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National secretary of the Socialist Labour League THESE ARE the gravest days in the history of the British labour movement. The Tory government has set the stage for an inevitable and unavoidable confrontation with the working class. They are preparing the most monstrous attacks on the labour and trade union movement and must be forced to resign.

The object of their attacks is crystal clear: to pre serve their corrupt, exploitative capitalist system, the Tories have to reverse history and take back all the basic democratic rights which the working class has won in two centuries of struggle.

Initially, this could involve the imprisonment of thou- sands of workers all over the country and the closing workers' down of all but here. This Dapcis. state One of the great dangers has repressIve dopalalus of the moment is that there constructed been without too much political the approval -or the know- Sleep ledge of parliament going or the by the swift deterioration of public. the and political economic Now, finally, under an- other cloud SILUaLIOn WOrKerS are

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grasping the enormity of the learned that which being CoRsDuacy police are armed. ano ther prepared against them. have been operating "shoot- to-kill' squads for the past Yet it is no secret that the political police two montas. come to Bri most feverish sur- Ulster has the veillance of groups the tain. on left and rank-and-file

CORE

There is only one force mittees. capable of repelling the vio- The Special Branch has lence being plotted by the Tories and their minions. already drawn UD tWO- the working class, stage contingency plan That attack workers' move. struggle United fence its democratic rights. First, there will be raids The Socialist Labour Lea members" houses in an intimidate gue nas Insisted and WIl attempt

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always insist that a conflict porters, particularly those differ- basic in the provinces. political

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ences is vital in the bunding And, secondly, the known a genuine revolutionary leaders will be arrested on Marxist movement. trumped-up charges Such discussion can take place britain powers emercency WIll De public at the moment be- operating. of the of cause centuries Workers Press has been struggle by the our political differences, WOrKIng in the forefront in exposing class to win basic demo- they attacked the by the cratic rights, such as the activites or une ponce class enemy spies. freedom of speech. What is now needed is a We reproduced evidence No such democratic meeting • groups.

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or a these ex-M16 agent that frontation could be held in and parties to issue a joint the countries where there is dic- that, DOltiCal DOlICe secreti declaration tape-recorded a conversation tatorship. tegral part the • cerenc between miners' leaders and the basic democratic Make Mistake aDoul Communist Party of the working class semor rights it, the Tories are preparing member during the miners' such a dictatorship. they will provide tHe staul strike. chest support for each The responsibility for de- other in the event of either We vigorously came fending the rights of work- being the terence OUl ing class rests with the national Socialism group singled by outtor attacks Party, the Com- Labour when homes the Tories. the many IS, the

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of its The SLL is ready to pro members were rauce International Marxist Grour by police last year. ceed immediately with such SLL and others on th discussion. We have fought to ex- and meeans Tell the telephone The differences pose tappers Since the touncing between organizations con- who Trotskyist movement ana man-openers

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tinually harass our own cerned must go has pledged itself Dein! activities in the workers' discussed as they are now come to the defence cri- the rights of all groups and We make your movemen. labour ticisms the

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All de- tendencies as sharr these incidents as you like; we only ask the monstrate that the police movement, respective AY FEBRUARY 24, 1973• No 1006 • 4p

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Building workers on strike at the McAlpine hotel site, Aldwych, London, hear federation steward Tony Crilly explain the latest position to them yesterday morning. The men say they will not return until a labour-only sub-contractor is removed from the site and are supporting a campaign against the lump organized by the Joint Sites Committee.

right to reply in the same DELEGATES from many London building sites have way. voted to lobby the special TUC Congress on March demand a General Strike against the All saying-and Tories. 10 We are serious worker will The decision taken on Thursday night at a every was meeting of the Joint Sites Committee. Lew Lewis, SaY- -s mar waer me cores attack democratic secretary (seen above centre) proposed that our ine as many sites as possible

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*an stop to lobby the then injury to one is an injury to all. Lalson Committee for Defence ot support of the Liaison Committee Defence Trade Unions' We the say to Labour calling for to organize a Gen- Which was The TuC Party, to the Communist eral Strike to force the Tories to resign and elect Party, to IS IMG-the and government pledged to socialist prin- defence the democratic ciples. More than 30 delegates, many of them shop rights of the working class for proposal and only one stewaras voted means mobilizing the work- ing class to bring down the Tory government.

CAMBRIDGE WEEKEND RALLY

That is our political pers- pective. THIS SUNDAY-FEBRUARY 25, 3 p.m.

But it is not necessary to with that us on Mawson Hall, Mawson Road order to agree to what we

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1973 • No 1006 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE By G. HEALY National secretary of the Socialist Labour League THESE ARE the gravest days in the history of the British labour The Tory government has set the stage for an inevitable movement. and unavoidable confrontation with the working class. They are preparing the most monstrous attacks on the labour and trade union movement and must be forced to resign.

The object of their attacks is crystal clear: to pre- serve their corrupt, exploitative capitalist system the Tories have to reverse history and take back all the basic democratic rights which the working class has won in two centuries of struggle.

Initially, this could involve the imprisonment of thou- sands of workers all over the country and the closing down of workers' news- all but here. This Dabels. state wine ol une greal dangers ao balalus Ilab is the moment is that there constructed without been much political approval- or the know- too sleep- of parliament the Stunnec going ICuC by the swift deterioration of public. the and political economic Now, finally, under an- cloud of it is secrecy, grasping the enormity of the British learned that the which being consoilaly police are armed And tney prepared against them. have been operating 'shoot- to-kill' squads for the past Yet it is no secret that the Two monus political police ale most sur- Ulster has come to Bri- The teverich veillance groups on the tain. and rank-and-file lett There of repelling the vice force CUll only one mittees. eapable The Special Branch has lence being plotted by the Tories and their minions. already two- working That the class, stage contingency plan the workers' move. struggle •e- fence of its democratic rights. First, there will be raids The Socialist Labour Lea- on members' houses in an will intimidate InSisted ana

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always insist that a conflict particularly those over basic political differ- in the provinces. ences is vital In tne bullding And, secondly, the known genuine revolutionary Marxist. readers will be arrested movement. trumped-up charges at Such discussion can arbitrary state time when Take place emergency powers will pause of the moment be- operating. the of cause centuries Workers Press has been the our surueele polltical in the forefront exposing class to win basic demo- they are attacked by the police cratic rights, such the Tne acavines as class enemy. spies. freedom speech. What is now needed is a We reproduced evidence from an No such democratic con meeting oI all these group: ex-M16 that agent held in frontation could be and parties to issue a joint The DolCa! ponce secreu countries where there is dic- declaration that, in- tape-recorded a conversation the tegral part LaLOrSILD. aerenct leaders and between miners' the basic democratic Make mistake Party 10 O of the working class,

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rights it, the Tories are preparing member during the miners' such a dictatorship. thev will provide the staun strike. chest support for each The responsibility for de- other in the event of either vigorously came we fending the rights of work- being Usuallulls ing class rests with the Socialism national singled out for attacks by group Party, the Com- Labour when the homes the Tories. many IS, the The SLL is ready to pro- were rauca International Marxist Group, by police last year. ceed immediately with such the SLL and others on the discussion We have fought to ex- meets and jell telephone The political differences pose tappers Since founding days _the between organizations of the Trotskyist movement and mal oveners tinually harass our own

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pledged itself cerned the has

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Denis activities the workers' discussed as they are now.

_come to _The detence he is bout We the rights of all make your cri- movement. ticisms the SLL as sharp All incidents de- tendencies labour these irrespective as you like; we only ask the monstrate that the police movement, JAY FEBRUARY 24, 1973 • No 1006 • 4p

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Bullding workers on strike at the McAlpine hotel site, Aldwych, London, hear federation steward Tony Crilly explain the latest position to them yesterday morning. The men say they will not return until a labour-ony sub-contractor Is removed from the site and are supporting a campaign against the lump organized by the joint Sites Committee.

DELEGATES from many London building sites have right to reply in the same way. voted to lobby the special TUC Congress on March demand a General Strike All saying-and against the Tories WE serious worker will The decision was taken on Thursday night at a every meeting of the Joint Sites Committee. Lew Lewis, sav—is that when the lories attack democratic the secretary (seen above centre) proposed that our sites as as many 'an possible stop to lobby the

TUC.

rights, then injury to one is an injury to all'. Lesson Committee for Defence of of the support Liaison Committee Defence of Trade Unions We say to the Labour which was calling for the TUC to organize Gen- Tories to resign and elect Party, to the Communist eral Strike to force the Party, to IS IMG-the and pledged socialist prin- government defence of the democratic ciples. More than 30 delegates, many of them shop rights of the working class for proposal and only one stewaras, Ine means mobilizing the work- against. ing class to bring down the Tory government.

CAMBRIDGE WEEKEND RALLY

That is our political pers- pective. THIS SUNDAY-FEBRUARY 25, 3 p.m.

But it is not necessary to with that Mawson Hall, Mawson Road order to agree to what we

SPECIAL SHOWING OF

alc The political experiences

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the coming period will clarify Speaker : Maureen Bambrick (YS National Cttee) that question and before very long.

Complete distrust of paper values: Huge boost in commodities markets Dollar is hammered PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday February 24, 1973 THE RUSH to buy gold con- floated up against the dollar point equivalent to a 17 per unabated tinued yesterday uation. accompanied by another scram- The flight from the dolla ble to sell dollars, which brought that last, week's devaluation It nothing. part Is also the US currency to its floor lack of confidence in paper m level in most European money forms. The gold price again reac centres. record level on the London n Having closed terday. The Common Market central night at $87 an ounce it was banks were forced to buy dollars to $94 an ounce almost as soon a prevent their own currencies from ket opened. rates fixed rising above the last In ineffectual attempt to week following the dollar devalua- market 5889 price was fixed in ing an gunce-a tion. and $47 above the of record set by the US Treasury. In Germany the Bundesbank bought over $10m, while the Swiss currency The rush to buy gold, whic THE FRENCH government will send in troops to man the control towers on civil airports if the four-day-old strike of air traffic controllers main unions. Its object is to win does not end today. the right to strike, which was withdrawn air traffic trom Airline pilots have threa- trollers in July 1964, and to back tened to stop flying if troops and claims for wage increases the incorporation of bonuses in take over air traffic duties.

the basic wage for purposes of Traffic has already been calculating pension rights.

sharply cut, with 800 out of The Stalinist CGT and the re- 1,200 traffic controllers air formist FO, while supporting the affected by the strike. not the right claims, say it is time to call a strike because of The strike was called by the the March 4 elections. small Catholic CFTC union and The suggestion is even made not supported by the three

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Or Full subscription (six days) for ..months. Name Addrees amount enclosed E the wake of last week's dollar devalua- banks or money-lenders in order to buy tion, is now widening into a general stam- now and sell at a profit within a short time. than ocut Duy corallics rapidly paper of gold-buying is C118 (TO aepreciating dollar indicates money. higher than time in the al all past. Bors sented 1 nere nave deen spectacular increase.

Duvers spreading in the price of silver, which is now close corporations, Middle East oil sheikhs and money of all the in 1968. holders of dollars from all over the world.

record level reached Ted yesterday in the money of the uncle were reached a new of copper, tin, lead and platinum as well.

flected yesterday London market Some dealers on the London Silver which car- ilallal colice cla bela. Wednesday Exchange were reportedly danger of ried the headline There is no longer any really stable currency. being contracted rinancial limes, more sedately the hope that the price would fall in the quad the spasted of by concerin attempt to calm the meantime. about cuallcis price was nxed in mia-morn- There other reports that what une cenerauv unceran outook WelC called one commentator pure specula- There is now talk of a general float of above the official price tors' had moved onto the scene.

all currencies wards would de une shortest advantage of the rapidly rising gold and route to trade and industrial silver prices they have borrowed and commercial collapse from Dayan's arrogance - the real face of Zionism GENERAL Moshe Dayan, Israel's War Minister, has com- pounded the atrocity committed by his air force against the that with the 8 carment. Tne careein collusion with Libyan airliner shot down with the loss of 104 lives.

'L'Humanité' finds the atten- He refused any inquiry into decide what should tion Their the strike by the the incident, completely backed balace government broadcasting service up his pilots and blamed the talk spectacular and Gaullist Press 'intriguing'.

plane's French pilot for the mando raid by Libyan

HONCES

'One wonders', the paper says, disaster, caused when the Budar has still net Mum on 'how would have Gaddafi movemen plane accidentallv straved over spoken been treated in official propa- Israeli-occupied Sinai desert.

the question and his oiicials ar ganda if, example, the

CGT

muted. So far Egypt has Dayan's aso had called a strike of this alluzant statement restricted itself appealing BHakes aoso ute v no concession United Kane the to the desperate any the oused ig Nations alla fact the

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on instruc- the Arab the states shooting nanonal aircrat autnorities from the Communist Party, The tions airliner shooting was down oi the aircratt it demon. described in putting a brake on all once againt the real face the leading Egyptian llas

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Strates order alarm of Zionism and its brutal mili- 'a slap strikes not paper Al to din or the support of ine taristic character. the face'. 'The big powers will not the support of long officials so asleep,' Egyptiar and Liban we alc are in conference to and felt coacon said Libya demonstrators owns, demanding, marched Benghazi Shah picks £800m planes action again pater on Wee semi-official 'New paper Carica of HIdD nations lake IRAN has vengeance. ordered hundreds actions already concluded with described airliner aircraft Iran include sales of F-5E super- Supersone the United States in what is be sonic fighters, Hawk Sive genocide and said it should shooting lieved be the biggest helicopters and said it should arms and aerial deal serve scho sail dreams lesson those

CYCL

arransca lucilers Department, US officials . ot a just peace serence Iran will also buy F-4 fighter said in Washington. implicit attack on This was an bombers and C-130 air- cargo of the Hafez cost machines, to Ismail, Egyptiar envoy be Washington delivered and paid for over begar Lalk. Defence Department sources. several years, more than yesterday. with President €800m the officials said The Shah _personally The US supplies Phantom Iran selected many jets with which the Libyan plane senior official told Congress of the aircraft and Wednesday that major trans- weasons lie conny Will bly. was snot cown Moscow-Peking rush for US

THE

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and Soviet gramme of expanding trade as deals cultural and bureaucracies are rushing to well scientinc, other exchanges. other in seeking outbid each No time is to be lost in getting the favours of US imperialism.

down to details. The Chinese The concluded: 'We This week has seen Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei • a con- think there is no need to dwell gratulatory letter from Leonid US the theme with much such Secretary State William Nixon over the developments of events will have Rogers in Paris next week when Vietnam cease-fire and the a positive enect on the relations the two International joint Sino-American communi- Vietnam peace well, thus opening new possi- alarantee The qué marking a vast improve- accord meets. bilities for their further develop.

Kissinger ment in relations between the ment and deepening, and we told a Press conter- stand for such a course of policy.

ence that the object was to see two countries. whether • it would be possible to Notning sale Peking to extend the deal which they have Moscow establish with Walll December heavy-bombing raids North Vietnan North Vietnam which de. relationship that which the US now had with Gone over viennan North vastated areas suppression revolution China Vietnam's main cities and cost the world. over are of lives. While in, Peking, President thousands Nixon's man discussed the poli- Closel

LICS

WiLl It 1s ikely that breznnev 1s imperialism to assist dealing angling for invitation to visit ucal situation lor two dours will with internal difficulties serious this year Mao Tse-tung himself in an un- the United States later which adherence precedented meeting said by in oroer to conchoe a dea com Stalinist policy of 'socialism the limitation and Kissinger to have Laken blace lu in country. a cordial atmosphere. economic ties. with imperiaish on doe basis But Hanoi's mayor Vu Dinh the Soviet of Jane basis described Nixor 'the bureaucracy to put forward its of existing own proposals Washington is the Givision in world and the abandonment of He changed his mind repeatedly, Dr the Incrcascu he at supporting na- sought to enforce Henry Kissinger's latest mission ally asi couchl tional liberation or revolutionarv to Peking, manking. no-American rapid •v lorce drone wasa movements. great obstinacy and violence' repeatedly Vu Dinh's city brezhnev's letter said: Un De re ations. was half and my- The of official battered by B52 bombers in the 'he two coun liaison offices December raids with the loss of wish selt 1

CAPICS

lives Soviet found in thousands of The sanstacion connection tues owner s callas in haris signite agreemenplace or dellomatic relatill restoration bureaucracy did not provide Paris diplomatic relations. surface-to-air missiles which agreement ending already been would have made such raids im- Walt Aercemen in Vietnam. peace reached on a wide-ranging pro- possible.

IN AN outstanding Pageant meeting of 120 in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, 30 people signed the All Trades Unions Alliance call to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- tionary party. The packed Mer- audience thyr's AUEW hall on Thursday night to hear speakers from the South Wales Pageant campaign and

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national secretary Gerry Healy talk about the tasks facing the revolutionary working class. The extreme seriousness of the meeting and the discussion after- wards was proof of the enormous potential building TOr tionary leadership in this valley's the revolu- The keynote was tionary confrontation between the Tory government and the work- ing class. the £10 Healy said that the working Roy Battersby receives speaking cheque from the Dowlals AUEW class 'within dis- tance' of revolutionary struggle foundry branch. HAMMERSMITH Hospital, west London, will be hit by a total strike of its ancillary staff next Thursday. All 600 staff are expected to back their union's call for action against the Tories' state pay laws. The hospital has only re- been organized cently by the National Union of Public Employees, but leaders of the various sections of staff make that feeling over pay is clear As Dolores diet orderly, says: 'It's time this kind of action was taken.

We've got to make them pay up. 'It's impossible to get a decent wage here without working very long hours of overtime. Tories are always talking "The about the suffering strike action will cause. But what about our families' suffering?' Finlay Gate Terry porter of the pointed that many patients in the hospital had ex- full for their pressed support industrial action. "They know that the wages we get wouldn't even keep one per- these son in food for week mind a family. days, never 'It's diabolical, he adds.

days, For a 50-hour week on Terry is lucky if he takes home £19. Ivy Pauleel, who represents theatre domestics taking home £16 for 40 hours, understandably Tories should be shot feels the for the wages they were paying it" when you can't just "take hospital workers. any longer.' She says: At today's prices Bethnal As head porter they're killing us? Green, and after 17 years in the here think most people hospital service, Jim takes home would agree that the executive's £26.50 a week. to the government's response The net wages of the 42 men attack is inadequate, comments under him from £16.05 range branch Tony

NUPE

secretary to £22, even if they work week- Gibney. ends. A theatre technician with 'We would have preferred several years' experience clears everyone out. But I believe there £20.80 after 46 hours. will be full support here for the character of Changes in the action that has been called.' these jobs over the last four to 'WE'RE DEALING with life, but five years have turned this situ- we get paid f4 a week less than ation into a cheap-labour scandal, And they expect Jim a roadsweeper. explains. to sit back and go on taking 'Where it used to be just push- us it!' ing a trolley around, or humping Jim Ewing, National Union of laundry, a general porter now has Employees' steward Public shop to be able to assist in the operat- Green Bethnal Hospital, east ing theatre, order medical gases, at is more bitter than sur- operate the new cardiac London, systems Tory attack on and all kinds of other things.

prised at the 'You hospital i workers' be one minute pay. Blies resignations We've been way scrubbing up for the theatre, the implies next sorting out a disturbance in resignation. body too moderate, too long, he says. casualty, then measuring a "There comes a time, however, unloading in the mortuary and the pay laws under Phase Two would set the spark to the powder. Revolutionary upheaval came when life could no longer go on under the old conditions, he said.

This government has tied the hands of the working class.

It Above: Gate porter Terry Finlay. Lett: Tony Gibney, NUPE branch secretary; Ivy Pauleel, represen- tative of theatre domestics; Dolores Thomson, diet orderly (right), with fellow steward Fena Mendez. furniture. It's responsible and demanding work for which you get paid in peanuts!'

The employers' miserly, Tory- inspired £1.88 reply to their £4 has the hospital claim made workers see red. Says Jim: "The philosophy's spreading that the reason we get what we do is because we've never taken industrial action in the past. we've realized that the 'Now only way any section of workers nas got theirs is by taking in- dustrial action, and that we've got to do the same. 'Not that I think the present policy of our union leaders is enough to force payment of the full claim. 'My branch voted for total did a majority of strike, as NUPE. The T&GWU also voted for total strike. But the union in their infinite wis- leadership dom decided to go for something much less. I've written to Fisher [NUPE general secretary] telling him this is ineffectual and bad manage- eek- ment. 'A total strike would be much more effective; it could be won in two or three days. "This the people who'll to really feel it is the doctors and nurses, and the Tories will use this against us. 'But we're in our executive's hands in this. It's difficult to ask a bloke with 20 years' service to put his pension on the line and come out without union backing 'The old "Board of Guardians" attitude you used to have in the is dead and buried, service though, because the younger element we've got in now won't stand for that kind of treatment.'

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Workers Press, Saturdi has legistated for price increases, especially in food. 'A series of laws have been in which passed parliament threaten all the basic rights of the working class. 'The Industrial Relations Act has had the effect of repealing the 1906 Trades Dispute Act and reactivating the Taff Vale deci- 1901 under which sion of a union in this very valley was fined £25,000. 'When Heath talks about con- trolling the unions, he talks about smashing the working class, for what is the working class with- out its unions? 'This government is determined to turn the clock back 200 years.

The conditions of living have fundamentally altered. You can- of changes not bring these kind in Britain without facing a revo- lutionary situation. "The working class has no alternative-it will have to fight whether it likes it or not.'

Healy appealed to the audience to help build the revolutionary party and support the Pageant.

'We are saying to workers "come forward with your history and be proud to present it.

'Show workers what kind of struggles made them what they the revolutionary and are struggle that lies ahead if they are to defend their basic rights.

Jim Bevan, member of the mid.

Glamorgan district of the AUEW,

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No. of tickets required Complete form and return to : Pageant Office, 34 Hamilton Gardens, I 38, Saturday February 24, 1973 PAGE 3 Clive Bunce, Jim Beavan and Roy Battersby on the Merthyr plat- form listen to SLL national secretary G. Healy. spoke in a personal capacity of the challenge that faced the trade union movement. The alternatives posed by miners' leader Joe Gormley was a challenge to the lefts in the trade union movement. 'Men like Hugh Scanlon Jack Jones must now put action where there mouths are, or shut up for ever.' He urged workers to come for- ..Pageant ward and support the campaign. 'If we do not build this revo- lutionary party, we will face conditions far worse than those faced by our forefathers.'

Clive Bunce, it Merthyr paint- sprayer taking the part Pageant, urged workers to come forward and join in the cam- paign. I have learned things about history in the last few weeks that I never learned at school.

'They told us about squalid living conditions and children down the mines, but they never told us how the working class fought to change these conditions and win their basic rights.'

A total of £21.70, which in- donation from cluded a £10 Merthyr AUEW foundry branch, was raised at the meeting.

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HOW THEY

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JOBS IN THE

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INDUSTRY

The second articles of four struggles. By Bernard Franks.

If the Tories have been able to launch a syste- matic attack on jobs and wages, it is because the way was paved for them in large measure by the previous Labour govern- by the helped ment, TUC, to bolster the flag.

ging capitalist system. were cut and Pay increases all manner of job- deferred, cutting and speed-up produc- systems introduced and tivity outlined in the noto- a poncy of Strife' 'In rious Place the Tories used which as their Industrial Re- basis for lations Act. Six times between 1966 and 1970 the gas industry was re- National Board ferred to the for Prices and Incomes for For example, following a six month deferment of a miser- Ils 8d for manual able rise 19e No 2990r of workers, (No. 1967 manded that in future all gas tied to productivity. pay be This involved the introduc- tion and extension of work- study, job-evaluation and pos- Measured-Day Work, sibly the abolition of craftsmen's of de- the breakdown mates, between crafts and marcation everywhere the introduction of bonus schemes. incentive Failure to accept these schemes would mean no more JuNes. all working Subsequently, timed and activities ever standard rated alleged per- formance' times laid down for The gasworkers every action. told positively were of the they would enormous amounts be able to earn 'with no extra effort. In fact, many workers found their total pay decreasing De at that time, overtime was being cut back. The man- thus getting agement WoN more work in eight hours than eight plus overtic before payıng for it. Job-evaluation 'intro- Was which de- duced, system full flexibility and mands of labour, mobility yet im- most rigid the demar- poses and strait-jacketing cation of pay levels. fix *scientifically conte This reality by guesswork- the relative im- of grades, portance thus moving by venting pay up job workers comparing one and wage with another. All of productivity types measures were censed. or borrowed from the hashed, US. McKinsey: Co., the US called consultants, were Union leaders entirely backed this swindle. The TUC published booklets on how to force employees into allowing deals, then joined productivity with the bosses in running day Fobruary 24, 1973 articles on the Gasworkers' British Productivity the devising ways of separating men from their jobs in any industry. of 'successes' were Lists published every month in its magazine "Target'. One chair- man and enthusiastic sup- organization of this porter was Lord Cooper, the then general secretary of the Gene.

and Municipal Workers' ral Union. In October 1968, the staff side of the gas industry, in- volving 49,000 workers, was with. The Incomes dealt Board's report No. 86 decided that although gas sales since.

the last pay increase-3t per cent in 1966—were up 19 per cent and sales per employee by 17.5 per cent, that never- theless a 5-per-cent increase in pay 'cannot be justified'.

An offer by the Gas Coun- cil of 4.2 per cent could be allowed eventually it it was tied to productivity.

TIMED WITH A

STOPWATCH

The report urged the draw- ing up of an agreement for gas staff which •.. should include a clause in which management expresses its de- termination to press on with the development of modern techniques such as method- study, work-measurement and job-evaluation, while at the same time the unions agree to continue to co-operate fully with the development and ex- such techniques tension of wherever they are applicable?

For workers who didn't fancy being timed by someone with a stopwatch, the report had an alternative: ' . . the worker may be given a time sheet which divides the day into equal periods-for ex- ample two minutes for an invoice-checker-on which he records the duration of his activities' In other words he could time himself. The Incomes Board's final the gasworkers: report on 'Costs and Efficiency in the Gas Industry' (No. 155, Au- gust 1970) was devoted solidly to the subject of productivity.

A four-year target for 'saving' £78m and increasing profits by 7 per cent a year, was to which re- be implemented quired rapid extension of the work-study schemes. By April 1970 there had only been 22 per cent of manual workers on the Work- Studied Incentive Payments (WSIP). By 1973 there must be 65 per cent. The report explained: "The real value of work-study is the production of meaningful control information designed to achieve a more effective performance, and the disci- pline this provides. for man- agement. It was claimed that workers not on WSIP reached levels

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Gasworkers from the West Midlands destruction, through productivity scher of only 48 and 50 on the 0 100 scale on which 100 to 'standard performance'. was The inference obvious. was They must work twice as hard to reach the level that the Gas Council considered to be 'normal working'. On the other hand, even workers on the WSIPs were reckoned to be reaching only 87 and 92 on the scale. They were, it was true, producing 80 per cent more work but this was ' . . partly as a re- effort, sult of greater mainly as a result of better planning and organization'.

Use of 'synthetic times' were advised-the made-up times arrived at by stringing actions that a together the worker should in theory make to do a job, and how long each ought to take. Also re- the setting commended was up of a central Data Bank of for jobs which . could times be available to all Gas Boards.

The collaboration of the union leaders to police the work force had been guaran- teed earlier in the year, with a pay increase . . . coupled with undertaking by the an trade unions to continue to promote the co-operation of employees in measures de- signed to achieve maximum efficiency of operations'.

It is significant that this 1970 report of the Board re- ferred to the "60,000 manual workers in the industry, while the 1967 report had been about the '75,000 manual workers' involved. One in five jobs had been eliminated during less than three years. This was basically all the Board or the Gas Council meant by "efficiency'

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•Parliament their pay cla Midlands lobby OVer vity schemes, of another 11,000 jobs by 197 and the real use by manage- ment of the work-study de- partments' "meaningful control information'. However, the Board also hinted that all was not going well and the time for the 'stick' rather than the 'carrot' might be at hand: 'In • some areas it is open to individual workers to refuse to join a scheme-there had been about 1,000 refusals by April 1970; there is a case for group deci- sions which, once taken, apply workers concerned to all the ..: better training of union shop stewards officials and could do much to solve the problem.' In fact, it was the union not the employers which took the brunt of the task of sell- ing the scheme to the workers.

The part of this report with staff workers dealing advocated more centralization, use of rationalization and further ex- computers. Also tension of staff Productivity Measurement (SPM), the staff workers' ( incentive scheme.

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One Gas Board had 'saved' 264 staff in this way. Another had cut down from 120 to 30 by introducting a computer 'despite a heavier work-load'.

This section ended: 'We estimate reductions of up to 1,900 can be made in the out- side sales staff and some 850 can be made in staff employed in showrooms as a result of recommendations; and our that there is a prospect of re- ductions of a further 200 showroom staff as a result of the closure of showrooms

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r pay claim last week. They face the s by 1977. which cannot attain viability.'

The millions of pounds new equipment, spent on for the largely-automated dis- tribution of natural gas, pointed to a continuous run- down of the labour force which, as far as the main em- ployer is concerned-now the Tory government—is nowhere near finished. Sales of natural gas in 1969-1970 were only 15 per cent of the total. They expected to be 90 per are cent by 1974. The distribution of natural gas is as highly automated as electricity supply and the Tories have no plans for re- taining one single worker that it is at all possible to get rid of. It is now said that 11,000 jobs will go by 1977. Such a low figure is hardly to be believed if past estimates are anything to go by. For formale ini was quat in the Gas Council's the year 1974 there would be 55,615 manual workers in the industry, a figure reached in 1971 on the way down to the present 47,000. Today, as well as facing the sack, many gasworkers are still suffering the effects of last year's acceptance by the unions of a pay award which left them trailing even further behind the rocketing cost of living.

It can be seen that behind the gasworkers' opposition to the Tory measures stands years of promises, threats, and wholesale destruction of the livelihoods of tens of thou- sands of workers who have sought only to earn a reason- able living while conscien- tiously supplying a high-quality service.

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE POSTWAR

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRISIS

Draft resolution presented by the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League Draft resolution presented by The latest moves by the Nixon administration in devaluing the dollar mark a rapid accelera- tion of the capitalist system towards a break- down and crisis deeper than at any time in its history. All the political work of the Socialist Labour League must start from a grasp of the pro- found nature and utter insolu- bility of this crisis. The build- ing of a mass revolutionary is no longer a propa- party ganda demand, as it has always been for the revisionists. It is burning question the urgent, of the hour. Either the working class, under the leadership of the re- volutionary party, takes the power and puts an end to capitalist anarchy, or the ruling class will be forced to impose brutal dictatorship on the European, Japanese and Amer- ican working class. What is at stake here is the training of workers in a revo- lutionary party, workers who start, in everything they do, from the nature of the epoch as one of wars and revolutions.

ated by the Central Committee of 1 As the working class now moves into its decisive and historic struggle with the capi- talist enemy, it will need to combat every reformist, cen- trist and Stalinist, with their opportunist recipes for once again adjusting the relations between the classes. But these relations cannot be adjusted. Fundamentally, the period requires revolu- tionary action to smash the state power of the bourgeoisie and establish socialism. Only the international be- trayals of Social Democracy and Stalinism have permitted the capitalist powers, longer or shorter periods, to obscure this nature of the epoch. But now the contradic- tions have once more accumu- lated so explosively under the surface of the boom that the choice is starkly revealed once again: the crisis of humanity demands the removal of capi- talism; but capitalism survives because of the crisis of working-class revolutionary leadership; therefore this crisis of revolutionary leadership must be resolved as the pri- mary task. In that lies the essence of the nature of the epoch. Only the Trotskyist movement has been built in struggle on this basis.

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tee of the Socialist Labour League 1. The revisionists and the crisis stage in the The latest break-up of the world capital- ist money and trade relations is a vindication of Marxism and the struggle of the Inter- national Committee of the against Fourth International all brands of revisionism and Stalinism. The revisionists, more than anybody, stand nakedly exposed by the rapid development of the crisis.

Throughout the last 20 years and more, it has been the revi- sionists, led by the so-called Unified Secretariat, who have preached the theory of 'neo- capitalism. According to this spurious, anti-Marxist theory, capitalism in the post-war period had changed fundamen- tally. It was no longer capitalism of the old type, as analysed by Marx. No longer was it prone to crisis and breakdown. of the Through the action state, combined with a series 'science-based' industries which in turn provided the foundation for a "Third Indus- Workers Press, Saturd trial Revolution', capitalism was now more or less perman- ently stabilized. Instead of the preparation this for social revolution, clique of revisionists, desert- ing everything Trotsky and the Fourth International had fought for, advocated 'structu- reforms' as the basis for their political activities.

Of essentially the same nature were those theories of the "permanent arms economy' advanced by the petty-bour- geois "state-capitalist' Interna- tional Socialists group: This the tendency which an- was nounced in the late 1940s that 'state capitalist' Russia was and could no longer be de- fended against imperialism. It was this blatantly anti-commu- nist theory which led to their desertion from the Trotskyist movement at the outset of the Korean war. Like all revisionists, both these trends displayed a deep hatred of the revolutionary power of the working class and a firm belief in the strength of capitalism. Their thoroughly false analysis of capitalism was but a thin cover for their scep- ticism about the working class, a scepticism which made them willing tools of the Stalinist ao, Saturday Fabruary 24, 1973 PAGE 5 Above: The Bretton Woods con- ference of 1944 which • set up the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to overcome balance of payments difficulties and estab- lished the privileged position of the dollar-to be convertible at $35 an ounce for gold. and Social Democratic bureau- cracies. It has only been through the most tenacious struggle against these ideas, for long periods under difficult objective condi- tions, that the Socialist Labour League has been able to ana- lyse the unfolding of the pre- sent crisis and, on the basis of this analysis, train and educate ist': a cadre of revolutionary fight- ers in the working class who now have the historic respon- sibility, in this entirely new situation, of transforming the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. 2. The basis of Bretton Woods The hallmark of the revi- sionist method is that it is governed entirely by surface Economic Crisis continued on Page 6.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday Fabri Economic Crisis continued from Page 5. impressions. It is this method which dominated the response of these groups to develop- ments in post-war capitalism.

For both Pabloism and the International Socialists, the ability of capitalism to avoid a major slump over the last 30 years was a sign of renewed strength and vigour. In fact the very opposite was the case.

The ruling class felt com- pletely unable to impose the kind of solution to its crisis after 1945 that it had done after World War I. The fact that after the Bretton Woods 1944 conference it was forced to establish a series of agencies through which the economy was artificially stimulated by of inflation was its means recognition that the working class was too strong to be dealt with at that stage.

Inflation represented a re- treat before the working class.

This retreat was a reflection of the decline of the capitalist system and the losses it had sustained in 1917 and in east- ern Europe and China in the immediate post-war period. Capitalism survived the con- vulsions at the end of the war only through the betrayals of Stalinism and Social Demo- cracy, both of which collabor- ated openly with imperialism in the restoration of capitalism in western Europe. This overall decline of capi- talism must be stressed when considering the present crisis.

For it is not one which takes place in the system's growth and expansion, but one in its death agony. This theoretical conception has always stood at the centre of the work of the International Committee and is one for which it has fought against all the revisionists.

This historic decline of capitalism can be seen in the very nature of the Bretton Woods agreements. Their basis was the setting up of the International Monetary Fund (which commenced operations in March, 1947). The IMF was to be provided with a pool of gold and currency, contributed according to an agreed plan by the member nations. This pool was to be used to allow any country suffering balance- difficulties of-payments to overcome them without pre- major inter- cipitating a national crisis. The second element of Bretton Woods was the pri- vileged position given to the dollar. The cornerstone of post-war monetary arrange- ments-until President Nixon's August 15, 1971, announce- ment — was the fact that the dollar was guaranteed at a fixed rate against gold for the purpose of international trade and capital movements. It was only because dollar holders could, if ex- holdings change their gold at the fixed rate of $35 to a fine ounce of gold, that the dollar could become the main reserve asset throughout Europe during the post-war period. But these arrangements were not like the old Gold Standard which existed for much of the 19th century during capitalism's expan- sionary period. Woods had to Bretton the use of substantial allow quantities of paper money alongside gold. The contribu- tions which each country made to the IMF pool con- sisted of 75 per cent in local currency and only 25 per cent in gold. On this pool any debtor country could draw, in return for the promise that currencies would fluctuate by only 1 per cent either side of their "par' value against the dollar. 3. The growth of the American balance - of - payments crisis The inexorable growth of the post-war crisis can be seen in irday February 24, 1973 the steady increase in the American balance-of-payments deficit when compared with the continual reduction in the American gold reserve. There have been several factors be- hind the growth of this pay.

ments crisis. But they reflect the ever-growing un- evenness of capitalist develop- ment in its perioa of decline.

After 1945 only American capitalism could shoulder the overall responsibility for the future of the entire world system against the threat of working both the class and the challenge to its future implicit in which the was existence of the Soviet Union, eastern Europe and China.

But the eruption of the present risis has proved once more the soundness of Trot- sky's judgement that no matter how strong American capitalism appeared, the con- imperialism tradictions were even stronger. James Callaghan who as Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer was able to negotlate considerable loans from the IMF, in return for promises to halt wage Increases.

In the first place America considerable had to make loans to Europe after the last war in order to prop up a number of near-destitute re- gimes and preserve the capi- intact. talist social structure Following the war-time Lend the 'aid' Lease programme, programme initially took the form of l Marshall Aid (the European Recovery Pro- into gramme) which came operation at the end of 1947.

The Americans had also to make ever-greater overseas military expenditures to pre- serve their strategic and eco- nomic interests. Again this a purely. 'eco- never was nomic' question. War and the preparation for war can never be divorced from capitalism as 'permanent the theories arms economy' imply. These military expenditures in importance gain to were with the outbreak of the 1950 Korean war. In the 1960s the Vietnam war also had a major impact as a source worsening the US payments deficit. Much of the means to fight the war were purchased outside Amer- ica and this meant either a loss of gold or a further piling up of external dollar balances.

Spending on armaments were financed almost entirely out of budget deficits and have thus been one of the major causes of inflationary instability with which capitalism must now deal so ruthlessly. Finally, the American pay- ments deficit has been con- siderably worsened by the vast outpouring of private capital from the US. Here again we are dealing with no 'accident' which an earlier change of policy might have corrected.

For the outflow of capital was testimony to the powerful operation of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. It was in an attempt to avoid the con- sequences of this law that the American monopolists sent their capital abroad. The net result of all these developments was a constant piling up of external debt along with a steady decline in the US gold holding. At the outbreak of the 1950 Korean After breaking the dollar-gold link on A war the US held roughly three- quarters of the world's mined gold. Today the figure has fallen to under a quarter.

4. Gold and the dollar In the post-war period, the dollar replaced sterling as the major international currency which, along with gold, pro- vided the major source for the finance of world trade and payments. But once more, we should be clear that the dollar unable to occupy the was powerful position enjoyed by sterling for much of the 19th century. During the Gold Standard's operation down to 1914, ster- main ling was used as the means of financing capitalist investment throughout Europe and north America. But so. powerful was British capital and so overwhelmingly impor- tant was sterling that this did not lead to crises of anything approaching the depth of those after World War II. This was so because although considerable capital flowed out of London throughout the 19th century, Britain was able, in the main, to force those coun- tries which borrowed it to pur- chase British goods. In other words, a considerable capital outflow did not lead to a seri- ous balance-of-payments crisis.

Although by far the most powerful capitalist country since the last war, the US has never been able to achieve the relative dominance which Bri- tain achieved for much of the last century. American capital has moved into Europe and has, in part, been used to build local industry which was up later able to compete against American firms in world mar- kets. Japan and West Germany are classical examples of this development. tried, to make the dolar ans although the Americans good as gold, it was an aim which could never be accom- plished. For capitalism, only gold can constitute money. 'interna- There can be no new tional currency which de- taches itself from gold. The truth of this was established once more in 1943 when John Maynard Keynes proposed a new world paper currency, Bancor, to replace gold. The Americans were forced to re ject such a scheme; the world capitalist system had to remain firmly tied to gold which, un- like paper money, represents real value, that is the expendi- ture of human labour. Since the IMF started oper- ations in 1947, the growth of American payments' defi- the cit has developed alongside decline in the of proportion gold, as against paper, in the world monetary supply. In the 1960s, gold constituted early around 60 per cent of total world liquidity' (that is gold dollar-gold link on August 15, 1971 and burying the Bretton Woods agreements for ever, US President Nixon foreign exchange); today plus the figure has fallen to a little a third. In other words, Over world roughly two-thirds of trading assets no longer have any value because they are no longer convertible into gold.

When this decline in relative gold holdings measured against the expansion of world trade, the extent of the crisis and the tasks which it presents to the capitalist system are im- the mediately apparent. 1960s, as the present early crisis was beginning to gather held as re- momentum, gold serve assets within the capi- system talist represented around 30 per cent of total Today that world imports. figure is a little over 10 per cent. Here again are the seeds collapse of catastrophic oi a world trading relations. 5. Development of the crisis From the late 1950s onwards, the first signs of the contra- dictions of capitalism as ana- lysed themselvest. lysed Marxists began to From this the US point onwards pay- ments deficit was growing at fast alarmingly pace as against its reduced gold hold-.

ings. Fears grew that the Ameri- cans would be unable to main- tain dolla pean ably conv curre This loss other the 1 Th A m unde to color abro: and: redu cent tal deral Th move ing of tl shari coun and bour had 1950 State were react direc peria Bu crIsis

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After breaking the dollar-gold link on August 15, 1971 and burying the Bretton Woods for US President Nixon speaks at an International monetary agreements conference.

• ever, US Presidı lay ds, rid ave no ive red rld isis nts im- the ent her re- pi- ted tal hat per eds of he :ds, La' na- this ay- at as eri- in- US President Nixon speaks at an international monet‹ tain the convertibility of the dollar into gold. Several Euro- pean governments, most not- began ably the French, convert their dollar and other currency holdings into gold.

This further accelerated loss of gold in the American reserves and, in turn, forced other governments to follow the French lead. first response of the The American administration, under President Kennedy, was to slash the 'aid' programme to the colonial and semi- colonial world. Expenditure abroad to countries like India and several African states was reduced by as much as 25 per cent and restrictions imposed on the export of private capi- tal to these areas were consi- derably tightened The political results of this move are a warning to the whole of the European work- ing class today. For the result of the Kennedy move was a sharp swing to the right in countries like Ghana, Algeria and Indonesia. 'Left' national- bourgeois governments which had managed throughout the 1950s to balance between the State Union and imperialism were removed and replaced by reactionary regimes immedi- subordinate the ately to direct needs of American im- perialism. results of the But the crisis could not be confined to the colonial and semi- colonial countries. This • was

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nal monetary conference. the 'theory' of Ernest Mandel and the Pabloite revisionists.

Impressed by the upsurge of struggle in the colonial countries, they wrote off the revolutionary potential of the working class in Europe and America. north Indeed the present crisis will expose mercilessly the Pabloite 'theory' of the 'Three Sectors' of the revolution. It was this theory which allowed Mandel and his fellow rene- gades from Trotskyism to re- ject the role of the working in the metropolitan class countries, while at the same time prostituting Trotskyism by lending their uncritical support to the petty-bourgeois nationalist leaders in the semi-colonial colonial and countries. But now the crisis is joined throughout Europe and north America. The workers of the big capitalist countries are moving into revolutionary struggle along with workers in the colonial and peasants This is bound to countries. have a direct impact on the working class and intellectuals of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Once more the of international unity the working class is reasserting as the most powerful itself force in history. in Britain Developments were to establish the utter bankruptcy and counter-revo- of such lutionary nature 'theories'. In 1961, sensing the changed international eco- nomic situation, the Tories, with Selwyn Lloyd as Chan- cellor, introduced their 'pay designed reduce to pause wages and halt inflation. At this stage they were forced to retreat. On the one hand they faced determined and widespread opposition to their unemployment policies (un- employment rose to above the million mark in the winter of 1962-1963) and the govern- ment was plunged into a first- rate crisis in the form of the 1963 Profumo scandal. It was under these condi- tions that the Tories, from the spring of 1963 onwards, began their reflationary pre- election boom. Working-class opposition to the Tory un- employment policies and de- termination to preserve all their gains of the 1950s pro- duced a Labour victory in October 1964, although with only a small majority. It was a government which came into power in the midst a balance-of-payments of crisis, produced directly by the Maudling infiationary boom. The payments deficit for 1964 was a record £800m.

At this stage, however, the Labour leaders were able to to the Americans for turn financial assistance. James Callaghan was able to nego- tiate considerable loans from the IMF and directly from the Johnson administration in return for promises to intro- duce legislation to halt wage increases. For three years after tak- ing office help continued from the Americans in a desperate avoid a sterling attempt to devaluation. Here again is re- vealed the basic instability of the capitalist system, despite all appearances of prosperity during the 1950s. At Bretton Woods, although the Americans rejected Keynes' Utopian plan for a 'new money', they could not dispense entirely with ster- ling's role as a reserve and trading currency Despite the dominant the position of dollar, sterling still accounted for over a quarter of world trade in the immediate post- war years, a legacy from its century position. 19th And although continuing to decline, it was still the second most trading currency important after the dollar. Johnson and thè American ruling class knew that if the pound was devalued again (it had already been devalued under Stafford Cripps in 1949) the spotlight of the crisis would inevitably fall on the The fight to save the dollar. pound was therefore a fight to defend the dollar. 6. The sterling devalua- tion The forced sterling devalua- tion of November 1967 was therefore a defeat not merely for the Labour government's economic policies, but, much more important, a defeat for the strategy of American im- perialism. From this time on- wards, the world crisis of capi- talism has developed at an ever-increasing From pace. November 1967 the Americans have had no choice but to pre- pare for economic and financial warfare against the rest of the capitalist world, and particu- larly against Europe. The next stage of the crisis came with the March 1968 run on gold. So great was the de- mand for gold and the loss of confidence in the dollar that the Americans were driven to introduce the 'two-tier' system.

This ended dollar-gold conver- tibility other than for 'official' (that is government) purposes.

From that date there were in fact two gold markets, an offi- cial one, in which the dollar- gold price was held to its Woods level, and Bretton 'private market which saw the gold price continuing to rise.

Despite the fond hopes of Workers Press, Saturda all the reformists and revision- ists, such a two-tier system inherently unstable and was could not hope to survive. It was a mere holding operation on the part of the American ruling class while the 1968 presidential elections were dealt with. All attempts even to arrest the development of the crisis could only aggravate it. This was already clearly the case with the creation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs or 'paper gold') which was de- signed to ease the liquidity crisis. In fact it only made worse a situation where paper debts were accumulating and gold declining in the world money system. meaning 7. The of August 15, 1971 most decisive turning The point in the whole crisis came with Nixon's August 15, 1971, announcement that the dollar- gold link was broken for all time. Bretton Woods was dead and could never be resurrected.

From this point onwards a vast pool of money was in cir- United culation outside the States, with no gold backing.

Estimates now place this pool of paper at around $70 billion.

In no way could the impli- cations of the crisis after August 1971 be likened to those of 1931. Despite the depth of the earlier crisis, it was one in which the world's major trading currency, ster- ling, was replaced by another currency, the dollar. The blunt fact today is that nothing can the dollar. Here, once replace more, is expression of both the enormity of the uneven development of world capital- ism, which has concentrated economic all and financial power in the hands of Ameri- can capital, and at the same time the historic decline of this system. The fact that in Aug- ust 1971 Nixon took the dollar 'off gold' means that he des- troyed the basis whereby the vast proportion of world trade has since the war been con- ducted. measures taken since All August 1971 to alleviate this crisis have collapsed almost as soon as they were introduced.

This has been the case of both the Washington 'currency re- alignment' negotiations of De- cember 1971, as well as all hammer out attempts to financial unified European strategy in response to the American declaration of eco- nomic war. Significantly the latter agree- ment was broken first by the Tory government in Britain, which was forced to 'float' (in effect devalue) sterling in June 1972. This, in itself, was the clearest indication that Bret- ton Woods, with its agreement on 'fixed parities' was now fin- ished. The efforts at a com- mon European financial policy also doomed are to utter failure. As the trade and fin- ancial war intensified, the con- the capitalist flicts between states-economic, financial and military-controlled during the period of capitalist expansion since the war, are bound to sharpen enormously. This must call into question the imme- diate future of the Common Market, to which the Stalinists and the Pabloites in all coun- tries are giving their increas- ingly enthusiastic support.

The revolutionary wave of 1943-1947 was betrayed by Stalinism and social-demo- cracy, especially in western Europe. US imperialism, in its role of world policeman, poured in masses of paper dollars and dollar credits to rehabilitate European capital and enable the bureaucracies to hold back the working class.

Military loans to NATO to l wo 'contain communism' in the Cold War were part of the same process in which the framework of the post-war boom was constructed. 8, Saturday Fobruary 24, 1973 PAGE 7 The decisions forced on US imperialism today by the fall in the rate of profit are thus the direct negation of the basis which revolution was on avoided at the end of the war.

The contradictions of imperial- ism, built up beneath the sur- face for 25 years, now mean the rapid and ruthless trans- formation of the relations be- tween the capitalist states and between capital and the work- ing class into their opposites.

8. Not merely a trade war The implications of the pre- sent stage of the crisis, of course, involve the immediate start of a trade war between all the major capitalist coun- tries. This is the meaning of the latest Nixon dollar devalu- ation and the threat of a 15 per cent tariff wall if the Europeans and Japanese do not at once step into line with his requirements. In such a war, all the devices of the 1930s-price-cutting, dump- ing, etc. will be employed in ruthless an even more manner. But the crisis must extend tar beyond that of a trade war, important though this undoubtedly will be. For it is one thing to con- duct a war under conditions where there is a stable means in which to conduct trade; it is quite another to engage in such a war when all the rules of international trade and pay- ments, created at Bretton Woods, have been destroyed.

With gold now supporting perhaps only 10 per cent of the value of world trade, the implications of the crisis must be a collapse of much of the other 90 per cent. For no matter how much the revision- ists sneered at the analysis of the monetary crisis made by the SLL, gold and commo- dities are tied together in- separably. This was the whole purpose of Marx's analysis in 'Capital', a work which all these gentlemen said was now 'out of date' Now the correctness of its analysis haunts every capital- ist financial centre and bank- ing house throughout the world. Money grows out of commodity production as the means by which the particular values of all commodities are expressed in some universal form. Money is not, as Mandel and others think, merely a device for overcoming problems of barter. It is the necessary base on which com- modity production alone can take place and it can never be replaced by paper, despite the technical devices which the capitalists try to invent to dislodge it from its pre-eminent position.

The crisis of the capitalist system, in any case, is not fundamentally a crisis of com- modity over-production, but involving the over-pro- one duction of capital. All the institutions of Bretton Woods have for the last 25 years and more been employed to build up a huge superstruc- ture of credit. The vast majority of trade has not been carried out with either gold or dollars but through credits arranged against the dollar.

These credit institutions have in turn been used to invest in machinery and equipment on a huge scale through the capitalist world. In this pro- cess, share values have been inflated beyond their remotest connection with their real value. Now this hugely inflated volume of capital must seek to earn its rate of profit through the exploitation of labour power. But not even the most brutal increase in the rate of exploitation of the to I working class of Europe and America can solve this crisis for the capitalists, although of course, they must be driven to Economic Crisis continued on Page 8.

PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday Fel Chinece soldiers aid the North Korean Economic Crisis continued from page 7. attempt a solution in this direction. Only the violent elimina- tion of capital values on a vast scale can now restore the 'correct proportions between the pool of constant capital and the available surplus value extracted from the work- ing class. A destruction of capital along these lines must take stock price the form of collapse, bank failures leading to the forcible clo- in turn sure of many of even the largest European and Japa- nese monopolists who will be totally incapable of meeting the American financial war.

It is in this context that the American devaluation— following that after August 15, 1971—must be seen. For each devaluation, at a stroke, re- duces the value of the $70 billion pool outside the US, much of it held by govern- ments or used by the Euro- pean monopolists to finance capital expansion. What we are witnessing in short is the operation of the law of value. As an objective law which asserts itself against both classes, it is, in a sense, seeking its violent revenge for the last 25 years in which the capitalist class and its revi- sionist and reformist hangers- on have tried to ignore it or wished it away. And, like all laws of social development, it does not operate in a smooth manner, nor in one which can be anticipated beforehand, but only in the most convulsive way. 9. Defence of the USSR, China and eastern Europe The great depth of the capi- talist crisis also raises as an immediate and vital question of the USSR, the defence eastern Europe and China.

Despite the counter-revolu- tionary role of the Stalinist bureaucracy, which becomes more naked as it moves closer the imperialists in their to crisis, the gains of 1917 and those which followed after the last war have not been lost.

In these countries, property and the means production remain nationalized and the state, through its monopoly of foreign trade, regulates all economic relations with the capitalist world market. It is these gains which the 'state capitalist' International Socialists reject. Under the turday Fabruary 26, 1873 th Koreans in 1953. The International SociaH: direct pressure of imperialism they abandoned the Trotskyist movement on the outbreak of exposing the Korean war, thoroughly themselves as a anti-communist group. Their 'theory' leads them to write off not only the revolutionary potential of the British wor- king class, but the whole of the international working class which alone made October 1917 possible. The role of such groups as International Socialists can only become more reactionary as the crisis deepens and imperialism seeks to regain the great losses it has sustained in the USSR, eastern Europe and China.

For us, the defence of all rights and gains made by the British working class over the last 200 years is inseparable from the defence of all the international gains of the working class, the greatest of which have been the Russian and Chinese revolutions. Only those who defend these gains will be able to lead the strug- gle to defend the rights of the British working class.

This is a vital question, be- cause the depth of the crisis must involve the drive to war by the capitalist class. To des- troy capital on the scale now to destroy required means vast quantities of surplus la- bour. Under such conditions, imperialism cannot for long tolerate a position where a large of the world is area closed to its plunder and ex- ploitation. Every worker and serious socialist must ask himself the question: would the recon- quest of_ the Soviet Union, eastern Europe and China strengthen capitalism all over the world? Clearly it would.

It is for this reason that we reject utterly the anti-com- munism of the Cliff 'state capitalist' group and reaffirm the unconditional defence of the USSR as the cornerstone of the revolutionary party.

10. The position of Britain British capitalism and the Bri- tish ruling class at the are very heart of this crisis. This poses enormous tasks before the ruling class as well as the working class. We have en- tered a period of intensive re- volutionary struggles. In the outcome, either the capitalist class will impose a bloody dictatorship on • the working class, or else the working class, under the leadership of the revolutionary party, will smash the capitalist state, establish • its own power and use that power to eliminate d Socialists refused to detend the Koreans, capitalist anarchy and chaos.

The crisis is not at all merely a loss of competitive- ness' by British capital. The relative decline of British in- dustry and finance has been a common theme for all the revisionists. reformists and But the crisis is infinitely more serious. The chaos into which the capitalist international econo- mic and financial arrange- ments are now plunged finds the most direct reflection in class relations in Britain. The which • of legislation armoury the Heath government is now assembling is not just for the wage-cutting, as of purpose the revisionists naively ima- gine. It is designed to put an end to trade unionism and working-class rights as they established in have been struggle over the last 200 years. Only the SLL has warned the working class of this situation and roused the ad- vanced workers to the enor- mous dangers inherent in it.

Any stability retained by the declining British capital- ism of the last 2o years de- • in pended entirely on the main- tenance of the international inflationary boom and the Bretton • Woods arrangements. The rapid deterioration of Britain's relative position in the capitalist system has been obscured. But now the decline must become absolute. For such a situation, wage- cutting is hopelessly inade- quate. To survive, capitalism is faced with the destruction of every basic right of the working class, of every his- torical gain through which the workers have organized them- selves into a class. When the revisionists reject the political implications fight of the against the Tory government, this is not just a 'mistake' on their part. What is at stake, we repeat, is the whole nature of our revolutionary epoch. The crisis once again lays bare this fundamental problem.

The revisionists are carry- ing out the class role histori- cally assigned to centrism.

Centrism • feeds only on the defeats of the working class.

In attempting desperately to tie the working class to purely syndicalist horizons, the re- visionists, Stalinists and cen- trists are working for the de- feat of the working class, just as their predecessors did in the 1930s. The fact that the capitalist crisis now takes the form of unprecedentedly an severe financial crisis also has the gravest implications for Bri- tish capital. The self-satisfied revisionists throughout the boom of the 1950s and 1960s USSR, China, or eastern Europe, poured scorn Lenin's on theory of imperialism, the final stage of capitalism domi- nated by a financial oligarchy centred on the banks. But the great power of this conquest is more theoretical apparent every day. The fact that world capitalist finance is in crisis must create a crisis for all the merchant banks, which in turn must react back on industry as the banks ruth- lessly destroy capital in order to enforce repayments of their debts. Britain was able to avoid the consequences of her loss of industrial hegemony at the end of the last century only because of the position of the City of London as the leading centre for world trade and finance. The City was able to bring in a huge income which offset the losses sustained by industry. With sterling's role finished, and the Empire a thing of the past as a means powerful of escape, all the contradictions of British capi- talism accumulated over the last century are now erupting in the most violent and deci- sive manner. What the work- de-. ing class now faces is not another stage in the steady decline of British capitalism, but the social revolution.

The purpose of our analysis of the contradictions of post- capitalism is no way war merely to 'prove' who was right on all the main ques- tions. In any case that is abun- dantly clear and beyond argument. The crisis of the capitalist system has exposed the theoretical and political bankruptcy of every reform- ist and revisionist tendency in the working-class movement in a manner which until now would not have been possible.

The purpose of a re-examina- tion of of the the nature present capitalist crisis is to working class and warn the the revolutionary party of its implications and the tasks which it imposes on them.

The time has come to arm the movement with a real con- ception of the revolutionary nature of the period in which are living and fighting, we and to combat every vestige of reformist and middle-class which pressure encourages scepticism about the urgency of the situation or the capa- city of the movement to re- arm and transform itself in time to defeat the capitalist enemy. There be no can middle-of-the-road solution to this crisis. At stake is the preparation for the struggle for working-class power. It demands the immediate fight to build the revolutionary party, to transform the Socialist Labour League into that party. Europe, against US Imperialism.

A chronology of crisis 1943 Keynes' proposals for Bancor, a new international paper currency, rejected.

1944 Bretton Woods talks. Dollar as major currency for capitalist world trade and finance. 1947 (June) IMF and other Bretton Woods institutions begin operation. 1947 (November) Marshall Plan (European Recovery Pro- gramme) launched. 1950 (June) Outbreak of Korean war. 1950 Cliff deserts Trotskyist movement via 'theory' of state capitalism. 1958-1959 Growing fears ex- pressed in Europe at Ameri- can ability to maintain dollar convertibility. French begin to swap their paper money for gold. 1961 Tory (Selwyn Lloyd) 'Pay pause'. Unemployment begins to grow. 1962 US slashes aid to colo- nial and semi-colonial coun- tries. 1963-1964 Tories retreat in Britain. Maudling pre-election boom. 1964 (October) Labour govern- ment elected. £800m payments deficit. Large borrowings from IMF. 'Strings' willingly accep- 1966 (March) Labour re- elected with large majority.

1966 (July) Savage credit squeeze in an attempt to save pound. From this time on- "basic' unemployment wards trend is upwards, despite temporary fluctuations. 1967 (November) Sterling de- valuation. Immediate run against the dollar. 1968 (March) Gold crisis.

Gold market closed for several weeks. Two-tier system intro- duced. Creation of Special Drawing Rights later that year. 1971 (August) Gold-dollar link broken. Bretton Woods now finished. 1971 (December) Currency re- alignment talks. Dollar de- valued against gold. 1972 (June) Sterling "floated' by Barber. Currency agree- ments of previous December in ruins. 1972 (November) Nixon re- elected for second term. 1972 (December) Italy and Britain refuse to repay EEC debts in gold. 1973 (January) US decision to get out of Vietnam in order to concentrate on economic war against Europe. 1973 (February) Share prices slide on all leading stock ex- changes US announces second dollar devaluation in less than two years and prepares for world-wide trade war.

NOTEBOOK AT THE OFFICE

A number of people connected radio and with American television are becoming more and more outspokenly con- cerned about President Nixon's interference blatant in news and current affairs programmes.

CBS

Walter Cronkite, a newscaster who has been de- scribed 'the most trusted as America', has called man in the White House Administra- 'basically evil' because of tion N its attempts to get advertisers to put pressure on news pro- put by local grammes out stations. has revealed that Cronkite Nixon expected many newsmen 'gag' the phrase "peace to on honour' with when speaking about the Vietnam settlement, and has urged advertisers, who finance all and largely local national broadcasting Con- panies, to threaten to withdraw flrst PoWs Above: The come funds unless the news is put home to a luxurlous welcome. out as the White House wants.

American businessmen are At the same time, a survey time in making of broadcast journalism drawn losing no the return up by Columbia University has money on prisoners of war found that radio and television American Vietnam. Already Ford's from news and current affairs pro- offered all of them grammes have been 'caught in have brand new car and another crossfire between the the large company is arranging for and national networks the Nixon Administration' and are all the men and their wives 'endangered as never before in to have a luxury holiday in Florida. [their] 50-year history'.

Not to be outdone, other It accuses 'the adversary in Washington' of often firms are making their own seeming well-publicized offers. 'more intent upon emasculating Perhaps the most intriguing the broad- than reforming Continental Baths in is the caster's vast enterprise'.

New York. With Peter Davis, who produced notorious orgies, it has the controversial programme become the place for 'The Selling of the Pentagon', a and who is now on extended Saturday night out among the - wealthy leave' from CBS, is quoted in and older young Continental swinging set. The the survey as charging network offering 50 per executives with having 'latched Baths is cent Vietnam discounts all on to the New Journalism term to veterans and free admission to "advocacy journalism" to ex- PoWs. anything cuse their rejecting It is thought that the US they consider too tough. Defence Department, which is It is unfortunate that the offers vetting all the publicity New Journalism coined being made, is not going out phrase that everyone can use of its way to advertise this as an excuse for avoiding con- troversy,' he said. one. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37₺p • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and * the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

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TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEMA

'One Day In the Life of Jack King. Jones': Directed by. Tim Produced by Roger Mills. Edited by Richard Key. BBC 1. 'General secretary of the biggest union... Head of the organization which represents one-tenth of the British workforce... an administrator who never used two words when one would do ... 60 years of age • wounded in the Spanish civil war? So ran the admiring and deferential introduction to King's programme 'One Tim Day in the Life of Jack Jones'.

Some fine photography took us into the dally routine, early morning meeting the with ICI shop stewards (wor- ried about amount of invested capital being in union's legal Europe); the secretary— We won a House of Lords case for the first time last week,' he says with pride. Fleet Street pursues Jones for his golden words; old friends are hustled out of the after . calling in; the way Master slips and slides his in and out of a dozen way Workers Press, Saturday

AKEMAN

meetings and prepares for the major event of that particular day—a rally of old age pen- 'organization sioners with stretched' to cope with the numbers pouring in from all over the country. Jack Jones has a word for everyone. He gives them a fighting speech. He promises them all efforts will be made for their rights. The finances look good: 'The freeze won't hit us this quarter,' says a colleague comfortably. 'Unions are pressure groups,' commentary and says the Jones agrees. "The Tories aren't going to give it away, 'we he says, have to pressure them to get anything out of them.' It all looks impressive. He's a man with power and con- fidence. He's one of the boys.

But even in a film which sets out to do a fine public rela- tions job on him the sham shines through it all. The vital talk with the minister on old age pensions is, of course, 'not filmable' Jones wheels and deals: It's hard for the minister to see your problems in the same light,' he tells the old people..

he says cautiously, Europe, "is quite a danger to us' And the . answer to em-

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ployers who are difficult is to "an educated and give them enlighted trade union such as we are trying to set up in Britain'. There are no harsh words.

Only a bureaucrat going through the motions of some- one who can no longer keep pace with the demands of the crisis. All the left-wing talkers, the reformists within the trade union leadership, are now ex- posed in their total bank- ruptcy. Jones may say to the steel- workers in complete abdica- tion 'I am going to mount an official campaign Ebbw Vale and Shotton'" (to do what? how? and with whom?).

But the steelworker was heard on this film in different vein: 'We'll stop making steel in its entirety until we've got what we want.' Jones and the rest of the leadership find their union militant talk falling on deaf ears these days. The working class is far ahead of this, look- ing for the leaders who will take them not into petty re- forms, but to power. is Below: Jack Jones (left) lobbied by dockers Smith at last year's Square on the day sold national dock strike was out.

PAGE 10 Workers Prees, Saturday February 24, 1973

SATURDAY TV

11.00-11.25 2.20 Racing from Kempton Park i.

12.50 Cup review.

RIVER OF NO RETURN'

12.10 Weather. Man alive. 7.00 WESTMINSTER. 7.20 NEWS AND SPORT. Weather.

7.30 RUGBY SPECIAL.

Scotland v Ireland, England v France.

WEIR OF HERMISTON. Part 2.

8.15

FACE THE MUSIC.

9.00 Special programme on Kurt Vonnegut Jr,

FULL

HOUSE.

9.30 American science fiction writer. 11.25 NEWS ON 2. Weather. 'CHAD HANNA'. Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour, Linda 11:30

FILM:

Damelt. A boy becomes infatuated with the circus.

SUNDAY TV

BBC 1

9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.00- 11.35 Cut and thrust. 10.25 Avventura. 11.00 Seeing and believing. 1.15 12.00 Handling 12.25 Seventy plus. 12.50 Farming. materials. Parents and children. 1.55 News. Made in Britain. 1.30 Weather. 2.00 Mary, Mungo and Midge. 2.15 Animal game.

2.45 Ask Aspel, 3.10 Bird's eye 4.00 Film: 'Harvey'. Comedy view. James Stewart. six-foot rabbit who is the constant companion of about an invisible a suburban alcoholic. 5.40 A little princess.

6.05 NEWS. Weather. DEBATE. Immigration and Race Relations. In- cluding Mark Bonham Carter and Enoch Powell.

BEGINNING. 7.00 CHOICE IS YOURS.

THE BROTHERS. Declarations of Independence.

'THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE'. Humphrey Huston. Three Americans go prospecting in mountains of Mexico. NEWS. Weather. THE NAME GRIERSON-THE WORD DOCUMENTARY. Omni- 10.25 11.15 Right-wing American commentator and Lord O'Neill of the Maine. 11.55 Weather.

ITV

9.30 Sung Mass. 10.35 UFO. 11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 Thunder- birds. 1.50 Skilful 2.15 Bịg 3.15 rugby. match. Persuaders: 4.15 Junior police five. 4.25 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05

NEWS. 6.15 ADAM SMITH. 6.40 SUNDAY QUIZ.

7.00

SONGS THHAT MATTER. 7.25 WHO DO YOU DO?

7.55

FILM: 'THE HONEYMOON MACHINE'.

Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Dean Jagger. Comedy about two sailors on a spree. 9.30

THE UPPER

CRUSTS.

Decline and Fall. New series with Margaret Leighton and Charles Gray.

10.10 NEWS.

10.15

COUNTRY MATTERS.

An Aspidistra in Babylon.

11.15

THE FROST PROGRAMME. 12.15 ANYTHING TO SAY?

12.20

SCALES OF JUSTICE.

Position of Trust.

REGIONAL TV

Weathe: 215-30-0ndo 2.13 Beaut of 0s Conderals 10.00 London.

Battle Tax?! London 4.40 Golden black Beauty. 6.05 london. 7.55 Fim: •Danger 9.30 London. Route'. 12.15 Epilogue. Weather. hero calendar.

WESTWARD.

As Channel except: 9.30 Golden 11.00 our yesterdays. .35 Black 6.05 London. 7.55 Gus Honeybun. 11.05 Tomfoolery. 1.00 Film: "The London. 12.05 Talking 1.15 Shirley's Weather• world. and country rarn Acres 12.15 life. 12.20

GRANADA:

9.30 10.35 Weather. Time to Un- tamed world. 11.00 Time

SOUTHERN 9.00

VAT.

11.30 London. 12.55 London. progress. line. .20 rarm callict Pollar World .30 Golden War shot. 5.35 Vil 1.20 Primus. 6.05 1.00 1.50 Black Beauty Yum London. 7.55 Film: Jimmy 3.15 Fenn 'Under the Yum 10.00 3.45 shot. street. London. 4.40 5.30 News. Black Huarius. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film:

TYNE

TEES: 9.00

VAT. 9.30 London. Beauty. TwO 10.30 Guillotine'. 10.00 London. 12.15 Jobs around house. 11.00 Weather. Guideline. Doctor in 11.30 London. Farming. War

ANGLIA:

9.00 YA Doris 9.30 London. the 1.55 Shoot Where are. 10.30 Circus. Day. 11.20 Film: The Forsyte Saga'. Golden 4.47 Cartoon. 11.30 1.00 Cham- shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. London. 1.50 Weather: 55 Film Oceans Pions. Farming Film: Gasbags' 12.05 Locke. 12.35 rootball don. Simon Black shot. 5.35 Beauty. 4.41 Lectern. •Paris 6.05 London. Film: When Sizzles'. 10.00 London. 12.15

SCOTTISH:

10.10 World War I. 10.35 Women 11.00 Epilogue. only place in the 11.30 London. 1.00 Randall County.

MIDLANDS:

9.00

VAT.

9.30 Scotsport. Hopkirk. Londo Farming 10.30 our yesterdays. Theatre. 4.25 Golden 15 11.00 11.30 London. 5.05 London. .55 Fil 50.00 Aquarius. 301' Soccer, Highway ampions. comedians. "The Enemies'. 12.15 Late LONe ON 5.35 Black Golden Beauty. 6.05 London. Film: 'Alexander the

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 rarm progress. Great'. 10.00 London. .30 .00 'oreigr flavour. 30 Jobs around the house. 2.00 Sport.

ULSTER:

11.00

VAT

Gate'. 4.40 11.30 Traitor's 1.30 1.00 Foreign Tobs around Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 hoses Londone 1.55 55 Moll Flanders: Amoro Grea of Adventures amm. Guns'. 4.40 DeCk

ITV

9.00 10.20 sesame street. 11.20 Cartoon. 12.35 special. 1.20 ITV seven 1.30. 2.00. 2.30. 3.00 Racina from 1.45 Sting. 4.50 Resule service 5.10 News. 5.15 Black Beaus.

Hollywood. 3.50 Results, vrestine 5.45 Doctor at large.

SALE OF THE CENTURY

O'Brien, private eye is tion of jewels taken by Hermann Goering during the war Guests Keith Michell, Tony

9.30 NEWS.

The Midtown Beat. Richard Widmark.

LL HARTY PLUS

RUSSELL

11.50

NO MAN'S LAND.

Women and Education. Juliet Mitchell.

12.40 ANYTHING TO SAY?

department has been working overtime again Ine bous make-up The Ogrons, that's one of them to provide tasteful teatime viewing. Who in his new adventure, above, are the latest companions tor Dr.

aron ers un coace. 8.55-1.30 Open University. 4.00 Man at work. 4.25 Money at work.

NEWS REVIEW.

6.55 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather

CERTAINTIES.

The Undersea World of Jacques

WORLD AOUT

Cousteau.

THE GOODIES.

SYMPHONY

'PATHETIQUE'.

Symphony No. 6 performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

9.25 10.25

THEY

Young Generation and Vince Hil with Lulu and Peter Noone.

11.10 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

Socialist Labour League Public Meetings

UNITE IN ACTION TO DEFEND BASIC RIGHTS

OUTHAMPTON

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27

IURSDAY

, MARCH 1, 8 p.m Jele Sasa Clarendon Institute St Mary's Street Walton Speaker: ALAN

THORNETT

Speaker:

G. HEALY

senior steward SLL National Secretary) Morris Motors, in a personal capacity).

MEDWAY

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 8pm

BACONNAN

Brompton Road THURSDAY MARCH 1, 8pm Gillingham Manor Park Librar

MIKE BANDA

oocanci. Romford Rd/Rabbitts Road (SLL Central Cttee) opp Rabbitts rub oeaker: G HEAL

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28

SLL National Sec 8pm Britwell Community Centre Long Furlong Drive

HULL

Britwell Estate

THURSDAY

MARCH 1, 8 p.m.

HEALY

"Windmill Hotel speaker (SLL National Sec)

REGIONAL TV

12.30 11.40 Tarzan. London. 6.15 6.45 Film: "Three Guns for Texas'. 8.30 London. 9.40 Longstreet. No man's land. 11.30 Spyforce. 12.20 Weather.

WESTWARD.

As Channel except: Jobs 9.55 around the house. 10.20 Foreign flavour. Gus 10.45 Ioc M 11.10 Cartoon. 11.35 Honeyaun. 12.20 Faith for life. 12.25 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 9.15

Jobs around the house. 9.40 Getting money's your worth. 10.10 All yesterdays. our 10.35 Stingray. 11.05 Merrie melo- 11.35 Cowboy in Africa. dies. 12.25 5.15 Tarzan. Weather. 12.30 London. 6.15 Who do you do? 6.45 Persauders. •Valley of Mystery • 7.45 Film: 9.30 9.40 Julie Andrews. 10.40 News. Spyforce. 11.40 London. 12.30 Weather. Guideline.

ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 10.00 Ham- hamster. 10.15 Rovers• 10.40 my Film: "Gidget Goes Hawalian'.

12.30 London. 5.20 Riptide. 6.15. Who do 6.45 The Greatest logue. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 Jobs around the house. 9.40 Getting your money's worth, 10.10 A place in the country.

10.40 Thunderbirds. 11.35 Jackson five. 12.00 Skippy. 12.30 London.

5.15 Bonanza. 6.15 Who do you do? 6.45 'Never Say Goodbye'. 8.30 Lon- Film: don. 9.40 Longstreet. 10.40 No man's Gordon land 11.30 Bailey. 11.35 Fllm: "Paper Man'. Weather.

ULSTER: 10.30 Sesame street. 11.30 12.30 5.15 London. 5.45 hillbillies. 6.15 Sports. Who do you do? 6.45 On the buses.

7.15 Film: "The Charge of the 8.30 London. 9.40 Long- street. Kreskin. the GRANADA: 9.15 Jobs around house. 9.40 Getting money's your worth. 10.05 You and your golf. 10.35 Sesame 11.35 Follyfoot. 12.00 street. Huckleberry Finn. 12.30 London. 5.20 Big Who do you do? valley. 6.15 5.45 Film: One-Eyed Jacks'. 9.20 Bugs Bunny. 9.30 London. 9.40 Julie Andrews. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 Boris Karloff presents.

YORKSHIRE: 9.15

9.40 Getting money's worth. your Osmonds. 10.35 Elephant 11.05 boy. Abbott and Costello. 12.30 London. Persuaders. 5.20 Riptide. 61.5 7.15 Film: "The Sons of Katie Elder'. 9.30 London. 9.40 Julie Andrews hour. 10.40 No man's land. 11.25 A place in the country.

GRANADA: 9.30

London. 10.35 Un- tamed world. 11.00 Time to remem ber. 11.30 London. 12.55 Saint. 1.55 on the line. 2.25 Football. 3.20 Film: "The Immortal'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black_Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 the Yum Yum Tree. Film: 'Under 10.00 London. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wild life theatre.

9.40 Getting your money's worth. 10.10 10.35 Osmonds. Joe 90. .11.05 Abbott and Costello. 12.30 London. 5.15 Rip- tide. 6.15 Persuaders. 7.15 Film: "The Seventh Dawn'. 9.30 London. 9.40 Julie Andrews. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 Challenge. 12.20 Lectern.

SCOTTISH: 9.15 Jobs around the 10.10 Funky phantom. GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Jackson five, 11.45 Ron and friends. 12.30 London. 5.20 6.45

UFO.

6.15 Who do you do? Film: 'One Man Mutiny • 8.30 London. 9.40 Longstreet. 10.40 No man's land.

11.30 O'Hara. 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. BANDAR (SLL Central Committee)

TOTTENHAM

TUESDAY MARCH 6, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall Chesnut Grove Speaker: G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary)

Shootings stun Pakistani community The suburban Pakistani community in Watford is stunned. Two of their young members were shot dead in the Indian High Commission this week.

Workers Press reporters IAN YEATS and PHILIP WADE visited the town yesterday to investigate the reaction of the boys' relatives and friends.

SHOCKED and choked with emotion, Mr Mohammed Bhatti, cousin of one of the two boys shot dead at the Indian High Commission on Tuesday, told us yesterday: 'I don't understand why they had to kill them.' Basharat Hussain (18), Mohammed Hanif Hussain (19), and a 15-year-old friend went to the Commission on Tuesday armed with two toy pistols and a sword. talk and they decided to do something. 'It was stupid thing 'But there was nothing the boys did, stupid, said behind Ther Mr Bhatti. 'What was the organiza- members They did it from their use of killing them?' own spirit. Hussain, Basharat Mr Bhatti's cousin, bought the weapons Irom a Afraid shop last week with £20 he drew from his bank accoullt. "Thev wanted to show the The dead boy's father, what was happening WOrd Jan Mriet-striken to di Pakistan peris ters. They was too grief-striken speak when called cycl [CHi friends what they intended that lt they They afraid Road, Watford, on Thurs- told anybody day night. would be Lucy „slobbed. 'He Mr Bhatti said: The unprecedented shoot- very upset and speaks little ing two of the three English.' boys by police squads gun has rocked Watford's Paki- community Kashmiris Strainl foundations. Mr Bhatti school teacher steeped the The came from all dise English fair boys come from Tailor play' and 'democracy'. where the Muslim popula- He told me: 'I have been tion has long tradition a school teacher in England of hatred towards India. I have always 16 years. but The treatment of Paki- Denevea In tne ponce, I am deeply Shocked and mission thanking the British stan's 90.000 prisoners held would send surprised what India since the Bangla government for protecting parents who war ended 14 them. The money months rights portant I believe in the Mohammed Hanif Hus- because aro is a collion lobil conversation among have under the law. sain Britain six Han. aNCK stanis Watford and If you do something un- his work. with family, ycals asu fair, throughout Britain Pro- the laws tere leaving Toe A member of the Amal- vince to work in England.

Said Mr Bhatti: "The •But sickened by gamated Union of Engineer.

was boys heard Indian Com- would the High week Mohammed ing Workers, nave wach

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Fiaht rising rents and prices rise of Italian Fascism'.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday March Defend basic _democratic rights 8 р.т. Barking Co-op

ABERDEEN:

W. Trasday Hall, Febru- Force the Tories to resign Avenue. Common ary 28, Trades _8 p.m. Adelphi. Conspiracy. 56, 7.30 p.m., February Sunday 7.30 p.m.

COVENTRY:

Wednesday,

EAST LONDON:

Tuesday The Kingsley Hall, Febru- March Woodend Com- 8 p.m. 'Festival Cole Street. ary 28.7.30 p.m.

CENTRAL

LONDON (Press munity Building, Hillmorton Road.

Street, 'Support gas- men and hospital workers'. Entertainments branch): Sunday Wednesd Graphic Feb- p.m. ko, ‹ p.m. London rim ruary TOTTENHAM: Wednesday March Club 15 Brunswick Tottenham High 'Bricklayers Street p.m. Arms' Acre), Covent Garden, fight Pageant I ne Workina-Class against the Tory government.' Lane. 'Forward to the History-The Road to Workers' 28, 7.30 p.m. Woodside all, 5t Pageant. Power'. Woodside Hall, p.m.

WOOLWICH:

BASILDON: Sunday February 25, Wednesday March Georae's Cross 'The Barnstable Community ..U.

DERBY:

Thursday, March Workers' 1, Street, SE18. 'Support the gas- ventre Power' 7.30 Metal Mechanics' men and hospital workers'.

es Charnwood Street

WANDSWORTH:

Monday Premises, Feb-

SLOUGH:

March 26, Supporte gasman 'Kind's Arms'.

CROYDON :

Thursday March Farn- p.m. Community S.W.18. 'Defend the Hion street. Ruskin Coombe Road. Support the gasmen.

House. riaht to work'. nam noce

WATFORD:

and hospital workers'. Monday Februar 26, HOLLOWAY: Thursday March 1, Thursday 8p.m. March

STEVENAGE:

Seven Sisters 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Road Junc- 8 p.m. 'Red Lion', Stevenage near wattore (near Finsbury Park tion Station. 'Rise of fascism in 'Forward Town. Station). 'Marxism and the trade Pageant. unions'. February 27, LEWISHAM: Thursday March

KINGSTON:

Thursday March 1, p.m. cannam 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club Clapham Manor Street, S.W.4. 'Liverpool Cam- p.m. Arms' Station. Defend Cross 'Marx Democratic Rights' bridge •• Road 'Support the gas ism and the trade unions'

PADDINGTON:

Tuesday February men and hospital workers'.

'Prince Wales' • D.M.

GLASGOW:

8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, March 8, Sunday, March corner Harrow Road and . p.m. Partick Burgh Hall, near 8 p.m. Labour and Great Western Road. Merkland High Road NW10. "Support gas- Street Underground. February 27, Tory men and civil servants' hospital workers and ine Centre. p.m. Southdene Community government.' off Broad Lane. HACKNEY: Thursday March 8, Crisis of

BRIXTON:

Tuesday March Stept Sup Parlour Central capitalism and the future of the Brixton p.m. Training Centre Town unions'. Mare trade Coward to the Effra

CAMDEN:

27, Road. SW2 gasmen and Prince 'Forward to Pageant'. civil servants' Albert' he Housing. Anes LeS- Socialist Labour League Lectures sons fighting the OT Finance Act

HARROW:

SHEFFIELD: Monday March 5,

GLASGOW:

February Tuesday February 27, Sunday

NOODSIDI

25, Labour Hall. Wealdstone 8 p.m.

YS PREMISES,

Porto- 7.30 p.m.

HALL

'All George's Cross. 1933-1938. bello (near Jessops hospital).

TOOTING: Tuesday From the German defeat to the 'Selkirk Revolutionary Party Fourth p.m. Ine In International. Speaker: Tooting Britain'. Broadwav. Tom Kemo. WORKERS Press, Saturday February 24, 1973 PAGE 11 Above: At Mohammed Hanif Hussain's home-(I. to r.) & friend; a workmate Ahmed Zaffar; hts uncle Sheikh Abdul Hannan; and his Sohabat All. Left: Basharat Hus- cousin sain's cousins, S.M. Bhatti (right) and Ahmed Mushtaq.

what has happened, (19), lived with relatives lieve and small he said. friends in house.near Wat- terraced Like everyone else we ford town centre. spoke to, he ruled out the His friend Basharat lived suggestion that group just around the corner. calling itself 'Black Decem- organized ber' had the Mohammed's relatives protest. still and friends were stunned by the shooting when we spoke to them. Clear With grief filling his face, Sheik Abdul Hamman, the 'No one knew what they boy's uncle said: 'None of do,' were going to he us can understand what the explained, then and made police did. the point clear: 'If they went there it "If there had been was because over 90.000 political organization be- would not Pakistani prisoners are still hind it they go in India. went there They there with toy but guns with the real weapons.' only protest-to show what India is doing' Declining be named, to the trade unionist, a metal mechanic, issued the fol- Bitter warning: lowing "This first is the time something like this hap- Another of Mohammed's pened here. And if it can friends- -a factory worker- happen to our boys it can talked about the quietly happen to anyone. aspirations of those Paki- Mohammed's young stanis who came to Britain.

cousin, Sohabat Ali, worked 1 money to his 'We all came here to in the o live in Brad- same factory as the work, not to get mixed up dead boy. in But was im- politics. the boys his father felt bitter 'It is a terrible shock to about the and cannot prisoners of war and went all of us. We never thought to make a protest. this would happen to him.

Amal- 'Before this happened we 'He was a quiet boy and British lion of Engineer- had respect for the liked him, everyone he Mohammed law and I still cannot be- said. A NORTH Devon Council of Action has been formed to cam- the Tory paign against govern- and defend the basic manT democratic rights of the working class. The decision to form the today faces its most serious situ- Council was carried overwhelm- ation since the General Strike of ingly-only two votes 1926. at a meeting called by the Barn- District Trades Coun- 'No should underestimate staple and one of cil this week. the significance the further devaluation of the dollar. We are The successful meeting was careering headlong into an inter- attended by about 70 people be- national trade war between the longing to the local labour and USA, western Europe and Japan.

trade union movement. • A full report of the discus- Barrie Evans, the chairman, said: will in Monday's sion appear "The trade union Workers Press. movement TAL LLOYD'S recommendation that Hoover workers negotiate on the Tories' Phase Two pay ceiling flies in the face of every How does this with square trade union principle- -and the Lloyd's recommendation? And policies of his own union and where does the union's national even the TUC. executive stand on this question?

Will they, Llovd. South Wales district their next meeting at official of the Amalgamated Union Tuesday, demand that Lloyd of Engineering Workers, resigns? recom- mended that workers at the Lloyd is also completely out of domestic line with the TUC. whose General appliance giant's Merthyr i Tydfil factory accept fl Council has circularized unions plus 4 per telling them cent as a basis for to reject Phase Two talks. and fight for which

INCARCAC

This would give them a Dos- breach it. sible increase across Will next Monday's meeting of maximum Yet the

TUC

General the board of only £2.40. the Finance and recommendation made the Purposes Committee was come out same day as Hoover announced a

AUEW

clearlv against the £6.8m increase in its profits and official's position? And will the handsome dividend Communist Party for its members. shareholders. Labourites and nationalists sup- The AUEW is committed to a Drying the Welsh TUC, of which policy resisting all forms chairman, inaugural recommendation? statutory wage control. repudiate his

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THIS weekend Is cruclal. we must make the biggest effort s0 far to complete the final £785.52 towards our target. Let's not waste a single moment. It is vital that we raise our £1,750 total. With the price of gold now at a record high of over $90 an ounce, the economic crisis has never been so sharp.

Even greater attacks therefore lie in store for the working class.

The Torles have no solution to this enormous crisis but to hit back in every way. As thousands of workers move Into action to defend their living standards, Workers Press must be used to prepare them for the struggle ahead. Only our paper has warned of the dangers that exist for the working class today.

The only way to fight back now is to mobilize this great strength of the labour movement and force the Tory government out of office. Help us with a huge last-minute fight for Fund. our February Raise extra amounts. Try and give something more yourself. Go all out and show the enormous delermination to fight back. Rush every donation immediately 1o: Workers Press February Appeal Fund, 188a Clapham High Streel, London, SW4 7UG. GAS UNION leaders opened the way to more treachery when they called on Maurice Macmillan, Employment Minister, yesterday to discuss taking their members' pay claim to the Tory Pay Board.

By collaborating with corporatism in this way, Basnett and Edmonds of the G&MWU give credibility to the pernicious workers can get lair idea that treatment out of the disintegrating capita- list system. A MASS meeting of 350 boiler- makers voted to continue their unofficial strike now in its third week over the dismissal of a colleague at the giant Llanwern steel works, Newport, Mon. The £200m plant is facing imminent shut-down as a result. Steel pro- duction is cut by half and 8,000 employees will be laid off if the dispute is not settled. LEADERS of Ford's 50,000 workers are indulging in danger- ous delaying tactics by holding yet further negotiations with the Motor Company on Monday, just days before the all-out three strike is due to begin in rejec- Ford's of tion government- dictated offer. There is no chance of an improved offer and the men's leaders are merely using the talks as a way of avoiding industrial organizing effective Works committees action. dis- cussed the situation yesterday.

the Registered as a newspaper at by Workers Post Office. Published Clapha. Hirin Street, Press, 186a 7UG. Printed London, Plough Newsdesk: 01-622 7029. Unite in a unday February 24, 1973 THE CIRCULAR letter sent to all civil servants this week asking them not to strike was master- minded by a brigadier in the Ministry of Defence. The letter was written by Sir William Armstrong, head of the civil service, who was re- elevated to the Privy cently Council. When Sir Burke retires later this year, Trend Armstrong is due to become 'supremo Whitehall's first directly responsible to Edward Heath. Copies of the circular were included in the pay packets of Britain's 250,000 civil servants on Thursday. In some areas this arrogant intervention by the government SUPPLEMENTARY Social Security benefits for strikers without dependants have been axed. In a letter to the TUC, Lord Collison, chairman of the Sup- plementary Benefits Commission, • that if a single striker's says from income sources-in- cluding his last pay, pay in hand, tax rebates, strike pay, income and any other moneys-amounts

TRAIN DRIVERS'

pay dispute was still unresolved after a fur- ther five hours negotiations ad the work-to-rule and next nesday's one-day strike are still Another meeting has been on. fixed for Monday after ASLEF leader Ray Buckton turned down a British Rail proposal to write to the union with new sugges- tions. 'If the proposals are not an improvement, it will be too bad, Buckton warned. Train delays continue to mount. A Tory MP has asked the government to intervene.

INDUSTRIAL

action gas- workers is having a rapidly- increasing effect around country. The number of factories.

which have had supplies cut off totally is growing and gas pres- sures are reduced nearly every- where. A further 230 firms and other establishments will be cut off from today in the north west, and the disruption in supplies to 600 firms in the West Midlands may hit car production by next week. THE STRIKE by 550 T&GWU workers at Rolls-Royce's Hilling- ton factory Scotland is to con- tinue, causing 3,500 employees to be laid off and the plant to close. The union wants represen- joint negotiating tation on the committee Rolls-Royce's for Scottish factories, at present solely of AUEW composed representatives. VAUXHALL carworkers yester- day put in a claim for £7 to £10 more a week, a 35-hour week, a fourth week's holiday, and other fringe benefits. The company have promised to reply to the 26,000 workers by March 23. The old agreement expires April 6.

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7 p.m. Digbeth Civic Hall Digbeth, Birmingham Speaker: MIKE BANDA ¡St! Central Committee; caused walk-outs. It has now been revealed that the printing of the letter was not carried out by the government printer. In fact, it was done at of Defence in Ministry Whitehall. A member of the Civil and Public Service Association who works at a Ministry of Defence establishment has told his union to £48, he will be expected to live on it for eight weeks.

Even if he has less than that, he will not be regarded as being in 'urgent need' if he has 'parents or relatives to whom he could reasonably look for help'.

It is the Commission's officers what consti- who will decide tutes 'urgent need' and what "reasonable' sources of help a striker may have. even if urgent need is And proved, the maximum which will be allowed will be the amount necessary to bring other income and resources up to £4.50 a week.

That is £1.50 a week less than the Commission itself considers the minimum on which a single man can exist! The Lord Collison of Cheshunt, CBE, is a Labour Peer. He was a member of the TUC General Council from 1953-1968•1964 chairman of the TUC in 1965. CLYDEBANK councillors have postponed a decision on whether to pay a £5,000 fine because they are confident the sum can be raised by 'sympathizers' in the next four days. The announcement came a day after a conference of 1,000 trade union delegates in Glasgow, or- ganized by the Stalinist Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, agreed to raise a levy to help pay the fine.

The fine was imposed ten days ago by the Court of Session at Edinburgh after the council dis- obeyed an order instructing them to implement the Tory rent Act.

On Thursday the Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr Gordon Campbell, asked the Court for four new orders against councils at Cowdenbeath, Saltcoats, Alloa and Cumbernauld which are still refusing to implement the Act.

• basic rights

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6.30 p.m. Castleford Civic Hall Ferry Bridge Road Speaker: C. SLAUGHTER ¡ SLI Central Committee) how the letters were printed.

ENOCH

blamed

POWELL

army officet says that both major political parties for and his colleagues to told him themselves' the roaring inflation in a because a 'top secret' document speech at Nuneaton in the had to be printed. hovered about, however, Midlands last night. and discovered that the document letter be was Armstrong's to nothing obscure 'There is delivered throughout the country about inflation, its causes or its in the next 24 hours. cure; there is only obscurantism.

which knowingly 'Government, parliament, inflation; which knowingly demands flation; trade unions, which knowingly acquiesce in the false charge of being blame for „ tO inflation- -all these, in their res- pective are pushing the ways, the brink towards of nation mutually-destructive futile and conflict. 'Surely there must be men, in all of life, with those walks sufficient and suff- authority cient sense of duty to speak be- He was general of secretary fore the edge is reached.'

workers' the union agricultural from 1953-1969. He warned that Britain's troubles were threatening 'some- Farmworkers-who get a basic thing perilously close to the 42-hour wage of £16.20 for of orderly law- structure an -had their £3.30 pay award week- abiding society'. Tory blocked under the pay His speech contained a clear laws. appeal to the trade unions as the Lord Collison became a part- 'victims' and 'prisoners' of the of North time member the situation. Thames Gas Board in 1961. Gas- workers Powell is sniffing the crisis.

struggle their He is also sniffing the chance to follow- claim for 'substantial' berome Prime ( Minister wage increase in the region of £5.50 ing a right-wing backlash in the Tory Party. to £6. Duis appea to ehe ree unions Collison's Naauemed should repudiated. utterly more example of the total colla- This Powell boration of the right-wing La- said in 1969 that firms would bourites with the Tory offensive not be free of trade union against the working class.

rorism' until closed shop Supplementary Benefits The was abolished. Commission's ruling is another He accused unions of 'black- attack on the basic rights won mail' and 'tyranny' in 200 by workers over the last people to join trade unions.

years. more recent speech he de- a manded that the police and the It represents the first step in Tory campaign to withdraw courts use tougher action against benefits from all strikers.

pickets. Special ATUA meetings

POSTAL WORKERS

The crisis of capitalism and the future of the trade

CIVIL SERVANTS

Sunday March 10.30 a.m. No state control of wages!

Conway Small Hall Support the gasmen, hospital Red Lion Square workers and Civil Servants Holborn. Make the Tories resign

BUILDING WORKERS

The crisis of capitalism and Tuesday February 27 Tue od ty e arcde unions.

the future of the trade 7.30 p.m. Norfalk Room 7.30 p.m. ( Norfolk Room Caxton Hall Caxton Hall Caxton Street, SW1. Caxton Street, SW1 9 a.m. Central Halls, Westminster (opposite Houses of Parliament) leport back meeting: 2 p.m. Friars Halis, Sheetmeta Vorkers Union, Blackfriars Bridge (nearest tubı Blackfriars).