money home to their families. There is a rebate of cus- toms duty on all industrial products exported by these investors. As a further encouragement, the giant harbour of Trinco- malee is being developed as a and transhipment re-export area. It has been declared a special free export zone to en- courage foreign firms to set up there. These desperate attempts to attract foreign capital are the government's response to the acute economic crisis. Ceylon has accumulated massive debts to the imperialist pow- ers, which Perera is deter- mined the workers will pay off. Following the new policy turn, the British government allowed Sri Lanka to roll over the bulk of its debt to Britain and extend the repayments over a longer period. To keep Sri Lanka safe for imperialism, the government bloodily has suppressed the revolt of youth and students, set up special tribunals under conditions where the rule of is suspended and taken law military 'aid from both the imperialist and the Stalinist powers to do it. As the London Evening Standard' commented earlier this year, the new measures show how far the coalition has departed from the socia- lism it proclaimed on the election platforms in May 1970'.

CAPITALIST RIVALS GEAR UP FOF

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ing of the International The outbreak of full-scale Monetary Fund and in Nixon's economic warfare contemptuous refusal to meet between the Common EEC heads of state. At its basis is the insistent Market and the United American demand that EuroDe States is the inevitable must put itsel ter short rations result of the breakdown greater glory big business. Euro- American of the international pean exports must be slashed, monetary system and the the Common Market opened to of capitalist US products on advantageous resurgence terms and the world monetary anarchy in the relations system retailored to allow US between states. firms to buying up The financial pages of the factories and investing all over capitalist Press bring new evi- the capitalist world. dence every day of the excep- Against this onslaught the tionally tense state of relations countries of the enlarged Com- between European mon Market are making des- employers and their American rivals perate enrors to resnape mel The dispute 'community' in accordance with is carried into every sphere of diplomatic and the trade war requirements of Un- commercial relations: their own monopolies. emerges within NATO on the fortunately for them, this is military far said than done. question expend- easter iture: at the group of 20 meet- Since the formation of the EEC 14 years the six ago, member countries have been trying to create a single economic unit which would enable the capitalists of the various member states to exploit to the full the possibil- ities of a unified market.

But what has been achieved has fallen far short of this aim.

The Common Market today is little more than a glorified customs union in which the development of genuinely European monopolies-trans- cending national boundaries has barely begun. Paradoxically, the companies that have benefited most from the formation of the EEC are the huge US firms like Ford, General Electric and General Motors which have established their factories inside the pro- tective walls of the Market.

Backed by the huge the resources of American parent companies, and bound to no particular state inside the EEC, these companies have been able to utilize to the full all the efforts of the EEC member to create a unified states economic entity. They have played a major part in establishing a capital market (the so-called Euro- dollar market) which extends to all corners of the EEC and beyond and is effectively out- side the control of the member- states. By contrast the few attempts of the European employers to create trans-national monopo- lies powerful enough to combat the Americans have been less than successful. The totally Dunlop-Pirelli merger has run into great difficulties and there are sharp divisions between the associated firms of Fiat and Michelin, to give only two examples. Repeated moves to establish a common European currency through gradual progress to union have monetary foundered. The latest and most grandiose scheme, conceived last April in the wake of Nixon's decision to abolish dollar convertibility, fell apart within two months when Britain floated the pound.

Under the spur of Nixon's threats, the Common Market leaders are trying to make up for lost time. At their summit meeting in Paris in October they adopted the following worded resolution: *The heads of state or of government consider it necessary to seek to establish a single industrial base for the community as a whole. *This involves the elimin- ation of technical barriers to trade as well as the elimination, particularly in the fiscal and

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trade fields, of barriers which closer relations and hinder the between hrms, mergers rapid adoption of a European the statute, pro- Conaly gressive and effective opening purchases, up or pubic sector the promotion on a European scale of competitive

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the field of high technology, the transformation and conversion under of declining industries, acceptable social conditions [of of course!], the formulation that measures

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mergers affecting firms estab- lished in the community are in with the economic Mariony and social aims of the com- munity, and the maintenance competition much of fair within the Common Market as markets con- external laid with the rules formity down by the treaties.' which This resolution, to Heath Edward Tory premier

TRANCOBOLL

set his signature, together with the other eight EEC leaders, indicates the kind of Common Market the leaders would like to see. important it just as But indicates how far the European capitalists have fallen short of the aims they set themselves when the EEĆ was established.

Market com- The Common mission is quite frank about this. Its commentary, released with the summit communiqué, a lengthy catalogue of is difficulties. As the EEC commission put it in a memorandum dated March 20, 1970: 'If the general well-being (!) is to be im- proved, industry must be able to make the most of the Com- mon Market as an entity, and as an entity permitting large- scale operations.... Too often industrial policy has been used to refer to measures designed Workers Press, Monday December 18, 1972 PAGE 7 It cites as an example the The 'integration' of Euro- tractor market within the EEC pean capitalism is inconceiv- which is held back by the fact able under the continued rule that in some countries, of private property without a tors must not be capable of fascist dictatorship of a type exceeding speed limits which more brutal than has ever been in other countries are re- known. To carry through their garded by buyers as far too plans the European employers need to wage ruthless civil war

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Some member countries for- against the working class all bid passenger seats, while the over the Continent. public in another will This is the reality behind the

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consider buying tractors with.

bureaucrats' talk of the 'general out them. The commission well being'. The eruption of *very dissatisfied' the has exposed trade war the

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towards progress removing real face of European imperial restrictions of this type.

ism-threadbare delusions of Despite literally hundreds of grandeur, aims provincial directives showered on govern- which are beyond its reach ments and manufacturers from and malignant hatred for the which produces •EEC headquarters in Brussels, class the actual been progress Bas weaten. minimal. Targets set in mid. The national state is the 1969 should have been imple- historical form of the rule of mented by the end of 1970. the bourgeoisie Europe, But at all levels the commission where capitalism had its birth has met resistance and inertia.

several centuries ago. Where it Altiero Spinelli, one of the once played a progressive role top EEC bureaucrats in charge in the development of the pro- of described ductive forces, unry 1971 the frustrating the national February state is now a great fetter on process of trying to imple- economic and social develop- ment this type of policy: ment. *The commission has organ- Nearly 50 years ago, in his Europe ized many meetings of experts speeches and proposed direc to draft the America, Trotsky character- tives; over a hundred of these ized the decline and decadence have already been submitted to of capitalist Europe. World the Council [of Ministers].

War I, he said, was not an "They are then examined by accidental phenomenon she dees peral on the sere the deputy It was the blind revolt of the productive forces same experts who have already against capitalist forms. helped the commission cluding those of the national then asked experts The productive forces are undertake complete re- could capitalism created Dy examination of the proposal, as no longer be contained within if they had not already taken the framework of social forms partollowingratitis of capitalism, including the *Following second framework of national states.

examination, the proposals go Hence the war. forward to the Council. During What has the war brought 1970, 31 of these were sub- Europe? A situation ten times mitted but the council has so worse than before, the same The approved nine. far only capitalist social forms, but member states have not yet same

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Ene necessary legis. tariff walls, but more rigid; the taken all une lative or administrative action frontiers, but narrower; to implement these nine the same armies, but more directives. numerous; and increased in- debtedness; a more restricted market. Such is the general situation in Europe. If today England rises a little, it is at the expense of Germany; to- Germany's morrow it will be turn to rise at England's ex- pense. If you find a surplus in the trade balance of one country seek for a corres-

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ponding deficit in the trade of another Da a nee Country, World development-princi- pally the development of the US-has driven Europe this blind alley. America is basic force of the today une capitalist world and the character of that force auto- predetermined the inextricable position of Europe within the framework of the capitalist regime. European capitalism has become reactionary in the absolute of sense the that is, not only is it unable the nations forward, to lead but it is even incapable maintaining for them living standards long ago attained. Precisely this constitutes the economic basis of the present revolution- ar Tropy s analysis retains all epoch its force today, when European capitalism has undergone further 50 years of decline, in- Economic warfare between America and Europe means ruthless attacks cluding a second bloody inter- on workers of both continents. Above: Nixon. Left: Strikers in Turin.

imperialist conflict even more destructive than the first.

at is quite cleau, the tore, to keep alive activities that no European capitalism must be that if we continue to of prospect have longer destroyed. All those like ally the along these lines we will still in the modern competing Stalinists French who talk the trying implement world.' •democratizing' about the the May 1969 programme in The basic drift of its memo Common Market machinery year 2000. was that 'Much of Community are simply deceiving the work- Spinelli's sorry catalogue of is unduly fragmented industry class and providing ing bureaucratic entanglement and this is a serious weaknes smokescreen barely conceals the conflicts of for the prepar- in the face of competition from ation of huge repression against between the various interest the United States, Japan and national states comprising the them. other outside countries The working class is the

EEC.

Commenting on the summit only progressive force in Representing its own manu- the It alone can destroy proposals,

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Europe. naturally facturers, each state failures of the catalogues the barriers of the archaic seeks to gain for them the previous attempts at rationaliz- establish genu- national state, their

EEC.

greatest advantage over within ation inely European industry in the rivals within the community. *full sectors," it say Market many service of need, not profit and The conflict is turned into access to the Common lead the way out of the blind nightmare by the labyrinthine hampered by con- badly alley of capitalism towards the bureaucracy permanently estab- regulations flicting national United States Socialist lished at the Common Market techni- controlling important Europe headquarters. cal aspects of production.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday December 18, 1972

TEES MAKES

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The Tees and Hartlepool Port at a total cost of £440,000 Authority has revealed the therefore has produced shape of things to come in the acute labour shortage. And at smaller ports under the terms the same time it has handed of the Jones-Aldington report.

the port authority an ideal By the end of the year, the opportunity to undermine the authority boasts, 112 dockers' existing conditions.

dockers who have taken sever- All 67 men who have not ance and left the industry under previously worked for the the report's will have terms authority will attend a one- been replaced. week training course at the More than half the new men National Dock Labour Board will be from outside the in- school in Hull, plus in- an dustry altogether. The remain- course organized by ing 45 will be casuals who have the authority itself. previously for the No doubt the dockers' in- authority limited only for will structors seize every periods. This development bears out chance to school their pupils in a spirit of submissive those oppo- the warnings of co- operation. The lengthening nents of Jones-Aldington who dole queues from which they said that its real purpose was came will thus their not a solution of the so-called warning message directly onto surplus labour problem, but an the quayside. attack on dockers' conditions under the Dock Labour Scheme.

This, presumably, is what Teesside is a port which had Teesside docks manager Stanley no one on its temporarily Wright meant last week when attached register time at the he gloated that by the end of national of the docks strike. Ine vear the port would have The severance of 112 men- balanced labour situation'.

COUNTER-

other forms of electronic eaves- dropping. Big business is finding it difficult

BUG

and more to more Mr Asset Stripper 1972, actually spot bugging devices themselves. They are apparently John Bentley of Barclay well made these days that Securities, Industrial espionage has led to sing in the New rear with the devices can be disguised as the promotion of private firms one of the normal components specializing, for inside price, any ordinary telephone. yet another million counter-espionage. MIS is offering a package One company, Management pound killing. deal covering one year. Inspec- Investigation Services, is offer- The Stock Exchange is wait- will include electronic

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ing low-cost protection "sweeps' over a wide range of ing for the name of the buyer against telephone-tapping and radio frequencies. buyers) of the remainder

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of Bentley's toy empire based on Triang Pedigree and Mobo.

NO ONE WANTS TO KNOW

Bentley wants to clinch the deal before December 31 which marks the end of the financial for parent firm Securities. Barclay American Hospital ancillary work- slandered them for their action.

buyers are said to be interested ers in Liverpool are plan- None of the papers bothered and the price for Chad Valley to print the facts and figures ning to their estimated between £1.5m continue of wages in hospitals. In the and €1.8m. Commons round of one-day strikes House of Tory If the deal comes off it will minister in support of a pay claim.

forced to give was mark one more money-spinning details of wages among ancil- chapter Bentley's in When the workers went on

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lary workers wealth and prominence. Stre futrage houTory The ministerial answer re- His into toys Press vealed the following: outraged when began he bought D. Basic weekly nates .2f rates of hospital ancillary workers Sebel and with it the Mobo brand. A year later Chad Valley (Lowest Between Between £30 and was added to the empire and Lowest included) £20 and £25 £25 and £30 over then Triang Pedigree- Men -bought Nil 30,1&U Women for €5.28m from the Lines 29,300 20 00.739 Brothers liquidator. Then Bent- Total 104,870 24,790 740 Nil (1) Lowest rates are €17.48 (Men), €15.28 (Women).

ley set to work with his old (2) All figures are for full-time staf formula. (3) Estimated total of full-time staff in England and Wales is 130,400.

The object is not to go Thus four out of five get less than E20 a week basic.

making toys, but to sell-off the

AS BENTLEY GETS RICHER

DOLE QUEUE GETS LONGER

least profitable parts of the new group at prices inflated by the property boom, then rationalize the remainder.

The group is then ripe for stage two-sale to some interested buyer-the very manoeuvre Bentley is involved in at this moment. The first suffer to were workers at Triang. Bentley shut five of the firm's nine factories within a few months of pur- In chase. June the

WORSE

•CUl back of all came when 1,200 employees were paid-off with extra redundancy money at the Triang plant in Merton, South London. Production has been centred on Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales, but results have been poor. The break-up realized a cool E5.75m, with another Elm to come. Mobo business ine fared little better. Plants at Erith, Harborne and Redcar were soug The only healthy division of the toy sector is Chad Valley which is said to be heading for a £400,000 profit. Bentley's original aim was to hold on and sell Chad and Triang in one go, but other toy firms have kept their distance, not wanting to take on such a burden. Now the whole oper- ation seems to be nearing com- pletion. Of course asset-stripping is not unique to toys. Barclay Securities has done the same with its advertising and hair- dressing interests. And now the Big Stripper is sitting on the greatest prize of all-60- odd acres of land owned by Shepperton Studios which came with British Lion. Technicians at the studios are in occupation against an expected move by Bentley to sell the property. The latest toy deal is bound to strengthen their determination to keep their fight going. Chairman Bentley justifies his activities with an appeal to efficiency. *Barclay is undergoing a transformation, he said recently, * ... in which it dem- onstrates its catalytic policy of acquiring smaller companies, modernizing them over :a period and floating them or selling them off again as far more efficient and streamlined organizations... Somehow the Bentley ex- employees, many still em- ployed, don't see it that way.

They watch Bentley getting richer and the dole queue getting longer.

RED FACES

There were a few red faces on the picture desk of the 'York- shire Post' in Leeds on Tues- day when they turned to see how their story on the strike at CAV Sudbury had turned out. The main angle of the paper's story was the plea made by Bill the factory's Duckling, convenor, that evangelist James Goad should call off his legal bid to get into the engineers union meetings at Sudbury.

And there, across two colums, was a picture of Bill Duckling in his snappy new trilby.

But the caption to the story read embarrassingly.. 'Mr James Goad'

ATTITUDES

A 16-year-old girl had been committed to a mental hos- pital three times because she was cheeky and not because she had been mentally ill, a barrister alleged last week.

Susan Klonin told Miss Manchester Crown Court that the girl had spent most of her • the ages of 11 time between and 14 in the company of mongols and spastics and was not aware of ever receiving treatment for mental any illness. *It seems to me that she has mental been committed to hospitals because she has been cheeky, rude, lacking in dis- cipline and manners and not because she has been mentally ill,' said Miss Klonin. The girl had been committed city for sentence by the magistrates for stealing clothes worth £48 from a store. But Judge Philip Hinchliffe, QC, said the girl had been given every kind of help. She had absconded from hospitals and hostels and had rebelled against society in general.

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Exec. Prod. John Dekker. Friday World December 8: Cinema: Enfants du "Les Paradise'. 9.25 p.m. BBC 2.

Directed by Marcel Carné.

Monday December 11: Play for Today: "The Bouncing Boy.

By John McGrath. Directed by Maurice Hatton. Produced by Graeme MacDonald. In 1970 Japan exported 27 colour television sets for the British market. This year just under 300,000 sets made their way in and at a record low price of £88 a set. Five years ago Japan had a surplus of imports over exports. Last year there was a 7.7 billion surplus of exports over imports. Facts of this kind and plenty more like them mean that at least, any television the very programme on the subject of her economy in Japan, and particular, is bound to make viewing. Even the strong ambiguities inevitable and evasions of a good liberal in the series documentary Money at Work (why on earth is this on BBC 22) couldn't detract from the sense of staring down the barrel of a waiting for the big ex- gun, plosion to hit home. And to do them credit, John Dekker and his team turned out a sharp and varied film on most aspects of the Japanese question. If there are, in fact, any questions about, it's doubtful whether they're so much why and what, as, when and how?

For Japan is today an essential component in the giant inter- locking combat of western capitalist economy in the big- gest crisis it has ever faced.

At this very moment, under increasing pressure from the US, well into the early stages of out-and-out trade warfare with Japan and Europe, Japan hurtles down the slippery slopes towards revaluation of the yen-a mere nine months after being forced to raise parity of the yen over 16 per cent by the Finance Ministers in Washington. As various commercial dig- nitaries on the programme of the confirmed (members Japanese CBI-the Keidanren; the vice-President of MITSUI; officials from the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry etc.) there is great alarm at the idea of revaluation and strenuous efforts not to do so have been and are being made. But all the furious buying up of dollars to keep the yen from breaking through and the other small ploys of cutting back and changing tariffs can do nothing to resolve an impending revaluation which threatens to disrupt the entire Japanese economy, instigate slump and bankrupt many industries, aside from small the international consequences which must include a rise in is what already a crippling flood of imports into Europe from Japan. When this occurs there will be additional upsets in British industry to those mentioned on the programme by such as Edward Bishop, MP, whose constituency in the west country depends on the ball- bearing industry. (There have already been 1,500 redundancies in his area as a result of the Japanese taking over 21 per cent of the British ball-bearing market.)

Lord Kearton of Courtaulds Workers Press, Monda tells the same kind of story now that the Japanese have swamped the synthetic textile and fibre industry. Of course radio and elec- tronics, already mentioned, are the hardest hit in this country —'the death-knell has sounded' as a representative put it.

The Nixon government took against stern measures the Tanaka government in August 1971 with its 10 per cent import surcharge which SO swiftly diverted Japan's exports into Europe, but it's nothing to what they're likely to estab- lish in the forthcoming trade negotiations next year under William Casey. Japan knows that it may well be forced to accept more US goods to rectify its huge trade surplus (currently run- ning at $300m a year) and, in fact, most big firms in Japan, and other internationally, are already discounting currency for any future transactions: an 8 per cent revaluation is the least expected. The trade rapport between Peking Japan and and the implied abandonment of Japan- ese trade with Taiwan reveals a measure of the desperation felt; as, in different form, does the grotesque sight in the pro- of the Institute of gramme International Businessmen set up to train young Japanese into western style trade and commerce preparatory to get- ting them out into the new markets, new for the terrain biggest of exporter manu- factured goods in the world.

The camera showed some- thing of Tokyo and Osaka where 1 per cent of Japanese land holds 33 million people and where 32 percent of the population produce 75 per cent of the industrial output; where land is five times the price of that on the French Riviera; where there's an average of half a square yard per person (compared to London's aver- age of nine square yards per person); where 17 million road vehicles take to the road each day; where only one quarter of the population have main drainage. But these are only the wretched symptoms of a capitalist economy which out- boomed all other post-war booms and now finds itself sweating under the weight of lifeless paper dollars which can bring it nothing but trade warfare. Trade warfare? Some might find the term too strong: let them note that Japan is to double its defence budget over the next five years. All specu- lative chat on the programme ess, Monday December 18, 1972 PAGE 9 of "liberalizing capital' and 'adapting industrial structures' of 'weak and strong currencies' is sheer lunacy beside such a fact as this. The second half of Marcel Carné's celebrated Les Enfants du Paradis, made in Occupied France during the two years ending in 1944 and released in 1946, appeared last Friday on World Cinema. There is no doubting Carné's masterly achievements within the fairly rigid framework he for himself — a establishes calculated escape from any hint of social realism and into the romantic, highly theatrical world where man is always governed by his fate. Theatrical in all senses, the film is concerned with the rise to fame of two utterly con- trasting persons - Baptiste Debureaux the famous mime at the peak of his (played abilities by Jean-Louis Barrault) and Frederic LeMaitre, the ex- travagant actor-manager (Pierre Brasseur) in 19th century French theatre. It's all very brilliant, very remote, very unsatistying except on a purely technical mechanics level. The of writer (the Poet Jacques formers are employed with extraordinary skill and are always apparent. By contrast John McGrath's play The Bouncing Boy about a young couple's problems as the girl gives birth to their first child and the boy struggles to wheeler-deal his way through the intricate passions of the market, second-hand car appeared as a rather appealing shambles. Nothing very original about any of it, but the writing and Maurice Hatton's direction was nicely underplayed and some of the scenes in the car auction and the labour ward lingered well after the play had finished -some of this was due to an absolutely solid performance by Norman Ashley as the hus- band, with his heart in his car and his mind on easy deals.

A lively and sensitive enough picture of a working-class couple cut off from each other and the life they were living by crude economics. The regret always remains that such • talented team could not give us something more than just another "impression' of the we all know so well, scene however intelligent an impres- sion it may have been. These days it's not enough. Below: Baptiste the famous mime 'Les Barrault), in Jean-Louis Enfants du Paradis.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday December 18, 1972

DOCKER

JOINS

RIGHT-WING

CHORUS

The Working Together campaign, got under way by leading businessmen this year, continues to find it difficult to attract rank-and-file elements of the trade union move- ment. Not workers surprisingly, little suspi- are more than a cious of the members of this corporatist-style with group their perspective of putting an 'end to industrial anarchy, and plans to 'reduce unofficial strikes'. Only Frank Chapple Working Together campaigners at a and the labour editor of The Times' have history, let us not forget, most written as trade Working for To- importantly, his support for the Moral Re-Armament out- gether. Not to be deterred, how- fit. 'He has worked with us, ever, the group that aims to that's true,' said an

MRA

abolish the spokesman last week. Ham struggle by class one means or another has just has spoken on

MRA

plat- published a 'study' called The Trade Unions and Working This anti-communist outfit Together'. was Washman in 1908. He aimed founded Frank The author has turned out Tom Ham, three times to have had a revelation that to De president the National the world ought to be guided Amalgamated Stevedores and by the principles of Absolute Dockers. One of his claims to Love and that he was just the fame is that he signed the man to show everybody how Devlin Phase One agreement to do it. for the 'Blue' union. Buchman visited Germany That agreement of in 1936 to see Hitler's Olym- course facilitated The day after his has directly pic Games. the speed-up and containerization return to the United States, Buchman declared in a news- process on the docks wnich in turn have led to thousands of interview: paper I thank heaven for a man redundancies. like Adolf Hitler, who built a And when one is drawing a balance sheet of Tom Ham's front-line of defence against Subscribe! The daily paper tha workers press eads the fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 lasues) 210.14 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: E1.56 for 3 months (24 issues), 26.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Circulation Dept., Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St., London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Name. Address.. rs at a Press conference earlier this year the anti-Christ of communism.

*Think what it would mean if Hitler surrendered to the Control of God. Or Mussolini.

Or any dictator. Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last, bewildering pro- blem. Fascism and Buchman ob- viously suited each other. "Spain has taught us what Godless communism will bring,' he said. Human problems could be solved within a God-control- led democracy and they could be solved through a God- controlled nation. Capital and labour would discuss their problems peacefully and reach God-controlled solutions.

*Yes, business would be owned by individuals not by state, but the owners would be God-controlled.'

With such feelings for the defence of private property and the identity of interests between capital and labour, it is not surprising that big busi- ness keeps MRA well funded.

In 1960 gifts of money in the USA alone totalled $3m.

Back to Tom Ham, then, writing for another group of big businessmen. His seven- page 'study' on the trade unions is full of nice thoughts about the ruling class and big business. 'Of course, any enterprise needs to show a surplus over expenditure if it is to remain healthy and have money avail- able for investment, re- equipment and so on, writes Ham, while noting that the 'shareholders in our industrial system have a role to play'.

He writes at length about the need for education, keep- ing people in the picture as the way towards 'co-operation in in- and better spirit a dustry. reveals that every- Ham one's interest must be re- cognized-managers, work- ers, shareholders, the public's -but we must get rid of the distortions that give undue recognition to just one those interests.' In other words, we all have the same interests, precisely the philosophy of the Work- ing Together outfit and cor- poratism. It is made perfectly obvious by Ham what his aim is, and it corresponds to the desires of the employers. Let us face up to the huge problems that confront us without a con- stant, strength-sapping, wran- gle going on, he says. The Tory government has declared war on the working class and prepares to try and dismantle the trade unions, stripping them of any sem- blance of independence. What Ham proposes is in essence collaboration with this plan to get that better spirit in industry' 12.00 Engineer's world. 12.25 Cywain. 12.55 News. 1.00 Pebble Mill at one. 1.30 Along the trail.

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SEAN KEENAN (22), of Lon- donderry's Creggan Estate, appeared at a special court in the city on Saturday night accused of being an IRA mem- ber. The army declared him guilty even before he went to court. Keenan, who is married and lives in Rathlin Gardens, was detained by the army earlier in the day. The special court re- manded him in custody to a court in Maze, Co Down, on Wednesday. Early reports of his arrest, emanating from the army public- relations macine, described hin categorically as a high-ranking member of the Provisional IRA' and 'formerly second-in-command of the Derry Provisionals'.

This was while he was still being questioned by police and before the special court hearing.

He was detained after stopping at a vehicle checkpoint set up by the army between Derry and Muff, in Co Donegal. SIR JOHN Donaldson, presi- dent of the National Indus- trial Relations Court arrives in Cardiff today for his first sitting outside his London headquarters. The new-style, fully-mobile NIRC is a result of Sir John's decision a year ago-when the court opened - that where appropriate the court would go the Health

LABOUR

MP Leslie Huckfield said yesterday Huckfield, Nuneaton, t he quit the Birmingham ing that regional hospital board member he because some members the private willing and wit- were for two-and- ting participants in a gigantic and all perva- other Labou sive conspiracy to smash that two hos

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

THE UNION Movement of Great Britain attended a gathering of 1,000 youth at the largely unreported Con- gress of National-European Youth held in Munich in September. They discussed with extreme right Germans the Italian Social Movement, the French Ordre Nouveau and Spanish Falangists three main topics: nationalism and bio-politics, Europe as an in- dependent political power and of minorities, the the problems rights of ethnic groups. The British Tory Press kept a silence on this parti- complete cular celebration of the Common Market which stirred up the Nazi myths and racist "scientific' theo- ries of Hitler's movement A report from the Falangist delegations relates how their spokesman voiced great satisfac- tion at seeing how as in Spain in 1936 and afterwards on the eastern front (applause) in 1941, German comrades, Spanish and together with others from all over Europe, are now again to the scene of a dispute the than bring the parties to London. He will be accompanied by industrial two of the court's members, Richard Davies and Herman Roberts. Roberts, the former industrial correspondent of the Birming- ham Post' , is a member of the National Union of Journalists.

He sat on the NIRC in London le Health Service. Birmingham area Huckfield, MP for illegally treated priva uneaton, told a meet- patients under the N board tional Health Service. as a ember he had fought In one hospit Bromsgrove General, le private beds system r two-and-a-half years. was claimed that hu Last year he and an- dreds of private ou ther Labour MP alleged patients were charg at two hospitals in the absolutely nothing.

(applause) ready to struggle for the future of our Race (standing ovation).* At the end of the first day's session, delegates retired to a Munich beer-cellar to swill ale and chant national anthems and the songs of the 1930s. They then paid homage to Hitler by visiting the Feldhern- halle-'the place where, in 1923, the National-Socialist uprising was bloodily put down by the German police and 16 comrades were killed The Congress was sharp warning to the working class of the reactionary forces which will have to be dealt with in crisis- ridden Europe. CHENG Tzu-tsai, the Formosan who faces jail in the United States for an assassination at- tempt on the son of Chiang Kai- shek, is to stay in Britain until his appeal against an extradition order can be heard. He has been fighting extradition for almost four months. when the five dockers were jailed for contempt and more recently, with Sir John when the was engineers' union was fined first £5,000 and then £50,000. The NIRC will sit in the con- ference suite of the Department of the Environment in Cardiff on Tuesday to hear an appeal by two companies against a decision of a local Industrial Tribunal.

It is expected that the case will last two days. had Police were present at ated private some meetings of the der the Na- hospital board and one of its most active mem- hospital, bers, Labour councillor General, it Theresa Stewart, Mrs 1 that hun- was not reappointed private out- after her first term of charged office ended in March 1971. Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign LONDON TEACHERS: Monday December 18, 8 p.m. Caxton Hall (near St James's Park tube).

SKELMERSDALE: Monday De- cember 18, 7.30 p.m. Quarry Bank Community Centre.

SHEFFIELD

Monday December 18, 7.30 p.m.

The Foresters Inn' Division Street *Defend the Engineering Union.

Force the Tories to resign'.

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

MEDWAY: Tuesday December 19, 8 p.m. 'The Greyhound', Roches- ter Avenue, Rochester. CAMBRIDGE: Tuesday December "The Mitre' Bridge 19, 8 p.m. Street. 'Fight rising prices'.

CLAPHAM: Tuesday December 19, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Street, Clapham Manor SW4. 'Force the Tories to resign' Workers Press, Monda

AFTERMATH

UNION

MORE than 400 demonstra- outside tors gathered Wormwood Scrubs on Sat- urday to protest against the jailing of four members of the Stoke Newington Eight for ten years. As they called for the release of all prisoners, inmates of the Scrubs waved through their bars. An inconclusive meeting was held in Denbigh Hall, Notting Hill, at which it was agreed that a campaign should be launched for improving prison condi- tions. JACK JONES, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, said yesterday the whole weight of his union and the TUC was behind the taxi drivers fight against Value Added Tax. At a mass meeting Jones called on the Tories to 'rethink' the whole position of VAT. But if they decided to go ahead, whatever was done should be 'fair and just". KINGSTON: Tuesday December Swan, Mill 19, 8 p.m. The Street. 'Way forward for trade unionists'. MANCHESTER: Wednesday De- cember 20, 7.30 p.m. 'The Black Lion Hotel', corner of Blackfriars Street and Chapel Rd. 'Fight the Industrial Relations Act-Force the Tories to Resign' PRESTON: Thursday December 21, 7.30 p.m. The New Cock Inn' Fishergate. 'Fight the Industrial Relations Act-Force the Tories to Resign'. SWANSEA: Wednesday December 'Defend the 20, 7.30 p.m. YMCA. AUEW. Force the Tories to re- sign. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs- day December 21, 8 p.m. Dept- ford Engineers' Club, New Cross 'Build Coun- Road (near station). cils of Action' CLAY CROSS: Thursday Decem- ber 21, 8 p.m. Social Centre, Fight Tory rent Derby Road. rises!' 'Make this government resign.' ess, Monday December 18, 1972 PAGE 11

BRITAIN'S

50,000 technical have decided to teachers go ahead with a claim for at least a f450 a year pay rise. An emergency salaries confer- Association ence of the of Teachers in Technical Institutions in London on Saturday voted overwhelmingly for the claim.

But all the resolutions urging strike action to achieve the £450 rise were ruled out of order. The delegates did eventually, how- pass an executive resolu- ever, tion including the provision to policy to revise the sanctions include forms of strike action.

Delegates rejected, against the wish of the executive, a proposal to claim a further 2 per cent on top of the £450 for senior lec- turers who have already had big percentage rises over the last few years. GILES RADICE, head of re- search at the General and Muni- cipal Workers' Union, has been picked as prospective Labour candidate for the by-election at Chester-le-Street, Co Durham. The selection has to be approved by the party's national executive on Wednesday. Radice (36) lives in London. All the other candi- dates were local men. Labour has held Chester-le- Street since 1906. Norman Pent- land, the previous MP, who died in October, had a 20,000 majority.

THREE HUNDRED prisoners in Durham jail sat down in the main exercise yard and refused to re- turn to their cells for over two- and-a-half hours, the Home Office said on Saturday night. The sit-down, on Friday, was over the death of prisoner Henry Whisker (20) in Durham hospital last week after he was taken ill in the jail. Whisker's father has called for an inquiry into his son's death. Nine prisoners have been put on report because of their protest.

SHEFFIELD

Monday January 8 Marxism and the revolutionary party

FORRESTERS HALL

Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m.

TODMORDEN

Monday January 8 "The economic crisis' Monday January 22 'Stalinism' Monday February 5 "Trotskyism'

THE WEAVERS' INSTI-

TUTE, Burnley Road, 7.30 p.m.

HULL

Wednesday January 10 Stalinism and Trotskyism Wednesday January 24 Marxist theory and the revolu- tionary party

WHITE HART HOTEL

Alfred Gelder Street (near Drypool Bridge) 8 p.m.

Official IRA turns to reformism PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday December 18, 1972

BY DAVID I

WITH LONDON docks still ENOCH POWELL'S agent in reeling from announce- a an cials yesterday Wolverhampton consti- ment that the South Ameri- top-level meeting tuency is objecting to the de- can meat trade is to switch to and transport dri mocratic right of Pakistani and Southampton, Transport and 1973. Bangladeshi workers to vote General Workers' Union offi- The promise can in elections. In letters to the town clerk of Wolverh. mpton, the Conservative agent, R. Pollard, claims that voters are now aliens, and These such should be disqualified arom voting ABOUT 70 trade unionists joined the Lambeth Council Town clerk Kenneth Williams has rejected Pollard's proposa of Action demonstration fter consulting Home Office off against the soaring cost of cials. Bangladeshis and Pakistanis, he living. There were says, ToiaSa su oteds are therefore entitled delegations from Lambeth vote elections. Trades Council, local Powell yesterday made it clear, however, that he was not pre- UCATT, USDAW and pared to let the campaign against T&GWU branches, as immigrant workers die. He said his agent would await well as a contingent the town clerk's formal reply from the Young before taking further action.

are forms nere varong Socialists' and International legal action and there are quite a interested Socialists' local branches.

TOTE

-Damen likely quite a lot of things could added Powell. The marchers received happen, During the recent Rochdale attentive interest as they by-election, immigrant workers to polling booths going were passed through the Brixton narassed ARi mmiTant markets and high street

STOTTS

(see below) to a meeting at Clapham Manor Baths. egistered dewap peorkers e Pes. Published Presg At points along the route Claphams Wi hu Street, London, shoppers joined in shouting Prob Capham h Sire 1, Lo (don: Plougl 'Tories Out'.

SW4 7UG.

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A TURN towards the Labour Party

FROM IAN YEATS

and a revision of Oficial Sinn Fein Six Ceuthres. overthrow British imperialism in the relationships with 'left' groups was called for at the movement's 67th Both these virorouslv Ard Fheis at the Mansion House, damonde wara opposed by the reformist leaders of Dublin, on Saturday. Official Sinn Fein. And at the Ard Fheis MacGiolla emphasized that nothing must President Tomas MacGiolla told this be done to alienate potential supporters in Teroralaivay hon atanman raniaranas northern Unionist Fianna tha Partv. in that unless they could break out of their Fail or in Fine Gael. current isolation and carry their policies and labour move- The price of this backing appears to be into tha tendo •Tanian ment, they faced failure.

a purge of so-called ultmg.lefte Trnt. and skyites'. Members of the axed Galway While he about 30 members of spoke branches believe the the movement is on three richancar en uou Hronnhac pyne E thrachals at tuicana ponuprcioniotne from Oficials for "ultra-leftism' the of a social-democratic per- lobbied the haps even with deputies in the Dail They believe they are paying the price for the Officials' turn to 'respectable', social- For the time beine the leadershio's new democratic policies and methods, which emphasis Republicans entering the has gathered momentum in the past vear.

Labour Party and the trade aniane callied the strongly syndicalist Derry The Galway members clashed with the Republicans, who have long believed that leadership by demanding the building of the future of the movement and the com- the Republican movement into a revolu- pletion of the national revolution lay with tionary party, committed Monuiat .mnt the uninne the creation of a mixed economy, includ- but In his 600 delegations leleintio s 02 DASHCLUGUHGMSOuE 2na termere ¿roHiom a programme of nationalization of all in. Saturdav night, MacGiolla dustry compensation and under had been a victorious vear for imperialism.

worizeras control He said: The fact that we survived at They also urged an armed campaign "ll ac an crganization ica • TremAndolC Drivers and dockers

DECEMBER

unite on meat trade

FUND NOW

£784.52

BY DAVID MAUDE

ference of London drivers' ste

EIGHT

more days to Christmas. wards in the union's headquar yesterday promised ters. It is expected that the We are still a long way from com pleting our £1,750 top-level meeting of dockers target by then joint meeting will draw Six mem bers each from the T&GWU's and transport drivers early in dockers' and the trade far and raise the final £965.49 drivers' time.

LOUDS.

The promise came at a con- Strikes taking place today and At least 530 dockers' jobs will throughout week show the immediately be hit by the meat enormous feeling in the working switch, which is expected to take class licht back against the place early in 1973. Tory government. But this is just a beginning.

it could also spell the closure Vestey organization's Trade everywhere Thames Stevedoring Co which behind the AUEW National Com- mittee in its determination not to enoloys

OSU

Cockers tally-clerks. pay the fine. Workers Press needed to Employment the Royal provide a political lead to thous- docks whole -already threa- as a ands of workers everywhere. The tened by the New Zealand meat

FIGHT

fight back producers pull-out-would be seriously undermined. Industrial with Heations AcT IS

RISING,

action by the trade union move Hence the dockers' decision at ment to fonce the government to Thames Friday

PRICES

Stevedoring on black ships carrying South Only Workers Press speaks out American and meat canned loud and clear. Back from

COGS

the way in this fight. Make a par- *constructive negotiations' start ticularly special effort for our by then. December Fund. We need complete it early to help us over Yesterday LoRdon ta port Christmas holidays. So raise transport

LORCOR

all you can. Post every donation drivers' stewards, said he was in favour oa sint campaign with immediately to: dockers Vestey's Workers Press deals! plans December Appeal Fund approach to in- 186a Clapham High Street i've made an dividual stewards divid the intention on taking alt the Royals London SW4 7UG. action,' he added. Bee thing, ed Retsitz, The would for COCKeN black the shipping lines and fos

MINERS

lorry drivers marched take forms of 2G TenanTs to through Conisborough, Yorkshire, action against the Vestey group.

yesterday

SUDDONI

councillors who will not implement the Tory government's Housing Finance Act. The marchers chanted "Tories Out!', "Rent Rises Out!' and 'Hey!

Hey! We Won't Pay!' Contin. joined gents demonstration nom as lar anelas birmingnam Edlington and Cadeby

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branch banners were also there.

Arthur Scargill, Yorkshire Na- tional Union of Mineworkers' official, told the meeting that fol- lowed: 'We will oppose living stan- Win Ga the dards of the working class.

We can mobilize the whole of the working class to bring dowr the Tories and put back a Labour government pledged to socialist policies' SHOP stewards from the laid-off Lucas Industrial Equipment fac- Fazakerley, Liverpool, tory at yesterday backed the CAv sit-in strikers their demand for blacking action at unree Merseyside factories. He said that Heath and Lynch were

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objective towards common of uniting Ireland to "surrender her inde achievement when we consider the com- nationhood' to the EEC. And he pendent bined machinations of three governments warned that both governments were pre-

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paring for the huge working-class struggle He blamed Fianna Fail for the present and unemplovment which wave of public hostility to Sinn Fein, would inevitably follow Common Market he said they had consciously fos- entry. which tered by giving clandestine material sup- He said: "The Offences Against port to the Provisional IRA.

State (Amendment) Act was not designed He said: Now that the origins of the needed to deal with illegal organiz: tions. It was designed to deal with work- and the protests publicity ers given to them. It Is a preparation for the tota members who may ponce-state era wnien is almost upon us.

misled by lies and distortions to examine MacGiolla said that in this situation our actions and policies.'

the trade unions and the Labour Party reassess their Assessing the record of the Officials must role and take their since the last Ard rnels, Maculolla said: Dace a mie vanguare or the strugge tor I must emphasize that the failure of the the reconquest of Ireland and the building of a workers republic. revolutionary maintain its original momentum was not due to policy News broke yesterday that the Pro- failures. visional IRA are near certain to call a •We may have failed in organizational Christmas ceasefire in the Six Counties. The final decision was to be made yester- methods and in propaganda, but our poli- cies have been correct.' day. And it was not known if fighting would be resumed. The crucial switch from previous vague to is e dehend for concrete intervention There are rumours of top-level changes demand for the Provisionals' concrete intervention in leadership would hand mune wade umon ane abour movement DOWeL exclusivey • LO came at the end of MacGiolla's speech.

movement's political wing.