Workers Press no. 980

workers press

CARWORKERS, MINERS, GASMEN IN REVOLT

COLLISION COURSE

WITH PHASE TWO

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY WORKERS PRESS INDUSTRIAL STAFF

THE TUC General Council yesterday formally en- dorsed without a vote total opposition to the Phase Two state pay laws. But the TUC leaders drew up no plans to fight against the Tory legislation to impose state control over wages.

Instead they arranged a leisurely timetable of meetings to bolster their passive resistance: a special economic committee meeting on Feburary 2, a special General Council on February with the possibility of some form of broader get-together 14 at an unspecified date. When challenged about the growing clash between workers and the government, TUC general secretary Victor Feather denied that the TUC was dragging its feet.

He went on to claim that the Ford workers' demands for strike March 1 were *hypothetical question'. And he action on refused to comment on the statement by Eric Heffer MP that it was the duty of the Labour and trade union movement to back workers in struggle against the pay laws.

TUC's do-nothing As Feather was stoutly defending the policy, workers in a variety of industries were rapidly and irreversibly heading towards a confrontation with the government over pay.

CAR WORKERS

contained The clearest indication of the pay struggles to come was in a decision by the stewards at the body plant at the Ford factory at They rejected a one-day strike proposal and instead Dagenham, Essex. called for strike action from March 1 if the company failed to make a satisfactory offer.

The Ford workers' claim is for better holidays £10 a week plus and hours. At Transport House yesterday Ford from over Conven Britain met to decide a policy in opposition to the pay legislation.

decided The meeting to re- iterate its complete opposition to the government's interference in collective bargaining. The free call on the want to convenors company to continue 'meaningful negotiations' of the regardless pay law for a new pay deal start- ing on March 1. The executive of the British- Leyland combine shop stewards' decided yesterday to committee Two totally the Phase oppose laws.

JOHN DRYDEN

meeting The in Birmingham urged affiliated committees to

NUM

Daly. the *proclaim their refusal to operate Lawrence for said after the it and actively campaign a general secretary, return to worker-employer collec- broke that the offer talks up tive bargaining'. unacceptable. Asked was totally if the now on *a miners WArA recommended The executive course" the gov- collision with that trade unionists should ask ernment, he replied: If you were demand the executive to their to make this description, most recall of

TUC,

immediate the Deople would agree you were lobby MPs to the vote against right. legislation and organize meetings, He doubted whether the union marches and demonstrations.

would agree to arbitration. If the arbitration board is subject to

MINERS

the White Paper's terms, then it The National Coal Board yes- be very difficult for them would terdav offered miners rises of £2 to make an objective judgement.'

to: £2.50 week- the most On Monday meeting of allowed under the state pay laws Scottish miners' union delegates —in reply to the union's demand and branch secretaries called for for €5.50 to £7.

THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 2!

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

JOHN

DRYDEN,

general secre tary of the Society of Civil Ser- vants, said yesterday the closest consultation was being forged between the civil service unions co-ordinate action against to Phase Two. He said the union was seeking the views of its 60,000-strong membership to decide how best to fight the state pay laws.

All the possibilities would be canvassed-overtime bans, works to rules, non-co-operation with selective strikes, productivity, half-day strikes, one-day strikes.

Last night Mr Dryden and the of the Customs and secretary Excise group, Mr Jack Morrish, addressed a crowded meeting of society members at the Central Hall, Westminster. Later they mass lobby of adjourned to a MPs at the House of Commons.

Coachloads of members at- tended the protest rally from as far away as Glasgow national campaign to fight a Phase Two. They demanded the recall of the TUC to discuss ways of trade union mobilizing the movement for massive opposi- tion' to the government's 'oppressive pay laws.

CIVIL SERVANTS

Officials of the two main unions in the civil service pay fight-the Civil and Public Ser- vices Association and the Society of Civil Servants-have drawn up a joint strategy to co- ordinate action in support of their wage claim. The general secretaries of both

NUARY 25, 1973

No 980 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Ford convenors leave their Trans terday after deciding to reiterat Phase Two laws. bodies are expected to get to- gether within the next few days after receiving mandates from their members for industrial action. They will consider a variety of industrial sanctions, including strike action through- out government departments.

GAS WORKERS

Gas workers throughout the country are stepping up industrial action following the derisory £2 offer from the Gas Corporation.

Workers in the North Western Gas Board area yesterday joined the strike and pickets went to Preston to get further support.

RAILWAY WORKERS

drivers'

ASLEF,

the train union, yesterday ended a two- executive meeting without deciding what action to take over its pay claim for a locomen's basic of f40 a week. Their £9.25 claim is more than four times the Heath state pay level. Ray Buckton, the

ASLEF

general secretary, said that if British Rail's counter proposals arrived by Friday. fresh executive meeting will be staged next Monday. The treacherous equivocations by the TUC and Labour Party leaders are enormously dangerous for the whole workers movement.

admitted Feather after the General Council yesterday that about a quarter of the TUC eir Transport House meeting yes- reiterate total opposition to the leaders wanted further talks with the Tories. 'We haven't stuck a dagger through its heart, so it will never rise again,' he said. 'I am pretty gh- sure it will be raised again.

The TUC's preparedness to reopen talks with Heath and the Party's Parliamentary Labour decision not to impede the state pay laws go hand in hand.

The present leaders of the working have shown that class they will not fight the Tories. On the contrary, the spend most of their time collaborating with Heath and company. The right-wing in the leader- ship do not reflect the views of of workers. vast majority Despite the capitalist Press attempts to belittle the strikes against the fines on the AUEW, it is important to note that as many as 17 of the 26 divisions of the union have put down resolu- tions for the April national com- mittee meeting supporting the union's policy of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act.

The urgent task facing every worker today is to rid the move- ment of the right-wing class collaborators. They must demand the recall of both the TUC and the Labour Party conference to mobilize the whole working class against the Tory government.

Such a mass movement could and must finish the job which was started by the miners this time last year.

workers press

CARWORKERS, MINERS, GASMEN IN REVOLT

COLLISION COURSE

WITH PHASE TWO

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

BY WORKERS PRESS INDUSTRIAL STAFF

THE TUC General Council yesterday formally en- dorsed without a vote total opposition to the Phase Two state pay laws. But the TUC leaders drew up no plans to fight against the Tory legislation to impose state control over wages.

Instead they arranged a leisurely timetable of meetings to bolster their passive resistance: a special economic committee meeting on Feburary 2, a special General Council on February 14-with the possibility of some form of broader get-together at an unspecifred date. clash between workers When challenged about the growing and the government, TUC general secretary Victor Feather denied that the TUC was dragging its feet.

He went on to claim that the Ford workers' demands for strike refused to comment on the statement by Eric Heffer MP that it was the duty of the Labour and trade union movement to back workers in struggle against the pay laws.

policy, As Feather was defending the TUC's do-nothing stoutly workers in a variety of industries were rapidly and irreversibly heading towards a confrontation with the government over pay.

CAR WORKERS

The clearest indication of the pay struggles to come was contained in a decision by the stewards at the body plant at the Ford factory at Dagenham, Essex. They rejected a one-day strike proposal and instead called for strike action from March 1 if the company failed to make a satisfactory offer.

The Ford workers' claim is for £10 a week plus better holidays and hours. At Transport House yesterday Ford convenors from all over Britain met to decide a policy in opposition to the pay legislation.

decided to re- The meeting iterate its complete opposition to the government's interference in The bargaining. free collective call the convenors want to on company to continue 'meaningful negotiations' regardless the pay law for a new pay deal start- ing on March 1. British- The executive of the Leyland combine shop stewards' decided committee yesterday to Phase Two totally the oppose laws.

JOHN DRYDEN

Birmingham The in affiliated urged committees to Daly, the

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Lawrence said after the and actively campaign general secretary, return to worker-employer collec- talks broke up that the offer tive bargaining'. was "totally unacceptable. Asked if the miners were now on 'a The executive recommended collision course' with the gov- that trade unionists should ask ernment, he replied: If you were demand their executive to the description, to make this most recall

TUC,

immediate of the would people agree you were the lobby MPs to vote against right" legislation and organize meetings, He doubted whether the union marches and demonstrations.

'If the would agree to arbitration.

subiect arbitration board is to

MINERS

then it the White Paper's terms, The National Coal Board yes- would be very difficult for them terday offered miners rises of £2 to make an objective judgement.'

£2.50 week- -the most Monday of allowed under the state pay laws On a meeting Scottish miners' delegates —in reply to the union's demand union for £5.50 to £7. and branch secretaries called for

THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 2

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

general secre

JOHN DRYDEN,

tary of the Society of Clvil Ser- vants, said yesterday the closest was being forged consultation between the civil service unions action against co-ordinate to Phase Two. He said the union was seeking the views of its 60,000-strong membership to decide how best to fight the state pay laws.

All the possibilities would be canvassed—overtime bans, works non-co-operation with to rule:; selective strikes, productivity, half-day strikes, one-day strikes.

Last night Mr Dryden and the secretary of the Customs and Excise group, Mr Jack Morrish, addressed a crowded meeting of society members at the Central Westminster. Hall, Later they adjourned to a mass lobby of MPs at the House of Commons.

Coachloads of members at- tended the protest rally from as far away as Glasgow national campaign to fight a Phase Two. They demanded the recall of the TUC to discuss ways of mobilizing the trade union 'massive opposi- movement for tion' the government's to 'oppressive' pay laws.

CIVIL SERVANTS

Officials of the two main unions in the civil service pay fight—the Civil and Public Ser- vices Association and the Society of Civil Servants-have drawn up a joint strategy to co- ordinate action in support of their wage claim. The general secretaries of both NUARY 25, 1973 • No 980 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Ford convenors leave their Trans terday after deciding to reiterate Phase Two laws. bodies are to get to- expected gether within the next few days receiving mandates after from their members for industrial will consider action. They variety of industrial sanctions, including strike action through- out government departments.

GAS WORKERS

Gas workers throughout the country are stepping up industrial action following the derisory offer from the Gas Corporation.

Workers in the North Western Gas Board area yesterday joined the strike and pickets went to Preston to get further support.

RAILWAY WORKERS

drivers' ASLEF, the train union, yesterday ended a two- executive meeting without deciding what action to take over locomen's claim for a basic of f40 a week. Their £9.25 claim is more than four times the Heath state pay level. Ray Buckton, the ASLEF general secretary, said that if British Rail's counter proposals arrived by Friday, a fresh executive meeting will be staged next Monday. The treacherous equivocations by the TUC and Labour Party leaders are enormously dangerous for the whole workers' movement Feather admitted after the General Council yesterday that about a quarter of the TUC eir Transport House meeting yes- reiterate total opposition to the leaders wanted further talks with the Tories. 'We haven't stuck a dagger through its heart, so it will never rise again,' he said. 'I am pretty sure it will be raised again.'

The TUC's preparedness to reopen talks with Heath and the Parliamentary Party's Labour decision not to impede the state pay laws go hand in hand.

The present leaders of the working class have shown that they will not fight the Tories. On the contrary, the spend most of their time collaborating with Heath and company. The right-wing in the leader- ship do not reflect the views of the vast majority of workers.

Despite the capitalist Press attempts to belittle the strikes against the fines on the AUEW, it is important to note that as many as 17 of the 26 divisions of the union have put down resolu- tions for the April national com- meeting supporting mittee the union's policy of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act.

The urgent task facing every worker today is to rid the move- ment of the right-wing class collaborators. They must demand the recall of both the TUC and the Labour Party conference to mobilize the whole working class against the Tory government.

Such a mass movement could and must finish the job which was started by the miners this time last year.

'BACK STATE PAY REBELS'

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday Jan

BY JOHN SPENCEI

WHILE the European foreign ex reeled under the impact of the lira the floating of the Swiss franc, tl Deputies were meeting in Paris yest the world monetary system.

The Group was set up last autumn manship of the Bank of England's undertake a detailed examina- of tion of the question monetary reform before report- ing back to the International Monetary Fund. Predictably the committee is deeply divided on national lines.

Though the ever-optimistic Peter jay of "The Times' detects signs of a consensus on the question of gold, the French government remains adamantly opposed to any scheme to replace the metal special drawing rights for with international transactions.

What is under discussion in Paris is not a technical question; as Jay still appears to believe, but a basic issue of value. The French central bank holds large amounts of gold and refuses to see it phased out or devalued in favour of artificially created paper assets. The tact that gold is at present selling on the free market at $64.75 an ounce, $26.75 above the 'official' price, indicates the real value put on the metal by the market. It is worth noting that Britain —a strong supporter of replac- ing gold with SDRs-recently refused to part with any more reserve gold to settle debts with- in the EEC. To make the situation still worse for the Europeans, the US cast-iron insisting that a mechanism be agreed to force trade surplus countries to re- value their currencies. It also wants the abolition of discriminatory trade practices to be given equal importance with monetary issues in the talks, thus cutting into the EEC's preferen- tial agreements with other states.

The 'Financial Times', stressing the immense difficulties facing European capitalism, quotes Danish banker as sayıng: I shall believe in European economic and union monetary when someone explains how you control nine horses that are all running at different speeds within the same harness.' THE CEASEFIRE agreement announced simultaneously early yesterday by President Nixon and by the govern- ments of North and South Vietnam brings to an end the direct involvement of US ground forces in South Viet- nam. US and South Korean troops will be withdrawn within 60 days and US prisoners of war in the north will be released. The full text of the agreement and the accompanying protocols will be published today. From the statements of Presi- dent Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam it appears that North Vietnam has accepted, at least the continued exist- on paper, ence of the Saigon regime in its present form. It is clear, however, that neither Thieu nor the National any real Liberation Front has intention of relinquishing the struggle, but are continuing to jockey for position and acquire territory. usday January 25, 1973 IT IS the duty of the Parliamentary ' As I told the PLP meeting on 'Now, everyone talks about the Tuesday, Labour Party got second way as if it's a long-term refuse to obey the Tories' state pay objective-something for the future.

British capitalism. Successive Eric Heffer, Labour MP for But I say that we have to oppose law, Walton, Liverpool. tried to •overnmens have ine present legislation wages over the years, but what Workers are bound to become in- of its unfairness, while at the same find ludicrous is the suggestion that Phases volved against fundamenta and this something do with Two and Three law, advancing the socialist solution.

soclailsin. tive of what the trade union Immediate 'There are only two ways out ol "This is question. tell It Is all leaders them. Labour is glong to have the present crisis. Is what the The Labour Party very well narold doing _state to sav where it stands law is the law, but this is class law control of wages. But at the end of

SPENCER

Workers going to fight are obviously that road is the corporate state, and they when

HUSI

we're with their told exchange markets •reselll to desaid tne Mecur WiCH support them.' government the lira devaluation and will other way is the implementation repressive legislation during World Heffer, who says he make War I, the South Wales miners were this policies franc, the Group of 20 parlament when government of ture law debated next week, told giving greater control the day golng to Paris yesterday to discuss Workers Press: economy on socialist lines soo the same thing today.'

t autumn under the chair- ngland's Jeremy Morse to

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

the left-wing Italian daily 'Lotta Continua', Cambria, has beer nucle MR ERIC HEFFER, 'left' Labour When dockers stopped conference that Labour tenced to seven months' work to all and 'of five fined about £200 for calling the MP for Walton, Liverpool, force the release shop councillors who defied the Genoa he that the stewards from jail they were rent law could public right when says expect no sup. parliament their and denounced

CISC

he case renes o amarace

DOTI

in the paper last April. An appeal sent the road to corporatism Labour's Shadow Minister of would be left to pay massive (see above). He is right, Labour, Reg Prentice. surcharges. has been lodged. he says that workers wil when When hundreds of thousands of Workers have gone into action fight the Tory class jaws council house tenants through Torr coveranen Mr Heffer told Workers Press out the country demonstrated and its laws again and again.

THE

TRIAL

of two Yugoslavs that it was the duty of the their willingness to fight the Each the accused aiding last June's Parliamentary Labour Party to Housing Act, the 'mini-invasion' by right-wing -left and right-have rushed Party took this to support the government and Ustachi of Tito's DaCK worKers marlamentar. LaDour stand. But what is the record?

turned its back on them and stabbed their own followers in gime has neen aclourned tor actively to bring the worked the back month. The two accused, who The 'left' Michael Foot had described revolt to an end lived for some time the miners' strike Heffer workers In Aus. encouraces was the 'left' Frank Allaun "Tories defy the state pay laws, yet •ala were aleceo Have of Labour's helped in planning the incursion, the verge of defeat, who, on behalf gives explanation of National told which ended disastrously.

'tragedy'. Executive, the Labour's betrayal of those who defied the state rent Act Nor does he explain the refusal of the 'lefts' fight the right this betrayal, alon! over demand the Ineir talllre expulsion of Roy Jenkins and the 69 right wingers who saved Tory 1971 Common Market vote. of such It is precisely because Tories that the are betrayals stil in office to launch their attacks on the and living standard rights of the working class Heffer and the other 'lefts' bear big responsibility this their because refusal a real offensive agains the right wing At Tuesday's Parliamentary Labour Party meeting not single left denounced for recent broadcast which workers fall to with Heath's in line pay control laws and declared that Labour would government itself use the Tory laws Vague talk 'support from the Parliamentary Labour Party after workers have taken on the state, without a vestige

IRANIAN

Britain embassy the Labourite right wing, is an • comano abdication of leadership fate Sheibani the Doctor who has condemned What needed is not simply 1S • action', workers (moving Into but a _campaign to force the They asked Press counsellor powerful organizations of the Mr Shapourian four questions: the date of Dr Sheibani's destroy the Tory pay laws.

arrest; the charge against him; Nixon "The United the people, but will This would create the situation assted Avne Car wnere imprisoned Tine States will continue to recognize also be conducive to the relaxa- date and place of his appeal in which the Tory government the Republic of tension in the Far East death government tion against the sentence coud be made to resign of Vietnam imposed by court martial a Labour government pledged as tue sole lexilllale and Hold. government of South Vietnam.'

welcome from Moscow Dr Sheibani is to socialist policies could be 1 ne prominent took similar form. At the national front Not only has the Thieu regime supporter returned since President Nixon's visit last US military bases, but the taken over by Dr mossaded This calls for more than 'left' May the aim has been to bring nationalist premier who was talk, serious drive but a . to deposed in 1953 ment hundreds of planes, tanks, build Councils of Action up The US mining Haiphong, and other guns weapons He has been in prison inter

SECUIONS

have been sent to South Vietnam working class against the minen or more man ten vesti its peak in the destruction was since Mossadeq over- Tories and to construct the large of Hanoi parts and thrown. been assured that revolutionary party over Christmas. were strategic bombing force will not allowed to interfere with Thailand and other improvement of Soviet-US parts or indo-china. relations. The Vietnamese North have North Vietnamese Although Prime Minister Pham Van Dong been lorcea to accept me peace Moscow terms hailed the agreement as a great

THE NAVY

commander of the Islands), killed in front of Peking

PAIGC

his bonakry on saturday on the military political and alist movement assassinated the night. mulay du on a buny scare The bureaucracies are opposed diplomatic fronts', there can be leader, Dr Amilcar President Touré said organization's Canida to the of the revolu- extension Cabral, president Sekou Touré of tew illusions in Hanoi after 25 others kidnanned a aule and tion years uninterrupted struggle Guinea claimed yesterday.

executives, including I1llO bout cast against imperialism. President in an inter- Dr Cabral's second-in-command, nave betrayed it in oraer to make a deal with US imperialism.

Pham view moni- Aristide DoNg wenlon lo ane allenroled The Foreign Ministry say: carry tored in Abidian said the man, we shall continue to Peking issued a statement saying high the banner of peace, friend- Inocentio Canida (37) had been President Touré said previously democracy 'We welcome the signing of the ship and captured and had confessed to that the assassins were deserters march ahead in the cause of the agreement to end the wal and LIt restore peace between Vietnam liberation of South Vietnam and Dr Cabral, head of the PAIGC army who had feigned sympathy conformity with the interests of only reunification of the home- (African Independence Party with the

PAIGC

movement to land.' Guine-Bissau Cape Verde infiltrate its ranks.

Workers Press, Thursday January 25, 1973 PAGE 3 Cost of living creates campus paupers What London Students launch students say grant-rent strikes

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

Nick Lisborg Students at Central Lon- STUDENTS IN THE west Hampshire area are to stage a one-day don Polytechnic have NICK LISBORG a second-year strike and demonstration today in support of a engincerg now been staging a rent student at London's Imperial College: strike at halls of resi- immediate cash supplements to bring their grants in line with dence for six days. Be- I think for the person on an ordinary increases in the cost of living. In Southampton University, which situation is tight. The parental grant One of the many loW: has led the campaign in west Hampshire, students have voted by an system for

COLLIDULOI

'Strike Action Now' pos- lous. As it stands at present, if the parents overwhelming majority for the strike in line with a policy to fight ters on display at the €2,000 a year their daughters sons or Poly's six buildings. only get the minimum grant of t50 a year for the removal of the Tory government.

plus the parents' contribution Trees word outer about works at about one quarter to one Throughout the country at least 35 colleges and universities have decided to hold back rents If the parent £450 a year to pay in a protest at the grants level which they say

RENT

leaves them with an income of £1,300.

has now fallen €100 below the 1962 value.

We're supposed to have £40 or so vaca- The cost of living has but that's ridiculous. They tion expenses,

STRIKE

increased by 66 per cent say there s over the same period. At but it's just not enough.

Board and lodgin far too low, present, a full grant for a expenses especially if you're living in London where year gives students digs can cost up to £10 a week.

ACTION

provinces £445. In London,. Cambridge get and extra E35-a-enas cest-of- students extra

NOW

aL c living bonus. ridiculous amounts like f7 a

THE FU

Out of this undergraduates are allowed f240 for board

PRESE

and lodging, £51 for books Too me that in and writing materials, holiday £15 for expenses. loreca lo leave oecause une clothes, laundry, etc. and £50 pocket money. But. for Stewart Thompson in particular £240 is nowhere enough to rent and food, AT CENTRAL London Polytechnic stu- living shortage dents have been on rent strike now grants. accommodation forces stud.

six students' days. Stewart Thompson, ents between 8 and 10 a into where

NUS GRANTS CAMPAIGN

union treasurer, told us that so far they You are being asked to pay more toe your ad got support fron 20 per cent of stu- lay week I week Workers Press That lents in halls of residence. They expecte board and lodging than the Governess This week Workers arrive in up as grant cheques allows you in your grese interviewed students at some he next few weeks. Stewart told us: Don's pay wadair charges.

Join the National fete for higher grens for all working class to neht London colleces 10 • ou 101 how far their grants There are about 300 students in halls—

1UST

Support is Rose Sorike! went. about 10 cent of the per total students. Angela first But peoble who live in hals are the best.

yca off students since their rents are cheaper.

student at Nort SOCIOlOgy Polytechnic. London So if they are prepared rent get £400 Hat roughly 1134 year. strike, it shows students are behind grant works out to increases. the Tern _ over works out at f12 a week. 'But a lot of students Peom 1962 the top the grate compared no inflation at North London Poly are ike since this term the rise in prices is something like £100.

me in that ourerence verween is a very long term I'm living I should say we're the worst off section £10 actual fact. in the country apart from old age pen- in education on at f5 a sioners. It breaks down week rent, week over ti a A rent strike on its own isn't going to fares, which leaves me £4 do much, but we should be taking local week to action, demonstrations, ete to help the That's about 60p a day. fight. Fine Tubes call for giant picket Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally

FORCE THE TORY

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

conference last A MASS picket of the Fine they may have to look very national say, lines whether or not to October, says a statement from seriously Tubes factory Plymouth in The same is true committee. has been called for Monday,

BUILD THE

Hermann chairman Weich. ol tne inancial backing tney nave the stresses March 19, at 6.30 a.m. Decreceivi would National officials of the unions that if this happened,

REVOLUTIONARY

The strikers, who have been the dispute • a cerea tor moe whole uroe Involved ale fighting for the right belong union movement. Department meet a

PARTY!

for months, hope Support for the blacking conciliation officer on the cam- for large-scale national support.

organized by the 37 strikers issue today • Financial appeal, page 10.

since the If this is not forthcoming, they has deteriorated Fine SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

'Unite Loughborough workers' Great Northern Hotel, Wellington Street (near Leeds station),

LEEDS

LOUGHBOROUGH hosi- promoted to move- 'We do have been on there one tea runners-on in the firm's ment,, he said. union leader- other plants The Asians also want union the Act. into movement Can® See all paign to unite black and possible 'We think this is a fair workers In the throughout the

FILM: THREE YEARS

and reasonable settle- the Lough- industry. ment, spokes-

OF WORKERS PRESS

Department call comes ahea under man. Mr Bennie Bunsee. Asian workers at Mans- This has been said yesterday. field Hosiery- firm by Bunsee. gested 'One immediate thing Employment He re. recently that should be after allegations which has Tine cent should racial discrimination. over Com- literature

HOW-

UNION

try and unite black and Industrial had but tha Speakers: The they on Sar white workers. with i. HEALY (SLL. National Secretar Tine latest allocation of jobs 'In our recent strike But the union leaders influence AUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialists for trainee knitters. Of a split, this in- been there was many opposing did

CIR

the union In personal capacity: 'It iS

SONERS

because gone to Asian workers come think comes under ma.

GEORGE LUBY

out and The

(U.P.W.)

and 21 to white workers. this is chinery of the Industrial black work.

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.Ú.M.)

Relations in addition thing for whole Act. ers,' 11 AsIans

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday January 25, 1973

SIR ERIC'S

WARSHIP

BULDERS

Although Yarrow Ship- bulders has 11 ships on its order books worth about £100m, the needs orders for pany two more ships if its pre- sent labour force of 4,250 is to be maintained into 1974. This warning was made by Yarrow, at chairman, Sir Eric launching of a Royal Navy Type 21 Amazon class frigate last week. Threatening the work force is nothing new for Yarrow.

In 1971 sentember to d his workers that a 'hard road to recovery' lay ahead. This was after he had bailed out of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' consortium under the 110 U favourable terms. In his annual report that same year he blamed workers for the company's financial "The costs of problems: con- tracts have been affected by exceptionally high infla- une l trends and also tionary by labour unrest and strikes, which have been on an unpre- cedented scale during the last Lw cals. It to this theme that was Yarrow returned ast Week. While the company was now in very good shape, ne sala, ll was the future that concerned them; and by that he meant employers of Yarrow not only Shipbuilders, but also cul- ployees sub-contractors, ot many of whom were depen- livelihood dent tor their on the workload at Yarrow's.

He said: 'It cannot be too strongly emphasized that the bulding modern war- ship provides far greater em- The Overseas Financial Trust loan firm-with leader which Liberal Jeremy Thorpe is con- nected-is threatening to seize the home of 36- year-old widow Mrs Vio- let Clarkson. week OFT Last wrote to Clarkson demanding Mrs im- mediate payment of £1,190- £690 of which was interest— and stating its intention the Case

ADACK

County Court. Mrs of Hasling- Clarkson, den, Lancs, pledged her house, valued at €1,000, for a £500 loan. In a number of cases involv- ing OFT, borrowers signed an agreement with a clause stipu- ¡Tating that by missing monthly payment they could be forced to pay back the en- (tire loan plus all the interest / due to be paid over the entire period of the loan-or forfeit their homes. In Mrs Clarkson's case this ¡amounts to 280 per cent in- "col. sday January 25, 1973 ployment than the building of certain other unsophisti- cated ships twice the size in of a tonnage length and possibly ten times greater.

Thus, at a time when the government is naturally and rightly concerned about the number of unemployed, parti- cularly in this area, I would hope that our politicians will consider very carefully the employment advantages of in- creasing the number of new naval vessels, quite apart from the obvious defence considera- tions in having more new ships, and there continues to be much talk about the dwind- ling size of our navy. 'Our concern is to sustain our present workload through- out the 1970s and to enable this to be done we require soon, and I further orders know the Ministry of Defence is well aware of our situation.

'An order is, I understand, in the pipeline — a word I have never liked, for the pipe can be a very long one. 'I can only express the hope that the pipe will contain more than one ship this year for another order from one source or another is essential if we are to maintain our present labour force into 1974 and there is no doubt that the quickest commercial way to suicide is to maintain more employees than a workload calls for, regrettable and pain- ful though result redundan- cies are at a time of high un- ployment.' Yarrow is here asking the Tories to subsidize his yards again (the company has al- ready received perhaps the largest share of hand-outs on the Clyde in recent years) and he is calling on his workers for higher output. In another case a postman was charged £200 in interest and fees to settle a £700 sec- ond mortgage he had had for four months. And OFT has demanded £425 or his house from welder Mr Harry Cook of Darwen, Lancs, who borrowed £250 from the company. Overseas Financial Trust is a totally-owned subsidiary of the £30m banking group Lon- don and County Securities, of which Thorpe is a director.

The Liberal leader joined the board of London and County in May 1971 and was allocated 10,000 'incentive' shares. These now have a face value of £29,500. The Moneylenders' Act limits interest charges to 48 per cent, but OFT is licensed under Section 123 of the Companies Act as a 'bank' and there is no restriction on the rate of interest a bank can charge.

The pre-tax profits of Lon- don and County Securities went up from £681,220 in 1971 to £1,771,927 in 1972— 160 per cent. A special covered bay at Yarrow Shipbi He is in the business of making warships — which at least gives him a head's start Tory economic priorities over the merchant ship-build- ers. The government is at pre- sent considering a report on the British shipbuilding in- dustry drawn up by a firm of private consultants, Booz- Allen. The Minister of Industrial Development, Mr Christopher Chataway, has already made clear that the Tories are. not rushing this blueprint for car- ving up the shipbuilding in- dustry. They are withholding any extension of the govern ment grants scheme which will have the effect of forcing to Sir Robert Mark, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, is expec- ted to announce a new head for the CID early next month. The reshuffle at the top of division is the plainclothes part of an overall restructur- ing. The reorganization report been drawn up by Mr Colin Woods, the assistant commissioner of the CID, and one of the few top men in whom Mark has trust. Several private empires will be clipped in the reorganiza- tion. The drugs squad and the so-called murder squad will be phased out. Mark will strengthen CI department, the group involved in the 'Railway Gazette' case and the cuts at British Rail, the Special Branch and the Flying Squad. The bomb squad, which was set up to track down the Angry Brigade, will be integ- rated with the Special Branch.

Mark is trying desperately to clean up the Metropolitan police force without causing a drop in morale. dangerous There has been an unprece- dented crop of early retire- ments and resignations in the past six months since he took up the top job. Only last week a detective sergeant from Hammersmith was jailed for two years for demanding a bribe of £500 not to press a firearms charge.

ow Shipbullders on the Clyde.

wall those firms which the can't compete with overseas competition. For shipworkers, there is only one policy which can meet this impending devas- tation of their industry: a fight for the nationalization of their industry without compen- sation and under workers' control. 'I work for a shipyard, That's doon by the Clyde, The name of the shipyard, Fair fills me with pride.

It's called Eric Yarrow's And it's sae dear to me, He allows us ten minutes For a wee cup of tea! Verse in Sir Eric's 'Newsletter' for all company employees.

The Commercial Bank of Wales launched by millionaire broker Sir Julian Hodge proved a profitable experience for all those shareholders who gambled on the stock when it was first listed. What is now well known, however, is the fact that a number of prominent Labour- ites shared in the bonanza.

Among those to grab an early stake in the bank were two directors James Callaghan, former Chancellor of the Ex- chequer and treasurer of the Labour Party, who took a €5,000 stake, and George former Secretary of Thomas, State for Wales, also with €5,000 worth. Others are Leo Abse (Ponty- pool) £4,000, Cledwyn Hughes (Anglesey), Fred Evans (Caer- philly) and Arthur Probert (Aberdare), all in for £1,000 and the two Rhondda mem- bers, Elfred Davies and Alec Jones, £500 each. The remaining shareholder is intriguing also. He is Will Edwards of Meri- oneth, who has £500 worth of shares. When Harold Wilson asked Welsh MPs for policy ideas last summer, Edwards sugges- ted that Labour should nation- alize the Bank of Wales. Perhaps Edwards believes in the theory of burying himself in the capitalist camp and then working from the inside for socialist policies! Below: Callaghan, £5,000 stake.

PRESIDENT MARCOS

TAKES ABSOLUTE POWERS

Two young Maoists captured after a shoot-out in which two of their comrades and a police inspector were killed. Left: Marcos.

BY JOHN SPENCER

President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines has taken extraordinary personal powers and pro- claimed a new constitu- tion as an expression of 'the people's will. In addition to his presiden- tial status, Marcos is now pre- mier and has taken over all the powers of the legislature under the new charter, an- nouncing also the indefinite continuation of martial law.

This action, he said, was necessary to protect the people and the republic'. The new decrees were signed into law in front of a hastily- people's summoned so-called congress of 4,000 delegates.

The seizure of absolute power has supposedly been ratified by assemblies through- out the country-voting on a show of hands under the wea- pons of Marcos's ubiquitous retainers. Announcing his sweeping constitutional upheaval, Mar- cos said he was accepting the informal vote of the citizens' assemblies and would not now bother staging the planned According to government spokesmen, the six days of voting at public meetings up the country had and down 'overwhelming shown appro- val' of the continuation of martial law, adoption of the new charter, cancellation of the secret ballot and suspen- sion of elections for the next six or seven years. General elections under. the old constitution were to have been held in October, and Marcos's term as president would have expired on Decem- ber 31. Now he has full powers to rule by decree. He will hold another set of general elections if and when he feels like it. He told the people's congress: 'We are en- gaging in a peaceful and con- stitutional revolution to return sovereignty to the people'.

One of his opponents, sena- tor Lorenzo Tanada, made a last-ditch effort to prevent the constitutional change by hav- ing the Supreme Court declare Marcos's action illegal. Tanada argued in the court that the show-of-hand votes on the new constitution were un- official and claimed Marcos was acting illegally by accept- ing them. But the court was still sitting when Marcos de- clared the new constitution in effect. The court proceedings were halted as its members were un- sure of their positions and authority under the new situa- tion. Chief Justice Robert Con- Ma Two young Maoists captured after a sh repcion said he was not sure whether the court organized under the old charter could continue to exist. Marcos's action consolidates his already immense power.

Last September he first took arbitrary powers—naturally on 'temporary' basis-to deal a with what he claimed was an outbreak of internal subver- sion. Since then prominent Fili- pino intellectuals and oppon- ents of the regime have been arrested and held without trial and in many cases have simply disappeared into army camps.

Marcos, who is a faithful supporter of the United States and an anti-communist of long- standing, is the only man to have won the Philippines pre- sidency twice. But his second term, which began in 1969, has proved to be a time of crisis.

Rising prices continued un- checked, though the president was boosted in the Press as the man who would get the eco- nomy back on its feet. At the • same time, political violence and corruption continued to flourish. Students demonstrated on the streets against the effects of economic decline. Left-wing in- surgents, the heirs of the Huks, stepped up their activity and there were violent clashes be- tween minority Moslems and Christians in the southern islands. When Pope Paul visited Manila in 1970 to give the pre- after a shoot-out in which two of their comrade dominantly Catholic regime the Vatican's accolade, the visit was marred by an attempt on the life of the pontiff. Marcos tried to turn away unfavourable publicity by boasting that he had helped to foil the attempt with a karate chop on the would-be assassin, Bolivian painter Benjamin Mendoza y Amor. The move towards untram- melled personal power began in August 1971 when the Pre- sident announced he was tak- ing specia! powers to detain without trial people suspected of subversive or rebellious activities. There was widespread oppo- sition to the move and there has since been a notable of the underground growth opposition movement led by the Maoist New People's Army. Ferdinand Marcos's political been marked by career has extreme ruthlessness even for the stop-at-nothing traditions of the Philippine ruling class.

His first big coup was a suc- cessful appeal to the Supreme Court against charges of mur- dering a political opponent of his father. Then came the war and Jap- anese occupation, and Marcos organized guerrilla resistance with the backing of US imperi- alism. He collected 27 medals and the Americans recognized a coming man when they set up the Asian republic in 1946.

He rose first within the Workers Press, Thur: r comrades and a police inspector were killed.

ruling Liberal Party, but found his way to the presidential palace blocked by President Diosado Macapagal, head ot one of the rival political gang- ster outhits. Finally he left the party in 1964 to join the Nacionalistas who were prepared to offer him a presidential nomination.

In 1965 he beat Macapagal in a ruthless campaign which led to widespread charges of for- gery, bribery, landgrabbing and political assassination. One of Marcos's key plat- forms was the so-called rice self-sufficiency programme, an extension of the much-heralded Green Revolution to the Phi- lippines. New strains of rice were imported with American assistance and improved har- vests won Marcos some popu- larity. A little man with a reputa- tion as a keen hunter and golfer, Marcos is said to have had a sliver of holy wood im- planted in his back by a priest to protect him from being killed. with his wite Imelda, a for- beauty queen who was mer once Miss Manila, he lives in great luxury. When he took office for the second time, the President magnanimously don- ated all his wealth to the nation. But there was no discernible drop in his standard of living, though he was reputed to be one of the richest men in the republic, paying declared in- ess, Thursday January 25, 1973 PAGE 5 ere killed. Left: Marcos.

come tax at the rate of £26,000 a year. When he announced his gift, however, there was no refer- ence to the holdings of Imelda or the rest of the 1 Marcos family. Smuggling, corruption, urban violence and guerrilla struggle in the countryside have inten- sified. At the same time the Philippines have been turned into the largest US base in south-east Asia. At Subic Bay the American aircraft carriers are refuelled after weeks on station in the Tonkin gulf bombing and shell- ing North Vietnam. And the Philippines is also home base to much of the US B52 bomber fleet. Marcos, who likes to think of himself as an Asian states- man, took the Philippines into the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) along- side Indonesia, Malaya, Thai- land and Singapore. Despite obviously planted stories in the US Press to the effect that the State Depart- ment disapproves of Marcos's seizure of personal power, there is little doubt that his regime has full US backing.

It is worth noting that his is the third US client state in Asia where personal dictator- ship has recently been pro- claimed. The others are Thai- land and South Korea. All three regimes are regarded as staunch allies of the American government.

PAGE 6 Workers Prosa, Thursday Janus

BY STEPHEN JOHNS.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY

MARTIN MAYER.

has Italian fascism already reaped its first crop of victims. Hun- dreds of left-wing mili- tants have been murdered or maimed for life by the "squadristi, the storm troopers of the extreme right. 'squadristi' act under The orders from the MSI, Italy's fascist party, which has 56 members of parliament. Activists in the labour court physical movement attack if they walk round areas like Rome, where the fascists have a strong following, with- out protection. No security is offered by the so-called forces of law and order. Most of the police are fascist sympathizers and on occasions have been known to join in the frenzy at outdoor fascist rallies. The army too is firmly on the side of the extreme right.

Paratroopers flaunt their alle- giance openly by marching with the fascists and donning the uniforms of the "squad- risti' Theoretically fascism and all its trappings are illegal in Italy.

A law of 1952 makes it a crime to organize a fascist party. The use of fascist speeches, uni- forms, salutes, principles, em- blems etc are also banned by pain of fine or up to ten years' But the police persistently ignore these regulations. Fas- cist attacks have been launched right under the eyes of the Carabinieri (the armed 'national guard') and riot police take no steps whatsoever to arrest fascists who salute, wear uniforms and carry emblems meetings and demonstra- at tions. Fascists who are wanted in connection with bloody as- saults on the left are allowed to wander free. Stefano Delle Chiaie, for example, a founder the fanatical Avanguardia Nazionale (National Guard), is supposed to be wanted by the authorities, yet he moves openly around Rome with no harassment from the police.

The official MSI line is that they neither approve nor dis- approve of the "squadristi'. In.

fact the chain of command goes right from the street cor- ners and the dingy bars where the fascist gangs gather to the top of the party. There are supposed to be two lines in the fascist move- ment. The fanatics disapprove of the 'respectable' policy of courting the right-wing Chris- tian Democrats (Italy's Tory Party). They stand for 'revolu- day January 25, 1873 tionary fascism'-the seizure of power by an uprising. Others back MSI leader Giorgio Almi- rante's drive to gather all the forces of the right behind him ready for power. But in reality the split is illusory. The MSI leaders know the 'squadristi' are an essential part of the party's armour and appeal. Their more exuberant savagery may sometimes be an embarrassment-but they will always be a part of the move- ment. The thugs are called in to guard the meetings and demonstrations. They were there last week at the 10th MSI congress-sons of the wealthy bourgeoisie, who swag- gered round the hall with an exaggerated air of self-impor- tance, and the youth from the working class, driven from the ranks of the labour movement by years of unemployment and poverty. 'squadristi' are fed on The fascist literature of the most blatant and rabid kind. The Congress bookstalls are loaded with the speeches of Hitler, Mussolini, Ezra Pound, the Japanese novelist Mishima, the philosophy of Nietzsche and histories of fascist rebel- lion-whatever Almirante may say about his movement, he certainly knows what books his supporters like to read.

The mentality of the 'squad- risti' is also familiar. They read a magazine called 'Il Borghese' (literally — 'the Bourgeois') edited by MSI ideologue and senator Mario Tedeschi. 'Il Borghese' contains non- sensical but lewd and sala- cious attacks of figures of the left, intellectuals and_artists (except for Eugene Ionesco who gets fulsome praise for attending the fascist's 'Con- gress of Free Culture'. Ionesco said: The revolutions that have been made in the name of justice and freedom have become a living hell.') Adverts invite the 'squad- risti to buy revolvers, rifles, bugging devices, virility potions and elevator shoes ('Just think, six centimetres...

more security, more power, more success'). reflects the The magazine psyche of its readers, their in- security, paranoia, warped emotional development and a desire to overcome these defi- ciencies with the mystique of fascism and the idea of being the chosen ones. The history of the squad- risti goes back to the end of the war when a few hardened fascists witnessed the collapse of the Mussolini regime, yet avowed to carry on their acti- vities. One of the most important of the new 'squadristi' was Pino Rauti an unrepentant fascist. Rauti is now an MSI deputy who has escaped a jail sentence in connection with the Milan bank bomb outrage which killed 14 people in 1969, be- cause of the law of parliamen- tary immunity. He now publishes his own 'Presenza' ('Pre- newspaper, sence') but the start of his political career was less aus- picious. Rauti emerged in 1952 with a pamphlet titled 'Democracy Here is the Enemy'. His fol- lowing grew and in 1955 he able to. bring out a was monthly magazine. In the same year he pub- lished one of Hitler's Nurem- berg speeches, 'Race and Cul- ture of Nazism' (Rauti at the time was a Nazi supporter: he decorated his office with swas- tikas). 1956 was a seminal year emergence of the smaller fascist groups. Several were formed, including Rauti's Ordine Nuovo (New Order- symbol is the axe—see the title head of the series). A decade later Ordine Nuovo boasted 5,000 brown- Shirt members and a weekly magazine called 'Noi Europa'.

One of its greatest propaganda drives was towards the army.

The movement worshipped a mythical figure called the 'Cen- turians', a kind of political, fascist soldiers. The ideal was to transform the Italian troops and police into such creatures (in this the movement had con- siderable success). Other groups formed during the 1950s include Squadrie di Azione Mussolini (Mussolini Action Squad), a secret exclu- sively terrorist group based in Milan. These fascists special- ize in bomb attacks on left- wing premises and murders of militants. Another important band of Avanguardia terrorists are Nazionale, with an estimated membership of 500 thugs. They are led by Stefano Delle Chiaie, who proclaims his dedication to the struggle against 'neo- illuminism and the alliance be- tween catholic modernism and socialistic reformism in gov- "illuminati' ernment'.) (The conspiracy is continual para- noic obsession in fascist move- ments.) Avanguardia The other Nazionale leader is the Maquis Felice Genosese, one of the aristocratic fascists now in jail for a bomb attack on a left- wing demonstration. Outside these two organiza- tions, smaller, freelance groups Civiliza- proliferateEurope tion, Tomorrow's Order, Knights of the Nation, Black Eagles, etc, etc. The biggest of all however is the MSI's own official move- ment, Givoane Italia (Young Italy). The Front is a tribute to the fascism that the MSI publicly disavows. Its mem- bers have been involved in bloody attacks on the left and bomb attacks. They also organize military- style camps in the countryside.

One was discovered by Com- munist Party members in the Zafferana district of Catania, a fascist stronghold. The camp was held on the land of Coco Francesco, the Christian Democratic assessor for Zafferans. The black fascist flag and the Italian tricolour flow from the camp flagpoles.

Superimposed on the tricolour Carabinierl, the official armed 'national black fist holding a • was a torch, the symbol of Givoane Italia. The trees on the site were posted with MSI stickers and wide range of literature a written by party leaders was also found. The 50 youth at the camp were given a crash course in fascism from several instructors, included which the construction of bombs and the 'art' of karate. other There are many examples of the direct con- nection between the 'squad- risti' and the respectable' in fact, MSI leaders. It was, Almirante himself who gave the open door to the strong- wing when he became arm n. tional secretary in 1969.

He was noted as a hard- and the 'squadristi' liner flocked into the party when he became leader. Rauti was one He led Ordine Nuovo into the MSI claiming: 'We will give a shock to the move- ment • . • we will review it to go towards a completely new kind of state based on racist theory of history, with- out parties? (This was not entirely out of tune with MS ideology.

In December 1970 Roumualdi, the party president, had said: 'We believe in the positive side to racial differences and we pledge ourselves to defend the physical and spiritual form of the Arian race.') Almirante welcomed the newcomers. He called Ordine Nuovo 'the most consistent, the most serious and the most noble', of the section of the 'national right' Wherever he went in the 'national guard', protecting the M$I Congress. Right: Roberto May elections Almirante was im flanked by a guard of 'squad- un risti' and on occasions he has de encouraged them to violence.

Ca In Florence, for example, he pr told his young followers: pa must be ready he 'Our youth for confrontation with com- munists. I have already been gi misunderstood previous on de and I want to pre- occasions sti misunderstanding vent now. When I talk of confrontation, on I mean physical confrontation.'

Ca But the real leaders of the Gi "squadristi' within the MSI are ba deputies Luigi parliamentary Turchi and Guilio Caradonna (Rauti has lost some of his fr support since Graziani, now on forming 6. trial for fascist ju pulled some of the group, Ordine Nuovo out of MSI).

gr Turchi was the man who st whipped in the American se Italian vote behind Nixon and ot Caradonna was the centre of the plot by the fascists, army and right-wing Christian Demo- crats to stage a coup d'etat ga after the May elections last year. 'P Sa ar Caradonna (45), is a par- ticularly nasty character. He has close and personal com- ge mand of the Rome 'squadristi' fa m round his person. The be to war with this youth go battle cry: 'And we, by the th Madonna, are the squadristi of th Caradonna'. He boasts of his strong-arm activities: 'During my intense tu activities against Bolshevism an and the regime I have been sit

Carabinieri, the official armed 'national guard', protecting the MSI Congress.

Right: Roberto Pecoralo, stabbed by an Ordine Nuovo member, then arrested with his attacker for 'causina affrav'. an

I Congress. was • aC e nas lence. he ready CoN- been vious now. tion. f the 1 are Luigi lonna f his ow on the SI). who erican 1 and re of army d'etat last par- He com- dristi' body- The this the g-arm tense evism been s. Right: Roberto Pecoralo, stabbed by an Ordine Nuol imprisoned more than once, undergoing long periods of detention and numerous trials.'

Caradonna is no longer in Italian but in the prison, parliament and in army circles he is a hero. Two eye-witness accounts give testimony to the mur- savagery of these derous squads. One, in strong-arm April 1970, describes an attack university students on is Catania. The i narrator Giovanni Centamore, who was badly wounded: I was standing outside my house with group of friends in the evening of April 6. It was 8.30 and we were just getting into a car when surrounded by were we group of about 20 people who started to insult us with phra- and ses like 'dirtu communists' other insults. We tried to ignore the pro- vocation so as not to play their game, and also because there were girls with us. Recogniz- able in the group were fascist 'Pichiatori' (fighters] Caudullo, Santogati, Ropisarda, Salmer, Chiarenza, Marnello, Vitalone and Marotta. We had hardly started to get into the car when the facists took iron bars, ham- mers and clubs from their jackets. They first began to attacking beat savagely US those of us who had not been able to get into the car, hitting them on the head till they were knocked out. Then they turned on the car in which I and three of my friends were sitting. They broke all the rdine Nuovo member, then arrested with his att windows and seriously dam- aged the bodywork. At this point we decided to get out of the car and try to help our friends who were still on the ground. But as soon as one of us put his head out, Caudullo gave him a blow on the head with a club • which cut open his forehead. We finally managed to get out of the car and we were followed into the hall of my house and they only stopped when other people arrived on the scene. They fled, leaving several iron bars on of the ground. The perpetrators of this attack are still at large. The fascists have big support among the police in Catania. The second incident con- cerns an attack launched by MSI 'squadristi' in the univer- sity faculty of science. Student Guiseppe Lamartina recounts: The meeting had just started, when a group of fascists burst into the room and, without being provoked in any way, began to attack us savagely with iron bars, chains and knives. A student and professor Centineo were seriously injured. went to hospital with a serious head wound. Another student had several knife wounds, and professor Gab- riele Centineo had several stab wounds in the head. After receiving these wounds I have suffered for several serious distur- months from bances. I can't write, I can't read, I can't stand strong attacker for 'causing an aliray. light and I suffer from terrible headaches and general lassitude. The fascists recognized in this attack Caudullo, welc Vicenzo, Francesto Rajnsarda and Filippo Fatuzzo. are Iney still free. concerns the The last case Roberto communist student Pecoraio. In January he the victim of a murder Was attempt by fascist Salvatore Ardizzone, of Ordine Nuovo. ambushed Peco- Ardizzone distributing raio as he was leaflets and stabbed him nine times. He fled brandishing the bloody knife. Other students caught him, but not before he had wounded one of his pur- Vito suers, Lanzatame. This the time police were forced Both alacker and victim were arrested for causing an affray. But Ardiz- freed after three • was

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months after being charged with causing bodily harm!

These are just a few of the the examples attacks fascists. They are carried out systematically all over Italy, but more in the south where the fascists feel secure.

Violence against the left is an essential part of the fascist policy in Italy. There is over- whelming evidence that the police either support or do nothing to halt this pogrom. But the police are not the only institutions backing the jack boot.

TOMORROW

trace the fascist big support business, the army, police and government. Workers Pross, Thursd 'Those who do not present themselves will be considered outlaws and will be executed by shooting in the back'— Order from present MSI leader Giorgio Almirante to Italian people, 1944. 'Italians of Florence! They say a vote for us will result • civil war. But civil war in exists now... We have been fighting the communists for 25 years and the communists have been fighting us... ...there is a civil war. If we get 100 deputies in parlia- ment... then the black shirts which all Italians have had in their top drawer for so many years will come out. They will queue up in front of the party headquarters to enroll in the party. —Election speech, 1972.

'You see the present regime in Greece does not have a dic- tator. It is a totalitarian regime in the sense that parties are illegal for the moment. I don't say that we have to apply this formula in Italy necessarily. If we can do it another way, so much the better. In Greece where the communists brought about the carnage we all remember — the longer and more savage civil war than our own where other parties were absolutely incapable of saving the nation - the solution of force was necessary. At the do not moment we Italians have that situation, but if we reach it I could not exclude a similar situation? - On Greece. 'If only a solution of force could save us from com- munism, we will have to adopt solution.' - On Italian that television. "The first thing will be to offer our votes for a law against strikes and so to get rid of this conflict.' - On permanent unions. I praise the old national prin- ciples of daring and strength in struggle. If the state does 38, Thursday January 25, 1973 PAGE 7 not function then we are the state' — To the 'squadri' in October 1972. 'We are witnessing the un- folding of a permanent attempt at a coup d'état which has two targets, the national right and the forces of order. If the government continues to avoid its obligations we are ready to take over the state ...we will sound the alarm everywhere... 'Our youth must be ready for the confrontation with the communists. I have already been misunderstood on pre- vious occasions, and I want to prevent misunderstanding now.

When I talk of confrontation, I mean physical confrontation' -Election speech. "The so-called culture of the left is the invading enemy, the moral bacteria. The culture of the right must immediately enter the battlefield against it.?

—Address to MSI conference last week. "The synthesis of the state, the nation and labour. We prefer this word because it is the real antithesis of classisms, of the class struggle, of Marxism.'— On corporatism, at the MSI congress. "The corporatist message, that is the message of the breaking of of the class struggle, the message of breaking and over- coming of false Marxist myths.?

-At the MSI congress. 'We will practise legitimate individual defence group wherever the forces of order are unable to carry out their duty'-Last Congress. "The order we foresee is dis- ciplined and hierarchical. It is a system of ability, that is the corporatist system, the system of free selection, the merito- cratic system.'-Last Congress.

'AM I A FASCIST?

I

ALWAYS ANSWER I HAVE

FASCISM WRITTEN ON MY

BROW

Interview 'L'Europeo', May 5, 1972.

contre le lock out panes cist

BİLLINCOURT OCCUPÉI

OF MONSIEUR DREYFUS

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Jean - Antoine Tramoni, Renault motor company official, recently was given a four-year sentence by a Paris court for murdering Maoist, Pierre Overney (23). Overney was shot during a demonstration at the gates of the factory Renault at Boulogne-Billancourt, just out- side Paris. The case became a national issue with big demonstrations demanding an end to the use of armed factory guards. Despite the protests, how- the hired-guns system ever, remains. It has never been officially admitted that Tramoni was hired as a gunman, though that was his speciality as a retired army training officer. Tramoni claimed he was simply a menial helping the security guards. The nationalized Billancourt plant is dominated by the Communist Party which con- trols the union • organization and is extremely hostile to all manifestations of 'leftism'. In the course of the trial the defence produced CP leaflets denouncing Overney and his comrades as fascists in the pay of the management. The court proceedings ex- tracted here reveal how generals and the head of Renault came to the defence of their hired murderer, and how the Communist Party through the CGT union leader- ship in Renault were com- thr rsday January 25, 1973 pletely compromised in the anti-Maoist purge in the nationalized car company.

The light sentence given to Tramoni compares with the prison sentences of two or three years given to left-wing youth for merely distributing leaflets which are an expression of dictatorial repression fav- oured by the Pompidou gov- ernment. The judge: You are still quite young, Tramoni. What are you of doing. thinking How you see your future? Tramoni: I don't know what is going to be decided here.

But I am sure to find work very quickly. I have a lot of friends. The judge: Let's deal with the circumstances of the drama.

How was it that you were moving around with a revolver on you? Tramoni: I must admit this, I am not a superman. I was very frightened. The judge: But why was the safety-catch not fixed on the weapon? all Tramoni: The safety-catch?

.. But you must know that when you are at war, you never put on the safety-catch.

Do you think we used the safety-catch in Algeria? Maitre Leclere (civil lawyer): But you weren't in Algeria.

You were in Billancourt. Tramoni: I was in danger ...

The judge: Let's get back to details of the drama. the Overney was hit by a bullet • less than in the heart from three metres. You say that shot you accidentally as you waved your arm from left to right. That is really an extraordinary coin- cidence. Tramoni: That's fate, milord judge. Maitre Leclerc interrogates the murderer: Leclerc: Let's say a little about job Tramoni had in the Renault. First of all, who recruited Tramoni. Tramoni: I was recruited by M. Moracchini. Leclerc: How did you get to know M. Moracchini? Tramoni: We were both in- structors for officers in the reserve army. We had been friends. Leclerc: All right. What work did he recruit you for? Tramoni: To be in charge of the maintenance and cleaning of the washrooms. Leclerc: Since you have spent 20 years in the army, weren't you surprised to be put in charge of cleaning washrooms?

Tramoni: I was taken on by M. Moracchini and I had con- fidence in him. Leclerc: All right. Explain • what was the relationship be- tween cleaning out the wash- rooms and: • Your active participation in the removal of the worker named Thereau from the factory. • Your participation in the removal of a delegation led by Jean-Paul Sartre, which had entered the factory. • Your presence at the factory ...* gates on the day of the murder.

Tramoni: In the first two cases, Moracchini asked me to come and help the security guards.

I am not a man to discuss orders. My superior asked me to come. So I did. As for being by the gates. I had just finished my meal and I always come in through that gate. Leclerc: Yes. But you arrived at 2 o'clock. At that time, leaflets were being given out for about half-an-hour with no incidents at all. You stayed at the factory entrance all that time. Why? Tramoni: I was discussing with the security guards. That's not a crime, is it? Leclere: To discuss with security guards is not a crime.

Two of the witnesses who spoke about Tramoni in the army were a general and a rank and file soldier. General Lagrange: Iknew Tramoni very well. He was under my orders. I must say that Tramoni was always an exceptional soldier. Good, agreeable, never angry and a quiet fellow. He had an extra- ordinary vein of professional- ism. I say it was extraordinary, because it is not very common.

I am particularly glad that I was personally responsible for giving him a military medal. If Tramoni had stayed in the army, he would have become an officer. Soldier G.L.: When I was do- ing my military service in the 76th Infantry battalion stationed at Fort-Neuf in Vin- cennes, I 'knew' sergeant-major Jean Antoine Tramoni who was in the 3rd Company in the Carnot barracks in Vincennes.

The aforementioned gentleman was well-known for his viru- lent, fascist type remarks on the 'red scum which must be liquidated' and other state- ments of the same type. Leclere proceeded to inter- the Chairman of rogate Renault, M. Dreyfus. Leclerc: •M. Dreyfus, are you saying that there 1s no militia in Renault, and that the security guards have no weapons? Now, the court has heard evidence from five workers who have been driven from the factory by the management with the use of truncheons. Dreyfus: Milord, on my word of honour to this court, there is no employers' militia in at Renault. There has never been any beating up with trun- cheons. I speak my word. (Shouts of 'Liar, murderer' Overney's brother, with tears in his eyes, attacks Dreyfus and is removed from the court- room.) Leclere: Not only are there guards armed with clubs and truncheons in Renault, but didn't you know, M. Dreyfus, that there is also within the security services, a photo- graphic department in charge photographing for the files militants and suspicious workers? Dreyfus: This is completely untrue. We have no secret police. There were never any photographs. Leclerc: In that case, M. Dreyfus, how do you explain the fact that Moracchini gave to the police photos of mili- tants which are used in the dossier of evidence? The judge: In fact, a few photos were given to the police by the security department?

Dreyfus: I know nothing about this. I can only repeat this:

there private militia, are no police force, or thugs in Renault. Leclere: Also, M. Dreyfus, did you know that Tramoni him- self took photos? Dreyfus: No photos were taken.

Leclerc: But a responsible wit- ness in the CFDT, M. Lauret, has just stated at the bar that on September 22, 1971, he saw Tramoni in a car with the num- ber 9140 BM 92 photograph sellers of 'Lutte Ouvrière'. The matter was taken up in a factory committee meeting: Dreyfus: I do not recollect that. Anyway, when one is responsible for a company employing tens of thousands of men, one cannot know who has a camera and who hasn't.

Leclerc interrogates Poisblanc Leclerc: How is it, Inspector, that all your witnesses have been guards or members of management? These people are directly linked with the firm.

therePhotos have shown that were a good number of workers who saw the murder.

Inspector Poisblanc: I asked the management to give me a list of all the witnesses. I saw all those they identified. Leclerc: That is management men? But could you have found the other witnesses with the help of your departments? Isn't that technically possible?

Inspector: Yes, of course.

Leclerc: Then, why didn't you do it? Inspector: It's something we overlooked ... M. Desan (Renault worker CFDT member): The working conditions have got much worse since the strike in May 1971. Sackings and suspensions have for the been imposed slightest reason. The climate in the factory is one of violence.

Strengthened guard at the gates, increased speed ••. Felipe. (Maoist worker in Renault): It is hell on the pro- duction line. The temperature is 40 degrees (104°F) and 48 cars an hour on the line. It is unbearable. There are all kinds of personal breakdowns...

Thereau (another Maoist): My sacking was prepared illegally, carefully. I was isolated from other workers. My speed was increased. I had to do 45 hour instead of 26. units an One day, I was sacked for no reason at all. I came back to my shop in the factory. Fifteen thugs jumped on me, tied me hand and foot and drove me off. Luckily, I was able to get free at a road-junction ...• Sylvain, CGT secretary in Renault, was called to the witness-box by Tramoni, and wanted to read a prepared statement. He was not allowed to do this. Sylvain is a member of the CP faction, which is notorious for its collaboration with Renault. The judge: We want to speak about what happened in the Billancourt factories on January hat 10, 1972. of" Sylvain: I have been called to stand as a witness today. I suppose it is because my evidence has some relationship with the Tramoni trial. I will then speak about January 10, after I have given the position of the CGI on the trial. On January • 10, we were giving out a leaflet when we attacked by a were • group claiming to be Maoist. Tramoni's lawyer: What, claim- ing to be Maoist? You stated that they were leftists, Maoists, and even, to quote a CGT leaflet "fascists, common criminals, police paid by the management' . Sylvain: I will say that the CGI condemned violence, but, unlike Tramoni, it never killed anyone. I must say, moreover, that the Press has exaggerated leftist violence. There have only been a few skirmishes.

Tramoni's lawyer: But, Mon- sieur Sylvain, are you dissoci- ating yourself from the leaflet, an extract of which I have just read out? Demonstration in Paris , following the murder of Overney. Above: French troops in Algeria.

'Do you think we used the safety-catch in Algeria?' Left: Renault factory Billancourt where Overney in died. Sylvain: No, I do not want to dissociate myself from that. The CGT is against violence.

It is in favour of the action of the masses. The Public Prosecutor: I must congratulate the CGT on this position and the position that it had at the time of the drama in which Overney was killed.

Sylvain: In relation to this matter, I must say to the court and the jury, that the CGT, expressing the feeling of the workers in Renault, demands an exemplary punishment for the murderer Tramoni. Nothing can excuse the shot being fired.

Leclerc: Is there in the factory a repressive squad called 'the flying squad? Sylvain: Indeed, We have de- nounced its criminal activities several times. In particular, the presence of spies with cameras in the factory. We have always been rejected by Dreyfus.

Leclerc: Dreyfus told us yester- day that none of the factory supervisors has ever taken any To your knowledge, photos. are there any photos? Sylvain: Yes. We know that photos have been taken. We have protested to the manage- ment on that question as well.

Leclerc: One final question, M.

Sylvain, M. Dreyfus told us that there was no repression in Renault and there have been no arbitrary sackings. What do you think about that? Sylvain: Naturally, in Renault, is repression, violence there which is inherent in the capital- ist system itself. I must make it clear as well that Renault, being a nationalized concern, does not have more repression than many other factories. We But, in are not like Citröen. effect, there is repression, and are unjustified sackings there to get rid of workers who are in the way. We condemn them.

Workers Press, Thurs Wilmslow councillor Patrick Purser, fined £10 and ordered to pay £6 costs for using a TV set without a licence told a Post Office inquiry officer: 'I haven't got time to bother with licences-I'm too busy trying to keep Wilmslow in Cheshire.' Professor David Rosenhan, a Stanford University (USA) psychologist has revealed that he and seven other investiga- tors arranged as a test to be admitted schizophrenic as patients in 12 different mental hospitals. None of the eight was found to be sane by the hospital authorities. But other psychiatric patients did recognize the investigators as 'hormal'.

In the January 19 issue of 'Science' magazine Professor Rosenhan revealed that he and his colleagues could only 'schizo- secure release as phrenics on remission' despite their best efforts to convince hospital staffs of their the sanity. Hospitalization ranged from seven to 52 days with an aver- age of 19 days in hospitals in California, Oregon, Pennsyl- vania, New York and Dela- ware. 'It is clear, writes Professor Rosenhan, 'that we cannot dis- tinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals.'

'Cmdre Marr told how one of his old cruising passengers re- vealed the fall in standards. She said she had only to produce cigarette for a steward to immediately appear with a light. 'On her last cruise she took out a cigarette and turned to a steward. When she asked for a light the steward replied "I matches" and ess, Thursday January 25, 1973 PAGE 9 There is a combination of and fairness firmness with which we move now towards the second stage of our fight to contain inflation. It is a fight in which we claim the support of all our people'.

So said Sir Geoffrey Howe, Consumer Affairs Minister, when talking to the Tories of Eastbourne last weekend. Support of 'all our people'?

He's not only kidding, he's telling an untruth. On the same day he spoke, National Opinion Polls the produced the results of a sur- vey they conducted. Question: Do you think the measures announced will work or will not work? Answer: Will work 36 per cent, won't work 48 per cent, don't know 16 per cent. Question: Is the policy fair or unfair? Answer: Fair 45 per cent, unfair 45 per cent, don't know 10 per cent. Question: Do you think the government is right to ignore food prices because of the difficulty in enforcing controls?

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Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers FELTHAM: Thursday January 25, 7.30 p.m. The Co-op Hall, Bath Pub), 8 Bell Road (near the Hounslow. WILLESDEN: Thursday January 25, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW10. LEEDS: Thursday, January 25, Boar Lane. 8 p.m. Peel Hotel, 'The state pay plan' HACKNEY: Thursday January 25, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central opposite Hackney Town THE Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers have just completed two years and seven months on strike. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right a worker can possess-the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members 100,000 have travelled over miles to sustain their fight.

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WATFORD: Monday January 29, WANDSWORTH: Tuesday Jan- 8 p.m. Trades Union Hall. Wat- 30, 8 p.m. uary ford, Watford Junction near Tooting Broadway, SW17. station. 'Dudley North Whart and Bishop's Bridge dale Road, off York Way, Kings ROCHESTER: Tuesday MANCHESTER: Tuesday January Greyhound, 30, 8 p.m. "The Maypole, Ford Pendleton. Speakers: Lane, Connie Fahey, Harry Price, Co-op Mike •Fight rising p.m. corner Hyndman. Fanshawe Ave./Lagbridge Road.

prices! Force the Tories out!'

Labe. That is why the Socialist League imposed lorkers Press wishes to mak Il trad burden. face a special appeal to their factories and branche with factories and depletec Fine the order that their always a difficult Fine Tubes Treasurer Yet they are determined to c/o 65 Bretonside ight on. This is a struggle the Plymouth, Devon. working class cannot afford to

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engineering branch has called on its union to de- fend the policy of total opposition to the Industrial Relations Act. The resolution was passed unanimously by the Tottenham No 7 branch of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers. It states: "This branch calls on the committee national and the executive council to maintain the policy of our union of non-co-cperation in any shape or form with the Industrial Relations Act or its court.

'And in the event of any action further being taken under the government's anti- working-class legislation against the union, any of its members or group of members, a national strike be called as part of the struggle to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.' TRADE unionists in mid- Glamorgan have called for a united struggle to force the Tory government out of office as the only way to defend trade unions. In a resolution passed by mid-Glamorgan quarterly shop stewards' meeting, Margam works AUEW No 7 branch and

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IN AN exchange of letters with the Department of Education and Science published today, the National Union of Teachers expresses its concern that hundreds of newly-qualified teachers are unemployed. Replying to Mr Philip Halsey, Private Secretary to Education Secretary Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the NUT says: 'We cannot accept your view that a measure of unemployment should be seen as part of the price of securing a much better supply of teachers ... 'It is greatly to be regretted that at a time when the staffing needs of the majority of schools have not been satisfied, there should be hundreds of newly- qualified teachers without posts.'

By December, 1972, 167 newly- qualified unemployed teachers had contacted the union directly and several hundred others are known to be still seeking work.

A THOUSAND domestic ap- pliance workers in St Helens, have decided to insist on the principle of no redundancy before they will end their six- day-old strike. The strikers-members of three unions from the Lancashire town's Stoves Ltd factory- rejected a management bid to split the strike. Stoves Ltd wants to increase its production of cookers to 2,000 a week, while at the same time slashing the labour force by up to 15 per cent. The com- pany refused a shop-floor plan to avoid redundancies by stop- starting a overtime and ping four-day working week. The strike started when Stoves issued redundancy unilaterally notices to 61 workers. At first the action was over alleged breach by the com- an pany of the principle of first in, last out'. But on Tuesday, Stoves offered mid-Glamorgan district com- mittee, they call on the leader- ship of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions to implement its policy of solidarity-including strike action if necessary-with wor- kers under attack by the Tory government. The resolution reads: That this quarterly shop stewards' meeting demands the executive council stop sitting the fence and expecting on officials and shop stewards in the areas to lead the campaign to defend the AUEW. PAPERWORKERS in the Mid- lands have issued a call for a reconvened TUC to remove those union leaders who will not fight. The SOGAT chapel at James Baldwin (Cartons) Ltd, Oldbury, Wores, has for- warded a motion to the union's General Printing Trade conterence, to be held later this year. Urging the SOGAT Execu- tive Council to press its de- mand made last November, for The Natlonal Farmers' Union finished | nated by one thing soaring prices. N 'cheap food days' were over for ever.

WEEKEND meat prices will be up again. This follows in- creases in beef cattle prices at the livestock markets in Eng- land and Wales yesterday.

The average was £19.93 per live cwt, a rise of 36p in a week.

Sheep were up 5p to 32p a lb p- to explain the sackings at a two-hour meeting with shop stewards and 50 rank-and-file members. A mass meeting angrily re- jected this offer and demanded the stewards stick by their 'no redundancies' principle. The unions involved are the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers, the Association of Scientific, Technical and Mana- gerial Staffs and the National Union of Sheet Metal_Workers, Heating and Domestic Engineers.

Just over a week ago a Dutch consultant introduced by management began to investigate possible cost-cutting. Two very similar stoves sold privately in this country are produced more cheaply in Holland. In the caravan stove range Italian manufacturers brought their version to the UK last year and have cornered 12 per cent red of the market. 'We have seen since the Goad case that lack of leader- ship against the Act, NIRC Tory and government has encouraged more action against the AUEW. Its very life, which depends on the closed shop, which and engineers have fought a lifetime of struggle to achieve, is now under attack because of our leaders sitting back. "The executive council must out and tell all the come members to come out on strike, as the first step to defending the AUEW and consequently a recalled TUC, the motion continues: 'EC should demand such a conference to remove those trade union leaders who will not fight the Tories' anti-union legislation and wage control, and unite all workers in the wages struggle in a General Strike to bring down the gov- ernment and replace it with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. Only in this way can our right to free nego- tiation and decent living standard be maintained. finished Its annual meeting in • London yester NFU president made I! clear during while the average for pigs was £2.94 per 20 lb, 20p up on last week. Higher wool prices will push up the price of spring clothes in wool and worsted fabrics. The Susan Small fashion firm has issued a statement saying: 'A navy worsted suit in the With entry into the Common Market cutting the tariff barriers, the men fear even bigger redun- dancies. One steward told Workers Press: 'As far as I can see they will unload the stuff here and we will be shut down.' A TOTAL of 5,351 serving members of the British forces had been discharged since 1968 because of psychiatric disorders, the Minister of State, Defence, Mr lan Gilmour, has disclosed.

In a Commons written reply he told MPs that 872 service personnel had been discharged for this reason in 1971, and an Workers Press, Thurs the principle of free trade unions. 'As we have seen, the policy of local battles proved disas- trous in the : engineering in- dustry pay claim last spring when militancy was dissipated in a series of isolated stoppages.

The same mistake must not be made again in this crucial confrontation now facing us.

"The other step the execu- tive must take is to demand an immediate meeting of the National Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions whose policy is soli- darity with those under attack from the anti-union Act, through strike action if neces- sary, and must be recalled to implement this policy now that leading the member is now under the threat of the full force of the NIRC! All 3 mil- lion members are affected by the fate of the AUEW. 'Also, whether the executive council likes it or not, this fight is political and without a united struggle to force the Tory government out of office, it cannot be won. 'So we therefore call on the executive council and the dis- trict committee to carry out this resolution as the only way of defending the AUEW and free trade unionism.' ion yesterday atter a conference domi- r during conference that the so-called last spring collection would have retailed at £44.50. In this collec- tion it will be £46.50.' This could rise to £49, the firm added. The International Wool Secre- tariat said some prices were double those of last summer. The cause? Heavy Japanese buying.

Stoves Ltd taken over was recently by Jessell Securities, the conglomerate City run financier Oliver Jessell. His organization is modelled along the same lines as Slater Walker Securities and Barclay Securities by asset-stripper run John Bentley. estimated 876 in 1972. This compared with 1,508 in 1968.

Of those discharged last year, 76 were women, and of those discharged the previous year, 95 were women. Figures for individual services last year were Royal Navy, 123 discharges; Army, 440; and RAF 313. ss, Thursday January 25, 1973 PAGE 11 AN IRON foundry worker was killed and two others injured in Jarrow yesterday when they were splashed with molten metal as it was being poured from a ladle into moulds. The men were working at Davy Roll Armstrong, Ltd. Melvin Hamilton (27) of West- bourne Avenue, Gateshead, died immediately. Brian Phipps (27) ot Lancaster Way, Fellgate Estate, Jarrow, was seriously injured The third man, John Bellfield (46) of Walter Street, Jarrow, left hospital after treatment.

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Sunday January 28 The Communist International In the Days of Lenin and Trotsky.

Sunday, February 4 The Left Opposition's struggle against Stalinism.

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WILL WE do It? It is now get- ting very close to the end of the month and we have a long way to go yet. Over these next seven days help us do everything possible to pull the position around. We know it Is a tough struggle. The huge increase in the cost of living has greatly hit the incomes of all our readers. But we also realize this this onslaught by the Tories has made everyone even more determined to fight back in every way. This Tory government should be warned. The main issues have still to be fought out with the working class. In such a situation, the Tories must be made to resign. Workers Press will continue In the forefront of this fight.

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More workers in the north-west joined the strike yesterday. The stoppage, which began last Friday in south Lanca- shire, spread to depots in mid- Cheshire, covering Crewe, Chester, Northwich and Wins- ford. Pickets from strike areas also went to Preston to try to per- suade colleagues there to join in.

Other work disruptions occurred in Liverpool and Black- burn where North Sea gas con- versions have been slowed down.

Most of the North Western A LIVELY and attentive audience Labour and Social Club, Merthyr I the opening of the pageant campai Power. Following the cabaret, Roy Batt South Wales campaign, explained pageant was all about. The basic democratic rights of t taken away by a crisis-ridden gover of these rights was facing the wh movement. He explained that these actors and actresses participating in the cabaret were not part of an artistic 'showcase'-they were

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Gas Board area is affected by some form of industrial action or other. Workers in the Southern Gas Board service depot in Reading, Berks, began a week of 'non- co-operation', affecting Woking.

Wallingford, Henley and ham, Basingstoke. The action will mean a delay in service work, but no loss in gas pressure, said a gas board spokesman. Fitters were on strike at Wakefield, Castleford, Pontefract, rudience packed into the Pentrebach lerthyr Tydfil, on Tuesday night for t campaign, "The Road to Workers' Roy. Battersby, who is directing the xplained to the audience what the ghts of the working class are being en government, he said. The defence the whole labour and trade union revolutionary fighters in the workers' movement. He then invited • local people to come forward and help pre- pare for the pageant to be staged at the Empire Wembley, on Sunday, March Il (see left).

In the discussion that followed a number of people expressed their full support for the anti- Tory campaign. At Wembley the South Wales contribution will be centred on the legal attack on the trade unions launched by the Tories at the turn of the century. This culminated Taff Vale judgement on the rail unions.

It was this court ruling, which imposed massive fines on the unions, that paved the way for the trade unions to build the Tonight on the Labour Party. Langley Estate, Middleton, near Manchester, the cabaret will stage a repeat performance.

FOOTNOTE: The arrival of the campaigners • in Merthyr Tydfil heralded by rumours and was counter-rumours. talk that Plaid There was Cymru, the Welsh nationalists' party, intended 'breaking up' the cabaret. In the event none of these dire predictions came true.

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Batley, Yorks, Nottingham where pickets Dewsbury and turned away a lorry loaded with said the North Eastern region.

East Midlands from spare parts Fitters were working to rule Gas Board headquarters. where half the men at Leeds, on the distribution side walked representing Shop stewards out. 3,000 gas industry manual workers in Northumberland, Durham and Engineers at Hull were banning Cumberland meet in Newcastle and with fitters were overtime tonight to discuss working to rule. their an on and overtime • poncy ol In Nottingham 400 workers their second have staged one- The sanctions were imposed day strike in a week while men last week in protest against the Mansfield and Newark have at pay increase offered by the Gas decided ban Only to overtime. emergency calls were answered in Corporation.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

RENT REBEL councillors were in London yesterday taking legal advice over their deci- sion to appeal against a fine of £6,985 for not putting up local council house rents.

Chairman of the council, Charles Bunting, the High Court said the move to appeal in the order, imposed for against persistent defiance of the Tory Housing Finance Act, did not mean the political campaign in the small Derbyshire mining community would be toned down. 'We have had tremendous support from the community over the last few days, he said.

The desion to continue the so fruitless far legal battle was of two taken after a delegation MP Tom councillors and local Swain visited the Labour Party headquarters for advice Tuesday. Labour Party A So Batte said that yesterday battle was now in the 'legal arena' and SUPPORT for the monarchy that the councillors now had was professed by Charalam- split policy of maintaining the bos Dracopoulos, political fight in the secretary- local com- while appealing the general of the Greek Com- munity in Hight Court. munist Party's 'Bureau of the After attending a meeting of Interior, which broke from the Clay Cross Labour group, Mr Moscow in 1968, when he Swain said: 'The decision was unanimous.

appeared in an Athens court I don't care how long it takes, yesterday. long we win. Obviously as there is no precedent in the Dracopoulos, on trial for the courts for this type of case and third day with 16 others accused no idea how long it we have of overthrow the plotting to will take' Greek regime by force, said that The decision to continue the although the party was theore- legal battle contains dan- tically opposed to crowned gers for the Clay Cross councillors monarchy, it believed: and tenants. "The King must government of return The Labour Party leadership, Greece, form a which has given no support what- national unity and lead the coun- soever councils who have to back to normal democratic try fought clearly would like for party policy rule.' defied the Act, to get a political struggle at Clay Cross off the agenda. IN AN Ankara trial the prosecu- Rent tor claimed battle after rent battle allered mem- has bers of the Turkish Revolutionary proven that the only means Workers' of opposing the Tory and Peasants' Party Act is to mobilize the working class of the aimed to overthrow the social and economic order and had set area behind councillors who take a stand. cells specializing in sabotage.

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the hope that the re- courts in imprisonment. maining resistance to the Act will evaporate. Communists did not want to from Clay Cross, the Apart the social order, he overthrow of only remaining centre added. "This would have been York- resistance is Conisborough, tactical error at this stage in the In Scotland seven of the shire. country's political history.'

original 20 councils that defied the rent rises, are standing firm.

Defence Elias Eliou. witness former spokesman of the banned EDA Party, said that the also Greek CP aimed at coming to power by peaceful means, not by violence. accused is the mon eader Demetrios the Parts- veteran 01-720 2000 alides, founder of the breakaway who also stands for what he ca called adjustment to Greek realities.