Workers Press no. 1043

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Statement by the Socialist Labour League Political Committee strike action on fidence in their own union leader- Those Tory Ministers and Tory newspapers crowing about a 'victory' will soon have to change their tune. As the 1972 strike showed, the miners are not afraid to take on the Tory government.

But this time they made a temporary compromise and this indicates we are in a new situation.

Far from the ballot result being a setback to revolu- tionary developments in the working class, it indicates that in this new situation one great question overshadows every of the section workers: question of leadership. What the miners have said 80,000 is this: to vote for strike even with leadership present strike which must be a Doll. tical fight to the death with the Tory government. The majority, sensing the comnlete re metance their own leaders, held hand for more onnor unity and avourable settled with what they could get for the time Control doubt, Some -nG even hoped that these harsh days would pass and that things would improve a little In what situation did the miners their votes? cast The March 5 TUC Congress ... Invitation' to action.

State control over wages and the Tory

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basic right to free due come into WAge WATe only five days only five days away and a are negotiations. operation. Having Joe Gormley, the miners' staved off a full- The knew that if miners spelled the president. coale monization soninet the thev struck under these con. alternatives: a General Strike Tories, the TUC then began ditions, it would have been with the Tories its real dirty dividing work- UD an illegal with all its and their laws. worterc raticing come to the aid of the civil ser- consequences in limited fines and possibly jail for 'Invite' vants, isolating the hospital their leaders. urging workerc conitulation Congress on But Congress At its special voted only to Phase Two while re- March 5 the TUC was called to 'invite' unions to take part with Heath. opening talks political The NUM to in a "dav of protest' and the mount executive alco against May bears some measure of direc and "inductrial hant date was fixed for responsibility for the these laws which end the four weeks ballot after the laws

YOUNG PEOPLE

laration of the October con- from conference mole comniev all over Britain will as- which overlooks the beach- ference the All Trades front. Unions Alliance conference semble in Blackpool next Rirmincham The YS National Commit- which weekend the 13th for for the transformation of the tee has submitted a compre- annual conference of the Socialist Labour League into hensive draft resolution Young Socialists. The party. the revolutionary which etreccac hoth the dac conference will be the perate character of the world •We enter enthusiastically and the the most crucial in the his- economic crisis struggle into bring for- the mass YS to tory of the revolutionary plications thic aricia for young people everywhere. ward the forces from among youth movement. The building of a mass the vonth and the 2/m1 workers that will launch this VS movement ic accential if Charter trains and party. the working class is to take coaches Hanakaan power, the resolution says. to beer bring delegations to the Copies of the recollition YS Gardens. the "The YS supports the dec- have been sent enor. I@ MONDAY APRIL 9, 1973• No 1043

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result, particularly its left- wing' They deliberately delayed action until after the winter while at the same time they openly collaborating were with the Coal Board over the Common Market and with the government over the Tory subsidies to the industry. Individual General Coun- cil members also played their part within their own unions.

Frank Chapple of the elec- branches as part of a pre- conference discussion and amendments, alterations or addenda are welcomed by the National Committee. A record number of more than 240 resolutions have been received and published for discussion during the two-day conference. The keenest debates are expected to be on the fight for leadership in the work- ing class to defeat the Tory government, the defence of basic democratic rights, the student grants campaign, No 1043 • 4p

IST LABOUR LEAGUE

ANOTHER generous dona- tion of £100 from a good friend, K.L., brings the total to £1,178. But we still have a long way to go to com- plete the first leg of the fund—£50,000 by May 31. Can we hear from all SLL branches about the pro- gress of the campaign and the money collected. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG Sir Sidney Greene tricians, decide the future of the of the railmen and Edward whole working class. Britton of the teachers im- Memories die hard in the mediately announced that working class. they would not be taking part in the May Day protest.

In the 1926 General Strike, General the

TUC

Council Tom Jackson rushed head- sold out and called it off long into the arms of the after only seven days. Tories by accepting the Post Office's Phase Two offer.

The miners, who stayed out through the summer and He won the dubious dis- autumn, were eventually of first tinction being the isolated and starved back trade union leader to volun- to work with a crippling tarily accept the state pay wage cut. controls. Instinctively they feel that Deal this time, if that defeat is to be avenged, it is the poli- Then came Hugh Scanlon, tical character of working- the left'. On the eve of the class leadership that is the central issue. 1972 miners' strike, Scanlon guided the engineers away their leaders from national action on their rushing to the rescue of the wage demand, leaving the capitalist system deeply in- miners to fight the Tories volved severe economic single handed. as the This time, miners their ballot, he completed Prepare offered Heath a deal on the Industrial Relations Act and capitulated to acceptance of And yet they are asked to the Common Market. lead a political strike against And finally he accepted behind the government the principle of state pay leaders who would have laws and suggested further settled for five days' holi- talks on Phase Three. day with pay! Behind all the hints of All these factors com- renewed co-operation with bined to face the miners the unions, the Tories carry with the question not just out their real preparations: of their wage demand, but of the problems of poli- tical leadership which will

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the fight against British im- beginning of a new year- perialism Ireland, the a year in which the working in fight soaring prices class will be called upon to against itself as never and for decent wages, and before arm police the growing in the face of the attacks repres- that will be launched by a sion against young people, particularly those from ruling class in unpreceden- im- migrant communities. ted crisis. In this week's 'Keep Left', 'Let us go forward and YS newspaper, the weekly thousands win of young YS Sheila Torrance, the everywhere and ›eople national secretary from 1966 oring them right to the fore 1970, reviews the fight- to front of the struggle to ing history of the revolu- transform the SLL into the tionary youth movement. revolutionary party.' She says: *Our 13th an- nual conference marks the • Conference details p. 12.

workers press Youth will discuss building revolutionary party

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MOND

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Statement by the Socialist Labour League Political Committee strike action on fidence in their own union leader- Those Tory Ministers and Tory newspapers crowing about a 'victory' will soon have to change their tune. As the 1972 strike showed, the miners are not afraid to take on the Tory government.

But this time they made a temporary compromise and this indicates we are in a new situation.

Far from the ballot result being a setback to revolu- tionary developments in the working class, it indicates that in this new situation one great question overshadows every of the section workers: question of leadership. What the miners have said 80,000 1c this are nrenated to vote for strike even with the leadership present strike Which must ne tical fight to the death with the Tory government. The majority, sensing the comnlete their own leaders, held their hand for onnorunty and settled with what they could for the time get Control Some. doubt. no Aven hoped that these harsh days would pass and that things would improve a little. In what situation did the miners their votes? cast The March 5 TUC Congress ... 'Invitation' to action.

State control over wages and Tory Pay Round the urara basic right to free wage due come into WAra only five days away and a only five days are negotiations. operation. Having the miners' staved off a full- (rormley. The miners knew that if spelled president. out the scale mobilization against the alternatives: a General Strike they struck under Tories, the

TUC

then began thece can. ditions, it would have been its real dirty work. -dividing with the Tories O1l1 17 M an illegal strike with all its and their laws. workers, come ratncina to the aid of the civil concenilenrac unlimitar fines and possibly jail for 'Invite' vants, isolating the hospital their leaders. urging capitulation At its special Congress on But Congress voted only to Phase Two while re- March 5 the TUC was called to 'invite unions to take part talks opening with Heath political

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in a 'dav of protest'

UDON

mount anothe ayerntiva alco fight against date was fixed for May bears some measure of direct amr inductanl weeks after responsibility for these laws which end the four the the laws ballot YOUNG PEOPLE from Feretice of the strate- contarance romney which overlooks the beach- ference the All all over Britain will as- front. Unions Alliance conference semble in Blackpool next Rimingham The YS National Commit- which the weekend for 13th for the transformation of the tee has submitted a compre annual conference of the Socialist Labour League into draft resolution hensive Young Socialists. The the revolutionarv partv. whina ctraccoo hoth tha doc conference will be the perate character of the world •We enter enthusiastically crisis the his- most crucial in and the tho struggle economır 1m- intr the mass bring for- plications to tory of the revolutionary thic crisis for young people everywhere. ward the forces from among youth movement. "The building and of mass the tha workers that will launch this VS movement ic accential if Charter and party.' trainc the working class is to take have been coaches booked the resolution says. power,' bring delegations to the of the resolution VS Winter "The YS supports the dec- have sent Gardenc the enor. • • MONDAY APRIL 9, 1973 • No 1043 €

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAE

result, particularly its left- wing' They deliberately delayed action until after the winter while at the same time they openly collaborating were with the Coal Board over the Common Market and with the government over the Tory subsidies to the industry. Individual General Coun- cil members also played their part within their own unions.

Frank Chapple of the elec- branches as part of a pre- conference discussion and amendments, alterations or addenda are welcomed by the National Committee. A record number of more than 240 resolutions have been received and published for discussion during the two-day conference. The keenest debates are expected to be on the fight for leadership in the work- ing class to defeat the Tory government, the defence of basic democratic rights, the campaign, nua student grants No 1043 • 4p

IST LABOUR LEAGUE

ANOTHER generous dona- tion of £100 from a good friend, K.L., brings the total to £1,178. But we still have a long way to go to com- plete the first leg of the fund-£50,000 by May 31. Can we hear from all SLL branches about the pro- gress of the campaign and the money collected. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG Sir Sidney Greene tricians, decide the future of the and Edward of the railmen whole working class. of the Britton teachers im- Memories die hard in the mediately announced that working class. would they not be taking In the 1926 General Strike, part in the May Day protest.

TUC General the Council Tom Jackson rushed head- sold out and called it off long into the arms. of the after only seven days. Tories by accepting the Post The Office's Phase Two offer.

miners, who stayed out through the summer and He won the dubious dis- eventually autumn, were first tinction of being the isolated and starved back trade union leader to volun- work with a to crippling tarily accept the state pay wage cut. controls. Instinctively they feel that Deal this time, if that defeat is to be avenged, it is the poli- tical character of working- Then came Hugh Scanlon, the 'left'. On the eve of the class leadership that is the 1972 miners' strike, Scanlon central issue. guided the engineers away They their leaders from national action on their rushing to the rescue of the wage demand, leaving the capitalist system deeply in- miners to fight the Tories volved in severe economic single handed. This time, as the miners completed their ballot, he Prepare offered Heath a deal on the Industrial Relations Act and capitulated to acceptance of And yet they are asked to the Common Market. lead a political strike against And finally he accepted the government behind of the principle leaders who would have state pay days' holi- and suggested further laws settled for five talks on Phase Three. day with pay! Behind all the hints of All these factors com- renewed with co-operation bined to face the miners the unions, the Tories carry with the question not just out their real preparations: of their wage demand, but of the problems poli- of

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tical leadership which will beginning of a new year- perialism Ireland, a year in which the working fight against soaring prices class will be called upon to itself as never before and for decent wages, and arm the growing police in the face of the attacks repres- that will sIon against young people, be launched by a particularly those from im- ruling class in unpreceden- migrant communities. ted crisis. In this week's 'Keep Left', 'Let us go forward and YS newspaper, the weekly thousands of win young Sheila Torrance, the YS everywhere people and nationăl secretary from 1966 bring them right to the fore- to 1970, reviews the fight- front of struggle to the ing history of the revolu- transform the into the

SLL

youth movement. tionary revolutionary party.' She says: "Our 13th an- nual conference marks the • Conference details p. 12.

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Workers Press, Monday April 9, 1973 THE POLITICAL argument of 'Tribune' never rises above the level of cheap Sniggering all the And the 'Tribune'-ites them- SACCIs. selves. of course. invariab v support the Wilson leadership in the Labour Party. Their record there for all to see. 1960 Gaitskellite WINd had been defeated on the H-bomb, the from the fight ran the right permitted overturn the decision. way to Stalinism In Tribune as 1964, the election drew close, supported Transport witch-hunt of the Young House DOCidi- MPs ists, hastily ThA Ge- she vison, and then they all defended Wilson when held surelical 08CK age pensioners u cense. "Tribune' 'lefts' From the in- 1904 on, sisted there was no possibility of government introducing laws Labour same issue as it sneers at us, it says the All of this, and much more, gives 'Tribune' cipled The task is not to try to ballot that 'the fight credentials for 'persuade' a Tory government to desist impeccable cenounce mcalls In 1966, when Wilson introduced emer- Socialist Labour League and Work- from Tory policies, The out to organize ine wnich itne miners put up Gast ear in powers against striking gency sea- ers Press as 'sectarian'.

working class to bring the government exhausted their Not a word about the role men, not a single 'Tribune' MP tried to of the down. We torce a vote. are secraman. accoraing to tne cent- leaders wao nave repeatcary crawica lo declining weekly, because we said Liaison Com- The Stalinists who run the the Tories and isolated section 1970, when Wilson's policies had dis- for the Defence Liaison Committee mittee section sed to fighthe working class which wan- ano une revisionist subborters illusioned hundreds thousands Unions are vehemently opposed such SLOORe Labour let the Tories Tribuney sers in, tion the Communist Party whose policy. This political loyally behind Like Stamiess she and revisionists, purpose is to head off opposition to the staycu the Socialist Labour them resubus of their leaders policie I ribune blames Tor Ine and League, Duncauliary. occause despite all unel snouling anc policies. fist fights at conferences.

In 1972 the "Tribune' MPs said the miners' stressed International Socialists and the International Marx- It is not a matter of building a leadership supports the Stalin- ist Group support it in that policy.

'Tribune', as always, and sought desperately to bring it to ores ists against the The Liaison traitors, but of 'explaining to the public' Tharicane: because the Marcond ment brought down. Michael Foot yeub- according Tallic! Committee. it tells its readers, is a body that Tory policies make them worse off!

"Tribune' because That has existed tor some time ano con of the attacked delegation communists and Labour Party As if the miners, railwavmen. cockers. Commons Committee Liaison conference held unionists with no carworkers, members and trade March 31. hospital laken wine Une particular political affliation'.

miners lobbied parliament.

Vallls

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White Tri beir said to ge poe is that, That is not what the Liaison Committee is.

pite all their shouting,

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one that. It 1s, we reveal

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orranizalon run by ageing men ver conerence Comed wild stalinist hacks irom the manded the Labour What the working class needs is a revolu- expulsion from Stalinists the in voting unanimously Communist Party, dedicated at for resolution the

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on the development which kept Heath in office by its votes League determined to build that tionary class consciousness une working the Market. Neither Stalinists, the same party. revis. ment drop policy and class its incomes 1964, 'Tribune' had called the anti-trade union legislation'.

around Socialists Young lice on body "Tribune' shares that opposition to revolu will prevent us from carrying The mouse politic'.) Our opposition to this policy is a prin- tionary politics. That is why, in the out that task. Blockade busters Dayan wants to buy turned back into Bangkol

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Arab CAMBODIAN liberation forces broke up Lon Nol convoy of supply ships on the Mekong River in lands heavy fighting at the weekend, stopping all but six of the 19 vessels. convoy THE ISRAELI coalition cabinet was yester- on its day considering a scheme from South Vietnam • that the US Air rorce turned wav noses allowing lews to would break the Cambodian be able to buy land the the capital in occupied territories. It is blockade by bombing. American Hercules trans- Phnom Penh where the opposed by the port planes were reported to Arabs and even by The regular back bulle Us-backed dictator Lon rushing and sup- weapons leaders within Israel. Nol •Phnom trying desperately гОШИ nOW IS Penh 1o1 days overdue The scheme's author, General Moshe Davan. savs to cling to power. stane fuel for private transport in he assault by the can see no reason wny an Arab wanting All supply the Haig, the routes city have already run ander army his land to a Jew for 'good money' should not do capital are dominated the chief-of-staff,

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unucilake SO. The Presidential capital's residents Press noerauon rorces ane me bac on we soot lovesueanons The purchase land Golan tery sue viver first. of the con- have also been warned Haig arrived in Bangkok, tary Ronald Ziegler indicated in tre occupied Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai has beer voy the to bring Thailand wester Present Thailand mounting over the were conserve food, water and formally outlawed for Israelis since the June 1967 liberation through the actions the supplies block. electricity. war. headed by So desperate is the situa- ace cor more than a week.

The other vessels either that President Nixon Henry Kissinger in California Norodom Sihanouk, who was But in fact many under-the-counter deals have tion fled the the deteriorating situation deposed Prime Minister already back border has dispatched senior mili- by ohe CiA three years ager businessmen have taken place ISrael speculated speculatly be intop proed into stath prospect lands will into South Vietnam or were tary General in callibudid Dayan's statement is an unmistakable declaration of intention ArIcK MINERS NO SIRIKE VUIt-.

conquered territories, annex under the fig-leaf of semi-independence

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for the West Bank. The

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and fight Jordanian, Syrian and Egyptian governments Not only miners, but consider urgently by the miners' vote against have protested against the Dayan plan.

hospi- strike action dockers. Carworkers. our use Issues ol central security new tas and sai skerar railway- Workers' power in Britain Ihev tear it will destrov authority to co-ordinate HOW to defeat the Tories.

any possibility or a bar- servants and everywhere, could never men, gain with Zionism behind the backs of the Pales- police, armed forces and

HOW

tackle the basic and be and millions to cannot now tinian people whose land it is.

teachers their c service. questions underlying straight achieved along the Others … are now torown lord in expense of she s rils.

extend Israel's borders at • Special mobilization and leadersitio position where political problems wages and liv- path of mounting industrial under specialized defeat the ing conditions. militancy. training A million more refugees robbed of their remain- and to expression of new revo contana all workin I orles HOW to build a temporary ing claims will be created.

class 'counter-insurgency' struggle for caution lutionary leadership. 1N forces. government pledged to struggle is here the prepara- Though Dayan is still in Israeli his pianis basted alre The development the becomes of socialist policies rapid political the his plan i cabinet, opposition to • New against 101 struggle the working Incasures transformation. une most pressing, everyady pickets and strikers. class, all its contradic- enurely on security consideranons in question. Despite the inadequacies His the • Police-protected scabbing.

opponents army would be too If many the 1 protest reel workers, suspici- the May strike stretched if it had to take responsibility for diate transformation of the pro- their leadership,

TUC,

Thev know full well thai organized by the

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Israeli property throughout the Socialist Labour League in- tecting urged every ys and the depth of the economic of the accept a compromise confrontation can only temporarily post- YS and Lellilulics. crisis makes revoluuonary barly and the every pone the confrontation, then This is our answer to the working with the class Press Workers of which very short leadership work might and main avoidable in a Lue situalon opening up CrISIS time. for the working class has been so sharply posed make it a resounding suc- cess.

CIRCULATION

Guerrillas' second direct hit forward in Every step move- building the mass ment against This nated Tory government, no mat- 01-622 7029 limited, must be ter how •een SHOl several supported.

NEWS DESK

We urge all our suppor- ters to STUeV ano as a matter of the greatest Cliner. Tonn

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the Draft 01-720 2000 Perspec- Harvard tives TOr transtorming

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into revolutionary wald April 7, 1973. party.

TORIES WANT THE ROPE BACK

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Premier Edward Heath will allow Conservative MPs and Ministers a free vote when a Private Member's Bill calling for the restoration of the death penalty is debated on Wednesday. By not mandating his party to vote against capital punish- ment, Heath is making a big concession to the right wing.

The Bill is being put for- ward by Mr Edward Taylor, MP for Cathcart, Glasgow, and he claims that more than 200 MPs will vote for it.

A number of Labour MPs also support his Bill, but all their names haven't been re- vealed. One is Mr Richard Bucha- nan, MP for Springburn. He told the 'Glasgow Herald' last week: 'With the current wave of violence I cannot see how we can do anything else. More- over, the amount of support there will be for this from Labour members will be con- siderable.' He estimates that at least will join right- 50 Labourites wing Tories in calling for restoration of the rope. He says piously: I am a social democrat. I have to take the views of my constituents into account. This may im- pinge greatly on the ease of my conscience, but I fail to see any other way. On October 28, 1971, he and 68 other right-wingers in Parliamentary Labour the with the Tories Party voted to secure Britain's entry into the Common Market. By voting with the Tories, Buchanan, Jenkins, Taverne and company also preserved the Heath government in office. At that time Buchanan had nothing to say about the views of his constituents.

He defied not only the policy of the TUC and the Labour Party conferences, but the policy of the Parliamen- tary Labour Party itself.

Angry and frightened resi- dents in the Ardoyne area of Belfast are demanding that the British army be pulled out of their community as the first step in their com- plete withdrawal from North- ern Ireland. In recent weeks the army has been stepping up its harassment in this area. Their brutality reached a climax two weeks ago when Eddie Sharpe (30), a married man, was shot dead on the steps of his home in Cranbrook Gardens. He was killed by a single shot fired by a member of the Parachute Regiment, which is occupying a nearby bus sta- tion. Mr John Murphy said he was on his way home when he heard one shot. He then saw Mrs Sharpe at her front door. She started screaming.

When he crossed the street he found Mr Sharpe lying on his doorstep with most of his head blown away. When Mrs Sharpe's children came to the front door and found their father dead in a pool of blood, there were scenes of hysteria.

On the way to the hospital, British troops stopped vehicles transporting the dead man. The cold-blooded killing re- sulted in a mass meeting of about 1,000 Ardoyne resi- dents in Brompton Park. A was invited to speak priest and he told the crowd that they 'had to drink the cup of sorrow' His remedy to the killing 'an early, proper that was legal inquiry to ascertain • the facts behind Mr Sharpe's death' should be called for.

The residents voted to march to the British army post at Estoril Park where a depu- tation of four would 'express the feelings of the people to the British commander'. This, was arrogantly re- however, fused. The commander refused to speak to the deputation.

Sharpe's death Since Mr soldiers have boasted to resi- dents that they intend killing another four in retaliation for assassination of the the soldiers at Lisburn. A woman has recently been beaten up by troops and a doctor who called was hustled into a Saracen and held in custody, despite showing his identification. A Workers Press corres- pondent in the area writes: 'People I spoke to are almost hysterical about these attacks and the continued raids.'

Above: David McAuley, Belfast, beaten up by the British troops.

Torture goes on Despite official denials, the British military machine in Northern Ireland still conti- nues to practice torture. One documented oc- Cast curred recently Belfast. Three young men were arrested in Atlantic Avenue and taken an jeep by Marine open Commandos to army/ a loint RUC post in Glenravel Street.

During interrogation three were tortured As part of the brutality to make the young men talk • A red hot poker was waved near their taces and bodies.

They beaten about were their genitals. Workers Press, N i, beaten up by the British troops.

• Paper bags were put over their heads and set on fire.

• One man was suspended from an overhead beam with his wrists tied and beaten in the stomach with batons. • All were shown photo- graphs of people who had been blown up. One of the victims said that the Marine Commandos parti- cularly enjoyed setting fire to the paper bag hoods. "They "Can't laughed and shouted, you smell something? You're on fire".' He said: 'I didn't know where the punches and blows were coming from. I was hit from the front and behind.

'I couldn't see them with the bag over my head. I tried to protect my private parts with my hands, with the result that they got the worst of it.' 3 Press, Monday April 9, 1973 PAGE 3

THE LAST MAN

SENT TO

THE GALLOWS

The last hangings in Britain were on August 13, 1964, when two milkmen were executed for murdering a laundryman from whom they wanted to borrow money. In Ulster, Robert McGladdery, was the last man to hang—in December 1961—for the murder of factory worker Pearl Gambie, 19, at Newry, Co Down. Northern Ireland had no hangman. The sentences were carried out by an English exe- cutioner. The death penalty for murder was suspended in Britain for a five-year experimental period in 1965. Then — at the end of 1969 and after much controversy - parliament voted to abolish capi- •tal punishment permanently.

Peter Anthony Allen (21) and Gwynne Owen Evans (24), both from Preston, Lanes, were the last to hang in Britain. Despite strong expectations of a reprieve, Allen was executed at Walton • Prison, Liverpool, and Evans at Strangeways, Man- chester. all-night vigil by anti- An capital punishment supporters was kept outside Walton prison at the time. Inside - 18 hours before he was hanged — Allen went ber- serk in his cell. There were no demonstrations outside Strange- ways. The last woman to hang in Britain was Ruth Ellis. She shot dead her lover David Blakely who was trying to break off the affair. Despite a nationwide cam- paign to save her and as a crowd 1,000 of demonstrated outside Holloway, Ruth Ellis was hanged in July, 1955. "The hangman has been re- medievalism won prieved and the day, said Mr (later Sir) Beverley Baxter. Three Appeal Court judges in Northern Ireland last week fixed April 25 as the date for the execution of a UDA man con- victed of murdering a police- man. He was also refused leave to appeal to the House of Lords.

Families on Canvey Island are to block off the only road to the south east Essex main- land today because they fear they will soon be living on a 'time bomb'. Men, women and children plan to lie down across the Canvey Road at 11 a.m. and cause the biggest traffic jam ever seen in the area. The protest is over a gov- ernment decision to allow the building of an oil refinery on land near the access road to the island. The Canvey Island Resist- ance Group points out that one refinery is already ear- marked for the area and a third one is already planned.

'We will be sitting on a time bomb if this refinery is built,' said a spokesman. 'We already have the meth- ane gas depot on the island.

If the refinery caught fire the results would be unimaginable.

Apart from this there are the fumes that cloud the air from the refineries. The protest promises to be a large one with families com- ing in to demonstrate from all over the south east Essex area.

DOCKERS PAY FOR PORT

EMPLOYERS' DEBTS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday April By our industrial correspondent One aspect of the recent National Ports Council report on the non-scheme ports underlined once more the need for nation- alization not merely of the docks, but banks as well. The final section of the NPC's whitewash of the un- and wharfs registered ports refers to the capital costs of scheme and non-scheme ope- rations. It reveals that the main reason for the transfer of cargo to the non-scheme sec- tor is not the lower cost of labour not registered under the Dock Labour Scheme, but their vastly different debt and capital structure. The report finds: 'In contrast with the bulk of the non-scheme sector, the major scheme ports have en- gaged in heavy new capital investment (some £40m per annum) to cope in particular with the changed technology of deepsea traffic, and at the time have, needed to same rationalize their deepsea con- ventional berths, which in many cases have not been fully amortised. 'In the result the weight of debt relative to the earning power of their assets lies much more heavily upon the major scheme ports than on the non-scheme ports gene- rally. Taking very general • figures, Tables Fl and F4 of our Preliminary Report showed that in 1971 the surplus be- fore depreciation and interest of four of the five main ports (i.e. Dover, Felixstowe, Ports- mouth and Shoreham, but ex- cluding the BRB ports) repre- sented 11.3 per cent of total capital employed, as compared with only 7.1 per cent at the scheme ports listed; similarly, the nominal amount of debt (i.e. excluding equity capital) of the four of the five main ports referred to above repre- per cent of total sents 26.4 capital employed, as compared with 75.0 per cent for the scheme ports listed. 'These percentages do, of course, obscure wide differ- Three millionaires are re- ported to be behind the cam- paign to promote Enoch Powell as the friend of the 'intelligent man in overalls'.

But no worker must be fooled by this conspiracy of reactionaries in big business to 'popularize' Powell. His views are diametrically opposed to the interests of the working class and the trade unions.

Powell is totally opposed to the closed shop and he re- cently called for tougher po- lice action against pickets.

His notorious anti-immi- grant speeches (I see with much blood' foaming have been used by the right- wing extremists to whip up violence against black workers their families in many and working-class areas. is a selection of Here Powell's other reactionary views: • 'When I see a rich man I give thanks to God.' ('Sun', February 26, 1965.) day April 9, 1973 pondent The National Ports Council report-user non-scheme ports like Felixstowe.

ences in the figures applicable to individual ports. Thus, for example, in the case of percentages of capital debt to total capital employed, the per cent includes 26.4 ports whose individual percentages from 2.2 cent range per (Shoreham) to 52.3 per cent (Portsmouth) while the 75.0 per cent includes ports whose individual percentages range from 32.5 per cent (Man- to 95.7 per cent chester) (Mersey). 'Interest on and redemption of debt has to be covered by charges and it is not surpris- ing that these therefore tend be higher in the major to scheme ports than elsewhere for the same class of ship or traffic: and the past failures in charge many cases to enough to amortise the debt on facilities which have now become obsolescent or redun- dant have to be paid for by current port users who are naturally prepared, where it is practicable, to accept the offer • 'Often when I am kneeling down in church, I think to myself how much we should thank god, the holy ghost, for the gift of capitalism.' ('Enoch Powell, the Man and His Thinking' by T. E. Utley.)

• 'Shortage and squalor in housing' are due to the 'two great evils: rent control and subsidy' ('The Times', Novem- ber 29, 1968.) • Council housing is 'im- moral and socially damaging' ('Daily Telegraph', November 23, 1959.) Labour government's • The refusal in 1965 to permit an increase in the price of bread was 'the popular measure of tyranny' and 'of evil _conse- quence'. ('The Times', Sep- tember 26, 1965.) • 'He • attacked British has trade unionists for their "work spreading, profit-hating, almost Luddite attitude": ('Financial Times' ', March 4, 1968.) • 'And "there is nothing im- practicable about denationali- zing industries. All of them"!

port-used as a lever to end the 1972 docks of cheaper alternatives from those who do not carry similar burdens. 'Whoever may be respon- sible for the fact that facilities now obsolete were not written down sufficiently rapidly, it is not the managements of the major ports today. The Coun- cil-and the major ports— the objective of ports accept becoming "self-supporting and competitive" but there is some evidence that many ports are handicapped in that the capi- in their element tal cost charges is inflated by the "albatross" of past debt.

'As part of their study of financial objectives for the ports industry in which they engaged, the currently are Council intend to re-examine the whole problem of the book value of the ports' assets and past and present amortization policies. It is only right to a warning sound that this must take time and that pro- pounding any solution which • be held to be both fair can 972 docks strikeis a whitewash of the and effective will not be easy.'

It is this burden of debt, as well as the low rate of re- turn on capital employed (4.6 per cent in scheme ports as an average 8 per cent in non- scheme in 1971) that encour- ages registered employers to drive for productivity, day and night-shift working the and scrapping of the job security provision of the scheme. situation Such a will con- tinue until the banks are na- tiónalized without compensa- tion and the debt annulled.

This policy would involve the socialization of the shipping, transport and the container networks as well. The only for dockers way of the fight the erosion to scheme is to combine the struggle to defend registration and the demand on the em- ployers to open the books with the struggle to get rid of the Tory government and elect a Labour government pledged to the docks policy outlined above. Remember all the soft-soap from port employers over the Jones-Aldington report on the jobs crisis at the docks?

Some even claimed the generous severance pay offer to dockers who left the indus- the employers! try penalized the fair words have Well turned to brazen gloating.

Now that NPC chairman Lord Aldington and lack Jones, leader of the transport workers, have delivered the goods-their report ended the 1972 docks strike-the pre- tence can be dropped. D. K. Redford, chairman and managing director of the Manchester Ship Canal Com- pany, dropped it with a clan- when he spoke at a ship ger owners' dinner last Friday.

Redford, also head of the Port Employers' Association, commented on the timing of the report. •... With the inflationary experience recently one won- ders whether a carrot worth up to £4,000~juicy enough now—would be quite as suc- culent in another two years.'

Men who have picked up the £4,000 and got out of the industry take note of Red- remarksthe rising ford's cost of living is eating , into the pittance they received for a life-time of labour. Redford boasted that Jones- Aldington had solved the em- ployers' problems-to reduce the labour force by : 8,500 in the "consi- five months was derable' achievement of the report, he said. He added that without the 'Juicy carrot', employers may have had to battle until 1975 to kick that many dockers onto the dole. Redford said that since July 1965, f5lm has been spent on severance to 20,475 registered dockers-f20.5m under the national scheme and £30.5m under the special scheme. The register of em- ployed dockers was now 31,750 as against 58,000 in September 1967 and 72,000 at the time of decasualization in 1966. 'Noises are once again be- ing made about nationaliza- tion, but in my view neither nationalization nor bureau- cratic interference would help our industry? Redford rounded the even- ing off with a warning that the next task was to isolate the militants. 'We are a small industry measured by the total number of people who work in it and ought to concentrate on estab- lishing strong relationships overcoming mili- capable of tant minorities' The fact that Redford can celebrate with shipowners this way is the direct result of the Jones-Aldington report-re- commended by Jack Jones and the members of the docks committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

The Brazilian military dictatorship is planning to eliminate the peasant leader Manuel da Conceicao. • Manuel is a young mulatto who joined the peasant lea- gues in north eastern Brazil before 1964. After the mili- tary coup which ousted Joao Goulart, he headed the strug gle against the government- sponsored unions. In 1967, in spite of the op- position of the landowners who controlled the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers, he was elected pre- in the sident of the union valley of Pindare-Mirin in the state of Maranhao. Under his leadership, the peasant struggle developed and local politicians and land- owners fomented military re- pression of the peasants.

Under the slogan 'Cut down the fences' , the peasants were led in action against the land- owners who wanted to levy new taxes. Repression struck arrested, and peasants were their homes burnt down. The authorities sent a 'com- mission of justice' which arrested more peasants and Manuel was shot in the leg.

In prison, through lack of treatment, his leg developed and had to be am- gangrene putated. Peasant demonstra- tions forced his release, but in February 1972 he was arrested once more and transferred to a prison near Rio de Janeiro.

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The treatment was not the subject of conversation at a recent 'fellowship dinner and briefing' called by Brazilian security for foreign correspon- dents to demonstrate that 'there are no political prison- ers in Brazil' and that 'when there have been cases of tor- ture, they were isolated epi- sodes not part of customary practice'. Thousands of peasants in the north east are now being sold. as slaves to work on estates in Goias, according to Giltamar doctor da Silva Gomes. Gomes is on the staff of the Francisco development Sao foundation and was recently called to care for an emer- gency case on the road from Peranmbuco to Ceara—a pea- sant with a fractured skull.

The peasant told the doctor that his entire family and other were being taken peasants south in trucks under the cus- tody of heavily-armed guards.

He stated that they had been water for fed on bread and ten days. Local people in Ibotirama reported that an average of four truck-loads passed through the town a night, while in the peak harvest sea- son this rose to more than 20.

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supporting president- In elect, Hector Campora, the Argentine Stalinists join with the terrorist organization, the People's Revolutionary Army, the local supporters of the revisionist Unified Secre- tariat. The ERP, whose latest ex- ploit is the occupation of a nuclear power station, are re- nowned for their kidnappings of industrialists—a tactic for forcing the capitalist Press to

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print the statements which then 'reach the masses'.

This band of Pabloites works in with the Peron- unity ist guerrilla organization, the Montoneros. Hector Campora's first steps 'national liberation' to bring to Argentina was to fly to have talks with the Italian premier, Andreotti. He explained to him that 'urgently' requires Argentina capital from the Common Market although without any limitation on its sovereignty in the present circum- 'since stances European imperialism is out of the question' The radical-sounding Cam- Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. Workers Press, Monday April 9, 1973 PAGE 5

WILLING PRISONERS

OF THE PERONISTS

Hector Campora, the president-elect of Argentina, an exponent of the Peronist version or ine corporate state pora, an exponent the Last year, inflation was esti- Peronist of the cor- mated at a rate of 76.8 version porate state, was welcomed in cent: already risen by 30 per cent consumer have Rome by of cheering crowds Italian fascists. since January Jose Rucci, CGT secretary The Peronists will look to and leading Peronist, sat on the fake 'lefts' in the CP General

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joint councils and small social demo- with Lanusse and the military junta cratic groupings to cover up and ensured that no Peronist wages control movement was successtul. he 'left" Peronists could always The Argentine working claim Rucci was a prisoner class faces rapid improverish- the military. ment. More than a million are Now that Campora holds of work. The the reins of power, there is no administration of General indication that Rucci has been has decreed massive Lanusse radicalized. price increases. But there is every indication Train fares are to go up by ERP and the CP 30 be the willing prisoners of the cent, petrol, paratin, gas and electricity the strike by 20 per Peronists in waves cent. which must now develop. Stalinists want conserve

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_to their following among sections of the small peasants in some

BOTH WAYS

parts of France. Hence their higher stand for Clalin prices for producers. They call for a farm price Who is protesting that the which will the policy benefit new agricultural prices fixed family farms and check the by the European Common rural exodus. At the balile Market Commission are not time they promise the workers high enough? nist Party the lower food prices through the French Communist application of common leaders, of course. programme. They call on This demagogy is a substi- the govern- ments to demand higher prices tute for a policy of workers' alliance with from its Common Market part.

power and an before a final decision the peasantry on the basis of ners They made. say that It keeps socialisi measures accepting prices which are too alive reformist illusions and low the government is capi- compromises small European property owners like the pea- tulating the monopolies. sants and shopkeepers who This being driven into the tortuous reasoning 1s di t explained by the fact that the ground by the big monopolies.

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relations Chinese Maoists think diplomatic Spain are With triumph for the principle of maintaining good relations with all irrespective of their social systems.

countries, The Chinese Communist Partv's 'People's Daily' carriec March 12 under the heading: 'Welcome to the editorial on establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Spain.'

It described the decision to exchange ambassadors as opening 'a new page in the history of the relations between the two countries'.

The radio and Press meanwhile try to disguise the fact that the Franco regime came to power as the result of an insurrection against a legal government and a bloody civil war. It states simply: In April 1939 General Franco took over the administration.'

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EMPLOYERS' MAN

ON THE

PAY BOARD

He is suave and generally designated as a 'fast mover'. He dis- likes the claptrap of 'partnership in industry' which is talked about on the CBI and in the Industrial Society. It makes him want to go outside and vomit, says an employer who knows him. He believes there are two sides of industry and he is firmly on the side of the ruling class. He has led management campaigns to break the militancy in the draughtsmen's and engineering sections of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. He is Michael Bett, recently appointed member of the Tories' Pay Board. The basic right to free wage negotiations has been legally abolished by the introduction of the Board.

This corporatist body has sweeping judicial the wages of working men and women. But the Pay Board is only of the Tory strategy. The other is the deliberate one arm fuelling of inflation and the creation of a prices ramp.

The result of this twin policy is the mass impoverishment of the working class. At 38 Bett is the youngest member of the board.

But despite his relative youth, he is a seasoned campaigner when it comes to fighting the unions. In this article we profile Bett to illustrate the sort of men the Cabinet is promoting to positions of considerable power in its plans for the corporate state.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

On October 2, 1970, the Engineering Employers' Federation sent a confi- dential memorandum to all its members in Britain's most prosperous and powerful industry. It was a lucidly argued case in preparation for a wage claim by staff workers in the engin- eering industry. It amounted to a declaration of war on the trade unions and the living standards of white collar workers. The arguments set out in the document were completely in line with the Tory govern- ment's strategy at that time.

Only recently elected to office, the government was in the process of its big 'shake-out' in industry. Redundancies were being carried out at the rate of almost 1,000 a week. In the background was the Industrial Relations Bill which the Tories were beginning to promote in the Press and par- liament. Part-author of the EEF document was Michael Bett, their director of indus- trial relations. Then 36, Bett was felt to be one of the 'fast movers' in the organization. He had gradu- Cambridge ated from served an the organization at Manches- ter, one of the most powerful concentrations of engineering in the country. In these formative years he learnt what tough negotiating was all about. Not noted for diplomacy, he quickly earned a reputation as being 'vigor- ous and pushy. 'He will tell a trade union leader that he is behaving like an ass, said one employer who is familiar with Bett's style. Bett is a firm believer in the doctrinaire Tory theory that there are definitely and de- finitively two sides of industry.

'He doesn't like the "Let's all live together" line. It makes him want to go outside and vomit,' he added. In January 1971 leaders of the DATA (now called TASS), the ael technical and supervisory sec- Amalgamated tion of the Union of Engineering Workers, Tothill Street went to the headquarters of the EEF to discuss the claim. union's or- One of the ganizers told Workers Press: 'We were left in a room we shouldn't have been in and it (the document) was there for us to see. It advised members (of the EEF) to start campaign- ing to spread and draw out for. the expected disputes with DATA for as long as possible in order to financially break the union. This was the gist of it' (Workers Press May 5, 1971.) At the union's annual con- ference in Eastbourne, DATA general secretary, George Doughty, stunned the delegates by revealing the contents of the document. He said the union had proof that the EEF was hoping to 'kill the union by exhausting its funds'.

We immediately contacted Bett at the EEF for his com- ments. He admitted that a cir- cular did exist and went on: 'We have no intention of kill- ing the unions or any such ec- thing. And we are not trying

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to stimulate any disputes.

'What concerned we are about is any union inter- ference, or the use of methods to reduce efficiency. In these circumstances it is only appro- priate for us to give advice to our members. 'There are appropriate ways for dealing with this situation and we are always sending our association's advice on how to deal with the situation. 'We've prepared ourselves warfare. We've for guerrilla had to. The gloves are off.'

He said that the DATA claims about the memorandum 'portrayed us in an exagger- ated light' But when Workers Press eventually obtained a copy of the confidential memorandum, obvious that there was wasn't anything exaggerated in Doughty's statement. It referred to 'the refusal of DATA to enter into negotia- tions to establish nationally- job-grading principles agreed for technical staff'. The em- ployers, it said, can either 'buy acceptance or force accept- ance' of their requirements or they can 'combine the "carrot" and the "stick"' It also outlined three strate- gies to break the wages fight and bring the unions to heel: • Collective resistance to strikes. • Collective lock-outs. • Backing member firms with funds to stand up to individual strikes and lock-outs while holding collective action in reserve. In the event, the EEF opted for the third strategy-but not without opposition. Workers Press learnt that at a meeting of leading employers early in 1971, a director of Sir Arnold Weinstock's English Electric company suggested a national lock-out of DATA men. The idea was turned down. The line adopted by the fed- eration was set out as follows: 'The view has been very strongly expressed that it is totally unrealistic at this time for the federation to contem- plate organizing either a par- tial or general lock-out...

'It will be necessary to think of some other forms of collec- tive response which member firms can make in the face of extravagant wage/salary claims.

It may be desirable to con- sider whether the union should afford financial assist- ance, in addition to indemnity fund entitlements, to firms resisting action from DATA members in support of their union's claim.' It was this precise strategy which the EEF went on to invoke when DATA's parent union, the AUEW, put in its claim at the end of 1971. In retrospect it can be seen that the EEF laid its plans well.

And the role of the Scanlon leadership in the union is all the more despicable. Instead of launching national strike action in support of the claim— and conditions pay and thereby supporting the miners who had already com- menced their struggle- the AUEW leaders decided to hand over the strike struggle ink to 'plant by plant action'.

The wages battle was largely confined to one area, the Man- chester district-which also suited the EEF. A big fund Workers Press, I was launched by the employers to subsidize firms whose plants were hit by either occupations or strikes. For more than two months the engineers fought a bitter battle. But their action couldn't achieve victory because it was being waged on a fragmented basis against a well-prepared and well-heeled association of employers. At this time Bett quit the EEF for the luxurious pastures of the Weinstock boardroom at GEC. He was made director in charge of personnel. There is something poetic about Bett and Weinstock getting together.

They share the same sort of belief that if only British industry was 'efficient' the economic pall would melt away. Weinstock 'spirited' Bett out of the EEF because he was impressed by the young man's make quick decisions. Weinstock he likes to think of himself as a radical' in the rs Press, Monday April 9, 1973 PAGE 7 Left: DATA general secre- tary, George Doughty who stunned delegates at the union's annual conference by revealing the contents of the EEF document. Right: Michael Bett, a seasoned campaigner when it comes to fighting the unions, he has now been promoted onto the pay board. industrial world. On the Pay Board with Bett are other leading big business figures: a director of Cour- taulds, an ICI executive and the chairman of a leading Scot- tish bank. From these men the unions are expected to receive 'wage justice' and the clearing up of 'anomalies' They will get nothing of the sort. The Pay Board is designed to legally hold down wages, to cut the standard of living of workers. In millions of the figure of Michael Bett the Tories have recruited a wage- slasher of considerable talent.

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THREE MILLION

POLICE FILES

AND MORE TO COME

'The state is by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it "the reality of the ethical idea", "the image and reality of reason", as Hegel maintains.

Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is pouerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with con- flicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of "order"; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state!

Frederick Engels 'The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State', quoted by Lenin in 'The State and Revolution'.

Nevertheless, there has been

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a considerable growth of mass surveillance, particularly since the mid-1960s At begin- ning of 1971, when the material was being. col- Ior this book lected, there were 3 million entries in the Criminal Records Office files. And this raises the first 2.5 milli As there are only million records, criminal the Wadl are ouner 500,000 entries? This is not the only question unanswered. For ex- 1o 00 ample, there are three standard documents in a Criminal Re- 'Private Lives and Public Surveil- cords Folder: a list of convic- lance'. By James B. Rule. Allen tions, a description of the in- Lane. £3.50. pp. 382. dividual and his arrests, and 'discursory' of his Apart from the Habitual family, job, financial position Criminals of 1869, Act ana orner privale mallers.

which required Police to But the author tells us that there documents. keep a register of persons These, he says, are 'difficult to arrested, there very describe fully because very little legal authorization their inclusion is at the dis- cretion of the police, for surveillance wno are police discussing often chary about over civilians. them'. (Page 51) The nerve centre of police record keeping in Britain is the Criminal Records Office and the Fingerprint Office of Lon- don's Metropolitan Police- which occupy more than a Hoor of the modern headquar- ters at New Scotland Yard.

The CRO operates 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and is in contact with all the police forces in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, through direct telephone and telex links. And these two offices are only the top of a much larger pyramid of surveillance ten regional which includes pairs of criminal records offi- ces and fingerprint offices.

A national police computer is being installed. Storage will be on discs and access will be through terminals maintained the headquarters of every police force in Britain and, ultimately, in many local police stations as well. Plans provide for two types of terminal. One is to be a key- board console, combined with a screen or visual display unit.

Inquiries would be tapped into the central record with the keyboard and responses would appear on the screen.

The other terminal would resemble a telex machine, with inquiries typed in and re- sponses typed out. Responses are predicted to be forthcoming to either ter- minal within ten seconds of submitting the request. The would policeman on patrol radio a 'stop check' request to his nearest terminal, and from there to the central file and back again. The experts envisage that the policeman making the re- quest will be answered in less than half a minute. Computer storage means that even more records files can be kept. At the moment these are increasing at the rate of some 200,000 a year. And the file of a juvenile with only one conviction is kept for ten years. For adults, the standard practice is to keep the file for 20 years on only one conviction. police force has its Every Criminal Investigation own Department. Mr Rule's outline of their work is interesting.

Their duties, he says, 'regu- larly lead to the development of discursive written notes on the activities of persons thought liable commit crimes to whether or not they possess criminal records'. And: 'In some cases, CID materials include photographs of persons of interest.' (Page Mr Rule also indicates that the Home Office assertion that employers are unable to obtain • information from the police on prospective employees, 'faulty'. Some forces, he says, do disclose such information, while many firms employ ex- policemen as security officers have and these men no in obtaining 'un- difficulty official' information. The Special Branch-or poli- tical police do, of course, have unrestricted access to all files. Although local Special men act in close col- Branch laboration with the Special Branch of the Metropolitan police, this book says nothir.g According about their work. to the author: "This is a sensi- and hence a tive matter, difficult one to study and re- port on.' (Page 82.) increasing As well as the number of criminal records files, including those of people who haven't got any criminal stock of finger- record, the prints in store is also accelerat- ing at an alarming pace. Official police fingerprinting began in 1901. By 1910 the Metropolitan Fingerprint Office 'collection' of 150,000 had a prints. By 1930 it had 400,000; by 1950, 1,138,000. And by 1970 it had 2,154,000. That is to say, the total approximately doubles every 20 years. (And that is only the main "collection' in London.

The national figure is some- what higher.) It is interesting to note that restrained Mr Rule's even comments on the activities of the police incurred the wrath of high officials of the Home Office. On March 5, 1971, he received a letter from a Home veillance in Britain' This, he was told, was in order that 'we can read and, if appropriate, comment on it before it goes to a publisher'.

Mr Rule submitted copies with requests for comments from the Metropolitan Police and the Home Office. On November 17, 1971, he received a letter from Philip Allen, GCB, permanent under-Secretary of State for the Home Office-that is, from the very top of the Civil Ser- vice hierarchy. remarkable letter This declared: 'There is so much in the chapter—in content, in em- phasis and in your speculative paragraphs—-with which I dis- agree that it would be possible to meet my points only by leaving out substantial passages and making fundamental changes in others ... 'Also, although naturally I have not the slightest objec- tion to your expressing your own views and making your own guesses as to what might or what might not be the posi- tion on a particular issue, I cannot help • feeling, if I may say so with great respect, that some of the speculative sec- tions which are not based on any hard evidence do not fit in all that well into a work of scholarship, and they certainly make assumptions which I for one could not possibly accept.

'I am afraid you will think that we are being less than helpful, but I have come to conclusion that there would really be no advantage in my commenting in detail rightly com- As Mr Rule ments: 'The actions of the Home Office can only appear

Above left. as an attempt to conceal em- barrassment over the findings in the chapter.' Much of this 'embarrassment' is due not only to the devel- opment of surveillance so far, but the obvious direction which it is heading And that is: total identification, files and checks on every single person. As Mr Rule says: 'Far from having reached their unnate and finished the sur- Stale, veillance systems studied here changing that are SO rapidly sit still for they scarcely their portrait.' (Page 84.) The system develops momentum of its own. Police surveillance has kept pace, not merely with 'the rise in crime', but with the increased ability of that system to absorb in- formation. It is becoming more exten- sive, more detailed, faster and more supalsucalea all lne time.

These factors, the author points out, are 'matters of con- siderable practical concern to those who rely on mass sur- veillance realize tional goals'. (Page 275.)

The question, then, becomes 'wiat Is the laeal means positive identification for mass surveillance?' This would have to be based on some character- istic quite unique in- to each dividual, and inalienable from him. It should be readily in- terpretable by the agents of surveillance and unsusceptible to falsification. Finally, it should be amen- able rapid Communicaton back and forth to the centres preferably, survenance from the police point of view, in the form of a number which could also serve as the number of the individual's file.

The simple, obvious way of doing this would be to tattoo an irremovable unique number part of the on a conspicuous body of every individual.

Mr Rule points out: It true that public photographer at the dockers' picket of Neap House Whart, August 9, 1972. Above: Murray (left) and Laslett—two private detectives whose surveillance led to the jailing of five dockers last year.

least in Britain and America. may not yet be ready for such advance 'But the effectiveness of such has already been measures demonstrated situations where the necessity of efficient imperative.' social control (page 296.) Metronolitan Commis- oNCe sioner, Robert Mark. However, be it may not crude and necessary Ior sucn open methods of identification to be adopted. Progress is being made to- wards equally effective, DUl discreet. alternatives. British government agencies working on com- puter programmes which will, when perfected, reduce the time necessary for matching an incoming, of fingerprints the entire police axalliol CO.. lection to about ten nonutes. from this It is not a big step to the compulsory finger print- ing of everyone. Another modern line of thought is that voices can be identified as reliably as finger prints. ll would be possibie to link telephones to a computer surveillance centre. wonder Rule could Mir 'I can identify no "natural say: limit" to the areas of people's lives which might serve as foci mass surveillance-that is, use Wharf, August 9, 1972. Above: Murray • the jailing of five dockers last year.

no inherent, long-term limit in the possibility of using such personal information for mass social control.' (Page 324.)

No wonder the Home Office said: 'No comment'! The purpose of the develop- ment of these techniques of police surveillance is to pro- tect the political rule of the capitalist class, which exploits the workers. The exploiting class needs political rule to maintain exploitation-that is, as Lenin said, 'the selfish in- insignificant terests of an minority against the vast majority of the people'. Police surveillance is an ex- pression of the state power of the ruling class. And the state, to quote 'State and Revolution' again, is 'a special organ of force' A study of the development of this state apparatus is neces- sary in order to equip the working class for its historic task-to destroy it and estab- lish the dictatorship of the proletariat. This involves a struggle against counter-revolutionary ideas such as the Stalinist theory of the parliamentary road to socialism, and against all those-like the revisionist groups-who oppose the con- struction of a revolutionary party to take the power. "The petty-bourgeois demo- crats, those sham socialists who replace the class struggle by dreams of class harmony, pictured the even socialist transformation in a dreamy fashion—not as the overthrow of the rule of the exploiting class, but as the peaceful sub- mission of the minority to the majority which has become of its aims. aware •This petty-bourgeois Utopia, which is inseparable from the idea of the state being above classes, led in practice to the betrayal of the interests of the working class.? V. I. Lenin 'State and Revolution'. Workers Press, I Judges are a very modest lot you know. When they are out on the circuit they like to lodge in seclusion-nothing fancy, just the normal com- forts. Take the beaks who visit Preston Crown Court. They will be staying at Bilsborrow Hall, which stands in ten acres of north east Lancashire.

The cost of this humble dwelling was £100,000 (the old owner bought it for £25,000). Another £50,000 is being lavished on conversions and the grand total of fitting the place out for their Lord- ships will probably reach £200,000. • The first conversion will provide separate quarters for two judges, their wives, mar- shalls, clerks and, naturally, their servants judges can't wash-up you know). The total bill is being sent to the tax- payer. New Bill Doggy Lib. Gordon Oakes, for Widnes, is to Labour MP introduce in parliament a Bill to stop the 'factory farming' of dogs. He says he wants to stamp 'scandal' of dog- out the breeders who use bitches pure- 'puppy - producing as machines. In a major political pro- nouncement Oakes said: These bitches are forced to produce two litters a year - more if they can manage it. His Bill would outlaw this practice by regulating the com- mercial breeding of dogs, pro- vide for inspection of breeding premises and. control the transportation of puppies to pet shops. The Labour voters of Widnes, a profoundly working- class town outside Liverpool, will be amazed too that Oakes is using their vote on such legislation when the area just suffered big rates and increases and both rents education and health services are being squeezed by Tory policies.

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Saturdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m s Press, Monday April 9, 1973 PAGE 9 Grand larceny the Dr Thomas Matthew, United .. States proponent of self-help black programmes, has been arrested and charged himself with helping to $250,000 (£104,000) belonging to the hospital he runs. Dr Matthew, (48), a neuro- surgeon who founded the Na- tional Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization (NEGRO), was charged with 121 counts of grand larceny and conspiracy in an indict- ment handed down by a grand jury in the borough of Queens, New York. His lawyer, Mr Sidney Katz, was similarly indicted. Dr Matthew was instru- mental last January in convin- cing four young Black Muslim gunmen to surrender after a tense two-day siege at a Brooklyn sporting goods store.

He had entered the building to treat one of the quartet who had been wounded by a policeman. He was also instrumental in founding private bus com- panies to operate in Black slum districts. Authorities said he invested money belonging to the hos- pital in his private businesses and added that his arrest climaxed a ten-month investi- gation into the operations of his Interfaith Hospital. The little corner shop in Greg Street, Stockport, has survived two wars, rationing and the problems of the changeover to decimalization. But VAT has killed it. The 59-year-old business run by Mrs May Nunnerley closed at the end of March. She says she could not cope with the administrative and technical problems created by

VAT.

retailers' spokesman told A Workers Press the other day that the EEC tax is so com- plicated that small shop- keepers would be up to 1 and 2 in the morning making en- tries after each day's trading.

The problems are so vast that an explanatory book put by the Electrical Contrac- out tors' Association stated: 'Failure to conform could have terminal effects on a business.'

In this polite language Mrs Nannerley's shop has been 'terminated'.

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DIAL VAT

the words 'including' or ex- cluding

VAT'

are heard. girl told us: It's bad One when I get enough already people arguing and becoming I tell them annoyed because call 16p. dread cost to the of With introduction will be like WIlK Value-Added Tax tele- now.' phone calls, the Post Office

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TORY PARTY

for Telephone operators, example, were last week learn- ing a new range of standard expressions to use so as help introducing 'phone in The Tory Parliamentary Party users to the new tax. is to acquire another banker For example, starting from in its ranks. Monday, April 2, if you ask Mr Geoffrey Dodsworth (44) for ADC on a call, you will be director of William Brandt told 'The cost of your call to Sons and Company, the Lon- Chipping Sodbury was

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Tenants' leaders in Salford, Lancs, have slammed the labour coun- cil for surrendering to Tory policy. They have accused the Salford Labourites of sanctioning the of victimization working-class families in rent arrears. The attack comes in the form of an open letter to the council, which once vehement- ly urged opposition to the Housing Finance Act—a stand which encouraged the Salford rents strike-only to imple- ment later. letter the Salford In the Rent Strike Committee says: Nearly all Salford tenants were behind you when you to implement refused the Housing Finance Act. Opponents of the Bill were unanimous in declaring that it blatant piece of was a most class legislation and that its sole purpose was to fill the pockets of the rich financiers at the expense of the working- class people. Far from alleviat- ing the housing problem, it makes it worse. However when it came to • leading us in our fight, you NUBE, the registered bank employees union and a leading light in the bid to set-up an 'alterna- tive' TUC, has chalked up another first. General secretary Leif Mills has sent a list of amendments of the Industrial Relations Act to the Tory Employment Min- ister Maurice Macmillan. They are not as sweeping as the ones suggested by Hugh Scan- lon, engineers' leader, and may some consideration from get the government. Most of the suggestions are obscure, one in fact appears to extend the practice of bind- ing collective agreements. NUBE wants an addition to the section of collective agree- which will make ments illegal for employers or unions to change an agreement save through the machinery of the Act. The main suggested 'reform', however, is to section 67 of the Act. This concerns recognition of unions under the Act. One of the main excuses NUBE used registration was that it for would be prey to the manage- ment-orientated staff associa- tions if it stayed outside the law. But the proposed amend- ment to section 67 would sug- gest that the anti-union laws have afforded the bank em- ployees little protection. The Act, in fact, is wide enough to embrace most of the staff associations. Now NUBE wants more stringent registration qualifica- tions. As it stands the Act de- clares an organization eligible for registration if (a) it is an independent organization of your legs were made to jelly.

Not only did you meekly im- plement 'this most pernicious piece of legislation'. • but since then there not been a to whisper of resistance from you. Tenants are now leading the fight by refusing to pay •the increased rent, even though there are not many of us [in Salford at any rate]. We have a lot to learn and many links to build. We remember you councillors who said you your- selves would go on strike and would join us in our struggle.

WHERE ARE YOU NOW?

Not only is your tail be- tween your legs, but you are collaborating with the bosses Tory government in and the victimizing harassing and those tenants who have the the to carry out courage implications of YOUR initial policy. The LABOUR coun- cillors of Clay Cross, Derby- shire, by THEIR courageous action have shown the way to fight the Act. Many of us have had warn- ing letters and some have had threats of eviction. We are only four weeks in arrears.

This is victimization. There is no other word for it. These letters can only be meant to scare and divide us because they are not worth Tory Minister Employment Maurice Macmillan. workers and (b) has the power to alter its own rules. NUBE describes this as 'vague. Some 'extraordinary' decisions have been taken by the registrar, it says. It wants two more qualifica- . of the tions in this section Act. Unions should have to prove they have the support of a substantial proportion of the employees in the bargain- MP for Frank Allaun, Labour Salford East who led Labour's retreat on support for those defying the rent act. the paper they are printed on.

a court has the power Only to evict. In addition the rent collectors have been spread- ing alarmist rumours designed to frighten people into paying the increase. You can stop this harassment. We therefore call on you to remember your past promises and your ties with the labour movement [of which the ten- ants movement is part] and give the following pledges: eviction of tenants i) No refusing to pay the in- crease. ii) No harassment. iii) Refusal implement to the next round of increases in October. ing unit and they should show they have the resources, in- cluding the officers, to enable employees them to represent properly. The character of these am- endments further confirms the suspicion that the NUBE lead- ership is in agreement with the penal clauses of the Act. There is no suggestion that the power regarding heavy fines should be abolished or curbed, for example. But unions faith in 'the law' is rather naïve. Some months ago NUBE was rather hurt when City of London police began to clear members hand- ing out leaflets on the union to office and bank workers from the streets. In the past this kind of pro- paganda work was allowed in the City since employers in denied this Tory bastion NUBE activists access to pre- mises, bank steps, etc. pavement, therefore, The was the only refuge. But the law was the law, and NUBE members 'moved-on'. were One suspects their amend- ments will be treated with similar contempt. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37-p › Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p • Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

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Section of Monday Club is gunning for Guinness THE PROVINCIAL council of the right-wing Monday Club said at the weekend it hoped Jonathan Guinness would not be re-elected as chairman. In a resolution passed at a conference at Nottingham, the said it considered it council essential 'for both the future of the club and true Conser- vatism that Mr Jonathan Guin- ness be not elected'. In the election this month Guinness, a merchant banker and member of the brewing family, faces George Young, the former deputy director of MI6 and now a manager at City bankers, Klein- wort Benson. Young is prospective Tory can- didate at Brent East and a noted anti-immigrant campaigner.

THE MANAGEMENT of print factory will Liverpool spend their second week exiled in a city-centre luxury hotel this week. They are barred from their plant-the Liverpool-based car- ton makers, Tillotson's-because of a sit-in strike by the 400- strong labour force. Harry Chute, of the Father Tillotson's Chapel, said: 'We_are determined to continue Workers decided to resist after 103 redundancies were an- nounced last September and management struck back by at- tacking the right to organize in a trade union. Four chapel officials were fired and the workers have launched their occupation to get them . re- instated with full rights.

Last week workers women picketed the hotel where man- agement were staying. This week they will hold a picket outside in Commercial the factory gates Road. BARRATT'S confectionery tac- tory in Wood Green, north Lon- don, is to close down making 750 workers redundant. company statement said A there were two reasons for the closure: difficulty of modernizing the 100-year-old buildings; and shortage of labour in the area.

This second reason is extra- ordinary. There is considerable unemployment in . north London due to other big closures in re- cent years. phase The first of the shut- down will begin in June. The work from Wood Green is being transferred to the company's works in Sheffield, Pontefract and Glasgow. Barratt's make such confec- tionary items as sherbet foun- nougat bars, lucky bags

CORRECTION

Indirect and direct workers at Oxford assembly plant of the British-Leyland voted on Friday to accept the company's offer on their annual pay review, which is in line with the Tory pay laws.

They voted against the recom mendation of the stewards which was for rejection of the offer. In Saturday's Workers Press it was incorrectly stated that the stew- ards had recommended accept- ance.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

Mr Leonard Lambert, secretary of the council and chairman of the Essex branch, severely criti- cized Guinness's chairmanship of the club. He said: 'We do not consider him to be at all consistent in any of the things he has said in recent months. 'He has been attempting to please everyone-be all things to all men—and has generally not acted in the way that we would have expected.' Three weeks ago Guinness said that it Young won, 'it could be considered a move in the National Front direction' • He added, now- ever, that there was no evidence connecting Young with the ex- treme right-wing Front. Lambert said an investigation into the charges of National ВВС 1 12.25 Cywain. 12.55 News. 1.00 Pebble Mill at 1.30 Joe. one. 1.45 Pets and vets. 2.00 Philpott file. 2.55 Collec- tors' 3.10 Expedition pieces. North America. 3.35 Holiday 73. 4.00 Huckleberry hound. 4.10 Play school. 4.35 Jackanory. 4.50 Blue Peter. 5.15 Yao. 5.40 Sir Prancelot. 5.45 News.

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Weather. 9.00 9.25 SEARCH FOR THE NILE. Dis- Betrayal. and covery 10.15

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SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE PUBLIC

MEETINGS

Transform the SLL into the Revolutionary Party

TUESDAY, APRIL 10

8.30 p.m. Mona Hotel James Street Liverpool 1 Lecture: The economic crisis of world capitalism Manchester

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11

8 p.m. Angel pub, Chapel Street.

Front involvement in the club had failed to find any member with joint membership. He said the allegations about Front influence was 'only an electioneering manoeuvre'.

'There are areas where we run on parallel lines, but over the whole picture there is no form of agreement—it is just not on,' he added. Despite Lambert's denials, it is to be remembered that his own Essex branch _recently in- vited NF chairman John Tyndall to address a club meeting.

The club's headquarters asked that the invitation to Tyndall be withdrawn, but Lambert and his colleagues refused and the meet- ing went ahead. Lambert responsible for leading the witch-hunt against the Young Socialists' summer camp held in Essex last year.

ITV

9.30 Skippy. 9.55 World War I. 10.20 1.05 Hickory LOuse: Six years 12.00 Cartoon. 12.05 12.25 Skribble. 12.40 First report.

1.00 Mr and Mrs. 1.30 Emmerdale farm. 2.00 Jokers wild. 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Doing things. 3.25 Public eye. 4.25 ardon my genie. 4.55 Clapperboard.

5.20 And mother makes three. 5.50 News. 6.00

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8.00 LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR.

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NEWS AT TEN.

10.30

INTERNATIONAL BOXING.

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8.30-9.00 Yr wythnos. HTV West as above except: 6.22-6.45 This is the West this week.

ANGLIA: 9.30 Streets ahead. 9.50 Car- toons. 10.05 Paulus. 10.15 Gilbert and Sullivan. 11.05 Galloping gourmet. London year Houseparty News 12005 Housepar London. London. News. 4.25 6.00 About Anglia. 6.45 London. 12.00 Big question. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.05 Bridge for beginners. 11.30 Six years later. 12.00 Programme guide. 12.05 London. 2.00 At your service. 2.30 London. 6.00 Today. 6.45 London. 11.30 Man in a suitcase. 12.30 Stories worth telling.

Weather.

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Van Dyke. 6.15 Dick 6.45 London. 11.30 Monday night. 11.40 Theatre of stars.

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 as Rest ered Published aper Workers SW4 Printed Workers Press, Jonathan Guinness... under fire.

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PARENTS AND CHILDREN.

7.30 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 7.35 INSIDE MEDICINE. Deputy Doctors. 8.00

ALIAS SMITH AND JONES.

Miracle at Santa Maria. 8.55

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United States Masters Tourna- ment. 11.00 NEWS EXTRA. Weather. 11.30

OPEN

DOOR.

Liberation of Lifestyle and the Responsible Society.

YORKSHIRE: 10.00

Ed Allen. 10.25 Mr. Trimble. 10.40 Survival. 11.05 Woobinda. 11.35 Six years later. 12.05 London. 2.00 At your service. 2.30 London. 6.00 Calendar. Weather. 6.45 London. 10.30 Emmerdale farm. 11.25 Boxing. 12.25 . Weather. Enchanted

GRANADA: 9.30

house. 9.45 Seven 10.30 Tarzan. 11.20 seas. 11.35 Chess. Six years 2.30 later. 12.00 Cartoon. 12.05 London. At your 2.30 Yoga. 3.00 London. 6.00 service. 6.25 News. This your right. 6.40 London. 11.30 Theatre macabre.

SCOTTISH: 10.00

No easy answer. 10.45 Joe 90. 11.10 World fishing. 11.30 London. 12.00 Gustavus. 12.05 London.

2.00 At your service. 2.30 Dateline. 3.00 London. 4.55 Superman. . 5.20 London. 6.0. Today Late 6.30 Cartoon. 6.45 London. 10.30 call. 10.35 You pays your money. 11.05 O'Hara.

GRAMPIAN:

London. 11.35 12.04 News. 12.05 London. 1.00 Ed Allen 1.30 Avengers. 2.30 5.2W Emmerday London. 5.20 farm. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.05 Strictly Scottish. 6.45 11.30 University challenge.

London. 12.00 Meditation.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The revolutionary party and the history of the British working class Caedraw School Merthyr Tydtil 7 p.m. Sunday April 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.

rs Press, Monday April 9, 1973 PAGE 11 All Trades Unions Alllance

MEETINGS

Action. Force the Tories to Resign'. WANDSWORTH: Monday April 9, 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', High Street, "TUC must call a General SW18. Strike'. WATFORD: Monday April 9, 8 Watford p.m. Trade Union Hall, Road, nr Watford Station. "The fight against Stalinism'.

CAMDEN: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. "Prince Albert', Wharfedale Road, Kings X. 'The TUC must Strike'. call a General CLAPHAM: Tuesday April 10, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Sath The Must Stre SW4. TUC must call General Strike to make the Tories resign'. ELLESMERE PORT: Tuesday, April 10, 7 p.m. Grosvenor Hotel, 'Build the revo- Ellesmere Port. lutionary party Defend basic rights.' COVENTRY: Tuesday, April 10, 7.30 p.m. Elastic Inn, Cox Street.

'VAT-the new attack on the working class. Fight rising prices.

Force the Tories to resign.'

HARROW: Tuesday April 10, 8 Labour Hall, Harrow p.m. Wealdstone. 'The TUC must call a General Strike'. JARROW: Wednesday April 11, 7.30 p.m. Jarrow Labour Rooms, Park Road. HACKNEY: Wednesday April 11, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Centrai Hall, opp. Town Hall, Mare Street.

'The TUC must call a General Strike to make the Tories resign' CROYDON: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, Croydon. 'The fight against Stalinism'. BERMONDSEY: Thursday April 12, 8 p.m. 'Havelock Arms', , Bala- clava Street, off Southwark Park Road. 'Build Councils of Action.

Make the Tories Resign'. WILLESDEN: Thursday Aprll 12, - Preparation dictatorship'. HOLLOWAY: Thursday Aprll 12, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Forward to the Revolution- ary Party'.

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution in Britain Middleton (nr Manchester) Hollins Social Centre Tintern Road, Hollins Estate 7.30 p.m. Monday April 9 and 16 Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Soclalist Revolution In Britain: 3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democra- tic rights today means prepar- ing for working-class power.

Basic reading: for transforming Perspectives 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, Monday April 9, 1973

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the next we have two monins low-paid of labour from the industry al outlaw asked you, dear readers, to help ports the with two funds. It is a tough Delegations at the National Dock Labour Scheme. ports which employ labour free wharfs, the 'stuffing and strip- the of the Ding' of all containers to be done from sure you protection cuter stewards will agree that the political situa- The national ports shop stew- London, Liverpool, Ellesmere Dock Labour Scheme. Mallone Lerisle eu LIt ton ards' decided de- Port, Manchester and Southamp- lemands committee nationalization of the docks in- always set our sights The NPC did not recommend We have workers' control, LU. high. making docks i delegates commit- unregistered come And you nave never let

DOTE

without compensation. down. Now, trade union tee at meeting Birming- into the scheme as rank-and-file In last year's strikes the mine.

dockers demanding.

EXPLAIN

leaders begin to back down even ham on Saturday. were point charter was cut to six- stoppage If union leaders refuse to call nationalization being one of the Day the struggle bulld an dad called oles explained London

CHARTER

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went race- baiting again in London at the SOUTH LONDON garage workers have become the weekend. In a crude appeal to latest group workers to suffer from the police colour prejuaice, campaign against picketing.

AU. Minister spoke of the 'national peril' due immigrant concen- Twenty-six employees of Lankesters, main The in the. big ot British-Lev and Kinaston liallulls

CCHILICI

•SEOULOTS

official Thames, have been strike for over week. clues.

STRIK

records for concealing the num- Management had refused to recognize their union ber black faces schools in negotiations tor a new pay structure the title "immi- trouse NoT Phil Penn, arrested for

LEASE:

panel boater. Wad grant' from families who have

CROS

'obstruction' last Friday he was talking to a De here more than ten years. customer entering the depot. Powell speaking

TICKET

support Despite this harassment, the picketing has been Torv Partv

LINE.

candidate for Brent and effective Most customers and workers bring very candidate for the chairmanship ing supplies the strike-bound depot have not crossed the line. the right-wing Monday Ulld The cub. garage • See pages 4 & 11. Pickets outside the Kingston depot.

oreanization striKers Lankesters to recognize the union, many men in the Union must repudiate firm's seven other depots will join.

'We want the union to get proper wage rates, especially for the apprentices,' one mechanic said. They apprentice 24p do pay £3.20 man's work, yet they charge an hour for repairs. Scanlon

THE

ENGINEERS

is complete opposition to the Industrial Relations Act national committee starts Hospital workers its two-week annual on une execu- council, president, meeting Tive tne Torquay today in the mid.

examine Nowhere does Scanlon of the biggest crisis of say

BY ROYSTON BULL

the British leadership policy. trade union movement has In fact, state of strike raises grave

RESOLUTIONS

ever gone through. condemning statement is a "betrayal of doubts the

JICAL

Scanlon's offer of deal to union struggle against paragraph. Union the Tory The Amalgamated the Act' and its policy £200,000 oni in 'This lost us sureliul

OYCL

of HOSPITAL workers all over the country will Engineering Workers' the Industrial Act income lne

ACE

con- Erith president much Hat the centre s Hugh Scanlon are flooding into

AUEW

calls for a repudia- hold mass meetings this week to take a long resulted CEssions alla headquarters latest of the and very tion statement hard look at the progress of their dispute.

Erith district com- this Roland Last shop stewards' troy the anti-union laws and In the most militant Trans- three quarterly says the Scanlon the Tory government. areas in the north and the steward lependence London anger is grow- etc. low long before the bu city's Middleton ones esperate the the ing wal mens capitalis as measures to Neither worthwhile will call for a amendment will of all socialists and cham- is dropped off? hospital strike is being led national stoppage. pion of the •canion s corporaust wews Like many other hos to the Act's powers and cen- terest, he wrote that if com- burst through all restraints i cacuonal y Three accusations are tral fine pulsory registration of unions by the end of the article. Worriers intimida- genuiemen or Toe rariamen- the leader- oilai levelled tary Press Without faced police imprison trade unionists dropped Act, comment, he ship in the unions. Was the picket line far Maurice atev ana ll Inaividuals nad to ger I HOPE we shall be going • The failure call On 30- the rule of the bosses. prior Ministerial into Europe. be repudi- before complaining 'problem', from blame- all-out strike action. must are rocketing prices ated NIRC. then would less record'. etc. etc., • The hail the

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the ich Street to par Torquay. operate with the government then asks: that

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mand for he iC were they entry Scanlon's talk of his re- in more talks about the 'Is it not likely that they the where they hope nonours its promises and being 'exaggerated', [laws] would cause more dis- "The laundry women marks backs the strike with have been out for five make beller pronts. wretched solidarity action, includ- une excuse supported •v une

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Trouble wuere weeks here and all

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Star in a lot ory s 'Morning amendments, which in no trade unions have enjoyed 'WE [the leaders] 150 g ing sunkes. has been out Star' is a lot nonsense way alter the corporatist freedom for close on Lials DOlL government Tine Stalinists he hints from union Scanlon and the control of unions under the ) years?' a fortnignt limit wages at a fixed level. tory pay leaders that "The National Union The point is not to worry This every opportunity Act, which ha ones starting out nave precisely une the Public Employees Board if the terms are of repudiate the Press Gal- have cost Scanlon's about the middle-class con- which point of corporatism, asked reports and have never union £62,000 in fines and cern at days lost strikes lery in DOCk in turn is the road to fascism right. after a fortnight, but we 'national socialism'. done but to arm the muustrial

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refused. weighs heavily understanding

PUBLIC

criticism will In two major pieces in the with an

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AMENDMENTS

to capitalist Press last week, Scanlon's mind force the resignation of the today at Even non-union mem. SHE FIELD when the Industrial Relations Act did not retract from from the start of his 'Express bers at this hospital are elect canion lory WUl- could oner way 10rward

DOSIUOR

arucie which goes Labour coveriment anes de.

kers irom the city s nos for co-operation with the Express, that tavourite papiy Last Friday 'Daily to this point: mand it carries out socialist pitals will hold a mass Tory government? "The policy of our union policies. meeting. somedl ane shouldn't have anything to with the Pay Board. 13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF HOSPITAL staffs in the north-west region nave

FOR DETAILS

intention of 'chick the fight

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

Chills

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now mar mievive beer left to confront the gov- 01-622 7029 ernment. alone. Colin Barnett, NUPE's

BLACKPOOL. APRIL 14/15 1973

north-west officer, his members would Monday decide call whether SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL boilerhouse workers and force selected hospitals to close altogether.