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DAILY ORGAN OF THE

ON MAY 12, 1926, the TUC General Council trooped into No. 10 Downing Street to sell out the General Strike. They presented Tory premier Stanley Baldwin with an 'unconditional capitulation.

A. J. Cook, the miners' leader, wrote: It seemed that the only desire of some leaders was to call off the General Strike at any cost, without any guarantees for the workers, miners or others' But it was not just 'some leaders', as Cook says.

"lefts' and all. It was the whole General Council.

And the deputy leader of the National Union of Railwaymen, Mr C. T. Cramp, referring to the General Strike, exclaimed after the collapse at Baldwin's feet: Never again!'

The scene shifts to 1973. Heath is addressing a Midlands of industrialists in Birmingham group on Thursday night. He said compromises or courts of inquiry in the gasmen's dispute were 'simply no longer open'. 'At-a-stroke' Heath has completely abolished the right to free negotiations by the introduction of his state pay laws. He demanded that the trade unions start to imple- ment his corporate state plans for controlling wages.

*We have made it perfectly clear that in Stage Two the Pay Board, which we are now asking parliament to set up, will be examining the anomalies which exist.

In a few weeks-if parliament approves-the gas- workers will have the oppor- tunity to argue their case,

BY ALEX MI

and the machinery will exist to examine it and consider its merits gress to sell out by default Heath's ultimatum is clear: and accept Phase Two legis- accept the laws of the state lation. legislation be pay or The capitulation on March smashed. 5 conforms entirely to a All workers' eyes are now long list of betrayals by the turned to March 5, the day trade union leaders since the of the special TUC Congress.

Tories came to power: But March 5 will be May 12, 1926, in another form. • On March 18, 1971, the infamous special Croydon Behind a smokescreen of Congress opened the door words and a voluminous for the Industrial Relations draft document, the TUC is getting ready to use the Con- Bill to become law. 10 Miners' union chief Gormley (right) has put Joe 'lefts', of the including union secretary some Lawrence Daly, on the spot through his call for a General Election. Strike to force a In General reality he is preparing the way for a gross betrayal March 5 TUC Congress. at the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 17, 1973 • No. 1,000 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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and again the time With Tories in favour of Common Market entry. • And despite the lets overwhelming vote against the EEC its institutions last beotember. Feather has become first pre- sident of Common new Market trade unon conred- eration. Into this situation Mr Joe sidemley hast the miners Dre. sident, injected some 'blunt-talking'. Gormley notorious He has said that the situa.

tion facing the trade unions is either a General Strike or notning His statement aimed directly at the Stalinists and lefts' like Lawrence Daly well UnIS own execuuve as the TUC.

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DAY FEBRUARY 17, 1973• No. 1,000 •

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOU

BRITAIN'S 220,000 hospital anc workers will start national indu: action from March 1. Leaders of their unions dec yesterday to stage selective str ban overtime, work to rule an withdraw co-operation. They said new pay offer - which fell w the Tories' pay guidelines - 'completely unacceptable'.

The new offer was 4p a week 4p

LABOUR LEAGUE

IT IS a proud day for us. All our enemies have tried to prove that a daily paper, such as Workers Press, which tights un- waveringly every day for socialist prin- ciples would never survive. How glad we are to prove them wrong. Today we pub- lish our 1,000th issue. On every basic issue our paper has stood firm: since the day the Tories were elected we have been in the forefront of the struggle to force them to resign. Our paper has fought consistently against the anti-union iegislation, the state pay laws, against British troops in Ulster, for the victory of the Vietnamese people.

Relentlessly we have exposed the re- formist and Stalinist traitors in the labour movement who, each day, try to disarm the working class. However unpalatable at times our poli- tical position might have appeared to you, our readers, your magnificent support has certainly proved its correctness.

Be proud of your paper. Help it to go from strength to strength. Our fund at the moment stands at £629.84. See if you can now raise an extra amount for this month.

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taking the total to £1.88. The indus- pital ancillary trial action is supported by the over- onal industrial whelming majority of workers through- out the NHS. ions decided At north London's Whittington Hos- ective strikes, of the largest in the pital one rule and to capital-laundry van driver Mr Dave They said the Smart (above left) said: 'Our demand ch fell within is not made from greed, it is made from elines - was necessity. Now we're going on strike we've got to hang on until we get what we want.' • a week extra

workers press

INCORPORATING THE N

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

ON MAY 12, 1926, the TUC General Council trooped into No. 10 Downing Street to sell out the General Strike. They presented Tory premier Stanley Baldwin with an 'unconditional capitulation'.

A. I. Cook, the miners' leader, wrote: It seemed that the only desire of some leaders was to call off the General Strike at any cost, without any guarantees for the workers, miners or others.' But it was not just 'some leaders', as Cook says.

It was the whole General Council, 'lefts' and all. And the deputy leader of the National Union of Railwaymen, Mr C. T. Cramp, referring to the General Strike, exclaimed after the collapse at Baldwin's feet: 'Never again!'

The scene shifts to 1973. Heath is addressing a of Midlands industrialists in Birmingham group Thursday night. He said compromises or courts of inquiry in the gasmen's dispute were 'simply no longer open'. 'At-a-stroke' Heath has completely abolished the right to free negotiations by the introduction of his state pay laws. He demanded that the trade unions start to imple- ment his corporate state plans for controlling wages. 'We have made it perfectly clear that in Stage Two the Pay Board, which we are now asking parliament to set up, will be examining the anomalies which exist.

In a few weeks—if parliament approves—the gas- workers will have the oppor- tunity to argue their case,

BY ALEX MI

and the machinery will exist examine it and consider to its merits.' gress to sell out by default Heath's ultimatum is clear: and accept Phase Two legis- accept the laws of the state lation. legislation be or pay The capitulation on March smashed. conforms entirely to a All workers' eyes are now long list of betrayals by the turned to March 5, the day trade union leaders since the of the special TUC Congress.

Tories came to power: But March 5 will be May 12.

• On March 18, 1971, the 1926, in another form. infamous special Croydon Behind a smokescreen of Congress opened the words and a voluminous the Industrial Relations draft document, the TUC is Bill to become law. getting ready to use the Con- 10 Gormley (right) has put Miners' union chief Joe 'lefts', including union secretary some of the Lawrence Daly, on the spot through his call for a Strike force a General Election. General to reality he is preparing the way for a gross betrayal at the March 5 TUC Congress.

NG THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBR

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE O

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• Only a few weeks before, the same TUC had left the postmen isolated and at the mercy of the Tory govern- ment. • The TUC decision not to co-operate with the Act and its court was violated last year when unions were allowed to attend the court and pay its fines. • When the Housing Fin- ance Bill was before parlia- ment, the TUC consistently retreated from organizing any form of struggle with the Labour Party against this broadside attack on council housing and the wage pack- ets of workers. • Trade union-sponsored MPs were permitted to vote again with the time and Tories in favour of Common Market entry. • And despite the TUE's overwhelming against the EEC and its institutions at Brighton last September, Feather has become first pre- sident of the new Common Market trade union confed- eration. Into this situation Mr Joe the miners' pre- sident, 'blunt-talking'. Gormley is a notorious right winger. He has said that the situa- tion facing the trade unions is either a General Strike or nothing. His statement is • aimed directly at the Stalinists and 'lefts' like Lawrence Daly on his own executive as well as the TUC.

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DAY FEBRUARY 17, 1973 • No. 1,000

TTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOU

BRITAIN'S 220,000 hospital ancl workers will start national indus action from March 1. Leaders of their unions dec yesterday to stage selective stri ban overtime, work to rule and withdraw co-operation. They said new pay offer — which fell w pay guidelines - the Tories' 'completely unacceptable'.

The new offer was 4p a week e 1,000 • 4p

LABOUR LEAGUE

IT IS a proud day for us. All our enemies have tried to prove that a daily paper, such as Workers Press, which fights un- waveringly every day for socialist prin- ciples would never survive. How glad we are to prove them wrong. Today we pub- lish our 1,000th issue. On every basic issue our paper has stood firm: since the day the Tories were elected we have been in the forefront of the struggle to force them to resign. Our paper has fought consistently against the anti-union iegislation, the state pay laws, against British troops in Ulster, for the victory of the Vietnamese people.

Relentlessly we have exposed the re- formist and Stalinist traitors in the labour movement who, each day, try to disarm the working class. However unpalatable at times our poli- tical position might have appeared to you, our readers, your magnificent support has certainly proved its correctness.

Be proud of your paper. Help it to go from strength to strength. Our tund ai the moment stands at £629.84. See if you can now raise an extra amount for this month.

Workers Press February Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG taking the total to £1.88. The Indus- anclitary trial action is supported by the over- ›nal industrlal whelming majority of workers through- out the

NHS.

decided At north London's Whittington Hos- ective strikes, pital - one the largest in the of rule and to Mr Dave capital-laundry van driver They said the Smart (above left) said: 'Our demand tell within is not made from greed, it is made from elines — was necessity. Now we're going on strike we've got to hang on until we get what we want.' a week extra

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday February THE GASWORKERS of P west in the gas work•to-rule a over three weeks ago, and th snow, manning the picket li south Lancashire area of the On day three of official action, which now involves two-thirds of Lancashire's 6,000 gasworkers, they told me their story. It was a tale of low pay, bad conditions and a pace of work so fierce that it threatened minimum safety standards laid down by the Board. The men of Pocket Nook know they have taken on the government. They can win or we can win and beat the government, but 1 don't think these lads will see themselves crucified like the postmen,' their con- venor, Alf Anderson, told me.

'There has been action in advance of the union call all the south Lancashire over area, that's St Helens, Wigan, Widnes, Runcorn and War- Now the union rington. backed it we feel more backed up,' he said. 'Our case is simple, we want parity with other workers. Most of the lads on the ser- side vice time-served are tradesmen. fitter But a gas will take home about €19.50 a week. With a wife and two kids you just can't do it.

"The comparable rate in the £6.50 electricity industry is higher. This kind of difference is ridiculous and illegal-even if we got the f2.25 they've offered, the powermen would follow and we would be back to square one.' To men like Alf Anderson, Tory policy has meant one thing — a declining standard of living the prices 'freeze', he smiles cynically.

'I know how I live. The rent on the house has just been bumped up - where do I find the money? Prices are soaring in the shops. You're It's robbery. What trapped. this government ex- does pect?' The St Helens men came out because of their disgust insult the at the £2.25 and lack of action by their union the General and Municipal Workers. What did Alf think about what the general situation. id he thin! unions other could do? •The TUC says it is op- posed to this government. think the should get together

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

-FEARING mass unrest at the price increases which are cer-" tain to follow the dinar de- valuation, the Yugoslav gov- ernment has declared a freeze on the prices of goods and services. Most workers' wages have been frozen in Yugoslavia since De- cember 31 last year and nearly a million workers suffered actual wage-cuts by government orders.

These cuts have led to a large number of strikes. The dinar was devalued against gold by 10 per cent in the wake of the dollar this week. The parity change was made neces- sary by the great losses had the parity been maintained. Zagreb radio said the severe economic shock which Yugoslav shipbuilders had suffered as a re- sult of the sterling devaluation in 1967 would be a drop in the ocean compared with what the US devaluation had in store for them. 44 1 y February 17, 1973

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

S of Pocket Nook, St Helens, lea to-rule and strike. They came out on , and they are still out, stamping in picket line at their depot-the hear a of the North West Gas Board.

Mike Wright ... can't play around with gas. and try to fight as a body.

Whether this would mean a General Strike, I don't know.

This is getting into fields be- yond what we are interested in or understand. 'Naturally enough we would like to see everyone together It's all the in this. same battle. But at the moment it's the gasworkers out in front, said Alf. The young gasworkers often the lowest paid - pride themselves on their militancy.

Joe Ousalice • (22) and his the picket lines mates man every day. JAPANESE goods could begin to flood Europe as a result of the dollar devalua- tion, according to Toshihide Takahashi of the Fair Trade Commission in Tokyo. Although the yen is cur- rently trading at a level about 16 per cent higher than its old parity against the dollar, the margin of increase against • most European currencies is much smaller. This means that Japan has lost a larger margin of competitive- ness in the United States than in Europe. Takahashi added that many European industries are in a weak position to compete with Japan. Takahashi and Yoshihiro Ina- yama, president of the Nippon Steel Corporation, called diplo- matically for the continuation of controls over exports by the Tokyo government. These controls have been sin- gularly ineffective in discourag- ing exports in the past and there is no reason to believe that they will have any greater deterrent effect in the future. ic's ens, lead the north e out on January 21, ping in the cold and the headquarters of Cliff Whitefield . . . angered by witch-hunt. Joe could kick himself. He voted Tory at the last elec- tion. His views have changed.

decisively: 'We are all told we have a democracy. We all went to voted in the election and a government and those MPs there are supposed to say what we feel. 'Well it's quite obvious Heath has booted all out democracy completely. 'At the stroke of a pen he has by-passed the whole de- mocratic system. I don't think people are aware of the kind of things this government is

BY JOHN SPENCER

At the time of the December 1971 currency revaluation, when the yen was up-valued 16.8 per cent against the dollar, Japanese goods were diverted from the US into Europe._ Japanese trade ministry figures show sharp increases in exports to Europe last year, particularly motor cars and electronic goods.

Japanese officials try to console the Europeans with the thought that their exports are still only a small part of the total imports into the Common Market. How- ever, as Takahashi has made clear, this situation will not be allowed to last for long.

The dollar devaluation has opened a new era of trade war in which the dumping of goods on foreign markets will become standard practice. Japanese clearance customs certificates for last year show that while exports to the US rose by 19 per cent to $9,000m, ship- ments to western Europe rose 40 per cent to $4,750m. The biggest of all was a 71 per cent rise to $990m in exports to doing — but they'll find out like us gasworkers.' His mate Mick Crick (24) a maintenance fitter took up the Tory lies about prices.

'It makes me so mad to them going see on about prices like they do. The whole thing is rubbish, everyone is being Werve just had the rent rise, robbed. now there's another 25p on top because of higher rates, but the government' says we have can nothing, not a penny,' he said. Joe and Mick, standing out- side the snow covered gates with their mates John Green- hall, Cliff Whiteheld • and Mike Wright, told me about another Tory slander - the high-paid gasworker. All the national newspap- ers quote a £30-a-week wage.

But they never mention how hard and how long gasmen must work to earn this kind of money. John Greenhall (22) a main- tenance fitter explained: "They have all these terrific Britain, which Japanese indus- trialists correctly regard as the weakest EEC country and the least able to compete. Exports to West Germany totalled $932m, up 41.6 per cent, and shipments to France were up nearly 50 percent to $284m.

Common Market employers are in mortal fear of the Japanese trade offensive, because it means their own markets at home and in other European countries are undermined. Already there are insistent de- mands for protective tariffs and measures to keep out Japanese goods at all costs. This will undoubtedly be accompanied by chauvinist and xenophobic agitation designed to inflame British workers against their Japanese brothers. The TUC and the union lead- ers are already opening the door for this kind of propaganda by advocating protection of such in- dustries as textiles and elec- tronics. Today they mobilize the work- ers behind the boss for trade war. Tomorrow they will perform the same service for capitalism in the shooting war. Young gasworkers (| 1o r) Joe Ousalice, Mick Crick and John Greenhall at the St Helens depot. Left: Pickets stop a lorry outside the gates.

bonus schemes that look fine on paper. But it's impossible to meet the pace in practice,' he said. 'Do you know when you're working installing gas pipes, you're sometimes forced work so fast it's positively dangerous — you're forced to minimum break standards even laid down by the Board itself.' Mike Wright (21), a main- tenance fitter, agreed: 'You can't play around with gas this way, it's dangerous,' he said. 'We want to get rid of the bonus scheme altogether, then you can get a decent day's rushing pay without everything desperately.' Another source of intense anger is the witch-hunt on safety launched by the Tory press. It makes me want to throw up,' said Cliff White- field. 'We hear all the stories about the old-age pensioners.

They never call the Tories murderers, do they? 'But that's what they are.

What about the thousands of old people who die every year because they can't afford to keep warm on a pension?

'The other lie is the one about danger. We have put emergency squads on. There is better coverage now than there was when things were normal. lishes this. Theyre only inter- the Press never ested in Tory lies,' said Cliff.

The St Helens men are like the gas-workers many leading the working-class fight all over the country. They have one answer Tories. 'Get them all out, all the unions, and let's have it out once and for all,' said Joe- he spoke for almost every worker on the Pocket Nook picket line. THE 80th anniversary of marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, one of ihe Red Army commanders shot on Stalin's orders in 1937, was newspaper Red Star yesterday.

commemorated army It hailed Tukhachevsky's con- tributions Soviet military to science and spoke of his devotion to 'our motherland, which he loved wholeheartedly, and to the cause of the Communist Party, whose loyal son he was. No mention was made of the circumstances of his death. In fact, in the course of a mam- moth purge of the commanding staff of the Red Army he and seven other generals were shot on a trumped-up charge of spy- ing for Nazi Germany. The British Communist Party fully supported the murder of Tukhachevsky and congratulated Stalin on smashing the 'plotters against peace'. A special pamph- let was written for the occasion.

Stalin's treacherous blow at the Red Army seriously reduced its defence capacity and brought the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster when the Nazi armies struck in July, 1941.

Workers Press, Saturday February 17, 1973 PAGE 3 Stephen Johns

PAGEANT DIARY

Middleton The Road to Workers Power Political discussion is high point of Pageant rehearsal THE MIDDLETON Pageant team has come out of its second crucial rehearsal with a hard core of youth and workers determined to see the campaign through to the end.

Slowly, out of argument, repetition and sheer deter- mination to fight, the history of the Peterloo Massacre and the dawn of the Chartist movement is coming to light in north Manchester.

It's always a struggle. In the concert room of Middle.

ton Labour Club, it is hard to imagine the field of Peterloo where tens of thousands of north-west workers turned to a torchlight procession in 1819 to hear the • 1001. • Hunt, Orator' the Pres- the they re tens ton radical, demanding the are many, the power is theirs right to vote for the multi- together and fight for the tude before him. Charter harter re the Charter, The young worker-actors the Charter, 15 or people at the garnerea around in a circle.

rehearsal shout magine othe banners,' the JaLLic cry directed Redgrave pioneers-some in- stinctively raise their ponume to ure ler. arms tingent from Rochdale, clenched fist with salute. demanding one-man, 1uc scene went well. Over there stock People are beginning to one-vule political get the feel of what Chartism Above: The crowd cheer 'Orator' Hunt in the voice for the woker asso meant in the 1830s and what one young actor- Bradford gas works Man- Middleton Below: Director Corin Red- rehearsals. worker a motor -said he chester's main supply plant. who ingHunt Icals luddy. was in the playing campaign because Later a drive made grave explails a scene. As always a night's work 101 was dole, the spital night begins his address ends with a discussion. Here then wanted to change today s Lenien waving hand to the the situation. moved on most vital aspect or the 'The Tory workers to encourage them crowd. government play a part So the rehearsal continues vealed- -Its poltics. away will The scene is gone over time At first there was a fear Somehow we have to show Todmorden Tade a Coun- from Hunt's it would Pinink whate struggles what to about it. cil has donated sane it that be hard to in- speech the the Pageant committee. Irom Duncal roduce une bonna or toddy will be might see avalry charge ana cut dow reon e une vast we are showine u he crowd. With practice, the creation of the past merely the Pageant will be very to Wembley. More money shyness and hesistancy will be raised when the team an interesting episode of vanish, voices get bolder Support building up. Manchester history. speaks to But the opposite occurred. The team spent a dav going ine people put

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday February 17, 1973 He agreed that he had hit A funny thing happened Kilbride 'as hard as I could' to Peter Kilbride, an with his clenched fists no more Irlam steelworker, on his when he than three times way home. It was dur- tried to get away. Kilbride's version of events ing the early hours of was different. He told the court December 10 last. that he had been to Manchester with a friend and had four Kilbride was in Black Wy- pints of beer. Urmstont, cliffe Road, when He was not drunk and was Police Constable Geoffrey taking a short cut home when Thomas Critchley him saw he saw the officer. walking through an entry. He He said that Critchley asked Kilbride for his reasons grabbed him by the shoulder for being there and for his and said: 'I could have you for name and address. breaking and entering.' He was Critchley told Manchester the police van and the put in County Magistrates Kil- that officer shone torch in his bride replied: 'It has nothing He pushed the officer's face. to do with you... I am telling and Critchley then arm away you nothing. banged his head against the van door. While Urmston he was at police officer who station, an noticed Critchley said he was not in court hit him.

Pc that Kilbride smelled of intoxi- Critchley was there,' Kilbride cating liquor and that he was testified. 'He putting was drunk. gloves on and when the other Kilbride was again asked for officer hit me he started his name and address and his punch me' He said the Critch- being there and he reason for ley hit him six or seven times.

replied: 'Look I am telling you 'As a result of the blows my nothing' Then added, he nose was three times its normal off or I will do you.' size, my left eye was injured Critchley told the court he and my lips were cut and asked Kilbride to be quiet and bruised.' again asked for his name and address. When he refused for the third time he placed After he was released from Kilbride Kilbride the station on bail, Kilbride under arrest. was 'escorted' to a police van, but went to nearby Stretford police headquarters to make a formal he tried to get out. 'He punched me in the face that he had been complaint on my left eye with his fist assaulted. and I had to have treatment,' When he appeared in court said the officer. 'My face hit last week he was charged with Critchley and assaulting door on the police the van, open occasioning him actual bodily harm and being drunk and dis- Replying to Mr Peter Open- Kilbride, orderly. shaw, defending Pc He was found not guilty of Critchley denied he had been drunk and disorderly- the aggressor and that he had being the charge which led his made offensive remark to an found guilty and Kilbride. He agreed that he arrest-but shone a torch into Kil- £25 for assaulting the had hined bride's face. police officer. Viritings of wannes o Lean Trotsky

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rgan Cru- After visiting the exhibition, Dr Guy Wilson, Wandsworth's closed in former housing chairman, said: h London, 'I reckon you wouldn't be able to buy one of the flats or town were made houses for less than £25,000?

• company Wandsworth's borough ser- operation committee chairman, vices said: 'It's Martin Linton, lear Swan- a great shame that a firm which has had such a long connection supplying work for the borough le announce- has produced this plan. What ar, the com- is worse is that this scheme lling profits will also affect those living near for the the site by forcing their rents and rates up. I much later 'The Housing Finance Act the states that rents will be at a another level in comparison with ad- ss sackings. joining properties. So if Mor- y is situated gan's homes cost £25,000 each, mes on the the effect will be to shoot up nt. It is an rents on housing estates near- velopment. by. The council will be power- less to stop this.? the n staging a If and rate in- such rent introduced, it re- creases were osals at the would make it impossible for many Battersea people to pay reveals that their rents or live in the area.

A recent survey in Wands- in mind a ury houses- worth revealed that since 1966 a quarter of all jobs in the ciation with area-more than 27,000—had s, propose to disappeared. It further showed that in- square feet and dustrial workers their sury accom- people in families had been forced out by declining job opportunities o blocks of and soaring housing costs.

Warrington council, Lanca- shire, say it will not implement Phase Two of the Tory rent Act covering rent assessments until the government with- draws its state pay laws.

The decision was taken in the teeth of contrary advice the Labour-dominated from council's chief officers who claimed that assessments had to be published by February 9.

The officials say that failure to do so could lead the Secre- tary of State to issue a default order against the council.

When the decision was taken last week the public gallery at the back of the council chamber was packed with boisterous members of rents action groups. Ald G. E. Hooper told the Two tenants' leaders in Cork, Eire, may be com- mitted to prison in the next few days for refus- ing to pay rent arrears they withheld. Trade union branches are said to have promised 'deci- sive' action should the men be sent to jail. The men are leaders of the Joint Council of Cork Corpora- tion Tenants' Organizations and a local court has ordered them to pay their arrears at the rate of £25 a month. Both men say they are pre- pared to be jailed and they back the JCCTO decision not to call off the rent strike in the town until the organiza- tion's demands are met in full.

The leaders among are several tenants ordered to pay up following a mass demon- stration at which notices to quit from the Corporation were publicly burned. The JCCTO is asking the Corporation to assess rents on the basis of a man's basic wage after stoppages with overtime not taken into account. At present, rents are assessed on the basis of the value of a property and with soaring house prices many tenants believe their rents are being kept artificially high.

On new housing estates, like Mayfield and Glen, tenants can pay up to £9 a week in rent and a man with three children earning £21 a week before stoppages could be paying up to £5. The JCCTO also wants a ten-year remission of rates on private dwellings and houses to be put into a good state of repair. Cost of living pay rises into should not be taken account, they say, when rents are being assessed. In the event of tenants being imprisoned for failure to pay rent arrears a statement pub- lished by the JCCTO calls for a total rent strike throughout Cork. It asks trade unionists to raise the jailings at branch meetings. And it says that every tenant should contribute 5p a week towards the cost of helping the dependants of those jailed, as well as writing letters of protest to the Corporation.

meeting that the Tories were making no effort to ease the burden of rents in the public ur private sectors. In a period of wage restraint it was felt there was no justifi- cation for supplementing a rent increase by further increases. Mr Hooper said: 'This is a protest against differentiation between certain things which can be controlled and others that the government have no interest in controlling? A Tory amendment to a motion before the council to refer the question of assess- back to the housing ments committee for further con- sideration urging the assess- ments be made at once was defeated by 23 votes to nine.

'RECESSION SEEMS TO HAVE

ENDED' SAYS MANDEL

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

"The international capita- list recession seems to have ended. No this is not the Wall Street Journal' speaking, trying to bolster up confidence in the midst of inter- national monetary tur- moil and falling stock prices. It is Ernest Mandel, leader of the Pabloite 'Unified Secre- tariat' the body which falsely claims to be Trotskyist. Mandel is writing in the issue current of Inter- continental Press' weekly organ of the Unified Secre- by tariat, edited Joseph Hansen. It was Mandel who through- out the boom peddled most determinedly the 'theory' of 'neo-capitalism'. According to this conception, post-war capi- had changed funda- talism mentally; because of a new 'technological revolution' and state intervention, capitalism was no longer prone to crisis and slump. It could be 'struc- turally reformed' to make it more pleasant for the workers.

In everything but name this was merely a rehash of the old Fabian theory of reformism.

But it is clear that the more the capitalist crisis is deep- ened, the more Marxism is confirmed by the chaos reign- ing in the world's money markets, the more Mandel and fellow revisionists in- tended to cling to their dis- credited theories. As usual, Mandel bases his conclusion that capitalism is now about to experience a new boom-however short lived on the most superficial obser- vations... and which ones were overtaken by the speed of events before this revisionist publication the was on news-stands. He sees that production is rising over recent months in Japan, US and West Germany.

But he completely ignores the fact that this 'expansion' takes place under conditions where the basis for the world monetary system has been knocked away. When in August 1971, Nixon broke the dollar-gold tie, he not only left the Euro- peans holding billions of paper debts; he removed the corner- of the 1944 Bretton stone Woods arrangements which had kept the capitalist system afloat over the previous 25 years. In this situation, any im- provements' in the production of commodities only can aggravate an already explosive situation in that the means of converting such commodities back into money, which is essential for the process of accumulation, has been destroyed. Mandel's politics flow inevit- ably from this middle-class faith which he still retains, even at this hour, in the future of capitalism. He says: 'The workers are not pre- pared to pay the cost of rising inflation, the only way for the capitalist system • to avoid a very serious crisis.

Hence the exacerbation of on- the-job conflicts, the prolifera- tion of strikes, of higher and higher wage demands to keep .... Freshly printed dollars In Washington a pace with the rapid rise in pa prices' For Mandel, inflation is not a class matter, but a purely technical matter. The capital- ists can, it seems, 'avoid a crisis by continuing their inflationary policies! Again he deliberately mis- leads his readers about the real nature of the present currency crisis. It was one thing to inflate after the last war when the Americans monopolized the gold supply and could guaran- tee the exchange rate of the dollar. But inflation today the opposite of that very which followed Bretton Woods; today it must under- mine still further any sem- blance of order remaining in the economic and financial arrangements between the big capitalist countries and pre- Freshly printed dollars In Washington and Mandel (Inset) doesn't think there's a criste the sharpest trade pare and money crises. Mandel also clearly seeks to cut the struggle of the working class down to economic, syn- dicalist proportions. him

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the struggle is purely over 'on- the-job' economic questions.

He the consciously ignores political and offensive content of every strike struggle in all the capitalist countries.

Workers in Britain have had learn bitter lessons, under to the false leadership. of the Stalinists and reformists, that their struggles were no longer directed merely against employer but against the capitalist state. Once more, Mandel proves willing tool he is for what a Stalinists, the whose role throughout Europe has been to keep try desperately the working class away from revo- Workers Press, Saturda hink thero's a crisis. lutionary politics and limit their struggle to the purely economic leyel. this revisionist How does see the 1970s? They are cer- tainly not going to be years of struggle revolutionary for power, according to his prog- nosis. 'Inflation will remain at a high level, and with it the dis- content and the related mili- tancy of the working class..

[there will be] reaction against speed-up, against intensifica- tion of exploitation, against authority and management against the relations of capi- talist production in general' (!)

Shorn of its militant-sound- vo-ing language, Mandel is here 3, Saturday February 17, 1973 PAGE 5 proposing that the workers fight on a purely minimum programme. He rejects, even in words, the basis of both the Third International, as founded by Lenin and Trotsky, and the Fourth International; bodies based upon the Transitional Programme, one which fights on demands which raise the question of power. For Mandel, the prospect of taking power is a million light years away. It quite clearly never enters the think- ing of him or his fellow renegades from Trotskyism.

Indeed, as the capitalist crisis deepens it pushes such trends ever further to the right. Now they are increas- ingly forced to abandon in words the programme and in movement they deserted practice 20 years ago.

SCÖTLAND'S LAST RENT REVOLT

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday Febr

BY OUR HOUSING CORRESPON

Clydebank Town Coun- cil has been fined £5,000 for defying the Tory Housing Finance Act— Scottish version, that is.

If the rebel councillors continue to commit con- tempt of court the fines will escalate and they could face jail sentences.

The Act and the vicious prosecution of it against the Clydebank and Clay Cross, Derbyshire, councillors shows the Tories' determination to destroy the council housing rights won by the working class. They have already added f1 , to all council rents and another 1973 y February 17,

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round of increases are due in April. By progressively in- creasing rents, the Tories want to throw council housing to • the cut-throat whims of the free market. In other words, to the mercy of the property speculators. At the same time it is a of impoverishing the way working class—the clear in- tention of its other policies of allowing soaring prices and the attacks on trade union rights.

The decision by the Edin- burgh Court of Sessions to fine the rebel councillors recalls the struggles in 1915- 1916, at the height of World War I, to stop rent increases.

Clydeside was, at this time, convulsed • by great industrial struggles in the engineering factories which had turned mi to the production of over munitions. With the co-opera- tion of the trade union bureau- cracies, workers were subject to vicious speed-up and cus- tomary workshop practices were being broken down. A new local leadership in shape of the Clyde the Workers' Committee of shop stewards came forward to head the movement. But it was limited by a syndicalist outlook which tried to keep aloof from politics and to solve the prob- lems within the confines of the factories. The growth of the muni- tions industry and the rise in prices caused by the war gave ne,:" landlords the chance to raise By mid-1915 eviction rents. orders were being served on red many workers' and soldiers' dic families who had fallen behind with their rents. By the summer, rent increases had become general and there was a rising tide of resentment.

Strikes spread On August 27, 120 tenants in South Govan went on rent strike and refused to pay the increases. In two test cases where tenants were sued for arrears the cases were dis- missed. Strikes spread all over Glasgow with a leading part being taken by the women.

The rents fight sharpened the confrontation in the fac- tories and made both issues political, involving the gov- ernment. They required complete break with syn- ers' dicalism and reformism and ca the unification of the rents struggle with that being waged in the engineering factories.

The failure of the Clyde Workers' Committee to recog- responsibilities nize its to broaden the fight to the whole working class while taking the leadership of the rent strikes an index of its political was weakness. The tenants were left to fight it out alone. Mass demon- strations were held to sup- port the strikers and to pre- vent evictions. A crowd 2,000 protesting the eviction of three tenants held in Par- tick on October 16 was joined by hundreds of workers leaving the factories. The rents movement was largely, organized by members of the Women's Housing Asso- ciation. It was they who attacked rent collectors and sheriff's officers trying to carry out evictions. The Glasgow Labour Party called a number of meetings

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ents aged Syde cog- to hole the rikes tical non- sup- pre- tion Par- Theo ving was bers who and carry Party tings which militant-sounding •at speeches were made, but no effective leadership given.

A high point was reached on November 17 when demon- marched into the strators city centre where a number of being heard. test cases were Some munitions workers stopped work to join in and something, like 10,000 people were on the streets. The march passed the school from which the popular social- ist orator and opponent of the war, John McLean, had just been dismissed. • The demon- strators shouted for him to come out, and he joined them.

But it was characteristic that he was not able to give direc- tion and purpose to the move- ment any more than the syn- dicalists or the Labourites.

By this time the rent strikers were being driven to take a stand not only against the government, but also against the war. After the court hearing a section of the crowd demanded that it should the past recruits office in West Nile Street, but Ine leaders persuadea abandon the idea. Rent strikers packed the deputations and came

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forward from a number of big the ship- tactories, amul yards, the Parkhead forge, Weirs and Cathcarts. The sheriff was probably on the telephone to the govern- ment itself while the proceed- It had no Ings going on. desire at this stage to take the Clydeside working class head- on was preparing wnen 1l introduce conscription and re- quired trade union co-operation the dilution and ot labour the prevention of strikes.

Out of hand Whitehall drew its political conclusions much more rapidly and decisivey than any of the workers' leaders. It was afraid that the movement would get out of hand and that a General Strike would break out. Its to contain this strategy Was militancy and defeat the most- advanced sections whose action working class could have given a lead for the whole country. The "government then intro- duced a Rents Restrictions Bill which soon passed into law. This fixed maximum rents for London Scotland, and security of te tenants provinces and To tenure. SOle that extent the strikers defeated the Asquith govern- ment and forced it to take steps to prevent excessive rents and evictions which provided a weapon for tenants for many until the lories later veals repealed an Act which they halea. Despite the support which the rent strikes on Clydeside received from workers in the engineering works and ship- yards the Clyde Workers' Com- isolated the mittee struggle against the government's munitions drive from demands.

Workers Press, Saturda Left: Mr A. Hood a tenant of Partick, wh from his house by a sheriff's warrant, outside his house. Above: Asquith. Belov tions minister at Glasgow Central Station which represented the interests of the whole working class.

The Clyde Workers' Com- mittee faited to seize the establish opportunity to a really revolutionary syndical- ism and doctrinaire Marxism of the type which prevailed in Britain at this time. Further defeats Those like the International Socialists and the Stalinists of the British Communist Party who have no intention of building a revolutionary leadership distort the history of the wartime struggles on Clydeside. They pretend that the limited success of the rent strikes show that more mili- tancy on particular issues can concessions from the wIn Tories. In fact 'Red Clydeside' was forced to accept the govern- ment's munitions drive. It suffered further defeats after the war and was driven into: bar Ids: the poverty and unemployment 3, Saturday February 17, 1973 PAGE 7 artick, who was threatened with ejection warrant, talks to a crowd of tenants Below: Lloyd George (right) muni- Station. of the 1930s while the leaders of the wartime movement became open traitors. The working class paid a heavy price for the failure of the shop stewards' movement build revolutionary to a leadership to take advantage crisis of British capi- of the talism in the post-war years.

But there can be no room for failures of leadership today. The central question facing the whole working class is how to stop the Tory gov- ernment and end its repressive and reactionary legislation.

This can only be done by the mobilization of the whole Labour and trade union move- ment against the common enemy-the Tory government.

The incoming Labour gov- ernment must be mandated by the resurging masses to im- plement socialist policies, in- cluding the repeal of the Housing Finance Act, the nationalization of the land, the banks, the building societies, and the construction industry.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Fab Workers at Corby steel. Northampton- shire, which will lose its steel-making plant at least by the end of the decade, set up an action committee last weekend to fight possible closure.

No definite proposals were agreed at the inaugural meet- ing, but a committee will watch the situation and, if act to save necessary, the 6,000 to 7,000 jobs at risk.

Four union branch officials walked out after the meeting turned down a plea that the action committee should con- sist of branch delegates.

They also argued that policy decisions should be deferred until the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation holds its first national conference since the 1920s later this year. In common with many others of the doomed steel- workers' leaders at works, Corby believe the best way to begin to save their plant is to show the Tory government it can compete. This will certainly not upset works director Harry Armitage, who has already overseen a new, plant-wide productivity programme. In the latest issue of 'British Steel'-the Corporation's mag- azine-he went on record with the view that one of the biggest problems facing the steel in- undey February 17, 1973 dustry is 'encouraging the best from employees'. As a start, the action com- mittee intends to give Armitage no further grounds for com- plaint. Vice chairman of the committee, blastfurnaceman Mr Peter Huckle, said: I believe the Tories can be persuaded by the steel community or the TUC to see sense. 'Corby has a great possibility of continuing due to its self- sufficiency based on a complete production process from ore to tubes. Our job is to show that we can compete? In the action committee at Shotton steelworks, Flintshire, north Wales, Communist Party members are actively pursuing the same strategy. Mr Allen Smith told a Com- munist Party-dominated rally of Briant Colour workers and their supporters in London last week that churches, school- teachers and local government officers were backing their bid to prove to the British Steel Corporation that steel-making at Shotton can be profitably retained. He disclosed that the action committee was considering an Upper Clyde Shipbuilders'-style work-in if the worst comes to the worst. Workers at Ebbw Vale, where a 28-day ultimatum to the Tories expires on February 17, quickly, discounted the idea that they should turn themselves into model workers and are threatening indefinite

SHOTTON 2

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MAKING !!

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strike action unless guarantees are forthcoming on the work's

STEEL EMUNS

future. There is no doubt that only action of this kind, with in- dustry-wide backing, can the threatened works and jobs.

The BSC is scrapping all its of its open-hearth and electric-arc furnaces to s of the benefits economies 01 scale derived from bulk steel-

SAVE

making using the basic oxygen process. of works like Some the Shotton in fact make a profit,

SOTTON

giving the lie to the suggestion that lies salvation direction of raised profitability The BSC has also anounced to the industry that it is pre- paring a consultative document on the rationalization of steel Tones Scotland, particularly, would suffer from any concentration of foundries at Sheffield, where many special steel plants are clustered. conveniently At special conference in Sheffield last weekend a resolu- tion was passed by represent- atives from sragneukrimes- mall. side, Tollcross and stre ste with the Ch should redundancies be declared as a result of reorganization.

The resolution, in two parts, demanded no reaundancy and loss in job opportunities, no yet plea for sub- inace stantial increase in investment for the steel foundries sleetworks. Right: Shelfield steelworkers march for the Top left: Corb whole'. raht to work. Above: Shotton stee workers demonstrate in Londor

.101 lateral The long, drawn-out moder take-over battle between Last the two private enter- turnov prise steel giants, Thos up a only 1 Firth and John Brown could and Dunford and Elliott, Sinc reached a new peak of try ha drama last Tuesday recessi most Dunford's have now bid the no £26.5m for their Sheffield rival, ford's, but in a move to stave off the Sinc take-over Firth and Brown Hadfie claimed 1972 profits would be driven up 70 per cent on the year £259,0 before at £3.7m. the w Efforts have been made to slump rationalize the privately-owned This steel-finishing plants centred was a Sheffield, at least since plant 1968. chang Dunfo The problem, as it always was throughout the steel in- furthe dustry before nationalization, gramn added is that despite pressure on profit margins and the obvious The need for mergers, owners are electri reluctant to forgo the opor- increa tunities of profit which many contin feel may be just around the install next corner. Firt The Labour government's £10m Industrial Reorganization Cor- but t poration tried to force the from companies' hands in 1969 when merge it took over Brown Bayley operat fields. Steels. Mar There were protracted nego- Dunfo tiations with Dunford's then, but nothing came of them. over Now the firm, 50.1 per cent ration owned by the Department of privat eludes Trade and Industry, has uni-

LOINTSHOP STEWARDS

COMITIEE

FIELD a

JOBS AXE POISED

Both groups steel which is sold as bar and billet and in the forgings field both have market in alloy forgings and in forged steel rolls. merger The merger The private Britain's trades, and are small. The Steel many companies. 1CW Darwin, Samuel brink of Sanderson their last The stree that private steels ana l Brown take- catalyst for the Sheffield's firms which reverse produce alloy world-wide them be drastic steel-finishing firms Independent Sheffield, by nine Balfour Bayley and hover on and Arthur accus sector special processes bid is the Workers Pross, Saturday February 17, 1973 PAGE 9 Fruit cake may soon become 'Locomotive Journal', : the rare a luxury as British monthly newspaper of the foot- platemen's union, ASLEF, has tables as roast beef. Prices of and raisins sultanas in the unfortunate headline an 1n shops have gone up by this month's TUC opposes Market entrays: as issue. much as 25 per cent from 10p to 12tp. The TUC mass membership Worse still, they are likely does. They voted by certainly to double in price in the shops a majority of 3.1 million to before very much longer, said oppose entry and to boycott its spokesman at the a Ministry institutions. But Victor Feather, of Agriculture freeze the TUC's prices leading bureaucrat, department in Nottingham.

has now become the first presi- "This European week's is dent of increase the new what is nothing compared to Trade Union Confederation, a World prices have on the way. top post. already almost doubled and We *Locomotive trust this is bound to be translated Journal' will reveal this treach- into higher shop prices,' he ery in next month's issue!

added. He said crop failure in the USA last year was the main More shocks the cause. on rates front. An effective increase of 'Severe frosts destroyed two- fifths of the American crop of 26 per in the nearly cent black and will be levied in white from county rate grapes Worcestershire. raisins sultanas which and come' Because of rating revalua- tion, the will lose county £1.85m in rate support grants in 1973-1974. County Treasurer, Mr T. H. Bradley, says another effect of the re- valuation has been to shift the financial burden on to the domestic ratepayers. Ginger Rogers, the fading Hollywood film star, has just role far from accepted a new the dreamy romantic musicals of her Fred Astaire days.

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10.30 Untamed 9.30 London. world. 11.00 Hogan's heroes. 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming outlook, 1.25 Calendar.

2.50 Film: The Pleasure 1.55 Soccer. Company'. 4.45 Golden shot.

of His 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

7.55 Film: 10.00 London. 12.05 Kobbery. Shirley's world. 12.35 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 Un- tamed world. 11.00 Time to remember.

the linen 22s ootbali.3.25 1.50 On line. Film: •Wake Me When the War is Over'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "The Quiller Memorandum'. 9.50 Bugs Bunny. 10.00 London. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess masterpieces.

9.30 London. 10.30 Jobs around the house. 11.00 Doctor in charge. 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming outlook. 1.25 World War I. 1.50 Where the jobs Cartoon. 2.00 Soccer. 1.55 2.50 are Too Late'. Film: It's | Never 4.45 6.05 Golden shot. s Slim: Robberuty 10:05 "Robbery. London. 7.55 Film: London. 11.15 Challenge. 12.05 Simon Locke. 12.35 Lectern.

SCOTTISH: 10.10 World War I. 10.35 Wuntry. into London. 1.00 Randall Women and Hopkirk. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Theatre 4.25 5.15 of stars. Golden shot. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: •A Aquarius. For Joey'. 9.30 Comedians. Bullet 10.00 London. 12.00 Late call.

Farm

GRAMPIAN

11.00 progress. 11.30 London. 1.00 Foreign flavour. 1.30 Jobs around the house. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: •Heidi. 4.40 Golden 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. shot. Holiday' 7.55 "Roman 10.00 Film: London. 12.05 Living and growing.

1. BBC 2

8.55-1.30 Open University. 3.00 Film: It's Always Fair Weather'. Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse. Hollywood musical. 4.35 Play away.

5.00 Pets and vets. 5.15 Rare ones.

6.05 MAN ALIVE. Alive and Well and Living in Malta.

6.55 WESTMINSTER. 7.20 NEWS, SPORTS. Weather.

7.30 RUGBY SPECIAL. County championship semi-final. Gloucester- shire v Eastern Counties.

8.15 WEIR OF HERMISTON.

9.00 FULL HOUSE. Including 'With 100 Kazoos', One street be- yond justice or love, Soft Machine, Mass, The Sisters.

10.40 FACE THE MUSIC. 11.10 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

11.15 FILM: 'DESIRE IN THE DUST'. Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott. 10.40 NO 8.30 London. 9.40 Bugs Bunny. 9.30 London. 9.40 land. fordon Doonican No Bailey. "The Eyes Boris Karloff presents. I1.3. Charles sand • a panner

TYNE

TEES:

9.15 Wild life theatre.

ULSTER:

10.30 Sesame London. 11.30 9.40 Getting Thunderbirds. 12.30 5.15 10.10 Abbott Joe 6.15 hillbillies. Sports. and Costello. •the Raims tide. A Punsu 9.%0 London! Co.4o No mans dand. "donnestreet. cheyenne 11.30 Kreskin. 10.40 Boonei

NION

land. 11.30 FBI. 12.25 Lectern.

10:10 YORKSHIRE: 9.15 The last stand. money's Getting 9.15

SCOTTISH:

around the 10.35 Osmonds. house. 9.40 Getting money's Meet Film: and Costello TOlI 10.10 10.35 35201 orth. Hyde' 12.30 son dons Black Beauty. 1.05 11.30 6.10 Joe Riptide. 12.00 Cavalcade Film: Autumn'. Lon- uchones. Lacyenne don. 5.15 Protectors. 10.40 Konanga. don. Val Doonican. "The Greatest Show man's land. 11.25 Place in the coun Earth'. London. .40 Val 12.00 To see ourselves. 2.30 Weather. 11.30 No man's land. can. call. 11.35 O'Hara. Jobs around the

CRANADA

9.15 Jackson five. 5.45

GRAMPIAN: 11.15

house. Getting your money's 5.20 worth. 10.10 You and your solf. 10.40 Ron and friends. 1230 Lo street. Huckleberry UFO. 6.15 Who 6.45 Film: 12.30 Guerrilla Philip- American London. .40 Who do do? pines'. 8.30 valley. you London. Longstreet. "The Flight of the Phoenix'. 9.20 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 O'Hara.

Film:

SUNDAY TV

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.00- 10.25 Aventura. 10.30-11.30 Mass. 11.35 Cut and thrust.

Handling materials. 12.25 Seventy plus. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Britain. 1.30 Parents and children. 1.55 News headlines. Weather.

2.00 Rugby Union. Barbarians v New Zealand. 2.45 Ask Aspel. 3.10 Your obedient servant. 3.45 Film: 'The Rainmaker'. Burt Lancaster, Katharine Hepburn. 5.40 A little princess.

6.05 NEWS. Weather. 6.15 THE SUNDAY DEBATE. Immigration and race relations. How should we deal with the consequences of Commonwealth Immigration? Rt. Hon. Enoch Powell puts his case.

6.45 PATRICK MOORE appeals on behalf of Refresh.

6.50 NEW BEGINNING. 7.00 CHOICE IS YOURS. 7.25 THE

BROTHERS.

8.15 FILM: 'THE JOLSON STORY'. Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes.

Story of Al Jolson, American entertainer. 10.20 NEWS. Weather.

10.35 MORECAMBE AND WISE. Fools Rush In. An Omnibus film showing how the famous duo work.

11.25 CROSSTALK. Richard Crossman, MP and Baroness Sharp.

12.05 Weather.

ITV

9.30 Morning service. 10.35 UFO. 11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 Thunder- birds. 1.50 Skilful rugby. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Persuaders. 4.15 Junior five. 4.25 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS. 6.15 ADAM SMITH. 6.40 INSTRUMENTS OF THY PEACE.

7.00 SONGS THAT MATTER. 7.25 THE FENN STREET GANG.

Absent Friends. 7.55 FILM: 'IN THE FRENCH STYLE'. Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker.

An American girl goes to Paris to paint.

9.45 POLICE FIVE. 10.00 NEWS FROM ITN.

10.15 COUNTRY MATTERS. The Simple Life. 11.15 OPEN NIGHT.

12.05 THE PIONEERS. Archbishop Temple and the Ecumenical move- ment. 12.10 SCALES OF JUSTICE.

BBC 2

9.20-1.25 Open University. 3.55 Man at work. 4.20 Money at work. 5.20 Horizon. 6.15 NEWS REVIEW. 6.50 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather.

6.55 DOUBTS AND CERTAINTIES.

7.25 THE WORLD ABOUT US. Hugo van Lawick and Jane Goodall present The Wild Dogs of Africa.

8.15 THE GOODIES. 8.35 WAS THE 'UNFINISHED' FINISHED? Third movement of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor.

9.45 THE VIEW FROM DANIEL PIKE. The Manufactured Clue.

10.35 THEY SOLD A MILLION. 11.20 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

BARNSTAPLE and District Trades Council is holding a public meeting at the Queen's Hall, Barnstaple, next Tues- day to decide what action should be taken to oppose the Tory government's state control of wages. In a Press statement, the Council declares: The so- called "price controls" have proved themselves a farce.

Food prices, rents, rates and the cost of buying a house, all continue to rise rapidly. Com- Market and the mon entry introduction of VAT on April 1 can only make the situation worse. In these circumstances, many of the community, not sections trade unionists and their only families, find their standard of living undermined. The Trades

ACTON

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 8pm Woodlands Hall, Crown Street speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

WANDSWORTH

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22,

8pm Wandsworth Town Hall Wandsworth High Street speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

BRADFORD

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22,

7.30 p.m. Central Library Top. of Hall. Ings. Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee)

CASTLEFORD

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25,

6.30 p.m. Castleford Civic Hall Ferry Bridge Road Speaker: C. SLAUGHTER (SLL Central Committee) Fight rising rents and prices Defend basic democratic rights Force the Tories to resign GOOLE: Sunday February 18, 1, Wea- 7.30 p.m. 'The Buchanan', therill Street. SOUTH EMSALL: Monday Feb- ruary 19, 7.30 p.m. Westfield Social Centre, Westfield Recrea- tion Ground. BRIXTON: Tuesday February 20, 8 p.m. Brixton Training Centre, Control Room. 'No state control of wages' LIVERPOOL: Tuesday February 20, 7.30 p.m. AEU House, Mount Pleasant. DAGENHAM: Tuesday February 20, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue. 'Defend basic rights' SKELMERSDALE: Tuesday Feb- ruary 20, 7.30 p.m. Quarry Bank.: 'Forward to the Pageant'.

EAST LONDON: Tuesday Feb- 'Festival Inn', Chrisp ruary 20, E.14. 'Common Market Street, Conspiracy. LANCASTER: Wednesday Feb- bruary 21, 8 p.m. Trades Hall, Fenton Street (near GPO). 'Stop the on Rents. Defend retreat basic rights.' WINSFORD: Wednesday February 21, 8 p.m. 'Wheatsheaf Hotel'.

LANGLEY: Wednesday February 21, 8 p.m. 'Cardinal's Hat', Wood Street. 'Defend Democratic Rights.

Forward to the Pageant. PRESTON: Wednesday February 21, 7.30 p.m. 'Waterloo Hotel', Friargate. 'The Road to Workers' Power" WOOLWICH: Wednesday Feb- ruary 21, 8 p.m. 'The Castle' Powis Street, S.E.18. 'The Crisis of leadership' Council is inviting those all threatened by Tory policies to support the formation of a North Devon Council of Action.'

Support for the meeting has already come from the local Labour Party, the Communist Labour Party, the Socialist League and trade unionists| Bideford, Ilfracombe and Torring- ton. In a statement supporting the call for a council of action, Chris Capel, a Labour member of Barnstaple Town Council, said the council had to hand over to the government about £20,000, which surplus on their was housing account. This is the actual profit made by the council on their council house rents,' he said. 'It is over £ll per council house extorted from council house tenants who are predominantly workers.'

Leaflets and posters publicising the meeting are being distributed throughout the area.

BIRMINGHAM

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25, 7pm Digbeth, Civic Hall Digbeth, Birmingham speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

SOUTHAMPTON

MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 8 p.m.

Marlands Hall Havelock Road opp. Civic Centre Speaker: ALAN THORNETT (Deputy Senior Steward Morris Motors in a personal capacity)

MEDWAY

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 8pm Aurora Hotel Brompton Road .. Gillingham speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

SLOUGH

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28

8pm Britwell Community Centre Long Furlong Drive Britwell Estate speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec) TOTTENHAM: Wednesday Feb- AC ruary 21, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High_Road, near White Hart Lane. 'The case for a La- bour government pledged to socialist policies' STEVENAGE: Thursday_ February 22, 8_ p.m. 'Red Lion', Stevenage Old Town. 'Support the gasmen' LEWISHAM: Thursday February 22, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club. (opposite New Cross station). HACKNEY: Thursday February 22, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Cen- tral Hall, opposite Town Hall, Mare Street. WILLESDEN: Thursday February 22, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, High Road, N.W.10. 'Road to Workers' Power'. SCUNTHORPE: Sunday February 25, 7.30 p.m. The Kingsley Hall, Cole Street. BASILDON: Sunday February 25, 5.20 p.m. Barnstable Community Centre. 'Road to Workers' Power' WANDSWORTH: Monday Feb- ruary 26, 8 p.m. 'King's Arms' High Street, S.W.18. 'Defend the right. to work'. WATFORD: Monday February 26, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall, Wood- ford Road, near Watford Junc- 8 tion Station. 'Rise of fascism in bric Italy. Socialist Labour Le NEWCASTLE: Monday February 19, 8 p.m. FORD

ARMS,

Shields Road. 1933-1938-From the German to the founding defeat of Fourth International SHEFFIELD: Monday February 19, 8 p.m. YS

PREMISES,

THE ESSEX branch of the Monday Club was yester- day addressed by the chair- man of the National Front, Mr John Tyndall. The Club's headquarters intervened on Thursday and asked its Essex members not to go ahead with the meet- ing. But Essex branch chairman Mr Leonard Lambert said: 'We decided to invite the National Front along, after their cam- paign in the Uxbridge by- election. 'We wanted to find out what made these people tick' The committee of the Essex Monday Club unanimously decided that the meeting would go ahead despite unfavourable publicity.

DAGENHAM

THURSDAY MARCH 1, 8pm Manor Park Library Romford Rd/Rabbitts Road opp Rabbitts Pub speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

HULL

THURSDAY MARCH 1, 8 p.m. Windmill Hotel' Witham Speaker: CLIFF SLAUGHTER (SLL Central Cttee)

WEST LONDON

THURSDAY MARCH 1, 8 p.m. Lyndhurst Hall Grafton Road, NW3 Speaker: M. BANDA (SLL Central Committee)

- LUTON

FRIDAY MARCH 2, 8 p.m. Assembly Hall Town Hall Speaker: M. BANDA (SLL Central Committee)

TOTTENHAM

TUESDAY MARCH 6, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall Chesnut Grove Speaker: G. HEALY • (SLL National Secretary) reb- ACTON: Tuesday February 27, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, High Road, 'Forward to hite W3. the Pageant The Road to Workers' Power'.

CLAPHAM: Tuesday February 27, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, S.W.4. 'Defend Democratic Rights'.

PADDINGTON: Tuesday Feb- 'Artesian', ruary 27, 8 p.m. corner Chepstow / Westbourne Park Road. CAMDEN: Tuesday February 27, 'Prince Albert', Wharte- 8 p.m. dale 'Les- Road, Kings Cross. sons of fighting the Housing Finance Act'. HARROW: Tuesday February 27, 8 p.m. Labour Hall, Wealdstone.

'All out for Wembley Pageant'.

TOOTING: Tuesday February 21, 'Selkirk Hotel', Selkirk 8 p.m. Road, Tooting Broadway. 'The rise of Italian Fascism'.

CROYDON: Thursday March 1, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road. 'Support the gasmen' HOLLOWAY: Thursday March 1, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road Finsbury Park (near Station). 'Marxism and the trade unions'. KINGSTON: Thursday March 1, B p.m. 'Liverpool Arms' Cam- 'Support the gas- bridge Road. men and hospital workers' our League Lectures Portobello (near Jessops hos- 'The pital) economic crisis and the socialist answer'.

SHEFFIELD: Monday March 5, 8 p.m. YS PREMISES, Porto- belle Revolutiona The Revolutionary Party Britain'. Workers Press, Saturday February 17, 1973 PAGE 11 we are unable to accede to any suggestion for cancellation of this meeting, he said. He added: 'While future in- vitations will include a speaker from opposition the inter- national Socialist organization, it is evident that the recent impact of the National Front in a parliamentary by-election warrants immediate study.

Mr Lambert said it was their 'It will be highly incon- opinion that the Club's national venient and an act of discourt- management was not sufficient- esy towards our members and ly acquainted with the facts.

Mr Tyndall for the meeting to 'After much consideration, be cancelled at this late hour.'

THE URUGUAYAN Communist including redistribution gramme, Party has described as 'generally of land and income, workers' positive agreement reached participation in management, the President Juan Maria Borda- by fight against the monopolies ...

berry and leaders of the military and influence the of Marxist- rebellion. Leninist ideas! National Security Council A which will responsible be for carrying out their 19-point pro- AN ATHENS military court has jailed Stathis Panagoulis for four and months for years ten allegedly dodging army This follows a similar allegedly plotting

THOMAS

for hijack

FIRTH

and John to and foreign an airliner kidnap Brown, the Sheffield steel-makers, of have received a second takeover diplomats to secure release political held the bid substantially higher than the prisoners by colonels' regime. offer by Dunford and Elliot.

Richard, Johnson and Nephew, CLYDEBANK town council will of industrial the subsidiary seek legal advice before deciding Jessel Securities, has offered £33m whether or not to pay the £5,000 for the firm. fine imposed on them for con- Firth-Brown. has consistently tempt of a court order instruct- fought Dunsford's reverse take- ing them to implement the Tory over bid, but it is understood the rent Act. A of the 21- meeting management will recommend the strong council on Thursday night Jessel offer to shareholders.

agreed to investigate the possi- • See pages 8 & 9. bility of appeal.

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'Should have called Congress sooner' - Buckton ASLEF starts work PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday February 17, 1973 Monty Johnstone: A statement THE EAST London area sub-committee of

THE

COLLISION

the excluded the course the Socialist Labour League government is pursuing with the Monty Johnstone from a public Stalinist lecture in Poplar last Thursday night for trade movement became union the following reasons: even clearer yesterday when the Johnstone's record in the British labour ASLEF joined train drivers in movement-and in particular in the Com- forces with the workers who have munist Party He - is politically suspect.

the Young Communist League in already declared for strike action joined 1941 a member of this against the Tories' arbitrary pay and remained organization when he joined the Trotskyist laws. Communist Party from Revolutionary

ASLEF

called a one- 1945-1946. day rail Johnstone was an agent for the Stalinists in strike for February 28 and a per- the Trotskyist RCP. Since then he has withdrawal manent of never tried to explain his membership the RCP and his continuous and unbroken co-operation to go into effect immediately. of Stalinist membership movement since 194l. The industrial action 1S He supported the imprisonment of Soviet aimed to force British Rail intellectuals Daniel and Sinyavsky and settle drivers' pay outstanding claim since described Stalin's death as an irreparable 'whole world". last June. loss' to the As editor 1950s, will review 'Challenge' in the Johnstone "ne executive the situation after February

RAY BÜCKTON

defended and of applauded the murder what action

DCC

east European communists such as Rajk, necessar honouring last year's Paste Kostoy and Slansky. claim, union secretary Ray said yesterday. Buckton pledge had been cane Although he subsequently explained these straw. Mr Buckton told Workers methodical crimes and distortions of truth that British Rail's "And they have also said Press as 'mistakes', he has never explained how will be that hide behind the decision ally and why he supported them. The political government's Phase Two pay taken pay

TOIS

vers behaviour of Johnstone, does not merit the settlement. This means we controls in order avoid support or confidence of workers or In- He has still not retracted his tellectuals.

TUC ON ITS KNEES

support of the Rajk trial.

Until Johnstone is prepared to explain RCP as a publicly how he joined the Stalinist agent and how he came to support

FROM PAGE 1

recruited from eclectics, sen- the crimes of Stalin he will continue to be timentalists, and, generally, excluded from all public SLL functions.

He is whipping them into muddlers of every type. line anticipation the The SLL welcomes members of the CP who collapse on March 5. 'The woollines: of the are confused and who want to discuss the On February 11 1926, less British [and policies of the SLL and the Communist we could add Stalinists] utan ten weeks Party. General Strike, Trotsky wrote ogether with their theore- ideological about the group- Johnstone does not come within this cate- tical formiessness. and their the labour indecision not gory. He remains the most conscious and 112s

DLILSI

movement. cowardice mad, the Stalinist and of the inveterate 'an Referring to the leaders of clique MacDonald, OI Party he said: Kremlin bureaucracy which is the most the Labour ana onowaen masters or me "The situation which in turn counter-revolutionary force next to im- these gentlemen who will impossible with Thomas perialism in world politics. nothing stop at right-wing Today, when Stalinism openly combines with cal cult Icauci

NUR,

ot the rence loundaliuls The ater in the imperialism in Vietnam, in the Middle East coalition government]. bourgeols society consists .ol left-overs bourgeois and in Europe to prevent the working class 'If the bosses of the British 19th theories of the Labour Party form a bridle from advancing to socialism it is essential primarily and

LIST

placed to unmask Johnstone.

LUC

half.' Thomas cass The struggle to expose such hacks and agents Trotsky goes on to describe buckle into which the bour.

the 'middle of Stalinism integral part of the Is an geoisie inserts the reins.'

syndicalists- construction of a revolutionary leadership.

"etts' and -The But the resent-day Dalys, Scanlons, situation East London area sub-committee.

working the today Ticasol February 16, 1973. Trotsky says, 'are much more dangerous. Inese, No productivity-BRS men PRODUCTIVITY was an un- want what other people are paid in the me bers mer sig that

FROM DAVID MAUDE

popular word at the Alveston members seeing that

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

Manor Hotel, Stratford-upon- attitude is politically moti-

LAIS

vated. Avon, yesterday. 'We didn't set out to take the we're limited to 60 a because we're British Road Services drivers arente wep week by law. covernicul Ullo who had of the meeting ber saint Steward a aren alcented some aven we outcome between Steward Lee meeting fairly mild form don't think it would be acep- of and union out many cheir accep-

BRS

firms contract had offered omcial, Alan Law of our members Lame to mary port General Workers, vehicles on and back at the depots. stressed that a productivity the bonus to the drivers leal Inis 1s ine nrst week we ve but thai thi drivers Wone nor merec usev hade ben matall esthe pay at all, and the men had refused to accept The drivers want a f2.50 bonus kind n BRS got the same. everyone for holding heavy of hard-line attitude at the Social Bill Hiler a T&GWU regional (HGV) licences, they are Security. said nitat me present m Oxford, now required to hold by law.

know cars in man with five said claim had that present BRS is refusing the estandard at pay. hildren, years the industry, bonus-now private who has sent away with a delivery workers at some Bir- haulage firms in the Midlands few shilllings: "You're on strike" mingham firms had won the and the men have they say. £2.50. handed their licences in to the 'Our bonus agreements are all since then nunareas or orne

T&GWU.

based already on average speed firms have got this money, but reporting fot of 28 miles an hour, which is just • nouen toev are opposition we've run into BRS cannot send

1IUW

work each day, from ¡vossioe waer vou dave lo Dass The coverament them out on the road in the big We can't go any through traffic. We didn't pick a fight with but determined to ornes servine une motor mndustry faster. them, we're and is refusing to pay them.

get what we're entitled to' 'Well, we're not, we simply the Early yesterday atennoon. were still waiting to see drivers out 1l-page document setting Unite in action all

SLL

manaremem cenanos 101 010- ductivity concessions return the increase.

JARROW

for They talk about productivity,

SUNDAY

but productivity we •can

PUBLIC

asked T&GWU branch sec-

FEBRUARY 18

Harry Shorter. retar y 7 p. т. •We cannot work more hours Civic Centre, Jarrow bistede porker Press.

MEETINGS

Press Clapham High Street, Speaker: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) 1. London

BY ROYSTON BULL OUR INDUSTRIAL

would get nothing in 1973; he added. Mr Buckton said that the drivers' pay dispute was now unavoidably brought into the general conflict between the government and the unions over the state pay controls. 'If the March 5 Congress calls for co-ordinated action by unions, my executive will give it the fullest considera- tion.' But the ASLEF leader added: 'But maybe the situation will not wait till March 5 for a solution. In my opinion, this special last ' Congress should have been called much earlier. 'We should have called a Congress before the even Chequers talks. Instead of curing inflation, the govern- The fight against the Tory government must not be left for three weeks and put in the hands of the TUC leaders. The campaign must be taken into take workers moy ment for a fight to create the industrial and political conditions to make the Tory government resign. The Socialist Labour League is at the centre of this struggle. On Sunday, March I1, we have organized a massive historical Pageant and rally against the Tories at the Empire Pool, Wembley. THE CAMBRIDGE University its third full day today-havin by Communist Party students last night. CP supporters proposed to a 600-strong mass meet- ing of students on Thurs- day night that they should campaign round the uni- versity on Friday for a big meeting in the evening. They aimed to end the sit-in 'on a note of strength', with a torchlight procession and a letter of proposals handed to the vice-Chancel- lor. It was defeated over- whelmingly. One speaker in the debate denounced the • as 'an organized resolution CP attempt to block the sit- in' and recommended that it be 'rejected forcefully'.

A Young Socialist Student Society speaker told the meeting that rather than being brought to an end, the sit-in must be expanded in a disciplined way. But the political questions overall have to be taken up, he warned. "This fight against the uni- versity is inseparable from the fight against the Tory ction to defend basic r

NORTH KENT

ONDAY FEBRUARY 19,

8pm The Shakespeare, Powis Street Woolwich Speaker:

G. HEALY

(SLL National Sec)

USTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

ment's policy of confronta- tion is making it worse be- cause it is driving unions into action which they have been involved in never before' The train drivers are de- manding a £40 basic wage, which would mean a cash plus consolidation increase of various bonuses and allowances. Their work-to-rule and overtime ban will have a effect, slow build-up in the mainly on Southern Region at first, but will be- come more noticeable after the 24-hour strike. The ASLEF drivers do not do a great deal of the rest- day and overtime working, which was much discussed in the National Industrial Relations Court last year when the NIRC ruled that railmen were obliged by law to carry out 'rostered' over- time. In last year's confrontation with the Tory laws, the rail unions membership showed their determination to fight.

They will fight again this year if the ASLEF leadership does not betray them. The solution for train drivers and all other sections of workers fighting the dictatorial control of pay by the powers of the state, is to forge united action on March 5, or sooner, to get rid of the source of the hated pay laws, the Tory government. niversity students' sit-in enters y-having defeated an attempt students to bring it to an end government. The role of the added. Cambridge students began Wednesday their sit-in on. after the publication of a re- Lord Devlin, port by the university's High Steward.

Among his recommenda- tions was a proposal that the university authorities go on refusing recognition to the Students' Union. Devlin also refused to con- sider any reform of the pre- examination system. sent The disciplinary system, whereby university proctors have greater powers than police constables, also an- gered the students. Thursday's meeting took a decision to prepare further discussions yesterday to de- cide what action will be taken throughout the town.

Picketing of the main lec- ture block went ahead yes- terday with attempts to in- tervene in lectures to discuss the situation. asic rights

WATFORD

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19,

8pm Trades Union Hall near Watford Junction stn Speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)