Workers Press no. 1004

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER• THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1973• No 1004 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RISING

BRibeilage

GOLD PRICE

HERALDS

RECESSION

government

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Tory has taken the unprecedented directly civil servants hospital workers and them not to engage in industrial action.

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

be included in their will pay packets week.

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factory Civil service chief Sir TRADE RECESSION leading to mass unemployment, William Secre Arms TonG and closures and commercial collapses is engulfing the capitalist world in tary for Health and Social Security Joseph have Sir the wake of the dollar devaluation.

the written This is the significance of the extremely rapid rise in the price of gold, the universal standard value under capitalism. The gold price has risen almost $12 an ounce since the beginning of this month. In London yesterday morn- we ing it was fixed at $78.50 and rapidly rose $79.80 demand a clear sz an an ounce. about which the above Tuesday's levers demandin OUnCe they fixed their • currencies closing price. we ast week a lin- Every day the Furthermore US officials DrICe

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reaches a new record level. nave made it plain that they It is now than are far from satisfied with more couble 'official' the pre-1971 price the of the outcome last and over $36 above the cur- there currency and 'official' by are well-founded fears in Tate the US Treasury. Europe and Japan that another dollar devaluation This means that the value is on the way. of all paper money is de Gold clining speed and supplies only great third of the liquidity needec basis international tor for international trade. trade completely being eroded. The rest Not only is the tie be-

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paper- and gold and dollars, orner currencies paper special drawing rights. money disrupted,

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Ene relationship between the that these

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paper "assets' are being stripped currencies capitalist yarious their inflated value 302 SI semblance anel stability. Jonger nave any sable rea.

ionshir the basis for inter- Almost half the world's national trade disappears trading Currencies been set ine pattern has including the ster- bound by the dollar deváluation. ling, the Canadian dollar and the italian ira It is the first of what must become a series of competi- are "floating' against the tive devaluations as countries currencies of other coun- Jockey lor davanare in me trade war. Thousands of students march for grants This signifies that the era At the time each of 'fixed sallic DUl acustaore parities, which was one barriers against its rivals' of the the cornerstones goods and subsidize as far

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throughout England, Cabinet Minister who with Woods Scotland and Wales the the Dost-Wal breton went on Tories for Market Common as it can its own export 1- agreement, has gone for dustry. entry. marenvesterday to demane muener good. government grants. In response to this crisis, north-east stu- its place the way is the capitalist class. in Britain dents marched through main now clear for what a Finan- In London (pictured above) about above all, must move demanding 10,000 from streets of Newcastle wards imposition of the unes commentator colleges and polytechnics 2% increase in grants describes as "the onset dictator- marched most brutal tascist Ave and a NUPE Oil Real Street Depart Speakers included National exchange rates warfare of TrON "TO ship over the working class.

ment of Education Scienc Union and representa- The Ine kino in waida no nolds only way to defeat chanted anti-Tory where they would be barred'. this strategy is the building siosans. the coming nospital workers indus Already the South Afri- of the revolutionary party to trial action. can and Australian lead the working class to Among the speakers to address govern- take state power and destroy NUS-sponsored rally Roy The NUS wants the be the was means test reported to ments are Labour Shadow on grants abolished and a minimum having second thoughts the capitanst system. mattersicy,

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Arnet 0966 13th Seniley. vone latter concernir the effecte Hennes Impere on the 201 01 t/16 a orna. or the Cut Samee ch. the Government has takent which and laces. Connert. decisiona Mode 1 = 1 л shunti ment of metrospective repris mide stay and Angotiation car between different talustice you for mitine to me o the Guerrment! trong orrosition 7 ÷ Tories' intervention has The caused in trade an uproar union circles and is bound to cause a hardening in the ranks of the unions involved. Meanwhile the Civil and Public Service Association has circularized the facsimile of a letter written by Edward Heath when he was Opposition leader 1966 (above). The letter is a scathing attack on the Labour plan to control prices and incomes.

We WE we der demand af aliving grar E550 grant each year. MORE than 5,000 students from all over the north-west demonstrated in Manchester. Andy Smith from Chorley Tech- nical College told Workers Press: I'm doing electronics and I get £24 My mum has to pay a year grant. for which I know is very me, difficult. And I know there is no real chance of a spare time job.

'We've got to get these Tories out. See if they can live on this grant.'

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER & THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1973 • No 1004 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RISING

GOLD PRICE

HERALDS

RECESSION

THE

Tory government has taken the unprecedented step directly civil ultire servants and hospital workers engage them not to in Industrial action.

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

It will be included in their pay packets this week. Civil factory service chief Sir TRADE RECESSION leading to mass unemployment, william Secre CAStone closures and commercial collapses is engulfing the capitalist world in tary for Health and Social Security Sir Kelth Joseph have the the wake of the dollar devaluation.

writer This is the significance of the extremely rapid rise in the price of gold, the universal standard value under capitalism. The gold price has risen almost $12 an ounce since the beginning of this month. In London yesterday morn- we and rapidly rose $79.80 Ing lt was nea at s/0.0u demand ounce, a clear Sz an dil about the levels which above Tuesday's ounce they fixed their demandi a closing price. week Every day Furthermore reaches a new record level.

officials

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have made it plain that they more than double are far from satisfied with 'official' pre-1971 price the of outcome the last and over $36 above the cur- there currency

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'official' are well-founded in the US Treasury. Europe and Japan another dollar This means that the value devaluation is on the way. of all paper money is de Gold clining at speed and supplies only one- great third of the liquidity needed the basis international Tor for international trade. completely belng eroded. The rest is supplied by various Not only is the tie be- dollars, other currencies and gold and paper special drawing rights. money alsrupted,

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The l relationship between the that these se papers

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'assets' are being. capitalist currencies their inflated value alu stability. oncer save any sable rea.

ionship, the basis for inter- Almost half the world's national trade disappears trading been set ine pattern nas including the pound ster- by the dollar deváluation. ling, the the Canadian and the Italian lira- It is the first of what must dollar become a series of competi- "floating' against the are tive devaluations as countries currencies of other coun- tries. Jockey lor davanlare m le Thousands of students march for grants trade war. This signifies that the era At the same time each of 'fixed

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erect parities, which was one barriers against its rivals' the the cornerstones throughout goods and subsidize far

STUDENTS

England, Minister Cabinet who voted with as Woods Scotland and Wales the the oost-war bretton went on Tories for Market as it can its own export in- Commor agreement, has gone for dustry. to demand higher entry. marca vesterday good. government grants. to this In response crisis, north-east stu- In its place the way the capitalist class. in Britain dents marched through main now clear for what a 'Finan- In London (pictured above) about above all, must move to- demanding Newcastle 10,000 students from universities wards the imposition of the commentator colleges and polytechnics marched ty) Increase in grants describes as the onset dictator- most brutal fascist Malet Street to Depart Speakers included National exchange rates warfare of cute ship over the working class.

ment of Education Science Union represența- the kind in which no holds The allu only way to defeat where chanted anti-Tory they would be barred'. this

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strategy is the building the coming nospital workers hous Already of the revolutionary party to Tne trial action. can and Australian govern- lead the working class to Among the speakers address take state power and destroy NUS-sponsored rally was Roy The NUS wants reported the test means MCuts ale the Labour Shadow on grants abolished and a minimum Hattersley, having second thoughts tne capitalst system. 109+ ?06 There's letters... and letters The Tories' intervention has uproar in trade caused circles bound and cause a hardenine hune ranks of the unions involved. Meanwhile and Tine Public Service Association circularized the facsimile of Heath he was opposition leade when he was 1966 (above). The letter Labour attack on the plan control prices and incomes.

we ademar We der Silvir demand alvna t)> grant each year. MORE than 5,000 students from all over north-west demonstrated Manchester. Tech. Smith from Chorlev nical College told Workers Press: I'm doing electronics and I get £24 a year alalll me, know very

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which difficult. And I know there is no real chance time Job. oi a spare Tories We've get these See they can live on this oul. grant.'

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday February 22, 1973

LICKING THE TORIES BOOTS

The Tory government was saved. from has refused to take action against What we think in the Commons Standing union leaders like Tom Jackson of Committee on its state wage Post Office Workers who openly control the Bill on Tuesday by a Labour MP.

call for such collaboration.

Last week the TUC General Council Committee Johnson, chairman Carol advance of legislation, in relation to class to take away its basic right to trooped obediently Downing MP into Labour for South Lewisham, a Phase Three settlement.

fight for decent wages. gave his casting vote to preserve the Street yet again in answer to a sum- "the mission, d ilson sup, it could mons from Heath. They were told Wilson collaborates to the full with Bill in its existing form after the Commission, Wilson it could Heath in all workers who that the government had no intention had split 18-18 putting on 'start on the job now'. • without wait- seek to defend themselves against the of giving way on Yet Victor amendment to prevent local authori- warts ing for parliament to pass the Tory Feather announced after that meeting soaring cost of living in the positior ties from altering the rates once they laws. The "job', according to Wilson, that neither side was seeking a con- were fixed. is to conduct a government inquiry frontation! But the working class is not defeated.

into the gasmen's claim. Johnson is a right-wing Labourite who These reformists will back the revolutionary confrontation with consistently voted with the Tories Under Tory plans, endorsed by in con- the Tory government is rapidly draw- ployers any revolutionary Common throughout the Market the Labour leaders, such an inquiry with their own As it does Harold frontation members. ing closer. legislation. The Parliamentary Labour would submit its conclusions to the They will prepare for this by Wilson doing lines with the capitalist Party now collaborating Tory Board, which would impose its 1S openly just as Ramsay MacDonald did all they can to co-operate with the class Tories with the own findings on the gasmen with the in imposing Pay Board, hor special easts: guise in 193l. control of wages on the working force of law. of pleading for 'special cases'. He is assisted by the treachery of the will The Labour leadership, far from fight- accept state pay TUC leaders and the Stalinists who such they accepted the Industrial Rela- The government was defeated in com- corporatist measures, consciously seek divide and its courts, mittee yesterday Tory rebel' seeking to speed them up by enabling tions Act the rent on weaken the working class by permit- the Tories to by-pass parliament.

Act and the Common Market.

amendment and it suffered

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ting isolated, sectional struggles This amounts to similar defeats last week. But Heath There is only one way forward for the disenfranchising the wages and calling for sham one-day knows he can rely on the Wilson working class. It is coalition politics.

working class—a General Strike to strikes which cannot move the Tories gang to support him to the hilt.

the industrial and political As the international trade war in- one inch. conditions for making the Tories tensifies and capitalist confidence in Wilson this week offered his assistance The state Pay Board, whether under resign. world currencies crumbles, the ruling to the Tory premier to use the state its own of a name or in the guise Workers must force their union leaders class pay laws against the gasworkers be.

evervwhere is forced to turn Royal Commission, iS corporatism savagely against the workers to force to have nothing to do with the Tory fore they are even passed through in But action. the IUC has merely Boards and . courts and to organize He advised Heath to set down wages and living standards.

parliament. 'advised' that trade unionists should a strike. Socialist Labour Such up nucleus of the Tory And the Labour leaders stand four- oldle the Board. It has re- League has called for a mass lobby of not serve on Pay Board Roval square with the Tories in imposing fused to instruct unions not to col- the special TUC on March 5 to press sion to deal with the gas dispute, in state measures against the working laborate with it in any way and it these demands. Laos Kissinger lays groundwork for counter-revolution "peace' Mao ready for deal -by wire

CEASEFIRE

agree- in the improvement of are with Nixon been ment has signed relations between Mao's China and American imperial- between the Laotian ism has taken place as a result of Dr Henry Kissinger's government and the visit to Peking last week.

Pathet Lao after a 20- After hearing Kissinger's report, President Nixon years conflict. summoned Congressional leaders' to the White House It will leave the Pathet to inform them of the results so far.

Lao of about in control public announcement is expected to follow.

the IWO-LilTeS After denouncing US imperialism for many wallety although years, the Prince souvanna Maoist regime is now making the most diabolical deal Phouma's government still with Nixon, with the blood of the holds the cemenica, as Il 1s, most-populated Vietnamese workers and peasants. North Vietnam All foreign troops and al cas. the Provisional Revolutionary Government were forced to be withdrawn, al c make the ceasefire agree- although no dateline Was the -Chinese ment well as the Soviet bureau- government cracies. A coanton. be set within 30 davs the support given for Pakis- In Pathet Lao tew con. neutralists, and Washington, cessions amaris Dalia Desk as well as in Vietnam. members notably on the Laotian support Chiang royal family. One the first fruits of the Kissinger visit is ex- 'strategic Peking is pected the setting up been North ready to any sup- US Vietnamese office in troops race for Peking as a prelude to the while puLl and

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move- establishment stations it will be diplomatic US air by Deen ments and the doors power and a case • the flag following the dollar.

ceasefire No doubt Nixon hopes to with China began play off China against really Japan with well as the Soviet Union, half brother Prince Peking ago. while for Peking, Phouma, une over the cordiality Union has now become the Klasinger (right) with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam after the so-called 'peace' Kissinger received far was signed. was main enemy. the cacccucu on that Tne of occasion. Israelis drive deep Thyssen bid to Phnom Penh the anniver- mannese comminist fresh attacks. Cambodia create steel giant into Lebanon the only Varsial

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Secretary East of Darl

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Asian and Affairs, a ceasefire. said that IN With

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Presi deceived King countries between commandos The combined work heavy continues largest steel com- force of 150,000, it would attacked refugee camps cently received around Sa a take- West Germany's near the northern Le- Hussein of Jordan, who pany, has second "If China United town straddles the which bid city big company, over arcent DanO road, steel firm, of Volkswagen but ahead of yesterday in their protagonists of a sepa- Highway One. progress normal and Hoescht. rate peace Essen. Seimens deepest-ever of with Israel. use relationship, said and

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in Arab ground troops The has already woes acest danks. relationship Egypt's Anwar Sadat the Deutsche and the Dres- territory. secretar been the lat- meanwhile has dner, are handling the deal.

The raid, was board. Paul Vietnam's proval military

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indeed will significantly 1 nyssen Was among corruelery chiefs for talks in notorious group steel injured Killed Washington. lessen orosDecIs barons financed the Palestinians, including This who markedly the was largest of Adolf create five development system of Hitler commandos LISt allo

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The last series •Paese Sera'. Pr tears of the Nazi from the Popular Front the normal among tor Combined Israeli raids in annual sales Lebanon 12 years of the Reich. Liberation Palestine. Christian and were aimed at frighten- The raid Communist politicians ing the Was callic aller government The language Rheinstahl not had pre- Thys- only

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alter the war and the a lull or lout months the imposing conceals IntO steel, name once again domi- in the Israeli tions on the Palestinian machinery has ship- recalled that nonary nates attacks against Pales- Paese German guerrillas. imperialism the con- building offered to the huge Sune 1ncтeа! tinians in Lebanon. tinued of the will be peace The new would monopoly which coincides with No doubt the present host group power after defeat from talks. Hanoi but al cd have capa- result this mergel cowardis new Haleran alack is the op- moves Middle tended serve the ter- …The in tons a year. and

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East. It was same purpose.

Workers Press, Thursday February 22, 1973 PAGE 3 Co-op fund Rent rebels case for to pay fine? open court

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councillors intention putting themselves in A HEARING has been set down for next the near certain to vote to pay group leader Jack McAllister week in the where the London Co- case £5,000 fine imposed on them for put "Every it ever more creddya operative Society being sued for 1S an cillor is aware of the iniquities of the alleged breach of trust' in the management contempt of court when they meet Act. No implement it in workers' persion fund. But we decided tonight. council. 1101 to implement

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employee, We

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An Mr Robert Evans, Chief opposition leader Mrs Betty Seredary of State or Sontaind.

heading confrontation Transport and General Workers Union shop with the Brown told me yesterday they had steward. Claims in a high Court summons that the explored possible loophole in Unce coveramn every the Society has lent itself from the money into the courts that another the law to avoid payment, but she matter' workers pension tund said: It looks as though we'll have

BY PHILIP WADE

at low interest rates. The rebel councillors have taken the to pay.' Evans advice of Mr C Davidson, QC, who contens appeal to a High Court the manage- The rebel members on the 21- judge Told them Tanne chances that ment pension their paying the fine or of appealing against

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disobedience the law to the last it were slim- so slim that he could not deprived luna president and 15 possible employees moment. noise directors run the £100m put lis name to an a vocal. rates of superannuation. Betty Brown... We respect the law.

business on MrS resolu the of between ast He

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seeking de- tion deferring decision on the fine 1S Thursday's and tonight's council meet- lo-cav basis. full meeting of the council Even if opposition to the Act goes Cardon from lae court at fact, been taken with Four of these direc- ing has, up on spenin the door to the Secretary that the should last Thursdav tors, together was muca with discussing ways of paying the nne with.

Scotland Mr Gordon have paid a better rate

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calculated act of defiance as des. Stait representative. con.

out posing an unacceptably sun burden officials interest over the bid to get more time to consider Campbell tc perate

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on the town's ratepayers.

pension une implement, there Is next to no cance years aske alternative. fund's trustees. cvery Last week's vote, that the Society makes the rebels' even on whether to LCS's board of direc- Chancee even co-operate good the extra interest. opposition implementing applicato d oratice lais to unexpected tors con- sack. registered The case -which now application the ACL, recuceo ma oril camovel. by electoral Brown told trolled an comes court favour of the rebels. Mrs if Campbell into open me that faction known the intervenes, councillors hoped for the first time - is James Reid rent Act. Communist councilior Mr Committee'. tenants themselves would take up the to have were away through ill- thought some Mrs Brown said that she and other and one other This is made un of for ness and two others walked out before considerable importance councillors had the ngnt by mounting a rent strike agalsl deepest respect Communist Party mem- any increases. by legal circles. a vote was taken. bed has included metes "left' Labourites the law and inal tnere never was ally "End collective-bargaining for good' of

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shopworkers' union. President of the LCS is David Ainley, a CP whether the tradi- question PERMANENT state memder. Call by EEF president of collective tional pattern Before his recent factory of re- Wakes level tirement, •areally Diall level was called for yester- was

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should continue to nave

BY DAVID MAUDE LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

of the leader Icialy day place our modern indus- toe Printing Society ress Britain's engineering trial society. eu- the could well have serious which owns 'Morn credibility' and open Thomas Carlile. ployers, the future e form in which have ing Star', the Stalinists implications for novacates the form which In stiffen inflationary bid to claims. Said.

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acws baber develop recent Ainley employers in the The employers are review- Of the 15 members of ployers' resistance seen LCS president. is all the structures years that the board of directors, from country's industry, ing essental key mountng pressure the root of the disease of techniques of so-called par- The of money believed that workers for increases, in our tees loreno make SUlLIS wage inflation. urged determined and total thork government's measures liamentary rule run millions to 13 are supporters of aemocranc IntO October 1971 '1960 Heath Britain, and asking pounds. Committee the The SUDOOrL 101 and October year, There faction. remarks whether they meet their has been critic- government's present wage-

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earnings industry the Effective control plans. •rommitt control b actressed particularly current « needs Dast engineering in- of In the case of the engineer.

the Registrar of Friendly members there insisted that creased by 15 per cent." Societies that Co-ops in was achieved cluding powerful and lead- ing they be no return are

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by the Claims on the pattern of had placed old pattern of collective too mennoers. Dartculary worned even when these Some have complete failure of the old £5 and £10 a week, such recently much rellance on pen- Icloe ouser Dal callllls, of had become common sion funds for their ousted in a bitter cluded under - the - counter weapon rising was plans ena. capital requirements. campaign. before laws, Carlile, managing director to act as a damper on the secret deals WILl

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ment

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This resulted in the Babcock Wilcox, officials which are in excess wage militancy. iustified year, of could no longer de Evans the Tory ceiling survey carried out by by lovers leader one the counsel election of CP member tor Canc president of the Engineering research depart- the

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have been Harry Clayden. the went on. Employers' rederation. increases involved internal When Clayden retired His call for unbroken During previous attempts There could be reveaico unal about control the although workers to hard line by the employers this kind of iree-lor-all.

Lne president

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had lost their jobs in the If the union leaders would case. Ainley, a long-standing has tended shrug the annual came mecunk Last December board member, took months wages not agree to hold down their of the EEF's General Council to uly.

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shoulders appeal by the LCS to a control. London yesterday: Carlile's speech evidence being forced up wages were members It is believed that the dramatic change steadily. 'there would seem to be a judge of prices chancers Past for have the case thrown four directors who are mood. Carlile told Federation case and incomes poncies nad dismissed. pension trustees limitation was shown that only one sig-

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ment-imposed president went colers vesterdav. Wednesday all the policy ominously, that• 'Looking ahead, beyond the level of domestic settle- ot the nificant breach of and na Phase to ments'. morning the Society will Committee. failure the Tory policy was sufficient to destroy its

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TORIES PREPARE THEIR ARMY

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Febri British army officers are taken to task in the Con- servative Party's latest policy statement on defence for not paying enough attention to in- ternal security. The Party said: 'A great many British officers look upon anti-terrorist campaigns as a disagreeable interference with Each day this week Bill X, a young disabled worker living in the Counties, will Home clock on at 8.30 a.m., clock out at 4.45 p.m. and in between these times pack as many car- tons of powdered soup and dried vegetables as a watchful management can send his way. On Friday he will get his pay-packet for 40 hours' work.

In it will be the same amount he has been receiving for the last 12 months... just £2!

To this amazing sum must be added a total of £8.60 from the Department of Health and Security: But since Social Bill's board and accommoda- tion cost him £7 a: week, he is left by Saturday morning.

day February 22, 1973 the serious business of training for conventional war.' And it added: 'Indeed, in the last two years the situation seems to have deteriorated?

Tory headquarters was con- cerned that the army's ex- perience in Ulster had 'blunted rather than sharpened many conventional military skills'.

The problem, it said, was that the situation in Ulster soldiers to act required as with exactly £3.60 for food, clothes, transport and enter- tainment for the rest of the week. Bill is just one of several hundred workers at a series of small factories dotted round the country whose reward for a full week's labour is between £2 and £4.50. • are what Most of them 'mentally psychiatrists call handicapped' or 'mentally sub- normal'. But these catch-all, unscientific generalizations do not mean they eat less, or that they like living under poverty- stricken conditions. Neither does it protect them from the overall Tory attack on workers' living standards.

If Bill and many of his work- . get out of the mates could Industrial Therapy Organiza- tions, which is what their fac- tories are called, they would.

But they are not allowed that choice. When Workers Press was policemen. 'In Malaya, in Kenya, in Cyprus in and, above all, Borneo, it could be argued that the soldiers engaged in guer- rilla operations were sharpen- ing their military skills.'

All of these were brutal colonial wars. What the Tories are really saying is that it is about time the army was given a free reign in Ulster. And they are saying more.

told Bill's story it was the first we had heard of ITOs. So we checked with the Department of Health and Social Security in London, where a spokesman assured us unhesitatingly: I can imagine no circum- stances in this country where any disabled or otherwise handicapped person would be asked to work 40 hours with- In fact there are eight or nine ITOs, including the one at which Bill works. London, Bristol, Reading and Epsom are just some of the locations.

And at all these official-sound- ing establishments the almost conditions incredible Bill described to us apply. Supporters of the ITOs admit that their aim is not to teach any specific skill. They say they are there to "re- establish a normal work pat- tern' among people who may have been out of industry for some time. But in the course of this the factories undertake a consider- able amount of sub-contract work for local industry, and one ITO manager we talked to was forced to admit that a number of the firms in his area had come to rely on his factory to complete part of their The statement, 'In Defence of Peace' , goes on, . .. Ulster, alas, is only part of a wider pattern. 'Rural terrorism' is being with urban replaced rapidly 'guerrilla warfare'. The Tory pamphlet warns: "The complexity of modern industrial life means that our cities contain many more in- viting targets than the country- side' normal production schedule.

In other words someone, somewhere is making part of his profits out of £2-a-week labour. ITOs, which were The originally grubstaked by groups of businessmen in the areas where they operate, tend to be somewhat sensitive about this. 'We are voluntary organiza- tions started by local indus- trialists who put their hands in their pockets to get us going, explained the manager we contacted. 'We are both a limited com- pany and a registered charity, which means that any surplus we make must be ploughed back into the organization.

Very little of the sub- contract work we do comes from the firms who put up the money in the first place. We have to be very cautious about this. Otherwise people might think we are exploiting cheap labour' In one sense the ITOs have it three ways. Besides being limited com- panies and registered charities, they also have the status of *sheltered workshops' under the Chronically Sick and Dis- abled Persons Act. And this means that they qualify for 75 per cent government grants Left: rock-throwing on the streets of Ulster-'only part of a wider pattern Central Office is concerned that the modern British soldier is ill-equipped to meet this challenge which it clearly sees spreading from the Bogside to in the not-too- Birmingham distant future. The pamphlet says: 'Our electronic equipment modern can be highly-sophisticated, but when it comes to dealing with a crowd of rock-throwing hooligans on the edge of the Bogside the equipment that the soldier carries makes him look like a Roman soldier confront- ing a Sicilian mob in the first century AD. 'Britain needs more effective non-lethal deterrents and if one-tenth of the resources that went into the development of strategic weapons were diverted to this field we all might get better value for money.' other words the enemy within is infinitely more im- portant than the enemy with- out. The pamphlet goes on: 'We must constantly remind our- selves that a study • of the techniques of terrorism must integral part of be an now soldier's front - line every career.' Among the 'best' authors to be studied? Brigadier Frank Kitson, Sir Robert Thompson, Brian Crozier and Robert Moss.

There is no time to lose the Tories claim. 'Britain is lag- ging behind other countries in making counter-terrorist açti- important part of vities an normal training.' That the Tories accept the permanent prospect of civil unrest is made plain a sentence later when they conclude that such studies must 'involve the armed forces in a closer study of current politics' The politicians too, they say, must educate themselves and they note pointedly: "The out- burst on the socialist benches of the House of Commons that publication greeted the of Kitson's "Low-Intensity Frank Operations" a classic was example of Opposition short- sightedness. 'We must pay more attention to our intelligence services. It would not be an exaggeration to say that our Special Branches have been in a depressed state at the beginning of every major counter-terrorist campaign that we have fought. Our armed forces have not been able to operate effectively until these weaknesses were cleared up.'

The statement concludes: in- 'Urban terrorism is a serious threat. We must treat it seriously.' both buildings and on machinery. Individual factories are run by boards of local businessmen and medicos, who will occa- sionally decide that a particu- lar worker has had 'a normal work-pattern' sufficiently •in- grained to fit him for making profit directly for some firm in the area. Only then can he or she start earning a normal wage.

But while they are in the ITOs, these unfortunate people are rigidly restricted to what they are getting from either the DHSS or the Department of Employment. For someone like Bill X, who has to rely on supplemen- tary benefit, the maximum £2. A worker who is eligible for unemployment benefit or sick benefit might be able to draw up to £4.50. Bill summed up a common feeling among the ITO workers: It's ridiculous, work- ing 40 hours for such a miser- able wage. A lot of the people there-"trainees" they call us, although we get no training— feel the same way. 'But there's no organization.

At the moment we've no means of fighting back. So they say "What's the alternative?"

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tween June 1941 and the Battle of Kursk in 1943.' Above: novelist C. P. Snow, who has a declared preference for the bureaucracy. from Snow's This follows position that in the 1930s the only choice was for or against Nazi Germany. The Nazis could only be defeated with the help the Soviet army; con- Stalin sequently purges Tine were to be deplored in so far as they weakened it. Presumably accepted, and snow accold. that purges which did not aftect the Red armv and only cut down the revolutionaries were necessary.

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Tacit support for Stalin the mass was murderer necessary as long as the Red by army, defeating the Wehrmacht, made the safe for bourgeois world democracy. Snow naturally takes out his poison pen to hit at Trotsky. He accuses Caute of holding up 'the shining poli- Trotsky as tician for all practitioners non-politics', that whatever may mean. And adds, with an at- which reveals tempt at irony ot the most gifted men the century, certainly the most gifted man who ever made all the mistakes in both and tactics strategy could have that made.

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clared preference for the bureaucracy is obvious and this review is a shamefaced apology for supporting Stalinism.

C. P. Snow was Incidentally, life peer by the Cicalcu 1964 Labour government he served Minister when as of Technology at the start the Wilson 'technological revolution' that never was.

Ian Smith, the Rhodesian racialist premier, is em- barked on what pro- mises to be a protracted struggle to maintain white supremacy south of the Zambesi. The spectacular failure of his efforts to blockade neigh- bouring Zambia has revealed the weakness of the Rhodesian position in the face of mount- ing hostility from the black population at home. Those Africans who pinned their faith in the British govern- ment, and gave such a sweep- ing display of unanimity against Smith-Home settlement the terms last year are clearly turning away from hopes of rescue by Westminster. For the first time, the Smith government has had to admit that Africans in the north-east, the rugged border area close to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and to Zambia, have given support to 'ter- rorists'. This is the name given by the Rhodesian, South African and Portuguese authorities to the increasing number of trained armed Africans slip- ping across the border to wage guerrilla sabotage and wartare against them. The South Africans estimate there are at least 50,000 such fighters in Zambia at more than 80 camps. The threat they pose is compounded by the eruptions of important class actions by the black workers, particularly in South and South West Africa. To combat the danger of "terrorists' winning local sup- the Smith government port, nas given punitive powers to local tribal chiefs. These men, almost all govern- ment stooges, the most are accessible target for guerrilla actions and anumber have been killed by the guerrillas.

The new laws allow the imposition of unlimited fines on communities suspected of sympathizing harbouring or with 'terrorists'. The technique is one of collective guilt, as perfected by the Nazis during the war. The laws are only the cul- mination of a mass of dis- criminatory legislation aimed at making Rhodesia into a hermetically - sealed apartheid state. Until recently, Smith had restrained the more rabid right wingers in his own party who are eager to go over directly to blanket racialist laws.

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Workers Press, Thursde Lands — one for Matabeleland and one for Mashonaland. These will be under the control of the stooge chiefs and will be presented as a channel for African political advancement. In fact the scheme is modelled on the South African 'Bantustans' and the provincial authorities will be carefully manipulated from Salisbury. Lance Smith, the Minister of Internal Affairs, told parlia- ment he was not ashamed of the scheme being called separa- The African (Registration and Identification) Bill intro- duces full-scale pass laws into Rhodesia. Applying only to Atricans, the Bill makes it an offence to be caught without a pass and all Africans enter- ing and leaving Rhodesia are required to carry valid identity documents. This Bill is aimed at con- trolling the population of the Trotsky-a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage et, London SW4 7UG ble, free, on request. 3, Thursday February 22, 1973 PAGE 5 Above: terrorists' win local sup- port and instruct on the use of arms. cities, and giving the security forces tighter control over the African population. Under the Vagrancy Amend- ment Act, it is now possible for the authorities to bar any person found in an urban area without a permit for up to two years. A breach of an order under the Bill is punishable by a year's jail. Other measures on the way include segregation of swim- ming pools, maternity homes; control of meetings in African restrictions mis- areas; on sionaries (according to the Rhodesian Front 'outright sub- version is frequently hidden under the cloak of religion').

These attacks show clearly the character of the Rhodesian racialist regime and its des- peration in the face of the mounting hatred of the African majority.

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Chrysler is to stop export to the United States of the Bri- tish-made Cricket car and re- place it with a similar car built in Japan. The Colt, made by Mitsubishi Heavy Indus- tries, has been selling well under the Dodge label while sales of the Cricket plunged 50 per cent last year. Chrysler has already switched to the Japanese-made car to supply the Canadian market.

It has failed to have any suc- cess with small cars made by its foreign subsidiaries in the US market. The Ford Capri and the GM Opel, both made in Germany, have been selling well. British-made Fords and GM cars have flopped in the US owing to unreliability of sup- ply of parts and poor perform- ance. While Japanese car im- ports have soared, those from Britain have slumped and with the three big American manu- facturers cutting down on Bri- tish-made exports, very few British cars will be sold North America. for some time after 1945, British cars held a dominant position among imports into the US, but they have now been swept out of the market by European and laterly Jap- anese competition.

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Tory leaders always hide reality behind abstrac- tions. Hence Heath and his ministers talk about defending the interests of the 'consumer' against trade unionists who demand higher wages. The consumers the Tories refer to are not the people who shop at Harrod's and buy food from Fortnum and Mason's.

To these people money is no object and a lfp increase in the price of bread means nothing at all. The consumer is the wage- earner, the trade unionist and his wife, trapped in the state laws and suffering a de- pay clining standard of living be- cause of Tory policy. In other words the Heath government says it is 'defend- ing' the majority of the popu- lation while in fact it is forcing them into penury by control- ling their wages-a paradox hide with the Tories always talk of 'consumers'. They play a similar trick over inflation. They attempt to confuse the working class, and especially the middle class, by sayıng rising wages cause higher prices. But the first few months of the freeze demon- strated that prices rose faster than ever, despite a total ban on wage increases. Wages add to costs-but they only appear as higher prices when • the monopolist passes the burden on to the shopper. The aim of this trans- fer is to protect profit. The Tories do not object to this.

Businessmen can stoke-up in- flation, but workers' wages must be controlled by law.

A favourite argument Tories use to justify this policy is that prices simply cannot be con- because of 'market trolled forces'. • They add that business would slump badly if the mar- gins were squeezed. But in these articles we have seen that a) prices are not by mysterious 'mar- propelled ket forces' b) that the mono- polies and the multiple chains do have power over prices c) that food margins, far from being slender are huge and d) that because of its monopolis- involving itself instead enormous waste through adver- tising etc. This leads to one inescap- able conclusion-the cost of thr living and prices cannot be brought down and controlled without a fundamental change in the nature of the food in- dustry. Rising prices and waste are a direct result of private own- ership which develops in- evitably towards monopoly.

Now the system of monopoly capital is in an advanced stage of decay. In the food industry this is represented by the total absence of price competition, sday February 22, 1973 the massive parasitic expendi- advertising, tures decline in quality and the standardization in food com- modities. In short the industry is rotten ripe for nationalization under workers' control, with- out compensation (the working class would not 'owe the food anything if they monopolies took over the value they them- selves create). Under nationalization all the benefits from improved farm- manufacturing, whole- saling and retailing techniques would be passed on to the shoppers in the form of lower improved quality. prices or There would be only enough advertising to inform people of a product and its uses.

Competitive advertising be- tween one brand and another identical brand - which ас- counts for most expenditure today-would be abolished and market research would be con- judging fined people's to desires and wants, not exploit- ing any fears or phobias in order to sell products. The question of margins would also be examined closely. The 6 per cent profit margin In 1970 the Prices and In- comes Board report into the distribution industry food found that the gross margin, or mark-up, at the wholesale level averaged 7.5 per cent of the manufacturing price. In other words wholesalers put 7.5 per cent on average on every grocery commodity they sold to the retail. The shops themselves added on average between 19.2 to 14 per cent to prices. Some of this is a 'necessary' addition. Part of the money collected from the 'mark-up' goes to pay wages and costs in the wholesale and retail trades.

But on average 6 per cent of the margin was sheer profit. In other words it was a confisca- tion of value from the workers who produced the goods. Obviously • under socialism nationalization this 'pure and profit' element would go. Any surplus kept back in the in- dustry would be used entirely to improve it and provide a better commodity and service in the future. But there is another impor- tant reform to be considered.

In its journey from farm to shop food sometimes passes 'middle-men'. through many They all take their cut, and it if their is not entirely clear activity margin is really and economically necessary. There would be a case for the com- plete overhall and streamlining of wholesaling. There is also the issue of the Co-operative Society. This or- ganization could be an enorm- ous source of production and distribution of food for the benefit of the majority. The Co-operative Wholesale So- ciety, for example, has a £400m food division, is one of the big four in baking and still has of the largest retail trade in In Britain. But the Co-operative move- ment finds itself in a trap.

Originally it made its mark by offering the working class cheap, good quality foods and other goods. But as the mono- polies spread their tentacles its expenditure on advertising doubled as private chains began to open on the high street. Because of this it was forced to imitate many of the worst features of capitalism in food in order to survive.

The famous 'divi' has been abandoned for the money- wasting gimmick of 'stamps', the emphasis has shifted from price to promotion and the Co-op in general is run very as another capitalist much enterprise, while still retaining some links with the labour movement. But under socialism, the Co-op, especially the CWS, could obviously become the focus for a massive reorganiza- tion of the industry. This is the only real future for co- operation. As it is the Co-op, though a pioneer in bulk-buying and private selling—methods the chains imitated—is now a vic- of the very process it tim started. How can this revolution in food be achieved? Clearly there can be no repeat of the performance of the last Labour government. Labour's Prices and Incomes Board was a miserable reform- ist failure. It produced reports, but nothing was done to curb prices or challenge the power of the big monopolies. The battle over detergents mentioned in yesterday's ar- ticle is a case in point. Here the PIB clearly exposed the massive waste involved in Proctor and Gamble, the two firms which monopolize the Douglas Jay at the market. Board of Trade went so far as to 'suggest' that a cut in pro- motion expenditure might re- sult in lower prices. But Labour's attack went no further than this feeble sug- gestion. Eventually the work- ing class was fobbed off with a miserable compromise. The n10. two giants agreed to bring in one cut-price detergent (Square Deal Surt) as a sop to the housewife. But since the mas- sive propaganda campaign on all the other brands continued, the new lines were destined to fail. They did, and the chal- lenge was forgotten. Labour waved its fist once more in early 1970 when it in- 'early- troduced the 28-day warning' system on prices. This required manufacturers to in- form the government on price increases to allow investiga- tion by the PIB. On May. 12, 1970 Cledwyn Hughes, Minis- ter of Agriculture, complained of rapidly rising prices and two days later the Food Manu- facturers' Federation declared they would ignore the early- warning system. Labour swallows the capitalist reasoning The had proved policy totally ineffectual anyway. In January 1970 Unilever put up prices on its range of mar- garines by 2d and 6d (old pence). The PIB investigated and supp price as a that price W such main shou crea h 'T fits. al c price fall TH swal reas

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This would be the basis for a truly socialist system of pro- duction to benefit all. Obviously such changes in- volve the elimination of the capitalist system. This cannot possibly be achieved without revolution and . the establish- ment of the dictatorship of the working class. The first step towards this end must be the removal of the Tory government by the industrial and political mobi- lization of the working class on a programme of demands.

outlined programme above would be a very im- portant part of this mobiliza- tion. The aim would be to create the political and indus- trial conditions for forcing the Tory government to resign.

If the mass movement was of dealing with the capable Tories, it would go on to de- mand that a new Labour gov- ernment carry out such a socialist programme. Under these conditions of workers' strength, the Labour Party leadership, which would clearly refuse to do this could removed. This struggle be , Thursday February 22, 1973 PAGE 7

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But now the Co-op is caught up In expensive advertising and gimmicks like stamps. clear the way for a would socialist alternative to emerge and lead the working class in a revolutionary struggle for power. It is the Socialist Labour League, the All Trades Unions Alliance and the Young So- cialist, together who are pre- for this paring alternative leadership by building the revolutionary party in Britain.

This is the most crucial and immediate perspective before the working class today. The economic conditions for a slump far worse than the 1930s have already emerged. The Tories have already begun their drive to make people eat less by controlling wages and pushing up prices. Poverty, malnutrition and even starvation are not ex- of ceptions under capitalism, but rather the rule. Such times will return once more if the entire working class is not mobilized in revolutionary struggle.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Fol The Tory plans to ration- alize' the steel industry in line with the Common Market steel community are going to cost an esti- mated 30,000 jobs. Of these some 18,000 are in Wales-at the East Moors Cardiff, Shotton in works, Flintshire and Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire. * Wales is already one of the devastated parts most of Britain in terms of unem- 'Financial ployment. A survey said recenty: Times' 'Rationalization of older in- dustries and adaptation to the new has become a painful part of the way of life in Wales, which more than any other region of the UK has de- pended on coal and steel for employment. In the 27 years since the war, 145 collieries have closed and the coal labour force has dropped from 120,000 to 35,000, 60,000 of these jobs disap- peared in the 1960s alone.

"The last two years have seen particularly heavy re- ursday Fobruary 22, 1973 dundancies, affecting both traditional industries and some industries. In technological both years, redundancies an- nounced totalled more than 20,000—over twice the aver- age rate for the last 1960s' The fight against the new round of savage redundancies has got off to a nervous start.

Shotton action committee sec- Ken Monti has retary announced his men may oppose the loss of 6,500 jobs with an occupation and work- in. Plans for the work-in will be discussed at a national conference of steelworkers and union officials from doomed plants in England, Scotland and Wales next month. But at the East Moors works in Cardiff, there hasn't even been a mass meeting of workers called to discuss the closure which will axe 4,100 jobs. A group of trade unionists wrote to the action commit- chairman, Mr Peter tee Davies, saying: this week 'We are reluctant to criticize fellow unicnists and workers in public, but the case is as urgent as any likely to tace workers in the city. The action committee has not so far responded to the situation with enough urgency and mili- tancy. There has been a lack of energy and fight. No clear strategy has been worked out that harness workers' can efforts, both within and out- side the works. Nearly two months after the closure news, there has still been no mass meeting at the works on will the issue.' In Ebbw Vale there has been a similar drift by the works leadership. A meeting has been called today to hear a reply committee's 28-day the to ultimatum' to the Secretary for Trade and Industry, Mr Peter Walker, the ex-financier and millionaire at 40. Nobody needs to be a clair- Walker's voyant to know reply. He has told the .com- mittee to take a running jump!

His junior hatchet man, Mr Christopher Chataway, made the position perfectly clear in ize the steel debate in the Com- Michael Foot-proposes a one-day prote mons when he stated: 'It has to be faced that any con- ceivable strategy [for steel] must mean a large reduction in BSC's employment. There is no other way.' (His em- phasis.) Yet in the face of this Tory arrogance, the works' commit- tee, backed up by Michael Foot, MP, is only proposing to hold a one-day protest -day protest. Above: Ebbw Vale works.

strike and lobby of parlia- ment on March 14. We've already witnessed one of these On protests. January 25, 3,000 Shotton men travelled to London to see their MPs. Workers Press reporter Ian Yeats, who was at the Commons lobby, wrote afterwards: 'After fighting their way— literally-to the mother of

parliaments to exercise their democratic rights the 3,000 Shotton steelworkers were let down with a bang. The fire of their anger, which had cata- pulted them across two police barriers and into the commit- tee rooms of the House, was abruptly dissipated in the honeyed words of a group of mild-mannered men surroun- ded by millions of pounds worth One-day protests and lob- bies of parliament cannot de- fend the right to work. De- fence of these basic democra- tic rights of the working class today requires united political and industrial strug- gle against the Tory govern- ment. Militancy on its own can solve nothing. On the contrary, it strengthens the hand of the right-wingers in the labour movement who point and say: 'Look, we took a day off, we took industrial action, but where did it get us?' It also lets off the hook reformists like Michael the Foot who fear more than any- thing else the power of the masses to force the Tory government to resign. Indeed, it was Foot himself who said during the steel de- bate: 'We want to see a major - modernization of the industry.

We believe that major moder- nization must eventually follow the lines laid down by the BSC. What difference is there between what Foot says and what Chataway says? • time in More than at any its history, the working class now must fight to build a revolutionary, socialist leader- ship which will lead it against Toryism and onto state power.

That is why we have built Pageant committee a Merthyr Tydfil to help pre- pare an episode of working- class history for the Pageant, "The Road to Workers' Power' , at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Sunday, March The episode being recreated is the Taff Vale Railway inci- dent which was a significant milestone in working-class history. After the fines on the railway union the trade unions forward to found the went Labour Party. Just as workers recognized at the turn of the century that they needed to build a Labour Party to defend their trade union rights, so today, when the Tory government is attacking all the rights of the working class, the urgent ne- cessity arises to construct a revolutionary party. The following article is reprinted from WORKERS PRESS, February 1973.

BY IAN YEATS

In the crisp dawn of 1937 'A' October 30, furnace at Ebbw Vale steelworks, South Wales, was blown in for the first time since 1929. Earlier, in January 1936, lorries, excavators, dumpers, and bulldozers cranes tore down the obsolete 19th cen- tury furnaces to make way for the most what was to be modern strip mill in Europe.

When it opened on Septem- ber 30, 1938, as the first shift went to work, the bells at Christ Church tolled and re- tolled in endless peals as a of token the community's thankfulness that work had once again returned to the valley. The long years of closure 1n weeds covered the and rabbits multip bars and rails were appeared to be ove Today men that the dreamed sons would ever re hunger and rags faced with the are again. The British Stee tion's statement making will Ebbw Vale by 1975 time workers' liveli been within living memo The furnaces out in 1911, finally, ana 1975. Ebbw Vale iron-making centre With the transition the 1860s the town vanguard of the ne But by 1911 th the Welsh rages of as centres of steelm already apparent. 1911 Ebbw turning out :6d • a ton, £4 12s steel could be bougl Wales ports for £4 large expense of the top t distance their was supplies which had ported, landed and transported by valleys. The 1911 closur the not only Newport, dockers, miners, workers, limestone o builders and engine Newport Chambe merce, in conjunctic works committer he works could t profitably if a tinp was built to feed into the expanding h industry. furnaces were March and continued at full bla World War I a to 1920. up Throughout phenomenon first s turn of the cost British steel ma in miriad small located sites- sively to US and German -again reared its h This time compounded by the of crisis escalated throughout the ultimate economic collapse lesson of their high tion and Sir Johi showed little the icopelling now the lone s iron works. Anticipating that would end sometime Hitler and Mussoli on the rampage in t Welsh tinplate ore supplies, integrated works. Sir William of the Richard Tho any the largest of inplat makers, would build suc he Wales bu —not in bourne, Scunthorpe chosen by the current expansion. Against all Firth gave in to the plate lobby campaign led by Ane to site his new bitterly distressed E Thirty-four same factors to question the futur making at Ebbw once again emerged death knell. For over almost wholly community of Ebbw which grass and ered the steelworks ts multiplied where ails were once rolled o be over. who never that they or their I ever return to the d rags of the 1930s with the dole once tish Steel Corpora- that steel- be ended .at : by 1975 is the third livelihoods have threatened ng memory. were blown 11, 1929 and now id irrevocably, in ransition to steel in the town was in the of the new develop- 1911 the disadvan- le Welsh hill plants of steelmaking were Ebbw Vale was steel for bars but Belgian be bought at South s for £4 9s. factor the distance from hich had to be im- coast, steelmen, Monmouthshire, coke nestone quarry men, d engineers. Chamber of Com onjunction witl the argued that restarted tinplate works feed sheet steel anding home motor t and the Bessemer in opened April 1912 and it full blast through- War I and the re- which followed ut the 1920s the century of high- . steel manufactured small and expen- ed sites-losing out German companies red its head. the crisis was capitalism which roughout the 1920s mate financial and ollapse of 1929. mid-1930s Ebbw ers had learned the heir high-cost loca- Beynon John tle enthusiasm for which works re lone survivor of s's famous top-town ing that the slump sometime and with Mussolini already page in Europe, the makers were a cheap site, close for a new am Firth, chairman hard Thomas Com- argest of the Welsh announced build such a works Wales but at Red- town unther fories" for market logic, in to the Welsh tin- and political a d by Aneurin Bevan works at the tressed Ebbw Vale. years later the which led of 1911 and 1929 the future of steel- Vale have emerged to ring its 100 years the working-class of Ebbw Vale has been held at the ditions. Each time closed, has and even death hav

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In and world recession hit of the town's population could fir the pits 1973 only town's 13,000 tion work in coal. ( 9,000 directly with steel, plus at others in associated The loss of even t 4,500 jobs is The closure of the e would be disaster. Work in extractive manufacturing been leaving the val South Wales more than a decade. Unemployment in which includes Brynmawr, Tredegar tillery, is 5.3 per cer 1,000. There Ebbw with Tredegar, new industrial estat narbach. So far the the is government. planning an There is no sign of trialists wanting to 1 Not all steelmen Ebbw Vale. 20 per town, cent from Brynmaw hamlet lated level the sea on Brecon Beacons visible under With the ruin but tom Ore imminent, the of the steelmen understandable. Action Committ Colin Hudson Ebbw Vale get employment, „we'll plant. pushing for a strike couldn't afford to ig this point of time.' Labour council Mr Harry Evans is a He says: man. take this lying as a council will me and earth to preven ernment and the B Ebbw Vale.' Shotton are unaccustomed to action and there ha major strike since th More than is steeped, almost the reformist the Labour Party Tom Richards and by Evan Bevan and now Mic It is this which 1 Harry Evans' council have their utmost to bring government the only real indicat dissatisfaction is at box. Mr Hudson bolizes the able in the process of workers being to from everything it known. He told me: 'We strike here. lacking in guts. that, we'll take them If the governmen force Ebbw Vale to tation, would unions, Davies, Scan Chapple and Smith 1 with a national strik 'We do can't We've had relations and we've c with them on produ We've no strikes. ever we've been aske we're being ignored. 'We couldn't Ebbw Vale if with a million on the why should a commu been in the steel in 35 years move?' at the mercy of th lows of market cor the steelworks hunger, leath have appeared and 1929 when ssion hit steel, some then 45,000 could find work at 700 of the connected plus at least 1,000 ssociated trades. of even the planned serious enough. • of the entire plant unimaginable extractive and heavy has industry coalfield for a decade. Ebbw Tredegar and Aber- 3 per cent, or over are about 40 ale, in conjunction gar, has opened a rial éstate at Tavar- far the only taker ernment, which is n advance factory. › sign of any indus- nting to move in. steelmen come from 70 per cent live in cent travel gar and about 8 per Brynmawr- -an iso- 1,200 feet above n the edge of the and barely ruin of not just Commies elmen to fight Committee leader old me at hi "Unless stop ot of the lads • a strike and they ord to ignore us at chairman ivans is also a stee. ys: 'We're not going lying down. I will move heaven Shotton in north men at Ebbw Vale tomed to industrial there has been no e since the war. that, the towr smothered, of traditions Party begun by rds and carried on Davies, Aneurin now Michael Foot. which lies behind 'The remark: they'd do t to bring this Tors but really very little becaus al indicator of mass on is at the ballot almost sym- confusion inevit- process of a group being torn brutally thing it has ever ne: 'We don't want we're not If it goes to take them on. vernment and BSC Vale to a confron- expect the retaries of the steel ries, Scanlon, Jones, d Smith to back us onal strike. do any more. first-class about d we've co-operated on productivity and done what- een asked and now from move wanted we TO on on the dole. But a community that's steel industry for Workers Press, Thursday February 22, 1973 PAGE 9 Readers will have noticed the spirited citizens of Manchester was 350s to 400s, Joyce Wat- item which appeared in the Pageant Diary last week about son tells us in her book "The the vicar Tyneside. He Peterloo Massacre'. on objected to our Pageant cam- Nady Joe also had a rake- off coming paign in that area because, he in from all the brothels in Manchester. So it said, it 'glorified a murderer', imagined namely Will Jobling. be what can an We've now had a note from honest soul he Middleton in Lancashire about The Radicals hated him be- the role of the church in the 'he treated them like cause great Chartist struggle. he'd pickpockets and treat Two of the most important murderers'. Manchester magistrates in 1819 One Radical went: were Reverend Hay and Rev- 'With Hunt* we'll go, we'll erend Ethelston. Once Ethel- go ston commented: Well bear the flag of 'Some of Reformers the Liberty ought to be hanged, and some In spite of Nady Joe.' * 'Orator' Hunt of you are sure to be hanged was one of the rope is already round the leading Radical speakers; your necks' he speaking the ill- was at Both were involved in and fated St Peter's Field meet- gave the orders for the cavalry ing and it was on the pretene charge on a peaceful crowd on arresting that August 16, 1819, in St Peter's ordered the cau- magistrates Field, Manchester. arry to charge into the These gentlemen of the cloth meeting. Remembering that at that would also rub shoulders with Nadin, nicknamed 'Nady time civil police force Joe. no existed as today, it should be Joe, who was deputy constable magistrates' of Manchester. said that the Nady Joe was a 'renowned' worked in close unison with Manchester deputy Constable. thief catcher, but what is more The justice of God's repre- likely the truth is that he would catch a few thieves who sentative earth showed on had stolen from the really well itself at Peterloo. Framing and off and the rest he would provocation were common in 'catch' on a minor offence and 19th-century England. The other magistrates were turn it into a felony. 'The reward for a successful all High Church and Tory. At felonius charge 40s plus Peterloo the toll of death was was Tyburn 15 and there were numerous ticket. A Tyburn holder ticket exempted the and children men, women from any public office in the injured. Three of the dead town of residence.' were women. 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Steelmen near jobs strike as White Paper goes through Ebbw Vale's 9,000 steel-

BY IAN YEATS

workers meet today to decide their next move throughout the Corporation'.

others in haulage and contract- ing. Commons after the expiry of their He claimed that Tuesday night Labour Party the Labour government would with- 28-day ultimatum to the• censure alleilyl by 3895 to 230-a, draw present closure dates and Tory government. take over responsibility for BSC's Tory majority shut-down timetable. Committee Action chair- He added: 'This will allow the The Tory White Paper on the Mr Colin Hudson told man industry the approved

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Industry to de surveyed afresh.' that the 260—a Tory government's vote the White 35. One two Tory steel reply to their plea for a re

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had Labour Party speakers in the completely works was un- made the • decisions and were handicapped whether the government was satisfactory. fact that it was Harold Wilson's administration the which He revealed that the commit- Save the form in which the steel cor- British Steel Corporation the go- poration presented them'.

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ahand in de ist pince ahead to draw modernization mend 'short stoppage', prob- "When Saile Shex of one day, last-ditch Labour government comes into Many Labour steel MPs are record approving changes ane be bia to persuade the office will halt the closures postpone the shut-down. position Deren industry. Yesterday the Ebbw Vale men in the and in the light was plain from the debate were due 'factual what new jobs have been made

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Industry Secretary Mr Trade and 100 Cardiff steelworkers in Lon- said the dates proposed for end- Peter Walker. steel-making MPs there and He told the luesaay to lobby Commons bluntly the East Moors Shotton and East Moors were that if the industry went quickly 'intolerable and impossible'. works threatened a national steel to high production figure and To have more than 1,000 new assessment strike. world and jobs created Ebbw Vale by Mr Bill Tobutt, secretary demand for Coeste chee works' branch of 1975 and another 1.500 jobs Be edt subste the result would une

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said: We are setting 1976 was an impossibility.

of that substantial numbers a time limit of six months to get Foot considerably wacistalca …cosure De the full measure of the problem.

the end of the decade would auswers to our aromments TWe shut sooner. do not get them, we shall be Up to 4,000 jobs to at are go obliquely the calling lor a national stoppage the steelworks, plus hundreds of nelerring Sludgemen and sparks carry on struggle TWO GROUPS of workers or sinke a their third week

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strike action. on strike in south London Over 100 out are fighting — despite penal clauses niel came on February 1 in support of Act which the lack of official support a £l-an-hour pay claim and came into force in January.

from union leaders. against lory LaiC covern present the

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halting MenS orael dumping the sewage wass 1n in 220 which between £2.80 Outside County Hall, head- lagoons the Thames. should have powerful, ouaters The river the Tory-controlled Greater Lon- Daid elec- OcCI V.Ul same time. don Council, tricians from January 3. sludgemen *The T&GWU won't make locked out for seven weeks it official and don't seem Frank Chapple, general refuse to accept the still secretary of the Electrical notorious Merchant Shipping Mr Murphy. Many of sald and Plumbing Trades Union, have lost faith in the 'Many the men have of the 'We decided strikers telling them unanimousiy go union leaders. carry on the struggle' back work. Dated Tene Murphy Kers and Of the 80 men February 12, part of it says: Transport wio were General o5i inally locked out, Union Tant and the cent 'By your action you the are shop steward told Workers arming You your enemies. Press yesterday. rest dre Union of the National glve Employed by the GLC, the Public Employees. means to frustrate our case.

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(SLL National Sec) (SLL National Secretary) Workers Press, Thursday record £600m shipping orders placed with Harland & Wolff and Swan Hunter recently by the Israeli Marine Fruit Carriers, Walker said: 'Orders in the ship- yards are at an all-time high'.

The government clearly expect these orders-based on tion that the 'mini-boom, specula- created by movements of oil to the US and • grain to Russia, China and India will continue-will push up steel demand significantly.

The reference illustrates the kind of straws at which the steel and shipbuilding industries are being forced to grasp. The fact that only this week 'The Times' hinted that the 'boom' was over casts a long shadow over Walk- er's optimism. Walker welcomed the setting of the joint government, up

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BSC consultative com- mittee to consider ways of meet- ing the problem of redundancies.

The committee would meet for the first time next week he said.

• A THOUSAND women dres- sed in mourning black will march with Shotton steelworkers during a mass demonstration in Deesside on April 28. Mrs Rosa Rosedale, vice- chairman of the Shotton Women's Steel Campaign Action Committee, says they are bitter that their husbands and sons are to lose their jobs at the Shotton steelworks. It was likely that all shops in Deesside areas and parts of north Wales would close for the demonstration. 'We are aiming at a complete stoppage in Deesside, she said.

St. Thomas's Hospital sparks on picket OVER 30 contracting electricians working for Crown House Ltd on a £7m to ICI's Hud- extension in the dersfield plant are now second week of a parity strike.

The men claim that fitters, welders, riggers, pipefitters and plumbers receive between £1.10 and £1.40 an hour. Teamen get 90p an hour, while the sparks are only on 59jp an hour.

Strikers say they have been fighting for parity for up to Thursday February 22, 1973 PAGE 11 THE WORK of a team of doc- tors and nurses in Napsbury mental hospital, Herts, caused 'intense unhappiness and an- xiety' in some patients, accord- inquiry ing to a government published yesterday. The methods employed by consultant psychiatrist Dr Robert D. Scott since the late 1960s in- volved withdrawal of privileges, including food and visits from patients relatives, from who were unable to make their own beds, wash their own crockery, serve their own. meals and clean their own wards. Under Dr Scott's policy sev- eral male patients were officially discharged from the hospital, but were either rejected by their re- latives or had nowhere to go. They made their own way back to the hospital and lived rough in the grounds. And some nurses spoke of the 'heart-breaking' experience having to withhold help from patients to whom it was for- merly given freely. But the inquiry, set up by Sec- retary of Social Services Keith Joseph last October, con- cluded that there was nothing to suggest deliberate ill-treatment of or cruelty to any patient.

A patient in one of Dr Scott's wards died in January, 1972, of extensive injuries. However, the inquiry found that the fact that her injuries had remained unde- tected was not due to profes- sional negligence. on picket yesterday. seven months, going through all the official channels. The Electrical and Plumbing Trades Union has referred the case to the Joint Industry Board.

Crown House has sent each of the 32 electricians a letter threat- ening the sack unless they re- turn to work. The strikers are now seeking support from maintenance elec- tricians employed by ICI inside its plant, asking for solidarity action.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday Fat TRANSPORT union officials in the Midlands have been asked to stop members employed by priv- ate hauliers carrying out work normally done by British Road Services drivers. The drivers are demanding a £2.50 bonus payment for holding vehicle licences, heavy-goods which they are now compelled to carry by law. They have handed them to the Transport and General Workers' Union until the company pays up.

But now many of them com- plain that private firms are being allowed to weaken their bargain- ing power by carrying out vital runs between car factories.

• Drivers' leaders that warn determined attempts are now be- ing made to split their ranks.

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workers at the pound McAlpine multi-million hotel site in the Aldwych, Lon- don, have gone on strike against the use of 'lump' labour.

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under one-third are estimated to be in a union. The rest work are said for sub-contractors and or insurance to pay no tax stamps. But when the direct men walked out yesterday morning.

these indirect workers joined them-leaving the site empty.

Three tower cranes have also been occupied on the project, which is being developed by the Capital and Counties Property Company. Tony Crilly, Transport and General Workers' Union mem- ber and federation steward, told a Press conference yesterday.

"The response has been good. But we have to see lump labour as part of the attack on the trade unions as a whole. 'We will certainly go all out to win. But this is not outside the offensive of the employers and the government against the We'll mobilize our wor- unions. kers to fight the lump. 'But we'll also have to de- mand that the recalled TUC Congress declares General Strike to get the Tories the only real way to win, Out as raday Fabruary 22, 1873

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FURTHER legal moves against Briant Colour printworkers who have been working-in at their Old Kent Road factory for eight months are being delayed pend- ing a deal with a buyer. A spokesman for the liquidator Mr P. Granville White, said yester- day: If we are as near to a deal as wé appear to be, I don't want to go to the added ex- pense of getting an order for eviction. Last week in the Chancery Division of the High Court the liquidator obtained judgement against the five man work-in committee after they failed to answer a summons telling them to quit the premises. Registered as a newspaper at the oy Workers Post Office. Published Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. Printed Plough ham 01-720 Newsdesk: 01-622 7029.

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AT 9.43 A.M. on Tuesday, armed police shot and killed two young Asians in- side the Indian High Com- mission at Aldwych. The demonstrators had not inflicted any harm on anybody in the Embassy. They were waving toy plastic pistols and a sword. Mr Matthew Bertrand, official messenger in the an building, saw the youths in the foyer: 'I went down in the lift and saw a short man wearing a mask carrying a gun standing by the passport section. I walked up to him and asked: "What is this all about?" He answered in Eng- lish: "We have nothing for you" At this point another demon- strator came into the lobby. Mr Bertrand turned to him and said: 'What's this trouble all about?'

The second man replied: 'I want all those Indian murderers to come out, to kill them.' Mr Bertrand said: 'But if you kill them, what will happen?' The man answered: 'I don't care. It's not your business. So leave me alone Mr Bertrand decided to do precisely that. He walked away to phone the police.

The Special Patrol Group be- haved quite differently from 'Mr Bertrand. From all eye-witness accounts it is certain that they opened fire immediately, forcing

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DUDLEY, Worcs. tenants' asso- ciation will tonight finalize plans for fielding its own candidates in forthcoming local elections.

The local council's opposition to the rent Act has collapsed. The association co-ordinates 33 local tenants' in committees 20 square-miles area. An estimated 28,000 council 17,000 out of tenants are withholding rent in- • SEE comments to- creases. morrow. ELEVEN Labour councillors at Clay Cross, Derbys. have decided to appeal to the High Court against the £6,985 surcharge im- posed on them for defying Tory rent Act.

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the three men to take cover.

Pc Stanley Conley who fired some of the fatal shots said: 'I don't think my hand was shaking too much. It couldn't have been, could it? My shot went where it was aimed. I caught him straight through the heart. 'When he fell I thought nothing wasn't until five but relief. It seconds later I realized his gun wasn't real. I went up and took it off him. That's when I knew. He was still wearing his mask and he was still alive. He didn't anything, but he looked at say surprised. me and he looked Even then all I could feel was happy that I was alive.' One SPG member involved in the shooting came out of the High Commission supported by two colleagues. They helped him leaned against it wall. He looking pale. Then he was sick.

The scene switched to the House of Commons. Robert Carr, the Home Secretary, for- Securicor, director mer Britain's largest private police force, said: 'I believe prompt action by the that any- police, demonstrating body who attempts this sort of thing at Embassies or High Com- missions : in London, is caught and dealt with, is perhaps the best deterrent and the best way to allay people's fears.'

Following Carr's statement it the turn of the Labour was Party. Mr John Fraser, MP for Norwood, a front-bench spokes- man on Home Affairs, described the police action as 'outstanding'.

He expressed 'admiration for the gallantry of the courage officers'. But what are the lessons of these brutal murders? era of the 'unarmed The bobby' is over. The Tory gov- ernment has set up a squad of who roving marksmen are around London day and night equipped with modern, auto- matic weapons. • The January issue of 'Police', the magazine of the Police Fe- in action to defend basic

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gasworkers lobbied parliament yesterday (left) and later went to a private meeting with the Opposition leader Harold Wilson. There is considerable appre- hension in the gas unions about Wilson's call for a Royal Com- gasmen's pay mission into the claim. One union spokesman said it was like 'a Pay Board before the Pay Board'. The fact that the proposal came from the Labour Party leader 'could prove very embarrassing to us', he added.

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deration carried an article con- demning the use of toy guns as it could lead to unforeseen deaths. • The London 'Evening News' said on Tuesday that the police were 'expecting' the demonstra- tion at the High Commission and were 'standing by' from 9 a.m. This was dropped from later newspaper reports. • Police said the SPG was on "Embassy patrol' at Hyde Park Corner when the alarm was given. Yet at his Press confer- Pc Conley said he was 'on ence patrol in Vauxhall'. Workers Press has not been able to dis- cover any Embassies in Vauxhall, south London! • In the killing of a bank raider • the shooting in December and of two Asians on Tuesday, the police-and the government— have firmly established the 'prin- ciple' of policemen using weapons in 'shoot-to-kill' opera- tions. • This forms part of an inten- sive drive by the government to Police get the Metropolitan Force on a war-footing for the class battles in front. At pre- sent they are being rearmed and retrained; the Special Branch, the bomb squad and the Cl de- partment (political and govern- mental branch) are all being strengthened. The Labourites' wretched statements and the bleatings of the liberals show very clearly people can't defend that these the working class against the violent attacks of the ruling and its bodies of armed class men'. requires revolutionary This political leadership of the kind we are building in the which Socialist Labour League. That is why we are staging our biggest-ever campaign at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Sun- 11, on the issue of day, March defence of the basic demo- the cratic rights of the working class. basic rights

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