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BOOK YOUR TICKET FOR TOMORROW—See p.4 A NEW CHAPTER in the l against capitalism and oppr at the Empire Pool, Londo workers' rights will be per show how the working clas forged links with workers al Labour Party to defend their This is the Road to Workers' Power' and the final step is the concern of the Pageant and rally itself-the construction of a revolutionary party to lead the working class against the enemy. The Pageant and rally will start this task. It will be the most powerful anti- Tory rally since the election of the hated Heath govern- ment in June 1970. Preparation This is a deliberate mobi- lization. It is part of a lengthy political preparation by the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League for the revolutionary struggles ahead in Britain. We started with the 4,000- strong Alexandra Palace rally in February 1971. Then came the great campaign for the Right to Work, when unem- ployed youth from as far as Glasgow marched on London for an 8,500-strong rally at the Empire Pool. In all these campaigns the lessons were learned and the movement tested for political struggle of revolutionary pro- portions. Analysis But preparation alone is not enough to meet the chal- lenge of the hour. The deter- mination displayed in all the campaigns was firmly rooted in our political and economic analysis of the capitalist sys- tem. We said that capitalism had reached the point of economic breakdown and that workers would be legally rob- bed of all their democratic

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 10, 1

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

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in the history of working class struggle id oppression will be written tomorrow London. From 3 p.m. the Pageant of be performed in the arena. This will ing class built their unions, how they orkers abroad and how they formed the nd their rights in parliament.

This under- dictatorship for rights as a result. paring Tin standing was decisive. Britain. YS also The SLL and the Meanwhile it is quite clear avoided the trap of believing that the has created crisis that the political and conditions which mean that eco- nomic breakdown automati- life cannot go on in Britain cally assured the development before. People will be as forced to fight. of the revolutionary party.

The working class has al- ready stripped legally been Transform of the very rights depicted in the Pageant. In effect the • working class has been legally All the time, emphasis was abolished by the government placed on one factor- -the gap -for the working class can- between the objective need of not be conceived of without the working class to take the unions, rights and the ability and power the subjective to struggle as a class. feelings of workers, who have not yet recognized this vital Illusion challenge. It is for the revolutionary party to transform this gap Finally capitalism in Britain fighting for leadership in by is racked with insoluble the enormous controntation contradictions. The advantage between the two classes now the Tories thought they had building up in Britain today.

gained by devaluing the This is the meaning of the pound, forcing up prices and Empire Pool. driving have down wages What are the conditions of proved to be a grand illusion.

crisis that make this step for- The international crisis, ward possible? displayed most vividly by the The Tories and a tightly- break all down of inter- knit gang of military and national monetary relations police will have conspirators are pre- its most catastro- CH 10, 1973 No 1018 4p

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phie impact in this country one of the weakest links in the capitalist chain. In short we have in Britain essential ingredients all the for revolutionary upheaval.

• The international crisis of capitalism. • The impossibility of life going on as it did before for ordinary people. • An economy so weak as to be unable to sustain for long the battering from the world crisis. The Empire Pool rally will be an attempt to launch a new leadership within the working class which has this understanding as its basis for action. History We do this through a re- creation of history. History for the working class is not just the past. All workers enter class struggles with his- tory strapped to their backs, They do not consciously live this history in their every-day The boiler of a railway engine constructed for the 'Road to Workers' Power' Pageant is carried out of the props department in London lo be taken to the Empire Pool, Wembley, in preparation for tomorrow's performance. For our final Pageant diary see page 3. For further pictures and story, see centre pages. activities. They enter history from the present. Workers enter the fight to defend their rights under conditions governed by the economic and political crisis.

In other words, their stub- born struggle to defend the gains of their forefathers in- volves a confrontation of re- volutionary proportions. Unique The thousands of workers, youth and professional people present at tomorrow's unique occasion will have before simple message: them one *The working class won their rights by struggle and they will only keep them by re- volutionary struggle.' The call from the Empire Pool is to join this struggle to transform the Socialist La- bour League into the revolu- tionary party. This is the responsibility of all those present at Empire Pool and every worker who values his rights and condi- tions in Britain.

workers press Anti-Tory rally and Pageant of history

ALL ROADS LEAD

TO EMPIRE POOL

BOOK YOUR TICKET FOR TOMORROW—See p.4 A NEW CHAPTER in the 1 against capitalism and oppr at the Empire Pool, Londo workers' rights will be per show how the working clas forged links with workers a Labour Party to defend their This is the 'Road to Workers' Power' and the final step is the concern of the Pageant and rally itself-the construction of a revolutionary party to lead the working ciass against the enemy. The Pageant and rally will start this task. It will be the most powerful anti- Tory rally since the election of the hated Heath govern- ment in June 1970. Preparation This is a deliberate mobi- lization. It is part of a lengthy political preparation by the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League for the revolutionary struggles ahead in Britain. We started with the 4,000- strong Alexandra Palace rally in rebruary 19/1. Then came the great campaign for the Right to Work, when unem- ployed youth from as far as Glasgow marched on London for an 8,500 strong rally at the Empire Pool. In all these campaigns the lessons were learned and the movement tested for political struggle of revolutionary pro- portions. AnalysIs But preparation alone is not enough to meet the chal- lenge of the hour. The deter- mination displayed in all the campaigns was firmly rooted in our political and economic analysis of the capitalist sys- tem. We said that capitalism had reached the point of economic breakdown and that workers would be legally rob- bed of all their democratic INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER & SATURDAY MARCH 10, 1973 • No 1018 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE A NEW CHAPTER in the history of working class struggle against capitalism and oppression will be written tomorrow at the Empire Pool, London. From 3 p.m. the Pageant of This will workers' rights will be performed in the arena.

show how the working class built their unions, how they forged links with workers abroad and how they formed the Labour Party to defend their rights in parliament.

rights as a result. This under- paring for dictatorship was standing decisive. Dillaln. SLL and the YS also The Meanwhile it is quite clear avoided the trap of believing that the crisis has created the political conditions which and that Clum cannot go on in Britain life breakdown cally assured the development before. People will of the revolutionary party.

fight. forced The working class has al- ready stripped legally been Transform of the verv rights depicted in the Pageant. In effect the working class has been legally All the time, emphasis was abolished by ine government placed on one factor-the gap -for the working class can- between the objective need of not be conceived of without the working class to the unions, rights and the ability the subjective and to struggle as a class. Teenies or worker. woo lave not yet recognized this vital Illusion challenge. the revolutionary Ior gạp bally Lis Finally capitalism in Britain fighting for leadership in. racked insoluble confrontation The advantage the two classes contractons. between the Tories thought they had bullding up in britain today.

gained devaluing the This is the meaning of the pound, lorcing up prices Empire Pool. driving down wages have What are the conditions of proved to be a grand illusion.

crisis that make this step for- The international crisis, ward possible? displaved most vividiv by the The Tories and tightly- break down of all inter- knit of military and gang national monetary relations pre-

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phic impact in this country— the weakest links in one of the capitalist chain. In short we have in Britain all the essential ingredients for revolutionary upheaval.

• The international crisis of capitalism. • The impossibility of life going on as it did before for ordinary people. • An economy so weak as to be unable to sustain for long the battering from the world crisis. The Empire Pool rally will be an attempt to launch a new leadership within the working class which has this understanding as its basis for action. We do this through a re- creation of history. History for the working class is not just the past. All workers enter class struggles with his- tory strapped to their backs, They do not consciously live this history in their every-day The boller of a railway engine constructed for the 'Road to Workers' Power' Pageant Is carried out of the props department in London io be taken to the Empire Pool, Wembley, in preparation for tomorrow's performance. For our final Pageant diary see page 3. For further pictures and story, see centre pages. activities. They enter history from the present. Workers enter the fight to defend their rights under conditions governed by the economic and political crisis.

In other words, their stub- born struggle to defend the gains of their forefathers in- volves a confrontation of re- volutionary proportions. Unique The thousands of workers, youth and professional people present at tomorrow's unique occasion will have before them one simple message: "The working class won their rights by struggle and they will only keep them by re- volutionary struggle.' The call from the Empire Pool is to join this struggle to transform the Socialist La- bour League into the revolu- tionary party. This is the responsibility of all those present at Empire Pool and every worker who values his rights and condi- tions in Britain.

Monetary talks have already PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday March 10, 1973 SHORTLY AFTER HIS election in June 1970 Edward Heath went to the United Nations general assembly to make a major political statement. He declared that the 1970s would be 'the era of civil wars'. Since this utterance a group of army officers have come into public prominence. They are Brigadier Frank Kitson, who Heath appointed as head of the Infantry Training School at Warminster; Brigadier Michael Calvert, a founding member of Special Air Services

(SAS);

the and Major-General Richard Clutterberk now lecturer in Political Violence and Revolution at Exeter University. KITSON first introduced the theory of 'gangs and counter-gangs' and used it to assassinate some leaders of the Mau-Mau move- ment in Kenya. His technique was Its operatives can be dress up Africans in the garb of the of the world to assist part nationalist and infiltrate them. army it had a hand in the fall o These agents provocateur would then Jagan in Guyana-and the the Mau-Mau lead into prearranged opponents ambushes where the British army would While conducting missions down the Mau-Mau while shoot the frequently used 'counter-gangs' escaped. London, for example, He received medals for this and other expected to work services in Malaya, Aden, Cyprus and, or chauffeurs or barmen. more recently, Northern Ireland. During This week CLUTTERBUCK Ulster his term in the torture rooms *Protest and the book were set up at Holywood Barracks and rilla'. One of his major the shot 13 unarmed civilians paras the establishment of a 'thi in the back in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

para-military organization t Just over a year ago Kitson produced a demonstrators, strikers Low-Density Operations', book which He the importanc stresses become has a best-seller in military gence work and argues for and reactionary circles in big business.

of the revolutionary leade This politically-charged book urges the In of his concludin one take battle "stations government to up Clutterbuck says: against the working class by integrating tioning of the law itself be the police, army and intelligence ser- frustrated then a governm vices under a central command.

ready to suspend some of t CALVERT was described in last week's which that law is designer 'Observer' "a as of small until this a member attack on feated.' group of military counter-insurgency experts. Until recently he was These reactionary views from fellow search in military studies at military brass are now being Manchester University. The 'Observer' frequently. After Both Calvert and Kitson stated: see blasts in central London, developing the insurgency as major and Clutterbuck were invit threat of the late 1970s.. Echoe's of In two separate pro Heath! preach their message. A qualified engineer, Calvert wants to re- Their arrogant appearance o1 design frustrate 'the and their temptation to ir major cities urban guerrilla'. He has been described their as mentor must The SAS, op her 'the the fortress city'. sharpest warning to of which he was a founding the working class, especial member, secretive and most unions. deadly wing of the army. Among ultra-s ght-wing elem THE international monetary system has reached the point of almost complete breakdown and there is very little the capitalist powers can do to stem the slide towards slump.

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This was clear yesterday as will float float means. the mark Finance Ministers and ban- when independently the markets kers from the United States, reopen. the Common Market, Japan, In fact, there is no longer any Canada and Sweden gathered stability relations between In currencies and if Giscard in Paris for crisis talks on the heeded d'Estaing's call was no monetary situation. of country or group countries has any chance of halting the In his opening speech French monetary system's collapse.

Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing said failure Yesterday's top-level meeting to agree doomed to a joint international settlement was from the start. Since the foreign exchange mar- would call into question the very kets were closed eight of days principle exchange rate ago which the monetary it has become evident that there stability on system is based. is absolutely no basis of agree- capitalist ment between the This was a high level of under- powers. Swiss statement: sterling, the There is not the franc, the Japanese yen and the even pos- Canadian dollar sibility of patching together are already floating and West partial or temporary arrangement Germany has said failure to agree on a joint to buy time. The objective laws THE PERUVIAN military junta, by the military regime. a leading Com- led by Juan Velasco, has Diaz Chavez, scripted striking shipyard munist Party trade unionist, kers into the army. declared er a Danterview in the Days': A Ministry of Labour spokes- newspaper "The Minister of La- man attacked the present strike present shipyard wor- boe best members opinion, is one of wave of teachers, of the office and the Revo- kers, post workers He doctors as damaging 'key sectors lutionary government. has not only shown that he is very for the national economy and capable but that he has well-being'. great All these public sector wor- social and human sensitivity unable to with labour pro- kers join unions blems: dealing when aure and have had their wages frozen sions have be despatched to any the miners' strike 1 I to assist in coups- the fall of Dr Cheddi struggle a -and the assassination picket squad has b police have been imperialism. missions its members The Territorial Army guises; in serve (TAVR) have mple, they could be 15,000 and armed a k as commissionaires standards. They are event of a General Strike. published a id the Urban Guer- These sinister develop out the consent of major arguments is of a 'third force' public—are a direc , a rapidly worsening ec nization to deal with situation. It means and pickets. importance of intelli. in London events be subjected to the rgues for "penetration be emphasiz ary leadership itself". must Official and concluding remarks, officially denied resp *Should the func- The group of Irish • itself be deliberately custody from Heath government must be have been connect some of the freedoms visionals in the A s designed to protect We don't say that on the law is de- 'set up', but in the tivity we are oblige iews from a clique of tion. now being heard more After all, not so long • Thursday's bomb that Special Branch London, both Calvert were involved in F were invited onto the Soar Eire group arate programmes to London. The bombing incident arance on the media baffling when the cr tion to invoke Heath is examined. must serve as the Scotland Yard is sai to organizations of 150lb of gelignite ar • especially the trade yet this was disma on the pavement by ving elements discus- men from the Yard.

DITOR JOHN SPENCER

completely of capitalism have disrupted all attempts at con- trolling them by agreement.

Common Market Finance Min- isters, meeting in Brussels on Thursday, could agree only on a list of 'suggestions' to put to the high-powered American team. The French and German repre- sentatives were absent from the had all meeting which. the markings of a hollow charade.

The list of suggestions amoun- ted to a last despairing plea to Washington to take responsibility for the vast pool of 'hot' dollars in Europe. The EEC ministers wanted the US to buy • them back with borrowed foreign cur- rency and by floating a new issue of Treasury bonds. Tory Chancellor Anthony Bar- ber, grovelling to the last, was anxious that the list of sugges- tions should not be put forward as demands on the United States.

In practice it makes no differ- ence what tone the Europeans use: the American answer is a firm 'No'. British conditions for joining a concerted Common Market currency float have been con- temptuously rejected by the other EEC countries. Germany has in- dicated it will float independently foreign exchange when the markets reopen. This will throw the burden of dollar-selling onto the other European countries and force Yet it is an unchallengeable fact that if proceeding apace since there was a 'car bomb' outside the Yard Since this s' strike last vear special anti- the people most qualified to dispose ago a ad has been set up and the would be the army's bomb dis- of it been armed. posal unit. all the hallmarks of a piece of ial Army and Volunteer Re- This has VR) have been expanded by showmanship by the police to curry favour with public opinion and to win I armed and trained to army support for the arming of the police.

They are to be used in the 'national emergency'-read The incident has served the Tory govern- well. It intimidated the hospital ment developments-taken with- workers' unions to send their members onsent of parliament or the back to work while the military opera- the Whitehall bomb direct reflection of the tion surrounding has dealt a sobering the civil blow rsening economic and political at the baffling who staged their first-ever means that servants London on Thursday national strike ten days ago. must ed to the closest scrutiny.

It It was the danger of this type of situation emphasized that both the which prompted the Socialist Labour Provisional

IRA

have call earlier this year League to issue a enied responsibility. for a joint declaration by all groups on citizens taken into the left for a common fight to defend om Heathrow are believed to the basic democratic rights of the work- with Pro- connected the ing class. Andersonstown area. Whoever was responsible for Thursday's say that these people were à mystery. What is not blasts remains the interests of objec- a mystery is that the Tory government are obliged to ask this ques- will use the incident to strengthen its campaign against the working class.

t so long ago it was admitted The strength of the working class can al Branch agents provocateur and must resist the intentions of this Ived in planting guns on clique of army offcers and extreme group Hackney, east 1n right-wing Tories. For the the revolutionary movement g incidents are made doubly task is to expose publicly these re- hen the conduct of the police actionaries and to press urgently ahead eard is said to have contained found outside building with the a revolutionary of party to lead the working class to the elignite and a time fuse.

And establishment of socialism.

vas dismantled and displayed vement by two bomb disposal This is a historic responsibility from which we must not abdicate. them to float their currencies as FINAL ballot of the crucial 1 other well. words the French general election takes rencies Europe will relapse Sunday with the rul- place on complete chaos with their into ing Gaullist party under severe parities fixed from day to day.

pressure. This spells the end for the The outcome is very much in Common Market, trad- because the balance and the week past ing relations within the EEC will of bargains has number be disrupted by such a struck between the Gaullists and The German development. deci- other groups in an attempt to sion to float marks the burial of strengthen their position. The Mone- any chance of European centre-reformers by Tean tary Union. Lecanuet who won 12.5 per cent The enlarged Common Market of the the first ballot votes in has proved unable to meet its will in be standing most cases first big test. under down in favour of the Gaullist.

regime which each member is Radical leader, country The Jean- floating will be independently Jacques Servan-Schreiber, while for himself'. case of 'every man the left coalition, has opposing refused to bloc The end of the of 'fixed enter into a era with the Gaullists. but adjustable parities' will drive Georges for Marchais, the the on-going trade war to a new Communist Party, has angled for The pitch of ferocity. American middle-class which talking openly in votes. went government is Democratic-Centre the last of 15-per-cent terms import Sunday, the by claiming that to follow the surcharge passage common programme upholds the Trade Bill of the through of small savers and pro- rights Congress. perty holders. At the same time there is great A good deal will depend upon hostility the European among how Lecanuet's supporters cast employers to Japan. Japanese in- their votes where of their one of dustry is accused dumping has withdrawn candidates own Europe and surplus exports in favour of the Gaullists. 'dirty' float of the conducting a Some statements by the Com- This charge yen. was again Party suggest that it is munist Helmut levelled this week by more interested in the return of Schmidt. a stronger opposition than in a this mutual recrimination As victory. for the common pro- demonstrates clearly there is gramme, which would precipitate the employers in- full-scale President way crisis stem the col- Pompidou has made it clear that ternationally call lapse of their monetary system he would not its and the slide towards slumo.

leaders to form a government.

workers' history to life PAGEANT teams from i arriving in London yeste Pool, Wembley. They I working-class history to Pool-the largest indoor UNION LEADERS are maintaining a leisurely approach to their mem- bers' fight against the £2.40, government con- trolled Ford pay offer. Negotiators' secretary Reg Birch is writing to the 15 unions involved seeking a convenient date for them to meet later this month. Birch and Moss Evans, chairman of the Ford na- tional joint negotiating union side, ap- committee's parently believe that since the immediate prospect of been an all-out strike has removed there is no rush for them to decide policy.

In the factories, indus- trial action in protest against the offer is conti- HULL docks came to standstill yesterday when more than 1,000 dockers picketed a wharf where un- registered labour was being used to unload a timber cargo. About 150 Hull police massed outside the wharf began their the men as picket. Drainpipes had been greased to prevent any at- into the tempt to climb wharf over the roof and more police were held in reserve. At about 10.30 a.m., the police originally on duty Pageant casts bring PAGEANT teams from three areas of the country and London began arriving in London yesterday for last-minute rehearsals at the Empire They had 40 hours to put the four episodes of working-class history together and get used to conditions at the Pool-the largest indoor arena in Britain.

Ford pay: Piecemeal approach after collapse a sporadic, locally nuing on decided basis. Yesterday 300 men in the Dag- body-assembly area at the dav encam

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shift, and similar action on a smaller scale was expected Liverpool, Halewood, was not working and both body ana asselloly Plails working to rule. The sporadic strikes policy decided was meeting of ford convenors on Monday, the day the spe- cial TUC effec- ditched any the pay Tive actor laws. It agreed that action was should organized be conditions each 1n dual factory allowed. The Hull dockers stop marched away whom dockers they said recognized as men whi attacked their picket line at Néap House Whar' last year. eventually dete after shop Waltel stewards Cunningham had spoken the ship, it was agents from stopped ascharule Cunningham sa'd afterwards it would go into regular, and enciosed docK loaded by registered labour.

The dispute over the wharf six months began country and London began te rehearsals at the Empire put the four episodes of used to conditions at the Jarrow; Directors' + in 2 Manchester and Merthyr Tydfil all reported that 'extremely spirits were high' After last Sunday's pre- liminary rehearsals the week has been spent in polishing up the performances, attend- ing, to props, costumes and .. alterations incorporating which bring out the political message of the Pageant with greater power and clarity.

The London episode, which concerns the construc- working tion of the first men's International and the late unionism of the new 1th century, has been con- siderably revised. At Manchester this sec- tion was found to be too wordy and lacking the sharpness and impact of the regional episodes. Numbers in all areas have been increased. The Man- team is bringing chester a of 40 down plus 15 cast musicians associated with 'Music Force', co-operative. Jarrow team members have received encouraging backing from the shipyards on Tyne- with a colliery brass banding side and Merthyr, where one of the hardest and most rewarding political struggles has been fought out during the long weeks of rehearsals, will be arriving in strength, despite purpose of this campaign, it was said, would be to force back to the nego- Ford's tiating table'. But feeling in the big fac- tories remains strong for all-out, official action, and there is much rank-and-file criticism of the union leaders' behaviour. The sporadic strike policy, however, gives no lead to those sections and lets the union chiefs off the hook. • Shop stewards at British- Leyland's Cowley, Oxford car factories have rejected an offer giving their 17,000 members increases of be- tween £2 and £2.60 a week.

Mass meetings have been arranged for next week. ago when a dockers' picket stopped a timber ship be- worked with unregis- tered labour. The local National Dock Labour Board ruled that the dockers claim was justified and declared the wharf a registered berth.

An appeal by the wharf owners, W. S. Barchard and Son, was upheld by an in- dustrial tribunal but the Dock • Labour Board has since appealed to the House of Lords. The latest row • flared when the London freighter haro Press, Saturday March 10, 1973 PAGE 3 BY

STEPHEN

JOHNS

noticeahla. " increase . in police activity in the London rehearsals director Matthew yesterday. Formidable poker the problems facing all the casts. Microphones will be necessarv to carry the dia- logue tọ the thousands of people seated around the vast arena. The teams will quickly have to get used to the expanse of the floor self - have rehearsal rooms been several times smaller Lighting and effects in area. are strong element. vital-a the Pageant is 'spectacle in - nona. thaca incorporated Into area re- narcalc London began the 40 of intensive hours activity with their own technical re- hearsal at 10 p.m. They are followed by Mer- thyr, Manches- larrow ter throughout today. 1o- immedi- ately before the Pageant itself, the final full dress rehearsal will take place. the Rehearsals in and the feeling the youth, and workers have put into this unique task of por- thẻ 'Road traying to Workers' Power' are a tribute to them all. No worker or can socialist attoro to mice this historic occasion. • Tickets be bought at can the door for f1. The peT- formance starts at 3 p.m.

Left and above: The Manchester rehearsals

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soldier said in Limerick, Eire, yesterday that he deserted the army was ordered to because he shoot children London- derry. In interview the soldier said he placed WaS under arrest for disobeving Negotiators Reg Birch (lett) and Moss Evans.

the order. He slipped through a Lon- don police cordon this week Cornfeld case adjourned Republic go to the of Ireland. The been adjourned at Bow soldier Gunner

THE CASE

in which Williams, George Henry Street until April 17. of international financier the Third Royal Horse Cornfeld, who Cornfeld Bernard (45) ™A C appear in court Artillery. due to is charged with the at- Telling of his experiences yesterday the tempted of Miss rape States the in Ulster, Gunner Williams United and Valli Davis (19), alleged that prosecution made an officere in „the American, at his Lon- British supplied mari- application for adjourn- army don home, West Halkin ment. He on bail coldiero hutore totalling £1,000. battles. Street. Mayfair, has 'Tower Conquest' arrived at The National Industrial Relations Court yesterday night whorf dueing tho tha told a South Shields docker that he had 'jumped the with about 400 of tong gun' in allowing himself to be nominated for union tim hon office before seeking the approval of the regional the freigh- After stopping committee of his union, the General and Municipal ter being Workers. wharf. the dockers decided work until not to return to The docker. John Carling, was sacked as a Monday. C&MWU regional organizer in 1967. Since then he long - awaited has made several attempts election to branch National Ports Council re- officials office. but claims that each time union unregistered port on norts, wharfs be pub- stepped in against him. and to lished later this month, NIRC chairman Sir Hugh Griffiths declared that was. learned yesterday. a union rule stopping disqualified from firm date for publica- mamhare is expected towards the for office again without regional com. standing tion end of next week. mittee approval was "air and sensible'.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday March 10, 1973 THE TORY government is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con- frontation with the working class. Each day new sections of 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 ted Labour be done by breaking the grip of the Tory adminis government secrets of capitalist ownership on tration in this sphere must be which is pledged by the mass Employed and published. All rights to assem- economy. un- action of the working class to employed must unite to insist bly, free speech and the Press implement socialist policies.

Labour government on na- must be guaranteed. We policies l 'pledged socialist tionalizing the main industries and banks, workers' pre- under 5) The right to a higher stan sent leaders of the Labour move- control and without dard of living. It is ment have no intention of intro- not the sation. ducing living standards of such policies. Indeed, trade The struggle must begin but the profit Icol Or Them now. No closures, no sackings, will be prepared to join a coali- which causes the tem, 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.

unions. Occupation fac- propriate all the great fortunes tories threatened with closure, But if the working, class the rich, close down strong enough to force the Tories as part of the fight to bring Stock Exchange, place a slalt to deal down the Tories. control over all movements of traitors in and out of the Coollar midst. This can 3) The democratic right to country. by, exposing them in the fight for strike and to organize in trade an alternative socialist policy.

Nationalization of the basic Only unions. the organized industries and of all large com- The Central Committee of the working class can lead man- panies, banks, building and in- Socialist Labour of arus kind the out austoncal will provide to sup-

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une working class bulance socieues Every right and every port the following policies to the for unified resounces gain won by the working class, unite the working class improve the living the every democratic right in Bri- lories standards of the whole people.

ana orresen Wilson-Feather leadership of the tain, has been won because Workers' control of these, as labour movement: of the organized strength well as the Here is the policy which the the unions and the strike ized industries, will run them next Labour cal dust weapon. in the interests of the workers be forced to carry out. Labour government must and consumers. Indus- immediately repeal the Again, the fight must begin 1) A Labour government must trial Relations Act. This fight State control of immediately repeal the Indus- noW. wages must begin now by forcing the must be answered by the most Housing trial Relations Act, TUC to break off all relations widespread fight for Finance Act, Immigration Acts, wage in. with the and government creases meet price Fair Trading Act and all wage rises mobilize the working class to and improve standards. control. After the repeal of all This destroy state control of wages.

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

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policies the SLL fights for the Deçent housing is not a luxury; setting of Councils of up it is a necessitv. Peode have Action lead the struggle the basic right decent

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tual allie Party, house building. The disgraceful IMG, etc.) to fight against the problem of the homeless main enemy, the Tory govern- the cities must be immediately ment. solved by census and taking- The SLL calls upon every of all unoccupied pro- over socialist and class-conscious perty. this pro- worker lO conster gramme and manifesto The international respon- caretully, and to decide now to sibilities of the working class. take up their inescapable re- The working class is interna- sponsibilities. The building of We fight for the the revolutionary party is the tional. un- restricted right of any worker burning question now, not in of nationality some remote future. The SLL ally freely through the world. is determined to carry through Withdraw from the troops transformation into a re- Ireland. Unite the Irish volutionary party. ana brilisn working class to unrow We appeal to all readers out the Lynch and Heath gov- of the Workers Press and ernments. to join the Unite in the struggle for the our supporters Socialist United States of

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Minis was visited during his torture by the head the military police, Colonel Ioan- nides, who is widely regarded as the second most powerful man in the ruling junta. Three West Germans who were held in the same prison Wing Commander Minis last July and August have issued sworn say- surements ing that they heard him moan- ing and screaming under repeated beatings and saw him afterwards. Herr Franz Ober- mayer said in his statement that one of the beatings lasted 30 hours, few with only short breaks, and another con- tinued for a whole day and most of the following night.

Fraulein Bausinger Susanne said she saw Minis lying un- the floor of his conscious on cell and later saw guards dragging him to the toilet because he could not walk.

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Soviet economist who of the questioned some Stalinist dogmas about the existence of socialism in the Soviet Union has recanted.

He is Ya Kronrod who declared in his contribution to a 1972 symposium on "The Economics Developed Socialism' that 'mature social- ism' had not yet been built in the Soviet Union. He pointed to social inequalities leading to inequalities decision- In making. This opened up dangerous of avenues thought. It drew attention to social distinctions between the working class and collective farm peasantry on the one hand and those who actually wield power and secure a disproportionate share of the national product on the other. In other words, a Soviet theoretician was mov- ing towards the standpoint that there was a privileged Soviet in bureaucracy society. The Tories' White Paper on Defence was pub- lished on February 21. Thousands of pounds are to be spent on preparing the special reserve army to deal with the British working class. Tory Secretary of State for Defence and chairman of his party, Lord Carrington had a evening to look pleasant forward to. He was guest of honour at a dinner offered by the Span- With something of a de- lay, he has now come for- ward with a self-criticism.

He admits that developed socialism has been built in the Soviet Union, but in a way which still does not satisfy his critics. He now accepts that the material prerequisites exist for overcoming social and economic differences and for widening the basis for the creation of common property and making possible a taster growth of the standard of living. He does not actually say that the process has been completed. It seems most likely that he has been pressurized to conform but still retains the doubts ex- pressed in his original con- tribution. It is significant that, even if in a very veiled way, such opinions should now find expression within the ranks of Soviet economists and other specialists. ish Ambassador, Jaime de Pinies. Other leading • Tories enjoyed the hospitality of Franco: 'the Duke of Welling- ton and his wife; Sir Dennis Greenhill, permanent under- Secretary of State and head of the diplomatic_corps; and General Fitzalan Howard. The conspiratorial banquet- scene was made complete with the presence of Sir Max Ait- ken and Lady Aitken of the Beaverbrook chain of news- papers, and chairman of "The Writings af Leon Trotsky

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Saturday March 10 1973 PAGE 5 Left: This photograph of Clvil Servants In London on strike appeared on the front page of Spanish Van- paper, guardia, on March 1, 1973. The paper describes Britaln as being 'on the brink of what, in any other country, could be called civil war.' of late their reports have changed from the odd des- patch about British peculiari- ties to an agitated description of social upheaval. It is sad to need a requiem for the old "bobby" ... the fact is that hundreds of Eng- lish • police now carry guns. That is because the social pact has broken in been Great Britain? (February 21.) 'Both the miners' strike of last year, and the present Conservative counter - revolu- tion put Great Britain on the brink of what, in any other country, could be called civil war. In England, this situation is described as a "confronta- tion". (February " 22.) 'Heffer and Scanlon threaten England every morning and afternoon with revolution..

Could it be that through bloody-mindedness and inep- titude the trade unions will bring chaos and disorder?

What would the placid, amiable, bureaucratic Vic Feather do with a revolution on his hands?' (February 28.)

revolution?," was the • "A answer of an alarmed trade- union leader when I asked this morning whether the trade unions were proposing to make a revolution ... I think that today Britain is in greater danger from the uncontrollable trade unions than it was from Hitler! (March 1.) '"I don't really understand what you mean by a third party" • I told Mr Rees-Mogg of "The Times", , who told me that it would be "midway be- tween Labour and Conserva- tive". I retorted: "Can there ernment what Mr Wilson did, and Mr Wilson in Opposition Franco and his generals had their 'solution' to the "cor- ruption' of the party system and the 'anarchy' of the trade unions - dictatorship and the destruction of all working- class organizations. Judging by 'La Vanguardia's' reports, there is plainly similar Tory thinking going on circles today in Britain.

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ROAD TO

WORKERS' POWER

is Pageant Day. The Empire Pool at Wembley, Tomorrow the country's largest enclosed auditorium, will become the scene of our Pageant of working-class history 'The Road to Workers' Power'. It will be the climax of months of preparations and work in London and the areas. It won't be the first time we've taken the Empire Pool. This time last year (March 12) the Socialists' Right-to-Work marches Young culminated in a mass rally of 8,500 trade unionists, housewives and youth.

Indeed, it was at this hugely successful rally that the Pageant campaign was first conceived.

Roger Smith, who is the overall coordinator of the Pageant, explains what happened: 'At the Empire Pool last time we were very conscious of the fact that when the marchers came into young Ine hall this was a moment of history being made. It was also a moment of intense spectacle.'

Smith and his colleagues had a considerable amount of experience in presenting working-class history previous League-Young They Socialist Labour Socialists functions. the Empire Pool saw as a venue to do it on a far greater scale to achieve a mightier impact.

the first country Britain, to build trade unions, has a history which is with rich working-class struggle. Scripts prepared which concentrated on the most were important episodes-the building of the unions, the Chartist movement, the founding of the First International and the building of the Labour Party. 'Every of the working right class was won through struggle, said Smith, 'and these rights can only be held and defended in struggle. The history in the Pageant is the fight of workers to defend their wages and conditions and their standard of living. It is a history which is kept off the television and the radio, kept from the newspapers and the schoolrooms.

And rightly so-from the point of view of the ruling class. Since the capitalists control the institutions of education and the media they don't want to reveal the bitter, the very bitter.

struggle, heroism and determination of the working class.

They don't want it to be known.

'A worker who is playing a part in the Pageant said to me the other day: "You know, I've learned more about our history in the past few weeks than I have in my whole life."

The Pageant is able to show the workers where they were in the past and where they are now. And what they've got to do tomorrow. "To present and to bring to life the fight for these rights was a correct and very necessary task of our movement. It is especially because of the desperate condition of so now British capitalism. The Heath government is launching attack after attack on the rights of the working class. The task in hand is not to build a reformist party, but to build a revo- lutionary party. That's the meaning of the Pageant.'

Today it's the final rehearsal. And tomorrow the curtains goes up. Another page of working-class history will be written in Britain. A major stride on the 'Road to Workers' Power.'

Top left: Striking Jarrow miners taunt a pit manager. Top right: Peterloo Hunt being dragged off. massacre-the orator, Right: The Anarchist, addresses General the Bakunin, Council of First International. Far Striking railway workers jeer Beesley, of the Taff right: the owner Vale railway.

THE FRENCH POPULAR FRONT

1936: CP clashes with Blum over Spanish Civil War PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday Mare

BY TOM KEMP

Blum's Popular Leon Front government was quickly faced in the sum.

mer of 1936 with a financial crisis. The flight of capital from France forced it to devalue the franc and made it increas.

ingly dependent upon Britain for economic, and political, support. The Communist Party voted for the devaluation, which it had always opposed, in order not to split the Popular Front and bring abouts its defeat in parliament. The boost which the de- valuation was expected to give to French exports proved to be short-lived. The concessions made to the working class after the May-June wave of strikes and sit-ins meant that costs rose and these were passed on in rising prices.

Imports became dearer and this in turn helped push up the cost of living. The franc remained a weak currency on the foreign exchanges and the bankers organized runs which kept it under constant pres- sure. The flight from the franc angered and frightened middle- day March 10, 1873 class people, especially the rentiers and small capitalists who saw the value of their savings diminished. They blamed not only the working class, but also Blum for capitulating to the workers, as they saw it. This feeling grew among the radical allies of the Socialist and Communist Parties inside the Popular S- Front. There was increasing pressure on Blum from the right. The evolution of the situ- ation made nonsense of CP secretary Maurice Thorez's attempt to launch a French Front. The kind of people to whom Thorez made his appeal shifted rapidly to the right and middle-class support for the Popular Front diminished.

Meanwhile the Communist Party had grown impressively in numbers. During 193 it established its leading position in the French working class.

The Party had 72 MPs after the May elections. Its mem- from bership about grew 163,000 at that time to 380,000 in October; in addition there were over 100,000 members of the Young Communists. Most of the Party's recruits came from workers new to politics, who saw it as the most determined advocate of their interests and assumed that it was a revolutionary party. It consolidated its grip on the working-class suburbs of Paris and in other industrial areas where the Socialist Party was not deeply entrenched. In most areas, therefore, it be- came the main working-class party. The central leadership around Thorez had been hand-picked by Stalin and the Communist International in the early 1930s and it remained completely faithful to the Moscow line.

the farty bullt up, in turn, a powerful bureaucracy which imposed a tight discipline on the membership. Brought into the Party by the class struggles of 1936, thousands of workers, attracted by the aspirations of the 1917 October Revolution and be- lieving that socialism was built in Russia, were being trained in the doctrines and methods of Stalinism. Thorez became the 'French Stalin' and a personality cult was built up around him which assumed nauseous proportions. At the same time the Party strengthened its position in the trade union. The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) grew rapidly during the strikes and powerful unions were built to up in the more advanced in- dustries where the Party was already strong and the old- style unionists had never had much support. As new officials were appointed, most of them carried held Party cards and out faithfully the policy laid down by Thorez. Paid officials it had in the unions gave the Party hundreds of organizers and propagan- dists. In addition it controlled many local councils which had jobs at their disposal, many of which went to the Party faithful. It had a big youth movement, a special women's organization, an ex-service- men's association and organ- izations for teachers and intel- lectuals. Circulation of the Party Press flourished. The Party presented itself as the best defender of the Popular Front, became a tervent advocate of French nationalism and of a peace front between the Soviet Union and the so- called "peace-loving' capitalist countries, especially Britain and France. It was on foreign policy that the Party first clashed sharply with Blum. In July 1936 the Civil War broke out in Spain.

workers fought back The against the military insurrec- tion and the struggle evoked a tremendous response in France.

The Stalinist aim in Spain was to support the bourgeois Left: Workers in Spain fought back against Franco's forces and the struggle evoked a tre mendous response in France. CP leader, Inset: Thorez, who clashed with Blum, even though the Stalinists' support for the Republic was far trom revolu- tionary. republic against the military insurgents who were backed by Hitler and Mussolini while preventing a working-class revolution. As in France, the Popular Front meant accepting the private ownership of the means of production and of the land. When the fascist powers be- gan to pour in arms to aid Franco's revolt, Blum sup- ported the farcical policy of non-intervention which was favoured by the British govern- ment. Policing of the Spanish ports was left to the navies of Britain, France, Germany and Italy; which was exactly like calling on the chief smugglers to man the customs posts. The weakness of the franc had driven the Blum govern- into dependence ment on Britain and the United States.

Blum dared not offend London, so he closed the frontier with and proclaimed the Spain neutrality of his government.

This policy was bitterly opposed by the Communist Party and also in the ranks of the work- ing class, where there was an immense movement of soli- darity with the Spanish struggle. The Stalinists support for the Republic was not in the least revolutionary. They were not even against non-interven- tion as long as it could be imposed on Germany and Italy.

Thorez himself said so in a Strasbourg in speech at October 1936: 'Yes, we are for non-inter- vention, he said. 'But I tell you frankly, also we are against the blockade imposed on Republican Spain. 'We are against the pretence of neutrality which, under present conditions, only assists fascist and the rebellion favours the black designs of Hitler' As late as January, 1939, when the Civil War was almost Thorez spoke in the over, following terms at the CPs National Conference, address- ing himself to Daladier, who was then Prime Minister: 'Many questions divide us.

We did not approve of your policy at Munich, we do not approve of the decree-laws of your Minister of Finance, Paul Reynaud. We do not approve social of the attacks on the legislation by your Minister of Labour and your Minister of Public Works. 'We do not aprove of your repression working-class militants. 'But we say to you: the question at this moment which is decisive for France is save Spain! Open the frontier! Aid Spain! We have reservations about your general policy. But if you open the frontier we are prepared to support you?

The full extent of the class collaboration implied in this position of offering support for Daladier can only be judged, taking into of course, by account the significance of the anti - working - class measures taken by his government. Stalinist support for the Spanish Republic was in con- formity with the policy of the Soviet bureaucracy at this time and went hand-in-hand with the suppression of revolution in Spain. When Blum failed to respond the Communist to pressure, Party soft-pedalled the Spanish question. However, while in December the communist depu- ties abstained in the vote on foreign policy, they gave full support to the rest of Blum's policy.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

DOOMED

The public sector trade union committee, formed outside the auspices of the TUC a few weeks ago to try to protect the interests of public sector workers from the Tory pay laws, has collapsed almost as soon as it was founded. At its very first meeting last week, only four trade unions out of 13 represented on the committee turned up. They sat around aimlessly for a few minutes and then decided to abandon it and try again in a fortnight's time. Fisher (NUPE), Kendall (CPSA) both were at the meeting.

The committee was doomed to failure before it even star- ted. The conference of the 30 or so unions which set it up a month ago at the National Union of Teachers' head- quarters was also a failure.

They only set up the com- mittee because they did not know what else to do. The trade union bureau- crats are reformists to a man.

They are incapable of leading the only kind of struggle which can defeat the pay laws-a struggle to create the neces- political and industrial sary conditions to force the Tory government to resign.

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rotsky Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, They set up their 'break- away' conference out of frus- tration at the TUC's inability to offer any satisfaction to public sector workers-and all workers — that a successful fight would be waged against the state wage controls. And when they met, they proceeded to do exactly the themselves. Absolutely same nothing. And this is because all re- formist however answers, the initiator much cleverer thinks he is than the leading

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figures, provide no answer at all. The public sector union chiefs are chasing an illusion.

No amount of extra talent on the General Council will do away with the need for the British working class to turn from reformism to revolution.

There are no more concessions to be won. The next time the ghostly public sector committee meets, they would be better off dis- cussing these questions rather than pointlessly speculating whether it was the rail strike that had hit attendances or some other chance occurrence.

TATTY

recently by your Overheard London School of Economics' correspondent, two students preparing to take part in a Students' National Union of grants march. One was unfold- ing a rather tatty and moth- eaten banner inscribed 'Revo- lutionary Socialist Students Federation'. that?' asked his 'What's friend. I've no idea, replied the first, throwing it into the corner. 'I found it in the base- ment covered in dust. Workers Press readers will remember the RSSF as that International Socialist and International Marxist Group- led body which, in those heady days following May-June 1968 France, advocated the fraudulent 'theory' that stud- were to be the new ents revolutionary vanguard who would lead the struggle for socialism. It was always known more popularly (and accurately) among many workers as the Revolutionary Socialist Student Fraud. By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the 'Keep Young Socialists' paper Left' Their enormous success has the completion of the led to translation of the whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished in the • Soviet Union 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures the Second Inter- of national, their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, whose seven- term expires in year June, has accused Presi- dent Nixon of trying to get the television net- works out of the way. As reported in Workers Press last December, the US President drafted tough legislation which holds indivi- dual television stations accoun- table for the content of all net- work material they broadcast, including news bulletins.

Mr Clay Whitehead, director of the White House Office of Telecommunications ideological Policy, then attacked plugola' in network news re- porting. He said station man- agers and network officials who failed to correct imbalance or consistent bias' would be held accountable' tully atlicence renewal time. Pointing out that no national newspapers reached sig- of the nificant percentage American people, Mr Johnson declared: you've got left is the TV network news. 'That's why the President is trying to get them out of the he continued 'Once way,' intimidates them getting he has turn them off, accomplished his goal.' The of Phila- current strike delphia teachers is taking some Mayor Frank bizarre turns. Rizzo took court in- out a junction to force the strikers back work. When they refused, Rizzo arranged for president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Frank Sullivan, and its chief nego- tiator, John Ryan, to be jailed violation of the court order.

Shortly afterwards, a four- discussion was hour marathon arranged on local betWeen rad b and Board of Education and the teachers.

Sullivan and Ryan were allowed out of prison to take part.

broadcast, Following the Rizzo demanded special air time to make an unprecedented live television appearance from City Hall to announce that, regardiess of any arguments he would never surrender to 'blackmail' and the teachers' 'greed'. The teachers asked for equal less than time to reply, but 90 minutes before Rizzo went on the air, Sullivan and Ryan were ordered back their prison cells. Ryan charged that it was a deliberate plot to prevent them It replying. Rizzo denied it. just worked out that way,' h said. I wouldn't care if they had a rebuttal. The going to believe me, not them.

Some of the other teachers did few manage minutes on the air to beg Rizzo start negotiations Fifteen minutes later, Rizzo called a special Press confer- ence and said he was 'terribly disappointed in the teachers' presentation. They in no way attempted to refute anything l ever said' It is a little difficult, how- ever, to refute anything from a prison cell. Workers Press, Satur Nixon: Trying to get the tele- vision networks out of the way.

Commissioner Johnson told a student conference at Texas A&M University: 'You are less well-informed today than you were three years ago. 'There are people who bene- fit from your not knowing what is going on and there are people who benefit in your knowing only what they want you to know. The Washington game is to turn newsmen-into repeaters, not reporters' Mayor Rizzo: 'The public's going to b ess, Saturday March 10 1973 PAGE 9 American newsmen are be- ginning to get 'uneasy' over the way in which the military has handled the release of Vietnam PoWs. Told to keep away from the men to give them time to settle back to normal lives with their families again, some of them are now questioning whether the ban on interviews was for the good of the prisoners or the army. The 'New York Times' de- tailed how the Pentagon had 80 public relations specialists all over the world making sure what the Press got-and what it didn't. Signs were put up on the barracks walls in the Philippines warning the return- ing prisoners not to talk to the Press, as they "distort' things. Robert Maynard asked in the Washington Press whether free interviews with the PoWs would have been more dis- torted than the set speeches wheeled out by senior officer spokesmen. CBS News reporter Dallas Townsend told his TV audience that by observing the sug- gestion that they should not intrude on the men at this time, they might in fact have been playing right into the military's hands. It looks as though some of the euphoria over the return of the prisoners is beginning to wear thin already. oing to believe me, not them.

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SOUTHERN: 9.15 Jobs around the house. 9.40 Foreign flavour. 10.10 All 10.35 Stingray. 11.05 yesterdays. Our melodies. 11.35 Cowboy Merrie Africa. 12.25 Weather. 12.30 London.

5.15 Tarzan. 6.15 Who do you do? 6.45 Persuaders. 7.45 Film: Return of the Seven'. 9.30 London. 9.40 Julie 10.45 Saint. Andrews. 10.40 News. 11.40 No man's land. 12.30 Weather.

Guideline.

HARLECH: 9.00

London. 9.55 Time 10.20 to remember. Bugs Bunny. 10.30 Once upon a time. 10.45 Grass- hopper island. 11.00 Sesame street. 5.20 12.00 Osmonds. 12.30 London. do? 6.45 6.15 Who do you Bonanza. Spies'. Film: "The Helicopter 8.30 London. 9.40 Persuaders. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 Name of the game. 12.45 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: crusts. 5.45-6.15 Tra 5.20-5.45 Upper bo dau.

REGIONAL TV SUN

CHANNEL:

11.30-1.00 London. 1.59 Weather. 2.00 Soccer. 3.00 Film: The Last 4.25 of the Buccaneers'. Cartoon. 4.40 Golden shot.

5.35 Black Beauty 7.55 London. 7.25 On the 6.05 buses. Film: "The Underworld Story'. 9.30 London. 12.15 Epilogue.

Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 9.00 London. Were there. 10.30 vesterdavs. Y.00 Gus Honey- 9.30 All our tua. 11.05 Tomfoolery. 1.00 Talking hands. 1.15 Pacemaker. 1.30 Farming.

12.i5 Faits for lipeo 12.20 Weatocce Acres Soccer. 10.30

SOUTHERN:

9.00 London. Farming. 10.55 Weather. 11.00 World War I. 11.30 London. 1.00 Superman.

1.20 Lucy. Stewart. 1.50 Jimmy 2.15 London. 3.15 Fenn Street gang. 3.50 5.30 Golden shot. 4.40 Aquarius. News. 5.35 6.05 Lon- Black beauty^ 7.55 Film: 7.25 On the buses. don. •The Sons of Katie Elder'. 10.00 Lon- 12.15 Weather. Guideline.

don. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.35 Farm- 1.30 Drive ing. 11.00 Angling. in. 2.15 London. 3.15 2.00 Bugs Bunny. Film: 'It's Only Money'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 7.25 On the buses. 7.55 Film: 'Opera- tion Crossbow'. 10.00 London. 12.15 Weather.

SUNDAY TV

ВВС 1 9.30 9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 10.00 Repondez s'il vous plait. Seeing be- Avventura. 11.00 and 11.35 Canoe. 12.00 Handling lieving. 12.25 Seventy plus. 12.50 materials. Parents and Midrein B.15'n News.

Parents children. Mary, Weather. 2.00 Mungo Shari Lewis show. 2.25 Midge. 2.15 Animal game. 2.55 Bird's eye view. 3.45 European 4.20 Film: athletics. •Sitting Pretty'. Clifton Webb, Young. Maureen O'Hara, Robert unusual babysitter upsets a household.

5.40 A little princess. 6.05

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BBC 2

8.55-1.05 Open University. 4.00 Man work. 5.25 work. 4.25 Money at at Horizon. 6.05

NEWS REVIEW.

NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 6.50 6.55

STORY

OF

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JUNG. 67,000 Dreams. 7.25 WORLD ABOUT US. Land of the Simmer Dim. Shetland.

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8.45 WORKSHOP.

Danish composer Carl Nielsen.

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ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 10.00 Hammy hamster• 10.15 Rovers. 10.40 Film: *Jason and the 12.30 5.245 Fline The 6.15 do London. do? 6.45 Film: Hallelujah Trail'. Andrews. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 London. Man in a suitcase. 12.25 Epilogue.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 Jobs around 9.40 Foreign flavour. 10.10 the house. Costello 'Abbott Meet the Killer'. 12.30 London. Bonanza. "Taras Bulba'. 8.30 Long- 6.15 Film: SAndrews. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 street. London. Film: "How Gordon Bailey. Awful About Alan'. Weather.

ULSTER: 10.30.

Sesame street. 11.30 Thunderbirds- Beverly. hillbillies. 6.15 London. Sports. Who do you do? 6.45 On the buses.

"The Gun That 7.15 Film: Won the West'. 8.30 London. 9.40 Longstreet. No man's land. 11:30 Kreskin.

10.40 Getting worth. 10.35 Elephant boy. 11.05 12.30 Abbott and Costello. London. 5.15 Riptide. 6.15 do? Who do you 7.40 Film: 'Gun- 6.45 Persuaders. Grande'. 9.30 London fighters of Casa 10.40 No man's 9.40 Julie Andrews. land. 11.30 Place in the country. 12.05 To see ourselves. 12.35 Weather.

SUNDAY

ANGLIA:

9.00 London. 10.30 Circus.

Cartoons. 10.55 Doris Day. 11.20 11.30 London. 1.00 Champions.

1.50 1.55 Fares bin. 2.30 Film: Weather. "The "I Don't 3.55 Soccer. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black London. 7.25 buses 7.55 6.05 On the 'Will Penny'. 10.00 buses. Film: 12.15 Epilogue. London.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.00

London. 10.30 Citizens' All our yesterdays. 11.00 Cham- rights. 11.30 London. 3.00 Film: Ivy. pions. diden Shot. 5.35 Black 4.40 Golden shot. beauty. 6.05 London. 7.25 On the 7.55 buses. Film: "The League of Gentlemen'. 10.00 London.

ULSTER: 11.00 VAT. 11.30

London. flavour. 1.30 Jobs 1.00 Foreign around the house. 1.55 Pebbles and Bamm Bamm. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: Around 'Rock the Clock'. 4.40 5.35 Black Golden shot. beauty. 6.05 London. 7.23 Sports. Film: "The 7.25 Flight of the Phoenix'. 10.00 London.

YORKSHIRE: 9.00 London. 10.30 Un- tamed world. 11.00 Jimmy Stewart. 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Film: Calendar. 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Behind the Mask'. 4.45 Golden shot.

6.05 London. 7.25 5.35 Black beautv. On the buses. 7.55 Film: "Tom Jones'.

10.00 London. 12.15 Shirley's world. 12.45 Weather. Distribution of Wealth. Michael Angus Maude and Alnance, Ries Tinto reine Cor Finance, Rio

SONGS OF PRAISE.

6.50 7.25 THE BROTHERS. Storm Birds.

6.15 Fine. Two people in swor and unloved. 9.40 LIZA WITH A Z. Liza Min- NEWS. Weather. 10.30 OMNIBUS. Pablo Casals, cello.

10.40 11.30 Weather.

ITV

9.00 VAT 73. 9.30 Morning service.

10.35 UFO.

11.30 Weekend world. 1.00 Thunderbirds. 1.50 Skilful rugby. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 O'Hara.

4.15 Junior police five. 4.25 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS.

6.15

ADAM SMITH.

SUNDAY

QUIZ.

7.00 SONGS.

6.40 7.25

WHO DO

YOU DO?

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11.15

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SCALES OF JUSTICE. The In- 12.20 visible Asset. un with 'Dr Who' from the Ogrons on ester and Mai Zetterling seem to be ate-night film. GRANADA: 9.15 Jobs around the flavour. , 10.05 You house. 9.40 Foreign 10.35 Sesame and your golf. street. 12.00 Huckleberry 11.35 Follyfoot. Finn. 12.30 London. 5.20 Big 6.4s alive Andrews. 7.50 Film: The Night of the London. Generals'. continued. 10.40 No man's land. 11.30 "The Undying Monster'. 12.40 Film: Seaway. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wildlife theatre.

9.40 Getting money's your worth. 10.10 Osmonds. 10.35 Joe 90. 11.05 Abbott and Costello. 12.30 London. do? 5.15 Riptide. 6.15 Who do you "Gun Persuaders London. 7.40 Film: 6.45 Glory'. Andrews. i0.40 No man's land. 1l.3e Challenge. 12.25 Lectern.

9.15 Jobs around the

SCOTTISH:

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UFO. 6.15

Who do you do? 6.45 Film: •Mysterious Island'. 8.30 No London. 9.40 Longstreet. 10.40 man's land. 11.30 O'Hara.

GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 Un- tamed world. 11.00 Time to remem- ber. 11.30 London. On Football. 3.20 the line. Film: "The Name of the Game'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 7.25 On the buses. 7.55 Film: •The Last Safari'. 10.00 London. TYNE TEES: 9.00 London. 10.30 Jobs around the house. 11.00 Jimmy Stewart. 11.30 London. 1.00 Farming.

1.25 World War 1. 1.50 Where the jobs are. 1.55 Big match. 2.55 Film: 'Victoria the Great'. 4.45 Golden Son 7.25 B 5.35 Black beases: 755 Film: 6.05 Lon- don the buses. 'Quiller Memorandum'. 10.00 London.

12.15 Dr. Simon Locke. 12.40 Lectern.

SCOTTISH: 10.00 World : War I. 10.30 Women. 11.00 You pays your money. 11.30 London Film: 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Sports. 3.25 "Maneater'. 4.25 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius. 6.05 Lon- don. 7.25 On the buses. 7.55 Film: Anger'. Comedians. 'Heat of 9.30 10.00 London. 12.15 Late call.

GRAMPIAN:

11.00 Farming. 11.30 London. 1.00 Foreign 1.30 Jobs around the house. 2.00 3.25 Film: 'Strongroom'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London.

7.25 On the buses. 7.55 Film: 'Gigi'.

10.00 London.

watching

ANYONE

the BBC 2 programme 'Edition' about the workings of the journalists' industrial lobby was very poorly informed about the real issues concern- ing the three-year ban against • Workers Press joining the lobby. This was wholly the fault of the BBC which allowed the chairman of the lobby, Mick Costello, of the Communist Party's 'Morning Star to place a veto on discussing the issue in the studio with Roy- Bull, industrial ston our correspondent, whom the BBC had originally invited. Costello said that either he would be the only member of the lobby appearing or he would not appear at all. The BBC revealed this to the none of viewers and allowed Costello to put across a completely biased picture.

ADMITTED

It was stated at the beginning that David Maude, our labour corresponded, had finally been admitted to the lobby and that one of the factors in this had been the impossible situation created when Royston Bull, who was already a member of the lobby, joined the Workers Press from "The Scotsman'. But what was not disclosed were the incredible details of the three-year fight to keep the Workers Press out and Cos- tello's role in consistently re- fusing to recommend admission until right at the death when he faced with fait- was a accompli. The tried against stunts A MASS picket in defence of held at a Middlesex engineerir THE Pabloite People's Revolu- tionary Army' (ERP) of Argen- kidnapped Hector tina publisher of "the Garcia, circulation daily Cronica and manager of the largest general television station in the country.

Garcia was released after his newspaper published an ERP statement calling for a vote for the Peronist Justicialist Libera- tion Front in the elections on Sunday. The country's president Gene- ral Lanusse showed his concern at the outcome of the elections by flying on an official visit to Spain last week as a guest oi General Franco. Juan Peron himself had made his home in Madrid which is the centre of Peronist policy making. After Peron's visit to Argen- tina earlier this year, the Peron- ist trade-union leadership, guided by lose Rucci, joined Lanusse's council for economic planning. ERP's The unity with the left-wing of the Peronist move- abandons the militant ment working class in Argentina to Rucci and company. ROYSTON BULL ... Already in the lobby when he joined Workers Press. Workers Press included queries about the paper's distribution, requests first to David Maude then to editor for and assurances about observing con- fidentially, secret ballots and packed meetings, and finally an attempt to expel Roy Bull for exposing the conspiracy to the Press.

CENSORSHIP

At the back of all these and provocations lay stunts piece of blatant and dangerous ence of trade union rights was gineering factory yesterday.

Workers from the London area joined staff at Zenith Carburettors, Honey Pot Lane, Stanmore. They have been on strike for five weeks against the victimization of Mike Dale, chairman of the white-collar union ASTMS in the Zenith group. The firm sacked Mr Dale on the spot when he refused to his trade union abandon all activities at the Stanmore plant. For the previous nine months ASTMS been have trying to win negotiating rights for the staff at Zenith. This led to a one-hour strike on January 29 for which Mr Dale, the quality manager, was victimized by top management.

'This company has a history of tough industrial relations policy, said Mr Dale on the picket line yesterday. 'They have been afraid of ASTMS from the beginning. The intention of management must be to destroy the union in the group.

They are taking action against me as chairman of the union in the group, hoping to end it here and now. If Zenith win this one, who is next, that is what I ask?'

The pickets say that the suc- cess of their strike now depends on general support in industry.

Letters explaining the dispute have been to unions sent at French and Swedish plants who handle Zenith products. Latest to join in the campaign are Chrysler shop stewards who Zenith have agreed to black products. Stewards at British- Leyland are expected to follow suit. V-By a guest reviewer

DAVID MAUDE.

• Consistently kept out of group desplte all guarantees given. censorship. The Mini- political sters made it clear they did not want the Workers Press in on the lobby briefings - meetings between journalists and govern- ment spokesmen when informa- tion is passed on for publication -and the journalists complied on the grounds that Ministers forthcoming if would be less the paper was let in. Not only did the programme fail to this fraudulent expose argument; it did not even re- port it adequately. Costello simply denied that there was any cosy atmosphere between

CARGURETTER

SOLEX

ASSOCSATION OF SCIENTING TECHMICAL

NO MONTREN SIANS

PICKET

IN OFFICIAL

DISPUTE

LORD de Clifford-the last man to be literally 'tried by his peers' -and his wife, Dorothy Evelyn, are seeking divorce. She is the daughter of the late Mrs Kate Meyrick, 'night club queen' of London before the war. Their petitions have been set for hearing in the High down Court in London. Lord de Clifford, 26th holder Workers Press, Saturd lobby members and • Ministers. The truth is that the lobby system is a device for keeping the relationships between journ- alists and officials on a friendly basis so that searching questions should not asked too persistently. Costello said there was no keep out political pressure to the Workers Press and that the only issue was whether the paper would breach Minsterial con- ndences. This is simply not true. Des- pite getting all the assurances the lobby still said asked for, Keep out. And in any case, the right to expel the Workers Press gave them all the safe- guards they could want. Political discrimination has always been the sole reason for ban, and ministry spokes- the mer have repeatedly made this clear.

SECRECY

The programme was also mis- leading on the question of the the lobby's secrecy surrounding affairs which the reactionaries have made use of to suppress of their censorship criticism activities. Costello denied there was any attempt to keep the light off

URETTERS

STROMBERG

of the barony created in 1299, is 66. He inherited the title when two was years The marriage was in 1926.

It was in 1935 that Lord de Clifford was tried in the House of Lords on a car manslaughter charge and acquitted. It was the first time this century that the House had been convened for such a trial. ss, Saturday March 10, 1973 PAGE 11 Lobby chairman Mick Costello insisted on appearing alone on BBC 2's 'Edition' the lobby's affairs. Then why the refusal to debate the matter on television with a representa- tive of the Workers Press? Why the issue in the correspondence columns of newspapers? But despite having made sure he would not be tackled on any of these difficult questions, Cos- tello nevertheless came across as a man who had a lot to hide.

Journalists Kenneth Allsopp and Lance Sheppard, who de- bated the issue, had Costello mostly on the defensive trying to justify himself like some affronted bourgeois dignitary, which is what he has in fact become in his defence of the capitalist Press system.

IMPACT

Although the diehard reac- tried right tionaries to bitter end to keep David Maude out and to expel Roy Bull for joining the Workers Press, their efforts failed because our paper's three-year campaign finally made enough impact on radical opinion that Costello's support crumbled away. The Stalinist was left to com- ment painedly: | suppose a three-year trial is about right for a new newspaper.' It was never Workers Press that was on trial. It was the reactionary alliance of Stalinism and the right-wing press in de- of a rotting fence capitalist institution that was put on trial -and found wanting.

BY WORKERS PRESS

REPORTER

ON PAGE 3 of Wednesday's Workers Press we reported a letter written in the magazine 'Management in Action' by the former Labour Health Minister, Mr Kenneth Robinson. In the letter, Robinson sug- gested that strikers were 'a suffering from severe mental illness' and needed psychiatric treatment. From Robinson's private office at the British Steel Corporation have we now received the following | letter, which was sent to the editor of 'Management in Action': 'The letter purporting to come from me which was pub- lished in November your under heading issue the "Strikes and Mental Illness" is a forgery. The views expres- sed are not mine and I wish to repudiate them utterly.

i should be glad if you would publicise this denlal be- cause the original letter, if taken seriously by anyone, could cause damage—which appears to have been the for- ger's Intention.' spokesman for Robinson A told Workers Press the matter was in the hands of the autho- rities. They had no idea who was responsible. 01-622 7029 01-720 2000

Workers Press, Saturday Mar

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HOSPITAL WOR

INDUSTRIAL action in the hospitals continues to escalate. In Leeds operating theatres at Kill- ingbeck Hospital, and two at Seacroft Hospital have been closed. Only emergency cases are be- ing accepted. About 3,700 beds in the region are now enforcedly empty. The class conflicts surround- ing the ancillary workers struggle are getting sharper.

Kidderminster

NUPE

Joe Sand- secretary ford, who had to resign when SHOP STEWARDS representing st St James' Hospital, south London, h appeal to allow private contracte resident doctors. The doctors normally eat at a di the strike, which is scheduled to las committee spokesman Strike Bill Webster said: 'We are allow- ing no private contractors to bring food in here. "They can and get out go their own food. But this won't because they affect the patients SUNDAY's rail strike is still on-and the possibility of further midweek strikes can- not be ruled out. This em- erged after Mr Ray Buckton, ASLEF general secretary, and his nine-man executive dis- persed until Tuesday morning.

They have laid no plans for escalating trouble on the rail- ways. But Mr Buckton said: I cannot say what will happen next week when the executive meets again. They will then re- view the position. British Rail again reported 'chaos' in many regions in the wake of Thursday's strike and train drivers' continuing: non- co-operation and overtime ban.

Southern Region said only one third of the usual rush-hour suburban trains ran and they ex- pected to cancel 2,000 trains altogether. All main-line trains running, but were most were arriving late. Eastern Region services-the worst hit in the fortnight of rail 'very restricted'. troubles-were Southend, Shenfield and Gidea in Essex Park services were badly affected, mainly because starting points they are for trains which had no drivers.

Western Region reported that about a quarter of the usual rush-hour services had to be cancelled, but all Inter-City trains were running. But on Midland Region 40 per cent of inter city services had to be cancelled, while the com- muter trains ran normally.

Overnight trains between . Lon- don and Glasgow were not operating, and two holiday spe- from Glasgow have also cials been cancelled. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-622 7029. urday March 10, 1973

WORKERS

his members defied his 'back- to-work' call, yesterday tried to organize scab labour, but the big majority still stayed out. The newly-elected branch secretary Alan Murray said: 'Many of us did not agree with the decision to go back to work.

cold Our former secretary got feet and we had to suffer for it.'

Full-time union officials helped man the picket line yesterday.

Pickets at the Manchester Royal Infirmary closed the hos- pital laundry and staged a sit- down in a sterile supplies store.

Police were called. Hospital workers in Derby are accusing the Derby Manor hos- pital of victimization against a shop steward on the picket line by discharging ; his 79-year-old mother-in-law. She is a legless enting striking ancillary workers at ondon, have rejected a management contractors to bring in food for it at a dining centre now closed by led to last a week. are on a set diet. They are well looked after by the emergency services which we have pro- vided.' The strikers have agreed that night residential nurses can be supplied with cold food and so can some non-residential nurses who might have difficulty get- ting their food. There is considerable support for the strikers the amongst nurses and the strikers, in turn, regard them as fellow low-paid workers. 'The strike is getting stronger every day, Bill Webster. says A 16-hour picket is being main- tained from 5.30 a.m. each day.

'But we must be prepared to extend this at a moment's notice, if necessary he said. St. James' Hospital pickeis winning ' FLEETWOOD fishermen yester- day voted unanimously to fight for a decent basic wage in their industry. They have threatened action • in early April if their demand is not met. This is the first time on record that the Fleetwood men have demanded industrial action. The meeting of about 60 mem- diabetic needing daily injections.

• At Walton Hospital, Liverpool, a consultant orthopaedic surgeon is providing scab labour in the kitchens peeling potatoes.

Only 70 of the 1,160 ancillary staff in the group are working. NUPE said industrial action wed escalated voided haired had escalated strike action and a total of 770 affected in some way. St Bartholomew's Hospital in London was back to its normal strike situation now that the bomb injury emergency was over.

OFFICE WORKER Janet Allen (16), being treated for an injured wrist, feels the ancil- lary workers are extremely low paid considering what they do for people. 'We would be lost without them in the hospital, she said.

I would defend their right to go on strike. 'As a patient I think they should go on strike. It's not right that they should not go on strike? Mrs A. Osifeso has a broken leg. She told me: 'I sympathize with the strikers. I want them to get their increase. I think their action is right. It does cause some inconvenience to patients, but it's still right. They need the money? Steve Alder (16) is an apprentice metalwork engineer being treated for an eye injury.

winning wide support. the Transport and bers of General Workers' Union also called for 100-per-cent union membership. They said they could not guarantee to sail with men who were not in the union in the future. increase, their because their pay is very low and they do important work? Mrs D. Sanderson, one of the pickets at St James's Hospital in south London, said: "This action is right. You have to do something : to get something. We work hard for nothing. If we don't get an agreement we will have to have another strike. 'We should all stay out to- gether until we get what we want.' Another picket, Mrs John- son, said: "This is a very good strike. I would stay out as long as it is necessary to get full increases. We have . the been taken advantage of for too long. The higher authori- ties are pushing us around all the time we want it stopped.

TRY

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

LIVERPOOL dockers will hold a mass meeting tomorrow to decide whether to accept the employers' £2.75 pay offer.

Dockers were angry yesterday when they heard that their com- mittee had voted to accept the offer and to drop a claim for a 35-hour week. The decision was carried by one vote on the cast- ing vote of Jimmy Symes. Janet Allen (16) being treated for a wrist injury. 'We come to work and we know we have to work. But we want to work in peace. We don't want to have supervisors pushing us around all the time' student Two second-year nurses felt that most of the nurses at St James's are ex- tremely sympathetic to the said: These strikes. They people work very hard and they get very little. The nurses here are sick of the argument that the ancillary workers should not strike be- cause of the patients and the people have These nurses. worked so hard for years and they have got so little. "They do think about the patients or they would not do this job. What is disgusting is that they have been negotiating for so long and they have been left with no alternative but to come out on strike.'

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