Workers Press no. 1011

workers press

DANGEROUS

INCORPORATING TI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

SIXTEEN THOUSAND Ford worke Halewood, Swansea and Belfast yest teachers on strike against the Tories' But well over two-thirds of the US car giant's 52.000 workers remained at work despite earlier deci- sions to strike from March 1 against Ford's £2.40, government controlled offer.

And although more than 2,000 Dagenham assembly and export-kit workers will join the stoppages tomorrow night, until they end on Tuesday, the stay-at-work move clearly represents a serious set- back to the pay fight. unanimous vote at Coventry Responsibility for this set- for indefinite, national an back must be placed squarely strike by Ford workers from with the union leaders and Convenors Sid March Harraway, hangers-on in the their and secretary a "left', the Com- Labour Communist leading Party munist Party and the re- member, telling the was visionist groups. 'Barking Dagenham and background Advertiser': Its immediate Britain's biggest Ford at The complex, at Dagenham, lay of in series meetings at which leading shop stewards Ford workers less appeared be fostering to militant deliberate confusion amongst *there their members. government intervention', he claimed. 'We were just fight- ing the and company fighting Lessons mood! Harraway went on to tell But some sharp political the that *whatever paper be drawn lessons must now happens, we will be in the whole of from course favour of some form of in- year's Ford claim this So be dustrial action-it might far. sporadic strikes. ( like the teachers'. summed up These can be in eight words: the one-day The day after these mis- strike leads to no strike.

leading Har- statements convenors' raway's national As Workers Press insisted committee met and decided ago, the politics days ten on 'a new policy' of sporadic, foisted by the lefts' and strikes, three-day policy Stalinists the February on which was first mooted at 18 national Ford stewards' Swansea last Sunday. Coventry meeting at were the politics of defeat. the TUC for To call on Strategy? day action', of a 'national when the real challenge fac- ing trade unionists was bring Monday, Now, next the down the government or convenors are to meet again.

stressed, submit, was, we Harraway is talking about designed to

SOW

the maxi. formulating *an overall confusion. mum designed to strategy bring two days of Ford's back to the negotiat- Within OUr it be. ing table'. Three-hour strikes, issuing that warning, came clear why the platform perhaps? of the Coventry meeting had Harraway is wrong when careful so to refuse been he hints that the working discussion of a call that the are afraid of fighting class

TUC

mobilize General a the Tories. Strike. Of course there is con- For, despite a fusion when workers near- are

ATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MA

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

vorkers at yesterday

BY DAVID

nd London ries' state

CORRESP(

deliberately kept away from and misled about politics, the situation facing the trade union movement. This confusion is com- pounded when they see their openly so-called leaders declaring to the capitalist Press that they have no intention of leading an all- out fight. Without policy for answering the Tory attack on living standards and democratic rights, there can be no basis for unity and each section will go down to individual defeat. The Tories have their plans. The working class needs a policy for action which can embrace all those RIDAY MARCH 2, 1973 • No 1011 • 4p

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS

IS precisely what

TUC

to co-ordinate the happened at Ford's in the struggle against Phase Two countdown to betrayal: of the pay laws.

FEBRUARY

The special

SEPTEMBER 6.

rUC discusses Heath's Mark

TUC

Is called, but Heath Council One state pay plan-the £2 tells the General limit on all Increases. This there will be no retreat by rejected in words, government. The The union every single *left' and chiefs begin planning how their Stalinist conference to castrate own Con- al unite with the right wing in gress. right-wing backing with day. Turner

NONT

the Torles and the

CBI.

miners' leader Gormley the "lefts'

DECEMBER 10:

Dagenham Stalinists Into line with his stewards vote press the to nothing' £10 Ford claim regardless "Conera speech. of the Tory pay laws, ope-

FEBRUARY

18: The Ford rative from March 1. Similar carried resolutions are In stewards meet, together with and other plants. hospital,

SOME

other carworkers, on the

JANUARY

26, 1973: bee. same day that the General with pite several meetings Council report to the special company representatives, Congress Is published. officials and union conven- Night backing or wort report ors have not forced stlll pledges Ford's to make an offer. ers struggling against the Walk-out

FEBRUARY

at 1: laws. pay Harraway and the Halewood over the £2.40 chairman of the Ford meet- Feeling offer made that day. Ing, Bernard Passingham, runs high for a strike, and put General Strike demand to the vote. bacontan Votes

BY DAVID MAUDE

out on March 1 If there is demon- briet nistory Swansea that the setback at

OUR LABOUR

morovemen strates stages a token strike the Ford's goes hand hand

CORRESPONDENT

Monday. with the threat of betrayal Torowing all fighting the

FEBRUARY

Dagenham stewards demand a recalled Tory attacks. into the struggle torced and housewives, tenants trade unionists. Demand This is why the demand of next Monday's mass lobby must be: tha General Strike force the 'These women have to handle clothes to Tories resign, and elect covered in flesh muck and blood. I'd like a Labour government pledged to see Heath come down and do it'.

This socialist policies. (See the reaction of hospital ancillary Policy for the Crisis, page 4.)

was workers' Kempson steward Denis on Ford's offers proof that their picket duty (above) at Tooting Bec hospi- neither the Stalinists, *Liaison Committee for De- tal south London, yesterday- -one of 250 Unions' nor fence of Trades hospitals affected by action in support of the revisionists who support See fuller reports on page 2 a pay rise. of want capable are and back page. fighting for such a policy.

workers press

DANGEROUS

INCORPORATING TI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

SIXTEEN

• THOUSAND Ford worker Halewood, Swansea and Belfast yest joined gasmen, hospital workers and Lo teachers on strike against the Tories' pay laws. But well over two-thirds of the US car giant's 52,000 workers remained at work despite earlier deci- sions to strike from March 1 against Ford's £2.40, government controlled offer.

And although more than 2,000 Dagenham assembly and export-kit workers will join the stoppages tomorrow night, until they end on Tuesday, the stay-at-work move clearly represents serious set- a back to the pay fight. unanimous vote at Coventry Responsibility for this set- for indefinite, national an back must be placed squarely strike by Ford workers from with the union leaders and Sid March 1, Harraway, hangers-on in the their convenors' secretary and a the Com- Labour 'left', Communist leading Party munist Party and the re- telling the member, was visionist groups. Dagenham 'Barking and Its immediate background Advertiser': Ford Britain's biggest at "The viewed position will be re- Dagenham, lay complex, at of at in series meetings which leading shop stewards workers were less appeared be fostering to 1971 militant than be- deliberate confusion amongst their members. government intervention', he claimed. 'We were just fight- company fighting Lessons mood Were Harraway went on to tell sharp political But some the that 'whatever paper lessons must now be drawn happens, we will be in from the whole course of favour of some form of in- this year's Ford claim SO dustrial action-it might be far. strikes, like the sporadic teachers'. These can be summed up in eight words: the one-day The dastatementese mar- strike leads to no strike. leading statements raway's national convenors' As Workers Press insisted committee met and decided days the politics ten ago, on 'a new policy' of sporadic, foisted and by the 'lefts' three-day strikes, policy Stalinists February on the which was first mooted at 18 national Ford stewards' Swansea last Sunday. Coventry meeting at were the politics of defeat. To call on the TUC for action', 'national day when the real challenge fac- ing trade unionists was bring Now, next Monday, the down the government or convenors are to meet again.

stressed, submit, was, we Harraway is talking about designed to sow the maxi- formulating 'an overall mum confusion. bring designed to strategy Within two days of our Ford's back to the negotiat- ing table'. Three-hour strikes, issuing that it be- warning, perhaps? came clear why the platform of the Coventry meeting had Harraway is wrong when refuse been so careful to he hints that the working discussion of a call that the of fighting class are afraid

TUC

mobilize General a the Tories. Strike. Of course there is con- For, despite a fusion when workers near- are

RATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MA

F THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

vorkers at yesterday

BY DAVID

nd London ries' state

CORRESP(

deliberately kept away from misled about politics, and the situation facing the trade union movement. • This confusion is com- pounded when they see their openly so-called leaders declaring to the capitalist that they have Press no intention of leading an all- out fight. Without policy for answering the Tory attack on living standards and democratic rights, there can be no basis for unity and each section will go down to individual defeat. The Tories have their plans. The working class a policy for action needs which can embrace all those RIDAY MARCH 2, 1973 • No 1011 • 4p

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS

IS what

TUC

to co-ordinate the precisely happened at Ford's in the struggle against Phase Two betrayal: of the pay laws. count• own to

FEBRUARY

SEPTEMBER 6,

1972: The 14: special TUC discusses Heath's Mark

TUC

Is called, but Heath Council tells the General there will be no retreat by rejected words, the government. The union 'lott' and chiets how every single begin planning their Stalinist at the conference to castrate own Con- unite with the right wing In gress. with backing talks Next day. right-wing the miners' Gormley Tories and the Cbl. leader 'lefts' whips the and

DECEMBER 10:

Dagenham Stalinists into line his with stewards vote to press the 'General nothing' Ford claim regardless speech. of the Tory pay ope

FEBRUARY

18: The Ford ratve from warch 1. Simid resolutions are carried In stewards meet, together with other plants. hospital, and carworkers, other The General

JANUARY

26, 1973: Des- day that with pite several meetings Counch report to the special company representatives, Congress is published. officials union and conven- Nothing in the report Ford's to make an offer. have forced backing pledges for work- ers struggling against the

FEBRUARY

Walk-out at Harraway and the pay laws. Halewood over the £2.40 chairman of the Ford meet- offer made that day. Feeling ing, Bernard Passingham, runs high for a strike, and General refuse to put Dagenham Strike demand 10 the vote.

BY DAVID MAUDE

out on March 1 If there is This brief history demon- Swansea strates that the selback at

OUR LABOUR

Improvement. stages token strike the goes hand hand In

CORRESPONDENT

Monday. following with the threat of betrayal

FEBRUARY

all workers fighting the 13: Dagenham stewards demand a rocalled Tory attacks. forced into the strugg e housewives, tenants and trade unionists. Demand This is why the demand of next Monday's mass lobby the

TUC

must be: General Strike to the force 'These handle clothes women have to Tories to resign, and elect covered in flesh muck and blood. I'd like a Labour government pledged to see Heath come down and do it'.

This socialist policies. (See reaction of hospital was the Policy for the Crisis, page 4.)

ancillary steward workers' Denis Kempson on Ford's offers proof that picket duty (above) at Tooting Bec hospi- neither the Stalinists, their *Liaison Committee for De- tal south London, yesterday—one of 250 Unions' nor fence of rades hospitals affected by action in support of the revisionists who support See fuller reports on page 2 a pay rise. want capable of and back page. fighting for such policy.

Euro-float against $? PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday March 2, 1973 MR NICHOLAS RIDLEY, Tory MP for Cirencester and Tewkesbury, and the man who prepared the 'butcher' plan for the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, said in parliament on Wednesday that there was 'a stench of decay about the British economy'.

The 'real world of business, economics and economic crisis' would take over, said Ridley, despite what was happening The Counter- in parliament. would soon be discredited and Inflation Act parliament and its legislation was of no avail unless they faced up to the realization which had caused 'the slide' in Britain's economic position. Ridley belongs to the right wing of the Tory Party which is growing impatient with Heath and wants to deal immediately with the working class along the lines he planned for UCS massive sackings, and speed-up reorganization labour. and an end to the power of organized The Tories are united on wanting to smash the organizations of the working class-the "rebels' disagree only on the best way to proceed.

There is indeed a 'stench of decay' in Britain.

It is the decay of capitalism, of a parasitic ruling class resorting to desperate measures to preserve itself while it sucks profit out of the working class. It is this decay of capitalism which breeds the political oppression which is now under way. With the co-operation of the Labour and trade union leaders, the Tory government has been able to undermine every basic democratic right of the working class. Under the Industrial Relations Act trade unions have been hauled before the courts and massively fined and shop stewards have been jailed.

The right to say who can and who cannot be a member of a trade union has been taken away.

The Industrial Relations Act and the Counter- Inflation (state control of wages) Act remove the right to strike. Under the rent Act workers' can receive enormous fines representatives for out the policies on which they were carrying elected. Prices and rents are deliberately forced up by the government while wages are controlled by the state. Free bargaining over wages is at an end. President of Engineering Employers' Coventry and Federation, Mr T. Carlisle, told district engineering bosses yesterday: 'For many years to come, collective bargaining as we have known it will not return. This may not be a bad As the Tories proceed with their corporatist measures, under which the state would control every aspect of life, it is no accident that they look to West Germany as a model.

Mr S. C. Evans, President of the Coventry and District Engineering Employers' Association, told his members yesterday: 'Dare we hope that the trade unions will take a leaf out of the German trade unions' book .

the in addition protecting and improving to well-being of their members at work, the German that their interests trade unions are concerned as consumers should be looked after. The power and income of German trade unions is used to achieve socially desirable ends and is not channelled into destructive ends such as the organization of political strikes.

As we point out in today's Workers Press (see West German trade unions page 8) the are hedged in on all sides by state laws, covered by the sham of worker-representatives on works' councils. The German road to corporatism was constructed on the ruins of Hitler's fascist dictatorship, under organizations had which all workers' genuine been smashed and their leaders and many of their members liquidated in the concentration camps. This is the choice facing the working class today as the capitalist crisis in- throughout Europe, tensifes and its monetary system breaks up: Either carry through the socialist revolution or dictatorshin of capitalism in its most suffer the extreme form-fascism. who collaborate with the Tory laws All those against the working class, like the Labour and leaders; who restrict working-class actions to limited, isolated, piece- meal struggles, like the TUC and the Stalinists; all those who refuse to raise the central political question of bringing down the Tory government and the election of a Labour government pledged policies, like the socialist revisionists, are to today preparing for such a defeat. revolutionary leadership The construction of a around the campaign for unity to defend demo- cratic rights and the fight to make the union leaders call a General Strike to create the con- ditions for forcing the Tories to resign, is the way to ensure victory for the working class.

SUMMIT talks in Bonn be- Meeting in Paris at the height of month. the Bri- The colar tween Tory premier Edward tish, French and German finance Heath and chancellor Willy Ministers decided to

TOOL

EEC

float against the dollar the next Brandt centre on the question time there was a morelary crisis. of a joint Common Market Faced with another very late influx wants to hold of dollars, now float against Brandt the currency his 'partners' to their pledge. Yester- dollar. bank day the central Frankfurt had to buy about $2,500m The talks, which began yesterday, dollar at its interna- up the are the first Heath has held with tionally agreed 'floor' rate.

an individual EEC leader since Bri- The heavy selling is as dollar in- tain's accession at the beginning of crisis Last neiterest menting Brandt the year. made it clear month, before crisis. accepting Wednesday that he intended money the dollar devaluation. the Bundeshank should the some $6,000m, questions dominate bought most agenda at the talks. which it stil holds. In Holland the central bank had also He told reporters that if europe could not agree on monetary matters, the dollar against the support guilder, of $400m. would not agree other neids

COSE

He left no doubt he believes There heavy selling of dollars either. was the need for agreement is urgent. in Belgium, and in London the pound

BY DAVID MAUDE

AT QUEEN MARY'S, Roehampton, NUPE branch Tom Thomas stressed that the hospital secretary strikers were looking to the TUC to bring together all workers in struggle against the pay laws.

'The union leaders must take more positive action', he said. the special TUC next 'We shall be lobbying Monday to make sure that they do.

*Personally, I feel that our own leaders should have organized this strike much more firmly. better, 'It's been left to us to My im- make the that the union pression leadership would really like fade the back-

HOLO

ground.' Apart from a small num- of higher-paid ber women workers in the sterilization Mary's department, Queen solidly supporting the strike.

NUPE

Phillips Mrs Maisie ex- plained just what is meant

OFFICIA

by 'higher paid' in the hos-

OFFICIA

why she and pital service,

STRA. A

determined group sterilization de- from the partment were striking yesterday picketing ing. 'On our bonus system we can таке nonse

SUSE

ove £20 stoppages, she after have to said work for that, though. But of we re principle supporting the majority of workers who are much lower kin paid. "This action won't work on its own. The union leaders have got to call something a much bigger scale.' Mrs Gladys Bright can't afford to. strike. As a The plcket lin• at Queen Mary's Hospital, Rochamp London. reiner. che takes home list £14 week. But she was out on the nicket line ves.

morning nevertheless. terday. said of all for it', she the fight against the pay laws. HOSPITALS in the greater Bill Also picketing was Manchester stopped

FROM STEPHEN JOH

Cockburn, linen depart- admitting new patients ment worker, who said he early yesterday as the first have entertained wouldn't Colin Barnett, north- of the effects ancillary a union' in his previous job regional organizer motor mechanic. workers' strike began to National Union of "This has really turned me bite. Employees- —one of the authority, he said Union organizers reported unions involved in the against Tory clampdown on of the their caper to brings out lauto 100-per-cent response TecT hospital decision ban pay. to '$1.80 is a bloody insult. claim-said dry staff as part of the nrst like they're saying more than satisfied with It's to of selective industrial wave us: you're nothing, go away.

response. action. think the strength Despite militant I am just getting rej all from the areas. of all the hospitals was used for action by in demands the Tories would have to do grades, the services at that the Hosnital Roard Of course Manchester and stopped new something. we're hospitals in the just part of the general pic- the surrounding towns were strike is ture-with the gasmen, civil normal. an immediate effect,' he Liverpool 'At this stage there servants, Ford's and the At and If the Tories don't do where the north west point in having rest. in strike. they'll something us, similar action. and a similar 100-per-cent General Strike on response know what have doing. By bringing again.' reported. their hands floated up more than 70 points against the US currency. A common float of all the EEC countries against the dollar would be a public acknowledgement that there is no longer any stability in paper currency. Not only would it have ex- tremely serious consequences for world trade, it would also further undermine confidence in of paper all forms money. This process is already well under bullion way: on the London market yesterday gold was being sold in the morning at over $88 ounce-$2 an above the previous day's closing price and rising rapidly towards last week's all-time record level. dollars flooding into West With Germany and threatening to.

force another mark revaluation--the third in less than 15 months-Brandt will be pulling out all the stops to get the British to co-operate in a joint float against the dollar. Above left: NUPE secretary at St Mary's, Tom Thomas.

Above: Mrs. Maisie Phillips on strike from the steriliza- tion department. THE Commission on Indus- trial Relations (CIR) is to investigate all types of pro- cedure agreements in British at both industry- industry wide and domestic level. The inquiry will cover agreements in both the pub- lic and private sector of industry. The investigation was ordered by Mr Maurice Macmillan, the Employment Secretary. Tory government's The move is seen as part of a to codify longer-term plan agreements on a national, regulated basis. The CIR, a functionary of the Industrial Relations Act, is headed by Mr Leonard Neal, formerly of the Trans- port and General Workers Rochamplon, inion. laundry section we are caus- ing a serious problem for the

HEN JOHNS

Hospital Board!' Mr Barnett emphasized tt, north-west that emergency services were of the being fully maintained. on of Public More widespread action e of the two may come later. d in the pro- 1 government Militant workers at Stock- their f4 and at Manchester port Royal Infirmary have already was said they want all-out strike sfied with the action. But yesterday, apart from etting reports reas. The fact the laundry workers, work at ital Board has Manchester Royal was admissions normal. An appeal for financial ike is having for members in- effect,' he said. support ge there is no volved in strike action has been launched through • the ng an all-out national Giro number 610504002 or the NUPE what we are Office, Ashton-under-Lyme.

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The South Wales team working on the Pageant, 'The Road to Workers' Power', has been campaign- ing among many sections of the working class to bring contingents to the Empire Pool, Wembley, rally on March 11. The jobs of thousands of men and women in the steelworks of north and south Wales are threatened by the British Steel Cor- poration's rationalization plans, imposed by the Tory government's Common Market policies. Workers Press reporter STEPHEN JOHNS accom- panied the team to Ebbw Vale to interview steel- workers and their families.

THE STRUGGLE to save Ebbw Vale steel- works has reached a critical stage. On the platform local MP Michael Foot keeps preach- ing the doctrine of persuasion in the best British tradition. But in the ranks the truth is dawning-the Tories are determined to drive 4,600 on the dole. The talking is over.

The shock of realization came in an undramatic manner at last week's mass meeting which heard that the efforts to convince Tory Industry Minister Peter Walker his sums were wrong had failed.

The government had casually thrown aside a careful study of Ebbw Vale's prospects, Michael Foot told the crowd. But the biggest cheer was for Colin Hudson when he reminded the audience of 9,000 steelworkers that pro- longed industrial action may eventually have to be launched. For the present action re- confined mains to genteel ( and ultimately futile pro- test. After the workers' sur- we have the workers' vey lobby of parliament on March 14, but as each day passes the closure of half the steelworks and the virtual murder of Ebbw economic Vale and surrounding towns Tories plan two years to like Tredegar, Brynmawr and their campaign of closure.

Vale Rhymney Men from Ebbw become more cer- remember tain. might a very The protests, in fact, are similar campaign waged by The longer the the steel town of Irlam, near a diversion. process is dragged out, the Manchester. become Petitions, protests, demon- more men will demoralized and the greater strations, lobbies, action councils, the possibility of collapse. committees, town Colin Hudson, workers' MPs delegations and local all and Ebbw protesting—it spokesman an came to Vale steelman for 31 years, nothing. fight is adamant that no one will The has been thrashed out of Irlam. Half leave the works without a job to go to. the works are shut down and 'No one goes on the dole the rest will go without a in this town, he told me, whimper. But beneath this thick 'this absolutely certain. baked We do not accept the crust of protest, its timing its largely by Foot whose verbal closure, or logic and we will fight this acrobatics tend to dominate there is one out to the end.' mass meetings, an He candidly admits, how- element which wants to act that the of before it is too late. ever, chances Many of the younger steel persuading the government to re-think are slight. workers are contemptuous or 'We have argued economi. cynical of protests. They have wite Barbara and baby Beverley... closur

NOEL

DAVIES

with his young familles. and far fewer geographically and most to lose cally, avail. inhibitions than the older socially. But to stifled with the tied by Tory re- Walker is men policy and Tory policy is to formism and sentiment that paralyses political life in the hot-steel-making close the South valleys. down.' Wales end of the works Noel Davies (24) is Mr Hudson wants to one of them. At the end of his of the a national stoppage street the valley dips down industry if redundan- steel to the works. A continual cies start. He will plume of smoke and waste make the appeal belches over the town, and, national of at a meeting depending the wind, steel shop stewards from all on along Noel's street. country in mid- the GuAY Noel and Ebbw But for March. Vale, the dirt £40 a But this policy is means even week, the chance of a house, the inadequate. I+ gives good furniture and a future for his 18-month-old baby girl Beverley. His own swing attitudes from angry determination to pessimism. "There are quite a few who want to stop all the protest- ing and take action. But the older men don't want to know. Some are just waiting for the redundancy money to go onto the dole, he told me. 'I think the action so far is hopeless. We need a national strike-not just one over the steel works but to get the Tories out. There is no possibility of saving jobs and the communities these parts so long as this government is in power. 'This is what I went along to hear Foot say. I wanted him to say how we could get rid of not a word, the Tories. But .. closure could spell disaster for For Noel and his wife Barbara (21), closure would be a disaster. He moved to Ebbw Vale from Carmarthen in the west eight years ago.

Everything around him he owes to his job at the works.

'I put a mortgage on this house 18 months ago. I will still have to pay this if 1 get kicked out. 'We could sell it, but we would not get half the price for it after the closure. There are no jobs round here. 'The government says it will set up special commit- tees to help. But how can the Tories bring over 4,000 paying jobs to this area. They have been trying for years to get more industry with no real success. 'Some of my mates are even worse off. I like to pay for everything cash. I don't like debts, but some of them have very heavy hire pur- chase commitments. Barbara says many people just have not in the town woken up to the crisis they face. "They have kept their heads down for so long and got good money they think will happen for it ever. When it happens it will hit them, then they will realize they are on the way to the 1930s again. 'I only hope that these railwaymen, the gasworkers and the miners come out on strike against the govern- ment. 'This will be the chance to get rid of the Tories. They are fighting just the same as the steel workers are, for their rights.' Noel agreed. He is in favour of a General Strike to get the Tories out. 'At Shotton they are pro- posing a work-in, but that's no good. "They could only last a few weeks. Working-in is. no solution. The UCS showed that they lost thousands of . of jobs. Either we get rid this government lot or we go under. 'I try, I go along to the union branch meeting and put it forward, but they are too conservative. 'My mates and I were the only ones to make banners for the mass meeting. What we need is someone to really give it a push, to give us a lead. "The leadership at the top of the unions is hopeless. It will be up to us. Even if I go onto the dole I will still keep on fighting for the working class.' Noel is the voice of young Ebbw Vale. The steelworks' fires have been blown out twice before -in 1911 and 1929. The Tories hope to douse the flame for good in 1975, but Noel and the thousand or so other young workers at Ebbw Vale have other ideas. Workers Press, Friday March 2, 1973 PAGE 3 The glant Ebbw Vale steelworks in South Wales, whose gigantic furnaces have been damped down twice before. Now 1975 is set as the third deadlinethe third time thousands of jobs will have been wiped out for workers from many parts of the valleys. But this time there are deter- mined sections of young workers who are not prepared to watch their standards of living be further corroded by Tory policies.

COLIN HUDSON... A fight to the end.

ACADEMIC staff in the white-collar union, ASTMS, at Durham University are on strike in a pay dispute. The strike which began on Monday, has official union backing. Tech- nicians at the university have pledged full support to the strikers. The dispute revolves Group Strike Committee condemns the around the administra- univer- 'cheap tion's practice of em- sity's use of labour'. ploying post-graduate The authority's pay students as research offer was unacceptable. part-time tutors on Dave Davies, speaking undergraduate courses on behalf of the commit- at substantially pay tee told Workers Press lower than that of

ASTMS

members that other part-time staff. in the sociology depart- have agreed to These other part-time ment place a 5-per-cent levy tutors are not required to possess qualifications on their salary towards of strike pay and other superior to those post-graduate research finances. Durham Trades students. The Council has also given A leaflet being cir. culated by the Academic support, he said.

PAGE & Workers Prost, Friday March 2. 1973

A POLICY

TO MEET

THECRISIS

TORY

THE TORY

government is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con-

FREEZES

frontation with the working class. Each day new sections of workers are forced to become criminals - under Tory law - to

SPREAD

defend their standard of living against government-inspired soaring cost of living.

DISEASES

Large sections of these workers openly acknowledge that the only answer to their fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a General Strike. That is, the creation of the industrial and political conditions which will force the government to resign.

In its place must be elec- be banded and fully exposed. The guaranteed. This can only be done by breaking the grip Tory adminis- ted Labour the government DeLico of capitalist ownership on the tration in this sphere must be which is pledged by the mass Employed and published. All rights to assem- economy. action of the working class to employed must unite to insist bly, free speech and the Press implement socialist policies.

a labour must be guaranteed. We policies al "pledged socialist tionalizing the main industries knowing the pre- and 5) The right to a higher stan- workers sent leaders control and without compen- dard of living. It is not the michl nave no matercon sation. living standards of trade ducing such policies. Indeed, in The struggle must begin last analysis of them unionists, but the profit some sys- will be prepared to now. No closures, no sackings, which ull a call Cause

CUSS

government with the Tories must be the policy of the trade The first step

LION

must be to ex- to head off the working class.

Occupation fac- amons. with closure, But if the working is tories threatened close class rich, down strong enough to force the of the fight to bring Tories as part place a state Stock Exchange, Tories. down the vul It do solut control over of all movements the traitors own Witn 1TC capital in and out of the midst. This can only be achieved 3) The democratic right by, exposing them in the fight for strike and to organize in trade Nationalization of the basic all ailernauve socialst poncy.

organized unions. Only the industries and of all large com- The Central Committee of the working class can lead panies, banks, building and in- Socialist Labour League calls kind out of the historical the working class surance societies will provide upon to sup- Every right and every the for unified resources ronoWing Doncies gain won by the working class, the living improve working class against plan Unite to every democratic right in Bri- thilson Feather headership Tories and standards of the whole people.

tain, of the has been won because Workers' control of these, as the organized strength of doour movement. OI the present national- wellas the Here is the policy which the unions and the strike ized industries, will run them next Labour government must weapon. in the interests of the workers be forced to carry out. A Labour government must ana consumers immediately repeal the Indus- Again, the fight must begin 1) A Labour government must This fight trial Relations Act. State wages immediately noW. repeal the must begin now by forcing the must be answered by the most trial Relations Housing Act, TUC to break off all relations widespread fight for wage in- Finance Act, Immigration Acts, and with the creases to meet price rises Fair Trading Act and all wage mobilize the working class to and improve standards. This control. After the repeal of all destroy state control of wages fight to remove the means a Tory anti-working class mea- Tory government and change sures, there must be legislation 4) The right to defend rights the union leadership. Charter of so emer. won in the past and change Basic Rights, along the follow- All the changes the system. 6) The right to health and wel- ing lines. legal procedures made by the fare benefits. Every Tory gov- 2) The right to work! Capital- Tory government must be re- welfare ernment cut in bene- demands All secret police and fits, unemploy- pealed. in the health service and Nass ment. The right to a job must spending M15 organizations must be dis- in all public must I would like information about

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Abu Daud, one of the earliest members of the Palestinian movement Al Fatah, has been captured by the Jordanian authori- ties while on a mission against Israel. Together with about 20 other members of Fatah arrested earlier this month, he is now being tried by a Jordanian military court on a charge of entering the country with the purpose of carrying out acts against public order. The charge is a fabrication intended to blacken the re- sistance movement and further the anti-Palestinian witch-hunt being conducted by the Hashe- mite Jordanian monarchy on orders from the Americans.

Hussein, the King of Jordan, is a bitter enemy of the Pales- tinian cause. It was he who sent tanks and aircraft against the powerful Palestinian com- mando movement in Jordan in September 1970. General Moshe Dayan, the Lionist chiet-of-statt, praised this bloody massacre when he thanked Hussein for killing 'more Palestinians in ten days than we could kill in 20 years.

He recently visited the United States and held talks with Nixon. He has made it clear that Jordan is ready to conclude a separate peace with the Israelis if the US and the Soviet bureaucracy are unable to impose an all-round Middle- East deal. What Hussein wants is an agreement with the Israelis to give a phoney autonomy to the territories on the west bank of the River Jordan which have been occupied since the June, 1967 war. The Israelis already are building strategic roads in the and moving in capital area investment and settlers. Clearly any such state would be com- pletely subordinate to the Zionists and to Hussein himself.

The arrest and imprisonment of Abu Daud is part of the pursuit of this reactionary policy, which can be achieved over the bodies of the only Palestinian resistance fighters.

General Moshe Dayan Two-and-a-half years after of thẹ guerrilla massacre fighters in Black September, Hussein feels strong enough to arrest and frame men whose only 'crime' is to undertake clandestine operations within the occupied territories.

Abu Daud was not planning operations against the Jordan- ian regime, despite the lies spread around by the Amman government. He was on his way to the west bank to make contact. with clandestine anti- Zionist groups. Despite the hostility of the Jordanian authorities, the Palestinian fighters prefer to bank via the west enter Jordanian territory because the is far easier to border here cross. It was Abu Daud's fourth clandestine visit to the occupied since September territories 1970. He is high on the Israeli 'wanted' intelligence service list. A member of the revolu- tionary council of the Pales- tinian movement, Abu Daud spent three months in occupied Jerusalem after the 1967 war organizing resistance to the Zionist authorities. he took a military Later course in China, where he met Chou En-lai and other Maoist leaders. He returned to Amman King Hussein of Jordan, a bitter enemy in 1969 to take command of the Palestinian militia in Jordan. He survived the massacres of the following year, but was sentenced to death in absentia Hussein's This by regime. sentence means that his life is now in grave danger. In an attempt to discredit the Fatah movement, Jordanian radio and television broadcast on February 19 what purported to be an interview with Abu Daud. • was immediately de- This nounced by the Fatah com- mand and the Palestinian in- as a crude formation services forgery. In it the interviewed been claimed to have man planning to hold members of Jordanian government the hostage. The hostages were to have held, according to been interview, to 'put pressure' on Jordanian government—a the plainly ludicrous objective in view of Hussein's known and unbending servility to imperial- ism. The arrest of Daud and his comrades has created a furore throughout the Arab world. Not only have there been many organizations from protests and individuals sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, but there have been moves from Syria, Egypt and Libya to save their lives. According to the Egyptian 'Al Abram', Pre- newspaper sident Anwar Sadat is per- sonally following the issue and representative his Hassan Sabry Al Kholy told a com- mando delegation that Egypt favoured strengthening the guerrillas and was aware of the need to protect them.

The paper reported Dr Al Kholy as saying: 'Cairo believes that any interception of the commando action serves only led the plans of the Israelis.?

Dr Al Kholy failed to ex- plain how this declaration of with the tour squares imperialist capitals currently by Hafez undertaken being Ismail, described by one Pales- tinian as 'Sadat's Kissinger'.

Ismail took the same road to Washington as Hussein had trodden only days before. He indications went amid clear from Sadat himself that the Egyptian government wants to come to terms with Zionism if it can. ler enemy of the Palestinian cause. Right: Abu At a banquet on February 20, President Sadat asked 'all world powers to shoulder their responsibility at this dangerous stage and to join hands in the implementation of the United Nations resolutions with firm- ness and dedication for the achievement of a just peace' Sadat attempted to give the impression that Ismail's visit to the US would be Egypt's last diplomatic campaign to end the Middle-East crisis peacefully. In fact the con- declarations tradictory from Cairo only emphasize the ex- tent to which Sadat and his regime are caught by the move- ment of events. im- The requirements of perialism itself allow of no compromise in the Middle East.

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They know there is only one way to impose the kind of peace they want: that is to exterminate all the Palestinian That this resistance fighters. policy has been eagerly adopted by their Zionist pupils evident from the renewed attacks against refugee camps in the Lebanon and the brutal murder of 106 passengers on the Libyan airliner downed in the Sinai desert just a few miles from the Suez Canal.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday March 2, 197 Joe Gormley, miners' union presi that the trade union movement mi General Strike to force the goveri else toe the line and accept the state pay law. Gormley's argumer on its own is strong enough to def Although this right-winger is ma just an excuse for trying to avo strike, he has, nevertheless, stated ately. Either the government is de controls are accepted. Workers number of leading figures in the union movement to comment on

STAN ORME, MP:

Joe Gormley's remarks have only highlighted the confronta- tion which the government is at present seeking with organ- ized workers. The government's Counter- Inflation Bill, if it becomes law at the end of March, will only sharpen this conflict. the com- I have said on mittee stage of this Bill that the justifiable claims of the gasworkers, health staffs, Ford's, and other groups of workers must be supported.

give them I will full support in any industrial action they may take. WRIGHT, engineering

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union executive: The trade union movement has got to commit itself to united action behind any union that resists government policy on wages. Any group of workers with a justifiable claim and the backing of its membership should be supported both morally and physically. The special (TUC) Congress on March 5 is likely to go for a one-day General Strike or else united action behind one group of workers on strike.

The TUC has got to commit itself to total non-co-operation and resistance to any inter- with free collective ference bargaining. But I do not agree with the has posed way Joe Gormley the alternatives. I think the general opinion in the engineer- ing union will be in favour of some form of united action to defeat the government policy.

This might entail defeating the government if the govern- on making ment insisted it such an issue. If they choose to go to the country on this question, then so be it.

ALAN FISHER,

general sec- NUPE, public retary of employees: It is quite true that if the differences between the govern- and the trade unions ment cannot be reconciled, then the solution is to get rid of the this country, government. In the way to get rid of a govern- ment is by General Election.

JACK JONES, T&GWU:

No comment.

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general sec- retary ACTT, television wor- kers: Toe Gormley seems to be say- ing that if you can't do better than you are doing, you should do nothing. This idea of a General Strike or nothing must be looked at in context. It would be marvellous-a great step-to get the govern- ment out, but would the TUC do it? I think Gormley is right, in the long run. But this should not be used as an excuse to call off the strikes that have already started and should not more unions calling on stop their members to strike. in the The conclusions General Council's Congress document are weak. What is needed from Congress is an absolute instruction for in- dustrial action.

ERIC HEFFER, MP:

The trade unions should not Two. But Joe accept Phase Gormley's formula may be used as an excuse to do nothing.

Rather than just sayıng General Strike or nothing, it would be better for Congress to meet and work out a strategy first, which may lead to an all-out General Strike. But it is "onsense that unions car d. i, ning unless there is Friday March 2, 1973 ers' union president, has declared n movement must either unite in a orce the government to resign, or nd accept the Tories' Phase Two mley's argument is that no union , enough to defeat the government.

t-winger is making the argument trying to avoid another miners rtheless, stated the position accur- vernment is defeated or state pay ted. Workers Press has asked a figures in the Labour and trade • comment on Gormley's remarks.

a General Strike. It is import- ant for the movement to act unitedly and have a strategy for defeating the government's policy, but a General Strike thought about must seriously. It would have to be worked out. The politicians in the House of Commons will definitely not be leading the struggle, but my guess is that Congress will not for all-out General call an Strike, but will instead vote to back up any section of workers which gets involved in the struggle against the govern- ment's policy. This support could take many different forms. It is hard to tell if there is a sufficient groundswell to transform piece- meal strikes into a General Strike movement. But there are signs, and have been for a long time, that some union leaders will try to head off any such development.

Just as some union leaders were weak in the 1926 struggle against the government, so it be this time, and there will will be many who will try to avoid a new General Strike.

MICK MeGAHEY, Scottish miners' leader: I don't agree with Joe Gorm- ley's idea that it must be 100 per cent out or nothing. The trade union movement should back those workers who are already taking industrial the Pay laws, action against the By giving aid support, there could be a build up to a General Strike, which should take place led by the TUC. In any event, there should no acceptance of Phase be Two. hope the Congress on March 5 decides to back those workers in struggle and con- front the government with the of its consequences own policies. Meaning, if necessary, a national General Strike.

CLIVE JENKINS, ASTMS:

No comment. BILL KENDALL, Civil and Public Services Association general secretary: We are certainly in a con- frontation situation, but I am not sure who wants a General Strike. It is the government's fault. Their incomes policy makes every strike a political protest. We must get this fact across to all trade unionists and particularly to my own mem- bers who are wary of a political confrontation. If the unions do not wish to be raped, they must do something about it. They must stand up. General Strike? I But would much prefer more selec- tive action. One must face the fact that one cannot get an effective long, drawn-out stop- page in the civil service. We should use selective action to hit the government where it hurts most. The same policy makes sense for the trade union movement as a whole. The TUC should co-ordinate action. By pooling resources, we could produce a very good strike fund. Strategically, co - ordinated selective strikes would have more bite than a General Strike, where everyone troops out in a huge demonstration which produces nothing. I am in favour of defeating the government on its incomes policy, and had the TUC done more huffing and puffing dur- ing the standstill phase and before it, the movement could Workers Press, Friday March 2, 1973 PAGE 7 have conditioned Phase don it Por hase Thred. and could do for Phase RAY BUCKTON, ASLEF, train arivers. believe that the got it wit realizing nOW ere union movement is determined to fight for rights of its nembers. Strike A General willnot ment will resign, or it wil "General Strike. ment wıll resign. The cause a union won't trade movement cause en it wyer cause staGs eral Strike. the last miners' be a heral rie to Dece, in government to reason (above), were Phase To Let to gome elect Fisher; the Sapper, Hetter, Madahey: Jerks; Kendall. Buckto that no unton on Its own is atrong enoug cause nickolno from nearby factories in accept the Tories'

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The German trade unions operate under severe restraints. They cannot move in a single direction without run- ning into the law of the land. So powerful and all-pervasive is the legal framework that many of the laws are written directly into the constitution of the Federal Republic. In many areas of industrial relations, compulsory arbitra- " thi tion is the rule. And the labour court judge always has the vote if the employer casting and the union still cannot agree. In other areas where the unions are still relatively free to fight on for their rights, they are hedged in by other laws, such as the one requiring a 75-per-cent majority for any strike vote to be legally carried.

German trade union leaders think they are well off. They point to the undoubtedly ex- cellent social security benefits they enjoy, such as a basic retirement pension of 60 per cent of the current average pay of the trade in which a pen- sioner formerly worked. They tend to identify the great improvement in living standards since the war with the industrial relations system, known as Mitbestimmung, or co-determination. In fact, the German trade unions have made certain y March 2, 1973

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financial gains out of their collective - bargaining, mainly due to the economic success Germany temporarily enjoyed all the time the inflationary boom lasted. The permanent huge demand for labour put the unions in a strong position.

Co-determination, the on other hand, puts them in a dangerously weak position. The ial illusory advantages of 'joint consultation' will vanish into rar i thin air as soon as the German employers need to start set- ting about the working class in the way that Germany's harder-pressed and desperate imperialist rivals are already having to do. The real strengthor weak- ness-of the German trade unions will emerge during the coming struggles with its rul- ing : class. And initially, the which the many ways in workers are tied in with com- pany interests and confused as to where their real destiny lies can only hold them back in the fight. Co-determination operates on two levels. On the shop floor, in every enterprise in private industry with more than five workers, there has, by law, to be a works council to rep- resent them, numbering from one to 35 workers and elected every three years by the work- ade force. ain,i. The works council has to be un

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consulted on virtually all matters by the management: piece - rates, job - evaluation, working times, training, wel- firing, fare, hiring, work- allocation, safety, redundancies, works-moves, and closures, general production and econo- mic questions. On all these matters, any • dispute between employer and works council must go to arbitration, either at a con- ciliation committee, where the role is played by the 'independent' chairman, who is appointed by the local labour the court itself, court, or at the judge is decisive. where The company pays all of the works council's expenses, and in the larger enterprises chairman and other members often relieved from pro- are duction work altogether for full-time 'counselling'. The employer can go to all meetings and has the right to speak. Worse than that, the trade union is specifically excluded official role from playing an within individual factories.

Everything is left to the works council. In practice, most of the workers on the councils are also trade unionists, but the union cannot officially nomin- ate candidates. Any trade 'list' must circulate union be unofficially., The trade unions' official role in Germany is an industry- wide one. They negotiate national and regional agree- basic pay and ments on conditions. They clearly do influence the works councils, factory-based but since they are not seen daily to be taking the leading role, union recruiting is con- sequently weakened. Only 30 per cent of German workers are in unions, compared to over 40 per cent in Britain. And full-time trade union officials are not always allowed into factories to lead their members in a particularly difficult struggle. In weaker plants, it means that manage- ments can carve up an in- experienced works council.

And the fact that the works council is not a trade union is specifically re- body and stricted in its activities to what goes on in that particular fac- tory means that industry-wide shop-floor campaigning during a national wages struggle is ole inhibited to some extent.

The existence of the works councils also means that the position of shop stewards in German industry is jeopardized.

Officially, there is no role for them to play in the factory.

In practice, they are a growing friction with force and • the employers is on the increase.

The fighting capacity of the German workers, in fact, has created a dual system of trade union representation. But the Left: Chemical workers in Ham- burg, on strike in 1971, demon- against wage controls. strate leaders' policy of Their union "Co-determination' puts German workers in a dangerous position.

dominant reformist ideology managed to channel wor- has kers' militancy into a demand for changes in the Works Council Law to give shop stewards a bigger and more official role. Although the German work- ing class is far from being defeated at this stage of the sharpening class struggle, the collaborationist framework the trade unions operate under is full of dangers of outright corporatism. Some basic rights are pro- tected by the Labour Laws.

But curbs on the working class are just as carefully enshrined.

The Works Council Law, for example, gives works council- lors special legal protection against dismissal. But a Federal Ministry pamphlet describing this protection warns that the councillors must not go too far. 'Dismissal without notice is justified in cases where mem- bers of the works council have caused labour trouble through continual agitation for a party, or have dis- political in the establishment tributed handbills containing severe attacks on the employer.'

It goes on: 'In another case, a member of the works council was dismissed without notice because he attempted to in- duce non-union employees to join the trade union through coercive methods.' It is illegal in Germany to strike to enforce a closed-shop, just as, in theory, it is now in Britain. But to establish cor- poratism as a daily working regime is something else, and in both cases requires taking on and defeating the working class first. The German co-determina- law spells out the ruling tion class's ambitions in introducing it. The works council is the only representing official body workers in a factory-and yet the council's first duty is 'loyal unprejudiced co-operation' with the employer, and its first rule that it 'must refrain from any action which might jeopardize industrial peace in the estab- lishment'. 'The council must use all its influence to maintain industrial peace as far as possible.'

So the body • which must represent any workers with a grievance is also the body which must stop them putting any industrial pressure on the employer to have it remedied.

And when the union in an these industry has called workers who are members out councils must works neutral and not spread the strike. 'The works council must re- frain from calling on the em- ployer to curtail production and must not slow down work on strike or sit-down or go order to attain its strike in objectives' The theoretical doctrine of the Works Council Law, stated in section 49, and itself bearing the force of law, is revealing.

It says the ideas spring from Christian social doctrine, which and his regards an employer workers as a working com- munity which should co- operate on the basis of moral principles. *This conception is incom- patible with the class struggle,' it adds. The German ruling class to the imagi- leave nothing nation! But despite the fact that these laws on co-partnership so clearly spell out their corpora- tist purpose, still the TUC leaders flirt with the ideas. For them, one form of selling out the class struggle is as good as another.

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dialectics of reformism. Top Scottish Lord Wheatley, imposing a of €5,000 Clydebank Town Council, made a statement on the need to preserve law and order. It was the sort of stuff worthy of Sir John Donaldson himself. Clydebank councillors une fighting to de- of course, are fend the right to decent hous- ing at reasonable rents which was established by the first 1924. Labour government in The Housing Act of that of the few real year was reforms Ramsay MacDonald's Lord Wheatley government enacted. It came from a long struggle by the working class for the right to which decent housing in Clydeside rent strikes of 1915 1920s played a and the early big part. It was no mere coincidence, that the Clydeside therefore, radical MPs were able to force

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'The Man from the East'. The Theatre. Red Buddha Written, by produced and directed Stomu Yamashta. The Round- house, London. The performance of the 'Man from the East' by this young Japanese com- pany is enthralling and stunning, especially to those of us used to the crisis-ridden western theatre. Yamash'ta has drawn freely techniques and for- on the mulae of the two main tradi- tional theatre forms of Japan 'Noh' and 'Kabuki' and wed- ded these with a special score despite its superti- sound, is over- whelmingly 'western' in influ- ence. ('Noh' theatre is the courtly aristocratic theatre which ori- ginated in the 12th century, whilst 'Kabuki' is the more popular form which developed in opposition to 'Noh' in the 16th century.) The play consists of a series of acts in the 'Kabuki' style which can be viewed as complete performances in themselves, representing differ- facets—historical and ent modern-of Japanese life. They are loosely connected by the tale of a hopeless friendship between a lame girl-Bancale-and old an hunchback-Bossu. They come across a joy- celebration, but ous peace restrains Bancale from Bossu joining in because of their infirmities. She is frozen still by inaction and the spirits from Hell carry her off. Old Bossu sadly wanders through the happy celebrations looking for her. Contrary to the western tradition of development through conflict, the contradic- tion between his misery and the celebrating villagers who surround him, is stated as an unalterable part of life.

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middle-class values and the second an equally sharp satire of traditional values, until they. finally meet in the sub- sequent scene among the death and destruction of Hiroshima (presumably Hell be- when came openly manifested on earth by courtesy of the allies' fighting 'western for peace and democracy). Bancale plays gayly in these macabre surroundings • whilst Bossu stumbles, blindfolded, after her. She pretends to be dead, and Bossu tears off his mask, and, overcome with grief, kills himself. She stops pretending and breaks into peals of laughter upon which the production finishes. Such a complex undertak- ing is obviously difficult to it is evaluate, especially as clearly in such a transitional form. This young of group musicians actors and have enormous talent, and, despite the 'hard rock' musical influ- ences, tremendous artistic dis- cipline. The overall verve of the performance carries the audi- ence with it, even if they are unfamiliar somewhat with what is actually taking place.

The two main contrasting scenes stand out in particular.

(drawing The first one heavily on Noh shows modern Japan-bustling com- muters riding to work, the 'hurly-burly' of meaningless office routine, the charade of 'window-shopping', and even the transitory nature of the huge student riots of the 1960s, and finally the facile entertainments of the same type of people in the evening.

The mime and dance work are unbelievably good. The second scene portrays the opposite sides of the tra- ditional values. Slaves are driven to the point of col- against lapse images of Buddha. A samurai knight commits hara-kiri whilst two lesbians make love. A young peasant couple are forced by economic desperation to leave es, . their dying mother on a hill- side for the icy spirits to take ese away. .. Workers Press, Friday March 2, 1973 PAGE 9 Stomu Yamash'ta, director of the Red Buddha theatre ese art forms porary values. The music, ing the being tempo and drama, 'soul' gradually stage Dy Together treader' Use blending ones is, Coacher and cursory, material. surely make 'total theatre'. The reason this -Where sion of theatre. what amounts ines bu the

SOCC

кет аттег sorts tionalists and various emplary the in the of Paris only because much interpret

PAGE 9

ch 2, 1973 ish'ta, director of the He success- les traditional Japan- wiln a rpretation of their ic, whilst perform- raditional role of and ommentary factor in that its complexity indi- of the true nature ches a peak in the Scruti. a has used a basic which amplified as differ- the watter become transfixed pending holocaust. 'Sun- with the his brilliant and careful f traditional Japa- ments with modern some respects, in rather his ways, incon- or traaltiona ut with such deter- group will significant at in what they call why Yamash'ta oupe work in Paris production was -is itself an expres- le worldwide crisis al Japanese theatre Il being divided on to sectarian enormous unre- sions endemic in a was into the world mar- centuries of feudal- rapid development m internationally. of discussions between the tradi- innovators of Yamash'ta himself in mastering nal art forms, ana cultural climate of course. the real social 1 crisis takes on a • open and 'chaotic attempted values in ry terms.

PAQE 10 Workers Pross, Friday March 2, 1973

TODAY'S TV

BBC 1

Schools. 9.38-11.45 12.25 Daniel. 12.55 News.

1.00 Pebble Mill at 1.30 Teddy Edward: 1.35 Ring a ding.

1.45 Television doctor. 2.05 one. Schools. 2.25 Racing from Haydock Park. 3.40 Tomorrow's world.

4.05 Noggin and the flying machine.

4.15 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory.

Crackerjack 73. 5.40 Wombles.

4.55 Deputy dawg. 5.00 5.45 News. Weather.

NATIONWIDE. 6.45 TOM AND JERRY.

6.00 7.00

AND WISE

Guests Hannah 8.15

MORECAMBE

SHOW.

NeWs. Wer. 9.25 THE REGIMENT. Depot.

Travers, Christopher Neil.

9.00 10.15 1973 WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS. Ice dance championship.

THE DIMBLEBY TALK-IN. 11.30 NEWS.

10.45 11.35 FILM: 'SHADOW OVER ELVERON'. James Franciscus, Leslie Tone, Don Shirley Nielsen, Knight, Franchot James Dunn, Ameche. A brutal sheriff terrorizes a small town. 1.10 Weather.

ITV

12.05 Mr. Trimble. 9.30 Schools. 12.25 Happy house. 12.40 First report. 1.00 Time 1.30 Crown court. 2.00 General hospital. 2.30 was. 3.00 Junkin. 3.25 Marcus Welby MD 4.20 Elephant Good afternoon. 4.50 Magpie. 5.20 Nanny and the professor. 5.50 News.

boy.

TODAY. 6.35 CROSSROADS.

6.00 7.00 THE PROTECTORS. The First Circle.

HAWAII FIVE-O.

The Diamond that Nobody Stole.

7.30 ON THE BUSES. The Football Match.

8.30 JUSTICE. The Whole Truth.

10.00 NEWS.

9.00

WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS. 11.00 POLICE

10.30

FIVE.

Ruth Roman, Sidney 11.10 FILM: 'JOE MACBETH'. Paul Douglas, James. A gangster is goaded by his wife into killing his way to the top. IT'S WORTH READING. Mary Craig talks to David Sexton 12.35 about his reading habits.

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.25 Open University.

unit: finishes and fixings.

Completing 7.05

HAMMER IT HOME.

the

7.35 GARDENERS' WORLD.

7.30

NEWS.

Weather. WORK. Is Your Budget Really Necessary?

8.00

MONEY AT

WILL

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MABUSE'. Directed by Fritz 9.00

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"THE

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Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Diessl, Otto Wernicke.

Lang. With

11.15 NEWS.

10.55

FILM NIGHT.

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9.30-12.00 1.15 11.00 London. 1.32 New. 3.00 2.40 Rompes Yoga. News. 1.30 20 Puffin. 3.00 4.20 Film: The Last 3.25 5.20 News. 4.25 Rainbow country 4.25 6.10 hospital London. eWs: 6.00 London. Pathfinders. do. 9.00 7.00 12.20 9.00 Film: Loose'. crusts London. I0.30 Border 11.30 Spectrum. 4:30 9.30

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Date- London. 3.30 It takes romen. 3.00 line. 3.00 London Dick thief. professor. Van 4.35 Merrie 3.55 4.50 London. 5.50 4.25 Today. Doctor ir don. S.20 ondon. Elephant Sky's of zhobe limit. Mime The Bandit 9.00 6.00 About 1.00 10.30 11.00 Sale of the cen- London.. wrida Skating. 0. 10.30 Probe. crusts. 11.05 Love

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1.38 "Shock' 12.45 London. 2.40 Cartoon. 2.52 News. 9.30 London. 12.00 3.00 Good Pron me Hide. 12.05 London. 4:30 Shirley's world. Dave Cash. 5.500 .50 General hospital Forest 6.10 5.20 Flintstones. News. London. Sky's .00 pian week. London. Comedians. 8.30 the limit. 8.00 Pro- Cast 10 London. Shadow 2.00 ectors. Adventurer. 9.00 11.00 Job look. 11.00 "The Singer Not •Five Desperate Women', Film: Film London. 2.55 Meditation. it Dole March 7,

WEMBLEY: C

Secondary p.m.

HACKNEY:

WATFORD:

March 5, Room, Central p.m. 8 p.m. Wood- Hall, Hall, Mare opposite Street. hospital work- station. ers

BRIXTON:

March 6,

SLOUGH:

March 8, 8 p.m. Brixton Training Centre, 8 p.m. Farn- Control Room, Road, SW2. ham Road. 'Forward to Pageant. March 6,

DAGENHAM:

STEVENAGE:

March Stevenage 8 p.m. Fan- 8, 8 р.т. Old Avenue. 'Common Town. to the shawe Mar- ket Conspiracy' Pageant.

EAST

8, 8 p.m. Club, Chrisp 8 p.m. Sireet, E14. the New Station. 'Marx- opp gao men and workers.

TOTTENHAM:

March March 8, 7, 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Labour Trades Hall, 'Forward to High Road, 'Support gas- the Pageant'. and civil men Monday March

SOUTHALL,

March Arms, High 7, p.m. Library, 12, 8 p.m. Osterley 'The Street, S.W.18. Road 'Forward to the revolutionary to Workers'

WOOLWICH:

March

TOOTING:

March 13, Hotel, Selkirk 7, Castle' Powis p.m. p.m. Street, the gas- Tooting Broadway. SE18. Road, 'For- workers'. men

BY OUR

INDUSTRIAL STAFF

FOR a basic wage of just £30,75 a week, a train driver is expected to handle a diesel locomotive developing 3,250 hp at speeds of up to 100 mph, and be responsible for the safety of every passenger.

He has to familiarize him- self with several different types of traction and the tech- niques required to drive them.

A driver also needs to know how to trace faults which he must rectify as part of his duty. New forms of traction have enabled speeds to be increased and freight trains to be run with far heavier loads. However, many of these trains with heavy loads are still loose coupled, the braking systems making more critical.

DIFFERENT TIMES

As to working conditions, footplatemen quite often have to report for work at different times on each day of the week.

Unavoidable late running and other matters mean he's never quite sure when he'll get home.

A train driver has to keep abreast of the many and frequent changes in working instructions and needs to set aside private time to study the 280-rule book, manuals relating and the electrified line instructions, load- ing instructions and diesel and electric traction instructions.

Because of the strains on a driver it is not possible, in. the interests of safety, for him to push up his earnings by working overtime. The £30.75 is a flat wage, therefore, before deduc- tions. Says Ray, Buckton, general secretary of the locomen's union

ASLEF:

'Men must have these quali- ties and accept a complete dis- ruption of their normal social life for a consolidated wage of week. Little wonder £30.75 a that today we have a group of workers completely disillusioned with the life they have to lead.'

BUCKTON . . . Explains case.

With pay levels rapidly de- teriorating relative to other grades, it only needed British Rail to hold up over a new drivers negotiations pay struc- ture to bring on the current action industrial by wave of

ASLEF.

Train drivers have a 'deep sense of grievance' over pay levels and the way they have been treated by British Rail, says Buckton. Their 'frustration and discon- tent flows from the fact that since 1968 drivers' pay has de- teriorated both relative to other the Statlon scene during Wednesday's stri grades in the industry and to earnings in general. Ray Buckton blames 'the pro- crastination' of British Rail for Thursday's industrial action.

He says an agreement reached in June 1972, and in fact relat- ing to a situation which had has, existed for years before, because of BR's delay, now been caught up in the 1973 negotia- tions and the government's pay laws. BR's behaviour had 'further aggravated the feelings of re- sentment' already existing among train drivers. That is why the ASLEF executive called for policy of industrial action, adds Buckton. has drawn up "The The union Train Driver's Case', giving the background to the current dis- done because This pute. was Press reports had not grasped the real issues involved.

A nine-page document in the form of a statement by Buckton, it explains in some detail the recent history of train drivers • maintain their pay efforts to and conditions. All bonus and mileage pay- began in 1965— ments-which have in fact been frozen at 1968 levels. For over four years the drivers' relative position has steadily deteriorated. At the same time, of course, the numbers working for BR have been savagely slashed-- union -with agreement-to accommodate modernization. In 47,000 1965 there were some drivers, firemen and other rail workers. Today the figure around 27,000. ASLEF has been telling BR for three years that its position was being undermined, that the mest skilled men in the industry were sliding down the wages scale.

Finally, during last year's pay negotiations, BR agreed to set a joint working party-to up review the wages structure for drivers, including mileage and bonus payments, and to make recommendations to the Na- tional Council. BR, however, delayed getting 'the working party off the cn day's strike. the high- ground. And when speed train was moved at Derby, ASLEF called a one-day strike 23. Although a for November number of meetings subsequently took place, BR has refused to discuss wage levels with the union. Then management recently said any new pay structure could only be discussed within the the government's context of Phase Two pay laws and would, in any case, be subject to any- thing agreed in the 1973 wages revision, negotiations for which have not yet begun. In other words, in the eight months since the last pay nego- agreed working tiations, an party has come up with no pro- posals because of BR attitude, says ASLEF. Buckton issues a warning that the behaviour of BR and the government endangers the tra- velling public's lives. Passengers will now have to sit behind a "pressures driver subjected to and discontent' before he took the train out.

UNWILLING

No one can doubt the train drivers' case for a £10 increase in basic rates. At the same time ASLEF's nine-page statement re- veals both an inability and an unwillingness to face up to the real situation facing its members and the working class as a whole. How can the ASLEF claim be won in conditions where the Tories have put an end to free collective bargaining? No men- tion is made of this question in the statement. To win the drivers' and every other pay claim today, it necessary to launch a campaign to create the political and in- force the dustrial conditions to Tories to resign. Without a General Strike to bring down the government and a Labour government return pledged to socialist policies there can be no victory for the train drivers or any other section of the workers.

Ceasefire sabotage claim NORTH VIETNAM and

BY A FOREIGN CORRI

the Provisional Revolu- ignored and fighting is going tionary Government yes- on.' terday agreed to resume It charged that Saigon's of the handing police and hired thugs were over carrying out a campaign of American prisoners of terrorism and that US planes war after a dispute which were still bombing areas of South Vietnam. threatened to wreck the charge that the US The Paris 'peace' conference.

and Saigon were instructing their officers to sabotage the The Hanoi official news- also made by ceasefire was 'Nhan Dan' bitterly paper General Giap in a statement attacked the US for violat- reported by Hanoi radio. He ng the Paris peace pac was visiting delegates to the the Saigor and accused Commission Joint Military government of spreading who had been injured in death and suffering in the attacks by South Vietnamese.

US previously The had south. refused to continue the Paris "The provisions troop the North conference unless South Viet- withdrawal from Vietnamese supplied a list the removal of nam and on of of the next group North Vietnam mines in prisoners to be handed over have not been seriously car- in line with the pace of US ried out,' the paper said.

withdrawals. troop After between It went on to complain: meeting ceasefire US Secretary of State Wil- has been The

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

of hanging on to im- CHINA is making re- state perialist forces to prolong peated appeals to the one's own feeble existence Nationalists on Taiwan he will never last long', said. to rejoin the motherland He appealed to military One was made by veteran and administrative mincials Cheng- Communist, Liao in Chiang Kai-shek's regime another and by chin on Taiwan 'not to miss the aide of Generalis- former opportunity to make contri- simo Chiang Kai-shek, Gene- unification butions to the Fu Tso-ri who defected ral of the motherland'. to Mao's side in 1949. He assured them that General Fu said: "It is they would be forgiven for time to unify the high now their wrong-doings, past Let motherland. us come however provided serious, and talk. If together you chalist motherland and work support not prepared to enter are formal talks right for unification'. into send then some away, has been Taiwan heavily people to the mainland, subsidized by the US ever openly or secretly, to have of Chiang since the flight look and visit relations Kai-shek from the mainland and friends. in 1949 and American troops 'You can rest assured that still garrisoned on the are the will keep island. government the keep its matter secret, The deal between China word and guarantee your and the US negotiated by safety and freedom to come Dr Henry Kissinger, Nixon's and go? adviser. his special on re- Similar points were made to Peking presum- cent trip by Liao Cheng-chih who ably includes the return of provided stressed the improved Taiwan China rela- tions between China and that some agreement can be United States. the "The worked out. TURKISH martial law court Ankara in 1971. Two stud- ents were also sentenced to Wednesday sentenced on year's imprisonment on two two university professors to similar charges. Another one year's imprisonment for court is trying 51 people on their part in student charges attempting to demonstration at the Middle overthrow the constitution East Technical University in by force.

SPECIAL ATUA MEETINGS

GLASGOW

HOSPITAL WORKERS

Sunday March 4 3 р.т. Partick Burgh Hall (near Merkland St. Underground)

BUILDING WORKERS

POSTAL WORKERS

The crisis of capitalism and The crisis of capitalism and the future of the trade unions.

Sunday March 4 10.30 a.m. 7.30 p.m. Conway Small Hall Norfolk Room Red Lion Square Caxton Hall Caxton Street, SW1 Holborn.

SLL PUBLIC MEETINGS

Unite to defend basic rights

UTOI

TOTTENHAM

TUESDAY MARCH 6.8 p.m. RIDAY MARCH 2. 8 o.n Assembly Hall Lord Morrison Hall Chesnut Grove Town Hall beaker: M. BAND Soeaker. G. HEALY SIl Central Committer (SLL National Secretarv)

SHEFFIELD

BASINGSTOKE

TUESDAY

MARCH 6, 7.30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 7,

Friends Meetina House Public Library Hartshead Speaker: CLIFF SLAUGHTER Speaker M. BANDA (SLL Central Committee) (SLL Central Committee) Workers Press, Friday March 2, 1973 PAGE 11 peace agreement signed on

GN CORRESPONDENT

January 27. The future of Vietnam will North's liam Rogers and the not be selmed cans. Foreign Nguyen Minister. ever the diplomats decide.

Duy Trinh, appeared that The US imperialists are reached nad been asicculcul determined to hang on Disonel exchange. the south It is not clear what guaran- THE NATIONAL Union of South African Luci tees received from puppet backing the Students, eight of whose leaders were gime Van Thieu. and saigon

LIC

LULICCI 11'

led by US banned on Tuesday in a move which army ing complaints of viola. has been tions the ceasefire climaxed years of government hostility, davisers US supplied with war sup- agreement. face further action, including possible plies in huge quantities. The North Vietnamese and criminal charges. Chinese The the Provisional Revolutionary Soviet ana bureaucracies want Hanoi to warning came from Mr A. L. Schlebusch, Ine plained compromise the that accept a chairman of the panel which recommended ban- the which Geezales

LIC

TOLOL

1111- ning the eight NUSAS leaders tary teams in South Vietnam vietramese revoluuon alle undesirable'. had been in their this with Us imperial- students been restricted to cer- their deals with imperial- ambush. tain districts and barred from visiting any educa- confer. intemanona They want a settlement on monal lasuluton lor uve years.

ence on Vietnam meeting Paris Foreign being attended the lines infamous Ministers Geneva 1954 Agreement the exclude the possibility of certain documents end brought an being put before the This Tweve countres. libera- was declaration agreed, this national Tne war taken as a hint of possible criminal proceedings.'

will associate the Soviet tion against the French and the for the US China opened way There Union and as well were Britain and France with the South African universities following the ban, but repetition of clashes with no police which brought NUSAS differences with the government

BRIEFLY

BRIEFLY

BRIEFLY

• to a head last year.

AGREEMENT

has "This executive council of the been Society of Graphical and student leaders Iraq between and reached Trades the big enable it to take fur. comanies

CADICOOCO

terms the nationaliza- utmost protest at the jailing ther action against the students.

Iraqi Petroleum ten pantin leading members Workers' wake of the big strikes of African

IPC

the Company last June. UL workers in Durban and other the Baltha- towns, jointly owned by british connissions Petroleum, Shell, Com- worker-priest], under threat vorster's administration Tails! 2US0 prison sentences ranging facing an increase of armed struggle with guer- pagnie Francaise des Petroles 20 rilla fighters entering South Africa years each, from the 12 north. Standard and Socony- trade tor normal Mobil. activities which would Dr Rui Patricio, Portugal's Foreign Minister, lawful democratic in any is due in Pretoria next week for discussion on nationalized concern the anti-guerrilla campaign with the Afri- supply 15 million tons of One key item cans. on the agenda is the crude oil against the MALAGASY authorities have no or le dam at cadorra bassa in Mozambique.

imposed curfew pany s Claims. Despite grandiose plans for defoliation the SOGAT's National Executive de- province after Malunga the powerlines, area round the area will be very fire counci nas passed a resou- monstrators ser vulneradle to guerrilla altack.

tion condemning the savage and freed prisoners. prison jail passed demanding the sentences were • hey The dam will supply power to South Africa's be French military central industrial belt workers. Dases union's resolution states: closed.

TE THAMES GAS BOARD'

PLEASE

KEEP THESE

GATES CLEAR

YOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE,

orkers prE GASWORKERS in the south Man- STAY LaNd chester area are determined to win their fight for the 'right to live', as one striker put it. Pickets are well-organized and cheerful Board at Altrincham The quarters. Do you get WORKERS PRESS All 70 men there are out, including one Jack Lon-S, told Workers Press: We must get member. regularly? If not, why not take all gasworkers out a subscription now? officially before we could get the union to move. 'These Tories are vicious. Look how the £20.28 for 12 months (312 l88408) and the profits to the rents go go {10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) Labour Party stopped banks. £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) the sale of council houses.'

Another picket, Davis, vented his Areou want to take Workers Press twice a wook the ralas Heath government. anger over 'Heath said he'd keep food prices for 3 months (24 issues) stable. But entry into the Common Mar- 26.24 (96 issues) ket is meaning a higher cost living. There's nothing in it for We should Fill in the form below NOW and send to : us. get the lUC to give us supoort.'

Circulation Condon SWi Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St., The men are determined that a coach of the TUC load lobby Will go to the Special Congress on Monday. about Now know our leadership I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

and What do something about it. We have to fight required

MONDAY

THURSDAY

we need is new leaders. Jays now. These Tories must go', said other Please tick

FRIDAY

WEDNESDAY

SATURDAY

pickets. Or Militant gasworkers in Wigan, on strike Full subscription (six days) for over six weeks, yesterday welcomed increasing effect of their action. Name Jack Leigh, shop steward at the Wigan Address distribution and service centre, said: "This happened long ago. think shoula nave when there will be Over 500 schools and factories in the Manchester area have already been cut Amount enclosed £ off and thousands of workers and school- children have had to be sent home.

Heath woos the union chiefs PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday March Press

FEBRUARY

FUND CLOSES

final total IT Is a total we are proud of.

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The TUC congress on Monday will do Its best to leave hospltal workers, gasmen, civil servants leaderless In the face of this offensive by the Tory govern.

ment. Our paper, alone, demands general strike they call a force this government to resign.

We will continue to speak out loud and clear. And we know that this will win even more of your support. Let's therefore go into action right away. Help us with an early start for our March Fund. Let's see if this month we can reach & record amount.

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STUDENTS

at Thames Polytechnic, Woolwich, will de- cide today whether to continue their week-old sit-in. The occupation was called in a bid to 'ginger' the NUS leader- ship into waging a more militant campaign for higher grants.

They hope other universities, polytechnics and colleges education will follow their lead and students at London's Imperial College were said to be meet- ing to consider a yesterday similar move. The Woolwich students have received messages of support from a score of student unions, the NUT executive, Greenwich and a delegate Labour party conference of tenants and trade unionists held at the Town Hall on Wednesday night. • They hold general meetings of the student body twice a day to review developments as well as Registered as a newspaper.

at the by Workers Post Office. Published Press, 186a Clapham High Street, 7UG. Printed London, ham High Street, Newsdesk: 01-622 7029. lay March 2, 1973 HEARTENED by the retreat at Ford's and the decision of the Trades Union Congress to let the gasworkers, tea- • fight chers and railwaymen alone, Edward Heath sees the possibility of finally getting the right-wing union leaders to join the Pay Board and take a big step to the cor- porate state. Speaking at the anniversary lunch of the Institute for Pub- lic Relations yesterday, he ap- pealed to these leaders to 'constructive leader- exercise ship... within the framework of our policy for advancing the interests of their members as well as the interests of their fellow-citizens'. Inflation, he claimed, was not inevitable. 'Of course if people make their plans on the basis ABOUT 40 more hospitals t workers' first wave of strik 250 hospitals were affected, Employees. Labour and TUC policy will be assessed In tomorrow's paper by Socialist Labour League Central Committee member Mike Banda. Don't miss your Phone circulation сору. 622 7029. nes carrying on all normal college services such as the canteen, the nue: library, security and cleaning.

The College's director has to stay at home advised staff while the sit-in continues and no attempts have been made to dis- lodge the students from their total control of the Polytechnic buildings. Publicity committee member Mr Stuart Winstanley told me yesterday: 'We feel the NUS grants cam- paign is not really getting any- where. We want to ginger up the leadership and push them to take ns, a more militant line.

Now people here feel they want to take the sit-in beyond a week and really press our de- mand for higher grants forward.'

The students say their fight for grants is linked to the struggle of the working class against a Tory government bent on destroying all the basic rights the trade union movement has won through years of struggle and bent on destroying the political powers students possess and use in support of the trade union movement'. towards corporatism then Foade ines cost bif tilor the sky- Heath deliberately that inflation is inevitable, oflers, roketing omitted mention that the they ne o to cente une Inlal which they fear,' he said.

This word food price rise was •o•cds yle-Added why have pro- and other goyernment measures onc deliberately chose vided substantial will Solenten for in raise 15-20 pulLe ignore the fact that inflation Heath Stage now ererses

IWOR

Ceol betmeet world, British,, not simply said. autumn. In point of fact the direct res- onenoneror. DOunu Ilicalil- Behind a streen oduludes with collapse cably for the rising cost of about 'working together" Heath DOLSIDIILy system international monetary living lies with the Tory govern- wage-cuts. He planning con- devaluation. which deliberately ment, centiales nis allala aralisi une sterling ot floating working This did not prevent the lory class and obscures the sulalesy leader falling back on the excuse last June, thus continu- profiteers making food prices have been rises ous the only beneficiaries of his alc "substantia]" his attempt Boasting policy. rising tasl . TUC confer- As the March 5 Heath is con- Figgures, formerly of a former Boots director who ence draws near SIR Frank present a special fident he has the leaders adviser Economic Develop. Board aThe the But this does Office, bag head The trensiny Connenut 10L nicat Tories' Pay the appointments, general mean he mastery over TIn fi E €16,000 a Secretary Victory Feather said working class, as the Tory isa ro distinguished ers will shortly discover to their Prices Commission nane were ver chaired by Sir Arthur Cockfield, people'. cost. Forty join 250 already out

NHTIO

Hospital strikes OF LA 'snowballing'

BY OUR OWN REPORTERS

ABOUT 40 more hospitals than expected yesterday joined the ancillary pay laws. Tories' 250 hospitals were affected, according to the National Union of Public Laundries were particularly hard hit by what one described as a 'snowball effect'— spokesman more and more workers joining in once big sup- 200 Inmheth teachers marched any volunteers through Clapham and Brixton yesterday brought in by port for the strike action Manasemcul. of their claim South

DUYDOLL

• 1U e cast was clear. Hastings, Mr Wales

NUPE,

organizer On and picket lines up reported 100 per cent sup- down the country the mood Pem-

BRIEFLY

BRIEFLY

with growing

DO I

in nosoilas was militant, brokshire, Carmarthenshire, demands for all-out an Neath, Morriston, well as call from the union 1,500 SIXTY delegates from the Wales

SULIKC

the workers the South leaderships. of General Bristol, and Bath regions the Litee i

USDI-

Tooting At Bec tals. and Municinal Workers' Union. vesterdav Hospital, south London called on the union's executive to with- Mr Hughes, Dai draw labour from all the area gas boards.

at Singleton laudry WOlKeS hos- secrelary claimed their one-day stop- pital, said:

NATIONAL

page was 100 per cent solid.

employees from coal boara 'Heath's £1 .P. Se per Britain were at Congress House, over COHSE shop steward, Mr an insult want

TUC

cent is headquarters, yesterday question 'These verns nenoson. £4 and no less. If this strike coal board finance oficer David Clement women have to handle about hiving-off operations on the board's …nOT enecuve we Will 111- clothes covered flesh, and blood. T'd like to tensify action.' industry. Miners, and

MUCK

were astonished to added: chemical worker: learn Another worker see Heath come down and be- Tis week that N assers vue cm "Newspapers say wcle are to be hived off holding hind . This national average bs at lesti ds not calics. gusting and in the past two Ford's Dagenham or three years they've given

DOORHANGERS

Mrs Kelly, a NUPE shop body plant walked ed out yesterd, againit domestic sueware aDoul workers at Singleton, said: Colany £14 a week for 40 hours' action brought large sections of the body 'Under the wage freeze plant halt, management failed Shop steward Mrs Blanche how Can a porter as tak to follow their usual policy of laying other workers off. The 30 doorhangers involved home Kivin "P verte with decent Standard of living? decided to stick by their original decision, orouenl from of con-

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to strike March 1, because "The quicker the Wednesdar govern- rusion al une plant meeling on the better. whi Bo baced to rek don stries ay hey ment come up point where you've just go will go night here can be Coverl- this one when other localized strikes in the Dagen- ment worse than An r for the workers.' ham complex come to an end.

strike would be more effec. TUC must call a 'We are dedicated people, to see any- General Strike to bodv sutter we are doing a worthwhile job and we want worthwhile pay for make the Tory Tomorrow the 50 laundry staff to work 1CLUl1 government resign section, stil anotler named by the unions, be pulled out.

LOBBY THE TUC

WORKERS

Singleton at Hospital. Swansea. began picket at 6.45 a.m. yesterday

MONDAY MARCH5

morning-the start of their three-day strike-the acnon Dy ancillary workers in the area. 9 a.m. Central Halls, Westminster Laundrymen and trans- workers have come out

DUTL

(opposite Houses of Parliament) in hee hoslanl wee. tions Report back meeting: 2 p.m. Friars Halls, Sheetmetal strike. Workers Union, Blackfriars Bridge (nearest tube Bune oniv ones WOrk Her er day were those cover- Blackfriars). but emergency services, they too will be called out