Workers Press no. 970

workers press

TORIES ABOLISH ANOTHER BASIC RIGHT

FREE WAGE

NECOTIATION

BY STEPHEN.

THE TALKS between the TU cabinet have settled only one on wages in Britain are at an ernment will publish its plans.

what wages they can and can will mean fines or jails.

Such is the challenge that faces the entire trade union movement under Phase Two of the so called anti-inflation policy. Beyond Phase Two looms Phase Three. Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber confirmed two things when he spoke after Thursday's summit with the unions. • There would be no return ever to the days before autumn when workers had the right to take action to defend their living standards. • No new legislation would be needed for Phase Three - in other words the penalties for exercising the basic right to fight for higher wages will remain. This policy is nothing less than a Tory conspiracy to which the TUC chiefs are willing partners.

Barber says this attack on basic rights is needed to stop inflation. But it is the Tories themselves who have encouraged the enormous inflationary rise in food and raw material imports.

At the end of June 1972, they floated the pound. This meant devaluation and a 10-per-cent in- crease in the price of imports.

This sent British prices rocket- ing:. at a stroke. The pound devalued was because the City and the respect- able banks unloaded £207m sterling in the three months before June. Add to this the activities of the commodity exchange sharks and the mysterious men who profit from record meat prices and you have the culprits res- ponsible for inflation-the government and the capitalist class themselves. But what is Barber going to do about this 'scandal'. The answer is nothing. He o said on Thursday: 'Of course we have always made it clear rises in the cost of our imports of food and raw materials and so on are outside the control of any government.' As 'The Times' blatantly con- cluded yesterday, Barber's state- ment meant: "There will clearly be no direct control over food prices within the scope of the system.' The essence of the conspiracy is therefore plain. The Tories will let inflation rip. Prices will soar and the living standards of the working class will be driven down. Those who resist will face a barrage of corporatist legis-

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 1973• No 970 €

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAB

EPHEN JOHNS

the TUC leaders and the Tory ily one thing-free negotiations at an end. Next week the gov- is plans. These will tell workers and cannot have. Disobedience

NO FREEZE

HEATH MUST GO

Sparks march over pay hold up - see p. 12.

MIDLAND Cold Storage, rounding the store could had been lighter in recent part of the Vestey meat be solved. weeks. empire, is not to go ahead Vestey's move is a signal This was one of the with its complaint the to the unions named to in reasons he thought a ges- Rela- National Industrial company une colo all CUTe tions Court over dockers might help East End and the National Midland lodged its com picketing its Stevedores depot. Amalgamated plaint on November 20 picketing Company chief Edmund and Dockers' Union, that prolonged after Vestev London said vesterdav the reopen who •ockers firm was taking the step to negotiations. against the use of were 'create a better atmosphere' spokesman non-registered dock labour Company in which the problems sur- said picketing at the depot in the depot.

UNDER

the guise of The campaign has been be 'of general interest'- 'educational Vigorous ProsTa mes Barculary aSK. the Tory Party is recruiting marginal seats. should be the most impor 'What you think in Tory Party chairman Lord the grammar schools and universities. Carrington said in a letter tant aims of the country as a whole over Senior ministers have yesterday that the Tory the next five lecturing years and why? Please give been not, and

SIXTH

semians nave formers and then asking will not, be used for re- reasons. them to fill In 'Somebody has to personal cruitment to the party. help carry out these aims. Would forms which But Workers Press has a normalon then filed at the Tory of the questionnaire you, for example, be willing are copy Tory to help? which the Party headquarters. Ministers The Tories are thus able hand out at the end of If that's not a recruiting send literature to the offer, then we don't know to each class. students who finai two questions are able Whats vote when they turn 18. -which are supposed to • Full story p. 2. APo No 970 • 4p

ST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE 'Grocer' magazine reports 220 food price rises in the last week and the weekly says food bill is increasing at twice the rate of the average -in- crease last year. The editor has government's said that the price control policy is 'a joke'.

Since it was introduced, "The Grocer' has recorded 384 price increases-all permitted by the Minister of Agriculture. This week's is the highest weekly total of increases since the 'control' policy began. It includes canned meats, sausages, cooked meats and slicing meats roast pork, pressed bacon like and brisket. Yesterday John Brewster, chairman of Smithfield Market's Fresh Meat Traders' Association, forecast that beef prices would until the late continue to rise summer of 1975. By that time, said Mr Brewster, there would be 'beef-intervention' buying by a UK beef support board. But, he continued: "The price at which the government will intervene will be greater than the present price that everybody is saying is dear.' A BBC review of Britain's holiday hotels and restaurants discovered 80 that more than per cent will put up their prices this year, some by as much as 65 per cent. of the hotels Three-quarters will add at least 20 percent to holiday-makers' bills. Even hotels their basic rates will not raising have to add 10 percent when VAT is introduced in April.

This totally contradicts a soothing forecast from the English Tourist Board that 1973 prices would not go up by more than 10-15 per cent. Socialist Labour League North West Rally

FORCE THE TORY

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY!

SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

The Everyman, Hope Street,

LIVERPOOL

•

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) In a personal capacity: CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards)

-BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee)

workers press

TORIES ABOLISH ANOTHER BASIC RIGHT

FREE WAGE

NECOTIATION

BY STEPHEN

THE TALKS between the TU cabinet have settled only one on wages in Britain are at an ernment will publish its plans.

what wages they can and can will mean fines or jails.

Such is the challenge that faces the entire trade union movement under Phase Two of the so called anti-inflation policy. Beyond Phase Two looms Phase Three. Tory Chancellor Anthony Barber confirmed two things when he spoke after Thursday's summit with the unions. • There would be no return ever to the days before autumn when workers had the right to take action to defend their living standards. • No new legislation would be needed for Phase Three- in other words the penalties for exercising the basic right to fight for higher wages will remain. This policy is nothing less than a Tory conspiracy • to which the TUC chiefs are willing partners.

Barber says this attack on basic rights is needed to stop inflation. But it is the Tories themselves who have encouraged the enormous inflationary rise in food and raw material imports.

At the end of June 1972, they floated the pound. This meant devaluation and a 10-per-cent in- crease in the price of imports. This sent British prices rocket- ing ... at a stroke. The devalued pound was because the City and the 'respect- able' banks unloaded £207m of sterling in the three months before June. Add to this the activities of the commodity exchange sharks and the mysterious men who profit from record meat prices and you have the culprits res- ponsible for inflation-the government and the capitalist class themselves. But what is Barber going to do about this 'scandal'. The answer is nothing. He said on Thursday: "Of course we have always made it clear rises in the cost of our imports of food and raw materials and so on are outside the control of any government.' As 'The Times' blatantly con- cluded yesterday, Barber's state- ment meant: 'There will clearly be no direct control over food prices The essence of the conspiracy is therefore plain. The Tories will let inflation rip. Prices will soar and the living standards of the working class will be driven down. Those who resist will face a barrage of corporatist legis-

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JANUARY 13, 1973 • No 970 •

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABI

EPHEN JOHNS

the TUC leaders and the Tory ily one thing—free negotiations • at an end. Next week the gov s plans. These will tell workers and cannot have. Disobedience

NO FREEZE

HEATH MUSTGO

Sparks march over pay hold up — see p. 12.

part of the vess Storage, rounding the store could had been lighter in recent the Vestey part be solved. illcal eih its complaint to ene Vestey's move is a signal This was one of the with complaint the named unions he thought a ges- reasons Rela company Wallonel Sarans LUTe tions Court over dockers Pion era Warions! might help. East and Midland lodged its com- picketing its End National Stevedores depot. Amalgamated plaint November 20 Company chief Edmund and Dockers' Union, that prolonged picketing after Vester said vesterdav reopen dockers

"CONCON

firm was taking the step to were against the use of negotiations. spokesman create a better atmosphere' non-registered dock labour collarly in which the problems sur- said picketing at the depot in the depot.

UNDER

the of The campaign has been guise be of general interest'- 'educational proarammes. vigorous the Tory Party is recruiting marginal seats. "What do you think in Tory Party chairman Lord should be the most impor- grammar schools and universities. Carrington said in a letter tant aims of the country as a whole next five Senior ministers have yesterday that the Tory the over been lecturing years and why? Please give Semilin formers and then asking will not, be used for re reasons. them to fill the 'Somebody has to personal cruitment to help carry out these aims. Would forms which But Workers Press has a filed at the Tory of the questionnaire you, for example, be willing are then copy to help?' Party headquarters. which the Tory The Tories are thus able hand out at the end of If that's not a recrulting literature to then we don't know send the each class. offer, who are final two questions students vote when they turn 18. -which are supposed 10 • Full story p. 2. No 970 • 4p

ST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE 'Grocer' magazine reports week says the weekly food bill is increasing at twice the rate of the average in- crease last year. The editor has said that the government's price control policy is 'a joke'.

Since it was introduced, The Grocer' has recorded 384 price increases—all permitted by the Minister of Agriculture. This week's is the highest weekly total of increases since the 'control' policy began. It includes canned meats, sausages, cooked meats and slicing meats like roast pork, pressed bacon and brisket. Yesterday John Brewster, of Smithfield Market's chairman Fresh Meat Traders' Association, forecast that beef prices would continue to rise until the late summer of 1975. By that time, said Mr Brewster, there would be 'beef-intervention' support buying by a UK beef board. But, he continued: 'The price at which the government will will be intervene than greater the present price that everybody is saving is dear.' A

BBC

review of Britain's holiday hotels and restaurants discovered more than 80 that per cent will put up their prices this year, some by as much as 65 per cent. Three-quarters of the hotels will add at least 20 per cent to holiday-makers' bills. Even hotels their basic rates will not raising have to add when 10 per cent VAT is introduced in April.

This totally contradicts forecast from prices would not go up by more than 10-15 per cent. Socialist Labour League North West Rally

FORCE THE TORY

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

BUILD THE

PARTY!

SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

The Everyman, Hope Street,

LIVERPOOL

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) In a personal capacity: CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards)

•BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee)

Union bosses will do Pay Board's work PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday January 13, 1973

BY ALÉX MITCHELL

THE TORY PARTY yesterday conducted another 'non-political' seminar for sixth formers at South- ampton. The subject was Europe (read Common Market) and the speakers included Mr Peter Kirk, leader of the Tory delegation to the European Parlia- ment, and local Tory MP, Mr James Hill.

Hill's Test division of Southampton is a marginal constituency. It was held by a Labour MP, Robert Mitchell, until the 1970 General Election. Also speak- ing to the students yesterday with the Tories was Mr P. Lloyd, marketing manager of United Biscuits.

In 1971 this group, which controls over 30 per cent of the biscuit and cake market in Britain, gave £5,000 to British United Industrialists.

BUI is a fund-raising body for the Tory Party. Workers of knowing what was said by these Press has no way gentlemen in the Southampton classrooms yesterday. But it can be safely assumed that pro-Market propaganda was if reeled off and Lloyd talked about high prices, he blamed the workers for it.

The Tories have been secretly engaged in this political work since last November when a campaign, co-ordinated by Tory Cabinet and Central Office, went the into operation. The man in charge of the operation is Mr John Selwyn Tory MP Gummer (33), Lewisham West. He for was formerly of the Federation of chairman Conservative Students and made his living as a journalist.

On November 2 senior Tories spoke pupils in Hampstead Middlesbrough; November 16 and Ilford; November 27 Oxford; December 1 Cardiff, Bristol, Bolton, Middleton and ., Prestwich; December Gravesend, Exeter, Taunton; December 12 and Chatham, Rochester Steven- Hemel Hempstead, Welwyn Garden City. age, All these localities are im- portant because most are seats narrowly won by the Tories in 1970. It the political was recruiting at Stevenage brought the Tories' which activities to light. On this the occasion main speaker was the With characteristic arro- Education Minister, the cultured' junior 'very Sance Mr Norman St Mr St John Stevas John has Stevas, is honorary brushed aside the demands who vice president of the for his resignation. Federation of Conservative He described the Labour Students. allegations as a storm in a St John Stevas, who is in teacup'. favour of registering The Tories their and student unions in the same Press backers are deliber- way as trade unions are ately keeping quiet about registered under the In- this insidious campaign in dustrial Relations Act, is the schools. a fanatical Roman Catholic who became noted for his Workers Press has been parliamentary one - man told — Tory head- and against abortion campaign has confirmed— quarters reform. that at the end of each seminar a two-page fool- In his first public appear- questionnaire is ance after his promotion to scap handed to every student. Heath's education ministry, Stevas was booed St John These begin with name, and catcalled by students address and date of birth. at the North London Poly- technic. Then the students are in- He has warned vited to reply to a series of since This is a sample students that if they 'mis- questions. behave' their grants will be from the questionnaire: cut or scrapped altogether.

• Do you think by con- In his speech to the tinuing your education you Stevenage students in are likely to benefit or lose St ohn Stevas November, in the long term? spoke on Tory education policy. • Would prefer to It was a straight case of you Two rent or own your own campaigning. olitical home? said his con- Labour MPs duct involved degree of • Would you be prepared impropriety which made it 'a sacking matter'. to spend an hour or SO THE NIXON adminis- council is to be set up to de whether the existing wage ceil tration still intends to should be modified. hold down wages despite This body will include s prominent labour bureaucrats the ending of the Pay Meany, George Leonard Wo Board after 17 months' Frank cock, Fitzsimmons I. W. Abel, who once expres operation. In his message to Congress he said the aim was to modify the present system 'so that it relies to a greater extent on NUCLEAR war against North Vietnam cannot be voluntary co-operation in mak- ing reasonable price and wage ruled out, said William Clements, the man decisions'. nominated as President The present 5.5 per cent wage Nixon's deputy Defence limit applied by the Pay Board Secretary. is be taken 'as a guide to to He made the state- appropriate maximum wage in- ment at a hearing of the creases'. The Administration re- Senate Armed Forces serves the right to impose man- added Committee, but event of datory controls in the that he would not neces. this limit being exceeded.

sarily favour such 'It all depends on With the co-operation of the move. the circumstances,' he trade union bureaucracy, wage held added. increases can be down The President of the labour forthcoming contracts West German Red Cross while business has raise prices were Walter Bargatzky liberty to St ex- pressed 'deep concern' 15 points on the Dow jumped Tones index when the new pay at such a statement by a responsible official. and price policy became known.

A labour-management advisory ?....?..?...** . . . .

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

FRANCO'S SPAIN: is soon to establish dipto- matic relations with East Germany. Negotiations begun last November and Decemter were Helsinki during the preliminary exchanges for the Security and Co- Conterence of European cperation. Reports in the Madrid Press indicate that this would mean an exchange of ambassadors and would.

open the way for diplomatic ęlations with the rest of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

General Franco showed his appreciation of his new- the Stalinist found friendship with wal cauaiak. Year message in New de we conco unes ovenin: the of the ee first . public acknowledgement by the of ties with Comecon (the Franco existence eastern bloc's BEC) countries.

agreements have been bulding up for «ommerciat many years and have proved very useful to the fascist in the supply of coal Poland to break icellic, Strikes Dy Asturian mıners in 1969-1970 Bulgarian Vice MiniSıe™ Razgolov Tuesday he signed a protocol agreement with Counci of Spanish Chambers president or the supreme Industry and Navigation. The protocol allows bilateral Spanish-Bulgarian com- naree or kclor-oreclon. Razgolov spent Wednesdav in the companv of Enriaue Fontana Codina, Spanish Minister of Commerce, dis- Codina at the trade is, of course, ussill pissatis. centre of the drive for the rationalization of industrv in Spain and the suppression of the working class.

WHILE fascist and Stalinist Ministers were wining and dinıng, Maaria students were ın connict with the police they protested against rapid reduction in their more each day travelling to : : "brochures and. political • The price of the student 'ticket for travelling on buses" has been increased this week by 150 per cent.

live in a more pleasant en- própaganda. vironment? ticket valid for 20 journeys now will cost 60p instead of The final question- 25p. 'Somebody nas hen • Meal prices in the university refectories have shot up a city town centre, carry out these aims? Would you, for by 40 per cent, by the equivalent of 8p a meal.

suburb or example, be

OULCI

help! the country! walle blatantly_aimed at recruit-. brief period. Wednesday, students demon- Which method of in- ing for the Tory Party...

strated trom the raculty of in the „LdW HULOROmOUS creasing. the number. University to the bus-park. Armed police stopped them houses for this area do you It also nas tne ımpllc- the secret from buses again, and police of ation of drawing up a scab est-building for the of Social Brigade Investigation collected in many similar that used sale ownei-occuoers. student idenuty caras. t'our arrests were made.

for councils rent, for in 1926. in the event of a privațe renting, or a com- General Strike. meetings of students in the Faculty of Law, ination? oner da the laris fa lees later voted to strike al- Workers Press has four against the demonstration. cui colo. *W en ready reported that Tory • Who do think is organized from the university to the centre. of Madrid: MPs with military back —a distance of six miles.

responsidle lor ponluton the industry, grounds have

UCCH SLULD

Jeep-loads drove demonstrators ine the salons or lie mode others! usullict and upper class asking for Who tor keen- the volanteers serve University set by the ing an acceptable The Autonomous was Franco government on the outskirts of Madrid in an level? Haliul. body students Tories The know that These filled-in forms are entral returned thev are facing a showdown central Ofice and fed ints Party's ine lascist regime, with the working class. computers. Bulgarian CP's sent recent 8th Con- aneir intervennon

WITD

the school They will play a key part only partly to students in constituency strategy.

•..in the traditions of proletarian internationalism'.

The Tories Spanish students-not to mention the many CP mem- can now seats. bombard these bers in Franco's jails-will wonder what kind of inter- youngsters the It is also trying to mobil- nationalism is involved in diplomatic recognition of the —allu

OLECE

WC OCN

of their family-with Tory ize its strike-breakers. Spanish regime and friendly visits.

German bank rate up up to decide opposition to pay controls. The exert downward on Di cosule

WEST

GERMANY

wage ciling trade union leadership ready wages. US capitalism intends to tull bacin to Nixon's has been forced to raise bank rate as in- give attack on the

SUCD

up is

WULK®

has The include such continued. with waze concy inlis mooeo tord.

mue cass Ine nelp o une ureaucrats as At the same time, cuts in trade union leaders. central bank increased the dis.

Wood- Federal spending will affect The task of bs beca es sui lending™ rate and the education and housing and create Party in becomes S ull a larger pool of unemployed. to more urgent in 1973. commercial banks went up from ice exoressed 6z to 7 per cent on Thursday.

Interest rates in Germany have been kept down to prevent of foreign monev Winlcn would force another mark re- valuation 'Such price German prevent, whatever the He is a graduate of a wi neren said 'would clearly con- Quaker reasons, even for the College which travene international red attended by Presl- Higher rates are also necessary self-determination of was to obtain funds for, investment.

HOS:

Tesellons bolin vatann. cet nion. military acts which make If he is convicted by Ihe money supply in Novem- goals not "Ine distinction between a court martial he could ber was 1› per cent up on the ustify the mass destruc year before and there had been civilian and tion and killing.' prison Hitlary Iwor cal big of The expansion credit. targets senanee He said that although

THE

who re cost-o1-lving naa risen o.) per fused to mission

CAMBODIAN

cent in a year. Sone arnde endo to troops bomb civilians in North North Vietnam sutiered a heavy ovel nave Vietnam, this attitude 27, December Captain defeat enclave Michael Heck, has at- was not typical. east of the Mekong the and He said there tacked war was river and have been not so much emotional

MORE FOREIGN

o•Ha• Tol ocer to erec olesue• North conscientious objector. Vietnamese nolenend Heck, who had adready heavily-defended targets we e being attacked. 175 raids, said: Heavy casualities are flown on NEWS p.12 1 came to ine «erIRIOR Cabala Hee. aamitea In ine lgnting creates an holds many decorations, and a nalle of omne the US Air Force joined fallen greater than anything is trying North 'Vietnamese. Ih oO.

Higher building societies rate A HIGHER investment rateup from 5} per cent to 5.6 per cent —was recommended yesterday by the council of the Building Soc- ¡eties' Association member to societies. No change was recom- mended in the 8.5 per cent home loan rate. The widely-forecast increase from February 1-has become necessary because of the increase in the general level of interest rates, particularly, the higher yields offered by • various forms of national savings, said the council. HUNDREDS of night-shift v Morris car assembly factory staged a five-hour sit-in, whi hours of yesterday morning.

The factory management had told them to go home at midnight because of a involving paint- dispute sprayers. But after a mass meeting the men decided to stay in the factory. On Thursday 1,750 work- ers were laid off after 40 sprayers had been sent home. The sprayers have been in- sisting that they put on pro- tective clothing and prepare

CINEMA TECHNICIANS'

leaders may challenge the organization of an audit of union membership in fac- tories belonging to Kodak, the £62m photographic giant.

The Association of Cinema- tograph, Television and Allied Technicians, it is believed, is likely to claim that the way the audit has been organized inevitably makes it appear that lower in union strengths are particular areas of the factories than they really are. Since the unions at this stage claiming recognition rights are for areas rather than the fac- tories as a whole, the issue is of crucial importance. The audit, which was agreed SHARES in English China Clays have received a boost on the stonouncement of lord an tal stock markets results. A gain of 7p after the official close of stock markets wiped out an earlier loss to leave the shares 2tp higher at 19p. English China Clays reported a jump of almost £2.5m in profits pre-tax peak of to a new £14,219,000, despite losses of more than £900,000 at one off- shoot, Sydney Green and Sons (Contractors). The freeze forced the direc- tors to shelve plans to lift the final dividend to 8} per cent. It is held at 64 per cent to make a same again total for the year to Workers Prass, Saturday January 19, 1973 PAGE 3 union. The platform will

FLINTSHIRE

County for & 24-hour stoppage ers in London. A fur- be given to the Shotton Council is to next Friday in protest ther demonstration arrange workers' of TUC the closure threat planned for March I.

COLICIICC

SHIPYARD

workers have Confederation

O TSA

Witcn Ine stoppage will cul-

CNO OO

Industry loss of 6,500 If demonstra- retention of steel mak- walked out at Falmouth minate MPs, march by ing their plant distric the tion yard, al repair Cornwalli place, woud be th LiverDoo dispute fall-back Aur bener Dlene.

WOKAN

AI brebenil over pay. bid prevent the frst ever complete stop- held jointly with mem- the committee is stick- The strike will delay work on the bers ing to its policy of step- closure steel- page at the WOrkS a BP tanker, 'British Dragoon', ping production devannan which is in for 17 days for Shotton steel works. ing Workers protesting the Shotton works In ¿ Neoneon ted work on her boilers. has also prelimi- the bid to persuade the Re- chiefs Shotton works' action National Industrial steel keep The tanker first BP plans for a demon- the the

LCAY

Silley Court On steelmaking in the town vessel to use yard, coniatted straulon Dy Sed aDea

TONTE

Cox and Company nine BP months тер- LolllaLio 1101 Fal- resentec pel ceni The industrial scene mouth's turnover in 1971 BP's managing director, Mr David Gresham recently express , that Falmouth would cu lue nost 'pull itself together' was referring to the trial struggles port and condition verr wrel wa cen came under attack. Mr Wilf Newton, illalldoll director of Silles BP been hard tc flch oos because uneas • Deel slow. Within minutes Wednesday's mass walk-out had the BP treight manage telephone demanding Tn er explanation.' t-shift workers at the Austin- 01-622 7029 factory Cowley, Oxford, at in, which ended in the early Aorial viem of the assambty plam 01-720 2000 at Cowley. their equipment during normal at the factory, due shortly, the company is expected to attempt

WUKUC NOUS.

Management attempted to far-reaching attack force clock.on earlier working ng conditions-con- and clock later than

LIIC

Catalite Lotre paruculariy in order do the principle that any Solitt changes must be agreed with In its reply to the unions' the betore implement. big, new pay claim for workers ation. BETWEEN 8,000 and 10,000 railwaymen's jobs in Scotland could be lost if the Tory government applies the pruning plan recently 'leaked' in the Press, claims Mr John Matheson, Scottish Officer of the National Union of Railwaymen.

'The fact that the plan is being studied by every Scotand north o government depart- the Forth-Clyde valley is vulner- men secret alves sone able. Even the Glasgow electric cause for alarm,' said Matheson. ser vice. luscuolcy. The public meeting tee pocat ste egie cind to will be neld Scotland's position would be in Glasgow today to start a cam- point

BY A WORKERS PRESS

strongly the paigr transport plan for WOrSt ourel area Decause will delaued necouauons Wnlea

CORRESPONDENT

the grant-aided element there was follow the audit. •collanc higher, he said. And Transport Kodak never recognized a Peyton lles Said Matheson: 'If the present Minister Mr John had Kodak

TOO N

CTLS

macrones. preterrin! approach berween ane cne to negotiate before the Industrial conunued-looking never denied that the pian leakec committee, organization started at railway lines with some time ago to the Press was Relations Act force came into on Wednesday. Already the accountancy approach being studied by his department. through system engineers', su-called electricians allu Representative Com- vvorkers eaoaca trace Inlons nave mittees. submitted their claimed member- Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally When it became clear that the ship lists the auditors. It was would not be eligible for

FORCE THE TORY

ACTT's turn yesterday afternoon.

registration under the Act, Workers ACTT's objections under. Union Kodak are

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

the fact stood to hinge on that which promptly emercea. leais. the and departments way tered. have split for the een The

UKW,

TUC

BUILD THE

DUL-

which the of the audit. large numbers DUSeS realv UNOus of administrative staff are lumped

REVOLUTIONARY

dependent, appointed has lUST together with the manual grades.

Associated Television This, officials believe, manager and ex-official some personnel

PARTY!

could make their membership of the Commission on Incustlldi Relations, Albert Sullivan, as neures ua adese dades aooear sess significant than they actually are.

full-time general secretary. SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near Leeds station),

LEEDS

the end of September of 10t per National and Grindlays

DOUK

Aldington, close cent. friend of Heath, director of the firm is Lord was former roware Aldington, chairman of the Port deputy chairman of the Tory

FILM: THREE YEARS

Authority London and Party.

OF WORKERS PRESS

SIXTY-FOUR dockers and coal The acceptance of the £4,000 'handshake' trimmers employed by the Port its own Speakers : nas created problems on Tyneside. of Tyne Authority have so far G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) authority has just launched accepted voluntary severance PAUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialists) calliDalkn Iccrult the ones-Ald- Dayuliculs unutr labour! In personal capacity: Incion lecorl. It is

GEORGE LUBY (U.P.W.)

understood the National And another 20 will go by the Dock Labour Board has approved

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

recruitment dock force of 17 sw primmes supplementary whe ure ceacde ror mne scneme expires on February

BELFAST TEENAGERS

BRUTALIZED BY THE ARMY

PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday Janur Fresh evidence has sur- faced of youngsters being tortured in Northern Ire- land. They are being rounded up by the army on any pretext and forced to give information about the location of IRA arms dumps. If they fail to co-operate- and most of them have-they are dropped in Loyalist areas where they face further brutality or even execution.

Reports of these incidents have been prepared by the Association for Legal Justice and complaints have been laid before Ulster Secretary Wil- liam Whitelaw. Not surpris- ingly, Whitelaw has done nothing about it. Father Denis Faul of Dun- ganon, County Tyrone, who has been responsible for revealing much of the torture treatment in the prisons and internment camps, has drawn attention to one fully-documented case. It concerns Peter Burgoine (18) of the Andersonstown district of Belfast. He was arrested two weeks ago by members of the King's Own and Scottish Borderers and taken to Fort Monagh. He was stripped to the waist and made to stand in a container of water outside the fort while a rifle was pointed at his heart.

On his release one of the soldiers wanted to take Bur- goine to the Shankill Road and day January 13, 1973 hand him over to a Loyalist gang, Father Faul said. In a letter to the Labour Party spokesman on Northern Ire- land affairs, Mr Merlyn Rees, Faul also documents other incidents in which the army has threatened that if the victim went to the media he would be re-arrested and dumped in Loyalist areas.

Workers Press has received documented cases of this sort of incident from two other youths. We reproduce their statements which were wit- nessed by JPs.

SEAN ARMSTRONG

(14), Beechmount, Belfast, said: arrested by the was Royal Green Jackets at in Beechmount 4.45 p.m. Avenue on Sunday, September 10 last. was accused writing slogans on the walls.

In fact these slogans had been written on the walls about a week previous by someone else. My hands were examined by the soldiers for traces of paint, but none was found. I was put into the Saracen together with three other boys, to Broadway Military taken Post, interrogated and -beaten severely and at one point I was thrown down the stairs.

They followed me down again and trailed me up by the jerkin (one arm of which has been badly ripped). against the I was put up wall and severely beaten, and an intelligence officer (wearing blue football jersey, white putties, army trousers, tall, fair and protruding eyes) ....% threatened to throw us friends and is out to the UDA at Woodvale because they said they had connections with them. They then said: 'This is last chance to tell us your where the guns and the bomb factories are' I said: 'I don't know? After this I was brought down to the washroom. The soldiers said: 'Start swimming'.

He was referring to a flooded floor. He told me to bend my head down and start walking to join the other three. I was brought out. My aunt appeared she said to the at the gate and soldier: "'He is only 14.' was then released. GERARD MURRAY, a Beech- mount bricklayer and BRIAN

AUSTIN,

from Beech- also mount and still at school, are both 16. They had this to say: were arrested about 4.45 p.m. at Beechmount Avenue on Sunday, October 9, 1972, by the 3rd Battalion Royal Green Jackets. We were accused of painting slogans on the walls when in fact they had been painted over a week ago. Our hands were examined for traces of paint but none were found. We were taken, along with Broadway two others, to Military Post. When we went to the military post we were photographed, asked questions about the family, etc. We were taken out (three together) into a room (about six soldiers). We were put up against the wall finger-tip position, ankles kicked, backs were thumped. We were taken out of this and interrogated by room Special Branch (three in all- Special Branch, one two soldier). The Special Branch asked us did we know any gunmen or bomb did we know of any factories. We said 'No.' We were brought down to what seemed to be a wash- room. One of the soldiers said he was the brother of a soldier who was shot in the area. They asked us to fight them and we said: You will probably beat us, meaning that there were two or more of them. In this washroom we were severely beaten by the soldiers.

We were made to do about 100 press-ups. We did these with breaks in between-say about 20-25 a time-but we had to do the lot, because when we stopped we got another beating.

We were brought up to the room we had been in before and asked more questions. We could not answer them so then a soldier said: 'We have con- nections with the UDA in Woodvale and they will prob- within an inch ably beat you of your lives? Two of the boys who were arrested with us were released, but we were taken by a Saracen to be delivered up to the UDA. At this point Gerard's mother, who was present in the barrack yard, asked if she could accompany us wherever they were taking us, soldier who was driving said: I don't know where we are going to', and he drove on. We were made to keep our heads down so that we could not see where we were going.

A soldier of the got out .. ! ... Above: Youth in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, hurt rocks at a passing armoured car. Saracen, came back about ten minutes later and said 'Get out' and when we got out there were two men waiting outside and we were duly handed over to them. The UDA took us through streets to an entry where we were blindfolded. We were then brought to a house where we were again interrogated and beaten with batons. A few times they threatened to kill us and threatened to put us in an electric chair. At point Tartan members one were allowed in for 15 minutes and they gave us another beat- ing. They added comments like: What prayers do you before you die?' They say asked us did we know who they were and . we were afraid to say we did that know who they were. They tried to make us believe they were the Officials from Leesan Street. We played along with this idea. Then, after some time, a man came in, spoke aside to one of the other men and said: "They might be all right to let go, because they think we are the IRA? Our hands were then tied behind our backs and we were brought out and thrown into We were then thrown a van. out into a different street.

We released ourselves and with the direction of a woman we found our way home. Note: The soldier asked us to sign a form saying we were not harmed and this before they actually did beat us.

The Press is western always prepared to pre- sent articles on the flight of Jews from the Soviet Union. Little is reported, however, on the return traffic. Yet a group of 93 Soviet encamped near Jews are in Austria, trying Vienna, desperately to regain entry.

All of them had fled the Soviet Union to make a new life in Israel. They now want to return home because they are critical of the economic in Israel and the system nationalism that exists there.

The impoverished group is living in a ramshackle Vienna tenement building some have there for been 18 months awaiting permission to travel home. They have had no reply to a telegram which they sent to the party leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Now they are con- sidering a hunger strike.

The refugees are now state- less. They gave up their Soviet citizenship to travel to Israel, but have stayed long not enough to gain Israeli pass- ports. They are totally depen- dent the goodwill of the on Austrian authorities. Until recently, fear of arrest, deportation or other reper- cussions has made them re- luctant to act or speak openly.

They have given interviews to reporters, but have not wanted Now, their names quoted. however, they have embarked on more drastic campaigning.

Mr Ruben Berman (56), told a correspondent: 'We all agree that we would sooner die than not return home. If they do not give approval soon, we Will act, no matter what the consequences.' One idea being canvassed is for some of them to travel to Czechoslovakia. A group of seven men and a woman pre- sented themselves at the Czech border last August, but were turned back. Mr Berman left the Soviet Union in December 1970 to join his sister in Israel. A trained electrician, he left his wife and 12-year-old son and married daughters. He three found, however, that he 'could not get along there' have no hate for Israel. But I made a mistake. I went there like a sheep along with the herd. I thought I could come back.' Mrs Lara Krais, a nurse from stranded in the Ukraine, is Vienna with her husband, Leon, and two sons, aged 16 and Il. 'I am ready to wait here for ten years if only I can get back. I am ready to go to any place in the Soviet Union.

But I am not interested in going back to any other country' She said she thought 90 per cent of the Soviet Jews now in Israel wonted to return home, but most lacked the money to repay the Israeli authorities for their immigra- • costs. She criticized the tion economic system and Israeli what she called the 'money- dominated society. Another woman, Mrs Hannah is Gutkova (68), also from the Ukraine, is living in the tenement with her 12-year-old grandson, Misha. His father died in Israel and his mother in Vienna. Mrs Gutkova has sent a personal petition to the Supreme Soviet asking for per- mission to re-enter. I have asked them to let me go and live with my son in the Ukraine. I am unable to work here. I have no money.

I am selling my belongings to live.' Among those trapped in Vienna are 40 Georgian Jews who come from very poor backgrounds. It is clear that many Jews forced to emigrate to Israel by the blatant anti-Semitism of the bureaucracy in the USSR, remain attached to the Soviet Union. As such their desire to return home is a tribute to Russian the gains of the Revolution and an indictment of the bureaucratic Kremlin clique which has usurped power from the hands of the working class. For the Jews' attraction to the Soviet Union is not, as they pointed out, just a long- ing to , 'go home' basis on a of nationalism. In Israel they found a society they did not like. It was a rotten outpost imperialism, run by big business, occupying Arab ter- ritory by force and cracking down on the working class.

The religious aspects of life in Israel were no more than a cover for the capitalist ex- ploitation which goes to make up Israel, as much as any other bourgeois state. In the Soviet Union, despite the distortions imposed by the oureaucracy, the gains of the 1917 Revolution are there for the working class - including the Jews-to see. The planned economy established • with the overthrow of capitalism has enabled the rapid development of the productive forces. Capitalism no longer exists there. The Stalinists in Moscow, on the other hand, only give grist to the anti-communists in the west. On one hand, they use anti- Semitism to create confusion among workers in order to prolong and perpetuate their privileges. On the other they dirty the name of communism by turning their backs on a number of former Soviet citizens who want to return. The Austrian group sent a telegram to Brezhnev con- gratulating the Communist Party and the Soviet people on the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union as a federal state.

It did not mention the words 'Jews' or 'Israel'. It said the signatories were 'citizens who are temporarily in Vienna' who were 'misled by Zionist pro- paganda and made a mistake.

It added: 'We want our children to be educated in the

USSR.'

• Asked about the plight of the stranded group, a spokes.

man for the Zionist agency which handles Jewish immi- to Israel said they gration were 'misfits'

BY TOM KEMP

In a Press statement issued last week, Georges Marchais, secretary of the French Communist Party pompidou for dec criticized Presi- dent, larations about the March 7 General Election at variance with his func- tions under the Constitu- tion. Marchais says that the Con- stitution lays down that 'national sovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it Imogn cel representauves.

His point that if the sup- IS porters of the common pro- of the left gramme win majority, Pompidou will have to call on its leaders to form and accept the policies upon which it decides.

In doing so Marchais im- plicitly endorses the Constitu- tion of the Fifth Republic, General after drawn up Gaulle took power in 1958, which is intended to strengthen the of the President powers and reduce those of the parlia- ment. It was, and is, a Bona- partist constitution. Workers Press, Satu It is based on the Bona- of the partist conception "strong state' in which de held the real power Gaulle himself and the parliamentary majority merely provided an endorsement for his policies.

The election of a 'left' gov- ernment would pose the ques- tion of the acceptance of this the Socialist Constitution by Communist and Parties. Marchais, in advance, is giving his guarantee of respect.

However, the election of a government pledged to the common programme would leave intact the powers written into the constitution for de Gaulle and now exercised by Georges Pompidou. He has the right to nominate the Prime Minister. not the elected National Assembly. In the event of a narrowly-fought election, this power would be decisive. A government once appointed by the President does not necessarily have to have the confidence of the National Assembly and, in theory, could rüle without it.

The President could dissolve the Assembly and call for new elections. In the last resort he could rule through emergency powers, which would amount to a 'coup d'état' from above, ress, Saturday January 13, 1973 PAGE 5 Napoleon like that of Louis Bonaparte in 1851. The powers which the President has and could use are not widely known or pub- licized at the moment because fear of dictatorship might turn against voters the many Gaullists. As for Marchais, his state- ment, like the common pro- gramme itself, evades the question of where sovereignty really resides, evades, that is to say, the fundamental ques- tion of power. It is based on acceptance of the Gaullist Constitution - with Pompidou as President.

does for the and not call abolition of the Gaullist Fifth Republic, which came into being as a result of de Gaulle's overthrow of the Fourth Republic in 1958. Marchais maintains a shat- tering silence on these ques- tions because he and his Socialist and Radical allies are not out to take power, but only to carry out a reform programme within the frame- work of bourgeois institutions.

Marchais' abject Hence appeal to Pompidou not to exercise an inadmissible pres- sure on the country's choice' and to act as a President and not as the leader of a party.

THE MEN OF THE SECOND I

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday January 13, 1973 'Political Profiles'. By Leon Trotsky. ( New Park Publi- Clapham cations, 186a High Street London SW4. £1.00 (paperback) pp 171.

BOOK REVIEW

Reviewed by Jack Gale Most of the political figures sketched in this are leading mem- book bers pre-World of the day January 13, 1973 War I European Social Democratic parties. Each of these parties was to undergo a complete op- portunist degeneration and to support its own ruling class in the im- perialist slaughter of 1914-1918. Yet the men Trotsky writes about here-men like Victor and Fritz Adler of Austria, Jean Jaurès of France and Paul Singer of Germany-were cer- tainly political giants com- pared with the Wilsons and Brandts of today. It should be remembered also that these were the 'great men' of the Socialist Inter- national - certainly far more internationally famous figures relatively unknown than the political journalist Leon Trot- sky, even though the latter had been chairman of the Petrograd Soviet in 1905.

Even so, Frotsky could see. of political traits and weaknesses in these leaders which were to come to tragic fruition in 1914. He speaks, for instance, of Victor Adler's 'scepticism' and of Jean Jaurès' world of 'the electoral pact, the parlia- mentary platform, the chal- lenging question, the oratorical duel, the backstage agreement at times the ambiguous and compromise' Despite this sharp percep- tion, prior to 1914 Trotsky- who was not at that time a Bolshevik-was still lenient in his criticisms. It is significant that a num- ber of these pre-war sketches carry footnotes of a later date which are considerably sharper.

For example, Trotsky adds a 1922 postscript to his earlier portrait of Fritz Adler, who Austrian assassinated the Minister-President Sturgh: 'Fritz Adler's personal was not sufficiently courage matched by physical strength see... of thought: 'When freed from prison by the revolution, Adler capitu- lated to the party which had previously brought him to despair and then had betrayed him. Now Adler acts as leader of the two-and-a-half International serving the cause against which he had attempted to stand up for if only by staking his life?

But no one could foresee the depths to which the Second sink. International would Lenin himself at first thought in that the newspaper which reported the German Social Democrats voting for the Kaiser's war credits was forged.

Trotsky, however, was able out the weaknesses to point i and dangers of the 'Austrian' method - i.e., "complex man- oeuvres, half-threats and half agreements'. The older layer of Social Democrats had braved the censorship, the police and the monarchy, but their successors in the leader- ship came to the fore not only in conditions of legality, but when the party was going through a period of uninter- rupted growth in numbers, organizations and influence.

The defeat of the 1905 Russian Revolution, which taught the Bolsheviks many invaluable lessons for revolu- "taught tionary work, the European leaders that organ- ization and manoeuvres were more successful than a prin- cipled political basis in • the masses and a struggle for revolutionary consciousness.

When only an irreconcilable, revolutionary offensive policy could take the working class forward, the leaders of the European section of the Second International substi- tuted strategy-planning by the leaders for a turn to the masses. This 'miserable prostration' of the official socialist leaders revealed itself at the out- break of war in the form of

INTERNATIONAL

unbridled servility towards their own state. This prostration was per- sonified by Karl Kautsky.

Trotsky explains how Kautsky became the vulgarizer of Marxism. Kautsky took shape ideologically in an epoch of reform. For him reform was the reality, while revolu- tion was a theoretical general- ization and a historical per- spective. Trotsky describes how an entire leading layer of the International was destroyed because it could not reach beyond the immediate condi- tions in which it developed: The organization of the German proletariat grew un- interruptedly, funds the swelled, the number of news- papers, deputies and municipal councillors multiplied un- ceasingly. 'At the same time reaction held on firmly to all its posi- tions. From here flowed the inevitability of the collision between the two polar-forces of German life. But this colli- sion did not set in for a long time while the forces and the resources of the organization grew so automatically that a whole generation had time to get used to such a state of affairs, and although everyone wrote, spoke or read about the the decisive inevitability of conflict-like the inevitability of the collision beween two each trains going towards other along the same track— they finally ceased to sense this inevitability within them- selves.' And, as in Germany a whole generation grew accustomed to this self-sufficient growth of the organization, so in France the leading figures immersed themselves in parliamentary routine, recalling the revolu- tion only in Sunday speeches.

What emerges from this sur- vey is that national-patriotism can destroy even the greatest socialists. Such was the fate of Georgi Plekhanov - the 'first fount of Marxist thought in Russia'. Trotsky explains this not only in terms of Plekhanov's individual weaknesses, but also, by the fact that he was a forerunner. He was, says Trotsky, 'not the leader of the active pro- letariat, but merely its theo- retical harbinger'. He defended the principles of Marxism in polemics, but did not have the opportunity of applying them in practice. He could pass over without attention the most colossal cowardice and com- promise by the European parties, "yet always be on guard against false formula- tions in literature. Unable to overcome the limitations of his early ex- perience, the same Plekhanov, who had declared at the Zurich International Congress of 1893 that the revolutionary move- ment in Russia would triumph as a workers' revolution or not Workers Press, Satu 24 at all, was to pull back years later from the implication of this-that the workers had to smash the state power and build their own state. Yet this book is not a parade of political tragedies. It is far from pessimistic. It not only gives a unique picture of the leading figures of a whole historical period, it breathes condence in the future victory of the European working class. Explaining why the Menshe- vik leader Martov took the road to reaction despite his revolutionary instinct, Trotsky points out that Marxism a method of objective both analysis and a prerequisite for revolutionary action. It is this belief in revolu- tionary action that rings out in the entire book, but no- where more forcefully than in the chapter devoted to the re- volutionary martyrs Kari Lieb- knecht and Rosa Luxemburg.

"Through the intermediary ress, Saturday January 13, 1973 PAGE 7 Top, left to right: Trotsky, Singer, Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Schuh- meier. Jaurès. Bottom: Rakovsky, Plekhanov, Bebel, Mehring, Dob- rogeanu-Gherea, Kautsky. of the leaders of Social Demo- cracy the bourgeoisie has made attempt to plunder the an possessions of the spiritual proletariat and to cover ap its banditry with the banner of Marxism. The proletariat of Germany has suffered a great deal at the hands of those who have been put at its head. The blood of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg cries out.

'This blood will force the pavements of Berlin and the stones of that very Potsdam Square on which Liebknecht first raised the banner of in- surrection against and war capital to speak up. And one day sooner or later barricades will be erected out of these stones on the streets of Berlin against the servile grovellers running and dogs of bour- geois society!'

WHY THE PERUVIAN STALINISTS

A five-part series by Juan Garcia dealing with Stalinism and Trotskyism in Peru. Part One.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday January 13, 1973

VIERDISMO ANTICOMUNISMO

CLANDESTINOS ANTICOMUNI

NISMO PRENSA REACCIONA

RAIZQUIERDISTA ANTIC

APRA CIA APRA CIA

MO PRENSA REACCION

CURAS CIA ULTRAS

MARIA VOLANTT

A five-part series by Juan Garcia dealing with Stalinism an The Peruvian Communist outlawing trade union rights.

Workers at the meeting Party has published a 50- booed time Stalinist every page pamphlet attacking speakers referred to the Velas- Liga Communista, revolution- the co regime as the ary government of the armed which works in political forces' and large sections of solidarity with the Inter- workers took up the slogan of national Committee of the Liga Comunista for a General Strike. the Fourth International.

Stalinist thugs united with It marks a new and most Velasco's police against these development sinister in the demonstrators. alliance counter-revolutionary Peruvian Stalinism is quite Stalinism between and anti- clearly terrified by the follow- working class dictatorships in ing which Trotskyism now has Latin America. the Peruvian masses. among The booklet, "The of war Mares promises a fortnightly slander', by Pompeyo Mares, is special bulletin to counteract being sent free of charge to all the 'Trotsko-CIA agents' up to CP trade and the is the holding of the 6th Party unions effort to sell it making every Congress later this year.

in factories and party cells.

Above all CP leaders are It was issued on the eve of afraid of the support for the demonstration and Liga Comunista's policies a mass of trade unionists in within their own ranks who meeting Lima which the Stalinist-led are continuously under attack from trade union confederation, the the regime as trade unionists and Party members.

CGTP,

had been forced to The Mares booklet of lies organize to protest against the can be briefly summarized- Velasco government decrees

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ism and Trotskyism in Peru. Part One.

they are in the worst tradition In the following section— innuendo and "Their objectives'-it is Stalinist real falsification. claimed that the Liga uses Introduction: Yankee im- 'subliminal' techniques de- to stroy the CP and the CGTP perialism is the past master at attacking the Soviet Union and by trying to provoke a con- parties. The

CIA

frontation between these communist has a line of approach which is bodies and the Velasco gor- to criticize from the left.

As ernment. the CIA knows that the ultra- This is achieved, says Mares, left has audience in the by a repetition of headlines no working class in Peru, it has and reports stating that the amalgamated remnants of the government's main objective is ultra-left in the Liga Comu- to destroy the Party which the Thus: 'Overnight, leaders are not defending, that nista. has be- the rank-and-file often phantom organization is gun to publish with a suspi- against the leadership and that those the CP and CGTP are identi- cious regularity among cal and are collaborating with who have traditionally been incapable of government policy. maintaining stable the an The Stalinist newspaper, anony- assures which they reader that this collaboration mous newspaper pompously call "Comunismo" is most necessary and that the He says the new CIA tech- Party has been never more nique might confuse some 'sin- united. cere' people, but here it is The third section-'Slanders history of completely appropriate to re- against the the call that saying of Goebbels, Party'—is a reply to a series head of Nazi propaganda: "Lie of articles published by "Com- again, for something and lie the Party Con- unismo' on will stick". gresses. It is a defence of the Popu- lar Front, of the Party line of 'national unity'. It is rather a reluctant excursion into a his- a Stalinist leadership tory of which is known for its corrup- tion, scandals, splits and fre- quent movements over to the camp of dictatorship. Says Mares: "The provoca- teur group does not limit its lies to references to the pre- sent struggle of the commu- nists. As is classic among the "intellectuals" recruited by the CIA for its work against the class, it has special working predilection for the past of the Party. They speculate with the fact that they are dealing with subjects which are little known by many militants and on which it is easier to lie.'

final parts"Smoke- The screen' and 'Ploys in the game of counter-revolution'—are de- voted to explaining how the Liga must be financed by the CIA and how Liga policy aids the counter-revolution: that is the demand that the CP and the CGTP call a General Strike to remove Velasco and that the Party stands in elections on a socialist programme. 'The only thing to happen if the strike were called by some- one, and some confused people followed it, would be that con- servative elements in the gov- ernment would have a brilliant excuse to demand violent re- pression which would be ex- tended to the whole of the trade union movement thus destroying it. This is exactly the aim of the provocateurs.'

If a strong force of peasants, workers, and middle class did emerge to defeat the army, concludes, the most Mares "revolutionary" policy would be to establish power, not call elections. Above: General Velasco, head of the Peruvian military junta, which the CP describes as 'progres- sive' Left: Front-cover of the Stalinist pamphlet, The War of Slander', , which viciously attacks the Peruvian Trotskyists as 'CIA- agents'. This is all, says Mares, ridi- nonsense from a CIA culous group intent on destroying the CP from within, a group 'which does not intend to set up as a real strength, develop a programme and reach its own goals. The pamphlet is a turgid document admitting that the CP's programme is pure and simple collaboration with Velasco. It says in effect: 'We cannot give independent leadership, the CGTP has no possibility of leading the Peruvian working The workers must be class. restrained' Mares throws a complete blanket of silence on the real origins of the Liga Comunista —the struggle of the Interna- tional of Committee the Fourth International for Marx- ist leadership in the world working class. the series of He ignores articles in the first issues of 'Comunismo' on the ICFI's struggle against the revisionist French Organisation Commu- niste Internationaliste and the Bolivian POR of Guillermo Lora. Like Stalinists throughout the, world, the Peruvian CP must attempt to destroy forces of the Fourth International which have always based themselves on the revolution- ary strength of the working class and are now able to win support of the masses whose basic rights are threatened by imperialism.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

The spirit of Christmas was to be found in abundance among the British army units guarding Northern Ireland's Long Kesh internment camp.

On Monday, December 18 soldiers conducted a 'search' of Compound 5. They went into the huts at 6 a.m., turned all the men out of bed and forced them to assemble in the canteen. They then pro- ceeded to strip the galvanized iron from the walls and re- move the insulating material.

They threw the lot outside after searching the huts and and ripping things asunder they left. The prisoners came back to find cold huts and all their possessions few miserable thrown about. After protests the iron sheets were replaced, but without the insulation.

As a result a very cold and miserable Christmas was en- dured by all the men in Com- pound 5 thanks to the good will of the British army of occupation and the Long Kesh administration. It's a man's life in the British army! Prime Minister Edward Heath hasn't been doing badly over the period of the Tory govern- ment's so-called wage freeze. In December, 1972, the 'Daily Mail' reported that Heath had sold his yacht 'Morning Cloud' €33,000, after paying £21,000 for it only 18 months earlier. 'Labour Research' for Janu- ary 1973 points out that this "earned, sain of £12,000 was capital in the middle of a pay freeze and an alleged price treeze. We must hasten to assure our readers, however, that our great "helmsman' did not sell his yacht in order to cope with the rising cost of living. He is having a new 'Morning Cloud' built which will cost him £40,000! former secretary-general A of the Polish Boxing Association and four other leading officials trial in. Warsaw for on are embezzling funds which were meant to feed Poland's Olym- pic boxers. The trade union daily 'Glos Pracy said that the ex- secretary, a team trainer, an instructor, the chief accountant and a cashier embezzled 135,000 zloties (£2,600) of Association funds. Association The . received this money from the National Olympic Committee to pass onto the team for last year's Olympics in Munich to buy better food to keep them in top condition. The accused have apparently admitted spending the-money.

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STALINIST CRISIS BY JACK G

The Communist Party is deliberately seeking to conceal the class aspects of the Common Market in order to hold the wor- king class back from a showdown with the Tory government. 4 'Morning The January Star' spoke of 'Britain's sov- right' ereign to leave Market and headlined that this right had been 'confirmed'.

The working class did not rate a single mention in the entire article. The Stalinists' sentiments echoed by the 'left' were Michael Foot who, in a letter to 'The Times', , spoke of the 'impairment' of Britain's 'es- sential sovereignty'. Another 'left'-Sidney Bid- well—was given space in the 'Morning Star' to repudiate the power of the EEC over 'British sovereignty. In reality, the Common a conspiracy Market is European monopolists to band together in order to smash the working European class. Though in conflict with each other the European capitalists are forced into this step be- of the cause of their dread economic onslaught unleashed against them by American and Japanese big business. To claim that what is in- volved is a matter of British national sovereignty is to de- ceive and disarm the working class and to open the door to backwardness and reaction.

• Just 125 years after Marx wrote in the 'Communist Mani- that 'working men have festo' no country', the British Stalin- ists are reduced to faking photographs (in the 'Morning Star' of January 1) in order to disguise from their readers that the opposition to the Common Market they were boosting was dominated by large numbers of nationalist ultra-rights. Leading Labourites-includ- ing right-wingers—had their speeches rapturously reported Workers Press, Satur

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in the 'Morning Star', ., which mention that the failed to audience included many mem- the National Front bers of and Enoch Powell supporters.

There is not a single point in last Thursday's 'Morning Star' lead article which could not be accepted by these rightists. sovereignty' means 'British the sovereignty of the British capitalists over the working class. Every bourgeois demo- cracy, as Lenin said, is a demo- cracy for the rich. The Stalinists substitute de- fence of bourgeois sovereignty for the basic Marxist analysis of the bourgeois state. Marx, Engels and Lenin ex- plained this many times. For example: "Take the fundamental laws of modern take their states, administration, take freedom of assembly, freedom of the Press, or "equality of all citi- zens before the law", and you will see at every turn evidence of the hypocrisy of bourgeois democracy with which every honest and class-conscious workers is familiar. "There is not a single state, however democratic, which has no loopholes or reservations in its constitution guaranteeing the bourgeoisie the possibility of dispatching troops against workers, of proclaiming martial law and so forth.

In place of this, the 'Morn- Star' ing issues a call for national unity against Europe.

But these calls are being issued from other quarters. Last Thursday's Times' car- ried an article calling for firm action against 'social tension' and 'sectional interests'—i.e.

the trade unions. It said: 'At a time when the nation is required to accept a major psychological adjustment over Europe, the problems of so- cial tension at home require a particularly. sensitive touch by the government, which can- not afford to be too much in- fluenced by the minority atti- tudes which have been so stubbornly and articulately en- trenched in fashionable opinion in recent years. 'This is particularly true if, as may well happen, the goy- 038, Saturday January 13, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: Dr Sicco Mansholt, Social Democrat and President of the Commission of the Euro- pean Economic Community arriving at the Hampton Court banquet last week. ernment may find itself obliged to make its appeal for national unity. • because sectional inter- ests have built obstacles to a reasoned approach to the economic achievement of stability.' The implications of this for the working class are clear.

It must fight as never be- fore to preserve wages, jobs and all basic rights. It must do this while its leaders crawl before the Heath government.

Success depends upon build- ing a movement to compel the trade union leaders to mobi- lize the strength of the work- to force the Tory ing class government to resign. The working class can only fight the Common Market by fighting its own ruling class and its own false leaders.

The return of a Labour government pledged to social- ist policies following the bring- ing down of the Tory govern- ment would create a split in the Labour leadership. This will create the condi- tions for a revolutionary move- ment to end the bourgeois state and introduce the social- ist order. The Stalinists seek to avoid this at all costs. That is why their opposi- tion' to the Common Market would be says nothing that unacceptable to sections of the ruling British class. The Stalinists deliberately avoid the real significance of Dr Sicco Mansholt's warning in a London speech that a Labour government would not to renegotiate Com- be able mon Market terms and would not be allowed to withdraw from it. This is that it is not a threat to British sovereignty, but to the British working class and labour movement.

Withdrawal from the Mar- ket requires first of all forc- ing the Tory government to resign. But a Labour govern- ment would only break from the Market if compelled to do so by enormous upheavals in this country. Mansholt-himself a leading European social democrat—is well aware of this. His speech was a threat to the working class on behalf of European capitalism. It confirms the analysis of Socialist Labour League the that the Common Market is a counter - revolutionary alli- ance of the bourgeoisie. What is at stake is not the indepen- dence of the British nation from Europe, but the indepen- dence of the working class from its own and the entire European bourgeoisie. defeat Common To the Market requires not a 'na- tional but a revolutionary Either class struggle. the working class will defeat the bourgeoisie or it European will itself be defeated and ground down. Speaking of an earlier re- negade, Karl Kautsky, Lenin wrote that he 'discards, passes over in silence, glosses over all that in Marxism which is un- acceptable to the bourgeoisie (the revolutionary violence of the proletariat against the latter's bourgeoisie for the destruction). That is why Kautsky • inevitably proves to be lackey of the bour- geoisie." The Common Market is' a sign not of the strength, but of the weakness of the Euro- pean bourgeoisie. The defeat of this bourgeoisie by the working class in the near fu- ture is entirely possible. That is why its lackeys-of all breeds-rush to its support.

This is the meaning of the Stalinists' nationalism. "(Lenin 'Proletarian Revolu- tion the Renegade Kautsky'.

Collected Works Vol. p. 244.) • Ibid, pp. 242-243..

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BBC 1

9.35 World championship. 10.00 Ropondez s'il vous plait. 10.30 11.00 Croesir bont. 11.25 Weather. 11,30 The Avventura. herbs. 11.45 Harlem globetrotters.

12.05 Yellow slippers. 12.30 Grandstand. 12.55, 1.25, 12.35 FA cup preview. 2.00, 2.30 Racing from Ascot. 1.10 Boxing. Johnny Frankham v Jeff Shaw. 2.20, 2.55 Rugby league.

Helens. 3.50 Lancer. Final score. 5.05 Basil Brush Leeds v St 4.40 show. 5.35 News. Weather. 5.50 Dr Who.

6.05 WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY. A Present for Donald.

7.00 FILM: THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO'. Glenn Ford, Julia Chill Wills. A man sets out to avenge the murder of Adams, his tamily. 8.15 CILLA. Cilla Black with guests Stephen Lewis and Cliff Richard sings the first song for Europe.

9.00 A MAN CALLED IRONSIDE. If a Body See a Body.

9.50 NEWS. Weather. 10.05 MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.05 PARKINSON. Michael Parkinson and guests. 12.05 Weather.

ITV

9.55 Return to Peyton Place.

10.20 Sesame street. 11.20 Merrie Melodies. 11.35 Osmonds. 12.00 Partridge family. 12.30 World of sport. 12.40 sports special. seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Racing from Warwick. 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Catterick Racing. 3.10 International sports Results, scores, Wrestling. 4.50 Results service. 5.10 Adventures of black beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

6.10 NEWS. 6.15 FILM: 'BECKET'. Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole.

Story of Thomas Becket and his relationship with Henry II.

8.30 NEW SCOTLAND YARD. My Boy Robby.

9.30 THE JULIE ANDREWS HOUR. 10.30 NEWS.

10.40 RUSSELL HARTY PLUS. 11.40 EXTRAORDINARY CHILDREN.

11.45 DEPARTMENT S. A Cellar Full of Silence.

3.00 Film: 'Flipper and the Pirates'. Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, A boy and a dolphin become friends. 4.35 Play away.

Tom Helmore. 5.00 The golden state. 5.50 Man alive.

6.40 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

DOCUMENTARY: 'THE QUIET REVOLUTIONARY'. Robin Page 6.55 Arnot, now 83 and a founder member of the British Communist Party. 7.20 NEWS AND SPORT. Weather.

7.30

RUGBY SPECIAL.

France v Scotland and Midland Counties (East) v All Blacks. 8.15 WAR AND PEACE. Two Meetings.

FULL HOUSE. Introduced by Joe Melia. Including Cartoonists; 9.00 Plugged in to History' by John McGrath and Elizabeth Mac- ennan; 9.55 Murray Perahia; A Misfortune; 10.45 Steeleye Span 11.15 NEWS ON 2. Weather 11.21 FILM: 'NIGHT WITHOUT STARS'. David Farrar, Nadia Gray.

Suspenseful romance.

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait.

10.00 Avventura. 11.00 Seeing" and believing.

11.35 Cut and thurst. 12.00 Handling Farming. 12.25 Let's going. 12.50 1.15 materials. get Made in Britain. 1.30 Parents and children. 1.55 News headlines. Weather. 2.00 Mary, Mungo and Midge. 2.15 Story theatre. 2.40 3.40 Film: 'Blue Ask Aspel. 3.00 Blue Peter special assignment. Skies'. Bing Crosby. Caulfield. A musical men and the girl they love.

two Sir Walter Scott's novel. 6.05 NEWS. Weather. Crime and Punishment. Lord Longford Dr

6.15 DEBATE.

ano Anthony Storr.

6.50 THE NEW BEGINNING. 7.00 THE CHOICE IS YOURS.

Family Gathering.

7.25 THE BROTHERS. A

Trevor, Thomas 8.15

FILM: "STAGECOACH'.

John Wayne, Claire Mitchell. John Ford's first western starring John Wayne.

9.45 NEWS. Weather. 10.00 OMNIBUS. The Savage Image. David Guinea. Attenborough in New 10.45 CROSSTALK. Richard Crossman and Enoch Powell. 11.25 Weather.

ITV

9.30 Morning service. 10.30 UFO. 11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 Thunder- birds. 1.50 Brian Connell interviews. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Persuaders.

4.15 Junior police five. 4.25 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS. 6.15 ADAM SMITH.

6.45 CHILDREN OF THE VICARAGE. 7.00 SONGS THAT MATTER.

7.25 THE FENN STREET GANG. Private Eye and Public Nuisance.

7.55 FILM: 'LADY L'. Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven.

laundress becomes the most loved peeress in England. 10.00 NEWS. 10.15 SUNDAY NIGHT THEATRE: 'THE STAFF ROOM'. Roland Culver, Daphne Slater. 11.15 OPEN NIGHT. Mike Scott. 12.05 GOOD OLD BAD DAYS.

12.10 DOCTOR IN CHARGE. The Devil You Know.

BBC 2

4.05 Man at work. 4.30 Money at work. 5.30 Horizon.

6.15 NEWS REVIEW. 6.50 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather.

6.55 DOUBTS AND CERTAINTIES.

7.25 AMERICA. The Huddled Masses.

8.15 THẸY SOLD A MILLION. The Young Generation. Vince Hill.

9.00 BUT SERIOUSLY-IT'S SHEILA HANCOCK.

9.30 THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE. Away Match.

10.20 UP SUNDAY. 10.45 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

10.50 FILM: 'STEAMBOAT ROUND

THE BEND'. John Ford's film owner who races against the newest boat on about a steamboat the river. With Will Rogers.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.40 Bonanza. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.10 Tarzan, 6.10 London. _6.15 6.45 Film: Sale of the century. "Knights of the Round Table'. 8.30 Julie down- Andrews. 9.30 Upstairs, 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius.

stairs. Spyforce. 12.25 Weather. 11.30 WESTWARD, As Channel except: 9.50 Jobs around the house. 10.20 Getting your money's worth. 10.45 Woobinda. 11.10 Cartoon. Gus Honeybun. 11.35 12.25 Faith for life. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf.

9.40 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 Let them live. 10.35 Stingray. 11.05 Merrie melodies. Atrica. 12.20 Weather 12.30 bondon.

Cowboy 5.10 Tarzan. 6.10 London. 6.15 Come- Film: "Carry On-Follow That Camel. 8.30 London. 10.40 News- Film: •Five Branded Women'. 12.30 Weather Guideline. HARLECH: 9.00 London. 9.55 All our 10.20 Bugs Bunny. 10.30 yesterdays. stand 00 Same street 200 pee island. 11.00 Sesame street. 12.00 90. 12.30 London. 5.10 UFO. 6.10 Lon- don. 6.15 Comedians. 6.45 Film: "Man the Middle. in 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.03 Upstairs, downstairs. 1.30 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Name of the game. 12.45 Weather.

HTV

Cymru/Wales as above except: 5.10 It's all in life. 5.40-6.10 Sion a sian. A new swashbuckling series starts on is a new adaptation of Sir Walter Sco David Buck plays Markham Everard al Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers GLASGOW: Saturday January 13, House, g 10 a.m. Keir Hardie Brougham Street, Greenock. 'The Common Market and Tory Wage Control.'

CENTRAL LONDON

(Press and Entertainments branch) Sunday January 14, 7 p.m.

11 Floral Street, RSC Rehearsal Rooms, London WC1. Defeat the Tory Government Build Councils of Action Speaker: Philip Wade (Workers Press)

ANGLIA:

10.00 country. 12.00 To see ourselves. 12.30 10.15 RO London Ham 10.40 sters do: Ro too. Weather. 12.30 5.10

GRANADA:

11.00 Kick off. 11.25 6.10 London. Comedians 12.30 Sesame street. London. 5.10 " 30 Scotland" Hand Yard. 8.30 Film: in Man from Yor Tes 6.10 London. 6.15 Tulie Andrews. 8.30 London 98'. 10.30 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 "1m: 11.30 Boris Man in a suitcase. presents. and your

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Wildlife Lace cithe shoestring Survival. 'Cartoon. country Osmonds. Ab Tom- 11.V. 12.30 5.10 bott show. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.00 Annetero 6.10 London. 6.15 Comedians. Riptide. It Skippy takes 16.30 London. .45 "The No New 8.30 large. thief. 6.10 London. 6.15 Doctor 9.30 Andrews. Scotland 6.45 Film: Start at Let's Yard london 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 11.30 Coronet blue. 12.25 Lectern. London. Upstairs, downstairs. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Gordon •Bailey. and your 9.15 You golf. 1.35 Film The Stranger Wore Collecting 0035 on shoestring. Weather. Gan. Tomfoolery Follyfoot. I1. Dave Osmonds 00 10.30 street. 11.30 Cash. 12.30 London. Thund 5010 Merrie 12.30 5.10 Sport. melodies. nanza. 6.10 Sky's the 7.10 Beverly hillbillies. limit. 6.40 Beverly hillbillies. 6.15 6.45 Film: Champions 8.10 Film: •Walk 10.00 stairs, downstairs. An- 10.30 London. Julie 9.30 Upstairs, Side'. drews. 10.30 Wild 11.45 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.25 Kreskin.

Andrews. New Scotland Yard. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Skilful rugby.

9.40 Collecting 3s 10.10 Os-

GRAMPIAN:

11.15 Jackson five. 11.45 on Follotsor monds. Film: Ron and 5.15 Triends. Turnbull's Who's Mind Ripe Store?' 12. 30

UFO.

6.10 Lond 6.45 6.15 in sterlin! half Film: 5. 9530 6.10 London. hour 6.45 Film: "Hell 8.30 Julie Andrews. comerlaes 8.30 Yard. 10.30 London. High Water'. Julie Andrews. NeW 11.25 US Scotland Yard 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. O'Hara, Treasury. Aquarius. 11.30 place in the 2.13

CHANNEL:

Film: Weather. London. 5.35 •Zero Hour'. 4.40 Golden shot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: Black Beauty. Gret 12.00 10.00 London. 1.0 pen Epilogue. 11.15 Night. Weather. 9.15 Talking hands. 9.30

SOUTHERN:

11.00 10.30 Farm London.

BLURECOD,

Wax 20 11.30 World Horan's Superman Primus. 1.50 2.15 3.15 heroes. Cartoon. Golden Aquarius. News. 5.35 beauty. 7.55 Film: •Paris When don. Sizzles'. 10.00 London. 12.10 Weather. 10.30 Farm-

HARLECH:

9.30 London. 11.00 A the coun 11.30 Londo try. 2.15 London. Film: Drive 110. 'Cottage to shot 4.40 «older 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London 7.55 Film: •Old Man Who Cried Wolf'. 9.30 Mr 10.00 London. 12.00 Mrs. Weather.

ANGLIA:

9.30 London. Circus. Pso Weather 11.00 Doris 11.30 1.00 Champions. 3.55 ing. 4.45 Goe game. Soccer. Golden shot. 5.35 6.05 Landon 0.00 7.55 Film: London. Don't Run'.

ATV

• 10.30 rights. 2.00 Soccer. 4.40 Golden shot portant 7.55 5.35 Black beauty 6.05 London. Film: "The Last Safari'. 10.00 London.

ULSTER:

11.30 London. 1.00 Getting 1.30 Jobs around worth. Vour moneye 1.55 the house. bamm 2.15 bamma zes London •Go 5.35 Golden Black beauty. hot 6.05 Film: the Sun'. 10.00 London. "Kings of 400 Son 10005u masterpieces. London. and you Hogan's heroes. 1.25 London. 1.00 1.55 socce . out.ook Flim. Cale Man Soccer 2.50 Man in Grey'. 1.45 Golden sho 5.35 Black 6.05 London. beautv. Film: "The London. 12.05 Shirley's world. 12.35 Weather.

11.00

GRANADA:

Time to remember 11.30 12.55 Saint. London. 1.50

HACK

Film knothall. hya. 4.40 Golden 3335- 5.35 Black beauty. Londor Film. Grev'. Man 9.55 The Sylvester. 10.00 London.

TYNE TEES: 9.20

Chessou asterpieces. 9.30 110d Doctor 10.30 and 11.00 charge. golf. in 1.00 Farming outl outlook. 1.25 10 1 50 the jobs world 2.50 Film: •Key are. the Golden • 355 sm 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. League centlemen. 12.05 Simoo Locke 1235 11.15 Challenge. Dr Simon Lectern.

SCOTTISH:

10.00 World War I. 10.30 11.00 Women A place anit the 11.30 London. Randall country. 1.00 Theatre. HoPkirk. 2.00 Sport 3.25 Golden 5.15 shot. 7.55 Film Murder Incorporated® 6.05 london. •Murder 10.00 London. 12.05 Late call.

GRAMPIAN:

Farm 11.00 progress. 11.30 London. 1.00 Getting your money's worth. 130 3125$ Farma around tys the 2.00 house. So°" 430 starts on BBC I at 5.20 on Sunday. It will Be Boys' Golden shot Valter Scott's 'Woodstock, set in 1651.

5.35 Black 7.55 beauty. London. Everard and Judy Loe plays Alice Lee.

Film: 'The Interns'. 10.00 London. CLAPHAM: Tuesday January 16, LUTON: Monday January 15, Labour Club (back 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, p.m.: Clapham Manor Street. SW4.

lounge), Upper George Street.

HOLLOWAY:

Thursday January WATFORD: Monday January 15, 18, Co-op Hall, Seven p.m. 8 p.m. Watford Trade Union Hall, Rd (near Finsbury Park Sisters Woodford Road, opposite Watford tube). Junction station. TO TEAM rice days Thursday, January p.m. Arms', WANDSWORTH: Tuesday January Tottenham High Road, N17 (near Selkirk Hotel, Tooting 16, 8 p.m. White Hart Lane). fight for Broadway, SW17. 'The a living wage'. LEICESTER: Wednesday Januar 24, 8 Queen's Hotel. Rut p.m. land Street.

BRISTOL:

Tuesday January 16, 7.30 p.m. Building Design Centre, MIDDLESBROUGH: Sunday Janu- Colston Avenue (opposite SWEB ary 28, 7.30 p.m. Settlement Com- munity Centre, Newport Road.

building).

ALEXANDER WATT (23) a 1 Party of Scotland, has been se jail. Watt took part in an arme in which £6,673 was stolen.

Edinburgh-born Watt, a former student at St Andrew's University, was said to have become 'obsessed with poli- tics. He joined the Young Communist League and later moved to the Maoist-styled Workers Party of Scotland.

The prosecution said that he 'dedicated his life to the aims of that party, which he regarded as carrying on a tide of revolu- tion which would sweep away what, in his eyes, was the whole and structure corrupt a decadent society'. His interest in politics was so intense, the prosecutor added, that Watt. failed his final honours examination. 'It meant little to him,' he said. After the bank robbery, Watt escaped to Holland where he became converted to Christianity with a group called the Children of God. He returned to Scot- land to confess to his crime so that he 'could live in peace with himself and ease his conscience'.

'He could have stayed there for the rest of his life,' said Mr Leonard Murray, for Watt.

'But Amsterdam was his road to Damascus because he says that when he was there Christ came into his life and took possession of it. From being a complete materialist, he is now totally committed to Christianity'

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Westlaithgate 7.30 p.m. Fine The Plymouth 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 a worker can possess-the right to belong to a trade union. havtrike committee members travelled over 100,000 miles to sustain their fight.

(23) a member of the Workers been sentenced to three years' in armed bank raid in Scotland

BY WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

At the High Court last March Watt's given associates were exceptionally heavy sentences for . their part in the raids.

William McPherson was jailed for 26 years, Matthew Lygate, the chairman of the party, received 24 years, and lan Doran received 25 years. In passing sentence on Thurs- day, Lord Cameron said he would be 'lenient' in view of voluntary return Watt's to Scotland.

EVERY

EFFORT will be made by the Transport and General Workers' Union to resist the proposed closure of the Rockware bottle factory, Middlesex, Greenford, a

T&GWU

spokesman has announced. The factory, employing 900 people, is to be closed down by early 1974 and the site sold, the Rockware Group management stated. Because of normal statt over', "estimates the company that total redundancies from the plant in the next 12 months will amount to 600. At present the factory is turning out nearly a million wine and beer bottles a day. Mr Jim Craigie, group manag- ing director, who plans to retain headquarters the company's offices and some warehousing at Greenford, said the company had to spend about £24m on modern- izing its other big glass works.

Between them, they make nearly another five million bottles a day. He expected the Greenford site would be sold for at least £6m. Mr Craigie said he expected the redundant employees to have difficulty in getting other jobs' A spokesman for the transport union members affected by the closure said the company's reasons were 'purely economic'.

'No consideration at all has given to the social implica- been tions, he said. TROOPS are standing guard around the state-owned San Cristobal, Mexico, sugar refinery -one of the biggest in the world.

The refinery workers are demand- ing better pay and working conditions. About 40,000 metric tons of sugar cane are piled on rail wagons and boats waiting to be This Christmas has been the hardest of all. It has imposed a great financial burden. Now the 37 strikers face the rest of winter the with depleted strike fund. January is always a difficult month to raise money to further their fight. Yet they are determined to fight on. This is a struggle the working class cannot afford to lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Work- AFTER another hectic session on the Hong Kong stock market yesterday, prices of some shares tumbled by be- tween 10 and 15 per cent.

The market has been in the grip of feverish speculation similar to that on • Wall St before the 1929 crash. Share prices have spiralled out of all relation to the earning power of the companies concerned in the past few months. Many small investors have been tempted to speculate by the chance of capital gains. CO-OPERATION between France and the Soviet Union decided on by President Pom- pidou and Leonid Brezhnev when they met in October 1970 'is now being unfailingly implemented', says Moscow radio. Giving the lie to French Communist Party allegations Pompidou that has been sabotaging the accord with the Soviet Union, Press, radio and TV in the Soviet Union and throughout eastern Europe have held up the • relations be- tween the two countries as a model of "peaceful co-existence and co-operation between states with different. social systems'. Soviet radio has also carried lengthy reports of Pompidou's Press „ conference on, January 9 Grand he has been received with nothing but praise. Pompidou banks on France's independence of NATO and from the US to enable him to come to understanding an with the Soviet bureaucracy on foreign policy and economic and cultural co-operation. Its support in the pre-electoral period is invaluable for Pompidou and puts him in a strong posi- tion in dealing with the Com- munist Party. GEORGES MARCHAIS, leader the French Communist Party, told a Press conference that he would serve as Prime Minister under President Pom- pidou in the event of a win for the left coalition in the March elections. While abjectly accepting the Gaullist constitution which gives the President wide powers, Marchais said: There will be more important things to do after the election than to start a constitutional debate which would lead us from the Fifth to the Sixth republic'. ard processed at the refinery which accounts for 40 per cent of Mexico's total sugar output.

Last month about 3,000 workers occupied the refinery, but they were driven out by steel-helmeted troops. The same troops guarded Chile's President Salvador Allende, on an official visit last month to see President Echevarria. ers Press wishes to make a special appeal to all trade unionists to take collections in their factories and branches for the Fine Tubes men in order that their heroic and determined action can be car- ried forward. All money should be sent to: Fine Tubes Treasurer c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon. Workers Press, Saturday January 13, 1973 PAGE 11 Hectic session on Hong Kong stock market Yesterday's slight fall fol- Secretary Philip Hadden-Cave described the ower a warning Irom … The "frenetic and with- situation as governor of the British colony, Sir Murray Maclehose that the our any rear means. At the close of business yes- government might be forced to terday, brokers said that there intervene to reduce the volume had been senuelall. of transactions to more realistic collapse Hong Kong levels. bubble could have reper- On Thursday the Hang Seng cussions

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Janu woman WIDOW Mrs Elizabeth Mc- Gregor in her mid-seventies was shot in the head and groin in the Roman Catholic Ardoyne area of Belfast yesterday.

was returning from She a shopping trip when British troops opened fire Mrs McGregor died in later Royal Victoria Hospital. An official of Ardoyne Relief Committee said: 'There were a lot of witnesses to the shooting. I have spoken to a number of them. They say a foot patrol opened up on a group standing on the corner of men The men of Highbury Garden. were not doing anything. 'Somehow the old lady was on the ground bleeding. Everyone is certain that the bullets that hit her were fired by the army!

Housewifes living a few doors from the scene of the shooting said: 'It was definitely the army who shot her. If it was the IRA I would say so. The army said in a statement that the foot patrol fired at a man in a kneeling position about to take aim. It was not until later that the troops found out that an old lady had been taken to hospital.

The army said it did not know if the gunman had fired or not.

FROM PHILIP WADE

ABOUT 500 London contrac- ting electricians working on building sites in the central area went on strike yesterday in protest against the govern- their ment order stopping wage rise. After a meeting in Blackfriars several miles they marched through London to Highbury to lobby the area office of the Elec- trical and Plumbing Trades Union. A resolution was handed in demanding support for any action might electricians take against the Tory order. Rises of between £2.80 and contracting £3.20 for 70,000 electricians due on January 3 as the final part of a long-term Joint Industry Board agreement were stopped by Maurice Mac- millan, Tory Employment Secre- tary. Said a St Thomas's hospital worker: 'Labourers are getting £40 for a 40-hour week. Yet the electricians are working over 60 hours to get £30. 'Now we're not only fighting the JIB but the government as well. We want both of them out, he added.

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COMMUNIQUE released after the Pompidou-Brezhnev meeting (p. I1) said they, were deeply concerned about the continuing war in Vietnam, foreign inter- vention in the conflict and the delay in making a political settle- ment. It called for a resumption of efforts by the United Nations Gunnar special Dr envoy, Jarring, to solve the Arab- Israeli crisis. Brezhney is to visit Paris. TUG company Cory Lighterage, London, yesterday sued the Transport and General Workers' Union in the High Court because strike action has been threatened if it allows a man who has resigned from the union to work.

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rday January 13, 1973 TENANTS and trade unionists from throughout South Wales will demonstrate through Merthyr Tydfil this afternoon against the Housing Com- missioner sent in to carry through the 'fair rents' Act.

Over 6,300 tenants have been sent notice of rent increases by the Commissioner and the first payments are due in early February. The Labour council is one of authorities-the two Welsh other is Bedwas and Machen- still refusing to implement the Housing Finance Act. Morthyr's banner on a recent

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FILM STUDIO workers at : will be asked on Tuesday to re owners Barclay Securities to c The proposals, which involve the hiving-off of 45 acres of land for redevelopment, were put to union leaders in con- fidence on Thursday but later 'leaked'. Yesterday's London 'Evening Standard' described them as 'an amazing workers' participation deal. In fact it is felt at Shepperton that the proposals-latest brain- child of millionaire asset-stripper John Bentley-are, if anything, worse than the rejected National Film Finance Corporation pro- posals of last October. The Bentley plan would in- volve the floating of a new com- valuation, pany, of uncertain based on what was left after the hive-off Shepperton's large silent stage would go, it is believed. So would a large number of cutting rooms and the power house. About 100 redundancies would inevitably result. Commented one studio worker yesterday: 'All this means is that you would have a small studio left in the middle of a building site.'

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lation passed • by the Tories to solve a crisis they and their own class created. The TUC chiefs are right at the centre of this Tory plot.

Long ago Trotsky described the wretched spectacle presented by Victor Feather and his team in Germany 1931-1932 today (New Park Publications Edition): "There is no historical spec- tacle, he wrote, 'more tragic and at the same time more repulsive than the fetid dis- integration of reformism amid the wreckage of all its con- quests and hopes.' He described the TUC's cringing attitude before the Tories when he wrote in the same work: 'When it comes to are worthless, fighting, corpses but they come in handy to keep Alderman Albert John, act- ing chairman of Merthyr's housing committee, told Workers Press yesterday: 'Some of the increases will be 104p. And not only has he imposed higher rent, but also new charges for cookers and the like which the council has installed in some homes. 'We don't like the way the Commissioner has used our headed notepaper to notify the tenants. It looks like it has all been done by the council, said Ald John, who is also the a recent demonstration before the collapse at

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ers at Shepperton, Middlesex, ay to reject new proposals from les to carve up the 60-acre site.

The 381 workers Bentley pro- for a poses to guarantee work year would be offered a 49-per- cent stake in the company, which, "The Guardian' according to would be 'held on trust for the benefit of the employees'.

But this offer would be con- ditional on immediate acceptance of the redevelopment plan. A clause in the proposed agreement would pledge the unions not to hinder this plan. A spokesman for the Federa- tion of Film Unions said yester- day: 'We have warned members not to rush in and jump at the offer. We are suspicious of it and we suspect this kind of quasi- participation by workers.'

MIS AGENT arrested in the ring Dublin spy case, John Wyman, may face further charges his January 22 trial, it was in said in court yesterday. Wyman of Swan Walk, Chelsea, London, was arrested under the Repub- lic's Official Secrets Act, and classified accused of obtaining information from an Irish police constable, Patrick Crinnion.

the living from fighting!

The corpse of the TUC leader- ship now lies like a dead stinking mass on the backs of the working class. The right wingers, led by Feather, are doing their very utmost to stampede the whole of into collapsing the leadership before the Tories. Feather never challenges any of the government's lies on inflation. The 'Financial Times' hit the nail on the head when it said that the only thing preventing Feather from an open declaration of support for Tory policy was his own membership. Commenting on the Tory plans 'Financial Times' said: the ...controls would have to be retained in one form or another for longer than just a few weeks, even if this entailed a loss of Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' district secretary. He though the fight against the Act had been considerably weakened by Wednesday's collapse at Camden, which was the biggest Labour council in England and Wales still stand- ing out against the Tories.

'We were not prepared to carry out the dirty work of the government, added Ald John.

'But we are still subject to surcharge and debarment from the council? ollapse at Camden, London

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUST

THE UNION leaders' insis- tence that the ban on pay talks is a 'separate issue' from attack on 4 million or so workers with pay agreements or claims which have been stopped. It has been made brutally clear by the Tories that as far as they are concerned after next Wed- nesday you can talk as much as you like, but you must talk about what they want you to talk about. Whatever talks are arranged on the gasworkers' £3-plus claim —or that of the hospital, water, coal, other workers car and behind them in the pay queue.

must therefore be a complete sham. Those with pay deals already stopped include 360,000 farm- active co-operation by a TUC un- able to guarantee their obser- vance by member unions? The working class has been paying heavily for this kind of treachery ever since the TUC abandoned its fight against the Industrial Relations Act in March 1971. The illusion of strength that this corrupt and decrepit gov- ernment presents to the world must be exposed by mass action and so must the Tory agents in the TUC. It is not enough to demand special TUC Congress decide new policies for forcing the Tories to resign. The Con- gress must also elect a new leadership. The men who con- trol the Council now clearly will never fight. The working class now faces

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IT CERTAINLY has begun to be a tough struggle this month. We are moving forward, but still too slowly. Our target Is £1,750 and we have until the end of January to raise it. Workers Press is more decisive than ever before. Clearly, the Tory government has no intention of haiting its corporatist state pay plan. While prices shoot higher and higher, wages are deliber- ately kept down. Everyone is feeling this great attack of the Tories on their basic living standards. Our paper alone has prepared for this struggle to defend our basic rights. The only way to fight back now is to force this government to resign. A special effort is needed there- fore for our January Fund. This weekend gives us the opportunity to go all out and collect donations everywhere. Let's grasp it with both hands. See how much you can raise. Post everything imme- diately to : Workers Press January Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG.

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workers; 200,000 lorry drivers; 120,000 workers in multiple grocery stores; 70,000 electrical contracting workers; 9,000 pro- vincial journalists and 500 West End actors. Next Monday 250,000 hospital ancillary workers complete their ballot on what form of action to take over the stopping of their £4 claim, and a reply is due to the £5.50 claim of 27,000 water- supply workers. Among the largest groups with big claims in are the 300,000 Post Office workers, whose claim for a flat-rate increase of f5 from January 1, 1973, is due to be negotiated shortly. Many hospital ancillary workers are thought to have voted for all- out strike action in support of their pay claim. Returns from • five National of Public Employees' Union branches in Manchester showed support for a total stoppage, a union official said yesterday.

its greatest battle to defend all its basic rights. It is a political battle—-no question of wages can possibly be settled in favour of the working class without bring- ing the Tory government down.

This is a step, but only a first step that workers must take.

The programme of the Socialist Labour League is a basis for uniting the whole working class in a fight for socialist policies.

The burning issue is the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- tionary party to lead the work- ing class and put an end to capitalism. This fight must be carried forward from the trade unions into the Labour Party in a way that will expose and defeat the rotten reformist leadership.