Workers Press no. 964

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TUC LEADS THE

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

THE TUC chiefs are leading the working class into another trap. They are talking with the Tories once more and giving the Heath government more precious time to destroy basic democratic rights.

unions. But this is out of the After the last marathon question. 'talk-in' with union leaders, Three things were clear from the Tories banned wage in- Thursday's meeting: creases by law. Workers who • Heath's edict to Lord Cooper live on frozen wages while banning all negotiations between unions and employers over pay prices rise are only starting still stands. to pay the heavy price for • The Tories put it right on the this bit of TUC treachery.

record that processed food prices could not be controlled. On the agenda this time is • The government is ready to a permanent system to control back up its phase two proposals wages by state decree. for controlling wages by law.

The Tories know they will These plans rest on the have to face a major showdown Tories' economic 2 conspiracy with the working class before the and with governments such a system can work. monopolies of Europe who break up industries want to The 1972 miners' strike, build like steel and create tens of dispute and the ing workers' thousands of redundancies. massive protests over the Indus- trial Relations Act proved this.

The Tories have already legally deprived the working class of its But the TUC is always at hand basic democratic rights. But these to talk and create diversion have yet to be made laws while senior Ministers secretly offensive prepare their to strip basic trade unionists of their rights. TUC general secretary Victor Feather, 'not sure' of course, is whether he will co-operate.

On the latest government offer, he said: *She didn't say yes, and she didn't say no, and you can't therefore assume you are going to bed with her. If you make that assumption, you could end up in court.' This meandering nonsense im- and National Speak plies the 'Tories going are to shift and offer something to the

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JOHNS

work. This is the task the Tories are preparing while Feather trips back and forth from Downing Street and swaps his homilies with the capitalist Press.

It would be fatal if any worker was deceived by the TUC antics once more. The truth is that a mass move- wages is building up ment on industry. Gasworkers, within electricity supply workers, civil servants, actors and carworkers are, or soon will be, caught up in the freeze. Why should these workers fight alone? They face exactly the same enemy-the Tory gov- ernment. Even important, more should they hold their militancy back? The increases they demand will not be allowed in full under phase two of the Tory offensive.

Every day wasted in this fight strengthens the government.

YOUNG

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NUARY 6, 1973• No. 964 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TODAY'S

SPECIAL

FEATURES

RENTS

CAMDEN

London's Last Hope

CLAY CROSS

The town the Tories want to fine £8,000

FROM DAVID MAUDE

GUERRILLA

strikes now seem certain to hit the gas industry within the next ten days unless the Tories with-

TUC

familiar doorstep to draw their ban on pay nego- Victor Feather 10 secretary tiations. Street. He was making Downing Thursday. another trip there on Transport and General Workers' Union delegates yesterday gas declared their 'total opposition' The Ford workers have a parti- to the ban, which they described cular responsibility. If one strong as *a vicious attack on workers and militant section of the work- in the gas industry. class lead, others ing gave They urged their leaders to would fall in behind almost im- call joint action with the General mediately. Such an action would Workers' and Municipal Union the abysmal compromise destroy 17. not later than January by the TUC. Calls for all-out strike action It would also this were rejected by the 26 T&GWU expose government for what it is-a 5,000 delegates, who represent weak administration relying on of the industry's workers.

the servile trade union leaders Such action would be entirely and its own bombastic state- warranted in view of the govern- ments. ment's attitude, said a statement from the meeting. But it would Workers should this reject unprecedented hazards to cause latest of class-collabora- round the public. by uniting and tion pressing So of delegates majority ahead with action on their wage came down in favour of selective claims. guerrilla strikes, bans overtime withdrawal of co-operation. No section should delay nego- and Mis poleaders be This urged on tiations to wait for the phase two advance of leaders in proposals. delegate their conference on Workers must force the TUC

G&MWU,

Monday. The which to break off all contact with this gasworkers, 42,000 is organizes government and recall a special already under strong pressure for congress to prepare for the offen- some form of national action sive which lies ahead-the indus- Tom Crispin, national secretary trial and political conditions to of the T&GWU's and power force the government to resign

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must be created.

BUILD THE WEEKLY KEEP LEFT

BUILD THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS

STOP RISING PRICES

FORCE THE TORIES TO RESIGN

TODAY AT 2.30 P.M.

East India Hall, East India Dock Road, London E14

SPEAKERS:

GARY GURMEET (Editor Keep Left) GERRY HEALY (SLL national secretary) BRIAN PRANGLE (YS Student Society) Dance 8 p.m.-11 p.m. to the Average White Band and Ram John Holder

workers press

TUC LEADS THE

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

THE TUC chiefs are leading the working class into another trap. They are talking with the Tories once more and giving the Heath government more precious time to destroy basic democratic rights.

unions. But this is out of the After the last marathon question. 'talk-in' with union leaders, Three things were clear from the Tories banned wage in- Thursday's meeting: creases by law. Workers who • Heath's edict to Lord Cooper live on frozen wages while banning all negotiations between unions and employers over pay prices rise are only starting still stands. to pay the heavy price for • The Tories put it right on the this bit of TUC treachery.

record that processed food prices could not be controlled. On the agenda this time is • The government is ready to a permanent system to control back up its phase two proposals wages by state decree. for controlling wages by law.

The Tories know they will These plans rest on the have to face a major showdown Tories' economic conspiracy the with working class before the and with governments such a system can work. monopolies of Europe who break up industries want to The 1972 miners' strike, build.

like steel and create tens of dispute and the ing workers' thousands of redundancies.

massive protests over the Indus- trial Relations Act proved this.

The Tories have already legally deprived the working class of its But the TUC is always at hand basic democratic rights. But these talk and create a diversion to laws have yet to be made to Ministers while senior secretly prepare their offensive to strip trade unionists of their basic rights.

TUC

general secretary Victor Feather, 'not sure' of course, is On whether he will co-operate.

latest government uffer, he the said: 'She didn't say yes, and she didn't say no, and can't you assume you are going therefore to bed with her. If you make that assumption, you could end up in court. This meandering nonsense im- and National Speak plies the Tories are going shift and offer something to the

HE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 6,

ENTRAL COMMITTÉE OF THE SOCIA

BY

STEPHEN

JOHNS

work. This is the task the Tories are preparing while Feather trips back and forth from Downing Street and swaps his homilies with the capitalist Press.

It would be fatal if any worker was deceived by the TUC antics once more. The truth is that a mass move- wages is building up ment on industry. within Gasworkers. electricity supply workers, civil servants, actors and carworkers are, or soon will be, caught up in the freeze. Why should . these workers fight alone? They face exactly the same enemy-the Tory gov- ernment. Even more important, why should they hold their militancy back? The increases they demand will not be allowed in full under phase two of the Tory offensive.

Every day wasted in this fight strengthens the government.

YOUNG

SOCIALISTS

CFFICIAL

WFEKLY

PAPER

al Speaking Contest NUARY 6, 1973 • No. 964 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TODAY'S

SPECIAL

FEATURES

RENTS

CAMDEN

London's Last Hope

CLAY CROSS

The town the Tories want to fine £8,000

FROM DAVID MAUDE

GUERRILLA

strikes now to hit the gas seem certain industry within the next ten days unless the Tories with-

TUC

familiar doorstep to draw their ban on pay nego- Feather Victor 10 secretary tiations. Street. He was making Downing Thursday. another trip there on Transport and General Workers' Union delegates gas yesterday declared their 'total opposition' The Ford workers have a parti- to the ban, which they described cular responsibility. If one strong as vicious attack on workers and militant section of the work- the gas industry. in class lead, others ing gave They urged their leaders to behind almost im- would fall in call joint action with the General mediately. Such an action would and Municipal Workers' Union the abysmal compromise destroy 17. not later than January by the TUC. Calls for all-out strike action It would also this were rejected by the 26 T&GWU expose for what it is-a 5,000 government delegates, who represent weak administration relying on of the industry's workers.

the servile trade union leaders Such action would be entirely and its own bombastic state- warranted in view of the govern- ments. ment's attitude, said a statement from the meeting. But it would should this Workers reject unprecedented hazards to

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round of class-collabora- latest the public. by uniting and tion pressing So majority of delegates ahead with action on their wage came down in favour of selective claims. strikes, bans guerrilla overtime withdrawal of co-operation.

No section should delay nego- and tiations to wait for the phase two MW pleaders i be This urged or advance of proposals. leaders in conference their delegate on Workers must force the TUC

G&MWU,

which Monday. The to break off all contact with this organizes 42,000 gasworkers, is government and recall a special already under strong pressure for congress to prepare for the offen- some form of national action.

sive which lies ahead-the indus- Tom Crispin, national secretary trial and political conditions to T&GWU's power of the and force the government to resign

TURN TO BACK PAGE

must be created.

BUILD THE WEEKLY KEEP LEFT

BUILD THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS

STOP RISING PRICES

FORCE THE TORIES TO RESIGN

TODAY AT 2.30 P.M.

East India Hall, East India Dock Road, London E14

SPEAKERS:

GARY GURMEET (Editor Keep Left) GERRY HEALY (SLL national secretary) BRIAN PRANGLE (YS Student Society) Dance 8 p.m.-11 p.m. to the Average White Band and Ram John Holder

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday January 6, 1973 Fighting the Tories' rent Act Don't let Clay Cross fight

BY PHILIP WADE

Mobilize miners and whole working CLAY CROSS Labour councillors who alone refuse unanimously to implement the • . class to detend rebel councillors.« hated 'fair rents' Act are now within two weeks of an open confrontation "The sooner we get him out thi better and other "unions must with the Tory government and its out to support the coun. cillors.' agents. Her husband, "Herbert, a face wirker ad a nearby çoles, shadow-boxing is over-ending with The told me: the final visit of the district auditor on Thurs- 'They will in tor ay not " stop day-and the fight will shortly be out in the We'rerin for claim after this. and we're going to get it. Al thi open. overtime's been stopped now and wages have gone. down from. It is almost certain that the district auditor £23 to £19.60 will order the 11 Labour councillors to pay 'We should have another elec- the £7,985 he calculates is missing from the Cano Lones

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They're destroying everything result of their rent revenue account as we've got country. failure to implement the Housing Finance will definitely s tind mintis councillors Act. the support we should bring them all out all If that happens, all the councillors would not he said. over the country, only face bankruptcy, büt automatic disqualification Former miner Bill Frost, like from office for five years- , Clay Cross workers, -Inus depriving uiay uross so many workers of their elected representatives.

concemnea une lack ul „uabvu Party leadership on rents and all But such provocative action by the auditor other questions. orders from the Tory Tack who is only carrying 'It's much lead Tom Swain, Labour MP for north-east Derbyshire, coveruuieali - wouU alliusl Ce tallil y leadership as no leadership at all dustrial action many of Derbvshire's 14.000 councillors, listens to district auditor Charles Lacey (seated right) at Thursday's hearing. the I'm all for a clearing-out miners who have already promised support.

top. e come wom uc retront o of the political We national executive could not government for what: they are It would place the out arena. Parliamentary . Labour Party ,—it support such fight. But tenants doing cannot expect any justice from mining town in the toretront has got to come from the the struggle against Tory 'I don't think we should have oresent lecd systeml. anlu LuC claue uniull councillors. themselves like our government. added, explaining it would be nac to ne aerteeas ro wiarswa to pay when my husband who is From Charlie Bunting, one €1960 and we have six child ene appeal against happening in Clay Cross. waste Council leader Arthur Wellon councillors still victimized muset onv ornens two

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auditor. clear that any decision by the 'Nothing can be solved while has already made for aten DILLel SuliKe Uillul. the said Mrs Violet Broomhall. 'There'll be But on recognition "at Toe co nor goleno to oursuc 11Ull ›Lay dui the matter any further through implementers hand children have make do witi came this s terse comment: 'What take our dace. ounel we llavi allel" official channels. said Cllr Wellon defiantly.

take one hot meal a day. happened at the NEC hen hie. circumstances We're going to fight it all the rid of us it will back 'If they get renused W di Clay Cross's 1,300 tenants are way because it's an attack on the appoințing but not unexpected. be blow democratic azalls! working class. That's what Heath's "They shown Cllr Wellon said it was 'a sad fully behind their and have contempt rights, he „ to ome but we ve Coulica Labour Party express bitter hatred of the Tory no intentions of taking this fight day' when the for the Labour Partv conterence a alsne salcacueuliy You have a conference and policy down and then the NE( 'Thieu ready to murder prisoners' exactly what they want. I hear that councillors who country are gep ing bodoced the fight down won't the way we relused tne

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

ation agreement with the French TWO YOUNG Frenchmen to those Chesterfield government. voted for who spent two and a half councillors who They witnessed scenes of tor- prisoners transtorming political They have had their eyes "fair rents" Act. It that years in South Vietnam's jails and also saw many common law criminals ture onened to the real nature of the all over, it won't be bad.'

they can be detained have told of political prison- of the infamous tiger cages' nc order that Saigon regime and have smuggled With Camden in London, Conis longer able to walk. after any cease fire. out notes giving and ers being tortured and killed.

boTouCI In LOrKSuC alla enras, tiey saw 2% prisonerd They also of "buffalo details of the spoke white terror rag. handful of other defiant fing in the country. Debris Jean-Pierre and cages', even Menras, councils, Clay iCe. T hey directly smanet aloel more

DEISORCIS

André Menras say overcrowded, in which it is not who had been tortured transferred The South Vietnamese prison they were firing cannot , line possible either to lie down or to from the prison on stretchers.

released on December 29 be- svstem stil gives employment and SOldLce Hundreds of children are held an American adviser and all the the rotten, right-wing Labour stanei us four-year ore mner

SCULCICCS

in jail from the age of seven up practices which exposed by Party leadership. Nguyen Viet Hung was killed by Last because they would were up have been torturec wards. Some have released Frenchmen The whole working class must embarrassing witnesses their captois. be mobilized in their support to vege v ence deen public knowieage Ior years the mass slaughter being pre- nant who drove 12 heavy nails 'We cannot find words strong The only difference is that the the Tories and force resign told a Paris pared by the Thieu regime.

into his head. enough' Press they of terror and massacre calllalkl Labuul Prisoners can be fired on with- has been intensified as the Thieu pledged by Debris and Menras were jailed conrererce to implore you to ao … toe mass movenen warning. many secret everything to save them.'

faces the of the to socialist i pol tesusnc ding the out regime anger after branaisannd Nadona Housing Finance masses following the military de- The repeal Liberation Front flag in the executions take place two Frenchmen WoLu centre of The Thieu regime is now busy South Vietnam under a co-oper- Saigon. leat ol tne us grouna Iorces

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Ruhr metalworkers offered 8.5 p.c.

Socialist Labour League North West Raily

FORCE THE TORY

wage rise

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

LEADERS of the West morning ; shift of 750 work- Friedrich German metalworkers' at the KruDI steel near Hagen, h onenmm.

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union have reached burg, staged with the agreement one-hour unofficial

REVOLUTIONARY

Ruhr iron and steel

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

bakt Dack une 8.5-per- barons tor pay demands.

PARTY!

cent wage increase affect- They threatened similar ing 220,000 workers. start sackings unless ther zarcer suce dur ocure ware if the stoppages negotia- packet. got co-operation cut SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

The 'is hours" was reached costs. This frightened the failed to produce a But Metall the IG of talks be- settlement. The Everyman, Hope Street, after union chiefs, but it did not bureaucrats are determined hind closed doors, averting en bb v e

LIVERPOOL

to restrain their members The Federal Bureau a strike eadeines laid do witby the wages to strike would cane led to The 97 cent ballot Statistics yesterday said the closed down the world's "... largest steel producing area West German steel industr biggest working-class coamo vener brochceo cs minion ton lom anualy l1. of crude steel in 1972, 8.4 action in the Ruhr since Minister, Priderichs nor Economics than The deal is way below P971. cent the On Thursday the entire the original DeT cent rree Democrals

OPCI

demand netall, utr West Geandnys forward spokesman for big

RIGHT TO WORK FILM

IG Angela Davis has called for wages whose lead- lalesl UliUl held down cent. The IG Metall leaders ers privately aoloittee that the claim had been are doing their best Spanish New Year •to deliberately kept as low as • . . carry out this directive.

possible. Their with collaboration Willy G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) The new deal barely coalition Brandt's United States'. against the CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) Keers …Tre stee worker Wor ng cass Madrid discot Youe listen At Press conference, abreast rising living reveals tor the mensanps leadership's In a personal capacity: Baraia: costs. great fear

CARDOTT

She stopped by mnu iascis. told fascist journalists CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) Ger The West German price LOWIne fascist her 'struggle for hundreds in this orey s dustei. particularly 6.7 ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) Spain en route to the

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Icnes price last year and the Cuba

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

Year Festival in prison for various crimes' food rent up by an aver- Steel claimed mployers Paid The Spanish Press But hundreds of students age 7.4 per cent. WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) hey could not pay the in and particular interest workers Franco's This inflation crease Decause or a siump.

movements of the 'dooua TYHN00 e0 łe They certain to take threatened to activist from. the protest. an ever hack

Witch-hunt of Hull's lone rebel White workers wear Powell buttons Fighting the Tories' rent Act 'I was only carrying out party policy' HULL Labour councillor and Tony docks shop steward Fee has reaffirmed his deter- apply for the Labour whip.

mination to fight the Tories' Mr Fee he doubts if

BY A WORKERS PRESS

says this the Housing Finance Act—in will atisfy

CORRESPONDENT

NEC,

through leadersnip spite of attempts by party Simms, party his he told Labour groups on condemn to expel me, equally councils Yorkshire officials are stand. Hull City Labour Party voted have told constituenc

SONI CO

non-implementation of the resigned the Mr ree party officers that i they Housing though Act Labour whip in protest the I would rinance at the Labour implement- might inquiry reverset «Con are so-called fair Labour majority on the council the even

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voted for implementation.

Workers stituency party. spoke after committee Mr Fee's or boise nts argued, was this argument, says meeting the Hull central however, that resignation Mst Mondays which used party to whip must meeting pre- his expulsion from the carry & mean vent support for his position him. party being carried. He very bitter gainst th asked for Volt was Mr Fee complained i principle. Yorkshire regional opponents' lack how Haro d Simms can t Terreve ed th pawly becaus build democratic socialist But the meeting rejected, by I believe decisions when there system ten votes seven, party changes such big backing Mr stand. In- carried him to re- understand this applies stead they asked Councils' six-month start on fraud squad WHEN Reginald Maud. ling resigned as Home Secretary on July 18, 1972, was an the time some of his colleagues to buy rallway that Comman- Crane's annointment the nounced capitalist Press went in der James Crane, head to lavish praise for him.

north-east to commence Yard 'on the ground in- Scotland of the That was six months quiries. fraud squad, was to Since then there They probe the Poulson in the hakelled caste Into the the Wakefield Bank- local autho-

SOLUTE

The authority for ruptcy Court. con- placed Crane's investigation tracts worth millions of More evidence has came from with Poulson. pounds emerged leading from the Prime Minister recelving seems an odd way Poulson from the to conduct an inquiry. Maudling naa to leave First of all there is his job as chief 'law and Commander James Yet throughout this delay some six spokesman Crane long and months in actually Tories perloo Crane his squad remained re- ting under and now be embarrassing gularities in the way solutely quiet. for the fraud to councils, they There enemous be Investigating publicity announce Suddenly, this week, certainly have had ade the arrival of the quate Mavalling Take S was associated with. got moving. Crane and If there are any irre- things straightened out. in Loughborough mill: Asians complain in letter Hosiery,

ASIAN

workers at Mansfield Lough- borough have sent a letter to management protest-

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ing about a new outbreak of racialist activity in the factory. The 500 Indian and Pakistani workers returned to loughborough work and Leicestel are where the extreme last Tuesday after a strike for higher wages and a public in- right is active. quiry into racial discrimination in the factory.

Ken Saunders stood as Since then a small minority National Front in the candidalt of the white workers in the Counci Lercester ClEV _eecions. He redundant hosiery plant have been wearing Enoch who used distribute to Powell buttons work and al union's journal in Leicester

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leatlets of the extreme In September the union gave over wing National Front have been whole an article factory. Saunders titled 'Put Britain First'.

astributed in It is only a very small minority 'custom- of workers involved in this. There squalor' for- ary povert! would be no trouse it these men workers asked were prevented from Tories British workers thise. British business- splits, said of the Asians' men and They concerned over aIso possible discrimination over train- Babu Patel, has One Indian been told one that him 28 Charlotte St Dared to a cater the Kon (49), one in the and management Diall the have had bring an outside Leicester Loughoorougn training other. London W1 one-time shop floor committee will next union and a hosiery mem test Cast

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week when National workers •Clo

SLOV

with over five years' Front candidate in local council the trade apply elections. knitters. vacancies lor lance Workers Press, Satur combination of attiliated societies; then individual mem- bership was allowed. 'Individuals came into the party for purely personal career reasons — nobody con- trols their actions. This is to be taken even further with the local government reorganiza- tion when • trade unions and Co-ops will not have direct representation the new On regional Labour Party bodies.'

He went on: "The position in the Labour Party is very bad.

There is great distrust of the leadership. There are doubts in many people's minds that the Party achieve anything. can These is a desperate need for a new leadership. "The present leadership is just keeping : things going as before. A new leadership will have to be based on the prin-

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CO

PRODUCTION was disrupter in Wales yesterday as engin protest against the €55,000 1 union by the National Industr Union leaders said that most of the 13,500 engineer- ing workers in west Wales and Swansea supported the strike call. The Pressed Steel Fisher car factory at Felin- components foel, Llanelli, which employs lorry driver who broke the A Asian workers' picket line during their recent strike wore a pro- Powell button.

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ess, Saturday January 6, 1973 PAGE 3 ciple that party policy has to be carried out? Asked whether he agreed on the need for a revolutionary party to establish a new leader- ship, Mr Fee said: "There is definitely a need for a body committed to this socialist programme within the Labour Party. At present the Labour Party is just an elec- toral machine - it is not initiating change. "The changes that are neces- sary can't be achieved by those who accept that the capitalist i don't illist that you have I don't think that you overthrow the to system immediately to get these changes. 'We must nationalize the banks and major monopolies, but a certain amount of private enterprise could be allowed.

Compensation to the national- firms is definitely ized • not needed.

TRIAL CORRESPONDENT

isrupted at dozens of factories • engineers went on strike in 55,000 fines imposed on their Industrial Relations Court.

2,000 workers, closed was down. The adjoining British-Leyland factory said that 400 workers had stayed away. Production was also hit at the British Steel Corporation works at Trostre, Llanelli, and Velindre, Swansea. The management at the Ford plant at stoppage had caused 'minimal' disruption. On Monday the engineering union leaders at Glamorgan will hold a day-long stoppage while industrial estate Bridgend is likely to be affected.

On the same day 30,000 Tyne- side engineers will hold a one- day strike against the fines.

They will be joined by about 18,000 engineering workers on Wearside. The strike will close down shipyards, the local Tory Press and big industrial factories like Vickers', Reyrolle's and C. A.

Parson's. Since the tines on the AUEW, strikes have occurred throughout the country hitting industry in the Midlands, Man- chester, Merseyside, and closing big factories like British- Leyland, the Ford Motor Com- pany and the Fleet Street Press.

• Chrysler yesterday avoided a repetition last Friday's spontaneous walk-out at its Ryton-on-Dunsmore car assembly plant, in defence of the closed shop. Non-unionist Joseph Langston, whose fervent campaign against the closed shop now has legal backing, did not visit the factory to pick up his £44.70 pay.

The company has made other arrangements' to pay him while he remains suspended because no one will work with him.

NOW OPEN

Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 aim.-6 p.m. Sat 8 a.m.-5 p.r.

PAGE & Workers Pro Thalldomide and the Drug Companies By a guest reviewer By late in the first reports wel ing about the d side effects of tha But Chemie Gr German the which first man the attention. In reply to tho who urged should be restricted available only on Dr Heinrich Mucki Grünenthal's science, aid dowr policy: O io everything s 00010 forcement, since stantial amount of from the-counter sales. by 1960, company's tota company stepped i promotiol 250,000 leaflets we the first four mont alone. Special efforts we favourable secure that period. In superintendent Commission Medical Associati interested. sentatives now tool officials of ministries concerne showed that they ing to take action company. Scientific 'trials' to counter the adve Most of these were n county asylum andicapped patier in any results were usual these manager of Grüne department report office: psychiatri with a heavy 2 are reported patients are enjoyi selves when the proble neuritis (damage and to cause rkers Pross, Saturday Janua Wer ompantes' by Henning id Robert Nilsson. A in the 1950s the orts were surfac- it the dangerous ts of thalidomide. mie Grünenthal, company st manufactured little paid doctors that drug restricted and made prescription, h Muckter, Chemie director of aid down company erything must be done prescripuion already a sub- turnover over- middle the thalidomide of of cent ny's total turnover. the growing the dverse publicity stepped up its sales and campaign aflets were issued in our months of 1960 efforts were made to medical re- publication. Grünen- vember 1960 Drug of the of German the Association became Grünenthal now took to visiting the various concerned, who soon at they were unwill- e action against the c 'trials' were set up the adverse reports nese were carried out asylums on mentally ed patients who were unable to quite coherent description ey were feeling. positive urprisingly obtained ere usuall establishments the cynicism, of Grünenthal's sales it reported to head departments heavy 271 (Contergan) (perhaps the them-s re enjoying itching!) lared our standpoint poly- ot centra lay January в, 1973 This was reported by Grünenthal salesman after his visit to the neurological univer- sity clinic in Cologne-a pretty fair summary of the whole company's position.

By the end of May 196L, 1,300 cases of polyneuritis had been reported to Grünenthal.

It was a reasonable assumption that many more unreported cases existed. The company became extremely worried about the possibility of legal action being They against taken them. decided that the best defence was attack. A private detective was hired to spy on the personal lives of doctors known to be hostile to and of patients Contergan, , try to sue for who might His report on one damages. doctor stated that, 'The father of Dr B is an ex-communist and nowadays a member of

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• another case a woman In doctor's visited surgery claiming to be suffering from polyneuritis. In Contergan spite of her best efforts, how- ever, she was unable to report any improper behaviour on the doctor's part. Iwo company doctors were sent to Hanover to keep a special watch on doctors in a health resort since 'a health resort could be a horrible spreading place for the whole Federal Republic'.

turnover By May 1961, hostile reports were so widespread that the company decided on a change of policy. They were now for prescription control. A leading company official wrote: I realize that prescription control will involve a con- siderable decrease in turnover for Grünenthal. However, 1 must that such loss will assume occur in any event ... In the development present stage consider it firm | an our exceedingly heavy set-back if we appear to be more concerned with our turnover than with our responsibility as producers of pharmaceuticals... We should immediately request prescription control from our side as any delay us could mean from greater loss than we can imagine at the moment. They tried to get the pre- scription application back- dated to February so that it would not look as if they had waited to be pressured into it because of bad publicity.

By September 1961, 2,400 cases had been polyneuritis and the company reported began paying compensation in a desperate attempt to prevent the inevitable bad publicity which would occur if cases were brought to court. It has, in fact, been estimated that around there perhaps are 40,000 people in West Ger- many alone who have suffered various degrees of permanent damage as a result of taking thalidomide. But worse was still to come.

In 1960 the first deformed babies were born. time before It was some doctors began making the con- nection between the limbless children and the sedative which their mothers had taken during pregnancy. One of the first to do so was Dr Widukind from Hamburg. After Lenz careful investigation he came to the conclusion that there suspecting voiced his suspici that had no effect crimenda begging them to wi drug until its harn could be otherwise Within a fe proved. Jenz receivec a three company rep! who threatened to action against him if keep quiet. It was not until 1961, 'Welt am Sonntag' article outlining an known then that thalidomide be Chemie that decided they battle and announc manufacture of the stopped. Nevertheless, the to protect own reputation. statements were those ing who thalidomide as 'trou 'fanatics'. said, the geneticist who belie was validity the that he had that proof dangerous, but clair had a vision indica caused the The withdrawal from the mide ket, however, means result in its withdrawal ompan or instance, did no warning iuntil Nove material dy wnich time sales been stopped was not, in stopped in 1961, December subsidiary company went until March drug In Britain, a new advertisemen 1961, just «one Grünenthal was for draw the 'Distaval (the name) can be giver plete safety to preg and nursing mothe adverse affect on child'. When Directorate finally forced withdrawal Director wrote to the licensees: mands as physicians, to as pressure, we product from until market certain be Cult association or lack with • acon one care an early resolution problem. of the Thalidomide wa withdrawn January 1963, over its terrible recognized, by thousands babies had been c The only countri the consequences Soviet Union, Chi other countries in which did n courageous si the for He a them

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em to withdraw the its harmiuiness could be definitely ithin a few days Dr from avisit pany representatives legal take nst him if he did not iot until November the newspaper Sonntag' published demanding mide be withdrawn, Grünenthal lost the announced that the e of the drug would and their the drug Articles and were issued brand- had attacked e as 'trouble-makers Dr Lenz, they of a Nazir who believed in the 'master race' hey put out the story had never any Was but claimed he had on indicating it had deformities. hdrawal of thalido- German mat- did not by any ult in its immediate The in e, did not even insert publicity ime sales had already Germany. in Sweden until and Argen- company in supplyin; the March 196 Distillers issued ertisement in October month before 1 was forced to with- claiming that British trade be given with com- y to pregnant womel mothers, without ffect on motner and Drug Canada was to order ITne the I of the drug, apologetically of increasing de- from certain well we have decided such as of its possible oT assoclamor deformities erenset ves ng to take course ore nobe or mide was not finally until world-wide 963, over a year after effects were time by which deformed countries to escape the were China and the ntries ın the easterr ch did not import it Jnited States, due of ageous stand Sir Alexander Mcdonald, chalrman of T British firm which marketed the drug.

Kelsey of the American Food and Drug Administration who, in spite of enormous pressure from the drug companies, refused to give clearance to thalidomide because she was at all convinced that not sufficient pre-clinical trials had been carried out. When young people react with anger and violence against the system which creates un- employment, homelessness and police brutality and which denies them any stake in the future, they are dragged into court and rapidly disposed of.

Or they are kept in jail for months on end awaiting trial.

No such fate awaited the directors of Chemie Grünen- thal. The parents of the thalido- mide-damaged initi- children ated law-suits against the before company seven years they were finally able to drag them into court. After over a year of hearings, during which every obstacle was put in their way by the detence lawyers, by the whole legal process itself, by other drug companies which closed ranks with Grünenthal and refused to divulge any in- formation which might have been of help to the prosecution, and by the gutter-Press which pilloried prosecution witnesses, impugning the competence and integrity of scientists who gave evidence against thalidomide and calling the families 'com- pensation crazy', , the parents finally gave up. They agreed to settle for a totally inadequate sum. was 12 years Even so, it before the children received the first payments from the trust which was set up by the company jointly with the West German government. One of the reasons given by the German court for accept- ing the settlement and agree- ing to drop all charges against Chemie Grünenthal was the mental suffering of-the accused! It was also pointed out that they were only follow- ing normal commercial practice in putting financial interests rman of The Distillers Comp above all others. A everybody's doing i Grünenthal? And i the courts be hold the law won't? The tragedy indeed part practice' under long as the drug compete I0r open market, they y searching for drugs', anxious to g sale in the time, regardless or not. Capitalism ingenuity and twists and distorts Instead people time development employment, death and destructi Not until the dr ers Company Lid, the others. After all, if doing it, why not why should be expected to up- law if big business gedy of thalidomide of 'normal capitalism. So drug on the business et, they will be busy 'wonder- new ious to get them on possible shortest of whether been properly tested takes all man's creativity and distorts it into its of enabling live longer, inner and the again science and only results in un- poverty, disease, destruerton. il the drug industry nationalized and mmercial profits, but to control his defeat disease, lize its full potential ragedies be avoided. : means a struggle to revolutionary party class he working to capitalist system ish socialism. and Sjöström can- hat conclusion. They if the drug laws are things would be even though the law it enabled the com- continue in profitable largely years, ful harm they producing to and workings com- increase of those who ruthless and drive for profit. development will deter- revolutionary to put an end to the system once and for

Papadopoulos, head of the military dictatorship in Greace with Archbishop Makanlos, president of Cyprus, which has been divided into Greek and Turkish sectors since 1984.

CYPRUS: THE BLACK SHADOW

A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT who witnessed the nationalist fighting in Cyprus returns and finds Papadopoulos, hoad of the military dict

A SPECIAL CORRESPONDI

Since the Cypriot 'settle- ment' in 1964, the island, and particularly the capi- tal city, Nicosia, has re- mained physically and socially divided. in the Little has changed Turkish sector, which is held, like Turkey itself, under mar- tial law. Living standards, edu- cation and health all degene- rate in this claustrophobic and barricaded section of the old city, and the morale of the Turkish masses declines apace.

The army turns out a mili- tary parade for the tourist, bui beneath the bravado a crisis is developing which will affect all of Cyprus and both the Greek and Turkish communities. Young people on both sides who lived through the strug- gles of the last nine years are disillusioned. There are now no jobs and no future, save the army. Hopes and aspira- tions dribble away as Cyprus's their new generation spend time in cafés gambling or eking out a meagre existence with part-time work. Unemployment in both sec- tors is running high, especially among graduates. The Turks who cannot find jobs they are for, trained and qualified often have to go to the Greek sector and take manual em- ployment (every day 8,000 Turkish workers go to the Greek sector). Others drift off to the villages and take work on farms and still others sign up as waiters to cater for the tourist trade. Attary dictatorship In Greeco with.

Archbishop 1 PONDENT who witnessed the nati Greek Nicosia demonstrates its frantic desire to adopt European ways. The ugly office blocks sprout all over the sec- tor and European capitalism has flooded this ready market with cars, cigarettes, plastics, etc. But the shaky equilibrium that exists on the island be- more unstable comes every day. The cost of living is rising rapidly and Britain's entry in- to Europe will accelerate the pace. Turkish families feel the squeeze, especially as they can- strike to defend not go on diminishing standards their (unlike Greek workers). Inflation on a world scale has pushed up the prices of the large number of commodities imported into island. the Prices have also risen in anti- cipation of the special relation- ship Cyprus is seeking with the EEC countries. Cyprus cannot afford to be shut out of the British market (which receives the vast bulk of her exports) and the govern- ment is trying to preserve its trade with a special agreement with the Six. has raised the knotty This problem of Cyprus's relation- ship with the Americans. The major Mediterranean strategic area for US Imperial- ism and is assiduously sup- extreme right-wing ports the regimes in both Greece and Turkey as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. If Cyprus, Greece and Turkey are drawn more into the European sphere, hbishop Makarios, president of Cyprus, which the nationalist fighting in Cyprus 1 the US may develop its ten- tative links with the nationalist Arab leaders and seek new markets for 'aid' in north Africa. Whatever the exact moves international game, in this Cyprus is sure to face a crisis and the working class in both sectors will come under more fierce attacks. This raises the age-old poli- tical question of divide and encouraged by the na- rule, tionalist leaders to keep the powerful Cypriot working class apart. They inherited this tactic from the British colonial ad- ministration. One of the most important tasks of the British, and the leaders of the Cypriot ruling class, was to break up the organization in which the Cypriot had found masses unity. Unions are now strictly divided on nationalist lines.

But this was not always so.

Until the late 1950s, despite national tension, the working fought together in the class island's oldest union the Pan- Cypriot Federation of Labour

(PEO).

It was only after the physical destruction of many Turkish and Greek labour leaders by the bourgeois nationalists that the communities split. Many trade union leaders were killed by the very right-wing leader- ship that leads the two com- munities today. To achieve this division that whips up nationalist hatred on bourgeois both sides, the leaders shed the blood of thou- of labour leaders. sands Denktash, the leader of the community today, is Turkish Workers Press, Satı is, which has been divided into Greek and Tur yprus returns and finds an island accused of being responsible for the killing of a series of militants, including an attempt on the life of Sadi, a leading PEO member. The political situation today on the left is still one of be- trayal and confusion. AKEL, Greek-based Communist the Party commands an astonish- ing 40 per cent of the Greek vote. It faces the Unified Party, which receives about 35 per cent of the vote from the bour- geoisie. Beyond that there are right-wing nationalist the groupings and . terrorists who with the back unification Colonels' regime in Greece it- self. AKEL, in true Stalinist style, persistently subordinates itself to the bourgeoisie arguing that would in- any bid for power vite an invasion of the island Turkey, from Greece and backed by the US. This leader- ship, of militates course, against any independent action by the Greek working class, which would serve as a basis for unity with their Turkish brothers. situation facing the The Turkish masses is even more oppressive. They live under military rule and under the Zurich agreement are control- led by an army trained by mainland officers. In Nicosia alone five separate police orga- nizations root out 'subversion' in a tiny area. The Turkish Cypriots are subject to a continual flood of reactionary nationalist propa- ganda. The only trade union that is allowed has accepted low wage rates under the guise of 'national interest'. 1038, Saturday January 6, 1873 PAGE 5 k and Turkish sectors since 1964.

island of crisis. This, of course, benefits both Turkish and Greek employers who are very pleased with such a display of patriotism, since it supplies them with thou- sands of workers at a cheap price. No clear development of class politics can be allowed to grow on the Turkish side— the existing regime is so cor- rupt. One new party, the CTP (Turkish Republican Party), has been in existence for a year. It attracts the young and a number of left wingers who find it the only possible means of working politically. But the only future for the working class in Cyprus is to away from reactionary turn nationalism and the Stalinist betrayals of AKEL. The youth, facing ever more severe depri- vations, are the most likely to make this break. The situation really has close parallels with Northern Ire- land, where opposition on a class basis meets the hostility from reactionary nationalists on both sides. The struggle for revolu- tionary politics, which contin- ues underground in the Tur- kish sector, of course, cannot be separated from the struggles of the working class and pea- santry on the mainland against the twin dictatorships. Without successful revolu- tions in the two mainland countries, the fate of Cyprus may well be a military dicta- torship which has the approval of both the Greek and the Turkish ruling classes.

CAMDEN: LONDON'S LAST HOPE

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BY PHILIP WADE

Labour controls 21 out of the 32 inner London boroughs. And today only one-Camden-still stands out against the Tory government's 'fair rents' Act. Betrayal has followed be- trayal—-assisted by the absence of leadership from the top of the Labour Party-to a point where in an area where sup- • is among port for the party the strongest, the fight is the weakest. Now the Labour councillors at Camden, in north London, who represent over 22,000 tenants, are under enormous pressure to capitulate and join the ranks of those prepared to assist in the destruction of municipal housing. Just before Christmas the council-already defaulted by the Tories-received a letter from Geoffrey Rippon, new Secretary of State for the En- threatening to vironment, withhold subsidies due to be paid to Camden. The total loss could be as батмату в, 1973 high as f8m if Camden con- tinues defying the instructions to implement the increases.

It would mean something like a 25p in the £ rates in- crease for all Camden house- holders - including council tenants-to make up for the loss in the revenue and en- able the accounts to be balanced In this situation a number of councillors previously in favour of non-implementation are said to be wavering and could fall down the wrong side of the line at next week's meeting. Camden tenants' groups have called a meeting and demonstration tomorrow to mobilize local tenants behind those defiant councillors and to stiffen those having 'second thoughts' about the matter.

Following its August deci- sion not to implement the, the council began a long round of discussions with the govern- ment in an attempt to win a few concessions on the Act.

In the end, they were given a few crumbs of comfort, if that's what they can be called.

Rent increases were reduced from 100p to an average of 85p and rent-rebate levels were in- creased from £10 to £12. Of Ministers the course would not back down on the principles of the Act. So valuable time was lost in discussions and the majority in favour of non-implementation subsequently fell to just four— with many Labourites voting with the Tories. In the key policy and committee, the resources majority in favour of continu- ing defiance slipped to just one at the meeting on December 11 last year. Rents in the borough are among some of the highest in the whole of Britain-f11 a week is not unusual. As a result, many tenants are find- ing it impossible to keep up payments-especially as the prices are rising so fast.

Rent arrears in the borough now amount to a staggering £426,000—or over 8 per cent of all potential revenue.

Although the government appears reluctant to provoke a direct confrontation by send- ing in a Housing Commissioner or using the weapon of the extraordinary audit, the noose is tightening around Camden councillors' necks. If Camden-one of 20 non- in implementing councils Britain-Is forced to put up rates to match the loss in housing subsidies, some coun- cillors suggest retaliation by refusing to pay over money due to the Greater London Council. But this would only lead to a hopeless mess, with the Tory government - which directly controls through grants about 75 per cent of Camden's ex- penditure-cutting out more and more subsidies. As far as the Tory govern- ment are concerned, the Act is central to its perspective of destroying basic democratic rights and driving down i the living standards of the working class. Its introduction flowed from the needs of the employing class which—in the midst of a deepening economic crisis— can only try and resolve its problems through direct at- tacks on the working class.

For the Tories the end of municipal housing is the way not only to impose wage-cuts on workers through a doubling of council rents, but also to raise money for investment in industry. At the same time, of course, the introduction of the free market forces into council housing for the first time, I'v throws the whole field wide ing open to Tory property specu- the lators and landlords. vot Such an attack is completely onl in line with the Tories' record since taking power in 1970.

in Through the Industrial Rela- an tions Act, the state pay laws, ber and massive unemployment rapid inflation, they have tried Tor to lay the basis for the destruc- no tion of the trade unions and the the consequent enslavement of the working class. in Manoeuvres council sor chambers or calls to 'crush the ing Act' will not move this Tory the 0'% government or any of its legis lation. Nor will rent strikes col launched in a non-political, all isolated way. gra What is needed now-and and urgently-is a campaign to in Tory government make the nor resign through the mobilization hai of the entire working class.

cer In its place a Labour gov- returned ernment must be she pledged by the mass movement to carry out socialist policies of expropriation of the basic industries, the banks and the land under workers' control and without compensation and imp the repeal of all Tory legis- on lation. bac

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I've no doubt some are waver- ing, but It will be difficult for them to reverse their previous votes, said Clir Paddy O'Connor, one of the leading Camden non- implementers. 'The Torles don't want to send In a Housing Commissioner or an auditor because they remem- ber the last rent strike in 1960.

And that was very bitter. The Tories don't want to provoke us.

'What they will probably do now is go for our subsidies and then we will be faced with a 25p in the £ rates increase.

'If that happened I would per- sonally be in favour of not pay.

ing the precepts to the GLC or said Clfr the police rate,' O'Connor. the Torles But, he added, controlled about 75 per cent of all Camden's expenditure by grants from central government and they could stop any of them in retallation. 'The Torles are tightening the noose around Camden and we'll have to keep on fighting.

I'm certainly not in favour of imple mentation now or any time.

'But is no doubt there we should have taken the initiative a long time ago. The majority of the councillors have been prepared to soldier on without the backing of a mass movement.

I don't think the council will Implement but we ought to call on the tenants to come out and back us up, he added. • a knife-edge now, said 'It's on Bill Budd, from the Ainsworth tenants' association, who is also in a branch secretary the Post Office Engineering Union.

'With the situation the council is faced with they could change the vote and implement the Act.

"I don't see the difference between not putting up the rents £1 and putting 1 the rates up a similar amount. It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, he told me.

"The Housing Commissioner was never on from a political point of view. The Tories have only taken direct action in small areas like Clay Cross where the population is not so heavy?

Many tenants, said Bill Budd, seemed reluctant to get involved at this stage, probably because the events of St Pancras in 1960 had 'left a nasty scar'. 'But the time to be committed is now. To wait and see would too late and dangerous. be to Of course one of the difficultles has been that the councillors have never appealed to the wider movement for support. 'Instead of just appealing in the council chamber, they should be out among the wards, among the tenants asking for their sup- port.' Mr Budd laid much of the blame for that situation on the failure of the national Labour Party leadership. 'Look at the national execu tive. Only the other wook they revarsed the declaton al comter.

once to back the councilors against the Act. 'And the Parliamentary Labour Party has given no direction either, dividing the issue on the barest diversions. The PLP has paid lip-service to the fight and the average person now feels let down. has Nothing come from the top and it has enabled many people to get off the hook.

If they were to reverse, the councillors would lose a lot of support in elections from the tenants. 'The Housing Finance Act Is typical Toryism as far as I'm concerned,' said Mr Budd. 'It's more than just rent rises and means that housing is no longer the social right it should be.

'Once a council tenant got a house because it was subsidized and needed it. But not now. I'm already paying £10 a week for a 22-year old flat and if the rents go up as planned under the Act it could soon be as much as £14 a week. 'It spells the end of council housing and all those "homes fit for heroes" everyone used to talk about. The Tories are hitting the working with everything. class With this you've also got the Industrial Relations Act and the Common Market. called bloody It's time we halt all round. This Is It. Every issue is against the working class and It's time the capitalist class were stopped from getting away with it all. 'Every trade unionist must now take up the cudgels and start from a political outlook. And I hope with such support we won't have to tolerate this government for aft that long.' Workers Press, Saturday January 6, 1973 PAGE 7 Eight Labour applied to the NEC for re- councillors Hammersmith Borough Council instatement. They remain victimized conditional removal Labour group for their oppo- pension sition to the Tories' 'fair rents' conference decision. Act. Their What is their crime? On still before the NEC awaiting May 10 last year they moved consideration. a motion calling for the non- Hammersmith right-wingers implementation of the Act and recently took heart from the 11 of them voted for it. The NEC's backsliding. They issued Labour group met a week later astonishing ultimatum an to and suspended them. the eight demanding that they The councillors appealed to 'toe the line'. (Copy of letter the National Executive Com- reproduced.) mittee (NEC) of the party for The author of this document, reinstatement. But the

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is which has consistently refused Michael Stewart's in agent to rally any opposition against Fulham. the Act, decided to back up The people who should be the right-wingers who dominate suspended Hammersmith on Hammersmith council. council are not the Labourites Instead the NEC said the who voted against implementa- suspensions had been carried tion of the Tory Act. Those 'contrary to rule, out which suspended should be council- opened the door for the Ham- lors who defied the party's mersmith vote to group to annual conference decision, the the 'in renew suspension London Labour Party's de- accordance with rules'. That cision and the democratically Since then the reached decisions of the North number victimized coun- Hammersmith Labour Party.

cillors has dropped from Il to the Laboulementinated council implementing eight. Throughout the second half of last has violated decision vear these councillors every reached by party bodies remained suspended from the rep- resenting the opinions of the Labour group and unable to rank and file. participate in any of the policy- Tust the constituency making committees. as Their fight against the Act at Lincoln threw out party when pro-Market MP Dick Taverne, received a boost the and down Blackpool Labour Party QC, so parties up con- ference must now weed voted by over- the country an out that fifth column of class- whelming majority to give full to Labour councillors collaborators who are not pre- support pared to fight for conference who refused to implement the Act. decisions and stand up to the Tory On the basis of this decision onslaughts on basic the councillors again rights. eight

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2. A categorical assurance from each member that he or she will strictly abide by Group SO's in future both in the letter and in the spirit of such 5O's.

3. Conduct whilst under suspension shall have been responsible.

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le dates when suspension may be withdrawn are shown overleaf, together wi ose when the Chief Whip will be prepared to receive such a reques Churcheer Whip will Wah Majority Party Group marbed he be ratisfied that the assurances sought by Vone of the suspended members will be nominated to serve during the nax nunicipal year on the Housing Committee or Area Housing Boards Application not later than the dates indicated will anable the request to be taken without delay to the appropriate Group maoling.

The Chief Whip wishos It to be known that he expacis to be on deferred leave from September 19 and asks that this be kept in mind.

LESLIE HILLARD

CHIEF WHIP

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Janua The fight for a Socialist United States of Europe Is basic to the revolutionary movement.

From the earliest times the Bolsheviks and . Lenin cam- paigned against any unity of Europe on a capitalist basis and condemned any involve- ment in such a move by the socialist forces as class-colla- boration. Writing in 1915 Lenin des- cribed the idea of a United States of Europe under capi- as impossible or re- talism actionary'. What he meant was that antagonisms within the the capitalist system—now at its highest stage, imperialism- prevented any planned, ra- tional development of the economy of Europe as a whole.

Any 'unity' proposed by the capitalist governments would be a fraud, a desperate act by the weaker capitalist systems of Europe to protect them- selves from the rigours of American competition and an alliance by the big monopolies against the working class.

Such a 'unity' came to pass with the Third Reich. Now the capitalist nations of Europe are embarked on yet another attempt to find a concorde. The British Communist Party's opposition to this latest attempt has nothing whatever to do with the Leninist position. The CP Stalinists are pri- marily concerned over the loss of what they call our sover- heritage, etc. This is eignty, the toulest kind of petty-bour- geois nationalism, profoundly reactionary in character. Pre- sumably if the Common Mar- ket did not challenge the insti- tutions and ethics of British capitalism, the Stalinists would be pleased to join! In this important article by Lenin published in August 1915, the Marxist approach is clearly outlined. It begins from the contra- diction within imperialism and proceeds to view any alliance of European states as essen- tially connected with the war- like trade relations that pre- vail under imperialism. The article can be found in Volume 18 of Lenin's 'Collected Works', Martin Lawrence 1930. On Monday we publish Trotsky's own • brilliant an- alysis of the development of Europe. Number 40 of the 'Sotsial- Demokrat' carried the infor- mation that the conference of the sections of our party situ- ated abroad had decided to postpone the question of the States of Europe' 'United slogan pending a press dis- cussion of the economic side of the question. The debate on this question at our conference assumed a one-sided political character.

This was partly due to the fact that the manifesto of the Central Committee directly formulated this slogan as a political one ('the nearest poli- tical slogan,' etc.). The docu- ment emphasized not oniy a republican United States of Europe, but it especially men- tioned that 'without a revolu- tionary overthrow of the day January 6, 1973 and Ru German, Austrian, sian monarchies' this slogan senseless and false. To argue against such an approach to the question while remaining entirely in the field of political analysis, for in- stance, to argue that thi slogan obstructs or weakens the slogan of a socialist revo- lution, is entirely erroneous.

Political changes of a truly democratic nature, especially political revolutions, can in no and under no circum- case stances either obstruct weaken the slogan of a social- ist revolution. On the contrary, they always make it nearer, they widen the basis for it, they draw into the socialist struggle new strata of the petty ever bourgeoisie and the semi- proletarian On the masses. other hand, political revolu- inevitable in the tions are course of a socialist revolu- tion, which must not be looked upon as one single act, but must be considered as an epoch, a number of stormy political and economic up- heavals, a most sharpened class struggle, civil war, re- volutions and counter-revolu- tions. But if the United States of of Europe slogan, conceived in connection with a revolu- tionary overthrow of the three reactionary monarchies most of Europe, headed by Russia, is entirely impregnable as a political slogan, there still re- most important mains the question of its • economic con- tent and meaning. From the point of view of the economic conditions of imperialism, i.e., capital export and division of the world between the "pro- gressive' and "civilized' colo- nial powers, the United States of Europe under capitalism is impossible or either reaC- tionary Capital has become inter- national and monopolistic. The world has been divided a handful of great among powers, i.e., powers successful in great plunder and in op- pression of nations. The four great powers of Europe, Eng- land, France, Russia, and Ger- a population of with many, million to 300 million, 250 with an area of about 7 million square kilometres, posses colo- nies numbering almost half a billion (494 million to 500 million inhabitants) with an area of 64.6 million square kilometres, i.e. almost half of the globe's surface (153 million square kilometres, barring the Polar region). Add the three Asiatic states, China, Turkey, and Persia, which are now torn to pieces by the plunderers waging a 'freedom,' namely, war for Japan, Russia, England, and France. In those three Asiatic states, which may be called semi-colonial (in reality they are nine-tenths colonies), there 360 million inhabitants, are and their area is 14.5 million square kilometres (almost one and one-half times the area of the whole of Europe). Further, England, France and Germany have invested abroad no less than 70,000m roubles. To receive T01 'lawful' little profit from this pleasant sum, a profit exceed- 3,000m roubles an- ing nually, there are in existence the millionaires' national com- mittees called governments, and equipped • with armies navies, 'placing' in the colonies semi-colonies the sons and brothers of 'Mr. Billion' in the capacity of viceroys, consuls, ambassadors, all kinds of officers, priests and other leeches. This is how, in the epoch of the highest capitalist de- the plundering of velopment, almost a billion of the earth's population by a handful of great powers is organized. No other organization is possible under capitalism. To give up colonies, 'spheres of influence' export of capital? To think so is to come down to the level of a little minister who preaches to the rich every Sunday about the greatness of Christianity, advising them to give to the poor, if not several billions, at least several hun- red roubles yearly. A United States of Europe under capitalism means an agreement as to the division of colonies. Under capitalism, however, only force is possible as the basis, the principle of division. A billionaire cannot share the 'national income' of • with any a capitalist country one otherwise than in propor- tion to the capital invested (with an extra bonus in addi- tion, so that the largest capital receive more than its may due). Capitalism is private pro- • in the means of pro- perty duction, and anarchy of pro- duction. To preach a 'just' division of income on such a basis is Proudhonism, is thick- headed philistinism. One can- not divide the income other- in proportion to wise than power; and power changes in the course of economic de- velopment. Germany after 1871, grew in power three or four times faster than England and France; Japan, about ten times faster than Russia.

To test the real power of a capitalist state, there is, and be, no other way there can than war. War is no contra- diction to the foundations of property-on the con- private trary, it is a direct and in- evitable development of those foundations. Under capitalism, equal economic progress of the individual concerns, or indi- vidual states, is impossible. Under capitalism, no other for periodically re- means establishing destroyed equili- brium are possible outside of crises in industry or of war in politics. Of course, temporary agree- ments between capitalists and powers are possible. In this States of the United sense Europe as the result of an agreement between the Euro- pean capitalists is possible but what kind of an agreement would that be? An agreement jointly to suppress socialism to guard in Europe, jointly colonial booty against Japan and America, which feel sligh- ted by the present division of colonies, and which, for the last half century, have grown infinitely faster than backward monarchist Europe, beginning to rot with age. In with the comparison United States of America, as a whole signifies Europe economic stagnation. On the present-day economic basis, i.e., under capitalism, the United States of Europe would mean an organization of re- action for thwarting the more rapid development of America.

The days when the cause of democracy and socialism was associated with Europe alone have passed forever. The United States of the World (not of Europe alone) is a state form of national unifi- cation and freedom which we with socialism; connect we think of it as becoming a reality only when the full vic- tory of communism will have brought about the total dis- appearance of any state, in- cluding its democratic form.

As a separate slogan, however, the United States of the World would hardly be a cor- rect one, first because it coin- cides with socialism, second, because it could be erron- eously interpreted to mean that the victory of socialism in country is impossible; it one could also create misconcep- tions as to the relations of such a country to others.

Unequal economic and poli- tical development is an indis- pensable law of capitalism. It follows that the victory of socialism is, at the beginning, possible in a few capitalist countries, even in one, taken separately. The victorious pro- letariat of that country, hav- ing expropriated the capitalists and organized socialist pro- duction at home, would rise of the capi- against the rest talist world, attracting the op- pressed classes of other coun- tries, raising them among revolts against the exploiting classes and their states.

The political form of a society in which the prole- tariat is victorious, in which the bour- it has overthrown geoisie, will be a democratic centralizing republic, ever more the forces of the pro- letariat of a given nation or nations in the struggle against the states that have not yet gone over to socialism. It is annihilate to impossible classes without a dictatorship of the oppressed class, the proletariat. It is impossible freely to unite the nations in socialism without a more or less prolonged and stubborn struggle of the socialist repub- lics against the other states.

It is due to such considera- tions resulting from repeated debates at the conference of the sections of the Revolu- tionary Social-Democratic La- bour Party • situated abroad and after, that the editors of the Central Organ came to the conclusion that the United States of Europe slogan is incorrect.

WORKERS A JOLLY LOOK

The local corporation at Lan- caster has just completed pur- chasing a number of houses and other buildings in the Edward Street area of the city.

They are due to be demolished to make way for an urban clearway through the district.

But one particular piece of property which the corpora- tion has not acquired is the Anne's school former St building. It has been disclosed now that the disused school was bought last July by Yates and Jackson, a local brewery firm. Why did the brewery com- pany acquire this site? A reporter from the 'Lancaster Free Press' who put this ques- managing director tion to Dennis Jackson received the surprising reply that he 'did not know'. In fact, Mr Jack- son said that he did not know whether the company had any plans to make use of the build- ing, and could not say whether they intended to develop the site. What is more, he told the that he 'could not reporter remember' how much the for the company had paid property, nor could he say whether it would be affected by the new road. The auctioneers who handled the sale of the St Anne's school apparently had better memory, however; and were able to disclose that the brewery company had paid over £18,000 for the site.

The Planning Office at the Town Hall has also been able to throw a little more light on the deal. It seems that the new road will just skirt the school building, but will take in the yard at the front.

The Planning Office spokes- man said he could not under- stand why the corporation had not acquired the site, nor did he know why Yates and Jack- son should want it, since they were unlikely to get planning permission to develop it.

However, the corporation would have to buy the school yard from Yates and Jackson.

It could well be that Yates and Jackson could make some proht on the resale of the land to the corporation. Incidentally, the road plan has been in existence for some time. And up to the last muni- cipal elections, Lancaster had a Tory council. The Tory leaders of the Greater London Council seem to be having a bad time on their trips abroad these past few weeks. GLC leader Sir Desmond Plummer was at the centre of with Edward a recent row Heath, who phoned him in Tokyo to sound off about the traffic in Whitehall. Now it's the turn of the leader, Mr Horace deputy Cutler, who recently arrived back in London from a two- week cruise on the P & O liner.

'Orsova'. The all first-class Christmas cruise cost £500 a head and took the 500 passengers to the away from the gloomy sun British scene. But when it docked at Southampton there were scenes of violent confrontation and shades of the picket line.

According to the London "jostling, 'Evening News'; Horace Cútler pushing broke shouting and gers demanded their money back... while others accused them of being "communist agitators" (sic) and "money- grabbers" ' The protesting faction was led by Cutler who told Press- men: 'It is time people rejected low standards. I will not stand for them. All the time we do the standard gets lower and cruise has been lower-this downright disgusting.' When other passengers began praising the liner, Cutler boomed back: 'I suppose it is a lie I had a cockroach in my yoghourt and had to send it back?' It seems to have been what you might call a bad trip...

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jollied A quick up diversion through the blind alleys of 1972 as cooked up for us by 'This Week' throughout the year, was presented by its jovial producer lohn Edwards. Some remarkable and potent moments in the filming only served to highlight the calcu- lated confusion and softening- up process which appeared to dominate the observations.

The most potent stuff, which not even the confusion of the programmes could obscure, in- cluded a piece on the miners' strike-the men arguing on the picket lines and the quality of absolute determination and strength which came across from the pickets preventing a truck delivery in straight- forward decisive fashion.

Next, the view of the young couple looking for a home, rendered impotent by the exploitation of the property market, the little agents like a lot of vultures grabbing the pickings from the big-time developers and owners. And then the group of largely working-class Tories in Billericay very clearly repre- senting their bitter disillusion- ment with the party for which they were so busily canvassing.

Apart from these: Some slick perceptions by an American psychiatrist on jacking (all hi-jackers are 'the same under their left and right wing ideologies' he says con- i.e. they're temptuously: disturbed misfits but naturally bear no relation to any disturb- ances inside the world). Some more propaganda for the British army in Belfast, where a Hull the programme takes bus driver to Ulster in order to extract from him the revelation that he's 'changed his mind about the British army-they must stay in Ireland' Although there was plenty of material and a few dis- located facts it all bore little relationship to the year which real experience: the was inflation, floating sterling, , up the agression in- stepping side Ireland, huge movements working class on all by the fronts, industrial and other- wise. It was as if the programme had done its best to keep all the realities at a distance as usual and resulted in the most flippant and obscene survey— obscene in its blatant concern o cover up the truth in all directions. We had however, more than a of what the passing glimpse Common Market really holds for everyone and the workers of Europe in particular, when Robin Day appeared with the Commissioners-- two new Christopher Soames and George Thomson-in 'Talk-In Europe' in front of an audience of 'trade | unionists, businessmen, housewives, farmers and econo- mists', as Day informed us.

a great deal of There was the flannelling about by Thomson and Soames on the question 'whether they regarded themselves as Europeans first or British' and what appeared to be the most calculated diversion by some who, audience exchanges became a little too in close to the point, swung with a reverent query on 'the long term . . . grand design Workers Press, Satu I to mark Britałn's ton Court ban which was so much more im- than the short-term portant cost-of-living question! For in fact, despite the obviously right-wing nature of represented, the leadership some of the trade unionists did manifest important signs of all the crucial problems which are going to hit us all now we are 'the European Club' into Questions about how to the thousands of reassure workers who, in the midst of a wage freeze, were faced with skyrocketing living costs, went down none too well received the blandest evasions in response. 'Are we going to be an out- ward looking Europe, against 'Why wishes?' Pompidou's haven't the housewives been given any clear information about what's to occur?' 'What about Wales and Scotland?'

and 'What about the 5 million small shop-keepers and small businesses that will be threat- 'What about overpro- ened? duction and too many com- modities?' All these questions swiftly pointed up the bankruptcy and outrage in the whole scheme, the potential for trade in which the way war, ordinary workers will suffer and unemployment will rise together with the enormous of flights of capital into Europe which was nervously brought up only to be swept aside in smooth talk of 'more Bank holidays' and Soames' in- the coming pros- sistence on perity which has apparently soared other European countries and must therefore do the same for us. This sort of empty diplo- soon be revealed macy must for what it is-ma cover-up for the reality which shows that as8, Saturday January 6, 1973 PAGE 9 can Commiealoner, antee et the Hame, ritain's entry into the Common Marker the Common Market is not only 'a scheme hatched up by politicians, as one member of the audience suggested, but by all those who are searching desperately for a regeneration of profits that are slipping fast.

Away from the nasty truths of the present and into another orgy of nostalgia and rendez- vous with the favourite distor- tions of the past. "The Path- finders' is not only the epitome of this type of programme, but is also badly done and full of inane writing and characteriz- ation. This week was no exception and managed to compress all the perfection of the British RAF-ever-vigilant, resource- ful, decisive-into a tale about the Gestapo developing a new jet which, type of it was implied, if the British RAF had not been held back by a troublesome bureaucracy, they would have achieved first any- way. All the officers and men were sheer caricature (all men work- ing class, officers of 'good breeding') and even the chief character, who appears some- what less than perfect, is dutifully revealed at the end to have been correct all along about everything. Increasingly, nationalist soap operas are appearing more and more frequently in order to keep viewers' minds off the persisting pressures of current reality and turned to idealized nonsense about the past. But soon it will be a hard job for flamboyant the most even take people's camouflage to eyes off the crises that loom.

PAGE 10 Workors Press, Saturday January 6, 1973

SATURDAY TV

BBC 1

10.55 Weather. 11.00 The herbs. 11.15 Harlem 10.30 Crossir bont. 12.00 Grandstand. 12.05 Football globetrotters. Haydock. 12.25, Racing from 1.10 Ski 12.50, Final 3.50 Lancer. 4.40 jumping. union. 5.05 Basil Brush show. 5.35 News, weather, sport. 5.50 Dr score. Who. WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY. In Shape With Von Drake.

6.15

FILM:

'HIS MAJESTY

O'KEEFE.

Burt Lancaster. A captain 7.00 sets out to make his fortune from copra.

Matt Monro 8.20 CILLA. Cilla Black with Leslie Crowther, Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells.

9.05

A MAN CALLED IRONSIDE.

9.55 NEWS. Weather. MATCH OF THE DAY. 11.10 PARKINSON. 12.10 Weather.

10.10

ITV

Getting your money's worth. 9.55 Return Peyton Place. 11.20 Merrie melodies. 12.30 News. 12.35 World 12.00 Partridge family. 12.40 On the ball. 1.05 International sports special. 1.20 ITV seven.

3.10 International sports special. English from Market Rasen. table tennis championships. 3.50 Results, 5.00 Black beauty. 5.40 4.50 Results service. for Europe. Wrestling. Sale of the century. 6.10 NEWS. 6.15 FILM: 'CHEYENNE AUTUMN'. Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Edward G. Robinson, Sal Mineo, Stewart, Dolores Del Rio.

Ricardo Montalban, Ford's film about a thousand Cheyenne who are moved from THE VAL DOONICAN SHOW. Guests David Nixon, Olivia New- Dailey and Wayne, Acker Bilk and his Paramount

10.40 RUSSELL HARTY PLUS.

FUTURE OF THE FUTURE. Richard Wakely and Lord Roth- 11.55 DEPARTMENT S. Six Days.

BBC 2

3.00 Film: 'Kismet'. Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich. A beggar's ingenuity gains him wealth and a prince to marry his daughter.

4.35 5.00 Some very gallant gentiemen. The irony of fate: Play away. Captain Scott. 5.50 Man alive.

6.40 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

BY

APPOINTMENT

TO

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW.

6.55 Joan Gabriel Pascal, Bakewell talks to Valerie Pascall, widow of granted permission by GBS to film his plays.

the only man NEWS AND SPORT. Weather. 7.35 RUGBY SPECIAL.

England 7.20 v New Zealand.

WAR AND

PEACE. Moscow! 8.20 9.05

FULL HOUSE.

Introduced by Joe Melia. Including Poems by Spike; After Magritte; The Clarke-Boland Septet; Italian Futur- ism 1909-1919; The Amadeus String Quartet. Havilland, Yvette 11.25

FILM:

'LIGHT

IN THE PIAZZA'.

Olivia de Brazzi. A Mimieux, George Hamilton, Rossano mother is from tempted to conceal her daughter's mental disability the man who falls in love with her.

SUNDAY TV

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.00- 10.30-11.30 Sung Eucharist. 11.35 Cut and thrust. 10.25 Avventura. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Britain teria arenas and chideoing, 1.55 News headlines. 1.30 Parents Made in Britain. Mungo and Midge. 2.15 Story theatre. 2.35 Ask Weather. 2.00 Mary, 3.35 2.25 Blue Peter special assignment. Film: 'On the Aspel. Riviera'. Danny Kaye. An American entertainer and a French singer are involved in marital misunderstandings. 5.05 Billy Smart's child- ren's circus. 6.05 NEWS. Weather.

SUNDAY

THE

DEBATE.

Crime and Punishment. The case 6.15 measures to curb the increase in violent crime. for sterner Peter Brodie. With Reginald Maudling, Lord Longford and

THE NEW BEGINNING.

7.00 THE CHOICE IS

YOURS.

6.50

SALUTE TO

GERSHWIN.

Music from Broadway shows and 7.25 memorable films.

PLAY

OF

THE

MONTH:

"THE

ADVENTURES OF

DON

8.15 With Rex Harrison, Frank Finlay, Rosemary Leach,

QUIXOTE.

Hepton, Ronald Roger Delgado, Robert Bernard Lacey,

10.10 NEWS.

Weather. Eddison.

OMNIBUS FILE.

Events in modern music. 10.20 invites A.J.P. Taylor

CROSSTALK.

Richard Crossman, MP 11.10 historian to discuss with 11.50 Weather. him.

ITV

9.30 UFO. 10.30 Fanfare into Europe. Service. 11.30 Weekend world.

3.15 Persuaders. 4.15 Junior police five. 4.25 Golden Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS. 6.15 ADAM SMITH. 6.45 THE BIG QUESTION

More on 7.00 APPEAL. Kennett Recordings for Hospital Patients. 7.05 SONGS

MATTER.

'THE DEATH

10.15 FILM: AN AMERICAS

MERICAN IN PARIS'. Gene Kelly, Leslie Caro usical about an ex-Gl who stayed on after the w

12.15 FUTURE OF THE FUTURE.

4.30 Money at work. 5.35 Horizon.

.20 NEWS REVIEW

AMERICA.

Money on the Land. 7.25 8.15 JACK JONES. With Susan George SERIOUSLY—IT'S SHEILĂ HANCOCK. With Kenne

BUT

9.00 THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE. Credit Where It's Due. 10.20 9.30

UP SUNDAY

10.45 FILM: 'THE FUGITIVE'. Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rio, Pedro A priest in a Latin American country anti-clerical decrees of the authorities. 12.25 NEWS. Weather.

REGIONAL TV

Val CHANNEL: 11.40 Bonanza. 12.30 Lon- Doonican. ndon. 10s40irA Aquarius don. 5.10 Tarzan. 6.10 Tonn. Heller 10.30 London. 10.40 stairs. 6.45 Film: Name of the game. 12.45 sale wellluly• Pink 8.30 Val weather. 9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. small in life. 5.40-6.70 Sion a 5.10 It's all in 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Champions. Weather. sian.

ATV

MIDLANDS: 9.15 You and your 9.50

WESTWARD.

As Channel except: 9.40 shoestring golf Collecting on Woo bindse house. 10.20 Oppor- jobs around 0.10 11.10 Cartoon. place the tunist. 10.45 Cartoon 12.00 11.05 Survival. 11.00 Bonanza. for lie. 12.30 Weather 12010 London. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.25 Faith for life. 8.15 12.30 takes SOUTHERN: 9.15 You est your 1010 6.10 large. London. 9.40 Collecting on 1o.3s shoestring. 6.45 Film: Return of the Let them melodies. Stingray 11.05 8.30 Val Doonican. London. 9.30 11.35 cowboy in downstairs. 10.30 Merrie 12.30 London. 11.30 Gordon Bailey. 11.35 Africa. 12.27 Weather. Hularus. 'So 5.10 Tarzan. 6.10 London. 6.15 Come- Film: This is Paris. dians. 6.45 Film: On-Don't

ULSTER:

10.305.300 Sesame stren. 11.30 Your Head'. 8.30 10.40 Lose Thunderbirds. 10.45 Film: Love the Sport. 5.40 Merrie melodies. 6.10 News. Stranger'. 12.30 Proper 6.15 Beverly hillbillies Film: Return of Guideline. 8.30 fonithter, rin. 9.30 down- Val Doonican. Upstairs

HARLECH:

9.00 London. 9.50 Bugs 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 10.00 Tomfoolery. 10.30 Se- bunny. 1.25 Kreskil Farm- 11.30 Joe 12.00 5.10

UFO.

YORKSHIRE:

9.15 Skilful rugby 9.40 diary. London. Comedians, shoestring. 10.10 Os- monds 10.35 5.10 London. 6.15 6.45 Follyfoot. 11.05 Pard- "Promise Her Anything'. 8.30 monds. film: Rosemary Leach Clava Descinee Adventures Pl Don Duixote.

Dulcinea in BBC I's Play of the Month on Sunday, Miguel Rex Harrison the title role of the Knight extraordinary from the plays plain of La Mancha. Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers Sunday January 7,

BRADFORD:

7.30 p.m. Talbot Hotel, Kirkgate

HARROW AND WEALDSTONE:

January 7,

SWINDON:

Sunday Tuesday January 9, 8 p.m. Labour 7.30 p.m. 'Locomotive Hotel.

Hall, Railway Approach, Station Road, Harrow. COVENTRY: Monday January 8, 7.30 p.m. 'Elastic Inn', Cox Street (opposite Theatre One). ROCHESTER: Tuesday January 9, 'The Greyhound', Roches- 8 p.m.

ACTON:

Tuesday 9, January Avenue. ter 8 p.m. 'The Rocket", Churchfield Rd, W3.

HULL:

Wednesday January 10, Alfred WOOLWICH: Tuesday January 9, 8 р.т. White Hart Hotel, (near Drypool 8 'Queen's Arms', Burrage Gelder Street p.m. Road. Bridge). BRACKNELL: Tuesday January 9, SHEFFIELD: Wednesday January 'The Lion', High 8 Red p.m. 'The Grape Inn, 7.30 p.m. Street. 'Build Councils of Action.

Trippett Lane, Sheffield 1.

Defend Democratic Rights.'

SOUTHALL: Tuesday January 9, HACKNEY: Thursday January 11, Southall Library, Oster- 8.00 p.m. The Parlour, Hackney ley Park Road. (Please note date 7.30 p.m. Central Hall (opp. Town Hall).

change.) London. 6.15 Comedians. 6.45 Film: 6.15 Comedians. London. 10.30 11.30 Place the 12.00 in country. selves. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Kick off. 11.30 Se- 5.10 Man same street. 12.30 London.

from Uncle. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: "The Three Musketeers'. 8.25 London.

Boris Karloff 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 presents. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wild life theatre.

9.40 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 )smonds. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Abbo and Costello. 12.30 London. S.10 Rip tide. 6.10 6.15 Comedians. .45 Film: Three Guns of Texas'. 8.30 lal Doonican. 9.30 New Scotland Yard 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 10.30 London. Coronet blue. 12.25 Lectern.

GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Jackson five. 11.45 12.30 London. 5.10 Ron and friends. Turnbull's London.

UFO. 6.10

6.15 finest half hour. 6.45 Film: 'Rope of Sand'. 8.30 Val Doonican. 9.30 New Yard. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Scotland O'Hara, US Treasury.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL:

5 London. on. Film: 2.15 Weather. 3.15 *Dentist on the lob'. shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London.

"The Third Secret'. 12.00 10.15 Film: Weather. Epilogue. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.00 9.30 our yesterdays. Tomfoolery. 10.30 11:28 Honeybun. 1.00 Gus hands. 1.15 Branded. 1.45 Farm and news. 1.55 Acres for profit. 2.05 London. 2.15 12.00 Faith for life. 12.05 Weather.

SOUTHERN:

9.15 Talking hands. 9.30 Farm progress. 10.00 World War I. 10.27 Weather. 10.30 London. 1.00 Hogan's Superman. 1.20 Primus. 1.50 heroes. 2.05 London. 3.15 Dora. 3.45 Aquarius. 5.20 Golden shot. 4.40 News. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

Film: "The Haunting'. 12.20 10.05 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.35 All our yesterdays.

10.30 10.00 A place in the country.

London. 1.00 Survival. 1.30 Art for all. 1.55 Bugs Bunny. 2.15 London.

"The 3.15 Film Spy Killer'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 10.15 Mr and Mrs. 10.45 London The Night Walker'. 12.15 Film: Weather.

ATV

MIDLANDS:

9.30 All our yesterdays. 10.00 Citizens' rights. 10.30 1.00 2.00 Star London. Champions. •The Secret_of My 3.00 Film: soccer. Success' 4.40 Golden shot. 5.55 Black London. 10.15 Film: beauty. 6.05 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?.

ULSTER: 10.30 London. 1.00 Getting 1.30 Jobs around your money's worth. 1.55 Pebbles and Bamm the house. 2.05 London. 3.15 Film: Bamm. "Don't Panic Chaps'. 4.45 Golden shot.

5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 10.15 The Trygon Factor'. Film: YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess masterpieces.

London. 1.00 Farming. Soccer. 4.35 2.50 Film: •Coast of Cartoon. Golden tons. 4.45 shot 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

10.15 Film: 'Under the Yum Yum Tree'. 12.15 Untamed world. 12.45 Weather.

GRANADA:

10.30 London. 12.55 2.20 Foot- 'The ball. 3.20 Film: 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. •Promise 6.05 London. 10.15 Film: Her Anything'.

TYNE TEES:

9.20 Chess master- 9.30 Helicopter holy land. 10.30 Farming. 1.00 1.25 1. 1.50 Where World War the jobs 1.55 Shoot. 2.50 Film: "The are. Season'. 4.45 Golden shot. Mating 6.05 London. 10.15

FBI.

11.15 Challenge. 12.05 Dr Simon Locke. 12.35 Lectern.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Farm progress. London. Getting 11.30 1.00 your the house. Sport. Film: 'In- formation Golden 5.35 6.05 shot. Black 10.15 Film: 'Cat on a Hot London. Roof'. Tin TONBRIDGE: Thursday January 11, 8 p.m. 'The Foresters', ', Quarry Hill Road. KINGSTON: Thursday January 11, The Liverpool Arms' 8 p.m. corner of Cambridge Road and London Road. SLOUGH: Thursday January 11, Community Centre, 7.30 LEEDS: Thursday January 11, 7.30 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

EAST LONDON: Tuesday January 11, 8 p.m. 'Festival Inn', , Chrisp Street Market, E14. 'The crisis of leadership in the working class'.

GLASGOW Thursday January 11, 7.30 p.m. Partick Burgh Hall. 'The Market and the wage Common freeze. WATFORD: Monday January 15, 8 p.m. Watford Trade Union Hall, Woodford Road, opposite Wattord Junction station. HOLLOWAY: Thursday January 18, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Rd (near Finsbury Park tube).

DOCKERS leaving the in- dustry voluntarily this month Will find their severance pay short by three days' holiday money- but their union lead- ers aren't going to lift a finger." The money will lose they covers the extra days' holiday agreed between the unions and the port employers last year.

Under the terms of the settle- meht, the holiday entitlement of registered dockers was to go up from three to four weeks in two stages. Iwo of the days went on the entitlement last year. The other three were due from January 1, 1973. The National Joint Council for

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Westlaithgate 7.30 p.m. The Plymouth Fine Tubes Strikers, their wives and 53 children have just spent their third Christmas on strike with very little money. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right worker can possessthe right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have 100,000 travelled over miles to sustain their fight.

the Port Transport Industry has Tim O'Leary, Transport and General Workers' been told by the government that docks Union 'We have gone into it the three days due from January secretary. I come within the terms of its The advice we very thoroughly. pay-control law. have been given is that the addi- tional three days' holiday comes So the men are to leave the within the terms of the "freeze".

industry with only three weeks 'We are seeking more infor- and three days' holiday pay in mation to confirm this, but it their packets. seems at the moment we must "This is a sticky problem', says accept this position.'

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dockers have imple- are broken down for distribu- tion. This work was which mented a black against dockers did a few years ago Goole transport firm in defi- want registered men and they ance of official union policy.

employed in the depot. A T&GWU spokesman said They have turned away two yesterday the had offi- „lorries belonging Wil- union to A. cially advised liams which called at the King members to George handle cargo for the firm.

dock for consign- ment of Danish canned goods.

Last year the stewards were The shop stewards committee taken to the National Indus- threatened the black trial Relations Court for black- ago and set a January time ing another local firm, Panal- deadline. pina. The has a depot company Walter Cunningham, the near Goole which employs chairman of the Hull stewards, non-registered dock workers.

named in the complaint, was The dockers that the say but he refused to appear be- goods go into the depot and fore Sir John Donaldson. OF THE 127 teachers dismissed by the Teesside Education Committee för working-to-contract—120 didn't get a hearing.

And more sackings are likely among 158 members of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers who have been suspended for working-to-contract since the end of October.

The dispute arose sacked teachers not to reply to over sought by the letter from assurances committee which stated they could 'sub- unions on job-security for stantiate' their reasons for teachers affected by the non- re- appearance by writing. to it by organization of schools along January 8. comprehensive lines. The National Union of Teachers The 120 were dismissed with- has so far issued no statement of because they were out a hearing support for the sacked teachers not present for a roll-call at the nor given any indication of what sessions of a special education its attitude will be when Tees- Monday sub-committee. side schools on open after the Christmas holiday.

But the teachers claim they the NUT has Instead asked were expected to wait in the Education Minister Mrs Thatcher local town hall from 9 a.m.

until hold government inquiry midnight. into the situation. On Thursday, for example when 30 teachers had been called SHELL oil refinery strikers near before the only sub-committee, Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, case had been heard 29 are оле. Monday. The 950 the meet again on p.m. and remaining members of the

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went home. They then received came Thursday night after six out on letters informing them of their workers had been suspended fo dismissal. refusing to change a lat tyre on NAS national executive mem- They sampling the say ber from Teesside, Phil: West, work should be done by a crafts- described the sackings as jungle man, but. the management says injustice'. Describing sub- committee as a 'kangaroo court', that under new productivity deal minor jobs can by be done Mr West continued: "The reaction other workers. A company here of up is anger and one claimed spokesman yesterday complete disgust? that productivity was being advised The NAS has the maintained by supervisory staff.

This Christmas has been the ers Press wishes to make a hardest of all. It has imposed special appeal to all trade a great financial burden.

Now unionists to take collections in the 37 strikers face the rest of their factories and. branches the Fine winter with a depleted for the Tubes in men strike fund. January is always order that their heroic and a difficult month to raise money determined action can, be car- to further their fight. ried forward. All money should Yet they are determined to be sent to: fight on. This is a struggle the Fine Tubes Treasurer working class cannot afford to c/o 65 Bretonside That is why the Socialist lose. Labour League and the Work- Plymouth, Dovon. Workers Press, Saturday January 6, 1973 PAGE 11 Delay over Ford pay

BY DAVID MAUDE

NO FIRM date has been fixed for further talks on the Ford talks pay claim, it emerged after an 'exploratory' meeting be- tween the company and the for a reply, the union leaders are unions on Thursday. Loat cos to be the case -and, incidentally, Despite the union leaders' the Tories plenty of time giving assurance that they will press of the to aeciae men poncy. claim regardless Tory pay-control law, they are Ford is on the Tories relying clearly anxious not to force a to give it an argument for pitch- will certainly confrontation. ing its ofer low. It nOT aole to plead poverty Both in 1969 and 1971 Ford's since after record car sales it is convert year's naa repilea to the unions clalms expected last this precedent i mid-January. £30m loss into a -£30m profit precedent followed, the company's reply should be given Final figures are due out in at the meeting the May. national joint negotiating com- mittee on anuary 26 ONE OF DISTILLERS two Lon- This would enable the com- don distribution centres was at a pany to take account of the gov- Fifty ernment's phase two pay legisla- slanasull yesterddy. tion, of which mainly drivers and loaders shape expected to be announced before the Larkswood SUNKe parliament Chingford, Essex, centre over a reassembles on January 22.

£/ pay rise nartea Dy ine govern• By not insisting on a firm date ment's wage-control legislation.

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at Ford's Halewood, Liverpool, Iac- tory are to return to work on Monday to allow a union inquiry into work reallocation plans.

The company has started a four-phase rationalization of arrangements in its working paint, trim and assembly division at Halewood, and on Wednesday 1,700 night-shift workers walked out over phase one. Particularly on the trim line, where the dispute started on Wednesday, workers fear that the rationalization is a threat to jobs. There was uproar several times during a mass meeting yes- terday when some stewards tried to play down these fears.

The meeting condemned Ford's ruthless action in implementing changes in working methods without consultation, but a maj- ority of those present went on to accept the stewards' return- pend- to-work recommendation ing the result of the inquiry.

Some 2,000 workers failed to report for work to attend yes.

terday's meeting.

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said engineering trade group, yesterday that his members were quite inflamed' by the govern- ment's directive to the British Gas Corporation. They wanted negotiations on claim 'substantial' their immediately reinstated, he said At Tuesday's meeting with Industry Minister Tom Boardman, reiterated the directive, who Crispin pointed out that during the 1961 pay pause the then Tory premier, Harold Macmillan, had declared it would be illegal' for the government to give such a directive. Boardman's reply was that each particular case had to be con- sidered on its merits. • The basic rate for labourers in the gas industry is £19.10 for a 40-hour week, excluding earned bonus. Craftsmen are on a basic of £22.87. Earnings are, respec- tively, £4 and £6 lower than of equivalent grades in those electricity supply. aday January 6, 1973 last year and "The FOOD prices have jumped be and tween per cent Warns: "The outlook does during the month of the freeze, according "The Grocer so favourable to Ministry of magazine. The latest issue records huge received nearly 600 ap for food price increa Provember-December perlod.

increases during the onset of the free applications would Fresh meat increased 5.9 per veretables provide evidence that cent on average, 3.21 per cent, fish 8.03 per of basic food ingres 13.44 per cent, food manufacturers cent, eggs by. tinuing to rise. 13.04 per and fruit by cent They processed meat by 1.I3 say that some per increases cost cent. The food index is now up import levies designed 8.4 per cent on where it stood British prices

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

SHOP STEWARDS at Thorn Radio Valves and Tubes Ltd, Sunderland, met last night to consider further action on their demand that the firm dismiss two men who have left their unions. The factory is at present on half production because of an overtime ban.

Convenor Barney McGorrigan said. yesterday: 'We were told by the management that we seem to be prepared to run the factory into the ground over these two men. *But we replied that the management seemed to be prepared to do the same thing and that the only working would be way to get a return to normal to strike these men off the payroll.'

Are workers refuse to mark alride the tad (ex-AUEW) non-unionists-Joseph Terence Canavan (ex-G&MWÜ)-and they will not have them back in the union.

Nor will they accept that they should be sus- pended on full pay-they want Young and Canavan dismissed. The men have threatened to go to the National Industrial Relations Court.

The amount recently won in an industrial injuries case for Mr Canavan by the G&MWU (see yesterday's Workers Press) was £1,200.

George Rayner, G&MWU convenor and branch deputy convenor Sam Hood told and secretary, Workers Press: 'The men are 100 per cent behind the leader- ship. The two who resigned their unions say that they want to unite the unions in the factory.

But what they've done is what Heath and the capitalist government want them to do.

'If they had any problems with should have we are not going to the unions they have a golden handsha come to us first. Chrysler here. ‹The one from the G&MWU 'Many will jump on only recently won a substantial That's wagon. amount of money for an indus- Industrial Relations A trial claim fought for by the No matter what

G&MWU.

In this the case say we are not going G&MWU spent £1,000. the Act. We will giv 'He also could have been paid price. The spirit of t off by the company for medical very high' reasons, but the union in the After yesterday's factory fought on his behalf to meeting, the two keep his job at full wages of two union officials we £32.32 for 37} hours a week.

representatives of Tho 'As far as we are concerned, ment from London. A COURT order c Dublin offices of Provi Fein is expected to b this weekend. Branch Chief John Fl ELECTRICIANS walked off the in October he £230m Anchor site steel project in Kevin premises at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. as Blessington Street, Di 6.500 steel workers returned to being used by an ille work after 'suspending' their 12.

zation. dav-old dispute for 28 days. The electricians' 350 strike is over

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a 15 per cent cutback in man- chairman and managi power and redundancy pay.

of the General Electri died in October, age SHOP STEWARDS from Coles £452,830 gross, Cranes to hold public a are (duty £228.90l). in hi meeting at 10 a.m. on Monday lished yesterday. He Steels Club, Sunderland. at the thousand pounds to cl Some 2,000 men are on strike the remainder to relat claiming that the management has tried to get rid of existing November HULL district commi work In agreements. Amaleamated Union o the company announced that it ing Workers has dem was going to dismiss 300 work- orders. national ers because of a drop in the indefinite believe that this is a national The men defence of the union i 'preliminary figure' and will of of further action b lead the entire closure to against the union by t the plant. Hundreds of men have Relations picketed the gates turning away Industrial engineers' strike p. scores of vans and trucks.

higher Common Market levels.

Meat in December "The Grocer' astonishing 34.95 per 'the of bread. sprice

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ok does not look magazine, must increase in the than in December

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1971 future of Britain Agriculture has In cer linds have rly 600 applications "The Grocer' that demanded action by the govern- prices were 7.5 pe cent higher ice increases since freeze. These at the end of 1972 than 12 higher because of the even Market. months previous. Common appear the costs increases recorded during priz, There were ional Federation president of 6,075 National of to the ingredients said that live- con- any 625 05 comparea wild ale ing 1971. The biggest rise came stock auction prices which parity with in the fresh food sector, already gained that some of these are due exempt from the freeze, process that the bec prices a 13.99 said would where prices went up government sly take place up to 199l- s designed to bring in line with per cent in 1972. A CONVENOR at a Mid- he was not a union mem- fined." lands factory has broken The other eight would ber. Wallens- -who worked at he added Union of ba- go Amalcamated asked Wilkes gineering Workers' policy Grazebrook for six weeks claims he was is claiming dam-

AUEW

and attended indus- last year- not breaking

LWO

trial tribunal hearings was tha icy. despite Press reports to the missal by the firm. the would 'snowball' case Many he did not Contrary. HeWS papers yesterday "This is helping us in Wilkes, IaN He Reg way; he stories saying eight Graze- said. AUEW convenor at M&W, every Wilkes how- orook workers were ro ellied. summoned to appear before ever, that the local district ing firm at Dudley. the tribunal pain of a secretary of the union had Wilkes said yesterday not been informed "ane that his of the Indus Their reports of Wed- either the his de- case trial Relations Act had in Bir. attend

ASON

gone unnoticed. He had in mingham read as tribunal. fact attended the Birming- stewards had been present spokesman for the ham tribunal Wednes on Wolverhampton and that Tnts

WAC

of AUEW policy. Articles the

AUEW

confirmed this ady. The has forecasted a big clash with heen to be the t is con. brought by a former crane the court. sistent with the union's driver at the plant, George But Wilkes policy attend,' told me not to he yesterday: walleng that shop stewards and workers have attended It's a policy reached by ings agreement with workers in two puL Dressure her re- ment to sack him because refuse the union and that's it.'

•to going to let them n handshake. It's no the because elations Act. what the Tories going to accept give in at no THE NEW Viking 'supergun', from CS gas to signal flares as.

well as conventional shot.

pirit of the men is for which police forces all over Britain clamouring, has It can kill with the accurac stewards' of a rifle at ranges been in the hands of County It costs 680 and was de two convenors and yards. Durham police for almost were to meet signed specifically for British year. res of Thorn manage- police work by a Yorkshire firm The gun can fire anything which describes it as self- contained weapons system.

Chief Harry overntendeni closing the workers from Lucas

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Clarke, head of weapon-training s of Provisional Sinn Industrial Equipment at Fazaker- for Durham Constabulary, says: Liverpool, 'yesterday decided renewed ley, all 'We have had a Special seek means possible of movement' these guns for almost a year. In the trade union of the get * 30 factory working have some We Street The workers have most sophisticated systems and again. Dublin, for techniques in the country.'

been laid WATe pilor weeks by an illegal organi- because the CAV Fazarike strike Northumberland against closure at CAV the ley, which occupies same Viking for about six months.

Were site. the

CAV

occupation

GAMAGE,

former *The great thing about it from d managing director committee to allow sunnies into he said, 'is its weaken ral Electric Co, who it would seriously our point of view. their fight to defend 1,000 jobs.

tremendous accuracy. aged £444,265 net 'If we have to fire a weapon in 01), in his a public place we have to make will pub- LEWISHAM, London, branch of day. He left several the National Association of Local innocent by- pertain that unds to charities and standers are hurt. Government Officers is asking the er to relatives. union's 1,600 branches to take "The weapon itself is basically the thalidomide affair with a short-barrelled shot-gun. It can committee of the any of their employers—-in town fire CS cartridges, through a bar- d union of engin the halls and other public services- ricade if necessary? has demanded that who have used superannuation call funds to shares in Dis- executive acquire is asking for stoppage he union in the event the names of holders of shares details of the holdings and to

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union by the National se returned to them and is urg- PrinCipham Plouch Press Court. See ing other TUC-affiliated unions 1806 do the same