Workers Press no. 1040

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TUC IN NEW TALKS WITH TORIES

FEATHER PREPARES

PHASE THREE

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DAILY ORGAN OF TH

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL STAFF

TUC leaders yesterday held fresh talks with premier Edward Heath preparing the way for the introduction of Phase Three of the state pay laws. Attending the amiable discussions with Heath at the National Economic Development Council were TUC general secretary Victor Feather, engineers' pre- sident Hugh Scanlon and transport union leader Jack- Jones. The meeting came three days after the introduction of the Phase Two pay laws which outlaw the basic right to free wage negotiations. The talks were also held against fuelled by VAT, and a a background of soaring prices, rapidly worsening crisis for British capitalism.

During yesterday's secret gathering, the union leaders made no complaints whatsoever about the crippling price inflation hitting high street shoppers.

The discussion mainly centred on the re- cent Torv Budget. The Pay Board's objective The signal for this new is to police all negotiations round of class-collaboration and ban 'excessive' awards, with the Tories was given a while giving the appearance ago by Scanlon when week 'anomalies'. of sorting out he addressed the Parliamen- Far from protecting 'special tary Press Gallery the cases, the Pay Board will be at House of Commons. an instrument for state- He and the rest of the controlled wage-cutting. General Council believe they The TUC leaders have had strike deal with can fragment- some successes in Heath that the Phase ing the struggles eariv Three strait-jacket on wages against Phase Two. wearing is voluntary. down some groups of strikers This was the same treach- by refusing to come to their which led aid and nonsense others by totally erous the trade union leaders into ignoring them. talks the tripartite at With support from the Chequers and No. 10 Down- "lefts' like Scanlon and ing Street at the end of last Tones, backed by the Com- year. munist Party, the TUC has be nothing There can managed to avoid the decided voluntarily with General Strike call and sub- Heath. stituted a one-day protest The economic crisis which instead. overshadows these talks dic- To cut living standards by tates that the Tories must the huge amount the Tories pauperize the working class is likelv to involve require and destrov its basic demo- actual wage reductions. in order that cratic rights British capitalism is Certainlv a nil wage norm pre- from disintegration is Tories vented the immediate and recession. objective. the trade • PAY laws, which put an To get this, end to free movement will have wage negotia- union ruthlessly are to be to be smashed. tions, applied. But far trade from the unions being destroyed and

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mitted to soar. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 5, 1973 • No 1040 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Three St George's pickets arrested THREE pickets were arrested late yesterday at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, where they are on selective strike action for higher pay. Despite harassment from the police, the many vehicles managed to stop pickets nave from crossing the line. On Monday all the ancillary staff staged a the maids and one-dav strike and since ther the branch management committee have been maintaining the picket stopping non-essenual

SCIVICES.

The mood of the strikers is hardening fol- by the lowing 'inflammatory Stene hospital management. Earlier in the week, Richard Ellis, the house governor, made a statement that the industrial action was creating health and fire hazards. These exaggerated claims have been completely repudiated by the workers' committee.

St George's workers will send a strong dele- gation to today's mass rally and march through London.

HOOVER

973 • No 1040 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE Middleton, Manchester, branch of the Socialist Labour League has sent the first £5. Now keep it rolling in. Post to: Socialist Labour League Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG POLICE went into action Obviously a change of law on picketing is in the air and Dar- vesterdav against four the number being lington hospital workers muted.' who tried to stage a The strike was stepped up 'take-over' of a boiler yesterday in Sheffield where staff at eight hospitals went house. on a three-day strike. Strikers got into Darling- They were joined by ancil- ton's Imperial Hospital in lary workers at five Barnsley bid to pull out the plugs as hospitals. In both areas bed protest against strike- was reduced to occupation breaking, but police moved 50 less than cent of per in to stop them. normal. This action follows The latest in a planned wide- spread intimidation of pickets of 24-hour series strikes in the West Midlands hit the in the north. Hospital, Oueen Elizabeth Bernard Dix, research Birmingham. officer for the National 250 workers. About in- Union of Public Employees, been cluding transport, domestic said that police had staff and Manchester some porters going round in walked out. and other in the centres Week-long strikes at the north telling hospital work. Erday Hospital and ent ers to reduce their four see story heir picket to Erdington, and High Hospital, Nuneaton, conti- "There is no basis in law nued. but work for this figure he said. was re- *But it seems widespread.

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workers press

FEATHER PREPARES

PHASE THREE

INCORPORATING TI

CALY ORGAN OF TH

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL STAFF

TUC leaders yesterday held fresh talks with premier Edward Heath preparing the way for the introduction of Phase Three of the state pay laws. Attending the amiable discussions with Heath the National Economic Development Council were TUC general secretary Victor Feather, engineers' pre- sident Hugh Scanlon and transport union leader Jack• Tones. The meeting came three days after the introduction of the Phase Two pay laws which outlaw the basic right to free wage negotiations. The talks were also held against a background of soaring prices, fuelled by VAT, and a rapidly worsening crisis for British capitalism.

During yesterday's secret gathering, the union leaders made no complaints whatsoever about the crippling price inflation hitting high street shoppers.

The discussion mainly centred on the re- cent Tory Budget. The Pay Board's objective signal for this new The is to police all negotiations round of class-collaboration and ban 'excessive' awards, with the Tories was given a while giving the appearance week ago by Scanlon when of 'anomalies' sorting out he addressed the Parliamen- Far from protecting "special Press Gallery at. the cases, the Pay Board will be tary House of Commons. instrument for an state- controlled wage-cutting. He and the of the rest General Council believe they The TUC leaders have had strike deal with can some successes in fragment- Heath that Phase So the ing earl struggles Three strait-jacket on wages Two, against Phase wearing is voluntary. down some groups of strikers This was the same treach.

by refusing to come to their led which aid and erous nonsense others by totally the trade union leaders into ignoring them. the talks at tripartite from the With support Chequers and No. 10 Down- "lefts' like Scanlon and ing Street at the end of last Tones, backed by the Com- year. munist Party, the TUC has nothing There be can managed to avoid the with decided voluntarily General Strike call and sub- Heath. stituted a one-day protest The economic crisis which instead. overshadows these talks dic- To cut living standards by tates that the Tories must the huge amount the Tories pauperize the working class likely involve require is to and destrov its basic demo- actual wage reductions. cratic rights in order that capitalism is British pre- Certainly a nil wage norm is from disintegration Tories' immediate vented the and recession. objective. trade • PAY laws, which put an To get this, the will have end to free wage negotia- movement union are to be ruthlessly to be smashed. tions, applied. trade

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prices, rents, in- terests and the like are per-

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mitted to soar. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 5, 1973 • No 1040 • 4p DALY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Three St George's pickets arrested THREE pickets were arrested late yesterday at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, where they are on selective strike action for higher pay. Despite harassment from the police, the managed to stop many vehicles Dickers nave from crossing the line the ancillary On Monday all staff staged a one-day strike and since then the maids and the branch management committee have been maintaining the picket stopping non-essential services. hardening fol- The mood of the strikers is statements by the 'intlammatory' lowing hospital management. Earlier in the week, Richard Ellis, the house governor, made a statement that the industrial These was cated claims have been completely.

was creating health hazards. ana nre repudiated by the workers' committee.

St George's workers will send a strong dele- gation to today's mass rally and march through London. 973 • No 1040 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE Middleton, Manchester, branch of the Socialist Labour League has sent the first £5. Now keep it rolling in. Post to: Socialist Labour League Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG POLICE went into action Obviouslv a change of law on picketing is in the air and vesterdav Dar- against four the number being lington hospital workers muted ' who tried to stage a The strike was stepped up 'take-over' of a boiler vesterday in Sheffield where staff at eight hospitals went house. on a three-day strike. Strikers got Darling- They were joined by ancil- into ton's Imperial Hospital in a lary workers at five Barnslev bid to pull out the plugs as hospitals. In both areas bed protest against strike. occupation was reduced to breaking, but police moved 50 of less than per cent in to stop them. normal. This action The latest in a planned follows wide- spread intimidation of pickets of 24-hour strikes series in West Midlands hit the in the north. the Oueen Elizabeth Hospital, Bernaïd Dix. research Birmingham. officer for National the 250 workers, About in- Union of Public Employees, cluding transport, domestic said that police had been staff and going round in Manchester some porters walked out. and other centres in the Week-long strikes at the north telling hospital work- Erday Hospitals And en four see story heir picket to ers to reduce their Erdington, and High Hospital. Nuneaton, conti- 'There is no basis in law nued. but work for this figure' he said.

was re- 'But it seems widespread.

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Kremlin trade associations set up PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thuraday April 5, 1973 Immediate reaction as builder dies

WHAT WE THINK

Demonstrations over Don't be Barcelona killing fooled by A WAVE of protest spread strikes building workers miners' vote through Barcelona northern suburb Adrian de Besos. province yesterday Civil Governor une against the police claimed that 'demonstrators made violent attacks on of Manuel the murder Dolce Tune TaCT ThaT Fernandez Marquez. armed police opened fire THE TORY Press is rejoicing too soon at the result workers demonstrating Marquez • (29) builder peacefully. o be vende DaHOL enes enims and married man wiln a less morytant the he Tories and says the miners are The strike began two-year-old was militant'; Guardian' Monday aull, when the employ- says govern- Killed when the fascist Sociedad Argentina de Flec -Contro NiCul aS Wori Lie baluc , uic wally fire the miners are 'heralds of spring' for the govern- police opened ment; and the *Daily Telegraph' claims they have demonstration 2,000 tricidad Constructora backed down and given Heath a vote oi con- noence Costliest Californian These class making anti-working forces are serious mistake in underestimating the feeling in Miners of class and struggle second trial deadlocked Corsosics Lo nac. luca they

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TyLo Wien battiea alone ior nine TUC had betrayed the General months after the Strike, is only one peak in their history.

RUCHELL MAGEE,

charged £400,000In Last year they brought the Tory government to its with killing a judge in Davis was acquitted last year seven-week political strike.

Knees ln d lae caca court-room escape attempt, charges of planning lesson oi inal strike was the neea lor a revolu- mis-trial was de- from forcing the Tory government to resign.

clared in the costllest But unlike Miss Davis, who case Californian A significant number of miners began to draw since been feted by thi HISTOrY After more than 50 hours Stalinist bureaucracy around As one man told Workers Press during ressor. del lera roren eight days reported lues 'Everyone takes it for day propaganda grantea tne lories nave got I was nopelessiy dead- MoScOn to get out. Any Labour government would have locked. of policy. We want Magee to go for a complete change was charged with second trial, though his de could now shooting Judge Harold Haley a group of people who understand that the

ZOOGS

werk ode e aue ot rt. and kidnapping fence lawyer Robert Carrow we work to get trom tne ve caoone value We want leaders who re- from the Marin County said he doubted whether the in August 1971. state tehe Marin County shoon that the working people the only courtroom again Lusiac al c people who matter. estimated have cost ings. It was the absence of such leadership which pulled the miners back from forcing the Tory govern- out of office. It has been union leaders, the Communist Party, which have backed up by successive v iso atec Une postal workers. gineers, dockers, railwaymen, gasmen, hospital teachers and other section of staffs, every clashed with the Tories'

GROWING

Many criticisms have been economic workul Class wuch das anti-union legislation and state pay laws.

party voicealn difficulties have forced hich- eve meetings and in the Press of the Soviet bureaucracy, and Stalinists have ine retormists persistentiy re- shortcomings' industry ected the political implications of these struggles in the third year of the from ranging under-utiliza. the only possibility of They have united against Five-Year current Plan, tion of capacity to outright Strike General corruption.

VICTON-

voluited calt to introduce a major in- the conditions for forcing the Tory government Now dustrial reorganization. the bureaucracy to resign. of tring to ind some wav Under Pravda, aes announced But the Tories have not won the battle.

overcoming its crisis by yet administrative Capitalism's international crisis, aso viar, rages on associations will be set up form. chaos and ruthless trade rs ust bore war, rages ruD reaucing une The first attempt deal of the eco- best to WeeS ever scale.

CISS.

DODDILC

LuCi and the with the problems inherited ministries efforts of the trade union bureaucrats and their from Stalin of period Stalinist friends, industrial peace is not possible. plant mallagers forced draught industrializa- The new bodies will be said: The are laws history

LIOSKY

controlled and be responsible boards over-cena alon stronger than the bureaucratic apparatus.

came under Khrushchev. MICCLULd this crisis at the must seek to solve research He abolished the ne ories

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alale ceveo»- RelS• ein se fabbe orkem playm taro o inraa- ment in the industry con- trial ministries altogether labour, unemployment, lower wages, transferred cerned. and their pow- higher prices and state control ot the unions.

reorganization is „l ne all Iciulal ccoomc admission that the much- councils where ior a lew If, in these circumstances, the miners vote against heralded 'economic 1955. years the local bureaucrats reflect the taking. on the …ones TOOr V ulev initiated greater forms beginning of a mass realization 'of the crisis of freedom waidh gave greater powers to on which turns leadership-the central question plant managers, have failed control. the entire future of the working class.

deliver Khrushchev's the goods. successors abandoned Manv industries. especially this It is on this basis that revolutionary consciousness

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allu those producing consumer to centralized reTurned Tne be developed and the revolutionary party can goods, failed meet their ministries. built. Under last year. The the 'economic targets alala form' That is the task of the Socialist Labour League in Plan whole rive- ex more weave was ę the period ahead. lagging behind schedule. to the plant managers Dangerous plant by plant decision on Ford pay CAR ASSEMBLY and trans- on these, using the fatuous asked one engine plant Tuesday's after mission workers from Ford's argument steward natrore solle Halewood, Liverpool, plants agree to break the E1 plus meeting. we have norm and im- trouble is, meet tonight to decide their 4 per attitude to the company's prove their £2.40 offer. doing sebaldlt Olallls arate things. We should have offer, already The failure to launch any latted by workers at Dagee- latest Tory a le hink the unions should campaign against the ham. governrneul SucueLuCIs Last night men from the weakest elements who want slant an overtme Dan In al body stamping plant at Hale- accept the offer. the plants. If that doesn't left it to should have The unions have work, we

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vored OneI series of strikes, perhaps one which conforms exactly this extremelv late hour be- to Phase Two of the Tory pay fore considering form aay a week. ally of official Another steward young oWs. 'A lot This the of the men are tragmented Arnoudh badenham WOrK- Hlas ers rejected the offer, there plants throughout the coun- voting for the oner nol be try. cause they think it is fair-- the ranks, obviously does not even At Dagenham a 'ginger to the complete man cer absence of a lead from union of living but up with the standand group ol younger stewards officials leading shop is pressing for action and a secanse aTOl lead from the can is teli the eo hom they stewards government. expected The question 'How can we be unDerdOSE "The officials minds at men's their to keep workıng 4u nours Keel the and overtime coming back to us until they meeting was luesday of the The some other plants are work. acceptance gover ert vav laws. he The vote at Dagenham on Tuesda unions remain largely silent ing week?' seven •avs sall

JUAN GARCIA

Pirenaica-refused to grant a wage increase and reduce the working-week from 48 to 40 hours. The building workers were locked out and their employers stated yesterday that anyone who failed to • report for work next Mon- day would be sacked. A second demonstrator who was tion according to his doctors. Magee standing behind Judge Haley deciding how to meet plan targets. They were given financial incentives as well as control over enterprise funds for welfare, housing and bonus payments. These powers are now to be taken away or greatly whittled down. It seems probable that the bureaucracy has been in- fluenced by the management methods used by the big capitalist corporations with which it wishes peacefully to co-exist. Each industry will form a giant corporation with a certain degree of autonomy subject to overall control by the state planning commis- sion. The boards of these asso- ciations, as they• are called, will have to decide what to do about lagging enterprises and take steps to increase efficiency and labour produc- tivity. will be powerful They of the bureaucracy arms against the Soviet working opposing class, which speed-up and strict labour discipline and demanding genham on Tuesday Hundreds of students marched through the centre of Barcelona yesterday and a group of 40 threw stones at the central offices of the main power station. workers' The building dispute is only one of many in Catalonia. A sit-in strike was staged at the Cinca factory recently when the management dis- missed several workers. It was broken up by police using tear-gas bombs and batons. At the Hispano-Olivetti typewriter plant, workers have been on strike since February 12 against the vic- timization of two militants.

A of mass meeting parents and children in the textile town of Mataro was dispersed by police on Monday. • The main demand We want free education A TELEX line was opened up between Madrid and Peking last weekend. And a high-powered seminar is be- ing conducted in Madrid this week on the possibili- ties of trade expansion with China. Talks are also proceeding between trade representa- tives from eastern Europe and the Spanish trade de- partment. • See Stalinists aid Franco pp. 10 & 11. Also Spanish series p. 5. more and better consumer goods. The new measure repre- sents an empirical turn by the bureaucracy in the face of this growing working- class opposition. The main factor holding back the development of the nationalized productive forces is the policy of "socialism in one country', to which the Stalinist bureau- cracy adheres. It is now establishing closer economic ties with in world capitalism an attempt to solve its econ- omic crisis. new motion. This the danger deals with foreign firms, breach the monopoly of

- Butter glut-but prices to rise Hospital pickets restricted

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

THE ENGINEERS' leaders have instructed their mem- bers to strike on May 1. As far as it goes this is correct and should be followed by every union executive. Some union leaders have already decided to violate the decision taken the

TUC

at Congress of March 5 by vot- ing against action. Others have taken the more cowardly way out and left it up • to the branches' — a policy which is almost an open invitation for strike-breakers. But it is not right to say, as the Communist 'Morning Party's Star' did yesterday, that the engineers' 'wipes decision from Heath's face the smile'.

Heath will be happy before May Day and after it. The Tories have already recon- ciled themselves to losing production because of the TUC The bigger prize is protest. now within their grasp-full with the union co-operation Pay Board and acceptance of the corporate state philosophy on which the pay laws are based. This is ample compensation for the Tory frustration on May Day. The government has witnessed the postal workers accept the Pay Board. They have heard Hugh Scanlon -the president of the same engineers who will be striking on May I-offer a deal. And they now see the civil servants abandoning action through lack of TUC support. The reason for Heath's smile is to be found therefore at the top of the trade union move- ment among TUC members and union leaders who solemn- ly swore on March 5 to pre- vent any group of workers being bled to death by this government-only to cast aside their promises weeks after- wards. This kind of treachery causes the joy in Tory circles. It is the duty of every single worker to strike on May Day and every militant and socialist in the labour movement must campaign unceasingly for the biggest possible turn-out.

But workers must protest with- out illusion. May Day in itself is totally insufficient. There is only one way to deal the Tories-a mass in- with dustrial and political mobili- zation to bring them • down. But it is this political task which raises the question of power and which the TUC - 'left' right - and the Communist Party Stalinists are determined to avoid in favour of ultimate with the class - collaboration Heath government.

BY OUR OWN CORRE

NURSES' leaders accepted Phase Two pay awards and agreed to take their next claim to the newly-established Pay Board.

The 340,000 National Health Service nurses and midwives are to get awards ranging from £78 to £225 a year. The agreement takes effect from April 1.

Nurses are grotesquely under- paid. Under the state pay laws student nurses of 18 will get rises of £78 a year to bring their salaries up to £699. Workers Press, Thuraday April 5, 1973 PAGE 3 Come aboard lad. After all it was your idea

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chemical BUTTER will go up by butter turers' Federation, said the and textile used alongside meat enormous 150,000 tons. butter prices that would glant, courtaulas. about 4p a pound next Of this rise by up 1o per cent It is spun protein made hamburgers, meat sauces, amount, 103,000 month and is likely to go from beans already the like. tons held the and is sausages and public end of the year. art up by a further 2p by the stores compared with As prices continue •ele Their immediate use 81,000 tons a year ago. schools chilaren will end of the year. soar mere is concenes comedl. northern England. So, although propaganda campaign replacement, the partial Professor Hawthorn, rising meat prices huge surplus of buttel synthetic meat. The price rises are be- lavour and -both Presso ГО•• during period the introduced in line with told ing reoole are •ele Strathclyde Science itself prices are that they can give up eat- tecnol ¡nove University, said at a con- common market porcy. being raised to 'ensure cheese, eggs and The substitutes ing meat vention yesterday: dually become foods The new attacks on the good producers'. TCon alle cal Mr The vegetable and we will week, their own riaht nousewives buaget are carter

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syninetic producis new the more criminal because Anthony e Festo Ma press: presi- The most widely known proteins, replacing enjoy Inem Britain's meat proteins, will first be their own sake. current stock dent of the Food product is Kesp, made by

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

POLICE in Manchester are complaint our when ne took up the Unions started backing said the spokesman. "The lack of contact between the struggle-as it is we are out on to go on applying their four the the picket depends on the size leadership and rank "The keen h Hipe ande at Ladywell in by Man and interest pickets only' rule outside theAt Sope file. 'We chester are not told anything picketing is hospitals in the city. A Eccles about the cave course of the cam- part national trenc these are wait for New to the laws are expected to give Crowa oi len o1 Dalell. spokesman said that numters entrance may lead to trouble.

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hospitals are on strike and which have to be kept down to pre- 'A driver may come up and a police ire flitreelance ones as goine mek. forces hare are alhays a few horheads heated exchange occur- vent possible breaches of the demoralizing with their action (see page 1). for the lads. It's about time the peace. ana the wnole ining may leaa to a breach of the peace, he said started last week Hospital that Trouble workers say the when police swooped on efiect of cutting the picket down pickets outside Hope Hospital, make their action

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Salford, and cut the picket They hit back at this police down to tour action ast rridav when a mass paperbacks picket was launched outside 1 nis followea statener Hope hospital gates. attacking secretary, Workers several rained in from Dickels. city hospitals were acting under instruction with from nuliders

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from hospital board or the centre hospital Solidarity action. Police observes 60-strong Home Uince. the demonstration from cars but did not intervene. Nurses taken to Pay Board Since then the picket at Hope kept has been al normal strength of six to eight strikers -hospital drivers who have been weeks. IOrSIX shop 28 charlotte st Miss Catherine Hall, who said there had been sao fresh challenge frome Craven, staff side of the on the Whitley Council, and na wives the police. london w1 helped negotiate the deal.

•We expected trouble on She told the Friday, this did not Bournemouth ''he said. conference of the Royal College materialize,' of Nursing that Susana claim vould be lodged with the back. They snake new Pay Board. We have been 100 per cent out strike started indefinited we since the and Durston. оссир- Virs vaiere tional health senior nursing nave saletas s officer at London's Great Ormond out until October will stay 'We Fudays dale night openng) a.m7.. 7.30 p.m said: necessary." oureel

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Saturdays 9 a.m.- 5 em Craven voiced a common our negotiators a vote of thanks.

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A new weapon which breaks demonstra- up tions by causing epileptic fits among demonstrators is being developed by a major supplier of police and military equipment. Allen The iF Westminster Interna- tional building what it calls a photic which inaudible over light noises invisible to . 1n achieve its effects. Scientists have long known that of flash- combination ing light and loud noise can cause epileptic fits in a cer- tain proportion of the popu- lation. About 5 per cent of people actually go into a under conditions, these an- other 25 per cent feel 'strange' -giddy, sick or disoriented. Some may faint. Ultra-sound Allen have refined the prin- by ultra-sound- ciple using which is outside the range of the human ear-and infra-red light which cannot be seen. pass through puises the eyelids and will work even if the victims close their eyes.

'New According to the Scientist', the photic driver is not a brioritv broiect because the company's main trade is in bugging and night vision de- But chief vices. engineer received Charles Bovill has and research cocoul arcuitil facilities from military neurologist. New experiments on the de- vear. are planned later this also known that 1S cal. the US. Air Force has conduc- ted research into similar de- vices. Dr William Grey Walter, a Bristol neurologist who was one of the discoverers of the epileptic effects of flashing lights, has sharply condemned the research. It would be dangerous to especially cause epileptic fits, for people the hrst time. in and I would certainly consider it unethical,' he said. Dr Grey Walter doubted whether the device would have any really mass effect on a crowd. "The very real danger would be when a person was caused to have such a fit for the first time,' he said. 'Such a person who has never had an epi- leptic fit before would then likely to have sub- De t sequent fits.' 'Non-violent' his Bovill claims phonic driver would be 'non-violent' epilepsy not but al c Collapsing epileptics so sure. could break bones as they hit their the ground and tongues drop back in their throat as sometimes happens.

they could be asphyxiated.

The phonic driver, if it ever the laboratory beyond stage, looks like joining such 'non- acclaimed. lethal' devices as CS gas, the rubber bullet and the water At one time or an- Callliuli. other all these weapons were regarded as the answer to the policeman's prayer.

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Labour MP Alf Morris has tried unsuccessfully to raise in the House of Commons the sale of Central Manchester Station by British Rail private to property developers. Manchester Corporation twice 23-acre sought buy the site and on the second occa- sion did not even receive reply to its offer from British Rail. Morris claims that soon after its closure, nearly five years the station became the ago, subject of 'unreported negotia- tions between unnamed pro- perty developers, architects and unnamed officials'. However, after these long

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rotshy Now available from New Park Publications 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG and secret dealings, Manches- ter Corporation was told that the property had been sold to McCrae Holdings Ltd. In fact, it was bought by _Mr Patrick McCrae Holdings Ltd. In fact, Arkle Holdings Ltd. The price was reported to be £2.7m.

McCrae and his associates swiftly sold out to the English and Continental Property Com- pany. The profit was said to be flm. McCrae's bankers, Dalton Barton, were taken over by Keyser Ullmann, the big city bank which is headed by Edward du Cann MP, chair- man of the Tory backbenchers' 1922 Committee and a past national chairman of the Con- servative Party. According to the Manchester 'Evening News', a spokesman for English and Continental said the only reason they By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated leading of Sharp pen-portraits 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 led to the completion of the translation of the whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished I in the Soviet Union in 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures of the Second Inter- 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.

1 New Park Publications h Street, London, SW4 7UG acquired Arkle was because of Central Station. There are now said to be plans for a £30-£40m develop- ment of the site, including a million square feet of office space, housing accommodation for 300 people, shopping space and an exhibition hall. English and Continental is a London-based property group which was recently involved in a £100m deal in the City of London, Wales and Scotland.

The buyers were the Post Office Superannuation Fund and the main beneficiaries were Jack Walker and Ramon Green, who have a 49 per cent stake in English and Continen- tal. They were said to have made £40m from that deal. The other 51 per cent in- • £3 terest in E&CP is held by the Crown Agents—a semi-govern- ment body for whose solicitors Jack Walker worked before moving into property three years ago. An official inquiry began in- to the Crown Agents in 1971, following an investigation into by "The their activities Guardian'. Du Cann's firm, Keyser plans to take Ullmann, up some 300,000 square feet of There is a massive exodus from the hospital service by ancillary workers because of the appalling conditions they suffer and the pay they earn.

These shock allegations a recent survey of come in staff turnover in the Man- chester United Hospital group —often over 100 per cent a year and rarely below 50 per cent. At Barnes hospital, Man- chester, for example, the turn- over among porters was 125 per cent between April 1972 and March 1973 and among domestics an incredible 153 per cent. At Manchester Royal Infirm- ary, the biggest hospital in the city, there was a 101-per-cent turnover in laundry staff.

The picture is the same at the specialist hospitals. At the Royal Eye Hospital, the turn- Manchester Central Sta- Above: 23-acre site which tion brought 2im profit. office space, together with mer- chant bankers Samuel Mon- tague, in a planned multi- million pound development in Throgmorton Street, near the London Stock Exchange. The designers of this pro- ject are Fitzroy Robinson and Partners-who are also the designers for the redevelopment of the London Coal Exchange site. The company behind this is Town and Commercial Pro- perties, a banking, insurance and land group with more than 70 subsidiaries and • assets of almost £100m. Town and Commercial Pro- ade perties made a profit last year of £6,685,000—an increase of in- £3,511,000 over the previous But this is only the year. seyenth largest property com- pany in Britain. The largest is Land Securi- which ties Investment Trust, made £28,582,000 profit last year. The second largest is the Metropolitan Estate and Pro- perty Corporation which made EMERS pharman MEPC's chairman Henry Johnson, former British Rail chiet. over among orderlies was 67 per cent and over half the domestic staff at the dențal hospital left over the last six months. Stan Seddon, branch chair- man at the National Union of Public Employees, blamed con- ditions and pay. Kitchens at Manchester alleges, Royal Infirmary, he are infested with mice and despite cockroaches, regular visits by a disinfectant firm.

The domestics who clean an- the wards and wash pots get only one change of overall a a week. At . the dental hospital, cleaners have women an- change in a basement corridor outside the men's toilets.

Facilities are poor and the basement is a cockroach-in- fected laundry store. Staff talk of 'dictators of the wards' — middle manage- ment - who bawl them out before the public in hospital corridors. After considering the com- plaints for three hours, the hospital board decided not to comment.

THE FRAUD OF DEMOCRATIZING

FRANCO'S FASCIST UNION

Corporatism in Spain by Juar Both general secretary Santiago Carrillo and Juan Gomez, leading Communist Party 'theo- retician' know that the Common Market is an attempt by the most re- actionary forces in Europe to deal with the working class. The head of the EEC Com- mission in Brussels is Francois Xavier Ortoli. As a minister in De Gaulle's he government, was responsible for consolidat- ing French investment in Spain -he is an open advocate of the Franco regime's entry into the EEC. Andreotti, Douglas Home and others are of the same opinion. These representatives of 'democratic' Europe are laying the basis for their own cor- porate states. Yet the language of 'national interest of the leadership' the Spanish CP and its advo- cacy of Spanish entry into the EEC is no different from the fictions poured out by repre- sentatives of capital in Spain.

The chairman of the Seat motor company, Juan Sanchez Cortes, recently called for a renegotiation of Spain's agree- ment with the EEC and ex- pressed the desire that 'the necessary step to a stage of greater liberalization of trade must take place as a process parallel to the strengthening of our industry'. by Juan Garcia. - Part three.

As if Cortes did not realize that Seat, Barcelona, is but a branch of the Italian Fiat, just of as Authi' is a branch British-Leyland, Citröen-His- pania of Citröen .. European capitalists want to use Spain as a main base for investment, to take advantage of the fascist state to produce cheap goods The liquidationist policies of Carrillo's party comple- ments the diplomatic and com- mercial relations established between Franco and the Stalinist bureaucracies in Mos- cow and eastern Europe. Carrillo raised some pro- tests when the Polish govern- ment broke the strike of miners in the Asturias and when the Soviet Union signed a trade deal with Madrid.

But his party is now fight- ing to close down what re- mains of the workers' •com- missions on the eve of revolu- tionary struggles between the Spanish working class and the Franco regime. After all, if there is agree- ment with the chairman of Seat, why do Seat workers need a workers' commission?

The CP sees its job as 'democratizing' the fascist ver- tical union. The Stalinist policy of 'taking over' the official unions is now carried to its logical conclusion after the turn to promoting Spain's entry into the EEC as the centre of party . no policy. This is spelt out in a two- part statement, 'Advance with the masses', in the March 1 and 15 issues 'Mundo of Obrero' the Spanish Party's fortnightly paper: 'It is neces- to continue using legal sary possibilities. These must not be limited to trade union posi- tions, but be extended to the profes- the church, Press, sions, well-known personalities, etc Not only is there now a 'vanguard' in the official Or- ganization Sindical which must be won, but attention must be 'that paid to considerable sector of trade union represen- tatives who are not in this vanguard. 'We must not forget that in the majority of cases these are honest workers whose pas- sivity, lack of combativity, or fear of the consequences action, are but a reflection of the passivity and initial fears of the great mass of workers.'

(Emphasis in original.) So the working class is blamed for the fact that repre- sentatives of the fascist union are passive. Their 'passivity' has presuambly no connection with the fact that this union is the official strike-breaking body of the state. There is no passive attitude in the agitated phone calls to the local bar- racks of the Civil Guard when strikes break out! The first part of this state- ment has no mention of the workers' commissions, concen- trating solely on the spurious . notion of the legal take over.

The second part calls for a new look at the workers' com- missions, warning of the dan- ger of routinism: the first Workers Press, 1 Spanish foreign minister, Lopez Bravo, Above: Home, Bravo and General Fra with other European representa along Spain's entry into the EEC.

workers' commissions were the first chain in the new move- ment in Spain, but today it is not enough to stop there. There is a new situation: the workers' commissions have built a strong organization: "They have won legal positions have disrupted union' Hundreds of militants in the commissions are in workers' Franco's jails, as far as the CP is concerned, in order to take over and disrupt the Organiza- 3 Press, Thursday April 5, 1973 PAGE 5 : Home. ez Bravo, with Sir Alex Douglas eneral Franco together in Spain. Home, representatives are open advocates of cion Sindical! In propagating the lie that the vertical unions have been taken over by real representa- tives of the working class, the CP builds up the 'liberal' image of the Euro-centred now Franco regime. The 'defence of the Cara- ten' — ten workers' banchel commission members rotting in Franco's jails—has become the most nauseating instrument for fomenting this illusion in the European working class.

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ALI BHUTTO'S NEW CONSTITUTION

PAGE 6 Workers Prees, Thursday Aprl Pakistan President Zulf- kar Ali Bhutto is riding roughshod over all opposition to consolidate his personal power. The President, who took office in the wake of Pakistan's defeat in the Bangla Desh war, is currently drafting a new constitution. Nobody has yet seen the full text of this document, which is due to be produced shortly for parliament's ratification.

But there is already plenty of evidence to show that it will be equally as arbitrary as the previous Pakistan con- stitutions. Pakistanis have almost lost count of the number of phoney constitutions foisted on them since partition in 1947. At least five have come and gone with the different ruling and military factions that drew them up. But Bhutto's new version seems to be bidding for the record in terms of sheer deception and fraud. maday April 5, 1873 The President apparently bowed to opposition demands that the constitution should be 'parliamentary' rather than "presidential'. But the change was in name only. The new constitution enables Bhutto to transform himself from President into Prime Minister for life. There is virtually no way the Prime Minister can be re- moved under the new con- stitution. His opponents would need to gain a two-thirds majority in an parliamentary assembly which is heavily dominated by Bhutto's own People's Party. Once a vote has been taken on the question of no con- fidence in the Prime Minister, no further motion of no con-. ho fidence can be tabled for at least six months. To make quite sure Bhutto is not voted out, members of his own party will be constitution- ally barred from polling against him in such a vote.

If the opposition shows any overcoming signs of these formidable obstacles, Bhutto The constitution gives him complete power to dissolve parliament when he wants to and put an end to the whole farcical sham of 'democracy'.

Outside parliament the re- gime's powers will be equally arbitrary. The constitution ratifies the existing legal situa- habeus tion under which corpus and other elementary rights have long been suspended. These rights disappeared under the state of emergency legislation and the Defence of Pakistan rules which have been in operation for long periods ever since 1947. Under the new constitution, a policeman can arrest any person without a warrant and on- hold him indefinitely.

Even Bhutto's Minister of Law, Mahmood Ali Khassuri, found the constitutional draft too much to stomach. A former president of the Punjab Bar Association, he resigned in protest against the draft.

To ensure the passage of extraordinary • document, activity throughout Pakistan.

This was done on the in- credibly cynical basis that there had been shooting at a meeting of the opposition National Awami Party on March 23. At this meeting, organized by the United opposition Democratic Front, Bhutto's supporters opened up with machine-guns. The opposition put the figure of killed and injured at 13 dead and more than 100 injured. The official figures are nine dead and 65 injured. Ghulam Mustafa Khar, the provincial governor, an- nounced on television and radio that the ban on all pub- lic meetings and processions would remain in force until the constitution was adopted.

This leaves Bhutto a clear field to push through the constitu- tion by April 21 without any public manifestations of opposition, Following the massacre at Rawalpindi, 60 oppositionists were arrested and charged with carrying Khar arms. ical made a crude effort to blame the opposition for the Rawal- pindi shootings, claiming that the shootings were 'a planned attack by 10,000 armed men of the Pakhtoon Zalme under a pre-planned scheme'. Pakhtoon Zalme is the youth wing of the NAP, the pro-Moscow party headed by Wali Khan which is one of the eight components of the oppo- sition front. The governor claimed the opposition crowd at the meet- ing had started the violence by lynching who a man shouted | 'Long Live President Bhutto'. This unlikely tale was sufficient grounds, in the eyes of the Pakistan government, to put an end to all rights until the constitution is safely passed. The opposition, for all its protests, has no real intention of challenging him. Leaders submitted have constitutional amendments which Bhutto has refused to accept. Earlier this week, however. they accepted Bhutto's offer to talks aimed at breaking the deadlock on the constitution. Bhutto has released the 60 detained oppositionists he had no against whom evidence anyway — as a con- ciliatory gesture. But at the same time, he has in arr dur Bh his sin the alli pol Eas Pak

has 'uncovered' a 'conspiracy' armed forces in the arrested a number of officers.

All this is aimed at pro- ducing the climate of terror Bhutto needs to put through his dictatorial plans. Pending the outcome of their talks with the President, the opposition front have not decided whether their ten-day old boycott of the constitu- discussions will con- tional tinue. But in the absence of the UDF the People's. Party representatives have a hefty majority in the chamber and have been able to process the draft constitution with ease.

Everything indicates new that despite the killings and the repression, the constitution Will go through without too much opposition and Bhutto will be installed for life. This will be a further victory for the United States, which has backed Bhutto's regime as a front for virtual military rule since Yahya i Khan's regime was ousted over a year ago.

Bhutto's regime is one of the kingpins of the CENTO alliance and plays a vital part in the plans of American im- perialism to dominate the political life of the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.

The dictatorial regime in Pakistan is more and more becoming integrated with the even more savagely repressive in neighbouring government Iran. Kareem Baluch, emissary of People's the Baluchistan Democratic Party in London of recently spoke of the growing ties between the two govern- not ments. Baluchi people suffer re- pression both sides of the artificial border which cuts their mountainous and barren homeland in two. In Iran the national oppres- sion is particularly savage. In Muslim mullah one case a from the Pakistan side moved to a village in Iranian Balu- chistan. When he began to teach the local children the Koran in Baluchi he was arrested and treated as a dangerous agitator. after he had been ill- realize he was simply naïve.

Iranian Baluchistan is a closed area today. It can only be entered by slipping over the Pakistan frontier. The whole province has been turned into armed camp, where the an Shah's forces of repression are being trained. They include pilots for the 400 Iran has helicopters ordered from the United States. These aircraft, Kareem Baluch pointed

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are ideally the sup- sulled lo of local uprisings in pression Iran. The United States sees the Middle East area as vital one in view of the immense oil riches it contains. Nixon President and his aid energy carsis toy meathe crisis' 'energy by heading new burdens of repression and dictatorship on the peoples of Pakistan and the other states the area. Pakistan, even under Bhutto, has definitely been allocated subordinate role in this plan.

The local leader is to be the Shah, admired by the London imperialists for his rhiness stayig pialist.

Washington defeat of Paki- Since the stan's army in Bangla Desh, the country has been regarded as too unstable to play a para- mount role in the area Iranian intervention in Pakistan's interna affairs blatant. The Iranian quite monarch's recent visit trates the point very well. After the visit. the ministerial of Defence portfolios and Foreign Affairs were both awarded to Aziz Ahmad, the former Pakistan ambassador Washington and

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US stooge. Workers Press, Thur Above: Sheikh Mujib, Bangla Desh president, and Bhutto who became Pakistan's president in the wake of defeat in the Bangla left: Armed Desh war. Above Pakistan's patrol in capital. Below: US President, Nixon.

Ahmad's brother G. Aziz Ahmad, figured in a political scandal at the time of parti- tion. He was deputy director of police intelligence under the British and his opponents published compromising from London to the telegram British intelligence chiefs in India. Workers Prezs, Thursday April 5, 1973

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It urged the director of British intelligence G. to get Ahmad appointed head the Pakistan by secret service using his influence. The telegram was published in the 'Pakistan Times' and the paper's editor was later punished for releasing this compromising document. But despite the damaging disclosures G. Ahmad confirmed in the post. When he reached retiring age some five years later he stayed on 'reorganize' the police force'. His younger brother now controls two of the most and important ministries is plainly there to represent the of Washington and the Central Intelligence Agency. Directly after the Shah's visit, the Pakistan government claimed to have uncovered a cache arms Iraqi at embassy - plainly another bid in its search for put down the opposition. Despite their willingness Pakistan Compare likely to find

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that are Bhutto's regime cannot simply by and fought words that while he talks with their leaders he is simply preparing to emulate the Shah and dis- pense entirely with opposition parties.

FROM BOUBOULONAS STREET

PAGE & Workers Press, Thursday Apri The Greek regime. Jack Gale i Torture in Greece is centrally controlled and follows the same routine everywhere — although some centres have their own 'specialities. It begins with crude, violent abuse and threats directed against the victim and his family. Routine beatings begin at the moment of arrest. This is followed by 'falanga' —beating the soles of the feet. (There are local varia- tions in this. In Piraeus the victim sits while his feet are thrust through a second chair, in Salonika he is trussed up in a rifle sling, at Bouboulinas Street he is strapped onto a special bench.) The 'advantage' of falanga for the torturers is that it in- flicts the maximum pain and usually leaves no permanent marks. The feet can also be The Greek regime. Jack Gale investigates the tortures and the police state. — Part 3 sensitized again by making the walk on a wet fioor. An exception to this 'rule' Dakos. Fellow was Apostolos Averof in Decem- prisoners in 1967, described his right ber, foot as: burst open like an over- ripe fruit, red and raw flesh visible even through his stock- and

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broken and mended crookedly through lack of medical help. Teams of torturers take it in turns to inflict the falanga beatings. accompanied This by with fists, beating sticks, barbed wire and metal whips, of the bars entire body, especially the genital area.

used varlation Dionysos running the -sometimes of up to 200 soldiers. This is followed by electric shock through wires attached to the most sensitive parts of the bodies. res and the police state. - Part 3 At Bouboulonas Street there is an electric shock machine "The Machine of called Truth'. At this centre there is also a device on which the vic- tim is made to sit while water is forced at high pressure up the anus into the intestines.

Victims are often hung up by the hands or feet, burned with cigarettes and have objects forced into their body apertures. Chemical agents are used.

Detergents and chlorine are poured into the prisoners' eyes, mouths and noses. Pepper, salt and cigarette ash is rubbed in open wounds.

At Dionysos military camp, dogs trained to attack the genital areas are set upon naked prisoners. Other refinements include mock executions, constant noise to prevent sleep, being forced to watch and listen to others being tortured, deliber- ate destruction of sanity, soli- tary confinement without food, water or toilet facilities, con- with violent, de- finement praved criminals who are en- couraged to commit physical and sexual assaults. Workers Press has received details of the treatment of a number of Greek prisoners, in- cluding their own statements.

One of them was actress Katerina Arseni, who was arrested on August 23, 1967, by the Athens Security Police.

She was beaten in the car on her way to the police station and, also on route, the car was stopped and she was beaten on the soles of her feet. placed in strict She was isolation' for four days. This means being given no food or provided with no water and hygiene facilities. She was taken to a special room in the Bouboulinas Street headquarters known as the 'taratsa'. Since Bouboul- li- inas Street is in a populated Left: Wing Commander Anastasios Minis who Korydallos prison after being tortured for 111 days and sen- tenced to ten Imprison year: told by everyone want evervone to know. We want them to tremble.' area, this special noise machine to drown the screams of the victims. sometimes anne soaked rag is stuffed into the prison- Silence the is poured screams, or water down the throat. The room has a thick bench in the also tied for the falang people are middle which Arrested under law 509/1947, Miss Arseni named as her chief interrogators Basil Lambros and

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Evangelos Mallios and Petros The chief torturer was called Spanos. Miss Arseni later declared: saw men walking on their elbows and knees, crawling on their stomachs,

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damaged spines, broken ribs, feet completely split open and broken, heads and faces misshapen. The majority of men were not able to walk.' After "treatment' at Bou- Street, boulinas Miss Arseni was taken to the 401 Military Hospital where she was given electric shock treatment on the grounds that she was 'insane'. Later at the ESA headquar- ters she saw detainees being hanged by their shoulders for with their hands tied hours, behind their backs their tongues held out with pliars and their bodies burned with matches and cigarettes. They were given electric shock treatment so otten that for of them the some mere mention of it would bring on the spasms. When this happened, Miss Arseni reported, would the ya going surrounded by be 'doctors'. Arseni also encoun-

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tered a special student torture section, called the Spouthas- tiko, headed by Karapanayiotis and Gravaritis. Costas Frantzeskakis, member of the Piraeus branch of the Accountants' Union, arrested 25, was on August 1967. He was beaten on the of the with US- soles feet supplied whips by officers he named as Foteinos, Iliopoulos and Kanatas, under the guid- named 111C6 ponceman Yannoutsos. told: 'Even if this he was government goes, you will con- tinue to suffer like this as long there is NATO.' he mis transferred tos the Partheni Camp Island, later to the Averof and finally prison in Athens to Larissa in north central Greece. Gerassimos Notaras was arrested on October 28, 1967, in Athens. He was given six days solitary without food or falanga, water. He suffered mock executions and hanging by the hands behind back. After two months of this he was moved to the Averof the then prison and 'Elli warship for a month. Fellow - prisoners declared on his return he could that barely walk and trembled un- controllably. His jailers were so confident that they had broken him that on July 4, 1968, they brought him before an

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the presence of foreign obser- vers. To their dismay, Notaras declared tesumony been obtained under had torture. He described his treatment and named the men chiefly Navy Com- responsible mander Kamarineas and Major Theophiloyannikos of the Military Police. He was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment and was placed in cell with violent homo- prison sexual prisoners who were en- couraged him. to molest

CONTINUED TOMORROW

BBC RESURRECTS STALIN

TELEVISION REVIEW BY JOHN

Robert Vas. As revolutionary crisis shakes society to its foundations, all the con- ceptions of bourgeois ideology are turned inside-out. Liberalism, which is based on the certainty that capital- ism is eternal, must line up with the most reactionary forces in a desperate effort to halt the development of revo- lutionary leadership and Marxist theory. It justifies this shift with the argument that democratic institutions are threatened by the machina- tions of 'extremists' Based on the book by the late George Paloczi-Horvath, Robert Vas's mammoth pro- 'Stalin' gramme on was a nauseating illustration of this trend. It took the hackneyed cliché about the horrors Stalinism being the inevitable of Bolshevism consequence and gave this distortion a further sickening twist. Stalin, Vas told us, was only the product of the Party machine, while this was itself the creation of Lenin. So, while condemning Stalin, al- most in passing, as a mass- murderer, the progamme tried in essence to justify him.

The current attempt to boost the Communist Party on TV - a conscious move to head off the growth of the revolutionary party - involves the presen- tation of the CP as 'respect- able' and 'democratic'. This runs headlong into the corpse of Stalin and the record of his crimes. Vas' programme must be seen as a piece of historical camouflage. Vas kept referring to the words of Stalin's opponents and critics 'the rigged as trial', implying that their evi- dence was as false as that pre- sented against the victims of Stalin's purges. The young Stalin was shown as a romantic peasant lad, hardened and disillusioned in the school of Lenin. Unlike those intellectuals Lenin and Trotsky, he was close to the realities of the life of the masses, said Vas. When, in March 1917, he was not under the influence of Lenin, Stalin turned instinc- "democracy'- tively towards in the shape of the Provisional government of Prince Lvov.

Lenin's return in April rudely this shattered democratic idyll. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been getting all worked up about Princess Anne. A group of members, led by Mr Brian Seager of Middle- sex, recently issued a call for the Queen and Queen Eliza- beth the Queen Mother to re- sign as RSPCA patrons unless they expressed regret at Prin- cess Anne's foxhunting week- ends. The upper-class royalists the society who run were aghast and threatened to haul Mr Seager before the society's national council and expel him for 'prejudical conduct'

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Khrushchev, his 1956 in speech, accused Stalin of in- • 'enemy. venting the category of the people' • Not at all, says vas, the phrase was used by Lenin. Secret police? The Cheka already operated in Lenin's day, did it not? One - man dictatorship? Some chopped-up phrases from Lenin were thrown in to tell us where that came from.

(In fact the only quotations from Lenin's works were such referring torn-out fragment terror'.)

to 'dictatorship' Perhaps the most bare- faced in this heap of lies and distortions was the reference forced collectivization of to agriculture. Stalin, we were told, had not wanted to make this turn, which cost so many peasant lives and damaged both industry and agriculture He had been SO severely. pushed into it - by • Trotsky and the Left Opposition! The trials of Old Bolsheviks and the mass purges of the 1930s were then presented as merely the logical outcome of the revolution and its Bolshe- Now they've climbed down ... but they've reiterated their view that a bit of blood-lust is all right when it's royal.

society wishes The to reiterate very firmly' , they say, "that it has deplored and con- tinues to deplore any criticism of its royal patrons and any suggestion that their position should be reconsidered' Tell it to the foxes. What is the greatest danger facing people in Britain? The moves to dictatorship by the Heath government? The pros- pect of huge unemployment as a result of economic reces- pauperization of sion? The millions of men, women and children from the cuts in wages and the unprecedented rise in food prices? items rate None of these with Sister Mary Magdalene, headmistress of Paddock Lenin's vik leadership. last fight against the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy was re- called, but explained. not Trotsky's fight against Stalin- ism was dismissed as a 'power struggle' The form and style of the determined programme was by its political content. Three were supposed to narrators respectively 'the represent official viewpoint, Stalin's 'critics' and something called 'eternal Russia'. . A fourth and leading narrator was supposed to stand for 'objectivity', as shown by the enormous size of the book he pretended to read from. great deal of newsreel A material was shown, but its significance was twisted to fit in with the programme's line.

Poems by Anna Akhmatova were supposed to form a con- tinuous thread through the programme's epic 140 minutes. In this poetry, the agony of • is focused on Soviet history the screen of the feelings of the poetess. Seen in this way, through the wrong end of the Grammar Covent House, School at Accrington, Man- chester. She has just stated that 'one of the greatest dis- asters of so-called progress' is the intrusion of television in- to the sanctuary of the family.

'Ours is a television society whose standards are those of undermines which the screen true christian relationships. It warps the mind and imagina- tion of the young and inno- God-given cent, kills powers of reflection and deep thought, condones violence and the release of animal pro- clivities, but above all tends to stifle real communication between parents and children.'

In the speech she same praised head girl, Bernadette Duckett, and prefects for their to revive the 'house efforts spirit. Now, girls, when you leave had better keep school you animal proclivities in your check! Workers Press, T and tragic telescope, great events are made tó seem bor- ing. But even the immense bore- dom of the programme had its political function. Like the vast expanse of Russia • swal- lowing up an invading army, the yawning wastes of TV time aimed to dissolve the viewers' critical faculties. And so Vas worked to de- grade the movements of his- tory to the proportions of in- dividual psychology. When, in 1956, Khrushchev tried to ex- Stalin's personal weaknesses, Marxists dismissed his efforts as a bureaucratic-idealist eva- sion. Vas turns this method on its head. Khrushchev's Instead of picture of the revolution being spoilt by one man's defects, the TV Stalin was an honest peasant caught up in a bureau- cratic machine already built by Lenin. The greatest movements of masses of workers and peas- ants for their liberation are thus depicted as the machina- • Press, Thursday April 5, 1973 PAGE 9 tions of a tiny, malevolent but efficient group. . Bolshevism, the great theoretical develop- ment of the most advanced thinkers of our time, is made to look like a recipe for organ- izing a dirty trick on society.

Then, of course, it becomes to conceal the 'river possible of blood' which Trotsky saw dividing Stalinism and Bolshe- vism. Principles and theory and the self-sacrificing strug- gle for them in constructing a revolutionary leadership in the working class, the essence of Bolshevism, have no place in the Vas picture of the world.

The centralized organization Lenin built was the essential instrument through which Marxist theory could be de- veloped. Without its struggle in the working class, the masses remain at the mercy of the ideology of the ruling class.

To identify this with the Stalinist apparatus, founded on lies, and lubricated by indivi- dualism and careerism, is to only strike a blow at the force which can take human- ity forward. The struggle to destroy the power of the ruling class and open the road for the libera- tion of mankind from exploi- tation and oppression, meets the violence and cunning of the exploiters. In the Soviet Union this meant the most brutal civil war. Those who devoted their lives to winning this war, using every weapon they could of the muster, were some most politically principled and physically courageous work- ers, peasants and intellectuals in history. Vas tries to put them on a level with the thugs and liars who later defended the pri- vileges of the Stalinist bureau- This cancerous growth cracy. on the body of the revolution was an expression of the pres- sure of capitalism in decay, the system on whose behalf Vas speaks. Stalin was not the victim of the revolution, but its . of, grave-digger, transmitting the requirements of imperialism by his murderous destruction of Lenin's party. Today, new generations of and intellectuals workers come forward to take up the fight for this party, not only in the capitalist countries, but inside the Soviet Union itself.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday April 5, 1973 All Trades Unions Alliance meetings WATFORD: Monday April 9,8 ABERDEEN: Thursday April 5, Trade Union Hall, Watford 8 p.m. West Front Room, Music p.m. Hall. "The Road, nr Watford Station. 'The Way Forward for Hospital Workers.' fight against Stalinism'.

Peep Tel BoLS P.m. CAMDEN: Tuesday April 10, 8 Hotel, Boar Lane. Peel 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale p.m. workers' strike and the hospital Road, Kings X. 'The TUC must fight against the state pay laws.'

call a General Strike'. Speakers: Cliff:

(SLL

Slaughter Central Committee) and a NUPE guest speaker.

CLAPHAM:

Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor April DAVENTRY: Thursday, 5, Saths, Clar Clapham Manor Street, Daventry Social Club, 7.30 p.m. SW4.

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must call Now Street. General Strike 10 make the Tories resign'.

CAMBERLEY,

Surrey, Friday, April 6, St Peter's Hall 8 p.m. (committee room), Frimley.

Labour Harrow MIDDLETON: FridayArms, April 6, Wealdstone. The TUC must call 'Assheton near .p.m. a General Strike'. Middleton Gardens. LEWISHAM: Monday Aprll 9, 8| HACKNEY: Wednesday Aprll 11, Engineers Club, Deptford D.M. Room, p.m. Parlour Central New Cross Road (opp. New Hall, opp. Town Hall, Mare Street.

Cross Tube). 'Build Councils of 'The TUC must call a General Tories Action. Force the Strike to make the Tories resign'.

Resign'.

CROYDON:

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Times re- membered by Georgina Landa- mare. Sir Winston Churchill's cook. TUESDAY'S 'Morning Star' carried an article by Sam Russell on the trial of the ten Spanish workers, the Carabanchel Ten, who face up to 22 years in fascist jails.

Russell's article correctly refers to 'the mounting persecution not only against workers, Catholics, of the Franco regime, nationalists, communists and socialists, Basque and Catalan but also against doctors and lawyers, priests and professors, against anyone who wants to rid Spain of the hated Franco regime'. 'Morning Star' foreign The editor attacks the hypocrisy of the Labour Attaché at the Spanish Embassy in London who seeks to influence people and make friends for his loath- some master Franco, particu- union larly in Britain's trade and labour movement'. Russell outlines the brutal sup- pression of strikes and the brutal treatment meted out in places like the notorious women's pri- at Alcala de Henares, near son Madrid. Luis Lobato, a Central Com- of the Spanish mittee member Communist Party, recently re- ceived a 21$-year jail sentence.

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MDW revolt at Rubery Owen tractor plant cist dictator General Franco, 'his heirs and successors'. Students, teachers, workers and youth are fighting back against the Franco terror. But one vital aspect of this struggle is omitted in Russell's article.

And that is the support given to Franco's regime by the Stalin- ist leaders of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. The most blatant act of sup- port was the export of coal from Poland to Spain in 1970 which was used to break the strike of the Asturian miners. The Polish and British Stalinist leaders jus- tified this act of murderous strike-breaking by saying that a commercial agreement had signed and there- already been fore could not be broken.

RELATIONS

Full diplomatic relations be- tween Spain and Poland were established in January this year when Spanish parliamentary a contingent visited Warsaw. This delegation was led by the Count of Mayalde, the head of the Spanish security police, and also Iniesta Cano, included General head of the Civil Guard. On February 14, a four-man Russian delegation went to Mad- rid to discuss charter flights • Moscow to the Spanish from Canary Islands. The first major agreement between Moscow and since Franco came to Madrid power was the commercial treaty signed on September 15, 1972.

On January 8 this year, the East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer visited his Russian counterpart Andrei Gromyko who gave full support to the establishment of diplomatic rela- tions between East Germany and Spain. Negotiations for this had been held in Helsinki during last November and December. The Bulgarian vice-Minister of Foreign Trade, Emil Razgolov, visited Madrid in January for discussions with Enrique Fon- tana Codina, the Spanish Minis- ter of Commerce. A which allowed the establishment of a bilateral Spanish-Bulgarian • com- mittee of factory-directors.

TRADE

Trade between Spain and the Soviet Union and eastern Europe doubled in the first ten months of 1972, compared with the cor- responding period in 1971 and is increasing even more this year.

There are also great possibili- for the ties development Spanish exports to China follow- ing the recent diplomatic recog- nition of the Franco regime by Peking. But Russell says nothing about all this. Neither does he discuss the programme of the Spanish Com- munist Party which is for the peaceful development of demo- cracy in Spain by alliance with the democratic bourgeoisie-in- cluding sections of the church, the army and the state apparatus itself. Leaders of the Spanish Com- munist Party launched a strong attack at their Congress last year rejected oppositionists who on this line and called for a fight for socialism. The Spanish Stalinist leader, supported Santiago Carrillo, Spanish entry into the Common Market and praised Diaz Alegria, the head of the Spanish armed forces, as a liberal in search of a modern, 'truly national' army.

The International Committee aid Franco

AND THE 'STAR'S' MR

RUSSELL FORGETS TO

of the Fourth International de- fends all Com- those, including munist rarty members, wno are oppressed by fascism. unlike Sam Russell, But, we will not keeb suentson The to the fascists by the jiver and else. where. Nor will we hide the fact that President Soviet Red Cross, but she didn't see any political prisoners.

RUBERY OWEN'S bid to switch to a fixed-rate pay system on the Measured-Day Work pattern has led to the lay-off of hundreds of Midlands tractor workers.

London

ALL TRADES

UNIONS ALLIANCE

PUBLIC MEETING

Demand Scanlon withdraw his remarks accepting the Industrial Relations Act

TUESDAY APRIL 10

7.30 p.m. Conway Hall Red Lion Square London , WC2 (near Holborn Tube)

CIRCULATION

01-622 7029

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000 only the Spanish Labour not Attaché, but the leadership of the Spanish Communist Party, to point to 'liberal attempts facets' of the Spanish state. To do so would be to aid Franco and his heirs and to in- tensify and prolong the suffer- ings of the Spanish working Cross, Nadedja Trayan, In Barcelona - al prisoners. 2,400 Not only are more than Owen's own of Rubery 3,000 workers on strike against its proposals, over assembly workers at the Massey-Ferguson tractor factory, Coventry, have been sent home.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

Build the revolutionary party Join the Socialist Labour League Defend basic democratic rights Make the Tories resign

TUESDAY APRIL 10

7.30 p.m. Caedraw School Caedraw Merthyr Tydfil Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) Registered eree Published ape workers Workers Press, Thi FREIGHT charges for shippers using the South and South-East African Conference lines will be increased from next Monday.

The conference said that a surcharge of between 10 to 15 per cent would be applied in Gas union at NIRC THE GENERAL and Municipal Workers' Union was represented at the National Industrial Rela- tions Court yesterday to hear complaints from independent contractors in the gas industry that the union is inducing breach of contract by its campaign to get more work for unionized Gas Corporation The employees. to out-of-court parties agreed talks to try and settle the dis- pute. The lay-ofis are caused by a shortage of petrol tanks and other components from Rubery Owen's strike-bound factories.

The strike is caused by proposals which would mean a complete standstill on higher-paid Rubery

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The revolutionary party and the history of the British working class Caedraw School Merthyr Tydfil 7 p.m. Sundays April 8 and 22 Lectures given by Peter Jeffries The Unions and the working class in Britain. The Revolutionary Past of the British working class-and its future. The Transformation of the SLL into a Revolutionary Party.

READING

Trotsky, Where is Britain Going? Problems of the British Revolution. Perspectives for Transforming the SLL into a Revolutionary Party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Press, Thursday April 5, 1973 PAGE 11 line with the currency devalua- tion of both the dollar and the pound. The decision was taken in the light of current levels of ex- and a decline in change rates the value of the line's tariff currency.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Calling all hospital workers

NO COLLABORATION WITH

PAY BOARDS

FORCE THE TUC TO CALL

A GENERAL STRIKE

MAKE THE

TORY GOVERNMENT

RESIGN

Thursday April 5, 6.30 p.m.

Friars Hall, Blackfriars Road, London SE (near Blackfriars Tube) Owen workers' rates. The strikers have rejected the company's proposals, which would mean f4 for lower-paid workers and lump sum compen-

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) Langley Community Centre Middleton 4 p.m. Sunday April 8 ectures given bi Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution In Britain: Britain. The fight for democra- tic rights today means prepar- ing for working-class power.

Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems of the British Revo- lution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Inter- national, Communist Manifesto.

PAGE 12

Workers Press, Thursday April 5, 1973 'Bigger fish' Heated NUS grants watch Hüll debate expected wharf fight HULL DOCKERS are expected to strike tomorrow following THE TIDE of censure run-

FROM IAN YEATS IN EXETER

characterized this, year's con- the High Court decision to endorse the use of non-registered Terence National labour to unload timber in the port.

ning against the He told Workers that Press The although The vote for him was a clear men are angry, Union of Students' executive would keep although the union rejection the Digby Jacks the decision, surprised.

LONDON'S

I0 U docks style of leadership which, as no- fiom culusee up its pressure on the lory gov- appeal gained ground yesterday on WAlCa arose period TiRne• T the National Dock Labour Board body lorgot, included luncn with with all 7,500 dockers out for the the third day of the union against the ruling of an industrial Mrs May and september when grants Tory Education Secretary day running annual conference at Exeter.

Margaret Thatcher.

UYEL

assessed was bouna to UnlundI No a quiet one. arankenci they A no determinen ro by either unions or Is expected But the remainder of Tues- continue their campaign against In a campaign lea oy aereatea employers until Asked whether the executive alternative candidate for the of non-registered labour cav s volne snoweo balayy knat called for tomorrow.

USC

meeting the would escalate the vote against Jacks was based International Socialist valiyalsl scoTes wanduss preslaclt. dokers The autuds. he sale l are assessment of him as an dotted up and down the Humber, member lıke H ll. S1X natol which comprises members of : in a new position. going to be amendments tabled rauner moan asac- both docks unions is expected munist Party member. student union call 'Next year is the year the gov- that reSoluLIon Icsula autonomy condemning The offices of vice-president,

APRIL FUND

alirmation ernment nas promised to review leaders' inaction. all fell to accept a £2.60 offer from and grants ana tney can naraiy oner Li casulc! ocuIclary the employers, us nothing. withdraw to ine stallnisis and inelr sup porters and they captured

TOTALS €38.21

from flexible manning executive s fallure He could not say whether the of the three executive ofticers would Tory voles executive accept a seats. the irent and the offer. but he said that whatever

A SLOW START

Widgery, With the exception of gaining "LOrG it was, they would press for the Yalc

YOLCU

Justice, said, officer's one position equitable of distribution the

NDLB

that he was 11100 L the Is and the IMG fared badi hoW reached the ing. day vo tne money avallable regular because the apparent simi- salisuce ot Barchard Son Ltd, There larity between their policies and been signs mave long Simler menn nts Cune s nanalng dulo- that the executive was less than those of the CP. our first week. Don't let us leave nomy campaign carried by Street, unload ent usiastc ın lIs Dacking IOr Most significant at this year's 913,639 votes to 259,431.

ships timber rent strikes. IrONO conference the intervention was prios Defeated Stalinist-backed NUS exchanges the Young Socialists' Student Angry swept company's sawmill. ot the secretary Terry Mike excused when Tuesdav contested every The 'dock work' conicrence oceres WHCe executive grounds hat ehe unin did ot have the Dundee strike leader Mr Arthur seat for the first time. scheme, he said. denmedav „Tne MacDonald the execu- Sharpy aware of the fall in the resources major

HORT

IWO

further the

NDLB

lifting a hinger to HO AnA: etni le: appeal by

LIVC

campaigns on autonomy and value of their grants and in some both the reformist and Stalinist help them. cases desperately needing a rise, was ven. KalLs Docks stewards and union Mr MacDonald told me after- students neverthless baulked The officials will be meeting Bar- wards that 100 Dundee students Js Culs SUl- taking the inescapable chal- sored by chards today. lenge posed by speakers Mave recelvee sunmonses

HON

colleges, prospects of a nego- the un basi he for payment of fighting to force the Tory gov-

BOTT

tane tiated settlement are slight.

but claimed need

DUL

calicu the ex- anl cazs, local official for prepare polically union ecuuve agreed On Tuesday initial locally night union lated vesterday that much bigger the legal costs without pay laughter and heckling turned in- were eagerly watching which the be Cune as a wnoie. campaign must silence then bursts puzzled outcome of this week's events SECTOnRoogs. called ofi And let's see if we can ralse a in the port. of apolause as one ys Comelene grants promises to be the most Within trade after another rammed home the dockers could lose Tine 1m1TS Registered heated yet. union activity Randall has point that the students cam- "n o z oo ą re o oł backed the grants cam- First statéments by new right- sistently higher High Court verdict, he pointed Dalki 101 erdIls Colle Other sawmill wing president John paign, the apparent not won without fight operators Kancal Taiure

VUL

London SW4 7UG throw long shadow which has spread the deep frus- againt the Tory government and follow already WOlOl _LO Dat- over the campaign's tration and confusion which all its policies. chard's example. DUsDeLD. Civil servants

FEATHER PREPARES PHASE THREE SELI-OUT

FROM PAGE ONE

don® political fight to bring 'reluctantly' the ,Tory government the working class defeated, and that the present leader- resistance is at a very high won't prosecute such a Dulll. struggle. Workers have not accep- The vote of a majority of suspend action ted Tory government domi- miners against strike action their standard ovel on their pay claim can of living. ot no con- sccl

YULC

They have not accepted noence n mer owa Tencer- ship and in the TUC. THE CIVIL and Public Services Association's tne principie or state control of wages. What predominates in the decision to 'reluctantly suspend' its selective The trade union movement workers' movement today has been unable to mount strike campaign is another consequence of the the urgent tact that an alter- the native revolutionary leader- TUC leadership's strategy to hold back the success ul nenl aralası Tories—so far. But these are ship is movement against the Tory pay laws as much early days. the trade unions and to pro- tect basic democratic rights.

More importantly, political as possible. That is why the Socialist underslanuine Is krowile The CPSA has been the most militant of the the treacher- Labour allad in the inmediafe League forging Tencers civil service ous role- -covered up by the aays having the pay andi limited to ae yilus fosep cent inste d et monts, lefts the and Stalinists. and weeks to transform itself • No complaints at Neddy.

widespread into a revolutionary party.

Feather . Incle per Tne cognition the fight that their pay up to comparable industrial wages.

defend rights and Hospital workers' meeting today—see p. 11.

standard But desers he seride sa pors living involves from the otner Unlon Police wade into hospital 'take-over' relying on the TUC to co-ordinat: action on behalf of public sector ever called usen the TUC recised to frene a m 30.

sector conterence of 30 union

FROM PAGE ONE

urging them to take action pledged backing for the pro- vices] not from us,' he said Stockport Alan Fisher, NUPE genera sumed at Birmingham Gene- until late last night. But the leadership and the mobsor nabstructionist tactics ot victot ral Hospital, where 300 wor- secretary, has said he will assemble The strikers and Doncaster tomorrow hos- take Feather and the TUC bureaucrats eventually suc- prepared kers walkea out on luesaay.

т ower filll at t p.m rriaay aTTernoon A big test of morale will join a solidarity demonstra- pital union leaders will member's case to the Pay ceeded in demoralizing these sections of cabine?® the

TUC

'inner Board-but his union's called the London By keeping the CPSA strikes isolated, the bureau- con on come Locay ale LOmOIIOW cracy has succeeded in wearing them down.

when a series of demonstra- Council. Finance Ucaca

LC IS.

tions will be held. 1,000-strong contingent Purposes Committee, to seek According to the Depart- The CPSA leadership has officially of workers and backing. 3,000 vo ters on strike end Health, , there Hospital workers hope to hospital lack of significant support from

NUPE,

others is expected to march For Bernard Dix attract the sunport of other une Tuc against see sovera mas mensures Tower Hill from the East be ence o a mac camąn trade unionists. was not sale L0e UnIOr Ivv nospitals were being nil one-day, of Lon- End. appealing for talks. by direct said ion. strike the defeat. Engineers, initiative They the hospitals don's 200 miners and situation in starts workers from Sir Keith Sheffield and the south-east But the CPSA must consider its own responsi- today and union 0 ICla s counca are amon Ustll bility in this too. visiting their members those have already [Secretary for was getting worse. The campaign to put pressure on the government bv intermit disruptions to various de- TeNT 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF partments was no answer to the state Tories' control of wages

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BLACKPOOL APRIL 14/15 1973

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