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of such rapidly maturing crisis that its two-week-old

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policy document is now totally irrelevant. The cur- rency system of the capitalist world is disintegrating special economics so fast that the Tory government is having to revise corresooncent looks at the developments its tactics hour by hour. So great is the chaos that 'Behind the rise in tne gold price'. rewriting tomorrow's Budget.

But however great the currency confusion, and

CHARTISM

Whichever way it slides next, the capitalists general In another of our four-page strategy remains the same: to pass the burdens of raceant soecials we trace uncontrollable world inflation onto the working class.

the history of Chartism- of the to be one episodes Empire reschied Already, the crude blows struck by the Phase Two Pool, Sun- wemoiev. next day. See page 4. the Tories fresh restrictions are certain, either in Be sure of seeing these The catastrophic dollar devaluation and and the undermining of all paper currencies makes further Vital very articles for the whole and trade union movement every day in

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AL-UNION

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MONDAY MARCH5

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MARCH 5, 1973 • No. 1013 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SPECIAL TUC MEETS TODAY

TODAY

BLACK MONDAY

FRANCE

Communist and cialist Parties campaigned • atonn. 1936, Front programir similar Popular took the Darlies lo power. uml we begin a ses articles by Tom Kemp on of the 1936 lessons ine By Royston Bull

IS HERE

THE SPECIAL TUC CONGRESS meets in a period

TOMORROW

of such rapidly maturing crisis that its two-week-old

GOLD

policy document is now totally irrelevant. The cur- rency system of the capitalist world is disintegrating special economics so fast that the Tory government is having to revise corresoondent looks at the developments its tactics hour by hour. So great is the chaos that 'Behind the rise in the as the TUC delegates meet, the Tories gold price'. even are rewriting tomorrow's Budget.

CHARTISM

But however great the currency confusion, and whichever way it slides next, the capitalists general In another of our four-page strategy remains the same: to pass the burdens of rageant specials waace uncontrollable world inflation onto the working class.

the history of Chartism- one of the episodes to be This will now be speeded up.

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Euro-float doomed PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday March 5, 1973

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

FINANCE MINISTERS of the nine Common Market counti locked in conference in Brussels yesterday afternoon plannin float of their currencies against the dollar. The crisis confer their response to the unprecedented wave of dollar sellin forced the closure of foreign exchange markets in most of tl capitalist centres last week.

The new dollar crisis struck only 17 days after the 10-per-cent de-

MOMENT

AT THIS

valuation of the dollar forced by the American and big government

LSA: MORE PHANTOMS

business on the Europeans and the Japanese.

FOR ISRAEL !!

There is open acknowledgement that the basic cause is total collapse of confidence paper and the

STRUGGLE

international Herald Tribusten system. As the International Herald put it on 'Unlike previous crises, the dollar Friday: is not being dumped for other currencies now because there is an expectation that it will be devalued-in fact many experts believe the dollar is too cheap under the February 13. rates set on 'Bankers and economists insist that the dollar's weakness is basically a sign oi a complete lack of confidence in the inter- national monetary system.'

The system of fixed parities brought into existence at the Bretton Woods con- ference of 1944 is utterly in ruins. noW practically Since the end of last week every capitalist currency is floating against the dollar. This must lead to a breakdown of world trade, which has expanded the past in 25 years only on the basis of fixed parities providing some guarantee that traders would not lose the money markets. on There are no such guarantees with floating currencies. The demand for a co-ordinated Euro- float the other world pean against rencies is a doomed attempt to preserve among the EEC some semblance of unity countries. Its first effect will be to throw the full burden of the crisis onto Britain.

The Tory government is hoping for three guarantees from the other eight Common Market countries before they fix sterling, floating which has. since June last been They want sterling hixed at its 'correct' neither (which high rate, would hit British exports) nor too low (which would force up prices

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

even faster than at present). They want the

EEC

also to guaranilet PAKISTANI workers and youth sterling balances (British overseas marched 300-strong through debts) and an assurance that in on Saturday the future they can devalue if it Luton to protest the police becomes necessary. against shooting by of Pakistani youths at the The character of these guaran- Indian High Commission. Luton the Tories' tees only reveals of the Pakistan Solid- secretary They floated sterling desperation. Front, Mr A. R. Malik, arıty eight months ago precisely be- said: did cause they not know what 'This has aroused feelings of and could rate to ix it at not and the anger sorrow among maintain such a rate anyway.

Pakistanis of Luton. As a matter To relinquish responsibility for of fact, the whole event was so the sterling balance to the other tragic that no British citizen can EEC countries will only strengthen the about unconcerned their demands for even tougher the police. brutal act armed anti-working-class measures In Today it was the Pakistani youth, Common Market anti- line with it be the British tomorrow can inflation' policy. youth. And the final demand for per-

CATALAN

Liberation Front devalue in the future mission to José Pascal Armar has member would make of the been sentenced to 18 years' im- whole exercise. prisonment for being a member The purpose of a joint float, of organization. The an illegal West far as the particularly as Madrid Public Order Tribunal Germans concerned, is to found are claimed that police ex- force the entire Common Market plosives in a garage which Armar to take joint responsibility for 'crime' Another owned. was supporting the mark and other paid to the International visit which under for the Defence of Association

CUTTCHCO

pressure. Ethnic Minorities in Milan. government's The British only SOUTH AFRICAN students have response in the present situation elected 12-man management must be to turn round savagely committee to perform the func- far mount and more sweeping of their tions union's attacks on workers' basic rights, members banned by government living standards and wages.

decree from part in univer- auly sity or student life. The orders leaders of NUSAS banned eight and Six members the black Egypt's

THIRTY

members of African Students' Organi- South sole political the Arab zation, two of whom were placed pally, Socialist Union, dismissed were under daily 12-hour house arrest.

at the weekend in continued purge of workers 'deviationists'.

BARCELONA

political metro expelled trains and occupied the The members, mostly stopped left-wingers, will be deprived of at the weekend in stations sup- the right to work. A total of port of their demands for better 119 have been expelled Impromptu, illegal people conditions. began last held with since the purge meetings were Pas- .month. sengers. Portuguese in guerrilla talks with Vorster THE VISIT of Portugal's Foreign Minister, Dr Rui Patricio, to South Africa this week, will be concerned with the maintenance of white supremacy in the whole of southern Shot US Africa now threatened by nationalist guerrilla The region's white movements. minorities hold down millions of oppressed Africans by diplomats armed force, but their domination is being threatened by an escalation of guerrilla struggles. Portugal has been 'CIA men' war for years supply electric power to waging South Africa, although liberation against the forces in Mozambique stands in Portuguese territory. campaign which A 500 mile-long high- ties up thousands 01 cable will troops and imposes carry heavv drain on power. Obviously this will be economy. vulnerable Patricio made an on. the-spot investigation of It wil not only allack, Moza situqtie and Angola both be necessary to protect with troops, but SHOOTING DOWN OF THi Portugal intends to de- Case.

LIBYAN CIVIL PLANE, THE

foliate town to meet Prime countryside Minister Balthazar Vor- on each side of it.

DARKEST STAIN ON THE

Another problem of and of

ISRAEL' RECORD.

mutual concern the HIs cabinet The situation in betsueen Zambia use norder Rhodesia has been between also Rhodesia by lan Smith, Causine concern which of the flare-up. resulted nue rites activity n which counter-move by Zambia resulted the copper away deaths Rhodesia white trom wounding and the of Mozambique many more has entailed South Africa is already financial loss for both Portugal and South assisung regime with contin- gent of armed Portugal wants a finan- contribution from cial trained Portugal is concerned cover military nelp because the commitments against the about been guerrillas. zucillian llave the organiza- bases voluntary western shoulder of tions in South Africa Mozambique which juts already collect large Rhodesia as well as medical Into alla sullis Zambia. Co-ordination of anti- help Portuguese troops guerrilla activity fighting Mozambique and Angola. also be arcas basis las come crucial as a result use attemot to male. the construction tain white hegemony in the Cabora Bassa southern Africa dam neces- sarily brings the Portu complex. cue to be com pleted in guese Colonia Ste This project, regarded gether with the apartheid regimes of Vorster and feat, Arab students demonstrating In Manchestel Greek premier weekend over the forced crash-landing airliner in the Israeli held Sinal two Libyan desert weeks ago. raises 'red BLACK SEPTEMBER Palestinian guerrillas the who killed three diplomats in Saudi students' bogey Arabian embassy at Khartoum, surrendered the Sudanese authorities yesterday and released two other captive envoys unharmed.

GREEK premier George Papadopoulos told bassador, his counsellor, Curtis Moore, a weekend meeting of university rectors that and the Belgian Charge Guv the present student strike wave was the work a dales. two survivors were from Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

of left-wing extremists. The eight Black Septembrists killed the three 'I know that there are a few former politicians after the United States and Jordan had made men who direct student unrest. We shall crush them.

accede to their demands cically would fol safeguard security and We are determined to included release

ADI

sacrifice to achieve prominent Palestinian in Jordanian peace and will spare no

DISCIS

this,' pledged the ex-artillery colonel who led hands. the 1967 coup. a Palestinian secret Over 80,000 students society, takes its name TrOO are engaged in a battle Second massacre? for freedom to organ- when exterminate we mer own no-

AMERICAN

government officials are Palestine guerrilla movement.

the students' present armed force to drive preparing to use union, like the trade 200 Indian militants who SOme controlled 1S have seize the village or wounded believed or notorlous massacre by the military. known to back him. At least one dates oae stand for The Indians, many of them women stand didates and children, say they will stay in the Moore, is known to have elecon do a le. either village until the government sity academic bodies naved a bronmen roe or kills them. The Federal officially ganizing the 1970 massacres.

ponted commissioners, contain them. government has to massacre us our de- retired army officers. a spokesman sald. Walled. AThens an attempt to also. own sake in students have been highlight continuing the oppression Centrantell. centre of the • Mar the of the American is the rounded hundreds of armed aralist moe dictatorsnio Collins Shortly after their strike agents snals. began February 1, Guard. students were After five the • days Sover ther arrested for distributing are saying leaflets. patience exhauster have

NEWS DESK

On February 14, even brought in two Phantom jets to the backed overfly the village and Intimidate the students in, Other the June Donce occurallo. weapond moved surrounded 01-720 2000 government armoured the Polytechnic and beat

BUILDING BOSSES

SCREAM FOR

'LAW AND ORDER'

The Tories haven't easily last year's forgotten strike by building workers. There have been detailed police in- ferocious quiries and charges laid against groups of workers. The National Federation of Building Trades Employers have added fuel to the hire by their wildly exaggerated dos- sier on violence ana Intimida- tion'. The federation is pressing the Home Secretary, Robert Carr (not that they need to press him very much!) in- against tougher laws

LOCUCE

picketing. Robert Carr, Home picketing. tougher Now witch-hunting the has Mr Nicholas been joined Winterton, MP for Maccles- field. He told a recent meeting of the Crewe Conservative Association that 'violence and intimidation' had been used against building workers trade union officials. 'It is a regrettable fact that in industrial relations in Britain today, violence pays. • Another conclusion which may be formed is that there was steady à crease violence from isolated, sporadic incidents in the earlier days of the strike to virtual "mobster" tactics towards the end, cul- of the minating

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notorious Black Wednesday-

SACKINGS AND

BREAD MAKERS

PROFITS GO UP

Rank-Hovis-MacDougal, Britain's largest flour milling and bread com- bine is planning to sack 400 workers at its Open- shaw factory, near Man- chester. This of giant company; course, is seeking Itp in- the price of a loaf. crease in The last financial year was a all divi- record one for RHM, sions except flour milling an- nouncing higher profits. Now flying are around Openshaw that

RHM

transter production Atora suet to its Hartlepool works. Many of the Openshaw wor- and kers are women understood the closure will be September 6—when building sites over much of the West Midlands were subjected to deliberate and well-directed attack. 'This points to the final con- clusion, that the violence was work of comparatively small but co-ordinated groups of people who are well organ- ized, well directed and well financed? On September 6, he said, roving pickets from Oswestry, Wrexham, Chester, Market and Colwyn Bay Drayton 'descended on 12 Midland building sites in an orgy of destruction' Winterton said the Federa- tion dossier confirmed that builders had used 'personal violence, arson and damage to valuable plant, equipment, materials and property'. He concluded by saying: 'Either new laws be must in or existing laws brought enforced to ensure that the of anarchists and activities communist thugs are crushed.'

Winterton was elected parliament in September 1971 the death of the following Macclesfield MP, Sir Arthur Vere Harvey. Thirty-five-year-old Winter- ton was educated at Rugby and served his National Service with the King's Hussars. He underwent managerial training with Shell Mex and BP before Hodgson, joining Stevens where he is now general manager. just so happens that It is a firm Stevens Hodgson which makes handsome profits in the building industry. It is engaged in the sale, hire and servicing of contractors' equip- ment. 1967 Winterton In was hat elected to the Warwickshire County Council, where he was the building a member of committee. His blood and thunder re- ceived a huge ovation from the Crewe Tories at the Wis- taston Manor Hotel. But the local working community is reported to have been unmoved the remarks of this ex- by public schoolboy. completed by 1974. Not that the fact there are already 1,500 unemployed in Openshaw will alter the think- ing of RHM. The company gave £4,500 to the right-wing Economic League and £5,000 to the Aims of Industry, report the last accounts. Both these • organizations are notorious for their anti-working class senti- ments. While the Openshaw women face increases in the price of the dole, they bread and should spare a thought for the hard-pressed Lord Rank and his board of directors. Last year they paid them- selves a phenomenal £310,000.

Lord Rank himself got £41,700, with share dividends bringing his salary. up..to £52,000. Just a trace of embarrass- ment flitted across the faces of trade union and employers' spokesmen when they announced the result of their first joint conciliation and arbitra- tion on an industrial dis.

pute. But without any. hesitation Peter Kavanagh, Communist Party building workers' leader, described the result as 'a com- plete victory for us The TUC-Confederation of British Industry conciliation service recommended the re- employment of Kavanagh and his workmate Brian Anthony, also a member of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians: Workers at the Guilford Street, London, site of the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases have been on strike for ten months over the sack- ing of the two men for refusing 'the lump' to (work go on without union cards or in- surance). Kavanagh hit the headlines some months back by shin- ning up a crane on the site, occupying and it in protest against the sackings. Then the dispute was re- ferred to the TUC-CBI con- ciliators after a joint request from the National Federation of Building Trades Employers, UCATT and the Transport and General Workers' Union. The request was accepted by CBI director-general W. O. Campbell Adamson and TUC secretary Victor Feather. The case was referred to Dan Flunder, director of Dunlop Ltd, and ex-miners' union secretary Will Paynter. After a private hearing on January 31, Flunder and Payn- ex-CP member--filed ter-an the following award: 'Having given careful con- sideration to the evidence and to the circumstances of this we are of the opinion case, that Y. R. Lovell (London) Ltd afford an opportunity should for further employment to the dis- steel-fixers who were charged by the sub-contractors Go-Fix Steelfixing Company' The Guilford Street building workers returned to work on this basis last Monday, after an offer of employment from Lovell's to the two men. CBI spokesmen are slightly embarrassed by the fact that the deputy chairman of Lovell's is Peter Trench (55), a former NFBTE director. Writings of Leon Trotsky

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Monday March 5, 1973 Party building workers' leader, who opposition to the lump. worried by the impression Kavanagh's remark gives that they are in favour of the TUC- CB! service, which is patently designed to end strikes under the threat that if they are not ended 'voluntarily' the Indus- Relations Act may be trial used. . Although several days have elapsed since it reported Kavanagh's words, no editorial disclaimer has yet appeared in the 'Morning Star' Both Trench, founder member of the late Prices and Incomes Board, and Paynter, ex of the Commission on In- dustrial Relations, know the ropes as far as helping govern- ments out is concerned. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG ble, free, on request.

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Workers Press, Monday March 5, 1973 THE TORY government is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con- frontation with the Each day working class. sections of new workers are forced to become criminals — under Tory law - to defend their standard of living against government-inspired soaring cost of living. 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 guaranteed. This can only banded and fully exposed. The Labour be done by breaking the grip of Tory adminis- ted government secrets the of capitalist ownership on the tration in this sphere must be which is pledged by the mass Employed and economy. action of the working class to un- employed must unite to insist bly, free speech and the Press implement socialist policies.

Labour government na- on a must be guaranteed. We 'pledged to policies Y socialist tionalizing the main industries knowing tuat the pre. and banks. workers' 5) The right to a higher stan sent leaders of the Labour move- control and without compen- ment have dard of living. It is is notrade no intention of intro- sation. living standards ducing such policies. Indeed. trade The struggle must begin analysis some of them unionists, but the profit sys- Loe last now. No closures, no sackings, will be prepared to join a coali- Which causes the crisis. tion government with the Tories must be the policy of the trade The first step must be to ex- to head off the working class.

Occupation of fac- propriate all the great fortunes unions. tories threatened with closure, But if the working class is the rich, down Close the Tories of the fight to bring as part Stock Exchange, place a state is strong enough to deal down the Tories. control over all movements of with the own

CRES

capital in out of and the midst. This can only be achieved 3) The right to democratic by exposing them in the fight for country. strike and to organize in trade Nationalization of the basic an alternative socialist policy.

Only unions, organized 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 upon the working class to sup- surance societies will provide crisis. Every right and the every port allowing policies the for unified gain won by the working class, the to the ulte plan improve living Tories every democratic right in Bri- and the standards of the whole people.

Wilson-Feather leadership of the has been won because tain, Workers' control of these, labour movement: of the organized strength of well as the present national- Here is the policy which the the and the strike unions ized industries, will run them next Labour government must weapon. in the interests of the workers be forced to carry out. Labour government must and consumers. immediately repeal the Indus- Again, the fight must begin ! A Labour government must trial Relations Act. This fight now. State control of wages immediately repeal the Indus- must begin now by forcing the must be answered by the most trial Relations Housing Act, TUC to break off all relations Finance Act, Immigration Acts, widespread fight for wage in- with and Fair Trading Act and all wage creases price rises neel mobilize the working class to and improve standards. This control. After the repeal of all destroy state control of wages.

Tory anti-working" means a fight to remove the class mea. Tory government and change sures, there must be legislation 4) The right to defend rights the union leadership. the Charter to impiement won in the past and change Basic Rights, along the follow- the system. All the changes in 6) The right to health and wel- ing lines. legal procedures made by the Tory fare benefits. Every 2) The right to work! Capital- Tory government must be : re- welfare bene- cut in ism demands mass unemploy- pealed. All secret police and fits, health service and in the The right to a job must MI5 organizations must be dis- all public spending must

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Unite ir The road to pov FIll. in the form below and send to NATIONAL

LABOUR

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LEAGUE,

186a CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON SW4 7UG.

Name.. Address.. Pageant Offic be revoked. On the basis of the Common Market plans for nationalization, dictatorship. crash pro- of expansion of ser- gramme Withdraw all British troops vices to the unemployed, the from abroad and disband the low-paid, the sick and the aged present standing army. must be undertaken as an Sign treaties with absolute priority. The working all ex- for class and the Labour govern- colonial countries pro- ment must take immediate and grammes of equal trade and responsibility absolute for mutual assistance, these victims of the capitalist Break from NATO and all system. imperialist alliances. For the carrying out of such 7) The right to decent housing.

policies the SLL fights for the Decent housing is not a luxury; setting of Councils up it is a necessity. People have Action to lead the struggle the basic right decent to against the Tory government accommodation at rents they in every area. These Councils can afford. Nationalization of unite trade unionists, tenants, the handful of building mono- unemployed, all political par- polies and building societies' ties and tendencies of the will provide the basis for a working class (Labour of massive programme new Communist Party,

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house building. The disgraceful IMG, etc.) to fight against the the homeless problem of in main enemy, the Tory govern- the cities must be immediately ment. solved by census and taking- The SLL calls upon every of all unoccupied over pro- socialist and class-conscious perty. worker to consider this pro- and manifesto gramme very 8) The international respon- carefully, and to decide now to sibilities of the working class.

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Turkey was one of the first countries to receive aid from the United States under the post- war "Truman Doctrine', designed to save the world from communism'. She is now a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation, the Council of Europe and an associate member of the Common Market. She has 600,000 men under arms. In 1960 the Turkish army overthrew the government of Adnan Menderes. With 14 members of his government he was hauled before a specially- constituted High Court of Justice and charged with per- sonal corruption and 'subvert- ing the constitution. All 15 defendants were found guilty, and on Septem- ber 17, the Prime Minister and two others were executed.

The armed services chiefs had formed a National Unity Committee which, after Men- deres' overthrow, set up a National Security Council.

This Council has held effec- tive power ever since. From 1961 to 1965 Turkey was governed by a coalition government, headed by Ismet Inonu, replaced in 1965 by a Justice Party government un- der Süleyman Demirel. In March 1971, the army again moved in, forcing the resignation of the Demirel government and putting a gov- ernment of its own choice in its place. The closing months of Demirel's government had been characterized by industrial- economic conflict andby mounting disorders amongst university students throughout the country. Demirel himself was in a weak position. His parliamen- tary majority had been reduced to two the previous December by the defection of a right- wing group of his own party.

Consequently when the student unrest culminated in US demonstrations the gov- ernment_was unable to quell them. The Prime Minister introduced draft legislation to strengthen governmental but while parliament power, was still debating this, students in Ankara kidnapped four US airforce men. The search for the kid- napped men led to a pitched , and battle between students police on the campus of the Middle East Technical Univer- sity in which two people died.

Several arms caches were dis- covered in the university buildings. Although the kidnappers had released their hostages un- the Prime Minister was hurt, widely blamed for allowing a situation to develop, such and the army seized the oppor- tunity to issue an ultimatum denouncing Demirel and calling for the formation of a 'strong and credible government' cap- able of restoring law and order. The military chiefs declared that if such a government was not established 'the Turkish armed forces will use their legal rights and seize power directly to accomplish their duty of protecting and super- vising the Turkish republic'.

Demirel duly government was formed under the premier- ship of a former opposition deputy, Mr Nihat Erim. Erim's government came to power with promises of wide- spread social and economic reforms and a pledge to re- store 'law and order' within a year. When the Prime Min- ister eventually resigned 'ex- hausted' in April 1972 neither of these objectives had been achieved. Many of the 'reform' Nihat Erim, Prime Minister_ of Turkey for a year. Above: The Turkish military are called out against demonstrators in Istan- bul, protesting at anti-union laws.

still under dis- measures were cussion in parliament and the country was not yet free from violent incidents. Early in 1971 an underground guerrilla movement calling it- self the Turkish People's Liberation Army (TPLA) had emerged as the main group responsible for the anti-govern- ment demonstrations. Members of the

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claimed responsibility both for the kidnapping of the US air- force men and, later, for the abduction and murder of the Israeli Consul-General, Mr Ephraim Elrom. several In November 1971 of those on trial for the mur- der of Elrom escaped from prison and in March 1972 kid- napped three British radar technicians. This was an at- tempt to save the lives of three others sentenced to death for their part in the earlier kid- napping of the US servicemen.

The kidnappers are alleged to have shot their British hos- tages and the whole incident ended in a gun battle with the security forces in which most of the kidnappers were them- selves killed Early in May hijacked a TPLA members plane and held passengers and crew ransom for several hours in Sofia airport in a final and unsuccessful attempt to force the government to commute the death sentences. In his drive to restore 'law and order' and crush the TPLA, Erim's government in- troduced a series of measures.

In April 1971 martial law was imposed on Il of the country's including 66 provinces, all university towns and the Kur- dish provinces of east Anatolia.

Martial law is still in force today. It provides for military trials, detention without charge or trial for up to 30 days, house-to-house searches and the imposing of curfews. Widespread arrests followed throughout the summer and of 1971, involving autumn hundreds of people whom the government declared had been guilty by their attitude of 'help- ing to spread an atmosphere conducive to the present state of anarchy' • Although some of these people were released after interrogation, others have been tried on charges of dis- seminating communist propa- ganda, and others are involved mass military trials now In up taking place. The pro-Moscow Turkish Worker's Party has been banned and its members arraigned on charges of com- munist propaganda; most of the left-wing Press has gone out of print or subjected itself to rigorous self-censorship and the Turkish radio and tele- vision association put under the control of an ex-General.

In November 1971 parlia- ment unanimously approved a strengthening approxim- Bill ately one-third of the clauses of the 1961 constitution. In February 1972 a Bill was in- troduced to limit the rights of association and, particularly, to prevent student organiza- tions from involving themselves in politics. For five weeks after Erim's resignation, Turkey was with- out a recognized government. Eventually on May 22, 1972 Mr Ferit Melen-the former Defence Minister and a repre- sentative of the small National Reliance Party-managed to form a Cabinet. His govern- ment consists of represen- tatives from both major parties Workers Press, M of together with number a 'non-party' political techno- crats. Melen himself is a strong anti-communist, who concen- trates on strict 'law-and-order' designed to crush legislation all left-wing or terrorist oppo- main sition. Its task is to prepare the country for the elections scheduled for October 1973. The two main political par- ties in Turkey today are the Justice Party (JP) and the Re- publican People's Party (RPP).

The Justice Party is headed by Süleyman Demirel and was power until the military ultimatum of March 1971. The JP is the virtual descendant of Menderes' banned Democratic Party (although it is a criminal offence to say so in Turkey), for private enterprise stands and enjoys support among the landowners in the country and among the small-town indus- trialists and entrepreneurs in the towns. In the elections of 1965 and 1969 the JP gained over 50 per cent of the vote.

The Republican People's Party was founded by Kemal Ataturk and headed, until May 1972, by his 88-year-old friend and • colleague, Ismet Inonu. In the last two elections it gained a bare 30 per cent of the votes. Support for the RPP comes from the urban edu- cated élite, which in Turkey includes army officers. Communism or support for a Communist Party is illegal in Turkey. The pro-Moscow Turkish Workers' Party - banned since March 1971-was seriously split over the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The army maintains a close control over, political affairs, although usually avoiding a total open military takeover.

Strict repression is waged against left-wing dissension in its ranks. Eighty-three officers ties. and men of the Istanbul gar- • Press, Monday March 5, 1973 PAGE 5 rison now face trial on charges of alleged complicity in . the activities of the TPLA. After the overthrow of the Menderes regime in 1960-1961, freedom • of the Press and of publication 'guaranteed' was by the constitution. Article 11 specifically stated that this freedom could not be limited by the law, 'even when applied for the purpose of upholding public interest, morals and order, social justice and national security'. Journalists could, however, be prosecuted for defamation of the state and for com- munist propaganda under Articles 158/9 and 141/2 of the Penal Code; and for criti- cizing the 1960 military inter- vention or suggesting that Turkey would not thrive as a democracy under the 1962 Law of Measures. The Press has been one of the main victims of military repression since March 1971.

In martial law areas a number of journals and newspapers have been suspended or closed entirely and their editors and staff arrested. The financial losses incurred and the fear of imprisonment encouraged • newspaper owners and editors to adhere closely to the official guidelines laid down by the authorities. These advise the Press to refrain from criticism of the government, state authorities and security forces; from open discussion of the March 1971 ultimatum; and from publish- ing material which might seem to praise subversive elements or lead to disorder. Given such a broad defini- tion, editors in practice tend to exercise careful self-censor- ship and, when in doubt about an article, to seek the advice of the authorities. Radio and television face more direct censorship. The association has been put under the control of an ex-General army colonel is now and an scrutinizing responsible for news bulletins before they are broadcast.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday March John Watson (left), a 19-year-old miner, John Watson (19) learned his first lesson in class struggle on the picket line outside Westoe colliery in the last miners' strike. Like the legendary William Jobling, he was a rank- and-file miner. John paid for his militancy with a few bruises from the police when they charged the picket. Jobling paid with his life-over 140 years ago when the first miners' union was built on the north-east coast John's home town- near Jarrow. John is one of a dedicated group of youth and workers trying to reach back to the days of Jobling. They want to show that the early struggles of the north-east miners and what they won as rights are once more being threatened by the Tories and the employers.

But to win now the workers today need more than a union.

In the evening John Watson takes part in the Pageant re- hearsals at Jarrow. During the day he talks to his mates at the pit, trying to make them see what he has seen about history and its role in today's struggle. In his spare time he goes out and recruits to the Pageant and sells tickets for the big day on March 11, when the Jobling episode and the three other episodes of class struggle will be presented as the Empire Pool, at one Wembley. The politics, the campaign- ing and the attempt to make history live through his own efforts and understanding are new to John. But he says it is a task that cannot be avoided.

day March 5, 1973 •old miner, and his friend Lawrence Bathgate al It was when I read the script that I began to like the idea and understand what it was all about. 'At first I thought it was a laugh, but they kept on arguing with me. I thought there must be something in this if they are so persistent. Then I went to the public meeting.

What was said there decided it for me. It showed that history was not just the past, but was happening once The more. Tories are taking away the things that blokes like Jobling fought for' John's friend Lawrence Bath- gate thinks Jobling is import- ant too. "The important thing with this part of the Pageant is that it is a true story. I admire Jobling very much. He was an ordinary miner who did not let his mates down. He didn't crawl to the bosses when they tried him. He went to his death so the union could go on. "This is not just history be- cause it's not that much better What do I have to do today. to live? I have had every rotten job in Jarrow, including the pits. Now I clean out the holds to my chest in filthy oil.

It's job and finish-sometimes I work all the night then go straight over to my regular day shift. What do I get? f24 a week. The alternative is the dole. Have we really come that far from Jobling?' The lessons of the Pageant campaign so far for John and Lawrence have been direct and simple. John: "The main thing I have learned in the discussions we have had is that you can't trust your leaders. This is something I knew before as well. It is obvious when you look at men in the TUC and Labour Party who helped the Tories to go into the Common Market. 'Now we see the worst thing of these leaders are all all prepared to see the unions be smashed up. I see most important the fight thing against the 1S Tory government. By going into the past this way we can show what is happening today. better We show, for start, that despite all their nice friendly words, Tories and the bosses have always wanted to get rid of the unions. 'I think people will under- stand this. It's happened to me. Before, when the pit went on strike, I used to say: "Ah let them get on with it".

But now I have changed my mind.

I think we stand to- have to gether and fight. It's the only way. The fight is against the government. But how we fight is imports ant,' says John. this arbitration, ballots and works- to-rule is rubbish. There is only all-out - an way strike. The problems are so big now that it's not just enough section out-like to have one the miners. All unions are for so we should have the chop, everyone out. 'I am determined now to see this play through to the end.

think it will make the workers who see it rise up. They are going to say "What have hame They will see tale this been doing all this and see what is happening now and what was happening then, and they will organize against it. If it does this it will do good because it will be the start of the revolutionary party of the Tories get rid tor good. That's real what any worker wants.' Jarrow is most famous for its hung during the 1930s was not the most town made to the history of wor implications for future generations of William Jobling dwarfed the fig It is his episode organizers of ti Workers' Power'—in the north STEPHEN JOHNS reports. strike in the north-east and it is this fact that paradoxically makes his martyrdom so significant. He was picked out from the gu tl

OF WILLIAM JOBLING

ti Jarrow is most famous for its hunger march. But the crusade li during the 1930s was not the most important contribution the tl In its implications for future generations of workers the martyrdom b Pageant-the 'Road tl Power'—in the north east are bringing to life.

ranks of the ordinary strikers and framed on a false charge tl of murder. He made no great speeches -he was not a skilled d strikers. But his refusal to admit his guilt, his insistence that he

G sade the its lom ent. life. kers alke reat illed cers. he was being persecuted as an example to others made him the symbol of the miners struggle. He was hanged at Durham. His body was coated in pitch, caged and fixed to a pole in the Jarrow estuary or 'Slake'.

There his widow could watch the tide wash up and cover her husband's corpse three times every day. The importance of the Job- ling episode is that it shows stubborn struggles miners. Their first ordinary towards combination moves brought them immediately into first organized conflict with the ruling class. From this they saw them- selves as a class and identified the capitalists as their oppo- nents. The strike was not successful, the owners with- drew all the concessions. The miners learned that their rights would not be won in one struggle-but that the struggle is never ending. So, despite defeat and bitter persecution, they clung to the union as though it was their lives. In fact it was their lives.

Everything they became was because of the union. This is therefore an ex- tremely important episode.

Stephen Clarke-Hall, who is directing the Jarrow episode, told me about the importance of Jobling and the hard campaign in the north-east.

'Jobling has always been a hidden history, yet it is the history of the north-east and all the workers who live here.

In this area, up until the last year, Jobling was widely known as a murderer. This was be- cause his example and the history of those vital early struggles considered so was dangerous. It is only in this Pageant, which is the centre point of a struggle even more • Jobling's - to important than build a revolutionary party in Britain—-that the true story of William Jobling can come to life. Stephen Clarke-Hall. Above: A section of the Jarrow group in discussion during rehearsals.

Workars Pross, Mo 'You learn this almost It is impossible immediately. to get people interested in this campaign without presenting it as part of a fight to remove the Tories for good and defend all the basic democratic rights of the working class. Like Manchester, we found that the people who came round through interest and thought we were doing a good 10 thing" were not the people who made this Pageant pos- sible. It was the workers and youth we really had to fight for politically who came through in the end. I don't think there is a single person we have in the cast now who was with us at the beginning. But this is surely it is only to be expected; through conflict that real gains understanding be can reached. "This is where the campaign- ing to sell tickets to bring Workers Press, Monday March 5, 1973 PAGE 7 people round the movement is To vital. reduce the Pageant to rehearsals would be hope- less-the youth and workers we had around us would drop "What is the away point this?" they would say. "No- thing". And they would be right. 'In that sense "acting" has been no problem, because it's not acting we doing but a political job. The "cast" bring this conviction into their work.

They feel its a real respon- sibility the working-class therefore results. movement, achieved-sometimes very are remarkable results. 'It with and ends We have only the struggle. working determination of the class to keep us in business- the ancestors of Jobling up here and the determination to build the revolutionary party finish the task the miners of 1830 started.'

THE FRENCH POPULAR FRONT

1936: General Strike follows election victory IPAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday March

BY TOM KEMP

The success of the Pop- ular Front in the French elections of April 26 and May 3, 1936, was the signal for a great strike movement which could have been the start of a successful revolution. At its peak the strike was joined by between 2 and 3 million workers and was the greatest movement of its kind which France had ever seen.

It was not called or desired by the trade unions or by the Socialist and Communist Par- ties, who were partners in the Popular Front coalition with the Radical Party. As a great spontaneous up- rising of the working class it remained unparalleled until the even-greater strike move- ment of May-June 1968, in which over 10 million workers were involved. But in 1968, in 1936, the movement as gained only small reforms and the working class was pushed back because the vital factor in a successful revolution, the revolutionary party, was lack- ing. Yesterday's election in France raises the possibility of a similar working-class re- action in the event of a victory for the left coalition which is contesting the elec- tion on the so-called common programme. This coalition is a carbon copy of the 1936 Popular Front and includes, in • the the rump of 'left' shape of led by Maurice Radicals Fabre, the shadow of the bourgeoisie as guarantee that it does not intend to overstep the confines of capi- talism. As in 1936, the CP Stalin- ists are the most fervent advo- cates of the Popular Front- type policies today, seeking an alliance with the sections of th day March 5, 1973 the ruling class and their ser- vants in order to secure a government prepared to fall in with the diplomatic needs of the Soviet bureaucracy. CP secretary Georges Marchais has given repeated guarantees of good behaviour, accepting the Bonapartist Constitution of the Fifth Gaullist republic and ready to take office under it.

Marchais lives in fear of the working class and strives to hold it in check. The promises of the common programme are intended to deflect the work- ing class from the goal of power by cultivating the illu- that its demands can be sion met within capitalism by the of the ballot. But the use Stalinists afraid that a are victory will give the workers confidence to fight and that they will break out of the strait-jacket re-imposed after the events of May-June 1968.

An examination of the role which the Stalinists played in 1936 is extremely instructive in understanding their aims.

The programme adopted by the Popular Front parties in January 1936 was along simi- lar lines. It was a policy for the reform of French capital- ism, then staggering under the blows of the economic slump of the 1930s. Only a programme which made no inroads into capital- ist private property was acceptable to the Radicals. It promised an improvement in living standards and a reduc- tion in unemployment, but nothing was said about na- tionalization or even the 40- hour week. Nevertheless, the working class saw in the electoral vic- tory of the Popular Front and the defeat of the reactionaries affirmation of its own an strength. After the second ballot on May 3, spontaneous demonstrations formed up in working-class districts and re- joicing to the strains of the 'Internationale' went on far into the night. The task of forming a new government fell upon Léon. • Blum, the reformist leader of Socialist Party. At the conference of his party he had emphasized that_ the victory of the Popular Front would not mean that the time had come to make inroads into capitalist property. He made clear: 'We are going to act within the framework of the present regime, whose very vices we have denounced.'

Although the mainstay of the Popular Front, the Com- munist Party was not pre- pared to enter the govern- ment. Secretary Maurice Thorez had argued in favour of participation. He was out- voted on the Political Bureau and this position was backed up by Moscow. It was claimed presence of that munists in the government would harm the Popular Front by frightening middle-class people! It was only a year or two previously that the Com- munist Party had been follow- ing the ultra-left line of the so-called 'third period' with its theory of 'class against class' and its main slogan 'Soviets everywhere'. The call for soviets still being was heard from workers in 1935 and 1936, although it had been abandoned by the Party.

Thorez himself raised the call for soviets when speaking in the debate on . the fascist demonstrations of February 1934. But with the adoption of the Popular Front line, such ultra-left slogans — which for the working class represented genuine revolutionary aspira- tions-had to be dropped. In fact the Party tried to give every guarantee that it had now become a respectable 'democratic' party. Jacques Duclos told the Press on May 7, 1936, that the Party would private property. The respect Political Bureau called for the defence of the franc and the maintenance of the gold stan- dard. In a letter to the Social- Party it denied having ist called for the setting up of popular committees. Not surprisingly, when • the CP recently held an election meeting to which businessmen were invited in Paris, the same Jacques Duclos gave the same assurances as in 1936. After the election results been had announced, Waldeck-Rochet declared: The electors did not vote for revolution; we are not putsh- cists nor partisans of all or We will accept our nothing. responsibilities in co-operating in the improvement of the conditions of the working classes within the framework of the present system.' At this time the CP leaders saw themselves not as aspiring cabinet ministers, as they do but rather as having a today, special mission to work among working : class to ensure that it did not go outside the reformist limits imposed by the Popular Front with bour- geois politicians. This was their role during the strikes, which took them by surprise.

The first strikes began in Le Havre and Toulouse on May Il. The Bréguet aircraft factory • in Le Havre was occupied by the workers, who struck because the manage- ment had sacked two union officials who had taken the day off on May 1. A similar strike took place in the Laté- coère aircraft factory in Tou- louse. In both cases the strike won, sacked men were was reinstated and the workers paid for the time lost. Demonstration of strikers in village in Northern France in 1936. It was the election of the Popular Front government which gave the signal for the great strike movement that could have been the start of revolution.

On May 14, a strike took aircraft place in the Bloch factory at Courbevoie, this time over wages and hours.

This also was a solid strike and was settled on the wor- kers' terms. These first skirmishes passed off without receiving much attention in the Press.

They showed that the working class was becoming conscious of its strength. Strikes began to break out in a number of big factories in the engineering, motor car and aircraft industries in the Paris region. The demands were still confined to wages • were relatively modest.

and What was significant was that the employers quickly gave way. In most cases they had not had to face such a unified and determined working class be- fore. They were in a state of uncertainty as a result of the election victory of the Popular Front. The initiative had passed entirely to the workers.

The old government was still on while Blum carrying formed his ministry. Mean- while strikes spread from one factory to another. On May 28 the strike wave reached the Renault factory.

The 35,000 workers downed tools and occupied the pre- mises. By the next day practi- cally every major factory in industrial belt had the Paris been occupied. Workers re- mained in the factories day and night and local people brought in food. Whatever the immediate de- mands of the strikers, the occupation of the factories directly challenged the autho- rity of the capitalists and the state. The government rejected the idea of sending in troops because it was feared this would aggravate the conflict.

In any case, the army was up of conscripts who made would have been more likely to join the striking workers.

Later, when a member of Blum's administration inquired of the general commanding the garrison how Paris many troops would be required for the job, it was clear that it the impossible. In fact, was general told him, if he wanted to get the workers out of the factory he would have-to call up the reservists among them inside to eject the rest.

trade union officials, The many of whom were CP mem- bers, tried to keep the strikes under control. On May 29 they succeeded in working out agreement for Renault an which said that a wage in- crease 'would be examined as quickly as possible. That accepted night the workers the agreement and left the factory. But it was only round one.

Although some factories re- sumed normal working in the wake of Renault, the strikes were spreading and their im- pact was beginning to be felt in the provinces and outside engineering industries the which had so far been in the vanguard of the movement.

After a weekend in which the bosses were congratulating themselves that it was all the strikes spread over, rapidly again from June 2, despite the efforts of the trade unions to start negotiations.

Within a few days they had spread to hotels, restaurants, petrol distribution, clothing, building; • workers who had never been on strike before and in many cases did not even belong to a union were occupying their places of work or going. home.

CONTINUED WEDNESDAY

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The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) could scarcely hide its pleasure. Its latest 'In- dustrial Relations Bulletin' has an item on the newly-formed European Trade Union Con- federation. Welcoming the formation of the new body, the 'Bulletin' says: 'Highly significant from a British point of view is the role the TUC will play in the new confederation. The TUC will be the largest single affili- ated body and will therefore have considerable political weight and recognition of this fact is seen in the appointment of Mr Vic Feather as presi- dent. 'Mr Feather's appointment of interest seen is, of course, in the light of the TUC's cur- opposition to British rent membership of the EEC. There is no doubt that the British trade union movement is coming under considerable pressure from its European counterparts on this issue.

'One of the results of this pressure was the TUC's deci- sion, reported recently, to send observers to the EEC Consul- tative Committees in the social policy field.' Workers who sent their delegates to the Brighton TUC last year might well be puzzled by this item. They had good reason to be-the congress voted by a majority of 3.1 million to oppose entry and boycott its institutions.

Below: EEC-man, Mr. Feather. Contrast these two statements: • 'Ownership must be taken by the state with the partici- pation of the miners... They must fight against such ideas as that put forward by Mr W.

Lawther: "There is no ques- tion of two different sides in this industry today. Owners of pits, miners and officials are all on one side." Working miners know that the mine- owners have not changed their spots.' 'That was wrong. Actually we were young and arguing for more wages. It was a partial strike, the older, more sensible elements did not support it. It was wrong, because the coun- try was in a crisis situation then, fighting a war against fascism.' The first is from 'Coal: A policy', a Communist Party of Great Britain pamphlet pub- lished in January 1941. The second comes from Communist Party executive member Mick McGahey, Scottish area presi- dent of the National Union of Min workers, talking to 'Scotsman' recently reporter about a strike he led at Gate- side colliery in 1943. The difference between them can be summed up by a date, June 22, 1941-for it was on British that date that the Stalinists changed their policy on the war and swung hard over behind Winston Churchill and the British capitalist class.

From then on every striker was a traitor, as far as the Stalinists were concerned. And McGahey continues to defend this policy today! McGahey told the 'Scots- man' reporter, . Harry Reid, that the Gateside strike was his 'one regret' ('Scotsman', February 24, 1973). It is necessary simply to quote Lenin: 'In each country, the struggle against a govern- ment that is waging an im- perialist war should not falter at the possibility of that coun- try's defeat as a result of revo- lutionary propaganda. The de- feat of the government's army weakens the government, pro- motes the liberation of the nationalities it oppresses, and facilitates civil war against the ruling classes.' (Collected Works. Vol. 21, p. 163.) Where is Britain Going? Paperback 374p Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Last Tuesday's 'Play for Today' on BBC 1 was "The Operation', written by Koger smith and directed by Roy Bat- tersby. It concerned a ruthless pro- perty speculator, David Adler (George Lazenby), who des- troys not only the centre of his old home town, but also the lives of a number of mid- dle-class people who cannot stand up to the power of his wealth. Adler says, when he As makes £lm profit in a week: "That's real magic' Adler epitomizes 'success' He's rich, worldly, and burst- ing with confidence. He has a television set in his Rolls, a in luxurious country home Ireland, thick wads of bank- notes and he dispenses expen- sive presents with easy grace.

He frequents gambling casi- nos, has a more than nodding acquaintance with gangsters and conducts his operations from luxurious suite of a offices. He has no difficulty at all in gathering up a grocer's wife (Maureen Shaw) in the old home town-she offers herself in something under two-and-a-half minutes. The emptiness of middle- class life is portrayed by the fawning of the local citizenry the powerful Adler who on might drop them a few crumbs, by a decadent house- party and the casual, bored wife-swapping. The grocer, indeed, seems to be remarkably obliging in the matter of his wife's lovers, but he is enraged when his little shop is to be demolished to make way for Adler's speculative building. He re- fuses to sell up. He swears defiance at Adler. But this is not typical BBC drama, where the courageous little man wins out against the powerful and corrupt. The grocer doesn't stand a chance.

All Adler needs is a compul- Workers Press, Me sory purchase order from the council. And when that re- quires a little rule-bending, well, that's soon arranged.

A prominent council official is wined and dined and offered a substantial money bribe. When he shows signs of refus- ing cash, an obliging young lady is wheeled in. A combina- of her 'charms' tion and Adler's camera does the trick -the next shot shows the grocer's shop being demo- lished. The grocer is driven beyond endurance by the loss of the shop which is the centre of his small life. He bursts in on his wife and her lover and kills them both. (He catches them in the middle of a sado-maso- chistic episode which appar- ently explains the hold which the dull, plain, middle-class wife has worldly on Adler.) Much of the action is seen through the eyes of George, an old schoolmate of Adler's, played by Tom Kempinski. Adler apparently needs George as a kind of witness to his triumphs. As George says: 'He calls me over from time to time to signify some change in his material progress.'

George is an individual drop-out. He has walked out of his university job and left his 'lady wife and two odious children'. He lives on the dole occasional hand-outs and from Adler. He is presented as someone who rejects the life Adler has chosen. He is antagonistic and cyni- cal towards Adler in the early scenes, appears to feel a genuine affection for the tycoon's mistress and walks out in disgust when Adler humiliates her during their Christmas holiday together at his cottage in Ireland. But just as the middle-class grocer's fierce possessiveness can't protect his business, so middle-class individual pro- test can't be successful either.

Despite his distaste, George Press, Monday March 5, 1973 PAGE, 0 hangs around, finally going on to Adler's pay roll at £100 per week to keep his mistress entertained. The play portrays not only the ruthless determination of capitalism, but also the im- potence of the middle class.

Even the wiping out of Adler by murder basically alters nothing. In the final scene George tells us that the Adler Enterprises shares of dropped briefly at the news of his death, but soon recovered when it was realized that business went on as usual.

Adler's new block of offices, says George, standing 'empty and profitably waiting' while rents and land values rise, and a Sunday newspaper has paid handsomely for 'The David Adler Story'. Then he drives off in a shiny new car, leaving us to infer that it is he who sold the story. As the play's epilogue said: 'Any resemblance to places or persons living or dead, is a sign of the times we live in.'

Above: George Lazenby as David Adler, the property magnate, with Maureen Shaw as the gro- cer's wife, Diane Hardin in scene from 'The Operation'. Be- low: Tom Kempinski as George.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday March 5, 1973 Camden had provided Camden has become one perty owners of the favourite areas in in improvement grants in the London property past two years. developers and specula- one-third was going tors looking to make a rest went property quick profit out of hous- panies and other non-resident the case of an Camden house being converted 'improvement grants' from the into flats and sold for local council, they have turned the owner would, in £19,000, effect, be provided with all his and sold modernized £2,400—at flats for tens of thousands of taxpayer's expense, would be the size of the grant.

The process reached a high point this month when it was Evidence had come to light, discovered an old house said Cilr Soutter, where work- converted into flats and ing-class Of the £75,000 profit made could be the developer developed. regarded the shape of payments as harassment. grants from Camden. The council was now doing Said Arthur Soutter, Labour its best to impose stringent councillor the grants, conditions with mittee chairman: "Camden is a giving Camden the right to say very trendy place to live and who lived in the modernized TV pro- it property. ducers and actors.' As a result the number of grant system had sulted in Camden tenants applicants for grants- _ intro- duced as a concession to land- ing proved homes being sold lords and property men by the 1969- Wilson middle-class people from out- government in had slackened off considerably.

Tory Minister of State at the Home Office, Mark Car- lisle, has told senior police chiefs that despite 'encourag- the last ing recruitment over two years, the force was still 10 per cent below establish- ment. Last year the force showed An immediate, government- a net gain of 89, said Carlisle, backed campaign to increase is be who opening a l new police recruitment to was police station launched in the Manchester £200,000 at Moss Side. area.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

The coal industry's national reference tribu- nal has upheld the miners' union's view that five individual extra days off, granted by the Wil- berforce inquiry last year, do not constitute a third week's holiday. Right-wing union leaders hope the ruling will pave the way for the National Coal Board to add the extra week pay-and-conditions to the package it is offering the miners in a bid to stave off a threat of strike action.

It is by no means certain, however, that the Tories will allow this. A strict interpreta- tion of their Phase Two state pay controls would only allow consolidation of the five days into a third week's holiday. If the reference tribunal is over- ruled, the right-wingers could be faced with considerable pressure for action. But there are other straws in the wind which demand a examination of the ruthless leadership's reluctance to con- front the state pay laws.

Chief among these are the continuing discussions about a productivity deal in the pits, on which the NCB is laying much stress in a bid to split the miners. The Wilberforce report of 12 months ago recommended that such a deal be made by September of last year, 'based increases in productivity on nationally or by individual pits by a combination of the or two' . An NCB-union working up in March. party was set By July 1972, when the National Union of Mine- workers held its annual con- ference, union president Joe Gormley was talking about a deal giving miners periodic bonuses as productivity rose.

Many workers in the in- dustry were already involved double, triple and even multiple shift working, he said. It was inevitable that the Coal Board would want to extend such practices to get benefit from the maximum mechanization. 'We must find ways of encouraging the men to accept this fact? And the NUM chief went on to make clear that he saw • means such schemes as . 'to increase the real value of wages instead of having to rely on an annual confronta- tion'. This argument was backed up with the implied threat that if the miners pushed too hard on wages this time round, the Tories might hit at jobs in the industry by hanging fire on writing off the industry's capital debt and delaying implementation of their inte- grated fuel policy. So the working party dis- cussions proceeded, in private, with Tory Ministers and Coal Board chiefs periodically hang- ing this threat precisely over the heads of the miners. By August there were rumours that the NCB had proposed axing 50 of Britain's 290 pits-and that Heath had sent the plan back demanding something more drastic. The following month Industry Minister Tom Boardman let it be known publicly that there would be no significant finan- cial aid to the industry with- out firm pledges of increased productivity. Soon it became clear that as far as the NUM working party was concerned these blackmail tactics were taking effect. In November it is believed, the union executive was in- formed of proposals for a two-stage deal which would give the NCB round-the-clock working in several pits. This was to be in return for 'fair shares' remuneration schemes similar to that practised in the Post Office. The Post Office system operates on the basis that each time speed-up forces a worker out of his job, the rest of the labour force gets a cut. Union leaders are still trying to in- crease the size of their cut to 50 per cent. These vicious proposals were larded with a lot of 'left- sounding, but essentially cor- poratist nonsense about estab- lishing 'special committees at all levels for the purpose of achieving fair shares and con- trolling other factors'. Such committees, a work- ing party report to the execu- 'would return tive claimed, some working initiative down the trade union structure' A further report - dating from just a few days before publication of the Tories' Coal Industry Bill in December- went even further. Productivity committees could 'remove any suspicion that either side sought advan- at the expense of the tage other, it commented cynically.

The report went on to de- scribe plans for a bonus scheme, from which fines would be deducted for bad atten- dance, incorporating possible local incentives to encourage fast mining of high-cost coals.

It was presumably on the basis of these sort of backstage plans by the union leaders that the Tories agreed to make up to £525m of taxpayers' money available to the industry over the next three years in the Coal Industry Bill. But in a Commons statement on the Bill, Trade and Industry Minister Peter Walker made it clear that government de- mands on the miners are in- satiable. Aid on the scale provided could only be justi- fied by 'effective and sustained efforts by all sides of the in- dustry to improve its com- petitive position, contain costs viability', he and re-establish said. Acceptance of a productivity either in place of or deal, following a strike. would rep- resent not only an ignominious climb down to this arrogant Tory pressure but a double be- trayal of miners. It would involve the agree- ment of the NUM executive to miners footing the bill for 25

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rotsky Now available from New P 186a Clapham High Street, years' shameless robbery of nationalized coal and for last year's Tory refusal to settle entirely justified wage demands.

It would sell out the miners' struggle over years to get rid of area differentials. Walker's talk of re-establish- ing viability is a Tory fraud because there are two very good reasons why miners cannot be held responsible for last year's the industry. £118m loss in First there is the crippling burden of interest, on loans floated to compensate the old coal-owners buy and to machines lucrative from the non-nationalized mining mach- inery industry. Over the last ten years the interest burden has been running at an average of £37.5m a year. Secondly there is the £157m cost of last year's Tory attack on the miners. Neither of these reasons can be laid at the miners' door.

Rather they pose the question: why is the leadership

NUM

not fighting for workers' con- trol of the pits, and for the nationalization without com- pensation of the machine manufacturing industry, coal distribution, the finance houses and the banks? And why are these same union chiefs trying to avoid a fight—in unity with the rest of the trade union movement —to force the Tory government out of office and replace it with a Labour government which would carry out these policies? These are the political issues involved in the fight against a productivity deal in the pits.

There are those, like the supporters of the self-styled 'rank and file 'The paper Collier, ', who claim that all that is needed to stop such a deal is more militancy on the wages question. 'Beat the Tories and the NCB over money now and the chances are that the deal will be quietly forgotten, writes John Charlton in the current issue of the paper. This is dangerous rubbish, an indictment of the and anti-communist International Socialists group which helped establish this paper.. The only answer to Gormley is a political one. Miners' jobs, wages and trade union organ- ization can only be defended and improved today in the fight to build the alternative revolu- tionary leadership in the NUM which will carry the fight against the Tories to the end.

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Stalinists witch-hunt of militant teachers RIGHT-WING and Stalinist l Union of Teachers are prepari The pretext being used is the stormy scenes which greeted the executive at the teachers' rally at Central Hall, Westminster, last week.

At that meeting, nearly 2,000 teachers voted for a resolution demanding an indefinite strike and unity with all workers in struggle against the Tory pay laws. The union leaders refused to accept the motion and had to be howled off the platform before it to the meeting. could be put The executive's motion own merely congratulated those teachers who had come out on the official selective three-day stoppages. Stung by this humiliation, the backwoodsmen running the NUT are desperately trying to cover- up their own treachery by accus- ing the teachers who repudiated them of wanting to wreck the union. To , discredit the militant sec- tions of the NUT, the executive is using the oldest and most moth-eaten 'red-scare methods beloved of right-wing reformists EIGHT OFFICERS of the Wands- worth Teachers' Association ex- plained at their AGM that the platform at the Central Hall wis meeting had refused an over- whelming discuss the vote to Wandsworth motion. 'The chairman then tried to put the executive motion; the feeling of the meeting prevented him from doing so. "In response to this, one of officers, Eric Wandsworth the Porter, tried to put the Wands- worth motion. He was physically assaulted and, at this point, order was lost. ever since the communist move- ment began. 'This was planned disruption Trotskyites, International by Socialists, and the Socialist lot of Labour League. And a are not teachers, said them president-elect Max Morris.

The curious difference between this outrageous diatribe and thousands of similar Tory-minded outbursts over the last 50 years in Britain is that the author is a member cf the Communist Party. So far to the right have the Communist Party leaders moved 9.38 Schools. 12.25 Cywain. 12.55 News. 1.00 Pebble Mill at one. 1.30 Pets and vets. Woodentops. 1.45 2.05 Schools. 4.00 Pixie and Dixie.

4.50 Blue Peter. Sir Prancelot. 5.45 News. Weather.

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TOP OF THE FORM.

6.45 7.10 STAR TREK. Assignment Earth.

8.00 PANORAMA. 9.00 NEWS.

9.25 PLAY

TODAY:

"Access to the Children'.

With Toss Ackland, Mary Hildegard Neil.

DANCING. 11.05

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OPERA IN REHEARSAL.

11.10 Act 2 of Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro'. 11.35 Weather. 11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.25 Open University.

PARENTS AND CHILD-

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Weather. 7.35

LOOK,

STRANGER. Jimmy the One. 8.00

ALIAS SMITH AND JONES.

Shoot-out at Diablo Station. 8.55

CALL MY BLUFF.

9.25

SHOW

OF

THE

WEEK:

Nana Mouskoury. With John Boulter, Design, George Zambetas.

FLAME

10.10

IN THE NORTH.

Story of Finland. Written by Stuart Hood.

11.15 NEWS.

11.00 OPINION.

Weather. linist leaders of the National preparing to mount a vicious tant members of the union as wn failure to give adequate

BY ROYSTON BULL

under their reformist "peaceful road to socialism' ideology that it is now impossible to distin- guish a CPer from, say, Harold Wilson slandering the seamen's strike in 1966. Now that he has joined forces with the right wing, Morris, along with the rest of the Com- munist Party leadership, has no difficulty in quickly adapting to the vicious scaremongering tactics.

The words are slightly different, but the nature of the lying in- nuendoes identical is to Stalinism slanders. with which has always fought the Trotskyist movement. And just as the lies and dis- whipped up tortions were the Stalinists internationally into a hate campaign against Trotsky and his followers, which even- tually led to their murders, so Morris and his bureaucratic henchmen are trying to whip up so that all a scare campaign militants are expelled from the

NUT.

'It was lost because the plat- form no longer wished in any way to reflect or respond to the wishes of the majority of the people present. 'The leadership began to leave the platform. 'Fred Scott, another. Wands- worth officer, was physically mandhandled by a member of the executive in his attempt to reach the platform and restore order. 'Amidst confusion and chaos, the platform cut off the power to the floor microphones and subsequently the platform micro- phones were unplugged. expulsions being The are called for so that the NUT can be made safe for the right-wing reformism of a Stalinist and his brother bureaucrats. working-class Having led the internationally the most to colossal set-backs over the last 50 years, Stalinism, with its take militancy now being replaced by has reactionary policies, openly joined the conspiracy to now all revolt. quell 'This was deliberate disruption, Morris told a Press conference later. 'The platform microphones were pulled out by a pre-arranged

ITV

9.30 Schools. 10.33 World War I (London only). 11.00 Schools. 12.05 Doing as 1240 First te Mr. the looking port. 1.00 Mr and Mrs. 1.30 Em- merdale farm. 2.00 All our yester- 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 days. Film: 'Return to Paradise'. Gary 4.25 Pardon Cooper. my genie. 4.55 Clapperboard. 5.20 Lollipop loves Mr Mole. 5.50 News.

TODAY.

6.00 6.40

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.

CORONATION STREET.

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8.00 8.30

BLESS THIS HOUSE.

The Loneliness of the Short Dis- tance Walker. 9.00

THE

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• OF SHER-

LOCK HOLMES.

The Sen- sible Action of Lieutenant Holst. 10.00

NEWS. 10.30 WILD, WILD

WEST.

DRIVE-IN. 12.00 WORLD

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12.25 A TIME TO SPEAK.

London.

CHANNEL: 9.30-11.52

1.15 News. 1.30 London. 2.00 Rebel'. Schools. 2.25 Film: "The Puffin. 4.25 4.20 London. 6.00 6.45 Lon- News. 6.15 Maverick 11.20 Boots don. 10.30 Theatre 12.15 Randolph show. News, weather. Channel WESTWARD. As except 12.05 12.57 News. 1.00 London. London. 4.20 Gus Honeybun. 6.00 6.35 Date Diary. with Danton News. 10.33 Forma'. 12.15 10.30 Epilogue. Ruffled platform at the Central Hall mee plan and loud-hailers brought in by hooligans. 'These people could have made speeches during the debate they wanted to. They didn't want to. They wanted chaos. 'This was a deliberate attack on their own union. Because of this shambles, the Press the next day did - not carry a single word about the NUT's case but only scenes of the fighting. And that was planned. These_people want to break up the NUT. 'These people do not really want more militant action. They 'Soon after this, the executive left and the lights were switched off. 'In spite of this, the majority of the people at the meeting stayed to hear Fred Scott move the Wandsworth motion. It was overwhelmingly carried. The meeting closed in orderly fashion.' The loudhailer was present be cause it had been on their dem- onstration, Wandsworth added. The officers' statement to the AGM was approved by about 100 teachers present, with only and one two votes against abstention. merely want to be in a position to attack the executive for not doing anything.' some Camden teachers When disagreed with this and said the sincere, militants' aims were Morris replied: 'You are giving them higher motives than I would.' When asked what information he had for saying this, Morris refused to elaborate. When his political companion Sam Fisher, NUT vice-president, took the attack to apoplectic heights by alleging: 'These people are a cancer 12.00

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9.30 London. News. 12.05 London. 2.00 Schools. 2.10 Cartoon. 2.30 Houseparty. •The 3.00 Film: Who Stole tOono^s.25 4.25 5.20 Cartoon. 5.50 Crossroads. 6.00 6.40 London. Day by day. London Theatre. 10.30 Shops. 11.00 News. 11.05 12.00 Farming. 12.25 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH

9.30 London. 2.30 Women. 3.00 Film: •Wake Me When the War is Over', 4.25 Lon- Chuckleheads. 5.25 don. ads. 550 London. Crossroads. 6.01 Re- Lond West 0.30 Repom Waberser 45.

10.30 Film: 'Berserk'. 12.15 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above ex- cept: 6.01-6.22 dydd. 8.00-8.30 Yr wythnos.

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West as above except: 6.22- 6.45 This is the West this week.

ANGLIA:

9.30 London. 12.04 News. 12.05 London. 2.30 House- Welby. 3.55 party. 3.00 Marcu 4.22 | News. 4.25 Rompel room. London. 5.20 Cartoons. 5.35 Wind in the willows. 5.50 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.45 London. 10.30 Russell Harty. 11.30 London. 12.00 Big question.

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12.00 Programme 12.05 Lon- guide. don. 3.00 Film: Follow That Man'. Today. 6.45 4.25 London. 6.00 10.30 Name of the London. game. 11.55 Story. Weather. • 1.33

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11.00 London. News. Rom- 1.40 Schools. 2.40 3.00 Film: "Tarzan's room. News. 4.25 farm. London. 5.20 5.50 London. 6.00 Reports.

6.15 Workers Press, M I Hall meeting within the union and are out to smash the

NUT.

They need ' Morris chucking out of the union, agreed with him enthusiastically.

Union official Fred Jarvis in joined the slander of the militant teachers: 'Don't let us break up the executive

NUT.

Attacking the not help our case forward will bit. If think teachers one you the take government can on with single-handed or even other unions, you are mistaken.'

Jarvis said that because the meeting had driven the executive off the asking what was going on. He suggested that the militants should attack the other teaching unions like the NAS and the

UWT

rather than their own executive. The official NUT Press release about the rally stated: 'Those responsible are guilty to the of doing grave damage teachers' cause and the image of the teaching profession. 'The officers of the union intend to prepare a full report on the incidents which occurred for the consideration of the next meeting of the executive? hostility towards the The executive expressed by the over- whelming majority of the teachers who turned up at Westminster Hall was representative of widely held views within the NUT.

But because of the completely reactionary politics of Max Morris and the right wing, the criticisms of the leadership being are answered with a witch-hunt of the critics. The real wreckers and splitters in the NUT are the bureaucratic leaders who want to drive out the most active elements in the union.

DAY'S TV

Dick Van Dvke. 6.45 London. 10.30 Monday night. 10.40 Film: 'Scandal Sheet'. YORKSHIRE: 9.30 London. 3.00 Film: 'Second Chance'. 4.25 Lon- don. 6.00 Calendar. Weather. 6.45 London. 10.30 Name of the game.

11.50 Yoga. 12.15 Ugliest girl in town. 12.40 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30

London. 12.00 London. Handful of songs. 12.05 2.30 Film: 'South of Algiers'.

4.00 Crossroads. London. 6.00 4.20 News. 6.25 This is your right. 6.40 Londor five Desperate 10.30 Rochdale. 11.00 Women'. Film: 9.03 London. 2.30'St one word. London. News. 2.31 9.03 Hally Matrimony® 3.00 Film: imony 4.25 London: Holy Today, 655 Cartoon. 6.45 5.20 London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 London. 10.30 Face the Press. 11.00 Name of the game. 12.25 News. 12.40 Lectern.

SCOTTISH:

9.30 London. 2.30 Dateline. 3.00 Film: Lad A Dog'. 4.25 London. 5.20 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.30 Cartoon.

6.45 London. 10.30 Late call. 10.35 and dragon. 11.20 Quentin Lion Jurgens.

GRAMPIAN:

10.58 London. 12.13 Cartoon. 12.25 London: 1.38 Schools. 3.05 News. 3.08 Film: "The Bash- Beautiful Blonde from ful Bend'. 4.25 London. 5.20 Em- merdale farm. 5.50 London. 6.00 Royal clansmen. News. 6.05 6.40 London. 10.30 University challenge.

12.35 11.00 Name of the game. Meditation. s Press, Monday March 5, 1973 PAGE 14

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this month our best so far. Each month your response is greater, so we are sure we can do it. Today workers all over the country are lobbying the TUC Special Congress to demand it takes action against this Tory government. But everyone knows that its reformist and Stalinist leaders will try and do their best to avoid challenging this government. Tories prepare even As the greater attacks and with a new budget tomorrow, it is more vital than ever to use Workers Press to build an alternative leadership.

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ON February 23, Workers Press reported on its front page the further "moves to dictatorship' by the Tory govern- ment. We drew attention to the promotion of Field Marshal Sir Michael Carver as the new Chief of Defence Staff. We again emphasized the im- portance of Carver's appointment in last Saturday's paper at the same time indicating that Carver had written an enthusiastic fore- word to a book on 'counter- subversion' by the notorious Brigadier Frank Kitson, of Kenya, Cyprus, Malaya and Ulster fame.

"Observer's' Yesterday Colour Magazine had this to say: 'It is said in government circles regards that the Prime Minister him [Carver] as the man to help keep the country running if there should be a disruption of normal activities.

SLL PUBLIC

MEETINGS

SHEFFIELD

TUESDAY MARCH 6, 7.30 p.m.

Friends Meeting House Hartshead Speaker: CLIFF SLAUGHTER (SLL Central Committee)

TOTTENHAM

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

BASINGSTOKE

WEDNESDAY MARCH 7,

8 p.m. Public Library Speaker: M. BANDA (SLL Central Committee)

SPECIAL

ATUA MEETINGS

BUILDING WORKERS

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

Tuesday March 6 7.30 p.m. Norfolk Room Caxton Hall Caxton Street, SW1

Hospital workers NALGO members repudiate Anderson's views PAGE 12 Workers Preas, Monday March 5, 1973 'Make our leaders take action'

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

to lobby HOSPITAL WORKERS from many areas will lobby the special TUC today to demand sup- porting action for their fight against the Tory pay-control laws. According to NUPE, the majority union amongst the ancillary workers, the number of hospitals affected by the unions' selective strike policy will rise by 50 per cent this week. 241 were hit by the weekend. Over the weekend Workers Press revoner Unofficial strikers about Talkeoi what they think is needed to win their struggle. strike in At Queen Mary's hospital

NUPE

Roehampton, London, branch secretary Tom St Helens Thomas stressed the 111 001- lobby lance ToGaVS fore athion to baca u posi- force the TUC to take

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

e sai T the Te i io gun ABOUT 250 ancillary nre l, bal up to now every- bit disillusioned in Whiston workers at the ulc sd the lack of role the union Hospital, St Helens, Lancs, Icaucs arc blayilk. yesterday began a one- 'The danger is that they will week unofficial strike in

L OW

everyuling the rank and file and make support of their pay claim.

HOSPITALS workers at Two of the hospital's us fight on our own.? main The gales atre urdel They will have pickets out With I1 other hospitals pital in Preston, Lancs, picket and all non- today in spite of London and north firm deter- esential materials are TRe raci in south are showing that their union officials are being turned away Marv's Kent wueen mia or as urem sunike opposed to the all-out strike placed on 'red alert' been for better pay goes into Other workers in Int action. by the hospital board. its second week. hospital NUPE regional officer Mr But workers there are HusCs Warburton told meeting altery ven a week . determined continue palny wit lnt surlkels that the last Friday night Ted Firestone, NUPE unen surucae aler taey are #nONS due return to work on to ordinating committee

W'OLKCIS

arc dolctaly Thursday. Whittingham, said that thạt the staggered strike a work-to-rule. policy was the best. 'Don't Pleaded. alleave for Rise Oxford unite strikers he strike,' it to the co-ordinating com- 25 hospitals Where mittee.' were London whole He had come to ask the oul ll as dl chairman A OINSm eem nsospioa the ACHi week TAiS Week i laundry Oxford District To Conne Oul. number is expected to rise casunen. NUs bildl said, but had been mandated Trades Council said: to 40. workers and carworkers from his executive committee will be held in Oxford Whit- ser- In north Lond oNorthern, involved in this demon- orevelt cuci scl next Saturday. of Royal in the vices wrole minctod. stration and line up with St Leonard's north-west from collapsing. Had Ba Rs Road, It has been called to the strikers. and Hospital are all protest against the Tory Cries of "al-out no' and 'We Oxfordshire official strike state strike'

NUPE

Mr greeted his pleas. One mim- COmIY oul oll zvellcul d WallL salinei today for a week. laws. Anderson, The North London Group allow the hospital wor- In calling for support organizing will staro demonstra- kers to fail this demonstration, for the from tion which the Roval Northern to Han- leading 'Cut North Sea gas or we strike' ley Road and then back to Whittington mass here to stop this strike.'

will be held outside

ECCLW&

A worried Warburton told the Central Archway the branch that if they came in is aila to estical Road. GASWORKERS in the cit il today tarea Solui-west IN KENT, Bromley hospital You mermere d uste suppor threaten if lI- eir strike is out for the day today and action local 50,000 comestc CUSeS will stage its continue refusing to Farnborough fails DUalU switch off their strike gas. one-dav malone vorer o secono industriai users suppied re- morrow or Wednesday. by natural gas. ress ue s LO that you back us now? duced Nottinghane. ad woecers reress said

NUPE

The board has shire. A strike plan- Stott probably refuse, IT Wi of the two kitchen ned at yesterday that Uilc and if it does so more …TOr will gas-making plants In tut une nimops stewaren strike from March til than 5,000 men bronev. region, Ambergate, near feeding patients only had Strike action Derby. threatened . to walk out com- backed West Midlands Board said yestes cut of sup labour mas ancady oreleiy AULiiUl Gas lies of coke-oven gas was used to do their work.

'Let us then agree to put trade would be virtually WALTER ANDERSON'S de- policies 'carbon copy' of his predecessor's. representatives general secretary of parture government's new Pay Board, to that he suresses mOSt the Nationa and Local Govern- Strike union interests. important thing about the resig-

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VICTOTY

Tenaconen. express a view will be lobbying today's TUC to of Anderson by Geoffrey Drain, the extent of is depeutede nor speak ar who ecmuuouale break. On the head of another white- speak expected interview recorded with collar union, Clive Jenkins: union at today's special TUC.

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since the one-day hos- pital strike last Decem- ber more than 100 new members had been re- cruited to the union. On the picket line Michael Chambers told Workers Press: 'We're prepared to go on for another week if we don't get a wage increase.' occasion, we • all know what the result is going to be? The demonstration has already support won from car workers in the branch of the 5/55 Transport and General Workers' Union, the of Oxford Council Action and from local civil servants. from a plant in Scun- thorpe. The continued deter- mination and militancy of the gasworkers pre- sents a major challenge both to today's special TUC and to tomorrow's meeting of the General and Municipal Workers' Union executive. So far only one union - the mineworkers' — has offered even token suport to the gasmen. lled on the national executive instruct delegates to today's UC to call for action of General proportions to force a eneral Election. Last Saturday, the executive self refused to accept Ander- n's line that ... trade unionists lould join the Pay Board.

So watch out for Anderson's What next after the Tuesday March

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

IT TEAMS from all over the coun- or the first time in Manchester yes More than 200 youth and workers gathered for the first full rehearsal of the 'Road to Workers' Power' - starting from massacre of Peterloo to the formation of the Labour Party in 1906 following the judgement on the Taff Vale railway union. an impressive It was truly • occasion. At last the contingents from the four areas-Merthyr, Jarrow, London and Manchester —got a glimpse of the strength and the power that they are all bringing to this re-enactment of working-class history.

The day's work was started by a rehearsal of each separate episode, then the whole Pageant was put togther in sequence and performed as it will be at the Pool, Empire Wembley, next Sunday, March 11. The total effect was mag- nificent even without the sound, costumes and lighting that will turn it into such a spectacle at the Pool. The Jarrow cast, which is recreating the formation of one of the first miners' unions, were especially impressive. The team already has its full costumes-old boiler suits given by a local store. The women and girls were dressed in shawls, long dresses went barefooted as the and striking miners' wives did in the 1830s. THE BUDGET has outworn its usefulness, according to tax ex- pert Mr Lindsay Duncan of the London Chamber of Commerce.

The close watch needed on the economy could not be done as What was a one-off exercise. needed was a series of mini- budgets or micro-budgets, said Duncan. All Trades Unions Alliance

MEETINGS

Fight rising rents and prices Defend basic democratic rights Force the Tories to resign BRIXTON: Tuesday March 6, 8 p.m. Brixton Training , Centre, Control Room, Effra Road, SW2.

'Forward to the Pageant'.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday March 6, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- 'Common Mar- • Avenue. shawe ket Conspiracy. EAST LONDON: Tuesday March 6, 8 р.т. 'Festival Inn', Chrisp 'Support the Street, E14. hospital workers: gas- men and WATFORD: Wednesday March 7, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hail, Wood- ford Hall, near Wattord junction station. TOTTENHAM: Wednesday March 7, 8 p.m. 'Prince Arthur, bottom of Broad Lane, N.17. 'Forward to the Pageant. March Southall p.m. Osterley Park Road. 'The Road to Workers' Power'. 7, 8 p.m. Street, SE18. 'Support the gas- and hospital workers. ler the by election? March 6, 8 p.m.

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